The Washington herald., 1919-11-02
Illustrated By
ALBERT LEvERING

author and the illustrator where the
illustrator backs up the work Of the
author instead of trying to make him
out liar. because the way illustra-
tions is at present. Abe, when the
author writes: At this junction a
beautiful young girl entered the court
room, the illustrator comes back at
him with such a remark as: That's
what you think" and proceeds to show
him that he doesn't know nothing
about his own story by making a pic
ture OF a woman about thirty. and as
far as anybody could Judge. she Is also
a colored womah at that Further
more she is entering a restaurant and
not O court room, but otherwise the
Illustration is all right"
However. Mawruss, II is when this
here industrial conference comes to
investigate conditions In the automo-
bile industry that the delegates repre-
senting the public Is going to have
their work cut out for them." Abe
said. Take for instance the griep-
ance which the public has in the mat
ter of tires which is guaranteed for
three thousand five hundred or six
thousand miles as the case may be
and never Is. Mawruss. and 1t seems
to me, Mawruss, that all such guar
antees Is that when you take the
tire into the ONCE of the tire con.
Germ. a young feller will be there
who Is going to tell you that the
reason the tire blew out was because
you bad been running without enough
air in it. The guarantee also guar
antees that when you tell him you
didn't he would practically call you
liar and the. consequence is that
you will feel just SO sore under the
six thousand mile guarantee as under
the three thousand Ave hundred mile
guarantee, but SO far as getting an
adjustment on the basis OF the num-
Der of miles the tire has been act
ually run. the guarantee might Just
SO we'll read that the tire is guar
anteed not to blow out till It has a
blow out. and that IL it. blows out
sooner than that the tire concern
guarantees to replace 1t for the same
price. provided prices are not raised
in the meantime"
For that matter. Abe: there is al
ways some reason why a guarantee
don't operate in just that particular
case. no matter what the particular
case may be. and this goes for practi-
cally every guarantee in every in
dustry. from automobiles to socks"
Morris declared. land even IL 1t does
operate. that don't make 1t no easier
for the customer when It applies to
an automobile, because when 1t comes
right down to II. Abe. the only thing
an automobile manufacturer guar
antees Is that the manufacturer Of
the part which went wrong will re-
place II II such part manufacturer
can be found and II he guaranteed 1t
in the first place. Furthermore. the
customer must pay all freight charges.
labor charges and charges of detec.
tive agencies for running down the
trail Of the part manufacturer and
then the chances is that when such
part manufacturer is found he
would claim that the material out
Of which he made the part was
guaranteed to him by the man
that sold 1t to him originally. and to
find this last man. you would prob
ably got to hire bloodhounds"
And when they get through con-
sdering the question OF guarantees.
Mawruss." Abe said, 'it might not be
a bad idea IL this here Industrial con-
ference would take up working condi-
tions in automobile dealers service
stations. which I have received bills
from service stations for repair jobs.
where. from all l could judge. six
men worked five hours each screwing
and unscrewing one screw, Mawruss.
and leave 1t to you IL the monotopy
of such a job. let alone the way them
poor fellers must have been crowded
together amt legitimately the subject
OF an investigation by this here in
dustrial conference. Furthermore. the
hardship of keeping three able bodied
repair men at work for three hours
adjusting a carburetor which a child
could have adjusted in ten minutes.
the way 1t happened when I put my
machine in the shop last week, is
something that no industrial confer
ence should pass up, Mawruss. 1t is
an outrage that American working
men should be degraded like that
by the proprietor Of an automobile
service station, even il he does pay
them each a dollar and a quarter an
hour
Maybe he didn't degrade them like
that" Morris suggested. Maybe the
proprietor of the service station can
prove that he is quite innocent of
having three able bodied repair men
working three hours adjusting that
carburetor, maybe he can prove that