INCITES

Nathan, George

INCITES BY GEORGE NATHAN Mr. Paul Harvey recently commented that, according to his extrapolations, human filth in New York will have risen to such density by 1970 the city will be...

...As expected, the Soviet Union and her satellites used much of this aid to bolster the North Vietnamese army...
...What delight the civilized few must have had when the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid the near record sum of $1,411,200 for an early Monnet (La Terrasse a Sainte Andresse), which upon soberer inspection was exposed as a mere pubescent doodling, no more indicative of Monnet's art than Wellington's Victory was of Beethoven's and hardly worth a book of green stamps...
...Even more curious than New Yorkers' feverish concern over garbage is the fact that even the New York Times failed to record the garbage strike for the boon it was...
...Few doubt that the United States possesses enough raw power to destroy all of North Vietnam in Breathtaking New York City Skyline dingy nadir the citizenry forlornly casts its fate to a sempiternal slobbering jughead like John Vliet Lindsey...
...In the past eighteen months the Russians shipped in 300,000 tons...
...If ever the tourist encounters a familiar American hound he can be certain the idiot at the other end of the leash is a recent immigrant from Kansas who, if he intends to reside permanently amongst the nation's eoanthropics, will purchase an escadrille of Botswanese Tulip Hounds...
...He announced he was removing trade restrictions on over four hundred different categories of goods exported to European satellite nations...
...Americans must face the question of how to dispose of such a vast ghost town...
...Has he failed to observe that New York is the domicile of cockroaches and the domain of wash-room attendants...
...Rubber, paper, fertilizers, metal ores and scrap, petroleum and gas, chemicals, plastics, machinery, and scientific and professional instruments were included...
...The democratic process instinctively congeals when willful men, seeking to maintain themselves, use their offices to shower manna on voting blocs...
...Though most live in New York from inexorable stupidity, some suffer residence here as the reasonable cost of Poland, and Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia...
...The Soviet Union and its allies agreed at the conference of their leaders in Moscow last week to grant North Vietnam assistance in material and money amounting to about one billion dollars...
...While on one side of the Stettin harbor American wheat is being unloaded from freighters, on the side of the same harbor weapons are loaded which are being used against American soldiers...
...The ridiculous scene of New Yorkers prancing along leashed to blooded peacocks is even more amusing when one considers the setting, for the dolts walk along sidewalks where there exists not a blade of grass...
...Then again this is yet another indication of New Yorkers' stupidity—the Mutts never win and New Yorkers never leam...
...Regarding the first charge, it is a fact the United States is actually paying most of the costs of both sides in the war...
...New York Times, October 27, 1966) U.S...
...The eminent Theodore White has suggested that—in a final, sublime, display of merriment—New York secede...
...New York is the perfect site for a resumption of nuclear testing...
...Such demands help bog our already plodding effort in Vietnam...
...Most dramatic, however, was the report of the Chicago Tribune, December 26, 1966: Weapons of the Polish armed forces are being shipped from Stettin harbor in Poland in ever increasing quantities to North Vietnam habors...
...Since garbage has been piling in the streets citizens' dietary inadequacies have all but vanished, supermarkets have, perforce, lowered their exorbitant prices—the streets even smell better...
...on credit and they in turn ship their weapons to North Vietnam on credit...
...But relentless reality will overtake even the sugar plum paradise of New York, and its hilarity will eventually destroy it...
...The Vietnam war is the most shockingly politicised war ever fought by this nation...
...Interestingly, this sheds more insight onto Harvey's vision of the habitable than onto the development of New York into a dung heap...
...When so afflicted, government must rule by slogan or the gimmick with all the drama and gas of a Tennessee revival...
...Why is it that we have not won the war after six years of "trying...
...Truly this is Fun City...
...He extended commercial credits to "four additional Eastern European countries6 not curious that they seem so agitated over their recent "garbage crisis...
...The draft is necessary, because the Johnson Administration's shameful conduct of the "Viet Cong Insurgency" is driving professional military men out of the service, making conscription all the more necessary...
...Presentiy New York is the entertainment capital of the world with its spectacular slums, hilarious racial conflicts, uproarious air- and water-pollution, slapstick economy, humorous crime wave, waggish union leaders, farcical government, enormously funny mayor, and let us not forget the federally subsidized glass zoo on the East river...
...Last month alone, the Soviets shipped nearly 25,000 metric tons of gasoline and oil into Haiphong...
