The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-11-26
SENIOR HIGH
Intereting Address

Mr.. NO Young Park spoke DeIOre
the Senior Assembly Nov. "a. His
speech was exceedingly interesting.
1t had an entertaining aspect as
well as educational. The first part
of his speech dealt with the Man.
churian question. He gave the
four basic principles which are
causing the misunderstanding. The
most important is Imperialism
against Nationalism. Japan wants
Manchuria for Imperialistic rea-
sons and China is protecting it for
Nationalistic purposes. The second
reason is Japan has invested money
in railroads and claims she is pro-
tecting her interests in Manchuria.
The third is that Japan is over
populated and needs homes for the
people. The last reason is that
Manchuria is an undeveloped ter
ritory and it will furnish re-
sourceful home for her over-popu-
Iation. Mr.. Parks said that the
uprising in Japan is caused by
military click. Their opponents
are the Liberalists who oppose war
and warlike measures. If the Mill
tia was only suppressed all affairs
could be settled peacefully.
Continuing Mr.. Parfk said:
"China has been at Civil War for
20 wears or more. Militarists are
causing revolts. 1t has been re-
ported that Communism has gain
ed a strong foothold in China. 1t
is caused by hunger, famine, and
starvation, but Communism is not
deeply rooted The people are fight
ing against their will. The military
leaders bride the people by offering
them food and clothing in turn for
their service in the army. Amer
lea is complaining of being hard
UP, but if the people were on the
verge of starvation as the Chinese
are they would have something to
complain about. Americans could
not rr/ autos every day, spend bill
lions of dollars for ornaments, or
change their styles every week IN
due season if this were so.
"In China it is fashionable for
women to be stout. This is almost
impossible because their food is
not wholesome and they do not
have enough of it. Americans eat
two or three times as much as chi
nese. If China is starving to death,
America is eating to death. China
has altogether too many people.
Industrial life is picking up In
China. In previous years they
Stunned industrialism and worship
ed culture. Americans have gone
to the other extreme. They think
too little of culture and are really
industrializing our country. People
live on a larger scale in America
The farmers here cultivate hun
dred acres, while two acres is the
extent of a Chinese farm. That
patch of ground has to furnish a
living for family for one reason.
"China is headed for better and !
brighter days. Programs are be-
ing planned for social reform and
unification of the country. The So
cial reform is started by building
schools. Americans do not appre-
ciate education because it comes to
them too easily. Only 100000 OF
100000 Chinese people go to
school. The process of building
schools is slow and it will be many
years before schools will be pro
vided for a..
"The Nationalistic government OF
China is unifying it. The leader OF
the Nationalist party Chang-kai-
Shek, has advanced it greatly"
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed his
speech and he recommended one of
his books for future reading. He
has written three, but two of them
are rather scholarly and one on
"The Making of China" is meant
for general reading.