Smyrna times., 1936-07-09

garding the passing throngs with
deep-set, smoldering eyes Moro
housewives looking at fish swim
ming in tanks Tenement moth
ers shouting down orders to chill.
dren from upper windows
Washings Tapping high above lit
tered court yards A push cart
pickle vender crying his wares
A white-bearded ancient trundling
little hand organ on dismantled
baby carriage A bearded pa-
triarch reading by the light of q
Pickering candle.
Harassed Citizens: Having made
my peace with the governmental
least / paid the first quarter and
am trusting to luck to scrape I'D the
other three-now I find that the
state of New York will have to be
dealt with. Whoever designed the
blank for the Empire States income
tax must have been the originator
of codes used during war times. I
haven't the slightest idea how to fiji
it out. But I CLEAN enough to know
that I owe the state and owe plety.
I'm wondering If l couldn't arrange
with Uncle Sam and Governor Leh-
man to take over my salary and al
low me enough to live on. I'd be
better off all around and wouldn't
have to fill out those forms. Very
respectfully, John S. s." Sounds
good to mel
1t was at the court hearing that
the young mans story became
known. He might have been born
in Warsaw or Shanghai. he said. Or
he might have been born in the
United States. His mother never
would tell him and, naturally. he
had no memory of that particular
event. He saw his mother last a
year ago in Texas. He doesn't know
where she is now, since they never
correspond. His sister once lived
in Juarez. Mexico. and he thinks
she is now living in Cuba. He
doesn't know what became Of his
father, but he does remember trav-
cling with his parents in Japan.
China, Poland, Russia. Siberia, Af-
rica, South America. Mexico and
the United States. Now he'd like
to settle down somewhere and rest
after all his wanderings.
Rones came into the United States
after visit with his sister in Juar-
ez. He said he merely walked across
the bridge at FL Paso. An immi-
grafton officer asked him If he was
a citizen and he replied, "Sure"
That was all the formality of his
entry into the country where he
is a man without a country.
In this matter of fact. machine
age, there is still some sentiment
That was demonstrated recently at
Pelham, one of the committing
towns where many who labor in
New York by day sleep by night
and putter IN their gardens over
the weekend. For almost 40 years.
a trolley car has banged between
the New Haven station and Travers
island. The line is two miles in
length but so full of bumps. passen-
gers travel Just about as much up
and-down as they do here-and-there.
For some time, the trolley company
has been seeking to substitute shiny
new busses for the old car. Recent
ly an election was held on the mat
ter and the busses lost out by a
vote of about five to one.
While there was the matter of
fare involved-the trolley ride costs
a nickel and the proposed charge
for the busses was a dime-senti-
ment can really be held to have
been the victor. In the first place.
there are Louis Mates. the skipper
of the car, and his relief man. Ed
die Glaser, who have been with the
line years and years. They know
every patron and are always ready
to do a favor. even to leaving a
call for someone who isn't on hand |
for his regular trip. Naturally
Louis and Eddie have their friends
and they turned out to vote Oh
yes, something else. The old car
was Fontaine Fox's inspiration for |
his "The bonneville trolley that |
meets all the trains" And that had |
something to do with 1t, too. So |
instead of putting on busses. the |
company will spend about $4,000 |
leveling some of the bumps.
The League for Less Noise has |
been putting the meter on the loud
spots in New York and has discoV-
erred that there is more din In the
vicinity of Bellevue hospital, which
is the city's largest institution LOT
the sick, than at Broadway and For
ty-second street, which is supposed
to be the "cross roads OF the
world" Noise is measured In deci-
bells. The average decibel output