The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1921, Page 13

~ Section Two These attle Star (= s=2) SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921. $$ : FEUDAL WAR LORDS RULE CHIN PEKING’S POWER STOPS AT WALLS PRESIDENT WILL TALK BUSINESS ‘Impatient Regarding High — Retail Prices WASHINGTON, May 20.—Preat- dent Harding prepared some out- with Intelligence. * |epoken advice to the business world Amociation is charging in) toauy which will be delivered in & [QUADRUPLETS, AND PROUD PA} 90,000 SEATS |His Job’s Loaning TAKEN BY ELKS Books; But He Doles Plan Huge Turnout re Out Candy at Tea? Night of “Wayfarer” t Cit Librarian Judson es served candy, flowers and at a tea given on public money | wan the charge contained in a sup-|lems pl rt filed with the elty| The il Thursday by the Civic Bet-| effi ig’ yunwilling to listen to their objections nd that the members of the board | ¢ unable to pase on library prob- and pon the | oa Twenty thousand seats, sibly will be taken Elka lodge for the opening The Wayfarer America's Passion Pageant which will more, ot y and extravagance of Ii ® for constitutionaliam and democratic ‘ ie, botvevard of any medieval OF CAPITAL CITY Canton Government Is Weak, but It! Offers the Only Hope for Constitutionalism BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS SHANGHAI, May of the ‘at Shanghal the table, [Chinese editor 20.—China 1s| “Bulletin,” Without a government. Peking does | could means | Bet rule China any more than/for getting the three main factions! Balem, Ore., rules the state of Wash-| into which China is now split to Magton. Peking’s power extends very | come together. ee bavona =~ igo o and the) WANG HOPES TO FURNISH ry is in the hands of a group | “f : OF POWER" bf war lords just as effectively as in| ng Chan-yuan, the leader food old days when every hill-| of the tuchuns* . is 6 years p had its castle and its king. of age, a Divided among these feudal barons | school and ht with brav o4 «Reems biddin s— en the eee Yalu against the Japanese. ima-—are more than a million | &fmed men, as much the personal | Benchmen of the barons as ever were present suggest, however, a He was appointed military gover nor of Hupeh six years ago and since then has acted as civil gov |ernor of that province as well. In | fact he has roiled most of the big| | jobs in Hupeh into one and holds them all himself, With Canton a de facto govern g $< z5 Z s Z Mr.and Mrs, Michael Solso of New Haven, Conn., know | how “the old woman in the shoe” felt. j|home from work to help care for quadruplets the stork| Their combined weight at birth was 20 brought recently. | pounds. first in the University stadium on the evening of July 23 |This is the announcement made to day by members of the Elks who have charge of the entertainment of the state convention of the which convenes here July and 23 The It in hoped to recruit for the pageant now has put 2,000 members, and each Monday evening at rebearmds more singers are enrolled. Rehears als will be held next Monday in the Plymouth Congregational church at Sixth ave. and University #t Rdgur L. Webster a that an attractive folde ly the story of the noon will be ready for distribution in response to the hundreds of calls for such in formation by Seattle people want to send folders to friends in other cities, and by organizations In ic, i. i terested in bringing as many persons Michael ba staying | rn during “Wayfarer Week" an poanible. timing Profiteer Fined— unced today rt a“ brief: chorus of 3,000 voices which | ter Association. | report declared that Jennings» an expense account averaging 00 a year in addition to his reg expense asso | * the communi pen not { te 30 a month for automobile ex pen not include such items 1 car fares, a tea party gi jwtaff member who was only ‘about a year, at which cake und flowers were served at public expense, also her fare of $120.17 back to New York paid out of public funds.” | The Civie Betterment Association charged that the lbrary board was | i | Such Magnificent length of the skirts the tiniest bit, : I implore you.” In thene words does Ankles, He Exclaims Major de Kossach, famous Polish NEW YORK, May 20 h| painter now in this country, register magnificent women. Such magnifi.| bis protest against feminine dress re but Not in U. S. LONDON, May 20.—For charging | 16 cents for a boiled egg at its cafe, | the National Provincial Cinemato-| time to dicker with faction on the matter h side will receive their sup- TI asked Quo Taichi, the Joe 'y of President Li Yuanhung’s inistration, now one of the big of the military government in ton—Dr. Sun Yat Sen's govern. it—how many of the 21 provinces China have war lords of their He said about 17. the province which Beasts Canton, of course is not one @f the 17. CANTON GOVERNMENT | TOOK RIGHTEOUS COURSE “When we set up the Canton gov- Jermment,” Quo told me, “we faced a bad financial situation. The unbling concessions had furnished Monthly revenue of $11,000,000 ut $5,000,000 gold) and we had | to live up to our ideals of | nt government and throw out gambling—and the $11,000,000— forget the ideals and keep the Money. We very much needed that ey, but we never hesitated about ; gambling. It went.” Canton now ig almost Isolated. | i ed seven provinces south of the langtze, which Canton counted on te stand by it in its fight against ism and autocracy and in 4 force Peking and the country | | Rorth of the river to ite way of | thinking, have dwindled to two or three at most, several having joinéd _ the newly formed “Yanktze federn- _ tion,” the announced object of} [Which is to preserve the status) quo. i And the “status quo” is as stated |The outiook for a united China, therefore, seems to be progressively @immer and dimmer. In the north is Gen. Chang Tso lin, generalidsimo over three prov- fnces and daily schemmg to in- €rease his{holdings. According to the general impression he secretly to restore the monarchy, ! Fo with a 15-year-old Manchu lad on! the throne and hitnself as regent, least. © “BIG THREE” STRUGGLE FOR CONSTITUTIONALISM In the south ts Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Dr. Wu Ting Fang and Gen. Chen Chiung-ming, the “Big Three” of the Canton government, struggling | |ment to all intents and purposes. cont ankles. and with Peking powerless to break the stalemate thus created between South and North, does Wang with his league hope to play the part of a balance of power? Report has it that he does If this ts true, and Gen. Wang's “status quo” plans succeed, it means, constitutionalists here say, China is destined to undergo a se cret foudal period until the never. ||) ending civil war in the country brings on the inevitable: Foreign intervention. In effect the country has already gone back to feudal days ruled ever by @ group of little kings or war lords. If Wang uses his bal ance of power to on the people until some influence from without appears to bring it |) to an end. CHINESE TEST OUR RELIGION Students Seek | Reason for Becoming Christians CHICAGO, May 20.—The bulk of the answers to the questionnaire sent out to 1,000 Americans in all walks of life by the Chinese students at the University of Chicago has been received. The questions asked were: “What Is your idea of God?” “Do you believe in God?” “why?” King Sin Wang, a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the university, himself an unbe- Hever, formulated the questions for | the, benefit of the Chinese student, body at the untversity. | Many of the Chinese students are Christian converts from Bud-| dhism, Taoism and Confucianism, nn These answers indicate the variety | received in reply to the first ques- tion: “God ta the suthor and ereator of all |} ) “God ts love, goodness, justices.” “God ts fore “God In nm “God ts a social neceestty. | “God la a mere hypotheia”~ “The answers of natives of a Chris- tian country,” says King Sin Wang, “are not very clarifying to the mind of the puzzled Oriental, If Chris- tianity is the one true religion, we want to embrace it, But we also want to be sure that it is the true | religion.” In answering the third question, the replies were that belief in God Is: “Proved by the Bible” “The result of childhood edncation.” “The only satisfactory explanation of the universe.” “The policy of those who wish to prev vent evil doing for soctal good.” “A survival of primitive superstition, Undergone changes and trans things.” | graph Company was fined under the profiteering act. 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President Harding’s speech, to Be |delivered at a dinner attended by |New York's leading publishers business men, will deal with business land labor problems chiefly. '$11,000 Given for Set of Shakespeare LONDON, May 20—A firat a . se of Shakespeare was sold at auction here for $11,000. ie Boys’ Suits at ——————- In These Boys’ Suits Are Wear-Resisting Qualities Mothers Demand In all the fully 7,000 high quality boys’ suits at this Boys’ Store are the wear-re- sisting qualities mothers of active boys demand. This mammoth assortment is made up of the newest styled suits in the finest fabrics procurable on the market today. There are styles that will please the boys, qualities moth- ers know their boys need, at prices Dad will be Great Values in These Thousands of $9.85 «4 $13.75 —and every garment guaranteed to wear and give absolute Children’s Straw Hats A large assortment satisfaction. Hair in the Little Girls’ Bobbed Little girls’ hair bobbed and | Tule. Between the two, astride the gible answers were from clergymen | and university professors, some of Y) | Yangtze, in the middie of China, fs the league of Tuchuns, or mill- tary governors, seven of them, in as many provinces, with a stand. | Pat program—no monarchy, no con- stitutional government, but the | “vtatus quo.” “If I had not studied history,” Quo told me across a lunch table fn o Shanghai restaurant, “I might let myself be pessimistic. But having put in a good deal of time on that study, I know that no fight such as that we mre mak- ing in China was ever won in @ay. Constitutionaliam is not goin to die. china will have representative Bvernment. Of that you can be "very sure. Had it not been for /Yuan Shin-Kal, who first betrayed the Manchus to satisfy a personal whom gave scientific reasons for be- lef in a supernatural and all-power- ful Being. 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