PROS AND CONS

There are small horizons which are wider than large horizons. There are very small campaigns which are more. fertile than immense campaigns, And I am talking about all campaigns including those of the press. —

Our colleague L'Auto has just undertaken a modest campaign, which seems capital to me, it's a very small thing. which is not only a terrible thing, but which is also, in our era which prides itself on being civilized, a real challenge to humanity - and to the rights of man and citizen... Our colleague dares to demand, purely and simply, the abolition of the handcart which, he says, should only have the right to travel in the Martyrs' Street.

It is not, of course, a question of eliminating the little car of the Four-Saisons merchant. Crainquebille pushes it without effort and without much fatigue, very gently, very quietly, very democratically... We feel neither shame nor embarrassment in seeing a small, flat and light car loaded with beautiful golden fruits or whiting pass in the street. silver...

But there is the real handcar; the real heavy, heavy car, the stretcher car. In the stretchers, there is a man, a man who is struggling, a man out of breath, a man who is bending over and doing the stupid, blind work of the draft horse. This in the century of T.S.F. aviation, automobiles.

Well, a man's place is not between the shafts of a cart. From the energy, from the vigor of a man, whoever he may be, there is something else to be done. And when we see in Paris a man dripping with sweat, broken, broken, dragging a heavy load on the pavement, among the cars and trams, when we see this man stumbling, falling - like a beast of burden at the end of his rope. fatigue — when you see that, you can't say that Paris is a truly modern city...

The handcart is a shame. It is also a perpetual embarrassment, a continual obstacle to general circulation. The handcart is a monstrosity and an imbecility.

What are we waiting for to deliver men from this yoke and this misery.

The only hand car that man should push in Paris - on Sunday it is the very small car in which a kid sucks his thumb or his rattle.

Maurice Prax