To the Editor of the "Nomru-Ciaxa Dany News"
Sm—Now that the haile is on, with "both sides laying down' their heaviest barrages, it occurs to. Hat a Tittle sniping might be useful, Before attacking the main problem, with which T feel fully competent grapple, T would suggest fo the Tramle Bepartinent the following:
1, That a trae ght, visible to pedestrians proceeding' abut on" the Wwest side of the Bung, be installed ate comer "of Nenking Rond, Birange tha the, Gmina never fusion.
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2.""That "Stop and "Go" In Chinese characters be painted on all trafic fights. Tam' no-sinologue but ave been told on good authority that ted symbolizes good luck to our Jose-id den Chinese friends. There is ample evidence to support this slatement at any intersection, The Chinese pedes-frien's Joyful cap at a ted tight. ts famitior to alt motorists. Particularly true is this of cousin John from Soochow more far, in town to spend hig crop proffs, '3. "That the police crack down on the motorist who, Instead of filtering {nto "the. main' trafic stream from all malpractices ut in Shang-hal, Ht ie considered. smart' driving, wrteulary, {am shamed to sy, by Br That the trick driving test at stituted T drove once around "the Block That the fines for HMlegal parking bbe' modified and Uat_stidfes for Improper driving be Imposed." When anew at cave it 1g not landing Nery dangerous: when it, Is_under Way iis an instrument of destruction ud death.
To go on would be futile until the foregoing elementary principles of {trae control are accepted. if and when they are, I shall then attack the rickshaw problem, the parking problem, or any other problem that presently interrupts the pursuit of happiness by our harried officials. 1 shall charge nothing, since I did not it necessary to visit London, Paris, and New York in my exhaustive researches. 1 have always hada suspicion that the problem Is here in' Shanghai Shanghai, Sept. 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.