To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cuixa Daiwy News"
St—In the April 1 issue of your [pape:, page 5, under the ion "Springtime correspondent alleges: "Much of the New Life Movement propaganda is necessarily banal and Lupimpressive. Imagine the chagrin, Jof-a group of men whose tice bow! has been broker because of the: depression, Feading an exhortation written, on white cloth and. slung cross the street—Tt you Job, then go and seek one. he in his own house passes that for fun and humour for his friends at a tea party, it might be all right for him to do'so, but to print sich and such in the widely-read columns in the "N-CD.N.", one cannot let it [pass without being duly corrected.
Certainly it would be "banal and unimpressive", if his quotation. were true. But where and when did See such an exhortation as he alleged? To answer for him, if not from his own imagination, it must be obtained from one of this heavenly dreams! For not only not in Hangchow City, even throughout the whole provines yno one has ever seen such an hhortation as he imagined, In conclusion, he says: "......1t ts quite evident that China has not yet awakened to the fact that a molten Image is but an image after all." From the way he writes T take him a Christian.
Before challenging his above one-sided opinion, T have to point out that 1" being an' atheist always. maintain an attitude of "being polite to ghosts and gods but keeping apart from: them" toward any religion. I old do not believe Christianity as much as Buddhism, but I hate to see there is any disharmony prevailing between them as long as ther aims are for the 00d of the people.
'There are' millions of Chinese maintaining the same attitude as am, so his statement China has not yet awakened..." is most mis leading. if not absolutely absurd. To relate Chinese Buddhists to represent!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.