Identifier: surveyaprsep1920surv (find matches)
Title: The Survey April-September 1920
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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ecessary to expand his social settlement to include a school.As the years rolled on, even those who were in his lowerclasses when he began, reached graduation time. With keenforesight Wong had selected one boy and one girl to enterthe competition for scholarships in America. Both were suc-cessful ; Sing, the lad, went under the Boxer Fund; Ching,the girl, under a fund given by the governor of their province. Four years passed—five, for both students remained for post-graduate work. When they returned it was to unite theirnewly gained knowledge with the wisdom of the wiry old manwho had brought their parents to his settlement. IV THE Chin Chow settlement took on new life. Its influ-ence commenced to be felt far up the river. Men traveledmiles afoot, also on crawling river sampans, and from eventhe lahassaries of far Tibet, eager to see the moving-picturemachine, the phonograph, the other strange devices from aland across the seas. Of course a playground was started, a playground that
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UNDER THE CHINESE FLAG Not unlike boy scouts anywhere fairly hummed with its activities; a playground that wasepoch-making in Wongs province. Everybody wanted to help.There was a sand-box where strangely clad babies patted thesand into pagodas, into rice paddies, into the crooked roads thatconfused the devil and turned him away from his travel towardhusbandmens huts. Ling, the wheel-barrow coolie, had cheer-fully kept his promise to haul the sand from the beach, after hefinished his day of fourteen hours of labor. Lings spirit was characteristic of the neighborhood. Near-by was a village of blind fire-cracker makers. They were menwhose fathers had put them at the task Wong had escaped asa lad; and they had been scrapped, as we would say, after theyears of boyhood in the kingfisher feather works that brought the inevitable blindness. One of these, under the skilful guid-ance of Miss Ching, became what in the boys languagerendered into English, would be the champion story-teller. The ch

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