Republican farmer., 1919-11-07
CHINA WILL BE ONE OF WORLDS
 GREAT NATIONS
Oriental Giant" Rapidly Awakening -Japa- nese Feeling Runs
 High.

'Fen years of awakening in China at the present rate will place the Celestial Republic among the worlds greatest powers,' predicts Dr. Ida Kahn, Chinese woman physician who came to New York recently to attend the International Conference of Wom- an Doctors. Dr. Kahn together with another Chinese girl, Dr. Mary Stone, was adopted in early childhood by an American missionary in China, Miss Gertrude Howe, who educated them, finally sending them to the United States, where they were grad uated from the medical course at the University of Michigan. They are both not only heads of hospitals now in China, but are also prominent in prom oting China's welfare in various ways. Dr. Kahn is in complete charge of a women's and children's hospital in Nanchang, Kiangsi Prov ince, supported by the Woman's For eign Missionary Society of the Meth odist Episcopal Church. She is a frequent contributor to Mil1ard's Re- view
 We are a deeply patriotic people" said pr. Kahn. ''I do not think the world understands us, because we have been taught to stay within our selves. There is a large faction that would like to fight Japan about Shan tung, but all the arms and munitions are in the hands of the government, and the government is bought by Japanese money.
 "1n Nanchang the Chinese men and women are organizing patriotic so- cieties and collecting money to re- deem our resources, especially our railroads, from the hands of the Jap
 I sl and practically bankrupt, and the Jap anese mortgages will soon foreclose. We are trying to raise enough money to save t, but we hope that American capital may be interested enough to take 1t out of Japanese hands and run it. The Japanese cheat us all the time. We are never safe. but we would have confidence In the American way of doing things.
 Through Central China house wives, working people and school chill dren are making promises never to buy Japanese goods, for the rest of only European and American goods. went, before.
 Matters with the Japanese will come to a head some time. And the Chinese are not a cowardly or ph1egmat1. people, as they have been represented. Little school teachers have been cutting their thumbs and writing in blood a promise to boycott Japanese goods, so aroused are they over Japan's attitude toward China. A nation whose women would do that is not a nation to sit like patience on a monument forever.
 "The trouble with China is that she m haU leisure to present her case in the for efgn papers cannot write, and the peopIe who can write are too busy. After my hospital work was done, have sat at midnight preparing art1- cIes on China for foreign papers. believe China needs to be introduced to the Europeans, and l do my bit but my doctors work must come be- fore my writing.
 "We really have more in common with America than you would think at first Orientals of course are never as free and easy as occidentals. But the Chinese are not sneaky. They are trustworthy and honest, especially in business Foreign nations are mistaken in not cultivating Chinese friendship, for China is a richer coun- try than Japan, has greater natura.. resources. and offers a wider field for commercial activities"
 Dr. Kahn further stated that Japan had already begun a policy of ag- gression in Siberia, having landed over 70, 900 troops instead of the 1000 arranged for. "The idea is,' said pr. Kahn, "to cement a Slav-Japanese union which will extend far enough east to include Germany. While China is so located as to be a check to this menace, she would be power less to act without arms and ammu- nition."