Why This Paper? There are a number of views on what makes the world go round. We intend to articulate a few that aren’t getting heard enough in our fair city. The Clinton St. Quarterly will hopefully be a sounding board to add force to those views and add some interesting perspectives of our own. Fredy’s doesn’t open up a health food section unless there is a mass upsurge for better food products. Nuclear power foes on regulatory boards do not appear unless thousands of courageous people from Karen Silkwood to Seabrook Sallie and Tommie Trojan start articulating their views. This quarterly is also born out of the incredible frustration of trying to gain a comprehensive understanding of life on this complex planet through the eyes of advertisers trying to sell the latest Meier and Frank fashion or Fredy’s lotion. The pap we read in the local press makes.the world seem to be an incredible jigsaw puzzle with many of the pieces m i ,sing. The spector of another oil crisis is being presented without any historical overview making the crisis appear to be the result of the Iranian Revolution. But whatever happened to the Alaska pipeline tha t was supposed to save us from this foreign dependency? . Billions of $ later and millions of acres despoiled we discover that our refineries have the capacity to use only 10% of the Alaskan crude. Most of the Alaskan oil is the wrong grade. And what of conservation? Are the decisions being made for Oregon’s future truly representative of the resource realities of the coming decades? We plan in future issues to provide readers with an energy discourse equal to the severity of the problem. The press here likes to maintain “balanced objective” reporting that provides a paragraph or two on a few points of view. Objectivity is a sterilizing myth that maintains the status quo and offers little in the way of pointed analysis or exciting alternatives. The Oregonian and Willamette Week these days are full of “balanced” reporting on the question of displacement in the inner city. I t is not a question for the many of us who have been moved out of Corbett-Lair Hill and Northwest to make way for the noveau rich. Those neighborhoods were our turf where a sense of community was not something you read about in stories of yesteryear. Today no one we know can afford to buy and then live in a house in those neighborhoods — for us there is no objective way to present the pain of community lost. To try and do so is in affect supporting the displacement policies. Totality with Gusto The recent total eclipse in these parts etched for all of us our tiny place in the cosmic scheme of things. Yet as the ads say, if you only go around once, do it 1with gusto. The Clinton St. Theater is a r fairly successful attempt to do just that — to work creatively and positively in a non-alienating environment. We are going to try and use this quarterly as a means of raising the issues of how we work, play, think and act together. Now that we are no longer radical chic there is a trend to groove with the times “Stayin Alive” if you will — well, we believe in the traditions of the fabled press of yesteryear — of hootin’ and a ’hollerin’ and championing ideas whose times are more than overdue. We wish the money was available to run the newspaper of our dreams —for now we’ll have to depend on a lot of wonderful local yokels, both professional and amateur writers, and some provocative national writers who are willing to give us a leg up in our climb to being the newspaper of our wildest fantasies. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned. uncombined. Wisdom enough to leach us o f dur ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom to weave it into fabric .. . ■Edna St. Vincent Millay PORRETTA PIZZA 2239 SE Hawthorne 232-2812 TAKE OUT ONLY BEER AND WINE TOGO BEST PIZZA IN PORTLAND Whole Wheat or White Crust Subs-Salads Hours: Tue, Wed, Th, Sun 4-10 Fri-Sat 5-12 I am very pleased to announce the Graphoanalysis is a scientific, embeginning of a column in this period- pirical method of personality and ical utilizing handwriting analysis to character assessment. It is possible better understand people and their to determine from a page of a perthat emotional response is the foun- Graphoanalysis is occult problems. son’s writing how they emotionally react—feel their mental processes, forces to achieve, fears, defenses, coping mechanisms, integrity, social tendencies, vocational possibilities and capability with other people. It is not possible to determine age or sex. These are not modest claims. I invite readers to assist me to justify them as valid by sending me samples of their writing with specific descriptions of a problem. I shall then use graphoanalysis to shed light on the nature of the problem and perhaps suggest a solution. Normally, such assistance would cost between $35 Graphoanalysis has and $300 depending on the complexity and detail required. This service will be rendered without charge to determined those which we use in this column, not or dation of the human personality, hidden in any way. It is a method Emotional response is determined which most any individual of normal by measuring the slant of the upstrokes in the handwriting. An upstroke is any stroke that goes from the baseline of the writing to at least the level of the small letters. Generally speaking, the further the writing slants to the right the more emotionally responsive the individual. Writing which has a perpendicular slant indicates an unemotional character. For example, Eugene V. Debs, champion of the downtrodden, was a man of great feelings as the extreme slant in his handwriting clearly indicates. On the other hand the slant of J. Edgar Hoover’s signature indicates a cold unemotional character. intelligence with a sincere desire to learn can master for his or her own use. The author will be teaching an elementary course, through the community schools program, at Couch School in Northwest Portland starting April 17 at 8:00 P.M. Call 224-0300 for details. Anyone interested in writing a sample for this column should use unlined paper, write at least 12 lines and use ballpoint or fountain pen. No pencil or felt tip will be accepted. Please address the envelope to R.E. Philofsky, 2464 NW Savier, Portland, Oregon 97210. In the interest of objectivity, please use a nom-deplume of some sort. 2
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