Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Page Ten What's in a Name By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN 4 "What's in a name?" -1, "Everything," replied a long- ago favorite teacher of !Mice.. That was the first 'remark Mr. !•ide during a term of very delightful remarks. We were then, the 34 children that we were, in what has since bren called, "a., creative "writing -class." Names and numbers wen/ the subjects of our first hour. "Don't," said Mr. M. . . "don't write that there were ten glasses on the tray or five, but choose a rarer and, therefore, more real number, like seven, or nine! "Don't," he continued, "make the hero of your story 20 years of age, but make him 22, or 23." From there on, with a most rearonable tolerance, he managed to explain the value "of rarer and therefore more real num- bers." Numbers are valuable from an aesthetic as well as from an economic and supersti- tious point -of view," he added : "Names even more so." "For example, what color of hair has a RUTH?" "Black," echoed the class. "What color hair has an ALICE?" "Blond," echoed the class. "What physical proportions be- long to a chap called BICK- FORD?" "6 ft., 2 inches," some- one cried. "Broad chest, broad shoulders," cried another. "Ex- cellent," cried Mr. M At this point our notable teacher whose name, may I, add, suited him less than any person I know, rambling on with his minor dissertation, concluded that were mothers more prophe- tic no fellow dubbed Oliver would ever weigh 253 pounds. But it is apparent that the high priests of the ancient tem- ple were even less wise and less prophetic than most mothers. Had they only known how much-dif- ficulty their titles caused, -all the world! Had they only known the Cohens and the Levys in the economic encirclement a Cohen and a Levy would one day find himself in! Foreign Names a Barrier the American democratic spirit, so called. Would that it weren't, but unfortunately it is. Mrs. Roosevelt is a terribly courageous creature. Realizing a problem she imagines, and con- sidering the nature of man she may of course be imagining cor- be brought about, where before surface trickery harmony may rectly that by subterfuge and no harmony was. The fact is a Jones and a Sha- piro rarely sup together. But it is giving in to cowardice to suit- pose that were Shapiro called Jones, then Jones and Jones would ipso facto be bosom pals, or at least cordial. Men' Gullible A pessimistic wit considering Mrs. Roosevelt's ideas would say, "Men, being the monkeys that they tire, can change entirely if you throw them adequate bait. If you call perfume wine they'll drink it. If you tell them day is night they'll believe it. If you call a Shapiro a Whitford they will believe it." All this, men be- ing the monkeys thit they are, is probably true. Arid being true it probably may be also good. If goodness can be evolved from silliness — fine! 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