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Tuesday, April 10, 1973
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Alas, Lawrence
Once there was a small college town, free from the problems of cities. Shaded lanes led to the college in this town, which was situated on a hill. The houses near the campus were some of the most beautiful in the town.
The people of this college town were contented. Oh, they went through the typical traumas of the times. Integration of the municipal swimming pool had been a hot issue for a time and there are still those who burn at the mention of the issue. Controversies about local schools popped up from time to time. But in general this was a very contented small college town.
But suddenly it was 1973 and the people were no longer contented. One by one, problems associated with the growth of the town into a small city became prominent. Those beautiful houses on the hill were no longer beautiful. They had been sold some time ago and had been converted into apartments for students who attended the now large college. They had deteriorated by the year until it was hard to tell that they had once been some of the finest houses in the city.
The city insector had coerced some landlords into making repairs but others held out and offered excuse after excuse. Many houses didn't have screens. Some really were not fit for habitation.
The shaded lanes in the town weren't so numerous as they had once been. But then shaded lanes weren't very profitable. They had been replaced by thoroughfares shaded mostly by signs advertising gas and hamburgers and groceries.
In fact large stretches of main streets in the town were nothing but
commercial tracts, with stores,
selling everything you could want
and a lot more you would never
want. Restaurants and franchises
were particularly popular and
within one block you could eat
Mexican food or Italian food or
Chinese food or good old American
food. You could buy five kinds of
gas. You had your choice of two or
three different markets. Alas, there
were no trees, just block after block
of signs.
The leaders of this small city were more concerned with progress and expansion than aesthetics. Plans were made to zone more land commercial. Plans were also made to turn the city into a major tourist attraction. A reservoir was being built by the Corps of Engineers on the outskirts of the city.
Local businessmen and city leaders walked around with dollar signs in place of eyes and perpetual smiles on their faces. At least some of the local citizens were contented. Think of the money the reservoir would bring. It was best, however, to ignore the congestion that might accompany the tourists, and the traffic, the litter.
Then the city had an election. Not many people voted, but that was only to be expected. Some new people got into office and hopes rose that some of the problems of the city would be remedied.
The new officers had talked about changing things and discontent was temporarily put in abeyance. Everyone waited for the new officers to lead the city to a new era of content.
At last report they were still waiting.
Steve Riel
By HARVEY HUDSON
Picasso: Creation by Destruction
PARIS-Pablo Picasso was a child prodigy whose genius seemed to be in constant exertion throughout his long career.
The limits of his imagination were boundless, and he constantly invented new ways to express his restless visions.
As a child in Malaga, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, he amused his playmates by drawing horses with chalk on the sidewalk. He would draw the horse's unbroken line, never lifting the boot from the pavement, and could start at head or feet or tail.
His father was an art teacher, and an after-hours painter. The story has often been told that Pebba Wabba was 14 his father was 50. He was in his early twenties and his son all his painting and vowed never again to paint.
His painting, sculpture and ceramics profoundly influenced the 20th century's artistic concepts.
At a Paris exhibit of Picasso's work for his 83rd birthday, he met Jean-Marc Marraux said "Picasso's life work is the greatest enterprise for destruction and relief, the same time, and perhaps of all times."
At the mention of Picasso, the most common image that comes to mind is a distorted face, body features, warped space.
This is accurate. But the Paris display of representative portions of Picasso's work also showed many delicate and beautiful sketches and figurative paintings of great skill.
Picasso's paintings, where the features were distorted to give the impression of views of the same subject from different
angles, started out as pure figurative works, then the elements were shifted through imagination to fit the artist's vision.
In an interview with the magazine *Magazine Cahier d'Art in Paris* in 1953 Picasso said, "In my case a picture is a sum of destruction. I see a world under siege. . . . A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is changing according to the state mind of whoever is looking at it.
Answering those who protested that they could not understand his paintings, Picasso said, "Everyone wants to understand a bird." He would cry the song of birds? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But where art is concerned, people they must understand them."
Novelty Amid Recycled Failures
WASHINGTON - The East San Francisco Bay cities of Berkley and Oakland will soon be having their municipal elections. In Berkeley the radicals are expected to win dominion over the city council and in Oakland that is expected to have Bobby Soley, is not expected to get more than five per cent of the vote in the mayor's race.
Pablo Picasso
Yet in the midst of such repetitions a fight is being carried on around a new idea, an idea with enough appeal to draw interest from all corners of California and back here in Washington where it has the support of white, archconservative Sen. Paul F. Anziz, R-Ariz., and of black,archconservative Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calfi.
