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J. W. MACNEV
President
Society for the Prevention of Calling Lavatories John
Detroit, Mich.
> J. W. MacNev's letterhead reads: John W. Neville.—ED.
Sirs:
If Elmer Samson, who writes in your Feb. 19th Letters column, asking about SPCLJ and SPCSCPG, is inquiring just so he can figure out how to organize a Society for the Prevention of Asking Where's Elmer, he is too late. We have had a SPAWE here in Cleveland ever since the American Legion brought the damn question up.
ELMER BLAIR
Cleveland, Ohio
Bolsheviki
Sirs:
The current Russian perfidy reminds me of some doggerel read several years ago, title and author forgotten, going approximately:
I was walking down the street one day
When I met a man most furious;
His lowered brow and somber look,
I confess, made me quite curious.
"Who are you, sir?" I gently asked,
Not wishing to be cheeky.
He turned on me and fiercely said,
"I am a Bolsheviki"
"Aha!" said I, "I'm glad of that,
For, very often, I
Have wondered what you people want,
And then have wondered why."
"What do the Bolsheviki want!"
He rolled his eyeballs upward.
"What do the Bolsheviki want?"
He rolled his eyeballs downward.
"Why do the Bolsheviki want?"
His arms stretched in the air.
"Why do the Bolsheviki want?"
He raved and tore his hair.
"The Bolsheviki want because—
His hands stretched toward the moon.
"The Bolsheviki want because—
He fell down in a swoon.
So now it's all made clear to me
By this creature tall and gaunt
That what the Bolsheviki want
They want because they want.
Maybe it's not funny at all.
H. W. GUERNSEY
New York City