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...praise and gifts. The council granted the raise last January. The city decided to go for 100, not 91, new patrolmen, has already recruited 52. Last week the council voted to abolish the residency requirement, and this week is expected to okay a permanent commission. "True citizen cooperation, that Utopia when a citizen calls us when he sees a crime, has improved 100% in the last year," says Sergeant Berry. "The only sad thing," says new Chief Jacob Schott, 51, "is that you have to have something like a strangler to get people stirred up." But Councilman Held plans...
...Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada's Constitution enjoins "Peace, Order and Good Government." For a people preoccupied from the outset with conquering a harsh land, that was mandate enough. But it nonetheless has deprived a maturing Canada of what John Porter calls a "myth proclaiming a Utopia against which, periodically, progress can be measured. In the U.S. there is a Utopian image which slowly over time bends intractable social patterns in the direction of equality, but a Canadian counterpart is difficult to find...
From this there logically flows, in turn, a conviction that victory, precisely because it will be triumph of all that is good over all that is good over all that is bad, will make all things possible--will open the gates to a new Utopia, whereas anything less than total victory would be a shameful compromise with the devil--a betrayal of all that is worth while. In his euphoria visions and concepts of the future peace become corrupted both by illusions of virtue and omnipotence addressed to oneself and equally unrealistic punitive aspirations unfortunately the conduct...
Getting Together. Not that The Haight-Ashbury Utopia needs any new source of supply. Narcotics arrests in the district last year more than trebled (from 148 in 1965 to 485 in 1966). A "lid" (22 grams) of marijuana sells for $10 (v. $25 in New York City) and a 100 microgram "tab" of LSD can be had for $4. Some pot peddlers even pass out supermarket-style trading stamps with each purchase. Apart from narcotics arrests, however, the crime rate shows no drastic escalation. During a January "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park, 10,000 hippies turned...
Reaction to the New Utopia among "straight" San Franciscans has been remarkably bland. "They only steal if they're hungry," shrugs one Haight Street grocer. "I'd do the same." One of the district's most sympathetic observers is the Rev. Leon Harris, 60, pastor of The Haight-Ashbury's All Saints' Episcopal Church, whose favorite anecdote concerns a stuffy woman parishioner who came in to complain of the New Utopians. Says Harris: "I told her to take a careful look at the church windows. She gasped when she realized that the saints, too, wore...