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t- •• I fc" ■ THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1932 THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN. SELMA N. C. A LETTER FROM CHINA (PubJished by request of Rev. D.H. Tutt)e.) August 19,1932. Dear Friend of Soochow University: Sirice I la.st wrote you our part v>f China has been one of the •'trouble spots” of the planet Earth! Judging from the newspapers and from letters from some of you, 1 gather that “trouble spots” have been fairly widely—if not evenly— distributed over this globe of ours. Therefore, I chose to try to tell you of some of the outstanding bles sings that have come to Soochow University during the past year. I shall list a few, trying to explain certain points. 1. Not one of our buildings was destroyed during “the undeclared” war centering in Shanghai; although our famous Law School and our Se cond Middle School on Quinsan road, Shanghai, were both more than once ransacked by Japanese marines and plain clothes men. One of the Chica- ■go newspapers printed a picture of our Allen Hall in Soochow, as the Law School Building in Shanghai, and reported it as having been des troyed. Fortunately the report was not true. 2. Only one of our staff members was lost due to the war. That one was Mr. T. S. Chap, a teacher and one vice-principal of our S. U. Se cond Middle School in Shanghai. He Was taken up by Japanese, and never been heard from since. He left his wife and four children, the youngest a babe of eighteen days. Friends are raising an endowment fund for the education of his child ren. 3. The Japanese invasion of Man churia produced in China, particular ly in the .student-world, a state of intense excitement and agitation, making the task of school adminis tration extremely difficult, compli cated, and delicate. There were school troubles everywhere, of more or less serious nature. The tragedy of the situation is that the warm, •innocent patriotism of students was •often utilized by local politicians who desired to use them as tools for the furtherance of their politic al ambitions. Caught in this general hurricane, our campus also became 'the scene of wild student disorders •■and excesses, but after all the ex citement and anxiety, our school authorities saved the school and maintained discipline. 4. President Y. C. Yang, as head of the administration was naturally the target of attack by the radical stndent.s. For him the easiest v/ay .nit would have been to resign. At ilh*; earnest insistence of the Board of Trustees, who backed him and the Executive Council throughout our disturbance-, and due to the whole hearted ."upport of our alumni every where. Dr. Yang is still at the lielm a distinction for a Christian Uni- ' ./ersity in China, as during the yeai' many a college president has been made to resign. Nor was the way ■closed for him to get another posi tion. When Dr. Wellington Koo, h's former chief, was called u])on to head up the Foreign Office la t win ter, Dr. 1'ang left the University for a -.hort while to serve as Senior Secretary and Acting Director of ■the Depai-tment of International Af fairs. More recently his friends urg ed him to go to Geneva to assist j Dr. W. W. Yen, China’s chief dele gate at the I.erig'ue of Nations. But he has elected to stand by t'le 'ihurch. 5. There is, of course, al-o an en- s.niraging side to the students ac- 'vities, Woi'king with the teachers, yhe students respond, such as famine relief, solatium for wounded soldiers and other patriotic funds. I-h'en with a reduced enrollment, more than \wo thousand dollars have ben raised for .such .specials. t>. We have succeeded in complet ing the year's school work with the *d;udents loyal to the school at a high cost to teachers and students; namely, calling upon our teachers to ■teach through the heat of summer, •and upon to do a number of dif ficult and unpleasant things, things including reciting from 6:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon. This is rendered nec essary by our insistence on the prin ciple that full credit can only be given for full work done. 7. We have grown close together as fellow-workers in conducting the school, and find it dearer to us ev ery day. Our love for service. Teach ing through the summer is one il- in^ration -.making financial contri- ^Pufions is another. The enrollment ""aiave produced a serious shortage in 'oui , income. The income from stu- fden'ts' fees alone shows a shortage 'll?, about ?40,000 from the budget ed ’amount. To relieve this situation in part, Chinese staff members waived half of their salaries from February to June .inclusive, re.sult- ing in a saving of about $20,000, and the foreign faculty made volun tary contributions amounting to be- ‘■a.ween four and five thousand dol lars. Splendid spirit it is, but math ematically it still leaves us $15,000 -hort for last year. 8. We have become aware of a side of many of our students deep er than realized. On the part of many non-Christians there is evi dent a willingness to inve.stigate Christianity. With many professing Chri.stians there is evident a new seriousness in their efforts to follow Christ. 