To the Editor of the "NonraCuiwa Dairy News:
'S1m—Don't you think that the evil is deeper and more far reaching than you give credit for in the matter of the Chapei Waterworks? Would i: not be far better to lay off the small fry and go out for something worth while? The local officials see the need of reform in the Waterworks, g0 give them time to get things going but don't nag and irritate them.
T.have just returned from a three months' tour, covering seven provinees, and if you want to criticize officials and public companies just make the trip I have just concluded. Taking only a few places, it is appalling to sce such prosperous towns and cities as Pengpu, Suchow, Nanking, Soochow, Chinkian; Anking, Wuhu and Kiukiang, wa lowing in filth and breeding disease in every mouthful of water drunk, In Nanking, Soochow and Chinkiang, and many other towns, the water used for domestic purposes jg drawn from filthy, poisonous creeks into flows the sewage of the town. Night: soil boats lic adjacent to domestic water carts, each loading its cargo side by side and it is no wonder disease is rampant throughout the country. It is no exaggera. tion to say that T have seen carcases of animals pushed aside to allow a High officials never see li Chinese town as they are protected from such sights by their rapacious underlings. They are driven through the city at forty miles an hour, all traffic on the road having. been sidetracked hours ahead so of not, to impede the progress of the mighty. Tt is true that Marshall Sun' Chuan-
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