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EFFICIENCY IN KWANGSI
PROF. HOE ADDRESSES
ROTARIANS
The publle order, safety, and illetency of Kwangsi province ne ranked high among modern xamples of that kind by Professor . C. Hoe when he described the present conditions in Kwanggi in address to the Hongkong Rotary Club yesterday..
the
SEPTEMBER 25, 1935.
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BABY'S BETTER NOW!
The Corps is very intricate affair because it is as much poistical ne it is a military instru- ment, and I will give a.simple of how it la formed.
Nanking, Sept. 24. sketch The recruits of the Corps are
Although the mooting was only taken from overy household; each household has to furnish ono able-a preliminary to formal discussion bodied man for voluntary miiliary of China's economic and currency training for from six to 18 months problems. Sir Frederick Lelth- and during training the men are Ross spent about an hour yester- treated just like ordinary soldiers. day with. Mr. 11. H. Kung (Nan- They are, however, different from king Finance Minister) at the Int- Frederick the regular soldiers in that they ter's residence. Sir are not in the Army,, have to bo was accompanied by the British rotired after a period of training Ambassador, Sir Alexander Cado- Later in the afternoon they Professor 1 Forster presided and are subject to be called to Ran.
called at the Ministry of Railways of emergency. chse nd welcomed as new members nerve in Dr. S. N. Chau, Mr. D. G. Glenu Their function also differs from to see Mr. Wang Chung-wei and the ordinary soldiers, as their Messrs. Chen Kung-po (Minister Chu Chin-hua Allen and Mr. A. II. Veltman.
(Minister of Communications) and Congratulations were extended duty is to guard the province and of Industrica,)
nol to go outsile to fght. his recent to Mr. M. K. Lo on
The second thing which struck Professor Ku Meng-yu (Minister
of Railways). Legislative elevation
me was the comparative freedom Council.
Sir Frederick and Lady Leith-for fear and baby is well again! The President added that he had of officialdom from corruption. I received a letter from the Young am a Chinese myself and I do not Ross and Sir Alexander and Lady to conceal from you that Cadogan were entertained by Mr. Australia League thanking them have
had there is corruption in China as 1. Kung at a dinner party last for the hospitality they
there is corruption everywhere. night. Mr. Wang Ching-wei gives received in Hongkong.
in introducing the speaker, hen Kwangs! I found the situation a dinner in their honour to-night in England. at the Foreign Office when fifty large, a com- Chinese Government officials will said Dr. Hoe was born in Canton almost ko that in 1904 and went to study at Tsing There is, by and Han University of Peking, later parative freedom from political be among the guests.
Sir Frederick and party will graduating at Harvard with the corruption, and on meditating on degree of Ph.D. Returning to the reasons for this I came to the
was conclusion that it was due to, leave for Shanghai to-night. Hoe Dr. in 1930, China
rigid system of
May Visit South China successively editor of the China Bratly, the
Political accountancy and auditing which Critic. l'rofessor
Canton, Sept. 23. Science at the National University prevails. The Government sees.
it
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross is ex of Peking, and attached to the
and pected to visit Canton after his of conditions in Lytton Commission in 1932. He spent is was entrusted with the translation the accountants themselves are investigation into Chinese of the Lytton Report picked and trained from the best Shanghai and Nanking. when the Commission left for men in the province. Secondly, Europe.
In the same year, Dr. Hoe was elected Chinese Delegate to the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Banff, Canada. Later in 1933 ho resigned from the University post to travel
visited 15 While in Europe he countries and did research work at Trinity College, Cambridge. On returning to Canton in 1934
to
that *vory
for accounted
magistrates. and study in Europe.
The Simple Life
cent
•
there is a severe punishment for Officials here are preparing a corruption. Any district magis-big welcome to Sir Frederick, as trate who is guilty of a $200 they are anxious that he should corruption elenco is shot out of become acquainted with trade and band and no quarter is given, economic conditions in Kwang- That has been in exemplary tung. It is, reported that Mr. T. deterrent to the other district Y. Song, Chairman of the Na- tional Eranomic Council. is con- templating the securing of a loan in and through Sir Frederick, that event merchants here desire Thirdly, there is the compara-that a portion of the long should tively simple life of the omelals be alloted to this province. he was immediately appointed Elsewhere they ride about in
Canton has requested $5,000,000 of the Chungshan sheeny limousilies, have a dozen Professor University where he is at present concubines and ent and live the from the British Boxer Indemnity posted. Concurrently he is Re-best. In Kwangsl it is surprisingly Fund for reconstruction, and Sir Hsuch different. Every official has to Frederick Leith-Ross's visit to the search Professor at the
wear the gray uniform made of South may give him a better idea Hai Research Institute.
