Show wll CALL pa a ii ATIO H STRIKE i 1 patriotic Patri otio society close cops and banks to gain patriotic demands ALLOWS POINTS 11 H harriet arriet smith Y W C A student 1 I wy ii y in china relates amazi ory of how stu i i is cs organized themselves by BERNICE GRISWOLD ss 31 harriet smith for ten years a 61 adent secretary of the young women a christian association in shanghai china fr relates elates the amazing story of low chinese students organized 0 themselves 1 em selves to oust the militarists from G government overn ment offices in peking and how they succeeded in becoming the leaders of china fearing that china was not to be protected from the aggression of other nations by the peace treaty as she had expected to be some students all of them between the ages of twelve arid and twenty one years and including girls organized themselves into the chinese students patriotic society immediately after tile the publication of the first draft of tile the P peace e ace treaty to fight for chinese rights their first move was to strike from school or rather from lectures as they remained sri in their respective schools ad spent pent so ninny many hours daily in private study then organized I 1 into hands tor for getting gelling out oui propaganda literature arid and for public speaking in the country and aDd small bowns and in tile the ten tea shops in poorer districts of the cities in order that they might reach the vast numbers of people who could not read immediately upon organizing the students published their demands four in number 1 that the militarists v ho bo as a party were pro japanese and practically controlled the government tt poking peking be put out of office 2 that lie be returned to china 3 the rhe twenty one demands made by bv T in in 1915 be cancelled 4 that 3 lie be freedom of speech aadot and of tile hie 1 ia they also insisted that the chinese constitution be finished an ail immense amount of literature was plit out much of it in the new Th nelc lle script which Is being launch 1 il I in china so that the uneducated cl classes ases might learn what was happening in students lectured everywhere on oil 11 e v demands stirring the people to pa 1 1 lm irn when many maily of them were I 1 1 I biffle parading in the streets ir they ahry formed an association students tits within the 1 lo io be released pick stoc stockade kado themselves when 1 it I glivic s were taken away h submitted a for having imprisoned i tile the beginning en it became evident that eco e pressure was all that would be ve both the bankers and mer guilds were called upon to back students in less than two a miss bliss smith said the shutters up at it every shop in that great shanghai where telephones telephone s are and communication difficult T shop whether large or small closed the laboring people feelis patriotic as the bankers mer ints and students also joined thi the strike for it a week everything it closed shops money exchanges markets shipping everything students struggled to keep public ies running the telephone servas as StOPP stopped stopple ld for a short time but bul r soon had it running again they held meetings day and night try wo f F 4 1 1 A k int tl 1 N 1 E I 1 st z 5 44 N k ah I 1 04 A i ic i C t L MISS HARRIET SMITH of chinese Y W C A ing to keep the railroad employees at their posts and explaining that it was patriotism for them aud and for water works and electric light employees to continue to work at the end ot that week n aek the students had won the first point and the militarists were out of power when suffrage in any form finally comes to china bliss smith feels that it will be granted to both men and women woden because of tile the way women are helping to build thin bilings sup up now women students took an active part in all of this bloo bloodless adless revolution they had their places on all of the councils their part of the work was to translate much of the literature into phonetic script and when a boycott was declared on oil japanese goods to begin production of goods in china all of the students threw away their straw hats purely japanese products at the beginning of their movement and the women students set about making white duck lints hats vi which aich were called patriotic hats and immediately became very popular alen tl en they began devoting themselves to the malting making of parasols and of talcum powder sor of them paraded but none was arrested anest cd china is the last country in the world to fear class feeling and antipathy which seems to be gripping the rest of the world miss bliss smith says in china there is a wonderful social people get together not so much hy by localities but by trades ail and profess professions ons livery every one belongs to a guild arid and those these guilds are wonderfully organized I 1 ns as the chinese have a genius tor for organization despite poor lines of communication lack of railroads and telephones these guilds guild hold closely together yet their organization has nothing to do with caste willi wilh a leadership as highly organized as that of the students a great amount can be done leading men of china interpret the student movement as very significant the forming of 11 new national party parly it is the duty of all christian organizations in china to give these ku students dents who tire are now the alie leaders of the government every pos po sible bit of aid arid and inspiration as they need more than human help to biln china out of her difficulties success successfully fu the Y W 0 C A Is doing what aliat it jn can to help the women students all of these students have given up their vacations and are working liard bard throughout the summer miss bliss smith has seen china change within tei years from one of the old est and most rigid monarchies of the world into a republic she saw th first republican flags go up and fedeli that china has accomplished a great grea i deal fighting all the time as she has against the great odds of japanese and european aggression in addition to th old monarchist lc party given time china will become one of the great re publics of the world slie she says sais miss bliss smith lives in richmond va and Is home on oil a years furlough sh alir expects to return to chinn china in the |