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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 -YEARS AGO
July 9. 1949 (Saturday)
Construction of the Camp
White trunk sewer is reported
12 per cent completed.
The Medford city council
decides to "Undertake s study
f rent decontrol in this area.
t0 YEARS AGO
July t, 1139 (Sunday)
Fred Stammen's "Bruno" is
named Grand Champion Mutt
In Gates and Lydlard's pooch
parade.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Imudge Pot" column: "Peoria
Bill Gates staged a dog show
and parade for juvenile dog
owners Saturday. There were
IT varieties of dogs and some
forgot and barked, as if it was
night, and the moon was com
ing up right"
0 YEARS AGO
July f, 1129 (Tuesday)
The interior department re
portedly plans to spend a mil
lion dollars on improvements
at Crater Lake.
Fishing in the Rogue river
is reported exceedingly, poor.
40 YEARS AGO
July 9. 19 It (Wednesday)
Tourists report there is still
snow on the ground at Crater
Lake, and temperatures dip
ped below freezing last night.
Fishing in the Rogue river
Is the worst in history, sports
men claim.
0 YEARS AGO
JuIt 9, 1909 (Friday)
Portland Elks are welcomed
here by the Medford herd.
A mail schedule change
brings loud complaints locally
about poor service.
VhsPt Yc:r I.Q.?
Wine er rra correct -Is rapoTfer;
even or efcht is excellent) five er
mix Is good.
I. On the cattle ranges, an
unbranded, motherless calf is
called a m k?
2. Who said, after the sign
ing of the Declaration of In-
dependent: "We must all hang
together, or assuredly we shall
all hans separately"?
3. Both the Rhine and
Rhone ' rivers have their
sources in which country?
4. In an old song, what was
the name of the girl who wore
Number Nine shoes?
5. Is Prague in Germany,
Austria. Chechoslovakia, or
Poland?
6. In what profession is
Perry Mason, the fictional de
tective, engaged?
7. Which two Presidents
of the U.S. bore the first name
"Franklin"?
8. Do both the males and
females of the moose family
bear antlers.
9. When will the next elec
tion for choosing Presidential
electors occur in the United
States?
10 Harry Flood Byrd, Dem
ocrat, represents which State
In the U.S. Senate?
. Answers: 1. Maverick: 2.
am in Franklin; 3. Swit
zerland; 4. Clementine: 5.
Chechoslovakia; 6. Lawyer; 7,
rranklin Pierce and F. D.
Roosevelt; 8. No; only the
.dsn 9. I960; 10. Virginia.
hmd MASTER DIES
t .mceville, N. J.-ICPD-
The headmaster of wrence-
ville School xu, -------
died at 62 hera on Tuesday,
nr. muui -'
"Keep Pace....
A couDle of vears aeo the members of the
Governmental ODerations
son County Chamber of
1 Mi
memo era are quite iammar wim city uu tuuu
governmental problems ot to thinking about
the huge surplus funds earned over irom year to
year by the county.
The county (except for the recurrent and
now-discontinued habit of levying a tax every
third year to protect its tax base) had no need
of tax monies, due to its substantial income from
0 & C and Forest Service revenues.
But, so thought the members of the commit
tee. nroDertv taxes still are high, largely due to
the demands of school
extent of cities and other smaller taxing units.
see
THEY came up with this idea: Why doesn't the
county apply some of its surplus to increasing
its contribution to the school districts? It already,
under state law, pays each district $10 for each
school-age child. Why not increase this to $20?
The countv has no need for the money at the
moment: the school districts do. And the result
would be a lowering of property taxes.
It approached the county with this suggestion
last year, but it was not adopted. This year it tried
acain. and the county court and budget com
mittee this time accepted
effect for the 1959-60
There was one more committee action on this
matter. It came to their attention that some
districts planned to use the "windfall" money
without reducmg taxes by a comparable amount.
The committee called the attention of the dis
tricts to the tax-reduction intent of the county,
and persuaded them to revise their budgets to
provide this tax relief.
THIS is only one small example of what the
chamber, and one of its committees, does.
