Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 5

i be difficult to sleep, for i is warm, GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST By GIDEON Member of American Journalists’ Party Now Touring Orient as Guests ©of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. PEIPING, China, June 28, 1929. HIS morning T wrote about our arrival in the capital, as it once was, of China. Tonight, late, I am writing in an effort to catch up With the current of happen- ings, before I attempt to sleep. It will ihdeed hot. The Summer is in full swing, and tonight the air is heavy, and even if I do keep some others from slumbering by the noise of my type- writer, I must keep the chronicle going. Our program here is heavy and there will be little time for writing between visits, sightseeing trips, 1un c heons, teas and dinners. It is just like the first days in Tokio, when writing time was to be had only by sacrificing sleep. The first thing to be done this morning was to lay in a stock of currency, as I have indicated in my previous letter. Roughly speaking, the Chinese *“dol- lar” is about like the Japanese yen, worth a little less than 50 American cents. The currency is large and ex- | tremely soi tattered. Even in | comparatively large denominations the | equivalent of $250 American came to my hands in a bulk that made the use | of a, pocketbook impossible. So I had the wad wrapped in a piece of paper and carried it like a bit of haberdashery | back to the hotel, where I cached it | among my clean linen. At 1 oclock we were tendered a | luncheon—tiffin, by all that is Asiatic— | here at the Wagon Lits Hotel by the | American Association, half a hundred members assembling to greet us and make us feel at home, which they were quite unable to do because of the utterly strange surroundings. But the language was familiar, and the idioms of speech were our own, and everybody seemed happy. We met practically all of the American newspaper men who are sta- tioned here and are trying to find out’| what is happening in this land of con-| cealment and camouflage. They told us that big things were about to hap-| pen. But then I am told by others that | that is the usual song that is sung by the American scribes and the English and others, who are so close to the center of things in China that some- times their judgment is confused by the | dust of politics. | Visits Two Universities. The afternoon was taken up Wwith| wisits to two universities, out in the | suburbs of Peiping. One of them is the institution that was established with the Boxer indemnity fund returned by the United States to China. It will be remembered thay in the settlements with China by the powers following the uprising of 1900 the United Smus.; advocating moderate measures, asked for a lump sum of $25,000,000 to cover the claims for damages brought forward by its nationals. A slightly smaller sum was allotted to it, and it proved to | be twice as much as the actual claims | and expenses later aggregated. When all claims were paid, and $2,000,000 had been reserved for future contingencie: the United States remitted $10,785.286 to China, an act of grace which was deeply appreciated by the Chinese peo- ple, so far as they ever heard of it. China announced its intention to use the returned indemnity funds for the education of students in the United | States. That was in 1908. Later, when | settlements had been fully effected, and | the American example had been fol-| lowed by other nations, China had ac- cumulated a credit fund of a largc: amount and put it to various uses, including, in addition to the payment | of student expenses in America, thl establishment of Tsinghua College, now | become a university. It was set up in | a former palace of the empire. Today it is a much increased institution, with | several large new buildings. a handsome | assembly hall, and, perhaps most cher- | ished, a gymnasium dedicated to the | memory of Theodore Roosevelt. to | whom is attributed the first suggestion for the return of the indemnity fund | 1o China. A tablet bearing his portrait in excellent likeness is set into the front | wall of the building, setting forth this | credit to him. Tsinghua is now a full-flcdged uni- wersity in that it is carrying on its own graduate work, instead of sending l'.sj graduates to America for the comple- | tion of their education. It has about 500 students at present, some being | women, the institution having gone upon a co-educational basis a shor(} time ago. The members of the faculty are proud of the record made by th | graduates, many of whom are now at | work in the task of China’s unification | and advancement. | A Rough Road. From Tsinghua we drove to Yenching University, not far distant. Both are | several miles beyond the cicy limits, and | are reached by one of the miost ter roads I have ever known. We astounded later when told that a is exacted for riding over this road. Justice would demand a reversal of the operation, the municipalitv paying alt users of the highway for the indignity of its use. I was told that the newly installed mayor of the citv, Gen. Chang Yin-Wu, has announced his policy to be good roads and good schools for Peiping. He has a worthy work ahead cf him. Yenching University is endowed by & combination of sources, church boards the Rockefeller Foundation, Harvard University and several special gifts from 1s. It is an undenominational Mr. Lyon, e e | 11 AN Highest Quality Quick Service At This Reliable Lumber House Lumber Millwork RIS EAT Building t Coal Supplies al Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivery Charge J. 