Detroit evening times., 1945-05-02

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vin?")
STHAT'S what I said" Mr..
L. Splevin replied. "Semltics
Is where you take . word and
use IL out of order 90 pretty
soon IL doesn't mean tho same
thing any more. Like, you take
the word implement and IL
means n harrow or = manure
spreader and then your old lady
gets you hooked to 20 TO . le(
ture at the high school and son
study-bum from the OPA In
Washington, why he gets up and
says we have got to implement
the regulations. Or, for In
stance, take tho word climate
and that means whether IL gets
down below zero In winter or
maybe you can grow bananas In
your front yard. But the study
buns from Washington, they say
a very nice moral climate we
are having and people get all
mixed up So"
(Another voice. very horn
trimmed and Harvardese: "Per-
haps you mean .semAntics', Mr..
Spelvin because II may pre-
sumo to correct you
BY Mr.. Spelvin; "WeII that
just goes to prove how people
have been muddled around by
all this striped pants kind OF
talk like who ever heard OF
protocol and mandate and
sanctions and all that double
dome Choctaw and try tn
speak straight Americanese and
80 II this isn't n peace confer
ence then why are all you
trsmps cluttering up the rail-
roads and crowding GOd-fearing
taxpayers out Of the saloons so
IL takes an act 0f Congress To
get a flop In a flea bag IL
the idea isn't something about
peace:
$50, In my book II II a peace
conference and never mind tho
implements or the moral climate
and whether IL Is semitics or
semantics.
81 DESIRE TO state that my
L pin-up and I, we raised two
boys, and then those Europes
they start pushing each other
around again and pretty soon,
sure enough, the British and thu.
Russians yell Hey Rube" n
now one boy IL In Germany Al
the other In the Philippines, and
mother, she works In the Red
Cross and we raise a victory
garden and buy bonds.
I'VE are not hollering but
here we send all that stun like
bombers and tanks and canned
goods to Russia and build air
ports and railroads and fresh
towns all over the world with
our money and We can't even
get a new disb-pan and now
those Frenchmen are squawk-
ing that we don't give them
guns for their army after they
went and threw their own guns
down when they quit.
But, anyway, We did give
them quite a let Of guns figur-
Ing, okay Francois IL you get
hurt maybe George Spelvin's boy
won't. So then they 20 and
squat In Stuttgart and won't
bulge because they are out grab
bing the spoils of war just like
you would think they won it
instead Of they went out tho
window from q slap In the face.
And then Eisenhower said they
were lousing up the war 30 our
people couldn't chase the Ger
mans"
QUESTION: "Mr. Spelvin, are
W we to infer that you would
have preferred Withholding ma
terial assistance from that great
peace-loving democracy, Soviet
Russia ?"
Question, by Mr.. Spelvin:
What paper you from"
IL represent the New York
Midday"
whats your name?"
my name IL Moriarity."
81 mean your square name.~
That Is a punch below the
belt"
"WeIl, why not?" Mr.. Spell
demanded. you throw plen
Of them down there and / don't
blame anybody II they have got
a name nobody can pronounce
so they change IL TO Smith, or
whatever you like. But when . ,
guy uses two names, and one II
for the Communist party and
the other for weekdays then
he Is trying to be two guys and
outnumber me but II you call
Russia q democracy then I am
s~'inst democracy, hook, stock