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Show II STUDENTS HEAR I DiO 0. M'KAY Ogden Church Educator Re turns From Visit Before Resuming World Tour laid 0 McKay, commissioner of education of the L. D. S. church schools, sooke to suidnts of the We-ler We-ler Normal collcp- Wednesday on ini-1'ios.slons ini-1'ios.slons he re. Ived during his re-1 re-1 cent trip to the I (jrh hi H Mr. MtKay returned : Offden for H short visit with his family before H resuming his missionary trip around Wm the world. H He left In November for the Orient H ind visited Japan, China and Hawaii. Outstanding characteristics In these countries he said were Japan, court -H Ml : China. culture. and Hawaii, loveablcness. -I FIKS1 WHITE lUDUSN'CE H He told the .students It WSJ) the first white audience lie had addressed since H leaving on his trip, "l have been among a people "f; j coal black hair and eyes. 1 appreciate' mora than over the ln-'hl hair and I. , ...-v cheeks; and vei those darker' J people re truly Interesting. 1 must tell you that it makes a new man of H an American with his limited knowl-j H dge of this people, to be thrown H among them." l. STRAXtil I'lol'li "1 never sensed whin it was to le! BV 'imonR a. Strange people with a strange! Bb lonRiie, as when Mr. Cannon and I J landed at Yokohama. it happened i hat there was no one to meet us.' Bm Here we stood with our grips in our, hands, wonderinK what to do or where '" K". We knew no one could under-) BB -'.md us. And their peculiar chatter Bfl which was worse thiin a babel to us. BB and the unceasing clatter of their odd sandals was reall bewildering We Bfl were surely strangers in a strange I fl land After what seemed a er long fl time of watching ami wondering, two B of our own kind. Mission President,! BB Elder Btlmpson and companion, cam. BB to our rescue Tins was happy' BB meeting for us." BB "I said we felt -strange, as strange ' BB probably s some of those people feel' BB among ns. but we had not inen In Bfl Japan long until we experienced the great consideration those people have1 for strangers among them, die to the, Bfl spontaneous courtesy that Is devoloped Bfl in their very natures. I do not be-! I Have there is another people in t lie world as courteous as the Japanese.' The French people might be. bUl I can't believe there Is any other race! which surpasses the Japs in tills re- spect. Even the little children wen well behaved and showed such setf- control that never did we catch them staring at us due to our odd appear-! ance. unless we happened to turn : quickly and catch their bright littlej flfl Bfl "We know China us we have known IBB our John hinaman. the Chink. How - BJ ever i don think we know China as people: a people of profound cul-ture cul-ture for centuries and centuries back flflj through the ages. China is not i BJ resslve. The Chinaman Is patient, BJ alm, and naturally a man of self-BJ self-BJ control. China has twice the area or J the l. S.. and about 4 50.000,000 peo- and has many people for the purpose Of developing these resources, yet the people arc Crowded around the cen- ti i ,.r population With all of lis natural wealth, yel poor Chiha has much suffering. At one place where we were about to get u picture of the j old ruined wall which terminates at, the sea. our plan was entirely forgotten, forgot-ten, doe to the people human beings who surrounded us. it was cold. below zero. Wo WCr'e shivering In our heavy fur coats and good clothes vet those poor people were almost! naked They were all humped up with cold and so thin What little Clothes thej had were in hanging threads. They begged us for help, a! small amount to us is a great deal to I those poor people. This wSs only the I outskirts of the famine district. It, seemed more awful to see ast stores of grain at stations in what. I be- lleved were within easv range to these pool' people As 1; is poOT Old ' Chine lacks organisation." America means much to China 1 Thcv feel that we have been their friend. An Inspiring sight to me was! while we were thus mingling with these people, to unexpectedly see our; Stats and Stripes floating on high among them. This was ever a barracks bar-racks at one of the ports where the Allies were stationed." He spoke of Hawaii as a beautiful countrv an different from China. The people were so happy, tie said they did not go over there to study the; faults of the people. But to observe their good traits and they had learned! manv good things from them. While then were man good things,! they should be correctly estimated "For akample)i With all of Japan's great courtesy to the stranger, tin courtesy to the foreigner is not 1 stronger than the loyalty of the people peo-ple to their country, both men and j women. They are a virile people and j the women also work shoulder to shoulder with the men rue to (his 'Japan would no doubt give a good i i ceo u n I i 'I hi i v f hi l asi of war " |