But, who wueren wins, the outcome will be the same, because radicals, liberals and Nixon Republicans, all have run out of ideas. The most they can do is recycle their old failures.
being waged.
Good as that may be—and if
all black. When it's completed, a few blacks and chicanos will have a little silver of the equity, most of which will be owned by rich people who bought in looking for a tax shelter.
The fight involved Oakland's $150 million downtown urban renewal project. You wouldn't think there be a fight over this project, because it is prosocially antisocial as most. The redevelopers have made an unusual effort to bring in black businessmen and workers. The project has cost 20 per cent black-owned and a number of the subcontractors are
This attack on poverty and the essential propertylessness of America's wage slaves didn't originate with Reber but with Louis O. Kelso, the heretic preaching such an approach to universal capitalism for years. Nobody is been listening, however.
allowing poor people and working people to cut themselves in this way.
A Berkeley-based group, led by a young white politician named Gary Reber, is demanding that the project be financed in such a way that stock would be owned by him. The company will work in the project when it's finished as well as by a large number of low-income Oakland
But starting in 1894, after the Spanish civil war and the defeat of the Spanish Republics, he never went back to his homeland.
appears that these black businessmen are going to bring the job in under budget—the project still suffers from the central deficiency of all urban areas and the power of government is being used to take one man's property and give it to another.
residents. This could be done through what Rebel calls the "REIT-ON approach," which translates into "real estate investment trust for ownership now."
Culbert points out that Keltonian economics are a "perfect umbrella" for both left and right to meet under. For lefts, widespread ownership of dividend-producing stock means the government—a way out of the welfare trap and social justice; for righties, it means the preservation of private property and
In Oakland the primary beneficiaries of this arbitrary public largesse are four huge development companies, three of which are located in Detroit, the other two in a local firm, and it is over who should own this enormous project on its completion that the fight is
free enterprise as well as basing people's income on productivity and profit instead of the present, inherently inflationary wage system. That is why two such men as Fannin and Dellums are introducing legislation changing the use of labor to facilitate the use of this kind of mechanism for business and industry everywhere.
Reber is popularizing Kelson's ideas and making them the subject of serious political debate for the first time. Thus Mike Mercer, the editor of the very right Daily Gazette, who says, "I'm an unusual typecat as the local Nazi" and who has thrown in with this coalition of Black Panthers and white university professors, remarks that, "Reber has been a little harsh and a little abrasive, but he's gotten people to ask that he is going to own it? Now we want capitalism is no longer an occult idea in the East Bay area."
Nicholas von Hoffman
Whether a painting or sculpture was pure Picasso or figurative, it had to come from his head.
There's nothing novel about a real estate investment trust in which a small number of people buy shares, but what Rother proposes is to limit participation in this $150 million undertaking to $1,000 a person, always provided they are either employees or would pay for their stock out of their savings, but many would have given using the stock as collateral and the dividends as the means of repayment. The rich do this all the time. What's unharmed of is
But the notion that most people must derive all their income from jobs dies hard. The suggestion that people could, in a capitalist society, derive all their income from stock ownership seems un-American. One man one vote is okay, but one man one chunk of equity isn't. Political acceptance, but economic equality status, an antithetical to our system.
At 14 Pablo completed in one day drawings required for admission to the senior department of the Barcelona Art School.
Gertrude Stein, who was living in Paris and was one of the first to recognize the artistic genius of old sitting for him for a portrait.
We prefer the yo-yo economics of Lord Keynes and Richard Nixon, this week price control, next week not, this year inflation, next year unemployment, up and down, back and back, eventually leading to economic competitors in the Council of Economic Advisers, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve that we may be spinning our wheels. Should that happy day come when they want to try to improve their economy, Oakland may have spread far enough to prepare the way.
Much has been written about the poverty of his early years in Paris, when the sale of a painting for a vittance was the oocast of Bateau Lavoir, the artist's center in Montmartre, where he lived.
Most candidates worried over them for a month. At 16, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Madrid with honors.
In 1900, when Picasso was 19,
he visited Paris for the first time,
staying a few months. In 1904 he
visited Paris, making rare visits to
Haemel, making rare visits to Spa.
This was a relatively short period and dealers were buying his work by 1906. By 1909, five managers had received a hairdresser a maid to serve his meals.
Picasso was an incurable collector of discarded items. A painter, he made his mark on him. His homes were cluttered with mountains of debris of no intrinsic value, and the artist had an immediate idea of the ultimate use.
