The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 17

The Berkshire Monday, Feb. 21, Professor-at-Large I May Say So The colonists were hung up on sin and its punishment By Gerald Raftery Is lunch in Bermuda 'cricket9 even when a Britisher pays? 7 I By George G. Connelly imiiiiimieoV ''sHa and not an elected governor, and that made a difference. Contemporary politicos can relax. SUNDERLAND, Vt.

criminal being "laid by the IN ONE OF his satirical novels heels-" about exurbia, Peter DeVries In England, a sojourn in the noted that while Hester Prynne in stocks was the accepted punish- colonial Plymouth was given an A ment for a long list of unsavory ANNAPOLIS ONE UNFORTUNATE citizen carts. Longfellow called it, "the pause in the day's occupation which is known as the Children's Hour." Whan dlltr nM Tniman fanntp for adultery, in today's Westport, characters, among whom were wno took the idea of Sunday as a she probaly wouldn't rate bauad-singers ana traveling mus- day 0f rest a uttle too literally any more than a C-plus. I was re- clans; and even today we can see was "whipped for repeated sleep-minded of this when I picked up certain justification for this, on the Lord's Day" and, inci-the recent paperback re-issue of When the stocks were- brought dentally, for striking the person Alice Morse Earle's. "Curious over to this country, however, the wno woke him up. And Jeane Punishments of Bygone Days," colonists often took a more practi- Dixon, the author and seer, would (Turtle, $1.65) hich is a small cal approach and it Is worth not- be shocked to leam that "the gift treasure chest of information ing that the first occupant of the of prophecy" was once a punisha-about the rigorous discipline of new stocks in Boston was the car- ble offense instead of a best seller, society in our early history.

penter who made them; his of- Some of the more cruel punish-A was not the only letter worn fense was overcharging for the ments, branding and cropping of as punishment, because the stem lumber. the ears, could once have had a jurists of the day sometimes re- rude utilitarian purpose. Li a pi- gave his party at the Plaza, I was shocked at the otherwise serious people who lent their presence to such a nightmare: Even a cynical octogenerian like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who ought to be in bed at 10 o'clock, took herself out in the cold from Washington to go up to New York to see and be seen. No wonder the English say we are victims of arrested development who've suffered unhappy childhoods. BUT BRITISH David Frost, who charms millions of Ameri quired offenders to wear a SOMETIMES the punishments oneer society, where people were or other Jess cryptic indica- ric usually trusted and accepted, it tions of their sins.

stood for blasphemy, for viciousness, and pampniei which onemea gIance whether a stranger in the for drunkenness, none of which established government or re- area was met- But some of me could be downgraded in modem cans weekly, seemed to get the tama uicrtrlincT otilmrmMit fmffl hi' OVERDUE braith? Can they take a day off in the middle of the week for such conspicuous consumption? Surely no one can take Galbraith's classes at Harvard! Yet on his arrival in Bermuda at 72 degrees, he chortled, "If I had any idea that there might be a serious purpose in this I would never have come. I came because it sounded like a totally frivolous idea." Now wasn't that cute? The list of those who declined would be interesting. This is not the protest of a spoil-sport. I'm just as much a sucker for a free show as the next one. When I read Milton Bass, gorging all those truffles on his free-loading expeditions, I enjoy a vicarious thrill.

Yet one shudders at such public, egregious displays in the midst of the misery and violence of our cities. Maybe I'm a bleeding heart who wants to see a dollar well spent no matter whose it is. When the Mellons put out million for some painting, I get depressed thinking what good that amount might do for our desperately poor. PERHAPS THE jet set goes along with Sir Toby Belch that because some are virtuous does not mean there should be "no more and ale." Yet one may ask, do participants in these expensive romps enjoy themselves or is it the publicity they savor? Aside from gobbling lobster, salmon, veal pojarsky, pastries and wine, the guests listened to guitarists and had their palms read; there was Swimming and rides on golf exurbia. ugion couio oe Durneo.

pui wi brutal penalties inflicted in the more than one occasion the penal- name reIigion were utterly ty wait even further. One The Quakers especially ertremely offensive volume "was were tte jed of treatment pubhckly whipped according to whieh often matched the worst Moses Law. with 40 stapes save atrodties me one, and then burnt." I wouWt vVj.v.i, party as did Truman Capote. All done up in a Hardy Amies bright-red nylon suit, he greeted guests with kisses. There was dsiappoint- OTHER SIGNS which were used spelled out the offense in greater detail Anyone who inter- Foreign Affairs bit surprised if the New nuneu or opposed a preauier he a might be fined and forced to wear York TT IS ODD to note, however, Review of Bookt adopted that religion in general was still this as a form of literary criti held in high regard because many a placard reading A wanton GOSPELLER; if modem churches could only levy fines for opposition or interruption, they cism.

