Show one of the station masters at grand central has a side line he owns a gasoline and oil business on the bos ton post road and he tells me that trade Is poor motorists who used to pull in and say rill her up now count their gallons they buy just enough apparently to set home many ask whether they cannot open a charge account but the station master s son who runs the business in his absence has strict instructions to do only a cash business the only exceptions to this rule queerly enough are boung men who look like college boys they usually pay the next time they go by but just to be on the safe side the gas man takes their license num bers some drivers have ten gallons of gas put in the tanks and then say they have forgotten their pocketbooks that Is all right says the gas man just leave your spare tire tt they drive away without doing so he just telephones a police box down the road and they come back then they usual ly discover some money the station master says the funny thing about the whole affair la that most of the motor LIGHTS OF NEW YORK by WALTER TRUMBULL ests are driving good looking cars many of them new A letter from frank bartman man edl tor of the republican in farmington N M says that he once went to school in pleasant hill mo with frank trumbull later head of the col orado southern michigan central railways I 1 farst met frank trumbull in venice I 1 had preceded him up through italy and the tourist agencies and hotels used to get our mall hope lessly mixed we had a very pleasant time together but never could discover that we belonged to the same branch of the family the history of depressions in the united states appears to be that they list about three years with nine fairly fat years in between those of us therefore who are still around in the early may be expected to go about snorting panic 1 you dont know anything about a panic you are too young to remember 1931 when helen morgan wea in havana the movie people dealdea it would be nice to take a little shot of her buying something in a department store they did not care which store but the managements age ments of the two largest stores in havana cared a lot they were firm in the belief that if miss morgan went on the screen in a store the particular emporium made a lot of difference the contestants turned miss morgans suite at tho hotel into a verbal battleground neither she nor her mother understood spanish but they could perceive that the argument was bitter the battle was at its height when evelyn kelly an old friend of miss morgan arrived not only could she understand spanish but it appeared she had taken a temporary job in the older of the two palaces of merchandise that turned the scales of war miss kellys store won in a walk at the end of which the picture was made miss morgans only bet in cuba was to the extent of a peseta she lost it and not knowing how much a peseta might be proffered a dollar in settlement to her surprise she got 80 cents in change small boys in new york have a habit of jumping up on the bach of and going for a ride they get on when the traffic stops for a red light but the cars run so fast between lighta that they have to wait for the next halt to get off As the taxis begin to slow down the lida leap gaily from their perches seldom looking behind them we always wonder why they dont get killed but never yet hav seen one hurt alk 1932 dell syndicate cirp |