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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934,

TRAFFIC CONTROL AN Derrick's Return

OBSESSION

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He had always considered hisness with the two new coats of white wife an intelligent, well-educated, paint which the painters had been The solution will probably be even an advanced woman, and he spreading over the lowy rambling that the mechanical control of the had considered his children, especial house itself. How sweet the house lamps will be abolished and that ly the youngest, who was a girl, al- would look among the fresh young the policeman on duty will himself together brighter and more preco greens of spring! Perhaps the clous than his neighbour's children. prewans who came every year had control them...

Well, along those lines he must be already begun to build in the veran- prepared for shocks and disillusion- da eaves. ment.

.

FRANCE

"Pulling Up" Pedestrians Since M. Jean Chlappe, when he was Prefect of Police, elaborated

The little river which tumbled It would not be possible, for in- over the old mill dam and for a stance, to sit down with his wife to mile flowed tranquilly on with little the traffic regulations of the City rational discussion of anything slipping rushes through his farm. of Purls and imposed "pedestrian She would seem like a moron to him: would be very full of water now. lanes" in the streets, the traffic problem of Paris has been greatly and stubborn as a mule. He would among the rocks at the foot of the superstitious, backward. Ignorant. It would be roaring and foaming simplified, if not completely solvind her erroneous beliefs and con- dam. The elms which shaded the One of the most important fac-victions hard to change. It would bridge and the ford beside it would tors in keeping the dense traffic be the same with the children, but he at their best, before the leaves The eldest was became wormeaten and cobwebby. in a great clty like Paris always In less degree.

ed.

One-way streets are everywhere

in France to-day, even in some of the smallest villages,

on the move is the one-way street. twelve, and his brain was still cap Perhaps one of the cars would be in able of a little development. He the ford to its hubs getting washed, would have some inclination to is with one of the children sitting in ten to his father and to believe what the front seat. The dark blue road- his father told him. With Sammy ster with the special body looked So, too, traffic police will be

eight, found in every French "city

oraged ten, and Ethel. aged

especially gay and sporty. in the town, and in the country this work much might be done.

ford under the shadow of the elms. He would begin by asking these is done by the road gendarmerie,

He had no more than time to and in the villages by the village young hopefuls to forget everything think these things before he had

that had been taught them, with the come to the end of his journey. Is exception of that one startling fact,

Home had never looked so invit-

constable.

It may be said that there complete traffic regulation to-day that the world is round. He would ing The garden was bounded on all the way from Calais to Monte then proceed to feed their eager the south by a little brook; and be- Carlo and also on every other young earth minds on as many sim-yond this was a little hill planted Bombay, Marseilles & London. road in the country.

ple and helpful truths as would be with kalmia and many species of S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay. The pedestrian, of course, re- good for them, and he would show native ferns. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, mains the great problem, and his them, what was now eo clear to him,

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

It was on the top of this hill that: Hull.

traffic education is more difficult how to find happiness on earth with

The lighted, and here he paused for than that of the motorist. Hea minimum of labour and worry. Ja while and filled his eyes with the will persist very often in ignor- A question carelessly thought and; regulations in general, and this is return to earth sooner than he had! ing "pedestrian lanes" and traffic instantly answered caused him to humble beauty of the home which his earth mind had conceived and achieved. one of the main causes of street intended. The answer to his ques-1 accidents in Paris.

tion had been in the nature of a Beyond the garden carpeted with Jonquils and narcissi between and gummon pedestrians for failure

The police are empowered to hard jolt. It had to do with sin..

Sin, he learned, is not doing above graceful pyramids of pear]

Bombay. Marseilles & London. S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marsellies & London.

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to keep to the "pedestrian lane" something which other people re-blossoms, the house, low and ram- and I have seen many pedestrians gard as sinful, but something which bling, with many chimneys, gleamed pulled up by the traffic police on you yourself know to be sinful. in the sunlight. It was a heavenly the Place de l'Opera for non-ob- Lying, theft, arson, murder, bigamy day.

From the hill he could see not! Bombay, Marzollles, Havre, London, servance of this order.

may on occasion be acts of light, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & But when, as often happens, the charity, and commiseration, no mat-jonly the house, but to the left the Huil

delinquent is a pretty girl, the ter how the man-mob may execrate, garage and beyond that the stable.) Bombay, Marseilles & London.

But the It was about eleven o'clock in the gallant traffic policeman general-judge, and punish them. 8th Dec. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,ly contents himself with a remon- same things may be also the worst morning, and it seemed queer to him

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

of crimes. And only the Individual that at that hour and at that sea. Bombay, Maraelles & London.

who commits them, can possibly son there should be no sign of life know. That individual doesn't even anywhere. Surely the gardener and have to know. It is what he thinks his assistant ought to be at work.;

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Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople. Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Vienna by the summary imposition that counts; not what he pretends He turned a puzzled and indignant of a fine of two schillings about to think, not what he swears in open glance back upon the garden, and he eighteenpence by the nearest court that he did think, but what, observed a curlous phenomenon. policeman, not on point duty, if he without self-deception, be actually

hand corner of the garden was be- is able to pursue and catch the did and does think.

And Derrick learned that if ing turned and broken by a spade. offender. Foreign visitors are generally let off.

during his brief absence from them Nearby a fork was taking manure The "lane" system of crossings any of those earth persons whom he from a wheelbarrow and spreading 4th Aug. Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and for pedestrians has been used loved so dearly had sinned, commit-it over the roots of a handsome crab

3 p.m. Calcutta,

here for years, and is the more ted some act or other which they apple.

