Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 % ... Sts' ' '-, ' -THE 1920 IMF' -.... ; order, adequately drafted and carefully scrutinized to make the administra- tion of the club as real as possible in comparison with the national affair that we arc to handle when solemn duty calls. We also maintain an information bureau concerning Far Eastern topics, problems, and questions of interest for the benefit of Americans with whom we are desirous to pro- mote international good will and cultivate better understandings. The club also invites visitors, Chinese as well as Americans, to our regular meet- ings for the purpose of hearing the other man's point of view and thus widen- ing the general fund of intelligence of the student. Considering that the club is only three months old, born on the 10th of last October, the 8th anniversary of the Chinese Republic, we have made no small amount of progress in establishing ourselves as an active body of stu- dents. We feel confident that the future of the Chinese Students’ Club will be assured of permanent success, but only as long as there are energetic young students forthwith coming to this city to replenish those who leave after graduation. And so from the insignificant gathering of a few students the Chinese Stu- dents’ Clubs of the United States have grown to something of importance', to assume the duties of a nation, to voice the sentiments of a pent up people, to be the forerunners of modern civilization in China, to be the torch-bearers for the enlightenment of four hundred million population. Truly, the Chinese students are destined to play a great part in the future years in the reshaping of China, and their success should be certain, for they are American trained! “FRIEND” He is not very much of a friend who has to be reassured about our every word and act. You cannot count on a man or woman who since last you saw him may have heard something about you that he is waiting to have dis- proved. No one is much the richer for the kind of friend who falters: “That doesn’t sound like him ; it doesn’t seem to me it can be true.” What we ex- pect of the few, the very few, whom any one can count as his true friends is an outspoken declaration such as: “That simply is not true. I know the man.” Now and then we are disappointed when we find that the feeling of some- one we have trusted and loved is not our feeling. It is a loss, but our poverty is nothing, compared with that of the man who has no friends in whom he trusts, from whom lie waits no explanation. To have no friends who trust you would be a pitiable case, but not so pitiable as to have no friends in whom your confidence is complete. J. C. H. Page Four Hundred Forty-one

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 n M THE 1920. EMF v E5g{gr iHUuiaukpe (Eljmm tuftents’ QUub of B. ©. IE. The hope of any nation lies with her educated class. And, China having from time immemorial, ranked the highest as a literary people, now awakens to the need of a change in her educational policy according to the changes of the time. In seeking for this modern educaiton for the people of China, her leaders have wisely chosen the educational institutions of the United States to satisfy their thirst for knowledge. The fact that the plan has proved to be successful is shown in the increasing number of Chinese students arriv- ing in this country each year, and the brilliant scholars that the American universities have produced. Among the five Chinese delegates to the Euro- pean Peace Conference, three of them arc American trained, from Cornell. Columbia, and Yale respectively. From the mere handful of government stu- dents at the close of the nineteenth century the number of students has in- creased steadily to nearly 1.500 today, including over a hundred women. The greatest impetus was given a little over ten years ago when the United States government decided to refund half of the Boxer Indemnity to the Chinese government in the form of educating Chinese students at the expense of this country. This fund now supports two thirds of the students here. This act of generosity has prompted a degree of genuine friendliness between China and the United States which does not exist between any other nations. When the first few Chinese students arrived here, the were taken care of by the Y. M. C. A. organization, chiefly in providing them facilities which lessened the difficulties of a stranger in a foreign land. But as the number of students increased in the various university cities, there followed the natural development of a community, that is a demand for social intercourse and united activities. This desire on the part of the students gave birth to the many Chinese Students’ Clubs which now numbers nearly twenty in all. These clubs have for their main object establishing and maintaining a spirit of fraternity and social activities among the students. The Chinese Students’ Alliance, established some fifteen years ago, is the central organiza- tion of the local clubs and keeps them in touch with one another by a monthly publication which enjoys a wide circulation also among the Ameri- cans. In the forming of the “Milwaukee Chinese Students’ Club of the School of Engineering,” we have added another cornerstone to the students’ alliance and pledged ourselves to further the glories of the students’ share in the mak- ing of China as great as a Republican nation to the aspiration of four hun- dred million souls. Realizing that the student of today will be the states- men, and the leaders of tomorrow, it becomes necessary that every student should prepare himself to the utmost to meet the tasks that are before him. For this reason, the club has provided a constitution, by-laws, and rules of R Page Four Hundred Forty

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i m .— «w-s THE 1L920 ElHF JBS (!% Anmiran ifoijtflu Many of the ex-service men, who make up a large percentage of the student body, of the School of Engineering, have subscribed to the principles, and become members of the greatest organization of veterans in the history of the country. The high ideals of the organization arc well put forward in the following preamble of the National Constitution of the organization. For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: “To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism ; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the great war; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation ; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.” At the time of the first national convention held in Minneapolis starting on Armistice Day there were more than one million members represented, ot over twenty-five per cent of all the men in the military service of the United States in the war. This was a very healthy growth for a youngster less than nine months old. The number of Legionaries in the S. O. E. is well over two hundred and growing like the Legion itself. Most of these members have united with the Sergeant Arthur Kroepfel Post, the first post organized in the state of Wisconsin. This post has been distinguished for it’s initiative and successful endeavors. Many of the students have taken an important part in the most success- ful activities of the Post and have done much to make it a success. The regular meetings of the Post arc now enjoying some form of enter- tainment at each meeting and in the near future a monthly dance is under consideration. A Ladies Auxiliary is being formed of wives, mothers, and sisters of the members. The members in charge of this organization are army nurses who are working hard to help promote the success of the fellows here as they were self sacrificing and heroic in their work “Over There.” The American Legion is rapidly coming to it’s own prominent place in the life of the nation and shortly it’s weight will be felt by those lukewarm and half hearted patriots and those who tried to interfere in the successful prosecution of the war. Duo to its efforts for the help of the wounded and disabled service men the “Sweet Bill” was taken out of the regular channels leading to stagnation in Congress and passed and made law. This and the much needed reorganiza- tion of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance which is now taking place are its first contributions to the aid of the ex-service man and are due directly to the pressure brought to bear by the American Legion. ---------d. m Page Four Hundred Forly-tz+o