...When government becomes a vending machine, voting blocs multiply, the effluvium of their increasing selfishness toughens the will of competing voting blocs, and the flow of legislation is inhibited...
...Regarding the second factor working against us in Vietnam:, it is also a fact that American professional — Continued on Page 8 7...
...However, New Yorkers actually revel in this congestion...
...The military can see this just as clearly as civilians-though the military's view is often from the jungle...
...Picture the idiot New Yorker detachedly standing by while his quadrupedal companion elegantly lifts a leg beside the cockpit of a parked XK-E...
...even optimists like Paul Harvey feel an autopsy will be performed by 1970...
...Needless to say, Russian techniunending amusement...
...You would think a man would writhe in shame from living amongst so many disgusting bipeds in such squalid proximity...
...The creatures defecate right on the walk in spite of the mayor's signs exhorting the pooch population to avail itself to the curb...
...The reasons are essentially twofold: 1) by trading with the Soviet bloc nations we are helping sustain the Communists' war effort...
...cians, manning Russian rockets, or Russian-trained Vietnamese, in Russian fighters are shooting down American planes over Vietnam...
...Any benighted fellow straggling across this page and harboring even a slightly rosy vision of Homo sapiens must tour New York...
...National Review has officially pronounced it dead...
...Further, Viet Cong are killing GIs on the ground with Russian rifles, mortars, and rockets...
...The Alternative's calls for ending the draft and converting-at this time-to a volunteer army are particularly pernicious...
...What a waste, for in the 'seventies New York could serve an even greater purpose than it has in the past...
...Speaking to the National Conference of Editorial Writers on October 7, 1966, Johnson asked for extending "mostfavored nation tariff treatment to European Communist states...
...Aside from sharing characteristic urban weaknesses for filth, congestion, and ochlocracy, The New Yorker inevitably surrounds himself with ludicrous canine companionship...
...He concluded, "The Secretary of State is now reviewing the possibility of easing the burden of Polish debts to the U.S...
...Who would have guessed Harvey could actually find contemporary New York occupiable...
...New York is no sicker than democracy, which is to say it lies spread eagle, helplessly awaiting rigor mortis...
...The reason we have not defeated the North Vietnamese is that we have not chosen to do so...
...Verily New York defies the lewdest metaphor...
...Legislation now must cross a torturous obstacle course of conflicting yet unyielding voting blocs—now petrified into interest groups...
...Occasionally even the dullards appreciate the merry chaos of Fun City...
...Government burdened by such inertial forces merely pantomimes governing...
...Why else would crowds giddily anticipate the seasonable bunglings of the New York Mutts...
...Ultimately garbage pyramids in the streets, faucets cough dust, traffic becomes immobile, the atmosphere approximates that of Saturn, and public morale declines to such a ON A VOLUNTEER ARMY: An Encounter With Political Reality BY SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY The time for daydreaming about Vietnam is long past, and we must expose any false issues obscuring the facts of this fiasco...
...The Poles receive the wheat (from the U.S...
...Garbage has collected on the sidewalks of New York for years...
...Frederic Bastiat concisely diagnosed this disease a century ago...
...In traversing the east coast's Death Valley one will encounter the most esoteric of the canine species, for proud New Yorkers daily plod foolishly behind sniffing curs who generally resemble leashed cigar boxes, bedroom slippers, angel fish, and rock Cornish hens...
...it will make him blush...
...some of it has even been elevated to public office...
...In short, said the October 13 New York Times, "Poland and Rumania have been given special treatment, and in general, the result of today's measure will be to extend such treatment to the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, and Mongolia...
...Paul Harvey recently commented that, according to his extrapolations, human filth in New York will have risen to such density by 1970 the city will be uninhabitable...
...Is it a week...
...Both reasons contribute to the exodus of professional soldiers from the service and aggravate the need for conscription...
...With New York developing as it is, America will soon have its own mins matching those of decadent European civilization...
...Where in the Supermarket Republic does man appear so puny and naked, yet where in America do more of these critters dwell on top of each other...
...and 2) by restricting our own military forces, we are inhibiting a victorious solution to the war...
...News and World Report of January 30, 1967, reported "The North Vietnamese war machine runs almost entirely on Russian oil...
...With what relish civilized man must greet the sunrise in a town whose sanitation department advises the grieving owner of a recently deceased dog to, "Put it in a metal or plastic container, sit it on the curb, and wait...

Vol. 1 • April 1968 • No. 5


 
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