Perhaps it will not be considered other than a friendly gesture when, Suggest to the municipality of Greater Shanghai that they should drop right away the suggestion of constructing a road round the Settlement and the French Concession, which we learn, from the Chinese Press, is under consideration. A few years ayo the Good Roads Movement made a similar suggestion, and the result was not at all hap: Not only was the road not, bull but it was shown that the whole idea of the Good Ronds Movement was to stultify itvelf—to prevent the one entity in this part of China which has good ronds in its mind from building them, and nobody emerged from that particular effort with any credit to himself. Why should the new raunicipality try to emulate those who did nothing but bring discredit upon themselves, especially when they ¢laimed to belong to an enlightened body which was out for more roads and beter roads? We have no doubt that there are a few hotheads who, like those in the Good Roads Movement, see here something constructive. It is, however, anything but that, and even they did build the road the performance would no really enhance their reputation among those who want roads for real use and not for puny political purposes.
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