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1st. Monday. Cloudy. Cool.
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A Hindu lecturer said to a Chicago audience: "It is crime to call you sinners who are gods." The 天道敎 people teach that "Man is Heaven" or man is god 人乃天. What a sorry figures we cut us gods! We who are no good enough to be decent men pretend to be gods!
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2nd. Tuesday. Fair. Cool.
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Left Seoul 12:15 for Song Do.
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3rd. Wednesday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. This being the anniversary of the foundation of the Song Do Higher Common School, formerly the Anglo-Korean School, we have holiday today.
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4th. Thursday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual.
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5th. Friday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Field Day for the Song Do Higher Common School. The program lasted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This full program was carried out with commendable promptness and smoothness.
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Left Song Do 7:18 p.m. for Seoul.
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6th. Saturday. Beautiful. Cool.
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Seoul home. 8 p.m. went to Central Y. to preside over the 20th Anniversary of the Foundation of Y.M.C.A. work in Korea.
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The Industrial Exhibition(副業共進會) which was opened the other day is one of the bum things I have ever seen. Droves after droves of country people are brought up to Seoul and are driven through the buildings in suffocating crowds. They have neither time nor taste to see anything with any degree of attention. While the R.R, and Electric tram car companies are reaping golden harvests every stray "sen" in the country is being drained. Whoever I meet in Seoul or in the country, old or young, rich or poor, high or low,― in fact every Korean is in despair as to the future of the Korean people economically. The price of rice is kept down with the iron heels of police and soldiers thus depriving the Koreans the only means of getting money―yet money they must have to pay the taxes, the relief fund for Tokyo and for bare existence. Where will they get it?
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7th. Sunday. Beautiful. Cool.
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8th. Monday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Left Seoul 1:30 p.m. train for Song Do.
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The golden age, consistently and persistently denounce war, even "preparedness" against hostile aggressions. Now these well meaning unconditional pacifists ought to do one of two things, before they denounce war in any form. That is: they should guarantee there will be hereafter no war hungry Kaisers to disturb the peace of the world; or in case such war maniacs invades a country there shall be forces other than war, strong enough to repel or suppress the invaders. Until either one or both of these conditions are realized, it would be sheer madness for any decent nation to neglect war-like preparedness in a world so full of ambitious, aggressive and unjust races who are ever ready to crush out the weak. Peace is an ideal, war is a fact. Woe to that nation which sacrifices a fact to an ideal. Until all races are equally strong or equally weak, war will not cease to be.
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9th. Tuesday. Beautiful. Cool.
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Song Do home. Received a letter from Candler dated Sept. 20th, Honolulu. Thank God he arrived so fay safe. I hear his finger had to be operated on in Kobe.
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10th. Wednesday. Cloud and sunshine. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Wrote to Candler care of Helen.
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11th. Thursday. Beautiful. Cool.
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Song Do home. Office as usual. Left Song Do 10:50 a.m. train for Seoul.
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12th. Friday. Pretty. Cool.
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13th. Saturday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Left Seoul 12:15 p.m. train for Song Do to pay part of the money due to 馬鍾濡 on the Indoor Gym., now being built by him for our school. Returned to Seoul 7:18 p.m. train.
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Mr. 崔南善 called this morning and said that he had just obtained official permit to publish a daily news paper to be called 時代日報; that a stock company with a capital of ¥400,000.00 is in good way of being materialized; that a number of rich people in the country have subscribed most of the shares; that he has to furnish ¥30,000.00; and that he would like to have me to help him to pay his promised quota!
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14th. Sunday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Seoul home. Between 7 and 8 p.m. a terrific thunderstorm―accompanied with rain.
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What Mr. 崔南善 told me worries me a great deal because he is one of the few men in Seoul for whom I have genuine respect for their scholarship and character. I wish he hadn't approached me with a request which I can't comply with. They must think I have stack of money just piled up. 馬鍾濡 tells me that a rumor goes the rounds in Song Do that I have deposited in 十八銀行, ¥300,000.00; and in 第百三十銀行 180,000.00! As a matter of fact I haven't a cent deposited in the 十八銀行 while I don't know even where 第百三十銀行 is. Thus Koreans fabricate false reports about one's financial standing and on the basis of these reports they go about begging or demanding contributions etc. etc.
