Show i GUS DECIDES TO FO GIVE UP HIS TELEPHONE I r b 6 HAI are arc V you ou u doing with wIlh the theY WHAT Y telephone asked Mr 1 Jarr Vy It Is mIL mit the telephone said ald Gus the 4 saloonkeeper per You cant can't run your business withOut with with- Out a 3 telephone said Mr Ir Jarr miss It It I tell ten you ou h Maybe It ia is I miss It it but I can run c my business without It It said Gus It It rf dont don't look like that people w who ho want to run my business and people who a want me mo to run their business can got get et along a telephone replied Gus But what good Is It to me Can I Isell sell a Q pint o of beer over the telephone I Dont Don't oven them orders that comes t I. to wrap up half halt a dozen doen bottles beer and a a. quart of ot case Roods goods whisky to is r. r look like lIko groceries come como from people t th that wants to s swing me I i l uon ILVa i 1 see inai saId Sulu Air Mr Jarr I I Well Vell Its It's true replied Gus A F feller what has money will como come In and bu buy stuff sturt to take home but tho the feller faller what to swing me will use the telephone at my busy buey time and when I send lend Elmer my bartender OIL mil the r package unless I think to say Get Gel i the mono money first they'll theU tell teU Elmer the thc they paid for tor the tho stuff or to toll tell mo me that they'll thell pay for tor It tho the first time limo the they pass But they dont don't they go around the other wa way J Xo No o Use Une at et AllBut All But It its it's handy bandy to order things and t F U. U its it's a a. convenience e in to many ways was said sahl Mr h JarrIt Jarr I It aint nothing but a R to other people asserted Gus I I re remember remember re- re member them thorn telephones when they first had them when I was a a. greenhorn green green- 4 horn and worked In m my brother ln in- in laws lawR liquor store and the time loafers made I. I mo me believe that the tel telephones couldn't talk German o er them and when the bell rang I u used ed to set em cm up to them loafers loafer to answer tho telephone an and d tell me mo what It ft hut But ut you know better now said Mr Ir Jarr JarF Sure I know better I now re re- re marked Gus complacently I know know a whole lot better now I know that thai t when I ain aint t here Elmer u use es It t to o Milwaukee where he comes from and and 1 m my wife uses ulles it t. t to Waukegan auke ln and m my Y law in what is 19 too stingy t to o eat cat a n cold potato In the sunlight fo for tor r fear his would ax him for a t bite ho he calls up hero here and reverses tit the tho o char charges es Everybody in this neigh a I pa pay me if IC the they can help It And the they thoy use them long distance calls when El Elmer Elmer EI mer is here alone alono and pays pas him for a local loca Is that all ally asked aske 1 Mr Ir Jarr No that aint alt all said Gus Every bod body that lives JIves around here and what wha t aint got no telephone calls cans me u up p and says saya Gus will you send 1 somebody some some- body up to m my flat nat on tho time top stor story doors above e and tell my wife wIto I r aint coming home homo to dinner An And d when that is delivered don lont t the tho think their mans Is i In n m my liquor store spending their mone money y and not coming home And nd even tim the e Immon that give I e me such a n sour sou r face calls caBs me up from down lown town an and d axes me to run up to put the meat mea t and dumplings on for tor supper or t to o send OUt find and crot s-et r af n 0 a st ak ninn flip fI y i ls Is s going to bring c company lp n il home borne l You shouldn't mind being sUg suggested Mr Ill Jarr I hI dont don't want to get a R roasting when n there Is a mistake in the an and wh why should 1 I be bo accommodating asked askell Gus Aint that what a dru drug diug g store Js is for Them drug stores ca can n make malc mono money delivering dell free fee telephone ne and soiling selling stamps and le letting let let- t- t ting people look Ift the but I cant can't do o it So raus mit del dei tel telephone tele- tele e- e phone stop receiving mall mail next said slim Mr h Jarr Sure I J would woul l like to said Gus Gu s such What hat i letters d does es an anybody set get b hut but ut Insults and people asking to get ct ern em a club mit y you OU And fellers our your Influence e what has swung OU writ writes you es that the they Is starving star to death and to send them 2 and anal send y you ou letters telling you ou to because se you run runa a place that should be raid raided ed uses this telephone and do dont don't and take all honest working me mens men's ns n's mone money No I J think It ll w would uW be a go good od thing If It no letters came to anybody dy You ou never get a letter Jetter mil mit nn any go good od news that anybody you ou know la Is de dead or anything like that And so I do dont don't nt no letters to anybody and I do dont don't nt want anybody to write an any letters me to better stop top tho the mall man m an from coming then than said Mr Ir Jarr I I tr try to to but hut ho says s 's ho he Is d is- is charged III hIs duty uty and I him to lose his lints dont don't w want not Job fob said Gus r I don dont don't t get nothing but bills unit mil Please Plea Plc se remit on th them m. m but I 1 get rid of or them |