Show I CENTRAL Il IE FLIVVER 6 The auto to auto telephone is near at nt hand The American Telephone and Telegraph company announces that it will soon be in operation to to- together together together gether with house to car and office to car phone talks From the talky we progress to the cabby e After the war possibly before an anI I automobile will have a telephone number The wife will put in a call from the house and a buzzer on the dashboard will buzz Presto Prestol The automobile becomes part car part house part office and part phone booth I e But ut if the thc boss can get you by phone that way it marks the end of the automobile as a pleasure ve- ve ve v hicle l cle One of the chief charms of an auto has always been that you could get getaway getaway getaway away from it all No matter what might happen nobody could get you on the phone and after you had pulled over into a say say say- Sorry I guess I have the wrong number 1 Add the telephone call caU to the red light the detour sign the motor motor- motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle cycle cop and the federal car tax and what have you yon got Certainly not added comfort You are transforming the flivver into a phone booth with tire Trouble and hot brakes e Complications will be many once it becomes possible to link home sweet home with the wagon beach-wagon and the imperial sedan by phone We await the new of What auto are you calling That sedan is busy now The flivver that called you yoo has hung up and Theres no such car in the book It will mean one more automobile gadget to be fixed too From now on you will never ne be sure when something goes wrong with the old bus whether to take it to a garage or to the telephone com com- pany e Well We'll take a motorcycle motorcycle and and no phone service I S THE TOE GENERALS GENERAL'S AMBITION Al Id like to come back here some someday someday someday day and do some like in inthe inthe inthe the old days General General Eisenhower er at Abilene Just to go again for catfish In the haunts of boyhood days days days- Just to watch the old cork bobbin Where the big one often orten plays Far from wars and consultations Far from the plot and counterplot With no hard looks or suspicions Anywhere around the spot Just to get up rested With no schedule for the morn And no problem to be handled So no new wars will be born Just to don a pair of jumpers And a shirt the worse for wear With no stripes or bars or medals And the day all a free from fro care Not a thought of lords and rulers rulers- Not a fast plane to be made made- Not a word concerning Moscow London Berlin or or Belgrade Not a paper up for signing signing- No Wo excitement and no glow v TILL YOU SEE THE TOE WATER RIP RIP- RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLE AND A BOBBIN GO BELOW S Postwar Wonders Auto makers are displaying the new models It is wonderful to be beable beable beable able to get a peek at the handsome new model you will have to go with with- without without without out for another year or two e Customer after looking at a new auto model Very model Very pretty What year may I expect a a. demonstration And Chief Johnson there will not be enough e ough new autos to satisfy the demand for three full years We recommend Mr John John- Johnson Johnson Johnson son for the office of Administration of National Mean Weather Intermittent rain Ive I've learned Which forecasts tell about Is rain that stops when I go in inAnd inAnd And starts when I come out Vigorous Dramatic Criticism John Chapman thinks think it might be a good thing if i theater patrons let themselves go gothe gothe gothe the nay it-ay baseball aru fain ans do registering their displeasure without restraint We If e indorse the idea e A d careful inspection oj of o the theater con eon convinces vinces lu u that not enough pop bottles ej are arc thrown n roun during performances Harry Truman must feel pretty peeved at the fellows who said Go ahead and run for the vice presidency cy its it's quite an honor and it wont won't take any time or worry Harry t t |