Show 0 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Almost everybody we know Is playing games these days games that must be pumping millions into the economy Stop for a tank of gas or a quart of oil and the attendant slips you a fancy form that might possibly perhaps be worth hundreds of doll dollars to you As you leave the supermarket the lady at the checkout counter stuffs a 3 ticket In with the pickles and pumpernickel that might be worth even more than the bag of groceries you just purchased And if you dont don't go anywhere you have all sorts of things offered to you by mail Trem frem things You may already have won one flyer informs you You may already have won your own private jetliner complete with pilot and hostess another pro pro- claims To fo get a 3 crack at these prizes all you have to do is fill out the enclosed slip and mail it In Theres There's nothing to buy However if you'd care to subscribe to a magazine or order some hacksaw blades your order will be grate fully accepted Somebody must win all these goodies that are being handed out so freely but all we ever hear about are the people who win the conso- conso consolation lation prizes Nobody we know has won the Taj Mahal the lope Diamond or the Rolls Rolls- Royce complete with genuine British chauffeur So our curiosity whetted with a touch of envy we wonder who does win the super jackpots And we wonder about something else Do Doall Doall all these giveaways really build business for forthe forthe the donors or do they have the same net ef- ef effect effect as this nations nation's handouts lU to such countries as India Yugoslavia and the United Arab Re Re- Re Republic public An answer of sorts sods was given recently by bya bya a petroleum trade journal which studied the games people play around the gas pumps Sales did indeed go up while the company was pumping out money along with the octane high But business dropped off quickly after the money stopped slopped flowing It somehow reminds us of that old joke that everyone has heard with the everybody knows But what have you done for me lately It reminds us also that weve we've been pay ing our share of all that prize money It is the very nature of o th the game that prices have to be adjusted to cover not only the cost of merchandise but the prize money as well Would It be impertinent to call this a form of gambling with the bettor knowing neither the odds nor the amount he is wagering JUNIOR JUSTICE So they picked up this kid Idd see on an ar- ar arson arson him son rap It wasn't the fuzz that grabbed him but the fire laddies They said he had set fire to his grandmas grandma's couch Nah he wasn't a teen teen-ager lie He was seven years old a 3 first offender But everybody knows that seven is the dangerous age tally for a kid with matches And this seven seven- year old tried to burn his grannys granny's couch Anyway that's what the firemen say But how do they know for sure They might be to frame him Maybe hes he's one of those fresh kids that hang around the fire engines and mess up the brass But this kid Is gonna get n a fair trial see sec The time is past when a kid can be tried con con- convicted and punished by his ma or his grand grand- grandma ma If a kid gets in trouble hes he's now protected by a ruling of the Supreme Court and hes he's en en- en entitled titled to all the trappings of modern justice justice- lawyers judges appeals bondsmen no bug bug- bugging gi ging g bail the corpus works The kid mentioned would have been treat treat- treated ed summarily only a year ago Granny would have tanned his hide and that would have been the end of it except maybe for a traumatic maUl matic experience that would have required calling Dr Spock Provided he wasn't away from his office somewhere And even if he did not suffer a traumatic ex ex- ex experience from the spanking hed he'd have been very cautious with matches especially around grandmas grandma's things But in this enlightened era things are dif dif dif- different ferent and the procedure is going to be dif dif dif- different ferent This year seven happens to be from New Jersey and the County Judge has assign assign- assigned ed a 3 lawyer to represent him The press quotes the Judge as pointing out that under the Su- Su Supreme Supreme preme Courts Court's decision the youngster is en en- en entitled titled to all the tho constitutional guarantees granted adults in criminal cases However the name of the boy is not given because he is a juvenile Proceedings too will be private not because they may also prove to be juvenile but because its it's a juvenile court In short thanks to Chief Justice Warren and his merry men this kid is going to get everything that's coming to him in the way of justice justice Including we presume the right to carry an appeal all the way up to the US Supreme Court which started the whole thing Wait until word of this gets around to the second and third graders |