Ping-jen and Fan Song-song have been elected joint chairmen of the Chapel Chamber of Commerce, Onoens have been issued by Mr. 'T. C, Chao, Director-General of the China Merchants S.N. Ca., for th cancellation of all free passes on the company's steamers. All who desire to travel on these, he says, must pay their fare THE Western Shanghai Com: mercial Federation has circularized a letter (says the Chinese press) to the effect that, as the merchants have pace so long under the oppress sion of the militarists and subjected to such heavy taxation, they had found it difficult to exist and, s0 when the Nationalists arrived, they bean to see gleams of hope and development. In harmony with t) 'Three People's Principles, it is suggested, the merchants should organize themselves as that they may have a voice in the decisions of the Government. The Federation, therefore, recommends the organization of the Taxpayers' Association and invites every business man to join. home, in Mexico, in Cuba, in the Philippines and in Franco says to all Americans in spirit, words attributed to it by the late lamented Franklin K. Lane:
"T swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of colour, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes our nation. My stars and my. stripes are your dream and your Inhours, They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them s0 out of your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making."
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