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Thursday, August 6, 1959
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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
Aucr. 6. 1949 (Saturday)
Control of flying sawdust
from local mills is a topic be
fore the Ashland city coun
cil.
Nuggets and muzzle -load
r are among relics' to be
displayed at the Jacksonville
Gold Rush Jubilee.
20 YEARS AGO
Alio. 6, 1939 (Cunday)
An arsonist sets 10 nres
along Crater Lake. highway
from Brookhurst orchard to
4ct ghnvs Trail.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudee Pot" column: "The
tomato crop is coming along
fine, and will soon oe ripe
enough for a speech on their
food value, by Peoria Bill
Gates."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6, 1929 (Tuesday)
Women are asked to form
an organization to oppose the
WCTU.
Mary Greiner and Edward
C. Kelly are married.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. S. 1919 (Wednesday)
Rogue valley fruitmen pro
test a threatened nationwide
rail strike.
-A-jforest patrol air fleet is
expected to stop at Medford.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1909 (Friday)
M. F. Hanle7 obtains an in
junction to keep Medford wa
ter line workers off his land.
, A "demented" y ng man
causes a stir when he hops
from an SP train in the Siski-
vous and attempts to outwalk
It, explaining the train's pace
was too slow tor nis tastes.
What's Your I.Q.?
ki:. -tan correct is superior:
save er eight is excellent; five et
six is food.
1. Is commerce between the
States called interstate or in
trastate commerce?
2. Name the next two states
to be admitted to the Union
after the first thirteen.
3. Aries is one of the signs
of the zodiac; what does the
name mean? '
4. What was the unit of
value impressed on the first,
gold coins minted by the U.S.?
5. Did the first U. S. Con
gress (1789) meet in Wash
ington, Philadelphia, or New
York City?
6. Which one of these states
leads in mineral production
Nevada, California, or Colo
rado? 7. Is a drone bee a male, or
a female?
8. The original Taft-Hartley
Act (Labor relations) was en
acted in 1947 with President
Truman's approval; true or
false?
9. Give the four-letter time
designation which has a pro
nunciation, similar to a per
sonal pronoun.
10. The U. S Government
has not officially recognized
the "State of Israel; true or
false?
iAnjwers: 1. Interstate; 2.
Vermont and Kentucky; 3.
The Ranv No valu hown;
S Ntw York City; 6. Cali
fornia: 7. Male; 8. False,
rpaued ow to); 9. Hour
(out); 10. False.
.
About 15 per cent Amer
ican workers are accorded a
daily coffee break.
$50 for Litter
A total of 485 new
yesterday.
One of the less-ncticed among them, but of
importance nonetheless,
$50 for disposing of litter within 100 yards of
any stream, lake, reservoir or pond or channel
thereof. . -
, "Litter"-r-in case anyone doesn't know in
cludes beer cans, paper
paper cups and plates,
packages and practically
bage you can name.
It's too bad that such
is. It is to be hoped that it will be respected, or,
at worst, enforced. E.A.
The Debate in Art
The formation in Portland of an organization
entitled "Art for Oregonjans" is something which
hardly could have happened 15 or 20 years ago.
" The ptoud is dedicated to the proposition that
art should be "beautiful," "recognizable," and
"understandable." It came into oeing, at least
ostensibly, as a result of the Centennial Commis
sion's employment of "modern" and "abstract"
art in the decoration of some parts of the Cen
tennial Exposition.
In addition, "Art for Oregonians" claims that
undue emphasis on the modern trend was given
in the exhibit of art work at the Centennial
despite the fact that a goodly number of "rep
resentational" works are included.
NOW two decades ago a pretty good argument
about "modern" vs. "traditional" art could
have been worked' up. But it would have raged
in fairly circumscribed circles.
