Evening star., 1942-09-10


(you know, a bluebird with every
cup of coffee, and an organ recital
and a quart of milk for every man,
woman and child every day. lot OF
little things are going to have to be
done by us little people.
Let us consider some of them.
strictly at random.
Take tips. There never has been
a country that tipped like this one.
but we'll have to put ceiling on
tips. The day when the fellow who
gives you haircut that makes you
look like a thoroughbred French
poodle gets two bits extra, will soon
be thing of the past. He'll get the
standard price for his massacre, and
no more.
The same goes for bellhops. Amer
leans have contributed millions OF
dollars TO fellow Americans for do
ing nothing more than taking one
suitcase to the third floor and open
ing two windows and testing the
hot water in the bathroom. The
day is not far distant when well
carry our own suitcases, open our
own windows, and burn our own
fingers seeing If the hotel boiler is
doing it's work.
1t will be up to us to put ceiling
on the butcher, too. not a price
ceiling. but bone and fat ceiling.
For years butchers have been sell
ing meat that didn't have much
meat on it.
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 to Fletcherize (re-
member Fletcherize? 80 bites be-
fore you swallow to avoid gastric
disturbances. The smallest thing
about lamb chop is the lamb.
Lonesome, afraid, surrounded by
hostile materials, the tiny bit of
edible stuff crouches in a corner.
Well have to tell the butcher that
when we want bone, we'll ask for
bone.
Policemen will have selling put
on them, too. Policemen have run
wild in this country for years. They
have been about as understanding
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 California. That will have to
stop.
1t was all right for them to do
this when the citizen was just citi-
zen, but now that he has been told
that he is the backbone of the
country, and that the fate of the
country Is in his hands, he will have
to be handled with more care and
patience.
There will have to be ceiling put
on banks, too; that is. on the be-
havior of banks. Before very long
no one in this country is going to
have any money, so banks must not
be allowed to fuss at depositors who
oyerdraw. 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 a single
instance where bank ever added
up wrong, or substracted incorrectly.
History does record, however, tens
OF thousands of instance where de-
positors, in going over their ac-
counts, thought they had found the
bank in error, and proceeded to live
In a happy dream world for a few
days. Banks could create an i'm
measurable, amount of good will by
erring occasionally. Banks, perhaps,
feel that depositors would not trust
them II they were not infallible.
They are wrong. People would flock
to bank that was known to be
slightly human and capable of max
ing mistake.
These are just few examples of
the ceilings we will have to impose
In the near future. There are thou
sands of others.
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