| Show Pre Prevailing V Comment of the American Opinions Press Press Press- ion s I Take This Seat Lady As a gesture the custom of a man relinquishing his seat in a street car or bus to toa toa toa into a woman has well-nigh well gone the discard Even as an act of common decency where it is in indicated indicated indicated in- in b by th the age or condition of the particular woman it is the exception rather than the rule Probably the underlying reason or shall we say excuse for the change if put into words would run something like this They asked for it They wanted to work and vote the same as we do Let em take the same chances for a seat And present seating arrangements arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar are considerable help too a man can get a seat next to the window bury his nose in his newspaper and pretend to himself himself him him- self he does not see the tired woman passenger standing a few feet away There is no need of course for fora a man to jump up like liko a jack-in- jack the-box the whenever a woman enters enters enters en en- a conveyance in which he is riding Nor is he under any duty to offer his seat to a female merely merely merely mere mere- ly because of her sex it looks foolish when she is a young girl or one of the obviously athletic sisters and it is the part of discretion discretion discretion dis dis- dis- dis not to be too prompt where the woman is in middle age for fear of seeming to call attention to her years There are occasions however when men who give the Impression they are still virile and undoubtedly re regard regard regard re- re gard themselves as so earn considerable considerable con con- silent contempt from fellow passengers for failure to give up their seats to women Old women women old old beyond pretense pretense pretense pre pre- tense of anything else women old enough to be the mothers or grandmothers of the males who cling to their seats tired women laden with bundles women with with fatigue or illness written in the L J lines of their faces and the droop of their shoulders women with l children in their arms or clinging to their skirts yes and there and there is no need to be squeamish about it pregnant women women there there is still some pregnancy in the world and the evidences of approaching motherhood are still known to tomen tomen tomen men or ought to be These are some of the women who despite the nineteenth amendment and the place woman generally has taken in the workaday world are still entitled to the special care and protection American men used to be proud to give them The The Oregonian Amusement Machines Machin s The American people have a 11 passion for dropping nickels They drop the coins in the slot of gambling machines in the rare hope that Professor Newtons Newton's law of gravity plus the law of averages averages averages aver aver- ages will be repealed and they'll get something back But a heartless law infringes on the impulse to commit poverty by pennies and slot machines are being prohibited t J What next there next there must be a away away away way for people to throw throwaway away money So automatic device engineers are staying awake nights trying to Invent a new nickel catcher possibly something which will contribute to amusement like the ferry depot phonographs But something new is wanted wanted- well for Montgomery street a machine which for a nickel will give a tip on the market for a high school district one which will answer the algebra questions and for the Spinsters' Spinsters home a machine which will deliver a flattering flattering flattering flat flat- love letter San letter San Francisco Exa Examiner iner Z Parking Rights The owner of property has as much right to the street abutting his property as the owner of water water wa wa- vater va- va ter frontage has to dockage Access to his place of business is isan isan isan an essential of its use and value to him So says the Chicago Tribune editorially And there is considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable plausibility in the ment An owner of commercial property certainly has reason to defend his right to reserve his curb space for his patrons just justas as a householder feels entitled to regard the curb in front of his I home as a place for use by himself himself himself him him- self and his guests This theory is something to pander ponder ponder pon pan der in relation to the parking problem and it is certainly something something something some some- thing to give pause to the parking meter advocates It is conceivable that if installation of the meters were ordered a loop property owner owner owner own own- er could raise objections to their being placed on curbs in front of his property And he might have a pretty case at that Parking meters run into a tangle tangle tangle tan tan- gle of theories on public rights and property rights To avoid getting getting getting get get- ting Into such a tangle it might be best for all concerned to avoid the meters meters especially especially as the public public pub pub- lic lie has shown no burning desire for them anyway The The Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis Star Devastation of War WarThe WarThe WarThe The restoration of the great cathedral at Rheims devastated in the World war has been completed completed com corn after 10 years of labor and it has been reopened for worship Built in the early part of the thirteenth century it had survived survived survived sur sur- until the worlds world's greatest conflict destroyed it In Madrid many relics of an an- have been shattered by the internecine war and the end Is not yet How long nl will it U take Madrid arand ar- ar and Shanghai on the other war front to rise from the ruins of war after the return of peace A more convincing proof of the utter futility and hopeless waste of war could scarcely be con con- Herald Herald and Express |
