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1968 5 Jan Dear Jack. VIVA! arrow drawn pointing to newspaper column Some very interesting data on Mr. Thoreau (American Hall of Fame) and his buddy, W E Channing.

   I note the new poet laureate of England (Cecil Day Lewis) is an ex-COMMUNIST. What would underlined: "Old Vic" say to that?
   With the Pound at $2.40 instead of $4.87 1/2 (the Dictionary par) - and a Bolshevik from Oxford doing the Palace Versifying what the hell is the Empire Coming to?
   My plans for an Irish invasion of England are all set.   We just need a little ZIONIST Cash and 10 Divisions of German infantry.

J C Diggles NN - RC - AA

newspaper column Rutgers Professor Contends Thoreau Was Not a Hippie NEWARK, Jan 4 (UPI) Henry David Thoreau was not a "true hippie," nor was his daily walking companion, William Ellery Channing 2d, a professor at Rutgers.

  The idea that Thoreau, the idol of many of today's young rebels, or Channing, a poet of great promise but not of great achievement, were hippies was disputed by Fredrick T. McGill, professor of English and associate dean at the Rutgers College of Arts and Sciences here.
  Professor McGill said New England history of the 1840s describes the "radical" younger generation as rejecting secure careers in commerce and spending time "mooning" in the woods, crying out against oppression of the workers, exploring the "inner life," wanting to "be" rather than "do" and enclosing flowers in correspondence with each other.
  He selected Channing, Thoreau's companion, described by some as a "transcendental hippie," for a biography.
 "It's true," the professor said, "there were superficial resemblances to today's hippies.
 "The younger generation as a whole then rejected conformity as the hippies do," he said noting that Thoreau and Channing "dropped out" of accepted patterns of living to seek ways of living life more fully, as hippies contend they are doing.
  But Thoreau and Channing, both from Concord, Mass., were different from today's hippies in that they sought the secret of a full life in nature and believed in taking "life as it came," Professor McGill said.
  "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant.  Thoreau neither smoked nor drank and Channing did not drink.  Both undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of 'mind-expanding' drugs," the Professor said.
  He declared that Channing's life was governed by whim, "whereas Thoreau believed in giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials."
  Channing desired all things but didn't want to pay the price," the author said.
  Still, Professor McGill said, the two men "gave each other moral support in the face of the condemnation by the Concord community."

5 Jan 1968