Both the spade and the fork ap- there is no knew for themselves to be sinful, necessary because speed limit, and every driver can there would be an opaque veil which peared to be performing these travel as fast as he likes at his neither his eyes nor theirs could meritorious acts without the aid of. own risk.

pierce, nor the words of their any human agency.

And Derrick knew at once that B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for tral points, where the traffle

Lanes of shining knobs at cen-mouths. 1st and 2nd class passengers.

is But he was not greatly worried.

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who wear white absent from the earth and from his ture, have sinned in their own eyes, occupy pedestals on loved ones only for a very short so that they could now no longer which they operate lamps and co-time. They would still be in the show themselves to him, or he to loured reflectors, have proved re-depths of mourning for him.

And them.. markably successful.

even if they were evilly disposed Ap Austrian who tries to cross persons, which they were not, they house, but a famillar sound arrested certain squares diagonally in the would hardly have had time to think him. daytime is sure to be fined. If he of anything but their grief and their The blue roadster, hitting on all refuses to pay the two schillings loss.

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The traffic police do not leave could not have been perfectly happy, along the county road toward Stam- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday for instance, there are other pothe mere act of leaving it behind he

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proach.

home to the hospital the buds on ever separated from those who had Control of filtering traff is the the pear trees had been on the point gone beyond, supreme traffic Even when a lane is released for be in full bloom now. When he had he was in an exceedingly anxious problem here. of bursting. The pear trees would When Derrick reached the house

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a motor-cycllat nearly always house had been taken from their entrance hall and listened. And THE rushes the corner at the critical hinges, painted a

pleasant apple heard no sound. He passed rapidly moment, and flashes out of sight. green and stood in the old carriage through the master's rooms down

JAPAN

house to dry. They would be back staire and upstairs. In the sewing, Ban On Cruising Taxis on their hinges now, vying in smart-room a thread and needle was mend- The Tokio police are tightening

ing the heel of a silk stocking, but mouth.

as if somebody was telling him to up traffic regulations in more than

there did not seem to be anybody in At that instant she vanished. do them" Tokio traffic one effective way.

without, however, the room,

He lingered for a while about the

The two locked from a window, He looked from the window and house and gardens, but it was no and saw the little dog sit up and must be adequate additional supervision. S'hai, Hoji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama equipped with semaphores indi- There are Insufficient auto-saw two fishing poles and a tin palliuze. He knew that. They had all play dead and roll over, all very Shanghai, Mofl, Kobe & Yokohama,cating turns. From July 1, only mobiles elsewhere in Japan to moving eagerly toward the river. sinned in some way or other, and Joyously and jump as it through Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

The boys, perhaps. Oh, what could therefore he was indeed death fo circled arms Then they saw his bulb horns will be permitted. Bells cause a traffic problem. Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka. signals at street intersections:

For the past two years cruis-they have done to separate them them, and they to him. Shanghal Kobe & Yokohama.

tall droop and his head droop and Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe Osaka, are to be removed from traffic ing taxicabs have been barred in selves from him? The window was Back of the stables were woods left hind leg begin to scratch Shai Moil Kobe & Tokokaina.

Pedestrians at present, so far as the Ginza and a few other of the open and he cailed and shouted, but From these woods there came a and Zuriously at his ribs. He always S'hai, Moji, Kabe, Osaka & Yhams. the law is concerned, are left to busiest streets.

the fishing poles and the tin pail den sound of barking. The sound had to do that when anyone scratch- Shanghai, Kebe-&-Yokohama:</

Fines and punitive cancellation kept on going and the

was familiar to Derrick, and thrilled ed his back in a particular place. Amoy, 8'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, their own devices, no regulations

He went downstairs, through the him. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama against Jay-walking existing any-of driving licences are virtually

When Derrick raturned to the where, though on occasional unknown."na

dining room and into the pantry. "If I can hear Scoop," he thought Place of the wonderful lights and "Safety First" days they are The Supreme Court established His heart stood still.

"Scoop can hear me."

shadows he was very unhappy and forced to observe signals at a few a precedent in May by upholding On tiptor on the seat of a chair He whistled long and shrill busy crossings,

a 20-yen fine imposed on a chanf stood his little girl, Ethel Her Not long after a little black dog unhappy. The virtual disappearance of the four for a fatal collision, despite hair shone like spun gold. She came running, his stomach to the "Instead of coming to this Place," rickshaws, ox-carts, and handcarts the fact that the other car was on looked like an angel. And his heart ground, his floppy silk ears flying, he said to himself, "knowing what of the past decade, as well as the the wrong side of the road thus swelled with an exquisite bliss; but, with a sob, Derrick knelt and took I know now, I might just as well widening of streets as a result of the safety of all objects in the before he could speak to her and the little dog in his arms the reconstruction of the ally fol- making drivers responsible for make himself known, she had reach "06, Mum!" called Ethel Do lowing the disastrou thquake the safety of all objects in the ed down something from the next come and look at Scoople. of 1928, has great

speeded up, road.

to the top shelf and put it in her doing at his trieks by himself, just

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ار

He knew that he must always be.

have gone to Hell"

A volce, sardonic and on the verge. He's of laughter, answered him.

"That's just what you did."