Detroit evening times., 1945-07-07
W'ESTBROOK
PECLER
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The mechanical writer is very
wonderful device.
II indites with equal impassive-
ness words both mean and
nice.
II doesn't concern itself at all,
however. with validity
But Just writes words on paper
with astonishing rapidity.
Since its invention, people write
and read great deal more
Than people did in the olden,
golden, good old days OF
yore.
Being a great thinker. I often
wonder whether this
Is as good for US as some OF us
careleSsly think il is.
Because you take, like then,
when somebody suddenly
had something TO say,-
Well il was a lot different thing
than like il is today
Because then people would have
10 mix up their own ink
And get a goose feather and
paper before you even
started 10 think.
And people didn't spell so good
nor neither had electric
light
So they could sit up worrying
their brainS-te the very
bone. all night,
All about how communism is
subtle. underhanded scheme
Or beautiful. Utopian, prole-
tartan dream
Or, for instance, il didn't make
them any never mind
If the foreign nations paid hack
-lend-lease in cash money or
in kind.
THAT would be the govern
1 ment's headache and they
would tend to II
And whatever way the govern
ment done, why that would
be the end of il.
They didn't have any radio.
either. and mostly they just
talked together,
Probably about sex and crops,
pioneering and the weather.
None of this talk was foreign
propaganda, artifieially in
Spired
And they were always asleep by
9 o'clock because they were
Just so dead-dog-tired.
But then=itgat 50 that practi-
cally everybody could read
and write
And newspapers and magazines
and books 10 keep them
awake all night.
Because with the mechanical
writer almost anybody can
An Addison Swift or clear
thinking. mentally. honest
columnist like me
Provided they have got the re-
quired literary ability
Plus keen intelligence and gen.
uine spiritual humility.
This is all very fine as far as
that phase Of il 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 hygiene of all OF
you.
But when others typewrite down
some underhanded idea that
subVerts you,
Then il is education. not the
verse, that hurts you.
THE art of typewriting unfor-
l. tunately 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 10 make you betray
your beloved native land
SO that you might he enslaved
by some foreign totalitarlan
band.
And our sacred heritage of the
White House. so fine
Would become the home OF some
treacherouS Trojan horse Of
the Communist party line.
And fine, outstanding, God-fear-
ing American women and
men
Would never he able 10 call
their soul their own again.
And they would give you hope
to confess 10 things you
never done
And shoot you down like dirty
dog ere the setting Of the
evening sun.
That is why l think. in way, il
il a crying shame and crime
That the mechanical writer had
10 get invented in our time.
And so my earnest suggestion.
and ! hope l do not seem
unduly
Bold. is TO read nothing but the
expensive guage and
right thinking of
Yours truly,