The Saturday evening post . e discover that a Europeans ideaof oppression is the inability to get a highschool and college education in some par-ticular language. In the same way, manyEuropeans think that freedom means li-cense to do anything at all—to shoot song-birds within city limits or take fruit fromthe nearest fruit tree or hit an enemy overthe head with a stockingful of iron filings. The people who went to America fromVelka Bytca and other Slovak towns andvillages have heard a great deal about thenew and glorious freedom the Czechs andthe Slovaks enjoy now that Czechoslo-vakia is no lo
The Saturday evening post . e discover that a Europeans ideaof oppression is the inability to get a highschool and college education in some par-ticular language. In the same way, manyEuropeans think that freedom means li-cense to do anything at all—to shoot song-birds within city limits or take fruit fromthe nearest fruit tree or hit an enemy overthe head with a stockingful of iron filings. The people who went to America fromVelka Bytca and other Slovak towns andvillages have heard a great deal about thenew and glorious freedom the Czechs andthe Slovaks enjoy now that Czechoslo-vakia is no longer under Austrian are eager to go back to sample thisfreedom and drink it down in great gulpsand even pour it in their hair. They talk withother Slovaks about it, and they all get intoa frenzy of excitement and throw up theirjobs and stampede to New York to getsailing accommodations. They come backto Slovakia with their eyes almost poppingout of their heads in their eagerness to see Big Tube withthe Big Cap. The KickerCameThrough HE wrote me a real disagreeableletter. I was a bluffer and hedidnt believe over two million menused Mennen Shaving Cream, and Imade him tired, and he used some otherkind of soap and liked it and I needntthink I could fool him because he wasfrom foreign parts and didnt have anAmericans love of being humbugged,and I could keep my demonstratortube and he would keep his 15 centsand he wouldnt waste three minutesworking up my blamed old lather andhe didnt like me anyway and hoped hehad made me real mad was absolutely off , just to be a sport, I sent him ademonstrator for nothing. That man has two natures—sort ofa Jekyll-Hyde combination. In aboutthree weeks he wrote me a speech ofacceptance that brought tears to myeyes, it was so beautiful. It started mildly—said he liked Men-nens very much—and even stood forthe three-minute lather, it made sub-sequent operations so much he warmed up and said it worked
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