Show LIGHTS I T a 3 7 f WALTERf TRUM 8 WALTER ULL R of off NEW T 1 ilE Y YORK New Neu York vork Is ls a city where If It you wish anyone to know you have ha been away you ou have e to mention the fact Under ordinary circumstances when you rou dont don't happen to see some one for a n few days weeks months or years you merely assume that he has moved over by another subway line and has found Cound a new movie the the- theater theater liter ater and a new v crowd of ac One has to move only about ten blocks In New York to get Into an Rn entirely different vII vil lage village with a new set of neighborhood stores new mailmen new paper boys paperboys and new neighbors And should you OU meet one of the old neighbors after a month or so of 01 absence he probably will resume thE conversation con just where you left off I I II I never ne shall forget something Will Irwin told me long ago lie had been In Europe for long months as af asa aa I II a war correspondent before the I United States Slates was drawn n Into the conflict had seen things s and had returned full of hi his experiences and eager to tell some somebody somebody somebody body about them He went to ont ont- of his clubs and the first member he met said he be was glad to see him because he wished to talk to him about several se things he thought should be brought before the house committee One of them concerned time the dining room and another th the manner In which affairs In the lard liard room were being handled Mr IrwIn said that be he had bad been away and was a little out of touch The member said his vacation evidently e had done him good that he be hoped to get away for Cor a week or two him him- himself himself himself self but that as they now were both present It seemed a n good time timeto timeto timeto to get et Into the Important matters he had mentioned So I cannot expect the fact that thaI I have been In the lie Middle West for fora fora fora a few da days s 's to make any great im impression on the life of our city Still StillI I 1 learned a few things on the trIp trIpA tripA tripA A conductor for example told mE that so far as his bis run was con con- concerned be he thought travel tra was pick picking pickIng Ing up a little He also told me that certain manufacturers who had journeyed with him to a convention had appeared to be unusually cheer cheerful cheerful cheerful ful for these times and claimed to see an Increase In their business forthe forthe for forthe the coming year Pat McGIll the wrestler and a avery avery avery happened to be on very good one the same train on which 1 returned and showed me a picture of hI his three children which visibly proved that thereas there was as nothing the mutter matter with the younger generation In the vicinity of Omaha I 1 never saw sawn sawa sawa n a photograph of three happier healthier looking youngsters Turn Turn- TurnIng TurnIng Turning ing from family affairs to business McGill told t ld me he saw a chance to tomake tomake tomake make a little something on his hogs hogsand and at least break even on his cat cattle tie tle tie although he said the farming business was as not In the pink of con con- condItion condition condition We rather agreed that what I would help the farmer most would I be to get the country In general back to work and thus restore purchasIng purchasing ing power and Increase the market for farm Carm produce The trick of course Is to do It It That Is la some some- something something something thing for the new administration to work out McGIll Is a likable generous fel- fel fellow fel fellow low who speaks well of his fellow craftsmen lie fie told me he lie consid consid- considered considered considered ered Lewis and really great wrestlers In fact he commended almost every wrestler concerning whom I asked him bin although be he ad- ad admitted ad admitted that some were better than others He tIe thinks that the wrest wrest- wrestlers wrestlers wrestlers lers of today are as good as any who ever er lived and ond that most of the great grapplers are on this sIde of the water Some smart person wrote recent recent- recently recently recently ly that the time depression was doing without some of the things our grandfathers never ne heard of That would seem to be true We have come to regard as necessities many things which did not exist a comparatively com com- comparatively comparatively few years ago A lot of of those things actually are lux lux- lux- lux luxuries luxuries luxuries uries which we too could do dp without 1933 l Bell nell syndicate WN Syndicate |