To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sin,—It is surprising to me, a newcomer to Shanghai, to find that) the British community here—composed I suppose almost entirely of sensible professional middle-class folk—bears up so meekly under the local regime of profiteering and high prices and makes no effort to combat this state of things by buying cooperatively and setting up a shop after the style of the Service Stores or the Army Navy at Home.
The chief difficulty would seem the apathy of the "contract mai who might not think it worth while to invest money in a place in which he did not contemplate staying for! long, but it should be easy enough to evolve a scheme whereby, for a sum within the reach of ordinary folk, a share could be bought in such a profit-sharing business, the shares being resold to the company or otherwise disposed of when the holder has to go home.
The only other argument against it is that it might possibly injure established interests, but I submit that such interests are of secondary importance, for we come here primarily not to supply each other's
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