It is India's loyalty is not for sale By C. L. Sulzberger THE ENGLISH are fond of looking down their long noses at Americans as being mercurial and immature. They pretend to believe that all our women are like Shirley Temple and Martha Mitchell and our men like John Wayne and George Wallace, and mat our yen for being liked amounts to a childish phobia. However fallacious, this is a criticism with recurring examples.

It was depressing for instance, to Team that 80 important Americans took off at 9:30 a.m. for Bermuda for a champagne lunch, returning to New York at 6 p.m. in their 747 especially when the bash was thrown by an Englishman. IF TV personality David Frost wants to spend thousands of dollars (the plane alone was $8,000) entertaining friends, it's his money and his business how he spends it Back in the '20s, when Henry Ford startled the world by giving his workers $5 a day, he was hailed as a benefactor of mankind; when he forbade his employes to spend their earnings on beer, he was scorned as a paternalist But that didn't bother Henry or, as we say today, impair his image. This silly party will make Frost's fans think rather more than less of him.

The more money one throws around, the more such people are impressed. As Diamond Jim Brady used to say, "Them as got 'em, wears 'em." People who affect crocodile shoes at $100 a pair say it gives employment to those who would otherwise be on relief and increase our taxes. And perhaps improves the status of crocodiles. I CAN understand how pols and stage people can go for this men such as the ex-mayor of Cleveland, movie man Joe Levine and Impossible" 's Peter Graves; or people with leisure, like chess champ Bobby Fischer and cartoonist Charles Addams; but how about serious, workaday fellows like Theodore Kneel, the clue to the manners of f3 even iorgiven aiiogeiner me would probably tap a sizable new ua' uu" mr- J0MdS rims- prisoner in the dock claimed source of income. towe who was charged with cheat- "benefit of clergy." This benefit iuan tuai IU3 luiigiuuo umipauuu Diahann Carroll did not appear as some thought the event might be an announcement party.

But the Washington Post's Sally Quinn had it that Miss Carroll "was on the West Coast recuperating from minor surgery (cystitis, it seems) and was advised by doctors not to come." Such doings are, I suppose, a matter of taste. You and I may like vanilla, others prefer strawberry. As the old lady said when she kissed the cow, there's no accounting for taste. I'm sure Dick Cavett would never be responsible for such a cheap publicity stunt. Soma of these punishments tag the Indians was punished by a was pretty loosely interpreted and were based on the almost para- decision that he was to be called in practice it actually covered Hold fear of ridicule which ap- Josias thereafter instead of Mr.

anyone who could read. It hid ex-pears again and again in the Plaistowe. It must have been con- ceptions, though, and in Virginia court cases, of colonial America, sidered an adequate penalty be- for example it could not be The stocks, the pillory and the cause we find that another citizen claimed if the offense were hog- NEW DELHI ternal forces such as the pro- cnnTjTTv ivrva n. Peking Communist revolution-SHUKTLi Ar lhJi nis emper- or Had brought to Czarist Rus- "2 toe 905aMed Nxalites. wTrt Indeed.

wary observers forecast nan troops to put down a revolt twi. both as in Hungary, the Austrian chan- JTr 1 i ducking stool all took advantage was placed in the stocks for his stealing. uuuuug bum turn. auisuu(! urn aicouiifi. CrkanriMilwra vtinia aiiu rival eacn of this attitude, as did a similar undue familiarity in "theeing and The record does not explain the other in trying to bore inside each hit W.

nn.lt.Vnnom Wm rJ win. ttinlllnff" nill CsT KflVTtAS Anoth. nuciwi fur Hiic althmmh io hm. "r3 hub iu nu mijws; this suddenly vigorous state. ishment called the bilbo.

