During the season the subscrip-_ tion was reduced to $5 entrance and '$5 per year, this being done [induce the younger men to join up.
The Club commences the season. ith a balance on the right side, With many good Army and Navy athletes here the Club looks forward to having some good contests during the coming season. Contests with the various Schools and Colleges are algo to be arranged.
Judge Milton D. Purdy was elected Hon, Patron of the Club, and Mr. H. D, Rodger was again elected Hon, President, 'A strong Committee of prominent] sportsmen was proposed which ix tryly international.
Mr, H. A, Atkinson, the Hon. Secretary, having resigned from the post on his leaving Shanghai for! holiday, Mr. T, MeKenna was elected ty fill the vacancy. Mr, W. J. Young was elected Hon, Treasure At the conclusion of the meeting the Club members gave a farewell Jdinner to Mr, Atkinson. The Club President, Mr, H. D. Rodger. took the choir and ina happy speech presented a handsome silver writing: vet to Mr. Atkinson subscribed for; by members, suitably inscribed, Mr. Rodger remarking on the excellent work which he had done for the Club during his period as Hon. Secretary. Mr. Atkinson suitably replied, immediately demands to know why Land company deem it necessary at) present to attack the old Russian regime, Now if instead of wasting, your time with inane witticisms bout his monkey friends, he had! only referred to past correspondence hho, would have realized that it was. he' himself who started the whole discussion by advocating the restoration of the old An "English Shanghail told him that between the old regime and the present Bolshevik would choose the latter; next gave some ing facts about the old Lentered to put No. 1 in a cheerful mood, Twill not admit "that there is universally recognized. standard of absolute good or bad political ime." The word. "absolute" is ambiguous—nothing can be absolute] in the sense of perfection to the last degree. Consequently I may say for practical purposes the present English regime can be taken a standard of good government trid the old Russian regime as one of bad government.
Let Russian No. 1 remember that it is the people who make the government and the government which makes the people. An ignor-fant, barbarous and superstitious people formed a government of tyrannical power, barbarous and: superstitious; and this government reacted and made a people tyrannical and crude but substituted irreligion for superstition. Of these. two evils I say with "English Shanghailander" that the latter state, Bolshevism, is the better. Iryeligion, demoralizing as it is, is in' itself a sign of intellectual advancement. A world full of avowed agnostics like Ingersoll is preferable to a world where men would climb roofs rather than walk under a ladder. "It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him:—superstition is the reproach of the Dicty."
Tecan see Russians Nos, 1 and 2 gleefully rubbing their hands and happy, let them.
They will ery that Tam defending Bolshevism, advocate ing it, My dear No, 1 and No. 2, if by "defending" and "advocating" yea mean I prefer Bolshevism to
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