Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-19
Dad Has Inning in Mems
Style ShoW-Boy Scout
Messes up Broadway Traf-
fic
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>,r,,x, Copyright, 1922
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-At last
poor, dear father is getting his
chance. They are holding a mems
style show in Madison Square Gar
den as part of the convention of
the National Association of Retail
Clothiers and dad can watch what
he ought to wear from the moment
the alarm clock dings him out Of
his bed and his lavendar pajamas
till the noon bells chime him into
checked boulevard suit, or the
peal of six o'clock sends him jump
ing for the soup-and-fish and high
silk hat.
From all indications, poor dad is
going to be wondrous object this
current season. There's a thought
in brown and white plaid, which
will make him look like a diamond
black RATHER. There are quiet suits
for business hours and swanky suits
for golf and funerals and in addi-
ton to the Senatorial marvel shown
on the models runway at the Madi-
son Square Garden there are also
the toreador trousers.
Advices have just reached Goth
am that these bull-throwing pants
have already been taken to the
heart and environs of the far west
and are on their way hitherto re-
joice the soul Of father, husband,
son and sweetie. The toreador trous.
ers are slashed and laced and braid
ed and you can hang little bells on
'em if you wish. The youth of
Manhattan, of both seesx, eagerly
awaits the advent Of the first pair
on the avenue, though there Is some
indication that instead of. appearing
with bells on the new garments may
last only long enough to have a
can tied to it..
Scouts Direct Traffic
In the meantime if you have moth
ing else to do you might join the
Boy Scouts and direct traffic y 18th
the other 1919 Boy Scouts during
Boy Scout Week. Far be it from
US to scout the Scout, but if each
of the amateur traffic cops attains
such success as John Chaldee at
tanned we shall spend the rest of
the winter undoing the week'a
achievement. John is Is years old
aud anxious to become a scout.
When he read about Boy Scout Week
versus traffic, he put on a khaki
uniform, co. police whistle, sought
out the policeman at 42nd street
and Broadway, and announced his
desire to wave the "stop" and "come
on" signals to the several thousand
motors and pedestrians, which every
fifteen minutes passes any given
points whereabouts.
For some reason not apparent to
the lay mind. the traffic officer at
And and Broadway ordered John
to stand at 41st and Broadway and
go ahead and be a cop. John waved
various signals which nobody heed
ed much and about the time motor.
lists began to pay attention to an
earnest 15.year-old in the center of
the street, John decided to wave
free-for-all and. blanket "come-on"
to all the traffic in sight. All the
traffic, in whatever direction bound,
obeyed at once. The result was a
battle royal Of trucks, motors, Pc
so, which it took q squad of real
traffic officers a vigorous twenty
minutes to untancle. John has to
his credit one Of the worst traffic,
mixups Broadway has ever expe-
rienced.
Women as Cops
II is interesting to note, by the
way, how important women are be-
coming in the police departments
of the world. This Is one OF the
things brought out by the interna-
tional conference of police heads,
meetinv in the Waldorf at the in
vitation of Commissioner Enright.
There is a woman finger print ex-
pert from Denmark, a policewoman
specialist from the state Of Wash
ington, and so many policewomen
with so many important things to
say about police work in general
tlat Mrs. Mary e. Hamilton, New
York city's first policewoman, has
been appointed chairman of a WON
ems reception committee. New York
city, it will be remembered, has
woman deputy police commissioner.
also. In these days of emancipation
It is nice to know that for every
lady raffles there's lady cop.
Each tenth school child in the
biggest city Of the world is in the
predicament of the man jailed for
non-support who couldn't get a
Job while jailed and wouldn't be re-
leased till he began to support his
wife. When the schools opened with
a flourish for the autumn term 1t
was discovered that while the young
sters are compelled by law to at
tend school, there isn't in many