This was er was whipped and "fyned for sible that at one toe Virginia rf 1 i v. ophft.iiw i tolerable of thanks to Rus- But at mis moment Mrs. Gand- Mm. i- i ic vprv mnnh tAn anil bl me wmunu a my uikiou- vv with lezcuffs. and from it we get Governor: Of course, rcniied taost Indians are in a euphoric the expression, still used, of a probably speaking of an appointed tite for pork chops.

the chancellor. Be proved this conaiuon. a ome lor India tetters COLLINS OIL CO. Fuel Oil at its Finest Automatic Delivery Burner Service so well (hat a famous square in aemonstrate, as Mrs. Gandhi the capital was named Schwars- of doing, reasonableness enberg Platz.

toward her defeated neighbor, Pakistan, and willingness to ex- ptore the paths of better rela- NOW. more than a century tions with the United Slates and later, history may see an Asian even china. More on second-class mail toi. 499-1311 To Uw Editor of THS EAGLE: Cyrus H. Favor, general manager of the International Circulation -Managers Association, writes Letters, Jan.

21 concerning second-class postal rates that he AU repUca of this event upon a It should likewise be the mo-would at best be one-way, since weight and volume are the most massive scale. Certainly Indira for both Washington and take it from columnist Russell commonly used bases in setting Gandhi, the soft-spoken but Peking to take a fresh took at Baker, Eagle, Jan. 22 kids up rate structures for handling steely-minded Indian prime min- New jjelhi and. simply by be-under 25 can no longer write let- materials. Furthermore, a rolled ister, makes no secret of her in- having in a friendly manner to ters.

iiv 3 newspaper is one of the most tention to follow a similarly in- assist India to do what it de-His statement that utilities do awkward pieces of mail to handle, dependent and ungrateful policy res disengage from exces-not send out bills every day since it cannot be stacked with this country which has just jjve reliance on Moscow. shnwc an icmnmnrfl nf the mnifcm flat mail If almtn riomanHn i Oniric that each class of mail nation's most skilled labor negotiator, or Prof. John Kenneth Gal- shouM oav for service in Droner ZZZZTZZZTZS: ZZZTTLT ,7" xm Tim" propwtion to we cost of nan- with the load spread as evenly partment, where it likewise defies miiitaay, in its recent victorious w. 7 7-. as isxuie uvcr uw dime uiuuig suiipie maexuig ior uismuuaon war.

As mrs. vanani says wim SPRING WOOLENS NEXT WEEK RHMH5 i sequence. a faint smile: by whom or how the cost of nan- jje states lhat for purposes of J1 1 TT Mr. Favor is correct in stating of our faults is that we BIRTHDAY oung is oe aeiermmeu. nuwev- efficient delivery newspapers uuuiSBuwunciiiiui.

ejflaem aeuvery newspapers that nrrfprential rab PmmU a. nohl. rticnlav craHtnriP er, he ignores the area and extent undertake delivery to tte iy acoX Jmt TZ Sribfc rSe tor" Pely may no longer be exacted rj Affonmxx. KrfwaMi th accoraa larBe- consisuaii any tangible sense tor any- riifnmis mndctantiir with At. in California consistently with Article 1, Section 6, of our Constitution Is not grounded in sympathy PT Yr th7 khinP "TT users of a service; but he failed to thing.

I think you know that LS resultant saving to mcmde the qualifier, if it justifies And I might add that it would uiuacau, ojiu uiaicau fluaniVmZ TOr nMlVfTV St me lOCai 4 is mv continuance of the favorable pric- ntB ded for mail ImwSttZa rt -j xux uura mint vruuiu ONLY, Yl PRICE were uaswi un wie cabquvu rinlanra hi in mnmn onsuKihirtA TVwintriPS hpln one ing interests have become accus is 1 1 cents ner conv iiT 1 1Z 5 tor me soaery max aummsnes it-is 1.1 cerns per copy. cer a condition the Postal Serv- onolher because thev need one tomed. National maeazmes are trucked seu wnenever 11 lanes we lire 01 New York restaurants carry signs to the effect that occupancy by more than some maximum number is unlawful. half a dozen persons were to gather In an otherwise empty restaurant with such a sign and discuss heatedly the urgency of keeping newcomers out they would be in something like the position of Americans debating the zero growth notion. Prof.

