Judge — February 13, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“Pardon me, sir, but I am trying to get up a party of four to go through this revolving door.” A MIGHTY WICKED WASTE by Don Herold NE of our biggest wastes in O this country is the waste of revolving doors going around partially empty. It is no uncom- mon sight to see a big four-section revolving door going around with only one person in it. If I did not have a lot of more important things to do I would figure out exactly what this waste amounts to in the revolv- ing door season, and I dare say the data would be astounding. At any rate, we will take it for granted that it would be astounding. This is perhaps a problem that should be presented to the Interstate eight per cent. of revolvi ing door traffic being intrastate traffic. (So few of the doorways of our big build- ings are on State lines.) The solution of the problem lies almost entirely, then, with the individual. More laws will do no good. We already have so many laws that it is difficult to decide what kind of liquor to drink and who to rob next. What is needed now is an educational campaign, a stimulation of the individual conscience. Each of us must resolve ‘to do his mite in 1926, 1927 and 1928, to keep revolv- ing doors from going around empty. By that time maybe the normal in- crease in the population will fill up the empty segments of our whirling portals. If not, we must then turn our attention to increasing the popu- lation. Resolve for one that you will never enter a revolving door until there are three other passengers ready to go through with you. And make up your mind not to leave a revolving door until there is somebody waiting on the other side to take your place on the return trip. Empties on the * return trip are just as wasteful as empties going. I gave considerable time last summer to designing a revolving door with upper and lower berths, so that they would hold eight people instead of four. Stairways went up and down on each side. I even thought of putting merry-go- round horses for children in the upper berths. We tried this eight passenger door in a large office building, but we nipped off too many arms and legs and decided that the experiment was a little visionary. Perhaps the world will be ready for these double deck doors in a few years. One advantage of it will be that it may be possible to permit smoking on the top deck only. Another waste that has worried me almost sick is the tremendous number of empty telephone booths in all our cities at any given moment. Of course many booths are full most of the time, but lots of them are empty hour after hour. The situa- tion is quite a worry to me. I wonder if it might not be pos- sible to combine these two worries and get a positive. I mean, could we not have telephone booths abol- ished and have telephone instru- ments put in revolving doors—four to each door? This would at least keep the doors filled up. Of course the constant revolving might in time (Continued on page 27) 2 “Luella, you'll love my collection of rare and costly perfumes!” comicbooks.com