table lack of knowl Chinese as a people and of China among residents, students parti cularly, of Pa states yesterday Jed Julian Arnold, American commercial attache at' Peking, to recommend incorporation in Port~ and's high school curriculum of a short course in the geography and civilization of China.
"It is necessary for Portland, one of the old Pacific const cities with long-continued contact with China, to overcome the ignorance of things Chinese on the part of the people of this important Pacific outlet," Mr. Arnold declared.
find in talking: to students the high schools of the Pacific const thay when I mention the cities of Shanghai, Hankow, Canton and Tientsin, all together they take it a8 Chinese jargon. rather than the names of important commercial cities, each with more than 1,000, 000 inhabitants and of commanding significance to th lopment of this region.
This situation cannot—continue without disastrous results to our future responsibilities as a Pacific power, for the Chinese are rapidl decerning a factor in world affairs.
Mr. Arnold addressed the City Club at Luncheon, and told members that the rising tide of increasing consumption on the part of the Chinese masses, due to improved economic conditions, meant the opening of greater markets in China for Portland products, "China for several decades will offer to American manufacturers and exporters a continuously increasing market for building materials and other commodities associated with their modern economic development," said he. "Although the wheat production and flour consumption in China are on the increase, here again, owing to bad internal communication conditions, China undoubtedly will offer tothe markets of the west opportunities for the sale of wheat and flour."
The King yess terday opened a large now sports ground st Chiswick, London, for the Venefit of Civil Servants. The ground consists of 30 acres devoted to football, cricket, "tennis and hockey, and other games. The cost will be borne by the civil servants themselves without aid from public money. through Reuter.
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