Interesting Effort by National "Hua Nien" is the title of a now weekly published by the National Committee of Y.MLCAs of China, which is arousing considerable interest among the Chinese reading public, Dealing primarily with problems of youth, this weekly will take the sociation Progress," a fluential journals in China. This change from the monthly to the weekly has been brought about as the result of numerous requests The contents of the new weekly include editorial paragraphs, editori-Is, special articles, eurtoons and lustrations. A unique feature is a forum section, wherein young writers are encouraged to express their views and to record their observations of -situations, customs, and trends of thought that, are Deculiar to the locality in. which they reside. As to the kind of material that makes up this journal, the following topics from its first issue are suggestive:—The Real National Crisis as Suggested by the National Emergency Conferene to Gandhi's View of Voluntary Poverty", 'Mr, Quentin Pan, the author of books, who! is. well-known in the, journalistic world, ts editor, He edits the book review' column of the "China Critic" and is a tre quent, contributor to. the "New Moon" and other Chinese journals, Among those who have been invit~ contribute are Dr, Hu, Shi Mr. "Liang Shitrehiu, Dr. 7, Chao, Dr. Timothy Lew, Mr, N, Z: first editorial, under the tle of "Interpreting Hua Nien", ix of interest." "Youth is) the age of "blooming," this reads, "Whone ever you find a certain' type flower in the Spring, you will cer= tainly reap the expected crop in the autumn. This is always true through repeated experiments, 'The literary men. of the Two Tsing. Dynasties not only had deep, love for those "two characters" 'Hua Nien', but were also capable. of making good use of them. This ix the first explanation for our name China has been rewarded as.
'Old Empire' with, thousands of years of age,. though we have not come to a definite conclusion as to its exact age. But we must know that, although the Chinese nation has a long history behind it, its people should be con youngest, according to Prof, Grifith Taylor of Sydney Univer Nor should its culture cause it is still in the process of.
elution, according to the ethnologist, Mr. H.W. Krieger, This is the ' second ation for our the factory, and the capital requis. ed is estimated at $60,000, 'The Christian War Relief Committee and the Shanghai Citizens' Emergency Committee have expressed te, the such while a third institution hi mised over $1,000 for the Purpose, man} refugees to their homes as possible, the establishment of a factory to take care of those who: are homeless and yet willing to work seems to be the logical way. out of the recent crisis in and round. Shanghai,
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