Sept. 20. agony" columns of the Chinese press often throw teresting sidelights on life in this great city of which we, individually, form insignificant parts. A recent issue of one of the leading Chinese dailies had jo notice with photograph of a boy attached which was a wail from the young man's father in. which he disclosed that the. youth, who was but sixteen years fof age, had, with a chum of, about the same yours, disappeared from his home in Shanghai and been heard from in a foolish" letter, dated a month ater, and posted in Tingyuen in north Anhui, The old man de-return home where a welcome awaited her, ete, A magazine at fhonie has' been publishing a series of articles on "The revolt lof youth." The young men who have had their fling in the columns of that paper say, in Jeffect, "You old men brought on, through your ineptitude, the greatest war in history. Having made the mess you turned to us land asked us to sacrifice ourselves to rectify your blunders, For four and a half years we suffered the tortures of hades. fany of us were killed; many more mangled and blinded and maimed, All of us who passed through that inferno will carry the scars in our souls until we hide them in the kindly bosom of Mother Earth." They go on to say these things have happened lonce but must not happen again, Youth is not willing to be a second time thrown into the furnace to satisfy the ambitions jof age; indeed the wisdom of the old men has proved to be foolishness and youth steps forward and says "Let be; you have mided the ship of siate long enough and sailed her into the shallows and quicksands, Now, ict the foolishness of youth re-ploce the wisdom of age and see whether a happier and better work! may not be evolved from the ruin you have left." Arid age has little to say for itself, There is no denying that the world is in anything but a satisfactory condition. The old stand jate surely going by the board and grey hairs, as such, entail no meed of reverence. East is East and West is West but both fae agreed that this is the, hour youth, The Chinese girl, referred to above, would, its born expressions in these lectures are Gificult to translate into Eng-there is a great deal of repeti-from the character of the per-clared that mother was breaking but ten years earlier, have They are known to the|tion, As an historical docu-tons that xo to make it up. One|her heart for het prodigal son|walked blindfold to her bridal Chinese as the "San Min Chu-i."|ment of real importance in|hopeful indication of a change|and unless satisfactory answer] To-day she disappears from home The words are literally "Thr China's history the "Three Pri of heart is the abandonment of was received to this advertise-jand only consents to return when mont he had decided to sell his she is assured that she shall be People-Principle." In the press ciples" should be reproduced in the Communist idea of gover they are often referred to as the|full with copious notes, pointing|ment. In November last General business—why toil on if there|daughter in her mother's hous People's out all the' errors in fact and\Chiang Kai-shek, interviewed by|were no son to be the heirt—|but mistress in her own, which is certainly inaccurate.|deduetion.
As material for|2 Hankow journalist in the pre-take his stof in hand and, injeven if it be admitted that the The iden is better conveyed. by newspaper reproduction, _how-sence of several Russian advisers|company with the old lady, his|wisdom of age has proved the translation Which we havelever, the lectures are simply not who were obviously dictating his|wife, set out on a pilgrimage to|foolishness it by no meang. fol adopted, namely "Three Principles for the People.'
It in strongly suspected, since' "American democratic tradition! layed ax big part in Dr, Sun's Fearly education, that the phrase' was originally suggested by Lin-coin's expression, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people," and that the Chinese phrase was, in Dr. Sun's mind, a title for Lincoln's "Three Principles"—defined in Chinese tic two-character phrase which might be taken to be lations of Lincoln's "or, 1y", and "for" the people. More elaborately they are now: Nationalism, Democracy and Socialism, in Anglo-Chinese literature.
The lectures are said by intima ate friends to have taken very copious form by the spring of 1922, after which Dr. Sun was driven from Canton by Chen Chiung-ming, but it is also said said that they were then lost or] destroyed, The present text] was therefore composed in its entirety during the period of Dr. Sun's close association with Borodin and other Soviet agents, and no reader will have to have it pointed out to him that it shows internal evidence of their influence.
Since Dr. Sun's death, during] the period when Lenin's memory and the texts of Marxian doctrine were being worked up into a cult to replace Greek Oithodoxy in Russia, Dr, "Sun and his. book have been made the "basis of a cult in. China, with, a ritual: in, which his... will; and! photograph figure largely. The Soviet agents.contvolled Kuomintang propaganda. from. the! Autumn of 1924 until the Spring! of 1927; and during that—time the Three Principles became the scripture of" "Ne Jie places that fel} into "the heads worth it, because they will not) be read; while for the foreign communities in China comment in extense upon Dr. Sun's mise takes in figures and facts would be superfluous, We ara, ther fore, cutting down the text—not altering or editing it. The first} two lectures are given as few deletions of text as possible!
ive the reader an idea of the} flow of argument. Those that follow will thereafter be briefer.
We cannot recommend the "Three Prine! letting, or even ing, but we believe that they: should be read, in part at least, by everyone who really wants to now what is stirring China so deeply. The notes have been reduced to the barest indications} of errors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.