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Show Red Led Peace March Evil, Nasty, Commies men's rooms as the rest of us; but we were playing checkers the other day and he told me that he suspected sus-pected (just suspected, mind you) that the last peace march was organized or-ganized by the Communists, and hinted that this invalidated the whole business. I explained to him that even if the whole show had been run by the reincarnation of Lenin, it wouldn't necessarily invalidate in-validate the effort that there were other grounds for judging the demonstration, but he didn't see the point. I asked him if he would condemn a book or musical composition com-position simply because it was written by a communist. Of course not. Then I asked him again if he couldn't see that the presence 0i communists was irrelevant to the important considerations involved in praising or , condemning the peace marchers. He couldn't. I SUg gested that on his grounds the Civil Rights movement, the Poverty pro. gram, and maybe even the Peace Corps would have to be rejected But all Uncle Fred would do was look at me, shake his head, andsay nothing, much like one would I to a lame horse who didn't know it was about to be shot, and I sup-pose sup-pose I looked at him about the same way. Then, to top it off he beat me at checkers. Sometimes it doesn't pay to come down out of your tree at all. By HOWARD PARKER My cousin Otis thinks that com-I com-I munists are evil evil not just everyday, run-of-the-mill, mean-rotten-nasty evil, but the obsolute quintessence of evil. When they are not organizing demonstrations or plotting to overthrow the government, govern-ment, Cousin Otis believes that they spend their time kicking dogs, raping fair maidens, and abandoning abandon-ing crippled old ladies in the middle mid-dle of busy intersections. He is sure that, when constrained, they turn into bundles of sheer undifferentiating undifferentia-ting malice and try to chew off their own ears. They are so evil they make Sauron and the Black Riders look like Spanky and Our Gang. Evil. Evil. Evil. Cousin Otis also thinks that whenever you have that much evil concentrated in one package, everything every-thing he touches turns to brimstone. brim-stone. Every move he makes is mapped out in the enormous control con-trol room of E.V.I.L. Headquarters, two miles below the biggest, ugliest, wildest, most inaccessible mountain in Siberia, which clearly shows that everyone a commie deals with is evil. If we see him come out of a grocery store, it follows that the grocer is a junkie who gives pot and dirty pictures to the neighborhood neighbor-hood kiddies; if he asks directions of a cop, it follows that the cop is on somebody's payroll and pimps on the side; if he steps into the men's room, -he is trying to subvert the sewer system; if he marches for peace it follows that peace marches are evil, evil, evil. Everybody connected con-nected with them should be publicly pub-licly castigated, beat about the head and shoulders, and deported. In fact Cousin Otis is sometimes inclined to think that world peace is a commie com-mie plot, and anyone who doesn't like war is a dangerous fanatic. The rest of the family is inclined to think that Cousin Otis, though definitely not dangerous, is a bit on the squirrely side, but even some of the more rational ones are inclined to agree with some of the things he says. Take Uncle Fred . for example. Uncle Fred is perhaps the most level-headed relative I have. He knows that communists have wives and kids and nutty relatives rel-atives just like the rest of us. He knows that communists have to use the same stores, cops, and |