FROM A CHILD THOU HAST KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
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How Much Longer?
by Samuel H. Sutherland
T he newspapers of August 7th glared out the headlines “ ‘Yippies’ Outburst Shuts Disneyland.” The story related that ‘ ‘about three hundred long-haired youths invaded the Orange County attraction” and forced the officials to give “ refunds or rain-checks to almost 30,000 visitors after closing the park.” This is not a defense, neces sarily, of Disneyland, but there are principles involved here which would alarm all of us. This rather fantastic amusement park provides wholesome family fun and entertainment for multiplied thousands upon thousands every year, and it is outrageous that 300 young monsters could bring to an abrupt halt the entire operation and send home 30,000 people six hours before regular closing time. One does feel sorry for the hundreds or thousands of children whose parents brought many of them from great distances, to spend the one day available in the park. Their rain-checks will do them no good whatever, for they had to go on to meet their schedules. This is simply another in a long list of incidents in which this lawless irresponsible element of our society is getting by with its idiotic attitudes and actions. The newspaper account stated that “ most of the tourists watched the radical circus with toleration.” Therein lies much of the problem. It is the tolerant attitude toward these hard core individuals who are determined to wreck everything that they can possibly touch. It matters little that the leaders of this mob announced that they expected 10,000 Yippies to be present on that day cele brating the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack on Japan dur ing World War II, and that only 300 to 350 actually showed up. It was this element that caused the damage and they got away with it. Accord ing to the newspaper account, they hoisted a Communist flag atop one of the Disneyland buildings; they marched down the streets cheer ing Ho Chi Min and other Communist leaders; they shouted profanity and obscenities which infuriated the mothers with small children, but they could do nothing about it. Many, many leaders of the older gen eration in high places have been extremely tolerant, and experience is proving that this is getting us absolutely nowhere. Disneyland has had an unwritten policy not to allow any long-haired or bare-footed characters within the park. But this year it was modified in the effort to show toleration. This episode was the result. One is reminded of a similar experience two or three years ago, when Cal State College at San Fernando Valley tried to show tolerance and co-operation with this same type of black young people. They NOVEMBER, 1970
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