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Newspaper Page Texti MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, May 10, 1959 MEDFORDtSWTEIBUNE "Everyone ic Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJJFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fit St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager OfclWLLI LATHAM, Business MgT ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDOrta Editor OUVE STARCHEB Women Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mr An Indeoendent Newspaper Enterea as second class matter at Medforri Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a i - In Advance. Copy 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 41 mot. 8.01 Daily and Sunday -3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Onlv One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Suny 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casn in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of jacicson t,onniy United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKITULAT1W Advertising ReDresentatlve: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of- . fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO May 10. 1949 (Tuesday) Southern Oregon Historical Society, county officials and others plan to discuss propos ed operation of a museum in the courthouse at Jackson ville. ' Seth Bullis and A. C. Allen Jr. are elected directors of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival association. 20 YEARS AGO May 10. 1939 (Wednesday) Representatives are being commissioned for the third an nual national catfish derby at Emigrant lake next Sunday. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Chick ens are now big enough to scratch in the neighbor's gar den, and get fried in his skillet." 30 YEARS AGO . May 10, 1929 (Friday) Central Point students hold a health parade. Table Rock Grangers form a pool to buy rock salt for cattle. 40 YEARS AGO May 10. 1919 (Saturday) Main st. between Front and Bartlett sts. is to be roped off tonight for Victory week celebrations. L Local bread prices are re ported about to jump one cent a loaf. 50 YEARS AGO May 10, 1919 (Monday) The P. and E. railroad is sold to J. R. Allen of New York. Mayor Canon proclaims May 25 as a city clean-up day. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What island prison in San Francisco is nicknamed "The Rock"? 2. An unexpected legacy, profit, or othar piece of mone tary good fortune is called a w-f-1? 3. Against which country was the slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute," directed? 4. Griffjfh Stadium is the name of an American league baseball park in which city? 5. The Japanese Premier at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was Hideki T ? 6. .The southernmost city in the world is in Chile; name it. 7. The term "great white plague" is applied to what dis ease? 8. Who -wrote "The Man Without a Country".? 9. Name the capital of Por tugal. 10. During the administra tion of which President was the Spanish-American war? Answers: 1. Alcairax. 2. Windfall. 3. France. 4. Wash ington, D.C. 5. Tojo. 6. Punta Arenas. . 7., Tuberculosis. 8. Edward Everett Hal. 8. Lis bon. 10. McKinley. Disappointing Legislature The Oregon legislature, which adjourned last week after 115 wrangling, bickering, back-biting days, accomplished some good things. These good things, however, were largely ob scured by what we believe were the major fail ures of the session, and shallying which marked deliberations. In fairness, it should eral criticisms of the legislature cannot, in many instances, be applied to individual members. We have heard only good reports of the performance of Jackson county's delegation, for instance. Senator Edwin Durno, Representative Eve Nye, and Representative Bob Duncan, who served as speaker of the house, earned reputations as fair, sensible and idealistic members, even when they disagreed, as they somtimes did. - LJERE are some of the session which we feel A badly-needed new handling of juvenile offenders was enacted. The county home rule amendment to the con stitution, approved by the people last November, was spelled out by legislative action, and will per mit counties to set up their own forms of govern ment to replace the outmoded and archaic system in use at present. "First - step" legislation to protect migrant laborers, and insure sanitary conditions for them, was enacted. A big step to alleviate long waiting lists at Fairview home, partly through a rejuggling of the functions of institutions, was taken. A STATE code covering small-boat safety was Anti-discrimination measures, although some what watered down, will provide some added protection for racial minorities and the working rights of older people. Enabling legislation to permit creation of community colleges was enacted. Provision was made for special classes for