Chinese schools throughout Shan hai closed on Saturday to enable an army of three thousand Boy Scouts and Girt Guides, exemplifying the spirit of new China, to canvass for contributions for the relief of areas suffering from flood, famine, or Red Invasion, "What Is termed by Chinese: leaders the most extensive drive of Its kind in the history of the city' was initiated on December 1 by Goa. Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, who heads it. 'Tt will continue until January 1, and possibly even longer. On that date, pleda=s made by schools, merchants, various unions and associations, and indlviduals are expected to be redeemed in full, and it is hoped they will realize' the two million dollar goal set by the committee.
While the work of more than cent contributions, as well as for $1 and §2 amounts." Twenty thousand such books were distributed, but no complete list of the amount these presented was available," Results the street campaign "cannot "be known, according" to oMcials, until Inter.
Forty men transformed the office! in the ¥MC.A. into a drummer's paradise with the rhythmic thump thump-thump of rubber stamps on re~ ceipt. books when a reporter visited the place. 'These workers were engage' upon checking every book and every number, and stamping each with an official verifying stamp. The fof checking each Scout's and Guide's Individual account must be comple ted before figures on the results of the day are available. All accounts, will be open for public inspection, Delegate From Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Here as official representative of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Mr. E. F. MacDonough, staying at~the Cathay Hotel, expects spend the better part of a month studying trade conditions on behalf fof South California business men. While in port Mr, MacDonough intends to belie the statement that the Pacific Ocean has been sometimes called the Lake of Los Angeles "A Joke a joke to those who can take it'*, hho went on to say, Hand we do not wish to have more than our share of commerce from rk|the shores of Pacific, but we have Jeertain products on which we welcome rivalry both as to quality and price. have something worth land in exchange
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