The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
MISSIONARIES IN
CITY TO REPORT
ON FIELD WORK
Japanese Hold u. S. in High
Regard, Conference
Is Told.

' ApAViBh uflnoiOildIieSe tOQdy
gave their impressions of conditions
In the countries in which they
served.
The four, with eight others, are
attending a conference of foreign
missionaries of the Church of the
Disciples Of Christ which opened
yesterday at the United Christian
Missionary Society, 222 S. Downey-
av, and closes tomorrow at noon.
DR.. Thomas Beckett Young, in
structor in Sci Gakuin Boys High
School in Toxic. Japan, said, The
Japanese have only the warmest re-
gard for the American nation"
Competition Is Danger Point
One danger point in American
Japanese relations exists, however,
DR.. Young said. That is the chal-
ienge created by Japan's legitimate
competition in the markets of the
world.
Japan's attitude toward the Far
Eastern question he said, might be
termed an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine
comparable with the United States
own policy in the past toward out
side interference with affairs in
Latin America.
Japan" he said, feels that the
destiny of the East rests with her
self and China without European in
tervention' DR.. Young has been in
Japan for the past Is years.
Chinese Upheaveal Discussed
Geographically, one of DR.. Youngs
neighbors, the Rev. Edwin Marx,
Marking, China. who has been in
the United States since 1894, laid
the cause of the internal upheaval
in China to the change from me
dieval to modern civilization
"The Chinese" he declared,
simply are trying to realize
democratic form of government and
to bring in modern machinery and
the factory system of production.
Millions of men in China have
been under arms. Many deserted
from military bodies, some following
leaders and some leaderless."
Russian Influence Noted
Communism gained its foothold in
China, the Rev. Marx explained,
when DR.. Sun Vat Sen, organizer
of the Nationalist movement, en-
tered into an alliance with the So
Wet in order to assure the success
of the revolution.
The Rev. Marx is administrative
secretary of the China Mission of
the Disciples of Christ in the lower
Yangstze valley.
Dr. A. E. Elliott, director of Co
legio International at Ascuncion,
Paraguay, supported by the Disciples
of Christ, declared that one of the
economic changes to be brought
about in Paraguay by the Gran
Chaco war with Bolivia would be
change in the method of transport.
War Brings Motors
The war, according to DR.. Elliott,
brought thousands of motor vehicles
into the country and sales of gaso-
line and the building of roads re-
acted accordingly.
Much of the funds for road build
ing were derived from the income on
cotton crops in 1884, while Para
guay's able-bodied manhood and
youth was at the front
In that year. because of the cur
tailment of cotton under the AAA
in the United States, Paraguays in
come from the crop was greater than
at any time during its history, he
said.
Africa Feels League Failed
Although living 1000 miles from
the scene of the Italo- Ethiopian
conflict, DR.. Herbert E. Smith, who
has spent more than Is years in
Africa in the Belgian Congo at
Bolenge, said, THE African races
feel that the white races have let
them down in the failure OF the
League of Nations to prevent Italy
from her designs on Ethiopia
Other missionaries attending the
conference are Ray E. Price of
Damon, India; Miss Ruth Leslie,
Mexico: Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Hurt,
formerly of Indianapolis, now of
Bolenge, Africa: Virgil E. Ravens,
Vienna, Africa, Belgian Congo; P.
d. Snipes. Bolenge; Miss Wenona
Wilkinson, Luchowfu, China; How
ard T. Holroyd, Mexico City; Misses
Stella and Joseph Franklin, for
merly of Anderson, Ind.
The missionaries in their private
conference here are discussing
problems relating to the foreign
mission field and the best means
of presenting them to the Amer
lean public.