Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-26
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By Damon
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MIR. Joe Turp Writes
From Brooklyn
IlFAR SIR

DEAR SIR 80
The other r-tt my wife
EtheiS Uncle Beu came 10
our house and I SOS hello Ben
where have you been keeping
yourself the pas, couple OF
months He seS I have been to
the va, and when are YOU going
Joe? 7 Ses wei IT. looks Ike /
Will be Coins pretty quick now
and he SeS chats, tinc 1ut be
sure and pick some part u n
that isn't IN Iceland That's
where 7 have oleH
SEES are you trying 90 tell me
you have been soldering in lee
land or is that just one Of your
StorieS?.I SeS ! don't see no uni
form on YOU and he ses no I
wasn't soldering. They won't
let me do no soldering any more
because they sss am too old
which is a crazy idea. am a
better man than somebody half
my age
I SIS what were you doing in
Iceland them He Ses was
working on a boat that was TAX
ing supplies to the soldiers there
so I know all about that coun-
try. don't think you would
like it at all Joe. I seS what else
did you Go besides working on
the boat? He seS well did some
swimming. Now would you and
Ethel mind II I lay down on the
sofa and take little nap? ] am
really plumb worn out.
! SES l suppose its from the
swimming ard he SEES well partly
Joe and ] seS go ahead and take
your snooze Ben and then my
wife Ethel and I went out in the
kitchen and l says beautiful l
guess that Uncle Ben of yours is
the biggest liar that ever lived.
SEES ! might have let him get
away with telling me he had
been working on a boat taking
supplies to Iceland but when he
put in the part about swimming
he went too far.
ETHEL SES well Joe I know
you don't think much of my
Uncle Ben but he really does
like 10 swim and was always
doing 1t al Coney Island. ! ses
yes but l have read enough
about Iceland TO know he would
freeze to death IL he tried any
swimming around there and be-
sides ! have heard he was in
hiding from some dame he
promised to marry and I'll bet
he was never in Iceland at all.
ETHEL SES Joe ! must admit
my Uncle Ben makes a mistake
promising TO marry so many
different ladies but ! am sure
he is telling the truth about
being in Iceland and even about
the swimming too and ! don't
think a lady had anything TO
do with it and just then the
front door bell rang and Ethel
ses see who that is Joe. I've got
some things TO do.
so ! went 10 the door and
there was a dame standing there
and she was not bad looking
either and she asked me for my
wife Ethel'S Uncle Ben and Ses
she has TO see him personally
and l went into the room where
Uncle Ben was taking his nap
and shook him by the shoulder
and SeS Ben there's some dame
wants 10 see you. He hoped up
off the sofa like somebody had
given him hotfoot and grabbed
his hat and tore out the back
door and went running down
the street lickity split
SO ! had 10 60 back 10 The
front door and tell the dame
Uncle Ben wasn't there and she
SEES that's too bad because I am
a newspaper reporter and
want TO interview him about a
dispatch from Washington that
Ses he Is going 20 get a decora-
tion for swimming around in the
ocean off Iceland for six hours
holding up the injured captain
o. a supply boat that had been
torpeooed
MY WIFE Ethel was standing
behind ne while the dame was
talking and when she left Ethel
ses now Joe you see I was right
when ! ses I was sure Uncle
Ben was telling the truth about
being IN Iceland and even about
ths swimming ard I thir< YOU
owe him an apology I Scs wen
] was right about him hiding
from some dame too but ! don't
believe III get a chance 90
apologize 20 him very soon