The erection of temples and pagodas and Joss houses and other fire-cating and water-devouring devices will not hold back the waters of the Yangtze. And the time spent in the erection of unnecessary things should be put 10 the construction and repair of dykes; and farmers should be encouraged to do this themselves. Of course they have time, at least the farmer's brother has, and his son, Floods though causing considerable devastation are not without their amusing side. A man on the river Dank one night was slowly awakened by the somewhat wet condition of his matross. Putting his foot out of bed he plunged it into water. Realiz~ ing his danger he climbed on to the root of his house only to discover that his edifice was on the move. He climbed up a tree, surely there is Stability in a tree, when to his chagrin, the tree also began to move.
'A Comnestoxpent writes:—Gen. Ho Chien, Commander of First Army of Bandit Suppression and concurrently Chairman "of Hunan Province, devoting his energy to the political and military affairs of is province. Gen, Ho spends much of his time in studying and discussing "cultural problems with his colleagues, According to his idea, the future of military and political affairs must be based upon the ancient culture of China," "He has written several books fon that subject, such as "The Five Relationships and the Bight Virtues" and "The Commonwealth and Universalism." "He and Mr. Chang Hsu-tseng, his adviser, have established an academy of national culture for the study of such subjects. Gen, Ho Chien is in agreement with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and. supports the New Life Movement, as he believes that Chinese culture must modernized and be adapted to, use for the Chinese people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.