To. most laymen the average doctor's prescription: is a document of rather impressive mystery, The patient has but a hazy idea of what it means, but he knows that the doctor has been certified by authors ity to be competent to put healing: into hieroglyphies, and surcease tom pain into symbols, Further, the chemist is also certified to competent to translate and ' com: pound. To few would it-occur that doctors of any nationality would be: alled upon to show their p when writing their prescriptions. But the production of innovations, and departures from the generally accepted rules, have become n char acteristic of new China, and it isy therefore, without much surprise that one learns that the Executive Committee of the local Kuomintang: assed a resolution, 'That the Central, Kuomintang at Nanking" be requested to" order all hinese' foreign style medical practi-joners in the eountey to write chinese 60 an to ups dignity. owes some gratitude to men who are able' to present it with what might be called a new angle of vision, and perhaps we should be thankful for the invitation to con-idea our doctors upholding national ignify when they prescribe. for.a sick headache. But it would be interesting to know. the dignity of which particular nation they are upholding when they give a. prescription with H-20 and a. fews similar symbols in it.
How History is Made Readers' memories are. not. 0 short that they will have forgotten: how General Chiang Kai-shek went: round "the government offices Nanking on the old Chinese "New: Year Day, and, with one exception; the Ministry of Interior, found them all empty and idle. 'This fact was made known to the world by General Chiang's own speech' this week's memorial service and ho used: it as a text for. some pointed remarks on disterard of law: and national inertia. So the" following message. to Tientsin papers strikes one as particularly, Joyous. It is dated Nanking, Samiary 81, and-signed by the-Kuo Wen News Agency. It reads as, fellows:
Drevsed tu plain clothes and. ae-General "Chiang Katsheke made a Sound. of various "Governaiente= Partmonte carly "yestanday" morning {o'sce if the employees were at their desks despite the Lunar Year, He nach pleased. with the, result of Bie Ynspection, a he found all the
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