retarded children (although they will not start until 1964) ; for special education of gifted chil dren, and for children of migrant workers. While the session failed to take any affirma tive action to protect things as secret union elections, it set up a com mittee to study labor-management relations, out of which may come desirable legislation m the future. THE judiciary was strengthened by giving the over lower courts. In addition to the juvenile code, the session also enacted a new traffic code (retaining, how ever, the basic rule), and provided for public de fenders in the larger counties (those of more than 100,000 population). It abolished the coroner system, and provided instead for medical examiners, in most cases county health officers. It enacted a five-dav officers. This will complicate administration, but is'only fair to the hard-working men who police our highways. It took steps to raise needed development (although it used a round about and questionable THESE things add up should go to hard - working committees, to in dividual legistors, and to dedicated private citizens, who were convinced of their worth and labored long hours to secure their enactment. There was also a large body of legislation which must be time - proven before it can be known, conclusively, whether it is good or bad. Many other measures were "housekeeping" bills; others were either good or bad, according to one's predilections, and about neutral unless one has a lhere were also the these we consider to be FRST major deficiency was lack of any for TTTO fr4 vvaxu. luvn. xii me X1C1U. UX LOAauUll. All lilLCllJIl committee to study taxation was OK'd, but that's Standard Operating Procedure.) The state will face a prospective deficit uuu at the start of the 1961-62 biennium, and al most any tax program will have to go to the peo ple for approval. No provision was made for this. lhe budget for the current bienmum was pre cariously balanced at about $313,000,000. bv a patchwork revision of the existing income tax law, by using surplus funds now on hand, and by one - shot measures which will be later unavailable. We'll probably scrape but a king-sized fiscal headache will greet the legislators in January 1961 if there is no special session convened meanwhile. THE session also maintained basic school sup- which, because of increasing costs, means that an increased tax load will be placed on local prop- i 11 i i i , i i 1. -i ei ly, or mat scnooi sianaaras win De lowered. The state board of higher education's reauests for buildings was cut in half, despite the need to prepare for a vast increase in student loads in the years just ahead. Other institutional building needs were slight ed notably at the new where a rehabilitation building, the. whole heart and reason for a new institution in the first place, was scrapped. the indecisive shilly so much of the session's be pointed out that gen accomplishments of the do it credit: legal code covering the union members in such week for state police legislators' pay, a badly way of doing it) . to a lot of constructive which it is possible to be personal interest. legislature s failures. And serious. of upwards of $70,000,- to speed up collections through this biennium, correctional institution. Dennis the Its 4 eicciB emu. fM gonna Matter of Fact aisop HOPING FOR THE BEST Paris - The NATO com mander, Gen. Lauris Norstad, not long ago asked Gen. Charles de Gaulle for special per mission to place medium range Ameri c an nuclear rockets on French soil for the dura t i o n of the 4ospb Alsop oenin crisis. The only purpose was to strengthen the Western deter rent for the critical period that lies ahead. Assent by Gen. de Gaulle would not have in volved any long range com mitment. Yet the French Chief of State refused to make even a limited and temporary: com promise in nis long dispute with the U. S. about nuclear weapons. He continued to in sist that France must have en tire control of any of these weapons that are placed in France. Congressional action would have been needed to give up the American "key to the cupboard" of the nuclear warheads. Hence Gen. Nor- stad's plan was blocked. ,. ..... .) t .. : THE incident was not in it self enormously important. Judging by the how-exposed Pentagon faking about the bal listic missiles emplaced in Bri tain, new rockets based in France would probably ; not have been ready in, time for the expected climax" of the Berlin crisis. None the less de Gaulle's refusal of Norstad's request cast a glaring light on the divergences among the Western allies in their ap proach to Berlin. The difference is not great between the French, the West Germans, and the Amer icans. Gen de Gaulle's rejec tion of emergency rocket bases is exactly comparable to the President's often repeated formula - "I won't give an inch (but I won't mobilize a man either)!" The difference is between the Germans