Show I Patience Personified I IE WE E HAVE been accustomed to marvel at the stolid patience of the oriental who would spend fifty years embroidering the robe of a mandarin and anddie die die happy if he received as much as 7 cash for his lifes life's effort We Ve have wondered at the patience of f the peasants of Europe EuroP e that make their fields on rocky cliffs that pa pack k the earth for their f fields in baskets on on their backs up the stony paths and that draw th their ir wooden plows by their own shoulder muscles and straining legs But to us th the patience of th the average American these a tid td all aU understanding besides Because the oriental and the European know no better and cannot escape escaPa while the American Americ n endures outrageous conditions without protest knowing they are outrageous Just now we are thinking of the fortitude under constant irritation displayed by the national league of straphangers Because no management has lias yet discovered how to acquire e enough ough cars to serve rush hour traffic without passing dividends about half the city workers df J. J the nation hang on with tooth and claw six nights and mornings in the week i The streetcar is everywhere unequal to the public peak load oad o oC tr traffic Nobody dY exp expects that at the si situation will get any better Indeed the general impression is that we are likely to pay still stillmore stillmore more for the same or worse service and may be lucky if we have city any private car corporations at all in a few years So we suffer s mostly in silence and so 50 far as we know not one American city h has even started to investigate in the th hope of discovering ring some sone new newn n means means ans of transportation |