The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06

tEo1Ior note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright. 1915, by King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK,
The mechanical writer is very wonderful
device.
It indites with equal impassiveness words
both mean and nice.
It doesn't concern itself at all, however
with validity
But just writes words on paper with aston
ishing rapidly.
Since it's invention, people write and read
great deal more
Than people did in the olden, golden, good
old days of yore.
Being a great thinker, often wonder wheth-
er this
Is as good for us as some Of us care
lessly think it is.
Because you take, like then, when some
BODY suddenly had something to say,
Well. it was lot different thing than like
it is today.
Because then people would have to mix Up
their own ink
And get a goose-feather and paper before
you even started in to think.
And people didn't spell so good nor neither
had electric light
So they could sit up worrying their brains
to the very bone, all night.
All about how communism is subtle, Tn
demanded scheme
Or beautiful, Utopian, proletarian dream.
Or. for instance it didn't make them any
never mind
If the foreign nations paid back lend-lease
in cash money or in kind.
That would be the governments headache
and they would tend to it
And whatever way the government done,
why that would be an end to it,
They didn't have any radio either, and most
ly they Just talked together,
Probably about sex and crops, pioneering
and the weather.
None OF this talk was foreign propaganda,
artifically inspired
And thew were always asleep by o'clock
because they were just so dead-dog-tlred.
But then it got so that practically every.
body could read and write
And newspapers and magazines and books
to keep them awake all night.
Because. with the mechanical writer almost
anybody can be
An Addison, Swift or clear-thinking, mental
Nv honest columnist like me
Provided they have got the required liter
airy ability
Plus keen intelligence and genuine spiritual
humility.
This is all very fine as far as that phase
of it is concerned
But the trouble is when the other side OF
the coin is turned.
Because, all my thoughts are Fortnight
original and true
And good for the mental and spiritual n.y.
giene of all OF you.
But when others typeWrite down some I'M
demanded idea that subverts you,
Then it is education, not the reverse, that
hurts you.
The art of typewriting unfortunately is not
confined to the fingers
OF the pure in heart and mind, but is also
mastered by dirty low-down left-wingers.
They will try to poison your mind to make
you betray your beloved native land
So that you might be enslaVed oy some
foreign totaltarian band
And or sacred heritage of the White House,
so fine would become the home OF some
treacherous Trojan horse of the commun-
list party line.
And fine, outstanding, God-fearing American
women and men
Would never be able to call their soul their
own again.
And they would give you dope to confess to
things you never done
And shoot you down like dirty dog ere
the setting of the evening sun.
That is why I think in way, it is a
crying shame and a crime
That the mechanical writer had to get in
vented in our time.
And so my earnest suggestion, and I hope
do not seem unduly
Bold, is to read nothing but the expressive
language and right thinking of
Yours Truly,
Westbrook Pegler.
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