Mother Goose
(ZNS) A grand jury in
Buffalo, New York, is reportedly
looking into a book called
"Inner City Mother Goose."
Judge William Heffron has
charged that the book contains
"more crime than rhyme," and
has ordered the investigation to
see whether any criminal charges
are involved; "Inner City Mother
Goose" is found in many
elementary schools and was
reportedly purchased with U.S.
Model Cities funds. The book
was written to dramatize some
of the desperation and hate
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in slum areas.
One rhyme which angered
Judge Heffron was the folbwing
(quote) "Jack be nimble; Jack
be quick; snap the blade and give
it a flick. Grab the purse—it's
easily done. Then just for kicks,
just for fun, plunge the knife
alld cut and run." .
Another passage : (quote)
"There was a crooked man, and
he did very well."
Or: (quote) "A wise old
judge sat in court, the case was
long, his judgement short; why
change the way it's always been?
Convict the man with darker
skin".
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said modern containers don't
decay?
A timetable for the natural
recycling of some widely used
and frequently littered items was
drawn up by scientists at The
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and sunlight will likely be
completely degraded by October
30 of '73-2473, that is, A.D.
Its aluminum components,
says Dr. Edwin L. Owen, a
metallurgist who specializes in
the study of corrosion, might by
that time be broken up into
dust-like bits. The steel or tin
components will have made it to
dust somewhat earlier, by 2073
A.D.
A conventional plastic
wrapper similarly exposed, says
Dr. R. F. Kammereck, a polymer
scientist, will probably be gone
back to nature by the Fall of
2200 or therabouts.
A glass bottle left on the
forest floor this weekend, says
Evelyn C. Marboe, a glass
chemist, might find its ultimate
rest by the year 1,001,972. Or it
might not.
"Glass," says Professor
Marboe, "is one of the most
durable materials known. We
have glass beads from Egypt that
are 4,000 years old and, of
course, there are amny examples
of glass-like rock--such as
obsidian—that may be as old as
the earth."
There was a consensus
among the scientists interviewed
that these figures are all highly
speculative, since decay rates
vary widely with local
conditions.
Thus, it is ecologically
sounder to strew your trash
around a tropical rain forest;
there, the action of moisture and
heat speeds up the recycling
process. You can take roughly a
hundred years off the quoted
figures.
The nearest tropical
forest is in Central America.
At least one "man-made
product" has an ecologically
decent rate of decay. It's man
himself.
The authority here is
Shakespeare's gravedigger:
HAMLET: How long will a
man lie in the earth ere he
rot?
GRAVDGR: Why, if he be
not rotten before he dies, a
man'll last you nine or ten
year...A tanner'll last you
ten year.
HAMLET: Why he longer
than another?
GRAVDG: Why his hide is
tanned with the tools of his
trade and will keep out
water a long while...
So, it would appear that the
safest thing, ecologically
speaking, to leave on the forest
floor this weekend is—yourself.
Or on the other hand, why
leave anything?