The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23

of China is creating a great demand for Chinese who can speak and write En. glsh. and the boys know that they can get five times as much salary if they are so equipped This fact is crowding the day schools of the association with pupils who wish to learn English and the night classes are full of such men,
 China and the Olympic Games.
 The athletic feature also forms a great drawing card. When tho Y M C. A. came to China ten years ago, the natives had no interest in athletics. The old Chinese scholar prided himself upon his green goggles, his long finger nails, his attenuated form and his hollow chest. With the bringing of athletics into the public schools and the organization of military drill everywhere, physical exer- else has become popular, and the secre- taries of the associations have now no trouble in filling their gymnasiums. They have organized field days at the different centers, and 5000 or 10.0a0 come to such places as Tientsin to take part In the an- nual meets. There are 5000 students in the modern schools of Tientsin. and the
 interest in such matters there is so great that an address was recently delivered to the students of the government schools on the subject, When Will China Win the Olympic Games?' Indeed 1t is safe to say that before many years both the Chinese and the Japanese will be found in all international athletic competitions and 1t will not be surprising if an Asiatic some day wins the marathon.
 I find a trained physical director here in charge of the Shanghai gymnasium. He will start national training school , for physical directors, and native Chinese so trained will go out from here to hold 1 n Y c. As, but in the new schools and col leges. which the government is every where starting.
 ColIege-Bred Secretaries.
 '"rell me something about the foreign CTS who are working here in the Y M. c. A." said l.
 We have 32 American, Canadian and English secretaries in China and Corea, all of whom are working under the au- spices of our International committee These men are university trained; they represent such colleges as Oxford and Cambridge, England, and Yale Prince ton, Cornell and McGil. in America. We have also graduates of our western in stitutions and several from our theolog- ical seminares. The Tientsin association was started eight years ago by Robert | Galley, the great Princeton center rush. and he has been reinforced by Robert
 
 chanical engineering in Purdue and by Cole, who was fellow in McGil. The secretaries are all men of high class. Patronized by the Officials. I am surprised at the high Chinese of- ficials who are interested in the Y. M. C. A. movement. Yuan Shih Kai, the great general and statesman, has sub scribed a great deal to the association at Tientsin and Pekin. Tong Shao Vi has IAo1 ne hoe Icrl rit,tr fang, the former ambassador to Washing ton Chen Nun Yen is a member of the Shanghai association. and Tong kai San, one Of the members of the opium com mission, belongs to the national com mission.
 Many of the leading institutions and business firms of China are subscribing to the r. M. c. A. The Chinese Merchant Steamship company recently gave over 5000 to the Shanghai association and in that company there are 60 sustaining members. each of whom pay $50 year.
 Teaching the Chinese Professors.
 The Y NJ c. As are doing much in the new eduiation of China. There are students associations in various schools and colleges which have a membership of 5000. They publish paper called Chinas Young Men. which has a circula- ton of about 4oOO, and goes into every
 
 to this there are something like 12.000 copies of other publications printed each year.
 Robertson of Tientsin recently brought out a cabinet containing apparatus for the performance of 300 different experi- ments in physics, and he invited the pro- fessors and educational authorities to witness them. They were greatly Inter ested, and as result physics was in troduced in many of the schools Nearly every association has it's stereopticon lec- lures, and the audience halls are well filed
 The secretaries are ready to do all sorts of work along the lines of the new move ment Not long ago the educational au- thorities of Tientsln wanted to introduce electro-plating into their industrial schools They imported a costly appar- atus from abroad. but could not make it work They called upon Professor Cole of the Y. M c. A., who happened to be an expert on this very line. He put the apparatus into shape and has been con- ducting the classes with splendid success for two years.
 At present here at Shanghai and Tien- tsin bureaus of advice have been estab- lished for Chinese students going abroad. Here the young men can buy their tick cts, learn all about the character and standing of the great colleges of Amer s>. uH~~l>~S ouA Gorrnauv end ha x,> 1~<-