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Tuesday Evening, Dec. 3,

19G8

OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

UNIVERSITY

Vol. LX, No. 67

Harris Isbell:
'Never Dreamed LSD
Would Become Problem'

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By GUY MENDES

Associate Editor
The first scientist in the United States to receive LSD for
experimental purposes said Monday night that he "never dreamed
LSD would present a drug abuse problem in this country
.1
never dreamed people could get it."
Dr. Harris Isbell, one of the
world's foremost drug authorities specifically that of LSD and cantold an audience of more than nabis (marijuana).
50 people Monday night that
He spent a good deal of time,
when he began administering
however, going over what he
LSD to opium addicts at Lex- termed introductory
material,
ington's Narcotics Hospital in which he said was "highly es1948 he "didn't know a Tim sential" to the comprehension of
Leary would come along."
drug dependence.
He said the whole study of
Leary, the high priest of LSD
who formerly was a psychology drugs has been "plagued by seprofessor at Harvard, introduced mantic confusion," especially the
LSD to the intellectual commun- words "addiction" and "narcotity and it then began to be pro- ic" which he said "have lost all
duced. Dr. Isbell said.
meaning."
In a rare public appearance
Dr. Isbell said that addiction
the state of being physically de(he grants no interviews because
he claims he once was misquoted
pendent on a drug is now used
by the New York Times), the UK
Continued on Page 3, Col. 1
professor of medicine and pharmacology also said he thought
evidence indicating that LSD
damages chromosomes was "unconvincing."
He said the widely publicized
By LINDA HARRINGTON
findings were shown by experiKernel Staff Writer
ments in which tissue cultures
"In this city, it involves an
were incubated with LSD. "The
to take students, prosame thing will happen if tissue attempt
fessional people, poor white and
cultures are incubated with aspoor black and educate them
pirin," Dr. Isbell said.
politically."
He added that the Food and
This is one of the goals of
Drug Administration (FDA)
might not appreciate his stating the New Democratic Coalition,
that the evidence was unconvinc(NDC) as described by Dr. Fred
ing because it had noted a sharp Vetter of the Political Science
decrease in LSD use following Department.
the announcements that the drug
Dr. Vetter told students at a
altered chromosomes.
NDC Monday
Dr. Isbell said he "would not meeting of the
night that there was a need to
look for any legalization of mariand revitalize the
juana . . . not in my lifetime." "reorganize party on new prinHe said he would rather look for Democratic
"more rational penalties" for ciples."
r,
In order to accomplish this,
drug users. He called the
NDC feels it must work on a
$10,000 penalty for possession of marijuana too harsh.
local level through the party
Speaking to a meeting of the channels to "put responsible
d
Pryor
Society, Dr. Is- Democrats in office." Presently,
bell concentrated his lecture on it is concentrating on the Dec. 7
the topic of drug dependence,
election.

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Authority
On Drugs

Dr. Harris Isbell, professor of medicine and pharmacology, spoke to an
audience of about 50 in the Medical Center Monday night about the
effects of LSD and marijuana. It was one of Dr. Isbell's rare public
appearances. He was one of the first scientists in the United States
Kernel Photo by Howard Mason
to experiment With hallucinogenic drugs.

NDC Working Through Local

five-yea-

Pre-Me-

Students Must Sign Notes
For Second Half Of Loans

Members Intend to canvass
the various precincts in an effort to elect people from the four
legislative districts who will
choose a county chairman who
agrees in principle with the New
Democratic Coalition's philosophy.

