The Paper, Volume 2, No. 3 January 1973

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i;rVol. 2, No. 3January 19,

1973



Eco-Botesand

the energy crisis

Short stories

Commentaryby

Una Mikhail

Tarance -Cont.



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TARANCE']-elly-Bear

Chapter Five

by SU.•an Snyder

.."Now what are we going tod.o," cried Stanley."Well, we shall do the obvious. Follow these curious blue men.""I don tt see how we can. avoid do i.ng that, '! Stanley sighed in .

di stress. "Aft er .all, you are 8.ttached to them. I wonder what thename of those strange metal binders is. 1 0u certainly could use

them for keeping those unruly kids dov,'nin the forest. I $ure wishI knew where we are· going •••• "

Just then they entered into a red brick building.110h," though t Kerns, "it certainly is war-m i n here. Now we can

thaw out a bit.""Sure wonder where we are," Stanley said to himself.As tite two arriwed in a room at the end ofa shortt corridor, K.erns-

spotted a sign and it said "Police S1 tation, Main Desk."

IISay," Kerns yelled at the peculiar blue man behind tB:~ d esk,"whait is a Police Station?"

"It's a place where policemen bring criminals and file crimereport.s," was the reply.

"What: are policemen and wliat::'s criminal?""I am a.policeman and. you are a criminal," came back the booming

voice from the other end of the large ma.b,oganydesk."Nd e e to meet· y ou," Kerns said to the fellow. ,"It is becoming

clear to rne now. :The guys with the blue suits are the policemen andwe are the criminals. Just like in the forest, Stanley, except wewould say hosts and guests."

"Hey, you, sir," Stanley studdered, "what are criminals supposedto do, and_why do they come here in metal binders?"



The policemen looked at the pair strangely. They didn't under-stand the reason why Stanley and Kerns inquired about such obviousthings._ But they felt indulgent since it was the beginning of theday, so they answered "So they don't get away. We wouldn't like tooblige them by letting them escape. This isn't a benevolent organ-ization, you know, Wet.'rehere to capture and incarcerate criminals."

"Very well,1 l Kerns began, "but we certainly don't mind coming to

visit you nac e gentlemen, but I'm afraid we have pressing busines;selsewhere. We must depart now." He tried to sound convincing, hewondered if these were the same fellows who had frozen poor Alice inthe park.

"You'll do no such thing,lI the polrce officer retorted. "You arehere for loitering and causing a nuisance."

"Loitering?" Kerns questioned, !land c ausing a nuisance? I don'tunderstand who we were annoYing or detaining. Perhaps you are

mistaken. We simply spent the night with that lovely girl in the ••• "All of a sudden Kerns realized tlLat these men were responsible forAlice's state and the false si~ that said 'Central Park' instead of

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Wonderland. Alas, the stronghold of the enemy!!:"Yes, we found you in the Park sleeping on the statue. There are

laws against that and signs olea,Fly posted which read that the Parkcloses precisely at dusk. This is to cut down on crime. There arecriminals who would relish an open park in which to pick off their

victims ••• " From here the police chief proceeded to explain aboutthe rising crime rate and all the abuse he and his fellow lawenfo rcer s fa ced .

"Good grief,tI Kerns thought, "This man can not be one of theenemy. He certainly is awfully distracted thougp,."

Stanley moved closer to Kerns. He was frightened by all the~epeculiar habits that he was witnessing in the city. Kerns leanedover and said,"We better cause a disturbance and then I'll conjure

us out of here. Okay?"Stanley shook his head in agreement.Now was the time. POOF, and they disappeared from sight.

