Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
AMERICAN TRAILS NOW
BEGIN TO CROSS IN CHINA

Wellington Koo; Boone university
at Wuchang and it's neighbors down
the Yangste; Tale college in China
and Marking university; and Pekin
university, CutgroWing it's quarters
both for its man and woman stu
dents, now numbering 5000, and
planning to rebuild on it's new ample
site.
Close by stands the Indemnity. col
lege. with it's group of fine buildings,
built by the surplus of the funds eX-
| acted from the Chinese govern
ment for the damage done Ameri-
cans in China by the Boxer out
break. After all these claims were
met the large balance such as other
| nations kept, was contributed by
the American people to the Chinese
people for the establishment of this
/ college and to enable many of it's
graduates to finish their training in
the colleges and universities of the
United States. Our flag floats no
more proudly over any foreign soil
than over the campus Of Indemnity
college. And no other nation has the
confidence of the Chinese people as
ours has, on this and many another
! account. Americas educational
| trails, blazed by the missionaries.
| helped open the highways of the
| Chinese governments expanding
system of modern schools and uni
versities.
Public Health
The next most distinctively Amer
Jean trail in China is that of the doc
| tors, hospitals and nurses. Mission
airy physicians and medica! mis-
sions were and are the brave and
devoted pioneers Of the desperately
needed developmn. of healing arts
and appliances. Growing their Sac
rif1Cial service, the finely tributary
to its efficiency and success, stands
! the Pellin Union Medical college of
/ the Rockefeller Foundation. It's
| magnificently built and equipped
plant and it's expert staff bring
science and civilization to their most
lConsummate expression in the sphere
of medical education.
In exterior design, conforming to
the best Chinese types of architec-
ture, it's impressive buildings. cover
ing nearly 100000 square feet of
| flooring, lack only the spacious sur
| roundings with which Chinese taste
! clears the space about most public
| structures in order to let them be
seen in their perspective and pro-
portions. Within the great hospital
| providing 235 beds and for 220 out
| patients, there is lacking nothing that
! scientific invention and skill or the
! expense of their acquisition could
| furnish. AS a teaching hospital it
aims ito give to each patient, no
matter how poor, as thorough an
examination and as careful treat
ment as would be given the wealth.
! est private patient by the most con-
scleLtious physician" The training
of 100 carefully selected Chinese
medical students by as thorough
''1rses as are given in Europe and
America; the development of re-
search experts by graduate labora-
tory and clinical work; the increased
efficiency of practicing physicians
| by short courses, and the extension
! OF public health information and
practice are primary aims, to which
all other features of hospital man
agement are made subservient. The
training of Chinese women as gradu-
ate nurses is an important service
,ldered.
In the medical group there are
such representatives as the Ameri-
| ce' medical profession as DR.. H. S.
Houghton and DR.. Sloan, who have
had long and distinguished service
in missionary hospitals. DIR. Hough-
ton is director of the entire work
and DR.. Sloan lis superintendent of
the hospital.
Filling special appointments are
DR.. e. G. Bracket, orthopedic spe-
cialist of Boston; DR.. Seem, who is to
superintend the great regional
teaching hospital now being devel'
oped under the Rockefeller Founda-
ton at the University of Chicago,
and DR.. E. C. Dudley, of Chicago.
Coming, to China, after touring
through India and Japan, under ap-
po.ntment to lecture at the Human
Tale College of Medicine in Chang
sha, DR.. Dudley accept an appoint
EI"nt unexpectedly rendered him on
his homeWard way, remaining for
a year at Pekin, where his family
soon joins him. This great college
and hos :tal cons titute only one CEN
ter of the greater work of the China
medical board, which supervises the
health service undertaken by the
-" fo-cler Foundation for all
China. On this board other emf
nent Americans are serving.
| Inc American commercial and
banking groups at every treaty port
and at some interior centers, though
smaller than those Of several other
nations, share much Of the credit and
some of the discredits due these
others. More should be done to con-
serve the character and efficiency
Of the incoming young men, who
are swept away from their home
moorings rapidly and ruinously by
the insidious temptations of these
new and strange surroundings. The
Temperatures of the American flag
on the shipping board ships at every
port is brighter harbinger of the
home land, bringing good cheer and
higher hope to every American
| abroad.
The longest and farthest trail of
the west in the far east is that of the
missionaries, Catholic and protestant,
who blazed the way of the ancient
| Christian faith among these oldest
peoples. Their lonely pioneers, fam
lily and household groups, preachers.
| teachers, healers, scolars, learners.
planters, builders, cOnSerVerS of the
best old heritages, initiators of bet
| ter Things to come, martyrs, saints
| and common human folk withal have
labored, lived, dared to fail, died
without the sight Of success, only to
be followed by other sewers and
reapers from generation to genera
! ton.
These men and women with a mis-
sion and it's message have left and
are leaving trails of light and life in
the east which also enlighten and en-
| HVen the veterinarians and
America not the least. Ask any one
personally knowing them who they
are and what they have done, are
doing and will do, and see if their
trails are not before, beyond and