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AWAKENING NATIONALISM AND SOCIAL SENSE.
WHY DR. SUN YAT SEN'S THREE PRINCIPLES
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The Appeal to the Poor. The third principle. People's Livelihood," is but the economic side of the other two rinciples.
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H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy ten dansant, £30 p.m.
Volunteers Practice parade for 0.0.0's inspection Headquarters, 130.
Organ Recital, St John's Cathe dral,
by Mr. F. Mason, 5.45 p.m.' Victoria Recreation Club annual meeting Cricket Club dance, Hotel Savoy, 9 p.m.
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Queen's Theatre:""Brown of Harvard."
World Theatre: "Texas Streak." Star Theatre: "His Jazz Bride.". Principal Mails:-Iaward: Europe rid Siberia (Delta),
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Race Meeting, Macao,
It is true that the situation as voice, not simply in the village whole is discouraging to-day in government is in the past, but in China. It was depressing to me as the provincial and "national govern- a visitor from the outside, it is meats. It is quite likely that in heart-breaking to many of the the process many good things of foreiga friends residing in China, the old system will disappear, but writes Mr. A. K. Reischauer in the on the whole China is bending in Japan Advertiser. What it must the right direction in this matter. be to intelligent Chinese themselves who really care for their nation, would be difficult to put into words One reason why the picture looks rather dark is because we see it means that every thiness is entitled to the means of a decent in a false perspective. We see it living and that something must be against the bright pictures which done to do away with the terrible the enthusiastic Eriends of China poverty which now condemns mil. have been painting for us during lions to a miserable existence. This the past 15 or 20 years fission principle is the one which naturally aries have been particularly guilty makes the greatest appeal to the of over-stating the elements of pre-ignorant masses and the one that mise. That is a common fault of will be most difficult to work out. missionaries. When for example in It is quite natural that especially 1006 China abolished her old Ex in port cities where foreignera live amination system and said she what seeins like furry, Chinese would substitute a modern educe imagine that their poverty is tional system we were impressed caused by the oppression of the with the dramatic change that this clever foreign devils who make all implied. We failed to realize that the profit. The first step to come into their own would seem then to the second part as the programme, the actual establishing of a modern be to oust the fareigner and take educational system, is not accom
things away from him Naturally plished by mere declarations of in-is will take years of education be 10.20.; Europe via Siberia tentions but will take time and are the masses can be brought to (yanca), 10.. And later when realize that a better livelihood for
tremendous effort.
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Manchu and set up the "Republ make use of her unlimited re
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Golf:
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this. radically different from ouT OTD would henceforth stand shoulder to shoulder with us for all the true and noble things for which re- publics are supposed to stand. The
longer content to accept her age- long poverty as inevitable.
Education New Bearing Fruit, The popularity of the *Three cutting off of coolies' queues at Principles" is really an indication Duce made them brothers with as that the silent forces of education well-kempt Americans, and the ad- that have been permeating Chinese: vertised abolition of the cruel foot life for several decades are begin- binding custom made Chinese girls ning to bear fruit. The educational the natural sisters of our athletic system is still pathetically inade free-souled American girls.
quale but, after all, it furnishes one of the bright spots of the pic tures. The abolition of that ab aurd examination system by which government officials were chosen on the basis of proficiency in the Con- fucian classics rather than for their actual fitness for their task, was a real step forward. And every year the number of educated Chinese is increasing.
Prematuro Hopes.
These reforms were impressive but they were hardly as significant as at that time we supposed them to be, for they were only the first faltering steps on a long journey which China mast travel. In fact, some of these changes which im- pressed us Westerners so much had practically no meaning to the vast majority of China's 400,000,000,
Factories and Foreigners. The point I wish to make is that
And again, one should not be too we have in the past greatly ex- aggerated tho" significance of the Pessimistic over the present indus trial situation. It is the fashion reforms that China has adopted decry the inhumanity in some and we have sumed that the de-of the foreign-owned, factories of claration about
further reform China where the foreign capitalist
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Monday..
