To the Editor of the "Nowrit-Cama Daty News."
Sim—Your article on "The Movement for Good Roads" will be read with amazement by every foreigner in Shanghai_who Knows the history of the Good Roads Movement that was instituted lveally a few years ago in this Settlement. The first question that will occur to him is; what became of the money that was subscribed for good road on that occasion?
second quéMtion what guarantee wnghai that the resurrection "movement" will not follow the lines of the first, and result in a movement for the encircling of the Settlements (investment. would be x better word, perhaps)
a Chinese road with the doli-berate intention of hemming the subscribers to it in, Mr, Verne Dyson, the "captain" of the "foreign team," says in his part "of the explanation indicated in my First paragraphs but further explanation ies in the Act that the 21 demanders of good roads (the executive committee of the movement) ave all Chinese, and foreigner in his senses," nor
or reward of some kind offered)
(unless pressure be applied could trust any Chinese committee to honestly handle funds—apart, entirely from the fact that of all people in the world the Chinese themselves know lerist about roads, Proof of the latter otater to be found wherever one the Settlement boundaries. The writer frequently has to travel through Chapel; he has covered the roads to Liuho, Woosung, Ming~ hong, and the rond to the south fof the Whangpoo running towards Hangchow Bay among others, Few would admit their title to the hume of "good rods."
In another column of the issue containing the article on the "Good Roads Movement" the following heading astonishes one with its unconscious irony:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.