WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 28 July 1917, Page 3

WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

AS IT IS WRIT IN AMEBIC ANESE. America proposes to commandeer all the private motor cars she may need for war purposes. This has given a writer in the Montreal Star an opportunity to expand himself into amusing Broadway slang. “If that ever comes to pass,” ho writes, “it’ll hit some person square on the point of the lower meat grinder. Many individuals have forgotten how r to walk. Flivver Freds and Limousine Louies will have to crawd into hand ring-chairs and learn how 7 to perambulate all over again. Others spend so much time in the speed wagons that they could easily sell themselves as automobile accessories. Many men never have occasion to use their legs, and merely wear trousers because the law makes ’em do it. The insipid, brainless youth w 7 ho drives up and down Broadwmy in his uncle’s automobile and winks at every daughter of Eve that he sees will have lo ride in a soapbox if he wants to continue the practice. Luxurious hounds who cement themselves to automobiles the year round will have to fall back on the old sedan chairs. It will soon he a common sight to see a Wall Street broker go to work in a toy wagon pulled by an Airedale terrier. When a man once gets into the habit of riding in a ‘choo-ehoo w 7 agon’ it hurts his dignity to caress flagstones w'ith his heels. But he will have to learn how 7 , soon.”