crime rise and nation's moral problems on loss of America's Victorian culture. "In the middle of World War I, America lost touch with the Victorian principles which had sustained it for decades. It lost these principles in the name of freedom of expression." Parker wept that since then, no culture has risen to replace the lost Victorianism, so that Americans now can't tell right from wrong. Parker notwithstanding,

Americans had their fill of bluenose, maggot filled Victorian hypocricy, and if the chief thinks that prissy era, with all its restrictiveness, didn't have its share of crime and violence, loose living and moral problems, then he'd better look a bit closer at the record.

A UP report from Jacksonville, Fla., refers to a police file on 500 'potential' sex offenders known to the cops in the area, which file includes intimate data about manners of dress, speech, subjects of conversation, fingerprints, etc. If as the report indicates, such a file includes information about people who have never been arrested, what right, pray tell, do the police have to be gathering such information, and what further uses might be made of it?

ODDMENTS

Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen says (NY News) there've been more women than men in U.S. since 1945, with disproportion increasing. By 1975 he expects 4% more women. Britain has faced same problem since 1821, now apparently improving for the first time in face of presently higher birth rate there for boys than for girls.

Woman's Page columnist Dolly Reitz tells about time her family was getting dressed for costume party when there was a knock at door. Glen, her husband, "was go-

one

ing to go dressed as a fairy queen. He was wearing long underwear, a tu-tu, his heavy work shoes, a pair of wire and gauze wings, a wig and long curls, and a wand with a silver star on the end. He looked great." Glen answered door with flourish of his wand, expecting friends who were to pick them up. Not friends. Strangers, inquiring about the house -which had been advertised for rent. Glen grandly showed the prospective tenants around, just as if he normally dressed that way, and the kids fell in with the game. The people didn't rent the house.

The puritan municipality of Santa Monica, which sits astride one of LA's best beaches, got in a tit when 3 muscle boys had a party with a young girl, used the excuse (rather irrationally) to spark their old illegal campaign to deny homosexuals the use of the beach, and closed famed "muscle beach" (several blocks from where the gay crowd gathers) in order to discourage onlookers, falsely presumed to be mostly homosexual. But the money-grubbing city dads soon discovered that closing the barbell and acrobatics area-a chief tourist attraction-was bad for business, and now they're spending (over the protests of some diehards, including Mayor Barnard) $6000 to replace some of the muscle display equipment they had so hastily destroyed.

The Santa Monica Outlook, an old campaigner to drive homosexuals off the beaches, bemoaned the threatened return of the "sexual athletes" and "their followers, of all three sexes." They announced a ballot, to run in the paper, "I am opposed to any restoration or return of Muscle Beach. I want our public beaches to be reserved for the recreational use of healthyminded young people, families with children, and our older citizens...