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Show RAILROADING DELUXE The trend in railroad car designing design-ing has us dizzy. It's all very well to spring a new de luxe car once or - twice a year but when they come out once or twice an hour it is too much. Having done about everything possible to the outside of our trains, the boys now are working wonders with the inside. One road has just come out with a recreation car which includes (cross my heart! ) a game and reading lounge, a children's inclosed in-closed playroom, an automat lunch, a sunken buffet lounge and a news-reel news-reel theater! We have come to a point on our railroads where everything is so cozy that a passenger finds life drab and unbearable when he gets off. This latest recreation car has everything except a bowling alley, squash court, swimming pool and fishing lodge. The motif is so swanky that when a conductor con-ductor enters be seems almost an ! Intruder from the other side of the tracks. Noting the "In case of emergency' cord a passenger Is apt to interpret it as an emergency emer-gency when a card table wabbles, the griddlecakes are underdone or the movies are blurred. , Nobody will deny that for years there has been a crying need for improvement in railroad cars, but the present pace in modernization is dazzling. Changes come out so rapidly that a passenger no longer is surprised if an orchestra pit and lunken garden are added during A station stop. The result is disquieting. We like comfort and a little swank, but when we board a choo-choo these days we feel as uncertain as when we are going through a night club on which the workmen still arc busy. We have a feeling the conductor con-ductor may ask us at any moment to step forward while a nev. rumpus room is installed. When we take a de luxe train we keep wondering whether we are going to be disturbed by paper hangers, rug layers and interior decorators between stops. We observed a puzzled lady board a super-duper train recently re-cently and ask, "Can you direct me to the railroad car?' , Our trains are becoming Alice-in-Wonderland studios in pastels, murals, panels and upholstery trends. There are moments when we are not sure whether we are going places by railroad or by Good Housekeeping and Vogue. And then there was the case of the two girls who disgustedly exclaimed after walking through four cars, "What! No floor show?" John Ringling North says he will not permit general broadcasting of the circus by television. This is a source of relief to countless housewives. Once the elephants come stomping into the living room by video it will be a frightful job sweeping the peanut shucks from the rugs. And it would be confusing too. At times we couldn't be too sure which was Gargantua and which was the radio commentator. PRAISE FOR U. N. It's weak and sick. It's pale and thin, But it's a darned good league For the shape it's in. The Country Editor Says: Jason Wiggs who used to worry over things like saving tinfoil and cigarette pictures now is a leader in the Save Europe campaign. Deke Bumble broke his silence in the 1948 political campaign this morning and came out for the first candidate who doesn't grin much. Mr. and Mrs. Luke Whipple are recovering slowly after a long spell of trying to assemble their new prefabricated $10,000 home. We have looked over that new half dollar critically. Our verdict is that It Is not worth a nickel. There are times when General Marshall must wish he was back In a nice, big war where he could get some place. Warren Wright, who takes most of the derbies with his super racing stable, Is a baking soda tycoon. Thus, in a way, is the home linked up with the turf. When we think of Citation we think of mother in the kitchen making bread and cookies . . . at the mention of Coaltown our mind centers on thousands of housewives baking a cake or preparing pre-paring a potpie. We love horses and it comforts us to dwell on the fact that there is such a strong tie between a horse and a cruller. |