To the Baitor of the "Nownu-Ciuwa Dar News"
Sim;—Ordinarily, when a Jew does Jsomething creditable, the press does not volunteer any information concerning. his "religious flat on eer"racat "descent And i€- is not expected thet the press should 5P"ihat, In" tack, the. only fair way in which the press can deal with matters that affect us favourably or Unfavourably. where individuals are concerned. is to speak of them and to treat them merely as individuals There could hardly be any objection fon our part if the press were consistent enoneh to speak of Jews as Jsuch in incidents that reflect credit on well as in those which cast a refection of discredit. If such an attitude of consistency were adopted Foy the press, we should most assured Ty be the gainers by it. as the ereditfable things accomplished by Jews would by far oxered and outweigh discreditable things with whic may justly be charged. But. a Tone as we are not spoken of as Jews in matters that place us in a favourable. light, we strenuously object to be spoken of as Jews in matters that place us in an unfavourable light.
Tam impelled to write you on the subject after reading in your to-day' feeue the story given under a sub-headline "Russian and Jew given gaol terms by Court" T begin to wonder whether the Chinese court will ever hear of there being good and law-abiding Jews, or what sort of people are they who can produce nothing but criminals. Surely, the press has duty to discharge and that duty should not be misused and abused!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.