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FRIDAY. JUNE tl, IMS
Do As Little
Damage As You Can
8 Arthur Hoppe
It was a nice day and I was
out in the backyard spraying
aphis and thinking about an
old-fashioned brass plaque I'd
seen once on an elderly real
estate man's desk. It said: "As
I go through life I only pray
I can make our world a little
better place to live in."A very
nice motto, I'm sure. Except,
I decided, it isn't mine.
' I decided this because I was
spraying aphis. I used to spray
aphis with a relatively clear
conscience. True, I would feel
a twinge now and then for the
aphis I was slaughtering.
(They're beautiful jewel-like
creatures, if . you examine
them closely.) But you have
to kill the beautiful aphis in
order to make a beautiful gar
den. ;
' But now, as I sprayed, I
thought of Rachel Carson's
book, "The Silent Spring
and all the fuss it's caused
about pestcides. I don't really
understand the ecology in
volved. But as I pumped the
sprayer and killed the aphis
in my God-like way, I had
the uneasy feeling that I was
poisoning generations of rob
ins and bluebirds and butter
flies yet unborn. And I felt
guilty.,
Earlier, in the kitchen,
had washed my hands in de
tergent and watched the gas
tening - bubbles slither down
the drain. It used to be a most
satisfying sight. Yet now
thought of the documentary
I had seen on television
dirty, virtually insoluble bub
bles everywhere, polluting
our streams, killing our fish
and fouling our drinking wa
ter. And I felt guilty.
And from the back porch I
had looked across the valley
to where the bulldozers had
Try and Stop AAc
-By BENNETT CERF-
gouged into the greenly-for
ested hill, laying bare the raw
red earth for a new, faster
road a road I am looking
forward to using. And I had
noticed the faint smear of
smog hanging in the morning
air. And particles of it.
thought, had come from the
exhaust of my own car. And
I felt guilty.
And I thought, as I sprayed
of all the times I had read
of how man is plundering his
planet eroding its soil, pol
luting its waters, killing tits
living things, despoiling its
very atmosphere. Selfish, ego
centric man. And yet I had
never before stopped to total
up the damage I alone have
done in trying to reshape my
own world closer to my de
sires. I alone with my mod
ern sprays and my modern
detergents and my modern
car.
And yet should I suffer
gnats and mosquitoes and flies
with an aerosol bomb at my
fingertip? Should I struggle
with grease while the deter
gent bottle stands there on the
sink? Should I walk through
life when I can ride in up
holstered comfort? And I
knew though perhaps I should,
I won't.
And then I thought the sad
dest of thoughts: Inevitably,
the physical world we all love
so well will suffer for my
beine on it. Inevitably, I will
leave it worse than I found it
Like a careless camper in the
wilderness.
And if I had to cast a brass
plaque in these times, the best
it could say is: "As I go
through life I only pray I can
do as little damage to our
world as possible."
A WATER COLOR specialist found an old Indian squaw
in New Mexico who struck him as a perfect model for
a painting. Promised sufficient wampum, she agreed to
pose, but after remain
ing absolutely still tor a
half hour, she began to
squirm. "B e patient,"
urged the artist "I'll
soon be finished." Ten
minutes later she started
wriggling again. "I
thought Indians were pa
tient and stoical," grum
bled the artist "What
makes you so nervous?"
"Well, for one thing,"
explained the Indian
squaw, "I'm sitting on a
swarm of bees.
Th discoverv of coffee as a drink, according to one big mocha
and java importer, goes back to about 850 A J when an Arabian
herdsman named Kaldl noted that his goats became very frisky
and wide-awake after eating berries from a nearby shrub. He
and the abbot of a nearby monastery experimented by boiling the
berries in water. Results: (1) Kaldi sold his goats and opened the
first coffee house and (2) The abbot experienced no runner
trouble in keeping his monks on their toes for late evening
prayer. -
Caskie Stinnett tells of a new comedian who has scored a
fantastic hit in Argentina. His name is Gaucho Marx.
O 1963, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate
JFK's Civil Rights Message at Glance
Washington - (JTI - Presi
dent Kennedy's civil rights
message to Congress at a
glance:
The Problem
The result of continued
federal legislative inaction
will be continued it not in
creased racial strife causing
the leadership on both sides
to pass from the hands of
reasonable and responsible
men to the purveyors of hate
and violence. This would en
danger domestic tranquility,
retard the nation's economic
and social progress and weak
en the respect with which the
rest of the world regards this
country.
Congress should stay in ses
sion this year until it has en
acted - preferably as a sin
gle omnibus bill - the "most
responsible, reasonable and
urgently needed solutions to
this problem, solutions which
should be acceptable to all
fair minded men." In addition
to earlier recommendations,
new legislation should be en
acted dealing with public
accommodations, employment,
federally assisted programs,
a community relations service
and education. Budget amend
ments also were requested to
improve the training, skills
and economic opportunities of
the economically distressed
and discontended, white and
Negro alike. Congress also
should enact previously re
quested legislation to protect
Negro voting rights and give
the Civil Rights commission a
new four-year lease on life.
Schools
Authority was requested for
the attorney general to initi
ate in the federal district
courts legal proceedings
against local public school
boards or public institutions
of higher learning to enforce
desegregation under certain
conditions. Federal money
help should be given areas
having trouble complying
with school desegregation orders.
Employment
Additional funds were re
quested to broaden the man
power development and train
ing program and to finance
the pending youth employ
ment bill. Additional funds
also should be provided for
vocational education to pro
vide a work study program
for youth of high school age
and to raise the ceiling on
adult basic education provi
sions in the pending education
program
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New York Dave Grote, National League public rela
tions director, cheered by the New York Mets' 6-2 win over
the Yankees in a benefit game:
"The victory was a big thing for the National League.
It could mean as much as 50.000 additional admissioni
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