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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1948 (Wednesday)
: Because, of the preoccupa
tion of the country by Arabs
and because of the poor char
acter of the land, occupation
of Palestine by the Jews is
fantastic, acordine to E. C.
Dixon, retired Methodist min
ister from Wisconsin.
: From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudee Pot column: "Aug
ust arrives as all calendars
indicate. Picking of Bartletts
starts, and industiral area
gets a hustle on. Carless cig
arette starts forest fire. Old
Oregon and . OSC publicity
men announce football teams
are Rose Bowl bound again."
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1, 1938 (Sunday) - -
.Retailers in Pittsburg re
cently surveyed to ascertain
why market for Bosc pears
was not in better condition,
the Oregon-Washington-Calif-.
ornia Pear Bureau reports.
Prisoners booked in the
city jail during 1937 totalled
601, a new high record.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1328 (Sunday)
The Oregon Game commis
sion has installed a fish
screen at the Savage Rapids
diversion works on the Rogue
river at a cost of $7,000.
Final plans for construction
I of the Ashland creek dam are
being worked into shape.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 1. 1918 (Wednesday)
Pennsylvania businessmen
show interest in making sur
vey of petroleum producing
possibilities in Southern Ore
gon, according to E. F. Smith
of Ashland.
2 Oregon coast artillery now
stationed at the mouth of
he Columbia river will be
transferred to the Atlantic
coats this spring, says Capt.
R. R. Knox, formerly of Med
ford. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
she is good.
S 1. The bald eagle is or is
not actually bald?
U 2. BIBLE: When Lot's wife
looked back, she turned to a
pillar of stone or a sack of
salt?
Z 3. Metal canisters are used
to store tea, potatoes, or coal?
4. How many wives did
Henry VIII have?
3. "Maiden Blush; Rome
Beauty, Northern Spy," are
names for what commodity?
6. The President of the
United States does or does not
,-er wear a uniform?
- 7. Which country was
sometimes referred to as "the
sick man of Europe?"
8. Was Mary Pickford,
ijian Crawford or Janet Gay
nor frequently called "Ameri
ca's Sweetheart?"
- 9. What federal prison is
known as "The Rock?"
10, In American political
Kstory, who founded the
''Bull Moose" party?
" Answers: Is not (it's shining
white feathers give the bald
appearance. 4. No. (a "pillar"
- of salt). 3. Tea. 4. Eight 5. Ap
ples. 6. Does net. 7. Turkey.
8. Mary Pickford. 9. Alca
Jiaz. 10. Theodora Roosevelt.,
"Jimminy
We gladly wish Press Secretary Hagerty a
Happy New Year, for it seems certain the poor
man will need it.
More and more when
tion gets in a spot, the baton is given over to Jim
miny Crickets" to run the next lap.
This was true last
earnest and unsmiling
stones concerning the
The Washington Post and Times-Herald, for
example, commented
part as follows :
The still top-secret Gaither report portrays a
United States in the gravest danger in its history. It
pictures the Nation moving in frightening course to
the status of a secondclass power. It shows an America
exposed to an almost immediate threat from the
missile-bristling Soviet Union.
It finds America's long-term prospect one of cata
clysmic peril in the face of rocketing Soviet military
might and of a powerful, growing Soviet economy and
technology which, will bring new political, propagan
da and psychological assaults on freedom all around
the globe.
In short, the report strips away the complacency
and lays bare the highly unpleasant realities in what
is the first across-the-board survey of the relative pos
tures of the United States and the Free Wor d and of
the Soviet Union and the Communist orbit.
To prevent what otherwise appears to be inevitable
catastrophe, the Gaither report urgently calls for an
enormous increase in military spending from now
through 1970 and for many other costly, radical
measures of first and second priority. Only through
such an all-out effort, the report says, can the United
States . hope to close the current missile gap and to
counte'r the world-wide Communist offensive in many
fields and in many lands. Established as the first, over
riding priority is the revitalizing of the American re
taliatory offensive force, as principal deterrent to an
all-out Russian attack.
