The Denver Jewish news., 1918-12-19
Abe md Morris Debate
Il Some More

ash W MS paTCNeT, N1OTTlS HeTI~5
n1utter, as they grabbed a rear
seat on, the 5:37 Englewood,
that this here Tramway street
car company had to borrow
quarter Of a millyun dollars to
pay bills with" (
''What diffidence does it make
if they have to borrow a quarter
Of a millyun?' Morris inquired.
"If / was so broke I had to bor-
row $3.50 to pay my bills, Abe,
would The Tramway street car
company SO much as pass reso-
lltions of sympathy for me,
Abe?"
Sure, I 'know,' replied Abe, "but
If you was borrowing money to 'pay
bills and them fellers went around
telling yodr creditors. Mawr,iss, that
you was milking barrels Of money ami
could easy nuy your bills out IF your
own pocket, you'd want Teddy Rosen-
felt to call them names for you, Maw-
russ, and with the Tramway it's the
same"
you may be right" said Morris.
II see the paper says this United
States Department of War Labor,
Board says they looked into the prop
osition and decided the street car rail
way business was a fine business to
give free for nothing to somebody
you'd like to murder. Them War La
tor Purity fcllers suy that the Tram
way street chr company must got to
have fare Increase Just to pay The
reIp aud run the cars, with nothing
over to sweeten the pot
There y'arc," said Atr, trium-
rhantly.
Il don't believe it." retorfcd Nor
ris. "a motorman told HE the other
day that his conductor told him that
the night ~alchnlan at Que of the car
burns said he mud it struight already
that If the 1rninway stree. car coin-
pany was ruin economically, y!'Indcr-
'stHnd, without more Of them high sui
cries and extravasanccs. they wouldn't
need no more tl:an &c"
"Iscing In on the inside, in direct
correspondence with the prcsidciit and
the Board of Directors. so as TO speak,
! be should ought to know, Mawr,,ss,"
replied Abe. "A good practical mnn
| like TINT what can save u total Of S1O,-
1 600 out Of $4,000 expenditures. say, is
| peing 'wasted on n carburn. I know
where he could get quick nice job
running u big corporation"
"whereY' nsked Norris. IS rv
\ '"Over ut ilie Trimway street car
cdmpaiiy," replied Abe.
..Aber, whnt have them lowlifes done
10 help, Abe:" suid Morris. You
ain't heard them gougcrs doing
nothing Abe to stop this here caifarr
1 thing. How much did they cut down
them high sularics, Abe? oser a
Stuck!'
"Well Mawruss, read it II report
from n feller who had gone over the
books say that if you fired all thc
\ EXECUTIVE Officers together and saved
l all. their salaries, you wouldn't save
\ enough to Iay the rest of the ,employcs
\ for four days. Which would leave,
Mawruss, 361 days yet to go. So
i you're wofscr off tliun when YOU
stnrted. beea,isc you got 1t nobobdy to
Kick about to the newspapers and
you're still about S5OO88O short Of
| paying wages. All these here fellers,
l Mnwruss, which put TIP liypo.critical
cases of how they'd pay II S50O,0o0 bill
| with n $4,000 saving i'll scraps ana
| cuttings and salaries, got the same
kind Of proposition as Jake Win
| kowitz Jake started out to see Eu-
| rope on So bill, and took Il itaNi-
| oitcrmobilc down to the boat, ANA
when he got down to the wharf the
sbofer had the 81 bill and Jakc he
never did see Europe. ''rlpm fellers
which expect ITO save $5OO,o00 with u
$o0,oOO cut would get just so far us
jake
1 .'But look ut all them big improve.
ments them crooks nude" protested
Morris. .srhousunds of dollars they
spent"
"Surc, ] know replied Abe. But
| you and nc neither of us ever heard
the Tramway street car company beg
| ging TO make them improvements
Didn't lot Of good sitsons of Denver
| dcmand at'thc Public Utilities Commit
! tee up at the Capitol that this here
| improvementins be done oder the de
fcndant corporation be thrown in Jail
without food if possible? And didn't
4 the Public Utilities Committee order
the dcfcndent corporation TO do the
| ilnprovementinS? Am j right or am
gwrong:"