********Mrs. Gabriel of the Somerset County Vocational Library wants



morcel marceau

After an intermission Marceau didhis Bip pantomimes. Bip is the characterhe cre'atedin 1 9 4 7 . "Bi.pHunts theButterfly" led off, followed by llBipas a Street Musician", both of ,,;hichwere be autiful. "Bi.p as a BabysLtruen"was not his best, but HBip at a SocietyParty" was superb. It was veryChapLLne s que , Hewas talkingto two people, one who was funnywhile th~ ~ther was holding a seriousconversation. Bipsmiled at thefunny one and concentrated and lookedinterested at the serious one. Afterswitching back and forth in rapidsuccession, he walked out from betweenthem holding his forehead. Beautiful.It looked like Chaplin himself. Thelast one, II Bip as an Tl.Lusio n d st11 wasunbe.·lievable.,The stage was set upwit.rf'three·,alls, two in fr ont and

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had a.bout ten curtain calls. I wantedto show what'I thought of this great man, but I would have feltstupid yelling out "Bravo "", so I didn't. I just cl,apped until myhands were raw. I came not knowing if I would enjoy Marceau and Ileft hoping I ~ould see him again soon.

~-Gordon Clark

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ECO-NOTES

"Thus far, the energy crisis is a self-inflictedwound ••• Three years ago the President's ownCabinet Task Force recommended that theyscrapthe present oil import quota system. Thiswinter's so-called 'Energy Crisis' was manu-

factured night here ~n Washington. It could have been averted witha stroke of the President's pen.t! S. David Freeman, former White[ouse energy advisor.

Texas Eastern says the tank thatexploded and collapsed on StatenIsland last Saturday was intendedto store naphtha for use in makingnatural gas for heavy winter use.South Plainfielders are breathingsighs of relief that they turneddown Tecon's bid to build their

conversion plant here. The more onereads about the energy problems,the more one realizes how much ofit is just politics.

Other news items:1/29 Gov. Cahill asked for 4 4 .3m il li on f or e nv ir on me nt al pr og ra ms :1 .6 for water pollution control &

w ast e tr ea tme nt , 2.4 for the battleva air pollution, .5 to finish map-ping state wetlands, .2to deline-ate riparian lands, 205 ,000 todevelop a land development program,5 0,000 for regional recycling and

The most fascinating reportrecent weeks was one issueby Federal scientiststhat oil, tar andplastics were foundin the Atlantic over6 6 5 ,000 sq. milesfrom Cape Cod to

the Ca ribbe an .5 0% of t__---...off thecoastalshelf, 80%of theCaribbeanand Gulf

area and9 0% of an . .area north of '..",.. ~the Antilles werecontaminated by oil, mostlycrude oil. The heaviest concen-tration of oil was in the Cari-

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1 30 NJ Div. of Water Resourcesnotes that NJ-EPA would probablydisapprove any construction (relo-cation housing has been suggested!in Robinson's Brook retention baslnarea in Plainfield.1 /3 0 Dunellen residents at planningboard'hearing protest proposed 23

lot subdivision because of flooddanger from Bonegut (pronouncedlike Vonnegut) Brook.1 /3 1 Sen. Williams protested toFed. EPA against possible dumpingof 3 00,000 cubic yards of sludgefrom Philadelphia sewage plantsinto the lower Delaware Bay.

2/1 Middlesex County Freeholders gogo on record against turnpike exten-sion from New Brunswick to theshore as detrimental to the Hhumanand physical C- env Lnonmentr" •

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tics were found off SE New Eng-land. Half of the planktonsampled last summer was contam-~nated by oil. See map: darks po ts -h ea vi es t c on ce nt ra ti on .

**** ****2/2 State EPA says state will

have trouble meeting Federalcar emission control deadlineof 5 /3 1 /7 5 and asks for delayto 1 9 7 7 .2/2 Middlesex Board of Free-holders appoint 24 people to aSolid Waste Management StudyPolicy Advisory Committee (so.

help me) to formulate new SOlldwaste policies for county.2/6 State Assembly passes billallowing citizens to sue pollu-ters. Bill now goes to Senate~2/8 Cranford discusBes one yr.moratorium on building in theRahway River flood basin.2/8 Army Corps said it wouldtake 8 years to controL flood-ing of Green Brook & tributaries.2/1 4 Senate Public Works Comm.to start hearing Feb. 26 th on asuper-port off NJ-Del. coast.2/1 4 Froposed Nyers Rd. Dam &a lake at-Two Bridges, PassaicCo., dropped by Army Co~ps.2/1 4 Ford Motor Co. fined byU.S. $7 million for cheating ona nt i- po ll ut io n t es ts .



