Opium is getting a bad name again, in the cities around—the South' of Kiangsi. It can be legally sold by applying for a license. The people who would like to see an advance made morally, and physical-but of course there are still great number of those who stand to win from the sale of the drug.
This licensing of its sale openly, no one believes is the mind of the has the at heart; thut must be some who are for the time being in an inferior position who are thus exceeding their author ity, and it is to be hoped that they will soon be brought to justice, this iniquitous trade really dong away with for good, Schools and Transportation Schools still leave much to. be desived, education has not yet fully recovered from the setback it received when the Communists were {h power for the few months. 'The seeds then sown are still bearing fruit inthe minds of the young, fand a certificate is still the one goal. This, of course, leads to ways and means' which are not healthy, fand which are not furthering education.
Rice crops have been goody, anal the second crop promises well, This still the one thing which tends to pence; give the people a good Jerop and they are less inclined to'bo restless.
We in this province seem so very far behind others by the reports of motor roads ete., while here we have not yet had even a lookin, Talk there has been, and at times our hopes grew high that at no distant date it would be an accomplished fact, but so far I have not heard that' there has really been a sod tuned, and we still have to put up with the chair, or where possible the Chinese boat.
My Chinese friends have said a ies that this year has been nally hot, and perhaps they fare tight, though T have to differ from them. Ina long number of years, T have not known an August so very cool as this month has been, every day without an excep. tion, This. is explained by the fact that there was an extra month this year. The river is again get ing safer for the transit of mer+ chandise, also for passenger traffic, fas the river patrol boats are again being placed as before, this waa Janother ruse of Communists, which made it possible for bandits and all kinds of lawless bands to stop, rob, or commandeer, any boat a will, without the danger of being arrested by the Patrol men:
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