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Show er? Are 'deferred payments' caster than buying on time? "Why should we delude ourselves with words? Reality is there, just the same." Detroit News. , URGES CALLING SPADE A SPADE Critic Sees Opportunity for Debunking Speech. American speech needs debunking, in the opinion of Frank ti.. Tompkins, Tomp-kins, professor of English at the Colleges of the City of Detroit. Professor Tompkins deplores "the tendency to use big names for little things as the result of our love- bf the elegant,, high-sounding word to express the commonplace, work-a-day fact and our aversion to calling a spade a spade." Too' often, he believes, Americans refuse to recognize cheap and' ugly things as cheap and ugly, or- even commonplace. Instead, we attempt to fool ourseh-es and' others by dressing them up- in grand names.. "Consider the glittering offices we assume In our lodges," Professor Tompkins points out. "Titles like 'Grand Exalted Potentate of the Honorable and Benevolent Order of SO-and-So,' or- 'Her Most Imperial Majesty, the Lady Queen of the Hive.' What delusions of grandeur the resounding titles must bring while one wears the purple velveteen robe and' the gold-braided hat that go with them, but once out in the cold street what a let-down to- face the world as plain Maggie Smith' or-John or-John Brown. "The same love of title shows it self in the colonels and majors whc earned their rank without leaving their desks, the 'professors' of phrenology and astrology, medicine show 'doctors,' barber 'colleges,' and business 'universities.' "My neighbor does not take room-ers, room-ers, but for years she has had 'paying 'pay-ing guests.' They look like roomers, just the same. Down the street IS an' 'obesity salon' and farther on a 'reducing shoppe.' Neither one is- & salon or a shoppe. "Is it less humiliating to wear 'dentures' than false teeth? Does an 'educator' teach better than- a; teach- |