To the Ealtor of the "Nonmu-Cinsa Dany News"
'Sm—I always like to read the letters in your paper. 1 mean they' fare easier to understand than the hows, and they give a girl something talk about. T mean it makes men realize that she.is intelligent and reads; and I mean a man likes that "just for the first very long it is dificult for a girl—even an. intelligent girl—to concentrate right to the end. I mean in Saturday's paper there was letter from the SSP.CA, asking for furniture and fittings for their new' quarters in Rue Maresca. I mean it was a very long letter, and before T got to the end 1 found myself thinking about 'a book 1 once read. T think it was called "The English—are they human" or something like that T' mean I didn't really read It. because the print was small and there was a lot of it and anyhow IT" wouldn't' want to read a" book: where a foreigner didn't soy nice things about us. I mean especially' after he had lived for years and years in England, he should know 'Swners and police unable fo control|what he was' talking about, sothn why" don't they got any Se) sngula't het these drivers? If they are 0 the? mean, though 1 linet, the rule of law has passed. didn't really read the book, I ooked at the drawings, and even those The foregoing are but a few were ever so silly. I. mean, 1 causes of the chaotic state of trafic couldn't see any meaning in them, in this city. When these are eradicated One just showed two. starved-look-by enforcement of rules already ex-ing waifs huddled together. and try-Isting or. if necessary. enactment of Jing to shelter from the rain under new rules, horn-blowing which is, the gateway of a fine building. T after all, only a symptom of the mean I don't know why T should traMe disease will diminish to a have suddenly thought about that point where it will be unimportant. picture, except that the name the gate was "Home for Stray Cals NASSACAWEYA, and Dogs." and of course the Shanghai. May 1.
SSP.CA. look ater cats and dogs and pigs and chickens and things: Jand Tam ever so glad that they are joing to have a fine new building A Demand for Action and garden to do it in. 1 mean sure that Shanghai has heaps and To the Editor of the heaps of orphanages and places like "Nom-Cunwa Dancy Niws" the Cradle in ever such fine buildings, and T mean it doesn't matter, Sm—Many people have been get-does it, if some of them don't have ing rid of their feelings about the gardens because the children can motor horn nuisance by writing to ways be taken {0 the public parks you. to play, if it isn't too far for them Actually. of course. the solution to walk. lies in the control of the S.M.C. who I mean my boy friend once ex-could very soon do much to remedy' plained to me that we must be kind matters if not to clear the trouble fo dumb animals because they are exa away completely. dumb animals. 1 mean they. can't correspondent who signed him-speak for themselves. Before, in self N.IS. pointed out quite correct= Shanghai. the cruel Chinese used to ly that some of the difficulty is due carry chickens {0 market with their fo the continual and unchecked infraction by rickshaws of the rule which requires pedestrian crossings to be left clear. Why do the Police not enforce this rule? heads down, Then we taught them to be Kind to dumb animals: so now. when I hear the cook killing a chicken in the yard, T can be happy. because T know that it wasn't ear.
The rest of the problem seems to] fall into two divislons:— am be dealt ehh by education, wien ally, nlseriminate Tooting This
extended to oth 28 "ana rauk Secondly, Th are uriily: harsh uke of horns which 'oF loud, ried to market head down. And before. the wheelbarrow coolies used to tie poor pigs so tight on their wheelbarrow. that you could hear the pigs squealing all down the. Bund. Now you don't hear pigs squealing any more, you can only @)hear the wheelbarrow coolie groaning. T mean it is silly of him. because he isn't a poor dumb animal. so he should say that he doesn't want to strain himself pushing such All the new American cars are fitted with two horns which work together and are supposed to harmonize, but they are often very: powerful.
In the United States. where the: population is motor-car-traiMle-mind~ ed, it Is probable that the horn is very lithe used in the cities. 'Thus the horns normally supplied _are such as will give warning far in ad-Vance when using country roads. 'This is really necessary when you' remember that in America cars tour fat anything from "fifty to seventy miles per hou Now. if the horns usually supplied by the trade are too raucous for city use, all the Police have to do is to inform all importers that horns. must! comply with a certain standard or! they—the importers—will get into trouble. Service garages must be told that all ears that pass through their hands must have the horns' stopped down to reduce the volume Of sound to specified limits or else' the garages as well as the owners will be punished. a very short space of time the nuisance would be much relieved.
Someone suggested that cars should, use the rubber-bulb horns, but why 0 back 10 old-style methods when it is much simpler to use clectricity?
The problem can be about 70 per ent. remedied within a month. if only the Police will tackle it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.