Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Mclemore
Talks About
Lille Ceilings
Tips TO Barriers, BelIhops
Found on Way Out

r - tdik ABOUT Celinks 10
- day. Not the big ceilings.
which we will leave TO President
Roosevelt and his staff of eco
nomic advisers. but the little
ceilings which you and / will
eventually have TO take In our
own hands.
Before this war is over. and
we start enjoying the postwar
world that some OF our most
prominent dreamer have
planned for US you know, a
bluebird with every cup Of cof-
fee. and an organ recital and
quart of milk for every man,
woman and child every day.. a
lot OF little things are going
10 have 10 be done for us little
people.
Let us consider some OF them,
strictly at random.
Take tips. There never has
been country that tipped like
this one. but well have to put
a ceiling on tips. The day when
the fellow who gives you hair
cut that makes you look like a
thoroughbred French poodle gets
two bits extra. will soon be a
thing of the past. He'll get the
standard so cents for his mas
sscre, and no more.
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THE same goes for bellhops.
i Americans have contributed
millions OF dollars 10 fellow
Americans for doing nothing
more than taking one suitcase
TO the third floor and opening
two windows and testing the hot
water in the bathroom.
The day is not far distant
when well carry our own sun
ceases. open our own windows,
and burn our own fingers seeing
II the hotel boiler is doing its
work.
1t will be up TO us TO put a
ceiling on the butcher. TOO. not a
price ceiling, but a bone and fat
ceiling.
For years butchers have been
selling meat that didn't have
much meat on II.
Take the average lamb chop.
What do you get? The biggest
thing about lamb chop is the
bone.
The next biggest thing Is a
peninsular-shaped bunch of
leather that Rover has 10
rletcherize remember Fletcher
ize 7-32 bites before you swal-
low to avoid gastric disturb
ances.
The smallest thing about
lamb chop is the lamb. Lone
some. afraid. surrounded by
hostile material. the tiny bit of
edible stuff crouches in q cor
ner. Well have TO tell the
butcher that when we want
bone, we'll ask for bone.
POLICEMEN will have to
L have a ceiling put on them.
too. Policemen have run wild
in this country for years. They
have been ABOUT as understand
ing Of the citizens problems as
spiders are of the troubles of
flies. They have brow-beaten.
sassed. roughed up and bullied
citizens from Maine TO Cali
fornia.
That will have TO stop. It was
all right for them to do this
when the citizen was Just
citizen, but now that he has
been told that he is the back
bone of the country. and that
the fate of the country is in his
hands. he will have to be han
died with more care and pa
thence.
There will have to be a ceiling
put on banks. too: that is on the
behavior of banks.
Before very long no one in
this country is going TO have any
money. so banks must not be
allowed 10 fuss at depositors who
overdraw.
They must be told. and firmly.
that every once in a while they
must make an accounting mis-
take in favor of the patron.
History does not record sim
gle instance where a bank ever
added up wrong, OF substracted
incorrectly.
History does record. however.
tens of thousands OF instances
where depositors. in going over
their accounts. thought they had
found the bank in error. and pro-
ceeded to live in a happy dream
world for a few days.
Banks could create an i'm
measurable amount of goodwill
by erring occasionally. Banks.
perhaps. feel that depositors
would not trust them II they
were not infallible.
They are wrong. People would
flock TO a bank that was known
to be slightly human and capable
Of making a mistake.
These are just a few examples
OF the ceilings we will have TO
impose in the near future. There
are thousands OF others.
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