It hardly would have been the subject of ar
ticles in the papers, of letters-to-the-editor, of
petitions to the governor, or f or heaven's sake
of a "mass meeting of protest" which last week
attracted some 30 people (including, as the Ore
gonian's story pointed out, "five spies from the
Portland Art Museum").
It reveals graphically how art, in the form of
paintings, sculpture and related media, has made
a'Strong impact on the consciousness of an ever
widening circle of people. Not long ago, very few
people would have cared very much; now a lot
of people care greatly.
THE Medford Library reports that, this year
alone, some 400 books concerning art in all its
aspects have been published a total which is
100 more than the" number of similar titles pub
lished 10 years ago.
What the library didn't feel it necessary to
note, also, is the fact that the older titles were
largely for a specialized
and connoisseurs while
to a far wider public.
A concomitant of this
people than ever before
themselves; actually creating, rather than just
standing on the sidelines,
IT IS this widespread
can rage, in and out of
realms, even, of politics
ers maintain a nervous
And so the debate proceeds. It uses a special
vocabulary, too, such words as "representation
al "Vo,-,tiAil ".or."Met; "ti-orlitirmol "
CLiy. ucauwui) i caucus auu uxuu.xuj.uuux,
on the one hand, and "modern," "abstract," "non
representational," "impressionistic," "experimen
tal," and pthers similar, on the other hand.
(One should be cautioned: the words, as used
in this debate, often have special meanings not
listed in the dictionary, or common to the words
as nsprl in nnnnlar disp.nni'se.
THE debate is too arcane and esoteric (not to
But there are a couple
Such as the fact that the more intelligent of
the modernists embrace the whole ivide field of
art traditional and representational as well as
abstract ai-d modern so
The traditionalists grant
grace. Their position might be stated, with some
oversimplification and
ness, m the old, old bromide, "I don't know much
about art, but I know
They do indeed. They also know what they
don t like and it as what they cannot under
stand, and don't want to understand.
So the debate will continue.
IT IS not a new one, but a different version of
one which has a history stretching far back
into the past. (Indeed,
almost universally accepted today was the center
of a hot controversy when it was new. Vincent
Van Gogh, to list but one name, was challenged
as a radical in his own
As long as artists feel that well-established
schools offer them little challenge; as long as
tney leel a need to experiment in light, in color,
in design, in form and shape and ideas, just so
long will they produce controversial art.
Some of it will wind up in history's waste
basket. But some of it, the best of it, will be
accepted, eventually will become commonplace
And then new innovators will come along,
and-the debate, will resume the same disagree
ments but with difierent
laws went into effect
provides a fine of up to
napkins, paper bags,
facial tissue, cigarette
any other trash or gar
a law is needed. But it
audience artists, critics
the books today appeal
is the fact that more
are "dabbling" in art
looking and talking.
interest which furnishes,
the press, and into the
where the office-hold
neutrality.
of points worth noting.
long as it is good art,
no such wide-ranging
perhaps a jot of unfair
what I like.
some of the art which is
day, and died a pauper.)
words. E.A.
Dennis the
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He's pact emr Qamz, part Irish set-up, an dad savs he's
GOT A L0TTA PUOtXE IN HIM.7C0.
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often Jh case.
Keep Up the Work
To the Editor: Don Faber
has forewarded several of
your editorials concerning the
development of Southern Ore
gon Oregon. Since I am a
property owner in the Toio
Area, I wish to express my
approval of your efforts to
cause immediate steps to be
taken to retain the beauty of
the area through planned
growth of the community and
use of Bear Creek for pur
poses other than a sewage
canal.
Please keep up . the good
work.
T. Parker, ;
P.O., Box 84,
Alamo, Calif.
. . . .
Onjy Time Is Left ,
To the Editor: By way of
redundancy, your collectivist
thinking is approaching the
extreme end. (Editorial, Mail
Tribune, Aug. 4, 1959, ".Na
tional Seashores.")
