June 12.
The design for the new municipal seal which we reproduced yesterday immediately became the subject of much unfavourable comment, No one in the Municipal Council ought to be surprised at that. As a trademark a pretty design to put upon box of chocolates it would do well enough. But it simply is not a seal at all. A paged: standing upon nothing, flanked by a liner and a warehouse, both in the air: this is no more appropriate to Shanghai than it might be to half-a-dozen other towns which could be mentioned. In fact, in one respect it is very inappropriate and from some points of view unfortunate at the present time. For a seal should above all things be sug festive and the only suggestion conveyed by this design, through the prominence given to the pagoda. is that the people of the land are pushing the foreigner out of his property. The addi tion of the motto "Omnia Juncta in Uno" and the Chinese characters do nothing to redeem the weakness of the idea: it only reminds one of a small' boy labelling the drawings he chalks
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.