There is a timely article on tho} teachings of Sun Yat-sen. It is a translation of an article in the Eastern llano by Mr. Chu King-nung of the Kuang Hua University. Dr, Sun's writings are the most potent political influence in China at this moment and it is Jo thousand pities that they are so little known to foreigners. Mr. Chu says that Dr, Sun distinguished between a people BELIE min-ton and an Em) RA kwoh-chia He says: "A people is a group naturally associated together by. right; an empire is held together by. might.'
Now, in the first place, it may be pointed out that ' the characters minetaue mean "g race and not, necessarily, a nation. The Jews, for instance are a peop! though they are not a State nor have the same political associations, Jwhich is the connotation of the term ax used here. And the characters, kioh-chia, do not mean. an empire, They mean "family state" jand would suggest a homogeneous. nation and not at all a federation jof Commonwealths such as the Britain nation is, America and Whur 'E"baane, Londons Hodder The real romance of America is not so much in tae handful of sons and daughters of the Revolution but in the millions who came to the United States from all parte of Eumope, did the pioneer work in reclaiming vast areas arid built with their toil nad patience a great nation,. The Norwegian author, Johan' Bojer, recites in "The Emigrant," with rare realism the saga of the Norwegian contribution the winning of the America continent. For tacso who are interested in America and who smile occasionally at the ways of the Middle Westerner grown urbanized, this is a story well worth reading. Tt tells of the hasdshins of middle and northwestern life; it accurately paints the types of people who came from Europe, not the first families of any country, but the poor and the unsuccessful, the adventursome and the disappointed. But even the poverty at home was not as. trying, as sordid, as the wealth of land in the new country. One hundred and sixty acres of land—a vast estate for a Norwegian; yet what in that to the century old farm at home where the life and traditions of the people, the folk lore and the hallowings'of centuries give courage in suffering!
But what so few young Amor jeans understand is that although in those days the United States was advertised as the Promised Land and so many Europeang went to America to make their fortunes, their hope was always to return to the less favourable condition of, their old homeland. Bojer describes that homing instinct in all its vividness and strength; and it was true not only with Norwegians, but with Italians, Russian and Polish Jews, Germans, Irish—all the mors than 50 nationalities and which now comprise the nation. Wita the older generation, the original language was such an important thing. They had to maintain schools in that language; they had to. publish newspapers und books in it; they had to tack it in the homes, lest. the children forget their origin, And the tragedy is that the younger generation did forget. 'The American public school system ground them all into the same fashion, a hundred million sausages, ell modelled on the same design.' That is what has saved America politically, for there never could be a nation made of such dissimilar elements living altogether and struggling to speak and read and write different Tanguages, but much of the colour Louis newspaper; the girls chew gum like an Irish Maggie of two decades ago and eat ham wishes at the cafeteria for tiff The loss of consciousness of race is a dreadful thing to peoples of okt traditions, although Americans are always proud of the melting pot, which throws scum to the top all boiling pots do., Bojer describes this so brilliantly.' The old Nor wegian who builds the settlement dies; his successor is blinded, but the young' boy grown to manhood, carved by the atmosphere into th type called. American, becomes great man. It is 20 like the lawyer son of the talion father on the East Side, who becomes a judge vid changes his name from Rosen-stein to Rose and imagines that he linas changed his blood.
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