French, and Americans, on one side and the British on the other. In brief, the British think the Soviets mean business at Berlin. They are deeply fear ful of the outcome. To avoid the worst outcome, they are ready to go pretty far to con ciliate the Soviets. The other Western allies are not ready to make the kind of conces sions that are talked about in Britain behind the scenes. But they are not ready, either, to make the obvious military preparations to support a firm stand. pRIME Minister Macmillan nointed out to Gen. de Gaulle and Chancellor Aden auer that their strong posi tions on Berlin implied a need for special military nren- arations. In both cases he met with a blank response. Undoubtedly, Gen. de Gaulle is a special case, since his analysis of the Berlin prob Well-earned salarc f - I ployees and higher .education faculty were pared ji j i t i aown lo a level wnere we may wen see a depar ture of some of our best professors and civil servants. rHE highway commission was by-passed, with a nnrlc-hflrrel Timo-ram fn Hmlfl a flnlnmrnn riv er bridge, and by failure to enact a 1 cent per gal lon gas tax. increase to keep the freeway program on scneauie with ieaerai billboard reo-nlatinn was derland" slogan for auto licenses was approved. And there were other sins of omission and commission which will come back to haunt the members. All in all, despite the a disappointing session -r- particularly for one which started out with such high hopes and higher promises. E.A. Menace make myself a buxom.4 lem, is known to be decidedly somber. "It wiU probably end badly, perhaps very badly indeed.' All these divergences raise many questions about the fu ture, most of them extremely unpleasant. The most unpleas' ant and most urgent of them all is the question. "What if the British are right?" This reporter happens to believe that the British are wrong. But even if you are convinced that the Soviets will not risk a nuclear war for Berlin, and even if you are also convinced that the other Western allies will not sur render under threat, the ques tion still demands an answer. fNE remembers far too well " catching the last plane out of Manila with the solemn as surance of Gen. MacArthur ringing in one's ears," that the Japanese would "never dare to attack the Philippines, and would surely direct their as sault against the Netherlands Indies." This was altogether convincing at the time. Yet it was this judgment, wholly logical by every outward test, that produced Pearl Harbor. If the U. S. fleet in the Pa cific had not been waiting in Pearl Harbor like a sitting duck, there would have been no Pearl Harbor. The situa tion today differs in a hun dred ways from the situation in 1941. But the chance of So viet error at Berlin would surely be greatly reduced if the Western powers made the effort to achieve a state of real military readiness, in stead of contenting them selves with' what may be catt ed Eisenhower-McElroy-stand readiness. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Second-Clasi Voters? To the Editor: In your front page item of Wednesday, May 6, regarding the Phoenix school election you say that "Voter's Complaint Said Un founded," then at the end of this item you say that "not more than 10 people were af fected." What about these 10 people? Are they to be con sidered second class-voters? Aren't they entitled to their ballots (which they didn't get)?. Your statement sounds very contradictory. Two interested voters, ; L. and V. Reid, Route 4, Box 429F, Medford Editor's note: The last two paragraphs of the story read as follows: Mrs. Florence Drake, school district clerk, told Mekvold that those supervising the elec tion did run out of county ballots during the last 10 min utes. However, those who did not have the ballots were asked to wait until others could be prepared. Some wait ed and others did not, she said ' Not more than 10 people were affected, Mrs. Drake stated. uifM - pnoea fnr stare em- matching iunds. JNeeded "iunked. A "Pacific Won accomplishments, it was Washington Report By WILLIAM A REAL UNITY Washington - On the sound principle that once bitten is twice shy, all but the most smile - happy optimists are e m p h asizing that the Big Four foreign ministers con ference at Ge neva has no guar an tee of even a modest William S. WMt . as it should be. It will do nobody any good to forget that the trail of international meetings with the Soviet Union is studded with the ruins of Western hopes. It is a trail weU mark ed, in a word, with broken Russian promises. Indeed, the West may be hard put at Geneva to find enough justification (and al most any kind of justification will do) for agreeing to hold the real conference toward which the world is looking. This, of course, is a summit meeting between President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain, Presi dent De Gaulle of France and Nikita Khrushchev