"To the Editor of the "NonrH-CHiNA Dary News"
Sim—Along with many of your veadérs, I regret the publication of the leaderette "Take The Gloves off" in which you state "'An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.' This is what Britain has got to take as an answer to the German slaughter of women and children in England during the week-end."
1n a recent letter from England, Dr. J. H. Oldham states, "Those who can say 'Let their children have a taste of it' or let such a remark pass unchallenged, have gone over to Nazi paganism."
In future, only those fortune-tellers who "are very sincere and not se harmful to the public order" will be allowed to ply their trade in the capital. Their prices will be re gulared.
More than 2,000 mystics of one sort and another are telling the people of Tokyo what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next year. This number will be drastically cut down, for many of them are believed to be interested not in their client's future as much as in their ability to pay.
Some of these fortune-tellers are said to be disciples of Yi-king, adjudging the future by consulting the Book of Changes. These prognosticaters charge as much as Y.100 per sitting from rich customers. It is this sort of profiteering that will be wiped out, it is reported here.—Havas.
In a recent speech Lord Lloyd said: "Grim as is the struggle there is something splendid in it if we realize always that to our hands has been entrusted the defence of nothing less precious than the cause of Christian civilization—that is a cause which may well stir our hearts and steel our resolution."
We know from experience in China that frightfulness does not succeed. Frightfulness is frightful, but foolish. The cotise of Christian civilization cannot be served by unchristian and uncivilized methods but only by the spirit of sacrifice, endurance and devotion.
Hanty T. Smcock.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.