. New life currents in China . leepy old China of fifty years ago. What the War Brought to China With all the rest of the world, China has suffered,has learned, and has been benefited by the Euro-pean War. She can never be asked what she wasbefore 1914. Always democratic in heart, it is un-believable that China hereafter should submit tothe autocratic rule of the militarists. Their day ispast. Chinas share in the war has given her a newsense of international relationships and a vestige of the old exclusiveness remained, itmust have disappeared forever. Going into thewar has made
. New life currents in China . leepy old China of fifty years ago. What the War Brought to China With all the rest of the world, China has suffered,has learned, and has been benefited by the Euro-pean War. She can never be asked what she wasbefore 1914. Always democratic in heart, it is un-believable that China hereafter should submit tothe autocratic rule of the militarists. Their day ispast. Chinas share in the war has given her a newsense of international relationships and a vestige of the old exclusiveness remained, itmust have disappeared forever. Going into thewar has made China feel that she is really a partof the world, said a gentleman from one of thehighest official families in the land, his fine faceaglow with feeling. The Red Cross Drive and the United WarWork Campaign taught us how to do big things ina big way, declared another influential Chinese. We saw the success of organized effort in a greatcause, and with no smirch, no graft about it. China has caught the spirit of true patriotism. THE COMING CHINA 21 which leads men to labor and sacrifice, not for anindividual, a family or a clan only, but for a war has brought home forcibly to the Chinesethe necessity for increasing Chinas productiveness,and for developing her vast resources that are nowunavailable either for her own or the worlds the labor battalions return from France, therewill be additional industrial and social problems forChina to solve. Will new industries be started andfactories built to give them employment? Willthey be satisfied to live as before in mud houses onpoor and insufficient food, eking out a bare exist-ence under the hardest conditions? And how aboutthe families of these coolies, whose army allow-ances during the fighters absence had enabled themto live better than they ever had before? Will theyreadily and contentedly resume their former modesof living? The coolies sojourn in France not onlybenefited them physically, but gave them a newconc
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