of the So viet Union. ALL the same, it is never useful to approach any op portunity in the fixed notion that nothing good can possibly come from it. And quite apart from . this general principle, there is practical and specific reason to look toward Geneva with a basic and realistic; if limited, confidence. - For the profound fact is this: Whatever may happen at the actual conference table in Ge neva, the leading members, of the Western alliance have wisely prepared to maintain the unity of all in the West in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Big Four have pledged not merely to keep the smaller NATO partners generally ad vised of what; they, the big fellows, say and do at Ge neva. Much better, the big fellows are committed to maintain running contact with the NATO Treaty Council all during the Geneva confer ence. This is no mere empty legal ism, no gesture of "niceness." If anyone supposed it to be so, a talk with the diplomatic representatives here' of the smaller allies ' will quickly change his mind. This is a promise of real meaning; of a meaning hardly less real than the great reality it rec ognizes. : j Neuberger Reveals Reasons He Voted to Confirm Clair Luce By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)- Sen '. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said he did not go along with Sen. Wayne Morse in op posing Clair Boothe Luce to be ambassa dor to Brazil because he found no "m e a n ingful grounds for voting against A- Bobt. Smith the &PP 0 i n ee." "I deplore and regret Mrs. Luce's political attacks in the past on Presidents Roose velt and Truman," said JNeu- berger, recalling that he had worked hard for the election of both these Democratic leaders. : This apparently was an oblique reference to Morse's criticism of Mrs. Luce for hav ing said in past political speeches that Roosevelt "lied us into war." Others Vole tor Luce . Neuberger noted that most of the Democratic liberals vot ed to confirm Mrs. Luce, in cluding Sens. Hubert Hum phrey, John F. Kennedy, Paul Douglas, Estes Kefauver, War ren Magnuson and Henry Jackson. "Furthermore, my philoso phy in such matters is to live and let live. Why recriminate and always seek revenge?" asked the senator in his week ly newsletter. He recalled tnat last year he had been willing to approve the appointment of Wendell Wyatt, Astoria attorney, to the U.S. Tax Court, "despite his partisan statements when he was Republican state chair man" during the Morse-McKay election campaign of 1956. Morse blocked the ap pointment by letting it be known he would oppose Wyatt. Neuberger said he ; hoped the same tolerance would be shown in the future for Demo cratic politicians appointed to high office. , In continuing her battle against the loyalty oath re S. WHITE THIS great reality is that the strength of the West lies, in the end, upon the simple fact that in NATO 15 nations are banded together, all for one and one for all. Between them they make up a massive mili tary force and, almost equaUy important, a hardly less mas sive political force. What Geneva must do and will do, if the Big Four live up precisely to their promises, is to give the smaller Western nations a sense of genuine participation in the decisions in which technically they, will not be a part. Canada, Belgium, Italy and the others, though not sitting at the table, will not be ex cluded from what goes on. Through the common NATO council they will all be "in the act" on the Western side. It is clear that the consultative arrangement between the large and small partners can be made the most generous and useful ever granted by the large to the small. There is no reason, for ex ample, why the smaller pow ers cannot make proposals to the actual negotiators for the West, the Big Four, as the conference ' goes forward, There is thus no reason why the smaller powers indirectly, but nevertheless importantly, influence the conference itself through their recommenda tions to their bigger allies. TF THIS is done, as there is "- every reason to suppose it will be, all the power of the West will properly feel a part of whatever bargain is struck or rejected at Geneva. And all the power of the West- and this is, after all, the true and ultimate safeguard from the Soviet Union-will remain truly together. Thus, without coddling our selves with wishful thinking, it is possible to say that before a single negotiating session has finished at Geneva a sub stantial Western victory is al ready within our grasp. This is a victory for all Western unity. And it is all-Western unity that most of all, in this and every succeeding confer ence of any and every kind, will be the real target of the Soviet Union. Such a victory 'would be a fitting reward in the late eve ning of life to a man recently a visitor here, Sir Winston Churchill. It was this man, more than any other, whose mind drew up the Western alliance when it perceived 12 years ago that the Iron Cur tain was descending. