To the Editor of the "Noru-Cumwa Dany News"
Sm—There has been "some correspondence in your columns. lately bearing on the habits of bus conductors of the China General "Bus Company.- All. this correspondence has taken it for granted as starting point that these conductors - are Rotoriously dishonest and habitually cheat the public by issuing tickets of Tower value' than the fares collected snd in other ways. Is there any real body. of observed tacts behind this assumption?
Duriig an enforced residence in Shanghai "extending over three months I have had to make frequent tuse of the buses on several routes. Tu that time T have never seen anything to Justify this wholesale and indiscriminate stigmatizing of: a class of men whom I have found to be consistently courteous, considerate and honest. My observations go to show that' the ordinary Chinese passenger: Is better aware of the proper charge for the journey which he or she wishes to make than the ordinary foreign passenger, and is at Toast as careful to see that the right change and the right ticket are handed over. It might be pointed out, also. that any charges made or presumed against the Chinese con~ Guctors reflect equally on the ticket Inspectors, "and of these many are foreigners. Their attentions assiduous at all stages, yet T have not once seen a passenger checked Because he was holding a ticket which did not cover the stage he was travelling. If the habit of getting a ticket of lower value than paid were as common as your correspondents suggest, that "fact could be explained only' by assuming that the ticket Inspectors, foreign and Chinese, are in collusion wit the conductors to swindle the simp! passengers. Is that in the minds of your correspondents? May we have Some facts Instead of presumptions?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.