To the Editor of the "Nomru-Cutna Datty News."
Sim—One often wonders at the strange lack of patriotism on the part of China's officials. Many of! used to be young cried loudly for the downfall of their country's traitors; but, the moment they become off-Is themselves, they take to corruption and squeeze all the same.
To say that all Chinese are by: pocrites is to view the matter in too superficial a light. The young] students do not know the practical difficulties their elders have to face.
Tt_ is unbelievable that anybody will deliberately choose to become a traitor. 'The Chinese officials are 0 corrupt, not because they have any liking for their own ways, but because they are forced into them by circumstances, Tu spite of the recent movements: of nationalism, the predominant' outlook in China still remains what it has always been for the last] 2,000 years. I call it the family outlook. Man cares more for his! family than for anything else. is not that the Chinese officials love their country less; it is rat they love their own families more.
The social tradition is so strong that it requires a man of exceptional bravery to relatives and friends, so with the Chinese officials. These relatives and friends have a special claim on you—a claim insistent and undeniable. Such a claim must take the precedence of anything else; confronted with it you are forced to forego all considerations of the country and the people; you have even to become corrupt and to squeeze, however you may hate the very idea of itt In the Days of the Empire, the supreme authority of the Emperor was often a salutary check against any official taking: The were bad, but everything into his own hands.
not unbearable, With the advent of the Republic, there is no longer any supreme authority acknowledged by all. The greater officials appoint as lesser officials their own relatives and friends; these lesser officials in their turn appoint their own subordinates in the like manner. The practice prevails from top to bottom; and everybody being guilty of it more or less, no one dares to take the others to task, for fear that it may cause unpleasant consequences to himself.
Every militarist has his wife's brother or brothers, or it may be the brothers of his favourite con-cubiness. 'Then there are the si ters' husbands, nephews and cousins relatives and powerfal mili being reminded like thi shame on you if you cannot obtain 'a high office for your own wife's brother? You call yourself powerful man; and yet your nephews are still as poor as ever!" The result of all this is self-evident: instead of a China for the good-of all, we have our country. ruled by a few. men and their re-natives whose aim is to enrich their own families. The relatives are appointed because they are re-natives, and not because they sre in any way fit for their office. They cannot but be incompetent and cor-rapt and it is their collective efforts which have thrown China'into such sad straits.
Even the civil war would hot have dragged on so endlessly, had there been no such thing as family' outlook. The fall of one powerful militarist would bring with it the fall of his wife's brothers, cot and nephews; and for their sake he must struggle on, Let us not blame our officials and militarists alone, We must admit the fault is deeply-rooted in all of us. Let not our foreign friends Inugh at us either, for their outlook of nationalism is no better than our outlook, "My country, may) she always be in the right; but my' country, right or wrong!" Such fan outlook is bound to create ternational war and is as much to Jcourse within the Public Recreaflow ground into a really interesting atid sporting nine hole course.
For years it has been a great joy, to me to follow my pill in and Jaround the Race Course, and wiial has been to me personally it hag been to many who cannot get to the other golf courses for and reason or another.
T think that it is a pity that just now thenew greens are only oped for play on Sundays, and all of feannot play golf on Sundays, som of us are tied down by our occlps ations and are not free on Sundaya, then there are the people who do not desire to play games on Sundays but who vould get a great kick out of the course say on Saturday. Cart anything be done about it? Say other day a week when the course is open, and play carried on, of every green, Far Wal
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