The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-16
Fair Enough
Nv wEsTBROOK PEGLER
fcorvrieht 1945, by King Features Syndicate.


PLAYWRIGHT. 1915, by King Features Syndicate.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 81 tell you honest, I
inst went into this hotel because had a date
for lunch with an old rleno' supreme court
;,,c+ico who had flown up for his dancing les
son and was Just waiting there in the lobby,
causing no disturbance, when the manager he
come IN with a half-brick in his hand and
he said. 'be ABSENT he said, ''be missing
he said because we haven't got any rooms
and we aren't taking any reservations and I
am getting sick and tired OF people coming
in here trying to rent rooms ana o11er1ng us
S25 night for a little $500 hea-oag and
hundred dollar bonus for our klnoness because
it is buns like you throwing money around
who are making Life miserable for honest hotel
men and it is nothing but Imitation and you
ought to be patriotic and stay the hell home
Honest" l said, 81 wasn't even thinking
about room and all as l wanted, why my
old friend the justice he is coming up for his
dancing lesson, SO asked him to lunch and
he was going to meet me here and then we
were going
.nThat is new stau,'' he said, land have
heard plenty of good ones especially since We
day and then Eisenhower day ana Nl1nltz DAY
but we have got you covered ana you make
one move toward that registration desk or you
trv to pull sneak up the back stairs and
over I had to hire 20 of the most insulting,
crooked, nasty-talking guys that could lind
and spread them around for room clerks, tele-
phone operators and walters so l inquired the
Labor Relations board was the logical place
so sent down and got me slew OF thelr
best agents and most of them are communist
lawyers trained for years In acting dirty and
underhanded and naturally they inquired here
was wonderful chance to louise up our repu-
,I>1so ooSh onSrlnf
ment."
Excusng himself, he put out his root and
deliberately tripped an old lady so that she
fell against pillar and got black eye.
Nothing feazes them, thought he said.
spill SOUP on them or chicken king, lose their
laundry. it makes no difference. You can't in
suit them. Why those labor relations crum-
mics are practically ready to commit suicide
because here for more than two weeks they
have been snarling and sneerlng at the GUS
toners balling up their phone calls and wax
ing them up in the middle OF their sleep with
wrong numbers and instead of being sore why
when their five days are up you ought to hear
them whine for just few days more
what for do you do the customers that
way, anyway I asked him. You used to
treat customers real nice here"
because why don't they stay home where
WV SSAANAAS
New York and crowding up things so you
can't get taxi and people walk all the way
from Grand Central carrying heavy baggage
and we have to spread cots in the dining
rooms and not night goes by but dozen
war veterans and their little wives and some
times baby, even and their home-folks are
bunking in the chairs in the lobby: That IS
why. In Bryant park, too, until 1t got too cold,
and some of them flop on the benches IN
Do,, cfofin aod fhraa old
ladies drove up from Georgia expecting rooms
because they were old customers and they
slept the night in their car right out in front
and it served them right for not staying home
And now,'' he said the fleet is coming
up from the Pacific and starting this week
we are going to have 10000 sailors and ma
rines loose on the town and their families COM
ing on to see them first time since they went
away to the war and that is going to last
anyway two weeks and already the jam has
backed up as far as Newark and Stamford
and even there the hotels are turning them
away and so you come tripping gayly in want
ing "a
81 don't want no such thing I insisted.
I told you my friend the supreme court
justice was coming up for his dancing lesson
so 1 made date
'Well,'' he said, "you look like you want a
room and all these buyers in town and they
can't get any merchandise so they hang
around using up space and business men are
great hands to talk, talk, talk before they can
reconvert and it is the same all over town
and the only way can see why anybody
wants room well you have to be nominated
at birth, like for Groton."
guess the dancing teacher kept the Justice
after school because I saw it was half.past
two so walked away and the manager said
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