With the completion of the railroad and the death of the Western movie genre, unemployed cowboys desperate for work turn to Professional Synchronized Swimming.
Inspiration courtesy of Fra. Alessandro
Growing up Catholic pre-Vatican II we had a multitude of learning aids at our disposal (though the “cheat cards” for the Latin responses at Mass were never to be used by altar boys except in case of dire emergency).
One of the most wonderful for the middle grades was a comic book called Treasure Chest which educated us twice monthly on the finer points of the Catholic religion, its history and tradition, and the application of the principles thereof to the modern world.
Happily a great many years of this magazine are now on-line and I was able today to relive some of those long-forgotten gems. The home page is here.
One of the recurring features concerned the fictional Chuck White and his friends. At random I came across this episode which would drive the eco-nuts crazy today. Take a glimpse back to the not so distant past when ridding the land of swamps and mosquitoes and disease seemed more important than “protecting our wetlands”. I have renamed it Chuck White Fails to File an Environmental Impact Statement.
And, at random, an episode of This Godless Communism.
Those were the days, by God.
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