The same committee has met regularly each
week for several years, studied budgets and
countv and citv problems, and has become an
informed and vocal unit,
istened to with respect
biow that it represents
when they may disagree
Chamber officials declare that by the school
tax action alone the Governmental Operations
committee may well have saved some large tax
payers as much as their annual membership dues
in the chamber.
"THIS is only one. committee.
OfTiAM Viir -nrnflroA -frw rt offer nnrl TTinrP adfi-
VfWACXO uaiQ-nvinbU M s w www..
quate highways in this area (the new Medford
Klamath Falls route to be started this fall is a
direct outcrowth of work by the chamber's high
way committee). Chamber activity in the form
of a $b,uuu survey oi meaicai iacuiues, resources
and needs here was what the successful campaign
for a new hospital was based on. The chamber's
interest in off-street parking, while unsuccessful
on a municipal government level, has led to a
iree enterprise parK-ana-snop vauuauun pian.
Other committees appeared before the appropri
ate agencies on behalf of better air schedules
and today we have an air link with Klamath
Falls, which soon is to be extended east.
The chamber instigated and suported legisla
tion for the state water
study of the Rogue basin's potential a study
now completed, and which is serving as the basis
for planning for future
of the Talent project is
Another chamber-sponsored survey is paving
the way toward greater .utilization of wood
waste ' which now cannot be processed econom
ically. This, and other
show promise of bringing substantial returns in
the relatively near iuture.
THESE are a few of the
Medford business and professional women
were told earlier this
RPlf-nrornotinp- "Keep
program.
The committee in charge did a bang-up, con
vineiner iob of citine these and other accomplish
ments of the chamber. Arid the group with which
we were sitting seemed to be impressed, with
what the chamber has done, what it is doing on
a day-to-day as well as long range basis, what
it hopes to do in the future., and the fact that it
needs both a strong and active membership and
funds to do a proper job.
1 The job, essentially, is building a community
"climate" favorable to business.
But this means many things good govern
ment, good schools, good
ties, an eauitable tax
tation, and, perhaps most important of all, the
planning and work necessary to achieve these
advantages.
THE chamber (at long
. waking up to the vital necessity of planning
and zoning for orderly and prosperous develop
ment; for pollution control and abatement, both
in air and water, and for all the other amenities
which Jackson county has in abundance but is
in danger of losing by
vance thinking is done.
We shall hope that the chamber, revitalized
and adequately financed, will be given a chance
to tackle the broad program it wants to.
But it can't be done by a score or so people
If the chamber is to serve the way it should, l
will take active participation by many citizens
Like the man said,
it.' There isn't any George ! E. A.
!
committee of the Jack
Commerce all of its
Zi.1. -ii- J A.m4-rr
districts, and to a lesser
the plan and put it into
99
fiscal year.
the advice of which is
by public officials, who
informed thinking, even
with the conclusions.
resources board's $20,000
development. Its support
well-known.
actions of the chamber,
things which some 300
week, m the chambers
Pace With Tomorrow"
.
recreational opportuni
structure, good transpor
last, it seems to us) is
default unless some ad
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"Don't say Let George do
Dennis tho
Jill i. ?
'Ugy; I GOT AH m I INSTEAD
CAN &WE,WHy 00NT VA WBCfc
Matter of Fact i ap
Washington-Senate Major-'
ity Leader Lyndon Baines
Johnson means to keep his
law-makers at work at least
until Sept. 14
- an adjourn
ment date
without prec
edent in all
the sweaty,
toilsome an
nals of the
Congress
Senator
Johnson's rea-
4V.;a
rr-i
4oipb Alsop SUI1 1UI
extraordinary plan are highly
practical, as his reasons cus
tomarily are. The 1960 Demo
cratic convention is sched
uled for July 11 in Los An
geles. This means that next
. ... i A
year s session win nave io
end no later than July 3, if
the Senate's numerous Demo
cratic Presidential aspirants
are not to be sadly inconven
ienced. :
Thus the next session will
hardly be able-to do more
than pass the annual appro
priations buls. Meanwmie,
Senator Johnson ana ms sen
ior partner, Speaker of the
House Sam Rayburn, are
grimly determined to extract
whole series oi vioicnujr
controversial measures from
the 86th Congress. Come heU
or high water, they mean to
pass . a labor reform bill, a
civil rights biU, a school con
struction bill, and a minimum
wage bill.