for During the summer vacation Dr. native cloth in cold and hot or the need Hoe travelled 1.000 miles through weather. When I was in Kwangel funds. Special. Kwangsi on a pleasure trip. Het was very hot and the officials is the author of a book on Cal-complained of having to wear the vinism, besides having written thick cotton cloth-bat they have numerous articles in both Chinese to do it. and English.
one--
the morning.
reconstruction
often difficult to do simple things, such as getting all the children to Their Bends are cropped close; go to school, unless all these three
pgreed,
Now the it is not the thing to be stylish personages
in ono No More Banditry
and well dressed. In Kwangsi. functions are joined They are not expected to be so authority and political power in The theory of The speaker said: Of recent years the province of Kwangsind if they want to keep their Kwangs! Is one.
cannot be stylish. the separation of power is rubbish in Kwangsi and they have thrown ins attracted a great deal of jobs, they attention in China and abroad, the They have to live a simple life.
Furthermore, the officials are it to the winds. The theory of reason being that of all the pro- not allowed to gamble or drink, go separation is a defeated theory vinees in China, Kaangs has
to bad houses or smoke oplum. belonging to the 18th. Century. beon
prominent the with a firm determination to do Opium passes through Kwangst and the 20th. Century has dis things, And it has done a kreat but the officials are not allowed covered the virtue of unity of deal. All those who have been to have a finger in it. They have political power.
I do not argue for dictatorship. fact that I only point out the OCEANSE KADERNOstercraccoonsscstecu there have invariably spoken well to be in the office at 7 o'clock in
of the Province.
Another thing that struck me Dr. Sherwood Eddy, the Ameri-
centralized. Now the centraliza- can speaker, after returning from about Kwangal was the Govern political authority in Kwangsi is
administrative Kwangs wrote and said, "I can mental and.
there son-of-political authority can be efficiency. Elsewhere. depart from China now in peace because I have seen the promise interminable red tape and what in one man, as in Italy, which is a Shakespeare calls the law's delay personal dictatorship, or in a of a new Chinn",
which has a parliamentary govern- Dr. Ha Shih went to Kwangsi and the insolence of Office" political organ as in England Now I believe that it is ment. at the beginning of this year and endless and annoying details to go he spoke of four characteristics through to get anything done. of In Kwangsi the orders are given which he thought the rest China might do well to emulate. by the superiors to their sub-political authority is centralized These were: (1) Public order.ordinates and are executed sur in Parliament than in a country
I SAW an
where political power is distribut- There is perfect order in Kwangsi, prisingly quickly.
nstance of an order given to
ed among three or more organa (2) Thrift. There is strict village by the Provincial Govern that eternally lock horns
with one day after it was each other. the ment only
of issued from the Central Authori inties at Nanning. Orders are even given by telephone by the Pro
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Political Unity Pondering on the reasons for this state of things in Kwangsl, so different from other provinces, I believe that one of the biggest reasons for it was that they have better men in Kwangsi.
easier to have things done in a
'country
like
England
where
A point about Kwangsi which most people have in their minds is a little suspicion that the province Is doing good work but is just a the little too friendly with
* point I Japanese. This is wanted to inquire about as a student of Chinese and as politics whilst I was there, and from my observation I am sure it is. not so. (Applause).
economy in the province.
(3) Martial spirit. Both lower classes upper and Kwangai are being trained military affairs.
(4) Absence of superstition. vincial Government. There is an entire absence of any-: 'hing like dol worship-"kowiow- ing" to what Kipling describes us "the blooming idol made of mud, Great God what they call the Budd."
Dr. Ju Shih was quite right in saying that there is perfect order
The three heads, Generale Li there. In Kwangsi there is no or- ganised banditry whereas only few Chung-jen, Pi Chung-si and Wong years ago bandits were everywhere. Yuechoh are very sincere in their They have. miraculously dis Intention to de good work. I doing the speaker, said they would want to be more per be interested to know that Dr. appeared. I have travelled 1,000 not
but besides the good Hoe was a professor of Inter-
miles both on land and water and sonal
A
Thanks Expressed
Sir William Shenton, in thank-
I had not a single mishap nor were personnel there is also excellent national Law. It was a pity that any of my personal effects stolen. Government machinery-that is his address
Way not broadcast In fact I was told that cases of the Citizens' Training Corps. I round the world as he felt aure theft were rare. There being no call that a Government machine that many dictators would be organised banditry in Kwangsiand not just a Military machine, jealous of the power that General there is also no communism,
Citizen Training Corps
because
most things political, L exercised in Kwangal. When economic and educational are these aletators were out of a job done through the instrumentality they would no doubt be able to live quite happily in a place like The reason for this-I will not and by virtue of the Corps.
To illustrate what I mean, there Kwangal say the only reason--is what many
were observers called a Militia Service was formerly before the present
village every
in Among those present but which I choose to call the regime, in
F. A. Nixon, Canton; Citizens' Training Corps. Their Kwangsi, a village school prin- Rotarian
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