The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Fair Enough
By PEGLER
Copyright By King Features Syndicate

BY PEGLER
Copyright By King Features Syndicate Inc
One day I was standing on the southwest
corner Of Elm and Spruce when a lady she
come UP to me and said: Il hope you will
excuse my apparent imrertinence because I
am not impairment at all but anyone can see
you have Intellectually a great deal on the
ball and l have been in several quandaries all
the live-long day about foreign relations, such
as Russia, and the O.P.A. and then you take
the housing problem and just try to buy a
sheet or a shirt or some shorts or don't even
mention butter and very little
meat.
But, still and all, the landlord has got his
troubles, too and if they don't pay the rent it
don't do him no good to sue because. like as
not, they are just no good, shiftless buns and
they won't work a lick as long as that I'M
employment money comes. Because, after all,
l mean supposlng you get twenty-six bucks,
absolutely free
for setting in the bleachers why you know
as well as me it certainly looks like the COM
munists are back of all this confusion and
leave me ask you how would Mr.. Stain like
the same kind of
intrusion?
And, furthermore. I don't want to be sar-
castle but I think I do recall when those Rus
SLAMS were standing with their back right
against the wall and they didn't have no bomb
ers or Jeeps or guns or tanks and we just
said to help theirself and never mind about no
thanks. But, at least, you would think they
would leave us be in peace today instead of
always messing with our wonderful old Ameri-
can way
Well, lady," I was about to say, for even if
l don't set on a bench
thinking up solutions to our manifold prob
lens so Srjrn and Stark ,,br ..;+L A..
exercise of a little old : fashioned American
common sense
can see that if they keep low ceilings over
the landlords rents and the taxes keep going
up and janitor service and repairs and heat
and then LaGuardia he keeps hollering we are
wasting bread, potatoes
and meat
and all about how Jugoslavia could live a
month on what they throw away at Shor's, the
Stork and TWenty-One in just one single day
but l would like to respectfully ask him what's
the use OF always hollering like that because
the main thing is to produce. Then everybody
will get good wages and buy a brand new
car and 1t will be very beneficial no matter
what class you are. With farmers purchasing
the products of our mechanical ingenuity and
wage = hands consuming agricultural products
in a flowing continuity. And white-collar work
ers sending out the bills and adding up the
checks but nearly a year after We day people
are still driving battered old
wrecks.
I was going to thus express myself in answer
to this lady's question but she Just kept right
on talking without even a suggestion of a
pause. Because I have often noticed when peo-
pie ask you what you q :
think ~ !
like what about Henry Wallace and is he
red or pink?' Why the way things are now
why people are SO worried from trying to
keep up with things and developments are so
hurried. And one day they want to kick Fran
cisco Franco out Of Spain and Chester Bowles
says to do this way or We all 60 down the
drain. And John l.. Lewis, he won't leave us
have no coal and Herbert Hoover says we
have got to recover our immortal soul and
pro and con about the draft and people want
to know what for if we are such friends with
Russia where is there going to be any war?
Until no matter how educated or what your sta
ton in lie everybody Is just all mixed up and
practically all you read is strife.
So, like I said, I was standing at Elu and
Spruce this day when up this very intelligent
lady come and unto me did say about as I
have stated in the inquiries foregoing a tri-
butte, as I take it. to my own abundant know
ing. So I am very flattered but, after all, I
am only human, and, lady, I thank God every
day my name isn't Harry S. Truman. Il