9 -
ALL these passion-chargea
measures, if passed as
planned, wiU no doubt be ex
tremely moderate bills by the
standards of the Democratic
left wing. But passing even
the most moderate civil rights
and school construction biU,
for instance, will be a Hercu
lean feat. The job must be
done, if it is to be done at
aU. during the present ses
sion. This is why Johnson
and Rayburn have agreed to
continue the session for a pe
riod without any previous
peace-time parallel.
These facts have consider
able bearing on the row that
is now going on inside the
Democratic party. Over the
week end. the Chairman of
the Democratic National Com
mittee. Paul Butler, attacked
the party leadership in Con
gress for failing to come
along with the party program
and for following "a conserv
ative and moderate program"
of their own. Northern Dem
ocrats like Senators Joseph
Clark of Pennsylvania and
William Proxmire of Wiscon
sin have repeatedly said the
same sort of thing. But ask
Senator Proxmire, for exam
ple, how he will judge the
record of the session if aU
the shapely controversial bills
above-listed are,actua riy
passed, even in compromise
form. "It will be wonderful
if we can do as much as that,'
is his immediate response.
In other words, the first
point to remember is the
rather simple point that this
session's record is far from
complete. If Lyndon Johnson
has anything to do with the
outcome, it will not be
"won't do" record when fin
ally written.
- .
SOME Northern .Democrats
wiU stiU be dissatisfied
with the record, but mainly
because they share the opin
ion of the late Senator Robert
A. Taft, who once remarked
that "the business of an op
position is to oppose." Like
Taft when President Truman
was in office, they would
like to attack the President
at every' turn, whether or no
there was any prospect of
positive result. Speaker Ray
burn, Senator Johnson and
their comrades in the Demo
cratic leadership are con
vinced that this kind of fruit
less contention for conten
tion's sake is downright bad
poltics.
In the matter of the budget,
for instance, Johnson is by
no means wedded to the Pres
I
1 I
Monaco
OF SEEIN' HOW cicgeM
7HE BALI f& GLA&V
ident's view that the Ameri
can economy will faint and
faU if government invest
ment is substantially increas
ed. But he rightly holds that
the Congress cannot make a
comprehensive new attack on
the gigantic problem of gov
ernment investment. Con
gress can pass swollen ap
propriations bills, of course
But only the President can
take the initiative to revise
the tax structure. Only the
President can do all the other
complex and difficult things,
which certainly must be done
before government invest
ment can be increased with
safety.
e e e . .
THEREFORE Johnson and
Rayburn have decided that
spending is to be held down
at this session. Some North
ern Democrats are displeased
with this decision, but there
is no sign that' the country
is displeased. On the contrary,
the most recent poll by the
inquiring Dr. Gallup showed
that more Americans than
ever before-well over 60 per
cent-are now planning to
vote for Democratic Senators
and Representatives in the
next election.
As far as Congress is con
cerned, the political wisdom
of the Johnson approach was
amply proven in 1958. Be
fore that election, there was
grumbling about Johnson's
leadership very like the pres
ent grumbling, although it
was then rather more muted
in tne outcome, running on
the Johnson-Rayburn record,
the Democratic party scored
shattering triumph at the
polls.
Dr. Gallup's . latest figure
is only an extension and
confirmation of the testimony
of 1958. It must be added that
if the Republicans could find
such comfort anywhere, their
complacency and self-satisfaction
would be pretty nearly
Insupportable.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Suppose we call this space
today a Lost Persons Column.
Over the holiday week end,
a lot of persons got lost. For
tunately, they all got found.
At least, those who got into
the news got found.
That makes it a story with
a happy ending. We need more
of that kind of stories. .
THERE'S the boy who got
lost in the ruseed moun
tain country surrounding
Pinedale, Wyoming. He wan
dered away from his father
and his older brother, who
were fishing. When he didn't
return, a search party was
organized. More that 50 men,
half of them mounted, hunted
him for two days. Airplanes
joined the search, but saw
nothing from- the air.
They found him this morn
ing, safe and sound at a ranch
- which he had reached under
his own power. He got a bit
hungry, he' said, but he ate
berries.
