To the Editor of the Nonmi-Cutna Dancy News"
Si—Summer is here, but not sum-lime, "The birds may be singing but not the fee workers.
"We leave the once somewhat earlier thin 4.30; if we fortunately escape trafic blocks; it we cei change in two minutes fat, ahd 4 after all this, we can still run fos'as the Red Queen, then ye may just possibly fit in two sets of tennis Ulore dark. "But the chances. are acsinse {tt some thousands of others trying to get there this ts true for the games which concentrate a great deal of energy in 8 short space of time, what of the exercises. in meditation such as. gol sailing, riding or croquet, for which auch time, even leisure, is essential?
'You, sity are an oes' worker: You {o> "have''tingered in. trafic blocks and, though you may yield to no men Your speed through the changing oom and your acceleration out of i, must nevertheless frequently Rave fentemplated a surring editorial on the Problem of Overcrowding on the We look to you to press this matter irresistibly upon the. Settlement and Concession authorities. They have already ce-operated ina singularly fruitless attempt to appease the wrath of their inhabitants over the cost of bread. If, as we know, they can do little to give us bread let them at east give us time for our circuses. It will cost them nothing, it will be welcome evidence of their affection for the public comfort and it would ensure them a popularity they could ain in no other way.
If the office workers are too stagnant, sheeplike and rooted in routine to bring this urgent matter to the forefront of public attention they deserve to continue their hectic rush-Ing here and there in the endeavour bare minimum of exercise and enjoyment into little room and less time.
Acuruxcrutsr.
Shanghai, May 3.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.