Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-12-15

when | was over in China, | had read
her book on the Boat, when | wasent
aTgueing with Floyd Gibbons. Well |
thought it was the greatest thing |
had ever read, so | talked to lots OF
people over there about her. A DR. DON
aldson on the train from Picking to
Shanghai, be had known the family Of
this girl for years. He and they both
were early missionaries out there.
Well / wanted to meet her while
out there. She lived up at Marking,
that's the capitol Of China. or was that
week. 1t used to be Peking, and If the
southern crowd keep getting stronger
| guess 1t will be Canton.
Well | wanted to go up to Marking
anyhow. | had come through there on
the train from Peking. but dident get
to see much. So | called UP the school
where they live. Her husband is a prof
lessor in a big University there, he has
made a study Of Agriculture, gradu-
ated at Cornell.
BY the way that always struck me
as being the oldest place for an Agri-
culture course. You just kinder look
for them out In the Middle West where
they raise something. Well | got in
communication with them mp at Nam
king and was to go up and see her on
a certain day. Well I was going to fly.
There was a line Of sea planes that
went right up the Yangste River. Well
| got to the place to take off that day
and 1t raj raining and cloudy all day
and | dident get to go.
! vas leaving on the boat the next
day for Singapore. then for the flight
across India. and all points West. |
talked to Mr. Buck. her husband, over
the phone, but not seeing her out there
was a great Disappointment for she is
one person that wrote d book about d
Country, and ven that Country liked 1t.
Well her publishers knew what a
great admirer | was Of hers, so when
/ landed from South America and Mrs
Rogers met me in New York, why they
phoned us and said Mrs Buck would be
In New York at q certain time and
would see is.
Well we fere tiekled to death. Well
we went owe to her hotel. Her hus-
band is taking d special course again
at Cornell. He is quite an Agricultural
authority in China, and has held some
very important Government missions
in regard to trying to get them
Strengthened out on what to raise. Well
she too | think was taking some course
up there. So she stayed up there most
all the time. She just come down to
NJ Y occasionally, she dident like 1t
so much. She Is not SO hot for this
hero worship business. She is very
modest Notwithstanding to-
talk to. She almost speaks with an
accent, she has spoken Chinese so
long. You know ii you know your Chi
nese there is quite a big communistic
hold In certain parts Of China. The In
fuence Is growing rapidly.
But somebody is always Saving
China" from something or other. She
says in her book that while she dident
write it In Chinese, that her thoughts
were all In Chinese. that Is her charac-s
ters were all talking to each other In
Chinese, then as she translated the
very words into English before writ
Ing them down, that there Is where
some OF the reviewers got the idea
that 1t wasSold Testament writing. or
a throw back to her missionary train
ing. But she denies that and says 1t
come from these words being the very
ones the Chinese utter, with a literal
translation.
This next one will bring In the mod.
ern things that have pestered China
during our times, including the Amer
lean Missionaries
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