The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
, Fair Enouuh
BY WESTBROOK pEC1E,

loIlS expressed IN this articla
are those of the author and
may not always harmoni1s
with its position.-The Editor
NEW YORK, Feb. 1s.-ceo,u,
Spelvin, American, being sIIr5 81
moned to Washington to give hi,
views on the state of the natinn
took the stand and spoke as fn1
lows:
A. (By Mr.. Spelvin). Well nov,
I certainly am glad you asked mo-
because the way I look at i
as 100 per cent American cit
izen, why, the most of us, all wa
want to take and do is live ans
let live, but you have to be on
your guard all the time these DAYS
because, for instance, like NV wifa
always trades at the cash.a n 4.
carry store, because l feel sorrv
for the little fellow who can't meet
their prices, but, still and all IL
you can get can of soup for II
cents in chain store and it costs
13 cents at the indepedent, Well
I notice if the government wants
to buy new battleship they don't
pick the highest bidder, and it is
the same way with the workins
man when he can get two dollars
an hour you don't see them work.
ing for dollar, and he would be
a fool if he did.
Why?
But I can't see why we can't
work it out so we can just live in
our own country and, if you will
pardon the expression, why, ia
hell with all those foreign nations,
and why should 1 pay taxes so
we can p actically give that money
away to all kinds of foreigners,
whether it is to make it so they
can buy our goods with our money
or fight war, because if you
mind your own business and keep
in good shape we don't need their
trade, and I get sick and tired Of
all this talk how you have to look
out for the foreign vote or the
different religions, because, after
all, this isn't a foreign country
and everybody ought to be an
American or a foreigner, and no
two ways about it, but all you
hear is this and that about for
eign groups and isms, and all the
time we keep on letting in more
foreigners to tear down American
ideals, and the first thing you
know you have to apologize for
being an American or some body
will start a rumor that you are
an appeaser or fifth columnist
But what burns me up is the
way Hitler squaWked about the
Versailles treaty when you see
what he did to the Poles after he
licked them, and compare tn t
with how we sent all that food
over to the Germans after the
last war, and there again you
come around to giving our money
away to foreign nations, because,
like President Roosevelt said, tax
es are the sweat of the American
workingman, but we gave the Ger
mans hundreds of millions to build
new roads and swell apartment
houses for the German people, and
now they call us bunch OF dirty
warmongers when they used our
money to build all those tanks
and planes and we didn't even
have a division of soldiers in the
whole American amy and just a
lot of old farm implements Tor
tanks, and now Hitler is saying
we were looking for a fight.
Youth Problem Answer
So if you want my candid opln-
ion, as 100 per cent American
we'll. it seems to me like there
ought to be some way to stamp
out all these foreign isms, and l
want to tell you, gentlemen, a gooo
wife is everything in mans me-
and if you have a good, sensloie
wife and not a gadabout gaddlng
about like a gadfly all the time
and bothering their heads with lec'
lures and all this and that, Why'
there is where you get your am
swer to the youth problem, pc
cause an old-fashioned m o n
doesn't need the government 70
tell her how to raise their cniA'
dren when you can't tell VINO ute
government selects for this Wolh'
and some communist Will be teli.
ing them God is a fake, and ~
inst stands to reason the pareh'S
ought to take care of them so Vhey
will know what they are up 10.
And I want to say to you, gentle-
men. it certainly makes my coIar
boil when a man works hard loi
wears trying to raise a family 10
be decent, God-fearing Americans
If YOU save some money ana d
banker steals it we all agree ne lo
a crook and probably goe 70
prison, but then the goVefhlhen,
grabs your money to give II ave. o
to foreign nations and pay sollis
people relief so they can turn p up
their nose at a job, and "len
election time comes, why, 1ldIul
ally they are going to vote loa
the one who is giving them my my
money, so all I say IS let rI, u.J
people work if they want 10 wpnn pa
and never mind whether they W.
long to some union, and Whs
doesn't the government ever nave Se
any sympathy fcr the oneS ,,,si. I
do have a Job or a private ou VA
ness and raise their own huS 4h the
nav their bills instead Of all uie