Show RUSSIA ROSSIA TRIES TO MAKE REDS OF CHINESE IN BIG BID UNIVERSITY Oriental Youths Given Ghen I Free Education in ill Moscow MINDS ARE MOLDED Fine Summer Sunn er Rest Hest Camp Feature of Soviet System Editors Editor's Note This Is the eighth of a series of articles on present-day present conditions In Russia by Jerome Davis a member of the faculty of the Yale University Divinity school who has spent the summer In Russia as special correspondent for The Standard Standard- Examiner and NEA Service These articles are arc appearing dally daily By fly JEROME DAVIS DAIS DA IS Member of the Faculty Yale Uni University Divinity School MOSCOW MOSCOW Oct 20 of Of all the In Institutions In- In IT I In Moscow Moscow tic Ic militaristic or economic none economic none is ismore Ismore ismore more fascinating or picturesque than The University for Laboring Masses of China In the Name f of Sun Yat Sen 1 L America Is ie ac accustomed ac- ac accustomed to orient orient- oriental W u al students but 5 t. t here In the heart J t of Moscow facing fit the mammoth Ca- Ca co J of Our Say Sav Saviour i lour Is an entire 4 j I communistic uni uni- university university university operating simply and solely Y for the th Chinese Here are club c I u b Davis DuLs rooms dormitory accommodations for both oth men and women class rooms lecture halls moving picture audi audi- auditoriums auditoriums auditoriums and all the varied necessities of a modem modern university plant The Idea of a Chinese university curiously enough was first brought forward orward by the Russian Society of Hands Off OU China It had about about- 00 members and collected money for forthe forthe forthe the school The government donated a S former middle school of the tsar ane and nd the buildings are being elaborate- elaborate elaborately ly hr y remodeled The Zhe Russian trade unions have made donations and even the tho Communist has contributed money but the primary credit belongs to the society which In order to keep hands oft off China reached cached out their hands to China NOW COO STUDENTS The university formally opened Its doors In November 1925 with a stu sin student student dent body of which by February 1926 had risen to and now ac- ac accommodates accommodates The students are selected elected by the central committee of the he Peoples People's Revolutionary Party of China the Nationalists and only Its members are eligible The Intention was to accept only those who speak a foreign language language English English French or German Actually less than 10 0 per cent came so qualified Among this his minority English was nant Finding themselves flooded with a student body which spoke only Chi Chi- Chinese nese ness the administration was In culty There were no available text text- textbooks textbooks textbooks books In In 1 Chinese nor were Interpret- Interpret on rage Page Two RUSSIA TRIES TO MAKE REDS t Continued from Tape rage One Oue ers era available available- The dilemma was solved soh cd by using the advanced ad 10 per cent as Interpreters for the rest resl PLACES PL SOUGHT Tremendous competition developed develop in China for places at nt the school In Canton alone one qualified students desired entry although the allotment for that city was supposed to be on only SO 50 A clever scheme of elimination eliminate was finally used compelling com lIIng all alt appl rants cants In Canton to study Hussian f fone for forone forone one year rear first During this time so many had been drafted draft Into revolutionary work ork that there were jere only 90 left From this number 75 were ere f Ii- Ii finally nally selected During the year two-year course er c e ceery student Is given money sufficient to pay his expenses to and from China Chin ChinIn In addition he receives free tuition In In- In Including eluding everything tJ needed In the wa way ay of cf technical equipment such as note note- notebooks books textbooks pencils and labors labora laboratory tory supplies Besides this room am and board are free and there is a month month- monthly ly Iy y stipend of 15 rubles to cover er Inc mci- mci dentals denials Men fen with wl h families arc are no not accepted Since however 15 55 per cent of the student body are arc women some som marriages have occurred In fact th the Chinese population has already been Increased by six aix children ALL CLASSES The students represent a 0 varlet variety of different social classes es including peasant merchants and militarists but the majority come from the In tn- tn class The chief aim of ot the university 1 Is Isto Isto to share sharo with the youth of or China th the fundamental guiding principles o of communism and the experience of ot th the proletarian revolution Here the they should learn for Instance the im- im p raU o necessity of a union between peasants peasant and workers If any basic rev rev- revolutionary revolutionary movement increment 1 Is to be built This the Russians feel fed Is one of th the great principles which hue have come from their revolution Each class comes three times a week and lasts one and ond one-half one hours Be Be- Besides BesIdes BesIdes sides regular classes casses there arc are labora labora- laboratory laboratory laboratory tory trips to all the varied Institutions of ot the city These Th e occupy at least leas four hours a week Eventually llly It 1 Is planned to ha hate ha e one teacher for every cry PRINCIPLES Besides teaching the theory of com corn communism n the school itself Is a living demonstration of its principles The students are completely organized and pay 50 SO kopeks 25 cents a month In dues On every commission appointed by the university authorities the stu stu- students denU dent have representation The chief ones are sanitation educational mat mat- matters matters library economic cultural The Thelast Thelast last lut commission has S charge of all ill the recreational activities Including mo moving ing log pictures and theatre Students are arc at liberty to form supplementary committees along any line of their in in- in terest These range ranlo all the way fay from music and radio to athletics The entire university Is run by a council of six BIX In which the students I Inre are represented and have havo one vote cots SUMMER SU HOME The school year begins on Septem Septem- September ber tier fifth ar are I i lasts nine and one half months During the summer vacation all alt the Chinese arc are sent to a mam marn- mammoth mammoth moth rest home named after afler Kal Kai Kalinin inin mm the president of the republic some rome 20 miles outside Moscow It covers an area several se mUes miles in cir cir- circumference circumference cir cir- circumference and provides accommodations for tor 2000 workers from the trade unions of Moscow Each worker can here take his two Vo weeks weeks' vacation free of charge Although the Chinese have ha special quarters and cat eal in a special dining room they the are not otherwise Isolated During their stay the camp has his a turnover Cr of about ten thousand thus providing l adequate af Q t opportunity r lse ft i forthe Chinese to talk with a fair sample of the ordinary Russian Russan work work- workers era ers as well as learn the language NOT ALL LL COMMUNISTS I I spent a thy day da at this camp talking with the Chinese They seemed teemed ex extremely ex- ex extremely well satisfied Dy By no means were ere all aU communists c Js probably less than half belong be ng to the Chinese party part Yet Vet It was certainly true that the ex experience ex- ex was vas revolutionizing their and outlook UNIVERSITIES I There arc are other universities in Mos Mos- Moscow Mosi Moscow i cow eow where here Chinese are being trained as as for Instance the Communist Uni Uni- University of the Laboring Masses of the thee thet East in I the tho t Name of Stalin Hers Here W. W there ate are e only I 30 Chinese e all communists communists 0 out of a a. student body of one thousand None of these can be com corn compared compared pared to Sun San Yat Vat Sen university From Prom this latter aller Institution three hundred students are leaving heaving yearly to enter China They are going Into nil all sorts of work and assuming all kinds of re responsibilities re- re The Impress which this group will wilt make snake on Chinese life and nd politics polities is Incalculable Granted that the lIce education which they are arc petting getting Is Ii permeated with wills a communistic slant nevertheless ne it is likely to make them more valuable to China If only be because be- be because because cause they will know Russian and something real about what the com com- communists communists are doing |