With all deference to the admirable, leaders of the New Life Movement in Shanghai it may be suggested that too strict a line with cabarets and other places of amusement would not be wise. In the Great War all nations found that the strain of conflict—both on the home front and behind the line=could be judiciously eased by' harmless entertainment. No-one would desire that the population should indulge in aimcipation when men are fighting for their lives around them and countless civilians are but decently-run cabarets may by pening assist in the return to normal-afford a welcome relaxation to overwrought minds and, indeed, do their part in reducing the burden of unemployment. If this principle could be so applied by opening cinemas the community might be even more pleased, always assuming that the authorities approved of the resumption.
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