When the editor of the announced that the theme of the November to be "As asking for now he cannot complain that he did not get it. The first] article on this subject is by Mr. T/C. Chao, a member of the Methodist} Church and Professor of Philosophy. in Soochow university. -Professor Chao complains that foreigners often give "one sided and untrue reports about the Chinese people and Chinese civilization." To show us how, wrong this is he quotes the opinions of several of his countrymen who go tone better by quoting much more untrue descriptions of foreigners. How this is to further the cause of international peace and good fellowship is not clear. Mr. Chao quotes. "A leader in the New Thought Mr. Chung Pei-hwa "Indeed Europe and America have their good—points. They developed, for instance, instruments of slaughter. The newest weapon invented by Aieriea can} hardly be withstood by the whole nation of China in spite of the fact} that we have a very large pop tion." "And again "The district of Shanghai is under the control of] several countries which have made it but the most degraded and most degrading of ities. Shanghai is now the den of robbers and in dark-less above any of the cities of the nation." 'There, now! That is "how others see us." And there is a lot more of this kind of stuff in the article which' is all just about as true as the stories that were spread about us 20 or 40 years ago that we killed little children and took out their eyes to make telescopes. But we thought we had outgrown all thi Stuart C. Dodd, a Fellow of Princeton University, thinks the! Cinema is doing.smething and! might do more to make the people lof one country likeable to another. He suggests that semi should be combed to discover students with y. dra ie talent who might be trained in scenario work instead of Bible exegesis. These Mary Pickfords and Douglas Fairbaiks would choose the movie play to express their missionary convictions. Mr." Dodd is anxious to see the missionary a social reformer rather than a preacher. He thinks some missionary, students should-be trained by the American Federation of Labour to become "labour organisers and social workers." "The Mission Boards" too "might organize a parallel to the Anti-Saloon League in order win revision in treaties by means; of incessant publicity, electioneering and' lobbying of legislatures." This, certainly, be 'a new, type' of missionary and we nay be pardén= a for thinking that such an and
feral nuisance by the government. of his' own. country as well as by the people of the land he came to. Mr.
H, Grahhm Aspland, general Secretary of the International Antiopium Association, Peking writes informingly on the "Anti-opium war in China." He advises China to ery} peccavi" at the forthcoming Antic opium Conference at Geneva. He says "Whatever responsibility Zor be China alone must accept opium conditions prior to 1907 may
responsibility for the. reerudesence since 1917." Evidently his advice came too late for we see from Reu-iter's telegrams that Dr. Sze, the Chinese delegate at that. Conference, read a long paper in which he stated that "China was suffering from the facts of individuals over whom sh faad no control owing to the obligations imposed on her to concede exraterritorial rights to nationals of certain powers" which is all moonshine as Dr. Sze and everybody else [who knows anything. at all. about] the subject very well knows, Another important. article on "the League of Notions and the Traffic in Opium shows that at_ the Geneva Conference Mr. Chao Hsin-chu was compelled ultimately to ac-Knowledge China's default.
This was chiefly duo to the cxcellent work done by Sir John [Jordan who combines a wide and ncurate knowledge of conditions In China with a deep understanding of, and vivid sympathy with, the Chinese people. The first step towards betterment has been taken when the magnitude of the evil has been made public and responsibility for the present deplorable conditions frankly acknowledged,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.