The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-01-06


Atkins.
More than one hundred thousand
Young men In Japan are studying
English as he chief thing 10 their
EDUCATION
Dr. Albettus Pieters, the WELL
known student OF Oriental Hairs. is
enthusiastic over the remarkable
use OF English in China and Js9ar.
He says;
"1n the old order Of things the
classic language Of CHINA was the
con mon tongue OF educated men in
the far east; in the new order Of af-
fairs II is English. Recently an it.
EN- appeared in the papers that is
really Of the highest sigi iicance.
II was to the effect that by Imperial
,Edict the government OF China had
ordered that henceforth all schools
Of middle and higher grade should
teach English This is beyond ques-
ton the greatest event m the his
tory OF the English language.
"NO man canpretend to any stand
ing as q scholar In the far east Of
fhs future who is ignorant Of the
English tongue. Even nowltis not
uncommon. as il Is certainly a most
significant experiences. % see al ed
ucated Chinese and an educated
Japanese conversing on the deck Of
= steAmer In the English language.
There Ia, however, another AID
still more significant side Of taisi
language question. tits the effect.
which this incoming Of the English.
language with Its Christian ideas.
has upon the native tongues. Moth
Ing Is more striking than the great
change which the apaneselanguags
has undergone since the introduc-
ton of western thought. lt fs not
only that there have come into use
q great many words that we're un-
known before, such rs duty
rights, responsibility, etc, but
that the old words have their mean
ing greatly enlarged. For example,
take the Japsnese word meaning
God, KamI, or the one meaning
slOve, la These words, IN the old
Japan, had very much lower mean
Jugs than we associate with the
words. Kanii' did not, by any
means, mean the infinite aud only
Creator. but almost onelo the de-
ceased emperors. But tt 10 word God
had to be translated ih the class
room and explained to the students.
There was no other word TO use but
,Kami, but after the explanation Of
that word it no longer meant what
10 had meant formerlt u was re-
,,nembered as the rendfrlng of the
English word God, and carried all
HE meaning which the English
word possesses. So TIE old word
Kamr is really a nlw word, OF
rather word new-bdrb,
The Tide Of Inmi brntiOn
A recent bplletin q IesIthe immi-
grafton statistics for the'fscal year
'l9lll3, classifying bY rhtionalties
aud races 1877 s92 f@rRgners who
during twelve months lhded ON our
shores. OF this total, be Russian
empire and Findland furnished 29l.-
Gao; Italy. including Sidly and sar-
dinia, 265 5l2; Austria ald Hungary
254 800. These couutrid sending 70
America more than twp-thirds the
total number coming tdour country
Ofthe more than onehlillion for.
eigners admitted, lS,4Gi mad profess
sions. the largest singg class being
teachers, numberingl28s0. There
we're 100, los skilled Rborers, the
largest single class lfing toilers,
carpenters, clerks apl accountants,
shoemakers and mhef IN order
named. Those classHi rs "niscei-
laneousn aud 'po ocelpltlon' were
1924 8l5. OF this totil h2O 100 we're
farm laborers. 22O 9e3were laborers
and l49,2l8 were serVlnts.
Approximately i2IC0O OF these
foreigners settled TOUR states-
New YORK, Pennss Nnia, Illinois
; aud MAssachusstts. A vet South
erh states hsvs rses fed but few VI