As Played in China, To the Editor of the "Nontu-Crawa Day News!
Sm—For the last thirty years, Ching has. had many. changes of Government, every one had some fighting and sacrice of lite, except this last change which is golia on at present. "This. is an improvement u'ip a shoul ben If plies {ooked upoi'as a game, then there ust be the spirit of sportsmanship guide itt "That {s while you arg playing' the, game, do your level frst to beat sour opponent without resort fo. unfair and." unclean methods, and when the game is over, Teh the "opponents shake hands heartily and sincerely. "Any foot ball oF tennis player who Hears. ier hatred towards, the winne® generally considered "poor short"
For the last few days, the names of many friends have been bromine ent in the Dapersy some' appointed posts of responsibility and honour and others resigning or vacant Hing from such posts. to the ord mary on-looking' wallowishers, the changes might" appear' to be too
change of government, not a rer revolutionary," og) this ie only a Volution. If such wholesale changes become customary in the. politi cal life of China, every change of Government will' mean a general dislocation of the _smooth-running, fof government departments, whicl is by no means a wholesome sign, in consideration of the political and financial crisis the country " is facing.
Tt has been noted, that a large number of officials have een vey "ited by the Government to],"%y since in their present—posts, relatively a small number Mmuplied to do so. Looking at question generally, with the excep: ion of a few strategic positions, 3 must be considered the nobler to evaply with the requests and to} tccry on temporarily ov permanent order to help the new Govern lent. If everybody resigns in spirit, it dislocates the stions of the Government to the ynent and injury of the country, copie. The higher loyalty to the country: as a whole must overrule the lower or narrower loyalty clique or party. A worse fea-are of such Wholesale resignation will be the intentional dislocation yrernment functions. with: the Morally. speaking, such. methods are not to be Iauded, because sportsmanship and higher loyalty. to interests of the suffering country and countrymen call for indigation of spirit from the leaders of a nation, Undey modern conditions, a change of a Government ig an expensive thing, both to the Government_and to the individuals involved, Such expenditure is in the end paid for bythe people and the Chinese people is not in a position to afford freneral dislocation of trade. There-such luxury—what with floods and
fore, it would ye m better public policy not to change the Government often, and if a change of adminis. tration has to be made, then at least IB) maintain as much of the old porsonnet us possible for the sake ble Tnteret. Forghermore, with change of Government, weakens the authority of the Central Government. For instance, the rapid changes of Government, to-Ij wards "the end of the old Peking regime finally so curtailed the arms or authority, that its orders became confined within the walls of Peking, The Nationalist Government started swith the nucleus of Kiangsu and Chekiang, and credit must be given 46 the author fe for extending its influence directly and indirectly: to. some ten provinees in. the process of unification. Tt was ffnot strong enough to cope with Mjstrong external foes, "but it_ was almost supreme internally, Tt would have been better if the leaders of the country' could have sunk their ferences and ce-operated heartily the general interest of the strength but rather through If} voliticat means, then it would be a Hf nobler thing for the "Cute'" to cofurther the process of unification, operate with the "Ins," in order to even though the present "Ins" did nat ce-operate. with the erstwhile Mina'. Let it be done for the sake of the country and people. If this I's not done, it is a foregone. con [Bf clusion that. the authority of the I} Nationatise Government will be clin= ped-and unpaid soldiers will tone
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