To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Ciina Dany News"
Si~The response to the Salvation Army's appeal for the Bow! of Hot Rice Fund for beggars shows the deep concern of the public for these oer creatures. But it seems that something more should be done about the problem than to distribute 3 nightly bow! of rice.
thousands of dollars can easily "be spent in this way, and nothing Feally accomplished as'far as. solving the fundamental problem is concerned, Some time ago T was told that the Salvation Army had been given the {usle of ridding a certain large Oriene fal city of bexwars, and that the Army had succeeded In doing $0, although the problem there was worse than in, Shanghai, Therefore 1 would like to suggest that the Shanghai Municipal Council and the French Municipal Council give the Salvation Army the power and Fesponsibiliy of ridding Shanghai of Dbexgars, The Salvation Army has the confidence of the public, and also ex. perience in constructive methods of helping these pitiable people. - What they have already done in the French Concession shows what they can do, AE it is a matter of funds, doubtless the public" would contribute. even more willingly to such a cause than the superficial, though at present unavoidable, task of feeding the If such a move is to be made, it would seem that the present is the logical time to make it, when the Salvation Army ig having ita annual finance campaign, and making its plans for this year's Shanghai, Feb, 19,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.