Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

strictly parallel to ours. and the Kuo-
mintang develops in its own way--hut
that Is a different story from the es-
tahlishment Of communism.
And also ii is a different story II
under similar necessities the new So
cial trading and industrial expert
ments of the Chinese presently come
to display some sort of similarity to
Russian Developments, AS the doCmas
of the MarXists are shaken off or ster-
llZed as nious sentiments by the latter
people, and as both races settle down
to work in the face of realities NO
man in his senses can believe that the
fina ncial. trading and industrial meth
dds of America and Europe today are
the ultimate triumph of human Wiz
dom and it is as probable that sue
cessful innovations of system may
spring from the desolat ted and renas-
cent economic life Of Russia and
China as amid the Jungle of interests
in our more prosperous but more in
numbered world.
The disposition to call the Canton
csc government red" and to force 1t
into association with the Russian gov
eminent, which seems to be the aim
of a large section of the Atlantic
press. may prove a very dangerous
disposition to our Western ciYiliza ton.
Manifestly, China is not so afraid
of Russia as she is of Japan and the
powers whose warships pervade her
great rivers. Soviet Russia is farther
off and mlder. And anxious TO be
helpful. But the rubbish we write in
our newspapers does not always per-
ish there; 1t goes to China; it goes to
Russia.
C,Ippoca ua NUeStarpnre Snccned I'm
persuading the Chinese and the
Russians that we regard them with
a common animosity and that for
us they are all one--reds altogether.
Suppose we insist on treating them
both as outcasts. Suppose that as
The united Soviets and the kuomin-
tang work out the problems of eco
nomic and political construction
before them, they find they have
problems very much in common and
that the irrational hostility of the
older civilizations ob1iees them to
turn more and more to each other.
Suppose they take up scientific
work more vigorously than our
fatuous self.satisfaction allows us to
do. Suppose they decide to make
the pace for, JUS. Europe and Amer
lea are not go blindingly brilliant
and progressive that 1t would not
be possible to press them hard. Sup
pose Russia and China chose to put
in tens Of thousands of scientific
workers against our thousands
The average Chinese brain is said
to be rather richer in gray matter
than the average European, From
the Baltic to the Chinese coasts there
is a population of more than 500,
o00. 900 even now, and lands Of rich
ness far surprising all the resources
Of North America. They are poor
countries as yet. but potentially they
are very great countries. They have
still to develop effective railway
links. but they can do that now with
all the lessons of our older system
to warn and guide them. And no
other countries in the world are so
happily placed for the promotion of
great aviat ton services. It would
not be difficult to argue that the
backbone lines of the world air serv-
ice of the future must pass over Rus
STA and China anyhow.
Before we dismiss as incredible
the development of a powerful and
even dominating civilization in the
federated Soviets of Russia and
Asia. let us recall the contemptuous
superiority with which Europe re-
garded the United states at the out
break of the Civil War
At any rate. it seems to me that
this new China, whose brain and
nervous system is the Kuomintang.
and it's center Canton. is the most
thing by far upon the
stage of current events. and the
best worth watching and studying
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