NELSON JOHNSON Has Breen Up FRONT AT THE SCENE oF MucH
FIGHTING IN CHINA—THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS HIM STEPPING OUT OF
His Ducour ON THE EMBASSY GROUNDS IN NANKING IN NOVEMBER, 1937,
WHEN JAPANESE WERE ATTACKING THE CHINESE CAPITAL BY AIR,

 

Portland, San Francisco, Los An-
. geles and all the large eastern cities
—each of them compared with
centers of industry and culture in
any of the great civilizations of
history.

“We have put into our building all |,

the skill, resourcefulness, grit and
faith that human beings are capable
of. And our culture is growing. We
have an American civilization—the
material side of life—and we are
building an American culture—the
spiritual side.

“We invent tanks, flying machines
and parachutes and let other men
use them. We move so fast we don’t
have time to use what we make. We
are creating things that the human
race will use thousands of years
from now—like the great inventions
of Egypt, Ur of the Chaldees, Bab-
ylon, China.

“Anybody who tells me ‘that the
human dynamo which created all
this is going to run down in ten
years Or so—just doesn’t know what

‘he is talking about,

“We are destined to carry on the
torch of culture through the ages,
just as Chine has. The culture of
America now coming and yet to
come will dominate and inspire the
peoples all over the world for 4,000
years.”

‘A Genuinely Dynamic Life.

The American way of life, said
Johnson, is dynamic, it means prog-
ress, as contrasted with fascism
“which is standardization, orthodoxy,

with no freedom to change. Fascism |

and nazi-ism become fixed, and they
finally stop and die.”

Johnson, in China most of the time
since 1907, watched the death: strug-
gle of the ancient Manchu dynasty,
the birth of the republic and the

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far side, and that fire marked the
outbreak of the revolution. There
was more fire and smoke, and bul-
lets flew around his head in