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"To Sweep Cobwebs From The Sky" This isn't much of a thesis, and won't cut any ice. It just happened that I said, the other evening, that I was unimpressed by these efforts to get modern man off the ground and amongst the galaxies of yonder. "For," I said, "I knew a woman once who went up 70 times as high as the moon!" Somebody said, "Oh, that's right--she went up in a basket!" "No," answered I. "She was tost up in a blanket." "It was a basket.' "Nope, a blanket.' So we got Mother Goose down, and in this book it was a blanket, and we spent a most pleasant evening with some wonderful book folks we hadn't visited since the children were so high. One woman said she went a-shopping recently and tried to buy a Mother Goose book, and couldn't get one. They had a wonderful assortment of books lor children, and the man tried to persuade her to buy something more modern and "better". He seemed to think there was something treasonable in wanting a Mother Goose at all, but yielding to insistence he at last brought out a beautiful book of "Mother Goose Tales" which included "The Three Bears", "Red Riding Hood", and "Whittington snd his Cat'"! The lady said she was just browsing and went home to think about it. I made a small tour after that Just curious, and found the lady is right. They had a wonderful selection of "juveniles" duly approved and recommended by whoever it is that has presumed to pass on juveniles. I thanked them, and said I was just browsing. There was a time we got considerable academic discussion about the "fitness" of Mother Goose for children -- indeed the fitness of all the old favorite nursery amusements was questioned. Children's literature was "cruel and gory and gruesome", and shouldn't be lodged in a budding mind. I worried a good deal about the people who thought they understood such, things, revealing therewith that they didn't-- I never worried much about the children. "I'll grind his bones to make my bread" might lift goosebumps on a horrified adult, hut I happened to know the children didn't much care. All that ever suggested was that N.L. ROOKIE OF YEAR - San Francisco Giants' first baseman Orlando Cepeda, above, has been chosen through Baseball Writers Association balloting as National League Rookie of the Year for 1958. DRAWING A BEAD - Hunting for twigs instead of animals is forester Hugh Hill. He uses a .22-calibre rifle to shoot off the •nds of branches from a superior pine tree. The twigs will be grafted to rooted stock to grow high-quality trees for the wood pulp industry. Grammie repeated it in a hollow, giantlook voice, and crunched the youngster to her in a squeezing hug, and mauled him gently until he gurgled and giggled and said, "Ag'in, gammie!" Ah, well . . . But here, suddenly, was this "old woman" tost up in a blanket. Completely anon y m o u s, thoroughly unidentified, she had used no count-down, had computed nothing, knew no radar or electronics, and without the slightest allowance for error had done what the greatest modern minds haven't been able to do. She gave us no double-talk about defense and civil liberties, and had no urge of international competition. She had simply gone up with a broom to sweep cobwebs -- a neat, motherly, housewifely chore admired on every hand -- and she had said not to worry a bit, as she would be back soon. The little jingle has in it every philosophic admonition we need for our own times, and it is scientifically correct with our-latest knowledge. Great truth and perspicacity prevail in Mother Goose. We should consider, for instance, the mad father, the mad mother, and the mad children who climbed madly on a horse and rode madly away. This should be considered; it is vital. And take the old woman (another "old woman" of course) who lived under the hill. If she' not gone, she lives there still. There is no equivalent example in all the high statements of our knowing era of a similar logic. I have heard nothing from anybody which even approaches the indisputable clarity of this remark. You let one authority say something, and another will jump on him -- even in areas where opinion is ruled out we have opinions. But you cannot quarrel with this old woman. There is a lesson here, and I wish I knew what it is. All else is transient and fleeting, amendable and provisional -- but the old lady is permanent and immovable through the incontrovertible coefficient of "if". Where else, but Mother Goose, could you look for such assurance? And yet Mother Goose is more and more seldom, and 'better" books are urged upon the child. Still, how can any such ancient lore be "sold" to people now? This is today, profound and advanced, and the Queen has pressing problems of social, economic, and political hue to worry about. She would not fry pudding for breakfast. Welfare has eliminated the beggar for dogs to bark at, and ladies no longer ride "Prim, prim, prim!" The woman I mentioned told me her desire to buy a Mother Goose came while watching a television show. A mother of seven was up with a chance for the grand prize, and the man said, "Now your category is Mother Goose. What did Jack swap for a hatful of beans?" Just what Mother Goose has to do with Jack and the Beanstalk is one thing, but the Mother of Seven didn't know anyway. My friend decided it was time to brush up on such things in her own family. 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