After some 30 years, a com
bination of communists, so
cialists, and other assorted col
lectivists, have succeeded in
having the government enter
and proceed to dominate the
fields of: Communications, fi
nances, producing food for
the country, producing elec
tric power, distributing inter
state commerce, direction of
education, and many fields of
social welfare. All this has
been brought about by more
or less convincing the people
the Federal government, of
its nature must dominate
these fields (a false doctrine);
or that the people must be
protected from the excess
profits seekers known as pri
vate enterprisers.
Now these benevolent think
ers are preparing the people
to be convinced the Federal
government must protect
them from the "depredations
of over-commercialism," in
the field of recreation!
Here we are then, a nation
in a very curious predica
ment ... In debt up to our
ears, living, to a large extent
off the potential productive
capacity of future genera
tions, and it "is" incumbent
upon the government", to
spend more of this future
wealth in order to protect us
now, from having to pay for
a good time.
Look, just this once, leave
the field of recreation to the
so-called excess profiteers try
it . . . Maybe it will drive
the people away from the
beaches, away from the lakes
and resorts, away from the
forests, and drive them back
into their homes, where they
may. revert to that ancient
clan known as the family;
where there is real wealth,
real criticism, real joy, real
help. Where they don't have
the government leading them
around by the hand, insuring
protection against all kinds
of avaricious people running
private businesses.
The collectivists have had
30 or 40 years to prove a
point. They have had a mini
mum of 20 centuries of ac
cumulated wisdom to draw
from. Still, our country goes
deeper and deeper in debt,
and the moral fiber grows
ever more decadent. Only
time is left. Time is still
mankind's one asset. - '
Use it '
Robert J. Howard,
838B West 14th St.,
Medford
Communist Threat
To the Editor: There is a
seeming paradox that may
prove of some practical im-
portance. The communist
myth is believed more ardent
ly outside of communist-con
trolled territories than within
them. Within the Soviet do
main there are, it is true, es
pecially ' among the youth,
some millions of total believ
ers, whose minds and souls
Menace v
are shaped absolutely by the
communist myth.
But there is every reason to
think that this is not true of
the majority of the people.
The outside world may be led
tobelieve that workers rule
in Russia; but the Russian
workers know by life that
they . are serfs and slaves.
Comfortable American jour
nalists can believe that Stalin
liquidated counter-revolution
ary kulaks as a class, bunRus-
sian peasants know that he
tortured and killed and
robbed their families and
starved neighbors.
English and American
preachers and diplomats can
accept the confessions at the
Moscow trials; and compla
cently explain" them as ex
pressions of the peculiarities
of the Russian soul, but Rus
sians who knew and worked
with the" defendants under
stand that the confessions are
fables of the NKVD.
French poets can rejoice at
the unanimity of will, shown
by a Soviet election; but Rus
sians know how that unanim
ity is obtained. ' .
In 1939 the people of east
ern Poland hailed the Red
army as the liberator. But we
know from much evidence
that within a few months or
weeks the welcome had faded.
So in other dominated ter
ritories of eastern Europe
Alter the iirst tiusn it was
not the myth, but the terror
and fears, and hopes for
berth in the very unmythical
apparatus, that kept the peo
ple, or most of them, under
the communist whip. The
communist reality blights the
communist myth. The myth is
powerful, but with the power
of a compelling mira?e, not
that of the substantial moun
tains.
The international, unique
and very high among the pow
er assets of communism, is
the international organiza
tion. No nation has at its dis
posal any force remotely com
parable. The international sec
tions are an incomparable in
telligence Dureau. They are
the greatest propaganda body
ever known or conceived;
mey are a permanent pres
sure group, and when neces
sary, they can act, from with
in, as a military auxiliary,
They function, in addition, to
forestall independent, non-
communist mass movements,
either by diverting or captur
ing or crushing them.
The Americans will have to
organize to combat commu
nists infiltrated in strategic
spots in the nation.
