Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

latest and most modern conceptions OF
American construction and equipment
will exert a tremendous influence in the
announcement of the use OF American
ideas, methods and materials in the con-
struction and furnishings for building
purposes throughout the world. Each
one of these American Federal buildings
will stand out in the communities where
they are erected as happily symbolic Of
American architecture, building con-
struction, equipment in plumbing, heat
ing. lighting and ventilation.
Viewed as Model for Chinese.
"In Shanghai the new consulate win
stand out as typifying the latest ideas as
developed by Nation signally advanced
among the peoples of the world In build
ing construction and equipment. Thou
sands of Chinese will come to that
building with the idea of appraising the
architecture, building materials, con-
struction and furnishings in the light Of
using in a suggestive sense such Of the
American exhibit as may be adapted to
duplication in the construction of the
new China. Chinese are now looking
for models and there our great Shang-
hal Federal building will stand out In
the skyline of this great commercial
capital of the most populous of nations
construction and equipment.
Shanghai Is now city Of 5000 600
inhabitants and is rated as the sixth
largest city in the world. Within an
area equivalent to that of the State of
Illinois, the lower Yangtse Valley has an
estimated population of 100000. It
is to Shanghai that hundreds of thou
sands of tourists from other sections Of
the country come each year and carry
back with them impressions which this,
the most modern Of all communities ir
China, leaves upon their mind during
their sojourn in that city.
Models for Manchuria.
so with Mukden, the capital of the
northern empire, embraced within the
three eastern provinces OF Manchuria.
1t will help American prestige and in
fiuence in that region to have our Fed
eral buildings objects of architectural
beauty and to have them equipped in
such a way as to furnish the people of
that great frontier empire with models
not only of building construction, but
OF ecuipment and furnishings as well.
"Manchuria is more like our Middle
West than any other section of the
world. Chinese are migrating there at
the rate of 100000 a year. Tens of
millions of acres of new land are being
opened up to development and exploita-
ton in the three eastern provinces. {"
I'm Canton the capital OF a province
of $4,000, 900, America Is the only one
of the great trading nations OF the
world which has not as yet Its own
Federal building to house its represent
atives. AS early as 1888, our Cont
mental Congress commissioned to Canton
as consul general, Maj. Shaw. Thus
Canton represents in our relations with
the outside world one of the first trad
ing posts to which we commissioned an
American representative. Now. after
nearly $50 years we are still IN that I'M
portant trading center relying upon
rented quarters, distinctly inadequate, to
house the corps OF American officials
who are functioning there for our Gov
eminent.
Canton Linked TO United States.
I'VE must also remember that, with
the exception of the Chinese students
who have come to this country. most
of the Chinese who have migrated to
the United States come from Canton
and vicinity. Thus. the Canton region
represents in more emphatic way than
any other section of China the Amer
lean impress upon the Chinese republic.
Certain towns in the interior Of the
Kwantung province are fashioned after
American ideas of building construc-
ton. Hundreds of Chinese born in the
United States have returned to these
regions to participate in the newer de-
velopments representing China's transit
ton from medieval to modern So
ciety."
Alphabetically, the commissions pro-
gram is an interesting one. For IL pro-
poses to make the buildings thoroughly
and typically American. The commits
sion has already tentatively selected a
number of Colonial pansions as models.
These include the homes of Jefferson.
Madison, Monroe and several signers of