the Editor of the "NorrH-Cuixa DAILY News."
Sim—I am in entire agreement: with John Willie's letter as far Mr. Lockhart's uncalled for abuse of our American friends is ce cerned. If the Americans are able} to americanize Shanghai well and good. I do not personally think that they can, but I certainly believe in healthy competition.
I do not think that the young men of Shanghai are keen on a Y.M.C.A. Hostel. As far as the American young men are concerned, they now have an excellent Club, where they can stay. Many have taken advantage of same, whilst a good many still prefer to stay in boarding-houses or as: paying guests in private families Those who stay at the club or in bachelor's messes are probably men. of sedate years like the undersigned, whilst the others frequenting. boarding houses are those, who like {and quite rightly) the company of the fair sex. And you are not like to meet the fair sex in the Y.M.C.A.
I well remember, when I- arrived in China at the age of 19, how I treasured the old Indy who owned the boarding house I stayed at, how lier lovely daughters (God bless them) bucked me up, how I aaw in every smile they bestowed upon me, fan encouragement to get into hat ness. In the bleak and dreary. atmosphere of a Y.M.C.A. Lam cer~ tain that I should have been wreck-
And during my many years in China I have found many, hundred of young men, who can thank their Jiucky stars, that they had a good boarding house to go to on first ar-instead of Y.M.C.A.
When I arrived at Shanghai first there was a Foreign Y.M.C.A. in, Peking Road. It died a natural death. So will the proposed one, I am sure.
And now, Sir, I beg to criticize some of your remarks under "Notes, and Comments." Your remarks re the church are not accurate. John Willie is absolutely right in all he says. The Church is and has always been a failure. That is as far as the broad mases of mankind are concerned. Its Masters "Land Owners, Capitalists, Profiteers ete" are at present deploring the fact, that it is losing its hold on the Masses. The Great War sounded The Last Post" over the Eh Church. After the Armist attended a Service in a Catholic Church in Farm Street London. The Sermon was preached by my old friend, Father Bernard Vaughan S.J. (now dead).. He said "there Bolshevism in the Church of England." He forgot however. loy Rome as he was, to mention his own Church. He might better have said "there is. Bolshevism in the
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