Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-10-30
STUDENTS CALL
nation STRIKE
Form Patriotic Society-Close
Shops and Banks TO Gain
Patriotic Demands.
GOVERNMENT ALLOWS POINTS
Miss Harriet Smith, Y. w. c. A. Student
Secretary in China, Relates Amaz-
ing Story of How 10000 Stu
dents Organized Themselves.
BY BERNIcE eRIswoLD.

81 Miss Harriet Smith, for ten years
student secretary of the Young Won
ems Christian Association in Shanghai
China, relates the amazing story o
how 10000 Chinese students organized
themselves to GUST the militarists from
Government offices in Picking and how
they succeeded in becoming the lead
ers of China
Fearing that China was not to be
protected from the aggression of other
nations by the Peace Treaty, as she
had expected to be, some 10000 stu
dents, all of them between thG ages OF
twelve and twenty-one years and in
GLIDING 5000 girls, organized them
selves into the Chinese Students Pa
triotic Society Immediately after the
/ publication of the first draft of the
Peace Treaty to fight for Chinese
rights. -
Their first move was to strike from
! they remained in their respective
schools and spent so many hours daily
in private study. They then organized
into bands for getting out propaganda
literature and for public speaking in
the country and small towns and in the
tea shops in poorer districts of the
cities in order that they might reach
the vast numbers of people who could
not read
Immediately upon organizing. the
students published their demands, four
in number: Q) that the ihilitarists,
who as a party were pro-Japahese and
practically controlled the Government
at Picking, be put out of office (2) that
Shantung be returned to China (3)
that the twenty-one demands made by
Japan in 1915 be cancelled 81 az that
there be freedom of speech and of the
press. They also insisted sthat the
Chinese constitution be finished
An immense amount of Literature
was put out, much of it in the new
phonetic script which is being launch
ed in China so that the yneducated
classes might learn what was happen
ing Students lectured everywhere on
the demands, stirring the people to pa
triotism. When many of them were
arrested while parading In the streets
of Picking they formed an Association
of Imprisoned Studentsli within the
prison and refused to be released, pick
citing the stockade themselves when
Government guards were taken away
until the Government submitted a
proper apology for having imprisoned
them in the beginning.
When 1t became evident that eco
nomic pressure was all tirrt would he
effective both the bankers, and mer-
chans guilds were called upon to back
the students. "In less than two
hours" Miss Smith. said, "tbe shutters
we're up at every shop IN that great
,ity of Shanghai, where telephones are
'ew and communication difficult
every shop, whether large, or small,
vas closed. The laboring people, feel
ne as patriotic as the bankers, mer-
hants and students. also. Joined the
General strike. For week everything
vas closed-shops, money, exchanges,
ish markets. shipping, Everything.
'he students struggled to Keep public
understanding The telephone serv-
ce was stopped for n short time, but
he students soon had 1t running again.
They held meetings day and hight, try