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They stop the girls as they get off, detain them while some one gets the police. It seems one of the young man's brothers was robbed of a great deal of money on a tram. Moni's friend is forced to ride in the police wagon with the girls to the local station house. As they get out, an officer greets the girls "Oh so its you again." [They] are well known to the police. All are transferred to another station house where they are also similarly greeted with familiarity. The girls will be searched. As Moni's friend waits an officer finds her billfold on the floor behind a bench in the police station where the girls had been sitting. The girls are brought in and severely beaten with rubber hoses and let go.

Because the buses and streetcars are so jammed (and one has to ride during the seemingly endless rush hour to know what I mean) it provides the perfect conditions for thieves.

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> [Continued from previous pages] I give the barber 50p for the shave. 25p more than the normal single shave (.06¢) price and he always receives it sour-faced. R.P. pays him 10 R's ($1.20) a month, he comes every morning.

The Image (or What Happened to the American Dream)

Daniel J. Boorstin. Penguin 1963

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

News is anything that makes a reader say "Gee Whiz." Arthur MacEwen

Dry-plate photography came in 1873; Bell patented the telephone in 1876; the phonograph was invented in 1877; the roll film appeared in 1884; Eastman's Kodak No. 1 was produced in 1888; Edison's patent on the radio came in 1891; motion pictures came in and voice was first transmitted by radio around 1900...

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