The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-18
By wEsTBRooK PEGLER

NEW YORK. Tell me, my captivating
male friend" said Mrs. George Spelvin, Amer
lean, "about the standard Of living in our
brave new world Of the future because you
are my hero and you know everything and,
Of course, am only silly little thrip Of
girl but it looks to me like you take where
it says we get $1,000 dedu:tion because I am
your helpmeet and you are my vice versa,
and then we get $350.a year for each of our
cunning little kiddies un6el 18 and the same
for your NAV and my paw, and, Of course,
that mounts up if you are like MIR. and Mrs.
Dionne but after all, il seems t. me we used
to hear where it was so outrageous the way
the greedy capitalists they used to starve the
workers but still nowadays the cost Of living
is way up and We: our loving government
says we get about douor sixty.four day
apiece to live on and the kids and the old
people get around 96 cents and don't see
how even Chinannan can get by on much
less
Treasure Mr.. Spelvin said. you are look
ing at the matter from the wrong point of
view because the government doesn't say you
have got to live on one sjxty-four or the other
loved ones on s cents because you can get
more than that on relief, but the idea is you
get exempted that much and then you have
to pay income tax but can stin &c ahead and
spend all you can afford except you have
to pay tax on the extra amount"
WELL" Mrs. Spelvir said, isn't that just
like say then because it means you don't
get allowed enough to board dog, so you
have to spend extra Just for food, clothing,
rent and gin, but first you have to pay a
tax on that extra money so we can send
sewing machines to South America and dia.
pers to the Arabs and canned goods all over
the world and it looks to me like the South
Americans and the Arabs and all those friends
OF ours well, they begin eating off US before
we get enough to eat ourselves even now and
the war is mostly on the CUT and we have
to pay Tor 1t after, so maybe in the brave
new world Of the future well we won't get
any auoance at all for us but everybody else
gets flrst grab and after We have paid our
taxes we eat if there is anything left.
What I mean, daddy, and you can slice
it as thin as you like but if our government
says SIG each for you and me and So cents
head Tor the other loved ones, well some.
body must have been thinking those were fair
figures for Americans to live tal Otherwise
why didn't they say around anyway five
day for US and buck and hal, for the others
at the very least, because you ought to see
the prices you have to paw for everything
in the stores and ! m beginning to think
somebody has got it in for us Americans.
Because, after all, my hero, this country was
always supposed to be very high class with
more automobiles and curling irons than any.
where else, but now we are going to raise
the living standard ali over the world, lot
OF places where We don't have any personal
friends, and the way things are going We
won't ever be able to get i new car or 70
down to the jock for hamburger and few
crooks OF beer on a Saturday night because
the dough alb goes TO those foreigners. l mean
1t certainly is nice to treat foreigners with
Kindness il you feel like it personally, like