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Show Vie live in difficult times I No one needs to be told that we live in difficult times. Just look around you: the signs are there. It's lflte pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. If you pick up one piece al a time and study it carefully it means nothing. Ipjsrvmerely a jagged piece of cardboard or wood. Eventually you find a companion piece and the nSftnrp. thnnph still mpnninfrless. takes on a differ- eht significance. The more pieces meshed, the more rAeaningful the overall picture becomes. Then, at sbme point, it becomes an identifiable rendering. The same is true of these troubled times. The "Suburban "Su-burban Record" of Silver Springs, Maryland, just olttside Washington, put together a group of photos pho-tos that told the story quite accurately. There, on a single newspaper page was the completed puzzle for all to see. ; Though one picture is still worth a thousand words, we will describe the page for you. Photo: A sign on tl,ie side of a D.C. bus, "HAVE EXACT FARE READY REA-DY ONLY SCRIP ISSUED FOR CHANGE". The reason for this was the epidemis of bus holdups. Photo: Pho-to: A wire litter basket chained to a telephone pole, either to keep it from being stolen or to prevent its being thrown in a riot or vandalized. Photo: Glen Echo Amusement Park closed forever. One of the factors in the permanent closing of the park was the rioting which took place there a few years ago. A similar fate was suffered by Olympic Park in New Jersey. Photo: An oil drum trash can bolted to a wooden four-by-four posts for the same reasons as the wire basket. Photo: A watchdog on a chain, for obvious reasons. Photo: A fallout shelter sign conveying fear of atomic attack. Photo: A bank window warning of a photographic burglar alarm system. Washington has almost daily bank holdups. Photo: A bump in the street intentionally placed to discourage speeders. Photo: An emergency telephone that may be operated in an emergency without depositing de-positing a coin. Photo: A sign for a school of self-defense self-defense for those who must leave the safety of their i homes at night. Untypical? No. Silver Springs is a prosperous suburban su-burban community, no different from a thousand ' others throughout the country. The handwriting Is j literally on the wall. And it spells fear. j |