Mrs. Jean Reilly,
338 North Laurel st.,
Ashland, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The week's brightest story:
.The Coiditream Guards sen
try at the Buckingham Palace
gate who took it as longas he
could and then "shouldered
arms, advanced three paces,
executed a correct right turn
on his heel and planted a pre
cise and polished boot on the
tender rear portion of a young
woman tourist" who had been
trying to trap him into break
ing orders and protocol by
twitiching an unauthorized fa
cial ; muscle or turning his
eyes from the prescribed front
and center.
UNMILITARY?
Discourteous?
Bad international relations?
WELL, try sometime stand
two hours at rigid atten
tion on a hot day, clothed in
a stifling uniform, wearing on
your head a bearskin shako
weighing maybe four pounds
and, if need be, letting a fly
Geneva Conference
But It Did 'Clear the
By K. C. THALER
Geneva - (UPD - The foreign
ministers' conference that
ended here Wednesday
achieved nothing concrete,
but diplomats believe.it start
ed a "chain reaction" that
may soon ease explosive in
ternational tensions.
The conference produced
no agreement on Berlin, Ger
many,. European security, or
Four Power summit meet
ingthe chief issues it was
called to discuss. .
But despite its failure, it
removed the immediate So
viet threat to Berlin and
temporarily froze East-West
positions, giving the West at
least a temporary breather.
Helped Bring About Visits
The deadlock in Geneva
talks was responsible to no
small degree for the historic
decision to exchange visits be
tween President Eisenhower
and Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev this fall.
Matter of Fact
KHRUSHCHEV'S DIVIDEND
Washington - President Ei
senhower's invitation to visit
the United States is Nikita S.
Khrushchev's latest and most
s u b s t a n tial
dividend from
the B'e r 1 i n
crisis.
Everyone is
rejoicing over
the great
things to be
gained by ex
posing Khru
shchev to our
?..nnVkln
l.nh A Ion UW11 1UCUOU1C,
all-inspiring charm and might.
Hence, one does not want to
be a spoil-sport. But the fact
had better be faced that Khru
shchev has got the American
government to do what he has
lone wanted, although the
American government, Until
very recentiy, did not want
to do this m the very least.
The record on this point is
all too plain. From the begin
ning of the Soviet agitation
for a 'second meeting at the
summit, Khrushchev has made
it almost comically clear what
kind of summit he preferred
What he has always pressed
for is just the kind of summit
he is now going to enjoy - a
face-to-face meeting with
President Eisenhower, with no
lesser nations represented at
the table.
AS WILL be recalled, the
-f. official Soviet pressure
for "a second summit meeting
started when poor Nikolai
Bulganin was still Premier of
the U.S.S.R. Officially, with
one eye on the so-called neu
trals like India, Bulganin re
peatedly proposed an enor
mous and impossibly unwield-
Iv rallv of a score or more
of chiefs of state.
Unofficially, meanwhile,
walk all over your face with
out moving a muscle. .
You might BLOW UP, just
as this one did.
Anyway, it proves that even
Coldstream Guards are hu-
man
beings under the skin.
FARM program note:
The department of agri
culture today named 37
wheat varieties as undesirable
because -of inferior milling or
baking qualities. They will be
discounted 20 cents a bushel
in price support rates on the
1960 crop. ,
The discount is designed to
discourage production of
these varieties.
HMMMMMM.
.One wonders how well
adapted they might be to
STORAGE which appears to
be the principal purpose for
which wheat is grown these
days.
YOUTHFUL ambitions note:
Cleveland McCarty, 26,
a Denver dental student at
Washington University in St.
Louis, is four days ahead of
schedule in his attempt to
scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,-000-foot
peaks in as many
days.
He has climbed 31 of the
peaks in, 27 days.
p ? ? ? ? ?
