From the foreigner's point view, this attitude towards the whole question of jurisdiction over the communities which have been built up by foreign energy, effi ency and just and honest. alminitration out of nothing, is only rea nonable and logical; but we are wholly unaccustomed to find Chinese official pronouncements based upon either common sense or disinterested reason, that General Sun's attitude comes not only as pleasant surprise but almost as 1 shock, It. was undoubtedly designed to shock the Chinese commercial population in Shanghai and to startle them into a realization that officialdom no longer patronized Red "nationalism." Coming in anticipation of the demonstration which the agitators were preparing for Shanghai this month, Dr. Ting's -appointment and General Sun's pub-We addresses meant to the Chinese: "No more of last year's tactics; they're out of fashion this year. We want less talk of racial equality and more evidence of it; less frenzy bout inherent sovereign rights and more concern for the just rewards of merit.
All of this is very wholesome and very hopeful, and deserves from the foreign community the most sympathetic consideration, Tt is clearly enough recognized here that reaction in Peking against Red absurdity has meant nothing but reversion to characteristic native ineptitude—under Chang Tso-lin's patronage in the military field and under Wu Pei-fu's patronage the political tick,.while in Sun Chuan-fang's camp reaction seems to mean a return to sanity.
True Constructive Work Dr. V. K, Ting has an enviable reputation among foreigners in Pe-King as a striking variation from type, both as an official and a returned student. As head of the Geological Survey he built up one of the few Chinese Government series, not under rigid foreign control, which are a credit to the coun-thy. Unlike the majority of returned students who enter gleefully into destructive enterprises but shriek all the while for what they fall "constructive criticism," he per-fisted. in constructive work while everything was going to pot. around Him "and accepted modestly such @riticiem and advice as came—and needless to aay it was always constructive and generally. flattering.
Like nearly every other Government bureau, his was supplied with foreign experts as advisers and technical men in the field; but, unlike other Chinese departmental' chiefs, his advisers were not pushed the position of ornamental po ers, but were allowed to find work wherever their judgment led them and were given every encouragement that the resources of the bureau could provide. Even Dr. Anderson's amazingly fruitful palseonto logical and archaeological' work, outside the field of the geological survey, found in Dr, Ting an enthusiastic patron.
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