Dr. Crane's Advice to Run the Country as a Business Concern A Finn, arrested on beard the: ° JaPANESE merchants, who have str. Kianghsin at Hankow for just concluded their sittings here, smuggling arms, has been sen- are, we are informed, to meet in tenced to 22 months imprison- j Tsingtao on August 10. Importment from tha date of his arrest, ant' matters, especially _thosd June 27, by the Chinese authori- relating to the boycott, will be ties, reports the "Shunpao."" discussed at length.
Dr. Frank Crane, the cele breated American writer, addressing the Rotary Club at the Astor House on Thursday said,.'The country must be run along business lines and not by politicians. Let the Rotary Club appoint 20 business men, send them to Peking and settle the troubles up there. I believe they can settle matters within six months and go home. The trouble with the politicians is that they would never go home, because _politicians live by troubles while business men live by getting rid of Senator Borah of Idaho he said, recently proposed that the United States Senate should appoint commission of business men to meet with similar commissions from countries in Europe and settle the disturbed conditions in Europe. The proposition was submitted to Congress, but there were none to pass it—except the politicians who thrive on troubles. The business men of this country should make a clean sweep to readjust political conditions. There might be 150 answers to the question of what China needs to-day, but it was quite safe to say she need not commit the same errors as those of other republics. They could start afresh here. They needed presidents, no flag-waving or cannon shooting. They should leave out the peacock feathers, the pomp and dignity, and hire a manager for the country just as they would for a factory.
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