'The generous donations made by the Stewards of the Shanghai Race 'Club to local and other charities are set out in Mr. A. W. Burkill's letter Published elsewhere. Mr, Burkill has again to express the Stewards' regret that the reduced income of the Club has led to a smaller distribution than usual. Indeed, there would been, no distribution at all had the Stewards drawn upon the Shang-hal Charity Trust for their benevolence this "half-year. This further sign of depressed conditions with whicn the various charitable societies have contend should put the comment' on its motile, The Shanghai Race Club attributes its own difficulty the competition of other "organizations which secure the patronage of those who like to woo the goddess of fortune. It is to be hoped therefore that those who appreciate the good work done in alleviation of distress by the beneficiaries named in Mr. BUrkill's Uist, will do their best to see that th; deficiency, accruing from. elreumstances beyond the Race Club's control, rectified. In other words every, private citizen in Shanghai is recom= mended this year to give the fro possible rein to the spirit of the appearance of elephants in Washington at this juncture might lend itself to misinterpretation, 'The American voter might wonder whether there had not been direct disregard of his electoral wishes. But elephants can camouflaged as any qualified mahout will agree, And Washington is not the only' capital which requires brains, whether tied up in trusts or not. London, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo and even' Nanking might be glad to acquire elephant tine wisdom for the solution of their economic perplexities and their political enigmas, As for Shanghai a brace of elephants might make light of many of its difficulties. They might trip gaily along the outside roads, they might insinuate themselves into the good graces of the gold bar exchange, they might toy with the silver equalization charges and expound the virtues of consistency to the rickshaw hongs. There is only tone duty which they cannot be fairly asked to perform. They must not be asked to brighten up the pages of comic journals or to provide politicians with jokes. There is a superfluity of the elephantine in the wit of the world already. Besides elephants, with all their gifts, cannot see jokes. That is why there is no risk their ever being bought by the Aberdeen Town Councll—apart altogether from the fact that, even if their cost has been brought down by an earthquake, it still has not reached the bedrock price of a saxpence. Perhaps another earthquake is needed before that can happen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.