LET'S turn now to the 13
Girl Scouts from Salida,
Colorado, who left camp on a
hike in the mountains and
failed to arrive that night at
a spot where food bad been
cached. Search parties combed
the area for them all the next
day. They were found by a
forest ranger, sitting pretty
oh the banks of a sparkling
creek.
They said they were in no
danger at any time. They
didn't know where they were,
but they knew what they were
about.
XTEXT on the list is the party
of 16 persons who under
Communications
" Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and addresa of
the writer although nder cer
tain circumstances tne use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
War An Absurbity?
To the Editor: America's
refusal to lift from hell Tibet,
which has in the ast been
a violation of every drop of
shed American blood and
every sacred thing this coun
try ever stood for, is now far
more crucial. For the Reds,
as revealed by the Dalai
Lama, are now attempting the
first genocide of aa entire
race (7 million) ever attempt
ed by man.
Yet is also true, as proven
at Quemoy, that the best Rus
sian air power cannot even
go up against our practically
obsolete air weapons without
being quickly, easily and ef
ficiently annihilated. (This
stopped the Quemoy invasion.)
This means Tibet, ringed by
the world's largest mountains,
is a prison for' the Chinese
troops who can easily be cut
off from help coming over the
high mountain passes. He who
controls the air controls Tibet.
The trapped troops would
be forced to capitulate to Chi
nese Nationalist and Tibetanl
troops. Russia's .air and mis
sile power is a gigantic hoax
as is shown in True magazine,
Berlin is the revolutionary
A-bomb of the Red empire
Khrushchev, hoping we'll ap
pease, is bluffing. Our air pow
ers makes World War III a
ridiculous absurdity.
We must act now. Every
second is precious. We must
save the lives of 7 million
people. It we don't, God wUl
surely let us face the firing
squad. The Tibetans have
taken to the best guerrilla
country in the world and are
fiehtine for their lives. Ten
thousand dead so far.
America's moment to be
true or false has come. Don't
count on our leaders. They
are living dead men. There
must come a rumbling from
the 1 good people of America
so strong as to shake to smith-
erines the very foundation of
inhumanity both here and in
Tibet. I'U write every paper
and leader in the country. God
save our souls and the people
of Tibet.
R. Zietlow
901 S. W. King Ave
Portland, Ore. ,
Duplicate Names
To the Editor: It has been
quite a surprise to note that
in the city of Medford there
should be duplications In the
names of streets. We do have
a Planning Committee, do we
not?
It would seem that a care
ful supervision of new addi
tions would be in order and
a real study of changes made
so there would be no dupli
cations and where there are
already streets of the same
name, that the last one named
should be changed.
There has been a Haven
Street in Medford for many
years. Surely there are
enough names that there
should not now have to be
another Haven Street in an
other part of the city, which
just leads to confusion.
Lefs hear from others on
this subject.
, (Name on file)
Medford
JENKINS
took to run some of the rough
est rapids of the Colorado
river in three rubber rafts,
They were advised against it,
but turned down the advice.
One raft overturned short
ly after the start, and its oc
cupants swam to shore-sal
vaging their raft, incidentally,
along with its food and camp
ing equipment. They decided
they'd had enough and made
camp on a sandbank. The
other two rafts made
through the rapids and
reached a little town.
An air search was organ
ized, and the members of the
expidition who had capsized
but made it to shore were
spotted on their sandbank by
a helicopter pilot and were
rescued in the course of tune
I1THY did they embark on a
hazardous enterprise like
running the rugged rapids of
the Colorado in rubber rafts?
Well
Why did the bear go over
the mountain? Why did Co
lumbus sail westward into the
unknown' and at that time
terror-filled Atlantic?
The answer is simple.
They wanted to see if they
could get away with it. . Soon
er or later, men will go soar
ing off into the unknown
reaches of outer space. Why
To see if they can get away
with it.
T of the searchers?
task involving a terrible waste
of time? I doubt it. When
lost - person searches have
HAPPY ENDING, as these
did, I think the searchers all
enjoy the break in the monot-
Sukarno's
As To His
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The question arises, in a na
tion unstable.both politically
and economically, just now
stable is the
g o v e rtnmen
of Indonesia's
President Su-
1 karno.
