The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-24

Science seryice.)
By Science SerUfce
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a. - The
300, O0O,O 900 people Of China are in a
state Of evolution today. The IT,
100000 people of Japan are not.
This is how an ethnologist, Her
bert w. Krieger o. the United States
National Museum, contrasts the two
Far Eastern peoples clashing for
control in Manchuria
Chinese people are learning some
thing that Chinese Of the past never
have mastered. They are learning
teamwork and organization, Krieger
explains.
With the japanese, organization
IS an old story. The japanese looks
up to the state in reverence, for
state and religion are one in his
mind. So, in a crisis, the Japanese
does his bit contentedly and fits
himself into the plans Of his state
There is no racial struggling toward
some more satisfactory mode Of life.
Chinese Patriotism Vague
But China is in the throes of
building a republic, and republics
are not built in a day. 1t took
France almost {. century to achieve
what China mas been trying to do
since the Gays of the Boxer rebellion
to organize its people under a
stable, unified government.
SO long as ancestor worship was
the central thought in the minds OF
the Chinese, a working republic
form of government was impossible,
Krieger says.
The Chinese who reverenced his
father and his fathers father in all
the ways that the rigid code pre-
scribed was bound as tightly to an
Gent forms of living as if steel cords
held him in their grip. His family
came first always. Patriotism was
a decidedly vague emotion.
From the ancient code, the
Chinese have become such individu-
alists, the ethnologist points out,
that even today a Chinese house
holder will use che public street for
threshing his rice paddy. If traffic
is blocked, no che complains. The
people respect mans right to dis
respect their rights.
Ancestor Worship Weakened
The old rigid customs could be
broken only by new cultural trend
which would pull the Chinese just
as strongly in a new direction. That
new trend does exist in China, and
1t is so powerful that Chinese cul-
ture is changing definitely.
AS an example of how ancestor
worship has weakened, Krieger
points out that Chinese families are
no longer so afraid to move away
from a town where their ancestors
lie buried How strongly modern
ideas are taking hold of the people
is shown by the gains Chinese
women have made in social and in
dustrial emancipation
Another sign of China's evolution
is her development of national
feeling against foreign restrictions.
The old China accepted treaties
which gave foreign nations right
to make themselves at home in
strategic areas of China.
China Awakening
AS a result of the RuSso-JapaneSe
war, for example, Japan gained a
ninety-nine-year lease of Kwan-
tung province, which includes the
important South Manchuria Rail-
way one. Today, transportation in
Manchuria is quite largely under
Japanese control, which means that
Japan holds a key to the economic
life of the region.
No less than fifty treaty port con-
cessions in China have been granted
to foreign nations. And in about
nineteen of these land has been
turned over to the foreigners for
their residential use.
In 1911, when the Chinese empire
was it its last days, any one who
walked through Shanghai and APP
preached the bund, or waterfront
park, in the foreign concession
might read a sign, mo Chinese or
dogs allowed" That sign has been
removed-one Of the straws Show
ing how the wind blows in an
awakening China