Henry C. WaKicn, Yale economist, Newsweek columnist We don't hate dogs. Li fact I Fab. 21 st, Naw Birthday Feb. 22nd, Old Birthday Allow me to 1 refute a few facts to distribution areas where the dling second-class matter.

not disinterested when they help ana eiuaaaie a lew cuusiueif mow aavamageous zone raie-suo- Tha imiitma os- nj one another, cut i don tnmK fUQlMt V4, OVVUI RllU one of its members. Chief Justice Donald R. Wright of California Supreme Court in 5-1 decision declaring death penalty unconstitutional Hons which escaped his scrutinyn scriber density ratio is He states that to handle occa-i consideration. This sometimes through the postal svstem indi- nsplay tangiwe grauiuae 20s clonal first-class letters, the Post works out to be a remote area FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK aua 11 hare Office must operate elaborate requiring er handling at extra "at Mrs. Gandhi is really nces wim wmoows uj uouuie cow 10 un rusiai service.

button Li mis svstem. turn, could saying is that India hasn't the stamp sales to small quantity and He states that all over the coun-at a high laborvcost Wim the try mail carriers come into the provide a dramatic improvement remotest intention of abandon-in service, reduce demand for ing iff basic policy of nonalign- high caliber of help generally newspaper offices to arrange ad- lW It's a case of our courts setting themselves up above the people and the legislature. Gov. Ronald Reagan, reacting to the California Supreme Court declaring the death penalty unconstitutional, 1 ment or ending it in ine oirec- 1 i-i 1 a. new ana nuauv auromacea racui- louna lupw-iai uressj piaies me irays so mat h.

of Moscow iust because lent serrtce is usuauy provided newspapers will reach dtetnbution Tta fte blackT Bert of aU Russia proved such a champion. E5 it MXStiS otfe at the United Nations and and due in to the He fails to mention who LENT HAS BEGUN AND EASTER WILL SOON BE HERE Plan NOW for Your New Spring and Easter CoatorSoit with the desires of the majority of an arms supplier, during the newspaper publishers, who believe crisis led fices, part pop- livery. ularity of philately, stamp sales pays for the time and traveling are the most profitable phase of expense involved. There are no exercises or drills that can develop moves for a runner in football. This ability is in- that "each class of mail should sn- Indla uidn prove its mm- tary independence In oroer to His nostalgic interlude on placed on postmen distributing FZlJJ tion to the cost of dig dogs, and they kind of dig me.

It's not their fault mat New York City, has become the largest dog toilet in the world. Dogs can be trained to go to the bathroom anywhere. It's the fault of the irresponsible owners who take their dogs out on the streets. Fran Lee, SI, former actress, founder of Children Before Dogs, a group dedicated to compelling owners to clean up after their dogs. I am left with a deep impressionthat American education is failing children who are born black, brown or simply poor.

Sen. Walter F. Mandate, D- in Senate speech. lose its diplomatic indepen- herent an atniete, and J. am aenCe fortunate mat I was blessed with grandmas who depend on the Post- bulky newspapers, claiming that al Service to correspond with "weight and volume are not sensi-their grandchildren is of little sig- five criteria." Has is ridiculous nificance.

Such correspondence even before considering that GEORGE V. DOUILLET Meadow Lane Lanesboro Gate Sayers, Chicago Bears halfback. AN INABILITY to "display gratitude" here is a phenomenon ruefully remarked upon by Americans in the past. United If "Sam's the as in New Hamp- they're saying Dalton choice is gamble States statesmen were at times Hwm 930 till Dally Mil J. MASTER CHARGE, BANKAMERICARD puzzled, after more American stiT then we're real trouble.

