Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

tons into her death revealed the fact that she had be-
entangled in love affairs with several Cinnamon
capacity of teacher and that her murder the result
of jealousy which she herself had to great extent
encouraged.
The widespread criticism of the plan of missionary
work in vogue among the Chinese resulting from this
incident disclosed startling and absolutely incredible
of affairs to the relations existing between the
missionary workers and their pupils 1t found that
the work being carried on largely by inexperienced
girls and young who had gone into it
porary diversion and that these women often the
aggressive parties in the establishment of relationships
of the most dangerous kind. The following statement
by experienced director of social work, Miss Helen
Clark affords interesting insight into the character
isticS of these women:
THE picture have seen OF young foolish frivolous
minded white women deliberately egging the Chinese
Bible students to dangerous firtations makes me
shudder the results The evils of this
system are more subtle and farreaching than even
its most bitter opponents have ever dreamed For
years the practise of permitting American women to
teach Chinese pupils individually has accumulated its
results of gedy and Life after life has been
blasted ami wrecked ad libtum, and there has
been rest.aning hand, More than once our mission
has sheltered heartbroken woman, the dupe OF an
ntermarriage or Of an alliance that worse.
Deliver me-, said another prominent mission worker,
from the women that come here from fashionable up
town distrctsfrom Riverside Drive and Fifth avenue
who come here with bibles in one hand and with the
other stretched out in coquery to these young China
men. If their husbands knew one-quarter of what +
could tell them-thngs | have seen these women do
the places they have gone with these woudbe Christian
converts-he divorce courts would do lively business
for time to come will tell you plainly that the
Chinese do need conversion much as the white
of Chinatown need it, and many of the women
missionaries need it than the circles OF Chinese
young whom they fawn upon they teach from
the word of God The Chinese do not need it, and
nobody knows this better than the would-be mission.
aries Hypocrtes they are, in almost every instance,
I would say"
That these statements of the situation are not
empty exaggeTaons is shown by the fact vouched for
by the best authority that large number of the de.
graded white women living in the Chinese sections
found their way there originally under the influence Of
their misdrected missionary zeal or through Their
equally morbid curiosity to study social conditions in
the slums at first hand.
While it is manifestly unfair to put all social workers
the class without discrimination it is never
theess true pointed out by the women referred to
above that the ranks of social workers recruited
largely from the higher classes of society This is so
for reasons-rst, because the young women OF the
higher classes generally speaking, the only ones
who find leisure for this kind of work; and second,
because lacking definite occupations, they the only
ones who feel the need of this sort Of outlet for their
natural activities repressed they by the artificial
conditions of their life.