To meet all kinds of military threats, the report
states, there must be:
A rapidly rising military budget through 1970,
reaching in the years 1960 and 1961 a peak outlay of
about $8 billion a year in additional expenditures over
and above the current $38-billion defense outlay.
Another $5 billion a year', for several years, for a
civilian shelter program, is recommended on a second-,
priority basis.
A sweeping reorganization of the Pentagon com
mand system and of the current roles and missions of
the armed services, both of which are regarded as
completely outmoded in this nuclear age. A Budget
Bureau study of such changes is already under way.
THAT story, declared
untrue but the exact
he stated, are all newspaper stories to the same
effect that as of today,
position of weakness. It
strong.
WELL that is good news and a great relief to
tVinca nrlin Tiorl Jacnmorl trio "Ws)sVlinot.nn
Post and Times Herald,
important newspapers in the country, were essen
tially correct in their reports of what the Gaither
Committee findings were.
In fact these press reports caused a sensation
and a scare throughout the country only exceed
ed by the launching of Russias first "Sputnik."
So what a relief !
There is one little fly
ber, however.
If there is nothing in
an alarm then what possible objection can there
be now to making it public?
In fact wouldn t that
o reassure the people
heir doubts and fears,
sible injury to the national morale the false news
reports may have caused
TNT .ESS there is something in the picture not
discernible at this
Press Secretary Hagerty
to answer this Question.
Certainly if the report
nesses "as of today", m tact quite tne opposite,
the claim that publication -would "give aid and
comfort to the enemy" fails to stand up.
It would, we believe, not be Soviet Russia
that would be "aided and comforted" by such in
formation, but the somewhat "shell - shocked"
people of the United States. R.W.R.
Up to Solomon
"Guarantee the present boundaries of Israel,"
advise not only the Israeli but also certain Ameri
can leaders e.g., Mrs. Roosevelt and Adlai E.
Stevenson. They argue that with such guarantees
the Middle East would be stabilized, that without
them the Arab states will inevitably nurse, with
Kremlin encouragement, their territorial designs
on the Israel state.
These Arab designs cal Ifor rolling back Is
rael's boundaries to the lines proposed by U.N.
General Assembly in November 1947. Those lines
were then called completely unacceptable by the
Arabs, partially unacceptable by the Israeli.
QO CAME war in the early summer of 1948, a
war in which. Israel drove the Arab armies
back. When an armistice was arranged in the
spring of 1949, Israeli troops were in occupation
of almost one-third more territory than had been
proposed by U.N. This additional territory re
mains incorporated within Israel.
These additions were along practically all the
former borders and make Israel a little less of a
territorial crazy-quilt than in the U.N. plan. Even
so, hardly a spot in the north or center is more
than 25 miles fro msome Arab state, hardly a spot
in the Negeb area of the south more than 40 miles
from a frontier.
The Arabs say that these territorial additions ,
Wednesday, January I. 1958
Crickets
99
the present administra
Sunday when the always
James, denied the press
Gaither report.
on the Gaither report m
Mr. Hagerty is not only
reverse of the truth. So,
the United States is m a
is not he concluuded, it is
as well as many other
left buzzing m the am
this report to justiiy sucn
be the best possible way
of the country, remove
and cancel out any pos
l
distance, sooner or later,
will be put on the spot
reveals no U.S. weak-
Vfe AH, HS SAID HAPFV
VCtfT IOOX HAPPY'
En the Day's News
By FRANK
I'd like to commend to the
attention of the United States
of America as a whole the
proposal by Klamath Basin
farmers and the Klamath
county court to go as far as
possible within the limits of
our own resources toward
taking care ourselves of our
serious mouse infestation
problem.
If our nation had more of
that rugged pioneer spirit, it
would pull out of its present
problems and troubles much
more quickly.
THIS, I think, would be a
ennH iime in rite the ann-
o -v " r
cryphal story of the frog that
fell into the milk can.
The frog was in trouble
bad trouble. But it didn't wait
for SOMEBODY ELSE to
come and get it out. It start
ed kicking. It kept on kicking.
By keeping on kicking, it
wound up sitting pretty on a
lump of butter.
THIS is the moral:
If the frnf had waited
for somebody else to come
and get it out of trouble, it
would have drowned. -'
Bv doine evervthine it
could to HELP ITSELF, it
came out OK.
