October 26.
Ix another column we publish a letter which has an intimate bearing upon the relationship of all employees to their employers and for this reason possesses a wider interest than possibly the author contemplated for his remarks. Surgeon Colonel W. R. Smith is the father of a member of the staff of the Municipal Secretariat who recent! resigned his post and has now left Shangbui. The conditions under which the letter is written, there-entitle it to sym; vantage to hear both sides of a question and, if possible, to see ourselves as others see us. With the personal aspect of Colonel Smith's letter we do not wish to deal in any way. When two people who have to live or work together admit to incompatibility of temperament, much evidence has to be led before blame can be accurately apportioned. Moreover we cannot follow the writer in the personal application that he seeks to give to his criticisms of methods obtaining in Shanghai. If anything is at fault, itis the system, and whatever system there may be has endored long enough to prevent the community asa whole m seeking at this juncture to
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