Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 15

D. . MAN RECEIVES GRANT BY SOCIETY) g2 A. W. Hummel Will Work on Most Revslutionary Chinese Book of Age. “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” But they have got to meet, says Arthur W. Hummel, chjef of the divi- sion of Chinese literature of the Library of , who has just been given A& grant by the American Council of | Learned Societies to translate what he describes as the most revolutionary Chi- nese book of the age. Mr. Hummel is custodian of the most extensive collection of Chinese literature outside of China, much of which never has been translated and remains sealed to_the Western World because of the difficulties of language. It contains some of the finest poetry and philoso- phy ever written and some of the se- crets of happy living for which the Oc- cident now seems groping in vain ‘The Orient and Occident, Mr. Hum- mel says, have seemed far apart largely because of their philosophical interests. The first has n concerned with man to nature, the second wflh adapting nature to man. One has trained the human mind to control itself, while the other has controlled human beings with laws and machines. Each has seemed inexplicable and silly to the other. Chinese Mentally Happy. The result, Hummel points out, is that the Western man is becoming the creature of the machine, physically comfortable and mentally unhappy, while the Chinese is mentally happy and physically uncomfortable. The Oriental, he says, has seemed back- ward because he failed to accept the blessings of stable government, .in- dustry and science, but this was because he was not willing to pay the price in soctal unhlmnness‘ the American and European were paying. No‘:‘ he bell?:es the two divergent hilosophies are coming together. Po- itical organization, law and machinery are reducing the American to a slavery from which he is revolting. without knowing the way to escape. This may be shown him by an understanding of the Chinese phflow?lhy of life. China, on the other hand, welcomes ‘Western comforts and is willing to ac- cept science and law, but only in so far as they do not interfere seriously with the values he considers of paramount importance in life. So the Chinese are taking the initiative in the eventual meeting of the Eastern and Western mind. This_has resulted in the last few years, Hummel says, in a great Chinese renaissance. Chinese culture and his- tory in the past hna been accepted without questioning. ow the scholars are !uhkctlng it to umml examination, discal he spurious and prese: the hlawty and philosophy they con- sider essentfal. This has resulted in some startling revelations. Authentic Chinese history has been shortened by about 2,000 years. The has been revealed as an unfounded tra- dition. It has knocked the breath out of the classical Chinese scholars, re- sponsible for much of the country’s ‘conservs The itest blow has come from the Ku S Plen, or sym- mm of ancient Chinese history, pub- in 1926 by Ku Chieh-kang. Governed Without Laws. - ‘golden age,” says Hummel, was a lennndnry time when all China was to have been ruled by benevo- lent monarchs who governed without hw. but purely by the, unmple of -their tness and virtue. It has been con- lidered a matter of hhwru:\ll the documents upon vhl:h it is have bee. found to have originated much rounded them, predicted the coming of & Messiah and the establishment of a om of Heaven free from all the conditions which they disliked. The Chinese philosophers, confronted with the same situation, placed their ideal soclety in the distant past rather than the future. So the intellectual side of Chinese culture, Hummel points out, been turned backward. t is part of the counc rogram for m-.lln( Oriental culture available to the West in antici- tion of the time when it will be rned to in the pursuit of happiness by a race revolting from the machine. ricans, Hummel says, get a con- sistently distorted idea of China from newspaper reports. He points out that n journalists, with a bare smat- tering 0( Chinese at the best and get- ting most of their information from po- litical leaders, always portray Chinese events from the political point of view. So the people seem mhuquey huek ward, inefficient and weak. Chinese point of view they hl'e llcked an efficient political .organization, be- cause they considered it a-step back- ‘ward and not worth the price the West- ern world has paid for it. They have not been militaristic, because they knew there were more effective ways of resist- ance. The significant events in Chi nese history from the Western viewpolnt’|* * * have been the failures to achieve things | which the people did not want to achieve, whereas to themselves the im- portant facts concern the achievements nl ‘what they do desire. Announce Awai to Scholars. Awards aggregating $60,000 to 46! scholars were announced yesterday by :th:l American Council of Learned So- les. Prof. Roy Joseph Deferrari, head of the department of Greek &nd Latin ‘at’| Catholic University, was given an award for his work on a concordance of the ! works of the Latin poet, d, and | George Larcombe, research professor of medieval history at the same institu- tion, for work on manuscripts dealing ‘with the history of the church and of education during the Middle Ages. Other nearby awards were: William F. Albright, professor of semetics at Johns Hopkins University, for an archaeological survey of Pales- tine; Edith Marion Smith, professor of Greek and Latin at Hollins College Hollins, Va., for a study of the relltlom of the Phonicean colony at Marseilles with the peoples of Glul COMMITTEE STUDIES TRIANGLE PROBLEMS Trafic and transit problems raised by the new public Wflfliflm"mlm in the t.rhn§ were disc infor- mally yuwr by a joint committee, made esentatives of the Na- tional & lt.fl Park and Planning Com- mission, fncludln‘ the Engineer Com- missioner of the District and a rep- resentative of the office of the super- vising architect of the Treasury. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, Vlct chair- man and executive officer of the com- mi-um, explained later that an effort ‘will be made to obtain the views of the city and of ‘made l study of the view to working out for “taking care of the various inter- ests affected.” Owing to the complexity of the prob- lem, the colonel explained, the various phases are to be studied separately if poulble ‘This committee which met | in the conference rodn of the com-|dry at Eighteenth and D streets within | velopment mission at the Navy Department Bul.ld- ing is separate from the citizens' com-' mittee, composed of , various cMc mup&m which is likewise studying the fmlden age” | F. | White House yesterday from Winchester, young ladies, from left to right, are: Mrs. H. ser and Miss Mary Belle Sear, Winchester. THE SUNDAY ’ TALLY-HO INVITES HOOVER TO BLOSSOM FESTIVAL A 125-year-old tally-ho, driven by J. E. Keyser of Flint Hill, Va., and carrying a quartet of girls, arrived a The group called to invite the President to attend the Apple Blossom val this week at Winchester and also present thz Chief Executive with a box of apples from the Shenandoah Valley. The . Miller, Washington; Miss Katherine Byrd, Winchester; Mrs. J. E. Key- ‘Wide World Photo. || Va, BANDIT GETS T0YRS. AFTER GUILTY PLEA William Lindsay, Who Rob- bed Hamilton Bank, Changes Stand. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va., April 19.—William Prancis Lindsay, 26, of Lovettsville, this county, Jone bandit who held up and robbed the Farmers & Merchants’ Na- tional Bank of Hamilton, Va., on Janu- ary 3 of $4,264, and who has been held in the Leesburg Jail since his capture three days later at Woodsboro, Md., ap- peared this morning before Judge J. R H. Alexander at the April term of Cir- cuit Court in Loudoun County and changed his plea of not guilty given at February term of court to nmy By agreement of the counsel, and on recommendation of Commonwealth's A torney John Galleher the court sen- tenged Lindsay to the State penitentiary for 10 years. CDlln-lll for Lindsay were Senator Cecil Connor and Attorney C dore Reid, in the vault he uc:’ed into Maryland and eluded his pursuers about 6 miles from Frederick by abandoning his car and fleeing into the Catoctin Mountains, later being captured near ‘Woodsboro. Lindsay's case had been set for trial on April 24, but was changed to today. ALBA IS REPORTED BACK IN BARCELONA Exiled Monarchist Firebrand Re- turns After Decree of Amnesty. By the Associsted Press. dlfl«lmighlp in 1923, had returned '0 exile colony in France. He came back by virtue of the royal amnesty decree issued shortly after Gen. Damaso Ber- enguer ful’med a government on Jan- uary 30 of this year to succeed Primo's regime. Recently some of his friends asked the government to permit him®to ad- dress a mass meeting at Barcelona. This was denied on the ground that the country was undergoing a political re- organizdtion and that the incident might cause regrettable repercussions. What course the former cabinet min- ister will take in the present situation has caused much discussion. Some observers assert that he has always been @ good monarchist and would not enroll as a republican. DR. SHIPHERD HEADS LINCOLN MEMORIAL Election as President of Univer-| sity Expected to End Student Strike, < | | | By the Assoclated Press. HARROQGA' ‘enn., April 19.—Lin- coln M rill i verllty. where a stu- | dent stri been under way for 11 days, will have Dr. H. Robinson Ship- herd of New York as its new president. The appointment was announced to- day by Judge J. H. 8. Morrison, acti president, whom Mr. Shipherd will suc- ceed. Dr. Shipherd is 45 years old and a graduate of Harvard University. He 1s a native of New York. In 1929 he was appointed by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. on -a committee to study edu- cation by radio. He conducted a worid- wide survey of all phases of educa-| | tional broadcasting and made a re- port last December. He is said to be one of the leading | educators in the country, and his elec- | tion as head of Lincoln Memorial Uni- versity is expected to bring the stuaent strike to an end. Clay McCarroll and another expelled student are bound to Circuit Court at Tazelwell today under $500 bond for “disturbing Lincoln Memorial Univer- sity.” The grand jury meeting for re(- ular term Monday will take action ir the case. Charges of rioting against the two students was dismissed at the oegin- [ ning of the preliminary hearing. Nine more students were expelled bringing the total to 25 were obtained from Judge F. F. ton eemponnly ruvnknn the nine students trom on the unlverll'.y campus or aiding ln the strike.” Prof. and Mrs, E. N. Van Diller, against whom an eviction warrant had bun served, have moved from their .= [(ICE IN CONGRESS 19 | Appear on Program I Upper: Mrs. Helen T Iawu-: Mrs. Helen A-nn- Colhoun. | Featured participants in the “Book- lover’s Hour,” to be given under the auspices of Miss Alice anhlnl Drake at the Y. W. C. A. at 8 o’clock tomor- night. Mrs. Turley will sing and n Colhoun will give dramatic read- —Hl!