European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pogo 10 the stars and stripes 1 am returning to my native Europe after one year in America. Before i leave i a posting this letter of Farewell with a few observations. Per haps it will do you americans Good to know How you look inthe eyes of a visitor. American men Are women Are the most vulgar overdressed overbearing females on the face of the Earth. Your children Are insufferable. They Are Brash undisciplined and clearly in control of their parents. Your newspapers Are fright fully trashy. Your to pro Grams Cater to the lowest com Mon denominator. The commercials Are gauche and unappetizing. Your radio programs assault the eardrums and redesigned for idiots. Your motorists Are 80 per cent suicidal and 20 per cent Homicidal. Your once Beautiful Countryside i fast disappearing behind hide Ous billboards and Orange and Green Neon signs. America which advertises it self As the most prosperous and progressive country in the world is culturally bankrupt. The movies which do Well Are nothing but peephole sex shows. The Fine books do no sell. The excellent plays do not survive. Opera is drawing it last breath. Your museums and Art galleries Are tombs of silence but the Bowling alleys go go joints and Bawdy clubs Are crowded. Drunkenness is commonplace and homosexuals Are accepted everywhere. Now that i have seen Ameri Ca i can go Back and Tell my friends who Long to go there that they should save their Money. You have nothing Worth seeing or listening to. Glad to be going Home dear glad thank you for your Farewell letter. Benjamin Franklin provided an a Propri Mondoy August 12 stars and stripes Goren on Bridge East West vulnerable. South deals. North a 1032 year Sago free government Wise Laws Liberty a Good people Tolive among and a Hearty Wel come. Those of other lands who have All these things or greater advantages at Home would Dowell to stay where they seven months ago our Daugh Ter age 16 got herself into trouble with a 17-year-old parents said he could not marry Winifred unless she agreed to move into their Home so the boy could finish High school. Winnie had a miscarriage six weeks after the wedding. I was not surprised. She and her Hus band went Bowling or roller skating almost every night mandate hot dogs and Root Beer for dinner. The Day Winnie had he miscarriage they had spent several hours in the amuse ment Park Riding shoot the chutes and quit High school in her Junior year when she became pregnant. Her in Laws think she should go to work now and pay something toward their room and Board. Her husband has one More year of High school. We say he should quit school and go to work and support his wife. What do you say outsiders now dear now i say it s a one of them knows any More about marriage than hog knows about sunday. They should both stay in school an get diplomas. In the meantime i Hope you Haven t rented Winifred s room. I think Shell be Home pretty soon. Copyright 1968, pull hers Hill Syndicate Matisse is the subject of an outstanding exhibit onto Mark the opening of London s Hayward ,.joining the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South m no Ahe thames. The exhibition will continue until Sci. A. 7 he future plans including a major Van Gogh exhibition in october regular hovercraft service Between la isl Alc Pland and Calais France will begin in april 19 19 Folio the completion of the world s first International port for he Craft at Peg Well Bay in Ramsgate. Our two giant hovercraft each carrying 250 passengers and incurs will Cross the Channel from the hover port in 40 minutes i will be a year round service from rams Jile ii in. 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