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“Voyageur canoe shooting the rapids,” not unlike what <\/em>yours truly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will do in the next few weeks…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m leaving town on Monday, August 10, and\u00a0won\u2019t be\u00a0back until August 27. \u00a0(A matter of some unfinished business,<\/em>\u00a0canoe<\/a>-trip-wise.) \u00a0 So here’s a post that I hope will\u00a0tide you over<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n I recently ran across one of\u00a0Harry Golden<\/a>‘s later books. \u00a0It’s called You’re entitle’<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>, and it was published in 1962. \u00a0(By the\u00a0World Publishing Company<\/a>\u00a0of Cleveland.) \u00a0As noted in Harry Golden, My Father & \u2018Entitlements\u2019 \u2013 Zest of Orange<\/a>, that\u00a0was the “expression of a free man:”<\/p>\n You\u2019re Entitle\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0… was not nearly as successful as its predecessors[, including]\u00a0Only in America<\/em><\/strong> (1958), For 2\u00a2 Plain<\/em><\/strong> (1958)… \u00a0Golden dedicated the book to his father[:] \u00a0\u201cAll his life he spoke a halting English, though he certainly made his ideas clear enough,\u201d wrote Golden. \u201cHe was enamored of the phrase, \u2018You\u2019re entitle\u2019.\u2019 \u00a0In his youth, Golden would correct him, saying, \u201cIt ends with a d<\/em>, Poppa.\u201d \u00a0His father would nod understandingly \u201cbut the next time it still came out, \u2018You\u2019re entitle\u2019.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As noted below, this later book contains a number of gems that could be reflected on. \u00a0Things like “the good life,” the ongoing\u00a0Conservative Tide<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0rectal thermometers as a sign of gradual integration. \u00a0(Not that there’s any connection…)<\/p>\n I am a reporter and, I hope, no sermonizer. \u00a0But that doesn’t mean I don’t know something about this process of living. \u00a0I shall soon see my sixtieth year and along with hundreds of thousands of other middle-aged men, I believe the good life, as the Greeks called it, is within reach. \u00a0We only have to be careful about two things. \u00a0First, don’t get in trouble with the Internal Revenue people; and second, don’t get mixed up with a woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Those last two are still\u00a0good advice. \u00a0But I was struck by the combination of his referring to almost-60 as “middle aged,” and<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0connotation<\/a>\u00a0with it, that he was “older and wiser.” \u00a0Of course we all tend to get wiser as we grow older, but Harry’s idea of “60 as the new 30” seems way ahead of his time. \u00a0See\u00a0On RABBIT \u2013 and \u201c60 is the new 30\u2033 \u2013 (Part II)<\/a>, which noted John Updike’s “overall image of 65-year-olds in 1969 is of people who really are over the hill<\/a>. ”<\/p>\n So once again, Harry Golden was ahead of his time.<\/p>\n Which brings up his meditation (also on page 25), “Memo to Senator Goldwater.”<\/p>\n One of the things which the country could stand right now [1962] is a movement spearheaded by Senator Goldwater [seen below right] and Mr. William Buckley, of the National Review<\/a>, to change the designation of the “liberal arts college” to the “conservative arts college.” \u00a0We might as well have this thing out in then open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which brings up again the title of Harry’s 1962 book, as meditated on by the\u00a0Zest of Orange<\/a>\u00a0blogger:<\/p>\n That word, wrote Golden, \u201cwas the expression of a free man. \u00a0No one was entitled<\/em> in Eastern Europe. \u00a0You served in the army for 10 years and it entitled you to nothing. \u00a0Your taxes entitled you to no franchise. \u00a0But in America men were free and entitled\u2026\u201d \u00a0Golden wrote those words in 1962. \u00a0My, how times have changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Times have indeed changed, but so far America remains free…<\/p>\n Which is due in large part to both our national despising of phonies and<\/em><\/strong> our sense of\u00a0American ingenuity<\/a>. \u00a0Harry gave an example on page 108, “You had to have baggage.” \u00a0This essay had to do with the Raines law<\/a>. \u00a0Passed in 1896 by the New York legislature, the law “prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday except in hotels.” \u00a0As Harry noted, the law was also designed to improve the morals of hotel-keepers (and guests), and<\/em> to cut down on prostitution.