The oil industry is trying to put areally big one over on US 'now~ They're

telling us that they're running out of oil-

they always say "heating oil, oil for facto-

1 ' ie s" etc , - never ,"gas for 'automobiles".

They don't want us to PANIC after all; just

to be moved enough to suppo~t all of their newest money-makin'schemes. They don't want us to remember either after a few years,so they can do it all again.. There has been already one "energycrisis" that was advertised as much and as expensively as this onein 1 9 7 0, then it disappeared. They tell us that we're running outof oil being drilled out right now within the borders of this coun-try ana they want to be allowed to drill more wells to make up for

the shortage. Why? They say because we don't want to be dependenton foreign oil, do we (like Japan); oil is important to our nationalsecurity. That is not why; this is why: foreign oil costs less. Itwould undermine the profits of the American oil industry. It wouldcut executives' salaries. Already we are taking in some oil fromother countries (since the crisis of 1 9 7 0)~ and in exchan e for ourwheat, we are receiving oil from the Russians, whO 'the industry can probably sell at its own prices. ~

After trying to frighten us into believingit is important to take our oil from under-ground America, they tell us that we'regoing to run out of it in 1 5 -20 years.What is their solution? A short-termsolution: rather than spend ~oney ondeveloping new sources of energy, and so



The whole thing is meant to break the oppositi~n)V~they've met with on the state and local l~vel, and fro~nationalenvironmental organizations, to their expansion of old· projects andthe building of new ones. Like the Alaska pipeline and oil fields,the natural gas "conversion plants"-refineries- in South Plainfieldand Staten Island and the deep-water ports off our coasts for the

"supertankers". The Alaska oil fields would raise

the supply of oil in the U.S. by 5% after thewells became fully functional, and the wellswould last for about 15 years. After that, the800 mile pipeline would be useless. The same

is true of the deep-water ports, or at leastof the equipment on them~ The ecological

o damage of spills on the shore and ocean,I, t\ could be extensive.

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Ji~ , There is some shortage of heating

D ) l O p ) ' j J oil fol':'omes because the government is. o /I '=5'1 supposed to see that it is stockpiled

' > r S ' I) ' 0 (' every year. Last year it did not (seeo / - r; ~ \) first paragraph of Eco-Notes). Auto-e . - ; > I # / . : : : : 2 1 . 0 mobile gas was stockpiled because it

\ 1, { « j // ./ 0 is cheaper to stockpile it. Some- 0- ~ /L- I / \ 0 I people have been charged more for

1 I t 1 ~ ~ D : 0 , ' - beating oil because of the government IS

._ v and industry r s mistake.~ ~ , l f f r _ o The crisis has occurred becausefr~ , the induEtry has maintained itself at

I,/ b 0 an unnatural (artificial) level ofo profit turough various maneuvers, but

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now this level of profit is threatened by their~ inability to produce their product, and to produce~~ \ \\ it in a controlled atmosphere. In other words, they

are threatened with competition-for the first time forthem.



Page 6a fiction bysally a. young

Macheski flipped the cards do';:1 .o the table, they cracked witheach turn over down against the wood almost like the snapping of

fresfukindling thrown into a going fi:re~ 'It was hard to be with himon such lonely evenings. One could bG glad it wasn't the 1 7 th cent-ury when he might instead be zipping a sword into the flesh of thewalls, walls of forlorn Fridays. Obstinately angry, it might take awhole twenty-four hours for him to admit he'd finished his anger,long after h:e he.d been feeling like an angel again. '

Something had gone wrong earlier, though Ute didn"t know what andafter,trying to approach him three tender times after his homecoming,

she decided to abandon !;my effort. Having been with lVIacheski foreight months, she no longer considered herself any sweet melon ofnovelty.