E ARE entitled, of course,
some federal help.
In Klamath county, about
67 per cent of the total area
is owned by the federal gov
ernment. More or less the
same situation prevails in all
the countries of tMe Klamath
Basin. To a greater or less
extent, it prevails through
out all of Southern Oregon
and Far Northern California.
Since the time whereof the
memory of man runneth not
to the contarary thereof the
landlord has been uder obli
gation to take care of his own
property, to defend it against
damage by nature and the
elements and to take care of
his own property, to defend it
against damage by nature and
Unander's Move No
Surprise To Hatfield
Salem OF) Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield said late
Tuesday that Sig Unander's
announcement that he would
be a candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for governor
of Oregon came "as no sur
prise," but that until the fil
ing deadline is' reached it
would be "inappropriate for
me to express a personal pref
erence among those who may
become candidates for gov
ernor or any other office."
There had been talk in politi
cal circles that Hatfield, also
a Republican, was a hopeful
for the GOP gubernatorial
nomination although he de
clared a month ago that he
would not be a candidate "un
der present circumstances."
Hatfield said Unander's rec
ord as state treasurer was
commendable, and' that he
was "particularly happy" that
Unander announced he would
refrain from "injecting per
sonalities" into his campaign.
Parisians Defy City
Paris (IP) Thousands of
merry making Parisians wel
comed in the New Year to
day by defying the city's
three-year-old ban on auto
honking.
For at least an hour, begin
ning just before midnight,
cars rolled bumper to bump
er along the boulevards toot
ing their horns in an ear-shattering
and illegal chorus.
are simply the spoils of
house the now homeless Arab refugees. Israel
says it needs every single acre of its present do
main to accommodate its growing population and j
in addition the new immigration of oppressed
Jews from other lands to whom Israel, by the very
reason of its existence, must hold out a welcoming
hand. .
You take it from there, King Solomon. ;
E.R.R. i
MEW feAf?. 0UT HE
JENKINS
the elements and to save his
tenants whole from such dam
age. If we could tax ALL of our
own area, we could take care
on our own account of our
mouse and other abnormal
damages. Unfortunately, we
can't tax all our own area.
Uncle Sam owns a big chunk
of it, and he objects to pay
ing local taxes.
BUT
We've always been a
self-reliant tribe here in what
we laughingly call the State
of Jefferson. We've believed
in looking out for ourselves.
Let's stay that way.
Let's take care of our own
problems TO THE FULL EX
TENT OF OUR ABILITY Jae
fore calling on somebody else
for help.
Decline in
End, Indu
By N. FLOYD McGOWIN
President National Lumber
Manufacturers Assoc.
Washington The year
now drawing to a close has
been a sobering one for lum
ber manufacturers in fact,
for the entire lumber indust
ry. Rocket Boys Face
Possible Injunction
Austin, Minn. (IP) Eleven
high school boys and a Rom
an Catholic nun today faced a
possible court injunction that
would take the mouse out of
their "mousenik" .ocket pro
ject.
The Humane Society in
Washington said Tuesday it
would seek a court injunction
to prohibit use of mice and
other animals in rockets
launched by the group which
calls itself the Austin Rocket
Society.
The young rocketeers,
coached by Sister Duns Sco
tus of the St. Francis Order,
Tuesday fired a mousenik
successfully 800 feet in the
air but with an artificial
mouse.
The boys were able to bring
their rider "back "alive" when
a parachute mechanism work
ed perfectly. They were not
as fortunate Sunday when the
"mousenik" carrying a live
white mouse named "Ulysses"
fizzled on its launching pad.
Road Construction
Interrupts Traffic
Salem (IP) Highway con
struction and maintenance
has caused traffic interrup
tions in several sections' of
the state, State Highway En
gineer W. C. Williams said
Tuesday.
Work on the following
highways were cited as traf
fic slowers by Williams: John
Day, Columbia river, Ump
qua, Pacific, and Sherman.
He also said that several
highways were closed for the
winter, including the Mt.
