Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES T.. TR1CEH ELL.

size of many of the vehicles. On one
line the latest additions have aisles so
narrow that it is practically impossible
! for an ordinary human being to walk
down them. One must side along,
and when this aisle gets filled with
standing passengers movement becomes
possible only with extreme difficulty
| The seats are so close together that a
person with average length legs Is
unduly cramped and SO narrow that
| the person Oh the outside lopS over into
the aisle In addition. these public We
hicles are insufrerably hot in Summer
time We wonder why the companies
buy them and especially why the Util-
| ity Commission passes them Public
vehicles could furnish the most eco
nomical and most pleasant form Of
| transportation under present traffic con-
ditioEs, but are lacking largely in the
second particular. We would like to
see this blade shsrpened nearer to our
hearts desire AS inspector for the
public veal, we loudly proclaim This
won't do a superb job Of shaving" and
hold forth our hand for double pay.
We wonder why they pave streets
| neatly with concrete and then rs neatly
dig them up again to pat In telephone
cunduits or something. We have seen
have been told Of other cases wherein
brandneW street was dug up shortly
after it was put down. This blade needs
sharpening terribly. This city Is grow
ing with such leaps and bounds that
perhaps all Of these matters cannot be
taken care of, but certainly co-ordina-
ton seems lacking somewhere.
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Barber shops and restaurants are
faulty blades. in so far as We are con-
cerned, and in so far as hundreds of
men arc concerned, We verify believe,
else We would not dare to put down a
line here We detest barber shops COR
daily, not because we do not realize
the great things they do for masculine
mankind. but simply because they in
sist On keeping sweep-up boys, or what
ever they call EN-. Barber shop por-
tiers are relics of past days. when men
somehow had the universal idea that
some servitor ought to be handy TO
| yank up their overcoat by the neck
upon demand. Personally we always
/ thought this service unnecessary and
extremely uncomfortable in practice,
and now We rejoice to see that most
men feel the same way about 1t. Bar
| Der shops however. still keep these
boys-rusty blades all.
| AS for restaurants. surely many OF
| them might be made over to the hearts
| desire, with pro both to the proprietor
| and customers. What do men like2
| Quiet, dignity, cleanliness and good
! food--these are some of the things
; they seek and none too often find An
/ individual establishment may serve up
one or more, but all of them all too
| seldom. Then usually there Is boy
mopping up under ones feet or cold
blast blowing in through a window.
Walters ought to be prohibited from
saying anything more than Yes. sir. =
and mo, sir, preferably the former,
since most persons like to be agreed
with
/ Another thing We don't like Is noise.
! The more civilized mankind gets the
noiSier 1t becomes. We would like to
ask why dairies are the only business
establishments which deliver their
products In the so-called wee small
| hours. and why their delivery men cam
| not be instructed to do less clanking OF
/ bottles and slanming around of crates
! beneath one chamber window? We
! would like to know why the owner OF q
| radio set cannot turn the blamed thing
down bit at 10 or Il o'clock. and why
| the family entertaining guests must
| make SO much noise and keep it up so
/ long? But these, after all. are aca-
| de questions. Our hope simply Is
| that We have demonstrated our right
/ to double pay for having discovered a
| few blades oil city life which won't do
| even fair job, let alone superb one