Inthe June 5 issue of the "North-China-Daily News" there appeared a very interesting article entitled "The Future of Shanghai Viewed Politico-economically" by Mr, Arthur Sopher. Mr. Sopher wrote as a business man trying to formulate a policy for future development here.. He rightly says, "it, is the first function of management to form a policy, and so each of us who has roots in this unique metropolis must needs, more than ever before, now when everything seems to be tumbling about our ears, sense the true direction." I heartily agree with that -sentiment and so 1 would emphasize that it is well for us to consider the future of this great city from more than one viewpoint.
Taking a realist point of view, Mr. Sopher states that "originating as one of several points of contact between foreigners and Chinese, Shanghai has grown on the merit of its sheer usefulness to a place of leading importance." Then he draws attention to the fact that because of its natural, physical endowments—its geographical Tocation—"Shanghai can have no peer," In other words, whatever be the outcome of this titanic struggle Shanghai will remain forever a large and important city. This point need not be over-elaborated as it is so clear, but after one year of hostilities it is well to draw attention to the fact that most of the international aspects of Shanghai have not lost their importance, Marvellous Ca-operation"
Mr, Sopher expresses this international connection in an apt sentence—"the supreme and unique quality of it all was that marvellous co-opera tion of divers nations, each bringing in its quota of wisdom, virtue and noelling out each others weaknesses and shis, summed up into a politico-economic usefulness unparalleled in Eastern Asia."
It is generally admitted that the fundamental weakness of our present age is That man's moral abilities hav not developed at the same rate as his mental abilities. The modern age with its scientific wonders has brought added comfort and pleasure to many Dut too often science has been used a cause of destruction, and so today we face the horrifying spectacle of the grèat nations of the world spending most of their money on armaments.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.