The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-24
As Pegler Sees 1t
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

BY fEULLN
Copyright by King Features syndlca'e' an aoc
NEW YORK, Sept. 23-Drivlng to tne olliee.
TODAY, George Spelvin, American, picked an
sro1ment with Harry Gremlin, the stooge that
he carries around with him to talk TO SO he
WON'T ,on,x off and climb through some other
drivers windshield. Mr.. Gremlln is a sort o.
New Dealer but not exactly a New Dealer'
either. but that is just the point because NIL,
Spelvin, he tries to figure the guy OUT anu
sometimes he will change sides IN an argu-
n,ent but no matter what he says, Gren1ln
is always or the other side and TWO guys
never hated each other more, put stll Mr.
Spe]vin Carries him around whenever ne IS
alone in the car and sometimes Gremlln even
moseys in while he is SHAVING ue -dee'
He has an irritating presence and you
would think Spelvin would ditch him and
sometimes he says to himself, what am l
arguing with this louise for, anyway, getting
all steamed up SO why don't l think about
hitting a long shot right OH the snoot or
something nice like answering right up that
bukram IS a rare mineral found only in Sas-
and it is used in making atom
bombs ard give the gentleman sixty-three sill
silver dollars and what is your name please,
nv name is George Spelvin, American, and
my address is 1858 Maplecrest avenue, south
and, boy, wait till my War Department hears
that her Gellahad has hit the jackpot by
telling the guy what bukram is. if that is
what it is. or unbrage or tumeric, that sounds
like a kind of a little jacket but, after all,
with this initiation it isn't really s63 but more
like $40 when you consider how prices have
gone up Oh account of the strikes and the
OPA.
At this point, Mr.. Gremlin called spelvin
a reactionary and a dumb fascist tool and
said 3 per cent of the population controlled
90 per cent of the wealth and if he had any
sense he would see that Henry Wallac-asn't
any communist but anyway, what difference
does it make, if he keeps us out Of a terrible
war with Russia because did Spelvin ever
stop to think that if we don't quiet their
fears why just one of those pineapples In a
suitcase in the checkroom at Grand Central
and another in a ~jalloppy parked in the Bronx
and -four more planted around town could
blow New York off the earth and you ring
for the cops and firemen but you can't even
rnig because the phone system is gone, too.
anyway they are all dead and how are
you going to ring, you dope, when you are
dead youi SELF.
So .okay. if that is the case, Spelvin says.
why don't we let them have it first and see
if thew can ring for fire engines any better
but Gremlin says the best way is not FOR
anybody to do it and Wallace just wants to
be friends and only the fascists want war
and Spelvin answers back don't you call me
a fascist and anyway how come the fascists
want war and how do you knew they do and
who do you mean?
Mr.. Grenlin says we got to have democ-
racy like Wallace says and what do we care
if Russia runs Poland and a lot Of little
places like Latvia when everybody knows they
are always fighting and the majority o. their
people arc pro-Russian, anyway, and these
Ill 800 ,-t - ~ Of nhIC-
lings and Wall Street is putting up the money
for their propaganda to get us IN a war with
atomic bombs.
Mr.. Spelvin says he doesn't give a damn
about Litha it's the principle of the thing be-
cause a couple of years ago Wallace was
his head off about the dirty outrage
when Hitler attacked-Poland and put the
Nazis in Czechoslovakia but now Stain does
the same thing and Wallace says hokey-doke
but Gremlin says we'll, you were against mes
sing in Europe then but now Wallace agrees
with you and you flop over just to be against
Wallace, even if it gets us into war with
Russia.
And. moreover, spelvin says, that dirty
Tito, after we hberate his country
and send him sugar and butter and ham and
new automobiles that we can't get ourselves,
we'll he murders five of our boys in cold
blood and Gremlin says it was all a mistake
and they are sorry they done it but did il
ever occur to Mr.. S. we might have some
fascists in our War Department trying to
start a war by sending our boys where they
have no right to fly so they can yell murder
and. if it comes to that, five people we're
killed in a smashup on this very corner last
month but a war won't bring them back or
those boys, either, but just kill millions more
Spelvin jumped a red light at Walnut, parked
the Job. turred off Mr.. Gremlin and dashed
into the office just on time and all morning
long he kept thinking if bukram was a min.
eral for atom bombs found only in Saskatc1e-
wan and the guy called on him to answer, he
would stop at Goldtarb's on the way home and
buy the Old lady the best dam tumeric in the
house with gold braid and buttons down the