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) quired of scholars who wish to take advantage of the edu cation loans and grants bill passed by Congress last year, Rep. Edith Green did some extensive digging into past periods when oath-taking even spread to cover members of Congress. Congress is now consider ing legislation to knock out this loyalty oath. Reed college and 8 other institutions have refused to participate in the education aid program be cause of the oath, while other schools have participated but protested all the same. Congresswoman Green testi fied on how the requirement of oaths can spread in a cli mate of fear and distrust. She cited the Civil War period, when Congress in 1862 passed the so-called "ironclad oath" bill requiring all persons hold ing offices of -trust or profit under the government to sub scribe to a long oath as to their past, present and future loyalty. Requirement Passed Although it didn't cover congressmen, some lawmakers began to take the oath volun tarily, possibly to demonstrate how loyal they were. Then a resolution was introduced requiring all senators to take the oath. It passed. But Delaware's Senator Bay ard, Mrs. Green went on, re signed his seat in protest over what, he called the unconsti tutional oath requirement. In a brilliant farewell speech, Bayard said he regarded "all test-oaths as useless and de moralizing acts of tyranny." Bayard said he agreed with "a brilliant and distinguished advocate" who said of test oaths: "They are the first weapons young oppression learns to handle; weapons the more odi ous since, though barbed and poisoned, neither strength nor courage is necessary to wield them." - Senator Wayne Morse says he received five letters from Oregon citizens who were chastizing him for not grow ing a beard to help promote the Centennial. He wrote back pTILUa (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Here it is, one-third of the way through May, already. . And that makes it more than one-third of the way through 1959, too. Tempus is just fugiting along like anything, but then, it al ways does, and each year it seems to go a little faster, somehow. ". March . and most of April had weather such as we usual ly have during May, and ex cept for a couple of days, May so far has had weather such as we usually have dur ing March and April. No one knows "what June will be like - except that the crab grass will get in its first licks. And we hope there won't be too many thunder storms. The orchardists have had a bad enough time al ready this year with frost, and a bad hail season could be rough. It is difficult to ascertain just how much the orchard ists' cloud - seeding opera tions, which they are discon- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More today about the town of Pondosa - which appears to have been , settled upon as the inhabited place nearest to the pin point on the map that is known as the "geographi cal center" of the United States. What is a geographical cen ter? It's just what it says. It's the center of a given geo graphical area. It is establish ed by a complicated system of mathematical measureme n t s and computations. What does it mean to the town nearest to this pin point? Not much. It is supposed to have some tourist possibilities, liut I doubt it. How far out of your way would you go just to see a pin point that is the geo graphical center of the U.S.? Not very far, I'd guess. BUT- This IS significant: Ever since it was establish ed, the geographical center of the United States has been moving steadily WESTWARD. Nearly 300 years ago George Berkeley, an English church man, Bishop of Cloyne, coined the magic phrase: "Westward the course of empire takes its way."-About a century later, John Quincy Adams plagiar ized Bishop Berkeley to this extent: "Westward the STAR of empire takes its way." Keep your eye on the West. Great things are in store for the WEST. CJPEAKING of the West, my colleague of the Mail Tri bune, Eric Allen, takes a crack at our mythical State of Jefferson "otherwise classi fied," he says, "as a State of Mind." He adds: "As for this newest 'state proposal, it is a nebulous af fair, designed, apparently, as a rallying point for those who oppose what are feared as en croachments on independence in thought and action of "big government,' whether it be at the state or national level . . . "Go your ways, good people of the State of Jefferson. We choose to exert our independ ence by acknowledging that No Man Is an Island - nor is a state, even a state of mind." TUT! Tut! Eric. Tf Platn 2n-rvM oenturips ago, could dream of the per fect state, why can't we here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California dream of the perfect state? In the greatest of his di alogues, The Republic, Plato outlined his plans for an ideal state. He