European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lone Star Belt Ong that some of its Man courses include i pot Texas cooking the Austin sound West music talking texan Texas Dia Texas heroes and myth makers and is any Ning metropolitan Houston m of the program is says Linda to Texas is better than where you came from w that migrants get involved and learn nut their new surroundings than try to set up n personal Harris county Hackensack in a sell isolated House or some u taking place Nelson and Waylon two of Texas Ive of progressive countryman Western Musi no York Grossman 1 transplanted new yorker Selling kicker sing these lines in a recent hit dont let your babies grow up to be cowboys dont Lei pm pick guitars and drive them old let pm be doctors and lawyers and before one wave of migration to Houston and other big Texas cities brought in thousands of people from the Texas they brought their traditions with and they Are still they frequently Wear the kicker image with All its such a Man has traded his horse for a motorcycle and an elaborate Bas fishing but he May still keep a few horses on a Small spread around towns like 30 Miles North of the Middle or upper class doctor and lawyer in the Nelso Jennings song might be called a crab grass except that Here he has to contend with cinch brow Patch disease and army no matter Hes essentially suburban in even if Hes a he May never have set foot in Gil Leys or fools he May have countryman Western songs piped out to the but his Texas identity is generally something he carries inside him and Seldom flashes Isons Law Hes it Hast two Days later he is Back complaining that he needs another Man because there Are so Many photographs and that if Hes to have an authority Over his he 11 have to be a Lance i quite see says the in three he has a staff of Hes become a lieutenant and he never sees a photograph be cause Hes so Busy tending to these digested in Seaside Tran led to an essay he i modestly entitled Parkinson Law my a former said i should Send to to the i posted it off and much to their own Surprise they published its no libel to say that the economist is a rather solemn so the effect of an unserious article was out of All had the Impact of share Anchovy hidden in a Strawberry i have to admit i Hdldn t invent that its one i borrow unashamedly and Hope people wont when a rounded Man with carefully combed White hair and brooding dark brows that Are belied by merry the faintest additional glow of shamed Pink on already Bright Pink avuncular that the loan from Harold the British diarist and Histo soon after Parkinson Law made has hold if not actually a household word Chesun once shone on the British Empire including United he concluded his University career As a learner of history and moved to Martins at Guernsey in the Channel islands to offered everything he thought he three growing Chol Dreria Lawn Rea skiable travelling distance from expensive 1978 boarding and a modest level of income tax for the maximum rate in Guernsey is 20 he works there in a Library so authentically an Tique that the books exude an appropriate Musty with a Case of old ship and a spare desk for a Secretary when he needs i believe in he i have never paid a Secretary for doing i Only hire when i need in the Garden beyond the dining room there Are Rose Beds in the shape of a scripted because the House was built in the reign of Elizabeth i and restored in the reign of Elizabeth he there is also a Little rockery built up in front of the Tennis which is backed by the asparagus to rave an interesting View to the window above the Kitchen sink12 bedrooms to accommodate families whose Chil Dren Are friends of the Parkinson children a Small Ball room with a carved wooden Balcony that he Calls the minstrels gallery a workshop where he makes escutcheons bearing his personal Crest a Squirrel bearing a Pennant inscribed with a Book two cellars an artifice boating dried out with an Island where a statue of aphrodite stands in direct line of vision from the front door through an Alley of Trees and a it is Only a Small it can hold Parkinson said As he unlocked the he there Are lots of houses which dont have one at they would not have been adequate for As a he visited the House of his lifelong which had a and he decided then that one Day he have included the history if the House table Tennis tournaments on the stage in Rainy and pageants in which successive Park Sinson offspring wore the a plumed Childs coat of Armor which now stands in a Corner of the minstrels Parkinson passion for a reflection of what he Calls his very conservative upbringing in the history drenched City of has nothing to do with austerity or Bleak it is based on his penchant for doing As much As he can for i must warn he said in his chips i am a Man of Many apart from re storing medieval Writon books about How to give business a better name and novels about naval he travels frequently to lecture business oriented audiences on How to avoid the Vicissitudes of Parkinson he has done rather Well in the Battle against the Laws Impulsion to waste but governments go right on expanding and by the percentages i regardless of the circumstances and who in theres no Means of stopping he it raises the disturbing thought that the Law May be True of manual As Well As clerical take the Oakland be referring to the Tran stay Bridge Between san Francisco and when it was a permanent staff of 12 was hired to keep it Over the years it grew to Al though in the meantime they acquired quantities of labor saving machinery huge trucks to Spray on the Ronald whom i launched a big econ omy drive when he was governor and got the painting Crew Down to but he  Cut it any it just want the stars and stripes Page 15