Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Whats
New!
NICE PEOPLE
By
Pfc.
EdWard Duck
On Leave
With The
u. S. Army

Brooke General Hospital, FIT.
Sam Houston, Texas, Jan. IA.
Stop me if I'm wrong, but /
think I've got a point here.
This grippe has fingered in my
brain for a long time. May
be you've thought about
the same thing, but being less
fortunate than I, you lack the
opportunity of letting off lit
erary steam now and then.
Ut reaches more people than
verbal steam, you know
The beef is this: Why should
newspapers devote so much
space to what Is commonly
known as the society" sec
tion?
Don't you get tired of such
carrying on? Come, now,
doesn't it give you a slight
pain in the neck? Those same
people having teas and bridge
parties and holiday guests and
complimentary luncheons and
open houses and whatnot,
week after week, month after
month, year in and year out,
is to yours truly huge
bundle of hufty-magufty, If /
may say so.
Miss Goldye Shekels has
been the weekend guest of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Baldwin Shekels." So what?
Madam Phoebe Hepple-
bottoms pekineese, Terri, pic
tured with her at the left, will
enter the Bluebonnet Canine
Exhibition next April 27th."
Again, who cares? Do you?
/ don't either. Who does?
Seen at the Derby were
the Misses Penelope Pretty
naugle and Jill Dillingworth,
lovely daughters of DR.. and
Mrs. Dabney Dillingworth."
Seen my eyeballl Their doting
mother ran down to the society
editor and volunteered the
whole business, including two
dozen photographs from which
the most noble looking profile
shot was selected
BALONEY
And there is Bettye 10
Birmingham, head erect, chin
thrust forward in a "go ahead
and hit me, / dare you!" pose.
She's celebrating the holidays,
we are told, and we find her
gracing the rotogravure page,
big as life, just because she's
doing what 130 million others
are doing, in their own less
noteworthy way. Baloney.
They even 60 so far with
this tripe as to tell people that
babies spent day or two with
their grandparents. Lots of
grandparents watch their chill
dren without putting IL into
print, but the social lions and
lionesses sieze upon such an
opportunity to publicize them
selves and their offspring and
their offspring's offspring.
Just what Is behind all this?
I'll tell you what ii is: The
society page is basically and
fundamentally an instrument
designed to perpetuate the
theory Of superiority of the
monied class.
RESPECTABLEP
The so-called smart set, the
respectable" blue blooded
touch-me- whose wives
divorces than average middle
class people, and whose hus-
bands dissipate more quickly
and philander more freely
than the average breadwinner
does, are placed on pedestals
for all to behold, with the in
tention that we shall render
them the veneration and
tribute which they deserve.
We are given a daily re-
minder, supplemented by a
Sunday rotogravure, that these
fine people are the group
which counts. II we offer
enough adulation and elbow
our way close enough to sing
their praises in an audible
voice, perhaps some day we,
too, shall inherit the fortunes
which they inherited or mar
ried into. All, mel
Let them have their teas
and lawn fetes, their coming
out parties and recitals, but
why, ask, should everyone
be told about these monkey
shines? We don't give a hoot