Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 16

° THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGT! D. C, MARCH 17, 1935—PART ONE. ‘New’ Deal 800 Years Old Chinese Student Here Draws Striking Parallel to American Experiment. BY WILLIAM M. CAMP. OW new is the “New Deal?” I I It's ancient history. Bo‘:vlin. Green GRASS SEED Seed your. lawn now and sure of having a Mlu‘l’flm& erass this Summer. This 15 & carefully selected mixture of grass especially recommended for this part of the country. One 35c Pound 7 CLOVER LEAF GOLF BALLS Phone POtomac 5678 ey o LIVELIER! RN to the A striking parallel Thrse present American political scene has been uncovered in | the annals of ancient Chinese history | by J. C. Yang, son of a famous Chi- | nese political leader, who last week in his class at American University sub- | mitted a paper on current problems | entitled “The Chinese New Deal” based on eleventh century political theories. | There were three men in the “Chi- | nese New Deal” who more or less| dominated the scene. One was Chu-Hsi, a priest who criticized the administration and later | was exiled to South China. | Two Met Violent Deaths. Another was a vociferous general, | Yuo-Fei, who defended his Emperor | and liberal new dealer, later com- | manded a small province, then was | assassinated. Then a fool there was, “who also was a great legislator and lawmaker,” but because he was a fool he was be- headed by the common folk whom he pretended to champion. Strange though it is, it's history. In brilliant contrast, the man who inaugurated the new deal in China with the Sung dynasty for four years | was governor of an important prov- ince in North China, with Nanking as | his capital, before being appointed prime minister. His name was Wang | An-shih. | Share the Wealth Parallel. The people were suffering econom- | fcally and politically, and wanted a | change of administration. By his| promises and his plans for distribu- tion of wealth, more food, more cloth- ing, better housing and more luxuries he was swept into office and his revo- lutionary scheme put into effect. Not, however, until he had concocted a | theme song for his followers to sing. When translated, on good authority. 1t goes like this: “Hand in hand we march along together.” Wang was & man of action. Em- peror Shen-Tsung gave him full powers, and the people threw in their support, believing in his miraculous | ability. While the people sang, he| devised a plan to “save the empire.” He organized workmen's guilds, drafted a set of codes, rules for price fixing. loaned money to farmers. and changed the nation's monetary stand- ards to & higher level to balance the budget after vast and widespread spending. | Wang was a man who liked fancy names on his “emergency agencies,” so history tells. For instance, he selected six of the finest Chinese characters to hang on his Commission of Financial Regulations, which read something like this—“Chih Chih San Szu Li Szu.” But to the people this meant nothing; they thought he was going insane. Unemployment and Crime. The unemployed youth in the Sung Dynasty overflowed the land. They turned to crime and covered the high- ways with their aimless wandering. Clever was Prime Minister Wang when he organized thousands of units called “Po.” which conserved the land and forests and were kept in military camps, & “No. 1 man” to every 10 men. This civilian corps would be used as soldiers in time of war, police} in times of peace and serve to support themselves as well. But the vast sums Wang spent in keeping them organized drained the treasury. They were promptly dis- banded. |30; was born in far-off Shen-si Prov- |and commerce in Tientsin University, J. C. YANG. ® —Star Staff Photo. Wang ruled through only one a ministration. The priest, the gen- eral and the fool, still unable to settle their disputes, finally “retired to their handful of followers,” causing a split in the administration, or dynasty, thus forming the Sung and Southern Sung, dominating the scene for only a short while. Wang Forced to Flee. Wang was such a complete failure that the Emperor Shen-Tsung forced him to give up his political scheme and flee. The records of his failure were never kept. All official docu- ments were destroyed, so as not to influence posterity. Thus ended China’s “new deai.” “A daring innovator in administra- tion and full of zeal for public wel- fare, Wang An-shih would have achieved conspicuous success,” wrote the 29-year-old Chinese student, “had he succeeded in bringing a large number of sympathetic followers into his own ranks. But as he stood at the zenith of power he met with strong opposition of his eminent contempo- raries. The natural result was to oust these scholars, who were replaced only by petty officers and the schemes | could never be effectively carried out.” The “new deal” was unheard of | before Wang popped up in 1068 and | passed out of the picture in 1085 A.D. | “But,” says Yang the student, “that was something over 844 years ago.” Paper Given “A-Plus.” Thus wound up the story of the eleventh century “new