‘fl! & Ewing Photos. | FOR D. C. FAVORED National Representation One of Three Big Items on Inter- | federation Program. National ‘representation for citizens of the District of Columbia, establish- ment of a fiscal commission for the Dis- trict and the economic amalgamation of the Washington metropolitan ares, are three of the projects sought by the interfederation conference, it is re- | vealed in a codification of the action | of the conference >n important mat. ters just compiled by W. B. Armstrong, secretary. The conference’s attitude -eflects the ! maturely considered views of its three constituent members, the District of Columbia Federation of Citizens As- soclations, Montgomery County Civic Federation and the Arlington Count,y Civic Federation. 'he resolution adopted by the con- (erence in regard to nutional represen- tation for Washingtonians, states lht! the organization supports the propos amendment to the Constitution of lhe United States empowering Congress to ant the citizens of the District of lumbla national representation in the Senate and House > Representatives | and the electoral college, and to give to them a status before Federal courts. The conference asks that a commis- slon, selected from Congress and citi- | zens of the District o! Columbia, be authorized to study and determine the question of the proportions to be con- tributed by the Federal Government end ! | the District Government to .he annual | expenses of the District government. Concerning charges made by public ! utilities outside the District of Columbia, the conference declares the imaginary iines of political boundaries should not cause discrimination. and that the metropolitan area of Washington should be considered as mated from an economic point of view as affecting public services, rates and charges, af-| fecting the cost of living, and co- rative consideration should be given "?ueenom 80 lnvolved by the public jons of the several Jurisdictions. Because of the geographical inter- relationship between the three juris- dictions in the metropolitan area. the conference has asked full reciprocity of school facilities. the cunference codification shows favors the dzvelwm:m of an airport ' at Gravelly Point, buf immediate need orlPurt.m nl‘amb on the campus. nulm- ln( to thelr bonn in !rook{yn, I’lmnen Work Fast. speedy work by firemen of No, 3 engine mmrany kept a nn on the ond floor of the Prazee-Potomac Laun last night and the dama lmu was nld w o h‘fl‘! hounds cnummby the negl e. of trash lnd was lx amum lemorial Bridges. Other projects indorsed by the con- ference and included in the code, are the establishment of a uniform motor vehicle code In line with the Huover plan and the Cramton bill for de- of the Geo Washington Memorial Parkway. objectives sought by the conference include the rmov:‘lo:l e'-nw trolley oule:ha.nd the muh of roadside signs, codi- lutions show. STAR, WASHINGTON, the ‘esti- OLD STAGE BRINGS HOOVER INVITATION Girls Tell President of Winches- ter Blossom Fete. ‘The White House had a taste of for- mer days yesterday when a nineteenth | §| feentury stage coach loaded with pretty || irls in period costumes arrived with || President Hoover to || attend the coming apple blossom festi- || 5 an invitation to val at Winchester, Va. The ancient equipage also contained a crate of choice Virginia apples for the First Lady. It was drawn by four iron gray horses and attended by out- riders in the trldfitlonll red, black:and white of ‘The coach 'l.l Winchester and Harrisonburg early in the nineteenth century. It was reno- vated and outfitted by J. E. Keyser, well-to-do breeder of horses of Flint Hill, Va. ‘The turnout attracted considerable attention on the way up to Washington, and created several iesser traffic jams in towns which it passed through en route. ‘The horses were unhitched at the Rid- ing and Hunt h<iluh yemrdly nfurnwn m Miss Catherine Byrd and Miss Mary Bell Bear. Foreign investments in Brazil were recently estimated at $2,274,000,000. LEROY’S 709 D St. NW. Opposite K .Phone Nat. 1254 We Deliver For health’s sake give the kiddies wheel toys. We have a limited quantity specially priced for-Monday. Yur money Nf-l‘l‘ if $15 Sndewalk Cycles, $9.95 Ball-bearing wheels and ped- als, adjustable tangent spokes, mud_guards. bell. adjustable seat and handle bars. 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Return to Missouri Aim. Pearman had assigned the insurance to Bass as collateral in a purported land deal. Mr. Duty expressed belief tonight that his client would be removed to Missouri for trial, and intimated that extradition would not be resisted. Bass. in his latest confession, re- counted that the Pearman plot was the outgrowth of one in which gunmen had been hired to kill M. J. Dorsey of In- dianapolis, Ind.,, head of the Northern States Life Insurance Co., who had as- m——Merchandise Advertised Here HARRY KAUFMAN| signed $100,000 insurance to Bass as collateral for a loan on land owned near Texarkana. This '&lzfi colllpled when Dorsey canceled Bass was quoted as saying. Bass recounted a tale of financial re- verses, and of threats he said had been mrmed ‘against him after the Dorsey plot Duty said if he is brought to trial Bass probably will plead insanity. Bass, who is 55 years old, formerly was wealthy. He once was regarded as a large land speculator. 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