The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-08-16
WRITTEN
LANGUAGE ADDED TO
WORLDS SUPPLY
Invented by the Y. N. O. A. in
Order 70 Supply Reading to the
22b.000 Chinese Coolies in
France.
nr mIRnF.Rr CoREY.

New York. Aug. 1b.-Anothcr
written language has been added TO
the worlds supply as q consequence
OF the war. And this added language
may prove 20 be a monkey wren h
In The worlds peace machine. " may
add to the probabilities OF another
world war, And the Y, ". e. A. did
Il.
over In France s2s 0 chinese
coolies were employed a. iaborcra by
the nations al war They were held
under strict military discipline and
penncd at night In great barbed wire
corrais. 4 certain proportion OF their
pay vas sent TO their families IN
CHINA. The remainder WAS givtn to
the coolies TO gamble with. for they
had no other need Of money. They
were not hired to fight. hut on moer
than one occasion they dropped their
shoveia. picked up rifles n fought
well. After the lighting the unemo-
uonal Chinese returned 10 their picks
and shovcis.
The Y. NJ. g. A.. early saw the ne
cessity OF furnishing these men with
some form Of relaxation. IL Was no
use talking religion to them. They
we're perfectly willing to listen TO re-
iigion. but II did not seem TO get hold.
TDey were furnished with moving
pictures and entertainers They en-
Joyed the movies and the dancers.
hut even that was not enough. Then
some Y. NJ. e.. a. hot-spot suggested
teaching the chlnks Co read ana write.
1uycnting the LanguagS.
1T can't be done he was told.
The Mandarin language. which n
Inc only written language OF china.
" only understood by a few here aud
there. Besides, Il has so. 600 charac-
tens or more. BESIDES non OF us
know H."
Then make a new me. was the
order.
That h precisely what has been
done. \ selection OF ~ enty-slx char.
acters has been made from the Man
DARN langunge. by the use Of which
any ordinary thought can be convey
ed To the student The twenty-siN
can be taught to the average coolit
m thirty DAYS, No hat he ran read
aud write suffici mt for all his needs
This Is not theory. but practice. The
when the 2.b. poe coolies return tt
China "a great many Of them will b,
able to write letters TO each other
and get letters containing the new,
, Of the day.
To reason why China has hcer
pefsistontly pacific h that fighting
does not seem reasonable Ia the Chi
ncsc mind. The chinese are bruy,
enough. Any ms who has been ~
close contact with them will say tina
But they are philosophical aud log
teal. Andrew H. Humphreys. exec
utiNe secretary OF the China Socict,
OF America, says that be has foun,
records ~ Chinese literature shown.
that a%rbitration us a means OF com
posing national differences was adj
Nocated IA CHINA 1000 years ago
That considerably untcdatts the 1915
brand.
Oucc the idea that calmly to con
sidcr a prospective quarrel and thci
aOmpos-s II IN better than so pick uI
"a Weapon and go to fighting seize
firm hold on he chinese mind Il wa.
difficult to dislodgc. There Is hu
the u written lanEunge-thc Man
DARN ignEuage--und perhaps bat onl
man In a village may read and writ
81. Hut there are hundreds. pcrhap
thousands Of spoken dialects. Tn,
philosophers and acudemiclhna wen
on tal!ing arbitration n the other
took 'or granted that an tho res
Of the world settled rs differences %
that way
How China Has Changed.
Now an that has changed. Nov