Tárogató, 1942-1943 (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1942-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 CHIANG KAI-SHEK’S SON One of the most admirable things about China is that in the midst of her war she has been giving increasing attention to the education and social welfare of her people. She thinks for the future. Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of General Chiang Kai-shek, has a Three-Year-Plan to tum the eleven counties under his control into a modem province. These counties of Kiangsi have been backward, infested with bandits, and therefore poor. There are 1,600,000 inhabitants. Chiang Ching-kuo is determined to supply them all with food, clothing, housing, work, and education. Within six months he has trained clerks and teachers to administer agriculture, health, industry, and relief work. In each village men are being taught to read and write and to do first-aid. Women are later to receive similar instruction. Rice, cotton, beans, wheat, and vegetables are being grown on model farms, where their suitability to the Kiangsi climate and soil can be studied before they are introduced to the farmers. New roads are being built, and inter-village telephone lines are already laid over long distances. New schools have been opened and old ones improved. The heads of each group of 100 or ISO families are to meet monthly to decide important local questions. —CANADIAN GIRL. In spite of difficulties, a Protestant Youth Council has been formed in France under the chairmanship of Pastor Marc Boegner. * * * The shopkeepers in Italy are using no more errand boys during the war; the housewives must carry home their own purchases. * * * At the Equator, the Pacific Ocean is two feet higher on the Australian side than on the American side. The trade winds from the northeast and southwest make the difference. * * * The clothes no longer usable by Canada’s Army, Navy and Air Forces, are being sent to remote Indian Reserves, where the Indian women remodel them to suit the needs of the Reserves. CHINA AND PEACE China in the midst of war knows the secret of reconstruction and steadily goes on with plans for the education of her people. The Government of Szechwan Province, in Western China, is not waiting for the war with Japan to be over before it gives attention to the education of its children. It realizes that when the war is over China must be remade by today’s youth. The Szechwan Education Bureau has just inaugurated a free education plan. Work has already begun to educate the 3,000,000 illiterate adults within three years. One million illiterate children will be educated each year by the establishment of 20,000 free schools, each school accommodating fifty pupils and giving the children a one-year education. Of the province’s 18,000,000 illiterate adults between 16 and 45 years old, five million have been given schooling in the last few years. The bureau plans to intensify its campaign against illiteracy by the addition of 123,000 free schools in three years. Each school is to have two terms, with fifty students each term. The academic year of 1940 has seen the establishment of 24,666 schools, the second year will see the establishment of 41,333, and the third year will see 58,000 more. About 12,000,000 men and women will thus be educated in three years. Thirty thousand more teachers are needed for the first year. Besides engaging all the province’s 1940 normal school graduates, and some of the middle school graduates, as well as experienced teachers from war areas, 17,000 new teachers will be needed. To meet this demand, 170 training classes have been established. The education of her people is the wisest preparation for peace China can make, and when at long last the sounds of war vanish from that dauntless country, her people will be ready for the great problems of reconstruction that will await them. The patience and Christian tolerance the Chinese have shown in war will stand them in good stead in days of peace. —CANADIAN GIRL. AMERICAN CHURCH LEADER WITH PRESIDENT BENES President Benes recently received Professor William Adams Brown of New York Union Theological Seminary, who was on a short visit to England as an official delegate of the OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
