EDITORIAL Issuing of library cards may help If all else fails, issue a library card Tile Eugene Public Library will soon begin issuing library cards to area homeless people on a trial basis OK. It's tempting to poke fun "Muybe they can use the card to keep the rain off their heads." or. "Where do we put the couch, honey — on the left or right side of the card?" "Great answer to the homelessness problem." peo ple chuckle, "a library card." Or maybe it's not so funny. The card issuance is also the perfect chance to reprimand local and national government for their policy on the homeless, which is darn near nada. These folks seem to hope that if they ignore the problem long enough, it'll sort of just disappear. The frightening reality, however, is the problem is getting worse compounded by the fact that families with children moke up the fastest growing part of America's homeless The number of homeless pimple rose during the 1960s to the highest level since the Depression, and it's not about to stop. The U S Conference of Mayors' an moil study stated that figures are rising by 20 percent per year: about one third of the nation's homeless are families with children. Had enough adults are living out of their i ars or on the streets in growing proportions, hut children? (am sidering homelessness is only a symptom of the larger problem of poverty, one must ask what other necessi ties these kids are foregoing. It is indeed tempting to get up in arms over giving a library ami to the homeless when they instead need more serious assistance like affordable housing and job training Hut wait. The card is a start As they say. it s the thought that counts Small move as it may be, the issuing of library cards says something. If breaks a chink in the stereotypical armor often surrounding the homeless by rei ogni/ing them as individuals as citizens deserving of something the rest of society has a< i ess to The card issuance draws this usually excluded group in with the rest of society something that needs to he done on a larger scale if the problem of homeless ness is ever to be resolved. 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Hopeful hunters /.eroeii in on i booming < ro.ik from a grtuiddaddv frog Vs tilted for the hug-lived mutant to poke its eves ills vi- tin water then blew the little bastard to hell It vv a - a,l so simple, lull and Uadll.onal 1 logs . ! eouisi would veheinenllv disagree with this assessment Flut modern In hnology and progress don’t stand still for anvthmg and true to tone, even nance and ruled that Frog could sell Ins books on the sidewalks just like the rest ol the vendors in the area Hut on the advice of its attorneys, the well-established law firm of ilarrang Long \\ dkinson Arnold f. Laird, the c tty appealed the ruling to Lane (aiunty District (.emit District judge Ann Aiken overturned Hoc < i s ruling in August and sent it hue k to the Mimic ipa 1 t ijurt where itidgi Wayne Allen upheld the fine arid prohibited Miller Iroin walking on i ity side walks with his licKik bag A couple of tears’ and thousands of dollars’ worth of donated attorney time Inter, Frog is poised to take his case to the ()regon ( ourt ol Ap peals Ml limited synapses ]iis! weren’t aide to ton something as simple as frog ■: ill! ilig hits i h-Ulged With tin* times In I hi* ills nt hugi'ftt* • r g hunting no longer involves a pond patience. sharp senses or a ‘-mall-t aiibt r w rapon live once nnijestn man agamst-na lure battle has been reduced to a slipper v bog of citv ordi names, municipal lines, altor ii\-f i . . i i r f cs •lint possibly .1 visit In I hr state Supreme (ourl Thrsr sophisticated changes in the hunt ire somewhat justified tx*< .ium- the frog tiring hunted in Fugeru weighs iiboul J JO pounds, is f> foots, bearded unit uses .1 crackling. higti pitched voii n lu sell the world's funniest |uke tsxik on lltth Avenue Frog. nlso known to very few people us David Henry Miller, h.is riiised the ire of some of the most determined frog hunters this side of .1 Murk Ids am tale How (fid one 40-tsh frog u( compllsh ttus leal? Did he roh a bank' No Dni lie assault someone on our streets ' No Did he offend anvbodv with rude comments' No Did he hurt someone's feelings' No But he did have the audacity to sell his joke hooks on a city sidewalk when it Is strictly verho ten Frog has liven ticketed five times, beginning early last year, lor peddling bis S.t joke books in direct violation of ,1 city ordinance prohibiting sidewalk vendors from selling anything other than flowers, food. Iieveruges or balloons Fven worse than his refusal to play by the rules, this frog wasn't happy to unquestioningly pay his fines like the rest of us slaves to authority no doubt would have tie questioned the rules and appealed his case In April loot). Municipal The once majestic man-against-nature battle has been reduced to a slippery bog of city ordinances. n>-oke Units on 'hr sides*alts is so ex il it rt' quires sui li attention from our lint11 i!\ A sen patient Kevin Bur gess, iho uttornex handling the < a si* lor lilt- ills, U nul to in lighten mu Burgess explained thal I'rog. arul other vendors selling anything other than loorj, flowers, beverages or bn I i .him' bugenes suit-walks need to !*■ kept (n't' ol congestion Hut I've never seen Frog cause any more con gestion than any of the legal' vendors in tin; area.' I replied, letting my naivete surface Considering Frog isn't causing any of the prob lems the ordinance was meant to prevent, I asked Kevin it he couldn't have just dropped tills at the menu ipal t ourt level Kevin kindly pointed out to me that my tjues lion was out of line w ith the lug picture " This is not against Mr Miller personally," lie said "This is about the city's ability to regulate business on its sidewalks Hut wait, couldn't Kevin just advise the city to revise their ordinance to exclude vendors on the basis of how much space they take up. rather than what they are M-lling7 That's not Kevin's job, was the answer His job is to defend an ordinance he thinks is constitu tional The city's ability to regulate business was challenged, and Kevin is fighting off that chal lenge "That's as far as we go We don't get into poli i v." Kevin said "It's up to the city to decide if they want to change the ordinance Regardless of how much I like Mr Miller and what he repre sents in the entrepreneurial spirit, there are much wider circumstances " Turn to HUNT, Page 3