'rhe cards smacked down with near automatic <3>r-ecdsion ••• as though he played wi th only one of -: .•.". I>-of his eyes, with the sense of rhythm rather than ~of cards, and every other part of ,him was dwellingon whatever my ster-Lous matter was making him

adamant. Macheski had an efficient rage, a calculated and almostlogical irrationality as though he were watching himself every momen~from some astral body, analyzing. There was even a pattern to suchevenings, for they \Vveren' infrequent. For exampl e, the windowsequence, there was always that interlude to go through-flippinghis eyes out the third story window to the street below wheremountainous trucks screeched worse than trains and groaned theirWtaie;ht through rain 'refilling dirty puddles. 'Ph e entire room wouldquiver when he crossed the floor to fetch a glass of water from 'thekitchen, and knowing he wasn't at all thirsty. Going to the kitchen,rrte knew, to' give her the chance to resist asking what was wrong.But she knew better and where past generations might have usheredquick prayers to heaven for peace and patience,Ute would scramble her immediate devotions to NDearching for something in the kitchen junk 0

MADDER



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/ ~ \)\ .G J . , , ~ Bleving Up the Pentiac Les '

) In,4f):ol!ests and hills of Vezmonb , as the sun wenttJio~a Sideoran~~'~11{lon a snowy, windy evening in March, four radica~ub-\

cu"1tur~':"'tyP.eon- and antiheroes met in a lonely, seclude'd::'cab1~. \Tti~_~were all triple agents. They were spying on the governm~nt forthe people; they were spying on themselves for the government; 'and./they were spying on the government for themselves. The last had be-come their greatest concern.

"Nice time of year, or maybe it's the time of man, to blow upthe pentangle,tI said Luke McKook, as the four were gathered aroundthe fire while the wind whirled outside.

"Yay up ,II replied Jarie Sane, 1 , , < 1 0 0 loved to imitate Gary Cooper andwhose f'atihen rowned the entire United States aeronautics industry."The pentangle in Washington, B.C.?" asked the hurdy-gurdy man

disguised as an ordinary cOlXlmie-Jewish revoLltior..a~J with liberalparents, "Where'all the country's corruption comes to a head in theshape of a bolt, and you know who.getsscrewed. u He smile(] moc1tins1y."Re.minds me of this other-temple I trashed once, whe~e gl!eed;ymen hadset up theirbusinessestlsing God to steal from the people." He was

a professional position paper writer, a part-time stUdent organ-grind-.rar, loved to speak to small cl!owds on the tops of hills,. and calledhimself Bernie.

Drawing on a shovel by the firelight on this cold, windy night,they made their plans and the next day left for Whitewas~ington intheir VW beetle. They were folded up inside like wallets most appEo-

A MERICA NTA TA 1 : AME RICATHARS IS

SCENES

When they arrived, Jane dreamed, they would visit the Capitol



building dressed as the three wise men from the east and the BlackPrince of 1394, played by Ballln'Black Jack. They were looking forthe mythical torch of freedom, an idealistic search, like King Arthurand his knights of the compromised oval table in their quest for theOup of the Prince of Peace. They left three flowering Judas Iscariotswhile Jane left the cunning grey-eyed goddess Athena, who had come torescue all brave and freedom wanderers who had jumped off the slowcowpony to oblivion, from the pigdom skills of American Circery. Ath-ena, a wily, wise weaver of webs, a woman and a warrior, promised tosend a mist, even rain, to dis-skys their activities at night.

Crazy Jane woke lllpto see that·they hac1 just arrived in Washing-ton. She starec1 at the lights of the pentangle through the rain-flooded windows. It was a huge fortress, and that was only part ofit. There were three smaller versions of the same building inside:safety through the duplication of sameDess. Maybe there was a super-

ma~ket inside. or a used car lot or a Roman arena."How are we going to get inside?1I she asked in perfect Anglo-

Saxon."Would they refuse a hurdy-gurd,. man?" Bernie smiled knowingly."Tes, II she answered."Disguised as a kitchen worker?""Ahh, good idea."She lookec1 back at the pentangle, but could only see a few lights

in the darkness and the rain. "How about a rope from the nearest treeto the roof and we can drop c10wn between buildings anc1 into a topfloOl~ window?" she asked him.

"Sure. The nearest tree is a quarter of a mile away. Besides,the sec~ity is too tight."

