Tokyo, Jan. 14.
Because the translation of "God save the King" into Japanese in the prayer book of the Japan Episcopal Chuien is 2 believed to be disrespectful to the Emperor, the objectionable passage will be deleted by the Publications Section of the Home Office, "The Yomiuri Shimbu leading daily, said to-day.
'The prayer book has been in circulation' in Japan since 1995, when It passed the Home Office censors without amendments, a church om cial declared—Rengo. have help enough to work their own land can realize better profits. Although cold now and snow will bring hardship to a gre cause of the benefit it brings to the winter wheat crop the first harvest of next spring.
The New Life Movement Road grading, more telephone lines, radio receiving centres, village mast education, farm and' village com Operatives are all a part of the New Ute Movement. Opium users are also getting quite a scare. Several tasses ave. been arrested and. bat aid. heavy fines while. others are Seeking various means to break the habit The matter of better trained district and. village officials is now receiving. attention, "Over a month go the district chu change, "were fiven instruction in a central trnin= Ing. class. Now the village peo hange, are to. meet this week central class, about 25 in a class and tiven'insiruction in' administration, fSccounting and law. This is bringing the question of "better government down to the villages and. will 2 food fect upon the life and ral interest of the mases. Of course the mass education movement. must fo forward at the same time if the {ite of the people is to be improved. For example, the anti-foot binding {dea is making slow progress wher ever, education for gis ie still back-Ward. One. tnipector reporting {he foot binding conditions in Tetyuan Hsien, says: "The villager where it the custom for girls to attend school we find. practically none with Sound eet. Education "and reform hand in hand."
Since the New Life Movement has been working. in Chin Yang Hoten several villages have made a. census of boys and girls in their villages not Attending school, in most cases those finder 12 Years' of age. Then they have organized. ce-edveation schools for these children and endeavoured fo get them all into school. It bes een dificult work. Often ce-operae tion end help of the parents has not been forthcoming because the" par~ ents. themselves are uneducated and Snimterested. One teacher enthusiastein getting the children to attend called to inquire from the parents of tone chile reasons for ite absence. His Feward was a food bow! thrown at him by the father of the child, Conoperauives are working well wherever organized. and seem {9 be esting a real need. Especially at {his time of economic deprevcion eat relief can be given by securing pall toons at a very moderate rate interest "In most cases the con operative loan is made at about one hind the rate' of interest navally charged by money. lenders. The help coming from the education in ce-operative effort will all be [splendid asset to village lite which often suffers from the lack Posaitsien 's again to be @ part Chin Yang.
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