European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday september 4, 1978 britons tiring of tourist influx Welcome Mot getting thin by Jeff Bradley London a tourists Are pouring a Cool billion pounds $1.95 billion a year into London in foreign Exchange but the Welcome mat is wearing thin. Playwright John Osborne looking round in anger has described the 11.5 million invaders flocking to the Tower of London big Ben and Piccadilly circus As human Pigeon drop  on the other Side of the argument however is a new English tourist Board Survey in which Only one in a Hundred londoners said they found tourists a problem. The controversy broke after Osborne wrote a blistering column in the London evening Standard read by commuters deprived of subway seats by Back packed yanks and scandinavians. He said there is Only one thing to be done with tourists insult them. That Way they May go away. Tourists whether they be americans germans especially japanese perhaps most of Alleven the biggest nation of geniuses in the world apart from ourselves the italians Are All human garbage wrote Osborne who at 48 is just As hot tempered As 22 years ago when he wrote look Back in  Osborne is not the Only one complaining. A member of parliament recently reported seeing a forlorn briton outside the House of commons. He wore a to shirt which read i am not a tourist i live  despite British tourist authority claims that visitors bring some nine milling pounds $17.5 million a Day into the . Treasury Many londoners Are finding foreigners a bore. Waves of them whether dressed in Arab Robes denims or Rucksacks monopolize Oxford Street London s major shopping thoroughfare. Arab and persian shoplifters clog the Calendar at nearby Marlborough Street magistrate s court. Buses and London subway trains Are packed with them too inconveniencing work ing commuters. Who do they think i am a bleeding information service an exasperated newspaper seller near Piccadilly circus was quoted after being asked the Way to Trafalgar Square for the umpteenth time. Having swamped Rhodes and obliterated. Tunisia they have now made London uninhabitable and ensured that no play can appear in the West end that cannot readily be under stood by the eager visitor from Tokyo complained playwright John Mortimer. Jack tinker theater critic of the daily mail wrote it is not that i resent falling Over their Rucksacks All summer Long. It is what the tourist Boom is doing to the Quality of theater going which makes me suspect that this mixed bag is a decidedly mixed  he said theater owners Are opting for Good Box office with tourists in mind As opposed to Good theater. The longest running mine spin ners in town include Agatha Christie s the Mousetrap and the Randy no sex please we re  if the West end continues to aim its sights at audiences whose English would barely get them directed to regents Park zoo then i Don t wonder the British stay away from their use of go Bill for College slows sharply Washington a As the Vietnam War Era fades into the past the numbers of veterans using the i Bill to attend College i dropping sharply the government says. The veterans administration in its annual report says that after a 10-year climb the number of veterans drawing government benefits for College fell 28 percent in the fiscal year ended sept. 30,1977. That year 1.38 million veterans used the i Bill for their schooling Down from 1.9 Millionth year before. The decline coincides with the Peak a ars of the War in 1967-68, a spokesman said. Veter ans have 10 years from their Date of discharge to use their benefits or let them expire. The bulk of the veterans 1.2 million were using the i Bill to get undergraduate de Grees and More than 150,000 were in graduate school. The most popular areas of study were Busi Ness and Commerce accounting for 152,000 i Bill students followed by 121,000 in technical Fields. Own Heaters tinker said. Even at sir Christopher Wren s Majestic St. Paul s Cathedral there Are whimpers of unrest. We sometimes think they just come Here because its on their schedule and needs to be ticked off a cleric sad. Some of the blame Falls on tourist authorities with their like it or Lump it attitude said 25-year-old Judith Summers a London tourist guide. An afternoon at the Tower of London can entail an hour and a half of queuing at the end of which one would be hard pressed to find an attractive cafe in the Vicinity in which to rest one s tired feet she moaned. Visitors to stonehenge numbering Well Over 800,000 last year were charged up to 40 Pence 78 cents each and faced with toilets that would have disgusted even neolithic  have tourists noticed any Ici Ness in their reception of late not at All compared to Paris the Public officials ticket Sellers and police Are much More Friendly Here said James c. Wight of Northridge calif., a Retiree who is finishing a four week tour of Europe with his school teacher wife. Our hotel is outstanding and the restau rants cheap and Friendly. We love it said mrs. Wright. Michael Meacher