Hood loop, McKenzie Pass
highway, east and west Dia
mond Lake highway, Century
Drive secondary highway and
Sun Mountain secondary high
way. war, and are needed to
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The New Year
To the Editor: If the bounc
ing iew i ear indulges in
retrospection, pronto, he may
rejoice to see the predomina
tion of good will, as an after
glow of his predecessor's
Yuletide celebration. He will
have to admit, the good will
pendulum was swinging in an
optimistic direction upon his
arrival. Simulating that he
scratches his newborn head,
and thinks profoundly, con
cluding that he has the record
of all time records to make,
one that will either be glo
rious, mediocre, or a shameful
failure.
Can he produce a panacea?
Anything less potent would
be futile, he fully realizes.
With agonizing appraisal of
the goal set for him to reach,
it appeared preposterous, un
til two wonderful helpers
(Faith and Hope) loomed up,
changing his downcast atti
tude to an optimistic view
point. Faith and hope never
fail. They always win, be
cause their power is gene
rated by that super-power
that spins the universe.
Taking over a New Year's
duty, he nodded his head. To
placate his own feelings a
mental picture flashed on his
mind, he could see himself
gloriously victorious as a dig
nified gentleman waving fare
well on Dec. 31 at midnight,
1958, after handing over his
office, and admonition to
1959 to not fumble the ball
of earth, but carry it safely to
1959's first base and start the
continuity of peace on earth
for always.
Shall we all pray before it's
too late for little new born
'58.
Emma Lou Carpanter,
Sll Sherman St.,
Medford.
Lumber Output Near
stry Official Says
The year ahead is one to
approach with cautious opti
mism. It would appear that the
decline in lumber output is
about to end. This year's pro
duction, at this writing, is ex
pected to total about 34 bil
lion board feet some 9 per
cent below 1956.
The prospect is that 1958
production will at least equal
the level of 1957 and could
very well exceed it. No more
precise estimate is possible at
the present time because of a
number of factors which have
yet to crystalize.
Housing is one of the un
certainties. Tight Money
Tight money is expected to
be the chief limiting factor
to housing activity next year,
as it was in 1957.
Some easing of the mort
gage market is likely because
of increased savings and a
leveling off in the demand for
funds to finance industrial
plant and equipment expan
sion. Still, many builders and po
tential home buyers will find
it difficult to obtain financ
ing.
A reasonable estimate of
housing starts both public
and private in 1958 would
seem to be about one million
perhaps 1.1 million or even
Talmadge Estate
Goes To Sisters
Las Vegas, Nev. (IP) Silent
screen star Norma Talmadge
willed the bulk of her estate,
totaling more than a million
dollars, to her sisters, Con
stance and Natalie Talmadge.
The will of the former film
beauty was filed for probate
Tuesday by New York attor
ney Arthur Moritz who re
fused to reveal the exact val
ue of the estate.
Miss Talmadge, who reign
ed as a silver screen queen
enuring the roaring 20s, died
of a heart attack Dec. 24 at
her home here. She was 60
years old.
Her . widower, Dr. Carver
M. James, was bequeathed
5200,000 in cash and a home
in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He
also received community
property held in Nevada. The
couple was married here in
1946.
-L
DAIRY -
East Main St.
Driye Carefully . . . the life you
save may be one of our custom
ers .. . They're precious.
Biggest Circus Will Be Going
As Usual in 1958, Wilson Savs
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (ffl Emmett
Kelly, the eminent clown, has
been appealing to congress
men to save
the circus,
meaning not
any particu
circus but all
of them.
Seems that
circuses are in
a cos t-price
squeeze, like
the farmers
and you and I,
Lyie c. Wilson and that they
may just fold their tents and
disappear unless somebody
does something. That's pretty
bad, but clown Kelly can re-1
lax.
All of the other circuses
may fold, but the biggest cir
cus of them all will be in bus
iness as usual in 1958 playing
to capacity crowds. That will
be the congressional circus
which appears annually here
m Washington. There is no
other like it nor any chance
that it will go out of business,
come inflation, deflation, de-
presion, peace or war.