This philosophy is meant to
be a negation of a Democratic
party where, according to Dr.
Vetter, "the people vote their
prejudices before anything else."
Dr. Vetter said the Democratic coalition is "a national
coalition which has been a
winning coalition because it held
onto a solid area, like the Solid
South of mindless voting, where
people voted Democratic year
after year."
But now Dr. Vetter believes
coalition has "started to
crumble." The purpose of the
New Democratic Coalition is to
rebuild a party "not based on a
solid area which is depended
upon to vote racist candidates."
the

It is an "attempt to show that
it is possible for the democratic

University students having National Defense Student Loans party to be involved with the
academic year must
aspirations of such groups as the
approved for both semesters of the 1968-6-9
sign promissory notes prior to December 16 for the second half poor black and poor white and
to find a means of political parof their loans.
These notes are prepared and ready for signing in the Office of ticipation."
Student Financial Aid, Room 4, Frazee Hall. The notes must be
Ihe ideas on which the NDC
signed during this period to process and have the checks ready for is based were formed in discussissuing at the beginning of the spring semester.
ions following the convention this
Those having Health Profession Student Loans In Pharmacy and summer. Dissatisfied with the
of Student Financial
Nursing Student Loans must report to the Office
proceedings, members of the
Aid for instructions regarding the receipt of the second half of their NDC decided to
"take a more
students receiving Health Profession
loans. Medical and Dental
active role and try to change
Student Loans for the year should report to the Office of Student
the aspects of the present DemoServices, Medical Center, for Instructions.
cratic party they couldn't agree
academic
Approximately 1250 students had loans approved for the
with."
year and have notes prepared fortheirsignaturesand or infonnatlon
Now the NDC Is in search
regarding receipt of the second Installment. Students who had loans
approved for the year and do not plan to return to the University for
the spring semester should notify the Office of Student Financial
Aid If they have not already done so.
Bitch-I- n
Any student owing a balance on a University loan and graduating
should report to the
or leaving UK at the end of the fall semester
Office of Student Financial Aid for an exit Interview. This is required by the federal government.
The Interfraternity Council's
Students who applied for financial aid during the application
bitch-ion administration poliare to check with the Office of Student Financial
period, Nov. M5,
cies is scheduled for 6; 30 toAid or In the case of medical or dental students, the Office of
night in Memorial Hall. The
Student Services, before Christmas vacation.
for UK student
program is intended for fraternityfinancial aid application period
The 1969-7-0
-wide
participation.
enrolled and transfers will be held between March
currently

IFC
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of candidates for party office
who are "more representative and
not candidates who just go along
with the tide and do anything
to stay In office."
"This does not Include an
attempt to set up an exclusive
body of political purists," said
Dr. Vetter, "but is a realistic
effort to work through the party
to make their voices heard."

Party

To defeat the established
machine, they intend to use
methods opposite to the machine
by "working from the bottom

up."
The election Saturday, Dec.
7, will be a test of this method.
By winning on a local level, the
NDC hopes to eventually make
their Influence felt on a national
level.

Fallahay Keeps Promise;
Returns Induction Papers
By DARRELL RICE

Managing Editor
Mike Fallahay, a senior in English, earlier this semester Informed his draft board that he would not comply with the Selective Service. On Sunday he carried through his promise by returning the induction papers his board sent him in reply.
In a letter to his New Ro- chelle, N. Y., draft board, FallaKunstler," Fallahay said, "is to
hay said:
challenge the constitutionality of
"Again I repeat that conscithe draft . . . with the hope that
ence compels me to refuse all It will
eventually be destroyed."
cooperation with a system that
promotes and condones killing
He said Kunstler is arranging
and violence; this applies not onfor his surrender to authorities
ly to the Selective Service System in New York while he is there
but also to the armed forces them- over Christmas vacation. Kunstselves Into which the draft system ler told
Fallahay he expects his
channels men.
trial to come up in April or May.
"I cannot and I will not have
n
Fallahay said he therefore
any part of such an
system, and I will continue to plans to return to school next
do everything in my power to semester to graduate.
non violently overcome such a sysHe Indicated he fully expects
tem.
to serve a prison term as a result
"I will abide by my consci- of his decision but added: "The
ence in refusing Induction, in sentences haven't been running
actively resisting the military sysas stiff in New York as in Kentem, and in remaining firm in tucky, I don't think."
my convictions.
(Don Pratt, a former UK stu"May Cod bless and guide dent, received the maximum penus all."
alty of five years In prison and
Fallahay said William Kunst-le- a fine of $10,000 earlier this year
a New York civil liberties for refusing Induction. Pratt Is
lawyer, has agreed to handle his appealing his case.)
case. Kunstler has defended cliFallahay transferred to UK
ents before the House
Activities Committee and Is last spring semester from Mary-kno- ll
seminary In Clen Ellyn,
handling cases for members of the
111., where he was studying for
"Cantonsvllle Nine." The
Md., clergymen were the Catholic priesthood.
arretted when they burned draft
He says he now plans "ev . v
files in protest of the syttein.
tually to be in some sort :
y
"The only reason I am turn- social woik such
,
"
.
ing my case over to Mr. c.i F iends Servicer
anti-huma-

