Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-13
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

DRIVING to the office today,
George Spelvin. American.
thought approximately as fol-
lows:
Well, the way l feel about IL
you take like nowadays when
all you hear about is, if you are
a dope you are underprivileged.
and If you are a crook, well,
then, you aren't as bad as the
big corporations.
But if you are a sap and work
your head off. then they will
come around and tell. you how
terrible it is about selfish people
who den give It damn for any,
body else when everybody knows
some people are just buns. and
when they do get hold of some
money they never pay their doc
tor bills or grocery bills or any,
thing
= Although, sure. I admit il
doesn't have to mean you are a
bum Just because yoti had some
bad breaks But il doesn't mean
you are a louise. either. just be-
cause you happen to do your
work right and take care Of your
own Kids and your bills.
IKE when was a kid, if you
were big shot yeti had an
iron deer on your front lawn
and everybody used TO think il
you had an iron deer you were
rich and stole your money. but
Just the same everybody wanted
To be a btg, snot, anC most OF
them tried.
Everybody took care Of their
own kids, too.
4 ND still all this popping off
"A about how this time nobody
Is going 10 get rich out of the
war, and what | would like TO
know is didn't they say this
whole New Deal was a war
against poverty, and l wish YOU
would be so kind as to tell me
who got any richer than his
family did out of that war if
you will be so kind.
Sure | don't think ANYBODY
ought TO get rich out of any
war, but it certainly is mighty
ifiiffft--t to TIT IKE II an ordinary
citilen makes couple OF passes
and wins some money by hard
work and brains he is a Tory
IL he wants to hang onto some
OF il.
BECAUSE. like l say. every
- body wanted 10 have an
iron deer on their front lawn.
but the New Deal comes along
and says
All right, boys; nobody gets
any iron deers any more, but
we will spread the wealth
around 80 everybody will get
cast-iron0 rabbit"
The first thing you know they
are all tearing down to Junk
yard 10 raise two bits on their
rabbit, and in few days only a
few people have got their rabbits
Iert. so the New Deal says again:
"Okay, IL aim right for some
Tories to have a cast-iron rabbit
on their front lawn and all the
underprivileged haven't got any,
so we viii call i'm the rabbits.
ana from now on everybody
gets a cast-iron mouse for their
front lawn"
Well, il goes on like that. with
everybody getting a cast-iron
beetle. then cast-iron bug and
finally nobody has got anything
unless they happen TO be certain
parties who didn't take that
stuff too seriously how nobody
was supposed TO get rich out of
the war against poverty or the
war against Hitler.
put you take a walk out in
~ the country and put a board
against a high stone wall and
look over onto big private
lawn the size of country club.
and there. you see whole herds
of thousands of cast-iron deers.
and whose place do you think
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Well. one thing is sure: you
don't live there, because you are
all flattened out, and your own
house is gone for taxes and your
insurance and savings got taken