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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, April 1, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page in columns the stars and stripes wednesday. April 1,1987 people work for More than Money Brand Rooney people like their Jobi to in t for the Money alone Hal they work. Most men and women go to wort with same anticipation of enjoying the companionship and the satisfaction that comes with accomplishing something Yean ago i talked to a group of women who we redoing a repetitive Assembly line Job for the Parker pen company in Janesville wis., and i remember being surprised to find that almost All of them tiled the work. It took them away from the problems of their own Homes. It brought them together with peo ple they sited to talk with and the Job did t involve making any decisions. It had never occurred to me before Dpi someone might actually like doing an As Sembly line Job while most of us like our Awn jobs we d Bale Mohave someone else s. Being president of the United slates must be about the worst Job in the world and if it were not for the Honor of it All no one would Ever take it there Are lots of jobs i would t want or would t take i would t want to be a bus Driver in new Yor City. Who would choose to guide a Clumsy vehicle 40 feet Long Over Che same route through heavy traffic with taxicabs cutting you off at every Opportunity who d want to Deal with a surly Public while Sillin hour after hour in one place with the door next to you opening every few minutes letting in the bitter Coldin Winter and the intolerable heat in summer driving a school bus filled with kids would t Bemy idea of a picnic five Days a week either. And can anyone who in t one imagine being a undertaker flow badly would you have to need Money to expose yourself Day after Day to the grief that attends every bit of business you conduct theother Day a judge ruled that funeral directors in his town could not refuse the bodies of people who had died of aids. He sympathetic to victims of aids but a mortician would t have to be a terrible person to be reluctant to do whatever it is mortician do with body fluids loan aids victim. At any rate while i m pleased there Are Good peo ple who Don l mind doing the work i m glad i m not an undertaker the pay is belter than being a bus Driver and not As Good As some undertakers but i would t want to be a College president either. Life Ina College town could be wonderful but not if you were president of the institution. Most College president shave come up through the academic ranks. They were professors who stood out As teachers and because of some additional Talent they had As administrator they worked their Way to the top. At which Point they no longer do what they like and do Best teach. Most College presidents Are fund raisers who spend their lives going from alumni group to alumni group talking and trying to get Money from Rich graduates of the place. No matter How objectionable a Colleg president May find a graduate to be the president has to be Sweet to the Rich. There arc a Hundred jobs t would t want 1 can imagine Why anyone would intentionally become a certified Public accountant. 1 would t even want Tobe an uncertified private accountant. I would t want to be an airline ticket clerk a shoe Salesman in women s shoe store a dog Warden a gynaecologist a prison guard or a supreme court  m glad there Are people who do. C to a Madu so ecu preachers preying on the faithful by Joe Murray my my. Will miracles never cease Tammy and Jim Are out. Jerry is in and Oral displaying you bet your life when last we heard Jerry Falwell had taken Over the Praise the lord club after Jim Bakker confessed a denominational Dalliance with a Church Secretary and said he had paid blackmail Over the last seven years. Meanwhile the other half of the Tammy an Jim show is really out of it out in California of All places trying to kick the Pill habit. Of the pal club Ever gets tired of soft soaping christians it Well might try its hand at soap operas As for Oral Roberts he ascended info his prayer Tower counting House in hit personal s8 million game of you Bel your life in Many ways More outrageous than anything Groucho Ever did. Because the pal club brought in revenues of More than $125 million last year so i read and it evidently did t fill the Bill. Tammy and Jim must have had one Heck of a Bill first rattle out of the pulpit the new president Rev. Richard Dortch is asking everybody to enlist pal with even More of the lord s , according to the newspaper accounts Proba Bly what in going to take is a $50 million loan to restructure pal s Long term debt and to infuse some Cash. A land where milk and Honey flow might have been of for the israelite but Given an option pal s chosen people will choose Cash now let pm have it 1 say. The More of the lord s Money they gather up the less Likely that even a Little bit of it might come in Contact with me. Revenue derived from patting the collection plate is a cup thard just As soon pass. Watch pm folks when they Start carrying on about what All they can do for the poor with your Money. Rather than doing for they re Likely doing to you and the poor both. Those who believe that Jesus lives had Best keep in mind so does Judas in on form or another. Want to help the poor you Don l Hare to go through somebody else somewhere else. The poor Are among i always lined up along the streets. 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