Show URGES GALLING CALLING SPADE E A SPADE critic sees opportunity for debunking speech american speech needs debunking in the opinion of frank G tomp hins professor isor of english at the colleges odthe of the city of detroit professor tompkins deplores the tendency to use big names for little things as the result ot of our love of 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 io recognize cheap and ugly things as cheap and ugly 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 so and so 1 or her most host 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 letdown let down to face the world as plain magge 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 has had paying guests they look like roomers just the same down the at street reet Is an obesity salon and farther on a reducing 1 neither one Is a salon balon or a la Is it less humiliating to wear dentures than false teeth does an educator teach better than a teach er aro are deferred payments nymen 8 aas easier er than buying 06 on time why should we delude ourselves rf w with ith words reality la is there just W the same detroit news |