9. We seem—one and all—brought to face with the necessity of mak ing our educational program func; tion more efficiently as an evangiliz- ing agency. With the worst thoes of war psychology behind us, we realize that our schools and our churches MUST offer to the people of China a program and a hope for the future More Challenging than that offered by Soviet Russia. Pray that God may enable tis to discharge this obli gation. 10. “And now abideth faith, hope, and love.” With ineffaceable picture of the terrified populace about us, with our hearts still aching in sym pathy with those who paid the un speakable price of war in murdered lovedones, lost reason, burned homes, destroyed fortunes, anew we dream the dreams of those who prayed this institution into being—that here we might lift up Christ, His faith. His hope, His love. The monthse behind us have had the Chirist lifted up in many a tender, human service—shar ing sorrows, bearing burdens, find ing peace and streng-th in prayer to Him. May such experiences in crease here on our campus, through years of peace as well as years of war. Some of you would like, perhaps, to hear just what did happen here j on our campus. Time and space does not permit. I’ll mention just one or two points: An atmosphere of mourning enveloped us from Septem ber 18 when trouble in Manchuria started until the end o'f April—no social meetings by the students, no dinner parties among faculty friends no movies, no fortnightly school “Social Nights” no intercollegiate athletics. During the month of Jan uary student exercises engendered by a group of radical leaders, acting under the influence of local politi- cans halted the orderly on going the institution. The month of Feb ruary was filled with all the horors of war. Being behind the lines mo t of our Methodist missionaries felt it wisest to stay still. Countless numbers of Chinese in the city fled here and there. Refugees from Shanghai, many of them flood refu gees of the preceding summer, were . cared for here in the Univer-ity; dormitories. Also students of Chinan University refugeed here for many weeks. Coupled with the daily visits of Japanese planes for reconnoiter- ing purposes, the situation in Soo chow was harrowing. After week.s of daily fear of renewal of hostili ties, during which the city walls of the cities along the Shanghai Mak ing Railway, Soochow included, were •sandbagged and honeycombed with dugouts, a settlement was made, and we were able to open school the later half of April. Students came back cautiously, frist from the city, and then from places nearby. The radicals were not permitted to return, nor were .students from Can ton, Peiping and distant points en couraged to returned. By July most of the students caring to return— and allowed—were back with us, giv ing us an enrollment of 450 odd as campared with more than 800 last fall. With these are working to fin ish up the spring term’s work by the first week in September. After about two weeks’ intermission, we start our fall term’s work. Pray with us and for us that we may fulfill God’s ambition for us at this critical time. Sincerely, • S. U. Publicity Com., Per D. L. S. Sent in by Rev. D. H. Tuttle of Smithfield. Mr. Tutle’s sister is a teacher in Sochow University, Soo chow China. A SAMPLE OF ROOSEVELT’S “SELF-GOVERNMENT” (From The Yellow Jacket.) Phobably the loudest noise made by the Roosevelt-for-president boos ters is the statement that he stands for “self-government.” Well, Roosevelt has furnished us a neat sample of how his big idea work.s. It is called his “Civil Rights Law,” and here’s how it came to be a law : An applicant for a school-teacher’s job in a New York public school was politely asked by the committee what her religious faith happened to be. Naturally, being a public school committee, they wouldn’t like the idea of installing a rank atheist Or an avowed enemy to our constitu tion and form of government in a teacher's position where the teach er might lead the su.sceptible young- future citizens to believe our gov ernment should be destroyed. Well, because this teacher hap pened to be a “true” Roman Catholic she set up a howl, and Governor Roosevelt had the school principal discharged from his job. That not being sufficient spp to the public | school-hating Pope crowd. Roosevelt Build Up Health and Pains Go Away WOMEN who suffer from weak ness often have many aches and pains which a stronger state of health would present. Women in this condition should take Cardui, a purely veg^elable tonic that has been in use for over 50 years. 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