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Vanguard Boojum page fifteen (En Passant - continued) Gawd Jehovah roared back and passed a miracle, and there was an Arthur J. Burks!) Constitution Program's goin' t'be different next year! Stuffanonsense So, tomorrow we tear down the walls; they're no protections nd you always have to be slapping paint, plaster, or a wet rag on them! One could use superlatives; one could go overboard. But I shall restrain myself, and merely note that this is not only a perfect burlesque upon Renascence, but is also the most hilarious thing I've yet seen in Vanguard. Each and every item tells, though some are funnier than others. My favorite, of course, is "Miserecordia", with "Prayer for Lyons", and "Anvil", and "Date Wanted: Rush" close behind. Now I'm glad we took Renascence out of the mailings! (I'm told, Bill, that when Maxl -- our director -- read this issue of Stefantasy he said: "Hell! Let's forget about Renascence and bring out something like this every other month!") Cretin Yea, I who came to sneer remained to slurp! Having now reversed my position so often that Blish will probably ask me why I don't plug my record player into my own personal alternating current, I must say that I heartily approved the "personal letter" magazine providing it is always by Emden. Only it wasn't catsup I was supposed to put into everything I made eatable; it was tobasco. Grrr, snap, and fang! (Coo!) I, too, saw the circular from the War Resisters League; it was a rather neat print job, remarked I, handout back to Jim. However, I do fear that the clause "removal of all causes of war" will have to involve removal of Homo Tewler. (Don't care if Dinner made the term up or not -- on second thought I do: I hope Danner did make it up because it's good! -- I'm adopting it, see!) Since I have no conscientious (the hour is late; I shouldn't have started this stencil tonoght, and I'm in no mood to look and see if the "t" in that italicized word should be a "c", but if it should: since I have any of that either) objection against war, although I must admit that most alternatives are more appealing, I'd hardly join the WRL just in order to evade service. The lot of the CO strikes me as being far more undesirable than that of cannon fodder and the position of the CO, except in a few isolated cases, as functionally impossible in relation to his objectives. (A few CO s were set to doing completely useless work, labor which would not have been undertaken otherwise. In most cases, however, COs merely serve to release armed services personnell for more "important" tasks. Considering, then, that the CO was doing work at something like $1.50 per month plus what passed for board and room -- and paying rent for same, in many cases -- which, as a soldier, he would have been doing for $50 a month and "army care" plus "belonging", the gesture added up to emptiness and all the horrors of war without any of the incidental benefits.) (Correction: change "all the horrors" above to "some of the worst non-violent horrors". Thank you.) In reference to PM and the current flare of interest in mental hospitals, I wonder if it isn't a chronic thing with that paper, just as Hearst's trotting out the anti-Vivisection business every now and then. I'm haunted by the feeling that there was a rash of this a couple of years ago, and that I also saw it in the same paper still earlier. It is something which needs bringing to the public atten-
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Vanguard Boojum page fifteen (En Passant - continued) Gawd Jehovah roared back and passed a miracle, and there was an Arthur J. Burks!) Constitution Program's goin' t'be different next year! Stuffanonsense So, tomorrow we tear down the walls; they're no protections nd you always have to be slapping paint, plaster, or a wet rag on them! One could use superlatives; one could go overboard. But I shall restrain myself, and merely note that this is not only a perfect burlesque upon Renascence, but is also the most hilarious thing I've yet seen in Vanguard. Each and every item tells, though some are funnier than others. My favorite, of course, is "Miserecordia", with "Prayer for Lyons", and "Anvil", and "Date Wanted: Rush" close behind. Now I'm glad we took Renascence out of the mailings! (I'm told, Bill, that when Maxl -- our director -- read this issue of Stefantasy he said: "Hell! Let's forget about Renascence and bring out something like this every other month!") Cretin Yea, I who came to sneer remained to slurp! Having now reversed my position so often that Blish will probably ask me why I don't plug my record player into my own personal alternating current, I must say that I heartily approved the "personal letter" magazine providing it is always by Emden. Only it wasn't catsup I was supposed to put into everything I made eatable; it was tobasco. Grrr, snap, and fang! (Coo!) I, too, saw the circular from the War Resisters League; it was a rather neat print job, remarked I, handout back to Jim. However, I do fear that the clause "removal of all causes of war" will have to involve removal of Homo Tewler. (Don't care if Dinner made the term up or not -- on second thought I do: I hope Danner did make it up because it's good! -- I'm adopting it, see!) Since I have no conscientious (the hour is late; I shouldn't have started this stencil tonoght, and I'm in no mood to look and see if the "t" in that italicized word should be a "c", but if it should: since I have any of that either) objection against war, although I must admit that most alternatives are more appealing, I'd hardly join the WRL just in order to evade service. The lot of the CO strikes me as being far more undesirable than that of cannon fodder and the position of the CO, except in a few isolated cases, as functionally impossible in relation to his objectives. (A few CO s were set to doing completely useless work, labor which would not have been undertaken otherwise. In most cases, however, COs merely serve to release armed services personnell for more "important" tasks. Considering, then, that the CO was doing work at something like $1.50 per month plus what passed for board and room -- and paying rent for same, in many cases -- which, as a soldier, he would have been doing for $50 a month and "army care" plus "belonging", the gesture added up to emptiness and all the horrors of war without any of the incidental benefits.) (Correction: change "all the horrors" above to "some of the worst non-violent horrors". Thank you.) In reference to PM and the current flare of interest in mental hospitals, I wonder if it isn't a chronic thing with that paper, just as Hearst's trotting out the anti-Vivisection business every now and then. I'm haunted by the feeling that there was a rash of this a couple of years ago, and that I also saw it in the same paper still earlier. It is something which needs bringing to the public atten-
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