The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 May 1967 — Page 12

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Try and Stop Me

By BENNETT CERF-

N UNSHAVEN down-and-outer stopped a broker outside the Stock Exchange and asked for a quarter for fare to Englewood, New Jersey, where he claimed a job ■» waiting for him. ■Didn’t I give you a quarter Monday for a job in Hempstead, Long Island?” asked the broker. “Absolutely right, sir,* was the down-and-outer’s comeback. “But I didn’t get that job because the bum who got it took a taxicab.” • • • Progress in the TT.S.A.? Harrison Brown explains it this way: “My grandmother rode in & horse and car* riage, but was afraid to ride in an automobile. My mother rode in an automobile, but was afraid to ride in a plane. I ride in a plane, but will be afraid to ride in a supersonic jet. My daughter will think nothing of boarding a supersonic jet—but she’s afraid to ride in a horse and cai*riagei” • • • CAMPUS COMICS: From Boston U.: Ever stop to think what would have happened to American history if the British soldiers had had bloodshot eyes? From Missouri: Testimonial (?) letter to a com syrup manufacturer: "I been a-drinkin’ yore com syrup fer two yean, an’ my feet ain't a bit better.” C 1967, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate

Old Movies Blasted As Prime Time TV Fillers

HOLLYWOOD UPI — Invariably the cry for more productions of original television plays is coupled with a blast at the networks for filling prime time with so many older Hollywood movies. I suspect that at least part of the cry, when it emanates from Eastern shores, stems from the traditional antipathy to almost anything bom of Hollywood. And of course the salt in the wound Is the remembrance of the days when original video plays were more prominent, and centered mainly in New York. Well, it is sad, of course, that except for an original outstanding hour on “ABC Stage 67” or “NBC Experiment in Television” now and then — and they are both through for the season — the old New York enthusiasm Is gone as a result of general network disinterest. But It also strikes me that there is nothing wrong at all in rerunning good films, which, after all, are a very significant and living part of contemporary American history, and have surely contributed to the elevation and popularity of the most advancing art form of our time. The trouble, really, has been with the networks’ wholesale deluge and dumping of all kinds Of films, good and bad, into television’s prime time, thus obscuring the fact that the better movies deserve special showcasing — like theatre revivals. For these are revivals, in fact, and revivals are a most honorable form of any theatrical tradition. The problem with the

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networks is that, In the few major films they have specially showcased this past season, their natural bent has been to highlight those that are sure to get the biggest commercial audience, rather than those that are really worth pointing up. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was, of course, worthy on both counts. But the showcasing of “The Robe” and “Hans Christian Andersen” was hardly done for any reasons except commercial ones, unless the officials in charge have a seriously flawed sense of what is truly great and memorable. Why, for instance, wasn’t “Lilies of the Field” showcased specially Instead of merely being tossed in with some of the other junk as a prime-time movie? It got a large rating anyway, but it seems to me that since old movies are doing so much to save television’s hide, video in return might do a service to the film industry and the public by treating memorable and artistic motion pictures with the sense of perspective they deserve in the American scheme of things. And why not a little imagination to heighten the interest, perspective and showmanship all around ? For example, I will wager anyone that a year-long Humphrey Bogart festival of a movie a week in prime time — a series unto itself — would be most welcome, despite the many times his films have been run locally. Giving them a sense of continuity and perspective would add another dimension and certainly capitalize legitimately on his current newfound popularity. No one apparently complains when theatre pieces are revived on television — “The Glass Menagerie," “Brigadoon,” etc. — for they show an appreciation of our past. And the New York theatre contemplated correctly that revivals of “Dinner at Eight” and “You Can’t Take It With You” might be of interest to its audience. And “The Matchmaker” is musicalized into “Hello, Dolly.” And why not? The only test should be: Is it good? Many movies are, and they live constantly in our subconscious, and television would do well to give some special treatment to the Industry and art that saved it from itself.

TRIBUTES TO OUR UNSUNG HEROES

John Whitaker

The Safety Director If there ever was a dedicated group of men and women it i* the safety directors of our country. Sometimes it seems a very thankless job, because a lot of us do not heed their warnings — their instructions and their driving helps. They do a tremendous job of trying to educate the

Charles Whitaker

average motorist to keep himself and his family from being killed an our highways. With the increase of motor registration and the new highways that ora so tempting for soma to speed on, their job becomes mere difficult every year. If all of us would just listen to them, we could cut the death toll on our highways several thousand a year. A SOMETIMES THANKUSS JOB FOR THEM, BUT THEY ARE STIU "UNSUNG HEROES."

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(By LYLE WILSON) By United Press International President Johnson has flunked his responsibility to protect the national interests from irreparable damage such as is threatened by a nationwide railroad strike. In January, 1966, Johnson promised that he would recommend legislation to deal with national emergency strikes. LBJ’s consensus system of politics does not provide for political activity which might prove costly on election day. So Johnson has done nothing. The Congress, which doesn’t have much political courage either, has full authority to come up with its own proposals.

Foreign News Commentary

But nothing there. One might think that the Republican congressional leadership would move into this political vacuum.

No move:

There was now a national railroad strike. Such a strike would be irreparably damaging. LBJ waited until the strike bell was tolling to ask Congress for emergency delaying action. There is no strike now only because Congress twice went along with the President in voting to delay a walkout. This reflects no credit on either the President or Congress, least of all on Johnson. It is quite obvious he has been

national interest from irreparable damage and that the postponement has been dictated by politics. Nothing much can be said for congressional Democrats and Republicans other than that they made no promises in the first instance. Faint praise. Some one should be pushing permanent legislation to prevent national emer-

gency.

Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and the New York legislature did much better than the President and the U.S. Congress. Rockefeller and the legislature cracked down on public-employe unions which strike as did the

unquenchable Irresponsibility of

the late Mike Quill.

On the books in New York State for 20 years had been the Condon-Wadlin Law to penalize striking public employes. The individual punishment prescribed was so severe as to be unenforcible. New York came up this year with a substitute, levying a fine of $10,000 or one week’s dues, whichever is less, for every day a union stays or strike and requiring for a maximum of 18 months the loss of a string union’s dues checkoff privileges. That may not be good law, but it is better than no law at

pose legislators who helped en-

act the legislation.

That appears to be what frightens Johnson, that he may lose votes in 1968 if he collaborates in an effort to protect

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the national Interest against irreparable damage. That is not an ideal posture for a President elected to serve all of the people. B\’t the posture is understandable.

New York City transit unions all. Unions do not like it. Their

postponing action to protect the | a couple of years ago under the; leaders are winding up to op-

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