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Show fhl.Phillipr lP 'CENTRAL, GIMME FLIVVER 6-828!' The auto to auto telephone Is near at hand. The American Telephone and Telegraph company announces that it will soon be in operation together to-gether with house to car and office to car phone talks. 1 From the walky-talky we progress to the cabby-gabby. ! After the war, possibly before, an automobile will have a telephone number. The wife will put In a call I from the house and a buzzer on the dashboard will buzz. I Presto! The automobile becomes part car, part house, part office and part phone booth! But If the boss can get yon by phone that way it marks the end of the automobile as a pleasure vehicle. ve-hicle. One of the chief charms of an auto has always been that you could get away from it alL No matter what might happen, nobody could get you on the phone and, after you had pulled over Into a sldestreet, say "Sorry, I guess I have the wrong number." Add the telephone call to the red light, the detour sign, the motorcycle motor-cycle cop and the federal car tax, and what have you got? Certainly not added comfort. You are transforming the flivver Into a phone booth with tire trouble and hot brakes. Complications will be many once It becomes possible to link home sweet home with the beach-wagon and the imperial sedan by phone. We await the new exasperations of "What auto are you calling?", "That sedan is busy now," "The flivver that called you has hung up," and "There's no such car in the book." It will mean one more automobile gadget to be fixed, too. From now on you will never be sure when something goes wrong with the old bus whether to take it to a garage or to the telephone company. com-pany. We'll take a motorcycle and no phone service! THE GENERAL'S AMBITION ("I'd like to come back here some day and do some catfishing like in the old days." General Eisenhower Eisenhow-er at Abilene.) Just to go again for catfish In the haunts of boyhood days Just to watch the old cork bobbin' Where the big one often 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 feelin' 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 free from care . . . Not a thought of lords and rulers Not a fast plane to be made Not a word concerning Moscow, London, Berlin or Belgrade. . . Not a paper np for signing No excitement and no glow TILL YOU SEE THE WATER RIP-PLE RIP-PLE AND A BOBBIN' GO BELOW! Postwar Wonders Auto makers are displaying the new models. It is wonderful to be able to get a peek at the handsome new model you will have to go without with-out for another year or two. Customer (after looking at a new auto model) Very pretty. What year may I expect a demonstration? And ODT Chief Johnson says there will not be enough new autos to satisfy the demand for three full years. We recommend Mr. Johnson John-son for the office of Administration of National Joykillers. Mean Weather Intermittent rain, I've learned. Which forecasts tell about, Is rain that stops when I go In And starts when I come out. Vigorous Dramatic Criticism John Chapman thinks it might be a good thing U theater patrons let themselves them-selves go the ivay baseball funs do, registering their displeasure without restraint. We indorse the idea. A careful inspection of the theater convinces us that not enough pop bottles bot-tles are. thrown during performances. Harry Truman must feel pretty peeved at the fellows who said. "Go ahead and run for the vice presidency; presiden-cy; it's quite an honor and it won'l take any time or worry." |
