Editor of the "Nomu-Cuina Day News"
Sim—The letter appearing in your March 7 issue, under the caption "Thoughts on Life" ig indeed one of interest. and the reflection a pertinent one.
'While it Is to be admitted that the majority of people are callous to the: sufferings and. sorrows of those around them, still not a great deal of difference' can be made it people were more sympathetic. Sympathy can achieve very litre at the Into lage when a war has already broken Toose, with its resultant tragedies. It a Tittle thoughtfulness on the part of those individuals in responsible posltions. who know exactly what war means, had been exercised before plunging nations into a war, the pre-Sent miseries might have been lesened. But nothing makes people so callous and indifferent as power and success, and as warlords usually have both, very little interest in the fare' of the people can be expected from them.
To have one's faith in God shattered because things are as they are, to do Him an injustice, since the mistake are man's and not God's, man is himself responsible for the present unhappy state he is in, and it is up to him to extricate him 1 "Whither are bound?" was raised; the answer seems to be "To inevitable destruc. tion." Civilization has been allowed to reach such an advanced state of corruption that it needs tearing down, This Is the tearing down process and we are right In the midst of it. The sooner the dilapidated structure is completely razed to the ground, the sooner will the way be made for reconstruction, Everything. old has to crumble to make Way for the new, therefore the wisest attitude sto things come to a head, and then work with all energy to build a new, finer and more beautiful struct when the debris of the present one has been cleared away. This is our only hope and something for us all to look forward to.
Shanghai, Mar,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.