We found soldiers travelling on the trains but all of these men were well-behaved and not ina single Instance did your special correspondent notice a case of interference >n their part. "All of the soldiers paid for their tickets when they travelled train—or they would be expected to account to Gen. Chiang Kal-shek's headquarters if they failed to do s0.
In Kuling and in Nanchang, cleanness and orderliness were distinctly. noticeable everywhere. The people themselves requested the authorities to institute what may be described as one-side-of-the-street trafic: that Is, all. pedestrians must keep to the lett' when walking about the streets. This "people's regulation," the outcome of New Life Movement, is being ferupulously observed. There is. wandering or shuffling about the streets, such as we of Shanghai see every, ay, no open-mouthed country-people gaping of the sights in the middle of and blocking the trafic.
this child of the New Lite one which Shanghat would do well freet Is considered undesirable and slovenly.
in Nanchang, your special corres. pondent was walking down a sttest When he noticed an ordinary soldier, mere youth of about sixteen or seventeen summers, approach an} Officer, who appeared to be either major or a colonel, and who ws walking along Teb-shing Road with a cigarette beween his lips.
Coming to. attention, he saluted] smartly and the salute was returned, whereupon the officer was about to ass, but this zealous young soldier of the army and disciple of the New Life Movement was not to be deter-
Fed. Blocking the officer's progress, particularly Roman Catholic churches "and schools—South America and Australia. He founda trade journal called the "Builder"; which has now completed its centenary, but financial success die not come his way. Nearly all his projects prospered fatter he had ceased connection with them. Now that his "London gondola" has become a companion of the old Roman galley dug up from the mud of the Thames to rest in the London Museum, beside the Iron Duke's post-chai his name may fade into obscurity. Cannot some motor-cur magnate preserve it as some have managed to do with the Brougham, if not the Victori Meanwhile, to many Shanghai-anders, the first memory of London jingles with the sound of the hansom's bell as almost the only noise which persisted through the quiet watches of the night. If only the rickshaw could be accompanied by such 2 soothing melody!
Peoples of the outer world may not! Jat first be able to understand the necessity for such a movement but they wilt do so when they" realize that {tls to correct old evils that Gen. Chiang is now taking action along a psychological and educational Une, "To correct, or to revolutionize, an age-old habit is a dificult task but, by using the simplest and, therefore, the most efficient means, the Generalissimo and Mme Chiang hope that, {in time, the outlook of the people will bbe entirely changed and that. they will be able, with spirit' and com-Ipetency, to meet the requirements the new time and the new life, It 4s to this end that the people' thoughts are now being directed the ancient high virtues of the nation for guidance, namely, etiquette, justice, integrity and -consclentious hess, as expressed in the characters, 1", "tien," and "ch'th," virtues highly: respected by" the' Chinese people in the past arid virtues which are necessary now if the rejuvenation ofthe nation Is to be effected, Westernized education has, during the past twenty years, contributed much to meet the needs of - the intelligentsia: without it, there would no new China. But it has not Succeeded in reaching and influencing the masses. It is necessary, therefore, that there should be a blending of the ancient as well as the modern in order successfully to rebuild. this country hence Gen. Chiang conceived the idea of the New Life Movement, the aim, of which as previously stated, the social regeneration of Chin trid the need for which touches every man, woman and child In China,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.