To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cnixa Dairy News."
Shanghai, Dee. 28, 1931:
Smm—A recent letter in these columns by "INJ." deseritiéd "in lowing terms the film entitled "MIM." seems to have succumbed to a fever which is very prevalent in these days, ie. a leaning towards the glorification of "Tarnished. Ladies." The tendency is con: spicuous in innumerable books and He' evidently thinks that "the spark of the divine" cancels all other "shortcomings! Does one [generous, noble gesture necessarily [counteract all the wrong we have [done—all the disloyalties, perhaps—fil the selfishness? And yet—why such surprise at "the spark. of divinity" in" what he calls the flesh-soiled" (horrid word)
Of course, when it. comes to a choice of an anti-social act, such fas theft, or starvation, 1 suppose most of" us would steal' and blame ithe. social or economic system, and in. this comuection I would récommend to "INJ." a study of the League of Nations Report on White Slavery. It is interesting. to note, by the way, that Reuter to-day reports an' incident—"Ginl Drugged in' Street"—which was of frequent occurrence before the War—as "an faniazing attempt," so perhaps we ing in happier times, Yet "MIM" hopes for a return to "moral normality, from. out of the chaos of war." Let from a review by otitic, of the book "Sin by Robert Britfault: som to indicate that th and on this point Something remarkably pertinent to It is probably because rebellion of women that the day standard of to" oe nel attitude? ity.
A Mobenx Woman.
Shanghai, Dee. 21, 1981.
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