Article October 21, 1922 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Julia B. Perry, Valentine Chirol, E. S. Martin, Harding

[From the Literary Digest, New York, N. Y.]

Just lately, it is reported, General Feng has forbidden the custom of foot-binding in the province of which he is military governor. Among other picturesque facts about the Chinese leader are mentioned the details that he buys Bibles, five hundred at a time, for his troops, that a Methodist preacher is assigned to his army as a regular appointment, and that the general and his soldiers support a Methodist church in the city of Peking. ...

There is at least one brigade of Chinese troops, numbering something less than ten thousand men, who are welcome visitors in any part of the great republic to which their military duty may call them. In one place where they were stationed, Changteh, in the province of Hunan, the community has been literally revolutionized for good. It is said now to be freer from idol worship than any other portion of the republic. The temples have been cleared of their idols and are used as schools. Opium smoking and gambling and social evils have largely been done away with.

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