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Show M ay be His Name's Agamemnon! No longer will "George," the dusky Pullman porter, answer to that well-known cognomen. The Brotherhood of Slop Car Porters will see to that. The brotherhood asks travelers to call porters by their real names. The brotherhood tells the railroad companies Ji.t purars' names must be hung in their respective cars. Travelers will commit grave Pullmanic errors at first. So accustomed have we become to calling each and sundry porters "George," that we must be forgiven while we practice the new custom of "Rastusing," "Franking," or "Charleying" them. But the brotherhood is right in recognizing the worth of personal dignity to any employe. No minister, no plumber, no barber, no doctor, would have endured silently throughout the years a custom of wholesale name labeling on his profession. A race of porters known collectively as "George," but !;riown individually its personalities, will make beds softer, ihine shoes brighter and bring the ladder with more speed ! nd agility. |