HERALD Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 53 — NO. 5
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER . . . Not too many people know who Fredd Wayne is. It just happens that Mr. Wayne played the part of Luther Billis in the London company of the Broadway musical, "South Pacific." He played the role for about two years. So what? • • Mr. Wayne is not too well known outside the circle of actors, television art, and the filmworld. Currently, however, he is touring the nation on a lecture series, fulfilling a mission which he thinks is very important. In his series of lecture engagements, Mr. Wayne attacks what he considers modern society's gravest ills. To a recent Dallas audience, he offered advice and opinions that went like this: "Let's stop exalting jerks . . . It's time we knocked our shabby idols off their pedestals." In an interview, Mr. Wayne listed some of the jerks he has in mind — phonies of every persuasion, all of them out for fast bucks or unearned fame. They include "writers who can't write, singers who can't sing, politicians who can't politick, cheats who lead labor unions, comics who are boring." Prominent among them are certain well-paid columnists who write about everything but are informed on nothing, whose work is compounded of press agents' tips, "spleen and envy," unrelieved by original thought. Nor does Mr. Wayne neglect "the
Let Me See .. . I'll hold my candle high, and then Perhaps I'll see the hearts of men Above the sordidness of life, Beyond misunderstandings, strife. Though many deeds that others do Seem foolish, rash and sinful too, Just who am I to criticize What I perceive with my dull eyes? I'll hold my candle high, and then, Perhaps I'll see the hearts of men. Thou who bast given us so much, give one thing more . a grateful heart. —George Herbert 1620 0
is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action is mightier. Deserving is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. —Thomas Gaines It
jerks on TV." Hollywood loves goddesses, trashy bat bestselling novels — or the press, which he blames for spreading the whole ugly mess in order to sell papers. 4
Parents, he feels, have abdicated their responsibility to teach. standards of morals, ethics and craftmanship. "Prosperity has grown a fatty tissue around conscience; religion has become not a hair shirt, but a contour chair adjustable to the spirit." Youngsters grow up craving "money, violence, success, publicity"; many elders share such yens in secret. But the Ney Yorker - Californian,
now preparing to tour the country in a one-man show as moralist Ben Franklin, feels there's hope while we can still admire people like astronauts and Peace Corps members. "The jr: ks have had their day; it's time for heroes." •
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Over Protection Is Not Good An educator said that overprotective parents may destroy the independent qualities their children will need tomorrow. "The total after-school schedule is often one of pushing our children, prodding them into a mold of OUR design, and shaping them to a competitive world where we want them to hold their own socially, physically and economically," said Dr. Willard Abraham, chairman of special education at Arizona State University. "We don't seem to realize that even if they can adapt to our world of the present that won't necessarily help them adjust to theirs in the 21st century, Abraham said in an article in Today's Health, published by the American Medical Association. "Nursing children in a soft-cushioned niche fails to condition them for an atmosphere that demands creativity and !flexibility," he said. "More than half the jobs from which they are to select tomorrow do not even exist today. "Much of the college oducation they pursue will be obsolete within a few
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