Judge — December 1936 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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"Don't worry. Pretty soon she'll feel a draft.” STOP, LOOK & LISTEN AS AD PONENT of Safety First, I have, up to this time, thoroughly ap- proved of gates at railroad crossings. But as a result of the situation here in Glendale, I am position. I am about to come out for a no.gate-and.take.a-chance program, about to reverse my You see, I live near the Fletcher street Well, I tes each morning waiting for a train to pass, J two m crossing and two minutes each night four minutes a day This is 24 minutes per busi- ness week or approximately one hour and 30 Out of 300 working days a year, the staggering total of at this crossin Just think of it. For most people, this is the equivalent of three full workir days The way I work, it is about six working days. On my way to the office, I'm usually held up by the incoming “Lark.” If I'm a little early, Tl coincide with the northbound “Daylight Limited,” and if minutes every month 20 hours is consui ed waiting Judge BY ELWOOD ULLMAN I'm a bit tardy, I'll be stymied by the incoming “Owl.” Then the incoming “Sunset Limited” is worked in there somewhere. It's usually the northbound “Owl” that halts me on my way home. But if Owl,” I'll be detained by rs. All the trains that I escape the one of the ¢ went out in the orning will be coming in, and all the ones that came in will be going out. In addition, they ring in This one hasn't 360 If we leave the house one more rattler on me any name. They just call it That isn’t all after dinner to attend our neighborhood movie, held up by the “San And when we go home, the The we're Joaquin zates are down for the “Coaster.” only way we can avoid the “Coaster” is to stay and see the newsreel over again. I'm beginning to think there’s a con. spiracy going on. It looks like some- body keeps tab of my movements and informs the Southern Pacific every time I start out for that crossing. Yes, sir, there’s a leak This spy picks up the phone, gets the trathc manager on the wire and whis. pers: “He'll be there in thirty minutes! “Okay,” replies the traffic manager “Nice work.” Thus the machinery is set in motion Lights flash and buzzers buzz. Presently the word is conveyed to the superintend- ent of the round house. “Hey, Ferguson!” the superintendent yells to a waiting engineer, And as the man runs up—"He's on his way, Fer- guson, and will be there directly. Ye and Murdock hop into a locomotive ar run her out to the Fletcher street cross. ing. Lively, now! “At once, sir!” says Ferguson “And Ferguson ——" “Yes, sir?” “Hook on a couple of empty just to make it look good.” Tired of being the patsy in this | cars comicbooks.com