World Friendship Project Scrapbook

[map of China]

CHINESE REPUBLIC AND CHOSEN (KOREA)

S. F. HOWARD, PRESIDENT DIRECTORS SORTSU G. KING, VICE-PRESIDENT S.P. CHEN V.S. DJANG, SECRETARY K. KANAI ROBY GERBER, TREASURER W.H.E. THOMAS ———— ————— PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS SECRETARY’S ADDRESS GRAND HOTEL DRS WAGONS-LITS 6 TSAI CHANG HUTUNG PHONE 1213 EAST PHONE 3284 EAST

[5 Chineses characters]

The Rotary Club of Peking ______________________ “SERVICE ABOVE [Rotary logo] “HE PROFITS MOST SELF” WHO SERVES BEST”

June 24, 1930

Mr. James A. Winn, President Rotary Club of Greenville. Woodside Bldg., Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Dear Rotarian Winn:

We were pleased to hear from you. Your letter of April 30 was discussed at a recent meeting of our Board of Directors. The undersigned was instructed to secure and send you a piece of stone you wished. I am yet to find a suitable piece and hope to send it along before too long. When it gets to you, you will please understand that it symbolizes our desire to be with you in boy’s work in which the rotary movement the wold over takes interest and pride. I will be very happy if you will write me upon receipt of the rock.

With rotary greetings, Rotary yours, [signature] Y.S. Djang, Secretary

China.

Chine is one of the most remarkable nations on the earth. Its population has been roughly estimated at 400,000,000 which is one-fourth of the world’s population. Its mineral resources appear to be inexhaustible. Coal-bearing areas alone have been estimated at 419,000 square miles. The deposits of iron are enormous. There are also rubies, sapphires, garnets, topazes, gold, silver, platinum, nickel, copper, tin, lead, zinc, and salt.

In agriculture, China is so developed that it can supply its own wants.

Physically the Chinese seem to be able to stand more than other nation except Japan. It is said ^that General Grant [crossed out ‘said’] remarked of the Chinese that they were the finest raw material for an army he had every seen.

Intellectually they are great.

They are a peace-loving, cultured people to whom American should be friendly. Whereas we have always exalted the soldier and seemed to glory in fighting, the Chinese have had a different order of exaltation. The placed The scholar first, Next, the Farmer Third, the mechanic, Fourth, the merchant And last, the soldier.

“A thousand years ago the forefathers of the present Chinese sold silks to the Romans, and dressed in these fabrics when the inhabitants of the British Isles wore coats of blue paint and fished in willow canoes. Her great wall was built two hundred and twenty years before Christ was born in Bethlehem and contains material enough to build a wall five or six feet high around the globe.

The Chinese invented firearms as early as the reign of England’s first Edward, and the art of printing five hundred years before Caxon was born. They made paper 150 A.D., and gunpowder about the commencement of the Christian era.”

They should never again be “chinks” or “laundrymen” to the boys of the United States but the great cultured people that they are.

The Rotary Club of Peking or Peiping went to much trouble and expense to send us a rock for our building. Below is a picture of the officers of the club, the president holding the stone which we now have in our walls.

“Wise” Djang isn’t holding a cake of soap. Use a magnifying glass and you’ll see it’s a marble tablet bearing the Rotary motto—in succinct Chinese! It is to become part of the Greenville, S.C., U.S.A., boys’ hut.” “Wise” and his companions are officers of the Peiping club.

[photograph of eight men standing on steps. Man on left holding a stone]

Chinese Back-Scratcher.

“When a Chinese baby gets cold his mother cannot, perhaps buy him a garment of wool; she merely puts him into another suit of wadded cotton, and if he is still cold into a third. This will continue while the thermometer drops, and one may count the number of suits worn by the high collars that come up about the neck.” The Chinese have an expression that it is so many coats cold. In order to take care of an itching back when thus clothed for the winter, the Chinese have devised a back-scratcher which they run down their collar behind the neck and scratch their back.

This back-scratcher was kindly given to us by Mrs. John M. Greer, o Greenville.

[painting of two Chinese children]

LITTLE CELESTIALS AT PLAYS

Chinese little folks are protected from the cold not by woolen garments, but by an increased number of layers of clothing, which gives them the humorous appearance of roundness.

The Great Wall of China.

We boast our modern engineering achievements but the Great Wall of China should make us humble. This wall is 2000 miles long and was built to keep out the barbarians of the north and prevent them from overrunning China. In the days when artillery was unknown, the wall was an effective defense and served its purpose for many, many years.

This great wall, according to astronomers, is the only work of men on the earth which would be visible to the human eye from the moon. The materials used in its construction are sufficient to build a wall around the earth at the Equator, eight feet high and three feet thick.

The Great Wall “writhes along the mountain peaks, dips deep into valley and canyon, and pursues its desolate way across wind-swept plateau and desert sands. Its myriad cloud-capped towers ‘stand in solemn stillness, where they were stationed twenty centuries ago, as though condemned to wait the march of Time until their builders return.”

The wall is 25 feet thick at the base, 15 feet thick at the top, and is from 15-30 feet high. It has 20,000 towers and 10,000 signal beacons.

[photograph of the Great Wall of China]

THE GREAT WALL AT NANKOW PASS (ALSO SEE FRONTPIECE)

This is the section of the Long Rampart which is most familiar to the tourist. The Pass is a much-used caravan route from China into Mongolia.