Now Being Cared For the Editor°of the "Norrit-Cinsa Dany News"
Si—A few days ago a lady correspondent, drew attention in your columns to a young blind beggar who was being exploited on the Bund That same day at the weekly timn meeting of the Rotary Club 1. referred to her kind loiter, by which she donated $15. to the Salvation' Army, $5 of which was earmarked for the Beggar Camp. One of our: members enlisted the help of Miss Eleanor Hinder, Chief of qhe In~ dustrial and Social Division of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and yesterday 1 saw the little boy at the camp cating his bowl of. rice with the other boys.
The professional expression which he had to use (or else...) had vanished from his face and the white Seales that cover his eyes flickered he talked animatedly to his com. anions. Our member George Fryer. Director of the Institute for the Chinese Blind, will soon take charge of him.
The camp which is being so of-|. dently managed by the Salvation, Army Is full and repatriation of those. fable and willing to go must_makce place for others, The rice problem: Is pressing.
At the basis of all this misery is the public's "handout" on the street. If instead of tossing a few coins 10 a beggar we would give the money. to organized charity such as that practised at the corner of Singapore and Hart Roads out of the voluntary levy to which cinemagoers contribute daily, beggardom would disappear fand with it a constant source of disease.
G. W. Borssevare President Rotary Club of Shanghai.
Shanghai, Mar. 24, Thanks for Prompt Action, To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cura Dany News"
Sin—To Me. G. W. Borssevatn, President of th Rotary Club, and to Miss Eveaxon Hiwpen, may I'express my deepest thanks for their kindness: in interesting themselves in the pathetic beggar boy publicly exploited on the Bund. I am extremely pleased. to learn that he has been removed to the Beggar Camp and that shortly: his hapless deformity will no longer be the earning power of a Chinese wastrel but may be mollified by training course at the Institute for the Chinese Blind, In the dark world Shanghai's physically mangled children there is rarely a ray. of} Sunshine but here is one. and T hope that basking in it this youngster may enjoy a little pleasure despite his blindness.
'This is only one case. There must] bbe hundreds of others, but the larger problem of devising means for' general relief I leave to olliers who probably do not know the humani-{arian work the Salvation Army doing in this respect but would not} fait to appreciate it if they did know.
T enclose herewith a donation of $15 for the Institute for the Chinese Blind.
Faexo or shanghai. Mar. 25, P. And here is ton dollars for the Beggar's Camp. 1, too, am very lad that the little boy at last is in ood hands.
A Festixnee Fouexo or rite For Philatelists:
Embarrassed by C.P.0, Action To the Editor of the "Nomnu-Cumsa Dany News"
Sit-—As If the lot of the local stamp collector were not sufficiently: trying these die ult times, the Philatelic Department of the C.P.0: "has recently conceived a scheme which apart from its doubtful legitimacy adds to the embarrassment of the situation, Lately the Department has offered for sale several new issues and in certain cases these are only obtainable in sonal lots. 'The buyer of tone of the latter naturally regards himself as the possessor of a complete set, but this Is so only for a brief period. 'Some days pass and 10! the same serial of reappears, this time with some stamp of a few' cents face value interposed. The purchaser not given the oppotunily of rectifying the omission in his original set, by acquiring just the additional /stamp, but is (old by the Department that the "newcomer" is inseparable from its group. "Thus the ardent phi-tolist is faced with the alternative ither of remaining with a set greatly. reduced in value because rendered incomplete or of parting with further money to secure another "complete" set, without the assurance that this second complete set will be the last complete set.
The scheme devised by the Department may be highly commended for its ingenuity s a means of increasing "What Did You Do Hint to Local Young Men the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cinwa Dary News"
Sm—The editorial in Sunday's }"nNoon Bulletin" on the subject of J"What did you do in the last war, Daddy?" worked in aptly with Mr, /Bevin's declaration that he proposed make' everybody at home do productive work if not already serving jin the Armed Forces, But the. editorial made no refer Jence to Shanghai, Tt might, "like 'Kitchener, have pointed an accusing finger at the young unmarried men here. What did you do? Produe-Aive workin' Shanghai, my dear [Shanghai, Mar, 31, A Sermon:
Reader's Appreciation To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cumna -Daity News"
SmI was greatly touched by the sermon on Importance of Family Lite preached by Dean 'Trivett, which appeared in your Issue of today. My parents passed away from this world Some thirty years ago while T was only seventeen, but it makes no dite ference, As a' matter of fact, I was touched by this masterpiece that Thad to pause several times before being able to finish the roading It, Tt strikes at the very. bottom of one's heart, "Honour thy father and thy nother..." It is a divine law which guards the order of society—rst in the family and then in the state, How true and real are these words which say that if we neglect them, "repentance may, come too late." How touching and pathetic when it saya: "If we are successful in life, success loses more than half its joy and triumph, if our parents are not alive to withes it."
When President Ganfield, on "his day of Inauguration, turned away from the cheers of a'nation and the congratulations of foreign Ambas~ sadors, and gave the first thought of that, supreme hour to his little aged mother who sat behind him, encircling her and kissing her, he en-Joyed his success to the full extent, This moral law of honouring one parents is so common and yok so often overlooked.
Therefore I venture to take this opportunity to emphasize it, and beg fo suggest that school authorities would have this sermon reprinted in pamphlets to be distributed and taught in the classes, Shanghai, Mar. 25.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.