IPAGE FOtTht -<offee Hour Planned Theta Sigma Phi, women's jour -ioalism honorary, invites all wo 4-nen. journalism majors to a coffee *lour in the Alpha Chi Omega suite Armored car and newly completed blockhouse guard Shanghai's threatened "newspaper row" day and'iaigb.r. DEATH BREATHES CLOSE BEHIND many a news man today... but nowhere closer and hotter than along "newspaper row" in Shang hai. Before every entrance of the old and respected Shang hai Evening Post & Mercury —American-owned and just across the street from the International Settlement— stand armored cars, pill boxes, barbed wire barri cades, and guards with drawn guns. OP- For the terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month mur dered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition, the Ta Mei Wan Pao. Cornelius V. Starr, owner, and Randall Gould, editor, have been ordered out of the country by the puppet regime. Neither paid any attention. Gould is still at his post; Starr stayed four months, came home when he got ready. plans to return soon. And they are not alone: four other Americans and one Briton similarly threatened have dug in their toes, strapped on guns, and called the Jap bluff. OP- Why are the invaders of China trying to drive U. S. newsmen out of the country? Because these resolute Americans, controlling vi tal news outlets from the unique and unmanageable city-state of Shanghai, stand square in the road of Japanese conquest. For Japan must control the mind and morale of its subject peoples, must direct world-thinking the Japanese way, if it is ever to realize the dream of a "Greater East Asia"— domination of China. India, the Indo-Chinese pe ninsula, and all the East Indies including the Philippines. ►Now that Japan and her allies in Europe have formally threatened war on the U. S., if any resist ance is made to such aggressive plans,' t is time for the American news-reader to study as never before the dispatches of his courageous correspondents in. the Far East. Our typical attitude toward China since the Jap invasion has been the usual friendly Asiaerican sysn- from 6:30 to 7:30 p. m. today, in place • of the tea planned' for next Sunday. Chairmanned by Jane A. Fulton '4l, president, the com mittee on arrangefnents includes Joyce L. Ferris '4l, 'Ruth Goldstein of Japanese ambition Randall Gould. editor of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, dogged resister of a puppet dictator. TEE DAILY COLLEGIAN '4l, Arita L. Hefferan '4l, and Vera L. Kemp '4l. . • Alpha Omicron Pi will giire a coffee hour Sunday for the Delta Gammas. pathy for the underdog. But now our_ interest in China goes much further than this. Now• the top dog is snarling at us. and every intelligent news reader knows what a tight spot we shall be in if the underdog relaxes his grip. 10-Most Americans are glad to find that our inter ests coincide with those of the Chinese people. We have grown to like them, their peaceful and philo sophic way of looking at life, their tenacity and courage in misfortune, the beautiful things they make, and the humorous things they say. Perhaps we don't realize that the Chinese, in their turn, have grown to like us. They are grateful for the medical knowledge that has routed some of their worst diseases, for the industrial technics that have helped them put up such a good fight. Many of them are grateful for the Christian religion., They remember how we backed up their dream of build ing a new, strong China. And they are glad to get the things we have to sell. Contrary to popular opinion, they like the Standard Oil Co. which brings them the blessings of kerosene ... and they find a thousand uses for the cans it conies in. ►Brilliant Chinese leaders by the score owe their education to American universities. A chief official of the Chinese information ministry, Hollington K. Tong, is a graduate of the journalism schools of the Universities of Missouri and Columbia. Our schools of journalism have had more effect. proportion ately, on Chinese newspapers than on our own. The old notion that "You can't understand the In these days of crisis, the free press is more than college students a clearer picture of what the ever a vital force in making our democracy a press in general, and TIME in particular, is doing living, working success. Therefore, TIME is seek- to keep the people of this nation safe, strong, ing, in this series of advertisements, to give all .free, and united. .; ~,..i.,:.i:!:i*n....i.i......i:i':,'e',:'i''li'.M,'... .1 , i . a . .• ". . b-:.-...i:..i..:1.:t..:1mK:-:-.--:.,....-. E...•1,'.-4.:-1:•.......... .A.!7t - 1 . 4 t ~/1 ,st 1 1. i fN4I .. ' 14 . . 1 . I tts o 41 ,i. - lin '''''''' \ Scholarship. Given Senior Ruth I. Emerick '4l has received the $5O scholarship made possible by the Coca Cola Company, WSGA Like a corner tower of Sing Sing prison is this hastily con structed crow's-nest protecting an American news room. Oriental , mind" is being dispelled by able writers and journalists of both races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside— John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J. B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to h'ave a bodyguard. And just as important as the books and maga zines are the day-by-day cables... from men like A. T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, the N. Y. Times' Hallet Abend, and Tillman Durdin, and TINIE's own T. H. White, who came via Harvard and the Chinese information ministry, and is now on the hot spot in Indo-China. ► Sometimes readers ask why TIME devotes so much space to the Orient. It is because TIME has always believed that the day would come when an under standing of that area with its billion people, half the population of the earth, might be of the utmost importance to America. How the good will of these people can be chan nelled and become a force in world strategy is a profound challenge. But on such intangibles world history has turned and tyrannies have fallen. 0- This is why TIME, and its sister publications, FORTUNE and LIFE, have gathered and used such a storehouse of information on China, Japan, and thi Philippines ... and why TIME'S week-by-Week anal yses of the Far Eastern situation seem to more thoughtful news-readers essential equipment for the decisions we face across the Pacific. TIME w. iwssz THURSDAY: OCTOBER 17, 1940 Senate has announced. The Co: pany • paid WSGA fiVe dents I'4 every case of beverage consume by Atherton Hall coeds last yea This amounted to $49.75.
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