<\/p>\n But as\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0noted, the result was “dozens or Raines law hotels,” usually right over saloons. The result was an actual increase<\/em> in prostitution, “as the rooms in many ‘Raines law hotels’ were used mostly by prostitutes and unmarried couples.” \u00a0There were also the “saloon keepers who mocked the law by setting out ‘brick sandwiches,’ two pieces of bread with a brick in between, thus fulfilling the legal requirement of serving food.”<\/p>\n But Harry noted yet another example of the\u00a0law of unintended consequences<\/a>:<\/p>\n When the Raines law was passed … it was designed to improve morals, especially the morals of hotel-keepers and their guests. \u00a0One of the provisions of the law was that you could not rent a room to a couple unless they had baggage. \u00a0A day after the law went into effect, a dozen luggage stores opened up along\u00a0Sixth Avenue<\/a>\u00a0with big signs, “Baggage rented.” \u00a0A fellow with a girl walked into one of these stores and for a two-dollar deposit and a fifty-cents-an-hour rate got a bag filled with newspapers, and they went off together happily to the hotel. When they were through \u00a0they returned the bag and got the deposit back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which brings up what Calvin – of\u00a0Calvin and Hobbes<\/a>\u00a0– had to say on the matter:<\/p>\n See also On \u201cexpressio unius<\/a>,” which discussed the concept of\u00a0gaming the system<\/a>, otherwise known as “manipulating<\/a>\u00a0the system for a desired outcome.\u201d \u00a0(At which Americans seem adept.<\/em>)<\/p>\n And finally, getting back to Harry Golden’s “fine sense of irony<\/a><\/em>.”<\/p>\n On page 218 of You’re entitle’<\/em><\/strong>, Harry noted a telling anomaly<\/a>. \u00a0(Again, in 1962):<\/p>\n In the emergency room of the Alachua General Hospital at Gainesville, Florida, there are three thermometers. \u00a0They stand in a row on a small shelf with nothing else. \u00a0The first is in an open container labeled: \u00a0“WHITE – ORAL,” the third is in an identical container labeled, “COLORED – ORAL,” and the middle one, which protrudes through a cork, in its otherwise sameness, is labeled “RECTAL.”<\/p>\n This is what I call gradual<\/strong> integration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n The upper image is courtesy of\u00a0Canoe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Re: World Publishing. \u00a0See\u00a0Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: WORLD PUBLISHING CO.<\/a>, which noted that “World” was\u00a0a “major publisher of Bibles, dictionaries, and children’s and trade books.”<\/em><\/p>\n The Goldwater image is courtesy of\u00a0Barry Goldwater – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Calvin cartoon is courtesy of\u00a0Calvin on Obeying the Law – Debate Photo (1160519) – Fanpop<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The lower image is courtesy of\u00a0wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racial_segregation_in_the_United States<\/a>. \u00a0The caption: \u00a0“An African-American man goes into the ‘colored’ entrance of a movie theater<\/a> in Belzoni, Mississippi<\/a>, 1939.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Voyageur canoe shooting the rapids,” not unlike what yours truly\u00a0will do in the next few weeks…\u00a0 I\u2019m leaving town on Monday, August 10, and\u00a0won\u2019t be\u00a0back until August 27. \u00a0(A matter of some unfinished business,\u00a0canoe-trip-wise.) \u00a0 So here’s a post that I hope will\u00a0tide you over. 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The first nugget of wisdom came on page 25, “A note in passing:”<\/p>\n![\"Barry](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7a\/Barry_Goldwater_photo1962.jpg\/220px-Barry_Goldwater_photo1962.jpg\")
There’s some debate whether the “Conservative Tide” in America is waxing or waning. See\u00a0Conservative tide continues to ebb, particularly on social issues<\/a>, posted in 2014. \u00a0But see also\u00a0Conservative tide that swept Reagan in may be subsiding<\/a>, which said basically the same thing in 1985. \u00a0The fact remains, however, that Harry had a fine sense of irony<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"Calvin](\"http:\/\/images1.fanpop.com\/images\/image_uploads\/Calvin-on-Obeying-the-Law-debate-1160519_500_159.gif\")
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<\/p>\nSometimes you don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry\u2026<\/em><\/h4>\n