Sukarno, a
successful
revolutionary
but so far a
failure as an
administrator,
this week was
awiom
forced into
liked.
decision he dis-
14 iwl
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
DILEMMA OF THE
DEMOCRATS
Few foresaw how great
would be President Eisenhow
er's success in dealing with
this Demo
cratic Conr
gress. Al
though the
session is not
over the rec
o r d already
s h o.w s that
while he can
not induce the
PnnPTPSS to do
. aU that he
likes to do. for example to
uyyiuauus
hnv it confirm Admiral
Strauss, he has made himself
master of the situation on any
issue which involves the
spending of money. He is able
to defeat all the Democratic
measures dealing with de
fense, with foreign aid, witn
social welfare, and with pub
lic improvement. .
The Democrats have large
maiorities in both Houses
Why, then, does the President
have the upper nana.' ssox, as
Mr. Paul Butler has said, be-
r3n the Democrats m tne
Senate lack two votes of hav
ing a two-third majority cap
nhle of overriding a veto. For
the fact of the, matter is that
on measures requiring money,
the Democrats are split, with
an important minority sup
porting the President.
w
THE REASON, I believe,
whv the Democrats are un.
able to reap the results of the
1958 victory is that the con
dition of the country nas
rhanpprl since the election
ramnaiens of 1958. These cam-
naipns were fought at the
end of the recession of 1957-
1958 when there were sun
large unemployment and re
duced business expenditure
for nlant and eauipment.
It i. true that economists
had already detected signs of
an -uDturn in private employ
ment as early as April and
May before the election, ay
September, there were signs
that the recession in capital
exnenditure had ended. But
for the, mass of the voters and
for the politicians who were
running for Congress, the re
eesion was still a reality.
No one can say, I thinK,
that the Democrats won their
majority solely because of the
recession, though undoubtedly
it helped them. For even to
day, when the recovery has
become a boom, tne demo
cratic party in the Congres
sional contest continues to
gain popularity as against the
Republican party.
What we can say is tnat
when the Democratic canai
dates made their promises to
the voters, the country be
lieved that it was fighting the
recession. The promises in
volved increased Federal ex
penditures for slum clearance,
education, health, airports,
power development ana tne
like. All of these measures
were attractive and msmy of
them necessary in themselves.
But they were also useiui in
creating jobs in stimulating
business.
IN A RECESSION the gen
erally accepted remedy is
public expenditure financed
by borrowed money which
shows up as a budgetary de
ficit. There are, I realize,
many who reject this theory.
But the President and his Ad
ministration do not reject it.
In 1957, when the recession
was showing itself, the Presi
dent too was a ""spender," and,
though it was not avowed ex-
ony. "
As to the loss of time, the
MACHINE has fortunately
taken care of that by getting
work done faster and thus
providing more LEISURE
time.
F conclusion:
Should things like going
out in the country where you
might get ldst, thus causing
great inconveniences to your
fellow men, be PROHIBITED
BY LAW? I hope not.
If people generally reach
the point where they SHUN
ALL DANGER, when they
refuse to tackle seemingly
foolish things just to see if
they can get away with it,
this will be a different world.
I'm afraid it will be a less
pleasant world to live in.
Coup Raises Doubt
Political Stability
He returned from a 8Vs
week round-the-world good
will tour to find his Parlia
ment in revolt against his
"guided democracy" plan, and
national inflation in such a
state that first families quiet
ly were selling jewels, furnl-1
ture, clothing for something
to eat.
Sukarno promised quick,
decisive action.
His action was to dissolve
Parliament and, by decree, to
abolish the nation's provi
sional constitution.
. He thereby assumed to him
self virtual dictatorial powers.
For Sukarno, it was an un-
Lippmann
cept by certain of his own
experts, his Administration
was by no means opposed to
deficit as one remeay zor
recession.
