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HONGKONG

THE CO- OPERATIVE SYSTEM

MR. STRICKLAND'S ROTARY TALK

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

JUNE

26.

1935.

REDS IN RETREAT

J

and processing with trained servants employed by their own co-operative group. These thoy nend direct to tho market at Tientsin, Peking or Shang. hal as the case may be,

SUFFER GREATLY FROM Itut there are

dimention in all

FOOD SHORTAGE these organisations which are chiefly due

Lo their trying to go too fast.

Chengtu, June 25. They are

building up a system The Reds in the vicinity of which will spread over the whole of Mewhsion are suffering overely China which will be of the greatest from sense, specially beri-beri, value to the farmer. Of all the farmers I have Bren the Chinese caused by an acute food shortage, The application of the co-farmer is the best (Hear, hear). uccording to prisoners, operative system to China, and That is due to several features of the great benefits derived by the his character. I found in Shanghini small Chinese farmers by its that if you handed a group of

Chinese in n village a few

a few hundred adoption, were dealt with by Mr. dollars it was expected one of their C. F. Strickland, who has recently number would try and lay his hands arrived in Hongkong after a long on some of the money and make off tour in China studying the system with it. But that is not true of the at work, at yesterday's meeting Chnese farmer. Although the 16,000 of the Rotary Club in the Roof socletics all over China hayo had

much less attention and encourage started Garden of the Hongkong Hotel.

Rotarian M. K. Lo preskied, and ment than they ought to have from Koonhslen from Minchaen on the

the unofficial) 21st. Government or

have been dofented at welcomed Ills Excellency the Officer bodies, the cases of embezzlement or Koonhsien. Administering the Government, Sirens

refunn by the small farmer to pay Thomas Southorn K.N.E., C.M.G, and (HAU.

the

Many have been left dying on the roadside as the Reds continue their retreat to the mountains-Kenter. Red Attack Repulsed

Canton, June 26.

A telegram received by the Szechuon delegates here indicates that the joint Red Forces under Chu Teh and Hsu Hsiang-chin who

their joint attack

on

A lerce battle was fought be on behalf of the Club extended con- back the money ho borrowed for his

maintenance, for buying tween the Reds and the Gavern- gratulations to Ilis Honour the Chief family Justics Sir Atholl MacGregor on the animals or seeds are very much rarer ment Forces on the 22nd, inst., the an attack high honour he had received from than they are in India and most other Reds having launched

four different routes. from

At on the occasion countries I have seen. His Majesty the King on

first it seemed that the Government of a

birthday Majesty's

Forces would be overwhelmed, but Among the other e

guckta present Rotarian

McCarthy,

with the arrival of Government C. J (Shanghai) Menara. C. S. Archer, H.

reinforcements from Chengtu the Baugh, Ma Man-fai, C. H. Drange and

Reds were badly defented.

were

1. E. Nerickand said he had been

I feel full of enthusiam and ad- miration for the way the Chinese farmer, who is so illiterate, manages these small societies,

The Hardest Lesson

said if

According to an official

com-

lar. Strickland and ten different munique no less than 2,000 Rods travelling through different provinces in China during the past nine or ten aspects of the co-operative system in were killed, while the Government months on behalf of the Universities their one society it was impossible. Forces suffered more than a thou China Committee in London, a

It was necessary to have one society sand casualties. Com- mittee which sent lecturers to the for each side of the system. That the hardest lesson he had to Chinese Universities to talk to the drive home.

the Wik students on subjects which may or

"The reason they have tried to may not interest them

hem (Laughter).

make the farmer do that is because These alne months had been spent much a systems is suited to Japan and lecturing in English and through interpreter si University

they thought it could be applied in China, But the Japanese people can Nanking, and

round

rend and write and are more capable the

of doing so. The Chinese farmer cannot read, and write.

the A

of excuse

addressing local Universities. lie also took the portunity of inspecting the excellent work the Government officers were doing in connection with the co-opera- tive system in Chion.

Not Quite Perfect

Governmont

It is reported that the Reds are now retreating towards Minchuen and Pafchwan with forces on their. heels.-Wah Kin Yat Pe.

be enforced.

said they were still getting into debt. When asked why, they said one of the chief reasons was litigation, so a their little lean groups by themselves, Arbitration" was formed, and every "They are now trying to manage Co-operative Society of Compulsory and not from outside, with advisera person entering was pledged to bring from the Government and private every dispute he had to the Com- institutions. They are getting money mitter for Judgment. Any person from the Chinese commercial banks defying the Society was fined $100. "I found that the system in China who have been most enlightened on Then the Government passed certain is not tou perfect," and the speaker, the subject."

ations whereby these decisions "although it is doing a lot of good.