parliamentary undersecretary at the department of Trade nevertheless Felt it necessary to advise britons to show tolerance when someone asks is Ziss Der Way to big Bill clock without tourists he said the government would have to find the 200 million pounds $390 million per year which overseas visitors con tribute in value added tax liquor duty and petrol tax. Then there Are the services that tourism helps to sustain about three million visitors went to the theater in London last year without them the prospects of survival for some London Heaters would be  Richard West writing in the weekly Spectator advised londoners How to Duck the crowds that throng Buckingham Palace Westminster Abbey and the British museum look off the beaten paths for the Little gems of London life that remain unchanged like the pubs near Charles Dickens House on Doughty Street. I live in the next Street but have Seldom seen any foreign visitors there. Indeed it is rare to see tourists away from the West end and a few classic  across 1 thing in la w 4 resinous substance 7 White House office 11 choir Section 13 hockey Star 14 Hollywood and 15 serb or croat 16 even the score 17 discharge 18 the whole jury 20 ruminant animal 22 soak flax 24 dealer in dry goods 28 hanging ornament 32 crushing Snake 33 Jai 34 exclamation 36 distinct part 37 show pleasure 39 standards 41 certain Geometric figures 43 offer 44 equipment 46 Nobleman 50 baseball team 53 make lace 55 proboscis 56 Eire 57 summer in Aries 58 do it to a salad 59 cried 60 Oriental Coin 61 Dieter s Waterloo Down 1 grate 2 miss cinders 3 comedian Laurel 4 Fate 5 Barren 6 confession of Faith 7 More than ample 8 vigor 9 cuckoo 10 lease average solution time 27 min. High huh Osra a 9-4 answer to saturday s Puzzle. 12 too industrious 19 Meadow 21 epoch 23 High explosive 25 Corn bread 26 arabian ruler 27 hair pads 28 fail to bid 29 Sailor s Saint 30 Brad or Tenpenny 31 bucket 35 Bistro Bill 38 Netherlands commune 40 pen Point 42 sluts 45 appraise 47 Shields the attic 48 greek Mountain 49 one flew Over it 50 York or Jersey 51 Wrath 52 Pinch 54 " Little indians. " today s crossword 18 50 56 59 29 51 30 52 22 19 38 25 34 42 6o 20 31 24 43 21 46 14 n 36 58 25 48 10 49 9-4 Learann Landers dear readers if you Are look ing for a laugh today this column is not for you. Skip it. The ques Tion raised by this Reader is one that has perplexed a great Many people. I decided to Deal with it. Dear Ann Landers this news item appeared in the Kitchener Waterloo record. Dateline Mon Treal about a dozen people watched a seven year old boy drown saturday and refused to jump into the Riveiere Des Prai Ries to save him. Some said the water was too polluted. Police said Martin to Virgeon of Montreal slipped off a wharf near a spot where untreated sewage is dumped into the River. I m not going in there the water is much too dirty wit Nesses quoted one onlooker As saying. Some people even left the scene As the boy s father a non swimmer thrashed about in the water and screamed for help. A Boater fished the boy s body out of the River about 25 minutes later. It makes you wonder about How human people Are a police officer remarked. The boy prob ably could have been  the boys family said they were too shaken up to talk about the incident. And that was the end of the news item. What does this say about the state of the world Ann Landers i have searched my mind and heart for some answers and find ing none i turn to you. Neighbor to the North dear neighbor it says indifference to the suffering of others is the Central sickness of our time. It also says that fear and cowardice Are contagious. All too often one reads in the newspapers of similar incidents and it is sickening. Has it always been this Way no it has not. Does the explanation lie in the fact that there Are More people therefore More heartless uncaring and crazy ones along with the rest in part this is True but there is evidence to support the theory that drastically altered lifestyles since world War ii have caused great masses of peo ple to behave differently. The United states is now largely a Mobile society and Canadian trends Are similar. One out of every three . Families moves every three years. People no longer have the feeling of  there is a lesser attempt to be come a part of the Community. They Don t feel responsible for what happens to their neighbors because they Don t know them. An added problem because there Are millions of guns and knives in the hands of everybody and anybody people Are afraid to intervene when they see a Wom an being raped or a Man being mugged. Whenever we read or hear about the fatal shooting or the stabbing of someone who tried to help it reinforces the message Don t get  somehow we must instill in our children the old values of con Cern and caring the biblical concept that we Are indeed our brother s keeper. But we cannot hand Down to our children some thing we Don t have ourselves. This Means it must Start some where with someone. How about you c 1978 Field enterprises inc