Show T q BY es HORSE SENSE ALTHOUGH A THOUGH as was to be ex- ex expected expected enough there are strangely enough some mue PC people Wh who who hl hit the roof roof at the U thought of opening pub- pub public lic hc school 01 sessions SSi nS with f a prayer and a salute to the flag the re re- re- re response of millions to the suggestion s is is an amazed Why all the delay When we were a kid every session back home hom was begun with a pray pray- pray prayer prayer er and My Country of Thee There There was almost al ost every race col col- color col- col color or and creed in In the neighborhood Mothers and fathers seemed wholly unafraid it would do the small fry any harm to show devotion to a Supreme Being and to America And the need wasn't what it is in these days of corruption crime lax morals and ratty behavior Imagine a fuss luss being made over letting God into the schools at a time when all aU the agencies in modern life which h glamorize loose conduct crim crim- criminality criminality and contempt for stand stand- standards standards standards ards of human behavior are wholly unhampered Little Wil Wil- Willie Villie lie spends the early evening at ata ata a mobster movie watching a avideo avideo avideo video throat-slitting throat or listening listen listen- listenIng ing to a radio sex crime At Atthe Atthe Atthe the breakfast table he hears mom and pop discuss a Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood wood ten-day ten marriage the latest slayings gang-slayings red-hot red revelations of bribery in top places stickups assaults bank defalcations and scandals In police departments and ama ama- amateur amateur amateur sports On the way to school he may find a new school-bus school driver due to the fact the old one got shot in a restaurant robbery i The school bus carries him past movie houses with huge signs blat blat- blatantly blatantly blatantly antly advertising the latest crime movie picture with such screaming lines as Should He Have Killed To Keep Her Love and Was The Garroting The Only Way to Happi Happi- Happiness Happiness Happiness ness At one crossing the bus is held up by a collision between autos driven by two drunks who are yelling Gwan Govan ya bum and Call a cop and see if I care The up tie-up is finally broken to let leta a Black Maria full of mobsters get to court on time for fresh pro pro- probation probation probation bation sentences Arriving in the schoolyard the kid hears that Johnny one of his playmates wont won't be at school today because he was ar ar- arrested arrested ar- ar arrested rested for vandalism and that the father of Stinky Smith threw mother off the roof the night before after a wild house- house party When he gets into the school school- schoolroom schoolroom schoolroom room the regular teacher is miss miss- ing He finds a substitute who explains ex ex- explains explains plains that the other one was run over by a run hit-and-run driver flee flee- fleeing fleeing fleeing ing from a police car S S Everybody gets into the act except God and country Yet when it is suggested that It might be a good thing if we returned to the fundamental belief and dependence of the founding fathers lathers on faith there are people who hit the ceiling Their cry c y that th t to open a school session with a prayer to a Su Su- Supreme Supreme Su- Su Supreme preme Being violates a constitutional constitutional constitutional clause against teach teaching teaching teaching ing religion In hi the public schools is like holding that asking the kids to sing The Star-Spangled Star Banner teaches music Or claiming that when teacher accepts a red apple from a pupil she is teaching cider production i iNo No kid has ever been harmed by bya a prayer even by one in the theother theother theother other fellows fellow's f faith The trouble with the prayer recommended by bythe bythe bythe the Board of Regents in New York is that it is ice cold too greatly tailored and far too casual Nothing in the line of evil influence is being be be- being being ing shortened these days Let God into the schoolrooms The kids might even bring Him home to the adults Senator Estes Kefauver asked if his hat is in the ring said I Iam Iam Iam am not seeking the nomination On the thc other hand I am not running away from it Why Estes Arent Aren't you the man who always demands a yes or no answer Roger L. L Putnam of Spring Spring- Springfield Springfield Springfield field Mass is in Eric Johnstons Johnston's job as s economic stabilizer There was a famous Putnam in wartime history who rode a horse down dow a steep flight of stone steps dashing Into action In the job taken by Roger the horse rides the man And the steps are spiral S Phi Beta Kappa Years Old Od headline This is a key point of course in its career Mr James Durante Presents Ethel Barrymore read the ad adlor adfor adfor for lor a o video program Everybody Is trying to get into the act VANISHING AMERICANISMS You wont won't need to spend much on me this Christmas Christmas But can I afford it |