Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-26
CHINESE STUDENTS
BOYCOTT JAPANESE
MISS MARGARET MoNiNoER
WRITES FROM CHINA OF
CONDITIONS.
EFFECTIVE EFFORT 10
MADE TO BEAT THE JAPs
School chiIdrsn and College Students
Join In Systematic Deyestt Of Jap.
ansss Msrohandhs-Tslls Interest.
lnsIy 81 Conditions In Mission
Work In Far East.

Writing from Kachek. Island Of
Hainan, China, Miss Margaret NJ.
Moninger, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. r. Moninger. Of Marietta town
ship. tells Of tho systematic and eff
fective efforts being made by the
Chinese and particularly the school
pupils and college students to poy-
colt Japanese merchandise. Pupils
and students have banded themselves
together and have put q ban on the
purchase Of Japanese wares.
Miss Moninger. who IL engaged In
missionary work upder the American
Presbyterian board, also tells inter-
estingly of the mission schools, her
work. and social changes that are
taking place In China. The letter
follows:
1T seems that I have to get out
into the country to have tho time
that I need to write special letters.
We are spending a day and q night
here in one Of the Mao chapels
which visited on my trip last
spring, and az It IL the time Of day
when the women are busy about
their household tasks, can write
with clear conscience. This time !
started on my trip from Kiungchow
instead Of Kachek, and Miss Skin
ner. the lady in charge Of the evan
gelistic work of Kiungchow station,
is with me. After leaving the river
at Deng-ang city We have come
about HOS mile Of our 1S0 mile
journey to Kachek to mission meet
ing, and have walked fully seventy
f1vA miles Of the way. But wrote
you about my trip last spring and
this Is nearly the same. so I will not
trouble to speak of 1t again.
AZ Pitkin Memorial School.
What I really want to tell you
about has to do with school and the
student movement, 10 universally af-
fecting China, In its development In
Hainan. Last fall went out to XII
unschow city to take charge Of the
Albert J. Pitkin Memorial School for
Girls there while Miss Chaplin IL
home on furiough. This school has
all grades from hrst thru senior
high school, and II the only high
school TOR girls. In the island. Our
three miasion stations have also
combined the three boys high
schools into one central school In
Kiungchew. Kiunschow II the capi-
tai Of the island ana the center for
literary work. The large govern
msnt high school II located there
and also the high school for tho
Kheng-toa district. Altogether there
are some 100 boys who are members
Of the Kiungchow Student Union, in
which our sixty high school boys arc
only . small part. When the ASSOC
citation was formed something like
q year ago the meetings were held
on Sunday, which II . holiday for
tho government schools. Our boys
were not allowed to attend the meet
ings on Sunday and in fact did not
desire 70 do 50, and now We are hap
py over the fact that the meetings
are held On week days.
Students Boycott Japs.
'"The boycott on Japanese goods
has been strictly enforced by tho
students. Last summer in Kachek
the students in the government high
school were continually bringing US
labels from goods in the various
shops, asking If they were Of jap
anese manufacture. Much of the
goods sold in. Kachek comes from
Singapore or Java and the Indian
and Dutch brands were beyond the
boys. One reputable English Arm has
its geods marked (For China and
Japan Marketl. The boys could read
the japan and knew what it meant
and It took Us literally hours to
prove to them that the goods were
of English manufacture.
"This fall tho students Of the
Kiungchow union were divided into
divisions Of 100 each. each division
again into five bands, and every day
one band pAtrolled the streets In
Hollow to see that tho boycott was
obeyed. Two big shops in Hollow
one Of them a medicine shop. refused
to obey the rules. The orders were
that all Japanese goods on hand
should bs sold at once and no more
purchased. One Of the above men
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