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15th. Monday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Seoul home. Showers coming and going all the morning. The tennis tournament between the Middle School teams took place at the 徽文高普 court.
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16th. Tuesday. Beautiful. Cool.
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17th. Wednesday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. attended the athletic meet of the Central Y.M.C.A. at 獎忠壇.
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At my request 方斗煥 who is acting as the Business Manager of the 時代日報社 for Mr. 崔南善 came to see me about 6 p.m. I asked 方 to tell Mr. 崔 that I am simply unable to pay ¥30,000.00 for him.
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18th. Thursday. Beautiful. Warm.
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19th. Friday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. Wife began to travail from about 11:30 p.m. last night. Midwife came about 1 a.m. this morning, A beautiful girl baby born about 5:30 a.m. God bless this little child!
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20th. Saturday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Seoul home. Rain between 2 and 10 a.m.
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21st. Sunday. Beautiful. Cool.
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Seoul home. Baby sick. Worshipped at 宗橋 Church.
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22nd. Monday. Beautiful. Cool.
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Seoul home. Wife a little better.
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23rd. Tuesday. Pretty. Cool.
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Left Seoul 12:15 p.m. train for Song Do with Washington. Decidedly cold in Song Do.
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Today's paper has it that about ¥700,000.00(七十萬圓) are estimated to have been spent in Seoul on account of the Exhibition. While the Electric Tram-car Company and some of the Japanese stores got much of this money. The country at large will suffer terribly from money famine. People predict rice will fetch no more than 5 or 6 sen per "kin" this fall. Japanese land grabbers and they only will be profited by this state of affairs.
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24th. Wednesday. Beautiful. Cold.
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Received a letter from Estelle Haskin of Nashville.
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Song Do home. Office as usual.
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Mr. Cecil Wood, the American Ambassador in Tokyo is extolling the Japanese for courage, humanity and brotherly kindness. I wonder if he has heard of the brutal murdering of hundreds of the Koreans by the bands of vigilantes during the earthquake days of Tokyo? Humanity and brotherly kindness indeed! In their dealings with the Americans, the Japanese show themselves; but in their dealings with the Koreans, they are seen.
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25th. Thursday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Left Song Do 1:50 P.m. train for Seoul. Arriving home about 4 p.m. found wife sick. The misery of it all is that her outrageous temper and tongue are 9 tenth responsible for her sickness. By everlasting scolding she makes everybody shun her.
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26th. Friday. Cloud and sunshine. Cool.
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Seoul home. Wife sulky, baby ill―made last night altogether unpleasant. Wife is certainly a study for absolute selfishness. She is a wonderful "projector." She always projects herself into others and imagine them to think and say evil things of her as she would if she were in their place. She has no use for anybody except so far as he or she ministers to her own comfort. Hundred acts of kindness and consideration elicit no word of thanks or appreciation but any apparent neglect makes her rage with discontent. Such meanness in indivuduals as well as in nations and races―as witness the Japanese treatment of the Koreans. The cold blooded murders of hundreds of Koreans during the earthquake days in Tokyo and Yokohama; the anti-color prejudices in America and Australia, the caste abominations in India, the unjust dealings of the Poles toward the Lithuanians―in fact the inhumanity of mankind all over the world either as individuals or races make it almost blasphemous to say that God created man in his image. More believable to imagine that man has descended from a pair of chimpanzees―the meanest specimen of them at that.
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27th. Saturday. Beautiful. Very warm.
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Seoul home. No rest last night―baby crying and wife sick.
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28th. Sunday. Pretty. Warm.
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Answered Miss Estelle Haskin.
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Seoul home. Not much rest last night.
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Dr. and Mrs. F.L. Bubbott Jr. from New York came to see us with an American flag for our boy from Miss Irene Mott.
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29th. Monday. Rain. Warm.
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Seoul home. From 9 a.m. quite vigorous rain until noon.
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With Washington Mott called on Mr. and Mrs. Bubbott at the Chosen Hotel. They are such a courteous pair.
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30th. Tuesday. Cloudy. Warm.
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31st. Wednesday. Beautiful. Pleasant.
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Left Seoul 8:30 a.m. train for Song Do.
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