Legitimate "Hitch-hiking"
Now that public transportation services are completely. tied-up, with the exception of hire ars, by Feavon of the strikes of the team and bus companies of the International Settlement and the French Concession. motorists have an opportunity. of assisting their less fortunate co-Fetidents of Shanghat by generously offering a "Ut" velther to friends who are due at the office at #30 am, or by stopping en route to up pedestrians. ina similar in America has degenerated Into a practice which often involves personal danger to the generous motorist—at times armed.
prey om them, sometimes pedestrians take age of their willingness to assist, and police annals record white slavers, violating the Bonn Act, bringing unwitting "trienely" to the attention of the law, for having transported them and their prey. Such a situation does not exist here. Would that all who are affected by the strikes could be as fortunate as one Amoriwho, crossing town on Thursday, was pieked= by acfriend and driven to Bubbling Well Road. Later another friend carried him as far as the Bund. Several thousand motorists proceed daily to. the Central District, sitting alone their vehicles with sometimes room for three for four "passengers, It would be a matter of courtesy to offer a "lift" especially when thumbs fre extended in the direction of their travel, particularly' so during the rush hours when hot a single hire car ig available. Tt is essential in times like these that the whole community should work together as a unit. In the past it has been customary for motorcar owners to extend the use of vacant seats in their vehicles for those not so well placed, who are dependent upon public conveyances, and when the arge number of ears which' come from the western district to Central, and return after office hours, is considered, it is apparent that very' considerable assistance can be given to those who would otherwise find some diMeulty in getting to their ofoes on time and getting home again, In any event it would be a gracious act on the part of owners, who need not go Out of their way, but merely take pedestrians hearer their destinations. made fit for free_men to live in. It is a debt which the British Empire owes the world that it shall not be deprived of the benefits of the democratic rule under which peoples have risen and thrived, and under which they will continue to flourish in the future. Imagination balks at the idea of a world dominated by such criminally mind~ ed men as those in control of Germany at the present moment, at all the hideousness which has been inflicted upon the Germans themselves and which Hitler wishes to impose fon the whole world. Mankind witnesses even now the murder of a nation,—Poland, which is being carried out with a system matic ruthlessness unbelievable in the human being. It would see more were Hitler allow= ed to carry the day, and Mr. Welles accurately summed up the situation when describing the present struggle as a world revolution, Tt has all the horror about it to justify the definition.
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