Three Rings Insufficient
Three rings will not be
enough for the congressional
circus which opens here next
week. Consider the high wire,
aerial and acrobatic acts
which must be put on and
the clowns. The administra
tion will require two or three
rings, at the very least, for
one of its new acts which it
promised the voters some
weeks ago would be part, of
the show.
This act is only slightly
more dificult than the Indian
rope trick which, itself, gen
erally is regarded as impossi
ble. It will- be to persuade
congressmen facing a Novem
ber election to make big econ
omy cuts in programs espe
cially dear to hard-boiled
pressure groups, such as farm
ers and veterans
Another act which will be
as many as 1.2 million, in
view of the Federal Reserve
Board's recent lowering of
its discount rate the fee
charged on loans to member
banks.
Apartment Units
' Assuming some sort of in
crease from this year's prob
able total of 950,000 to one
million housing starts, it is
likely that apartment units
will account for a greater
share of the total housing out
put in 1958 than in 1957.
TT l i
now lumDermen rare in
next year's housing market
will depend largely upon how
aggressively and how force
fully they undertake to pro
mote the advantages of lum
ber and wood products to the
builder, architect and pros
pective home-buyer,
XT.... 1 . . .
iNever nas mere oeen a
greater need for aggressive
merchandising by the lumber
Industry.
The prospect of a signifi
cant increase in home remod
eling repair-expansion work
next year should serve as an
incentive to the industry to
step up its merchandising-ad
vertising efforts promptly.
Encouraging Development
An encouraging develop
ment of late has been the
leveling off of lumber inven
tories at the mill level. Halt
ing the steady rise in gross
mill stocks has involved some
shutdowns, and in many cases
a shorter work week.
But the industry is in a
much better position now
than earlier in the year to
feel the full salutary effects
of a pickup in new business.
It will be no comfort to
lumbermen to know that the
Corps of Engineers now ex
pects the dollar volume of its
lumber purchases in 1958 to
be some 25 per cent below
1957. However, military de
mands are subject to constant
change and the increased em
phasis on guided missile-space
satellite developments could
alter almost all procurement
schedules overnight.
To sum up, 1958 would
seem to be a year in which
the lumber industry has an
opportunity to strengthen its
hold on present markets and
acquire new ones.
There will be many rough
spots in the months ahead. But
none of the problems will be
of such magnitude as to defy
solution by men of courage,
vision and ingenuity.
JL
SMITH
at Genessee
followed closely by newsmen
through the United States will
be that one in which the ad
ministration will attempt to
relieve the anxiety of Con
gress and the voters about the
suppressed Gaither Report on
national defense. It will be
an effort to persuade the peo
ple that the report did not say
that the Communists easily
could blast the United States
back to the Dark Ages be
cause U. S. defenses have
lagged and Communist weap
ons have burgeoned.
Band Will Blare
The circus band will play
and on the high wire the ad
ministration will put on its
1958 spectacular the effort
to balance a Sputnik era
budget without recourse to
higher taxes in an election
year.
Best of all. the Democratic
acts scheduled for the new
Steel Optimists Hurt by
Closing Weeks of 1957
Pittsburgh HP) Waning
steel production rates in the
closing weeks of 1957 have
had a sobering effect on opti
mists in the steel industry,
but most steelmen look for
ward to reasonably good busi
ness in 1958.
A top market expert of the
U. S. Steel Corp., the nation's
No. 1 producer, sums up the
1958 prospects by saying,
"neither extreme optimism
nor extreme pessimism about
the outlook is borne out by
any qualified analysis of the
facts."
Estimates of next year's out
put range from 108 million
ingot tons upward.
Production in 1957 prob
ably will be a little under the
115 million tons turned out in
1956.
Current rated capacity of
the industry is 133,457,150
tons, and it is expected to
jump to about 140 million
tops when the 1958 figure is
reported.
Interest Fails
Most steel men had expect
ed market conditions to im
prove i n the final three
months of this year after the
second quarter doldrums. In
stead customer interest in
steel failed to pickup and op
erations fell below 70 per cent
of capacity.
Complicating the steelmak-
ing situation is the fact that
some producers built up large
inventories of semi-finished
steel in anticipation of quick
deliveries for the expected
fourth-quarter upturn in de
mand.. When the orders failed
to materialize, furnace pro
duction had to be cut below
the delivery rate to reduce
semi-finished stocks.
