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Show SPECIALISTS NEEDED. If tho Uui'.iid States is to have a 'dominating or evca a prominent part iu the commerce of tlio Far East and it is a certainty that it will specialists special-ists will be needed to handle the tremendous tre-mendous affairs of this country's trade and industrial en'orprises in China, Japan, Siberia and Russia. The training train-ing of Americans to' know Asia" is pointedly discussed by Julean Arnold, American commercial attache in China, who writes an article on the subject in the Trans-Pacific, Tokio. Mr. Arnold says that although America Amer-ica is spending $10,000,000 in missionary mission-ary labors iu China and Japan, "lavishly "lav-ishly donating" educational, medical and social betterment facilities to the peoples of the Far East, "yet we have neglected to accord our own people opportunities op-portunities of learning how to know the civilization of Asia." It is held to be essential that America Amer-ica should train iren in China, Japan and Russia, wbero they may, by contact con-tact with the people, learn tho lan-guago lan-guago and customs of the countries. In no other way can this be done. There should be established at Peking, at Tokio To-kio and at Petrograd special schools for the training of Americans in Chinese, Chi-nese, Japanese and Russian. Facilities should be provided at each of these schools for 100 men at a time, on a two-year schedule of courses, -with a postgraduate course of one year for twenty-five selected students. The wTriter thinks congress should provide funds for the maintenance of these schools and offer scholarships, carrying $1200 a year, exclusive of traveling expenses, to American graduates grad-uates of higher schools of learning, including in-cluding technical institutions. The arrangement should include men of varying talents and training and from all sections of the United States. In ten years, in the opinion of Mr. Arnold, the Far Eastern schools would equip 1500 ' Americans capable of assisting as-sisting in interpreting China, Japan and Russia to the people of the United States. The government would obtain some of these men for its consular, diplomatic and other - service requirements. require-ments. The remainder would prove valuable val-uable in professional or commercial fields in the Far East and the United States. Mr. Arnold's article is but one of many which are appearing in magazines, maga-zines, newspapers and some of the semiofficial semi-official publications. All those who write upon the subject make it clear that the man who hopes to make a distinct dis-tinct success of his efforts in the Far East must be prepared to meet tho people understanding'. This ho cannot can-not do unless he possesses a working knowledge of the native language and a keen desire to acquire an appreciative apprecia-tive attitude towards tho life, customs ' and interests of the people with whom he wishes to do business. The young man who first equips himself in this wise will have the better chance in the era of development which is just beginning be-ginning to dawn over the Asiatic continent. |