The Archive · 1940

Temple of Mammon

Business in Its Precincts

To the Editor of the Nonau-Cuxa Dany News"

Sint fe commonly. sated that Shanghat has one god above all others Bnd that fs money.

However, from the present month of March to the month of December next, is a fairly long stretch, and surely something will have to. be done in the interval to at Toast keep. the existence of the new Economy Committee from fading entirely from the minds of the ratepayers, Rournr L, Srewatr, Shonyhai, Mar, 23.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank with its gilded dome. more nearly approaches the "appearance, of temple: than any other building on the Bund, It ie thus highly appro-Driate that the" Shanghai. Stock Exchange, which deals in many mil Tions of dollars a week, should n'a recent advertisement state that_ ctr tain. transactions will take place the precincts of the i. and SBC tread lightly, this 4s ely ground. dictionary states that, the word "precinct" "applies almost Gntirely to a place of worship. con the part of ut Jocal maneyerat, 1 sigh ea this rane ona some of them have 1 precinct of Bly oF

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account