It is to be sincerely hoped that those who have responsibility for the Alvagations of Shanghai's" students will seriously discourage demonstrations such as disturbed the calm of the Settlement on Sunday. This is not a time in which risks of that kind can be complacently accepted, Students have their place in the development of social and political history, here as in other countries, Th enthusiasm is not to be lightly discounted. At the same time they have fa duty (o themselves and to their parents, That duty primarily re-Solves itself into the industrious pursuit of knowledge so that eventually they may be of real value to the community and to the country at Jarge, Political issues now under consideration by their elders, whether in the Government or in important positions In public life, should be studied academically and intelligently. This useful process of self-education stultified if young men—and young women—merely on the basis of youthful emotions, set out to parade their conclusions, however admir~ able, in the form of mass protests in the "public streets. The practical consequences of such demonstrations may defeat the very objects which they are intended to achieve. The authorities of the International Settlement, charged with the duty of preserving law and order in a cosmopolitan city, cannot afford to be indulgent to any ebullitions which tend to provoke action in disturbance of the peace.
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