George ratter, Boston Globe columnist Chinese stereotypes persist on air waves To editor of TBI SAQU: As the time arrives for President Nixon's historic journey to China, there seems to be a re-emergence in the media of our latent stereotypes of ttie Chinese. A recent shirt ad tells us to "save face" by wearing a certain product The setting is a n.a twiMjJt at unhitch frio To tb sditor of tkk EAOLE: To th Editor of THS EAQLS: aid was distributed here than in Undoubtedly, Dalton's charter Three cheers for Dalton entire Marshall 'Plan pro-commission spent many long men who are willing to stand up sram for Europe, that no more hours and did a commendable and be counted on rejection of la thanks or political sup-job. However, Dalton citizens the proposed charter: longtime P01 was directed to the beije-sbould consider that an execu- Selectmen William Glendon factor. Possibly the Kremlin tive secretary Would mean Letters, Feb. 15 and Eugene may be in for similar disap-another $15,000 to 118,000 added Chut Letters, Feb.

12 and Se- pomtaent but it is less likely to to our expenses, while those lectman Thomas Callahan admit it. presenfly administering town" Feb. 15. Soviet taemHup toto It's not tno majw var nan was developed first by Khrusn- mat uanon received a state award for good management uti)ns Pebn8 in. Mos-Tbat should speak wea for a was attracted the board of three selectmen.

Some- world's second largest nation times, it's ffioult to find three to tte reason that Wash-good men for the office-where tagton originally had been as would two more come from? a counterpoise to Cmna. Walter Card Letters, Feb. 17 A American pohcy n. tered under Dulles and more or stunning quality of the Ameri- the "tuation as it is. can diplomat's shirt.

The image isn common sense to cut here is the old notion of the, expenses in many areas of town Chinese regard for gaining, sav- government as is presently ing or losing "face." being done, and men take on We fail to realize how much the expense of an executive sec-mu- um rmintrv exhibits this retary who is bound to find areas wnere we can I save ftreighters for piice of less evaporated when we ceased money by spending money. an executive secretary; the idea characteristic. We do not refer to our retreat from Vietnam as that but rather we cannot have peace have heard that before. moved in. It supplied about $800- has merit Let's not hastily vote to com' Dalton voters should that a yes vote would mean an million in ordnance end helped India create a MIG factory, tank and artillery plants.

It It must be a "just and mit ourselves to a Mr. Nixon states that he is not We. increase in taxes. GRACE B. KTRCHNER 445 Kirchne Road Dalton LUCILE E.

MASON 359 Hinsdale Road Dalton going to be the first President "to see this nation accept tte first defeat in its proud 180-year history." AMI SAVE UP TO didn't hesitate to use its veto in the U.N. Security Council on India's behalf. But if the KremBn expects to submit a bill for -this, it wiil-surely be disappointed. Hitherto, India has tended only to be great in adversity. But now an MuiniA fane been reln-- 11110 mfiicwj) forced by the recent TV revival Sunday nights, the Hopsing Chan, who is not only concerned kan homes serving to solidify utor 01 entirely 'new situation has been with "face" but is numwe, the Image of Qunese as pigtail The environment has been shrewd and always ready with a wearing cooks, tricky and con- major issue for the past-few rV i uuuiuauB rauw wim ism.

wiuci. years. IS JUS rMm ri Mm Carvttii A Friday-night movie, Seven Newscasters, too, seem to have issue or is it something we feel is fTZ, ZrJA btetarrt Faces of Er Lao," also bowed fallen back on stereotypes. In a really important? SLSS llfTL, JL5: ced with a shortage, vuurac Hl us Lenox is tnreatenmg to Ilood ana verse as well as iMnWe the ig- inscrutable and mysterious." destroy the Pleasant Valley Sanc- a new fzi ijuraiK nuinn.au. nn wonflm If PrMidorrl Nit.

hiai-ir fur nwrmr Thn rnwn One wonders if President Nix- tuary for a reservoir. The town Dora arueuran ana ons waI that there are other alter- ZZJZZZZ are played by American actors We Americans are natives for getting water but fzZZZ This image ojCe wm rooceroed brin chiia claims they more expensive. JtZZ tSI Ail Sales Final edf Part Square epiR daily til Thurs. I Fri. im rithfiili, Hilt.

pruiy back into ie world but seem to Which is more important sav- forget that our views vivai oi me uwuiuus cbu, in the 1930s tte embodiment et all lhat was "dark. country are "out of this world." dernen area? The Carpet Center of the Berkshires position as a real Asian power. This position, of course, could be imdermined by corrosive tat- mysterious and evil- the WILLIAM FIELDS Jr. REESE PALMER CfcineM character. Amperw lynngnaia.