Show I J I AGE OF BROTHERHOOD IS I NOT ON HAND YET By CHESTER H. H ROWELL I The men of the four Cour seas are all brothers said Confucius bu but sometimes B It U seems doubtful whether er cr the world has found Cound It U out outI I Confucius himself was Chinese Buddha was a brown man of In In- india I dla dla dia Jesus was a Jew I Any Anyone one of oC them would have hav dif difficulty dif dif- difficulty getting by the immigration I I of or the port of oC New York and none Done of ot perchance ho hol entered the city would be eligible I to membership in its better clubs The age of brotherhood Is not yet Yet there are corners of the th I earth where some beginnings of the j I of ot races racE'S have havo been I made Witness a Chinese dinner I recently attended ia In Honolulu The host Dr Bat Dai Yen Chaug Chang is b isa i a cultivated American gentleman I of Chinese race and his wife a aI gracious lady of the same sort The I I guests a number of distinguished I Chinese from Irons the Orient the elite of local Chinese society and a II number of American visitors The talk is gossip of ot American and European universIties stories storIe of or travel personal repartee and touches of o the greater grealer things of many lands lOne One of the guests James Y C. C i YEn Is the head of or perhaps the most JOost stupendous educational enter enter- i m prise in the history of the human I i race the race the mass education of or liter liter- literally ally oily hundreds of ot millions of liter I pee peo- 1 I pie from six to 60 years ears old to transform a whole race from Bitter- Bitter 1 I acy ac to literacy almost over night To do this it was necessary first to devise a simplified Chinese writ writ- written written ten language and then to stand stand- standardize standardize standardize a method of teaching it in I 96 lessons and enlist a whole hole army rm I of teachers and enthuse a hole whole a nation of pupils In a II few years the newspaper reading public of hitherto Illiterate China will be four times that of ot tho United States and much more than that of all aU Europe Other guests were vere almost as dis dis- distinguished the leaders of the ren ren- renaissance renaissance of China The lady the th writer takes out to dinner Is a graduate and an to her college These are the representatives of ot ofa ota a people which provincial America thinks ot of as a race of ot laundrymen They show a fine line pride of oC race and andare andare andare are only amused at Caucasian Ca de de- delusions de- de of superiority One of ot them a world traveler tra master mas et of many languages gentle gentle- gentleman gentleman man of culture and distinction tells with ith some glee the story of the Conductor of oC an American railway train who ho was curious to know in which laundry he was going to work worle in the city of oC his destination The Tho dinner Just for the interest of it IL was Chinese with chop sticks sharks sharks' tins liDs birds birds' bird nest soup and the rest But Dut the culture was cos cos- Are such people our superiors or out our inferiors or interIors or Just In the words of their own sage our brothers 1 ARE THE BLACK ONES OUR BRETHREN TOO It U recalled another occasion a ay year y ar earlier in far Ceylon CElon The house a 1 palace Tea rca served in the great library lined with thousands of books in every enry European language by a n lady of queenly grace and dignity The conversation books book's art philosophy education the Influence of various arious religions religion on the temper temper- temperament temperament temperament ament f pt t peoples the gossip of oC many man lands International repartee such talk as one expects expects- only in inthe tho the most cultivated c circles of oC Eur Eur- Europe ope OI and America And An the faces with one pallid exception blacker blacker than the black- black blacklist pit list negro negro Degro Are these theBe too our brethren 7 00 00 the th United U States SLates would Join it Will ill tho the league supersede tho the Monroe Doctrine asked naked the I South Americans anxiously If It I so what becomes of tho the North i American protection IJ weve we've en- en enJoyed enjoyed Joyed 1 I All AU their suspicions of the tho nod nod- co vanished Threatened with withIN it loss they thoy remembered only what It had done slone for Cor them When the United States Slates finally ly did dill Join the league they much relieved relle The United States had h d South America sold on tho the Monroe Doc Doc- trine right then without an effort on the formers own part which is about the only way the United States over ever does sell anything in South America Just at this point the then sec sec- secretary secretary rotary of ot state stale Charles Evans Hughes took occasion to state j i that the doctrine was exclusively North Americas America's and nobody else's I that that It was waA w also exclusively In 1 North Americas America's Interest and any- any anybody anybody body bod else's only Incidentally that Incidentally that it was Immaterial whether the South Americans liked it or not not not- it was none of ot their business That spoiled everything It re re- reawakened reawakened awakened all on the South Americans' Americans original suspicions only this time they had ceased to tl harbor them themas as mere suspicions they suspIcions they consid consid- considered considered ered that Secretary Hughes had confirmed them in their worst form And straightway they went to tying themselves es as tightly as they could to the League of Na- Na 1 I i I I Nothing as os Dr Rowe truth truth- truthfully truthfully fully Cully remarks could be worse than this country's s policy of oC isola Isola- isolation Isolation tion tien from Europe on one ono hand and from Latin-America Latin on the other by by- reason of oC the letters letter's affiliation with the league It constitutes in fact tact something In Jn the nature of ot a defensive al alliance al- al alliance allIance liance of ot the Latin American with the League L ague of Nations back back- I leg Jr them A nice situation be between tween the United States and a I group of oe republics she also has so enormous an interest in being on on the best possible terms tl ms with i I Its It's a situation which of ot course I wouldn't be permitted to develop 1 and drift along If more men in public position in the United States Stales I knew the least thing about Latin Latin- America Its It's a blessing when somebody like Dr Rowe calls at attention at- at attention to it ft There isn't much chanco chance that dy will vill pay any attention to him Mm but its it's barely possible |