deal” The professor at American University graded the paper with a glaring ‘“grade a-plus.” Yang, whose proper Chinese name is Yang Ju Chin, is one year shy of ince, educated in Peiping National Tsing Hua University; taught law for two years was minister and super- intendent of education in his home province of Shen-si; received his M. A. degree at the University of Illinois, and today, while working as a trans- lator in the Library of Congress, is preparing his thesis for a Ph. D. and studying for the position his father will leave him. His father, Yang Ming Yuan, was a drafter of the constitution of the Republic of China, a member of the provincial legislature, later a member of Parliament, and was a founder of the present powerful Kaomintang party, or Nationalists party, now ruling China with an iron hand M’KINLEY STUDENTS PLAN OPEN HOUSE Parents and Friends Invited to Special Program Set for Tuesday Night. Parents and friehds of McKinley High School students and school offi- | cials will be guests at the annual open | house to be held at the school Tues- day night. | Parents of junior high school stu- dents who expect to attend McKinley | later also have been given special in- vitations. Dinner will be served in the teachers’ lunch room from 5 to 7 p.m. at cost. From 6 to 8 o'clock volunteer students will be in shops, laboratories and drawing rooms to demonstrate a typi- cal school day at Tech. | From 8 to 9 p.m. a musical pro- gram will be presented in the audi- torium, and the program will be con- cluded with a demonstration by a class in_the girls’ gymnasium. Frank C. Daniel, principal, and Miss Jessie Coope, assistant principal, : and members of the Parent-Teacher | Association will act as hosts. EMPLOYES’ FEDERATION KEYED TO RENT PROBE Rent and Housing Chairman Urges Members to Spur Securing of Data. A call to members of the National Federation of Federal Employes to redouble their efforts to secure data on actual rental conditions here was made last night by William S. Kin- ney, chairman of the federation’s Committee on Rent and Housing. Kinney's call, he said, was aimed at the reported activity of some ‘Washington landlords to block con- gressional rent legislation. The em- ployes’ federation has distributed a questionnaire in every department and agency of the Government. “The real estate people are very much alive to the situation and they are leaving no stone unturned in their effort to defeat this legislation,” Kin- ney said. “They seem to feel they are in a vulnerable position, and they are, indeed, in very great danger of losing their rent monopoly if we take advantage of our chance.” DR. FISHBEIN TO SPEAK Editor of Medical Journal Will Lecture at Army Center . Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, edi- tor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, will speak on “Science and Superstition” at the Army Medical Center tomorrow night. Maj. Gen Robert U. Patterson, surgecn general of the Army, has invited members of the medical and allied professions of the District and nearby communities to hear Dr. Fish- bein. Previous to his address at 8:15 o'clock, the doctor will be honored at a dinner given by members of the profession at the Medh:‘l Center at 6:45 pm. | fined to men who knew the Great BRYAN DINNER SPEAKERS SELECTED Only Those Who Knew Great Commoner Will Address Gathering Tuesday. Speakers at the dinner commemo- rating the 75th anniversary-of the birth of Willlam Jennings Bryan, which will be held Tuesday night at the Shoreham Hotel, are to be con- Commoner during his life. The list of speakers, which is a long one, will be headed by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, who also is chairman of the committee arranging the dinner, and Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Grace Bryan Hargreaves, daugh- ter of Bryan, will be guest of honor. Three-minute speeches will be made by most of the committee members, including Manton M. Wyvell and Urey Weodson, vice chairmen; Charles A. Douglas, Senator A. W. Barkley of Kentucky, Blair Lee, former Gov. John G. Pollard of Virginia, W. D. Jamie- son, Jesse Jones, chairman of the Re- construction Finance Corp.; Repre- sentative Henry C. Luckey of Ne- braska, Representative James A. Meeks of Illinois, Representative Brooks Fletcher of Ohio, Representative Dock- weiler of California, Frank Morrison, Daniel McBride and D. A. McDougall. E—— PARK LECTURE TUESDAY Educational Advisory Board Head to Illustrate Talk. Dr. H. C. Bumpus, chairman of the Educational Advisory Board of the National Park Service, will lecture Tuesday evening at the Interior De- partment auditorium on museum de- velopments in Yellowstone National Park and the educational activities available or planned in the parks and national monuments. The lecture, which will be illustrated, is to start at 8 o'clock. Possessing a wide experience in the national parks, Dr. Bumpus per-' sonally directed the building and equipping of the series of trailside museums now open to the public in the Yellowstone. 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