The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-13


are those of the author and
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Drivinp
to the office today, George Spelvin'
thought approximately
as follows:
Well, the way I feel about it YOU
take like nowadays when all Won
hear about is, if you are a dope
you are underprivileged, and if you
are crook, well, then, you aren't
as bad as the big corporations, but
if you are sap and work your
head off, then they will come
around and tell you how terrible it
is about selfish people who don't
give a damn for anybody else when
everybody knows some people are
just buns, and when they do get
hold of some money they never
pay their doctor bills or grocer
bills or anything. Although, sure,
I admit it doesn't have to mean,
you are bum just because youj
had some bad breaks or you voted(
for Roosevelt, but it 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 and you voted
for Willkie. \.
Most of Them Tried
Like when 1 was a kid if you
were a big shot you had an iron
deer on your front lawn, and every.
body used to think if you had an
iron deer you were a rich louise
and stole your money, but just the
same everybody wanted to be a
big shot, and most of them tried,
and still all this popping off about
how this time nobody is going to
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 I wish you
would be so kind as to kindly tell
me who got any richer than his
family did out of that war If you
will be 50 kind.
Sure I don't think anybody ought
to get rich out of any war, but it
certainly is mighty funny to me
lige if an ordinary citizen makes
a couple of passes and wins some
dough by hard work and brains ha
is Tory if he wants to hang ontA
some Of it, but if you happen to
say aye, yes or no about the way
Mr.. Big's family got rich out OF
the war against poverty, then you
are an appeaser or something.
Because, like I say, everybody
wanted to 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 so everybody will
get cast-iron rabbit" and the
first thing you know they are all
tearing down to the junk yard to
raise two bits on their rabbit, and
in a few days only few people
have got their rabbits left, so the
new deal says again ,"Okay, it
amt right for some Tories to have
cast-iron rabbit on their front
lawn and all the underprivileged
haven't got any, SO we will call IN
the rabbits, and from now on ev-
erybody gets cast-iron mouse for
their front lawn"
Well, it goes on like that, with
everybody getting cast-iron bee
tie, then a cast-iron bug and fl
nally nobody has got anything un-
less they happen to be certain par
ties 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.
But you take a walk out in the
country and put a board against a
country club, and there, by God,
you see whole herds of thousands
of cast-iron deens, and whose place
do you think this is?
Well, one thing is sure: You
don't live there, you bum OF a
Tory appeaser, because you are
all flattened out, and your own
house is gone for taxes and your
insurance and savings got taken a
long time ago, and the government
is raising your kids now so they
won't get wrong ideas about selfish
greed.
I guess there is nothing you can
do about it, though, Spelvin. Just
relax. 1t is too late to do anything
about it now.