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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Dec. 3,

19fi8

JAZZ RX: BURTON, COLTRANE CHOPS, AND CHITLINS
Dy JACK LYNE

Kernel Arts Editor
GENUINE TONG FUNERAL
by The Gary Burton Quartet with
Orchestra, RCA Victor Records
A

COUNTS ROCK BAND, by

Steve Marcus, Vortex Records
Well, boys and girls, welcome
to the first (and probably last)
annual Kernel morbidity test.
1.
is dead.
Select from the following terms:
(a) Che (b) Santa (c) jazz (d)
The Spiro T. Agnew School of
Semantics (e) George Custer (0
All, none, or part of these. All
right, please pass your papers
to the far left. Discussion: As
yet, the jury is still out on (a)
and (b); (d) is unfortunately very
much alive, turning out such
linguistic gems as (0, which typifies the normal university multiple-choice
question; (e) is based
on wild speculation and, as such,
will not merit debate, as you all
know this newspaper deals only
with hard facts.
Which leaves us with (c) jazz.
Jazz's poor body has been stuffed
into the coffin and carried out to
the graveyard so many different
times it has developed posterior
canker sores.
To a great extent certain vital
parts of jazz have died. Jazz
was spawned in the New Orleans
redlight district and, likewise,
a great number of authenticjazz- -

EVERY FIVE

YEARS...

DEATHS
DOUBLE
(From two maj'or
Respiratory Diseases)

Thousands
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1955 1960

1965

Deaths from two Respiratory
Diseases (RD) emphysema
and chronic bronchitis

have

approximately doubled every
five years since 1950. The figures are: 1950, 3,157 deaths;
1955, 5.616; 1960, 12,426;
1965,23,432.
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men have prostituted themselves.
VVes Montgomery gained
commercial acceptance in the last
few years of his life, releasing
painfully contrived sugarcoating
through Herb Alpert'i A&M Records. Creed Taylor produced the
Ip's in his typically flawless, unexciting style. However, the quintessence of jazz, spontaneity and
improvisation, was missing. The
music is anything but a personal
statement by Montgomery.
The plight faced by Montgomery (who in his prime was
perhaps the most important guitar improvisational stylist since
Charley Christian) and other authentic jazzmen is not an enviable one. Jazz has never moved
the mass audience, nor is it likely to. It is sometimes complicated, often exciting music. The
listener must often struggle to
assemble the disparate parts in
accord with his own psychic predilection t.

