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Show foM MISTER TO CIA URGING I Dr. Reinsch Asks American Scholars to Join in Interpreting Interpret-ing Civilization of Aliens BERKELEY, Cal., March 24. American Amer-ican soldiers, literary men and artists should add their efforts to those of merchants, missionaries an ddiplomats in interpreting Chinese civilization to the people of the nlted States, Dr. Paul S. Rensch, former minister to Cniha, said here today in address that was a feature of the University of California "Charter Week" celebration. "T realize what this civilization means and how momentous it is that it should not be wantonly interfered with or warped from its true peaceable and humane traditions," said Dr. Reinsch, "to realize how humanism in the West may be strengthened and clarified by intimate contact with and knowledge of this great humanism of the East that is the task of American Interpretative Interpre-tative scholarship and art, in which the universities of the land are called to lead." China has an important lesson to teach, he continued. The essential element ele-ment of "the permanent China which lias evolved a system under which hundreds of millions of men could live together In peace and equity for thousands thou-sands of years, is its humanism, the fact that personal human relations rather than abstract principles of legality le-gality and economics form its foundation." founda-tion." '"The family, the clan, the business partnership the guild, the official group, the intellectual family of teacher teach-er and pupils, these have been the es-sontiol es-sontiol things in Chinese life. There has been evolved a system of infinitely infinite-ly delicate personal adustments, accompanied ac-companied by the great mutual consideration, consid-eration, a high sense of personal dignity, dig-nity, and chiefest of all a system of personal equity, alive among the people, peo-ple, by which all relations between man and man are adjusted." The traditional conception of the missionary as "a lugubrious individual in black clothes doling out dogma to indifferent natives is pure earicature," said Dr. Reinsch in noting the necessity neces-sity of continuing and extending our activities in the Far East "Their work has been of the utmost importance in giving the Far Eastern peoples a conception con-ception of western thought, life and beliefs. While there are among them keen observers and scientific observers observ-ers who have added to our knowledge of Oriental countries, yet they are abroad rather apostles than as scholars." schol-ars." "We were instrumental not only in urging the Japanese to take the first step out of their Isolation of centuries, but in holding over them a shielding liand during the first decades of their iew national existence." he 'said. "The great Chinese nation has always al-ways had the sympathetic good will of the American government and people peo-ple whose equitable policy has brought us the confidence of the Chinese and which often been able to give moral support of the highest importance. The fact that the Chinese people are now attempting to elaborate and firmly firm-ly to establish a system of representative represen-tative government similar to our own will tend to make our political contact still more intimate." |