Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1928, Page 6

NEW CHINA ACTIVE IN SCIENGE FIELD Dr. Chi Li of Smithsonian Says Archeology Will Be Vigorousiy Developed. The new China has officially recog- nized modern science. According'to Dr. Chi Li, field archeci- ogist of the Preer Gallery under the Smithsonian Institution, who was brre this past week on his way to Burope one of the first acts of the new Nation- alist government was the creation of a National Research Institute. Though obscurea by the front-stage political } and military activity in China, Dr. Li delieves this act offers an important | key to the quality of new power in his country. It proves that the new Chira is abreast of the world ‘The purpose of China’s National Re- search Institute.” said Dr. Li, “is ex- in & phrase borrowed from the | Smithsonian Institution—the increase and ciffusion of knowledge. The msl\-. tute has already organized an expe- dition to the province of Kwang Si to study the geology, paleontology. zoology and botany of the province. The expe- dition hopes also to include eventually anthropology and archeology in its scope. Support of Work. The cost of the expedition is shared by the national government and the provincial government of Kwang Si The institute hopes in this way to de- wvelop ematic scientific exploration of every province in China. I am ver: sure that the next 10 or 20 years wiil see a revolution in the study of archeoi- agy in my country and a great deveiop- ment in all other sciences. All we need is & stable government.” The membership of the National In- stitute includes 30 outstanding scien- tists of China. Dr. Li represents arche- | ology in the membership. snd was the first scientist appointed to the new or- | tion. He will continue as ficid | representative of the Smithsonian and the Freer Galiery. In fact., the Smith- sonian plans to co-operate actively with the new institute. - It is Dr. Li’s opinion that the new growth of national seli- usness has considerably bright- ened the outlook for foreign co-gpers- | tion in scientific research in China Science in China. In sketching the history of modern | science in his country, Dr. Li said that the first national activity of importanc: | began with the founding of the Chinese | Republic in- 1912. Shortly thereafter & science society was organized in this country to diffuse in China the scien- tific knowledge accumulated by the| Western: world. In 1920, a biological laboratory was established at Nankiny, and there is & movement on foot 3t present to establish a second labora-7 tory at o Research of considerable importance | has been done in the universities. At present, ,all Chinese universities teach natural history intensively. and grad- utes of Chinese institutions have done | successful post-graduate work in Ame:- | jcan universities. As a result of this} situation the body of Chinese scholars | capable of doing original scientific | ‘work is growing rapidly. | The most productive native institu- tion. according to Dr. Li. has been the | Geological Survey of China, organized sbout a dozen years ago. Its geologi- | cal. paléontological. and archeological | reporis are internationally known Interest in Archeology. | Dr. Li points out that the reverence | tn which the classics are held in this| country paturally makes the subject of appeal to educated inen. In 1928 a Swedish archeologist of | the museum at Stockholm, Dr. J. 8./ Anderssen, made discoveries which open | in Chinese aicheoiogy.} and stone Impk-: menis and pottery fragments which | represented 2 materiel culture unlike | that had been known from | China before that’ time. The discov-| eries bore considerable resemblance to| finds of prehistoric material made in and in Persia, & fact| which suggested that the various sec- | tions of the prehistoric world were n #0 iolated 25 had bzen supposed. Dr. ! Angerssen asted the period, i which the culture which he uncovered had ex-| isied at about 3000 BC. In 1925 Dr. Li joined the Freer Gal- lery expedition to China which was{ headed by Carl Whiing Bishop. and riook an archeological survey of the Feng River valley in Shansi Prov- ince. 7Iwo prehisioric sites similar o those excavated by Dr. Anderssen were found and later investigated. ‘The Smithsonian - Preer expedition took pains to avold the dimiculties | which peasant superstition places in the ‘way of excavation in Chinz. In a coun- try of ancestor .worship it is sacrilege o disturb the graves of the dead. of | Walched by Natives. “When we began excavating' said Dr. Li, “gentry and peasants alike kept constant watch upon us. They could | ; | George Mcln*urif, anditor in the General Accounting Office, receiving baske ot flowers from his fellow workers when he was retired after 33 vears of seryie- —Star Staff Photo. U.S. CHINA STAND 22250 e O=wwn Memo Ypros. Und 1T nr R0 Kelloga. on Trip to Faris for Be Questioned. BY Gll:':lLlJ I;I' Acnr. 4 GENERAJ HEATING CO to sign the war cutl pact, it will be difficult for him’to avoi e07 conversations with them on e e T questions of the highest importa HEATING EQUIPMENT facto Nanking government Ad\‘l%: opinion in Eurog ing both England and Prance. tnis move extremely clever, coming a time when the relations of the pow- ers, particularly Japan, are decidedly strained. The: Paris labor paper, Le Peuple, instantly ~demanded that Prance follow America's