The Archive · 1926

Youth at the Helm

Tt ig true, that leaders are like mushrooms; they spring to maturity two nights' after planting, oF only after many days, but in the govern ment of south China to-day, these men have one attribute in common "Youth. General Chiang (Kaishek) now leader of the government Mr. Wang (Ching-wai), leader of the ved opposition, Sun Fo, son of the founder of the present industrial revolution, Mr. Foo, ete are all under forty; and Jack of ideals and sophistication are rarely the failings fof immaturity.

Turning to the North again for comparison, we find the old game being: played by the oh hands. There no Excelsior, no millennium, in their battle ery. It is more likely, truly translated, to read: "We are old men and must get rich quick, ere it be too late."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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