European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns Tom Wicker the stars and stripes april army might get a kick out of Flop eared recruit not since the adoption of the Breech loading Rifle has anything More sensible been proposed by the army than the reinstatement of the mule As a pack animal for the new Light division of Mountain today entranced with elec tronic buzzes and have gone head Over heels into High tech weaponry beyond the Public but the mule is a Low tech not to mention Low budget creature and a Craig said its proposed rehabilitation had created much Goodwill for the people can identify with the colonel that will certainly be corroborated by anyone who Ever slowed a Furrow behind one or getting behind in his tried to Speed up a mule in the out in where until the 1930s the worlds largest outdoor mule Market people showed for the annual mule Day Parade identification with mules or maybe nostalgia for the Days of mules also is Why prospects look Good for the congressional designation of 26 As mule appreciation Day a worthier and less expensive project than Star one Hundred forty members of the House already have declared their and Jim and Mike the resolutions bipartisan Are confident Congress will not be too mule headed to 26 is claimed to be the Date in 1785 when the first jacks supposedly arrived in allegedly a gift from King Charles Iii of Spain to George the originators of mule appreciation Day disregard rumours that special interest groups like the mule William Buckley traders association of Are involved further allege that the first american mule was bred from a Jack named Royal male chauvinist history apparently does not record the identity of the necessary but for mule history that let us to William Faulkner some Homer of the Cotton he wrote in should sing the Saga of the mule and of his place in the he it More than any other one creature or steadfast to the land when All else faltered before the hopeless juggernaut of impervious to conditions that broke mens because of his venomous and patient preoccupation with the immediate won the prone South from be Neath the Iron Heel of reconstruction and taught it Pride again through and courage through adversity who accomplished the Well nigh impossible by sheer and vindictive the army obviously can use recruits of that for in the chaos of War the laser beams blink and the smart bombs the mule will merely plod solitary in Faulk ners its neck Bobbing Lim Ber As a Section of rubber Hose in the with its trac galled flanks and lifeless ears and its Hal closed eyes browsing Ven Mously behind Pale apparently asleep with the Monotony of its own the mule will plod that if anybody got him started in the first place for it is known that you have to hit one of these cussed beasts Over the head with a two your just to get his and not a shortage of is the army would be breeders and suppliers Are already asking for specifications and putting in their bids to join the military Industrial Complex As Mcnab put theres no one in the army today who any longer knows which end to Hook the rope up and that a real because As Faulkner also a mule will labor 10 years willingly and patiently for for the privilege of kicking you youd better know which end to approach with a or for that matter a Mcnab said that in the absence of qualified mule the army mules committee named for the not the members had ordered a search for old training manuals to determine what was the doctrine on How Many Veteri for might be needed for How Many mules that question would merely baffle an old time on Gallus Farmer or a mule Skinner in general Pershing they knew mules never got c new York times Syndicate reswc6 id the soviets murder military office Ulet me Hes have landed and is Well in hand rest ref keep out How about an Roth program for the Bernhard Goetz affair had left every one in new York on the one hand the Laws Are and we need to enforce we May be looking Square in the face of the old saw that tells you that the Best Way to modify an unsatisfactory Law is to enforce the unsatisfactory Law we speak of has to do with pistol we know about new York that criminals feel no inhibition about carrying they do so All the and use them with Bernhard Goetz applied for a License after being mugged and after witnessing other was de Nied his purchased a gun anyway As we keep him around in Case we Mech More chips at anyone apparently can do with about the same difficulty one has in purchasing an illegal Toke of marijuana and then used it against four aggressors armed with sharpened screwdrivers and police and yet and the Law is and prosecutors Are bound by paths of so where do we go from Here surely it is time to reexamine the proposal of Adam a proposal now several years old a College Roth for Here Are the pieces in the Jigsaw 1 in 7 million Calls were made on the police emergency line dial policemen were available to act on Only 3 million of those 7 million that Means statistical that if a burglar or rapist is breaking into your apartment and you Call the you have less than a 5050 Chance that one will be available to help the figures Are All the More intimidating when you reflect that an overwhelming majority of crimes take place in circumstances where there is no Opportunity to use the they dont have phones in the or in the Middle of a or in the subway and these Are the favorite beats of the 2 in new York had and instances of violent thirty years new York had policemen and Vio Lent one thousand percent More 15 per cent More the Odds overwhelmingly favor the is the solution As simple As hiring More policemen by the same the solution is As simple As everyone hiring a private there is the slight matter of a Rookie cop costs the City per 3 enrolment in primary and secondary schools has dropped in new York state by the baby Boom having been there Are unused facilities in the state and this has brought on the inevitable higher costs of higher As fewer Stu dents Are required to put up the Money to finance exist ing educational enter a former think Tanker for Bobby now associated with such conservatives As Lewis his plan let the state provide four years of College for needy students in Exchange for their pledges to repay the state by contributing three years service to the police the principle is like that of the or even West Point and you get free and you pay Back your Benefactor by giving service at less than Market Price for a stipulated period of Walinsky estimates that the City of new which would inherit 70 percent of the cops trained every year under the proposed would need to pay Only a year per inasmuch As there would be no retirement commissions or other costly the idea is to put these Well motivated and on the by their to discourage the plan was opposed two years ago by a inventive types who complained about the difficulty in keeping the graduate students in uniform in the event they thought better of it and decided not to Walinsky answer they would then be required to repay the state the Cost of their so what is the net loss from the defaulters some police officials dont like it be cause they smell elitism in the to which Walinsky responds that the whole police corps would Benefit from the infusion of educated Many of them Black and the relatively Brief Ca Reers spent As policemen would not mean Long Range Competition for the better the patrolmen benevolent association has not disapproved of the Walinsky perhaps the Goetz dilemma will act As the perhaps the Walinsky corps will be referred to As c 1985 Universal press Syndicate