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/ I Portland Obsorver Thursday, Der ember 28, 1978 Page . . U N IO N OR C O M PA N Y DENTAL INSURANCE is a valuable a sse t. . . y o u r h e a lth H O NEST C ITIZEN S A N D GOVERNMENT EM PLOYEES: and a p p e a ra n c e COMPLETE ((M )I’ EKA Tl<»\ ON ALL OENTAI. INSt KANCKCLAIMS Honesty is still the best policy . . . and can pay up to $10,000. We are helping uncover Gov't, waste, and unethical and cri minal practices. If you wish to blow the whistle on dishonesty c o n ta c t: A m erican Citizens for Honesty in G overnment, 519 SW Park Suite 201, Port land, OR. 97205 or call 503- 241-9101. Boise Elementary School students dressed as characters WE H A M II.E ALL THE D E I AILS OF ( OMPLETINL YOI K CLAIM FORMS NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED Come in at your convenience PARK FREE-Any Park n Shop Lot HOURS- We*kday» of The Wizard of Oz for recent Book Parade. to5 p.m. 1 p.ro. Saturday 8:30 a.m. to Who ivas the real Wizard of Oz "Peace is our final good." St. Augustine Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, S.w. 3RD A YAMHILL ST.. PORTI ANO I I H I i i a 1AKE ELEVATOR TO 2ND FLOOR3RD s i ’. E m S a m E by Peter Dreier But in that election, which sees an awful beast, the Cowardly revolved around the issue o f gold vs. Lion “ a ball o f fire, so fierce and Whether they are fans o f Judy silver, Populist-Democrat W illiam glowing he could scarcely bear to Garland and "O ver the Rainbow" or Jennings Bryan lost to Republican gaze upon it.” prefer the recent $20 m illion Black W illiam McKinley by 95 electoral Later, however, when they con film with Diana Ross and "N o Bad votes. Bryan, a congressman from front the Wizard directly, they see he News, almost all Americans know Nebraska and a gifted orator, ran is nothing more than “ a little man, the characters from "The Wizard o f again in 1900, but the P opulist w ith a bald head and a wrinkled O z ." But few are aware that the strength was gone. face.” story was o rig in a lly w ritten as a Baum viewed these events in both “ I have been making believe,” the political allegory. rural South D akota — where he Wizard confesses. “ I ’ m just a com It may seem harder to believe than edited a local weekly — and urban mon man.” But the Scarecrow adds, the Em erald C ity , but the T in Chicago — where he wrote Oz. He “ You’ re more than th a t. . . you’re a Woodsman is the industrial worker, mourned the destruction o f the humbug.” the Scarecrow the struggling farmer, fragile alliance between the M id " I t was a great mistake my ever and the Wizard is the President, who western farmers (the Scarecrow) and letting you into the Throne Room,” is powerful only as long as he suc the urban industrial workers (the tin admits the Wizard, a former ven ceeds in deceiving the people. man). A long w ith Bryan (the triloquist and circus balloonist from “ The Wonderful Wizard o f O z" Cowardly Lion with a roar but little Omaha. was written by Lyman Frank Baum else), they had been taken down the This was Baum’s ultimate Populist in 1900, during the collapse o f the yellow brick road (the gold standard) message. The powers-that-be survive Populist movement. Through the that led nowhere. Each journeyed to by deception. Only people’s ignorance Populist Party, Midwestern farmers, Emerald C ity seeking favors from allows the powerful to manipulate in alliance with some urban workers the Wizard o f Oz (the President). and control them. had challenged the banks, railroads Dorothy, the symbol o f Everyman, Dorothy returns to Kansas with and other economic interests that went along w ith them , innocent the magical help o f her Silver Shoes squeezed farmers through low prices, enough to see the truth before the (the silver issue), but when she gets to high freight rates and continued in others. Kansas she realizes her shoes “ had debtedness. A long the way they meet the fallen o ff in her flight through the The Populists advocated govern Wicked W itch o f the East who, air, and were lost forever in the ment ow nership o f ra ilro a d s, Baum tells us, had kept the little desert.” Still, she is safe at home telephone and telegraph industries. Munchkin people " in bondage for with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, They also wanted silver coinage. many years, making them slave for simple farmers. Their power grew during the 1893 her night and day.” She had also put Baum realized perhaps that the depression, the worst in U.S. history a spell on the Tin Woodsman, once silver issue had been lost, but that till then, as farm prices sank to new an independent and hardw orking silver was not the crucial issue lows and unemployment was wide man, so that each time he swung his anyway. The Populists had been lead spread. axe, he chopped o ff a different part astray — the real question was that In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey, a o f his body. Lacking another trade, o f power. With the Wizard o f Oz P opulist lum ber dealer from he “ worked harder than e ve r,” dethroned, the Scarecrow (farmers) Massillon, Ohio, led a mass march o f becoming like a machine, incapable rules Emerald City, the Tin Woods unemployed workers to Washington o f love, yearning for a heart. The man (industrial worker) rules in the to demand a federal works program. Wicked Witch o f the West clearly West, and the Lion (Bryan) protects That same year. President Grover symbolizes the large industrial cor sm aller beasts in ” a small old Cleveland called in federal troops porations. forest.” In Baum’ s vision, farm in to put down the nationwide Pullman L ike Coxey’ s A rm y, the small terests gain political power, industry strike at that time, the largest group heads toward Emerald City moves West, and Bryan, perhaps, strike in American history. As the where the Wizard rules from behind returns to Congress. Populists saw things, the monopolies a papier mache facade. Oz, by the Baum’s characters resonated with were growing richer, the workers and way, is the abbreviation for ounce, American popular culture at the turn farmers, ever poorer. the standard measure for gold. o f the century. He even displayed an In the 1894 Congressional elec L ike all good p o litic ia n s , the early sympathy for native Americans tions, the Populist Party got almost W izard can be a ll things to all o f the plains, symbolized in the story 40 percent o f the vote. It looked for people. D o ro th y sees him as an by the Winged Monkeys in the West, ward to winning the Presidency, and enormous head. The Scarecrow sees whose leader tells Dorothy, "Once the silver standard, in 1896. a gossamer fairy. The Woodsman we were a free people, living happily SPORTS HOUR JOE’S PLACE M OI N.E. 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B R A N D S you know V A R IE T IE S y o u lik e SIZES y o u w a n t • 6411 J.’l in the great forest. . . This was many years ago, long before Oz came out o f t he clouds to rule over this land. ’ ’ The story remains intact in both film versions, but the message has disappeared. Ironically, the first film was made in 1939, during the next m ajor Depression, when business was once again challenged by farm ers, industrial workers and progres sive politicians. In 1977, Aljean Hermetz detailed the history o f the 1939 film in a book, “ The Making o f the ‘ Wizard o f Oz.’ ” He credited Baum but did not mention the story was a political parable. The first full explanation o f the book as a parable appeared in an essay by Henry M. Littlefield in the 1964 American Quarterly. (P eter D reier is an assistant p ro fe sso r o f sociology at Tufts University where he teaches a course on film and politics.) There are now 69 convenient pay stations where PGE customers can pay their bills. Convenient drive-up bill-paying service is now available at Willamette Center, PGE's headquarters building, on the north side of S W. Salmon Street in downtown Portland. 121 S.W. Salmon St 335 N E Roberts Ave. 171 S.E 2nd Ave 305 N Springbrook Rd 14655 S W S id Scholls Ferry Rd 215 S Bridge St 902 Mam Street 102E Mam St. 1771 Columbia Blvd 108 B St East 136 High Street, S E 110 S 2 nd Street 2079 Progress Way 38250 Pioneer Blvd
