sent, is not a happy hunting ground for overseas workless.
In boom times, trends of econmic change are often concealed. Economic stringency tears down many veils. An important factor {in the present unemployment problem is the difficulty of the Shanghai-born foreigner to find an outlet for his energies. In the last decade there has been a progressively rapid increase in the education of (Chinese in' those western accom-pushments which staff clerical offices and fil other posts of the clerical grade. In prosperous days this tendency was not so evidently deterrent to the engagement of foreigners. When lean times have impelled employers to scrutinize overhead expenses, the inexorable law of profit and loss has counsellfed resort to a class of labour which besides being cheaper is, often, even more efficient, for various reasons. Those reasons are not necessarily discreditable to feather party. Their force cannot fon that account be ignored. It is Just as proper for the employer to take steps which save him from the unpleasant alternative of going out of business altogether as it is for the Chinese aspirant to turn nis Jedueation to good account. This development is important. It implies the need for attention to the Immediate issue of relief of the unemployed foreign and to new! channels of employment for the young foreign Shanghailander the future. Naturally one solution comes from the search for posts in other parts of the world. All Shanghai-born foreigners have not this means of escape. Schools and
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