Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

TIME simple truth of very com
plicated situation is that the
white man has lost caste in
A China, where caste is every
thing Wherever the white
man loses caste, tragedy follows.
Capt. James Cook, discoverer of the
Hawaiian Islands, was treated as
god until one day the natives heard
him groan with pain. He was
promptly slain. Great Britain for
years has been fighting to maintain
the caste of the white man in India.
She conducts a strict censorship over
moving pictures. including those from
the United States, lest the white man
be shown in roles which will break
down the respect of the natives.
But in China mistake after mistake
has been made, until today the white
man is hated and despited. The ha-
tired is directed particularly against
the British, who long have held the
Chinese open to contempt. but 1t is
difficult to see how the American can
avoid the outbreak of yellow aversion.
The National House of Representa-
tiVes has passed a resolution favorlng
independent action in China. But 1t
is difficult to see, when a color line is
drawn how one white man can be
differentiated from another
Many observers in China see many
things. 1t has been APPLY said that
10 men going into China today would
each come out with a different picture
of what is happening there. The
writer has tried to gain a composite
picture of the many views with Whlcn
he has come in contact.
There is this unanimity of opinion,
that no matter how involved the stu
ton in China between the warning
factions of north and south, there is
general and irresistible sentiment that
foreign control of China is at an
end. The Chinese boycott against the
British, which already has cost Great
Britain something like 100000, GOO,
was but the beginning of the anti
foreign movement. The United states
apparently has not been able to take
full advantage of the British boycott.
Japan. hated herself by China, never
thless has slipped into the open mar
kets. She, at least, is not in the taboo
of the whites"
But here let a confidential report to
the Institute of Pacific Relations tell
something of the story:
For generations" it says, there
has been developing a technique of
treatment of the Chinese by the white
man that has been storing up fund
of wrath with which he has begun to
reckon It is not a reason attitude; II
is an atmosphere, bred partly from
the disparity of economic levels be-
tweern the races. 1t is probably inev-
liable that a race which lives on a
vastly higher economic level than an
other which serves it. and serves 1t in
ways that imply inferiority, such as
pulling rickshas and carrying sedan
chairs, will develop a superiority com
pick. have repeatedly watched
Anglo Saxons in China shove slower
Chinese out of the way when there
was plenty of room to walk around
them. kicking your ricksha runner
with the foot or poking him with<your
stick is the accepted way of guiding
by many foreigners.
1.-THE servility and cowardice of the
Chinese coolie class has, without ques-
ton, contributed to the attitude of the
Westerner. A prominent Chinese told
me that the educated Chinese have
feared and hated the Westerner for a
long time, while the coolie has wor-
shiped him as a SUperman. The
worst a foreigner treated coolie the
more the coolie respected and groveled
before him. This is rapidly changing.