Milford chronicle., 1926-06-04
n Ng POOn Chew
DR.. NG POON CHEW
CHINESE LECTURER COMING

DR.. Ng Poon Chew, founder and
managing editor of the first Chinese
daily in America, Vice President of
the China Mail S. 5. Co, probably
the best informed man in America
today on matters Chinese, IS TO
speak before Chautauqua audiences
this summer on China and World
Peace"
When you formerly thought of
neighbors, it was the stones-throw-
folks; the ones you could halloo to
over your back fence or pick I'D on
the way down town.
But that was then
This is now.
The war changed all that.
Today distance barriers are ami
hiIated. China is now just across
the way. What is happening in and
to Shantung holds the Importance
that the old line fence once held.
Those who fail to recognize the vi
tai moment of these neighbOrs,
right here and now, are simply cod
ding their pre-war viewpoint.
1t is well to know something
about your neighbOrs in the Orient
then. 1t is well, for instance, to
know just what effect the reduction
in China's written language from
10000 ideographs to 1000 symbols
is going to have on the price of
cotton, or lumber, or steel, in this
country. Formerly only per cent
of the Chinese people could read.
Now even the coolies are hungrily
devouring every bit of the new SYM
Dol they can find.
Momenotus affairs are transpir-
ing across the Pacific. The Chin
ese people, for countless centuries
shackled to deep-roOted and deadly
precedent in government and pro-
gress, have thrown off the yoke.
The soul of China has awakened!
The Manchu dynasty has crumbled
in a heap! The new Chinese Re-
public stands before the eyes of the
world where Mandarins, Emperors,
and patriarchal depotism long held
sway. Within the long-forbidden
walls great changes are in the max
ing-big things that portend the
ultimate evolution of one of the
most remarkable civilizations the
world has ever known.
DIR, Ng PeOn Chew Speaks with
q. Authority
No person in America keeps in
closer touch with the great events
transpiring in China than does Dr.
Ng Poon Chew. Nor does any per-
SON have a keener grasp of politi-
cal and social conditions than does
this very remarkable Chinese states
man and journalist.
DR.. Ng Poon Chew knows the
China of TOday-as well as the
China of Yesterday. He knows her
national spirit, her traditions, and
in fact her very soul. He knows
what her countless millions of peo-
pie are doing, knows OF their new
born awakening, Of their ambitions
and aspirations. He understands
the Chinese heart.
A Rare Sense Of HImOr
He has been aptly called "The
Chinese Mark Twain" His humor
is delightful and good wholesome
fun permeates his lectures at all
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big mastery way, and his audi
ences are always intensely inter-
ested. The keen vein of humor
sometimes rides the surface, at
other times buries itself deeply
under the powerful sway of his |
earnest appeal-and yet it always |
comes bobbing up to round out his |
mastery lecture at the proper |
moment.
He is an intensely interesting |
speaker, unusually magnetic, logi-
cal in his argument, and sincere
and powerful in his appeal. He is
a very remarkable man-an un-
usual combination of scholar, ora
tor, humOrist, philosopher and
Statesman.
Recently DR.. Chew was elected
of the China Mail S.
). Co. He established the first Grim
sse daily in America several years
.go in San Francisco, and he has
Justly earned the title of Father of
Chinese Journalism in America"