Hie late

Alpert, Hirt, and Davis?
The average American music
listener prefers a simple, uncomplicated fare. Thus, for years
Playboy readers voted Alpert (you
may have heard his first album
"Whipped Cream and Other Delights." Sonofagun!! It sounds
exactly like his tenth album) and
Al Hirt into the same trumpet
section with Miles Davis. While
a more wild Miles might not
do the two bodily harm, he certainly would refuse to play with
such a pair of commercialized
cream puffs.
Which brings us, in my typically obtuse manner to
Gary Burton. Burton's
fancy gear and flashy performances have gained him somewhat
of a bopper following. He stands
now at the crossroads, able to
cut some supersaccharine offering which would enjoy considerable commercial success, (i.e.
"Gary Burton Works Out The
Monkees Greatest Hits") Much
to Burton's and RCA's (of all
labels) credit, Burton has plunged
back into the forest, searching,
questioning, pushing himself and
his talented aggregation.
"A Genuine Tong Funeral"
marks the most complicated Burton work to date. The brilliant
Jazz composer Clara Bley wrote
the piece, subtitled "Dark Opera
Without Words," specifically for
Burton. It is not the typical
Jazz work; rather, as Miss Bley
states, "It Is a dramatic musical
production . . . meant to be performed on a stage, with lights
and costumes."
A Subtle Dirge
Thus, the work is laid out
in parts, complete with prologue
and epilogue. It is very complex
music, abruptly changing tempo
like some drunken metronome.
evolvThe range of sound-image- s
ing range from a jazz funeral
to updated Stan Kenton.
The Burton Quartet (Burton,
guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist
vibra-phoni-

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Steve Swallow, and drummer
Lonesome Dragon) is augmented
by three saxophones, a trumpet
and a trombone, plus Miss Bley
on .piano and organ and also
conducting.
The brass and reeds serve
primarily to hold the musical
fort, setting a steady pace that
the members of the quartet improvise over. The foursome have
learned well the lesson of hitting
hardest while striking with minimal force. Burton and Coryell
fashion wonderfully subtle runs
on "Silent Spring (Contemplation)," while the gaunt Swallow
plays a definitive jazz bass while
delicately careening through his
own composition, "Mother of the
Dead Man." Supporting tenor
saxman"Cato" Barblerl stretches
out occasionally In a style reminiscent of the extraordinary
young Black militant Archie
Shepp.
While the typical Alpert glob
of slickness runs the musical
gamut from A to B, "Cenulne
Tong" vacillates from the almost
unbearably morose "New Funeral March" to the flip "Life
Goes On."
Burton and Miss Bley have
moved jazz into a creative penumbra between classical rigidity and
creative improvisation. It is a
difficult, often morbid, piece of
work. Burton has cliosen a Frostlike road, one guaranteed to go
not to top twentysville, but, instead, to take him and his
listeners Into uncharted areas.
The Metamorphosis
Burton has slowly metamor-phosize- d
seventfrom the
een-year-old
technical prodigy
of the 1959 Newport Festival to
the gentle daredevil of jazz. Saxophonist Steve Marcus has come
another route. For several years
a nebulous figure as a backup
rock musician, the last year and
a half he has blossomed into a
flat-topp-

card-carryin- g,

spaced-ou-

t

kill, Marcus begins his assault.
The changes become almost indistinguishable as the Marcus
machine pours out torrents of
music, heaping derision on traditional form, attacking, rather
than playing, a piece.
Marcus has the chops-Coltr- ane
chops to pull it off. The
of "Theresa's Blues" is a
apex
wild primordial struggle between
the improvising Coryell and Marcus. It sounds like Coltrane and
on
Eric Clapton,
main street at high noon. Everyone wins.
Burton and Marcus represent
something vital and alive lnjazz,
though they no doubt Incense the
traditionalists. To paraphrase
Bob Dylan, something is happening here and you don't know
what it Is, do you, Mr. Dorsey?
On Buffeting Barriers
What Is happening appears
to be an attempt to annihilate
old barriers. The old classifications for Jazz and popular rock
are becoming somewhat anachronistic. Rock groups such as Clapton's defunct Cream and The
Doors utilize more Jazz technique
in concert than many

