From a purely selfish point of vw, it" would pay the merchant: of all the great Treaty Ports to finance schools run on these principles, graded from the kindergarten to the university., Those who got through them would be worth employing and would be incapable of thinking, talking or writing the without permission. som "one" actoned students With thet high "degrees. Those who failed fo 8s Gough, oF who would for or could not" slant the of, trould carry away with them a inst respec fur standards to which they could not The average missionary educator would naturally object that such a school would attract no pupils in this generation and since the quite legitimate object of the mission school is to attract as great a number of malleable minds as possible, upon which to impress Christian teaching, this would be, at the outset, a' legitimate objection and tone which the missionary, unless. he collaborated with the ° foreign business communities, could not overcome by offering: special indue ments. It is the writer's thought that it is a system which the busi~ ness communities themselves should initiate with a view, in the first Instance, of getting men of character, courage, honesty, imagination and physical fitness as. their employees. There would be no difficulty about getting students in the Treaty Ports if it were clearly un~ derstood that graduates from such training colleges would be given preference over all other applicants for positions of any sort in foreign firns. Tt would not. be very long before such graduates would also bbe driven preference by Chinese employers whether in industrial, eom= merein!, political or military life, whereupon stich schools would he-come the standard to which mission schools and Chinese Government: institutions would have to conform.
In this way such institutions would hot only serve the interests of the commercial communities by raising up a generation of Chinese of some character but would very" shortly be ax powerful an incentive to eharter building throughout China as the old examination system was for centuries a stimulus to the study of ancient literature, art and the historical and philosophical elassien.
Tempering the Wind A few days ago an_ evangelical missionary in Peking made the bold and sweeping statement that the curse of modern China is education. This is a bit too general but it is partly true, Yet it nee not be true at all, If we could nly set it into the heads of our dyeators hech here and at homo that the sort of education which siold good results with English o American boys does not necessarily hear the same fruit when injected into Chinese systems, the money which we now spend upon raising: up against ourselves and "inflicting upon China a generation of super-ned, impertinent and conspicuously useless "blitherers," might easily be spent to make discipline and straight thinking fash fonable in a country that needs them badly, "THE foul ich and mischievous cock-tail habit has spread, espe-Jeially among girls and women," raid the Bishop of Peterborough at Northampton. Recently in an hotel Tounge hue saw young fellow and two young fils drink two cocktails axed before they Jdinner—Dear met What Thave seen and said had he been Tite American Consulate-General has received the following instruction from the Department of State ated January $0, 1926, stating that the privilege of conversation of war risk" insurance lapses on July. 2, 1926, "The communication reads at follows:—"The Department has re-eelyed a letter dated January 20, 192, from the United States Veterans? Bureav, advising that the aw provides that unless. an ex-ser vice man <r woman makes. applica tion for reinstatement and conver sion of War Risk Insurance before uly 2, 1026, the privilege will lapse. in order that all persons entitled to the benefit of this insurance may be informed of their rights you ae instructed to invite the attention of all veterans of the World War reident within your district to this, fact and to inform them that complete information and. instructions may, be obtained upon application to the Washington Regional Office of the Veterans' Bureau, Arlington Building, Washington, D.C., or to any Ex-Seryjce Organization.
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