Show ug URGES CALLING SPADE A SPADE critic sees opportunity for debunking speech eab american speech needs debunking in the opinion of frank G tomp kalns professor of english at the colleges of the city ot of Det detroit rolt professor tompkins deplores the tendency to use big names for little things as the result of our love of the elegant high sounding word to express the commonplace work a day tact 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 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 ot of the honorable and benevolent order of so and so 1 or ner her most imperial majesty the lady queen of the hive hire what delusions of 0 f grandeur the resounding titles roust must bring while one wears the purple velveteen robe and the gold braided hat that go with them but once out la in the cold street what a letdown let down to face the world as 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 bov 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 street Is in an obesity salon and farther on a dr reducing educing 1 neither one la Is a salon or a Is it less humiliating to wear dentures than false teah teeth does an 4 educator teach better than a teach y w er ert are mete deferred d P ay mente easter easier than b buying lot on alme 11 dowby should vie we delude ude olirs elves with words reality Is there just tile the same detroit news |