To, the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiwa Dairy News."
Sir,—I do not know whether it is another case of great minds think- bel ing alike, but both you and your correspondent Brummagem appear to have arrived at the conclusion W. BP. that I personally was the "leading zen" who was deputised to meet the Canadian senator mentioned in my letter. There was nothing in my letter to warrant such an assumption. As'a matter of fact was not my humble self, but, as said, "None of our leading citizens," Snd'by thet T'ncan 0 tran who Prominentiy associated with the city's public affairs.
am the first to admit' all you say in regard io the greatness ind power of Shang! is is a great and wonderful city, and for that Very reason the marked absence of culture] institutions is all the more be deplored. 5 Seeing. the magnificent buildings on the river front devoted to com-charge 4 'per cent interest per merce" and finance, the One. shops month on all erect balances inded-lon Nanking "Road retailing only 8 per cent. ing fixed deposits. This amounts io Wares, of all the cath," the bill Htvy te felt per year and will poster's Roaeenngs. bin balances at the Banks, while an in- the stupendous a chose having ort boulevards of the seidentil areas ere ago in taxation is very much felt by the less well to do classes, Funds 480 collected should be managed by a committee of trustees elected half by the voters and half by the ratepayers who ave not voters.
ike Mr. Hughes T will not deal with details of finance but I get, the money first, then I agree with him. that: the question. of finance should present no great, difficulty.
'This proposition may sound a bit] communistic; may be it is} but it evolutionary' communism' and such in my opinion a better in surance against the much' more! unpleasant revolutionary com.
than several regiments of; pho skyline marking the ates innumerable factories, the biggest Power Station in the world, the host of ships of all ages and all nations that crowd the yellow turbulence of the Whangpoo, the restless throngs pedestrians, rickshaws and Automobiles that jam the streets of the central district during business hours, the numberless cinema thea and the crowded cabarets, Dut win vain for the temples of earning, cultural institutions, state. ly' edifices devoted to the art are the pride of all other great cities in the world—viewing all this, what can a visitor do but exclaim! Yes, a gre at city....a very great city, "in indeed, 'a wonderful city; but Concluding T might say that I am not very optimistic with regard to something ° being done onthe suggested lines. "It can not be done in'Shanghai by legislation and i Would be something unheard of if People with sugplts money would five up some of it voluntarily com-grinding out, 4 the souls of its inhabitants!" lars, but starving And yet this would be a-wrong conclusion, for Shanghai most suredly has a soul. Her citizens are og intellectual as those of any Even Christians donot. practise 2 other great city, and hidden in the what the church to Which they pre-homes of her numberless residents isa coiture that gives. the lie to tend to: belong peenae: em, Aecusations so often levelled at Shanghai, Apsil 13, 1099. them of being purely mercenary, seeking.
A Japanese View 'The trouble with Shanghai is that To, the Editor of the her inhabitants, that is to say, the "Nontu-Cuawa Dat Nei foreign section her inhabitants, Sin—As a result, of forensic are for the most part inarticulate hours' recently waged by Messrs, For a variety of reasons they can not or will not make their voice John England' and Beummagem, ws the press, And, Hughes, Arthur de" Sowerby, [pot Wil, Rot "Exes tthe cee thro
cons gri the question of purchasing ave seen enough of the pres and tive?"fery one, He Compara: the Majeatio"site. "At. che outset, of voting denied to the majority 3 the fmancal side of the issue be if [fuse to exercise that privilege. considerable proportion fail or Hotels shall never be fast ight of, Who doubt ov fear entertained by This has been due mainly to the Brummagen is well founded. On fact that in the past most foreigners residing here have consider-the othe hand, we can afford to be ed'Shanghat as nothing more thu Wise and far-ceeing when we. ve- 9° pieamhala¢ nothing more that ember the, record of our, past liiede piles locking forme fiascos, let alone our civic pride. when they would be able to appointed in' April, 1981) when the an one of those. who were die Proposal of purchasing the Majestic where all the amenities, cultural
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