New Chairman of Task for the Council The new Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council was the quest of the Committee of the Royal. Society St. George at the monthly luncheon fat the Shanghai Club on April 29, Cordiatly greeting Me." Cornell 'S, Franklin, Mr. 3S. Wilkinson, President of the Society, could not help showing signs of commiscratioh with his guest on the dificult. task lately Imposed upon his shoulders.
Me, Wilkinson happily. recalled the fact that the name of Franklin was famous in American political history, but that Benjamin Franklin was not only a great American statesman and Sipiomat, but was also a notable {uventor, He had given the world the principle of the biefocal lens whereby it is possible for the usee to see two points of view. He had falyo- been" the first to discover practical utility of throwing all Troubled waters, Aptly Mr. Wilkinson turned. these (we achiever ments of Benjamin. Franklin's to jed account in wishing Me. Cornell Franklin every success during his telm of office, Incidentally," Mr. Wilkinson "showed thal there was every reason to be confident in the ability of the new Chairman, for was it not on record that he had been appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to be a Judge at a younger age than any other previous occupant of that position. Circumstances had brought Mr. Franklin to Shang hho and those circumstances would now give him ull opportunity for the exercise of his own personal qualities and for testing, the virtues Of his famous namesake's devices, Municipal Problems In reply, Mr. Franklin pald a warm jute to' the spirit of England embodied in. St. George's Society and. he ventured to do this because, apart from a Netherlands ancestor fand a Scottish grandmother, his blood "was entirely English, _and—effectively quoting Mark ' Sabte's lassie salutation to the beloved earth fof England—he felt therefore that he could at any rate appreciate the English point of view. As Mr. Wilkinson "had mentioned municipal affairs, Mr, Franklin was moved to confess that he did not expect an uneventful term of office. 'The problems which the Council, would [have to consider would be difficult and doliente, and the" company fathered that' the greatest senso of Unity and fairness would be required to solve such difficulties as were Tikely to accrue from the events of the months las they passed. Mr. Franklin was not a believer' in too academic a reliance on psychological study, and by illustration he showed that although psychology had ats merits It very often had to be fortie fled by what might be called good sound horse sense in applying its principles, The comment. went home and the speech was very warm ly. applauded.
In accordance with practice, the President paid an appropriate tribute to Mr. Harold Reynell and Mr. E. A.
Wood for their work In connection with the sixemonthly golfing match with St Andrew's Society." "Once more the cup adorned the table of St. George's and Mr. Wilkinson was all the more pleased at the evont—although he himself had been defeat ed by black magic as wielded by Dr As For that block magic, Mr. Wilkinson earned A sympathy when he explained his opponent maneyed. to pull fle drive on to a garden seat fand thereby land his ball in a splendict petition for the hole—only one of the strokes whereby the President of St Andrew's Society endeavoured nobly but unsuccessfully to save the cup for his followers,
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