South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-05

BY JANIS u. 1ONl-f1 IL
Some people can run car into
perfectly strange garage. Pick out
q narrow space between two ex-
pensive nmousines. back into II.
missing each car by a hair, and stop.
Some people can't do anything Ike
that a. all. m ono OF the latter
kind.
I'm always embarrassed in a
strange garage anyway. feel over
awed in the presence Of head wait
ers and hotel clerks, who merely
glare az me with silent slfOtle
eneers. The country garage pro-
prietor isn't silent. and there Is
nothing subtle about his sneere.
He says frankly what he thinks.
And he always thinks urktndly, not
10 say brutally. In fact country
garage proprietors are the most
brutal thinkers who have lived in
this world since the days Of Cap
tain Kidd. They can't make you
walk the plank OF course, like Cap
tain Kidd could But they can scare
YOU as much I don't know why,
but they can
I'VE Just got back from one OF
those little journeys that people
take after they've been looking too
long az automobile ads. You know
the kind, the ones with pictures OF
beautiful new cars. bowling along
over country roads. or stopping in
front OF magnificent summer hotels.
Just look at that sort OF picture
steadily for a week, and you'll go
on a tour too. You won't be able
10 help II.
The Journey itself was all right
IL wasn't exactly what you'd call
restful but Il was generally salts
-
didn't run into ANYBODY on the hard
highway at least. We didn't have TO
stop IN the rain and patch tires.
and country children have long
ceased 20 sit on the fence and jeer,
Get a horse" when A motortst stops
10 clean the mud off his windshield.
The trip, as a trip, was all right.
Even the hotels could have been
worse. although not much worse.
What brought me back with shat
tored nerves. and a predisp osition
toward violence. was the garage
proprfetors Yet they behaved to-
ward me much the same as they do
toward everybody. It's their nature
10 behave that way. IL was ap-
parently predistined from the be
shining OF time that they should
snarl at you and browbeat YOU and
say all manner OF evil against you
sort that gets nervous while trying
u hack a car into one OF the tin
Mated shacks that they call fire
proof garages.
However. let's go on with the
story.
We followed the red posts and
rho hotel sign boards till we got TO
the town where we meant 70 stop
for the night Il was around ten
o'clock when we got there. ana dark
very dark.
We petitioned several garage pro-
Drietors TO let our car abide with
them for the night, but they said
Indignantly that their accommoda-
tons were al taken, and wanted
- know what the place OF torment
We meant by coming into a town at
that time Of night
The hfth place that we applied
10 had room. The boss was irri-
tated 10 think that Wa needed shell
ter. but he agreed TO provide us
with 10 for two dollars.
And II you don: Ike the price"
lie said, you can 60 on
We assure him that far from not
liking the price we were positively
fdnatical about II. We felt. IN fact,
that he was practically forcing his
roof on Us Two dollars for twenty
five square feet OF space for six
hours seemed the merest trifie.
All right" he said. back her in.
and be dern careful FOR there's a
lot Of GOOD cars IN here
Affecting not 70 be hurt by the
emphasis laid on GOOD I started
10 back her In
And right there Is where my
embarrassment began 20 make trou-