What was true in Novem
ber, 1958, when the elections
were fought, . was no longer
true when the victorious Dem
ocrats came to Washington in
1959. The recession was over.
And according to the accept
ed theory, deficits are desir
able in a slump and they are
evil during a boom. This
meant that the progressive
programs of the Democrats
could no longer, as was taken
for granted in the election
campaign, be financed by bud
getary deficit. If the new
measures were to be adopted,
they would have to be paid
for by an increase in taxes.
m m m
THIS, it seems to me, is the
reason whv the President
has prevailed when tne ex
penditure of ' money is in
volved and why the Demo
crats feel so frustrated about
the results of their great vic
tory in 1958.
Their progressive program
may be as desirable as ever.
But it now depends not on
painless borrowed money, as
in the recession, but on pain
ful taxation. Only a handful
of Democrats have ever pro
posed, much less fought for,
new taxes to finance their
progressive measures. The
great majority of the Demo
crats as well as all the .Re
publicans regard it as indis
putable dogma that the tax
rates set in 1954 are untoucn-
able.
Now if you will not raise
taxes, if you know you must
avoid a deficit during a boom
lest it inflate prices, then the
extra expenditures for de
fense and for welfare and for
public services must be given
up.
e . e e
AMONG7 the Democrats
there are two arguments
going on about this dilemma
One, which is interesting, is
as yet a sideshow. It turns on
the theory of Dr. Keyersiing,
which I do not myself wholly
understand, that instead of
restrictions to prevent in
flation what we need is bold
expansion of public and pri
vate investments. This may
become a practical political
issue in the future. For the
present it is an argument
among theoretical economists.
The central argument, how
ever, is among the practical
politicians. The very great
majority of them are, in eco
nomics, quite orthodox. They
accept the dogma that taxes
cannot be raised, that deficits
must be avoided, and that,
therefore, the President's
vetoes will prevail. The argu-
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pleasant decision on two
counts.
A Compromiser by Nature
First, ho is by nature a
compromiser and the easier
course would have been once
more to seek a compromise
among Indonesia's warring
political parties and by other
compromises to look for a
way out of the labyrinth of
other difficulties ranging from
inflation to revolt.
Second, It appeared the dor -dsion,
was not Sukarno's own, -but
the Army's. . '
For the first time in the his
tory of independent Indo
nesia, Sukarno himself was
on the spot, without the shield
of a premier who might be
blamed for national ills.
His first aim was to abolish
opposition from political
parties. The government ho
planned .would consist of a
cabinet not based on parties,
a national planning council
and an advisory council com
posed of experts appointed by
Sukarno, and, finally, a peo
ples congress wherein presi
dential appointees also would
hold the balance of power.
From top to bottom, it is to
be a Sukarno government.
The question of the stability
of Sugarno's own tenure arises
in the Indonesian army, and
particularly in the attitude of
its chief of staff, Lt. Gen.
Abdul Haris Nasution.
Nasution is a 39-year-old
officer who is an intolerant
of communism as Sukarno is
tolerant.
Nasution telegraphed Su-"1
karno's punch days in ad
vance by revealing the nature
of Sukarno's coming decree.
He also is belived to be the
man who forced it upon Su
karno.
. The present situation could
be called a military coup with,
the army the real power. But
it is Sukarno who has the
popularity and the guessing"
now is that his post presently
is in no danger.
ment here is between Senator
Johnson and the Democrats
specially concerned with elec
tions in Northern states where
the two parties are evenly
balanced. Senator Johnson's
critics want him to pass the;
progressive measures and let
the President veto them, thus
building up a demonstration
to the voters of what the
Democrats would like to do if
only the Republicans would
let them.
- ; e .i e :.- . t .
,L this work? If it does,
can be only because the
voters have been allowed; to
forget that in good times the
spending measures have to be
paid for by visible taxes. In
bad times, these measures are
paid for invisibly out of un
employed labor and unused
plant. In good times, without
a tax bill attached to them,
these progressive measures
are hot sincere, and the voters
will have plenty of people to
tell them not to be deceived.
My own view is that in the
era we have now entered this
country will have tq spend
more on public services and
public facilities, and -that
these will have to be financed
at the expense of private con
sumption. We are a rich coun
try privately but,, compara
tively, we are a poor country
in our public life.
But this is a new concep
tion, and it will take bid lead-?
ers, much public explanation
and argument, and fresh blood
from the new; generations to
make it prevail in practical
politics,
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