To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cutxa Dany News"
Si—The Honorable P. T. Barnum said that "a sucker was born every minute." 1 think we might add to this quotation and say that "most of lus have remained such up-to-date."
We are suckers, first, because we slow the insurance companies to decide that should an accident happen to a privately owned car anywhere in the Setilement caused by collision with a truck, taxi, or private car owned by the Japanese Navy of Army, claim for damages will not be allowed. If the insurance companies have a right to make such a decision, they ought to notify their policy-holders and give them a chance to carry additional insurance to cover the possibility of accidents; from such cars as mentioned above.
maintain we are all suckers as long as we allow the insurance companies to get away with such a decision.
Second, we are suckers as long as pay the usual half-yearly motor car license charges to the munici-polity of this city, and sce about lus every time we are on the street numbers of eats which have no li-conse tags whatsoever, Last evening at about 830 I was approaching Nanking Road from the orth on Kiangse Road.. From 60 fo 70 yards back 1 had ihe green light giving me the right of - way Jacross "Nanking Road. I cautiously slowed up as I came out of Kiangse Road, and it is well I did s0, be-Jeause' a dark blue privately, owned car zoomed by going west through the red light." They slowed up momentarily and then went on. asked the Sikh watchman at the inter section why he did not get their license number and report. such a violation of traffic. His only reply was "Japanese." T wonder if he has been instructed to not be bothered with the reporting of such cases.
I would like to suggest that all motor ear owners on July 1, declare non-payment strike and not pay their motor car license fees until assurance is given that all owners will be treated the same. This, however, is probably a foolish suggestion and could not be carried out.
In any case, I wish-to state again that most of ts are suckers to allow and get away with it while others are held to the full penalty of the law?
It the Council maintain that they fare up against force majeure, then they ought, in fairness to the ratepayers to inform the ratepayers of what they have done in the nature of protests and the nature of the replies received. Why should' the motoring public be treated unfairly and why should the general public be exposed to the dally risk of slaughter by unidentifiable and reek-less drivers. without being told why such conditions exist I would like to sign my name but {feel sure that if I did reprisals would be taken against my car every time I ventured outside the perlmeter.
Fametay, Shanghai, May 11, Inter-School Sports Relay Race on Circular Course To the Editor of the "Nowrm-Ciuwa Daly News"
SmI was an interested nonpartisan spectator at yesterday's Sports, The meeting was well run, good performances were put up and great keenness was shown. But, it was a great pity that the relay races on which the grand aggregate depended to a large extent, should have been arranged without due reference to the fact that ench team had' to run in its own tracks around a circular course, The team in track 5, for example, bad to run about 26' yards further in one circuit than ihe team track 1. The results of the relay races were, therefore, almost entirely governed by the draw for posi tions. Nearly a quarter of the total points earned were awarded for the relay races, so the final result for the Rotary Shield and other trophies was seriously affected,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.