European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 Colour rms the stars and strips Friday August 22,1386 today s crossword three cases of they asked for it of Andy Rodney if is the old saying goes Justice triumphs a few lines should be added so it reads Justice triumphs Bill it usually Tak too  after Many years of Prosperity a lot of Basic Ameri can industries have fallen on hard times. For the most part they re getting what s coming to hem. For 50 years the . Automobile Industry dominated the world Market. The British made some great cars like the Rolls Royce and Jaguar the italians were malting ferraris and the French made some tars bul so few foreign cars were sold in the United states that people pointed when hey saw one. Detroit had it locked up so year after year the Auto makers coasted along substituting Glitz for Good Engi Neering. . Car makers changed the design of their hubcaps added new Radiator ornaments and bought millions of dollars Worth of advertising designed to distract us from the truth. Autoworkers did t help he Industry with contracts calling for More and More Money for less and Les work. Meanwhile the japanese germans and British were improving their cars today the japanese Are Selling More than 20 percent of All the cars bought in the United states. The reason is simple the japanese make a better car for less Moity. If we let the free Enterprise system work the japanese would drive our automakers out of business. One of the la Deil commercials on television is a Chrysler and telling us they Are making the Best car produced in America. They repeat it the Besl Ameri can made  faint Praise these Days. They concede in the commercial that foreign cars Are belter made. Item no. 2 in this they had it coming to them glossary travel by americans to foreign countries has dropped dramatically since the terrorist incidents this Spring. Hundreds of thousand of americana cancelled their plans to travel abroad because they were afraid. They weren t specifically afraid of anything they were afraid of everything in general. No company has been Hurt More by this decrease in foreign travel than american express. I can t help thinking thai american express s own advertising has and Jed to the climate of fear. Their whole Campaign is based on fear. Fear of losing your Money. Fear of having your Money stolen by a thief in a foreign City american express might replace its slogan Don leave Home without it with one that reads be Safe. Slay Home with  item no. 3 advertisers Aren t coming through wit big Bucks the Way hey once did and revenues for Tele vision commercials arc Down sharply. This depression in network television has led to what is  called balt tis Lening or As one network executive called it  som of the people who work for the network fell like up throwing. All three networks have explanations. They Point to various factors in the Economy and to social trends. Nowhere has any network television executive said we re hurting because we have been giving them 45 minutes of junk and is minutes of advertising every hour. They re finally catching up with  the network answer to dwindling profits has. Always been the same run Mare commercials. Now thai the self congratulatory statue of Liberty orgy is Over it might be a Good Lime to recognize that Justice is triumphing. We re getting whal we  s prestige is slipping because we Aren t Mak ing anything Well except Money. The tit two mum Sinton Blade of grass Long May it live editor s note Art Buchwald has Tetta a fete Teks off. He left behind several columns he found in his trunk baht by Schwald a 68-year-old Man in Lawrence. Kan., was jailed after he refused to pay a Tine and court Coati for waving a Pellet gun at two men mowing his Lawn. Lawrence has an ordinance that requires the mowing of grass when it gets More than 12 inches High. Since the Man refused to do it the City sent out a Crew to do the mowing and then billed him for the labor. When the Crew returned to mow it again the Homeowner tried to Chase them away with Pellet gun. This Story upset me very much and i believe the reason it did. Is that i identify so closely with Ibe Man who did t want to Cut his Lawn. What right does any City have to Tell a person How High Sis grass should grow or to Send people onto his prop Erly to mow in i la be very honest. I happen to like tall grass. To me there is nothing More Beautiful than acting on the porch Steps watching thousands of Blades of grass waving in the warm summer Breeze. My wife on the other hand likes Short grass. She believes everybody s Lawn should look As smooth As a pulling Green on the Augusta National Golf course. She also ii afraid of our neighbors. Ii seems almost every week Shell say something like i believe it s time someone Cut the  How do you know because Seigel is cutting his she says. Seigel is always mowing his Lawn. 1 think he Hasa  Sullivan is cutting his  the Only reason Sullivan is cutting his Lawn is because Seise started mowing his. 1 talked to Sulli Van the other Day and he said he wished Sergei would take a rest for a few weeks and paint Nis Kitchen instead if we Don t Cut our Lawn everyone in the neigh boyhood will Start talking about  what can they possibly say they la say we re troublemakers because we Letour grass grow too  i Don t see whal the height of a person s Law has to do with whether he is a Good neighbor or not. People should t be judged by the length of  i hear Guggenheim s Lawn Mower going now sure and do you know Why because his wife a Seigel and Sullivan culling their lawns. 1 know for a fact that Gug Geitheim would rather play Lenni today than mow his  How do you know thai because he had a game wit h sym  my wife looked Oul the window. Then How com Symington is taking his Lawn Mower out of the garage bal you come sneer spirit that made this country great. Do you think Thomas Edison would have had time to invent he electric tight bulb if his wife had kept going Down to the cellar and telling him in was Lime to mow the Lawn we would t have the Tele phone if Alexander Graham Bell had worried Aboul his grass. Henry Ford could t have Given a tinker dam about his front  do you Wani me to Cut in or Are. You going to do ill Cut it later when the weather cools off. 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