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Show ' Folklore of today taxes the same bask forma as folklore of the past, al- though the subject matter is greatly different, according, to Richard M. Dor-soauthor of many books on folklore. Dmson writes that' the contemporary period of folklore follows a humane impulse. Hie date for the beginning of the impulse is 1964 when the Berkley Free Speech Movement dramatized ' the emergence of the 'counterculture. Other forma of folklore are bring created and perpetuated, but the culture of today has brought about a new type of folklore subject matter, according to grabbed it up ami threw it in the cope foce and. screamed, Were busted! Well, it was a real windy day and the cop had to let them go because all the evidence blew away Another form of the contemporary lore shows the cops as heads, or drug usprs., Two San Francisco policemen visited an apartment whose residents were notorious drug users. At the time, the residents were smoking hashish. The police said they were cod and merely wanted to get stoned, so the heads let them in and turned them on (gave them some hashish). Five minutes after the high officers left the apartment it was busted by two different n, ' Doraon. Doraon states that the counterculture was a world filled with urvy recks of obscene comic books, icon posters of the sound of. rode, the garb of monks, the whiff of grass, the. .ambiance of flowers, incense, and beads and organic foods. ; With the drug culture im lore telling of how tin drug users were outwitting the narcotic agents and the police. Doraon said this pattern resembles the trickster pattern of older folklore where the jmtlaw outwits the law. The following story, from one of Dorsons Jbooks, is. an example of the drug user outsmarting the police. - "Some stoned hippies wen buzzing around Pint Arthur (Thus) in a sta--, and the driver had a lid setting in his topsy-t- anti-heroe- s, this lap-y- ou . long-haire- n know-t- he win-doe-rs all clouded with smoke-th- e whole a cop st them. So when they a window down this cloud of smoke started out. The cop ran over said, Whats going on in there? The driver suddenly realized he had a lid of marijuana on hia lap. ' . . At performance. the psychiatrist that he must be off the murky end and fills out a section eight (insanity) discharge, (felled in by the sychiatrist, he starts all the papers on the psychiatrists desk again muttering, Thats not it until he comes to his . section eight He grabs it and dia-'char- shouts, Thats it! Another story tells about a kids friend who got called back to Balti- more for Us physical. He know what to do. He snuck a razor and slashed both wrists. (He has already figured out the safe places on hie arm; and besides, how could you go wrong with all the Lbout two years ago Oxford (a Berkley dormCollege a had somebody itory) radio stolen from their room, and so he had called the cops in. As soon as the Oxfordians got word of this, the house began resounding with the noise of toilets being flushed as everybody got paranoid and started ditching their stashes. The guy whose radio was stolen was fined $25 and had to pay back all those who had lost their dope. Drug stories were not the only ones that became with the popular folk-lor- e counter culture. According to Doraon, the draft dodger was lauded as an didnt at another presents theme. The following story is an example of this theme. A head that a friend of mine knows was over at this girls house and he hid his stash of grass in her old mans tobacco can. So her old man came back and found unexpectedly d cat there. this He figured anyone with long hair is a hippie so he started preaching about the dangers of grass. And while he was doing it he picked up hie tobacco can and filled his pipe. So he sat there and got stoned out of his gourd while he was preaching against weed.. ' Doraon writes that this a situation emphasizes very.. social situation in and says, puts hospital for observation, and he continues his The constant fear of being watched and suspected sometimes leads to unnecessary evasive action, like in the following non-dru- g desk not it" The C.O. the soldier in the Thats nt This story is not necessarily true, but supports the drug users belief that a gnat deal of police are involved with these drugs and use their position to gain access to them, according to Doraon. Doraon stales that other persons in the straight, using world also turn on unwittingly, and . tkm-wago- of people having rigid prejudices about a lifestyle they know nothing about when their own lifestyle leaves much to be desired. In drugiore the head is hero an defying the rules of the system and continually skirmishing with the arms of the law. He is cool, but he lives under constant tension, anxiety, and fear of getting busted, like any outlaw, according to Dor-so- ' policemen. officer's that masses doctors there). - I dont know if he got out. In ding to "Doraon, folklore has reflected the currents of change, the new values, the new ethics, the new road to happiness. D outwitting a establishment. Draft dodger stories abound and the following two are just a small portion of the available tales. O reflects ethics of a culture. The change, values, and folklore of the counter-culturwhich in d the with deals 60's, began subject matter, but follows basic lore patDIFFERENT every period, accor- SUBJECTS-Folkl- ore e, drug-oriente- terns. . GATCHWWINDFALL! anti-her- o d "One elaborate story has the offender walking around the camp bent over picking up scraps of paper muttering all the time, Thats not it. He continues this on duty and off. Called in by the C.O. he shambles into his office and starts shuffling through the papers on the : 1 . STEPPHl UP WELCOMES SANTA THIS FMDAY A SATURDAY! .. V nmcHAsr.-- With - 15 ., i NKWtfAX VINYL OFF I ' I ' EVEflYTHIDB SJU.EI - l r, ' ' ' ' ; .. f. We carry name brands The World's Most Experienced Flooring I Gnu la For Details At . Check out our good selectio of Children's Clothing (ksmm STEPPIH UP Across from J.C Penney tomtom Roosevelt Floor Coverings & Supplies ' 722-491- 7 417 1. Main Vernal 7M-7$3- 4 |