European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the tvs and St Lopes thursday Juno 26.19b6 columns comments America has lost her modesty by Russ ii Baker the phys for the suture of Liberty business remind me of a hone somebody ought to write. It s title a Ifould be America inc  patting yourself on the Back once in a Blue Moon is forgivable but constantly Hump ing your Chest about to wonderful you Are we make you 4n pm Tartu Omni to friends and neighbors. Modesty always modesty these words to live by were once drilled into every american youth. Tic Nalian abounded in examples of modal behaviour. In the comics. Joe Paloolian was modest about every boxing Triumph. In the real ring. Joe Louis Ai modest about being invincible. Offered the Opportunity to Crow Over their battered victims they Chow in Scad to say shucks anybody could have done  truly prodigious Iris Fiphs like a Ridberg s were sup posed to he explained with i was just Lucky 1  for the amusement of crowds. Neither Ruth nor a Chris Ever jumped up and Dow with both Amu High in the air Bath Index fingers pointed " when big jew Ruth s salary was raised to 380,000 a year and somebody ast a How he Felt about being paid More Ihan president Coolidge his mild commonsensical reply i had a belter year than he did so ruffled the prevailing modesty Ial it is familiar even today 10 people who Don t know Calvin Coolidge from Calvin Klein. Many baseball fans old enough to remember the babe say they preferred his quiet  team Ralf Lou Gehrig a Man of such classic modesty that after learning he was fatally ill he. Told a packed House at Yan Kee stadium he was the Luckiest Guy in the  americans at that Lime had t teamed to id it All hang out. In private the percentage of Sinish characters among he great was doubtless just As extensive As it in Loday. The difference is that the country at that time after taking the usual voyeur Delight in hearing about Ihram demoted its Louls from godhood. Something Lite a social consensus enforced civilized behaviour in that Long ago age of modest. Boxing champions did not unilaterally declare t the  the pcs of the bards did not Ling songs praising himself because he did it Ray  athletes As Rich As Rajah did not publicly iry to humiliate wretchedly underpaid umpires and  pm number on pm number once both instinctively knew that tolling he world you arc  is Bush league and that doing it betrays you As a Bush leaguer when the olympic games were held in a Angeles in1 932, neither Rulh cell Rig nor any other american at in the stands chanting Usa. .  in 1932, thou fish dead broke the . Knew that it was limply unforgivable to invite people to your House for a game then applaud you Elf loudly for beating them. It was t until the 1984 olympics that immodesty reached such Gross proportions that rubbing your guests noses into their own inferiority was defined As patriotism. Anti of r such if Tograi Lamry specific is due when Abc to brings us the siame of Liberty show. No excess of Braggadocio Sterns to have been overlooked and every body who is anybody will Appiar Nefy be Here. If you Are Nta anybody or at least not Wal fixed for Money you probably won t he then or anywhere near judging from news stories about Asiro Nomica prices the usual Moneybags Are paying buccaneers of patriotism torrent decent viewing spots in Manhattan and on the Harbor. Like most new York splendours this is another for mostly the Rich and  except of course what it tally is a to show conceived As an above average fourth of july Media event for the Beer Bai cry old shampoo Market. Remember the honest old Days when to people justified the schlock they broadcast by saying Lwy were. Just giving the slobs what they want the Advance hype on All this encouraging us to reflect upon and Admire our own splendours leaves no doubt that poor old is. Liberty is being used As a profitable device for encouraging us to blow our own Horn about our number on cams Liberty is not about being no. I. It s not about Long Holiday weekends nor Jho a stars nor inc Uptown swells getting All the Good seals. Liberty is a. Modest goal for modest people. I does not embrace the idea or having it All. It is about the Bigshot who do five ii All including the Good scats nevertheless not being Able to push you around. It is a Smalt but Icet idea and people who love it can Only be suspicious about All c ? of in Ltd 33 Rose of 15 a part utter in strips of tand is  a Sun 25 Rait ii c 4-m