Show Hippies In Or Out By DAN The Hippies today are making an impression impression im impression im- im upon the way we live We can feel their influence In Influence influence in- in fluence from reading In the newspaper listening to reports about them on TV and even by watching movies that are produced about J them v I ITHE THE HIPPIES SHOW us a new way of life They s say y that the they are rebelling against society because it Is so corrupt and unworthy By rebelling they are actually dropping out of society Most hippies will not take baths or wash because they say that it Is their way of expressing to people their protest against the bad condition of the world I feel that if the hippies think the world is so corrupt corrupt corrupt cor cor- rupt and evil why dont don't they come out of their cocoons and do something constructive instead of laying down In Inthe inthe inthe the streets and blocking progress Hippies break the laws they dont don't keep clean and most of them are just born agitators How do they expect us to clean up the messy condition of the world if they continuously make It messier I PRESENTED A question to a number of students at Bountiful High as to whether they thought that Hippies Hippies Hippies Hip Hip- pies were here to stay Unsurprisingly enough 50 per percent percent percent cent said no 25 per cent said yes and 25 per centI cent I remained undecided I Stuart Pin Pingree ee stated to me his opinion about hip hip- I I pies Their philosophy is beautifully simple but the I attitude freud in nature They are definitely not here to stay l I 1 1 I I THIS BRINGS UP AN interesting point The basic I Idea of has some logicality to it They are right in that the world and society need some cleaning up However the way they go about it is basically foun- foun I They say that it needs cleaning up but I they will not help Instead they go off and hide in their I corner of space Because of this idealism I think also that their principles are not here to stay Also on the I negative side is Kirk Francis I y feel that the hippie I movement is just a passing phase What if we could see ahead into time What if we could tell whether the hippies would stay or not Suppose Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose they did Dave Erickson said this about hippies and the future Hippies are here lere to stay but their name isn't I LETS LET'S LOOK AT THIS quote a little more carefully It may not sound like much but it may have some hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den explanation Hippies in a way are here to stay because hasn't there always been some group of society society society soci soci- ety that has wanted to out drop In the wasn't it the swingers Or should I say more exactly the Hap I pies who always wanted to do nothing but nothing Later Later came came the beatniks or the with their weird poetry and bongo drums Now we have the hippies But of course we all know that wide portion of these nappies or hippies are soon drafted into Uncle Sams Sam's Army and then they are called such as in hup two three four hup two three four By these we can see that Hippies have al alI always always al- al I ways been here its it's just the name that's been different 1 FOR MY tY CLOSING though heres here's a warning to all I Hippies Hip up or Hip out |