Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-10-02
CHINESE WOMEN WANT COM
MON SENSE SHOES
Women Students Start Campaign
Against Binding of Feet

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Against Binding of Feet
Chinese women have started a can
paign of their own for common sense
shoes AID perfectly-shaped feet sim
liar to the one which the Social Edu-
cation Department of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association is wag-
| ing in this country
The Chinese campaign is just part
of the work of the National Students
Patriotic Society and is being carried
| on by the women students some
5000 of them, who are included
among the 10000 students enrolled
| n this society for creating patriotic
resistance among the chinese to mis-
government and foreign aggression
The Chinese girls go into the
homes to talk to the women and, as
so few of the women can read the
literature which the students have,
telling of their movement and what
they want to do, they have made
large, graphic charts which will en-
phasize the points they make. One
of these is chart showing the
bound foot of the Chinese women
and the natural, unbound foot, in
such way as to encourage women to
free themselves from ancient Gus
toms. This chart closely resembles
the one which the Y w c. A. has
just published for Use in the exhib-
its in this country. according to Ma.
bel X Stafford, Y. w. C. A. secre-
tary. recently returned from tour
of China and Japan.
After getting the women interest
I'd in being free themselves, Miss
tafford says the students begin ex-
flaming how China should be free
from political bondage, They have
worked out all sorts of ingenious
ways of combining health and social
education with political education
and OF injecting political education
into household affairs in such way
that they can interest the women
first in subjects which they know
and gradually arouse them to pa
triotic zeal and understanding.
Miss Stafford found active groups
OF students nall of the cities and
districts which she visited. She told |
of her stay at the Y w. G. A. School
for Physical Training in Shanghai
as in all other schools, the
students had struck from studying
in order to organize and devote
themselves to their patriotic work
although they maintained study
hours and carried on some of their
work by themselves. She said. that
she entered one day to find one
group of students ON the gymnasium
'loor going through their exercises
by themselves. In another part of the
large grup of students I
we're making things for a bazaar
which was being given to raise funds :
or the organization
Girls do none of the street speak
ng for the campaign. They spend +
heir time making things to raise {
noney, translating leaflets into a a
honetic script which can be read byl t
he people, experimenting in ways I
I manufacturing things which are Il
carce since the boycott against Jap i
nese-made articles has become eff
sctive, going into the homes to talk 4
the women, and in interviewing a
fficials who have refused to grant n
ne men students what they have y
sked q
The four points for which the 8
sudents are fighting are: ~ the
listing of pro-Japanese and corrupt
fficials from the Government in !,
ekfng; CD freedom of speech and
the press; ca return of Shan
ing to China; (4) cancellation of
lie twenty-one demands made by },
apan in 1915. Il