Golf: Bogey pool, Fanling. H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4:30
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*Volunteers practice parade for G.O.C.' inspection, Headquarters (uniform), 3.30 p.m.
Philharmonic Society rehearsal (H.M.S. Pinafore), Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Lecture: Aviation," by Flight- Lieut. J. Newall, Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m
Anndal Meeting, Kowloon Re dents' Church Hall, 6 p.m.
Association, St. Andrew's Queen's Theatre
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World Theatre: "Prairie Wife." Star Theatre: "The Ten Com mandments."
measures by a few eblightened is making his fortune at the ex- Principal Mail:-Outwardi
Tuesday.
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H.K., Canton and Macao Steam- boat Co., annual meeting, noon.
Annual Inspection of H.K. V.D.C., by G.Q.C., Murray Parade Ground, 6. p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Mystic." World Theatre...
"Dukey." Theatre: The Devil's Ots
leaders had suddenly made of old pense of the underpaid labourer. U.S.A., Canada and Europe rid China a great modern nation. And The conditions in many of theso San Francisco (Fest Elzajon), 5 now that we are beginning to factories are an improvement ca realize that it will take decades to what China herself has had. The P achieve things which we expected factories
than fac- are better in a few years, we are disappoint-tories owned by Chinese, and the ed and pessimistic about China's latter are a vast improvement over p.m future. Had we seen China in less the old labour conditions. The glowing colours then, we would see truth is that economic well-being in her to-day in a more promising China decreases in proportion na light. ic
one gets farther, and farther away Political signs of Promise. from the centres where outside But what are the elements of pro-capital and energy have begun to mise which brighten up the present develop modern industries... picture 7
I am not egen altogether pessi One of these is that a rapidly mistic over China's relationship to increasing number of China's "the foreign devil." It is an actual
Principal Mails:-Outward: millions is getting seriously interfact that in the two months that I Canada, U.S.A., etc., Europe vid ested in the affairs of the nation spent in China in my travels from San Francisco and rid, Siberia whole. China never has been Peking in the North to Canton in (Shinyo Maru), 10.30 am. Europe a nation in the modern sense of the South I did not experience avid Marseilles (Demodocus), 2.30 the term but she is now becoming single cam of rudeness to me as a p.m.
foreigner. Children sometimes call. This is the significance of the one Foreign Devil," but in the popularity of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's the form of Foreign Devil, pleass famous Three Principles."
sive me a penny 1
There are places where the bandits make the foreigner's life unsafe, to be sure, but it is least as safe as that. of the Chinese themhaclver.
one.
Nationalism and Democracy. The first of these three prin- ciples, "Nationalism," means that all Chinese have something in common as over against the oat Chinese People Friendly. gider who would exploit them.
Wednesday,
Annual meeting H.K. Benevolent Society, City Hall, noon.
E.K. Hotel ten dance, 4.20 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30. p.m.
5th Annual Dancing Display by Miss V. Capell's pupils, Theatre Royal, 5.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Mystic.” World Theatre: "Duler." Star Theatre: "The Devil's Circus."
Thursday."
I rather got the impression that And it means that Chinese will the Chinese people as such are atand together and use force to de-friendly to the friendly foreigner. fend their commch inheritance.It And what is true of the people is
Principal Mails:-Outward: eins a unifications of the nation essentially true of the government, Australia, etc. (Mishima, Maru).. not simply to bring peace among even of the Nationalist Govern 9.30 am
In fact, it behoves the nations the warring factions but also to ment. make co-operation possible on pro- to come to terms with the Nation- blems which must be treated on a alista even though they may seem national rather than provincial unreasonable in some of their de scale. To mention but one such mands. Fundamentally they stand problem, the control of China's for equality with foreign nations, great river system,
and in a speedy adjustment of The second principle, People things till this equality is recog. Sovereignty,"
that means
the nized lies the hope of friendly re people as such are to have a reallations in the future.
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