亲爱的朋友们:现在人们从四面八方用各种话来骂中国。我不准备花费时间和篇幅来列举扣的这些帽子。“与其咒骂黑暗,不如燃起一支明烛”。我不想咒骂任何人,只简单地讲一讲我为什么要到中国来,以及我看到了什么。我为什么在七十二岁的时候来到中国在我1946年第一次看到延安的时候,.我刚满六十岁。那时我已经经历过两大社会制度。我的前三十年是在美国西部度过的,我们曾在那里为争取较好的民主形式、妇女选举权、劳工参政以及通过公用事业公有化来反对“华尔街章鱼”而斗争。我成为西雅图教育委员会委员,后来成为中央劳工理事会主 Dear friends, People now scold China in all sorts of words. I do not want to spend time and space to list the deduction of these hats. “Instead of cursing the darkness, it is better to light a candle.” I do not want to curse anyone, simply tell me why I came to China and what I saw. Why did I come to China at the age of 72 When I first saw Yan’an in 1946, I was just over sixty years old. At that time I have experienced two major social systems. My first thirty years were spent in the western United States, where we fought for better democracy, women’s suffrage, participation in labor in government, and the opposition to Wall Street octopus through public utility. I became a member of the Seattle Board of Education and later became the chief labor officer of the Central Labor Council