Show PRESENT DAY ECONOMY undermines ca clink in k of dime ime Is L eath death knell of F parting arting era THE proverbial NICKEL PHONE CALL by H 1 PHILLIPS THE NICKELS LAST STAND AMERICAN MERICAN TE TELEPHONE corn companies are experimenting with 10 cont cent pay stations which abolish the proverbial 5 cent call even talk la Is to be more expensive than ever 4 in some cities field tests are being made with now new phone booth I 1 dime a call machines we presume the tests have two purposes 1 I 1 to see how the apparatus works 2 to note how loudly the user squawks the to telephone lep hone business aint what it used to be and the be companies are up against terrific costs for all we know ilic nickel phone call Is as eco unsound as t the it e nickel bus fare the nickel hot dog and the nickel movie but a bigger alg fight Is likely as the public has been brought up on the 5 cent phone call it may oven even regard the telephone booth as the nickels last st stand and it has seen the 5 cent piece replaced in most every ever field but there is something about acing it from a phone booth that fills many a heart with anguish one of the few things left in america at the old price is the nickel phone booth it stands almost by itself as a place a man may enter without asking 1 I wonder how prices have gone up in here since iwas I 1 was around last time there has always been something t ing about the ibe clan clink of a nickel in a phone booth that made sweet music and of late it has conveyed unmistakably the soothing proof that there was still something in america not out of reach of a man in the lowr lower e brackets even it if you made the call and found your girl has just left for dinner with somebody else it seem exorbitant but when it takes a dime to get the same sameness news it will be something else again 4 0 we can see the phone corn panics point there is not the money in conversation that there used to be it costs twice as much to produce number please as it did 10 years ago the companies say they are losing money on the transaction at nickel pay station rates nevertheless we look for a hot time at hearings before the public service commissions elmer twitchell is among those who will be present with some novel pleas 1 I may not fight the abolition of the nickel call if the figures show it is necessary he said but I 1 will demand that a 10 cent phone booth be made twice as roomy as a nickel ofie one III 1 I want it better ventilated too he be continued ins ina nickel phone booth you are practically in solitary confinement it if I 1 pay a dime I 1 may even demand a soft chair and maybe television A dream house raffled oft off on sixth avenue new york had bar to be sold by the owner for 1000 because of the costs of moving and reassembling news item want a lovely dream house take a chance you must win it and my de dearies deakles arles how the dream will bastl fifty cents a ticket give your luck a tryl who will get g et the building some fast dollar guyl guy it beems seems to us the dream house might have been advertised as having hot and cold indifference a fine view of snafu crossed up ventilation and an acre of head aches YE y E GOTHAM BUGLE BANNER A baltish parliament member says john bull will no not bs be kicked around by unlettered pot poi bellied money magnates from she US tah this Is the be first indication anybody could look at af uncle sam and sing res hes too tat fat hes her too fat hes too loo fat for me ye yead eit hears Jol sons next pictures will be called jolson hits HAs the jackpot n jolson follows through or H jolson takes fort for knox anax the driver who I 1 killed margaro margaret mitchell and who is alleged to have been drunk speeding and on the wrong side of 01 the be road as welt well as a repeated offender against traffic laws is charged merely with involuntary manslaughter ahe penalty for which is one to three years ye arstIl fl why movie review readers go goa mad the second jolson film Is noti not as sentimental nor as heart warrn warm tag ing as its predecessor kate cameron of 01 course the plot of the new jolson movie is soggy with senti gentl ment the songs drip with bostal gla jim oconnor |