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Face to face with Picasso, visitors were struck by his dark eyes, burning with the intensity of a laser, reaching out to grasp him. What was he thinking in his mind. What he saw was not always what else also saw.
A bicycle handlebear and a bicycle seat became the sculpture of a bull's head. An old model of the sculpture of his sculpture "The Goat" and braided copper wire made the tail. Two toy cars placed bottom inside the sculpture's monkey head. Two roasting potatoes served as the legs of a crane.
"I posed for him all that winter," Miss Stein wrote, "eighty times and in the end he painted one of his most important not look at me any more and then he left more than spain. It was the first time since the Blue Period and immediately upon his return he had to be the head without having seen me again and he gave me the picture and I was and I still am satisfied with my portrait, for me, it is I, myself, I am reproduction, me which is always." "Francoisie Glot, who was Picassus's mistress for 10 years and bore him two children, he used modeling scene in her book."
Miss Gilot wrote, "Pablo stood off, three or four yards from my mouth. He didn't even smile; they didn't eye him for a second. He didn’t touch his drawing pad: he was staring at the ground."
... When I went to get my clothes I saw that I had been standing there just over an hour. The following day Pablo began, from memory, a series of drawings of me in that pose."
Jack Anderson
Spring Snake Roundups Rattle Humane Society
Even rattlesnakes have some rights, in the view of the Humane Society, which is now in control. Even rattlesnake roundups out west.
Thousands of diamondbacks and rare prairie rattlers are slaughtered at these springtime roundups. What appalls the Humane Society is the way they're killed.
Today's roundups, although they may not bring out the best in rattlers, certainly brings out the worst in people.
The captured snakes are hauled into town in burlap bags and barrels, often with broken necks and backs. Some are crushed to death beneath the wheels of motorcycle fanatics. Others are used as living shooters for wildlife and tourists. In some cases, the bodies of the rattlers are sewn shut and they simply starve to death.
One former rattlesnake wrangler complained in a statement to the society: "Venomous snakes are living through dangerous to man, must be treated with compassion."
The society sent undercover men, dressed in cowboy clothes, to take notes and pictures of the rattlesnake festivals.
They will not only document how the rattlers are tortured but will investigate charges that promoters haul injured and dying snakes from town to town to put on rattleskea roundups.
The roundups began in frontier days simply as informal rattlesnake kills, then became formalized into festivals in Oklahoma in 1959. At first, they were useful in keeping down the population of wrigglers. But now, the Humane Society contends the rattlers are best controlled where they are found on the ranches and in the desert. To some extent, they help preserve the ecological balance during raids that destroy historic cactus forests and desert plants.
By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
We recently told how this unlikely pair—Smith, the nation's most durable anti-Semite, and Steiner, who wants to send blacks to Africa—had been venerated over the military airwaves.
In alarm the commanders of the vast military radio-TV network called a meeting behind closed Pentagon doors. It turned out that the purpose, however, was to step big broms from preaching on our overseas network but to keep us from finding out about it.
Bigotry Backfire
Some roundups, however, follow humane practices in handling and killing rattlers, whose meat may be canned or fried (it tastes like stringy chicken) and whose skins may be made into belts. In some roundups snake venom is preserved in jelly, which incidentally, few participants in the rounds get serious bites.
The Pentagon's broadcast chief, Col. Frank Huray, who has served as the nation's president over the hush-hush宴会. Our story about Smith's free air time, he mournfully, "got me in the gut."
The wonderful people who bring GI radio listeners the sermons of such bibs as Gerald L. K. Smith and Rudolph Steiner were born at St. John's Church.
Then he glared at his assembled subordinates. "I don't care if this gets back to Jack Anderson or not," he snorted.
His sidekick, Hoyt Wertz, said
"I would not now schedule this broadcast," Bertenshaw assured the rabbi. "I probably should have looked into this more closely. . . It will not happen again."
Bentenshaw also included his answer to a rabbi who had complained about the Smith show.
A sergeant in Huray's office is busy almost full time answering inquiries from students, the most zealous and frustrated inquirers has been Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., who is now a member of the faculty directly from Elliot Richardson.
"I don't want column three" from Anderson, he declared emphatically.
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was responsible for the "leaks," runny water was stalked from the room and secured their own files with locks and security bars. Despite these elaborate measures, we have obtained additional access to the racist braodcasts. For instance, the producer of the Gerald K. Smith Show, Bill Bertenshaw, wrote a private, reassuring letter to Wertz, promising: "I don't think you'll any more Anderson column programs. Future shows, the assured Wertz, would feature Jews, blacks and Mormons.
Copyright, 1972,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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