The

second big diffealty in the ca- During my tour 1 found the Chinese operative movement la China, said The prople of Indin also sinted were inclined to suppose that a man Mr. Strickland, was in getting men that another reason they got into like

myself, who had spent many properly trained for the job of debt was through the large amount of years in India, was anxious to thrust educating the Chinese farmer in the money they spent on marringes and down their throats the Indian Co-mana

of his management

Society. He had other ceremonies.

Their remedy operative System. I had a dimeutt

tried to persuade n a certain university, might also be

applied light to explain that I was only with the help of the Government, to They said they could not stop it be. trying to see how the Chinese system set up an advanced training club so cause no one person could give leas was rum rather than recommend the that when men were sent out to the splendid marriage then his neighbour. sanie system which was used else provinces to educate the people they The villages have now drawn up a where.

would be really suited for that work.list of Jewellery a husband may give "You cannot realise to what extent The third defect in the co-operative his wife and the father may give the China has carried her enthusiasm for system in China, wald the speaker, daughter. Anyone who gives more is creating en-operative socletles, Last was the way they were trying to fined $100 by

the

Society. December there were something like apply it solely for the farmers. These societies have spread rapidly 15,000 societies already and by the They were making it almost entirely in Indin and are of great value, and present time, at the rate they were farmers' movement, because they I ask you to consider whether they then progressing, the number must felt he was the man in the greatest could be applied to China. be well over see that they are going ahead much! " the greatest difficulty," too fast." He continued:

said Mr. Strickland, "for he cannot Medical Society for the maintenance

btain

20,000. Апуоне can difficulty.

Medical Society

to

China.

In Japan there Is Co-operative

I want you to understand that my markel his produce and cannot comments on

on the work they have done nuney except at very high rates. of a ductor in rural areas. It works ure given in a friendly spirit. The The same difficulty, but in a rather something on these lines. In twenty villages of 100 houses grouped to- Chinees have come to the conclusion d'fferent form, existed in the towns. that as an alternative to Communism There is great enthusiasm among the ether each household pays une dallur and in order to avoid the evils of the poorest classes, the student classes and year, bringing the total collected to A medical student, if the capitalistic system there is the co-the professional classes in the towns $4,000, operative system for the smaller for different kinds of co-operative system could be applied here, could vehe arnt down to such a group of people while the capitalist concerns societies similar to those in Europe, villages and would be given free

lourish in the towns.

such as housing associations, cohouse, free fuel, ele. That is the [operative stores and consumers

way the Japanese are doing it. stores"

The co-operativ system is B Another thing that is urgently movement of immense value to the needed is something to take the place

farmers. of wuting.

movement,

210

n₤

The Small Farmer

been

Social Organisation

Irt

urban

present

The ordinary Chinese farmer is person for whom the nationalist lead

and also to the ers, and the lenders of Chinese banks

people. It cannot be solely an official taking thought. He

China at 13 2012425 very small acrenge-a whole

The final class of co-operative there are many valuable unofficial family working on an acre of land sxicty which is found hardly any institutions and great enthusiasm, often--and he Bods it difficult to where in China, but which exists on and they are going ahead very fast btain money when he needs it buy nrge scale in Indin and Japan, is indeed. I think they should train his manure,

his souls and his animals, in connection with the social life. their staff more and realize the dif When he puts his produce in the The social organisation of Chinn has lealties of the co-operative system hands of the marketing merchant he broken up by the pressure of more. Enthusiasm is not enough; slaes not receive the same careful western conditions just as much as but they have splendid material here attention as if he were marketing the

economic organisation.

in Chion for the Chinese farmer and 100 tons instead of two hundred- If you are offering to the people the Chinese

ese townsman

form co- to weights.

under the stress of western pressure operative societies equal to those in All over Ching now. portleularly ja

method of adjusting its any other part of the world.

The in the Yangtse district small groups economical organisation it must be vote of thanks to the speaker are being formed which are trying to

to worth white considering whether was proposed by Roturian R. II. bring together money of their own something could be done in the social Kotewall, on behalf of the Club. by paying up small share instalments field. I do not propose that the kind Mr. Strickinnd Intimated after the and on the joint liability borrowing of society I intend speaking about meeting that he would meet a group from the Government or the Chinese should take the same form in China. of people who were interested in Co- commercial banks, Some are getting It might not work."

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