Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-17
C0OL|ES IN FRANCE
 WILL TAKE TO CHINA
 NEW VIEW OF WEST
BY HAROLD E. HEcHToL
Europ can Manager of the Newspaper
 Enterprise Association

Europ can Manager of the Newspaper
 Enterprise Association
 PARIS. June 16.-The greatest school for Chinese in the world is not in China, but here in France.
 It has 10000 pupils-Chinese cool ies working at the base ports and on the battlefields of France and Bel gium.
 These coolies," says Dr. W. w. Peter, former Toledo, Ohio, physician of long residence in China, "are go- ing back east as interpreters of western civilization.
 'They will tell the story of the west, as they have seen it, to hun dreds of thousands of other Chinese people, in the teashops, at work, in the streets, in their homes"
 What will they say?" I asked.
 Dr Peter knows if anybody knows. He spent years among the people in the cities and in the interior of China, doing medical and hospital work, de- livering lecturers, showing lantern slides and exhibits designed to teach simple health laws.
 He came from China to work among the Chinese over here, at the request of the Y. M C.. A. after America en- tered the war.
 'eThe coolies," he said, twill un- 5o,,b+odIxy oo~r.x I0ooIr f0 TI,ipo aa great discontent with the old order of liv- ing, with century old methods.
 "When they enlisted they were get ting probably $S month and chow; they had nothing but the clothes on their back; they lived in insanitary shacks or houses and their living con- ditions were generally low.
 "They began watching and studying from the minute they were lined up for examination They began to won- der-'Why am I among the chosen? Why is not he? What do they listen at my chest for? There must be a reason for this.
 ''They got new clothes-and they would get off in a corner and ex- anime carefully every garment from head to toe. They crossed a vast pond, than another vast pond in a boat hundreds of times larger than anything they had ever seen, for most of them came from the interior north.
 "In camp they were hardened up; they were given rough but comfort able and clean quarters; they saw imachinery that performed marvellous tasks; they learned discipline they saw organization and coordination and what is accomplished; methods that got things done in a terrible hur- ".
 "The men have seen the change in themselves. They do more work than they ever did. They don't feel tired. They feel like working. They find it nice to have everything clean and orderly, even in tent camps or huts.
 ''They have built railroads-'enor- nous trouble, enormous work so they thought at first. But now they see hom much these railroads save in labor. How different they are from wheelharrows.
 "They have taken note of the big Chinese hospital at Noyelles. and have certain respect for it's work, in place of fear for the terrible cures of the foreign doctors.
 These scoolies will be a tremend- ous factor in the New China. They will have a bearing larger and deep CT than foreigners could ever secure
 And among these coolies, don't for get, are a number of meth of learning who hold Chinese degrees.
 "The opportunity come and they ssid-fWe are facing the west What is the west? will go as laborer and find out I will hide myself in, the herd and work as have never work ed. And I shall study the ways of the west
 "They are studying the west and they are helping the coolies, who are also studying it, to understand it.
 "All of them will carry back con tempt and disgust for our war.
 But they will adopt and uncons- ciously teach some of our better things"
 "Poth verdicts should be of tre- mendous value to New China"