Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-11-08
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The average Chinaman knows how
to keep silent when everybody else
is talking. The average negro knows
how to talk when everybody else Ia
keeping silent. The two attitudes are
not the same. The Chinaman learns
a great deal by keeping his mouth
shut and the negro forgets a great
deal by keeping his mouth open.
What man learns and what a man
forgets are not the same. DR.. Sun.
Yat-Sen, who did so much to make
the Chinese Republic possible, and
was its provisional president, has been
silent for months while the press OF
the world was trying to make it ap
pear that the Chinese republic was on
the verge of disruption because DR..
Sen and President Yuan Shi-kai were
at loggerheads over everything. DR..
Sen now breaks his silence in Nan
kin interview to the New York Sun
to declare that, personally, his rela,
tons with the president are cordial,
and that their differences as to public
policy and questions are only such as
exist between statesmen in all coun.
tries who work together for the com
mon welfare. He says: 81 believe
can safely say that upon one matter
OF first Importance all the leaders in
China are of one mind: The best
good of the country. AS to how this
may be attained is quite another mat
ter. but we are all striving and work
ing for the meritorious and noble
end" No one thinks Of civil war In
the United States simply because Mr..
Taft, Mr.. Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt do
not agree upon matters Of public pol
icy. Each Of these gentlemen is GER
tainly true American and patriot
Of a very high order. Yet there are
IL my knowledge of American affairs
is worthy-many great and vital is
sues upon which they disagree totally.
May it not be so in China?-New
York Age.
Negro Year Book"-whoever heard
of such a thing? Annual Encyclo-
pedia of the Negro"-whoever thought
of devoting a whole volume OF year
book and encyclopedia to any single
race of people? Here 1t is, however,
and it comes from Tuskegee. No one
claims to have shown originality in
thinking of it. 1t hears the name
Of Monroe N. Work, TN charge of re-
search and records" Out Of these rec
ords, at first only Of the students and
graduates of Tuskegee, and then Of
the negro population, this first OF all
race books seems to have grown. Be-
hind a desk Of the Chicago THEOLOGY
cal seminary IA years ago young
negro student, Work by name, sat for
three years. With plodding persistence
he studied and struggled his way
through to graduation. Ever loyal to
his race, he eagerly learned all he
could from them and the whites how
to help them help themselves. He
began at the beginning in looking
about him here in Chicago, to find out
what the actual conditions Of his pso-
pie were. In the south he continued
to look for facts on which to base the
means and plans which Tuskegee and
other schools for life and work were
devising and carrying out. And now
from his card catalogue Of lease rec
ords" and race facts comes this new
and valuable attempt to register the /
progress of a race in this NEGRO Year /
Book and Annual Encyclopedia. Al
though it is but beginning. 1t is cred I
table enough to him and his people 10
mark an epoch In their hostory.-Tus'
kegee Student. u