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Show CHINA NEEDS A ROOSEVELT. The Chinese lecturer who appeared here the other evening brought out some astonishing facts which might be worth while for our people to consider in the building of a great nation. One of those points was that the Chinese people had a remarkable power of endurance which was perhaps cultivated throughout . early childhood. One method used in developing this endurance was their system of education, which is perhaps not the best or the most ideal. Chinese children go to school at 4 o'clock in the morning and stay until 8 o'clock in the evening. This is more like a system of torture or punishment instead of a phychological drawing out or developing of the child's mind. Yet as a nation we are coddling our children along at such a rate that there is danger that they lose the development of those qualities of endurance which are so essential today in making a strong race. Then, too, we are drifting so far from that other essential element in the making of a sturdy race, viz., work, that the lecturer to our way of thinking really sounded a note of warning worth while. If every boy was compelled to spend at least six months of the year on a farm at hard manual labor during the so-called adolescent period it would be a great blessing to him and to his race. China's great enemy is Japan, according to Dr. Ng Poon Chew. America and many of the other nations have a warm place in the hearts of the Chinese people, but Germany will for ages and ages to come be an avowed enemy of China, because of her terrible terri-ble atrocities committed against the people of that nation. The lecturer stated that what China needed was a leader who would teach them how to fight. He said that China had 100,000 men that they could send to the trenches at once and never miss them, but they were not trained fighters. In this connection he said: "Some of you people do not seem to want Roosevelt ; if you don't, we'll take him. We would like to have Roosevelt in our country, because he could teach our people how to fight," said the speaker. The writer would be glad to see Mr. Roosevelt take up his residence in the Orient were it not for the fact that the Republican party might need him for a candidate in 1920. We would be the last man in the world to deprive that bunch of anything they want, because they howl enough as it is. |