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The Rockefeller Foundation through its International Boar of Education, is inaugurating new humanitarian uplift activity that of agricultural research an education, to extend all over the world, and the Philippines, of al Oriental countries, will receive large share of the benefit to b derived, according to indications

Donn H. L. Russell of the schools of agriculture, University of Wisconsin, representing the Rockefeller Foundation's Inter national Board of Education who is conducting the survey of conditions in the Far East, re- cently indicated that the Philip pinea is more worthy than Chine of aid because there are avail able here materials that can best assure intelligent and profitable

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926.

IN CHINA.

WESTERN INTEREST

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MPORTANCE OF FULLER

NEWS SERVICES.

Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham, Ships of the Blue Funnel Lino T. 8. Consul-General, gave a Line operating in the trans- will fill thoir incheon last week at the Ameri- Pacific trade

Jan Oluh in honour of Mr. bunkurs in Seattle in futuro in- Nicholas Roosevolt, the Foreign stead of in Union Bay, B. C, it Editor of the New York Times, was announced on Jan. 7. Ever vho was visiting Shanghai. Re-since the trans-Pacific service of resentatives of the Municipal the Blue Funnel Line was astab- Council, Amorioon business in Hehed, the vessels have been erests, missionary bodies, and bunkering in Union Bay, ob- he editors of the foreign nowe taining their fuel supplies from apora wore invited to meet Mr. the Canadian Collieries, Ltd., but Roosevelt.

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In a brief speach the American Pacific Coal Company in Seattle. Consul General spoke of the work The vessels require from 1,000 to ing done to bring into closer 2,000 tons of coal on each visit to elation the peoples of the East this coast. Tho str. Ixion, which and West. He pointed out that arrived in Seattle on February 6, nuch greater interost in China was the first vessel of the fleet to was being manifested abroad, and

that better understanding would take her bunker supplies at that result from the interchange, of port. The new arrangement wil! pinions and by newspaper art mean that Blue Funnel liners will use of the help that would be ex-les describing the activities of load about 15,000 tone of coala tended, principally scientific rethe different nations He said search institutions and technical that American and British news- year in Seattle, worth G. $100,000. ly trained men,

HELP TS NEEDED.

apers in the homelands wero no longer content to have represent- stives in China, but sending dis-

After going through the Uni-tinguished correspondents hero versity of the Philippines and the to make investigations, and such ES the college of agriculture at Los Ba-responsible stuft men nos, Dean Russell realized that guest of honour.

Mr. Roosevelt said that he was agricultural education and re- search are greatly handicapped here to listen rather than to in the Philippines and that it is speak. Short as was his visit, it in dire need of financial help. would help him the better to ap

preciate the position here. Where- "The Los Banos college is ins events in Chiffa were formerly pretty bad shape financially and only briefly dealt with, nowadays I cannot see how it can continue newspapers carried a consider its present services in rosearchable volume of news or Chinese work unless given better treat-affairs, and, as Mr. Cunningham ment," Dean Russell said.

had stated, there was frequently The Rockefeller representative editorial comment on events hero. will remain in Manila five days He had gone into the question of more to go over activities of the fuller service of news from buroau of science, bureau of China, and found that if his forestry. The work to be inan-paper carried as much news from gurated by the foundation is not the Fast as froin Europe it would to be limited to agricultural cost them in cable charges alone education and research but will a quarter of a million gold dollars cover all allied activities such as por annum. So that cable charges in the natural sciences, biology, chemis compelled newspapers

West to restrict their news from try and veterinary science,

the East, and he thought every effort should be made to obtain' cheap cable rates and cheap and. officient radio services.

.. Dean Russell has boon dele- gated to survey conditions in Far Fustern countries to determine what facilities for research in agriculture and what remain to

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be provided for the greatest bene- SARGENT EXHIBITION. fit of the people. Other eminent authorities in agricultural educa. tion are making similar surveys. in Europe and other lands, it was learned. Dean Russell has visited Japun and China and after com- ploting his work in the Philip pines will proceed to Hongkong, then to Singapore and Siam, to the United States in September.

Re-

Probably the densest throng that ever has packed the home of the Royal Academy in Bur- lington House attended the pri vate oponing of the John Singer Sargent cxhibition on Jan. 14. There certainly has been no THINGS BAD IN CHINA.

gathering in years so reminiscent' Conditions in China are very of pro-war fashionable London. discouraging, according to Dean Every dowager of society scem- Russell. The factional wars are fed to be there along with every interfering with everything, and groy-haired, lover of art. because they absorb entire vitality markable old ladies who were of the people, the cause of educa-in their prime when Sargent was tion suffers. No one knows when the darling of society and art conditions will become stable, in reappeared, some of them on crut- China and until that time comes ches appeared to reinspect the it will be impossible to accom-canvases that were the talk of plish much that may be of value England a generation ago. to the Chinese people, he added. many attended that it was oven

Manila Bulletin.

difficult to look at the 600 Sargent paintings, and the occasion was more like a reunion than an art exhibit.

GOLF VETERAN.

PLUS ONE AT SIXTY.

So

It was critics' day and the press, pays the American mastor an almost delirious tribute. He is crowned as the greatest portrait- painter of the generation and for sheer representation, one of the Edward Blackwell, captain of three greatest artists since Vojas- the Royal and Ancient Club, wasquez, beaton recently in the final of the The only serious attempt, how- invitation match-play Golfing over to appraise his faults along Tournament, under, handicap, at with his remarkable gifts was Wentworth, Virginia Water, but made by the Times which regard. ho must surely be accounted one ed him as being weak both in of the wonders of the golfing treat'ng substance and form, and world considering that he will be considers that his réputation will 60 years of age in July. He still survive only as a great paintor of has a handicap of plus 1, and, faces. A curiously similar verdict i what is more, plays up to it. In was pronounced at the exhibition this event he was giving strokes by Margot Asquith, now Lady to all the other competitors. In Oxford, who told friends: the final he had to concede 5 "He was a great genius and a strokes to G. C. Laviok, who great gentleman-and an Amuri-| can who perhaps was lacking int won on the last green by getting poetry and soul." down a putt of four yards. They The Times critic' rejected Sur- Boston works nying: wero square at the 15th, and gent's

They compel the respectful although Lavick took the lead at indulgence which is given to the the 16th with the aid of one o poetical effusions of a master of his strokes, Blackwell.drow leve prose."

Most of "the critics seemed to

at the 17th. When Levick holed bo nettled by the fact that Sargent his long putt on the last green was an American and took pains Blackwoll was left with a putt of to point out that he was born in Florence and educated in France two yards to save the match. and that he did most of his work Ho missed it by two inohos. In in London.

vory bad weather Blackwell accomplished the excellent scoro of 79, his rival being three strokes worse. It is 34 years since Blackwell won his first scratch match at St. Andrews,

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