They planned to pick up a pale institut ional-green panel truckthe next morning and paint "Bo-Do-De-Oh-Do's Full-Bodied WheatsnapsAnd Mercury-packec1 Flakes" on it, with "packed with power" and "insane

with energy straining to be loosed" below to either side. IIThatsounds moderate in the extreme, none of the straight people will re-member it," the hurdy-gurdy man had sung. lfSomeday the pentangle willbe a forgotten, empty hulk, an old crumbling ruin, and no one willremember in this country what it meant once and the misery that itoaused," he added. He took on the appearance of Pete Seeger.



AMERICANTATA (cont.)

After reviewing the plan on the shovel, they drove the truckthrough the rain to the service entrance of the building as BlackJack followed in·the defeatlebeatall. It was five o'clock in themorning. Inside, they sifted to different parts of the complex. As

they left, they set off fire alarms and bomb scare sirens. ,In therain and the mist, hundreds of people were milling around the parkinglots. The four freaks milled to the other side of the crowd ,:lnokingfor their car. In the cooltime, the owner of the truck had gone hometo paint a pale . institutional green over the lettering. The beetleheadeq_g~~y, while they listened to Dylan singing,

, , "And I saw guns

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j .,' \ I/, That shot swords

(,! I~o In,the hands of Y,oung children. \\,.\ '\. I~ ~~ ~JlJLb~?'1.J:.§ , -.U!.§.. a _ j l . 1 l : . r _ Q . _ , \ { ;~ ~ , - ! J : L - = - ; ; 0 It's a hard rain's a-gonna fa1 1:-;< \~\~ ( /

~ ,\fl\:\~/'l - . J b,L-f/j>.J/';~/ \\r\\C \" ';I,\I~ AN AMERICAN ODYSSEUS ~ r : S " \ . . . . ~ : " , / ,

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' } In a mid-western city, Odysseus started out forf work and was arrested immediately. He was charged with

I 0 being black.• I Odysseus went to a dust-covered, barred window and- « 0 gazed at the street below. MeanWhile, Athena caused a\~ /heavy patch of smog to fall around a long-haired radi-

o 1 / . . . cal freak, Weatherman Retired, causing him to take a-4ID~'wrong turn by the police station. Odysseus hurriedly

,~.>o s - : wrote a note on his T-shirt with a pen of suspicious "

(t.(\ t > ~ 0origin and pushed it through an airvent near the floor.

'\ \ -A. '\ It landed in the middle of the sidewalk and the freak\ ~ ~ T - picked it up, read the message and leoked up_ Odysseus

~~ waved and the freak nodded in his d i.re ctfon and then- 'Jl crossed the street. A few minutes later, a black commie

serbo-croatian Islamic lawyer entered the station houseana spoke to the desk sergeant, who was at first unin-

wearing a dark brown knit suit, pink shirt and light



yellow tie. The sergeant began to smile profusely,while he shuffled papers and grimaced from from side toside occasionally as though cursing invisible beings;but as polite as·he co~ld be, the l~wyerswere even morepolite. The sergeant withdrew mentally, resigned, hisbody acted on old habits and his eyes were ~op eyes,copies, that said, "All the good we try to do, someonehas to come along and undo it.!! A guard went into thelock-up area while the sergeant sat in his washed~out,two-toned wall receiving room, a defensive ~easel, anose that hurried to a point, his thoughts furtive inhis brain, braced and falsely sure of himself,'hearinghis heart beating, he knew he was alive inside, but hisface was as stagnant as the walls, the atmosphere thatsurrounded him. He sat above them, safe in an old-fash-ioned sergeant's desk, the captain of his ship, bounded,like bookmarks, on each side by a large milk-white roundglass egg, ready to crack, to throw smaller white eggs,glowing and soft spots of light blooming from the middleof the bulb across the inside of the station, to showits tendrils copper and silver within that carry thebuzzing light-force that makes the luminous life of thebulb possible, to crack when it glows to, let out thelight, expanding, a flower, the universe. They provi-ded a kind of uneven, lumpinous shining from the differ-ences in the thickness of the white glass that makesshadows more visible, creates them. These fragile-look-ing balls like eggs were balanced on top of elongated

~.~ candlesticks,'cornet-shaped, made of some metal, iron,~~~ tin or bronze, that were painted the same dark green as""/II\\"'~ the bottom half of the station walls. (Continued in the

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