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Show I fhl.Phillipr Jr CENTRAL, GIMME FLIVVER 6-828' The auto to auto telephone Is near at hand. The American Telephone and Telegraph company announces that It will soon be in operation together to-gether with house to car and office to car phone talks. From the walky-talky we prog reea to the cabby-gabby. After the war, possibly before, an automobile will have a telephone number. The wife will put in a call from the house and a buzzer on the dashboard will buzz. Presto! The automobile becomes part car, part house, part office and part phone booth! But If the boss can get you by phone that way It marks the end of the automobile as a pleasure vehicle. ve-hicle. One of the chief charms of an auto has always been that you could get away from it all. No matter what might happen, nobody could get you on the phone and, after you had pulled over into a sldestreet, say "Sorry, I guess I have the wrong number." Add the telephone call to the red light, the detour sign, the motor-i motor-i cycle cop and the federal car tax, and what have you got? Certainly not added comfort. You are transforming the flivver into a phone booth with tire trouble i and hot brakes. Complications will be many once It becomes possible to link home sweet home with the beach-wngon ', and the imperial sedan by phone. We await the new exasperations of "What auto arc you calling?", ; "That sedan Is busy now." "The flivver that called you has hung up," and "There's no such car in the ; book." It will mean one more automobile gadget to be fixed, too. From now on you will never be sure when something goes wrong with the old bus whether to take It Ut a garage or to the telephone com-' com-' pany. -- We'll take a motorcycle and no j phone service! THE GENERAL'S AMBITION ("I'd like to come back here some i day and do some catfishing like in the old days." General Eisenhower Eisenhow-er at Abilene.) Just to go again for catfish In the haunts of boyhood days Just to watch the old eork bobbin Where the big one often plays. . . . Far from wars and consultations Far from the plot and counterplot i With no hard looks or suspiclona Anywhere around the spot. . . . Just to get up feelln' rested, With no srhcdule for the morn. And no problem to be handled So no new wars will be born. . . , Just to don a pair of jumper And a shirt the worse for wear. With no stripes or bars or medals And the day all free from care . . , Not thought of lords and rulers Not a fast plane to be made Not a word concerning Moscow, London, Berlin or Belgrade. . . . Not a paper up for signing No excitement and no glow TILL YOU SEE THE WATER RIP-PLE RIP-PLE AND A BOBBIN' GO BELOW! Postwar Wonders Auto makers are displaying the new models. It is wonderful to be able to get a peek at the handsome new model you will have to go without with-out for another year or two. Customer (after looking at a new auto model) Very pretty. What year may I expect a demonstration? And ODT Chief Johnson says there will not be enough new autos to satisfy the demand for three full years. We recommend Mr. Johnson John-son for the office of Administration ! of National Joykillers. Mean Weather Intermittent rain, I've learned, Which forecasts tell about. Is rain that stops when I go in And starts when I come out. V igorous Dramatic Criticism John Chapman thinks it might be a good thing if theater patrons let them-I them-I $elves go the way baseball fans do, registering their displeasure without restraint. W e indorse the idea. A careful inspection of the theater ' convinces us that not enough pop bottles bot-tles are thrown during performances, Harry Truman must feel pretty peeved at the fellows who said, "Go ahead and run for the vice presiden-! presiden-! cy; it's quite an honor and it won't take any time or worry." |