To the Editor of the "Nomi-Cunea Day News"
Sm—Allow me per medium of your correspondence columns 10} Somfort Panter and Just Axorurn Panexr and others who have written in' protest to you concerning the increase in school fees. They may. of} course. further their arguments by pointing out that the gentlemen on the SEC. have now brought all of us—save themselves—up to tocing the mark by instituting taxes on bread. mil water, light. gas. and sehoolchildren. The education of children, fof course. being unimportant. Tf they learn too much they may. when they grow up. write letters about the Council to the Press.
For a man with two children of school age bread will cost him $33) '2. month, milk $66 vegetables $80 and Schooling $300, bus fares $32. a total of $511 apart from the many" ollier expenditures. such ar clothing. Arocerles, meat. and. of course, creation in the form of visits '$400.000. Orchestral. "recitals. Sup posing this man is one of the many in the employ of the Council receiv Ing about $850 to $000 a month with free quarters. his minimum monthly expenditure for himself. wife and children would be considerable more than is Income. and so the temptation, no. the necessity to squeeze. ts obvious ug matter what his principles may be. "A nice environment for his children to grow up in.
This $400.00 cultural Orchestra mainly consists of good musicians admittedly. but It ie also admit hat most of them. if not all have highly remunerative positions in the smaller orchestras of the "French Club and similar places. live in. the French Concession and. own apartment houses there which donot pay taxes to the SMC. but for which it] fg still possible fo pay key-money if] tone wishes to.
'A. nice, expensive surface has been put on the roads at Hunglao for the Japanese Military Forces to run their lanks along. but of course Panexr and Just "ANoviter Pater may take their families for a walk along there providing the racing ponies are not making too. much dust along. the sides." These ponies are such a necessity to. Shanghai's very life, much more so than bread. milk and education. that they must not be tax-are the cows. Nor must the Breweries. the distilleries. the gamb-Hing dens—the small ones always have paid more squeeze than the big ones anyway. and are all still open "the brothels. the opium dens the coal and rice profiteers the shipping
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