Shanghai Currency nicer the for small come constitute the history of currency, sell-reliant "nature of rehauls and shopkeepers in-adaptation recurrent Weal difficulties, Deprived currency' by which the airs of millions of people are ruled, chai taces a miner erisis_ which can fevereome only bya co-operative effort, "Chit for cents "at food shops. personally endorsed scrip and even postage stamps neatly enclosed in cellophane are sume of the memo adopted te ensure an accent medium of exchange of bart perhaps it would not be surprising! of barter in Shanghat business is Toreed back to the. use of small currency is not easy. the Chinese banks have been me formed that Chungking is sending further supplies of small money to fil the gap. Perhaps the hundreds. of small shops may be found a coning factor because it if amazing these shops are able 10 creole themselves powerful an inflven ata handsome proiit—the lives of Shanghai's millions, and even how are benefitting by selling postage stamps making profit on a transaction which govern= ments in other countries would frown upon. recent years, Shanghai has experimented with several systems of Toeal token currencies for transport. and other purposes. A solution of the dificult: might be found in the revival of some such system as Jong at political conditions prevent the tree and unrestricted. creation "Safety First" Week two days of Shai Si "week, Judging by the
the organizers of this campaign to. minimize accidents, make Shanghai streets sater and. instill a" greater idea of tame. conduet_ and control for the benefit of the public, are doing: 8 good job of work, It is too early to pass Judgment on the campaign or its results, but the eral impression 18 that it has stirred. the Public conscience to the urgent needs of the situation which the organizers are trying correct. It can safely be said that never.betore ha" such a large volume of ce-operation been obtained for a problem of community Interest and importuned, The police, transport companies, Mire car garages, theatres and organizations interested im fraflie conditions are acting at guides, propagandiste and teachers, but a much more Valuable form of assistance is the voluntary efforts of the general public, represented by boy scouts and other interested people, in. demit their bit at street corners, distributing Jeaflets, talking to rie: shaw pullers and pedestrians and fon the whole, doing their best. by personal approach and example to spread the principles on which the week's campaign 1s based. Tu the past. there has been a tendency' to ignore that Ereut, untapped volume of public ce-operation tackling community problems. The tendency been to canalize efforts through interested partier Jeavine out of account that great.
section of Shanghai where support of only: in trae but other questions enn. be easily. obtained by a frank and direct appea! rather than relying on official machinery his respect, the Week are to 0 reason why Ht shoul not be read reaction 40 the organizers!
afte situation should show a and anther chapter the welfare of the all nations wh is that formula should be devised whereby shel Against ageressio ould be provided who to avail seek of Th been he cause of the suseepuibiliti of the Baltic and Balkan countries, which by not been guaran= teed by Great' Britain, and who, howeve lendly they may be, have no desire for 18 is reported that the' present intention is, that any county which tings its independence ite ened may apply for assistance, bt tat it chooses t0 FY ARH assistance will not British point desiroute of ering at inst ton directly. it ocetrs, whether the wielin ul appeals for help er get. Thus German ins the Baltic States would bring the at right up to the Puesian borders, s00 thing Which "Meseude will not tolerate and inst which she requires the common. sewn her would-be allies, Th does net see unreasonable point of view to take, and that ie all that Russia requires, and that appears t0 be the cise, he sooner Britain one sree the beter Will it be for Vers obvi monte of the make it eminenty tes should got possible, and be only Able te mest hich have te be rapids wyed if the peace wf the
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