Show CLAIMS HE ORIGINATED I SHOW ME PHRASE CHICAGO Feb 16 Colonel Colonel John I. I Martin took issue with former Governor Governo Joseph W. W Folk and defended the slogan sloan show allow me as Indicative e of the spIrit of his native state He UP- even een wont went fu further and modestly confessed inventing the phrase At a meeting of the executive committee commit commit- tee tel of the Missouri society here Colonel Martin ald said I was In In New dew ew York many years ago with friends many of them Democratic politicians and we got to telling stories I each man bragging about the glories of his native state PI I I scoffed at their yarns arns and said laid Im from Missouri Vou Youve You've ve got to show me mp The express expression n was was taken up and has bas become famous |