examplc Comdr. Kenworthy, British - Raaicai | leader, declared in the House of Com- mons that “His majesty’s government | had backed the wrong horse,” thus rovoking Secretary Chamberlain’s in- teresting reply by Chinese unity. It looks as though America’s benev- olence this far has been {ll repaid by the Nanking government. It has served | fly to increasc the Nationalists’ appetite before they have demonsira their ability to appesse Chinese rivai- | ries and constituie a stable regime throughout China France Continues Protest. Therefore, France, like oiher pow: which still have to settle the que of the Nanking and Tsinanfu incide: will continue to protest cgainst China unilateral denunciation of treaties. specifying that the latter must remain | in force until replaced by new agree- | ments. Consequenuy, France's alii- tude will not parallel America's, nor | vill there be hasty recognition of al regime which, despite American sup- port, may be transitory. | America’s action in China is certainly | the big surprise of the week, but there | is another matter which also claims careful attention. On Monday Forzign Secretary Cham- berlain disciosed in the House of Com- | Installed in mons, to the astonishment of the Q D'Orsay, the Franco-British disarma- | ment_compromise, the text of which ad been communicated to Washingion and other interested capitals. This document represents not 9 much an agreement as a cessation of the disagreement last March at Geneva AMERICAN h:ml:‘ is nucmert? a L‘;i.cihm x&‘;d Cush- RADIATOR endun’s proposa s facas wtich the 'tnree-power contir- | PRODUCTS ence had failed to ratify, namely the et reduction in tonnage of capital ships to Ao 27,500, and of gun calibers from 16 (o | neers — instalied . 131, inches. On the other hand. cer- Uable SXDRCH: WHON tevd tain percentages adopted at Washing- AnA i eAdIsen ton, which seemed humiliating (0 Aleally reduced. prices France, are discarded. | . THE FASIPST TERMS Secretary Kellogg's letter to Admiral | TOWNL ‘That's Porter last February, proposing the| abolishment of submarines, finds par- | For Tstimate tial satisfaction in limiting the number | . Phone Main 3067 of undersea craft exceeding 600 tons, Without any obligation on y as you can! | Iot Water J leaving the nations free to build small submarines for coast defense. Berlin Alarmed. Seyr ritte Uod Thus Prance has accepted the Brit- with “svers Heating Tiant a chisf of the allied forces. © addressed the throng, & P Pt d_the Signing Peace Pact. May g et Maii ol e y Heating Plant 200 Includes 6 radiator not beljeve that we would work 50 hard | ish admiralty’s conception, while Great .l"". radiation, to collect pieces of broken pottery and | Britain recognizes the validity of the were convinced that we were in search | French general stafi’s claims concern- ef treasure of one scrt or another. ing the reserve effectives in land armies “One day one of my most intelligent | which had caused alarm in Berlin. workmen came upon a human skelelon. | It is true that this compromise might Without attracting the attention of the | appear to the general public more like usual crowd of onlookers he notified | a military and a naval entente than a e and I directed him to avoid uncov- | step toward disarmament. Pacifisis cer- ering the skelefon. Had the peasentry | tainly will not approve of it though seen it they would have made serious | the armaments therein provided are trouble for us and 1 was worrled 1o | strictly detensive. know how we wers going to avoid let- | But before criticizing it. one must ting them see it. Portunately, the next | consider it as a continuation of the day rsin came snd kept the watciiers suspended efforts of the preparatory dis- indocr: so that we were able to re- | armament conference. It marks a s.cn move the skeleton unobserved. toward the resumption of those efforts “It is still oo soon to sttempt rcg- | and also toward a new naval confer- 525 NORTH ular excavation of old tombs in China. | ence which this time may accomplish HOWARD ST, A long process of popular education | what the 1927 pariey signally failed to do. will have to precede that. At present (Copyright. 1928 we must restrict ourselves to village sites where there is less chance of of- fending religious seruples * i However. as Dr. Li points out. the | despolling of tombs is common enouvgh | in China—not by archeologists. hut by vandals In pursuit of vajuahle | bronzes and other works of art, which foreimners purchase at fzbulous prices Millions are involved in this traffic which hzs done irreparsble damage to | the most valuzble records of China’s past. and which is proportionately dif- fieult to stop, The same condition of vangalism exists now in China as ex sted in Greece in the early nineteenth century The new Nationalist governm showing 115 quality by 2n sttel pambat this evil, Dr. Li has been 2:kec by the government to draw up a sel of rules for the preservation of Chines: archeological antiouty studied the regulations Egypt. in Greece and in some American states. and = using these 2 basi for his recommendation: sal rule. he finds. i that archeologica) materials are considered the property | of the nation, and can’t be claimed by | the finder s& an individusl Dr, Li will visit the principal museum G rrr e “Mureo” Lifelong Paint BODIES TO BE REMOVED. 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