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"",SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS 479Bibliography(For those desirous of studying some of the problems raised inthis paper.)Henderson, Citi/ens in Industry, Appleton, 191").Carlton, The Industrial Situation. Hevell, HM4.>,earing, Social H>J.">.Adjustment. Macmillan,Devine, Misery and Its (Guises. The .Maemillan Co., HH. i.] titten, The New Basis of Civilization.li i. !.Wa<res and Hours of l.ahor in the Cotton, Woolen, and SilkIndustries. I . S. Dep t of Labor, Bulletin, Whole number VJS, IDl. J.II.SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN CHENGTUExtracts from a.Report, published inThe West China Missionary NewsDuring the past year the social condition of the variousclasses of workers in the community has been brought tomy attention, and some data have been collected regardingthe way that the Chinese workman and business manmanages his business, and also lives. What follows is thesedata, mostly in the form in which they were obtained. All thedata given must be regarded in the light of a preliminarysurvey of social conditions and not final. They are given tothe community in the hope that the condition they indicatewill be the subject of a more extended and thorough study.Time has not sufficed to complete the data and thus in manycases they will be found fragmentary.All the data were obtained with the help of a Chineseteacher. In case of the personal budgets the teacher tookthe list of questions and slowly talked the matter over withthe person and recorded the results of the conversation. Asany discrepancies were discovered they were made thesubject of supplementary enquiry to the original person.In cases where it was possible the writer personally checkedthe original conditions. In every case in which this wasdone the teacher was found to have recorded accurately.Thus the data can be regarded as trustworthy as far asindividual cases are concerned. Too much must not begeneralized from most of the data as the number interviewedis small and scattered over several different classes. As anindication as to where to start an investigation they shouldbe useful.