New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
CHINA WIDE AWAKE,
 SPEAKER DECLARES
Y. M. (. A. Worker Describes Goals Of ReVOltS in Progress

The situation in China combines all the features Of the Renaissance period, the French revolution. the American revolution and the Civil war in America according to F. B. Lenz, a writer and '. M. c. A. work CT in China, who spoke to q gather ing of men at the Y. NJ. C. A, last evening in connection with the week. ly supper and meeting of the "l Bible class.
 After seven years in China during which he had occasion to become acquainted with many of the leaders in the country, Mir. Lenz says the native Chinese is very much misun- derstood in America. "Is is as un- fair to judge China by the Chinese laundryman or the chop suey res taurant as it is to judge America by it's ditch diggers,' he said.
 He said the situation in China Is a tumble of trouble, chaos, turmoil and revolution. He called attention 10 the fact that the world today has shrunk to 8 mere nelghbor- hood" and cited examples of how conditions in one country influence those of another. He said the bobbed hair fad in America put the hair net factories of China out of business. The epidemic Of influenza in the Balkan states a few years ago caused more deaths in America than the World war. The escape of an in fected rat to a seagong vessel In an Oriental port gave San Francisco the bubonic plague.
 He said America by properly rec ognizing its opportunities in China could attain spiritual as well as financial leadership of this world ueighborhood. Quoting Napolean who said "There lies sleeping giant, let her lie: when she awakes she will move the world' in refer ring to China, he said: She Is awake now; she is no longer dormant
 China, he said, has been a world leader in many respects. "She gave us the mariners compass. She gave us gun powder, which she never used for anything more dangerous than frecrackers until western civilization taught her the use of death dealing firearms. She gave us our first SILK. She gave us. paper and the first printing press. She gave us our first spectacles which she made out Of agate. She gave us our first um- brellas. Her ancestors lived in houses and wore clothing when our ancestors lived in caves and clothed themselves in skins. She has had he oldest continuous civilization in the history of the world.
 Her people intellectually are as fine as any Anglo Saxons. Chinese students in American colleges gen. orally carry off the honors and Phi Beta Kappa keys. China is land Of scholars.
 '"There are five great revolutions going on in China today. There is the industrial revolution caused by the impact Of western and eastern civili. cations. This is bringing electricity machinery, telegraph, wireless and other modern equipment into China and taking people off farms and putting them into factories.
 "There is the intellectual revolu- ton. China will never again become q monarchy,
 "rhere is the social revolution Young men no longer marry girls whom their parents select for them
 There is also a moral and re. lgious revolution.
 : Foreign nations have taken ad. vantage of China and have intruded themselves in manner which China will not stand for long.
 Extra territoriality concessions 1T China are proving irksome and irri table"
 Explaining what the foreign con. sessions mean to China, he said i was the same as though the Chinese government had sent a gunboat uT the Mississippi river to protect { Chinese laundry in Herrin, III.
 Lenz told of the growth of the Nationalist party founded by thu late Dr. Sun Vat Sen and of the elimination of the communistic in fluence and the return of Chians Kai-Shek as leader Of the Nation alist army. He told of Dr. Suns his tory, the rise of the Chinese war lords, and the growth of the Euo