(Every Mail Order Purchaser is sent a Prize List by Post) prepared to consider schemes for employing unemployed men whom too long a stretch of worklessness will make unemployable to the detriment of the community as a whole. This is. the opportunity for devising projects on which manual labour can usefully be engaged. The Committee is understood to be anxious to have concrete proposals to that end. The Director of the Shanghai International Red Cross (Dr. J. E. Baker) will be glad to pass such proposals to the proper quarter from his office at 505 Honan Road.
Formerly economists agreed in deriding public. works as unsound and inefficacious means for relieving unemployment. This theory is now vigorously resisted. Sweden and the United States of America have notably contributed to prove that, within certain well-defined limits, properly conceived plans of public development may validly contribute to the diminishment of unemployment but may "also provide facilities, services or commodities of great permanent value to the community," to quote from the latest Report of the Director of the International Labour Office at Geneva.
Hardly any serious student of affairs will to-day be satisfied to accept the early Victorian view that unemployment is a crime or, at any rate, a misfortune which arises solely from personal obliquity. Here in Shanghai it seems just now ludicrously superfluous to stress that point, for in the last two months Shanghai has with its own eyes seen thousands of men and women—Chinese and foreigners—suddenly brought face to face Oct, 23—Magpies are said to mate for life, but there is no doubt that if one of a pair dies the survivor quickly replaces the lost one from among the younger generation. I am sorry to be forced to the conclusion that my old friend Maggie has departed this life: she was easily distinguished by a slightly lame leg, resulting from the accident when her nest was blown out of a willow tree: now Father appears with a new Maggie—a slender little thing with a very pert manner, quite unlike the stolid old bird which has haunted my garden so long. However, the two birds seem to be getting along quite well, and only one little spot of trouble has arisen so far. The other day both were hopping round in their tree, pretending to be doing a little nest building, when a sudden harsh calling attracted my attention: the next moment a third Magpie landed in the tree and a very short and sharp fight ensued: exactly what happened I cannot say as the action was too rapid, but the next moment, two Magpies went rocketing up in the air, followed by the third all three seemed to meet high in the air one flew off and the original couple came back to their tree. Now I am trying to work out exactly what can have happened on that occasion: was the interloper a male trying to: seek the favours of the new Maggie, or (most awful thought) was it possibly the original Maggie trying to claim her husband back? Whatever it was, I have not seen signs of any further interlopers. I cannot believe that the male bird would have only think Place "The sound of explosions was so deafening that the dropping of individual bombs could' no. longer be distinguished."
Well, who wanted to, anyhow?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.