Evening star., 1946-06-25

cOmDlned-but you can't get q
hotel room.
For every taxicab that London
has, New York has five-but you
can't get a cab.
There are fifteen restaurants to
a block in this toWn-but you can't
eat.
New York has everything-but the
visitor can't get anything.
The visitor wants to see show.
He wants to go back and tell his
folks he saw a Broadway produc-
ton. But he can't see a show. The
tickets are sold out until late Oc-
tober. The only show I have seen
since arriving here is THE Birth
of Nation" and I had to 20 to
neighborhood movie in the Bronx
for that.
Ready Money the Reason.
They tell me that ready money is
the reason for all this.
They tell me that never in the
history of this country have so many
people had so many dollars to spend
for SO many things.
I have always wanted to visit the
Statue of Liberty. When I first
came to New York, years ago, +
sent postcards of Miss Liberty to all
my friends and relations. Mamma
wrote back, after getting my post
card, that her dream had come
true-that, after all these years, a
McLemore had actually seen the
statue with his own eyes.
didn't want to fool Mamma too
long, 50 went down to the Battery
yesterday with every intention of
visiting Miss Liberty. A polite, cour-
teous. sharp-tongued and surly
guide said for me to get in line.
Nine thousand people were ahead
of me. The Queen Mary could have
made two trips across the bay with
out getting back to where 1 stood.
So tried shopping. I wanted to
buy a remembrance present for
some one I love. New York has the
greatest stores, the biggest stores.
and all that. But you can't buy any
thing. Nine million women are al
ways in front of you. And they all
want everything. My aim was a
wheel for our meat grinder. Now
you would think that not many
people wanted wheel for a meat
grinder. But in New York-or SO
it seems-there is mad, wild rush
for same. So I stood in line. Stood
in line for two hours. When I finally
reached the clerk she said she was
all out of meat grinder wheels.
Gets Eviction Notice.
So I went back to my hotel. There
was a notice under my door telling
me that officially was no longer
in that room. To make sure that /
understood the message, the man.
agement had rented it to a man
and his wife, and they were in the
room when walked in. So I packed
my little grips and started looking
for a place to stay.
Some of my readers are sure to
think that I am exaggerating the
conditions of New York City, All
ask such skeptical souls is one thing
to come right on for a visit and
see with their own eyes.
! The biggest city in the world is
the smallest.
You have to sit on your own lap
in the streetcars and buses.
They sell standing room for Z
good price.
The only thing there is a lot Of /.
money-that's why I am now goinf
out and do a little pocket-picking
If I am caught I defy the Judge tt
give me more than II seconds ir
jail. I will tell him that, after all
Hirohito isn't even being tried
: and he must be the biggest crimina
: of them all. No one will con.
vince me that a man with enough
know-how to be an Emperor didn'
know what was going on the da,
Pearl Harbor was hit.
OF course, may be prejudiced.
don't like Japs. Never will. But ou
country seems to grow fonder ant
fonder of the little buns. And a,
/, for the Germans-why, mercy me
.. you would think that a Germa,
never killed an American boy!
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