To the Editor of the "Noara-Caiza Darty News,"
Sin,—It has ocourred to mo that jority of clerks, bookkeepers, employees in general, out here the best part of time, earning jast enough to pay their way through monthly, mithont being able to pat anything by to provide for times of stress and difficalty. I, therefore, take the liberty of patting the fol before my fellow employe of creed or nationality.
To form a Matual Protection Society, subscription to be not more than $1 per month from each member, the! amount 60 subscribed to be deposited in the bank, acd the handling of same to be vested in committee to be appointed, who will utilize the amount required in circumstances where member through no fault of his o loses his position, or when he happens to fall sick and have " family dependent on him, helping him or them to tide over any monetary difficalty.
This in only s rough outline of what can be done with a small subscription monthly of a membership of say 500 preven less. I leave this suggestion in ite pr form to my confréren, hoping that abler peas than mine will expound on the benefits to be derived from the above proposal. Enclosing my card, Tam, etc, Book-keeper of 18 years' local experience, Shanghai, Dec., 23.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.