All in all, it's probably a
better idea than trying to see
how many human bodies can
be crammed into a telephone
booth.
nOVERNOR MARK HAT-
FIELD of Oregon, who is
attending a governors confer
ence in San Juan, Puerto
says:
"I hope Khrushchev will be
eiven a cross-section view of
this country rather than a re
inforcement of the Hollywood-
Manhatten version this is so
prevalent aboard."
T KNOW what you mean,
Mark.
We newspaper people feel
the same way about our busi
ness. It gives us the scream
ing meenies to watch a Hollywood-Manhattan
version of
the newspaper and how it
operates.
The state of Washington is
as large as all New England
plus Delaware.
Nothing was solved in Gen
eva, but the day-to-day nego
tiations herecleared the way
for . what may prove to be
more important developments
in the cold war and brought
East-West differences into
sharper focus. .
The Four Power talks dem
onstrated more clearly than
ever the wide gulf that sep
arate the West from the Rus
sians, with no remedy in
sight. -.- '
The chances of German uni
fication are dimmer than they
have been since the start of
the cold war, witwh Russia
increasingly intent on perpet
uating the partition, unless
West Germany is engulfed in
the "socialist" camp.
Rusiia's Aims Listed , ' . ... I
Russia's overall aim, as it
emerged from the Geneva ne
gotiations, is to "win Western
approval of the status quo in
Europe., implying the perman
Joseph AIsop
Khrushchev, who already had
most of the real power in his
hands, was telling all and
sundry a quite different story.
He was saying that the only
way to settle anything was for
him and the President to get
together alone in a corner.
Khrushchev first put this
proposition to certain eminent
foreign personalities, like Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt and Eneu-
rin Bevan, who were visiting
Russia. They were of course
expected to pass the word on
to the State Department, and
thev dulv did so. When there
was no response ,to these feel
ers, Khrushchev came out into
the open at the Kremlin re
ception on New Year's ' Day,
1958. In the toast he then of
fered in the presence of the
whole diplomatic colony, he
again urged a bi-lateral meet
ing between himself and Ei
senhower.
-
IjVVEN this blunt, overt ap-
proach got no answer from
Washington. Khrushchev was
not even informally asked just
what he wished to discuss
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles was then un-
shakably opposed to any sum
mit meeting. Dulles further
more disliked the idea of a bi
lateral summit most of all. At
that time, too, 'the President
fullv shared the views of
Dulles, as he continued to do
until just the other day.
The first shift from this
Dolles - Eisenhower position
took place when Khrushchev
first pressed the Berlin lever
As soon as Berlin was threat
ened. Secretary Dulles him
self was forced to agree that
a summit conference might
possibly be desirable. He add
ed. however, that such a con
ference would first have to be
"justified" by some progress
at a meeting of the Foreign
Ministers. He . did not even
bother to add that a bi-lateral
summit was out of the ques
tion.
For the record, it is still the
American government's posi
tion that a summit conference
is desirable, but must first be
"justified" by progress at the
Foreign Ministers' level. But
at Geneva, there was no pro
gress at all. The second meet
ing of the Foreign Ministers
was worse than the first, if
anything. And if the meeting
dissolved in ' frustration a
second time, no one could tell
what would happen at Berlin.
IN THESE circumstances,
when all hope was fading
at Geneva in mid-July, the
idea of a White House invita
tion to Khrushchev acquired
all sorts of new attractions.
It would reinsure the Berlin
position, at least for the time
being. It would give Khru
shchev what he has always
desired - a bi-lateral summit.
It would avoid the appearance
of any American climb-down
from the position that a sum
mit must be "justified," be
cause the invitation could be
presented as personal, in
formal, and devoid of summit
overtones. In this manner,
Khrushchev got his dividend.
Sober realism requires all
the foregoing facts be borne
in mind.-When the American
government abandoned long
held views under Soviet pres
sure, it is an event worth not
ing. At the same time, these
facts do not necessarily mean
that the original Dulles-Eisenhower
views about a second
summit meeting were correct
views, even in 1957.
