Judge — April 2, 1932 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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The Six Ages of a Commuter 1, “Say, it’s great, living out in the suburbs. The train’ service is swell. They have fine new cars and the train gets me into the city in forty minutes, and it’s twenty miles out to our town, [enjoy it a lot.” 2 Oh, the train service is all rig better, but then it could probably be a lot worse, 1 guess we haven much to kick about. They do the they can for us.” TL guess, [suppose it could be 3. “Well, TP don’t see any reason 1 little better time into town, Forty-one minutes to about nineteen miles! Why, they could speed up the schedule five min- why they can't um utes, easy.” There's no exeuse for the kind of service the railroad gives us out here. Dirty old coaches, bad lights. and slow! Say. they run freight trains faster than they do the suburban trains, It’s a crime.’ 5. We ht to get together and raise a howl about the kind of train service we're getting, [ts simply awful and getting worse all the time. Why, my train way four minutes late this morning, and that’s the second time it's been late this month. We shouldn't put up with it.” 6. “Yes, sir, 'm going straight to the president of the railroad and de- mand a char They're going too far, and I'm not g x to stand it. Ww did they do? hey changed the 8:09 to 8:06 and it only ts into town two minutes carlier, [won't stand for it! None of us will! —Joux C. Emery For All Peter Pans O' Rr second childhood, like our first, Presents us often at our worst; And sad, I think, must this be reck- oned crow the second. Few persons can ou —Norman Jarrnay Ne When radio receiving sets first came out, all of them squawked. They must have known about the kind of programs that were comi Cutting out th of Con Congressmen p leg to stand on, ame duck” session x to leave a lot of ically without a4 And the authorities will pardon us, we hope, if sometimes we sigh for the vicious old days of deplorable intla- tion. JUDGE ‘| comicbooks.com