Two experts at that sort of thing are before us this morning. Mr. Hughes's Simple has delighted one generation and is delighting another. His full name is Jesse B. Semple. The epithetic misspelling of his last name does not bother him at all. He is a Harlem philosopher and he is dedicated to bringing simple issues of morality to light.
Bars are traditional places to expound justice.
Simple's, like Mr. Dooley's, serves beer. An alter ego of Mr. Hughes, usually nameless, goads Simple on. Things can't possibly be as idiotically unenlightened in the land of the free, the alter ego suggests from time to time. Whereupon Simple proves that they decidedly are. Bill Mauldin's superb new collection of his newspaper cartoons touches on Simple's world at many points.