The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-09
CHINESE PRAISE FRIENDLY ACTION |l (
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Returned Indemnity From Boxer Trouble Has Estab- -a5
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ner and outing of the American COT 1 lege Club, held recently at Tsing Hua College in the su uburbs of Picking. The occasion was of especial sig ntficanca as TsiIg Hua, College was established at the suggestion of the United States, with money remttted by that government from the Boxer indemnity, More than one hundred graduates of American colleges among whom Chinese alumni pre- vailed, were welcomed to the oeauli- ful campus by Dr. T. Y. Tsur, Yale Graduate. who is president of the school. f-se -,-t
 pr. Frank J. Goodnow, president of Johns Hopkins University and legal adviser to China; John V. Mac Murray, American charge d aHa1res' Charles D. Tenpey, Chinese secretary of the Arnerican f1egatlon anu fa+arnizy n.rzs other prominent Americans frarern1z- ed with Chinese whom they had known in their school days. There were present1sa. number of alumni or Colun bfa. University. Wisconsin Petnsy1vanIa, Cornell, Yale, Harvard California, West Pofnteand Annapolis The band1sof the American Legation Guard furnished music.
 In discussing the < occasion the Picking Daily Gazette, said
 "It is more than a mere social event. Even as the ways of the Jap anese indicate the, working or a mind in essential conflict With the .. welfare of China, so the IFlehqiy gathering of Americans and Chinese at a place associated with a great act of rnora1s reparation and Justice bv the United States suggests read ing of the future relations between China and the mighty republic or the west that is at once hopeful ana Iuli of meaning If there is a single in fee-S beyond doubt it is the non-territoriaI aim of American policy in China; ana while the. policy may be intended to- promote and subserve the interests or American commerce. and industry there is evidence of tendency in American thought and action which some of us are inclined to interpret as indicating the ultimate predomi- nance of moral and cultural, aims over the more material purposes of the market place.
 we do not suggest that the United States will ever pursue a, purely phi lanthropic policy in China and we do not think. that self-respe Chinese would care to see their country the object of an eleernosynary policy on the part even of our Amer ican friends. But there is an inn rr1ense difference in values between policy inspired exclusively by com merciaI end and one that achieves the same material Object as a result of the work of American culture. There is every reason to hold that a system, of Chino American trade, es- tablished as the result of a policy that[is pred orninantly cultured, has the, elements of exp4nsion- and per- manence in a degree which are en- tirely lacking in a. system based on al commercial policy per se.''
 all K TiT1er president of the college. club. has just been appointed minister to Mexico and is totleave in a few days for the United States. He is a. Co1um b1a graduate who won high scholastic honors and in seven years became one of the most Influential younger Chi nese in governmental affairs.
 pr. Goodnow, addressing the club. urged the necessity for the training of more Chineseasstud Tents along vo- cational lines. He said China has rare culture, traditions and history which it should cherish, rather than abandon in favor of European culture as reflected in American institutions But China needs engineers. skilled agriculturalfsts, medical men and other scientists who will direct the development and conservation of her great resources. The speaker urged China to develop her coal and iron. these great commodities with which the. Chinese are so richly blessed If China does not develop it's own n1in- eraI wealth. Dr. Goodnow said, for eigners will do it for her. Sce
 Dr. Hawking Yen,s a. Columbia graduate who is an assistant to the minister for foreign affairs, reviewed the history of Chinese students who have been educated in America and said at least five hundred of them are now living in China. Until the republic these men were not given much chance in governm ental affairs, but since the more liberal regime men of American training have had opportunity to show theira worth both at home and abroad. Alfred Sze, minister to England, is a< Cornell graduate. Dr. w. w. Yen, minister to Berlin, was educated in America. and many of the presidents cabinet ministers and assistants were ,trained in American universities. At present over 1000 Chinese students are in American universities and colleges Tsing Hua. College alone sends be- tween fifty and sixty students to America for university training every year pr. Wellington Roo will leave in a5-few days for the United States with this years graduates from the college so generously founded and supported by the American govern ment.
 Tsing Hua College is delightfully."- | located at the foot of the mountains north of Picking and occupies an es- tate adjoining the old sun1ner palace, which used in past centuries as the home of prince. The Chinese government maintains the princes home and gardens, which are avail able as recreation grounds for tho students
 Modern buildings which accom- modate six hundred boys have been erected among the lakes and ancient forests of the estate The school also has model athletic field Dinner for the College Club was served in great hall in the old palace and the after dinner speaking took place on a veranda outside the palace over