will, mo doubt, maintain their enthusiasm so pertinaciously that! as the course of traffic reform unfolds itself, the credit becomes theirs by right of sheet reiteration, The inspiration is not far to seek Wherever conversation fags the earnest host can always restore the semblance of vivacity by throwing in a gentle word about the scandalous time taken by him get from Hankow Road to Pootung. There will be surely one who will take up the familiar opening "Now my idea about the trafic problem is......", And then everybody is happy. Tubes under the muddy bed of this me-tropalls, "right-hand turns and left-hand bends, green, amber and red lights on every crossing, aerial ropeway', elimination of all traffic but six-cylinder cars, the shooting of pedestrians by court-martial and the conversion of the Municipal Offices into a central parking garage—all those proposals may be put forward, not tentatively with the dim dence of the ignoramus but dogmatically with all the assurance of the man who knows and has actually marshalled traffic in the capital of Utopia Clearly the fetish of speed is rightly "worshipped. The only Question is whether the worshipers know whence their devotion may lead. It may be truly ereditable of them to gauge a city's progress by the rising graph of "its fatal trafic accidents. They may hold up London to the envy of Shanghai. London, they may urge, with about eight million people, has ten times as many deaths from motor-cars as Shanghai with three million. According to their lights, which are not necessarily green of amber or red, they endeavour to} persuade Shanghai to acquire the hhall-mark of progress. Some of them are disposed to show solicltude for ways and means, This graceful thoughtfulness extends to consideration of Shanghai's habits, Why, they argue, should Shanghai lunch en masse at twelve and take two hours in the process? Does not London arrange its meals 0 that Mr. Lyons and Mr. Appenrodt can serve luncheons from eleven ill three with satisfactory results at the annual general meeting? Then the period of grass widow-dom in Shanghai would be extended. It is true that the grass widow in Tooting or Ealing may find it convenient to have her
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