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Show Prevailing Opinions I Comment ol the American Pre produced more than 1000 women 4 writers of note. , I The trace of antiforeignism discernible dis-cernible In the claim that the Chines were not themselves responsible re-sponsible for the earlier status of their women may be overlooked, when on realises the enlightened attitude of the present Chines government toward the fair sex. Detroit Free Press. Americans Abroad Not counting tourists, but eon-fining eon-fining th figures to permanent er semipermanent residents, close to 400,000 American cltisens ar living abroad. Th estimates come from reports of our consuls in other countries. Included In th groups ar business men, newspaper correspondents, engineers, engi-neers, retired persons and expatriates expat-riates of ons school or another. Largest group of cltisens from this country living elsewhere is In Canada with Alberta as their moat favored center. Ontario comes next and Manitoba next In Europe Eu-rope the favorite countries of residence res-idence are Italy, th United Kingdom, King-dom, France, Chechoslovakia and' the Irish Free State, In the order or-der named. Arabia la th horn of only 14 American cltisens, as Is Gibraltar, ths Fiji Islands of only 23, Luxemburg of 65 and ' British Guiana of 44. - There ar almost as many American citizens living in Soviet Russia as in Australia; Aus-tralia; and more living In tbe Asores than in Nova Bcotla and New Brunswick combined. Oakland Oak-land Tribune. That Diamond Necklace Th French are to make another attempt to raiss that boat which for more than a century has dreamed uneasily In the foul bed of the Seine. Legend has It that ths personal fortune ot Louis XVI went down In the wreck. Along with the gold and Jewels, estimated esti-mated at some $30,000,000, ths romantics have tried to believe that Maria Antoinette's famous rope of diamond I In tbe sunken Women's Plc in China Th status which a race or nation na-tion accord to It women la regarded, re-garded, among Christian peoples at any rate, as on of th measures of Its civilisation or culture. And measured by that yardstick, China la fast rising, In world esteem. es-teem. . - The position of women m China never was quite so debased as many peopls in this country hare been led to suppose, but for centuries cen-turies before the Manchus were ousted in 1912, Chinese women were allowed little scope for activities ac-tivities outside the home. As a result of western influence they ara now virtually en a basis of legal equality with men. The new civic code, for example, gives wives property rights in their own names, and allows them to apply for divorce on no less than 10 separate grounds, a thing unheard of under the empire. And the factory act of 1932 not only requires ths same wages to be paid to women and men who do the same kind of work with equal efficiency, but It also prohibit pro-hibit the employment ot women and children under conditions dangerous dan-gerous to health or harmful to morals. Women In China are now free to go to school and college, to engage In business or politics, to start "movements" for their further emancipation from Social conventions, and they ar doing all of these things, apparently with th hearty Indorsement of the Nanking government whose leader's lead-er's wit I a graduate ot an his tattered legion of disciple will turn anew to th deathless pages of the ever dealing Dumas, St Louis Post-Dispatch. treasure. With the Improved salvaging , technique of today, th project seems feasible, especially In view ef the fact that a previous effort almost succeeded. Du Barry was old when shs had come to die, and grief had grayed the golden curia of the Austrian girl, and the years had taken away the beauty which Burke's eloquence somehow has handed down to us In perpetuity.. But ."the queen's necklace" still glitters glit-ters In the Intrigue of Versailles. A lot of us know that every blessed word ot the whole blsarr and Impossible adventure Is th gospel truth, and when they, find the necklace In that ship's bold, American college for women. Th Nanking propogandists are now asserting that In ancient China, women held an exalted iace in the national life, but ost It undsr the Influence of Indian In-dian philosophy brought Into China Chi-na in the early centuries of the Christian era, and were completely complete-ly "subjugiated" under the "tyranny "tyr-anny of alien rule" during the Mongol and Manchu dynasties. . A single fact la sufficient to dis- - prove the; Inference that Chinese women were degraded by external rather than by Internal Influences. Under the last Chinese dynasty, ' women scraped the bottom ot degradation, deg-radation, while under the Manchu dynasty, which followed, China a |