Judge — September 5, 1925 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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ese Orerator—Number, please. Me—But this phone rang. I'm answering tt. “Excuse it, please.” “All right, but there will be a bother charge of $1.50.” Fair Charges for Capable Services by Don Herold y telephone bill last month M was $53.50. I mean my bill to the telephone company (after deducting their bill to me). I gave the telephone company some mighty valuable time and serv- ice last month, getting calls through, and answering wrong numbers and listening to busy signals. I solved a lot of problems for them, requiring patience if not skill, and my bill for it all was quite reasonable. Some people would have soaked the tele- phone company a lot more. For example, it was worth at least $15 to the telephone company for me to get my dentist on the phone this morning, but I entered a charge of only $4.50. In the first place, the number has been changed. It is not as it is given in the book. It took me ten minutes to unravel this de- tail. Then I got a delicatessen and then a hairdresser. And then I got plugged in on a conversation between a fellow named Ed and a woman named Emma. It seemed that Lulu’s youngest baby was ill and that the Winkuses would not be able to come over for dinner this evening. Ed tried to get Al, but he was out so he decided to call Emma before she had ordered any extra groceries. I should have entered a bill for (Continued on page 27) Idiotorial REE specch is getting to be a menace. Such remarks as “Good inorning, “Hoy everything?” “What's news?” “What do you know?” and many others are under- mining the thought of this great nation. We believe in liberty ‘but not license. These scurrilous and slander- ous remarks must be curtailed. Only the other day the writer heard a young radical greet another young radical on the street. “Hello!” he cried in ribald tone. What will this eventually lead to? Think of our beautiful womanhood. Think of it! Are their tender cars ever to be sub- jected to such crass banality? ‘This is a country for free thinkers. Why don’t they? Never a day goes by but some young and impressionable person hears such dastardly comments as “How's every little thing?” “Don't take any wooden money, in church” and “Where've you been all my life?” Write your Congressman, right this terrible condition, fight the in- sidious propaganda of Rotarianism that’s baffling the best minds of Scotland and Backyards and making America the laughing-stock of all Europe. Do it now. Send no money. Carroll Fatuer--You're getting the hang of the game much better, here and there you're a bit weak—then you miss the ball—for instance— Son—I know, it’s appalling—I know the words to say—but I get tongue-tied when I’m excited!