Solo, 0:51.")
Perhaps the greatest tribute
to the blending came inadvertently from one of Lexington's better
Jazzmen, a rather doctrinaire devotee, who walked Into a local
record shop, heard the Marcus
side and exclaimed, "New Coltrane, huh?" Upon picking up
the dust Jacket and seeing only
freaked-ou- t
white musicians, he
slammed It down and walked
out. For fifteen seconds, though,
he was convinced Steve Marcus
was John Coltrane. Unfortunately, barriers tend to break down
very slowly In theBluegrass. Few
area fans will bother to listen
to either album, preferring Instead to sample safe Coniffian
fare.
The Global Grope
However, things are happening to Jazz. Perhaps the movement Is part of a greater grope,
reaching toward demolition of
between Black and
barriers
white, traditional and contemporary, old and young: a yen
for McLuhanesque totality. Regardless, it Is exciting, InvigoratJazzmen.
ing music.
Jazz lives, though precarious(The Marcus dust jacket is
a monument to this movement. ly, and will continue to do so
The title is a semantic mating with the likes of trallbreakers
of the two types of music, Count like Gary Burton and Steve MarBasle and rock. The album leers cus. That is, If it can survive
at the traditionalist's penchant four to eight years of the Spiro
for obligatory lonewolf sallies, T. Agnew School of Semantics.
head-on-he-

Estelle Parsons Sparkles
In Livings9 'Honor And Offer9

jazz-

man. His paragon is obviously
the "late and great" (For once
I believe the hackneyed tag apropos) John Coltrane.
Marcus' music seems to evolve
in a pattern similar to his personal history. The three extended
pieces in "Count's Rock Band,"
"Theresa's Blues," "OohBaby,"
and "Back Street Cirl" (that's
Richright, the Mick Jagger-Keit- h
ard bit), all start as almost standard rock, solid but predictable.
Slowly, Marcus and company
start to drift out. Pianist Mike
Nock (who sounds remarkably
like Coltrane sideman McCoy
smoothly,
Tyner)
improvises
playing with a subdued hand,
but striking unusual, unexpected
minors which gently hammer
one's anvil and stirrup.
No Brag, Just Blues
The ubiquitous Coryell here
makes his first appearance since
departing the Burton flock. His
quick, bluesy style, which has
earned him the endearing monicker "Chltlins," quick-draw- s
musical blurs, hitting hard electric shocks, then backing off with
innocuous, simple riffs.
It is when the electric-haire- d
Marcus steps out, though, that
the fur flies. He hangs with the
boys in the band a short while
and then slowly begins punching his electric tenor, spinning
vaguely out of the pattern. Then,
like some lover having nibbled
an ear and now going for the

II. McNEW
Kernel Art Critic
CINCINNATI-- As
performed
at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the
Park, "Honor and Offer,' Henry
Livings' newest play is, although Mr. Livings would probably dislike my saying so, a
gentle farce.
A gentle farce, because "Honor and Offer," like so much else
intended to be savage in a savage age, ends up wry and touching in the face of actuality.
Weltschmerz in reverse, perhaps, but none the worse.
The ingredients are standard:
one man with love, another with
money, neither satisfied. In this
reward for
case, the hoped-fo- r
both is a warm and lively Estelle Parsons, so the stakes of
the game are, as it were, heightened.
The ending is standard too:
Alfred Thring, the man with
love, wins all. Henry Cash, the
man with money, in spite of his
schemes and dreams ends on
the ground alone under the
dogwood tree while his bees
buzz about him.
By W.

Broadway Bound?
are a bevy of
sharp, funny lines as well as
opportunities for an imaginative director to construct any
number of sight gags.
The play could do well on
Broadway. As farce, its chief
lack is that of a hard, clear
ending. For climax, Director
Melvin Bernhardt has been
forced to rely on a flurry of action and then the dousing of the
lumps.
Throughout, Bemhardt's direction is thoughtful and sensi- Also standard

