The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-03-03
AMERICANS HELP
CHINA Of TODAY
SAYS P00N CHEW
Many Problems Must Be Solved In
Effort Of Chinese People Toward
Modernixation. Lecturer
Declares.
SHOWS HOW INFLUENCE
OF U. S. IS BEING FELT
Speaker Points Out How Modern
Methods Learned In America
Are Being Applied In March
OF Progress Now.

China has many problems To solve
In It's process OF modernIzatlon and
the solution OF these problems rests
with It's American-cducated men and
American influence. Ng Poon Chew,
eminent Chinese statesman. humor-
ist and journalist. declared In a
lecture delivered last night In the
auditorium OF the Oklahoma College
for Women.
The young Chinese generation II
more progressive than the older. ele-
ment and this gives promises that
China will ultimately become one OF
the modern nations Of the earth. he
said.
American Influence Apparent.
Americas influence In China has
become very apparent In recent
years, the speaker declared, adding
that American automobiles, Ameri-
can railway equipment and Ameri-
can telephones have been introduced
in that country. "Every steamship
leaving San Francisco for the Chi
nese ports carries American auto
mobiles to my. native land.' Dr.
Chew declared.
Streets Of the large Chinese cities
which have been extremely narrow
barely wide enough for n cart
are being broadened for more traf-
fic and in order that the four
wheeled vehicles may be used, he
asserted. In the city of Canton. he
declared, twenty-five miles of streets
have been widened to American"
size. "Ohina is being American
ized'," he said laughlngly.
Engllsh Being Taught.
English Is now being taught In
the Chinese schools and 90 per cent
the high school and college stu
dents know English well, according
to DR.. Chew.
Seventeen thousand Chinese stu.
dents have gone to other countries
TO study, a. out 1000 coming to The
United States, asserted the Chinese
journalist. ut is these students and
those who already have received
their foreign education who must
modern!ze China" he added
School Hours Were Long.
When a child, Dr.. Chew said, he
was forced to go to school from
4:30 o'clock in the morning until
$50 o'clock in the evening. Now,
these hours have been changed and
the Chinese elementary schools
opened at $3.50 o'clock in the morn
ing and close at 1880 o'clock in the
afternoon.
"There is as much difference be-
tween the China of my childhood
days and the China of today as
there Is between democracy and,
monarchy" declared the journalist.
A special commission, he said, had
adopted an alphabet which is de-
signed to replace the mono-syllabic
system of writing. This commission
appointed by the government, studied
all known alphabets and combined
them to form one whcih represents
every sound of the Chinese tongue;
and sis the most perfect of all alpha
BETS DR.. Chew declared
The old system OF Chinese writ
ing required the student to memor-
ize 10000 ideograms in seven years.
The new alphabet will eliminate this
difficulty, the speaker said. Tie
alphabet consists of 81 letters.
DR.. Chew blended humor with the
more serious phase of his lecture
Although fast talker and a bit
difficult to distinctly understand, he
is very able speaker with per-
feet command Of English. He was
educated in America after gradu-
ating in China.
The main floor of the Oklahoma
College for Women auditorium was
well filled with students and towns
people.
After tie lecture, crowd of three
dozen congregated in the auditorium
to greet the Chinaman as he stepped
from the platform. He received the
crowd joyfully and talked with them
for half an hour, telling of his fam
lily and some Of his experiences in
his recent visits to China.
DR.. Chew was introduced by G.
". Austin, president Of the college.
The speaker left Chickasha this
morning.