The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-14
CHINA IS CLAM0R|NG
FOR WESTERN LORE
Methods of the Foreign Devils
Win Approval in the Vel
low Empire.

Special to Tho Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-"All Chi
na is at present clamoring for Western
knowledge.
Such IS the tenor of all the reports
received by the State department from
the yellow Empire. Everywhere in Chi
ma schools are springiug up to teach
the people the lore of the foreign devils,
who, devils though they be, still have
disgustingly successful methods, as may
be perceived by anyone having the oP,,
portunity to observe what Japan did
to Russia.
In the single city of Coochow there
are now more than thirty native schools
advertising to teach after the foreign
model and equipped with foreign appa-
ratus. Vice Consul Arnold OF Foochow
writes that it is no uncommon sight to
see group Of modern school desks en-
circling the base Of dusty old Bud
dhist image in what WAS once temple,
while the walls are hung with charts
dealing with geology, botany, zoology,
anatomy, etc, and with maps Of China,
japan and so on. There will also be
blackboards with chalk and erasers, and
globe and other equipment commonly
to be found in a school in the United
States. In the grounds around the tenn
pie will likewise be seen horizontal bars,
vaulting apparatus, dumb bells and
other things common on a we'll equipped
play ground, The Chinese, having yield
ed the point that the Western methods
are better than their own, are going
the "whole hog' In taking advantage
Of their new-found knowledge.
Have Learned to Advertise.
In Foochow posters meet the eye
everywhere advertising the opening Of
another school, and scarcely a week
passes without the announcement of
new one. They now have q normal
school with 800 students, military
school with $50 students and q high
school with as many more, while the
primary and intermediate schools are
everywhere. These advanced schools
are equipped with chemical, physical,
botanical and geological laboratories,
and many of the other schools are par
TALLY fitted out along the same lines
Nearly all of the school supplies come
from Japan, the people of that country
having sent men to study the Chinese
school question with view to supplying
them with whatever they might seem
70 need. The result has been that the
Japs have worked up a large business,
and they are sending cheap, but good
and useful school equipment to China
oy the ship load. This includes gym
i. nasium supplies, military school sup
plles, scientific apparatus and even mol
efn musical instruments.
ne Japanese are making a CONNER
cial harvest out of it and Of course are
DONG all they can to hasten the modern
education of China, but our consuls saw
the United States could easily get
snare OF the business if the American
makers of school supplies would send
people over there to study
the situation 80 our manufacturers conId
MAKE goods such as the Japs have as.
Sef5ained SeIS the Chimes will buy. The
hes heto Is so Dig, the consuls say. that it
the Chinese have progressed far @ enouob %
to realize that the cheapest is not 81.
ways the best, there will be a bound.
less market for the higher grade of
American educational apparatus. "