Show I T I Significant Changes in China i 4 S. S F. F CHRONICLE In spite of ot the time Incessant turmoil kicked up by the the ambitions of her var war var lords there is a leaven of na nationalism nap un- working in China The country is in a ferment of at economic econom econom- ic and political change It is reacting react react- In ing pow powerfully to the impress ot western ideas The Time unchanging east Is at last cl changing What this means to the time future of China r re resolves solves Itself at best into a 1 guess But It is obvious that these Changes change arc are highly Important to the United States To San Francisco in particular particular particular par par- as the doorway of the west's relations with the far east this I of China has or should have e a profound significance But Dut the average westerners westerner's ideas 4 of what is going going on In In China are ale are extremely vague ague He is aware of a certain confusion fretting the country coun- coun lr tr try of ot a kaleidoscopic succession of military leaders of ot a shadowy central central central cen cen- government which has lost all all' semblance of authority There is much more to China than this Its whole commer commercial and political po life is In for a a. drastic over over- hauling The Chinese of ot the new generation realize that tha t they must adopt the methods and standards of civilization cl which have Jave made nade the nations of at the west powerful Politically o of course this is all very very interesting But commer lally it ii may have hae even a n. weightier With a trade with China of less than a third of at a a. billion dollars I yearly we are only only scratching the m market The potentialities are spec speculative of course but with the constant constant contant con con- stant tant permeation of ot western standards standards stan stan- dards of ot living our foreign trade with China will steadily enlarge There will be an increasing demand for goods of western manufacture manuta China is today one of ot the most Interesting interesting in- in countries In the world We e ought to know more about it And with this in 1st mind the Chronicle is isnow isnow isnow now running in its World Topics s section on Sundays a a. series of In Informative Informative In- In formative e articles by Major Hayes Kroner Thirtieth infantry U. U S S. A A. A Major Kroner spent three years as military of the American AmerIan legation at Peking He knows China China Chi Chi- na na thoroughly and Is alive to the meaning ot of the movements now taking place there His articles are area a valuable contribution to current history and are absorbingly Inter Inter- esting This series together with the au authoritative authoritative nu- nu news letters sent to the Chronicle almost every week by Clifford Fox one of ot the keenest ob observers observers ob ob- servers among the time newspaper correspondent correspondents cor con respondents respondent now in the far east will enable Chronicle readers to become become be be- come familiar with affairs in the Orient I 1 1 2 J I |