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":492 MISCELLANEOUSin the public schools oi Shanghai. This Union has alsoprepared posters to be placed in conspicuous places that allpassers-by may get a seed thought which later will reap aharvest.Several hundreds of instances -mightCigarettesgiven of the individual efforts of Chinesewomen and little children in leading friends and relativesto give up cigarettes or other narcotics. To see the newlook on the faces is worth all it costs. One young man withyellow skin and shaking hand now shows a face glowingwith health. He writes * I am a man now the sense of";power through conquering appetite, reveals itself in everyway. One ardent young woman has spoken many times, inone place drawing a company of 1400, many taking thepledge and, best of all, scores keeping it."We now have about forty Unions in all,counting \Yomeu s, Young People s andLoyal Temperance Legions, these scatteredover seven diJl erent provinces. Die great difficulty is to getleaders. Women during all these years have felt they hadno duty to society. To make each woman a live wire readypersonally to work for God and Home and native landis our aim, and thus to help bring in the day when eachman s weal shall be each man s care."II.FILM CENSORING FOR CHINAG. H. Coler In the spring of 1915 a committee wasCommitteei on i p r*^organized in Shanghai tor censoring the nlmsthat are being exhibited in this country. The committeewas composed of sixteen business men, missionaries, YoungMen s Christian Association and Young Women s ChristianAssociation secretaries and others, and took as its officialname, t( The Committee on Film Censoring for China. InFebruary, 1916, the membership was increased to forty anddivided into ten groups of four each, a Chinese and a foreignlady and a Chinese and a foreign gentleman being on eachgroup. Censoring is done every day in the week exceptSaturday and Sunday.