To the Baitor of the "Nonri-Diva Dany News"
Sty—Through the columns of your paper 1 would like to find out about 8 fact which has greatly interested me for the last eight years: this is the employment question in Shanghai. Who has the greater fight to get a position? A man educated here, who Spent his childhood and wished for success in his second mother-land, or aman arriving from some other Place without any knowledge of China and especially of Shanghai? Of cour answer should be, the th Shanghai man should get the prefer~ fence, but in practice it is all to the contrary. None of our boys, except perhaps one or two, enjoys the privilege of having a good and steady position. We all have positions in all Sorts of small concerns, are, of course, underpaid, because of the depres sion, and have to drag through life without any prospects at all, or out of a job, hitting a blank wall every-who During the years since 1 left school, "a lot of people were token into the S.C, and only two of them were old boys, the fact being, everything but Shanghailanders, while all of us having filed our applications years ago are still waiting for the?-8. ood things to come.
Ov THS, Boy, Shanghai, Oct. 9,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.