"From Shansi I went to Chengchow, where I met the young general Chang Hsueh-liang. I arrived there on the day of a battle and his troops were retreating. 1 was impressed'by the orderliness in which they were doing this and the discipline in the ranks, There was] no looting whatever as is so frequent when Chinese armies are evacuating.
'4T next went to Shantung and in Tsingtao met Chang Chung-chang. Teingtao is in a better condition than it is reported to be. I found that under Chinese discipline the city is being ran almost as good a an American city—I will not mention Ghicago, there may be someone from there present.
"From there I came to Shanghai' and took a trip up the Yangtze where I met most of the Southern leaders. I was favourably impressed by some and not so much by others.
was sorry to find the houses of foreigners, missions, and business} buildings in Nanking badly looted. The same was true of Wuht Kiukiang and all along the river. Twas also sorry to find that th Northerners could keetj better discipline than the Southerntrs, Nowhere in the North did I see such things as I have seen in the South.
In one Episcopal church which 1 Visited I caw three soldiers on the altar gambling. I would have felt} as badly had I seen such al ing happen in a Buddhist temple.
"While in Chinkiang I went to visit one of the mission churches and was kept out by a soldier with -a fixed bayonet. Thig was in spite of the fact that two weeks previous orders had been given that foreign property was to be evacua Need for Law and Order "AIL of these things have made me wonder if these people have the per appreciation of the rights off others and knowledge of the law of and thine, I do not wish to draw any conclusion, either favourable or unfavourable, but the future of China seems to be hanging on the ability of the. Chinese to get law and order in each province, make eac province a "model province, make the country gate so that the Chinese and foreigners can about their daily duties and advance the economic resources of the country, and finally give the children of China proper education. fad "in the United States the tables} have turned in favour of a more decentralized government, it having become recognized that no central] government in so large a country could attend to the needs as well as the states themselves. If that is true with us who have had long! years of training, it must also be true of China, "My final wish is that China will soon have a country built which all men can get a square deal and every man can worship God as wishes."
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