Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1920 — NG. POON CHOW HERE FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

NG. POON CHOW HERE FRIDAY

, I ——*• Ia rare treat for communI TTY IN STORE FRIDAY r MT* I ■ ’ ~ JX'a'.' -hr'. '■' ' . •■’, •■ | Ng. Poon Chow, wen known Chinese publicist and lecturer, who will lecture at the Presbyterian church on the Lyceum course Friday evenins, as is to be expected, feels very strongly against the Japanese in the Shantung matter. ; “At the peace conference,” he says, “Japan demanded that the former German rights in the province of Shantung with the economic control of 39,000,000 of the Chinese people be transferred to Japan and at the same time Japan -threatened to leave the peace cdnference. Japan made this threat at the time When the representatives of the allied nations were already working under difficulty and embarrassment after the departure of Italy from the conference on account of the Fiume tangle. The allied nations, seeing the earnestness Of to hold to the Shantung rights at any coat, granted her demands.” “Japan,” he continued, “tries to justify her demand for the control of Shantung by saying that she did not take anything from China but only from Germany; that Chsna did not lose anything by it and that f the taking of this control from , Germany cost Japan much in lives • and money. In this reasoning, what is the difference in Japan’s action in this matter' from the case of a policeman taking the loot from a burglar and keeping it instead of returning it to its rightful owner on the grounds that he, the policeman, did not rob the former owner, but only got it from a burglar and therefore he is entitled to the loot.” . “Surely,” he affirms, “events in the Orient are proceeding in such a way |hat in an evil hour of the world’s .tomorrow they will plague and curse the peace of the world for years to come.” Mr. Chow could very reasonably claim that his is one of the first Chinese families. The following are some of the facts he could 'base his claims on: ; X X. ' He was the first Chinaman to establish a daily newspaper m the United States. , Hia-wife established the first Y. W. .C. A. for Chinese women m America. „ x,, • • Cffis son was the first Chinaman ’to be commissioned an officer in I the United States army. . A daughter was the firat Chinese young woman to be appointed by a board of education to teach m the public schools of California.