But top steel market an
alyzers say the gloom result
ing from the failure of a
fourth-quarter upsurge to ma
terialize is unwarranted.
B. E. Estes, U. S. Steel's di
rector of staff administration,
points out that the industry
did not anticipate another 8
million-car year for the auto
motive industry such as
pushed steel production to a
record 117 million tons
1955.
Inventory Reduction
fiant and equipment ex
penditures could not reason
ably be expected to match the
22 per cent increase recorded
last year, he said,
We would certainly not ask
for another war, such as
sparked 1950," Estes said.
Estes said some inventory
reduction will continue in
1958.
I think we must expect
that even though steel con
sumption in 1958 approaches
that of 1957, inventory reduc
tion by steel consumers dur
WEEKLY EDITOR DIES
New York (IP) Charles F.
Connolly, editor of the week
ly newspaper Irish Echo,
died last Monday at the age
of 85. Connolly had owned
and published the Echo from
1928 until about six months
ago when he became ill. He
sold the newspaper to a cor
poration but continued to
head the editorial staff until
his death.
Greeting 1958, the
New Year, our senti
ments are old, tried
and true, yet ever
C. M. Litwiller
new
best wishes to
happiness, health, success.
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy.' 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
M
Congress is a juggling num
ber by contortionists. It will
be in pantomime to explain
how to reduce agricultural
surpluses by greatly increas
ing price supports to high
rigid levels which, inevitably,
will persuade farmers to in
crease production of surplus
crops.
Another good spectacular
will be billed simply as "la
bor." The script and action
are not perfected but it
should be a dilly. It is possi
ble that it will deal with a
situation created by recent
legal action in which it was
found that spending union
money on political occasions
with great political impact
was not against the law which
forbids spending union money
for political purposes.
And there will be clowns,
scores, maybe hundreds of
them.
ing the year will be sufficient
to reduce steel shipments; and
therefore, steel production to
a level at least 5 per cent be
low the 1957 level," he said.
The slack in the steel mar
ket this year generally has
been attributed to customers
living off their inventories.
While production is off
from last year, officials of
U.S. Steel feel that actual
steel consumption during the
year was at a new high.
Red Skelfon Said
To Be Improving
After Seizure
Santa Monica, Calif.
Comedian Red Skelton greet
ed the New Year today from
his bed at St. John's hospit
al where he rallied from the
shadow of death following a
severe "cardiac-asthmatic" at
tack. Hospital attendants report
ed that the famous redhead
was in satisfactory condition
and said he was able to "joke
a little." He was stricken on
Monday night at his Bel-Air
home.
Skelton's wife, Georgia,
visited the comic Tuesday
night on the eve of the New
Year but then went home to
be with their children, leav
ing her husband resting com
fortably. The couple's nine-year-old
son, Richard, is suffering
from leukemia and Mrs.
Skelton said he needed her
care. There were reports that
the Skeltons received disturb
ing news about their son's
condition shortly before Skel
ton's seizure.
The comedian was reading
a script for a coming program
when he was stricken. His
10-year-old daughter, Valen
tina, found him on the floor
gasping for air.
Unconscious his lungs
filling with fluid Skelton
was rushed to the hospital
and placed under an oxygen
tent. He showed rapid im
provement and was resting ,
quietly a few hours after
reaching the hospital.
After tests Tuesday, Dr.
Graham said there was "ab
solutely no suggestion of cor
onary thrombosis." He said
that Skelton had suffered
from asthma for years.
117 f ft Switzerland
President Sworn In
Bern, Switzerland (IP)
Dr. Thomas Holenstein, 61-year-old
corporation lawyer
turned politician, today be-
president.
Holenstein, head of the
public economy department
since his election to the cabi
net in 1954, was named presi
dent last Dec. 12 by Parlia
ment to succeed Dr. Hans
Steuli, head of the depart
ment for finance and cus
toms. By tradition, the choice
is made by annual rotation
of members of the seven-man
federal cabinet.
you and yours, for all
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Mrs. Litwiller
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"It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."