daily in the following mysteries which would turn the High Priest of the Temple of Osiris green with envy: Mukden paper currency; Mexican dollars; Yuan. dollars Gold Yen; Silve? Yen; Antuag small coin'and notes; Small. silver currency; remnants' of so-called War Currency; Haikwan Taels Antung Taels; Newchwang Taels; Tientsin Taels. Record all your Gaily transactions in these several currencies, and know monotony no more, Learn arithmetic anew. Thus:—
"John had an apple which he de sired to dispose of 4o Mary. But Mary had only Antung small coin notes, whereas John could seo nothing that day except Mukden feng-pino, Blithely went Mary to the exchange shop. Less blithely she learned that hey finances must go through all the currencies above outlined in order that her Antung small coin notes might ultimately come out of the hopper as fang Piao. When they eventually hopped, the shrinkage exceeded the contraction of one of Chow Dow's unshrinkable all-wool singlets after the first manipulation at the honda of the local clothes destroyer, "Mary returned unto John, slips ped him the feng-pino, and received the apple. Blithely went John to the exchange shop to convert the feng-pino into' Haikwan Taels. Swiftly hurried ho to the micros Scope to inspect the net results Extend the example at pleasure td involve each currency og the initial one. The result is the same. Whd got the benefit? Answer, the banks But the variety was John's and sionaries' standpoint this is, doubtless, right and proper, bud there is also the standpoint of the government of the country from which the missionary comes, Would it not be equally true to say:—Na government should permit anyang to take his family into a region where they are liable to be robbed and murdered unless it ig satiafield that, in case of their being attacked, isa oe oda Another symposium on. Sor attitudes towards Christian unity"! provides interesting reading. emerges that Chinese, as well as foreigners, are beginning to realizd that union in diversity has ite good points, and that a nationalized church, even though indigenous, might not be the best solution off Christianity's present problems, Id is comforting to know that there providence that shapes the ends of the growing church rough how them how we will, 'The Labour Movement' 7
'Miss Eleanor M, Hind writes out "Some facts and' factors in the Labour movement in China" and lo her article is, in some ways, comprehensive, it is as remarkable for what it omits as for what it contains. She notes the growth of labour unions and is gratified that 80 many successful strikes have been. carried through, She sympathizes with the workers as, indeed, no one who knows the conditions' under which the poorer classes live can fail to do. But she admits that "the strike has been used as a weapon by the politicals," and fails to taka any notice of the tions attending so many when those who declined to take part were shot without compunetion by gunmen in the pay of the unions, She records that the tionalist 'regime was sympathetic toward the workers, but that "me tolerance within the (Nationalist) movement murdered many so-called sie Communists." It would be interesting to know what kind of men Miss Hind would call real Communists. We are told that "the British 1. L. P. sent to China Colonel L'Estrange Malone" and that "this was one of the first approaches by more moderate Labour." If Colonel L'Estrange Malone represents "more moderato Inbour" we do not know who could represent its extreme Left, He is harbinger of strife and we think it likely that his visit to encouraged the politicos, who were posing as labour leaders, to po in the subversive agitation which compelled the Nationalist Goves ment to exterminate them,
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