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Playhouse's o 1 d shelterhouse
theater, and the director and the
actors have taken full advantage of the intimacy offered by
the smaller stage.
The actors, particularly Estelle Parsons and Dick Latessa,
were superb. Miss Parsons gave
a
performance to
the role of Doris, the earthy and
not particularly bright landlady.
Hest Dress Demonstration
Mr. Latessa, whose role in
the television production
of
"Wizard of Oz" will immediately be guessed by anyone who
sees him in this play, was also
very good. He plays a
dress salesman who knows
that dresses look best when they
are coming off, and who is not
afraid to demonstrate with his
housewifely clients.
Though Ronald liishop and
Paul Miliken, the other two actors, did not turn in performances equal to those of Parsons
and Latessa, they were certainly
more than adequate.
Ed Wittstein's setting was
very appropriate. It dominated
and defined the space not only
of the stage but of the entire
theater. The importation of the
roof scraping tree was a stroke
of genius and must have been
a considerable technical feat
as well.
To a Calvinist, the overall impression of this production
might seem almost sinfully luxurious. To sit in a small and
comfortable theater and to enjoy the first performance of a
good original play is rare
enough. To be delighted by acting of Academy Award quality
is ambrosia indeed.
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Drug Expert Speaks

.

Continued from Paje One
in speaking of such things as soft
drinks, golf and women and that
narcotics a substance which
produces physical dependence
legally covers marijuana and cocaine, which he said do not
produce physical dependence.
A World Health Organization
(WHO) committee, of which he
is a member has realized this
semantic confusion and has advocated that the terms be dropped
and that scientists speak simply
in terms of drug dependence, he
said.
(Indulging in a bit of colloquial semantics, Dr. I sbell defined "head" and" freak" terms
used by today's underground
drug culture; a "head" uses drugs
on occasions while a "freak"
uses them more often and is more
dependent on them.)
Dr. I sbell said there are two
types of drug dependence one
which is characterized by both
physical and psychological dependence and one which is
characterized only by psychological dependence.
Under the first type he listed
two groups the opiate types
(morphine, heroin) and the
alco-

hol-barbiturate

He

types.

called alcohol "the number one
drug of dependence in this country.
Under the second type those
of psychological
dependence
only he listed cocaine, amphetamines (speed), LSD and cannabis. He said amphetamines "are
the most dangerous drugs . . .
speed freaks scare me to death."
Dr. I sbell said LSD was dis

covered by "a friend of mine"
Albert Hoffman who was conducting experiments with ergot
alkaloids at Sandoz laboratories
in Switzerland. He said Hoffman took some LSD and felt
"stranger and stranger, until his
legs walked out of the door without him."
Sandoz and Hoffman then began intensive studies of the drug.
It was from Sandoz that Dr.
Isbell obtained LSD for experimentation in the late 40's.
According to Dr. Isbell, humans have "filter mechanisms
that strain out all the sensory
impulses" that continually bombard them; LSD works by knocking out those filter mechanisms,
allowing a flood of sensory impulses.
He termed LSD a "dangerous drug" which can cause adverse reaction in three ways:
causing a panic state (a bad
trip), causing suicide or triggering a permanent psychosis.
"Cannabis is one of the most
widespread intoxicants in the
world," Dr. Isbell said, "and one
of the oldest. But we know less
about it than any other intoxicant.
"Marijuana should not be subjected to special controls because
alcohol is worse," he said, but
he added that pot, like LSD,
can cause adverse reactions. He
said Los Angeles psychiatrists
reported 2,000 adverse reactions
to LSD and 1,800 to pot in a
poll conducted recently.
"The message is that marijuana is not tea and because of
the law it can get you in a lot
of trouble," Dr. I sbell concluded.

Critic Explains Why
He Is Wary Of His Public
C-- J

By JOE HINDS
He ducks when he can and
comes out only after dark; he
has a hostile audience that sometimes resorts to violence when
feelings are hurt.
William Mootz, Courier-Journarts editor, leaned back in
his chair and chuckled, "That's
the way it is."
In an informal talk, Mootz
told a small group of UK Sigma
Delta Chi members, students and
professors that the critic must
live with the hostility that reviews sometimes cause.
"I was almost involved in
physical violence once," he recalled. This particular review
claimed the production focussed
too much attention on the leading
lady's physical attributes. The
leading man charged into the
Courier building looking for a
fight, specifically with Mootz.
Mootz said he fully expected
to be viewing the next play
through at least one black eye.
"My review struck a blow at the
tender artist's ego." No violence
ensued, though, as they talked
things over a bit longer.
The members of the Women's
Club of Louisville passed a
resolution of censure against him
after an unfavorable review of a
production Helen Hay es was involved in. Mootz concluded.
al

