An Offer To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuma Dany News"
Sm—I have read with: much interest and sympathy Syd. S. Kemp's "SES" to you anent profiteering pests. If he will get in touch with me by means of the telephone, we might gei together 1 and see if something cannot be done to remedy this state of affairs, 33837.
Shanghai, Nov. 10.
"eu Mr. Chang will refer to the Oxford Dictionary he will see that "punishment" has two meanings, one being the purely penal conception, the other indicating an exhausting experience, a severe testing of an Opponent. The latter is, admittedly, a colloquial use of the word, but it has become so much a part of the English language that its colloquial character is often overlooked. Both in the leader and in the special article referred, to the term "punishment" or "punishing" was expressly used in admiration of the Chinese power of resistance and in no other sense, as would be thoroughly understood by English readers. lis use in that sense, Of course, arises irom the extent to Which sporting metaphors creep into the language of the ordinary Englishman. Thus, boxers receive Punishment" without any stigma being cast upon them, and batsmen are "said to "punish" the bowling without being endowed with any! moral superiority over the unfor tunate bowler. in the light of this explanation Mr. Chang may be able to revise his views
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