More than a million overseas Chinese are reported to have come back to China since the effect of the world-wide economic depression began to be felt in those regions to which they or their direct forbears had emigrated from China in recent decades. More are perhaps yet to come back in the future, when the disastrous effect will be appreciated by those who are at present still well-to-do. The economic rehabilitation of those who are already back is of course a serious problem, and we trust that the government with its specially established bureau is already looking into the matter. But no less serious is the question of education. While we have no statistics as to the demographic nature of the million that have returned, we have reasons to believe that the majority are young and able-bodied, for whom either productive employment or secondary or even higher education will have to be provided, unless the public is willing to see them drift their way and to stand the consequences that usually attend upon a laissez faire policy.