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WHEN A MAN works like & horse and can’t make ® 80 of his business and quits, is ft a disbothers me because I worked like
city system, service of the Indianapolis Rallways, Inc, have told me they don't like the recent hikes in prices. There have been expressions of action Authorized by the Pabue pereaes oepicent fare service will start Sept, 26. He
expenses to the bone and workbone, Where there is a will, there is a way. Good, clean enterprise was not dead by a ere was still opportunity open for the man who was not afraid tp work. Photographer Bob Wallace left the office about the time I was flexing my muscles between the two shafts. “Taxi—Columbia Club, boy.” “Seven cents anywhere in the mile square.” “Take it out of the buck you owe me,” said Bob. “Let's go.” 2, Vowing to be more careful with future passengers, my feet pounded down Maryland "St. towards Meridian St. The sulky rolled easily except when the thin tires got caught in car tracks. At Maryland and Meridian Sts, my proper hand signal almost caused a collision. It might have been the appearance of the new transit system. The first piece of equipment in what was hoped to be a lot of pleces of equipment. No, I think it was the hand signal that caused the nearaccident. : In front of the Merchants Bank a policeman waved in a friendly manner. At the stoplight a cabbie waved in an unfriendly manner. Could I help it if my starting speed was slow? Careful, bub, I'll hit you with a photographer. Bob was dumped at the elite Circle clubhouse. The doorman didn’t have to help my passenger out. With a sulky, you know, all you have to do is lift up sharply and unexpectedly on the shafts, Although the load was gone and the sulky a great deal lighter, my muscles quivered and hands shook slightly. A chauffeur in a Cadillac gave me a blast on his horn. Somewhat nervous to begin with on the first day of a new venture, I reared and bucked. Lickety-split I ran to the bus stop in front of A. P. Wasson Co.
Nothing But Insults SUPERVISOR John Clancy, hardly before I
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Mooresville ble of the Rapid Transit Co. The operator
possi found rough. was through blowing, demanded to know why my outfit was taking up space reserved for buses. “New company,” I shouted. Bus riders threw scornful looks at the outfit. “You look like you need some hay,” someone shouted. “Get a horse,” taunted another, “Mooresville,” ordered a gentleman, climbing into the seat, : ; : C. J. Kempe, 1621 Leonard St, a watchmaker, was serious, too. I convinced him the Rapid Transit Co. operated only within the city limits, “How much for a ride to Wheeler's?” : “A nickel and a plece of ple a la mode.” “Robber.” . . Many were- interested in viewing the Rapid Transit outfit but not interested enough to give the company their business. All I collected was insults. Bob from his assignment. “The Times, boy, chop-chop,” What can you do when you're in debt and in business? Work like a horse. Anyone interested in buying a transit system? Only slightly used. Kind of sore, though. Excellent opportunity.
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I doubt very much whether “You, Too" will be ready for Christmas 1949. Eugene M. Hughes, 5121 W. 16th Bt. asks. Remember the goal for ‘publication is 30,000 votes of confidence from readers. Up to date, with today’s eight, “You, Too” has 2128 supporters. It needs lots more,
$200 Barber Tip
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Amongst all the talk of pound devaluation and snarled economics for everybody, everywhere, I am pleased to bring you an immigrant's dream of extravagance, I expect I know about the most expensive haircut ever bought, and that includes the job Delilah did om Samson. : My , Louis Mell, is still a little unsteady with shears when he tells his tale. Louis is unaccustomed to $200 tips, or the act of spending five days on one job. But it appears that a Mr, Boots Adams, president of the Phillips Petroleum Co., was flying in from London and Mr. Adams was feeling a trifie unkempt. So he wired Louis to meet him at Idlewild for a fast once-over-lightly “Before his private company Plane arrived-to whisk him off to Tulsa. 3 . © But“ the unshorn- oflman’s- home-hound plane was a couple of hours late, and its arrival coincided with that of the private Tulsa-bound aircraft.
Too Many Air Pockets “MY GOD,” says Louis, “before I can count 10 they have got me in the airplane and we are at 10,000 feet. Mr. Adams say, ‘Shave me, Louie, and I say, Is no hot water on the plane and we are hitting too many air pockets,’ but Mr. Adams say there is plenty of hot coffee and so I will shave him with the hot coffee and we will take our chances on the bumps in the air. ’ “Is the only time,” says Louis, “that I ever shave a man with brown lather.”
Louis says he had to be very careful of Mr..
