SHANGHAI, To the Editor of the "Norra-Cutna Dairy News."
Srr,—Experience is teaching the world that it is absolutely necessary that every man and woman should be educated for only by right education will the world ever come to peace. As humanity advances, those who are in control, those who govern cities and states, realize more and more the, vital influence of schools—schools as the training-ground of future citizens—and realizing this they try to "broadcast" education as much as they can. Civilization is measured by the number of schools " nation has, not by huge banks and cannons.
Knowing this, and hearing so often of the great facilities for education in the big cities of Europe and America, we are shocked to find matters contrary here.. We have schools no doubt, with splendid teachers too, but the strange thing about Shanghai is that instead' of "opening the doors of knowledge to the community, the Municipal Council closes them and makes all entrance as impossible og it can. It placards a notice, so to speak, on the gates announcing, "no child can enter unless he pays up first"
pays up" the outrageously high fee which is a disgrace to any community. Somehow this suggests a judicious picture of a highwayman saying, "your money or be illiterate."
The questions we would like to ask are:—Why such atrocious monthly fees, and why this drastic method of enforcing payment? Has the M. gone bankrupt? Have its "army," orchestra, and daily diggings on highroads, proved too much for it? Most possibly so. We would rather not suggest that it is merely the whim ofa bad merchant who must have his due punctually to the minute "'can" or no can." The following case is brought to our notice. A lady of some re-
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