The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-07-23

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Dogs have been here long time the fringe Of human
For oncouned thousands Of years. dogs have spent time
with people who liked them we'll enough to have them around
and who spent hours every day teaching them M that the world
to come when called to sit and beg for tbts to bark When
prompted accept small vors gratefully andto lick
fer's boots if he had any,
Dogs seem accept the Distinction not honor OF being
mans oldest and best friend.
What besides fIeas does get from the companonshp?
Dogs have taught to be aecoae gegaous and patfo
nizg Indirectly and unnentionay dogs have taught their
masters to treat people like dogs OF that we dsappfove
Go to any teapary openhouse barbecue, luncheon club
or social gathering and you will plenty of dogovers and
doggy people, The social leaders look down their noses and smile
upon the inferior beasts The social climbers making tme
trying to get the closest the top Of the social order by pushing
and showing biting and threatening TO bite so as to gain an ad
vantageous position. It is not a pretty sight.
80 is that dogs become leaders Of the pack Social in
equality the basis for canshness People rally around the
epic hero til all right you think OF it as the first movement
toward more advanced civilization
I'm the AngoSaxon countries there is Welecognzed
abstract of the contest between and beasasbeds
That is monopoly of the Spanish countries It is called bull
fuh We do not understand it. Any sort Of dogght the other
hand whether it prize fight contest between gadaors or
football game will draw crowd Such contests tor U.s. have
meaning If SO much like daily lives the economic struggle
for BONE the competition Of business and the social dogfgh
that goes on all the time.
THE thought of social equality fills US with horror.
I'VE imagine situation like that Of two hot rods racing
side by side for BRIDGE We ask ourselves what about the
victory both poung fools manage to win as they sometimes DO
If equality leads to such ghtfuness, we opposed to
Knowing the error sometimes tip the scales Of justice Be-
tween force and fairness, choose force
I'VE have learned nothing from the hot rod disaster Let
study the again. As long the two automobiles
parallel course nothing serious happened The wreck caused
by the conveyance the BRIDGE That the place they foued
each other up and in competitive frame Of reference the angle
Of conveyance is unavoidable Or so it seems
Astronomers nice people, and stars make better COM
panons than dogs Choose about 800 light years away and
take observations at dametrca points in the eahs orbit The
anqe Of conveyance shows The star too close Take another
star 500 light years away the angle Of conveyance caed pa
lax is almost Unreasonable That is better Beyond lies Inny
No matter how many people, close together far apart look to-
ward Innty their Iinesof-sght never cross
I'm perspective geometry is dark saying that parallel
lines CD converge ~ do converge at nfniy It does not
make very good sense Yet practically it has advantage Many
people Except for steering wheel Wobb have kept
Nobody has evergot difficulty by ovehootng the landing field
THE moral obvious No matter what Society does all good
lives are parallel, and separate, and companionabe"
About three years ago. before learned that SUCH did
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