believed that the pur pose of the state is to train its citizens to be upright and vir tuous so that they may be truly happy. He knew this ideal state could never be formed in an imperfect world, but he held it up as a goal to ward which people should work. And- His thinking was made an immense impression through out all the 20-odd centuries that have followed him. I F PLATO could dream of a State of Mind, why can't WE dream of a State of Mind? If man can't DREAM of per- f e c t i o n, how can man ACHIEVE perfection? that he at least had a mus tache, which was all he could offer the cause. One of them wrote back and demanded he do better. So Morse advised him to go to his farm at Eugene and get one of the senator's Angora goats, which have adequate beards, and lead' the goat around the state. "Then you can say you are the only man in the state who could get Morse's goat," the senator said he told his per sistent constituent. tinuing this year after 10 years, affected hail, but it does seem to us, without any scientific observation to back us up, that hail has been somewhat less severe the past few years, compared to what it was before the program started. Meteorologists are cautious chaps, and disinclined to make any rash statements about the effects of cloud-seeding. But we know of a couple of forest rangers who will swear that when they were using air planes to seed the clouds a few years ago, the number of lightning 'strikes in the south ern part of the county was far fewer than normal. In addition, Copco seems pretty satisfied with the cloud-seeding they have been doing for some years to in crease snowfall on the area from, which they obtain the water to turn their generators. But it is, of course, difficult to prove anything. Maybe the fruit men have "the right idea in seeking a research project to learn more about what hail is, how it forms, why it forms, and what - if anything - can be done about it. Anyway you look at It, fruit- raising involves a cal culated risk. If it isn't frost, it's hail, and if it isn't hail its bugs or disease, and if it isn't that it's poor prices, and if it isn't any of these, it's irate residents blasting at 'em be cause of smudge. To hear 'em talk, one wonders why they stay in the business at all. Here's one last (we hope) smudge story, ' about the man who took a friend for a ride the other morning right after a heavy orchard heating session. In the car with them was the driver's dog, a small canine with normally-white paws which were blackened by an early morning romp. The dog be gan barking furiously at a bunch of equally-discolored cows in a nearby field. "What's he barking at?" lhe owner asked bis friend. "Don't worry," was the reply, "it's just the pet cell ing the cattle black." " . We found a note on our desk last week, which read as follows: This is "Be Kind to Animals Week." : They're our own defense less brothers. To top it off, come Sunday next, Let's start being kind . to mothers. r We haven't had a typo graphical - error story her for a couple of weeks now (maybe our Phoenix friend has just given up, cause we still have the darned things In the paper). But w have a contribution from another volunteer typographical-error-spotter for today a headline which read, "First State Land Conversation 'Act Created Town of Clat sop." Our correspondent commented, "First time I ever heard of a town built by talk. City council, take note." The flu (or, rather, the "flu like illness") which has been going around, is no fun. Still, we know ofone re cent victim who got a certain evil pleasure, even while ly ing in his bed of pain, in watching this wife do all the chores that he usually does -carrying wood, emptying the garbage can, cutting the lawn, and so on. Taking over for him, she also took over his Levi's - or "blue jeans" - as suitable at tire for such tasks. When he got well enough to get out of bed again, he found in his pockets assorted small change that hadn't been there before, an open (ouch!!) safety pin, bobby-pins, a stick of chewing gum and the stub of a pencil. Well, as we always say. women who wear the pants in the family (even tempor arily) are entitled to put what they want in their pockets which apparently even rival the collections in their purses on other occasions. But they shouldn't criticize the contents of the pockets of small boys. Another story on the re lationship of the sexes is about the minister who was giving a newly-named eld er of the church instructions on his responsibilities. He should, the minister de clared, always have control of his household, as the book of Titus recommends. The young elder suggested, rath er wistfully, that the auth or of the book of Titus must have been a single man, as no . married man would make such a difficult rec ommendation. A lot of people consider themselves ahead of the times when they aren't even going in the same direction.