Dame Adelaide Anderson on Neces sity of China Guarding Against Possible Evil Dame Adelaide Anderson on Monday addressed a joint meeting of the Social Service Boards of the various women's organizations at the headquarters of the British Women's Association. She had been announced to speak on "Industrial Reform," but she explained that, since her arrival in Shanghai, she had been opted on the Municipal Council Commission, which wag inquiring into factory conditions, and therefore she necessarily was rather tied down in the matter of public utterances, However, Dame Adelaide gave an interesting resume of the development of the British Factory Laws and expressed the opinion that, until the workers of any country reach the stage at which they are competent to help themselves, the law can do little for them. The law can guard against obvious dangers and it can redress abuses, but if is the workers' readiness and willingness to move that give life to the law. Without the lead of the great employers in Great Britain very little could have been accomplished and she thought that always would be the case.
China was fortunate in that her industrial questions were coming to the front just at the time when the great nations were making experiments and when employers and employees were being drawn together in conferences. In China it seemed that the very magnitude of the country's problems would have a compelling power to multiply these thinking people who were concerned with controlling abuses and, later on, engaging in constructive industrial reform. Perhaps the greater question here was to prevent children going into factories. There were comparatively few factories in existence for so vast a country and there were millions of children who as yet had not been compelled to go to work in factories. The obvious thing, therefore, was to deal with the matter in time and so to handle the situation that these children never would drift into factories.
Gey. Sun Chen-kiang, nominee of the Civil Governor of Kiangsu for the Directorship of Shanghai and Woosung Native Constabulary, who was appointed to the post some weeks ago but who has been prevented by Gen. Ho Feng-ling (the local Military Governor) from taking over office, left on Sunday for Soochow, The Chinese press reports that Gen. Sun has tendered his resignation as chief of the police department of the Civil Governor's office, but this, we are informed, is absolutely without foundation.
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