Adams’ moustache, because Mr. Adams is a very particular customer, but he finally got him shaved and trimmed. Louis was wondering whether he would be forced to parachute to get back to his shop, but they decided to take him on to Tulsa. “They put me up in the biggest suite in the best hotel in town,” Louis says. “They say long I am in Tulsa, I might as well see. the town. they give me a limousine and a chauffeur and for three days I live like a king. I see everything, go everywhere—oil wells, ranches, everywhere. “After three days they pay a fortune for my
No. 1 Milkman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 —L. A. Von Bomel earns $150,000 a year as the world's greatest milkman. The tax collector takes most of this away from him. And what has he got left? Stomach ulcers. For this disease, in case milkman Von Bomel hasn't heard, there is one cure: Milk. Plenty of it. He has another preseription: Fewer senatorial investigations of why does a quart of Grade “A” cost so much? He's been worrying about these quizzes, and trying to explain the milk business to the lawgivers, for 40 years. This has done his th no good. Mo sandy-haired Von Bomel, who does a billion-dollar-a-year business as president of the - National Dairy Products Corp. of New York, was no Mr. Milquetoast when the current crop of Senators called him in to tell the old story.
Firm Has to Branch Out : SEN. GUY M. GILLETTE of Iowa and Co., of the agricuiture subcommittee wanted to know— to put it bluntly—why Mr. Von Bomel charged 20 cents a quart for milk that cost him eight. He sald the firm made so little money on milk that it had to branch out into assorted other business, including vitamins, glue, and vinegar. ‘And still it earned less than 3 per cent profit on sales. The Senators thought maybe some of the salaries he paid were too high: And by the way, they asked, what did the No. 1 milkman earn? “1 get $150,000 a year, sir,” replied Mr. Von
Bomel. “And my take-home pay is $40,000. When _
tax rates were lower 1 actually earned more money when I got only $60,000 a year as president of Shefeld Farms, our New York milk subsidiary,” Sen. Milton R. Young of North Dakota suggested that he still wasn't doing so poorly. “No, I am not,” the boss milkrian replied. "You Senators don't earn so much in money, but you make up for it in prestige. And I am
The Quiz Master
Who was the man with the iron mask? A mysterious French prisoner of state, whose identity never has been satisfactorily explained. While traveling from prison to
hotel bill and buy me a ticket on the Constellation—cost $88.50 for the ticket. Then Mr. Adams says thank you very much, Loule, and gives me $200. Two hundred bucks tip for one haircut!” Louis chortled. “I tell you, I been here 25 years now and she’s still some place to live.” For some obscure reason Louie's adventure pleases me at the moment. Certainly a man who is freighted back and forth in a private plane can wait until he gets home to have his locks lessened. Certainly a man who is being met by his corporation's duded-up DC-3 could delay a necessary 20 minutes if he really felt tense about getting shaved. Certainly $500 or $600 is an unnecessary extravagance, and Louie's $200 might well have gone to some deserving chari other... ;
Tax Structure Cause of It All “BUT UNDER the current tax structure I-am
glad there are a few lusty spenders left who can|
afford half-a-thousand for a buck-fifty service. Under the current cautions and admonitions and restrictions and beetling threats of disaster on the morrow, the wanton act of Louis’ patron is vaguely reassuring. It is not the act of a breed which will hold still for complete domination by the heavy plannefs. It seems I remember. that sheer whimsical extravagance was supposedly parcel to the growth of the nation, and was believed—especially by for-
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eigners—to be vital to the American personality. We also had a hoary old statute, somewhere, that if a man earned his money, that money belonged to that man, and he could spend it, swallow it or get fire to it if he so desired. As a nation we ha® lately been broadly and
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tered it 'round the globe. The only quirk is that the big spenders have used other people's money, not their own, to buy $500 haircuts for the world. One thing that frets me about Louis’ adventure is maybe Mr. Adams believes that soon, with a marked trend to devaluation, all haircuts, everywhere, will cost $500, and he is just getting in early to see how it feels.
By ‘Frederick C. Othman
a slave to 67,000 stockholders and I've got stomach ulcers because of it.” He sipped from a glass of ice water. I still say it should have been milk. The prospect of ulcers didn’t bother Sen. Young. } “Have you any room in your organization for a U. 8. Senator? he inquired. “Yes, sir,” Mr, Von Bomel replied, . “Some of em.” No , . “Well, I know about cows,” the Senator sald. “If IT am defeated next year, could you give me a job?” The milkman said he always could use a good man, but before taking on Sen. Young he'd like to look over. his accomplishments. The Senator changed the subject. He said that the corporation earned $26 miilon profits last year and that he thought it could cut the price of milk a little.. Mr. Von Bomel said his profits on milk were far too low and he. could prove it. In fact, he thought he already had. Chairman Gillette threw up his gnarled hands. How could the housewife get cheaper milk? The first milkman sald one way was Yor her to buy it in the grocery instead of having it delivered to her kitchen. That would save her about three cents a quart. “Why, I personally send my servant to the store to buy my own milk,” Mr. Von Bomel said.
The Senator Rolls His Own _
“THAT'S THE difference between us,” sighed Sen. G: “You send your servant after your milk, I go out to the barn and milk a cow.” “I hope you don’t drink raw milk, sir,” replied Mr. Von Bomel. : “Not while it's warm,” the Senator said. Tomorrow: More about milk and, with luck, an explanation of why some milk-wagon drivers in Chicago, the ones with the white suits and the clanking bottles, earn better than $10,000 a year. Senators, obviously, are in the wrong business. .
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