Show URGES CALLING SPADE A SPADE critic sees opportunity for debunking speech american speech needs debunking in the opinion of frank 0 tomp cinq professor of english at the college of the city of detroit professor tompkins deplores deflor es the tendency to use nse bis big names for little things thines as tile result of our love of 0 the elegant high sounding word to express the commonplace workaday crork a fact and our riv aversion erslon to calling a spade it a spade too often he believes americans refuse to recognize cheap and ugly things as cheap and ug ugly gly or even commonplace instead we attempt to fool ourselves 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 0 so and so or iier her most imperial majesty the lady queen c of of the five what delusions of grandeur the resounding titles must bran bring m nalle 1 ile one wears the purple vel velveteen etee robe and the gold braided hat that go with wilh them but once out in the cold street what a letdown let down to face the world Us as plain maggle maggie smith or john brown the same love of title shows itself in the colonels and majors who 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 roomers but for years she his has had paying guests they look like roomers just the same down the street Is an obesity salon and farther on a reducing neither one Is i a salon or it a Is it less humiliating to wear dentures than false teeth does an educator teach better than a teach er nt are deferred ef erred payments payment ir easier than buying on time lime why should we delude ourselves with words reality li Is there just the same saine detroit news |