will have a very much better report for the next time. SCHENECTADY In addition to our last regular business meeting, the club celebrated the David S. Hung. "Triple Tenth" the Tenth Birthday of our new Republic at the Eagle Restaurant. A real Chinese dinner was served and the following guests were invited, Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Lake, Mr. W. A. Grant, Mrs. G. L. Russell. They are great friends of the Club. Since we send in our news for October issue, Mr. C. Fung left the General Electric Company for Cornell. Thus our membership is reduced from five to four. For the small membership we have abandoned our monthly meeting plan in favour of dinner parties. "We eat anyway. Why don't we eat together?" During our dinner parties we dicussed the Disarmament Conference. Mr Kenneth C. Chao of Union College has been chosen by the faculty to represent China in a mass meeting which is under the auspices of the college, to be held on November, the ninth. With this as a beginning, we shall seek for more opportunity to bring about a better understanding of China and to voice our China's cause in our locality. SPRINGFIELD K. T. Chao. The Chinese Students' Club of Springfield is such a small organization that it has nothing to boast of regarding its size, for it has only seven members. But we are very active. Four of us are in the physical department of Springfield College, and three of International College. The club has its business meeting monthly, and its social once in every two months. The last business meeting was held on Saturday evening, Oct. 8th, and the election of new officers was a success. The result of the election is as follows: President, Mr. S. F. Chang; Secretary, Miss Elizabeth Lum; Treas urer, Mr. C. F. Song; General Manager, Mr. Thomas Suvoong. YALE Elizabeth Lum. On November 13 the Club held within its members various votes of a personal nature. The vote for the most handsome member fell out a tie between C. C. Hsiang and S. K. Y. Chang; but the vote for the most talkative was given to S. Tsai almost unanimously. This last choice was most remarkable in a club all of whose members possess the facile tongue as is demonstrated at any half-attended meeting. Due to the fact that our president was about to depart for Greater Gotham to take up duties in connection with the Committee on the Washington Conference, it was necessary to have an acting chairman, and S. F. Liu was the one elected. At dinner time the Club voted with haste to support the Committee on the Washington Conference in matters concerned with the Conference in Washington. The Club is always able to put much more business across when a meal looms on the horizon. On November 27 the Club was given a highly interesting and instructive talk by Professor Latourette of Yale University on China's rights at the Washington Conference. After the talk Professor Latourette answered various queries concerning Chinese history, politics, etc. A. Y. Kwai. Mr. Stewart E. S. Yui, former editorin-chief of the Monthly is now teaching political science and economics in Tsing Hua College. Mr Irving T. Hu, a graduate of Columbia, has been recently appointed the acting dean of the School of Commerce of the University of Nanking besides his professorship in educational administration there. Mr. Herbert Euyang, a business student in New York University, has been elected manager of the Henry Importing Company of New York City. Messrs. Theodore B. Tu and Kao Shen have dropped their regular study temporarily to work for the Chinese Students' Alliance. They are now editing a Chinese paper especially for the Chinese people in the country. Mr. Y. C. Mei of Physics Department of Tsing Hua College, who is now studying in the University of Chicago, will leave for the East to undertake further research work. Mr. L. S. Loh of the University of Chicago is working on his doctorate thesis on "The present Status of Public Education in China", while Mr. Chi P. Cheng of the same institution, on "The Administration of Public Education in China." Mr. M. H. Chou, who just returned to Chicago from a trip to Washington, D. C. is leaving for China on 24th. of December 1921 with his future bride, Miss Anna Chung. Probably they will be married before leaving. Mr. Molin Ho is now doing prosperous business in the Great China Corporation with Mr. S. G. Way, the President of the Corporation. Miss Helen Wong of Michigan is elected as the Vice-chairman of the MidWest section of the Alliance and also Miss Francis Wang, a Northwestern graduate some years ago, according to latest reports from China, has been dong fine in her Christian Temperance Society work in Shanghai and has been making an extended trip throughout China investigating into the practicability of the plan in establishing branch associations in some of leading commercial cities of China, namely, Canton, Foochow, Nanking, Hankow and so forth. Mr. K. T. May, a graduate of Northwestern, since his return to China in 1919, was one year the head of the English Department of the Nankai College at Tientsin and is now the dean of the English Department of the new Southeastern University in Nanking, operated under the leadership of Dr. P. W. Kuo. Mr. Wallace Kiang of Nanking University in China, a graduate student of the Iowa State University, has come to Northwestern recently as a candidate for his doctor's degree in Philosophy and Education and the subject of his dissertation is the "Minimum Essentials in the High School Curriculum." Mr. Kiang expects to finish his work here by next June. Mr. Louis Hong, a senior student in the School of Commerce of Northwestern, one of the directors of the Chicago Chinese Y. M. C. A., has been lately engaged to Miss Josephine Moy. We extend them our congratulations. I have received from Mr. Foster, our General Agent at Vancouver, your letter to him of August 26th. in which you inquire regarding the arrangements for Chinese Citizens in transit through Canada. I am pleased to advise you that I have secured an arrangement with the Canadian Government whereby a form of certificate will be issued for Chinese Students which will simplify the transit arrangements through Canada and allow the individual the fullest freedom while travelling in Canada from the port of entry to the port of exit. This certificate will be issued by our Representatives at New York, Buffalo, Washington and Chicago when the steamship ticket is issued to the passenger and all that will be necessary will be the signing of the certificate when crossing the International boundary into Canada and the surrender of the certificate when embarking on our ship at Vancouver. These certificates are now being printed by the Department of Immigration at Ottawa and I hope to have same in use shortly. W. G. Annable Canadian Pacific Railway Company WHAT THE MONTHLY STANDS FOR To the Editor of the Monthly: Sir: China is politically corrupt. She is incapable of governing herself. Therefore, the Powers must intervene. Such are the impressions which the Western World has upon the conditions of our country. This is partly due to Japanese propaganda on the one hand, and partly due to those journalists who are fond of exaggerating Far Eastern news to interest and fascinate their In the December issue, the Monthly condemns the Canton Government being worse than, or at least as bad as, the Peking Government, and says that "Dr. Sun Yat-sen, so-called leader of the Southwest, seems to be enjoying as much leisure as his 'friend' President Isu Shih Chang is now enjoying in the Northern Capital". The facts upon which these arguments are based, if not totally exaggerated, are at least questionable. While not attempting to prove that these facts are unfounded which would need much time and space, I shall try to point out what concrete results the Canton Government has achieved during the limited period of one year's administration. They are municipal reforms in Canton, Swatow, Pak-Hoi, and Wuchow, local autonomy throughout Kwangtung Province, which is going to be introduced in Kwangsi presently, popular election of district prefects, the extension of the facilities of education, the suppression of gambling, the burning of confiscated opium up to the value of $300,000, and the like. These things show the capability of China to govern herself, if conducted by proper officials. They ought to be praised and lauded. Yet, none of them have ever been mentioned or told by the Monthly. Of course, it is always a safe policy to be neutral; but neutrality does not mean cynicism or pessimism; it means impartiality of judgment. To expose what is bad, does not carry with it the concealment of what is good. K. H. Tsang. Columbia University, |