Show THE PEDDLER NUISANCE house to house peddlers and solicitors of orders for this and that are becoming an ever greater nuisance to the american home as any housewife might truthfully testify still the housewife whose home is constantly invaded by these itinerant super salesmen has the remedy in her own hands A timely suggestion along this line is made by prof conrad of the new jersey teachers college who points out that the peddler who boasts that his firm has no store is trying to make a store out of your home you are expected to furnish a place where he may do business free from the expense which other merchants must pay besides he insists on making you shop at his convenience no matter how much it may interfere with your daily routine he takes up your time arguing you into buying something that in most cases you neither want I 1 nor need sometimes you buy to get rid of him when you ought to say this is a home not a place of business and I 1 am not going to allow you to use it as a store good day that might seem rather in considerate but it is one way of discouraging the peddler I 1 who has not the slightest consideration for your peace and comfort but uses your home as a market place in unfair competition with home merchants who pay rent taxes license fees and in other ways contribute to the welfare of the community humorists cant always be good the later wickersham reports were not nearly go funny as the one on prohibition by his adamantine resistance to critics chairman stone of the federal farm board appears to be living up to his name pathfinder thinks business blues are more dangerous to this country than russian reds A dog went over niagara falls and lived which is bigger news than if it had been a cat speakeasy waiters in detroit have formed a secret society the password is probably sh h h h possibly it was unemployment that impelled the to sell eve on that apple proposition I 1 while viewing the struggle between fascism and bolshevism we prefer to stick to americanism mr was recently photographed raking hay but perhaps that has no political significance i to make their victims humiliation complete chicago gangsters took him for a ride in an austin |