Evening star., 1938-06-14
BY MAYLING SOONG CHANG.
CMme. Chang Kai-Shek.)

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BY MAYLING sOONG CHANG.
Mme. Chang Kai-ShekD
WUCHANG, China 1.-THE
last thing the japanese want Is an Or
ganiZed, prosperous China. They want
China, OF course, but they themselves
want to do any organizing that has to
be done SO that they can control its
direction and capture the possible prof
its for their own benefit.
The Japanese str5ve for years to
keep us in chaos; then they brought
war to us; and. with it. they are sedu-
lously bringing material ruin. No doubt
by this time they are amazed at what
they have done, for they are running
themselves; have forged a shackle of
debt for ornaments about the neck Of
the terrified nations, and, incidentally,
have sown about the world, as Cadmus
sOwed in his furIow. swarms OF drag
ons' teeth. I wonder what the harves:
will be?
Some time ago I wrote somewhere
that out Of the evil being wrought
against us, good may come. How
pray for that. I think, as have said,
that our country will surely find its
soul in the trying torment in which
we are involved. II we do. We shall be
able, without difficulty to 60 about the
business of building up our country
upon new lines In any case, one thing
we should insist upon is that there
shall be no more experimentation with
political or economic theories and
nostrums. We surely should have had
enough of that by now. There is no
more time for it. Above all. we will
have to be eminently practical-even
ruthlessly So
Must Inspire Confidence.
We have also to inspire the ad-
vanced nations with confidence in US
and in our intentions. have said
that I thought the democracies were
probably afraid that i'll would come
to them if we came out of the war
victorious If that feeling exists it
Is as unfortunate as it is curiously
shortsighted. Recently the general
issimo drew . remark something like
that from q foreign visitor He
promptly quashed the idea with the
statement that 1t would take China
30 or SO years to rehabilitate herself
after this war, and 100 years before
she would be able to compete with
any one, even if ever such . thing
would be possible.
On the other hand, he added, for
eign products, especially machinery,
tools and manufa ctured articles of all
kinds. would be in heavy demand for
many decades, and foreign invest
ments would be a constant necessity.
Foreign countries may we'll be alarmed
If Japan is permitted to conquer China.
Then there would be reason for tears.
And I do not have to elucidate why.
Japan would swamp the world with
cheap goods of all kinds, and buy
virtually nothing in return.
We are faced with the immediate
necessity of providing our broken peo-
pie with the means of livelihood: we
must give our commercial men scope,
Uut, dUOfC oil, VIC Ahuoe u INV w
do that at the expense Of vested inter-
ests belonging to other nationals. We
must prove that we have no intention
of doing so.
Foreign Trade Aids China.
Foreign trade must 60 on. Its ex-
pansion Is to China's direct benefit.
1t should be encouraged in every way
because we have great needs. and.
in time, we will have raw materials to
satisfy the needs of others. Invest
ments must be protected.
/ have hope Of a planned economy
being adopted-something eminently
practicable and tangible which will
give our people q dignified and une-
quivocal opportunity to achieve some
thing worthwhile for their personal
respect and their prosperity, as well
as for their national dignity and we'll
being.
should like to see village industry
carefully developed wherever it is
possible for raw materials to be pro-
duced land worked up to supply the
daily needs of the people. There will
have to be mechanical aid in cases,
but hope that machinery never win
be brought to China to save labor as
its f1rst principle and requirement.
am against labor being sweated
for the benefit Of the conscienceless
plutocrats. am against 1t being
sweated in any circumstance.
We have already had . taste Of
competitive manufacture, and we
have had few lessons taught us by
the racketeer, the gangster, the mis-
guided labor agitator and his misused
unions. Surely we win be wise enough
to profit by all that, and also profit
by what has happened In other parts
Of the world Is . result of over
production by labor saving devices
operating upon . large and uncon-
trolled scale. We have an old proverb
! which enioins u to ''take waning