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Show WHAT PROFESSOR ROSS FOUND IN CHINA. Professor Edward Alsworth Ross, formerly of Stanford and now of the University of Wisconsin, tells the world, as the result of recent re-cent extensive travel and observation in China, that the future control con-trol of the globe will be shared equally by the whito and yellow races, says the Sau Francisco Call. It may be true, but it docs not hitch with the current news from China, -where we find an incompetent incom-petent government suffering thousands of its people to die of flood and famine for want of preventive measures and precautions, while in another part of the empire a barbarous rebellion is in progress. Perhaps the equality that Doctor Ross asserts is rather potential poten-tial than actual for he says: To 43 men, who as educators, missionaries and diplomats diplo-mats have had good opportunity to leam the "feel" of the Chinese mind, I put the question: "Do you find the intellectual intel-lectual capacity of the yellow race equal to that of the white race?" All but five answered "Yes." and one sinologue of varied experience as missionary, university president and legation adviser left mc gasping with the statement: "Most of us who have spent 25 years or more out hero come to feel that the yellow race is the normal human type." This is to say that the Chinese mind is capable-of equal development develop-ment with that of the white races if given the same opportunity. Professor Ross adds that "the high-priced white export" will shortly short-ly be eliminated in China, as has already happened to a great extent ex-tent iu Japan. Something of the sort may be observed in China. The University of California is educating a few young Chinese, but as yet the movement is so slight as to be almost negligible, in view of the immense inert mass to be moved. There arc, besides, some schools in China taught by white instructors, but they scarcely touch the edge of that tremendous population. |