New Britain herald., 1919-01-13
CHINA WILL BECOME
 CHRISTIAN NATION
Dr. and Mrs. Tucker Visiting Here, Optimistic About Future

pr. and Mrs. Francis F. Tucker 1 and four children have just arrived | in this country from China and at | present are the guests of Mrs. Charles 1 II. Mitchell of 54 Russell street.
 i Mrs. Tucker iS also physician and | spent 16 years in medical work m l China where her husband was super ] lntendcnt of a hospital founded by do- | nations from the ConGregallonal ] churches of Am erica. Dr. Tucker was ! sent to China to educate the masses ! of people in medicine and surgery l He had charge of a hospital III Iecilo"
 in the province of ShantunE, which ! has a population of 3Hooo'o'o peoplS' l Dr Tucker is vitally interested in the 1 Chinese and explained their attitude i toward the Americans. China looks more favorably upon the United States
 than ayH Of the other COun- ! tries. he says. The people there l are growing to learn that ] the United States always stands for ! fair play. In fact China is learning this more every day. One of the best ! instances of the fair play of the United States was when this country gave to China the $13,0O0,0 900 that it was to pay as an indemnity because
 of the Boxer uprising. That money was used by the Chinese for the public educational fund and since that the entire country of China has come to know and understand the United States.
 Mr. Tucker and his wife have travelled over mortimer China and re- port that the spread of Christianity is 1 rapid The people are accepting it I,o EI students sent to this country to be educated have been placed in respon- sible positions upon their return to China. They have also been placed in charge of the erection of public build ing and bridges Dr. Tucker says the Chinese are very adept at engineering and he is in position to know, as he was formerly an engineer.
 Four children were born to Mir. and 1 Mrs. Tucker while in China and the l children all speak the Chinese lan- l guage fiuently. Most of the students l coming to this country are from the northern part of China which contains | the better class of Chinese. Most of 1 the Chinese in this country are from 1 the south and are uneducated. Only | five per cent of the males in China
 can read and but two percent of the females are educated at all.
 The fact that China relies on this
 country for better judgment was
 shown when she refused to enter the
 world war upon the request of Great
 Britain but entered it quickly after
 the United States had shown just
 cause and reason for the war. The
 German influence in China was very
 great and German intrigue had much
 f.. iro i,o t1a ot1~x-
 There were many German instructors
 in the Chinese army and they spread
 their methods of militarsm. These
 German methods and real machine
 1 like activities caused some inconve-
 nience later, but the right finally won
 against the despotic German methods
 The real reason for this victory was the 1 fact that American influence was SC 1 strong in the country. Despite the very strong hold the plotting Germans had on the people through the army the influence of the Americans was far greater and in time these difficult ties were offset and triumphed over After first entering the fray, China allowed the Germans complete free dom. They were not interned, not watched, not molested in the least s The Chinese did not bother them unti i the countries of the Allies insisted upon their being imprisoned.
 As present indications show, Chris 8 tianity is growing rapidly and the en tire country may soon be evangelical Many churches which are independen I of each other have sprung up anC have adopted the Christian religion j pr. Tucker feels that the entire coun try will be converted. It will tak' years to do it. but he believes that i will finally be accomplished.
 l., The feeling of the Chinese agans the Japanese is intense, especially a a Tsing Tau, where the Japanese sol dicrs together with landing partie from British ships captured the DOT q when it was in the hands of the Ger i mans at the outbreak of the war. Th' bubonic plague which struck around 8 Dr. Fuckers vicinity a year ago wa dreadful. Dr. and Mrs Tucker helped to stamp it out. There were however S :.15.00O lives lost and the plague be ca me known aS 'blaCk de2th.''