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Shangri-la, issue 7, July-August 1948
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(GLASS HOUSES---con'd) and the stealing of treasures behind it. The mob, in a wonderful example of group psychosis, rushes down the street breaking pane after pane and taking from them not only the needed food but also the silks, jewels, works of art, and trembling aristocrats to hang from lampposts. One Frenchman said, "Let the people eat hay!" And the Parisan mob hung him, grass stuffed into his mouth. In every serious riot in the United States, the Abolition riots, the draft riots, the frequent labor riots of the last t thirty years, the breaking of windows shows this latent desire to destroy this symbol of the separation between rich and poor. Glass windows have been broken for centuries and will be broken for centuries to come. If a Commune ever forms in New York, in Chicago or in any other large city, the first sign of it will be the smashing of windows and the looting of stores and the killing of the dwellers behind the windows. * * * * Thus, the study of a woman breaking glass in a hospital for the insane made it necessary to study the reactions of the human race to glass windows over a period of hundred of years. Her reason for doing it was not an isolated one, a reason peculiar to herself. Rather, it was simply the individual expression of a group thought that is the common heritage of millions of our fellow men. In spite of our boasted culture, our boasted equality and fraternity, there are too many glass windows in our national life. It would be better for us to remove them instead of waiting for them to be broken. END (JUST A MINUTE----con'd) Next, we had nominations for Director: Eph Konnigsberg nominated Everett; Everett nominated Jean Cox; Jean Cox nominated Norman Willmerth; Mike Scoles nominated Russ Hodgkins; Russ Hodgkins nominated Dale Hart. Forrest objected to Gus' nomination on the grounds that he wasn't a hu-man but a nor-man. Evans, Hodgkins, and Hart declined their nominations. Eph K. cried so vigorously for a speech on the part of the nominees that he finally got Gus to state that "if reelected he would continue his present platform" Dale Hart read us a letter from Clare Winger Harris, who tells us that she likes SHANGRI-LA very much, and also that she had given a speech before the Manuscripter's Club on science-fiction writing. Afterwards, she received a literary award for her book, AWAY FROM HERE AND NOW, from the Manuscripters. END -( ( ADVERTIZEMENT) )- FOR SALE OR TRADE: Doc Savage Mags, 1934 on. WANTED: Stray copies of ETC. Review of General Semantics. Kenneth H Bonnell, 628 S. Bixel St. Los Angeles 14 Calif. (16)
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(GLASS HOUSES---con'd) and the stealing of treasures behind it. The mob, in a wonderful example of group psychosis, rushes down the street breaking pane after pane and taking from them not only the needed food but also the silks, jewels, works of art, and trembling aristocrats to hang from lampposts. One Frenchman said, "Let the people eat hay!" And the Parisan mob hung him, grass stuffed into his mouth. In every serious riot in the United States, the Abolition riots, the draft riots, the frequent labor riots of the last t thirty years, the breaking of windows shows this latent desire to destroy this symbol of the separation between rich and poor. Glass windows have been broken for centuries and will be broken for centuries to come. If a Commune ever forms in New York, in Chicago or in any other large city, the first sign of it will be the smashing of windows and the looting of stores and the killing of the dwellers behind the windows. * * * * Thus, the study of a woman breaking glass in a hospital for the insane made it necessary to study the reactions of the human race to glass windows over a period of hundred of years. Her reason for doing it was not an isolated one, a reason peculiar to herself. Rather, it was simply the individual expression of a group thought that is the common heritage of millions of our fellow men. In spite of our boasted culture, our boasted equality and fraternity, there are too many glass windows in our national life. It would be better for us to remove them instead of waiting for them to be broken. END (JUST A MINUTE----con'd) Next, we had nominations for Director: Eph Konnigsberg nominated Everett; Everett nominated Jean Cox; Jean Cox nominated Norman Willmerth; Mike Scoles nominated Russ Hodgkins; Russ Hodgkins nominated Dale Hart. Forrest objected to Gus' nomination on the grounds that he wasn't a hu-man but a nor-man. Evans, Hodgkins, and Hart declined their nominations. Eph K. cried so vigorously for a speech on the part of the nominees that he finally got Gus to state that "if reelected he would continue his present platform" Dale Hart read us a letter from Clare Winger Harris, who tells us that she likes SHANGRI-LA very much, and also that she had given a speech before the Manuscripter's Club on science-fiction writing. Afterwards, she received a literary award for her book, AWAY FROM HERE AND NOW, from the Manuscripters. END -( ( ADVERTIZEMENT) )- FOR SALE OR TRADE: Doc Savage Mags, 1934 on. WANTED: Stray copies of ETC. Review of General Semantics. Kenneth H Bonnell, 628 S. Bixel St. Los Angeles 14 Calif. (16)
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