The Archive · 1941

Bible Pictures

To the Editor of the "NortH-Cuma Dany Newe"

Sm—These few pictures for the benefit of Eros: "That the thought that the peoples are suffering on account of sin is a disagreeable one, no one will question: the point is, is it true?" Now for my pictures. (1) A great people enslaved for more than four hundred years in the Land of Egypt. A Pharaoh and successive Pharaohs perpetuating that slavery. But what? Was it not that suffering, sweat, tears and toil that knit that people together and laid the foundation for many qualities characteristic of that people? (2) Many centuries later their city various Traffic Departments have on their hands, and the work of their executive staffs is not easy and far from being pleasant.

During all these years I have been living here I cannot recollect, however, that a wholehearted attempt has ever been made here in order to enforce a better control over the rickshaw traffic. As a matter of fact, it seems that things are gradually going from bad to worse in that respect. In my opinion it is absence of proper control of the rickshaw trafic which is the greatest drawback to the present traffic system in Shanghai. Permit me to ask a few questions: Why are there so few public stands for rickshaws here? Why is a rickshaw pulle allowed to roam about whenever

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