Show URGES CALLING SPADE A SPADE critic sees opportunity for farj debunking speech american speech needs debunking in the opinion of frank G tomp hins professor isor of english at the colleges of the he city of detroit professor tompkins Tomp hins deplores the tendency to use big names for little thing as the result ot of 0 our ur love of the elegant high sounding word to express the commonplace work a day fact and our 0 ur aversion a ver S ion to calling a spade a spade too often lie he believe americans refuse to 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 0 the honorable and benedo benevolent ae dt order of so and so I 1 or her most imperial majesty the lady queen of tile the hive 1 what delusions delusIO DS of grandeur the resounding titles must bring brang in hile bile one wears the purple velv velveteen velveteen etee 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 19 plain 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 chow doctors barber colleges and business universities my neighbor does not take roomers rs but for years she has had paying guests they look like roomers ju just t the same down the street Is an obesity salon and farther on a reducing 1 neither one Is a salon or a Is it less humiliating to wear dentures than false teeth does an educator teach better than a teach er cr are deterred deferred payments easier than buying on time why should we delude ourselves with words reality Is there just the same detroit news i |