The Archive · 1938

Living in Wayside

Question of Transportation the Ealtor of the "Nonra-Cuma Dany News"

Sin—At present, I live in Wayside, 'a place situated just two miles from the bridge. Is quiet, very quiet here and could, speaking from broad point of view, be termed as nice, but Til still take vanilla. and TIL tell you why.

There should be transportation and there should be policemen, You! seldom see policeman (except in the day) and on the other hand it fs seldom that you get any transportation. But how about the dus service that you hear about? You miey have heard about them, but in "ing this question, you evidently have never tried to board one.

Tt does sound logic that if there are buses there should be trans-but it doesn't work out at '2ll in this part of the hemisphere. 'The Austinish type of vehicles they place on the route are invariably' {ull when going in the direction of the bridge, and an empty bus is as rare as a genuine bald cure. This eaves one with one sole alternative to walking the two mile stretch, and that sole alternative is "bumming," which in plain English means "hook ing lifts on trucks."

Successful "bumming" is by no means easy, and the technique can! gail Mame Sicert being "Fine alm "othe four Cue" out shtercommunigatton Supply Daves and" Bombing the These facts are Just few of a great many. All the world knows of alien Intervention. But will the combined front. of Germans, Italians, "Moors fand a few alvistons of Carlists withe Stand the -herole struggle for, de-Imocratie freedom, of Spaniards, Cata-Tans and Basques? true faith they shell! South of the Pyrenees Fascism shall meet its doom!

No Pasanax Shanghai, May 24, only be acquired by daily and constant practice. As I started as a raw recruit in this new gate, I got a tip from an old hand and T shall quote his phrase, the meaning of which prompted me in writing this letter, "It's no uso trying to get a itt on a foreign-driven car, they: being in the situation that it foreigners would help the foreigners, But do they? Ym telling you they Shanghai, May 26,

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