Indeed we’re glad you have come. Anyone is welcome at our house any time. Don’t you know people aren’t so sociable as they uster be. Why, when I was a boy we either called on some of our neighbors, or they called on us every night of the week during the winter months. I’ve been noticin’ as how the town folks don’t call at all unless they’re invited. By jinks, come to think about it, you folks are the first to come since we’ve been here, exceptin’ one of our neighbors from the farm.
Begins slowly to remove shoes.
Mr. Asterbilt
By the way, Mr. Benson, what is your opinion of the commission form of government this city is going to submit to the voters next election? You know some of the cities have already adopted it and it is promising to become quite popular.
Mr. Benson
Can’t say as I know much about it. If it’s anything like the commission the grain and stock buyers get, I don’t think much of it. You see lots of those fellers getting rich while many of the farmers who haul their grain in to them are just barely holdin’ their own. So they’re wantin’ to make a big thing outen the city people, too, are they?
Mr. Asterbilt
You have the wrong impression, Mr. Benson. This commission form of government consists of several committees of three men each and each committee has some special phase of city work to look after, such as streets, parks, public health, etc.
Ethel
Father, you’ll have to be reading up a little, so you’ll know which way to vote at the election.