SAYS AGREEMENT IN CHINA POSSIBLE
Westernization of Country Would Be Fatal, Dr. Starr Believes.
TALKS AT U. OF IDAHO
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOSCOW, March 23.—A settlement of the critical Chinese troubles through compromise may come within the relatively near future, in the opinion of Dr. Frederick Starr, famous anthropologist, lecturer and authority on the orient, who spoke before a university and town audience. "If the recent victor of the nationalists at Shanghai is not too sweeping and too complete, I think it entirely possible that the northern forces of Chang Tso Lin and the Cantonese faction may come to an early agreement. In fact, I believe it is even probable. If they do, of course, they can sweep all China." The three possible future for China were discussed briefly by Doctor Starr, who declared that two of the solutions now popularly foreseen would mean ruin. The possibility that China may develop her own ideas in her own way and along her own lines --become thoroughly "Chinesed" -- is the only hope of the world, he believed.
Westernization of China would mean the creation of a definite yellow peril. Doctor Starr declared. 'There has never been a real yellow
the oriental countries become civilized along western lines, they would undoubtedly delight in giving us some of our own medicine."
He discounted also a third possibility—that China return to the 1914 basis. That would mean ruin, not only to China, he said, but to Asia and
Doctor Starr took occasion to ridicule briefly the Washington conference of 1921 and 1922. "It was a ridiculous performance, false from beginning to end," he asserted. "The nations assembled openly recognized that China was right and publicly felt sorry for her, but none, except
Japan, did anything."