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This is regarded as a hopeful sign of the awakening of the new China in an educational sense. ‘To the eye Yenching is a great de- light. By wise use of funds newly ac- quired for the provision of a suitable housing for the institution, Yenching is rising to become one of the archi- tectural attractions of China. All the buildings, for all purposes, are in dis- tinct Chinese style. Whereas a few miles away the palaces of the Forbidden City of Peking are crumbling into ruin, these new structures at Yenching are glowing with new color and with perfect fidelity to the best traditions of the art of the land. Yet in the treatment of the interiors scrupulous care has been given to utility and the Western physical outfit of this institution is a combination of the old and the new, the Eastern and the Western, just as the system of teaching is a combina- tion of the two influences. Stone Used in Buildings. | In the construction of this interest- | ing group of buildings it was deemed advisable to use concrete as the prin- | cipal medium, for the sake of durabil- | ity. Whereas in the old Chinese ! temples and palaces, which now are | plastic stone was adopted, and made to | simulate the Chinese concept. It is re- | lated that when the architect drew the plans for the buildings he sought to give the roof line curves such as those that characterize Asfatic struc- tures. ‘The builder, however, declared that it would be impossible to cast the concrete in that manner. A Chinese contractor, confronted with the straight lines of the revised plans, complained that his workmen could not bulld straight roofs. They had never done | 50, their forbears had never done so | and it simply could not be done that | way. Might they mold the roofs in | Chinese style? They were told to go Edmonston & Co. INCORPORATE! 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The new institutional outfit needed a water supply of its own. It had to have a water tank. But a great tub set on high stilts would be out of the picture. Another problem -of design and construction! It was easily solved. ‘The water tank was built as a high pagoda, a concrete tower of rare beauty, now forming a striking feature of the landscape. * ‘We were entertained at the house of President J. L. Stuart, in his absence, he having been called to Tienisin to attend a meeting of the Boxer In- demnity Fund Commission, of which he is a member. In his absence one | of the faculty, Mr. Nash, professor of ; journalism at Yenching, acted as host. He explained the work of the university clearly and gave us & new light upon a situation which has recently devel- oped in China. Journalism Coming, Journalism in China, he said, has until quite recently been mainly in for- eign languages. The very low per- centage of literacy in the land has not permitted the development of a ver- nacular press. 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We drove through “streets” that were nothing else than one-way alleys. We made a great corkscrew and findlly came (o the gateway of our destination. Then we learned that the street on which it is located is called, in English, “the hole in the elephant’s trunk.” And here was a delightful home, with a large court; ‘eng “pung”—or matting awning.* There, after a sup- per in true American style, we were entertained by a shadow show, on¢ of those typical Chinese affairs that, it is said. are now dying out. Two men operate the shadow figures, which cre made of donkey skin, highly colored, and two furnish the music with drum and bell. Remarkable dexterity de- rived from generations of shadow- showmanship enables the men behind the screen to give lifelike character to the tiny silhouettes, while carrying on dialogue in quaint falsetto voices. The neighboring populace swarmed in and remained without hindrance. In the darkened courtyard the scene might have been one of countless thousands enacted in the old Manchu days in Peiping, when shadow shows were the highest form -of entertainment. We Don’t Penalize Our Friends Your ' CREDIT here costs nothing—no interest or finance charges, Prices are the same for all. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. GROGAN’ 817-823 Scventh St.N.W. “Homefurnishers Since 1866 Closed Saturdays—July and August LOUISIANANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR WOMAN MAYGR Feminine Preacher Is Re-Elected by Villagers, Though Absent. MONTGOMERY, La. (#).—Montgom- ery, & city of 800 population, boasts of its recent growth and its good gov- ernment. And the power behind that good government is the mayor, a middle- aged woman Methodist preacher, who serves for $7.50 monthly salary. Elected mayor in 1926, Mrs. Lula Wardlaw was re-elected, although she was away when her term expired. During_ her administration the town completed a street paving program, es- tablished a waterworks system and an electric light system. The town also boasts an ice plant. uThe ww;\l ow:lxl anothing, t?m and censes ng all expenses of govern- ment. fr: addition to her duties as mayor, Mrs. Wardlaw is pastor of a church near Montgomery and runs truck farm, minister, she has banished street shows, gambling out- fits and similar evils. No Sunday base ball games or movies are held at Montgomery. SERVED FIVE NATIONS. Soldier of Fortune Makes Record in 81 Years. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (#).—A soldier of fortune, Willlam G. McLish, mess sergeant at Brooks Field, has served under five flags in the past 31 years. At 18 he fought with Roosevelt’s Rough Riders at Santiago. Later he took part in a Honduras revolution, fought tes in the Indian Ocean and served in the World War under three governments. McLish, a full-blooded Chickasaw In- dian, first joined the French Foreign Legion. 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