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Show A GLANCE AT CIVILIZATION REVEALS . . . Jackpot Question: What's the World Coming To? , . . . CONFUSION, FEAR, HYSTERIA, DESPAIR By H. I. PHILLIPS A GIANCE AT THE GLOBE The world is In ' queer shape. Everywhere civilization is wishing it could find a cure for its savagery. Confusion and fear are running neck and neck with hysteria and despair. Half the world is looking for trouble and the other half acts as if afraid there won't be enough to go around. People have always been called different from animals in that they were rational beings. But the animals ani-mals appear to be outsmarting us. For centuries man seemed to be monkey-wrench tossers. Everybody Every-body is trying to save somebody from something If it kills the beneficiary. bene-ficiary. 0 In our yen for greater security secur-ity we are winning ourselves a compulsory ride on a greased pole, and in our quest for the more abundant life we are winning win-ning unhappiness in carload lots. . With the atom bomb hanging ovei us, we are concentrating on better hair tonics, government distribution distribu-tion of baby-sitters and a turkey in every chicken pie. This is the question of the hour: Can a nation exist half intelligent and half jackpot crazy? No coaching, coach-ing, pleasel getting more intelligent, but he never looked dumber than at the close of today's business. We belittled the caveman, but he bad bis own cave and all be needed for attack and defense were rocks. lie didn't require millions of dollars, thousands of scientists and countless bureaus to help him when the slugging began. From the rock, man went to the bow-and-arrow and on up through Javelin, gunpowder gun-powder and machine-gun to the Jet plane and atom bomb. Mars can now get him all his miseries miser-ies wholesale. This planet has had two world wars in 30 years and it has not only lost the goal posts but isn't sure in which direction the field lines run. Millions fought to end tyranny, but seem to have swapped two small tyrants for a big one. We have ended secret diplomacy and substituted open covenants openly arrived at And broken by microphone micro-phone I . . We have the biggest peace organization In history, but it la too busy fighting to get anywhere any-where with a peace effort. AH the world wants peace, but it first insists on the necessary ambulances and identification disks. Look at modern man! He is cockeyed, bow-legged, swivel-headed, swivel-headed, punch-drunk, weak-minded, hysterical, confused, befuddled and on a treadmill carefully set between a buzzsaw and an abyss. The United States looks closer to normal than most countries, but she still resembles a cross between a vaudeville show, a trip over Niagara Ni-agara Falls, an outing of drunken magicians and a clambake of WWW Cuif Stuff A celebrated Hollywood star got into a nightclub row the other night because he refused to remove his hat when he sat down at a table. It is just possible he felt that his head-size was changing too rapidly to take any chance. The mayor of New York's tele-phone tele-phone lines have been tapped so much that his personal calls now have a Hooper rating and he may get a commercial sponsor for them. England is supplying wigs to its people free in its nationalized health service. Instead of "Britannia rules the waves" and "The sun never sets on British soil," now it's, "How's your hair and can I be of any help?" What a come-down! ' Gromyko is returning to the U. N. He did not go home, it appears, to have his No's lifted. "Handkerchief Man Briefed On Code" N. Y. Times headline. . . . The usual spring code in the head, eh? |