"This makes the critic wary of the
public."
The Louisville critic gave
three qualifications of his profession first proposed by George
Bernard Shaw, a former English
critic:
1. Cultivated taste. For this
trait, he proposed "the broadest

liberal
sible."

arts

background

pos-

2. Skilled writer. He described
this talent as having a feeling
for words.

3. Practiced critic. He philosophized, "Practice doesn't make
one imperfect but does make one

better."

Santa and the
By LUCRECE

BEALE

Synopsis: Santa says he can save
d
Santa Land with the
string hut when he boosts
Edgar into his plane Santa himself turns into a top.
three-colore-

CHAPTER

10

THE BATH
EDGAR and Ding Dong and
all the hippies stared i-

ncredulously at the top
spinning at their feet.
Edgar sat on the wing of the
plane. "It's Hcsckiah's magic
salt!" he moaned. "It turned everyone in Santa Land into tops
and now it has done the same to

Santa."
"But Hesekiah is in Santa
Land," protested the hippies.
"How could the salt get to Ilippie-ville?- "

"I don't know, I don't know,"
sobbed Edgar and buried his face
in his hands.
Suddenly Ding Dong pointed at
Edgar's shoes. "Look at his feet!"
All the hippies looked. Edgar
took his hands from ' is eyes and
looked. There on the b ntom of the
's
elf's shoes was a tr: .e of
salt.
"I must have stepped in it up at
Santa Land," gasped the elf.
"And when you put your shoe in
Santa's hands the salt got on
him!" groaned a hippie.
"It's all my fault," wept the elf.
But Ding Dong said, "Never
mind whose fault it is. We must
burn the shoes quickly before we
all turn into tops. After that we'll
think of what to do."
Ever so carefully Edgar slipped
off his shoes without touching the
soles. The hippies built a bonfire
and the
hippie picked
up the shoes with sticks and
dropped them in the fire where
they burned to ashes.
"Now," said Ding Dong. "We
Hese-kiah-

red-hair-

must break Hesekiah s spell."
"Santa said he could destroy
d
Hesekiah with the
Why couldn't we do the
string.
same?"
"Groovy!" cried the hippies,
cheering up. They turned to Edgar.
"Where do we get the string?"

They dumped Ding Dong in the bubbles and scrubbed him.

She was Santa's best
friend. She might know about the

string."
"Bring her to Hippieville!
will tell us what to do."

She

"If she left her kingdom she
would die," said Edgar.
"Then take us to her!"
"Only one can go," said Edgar.
"For only one human being every
hundred years is allowed in Butterfly Kingdom."
Ding Dong said, "If I hadn't
come to Hippieville none of this
would have happened. I am the
one who must go."
Edgar told them that the Butterfly Queen was the loveliest
creature on earth, that she lived in
beauty in the most beautiful of
kingdoms. He looked unhappily at
Ding Dong's dirty face and long
hair and hanging shirt tail. It was
clear what he was thinking.
Ding Dong looked at the hippies

sand.
They perfumed him with olive
oil and cleaned his teeth with pine
needles. They cut his hair with a
pocket knife and combed it with a
fork. Finally they dressed him in
clean clothes they hadn't used
since they came to Hippieville.
When
were
they
through
there stood Ding Dong neat and
shining as a boy on the way to his
grandmother's house for dinner.
Edgar nodded approvingly and

said, "He'll do."

Tomorrow: The Butterfly Queen

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E:dgar shook his head miserably.

"I never before heard of such
string!"

a

"Some one must know!

Think!"
Edgar thought and thought and
finally said, "There's the Butterfly

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and the hippies looked at him and
they all knew what they had to do.
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