Many very able men have
always held other views. For
instance, the American Am
bassador to Moscow, Llewel
lyn Thompson, has all along
maintained that Khrushchev
had something important to
say, which he wished to say
only in person and to Eisen
hower alone. What this new
Monster of Glamys may be,
no one can be sure. But many
others feel as Ambassador
Thompson feels; and if Khru
shchev has this special some
thing that he wants to say, it
is surely worth hearing. That
alone justifies what has now
happened.
(Copyright 1959 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Accomplished Little
Decks' for Talks
ent division of Germany and
the recognition of Soviet dom
ination of the captive nations
of the continent.
The Russians also want the
West to give, up itS bases in
Europe and elsewhere, aban
don German rearmament and
withdraw from Berlin.
The Geneva tallks indicated
that this is the price Moscow
wants for a settlement with
the West, though Russia is
Today G" Tomorrow
By Walter
A DIPLOMATIC
BREAKTHROUGH
Mr. . Nixon's trip to Russia
has proved to be muchjnore
important than many of us
expected it to be. In fact, it
has produced
a ; diplomatic
breakthrough.
This is not
only because
he has han
dled himself
skillfully and
with poise,
biit because
he took with
him to Mos
cow a large and unexpected
and appetizing concession to
Soviet policy. This was the
acceptance of the idea that
peace can be maintained by
direct discussion at the high
est level between Moscow and
Washington.
This is a big departure from
our previous position. Mr,
Nixon was no longer insisting
that there could be no dis
cussion at the highest level
until there was some sub
stantial agreement by the
Fireign Ministers. But most
important of aU he negotiated
the exchange of visits, and
thus he acquiesced in the
idea of by-passing the multi
lateral Foreign Ministers and
indeed the multi-lateral sum
mit meeting itself by bi-lat
eral 'contacts between the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
Thus Mr. Nixon did not in
duce Mr. K. in . Moscow to
make concessions about Ber
lin and about Germany which
Mr. Herter has been unable to
obtain from Mr. Gromyko at
Geneva. What Mr. Nixon did
was to propose to Mr. K
something much more inter
esting and attractive than the
deadlock over Berlin. This
opened the way to direct ne
gotiation on global problems
with the United States.
This has long been a prime
Soviet objective, and in mak
ing the objective attamable,
Mr. Nixon was assured of a
good reception not only by
the Soviet government but
also by the Polish govern
ment. THE exchange of visits, ar
ranged by Mr. Nixon, is
a far-reaching and sensation
al event. It is a deliberate
change of diplomatic strategy
by the Eisenhower adminis
tration. This is shown by the
fact that our allies have been
consulted and their blessing
has been obtained before Mr.
Nixon in Moscow opened the
door to a visit by Mr. K. Our
allies and we have moved a
long way since May.
Why? No doubt because we
have learned at Geneva that
we cannot get an agreement
at the price that, coUectively,
we are willing to pay. At the
same time, neither- the Rus
sians nor the rest of us have
DiGNrr AND
Asm tnm riw
'Walter
Lippmann '
RANK MORGAN HAIOLD SNODGRASS, FUNHAl D ROTORS
DAY OR NfGhT
apparently prepared to pro
ceed by slow stages. -
Whatever the merits of the
Geneva talks, authoritative
observers believe they "clear
ed the decks' and laid bare
the conflicting positions from
which neither side is ready to
budge at present.
These conclusions provide
the background to the next
round of discussions in Mos
cow and Washington.
lippmann
any appetite for a showdown
over Berlin. They are ready.
therefore, to try something
else and are supporting a new
strategy arranged by Mr. Nix
on, which is to change the
subject and to aUow both
sides to back away from a
showdown. ,
WHAT we have backed away
into is a round of popu
lar diplomacy which draws its
energy from the popular feel
ing everywhere that a nucle
ar war must be avoided. For
the time being at least, the
professional diplomats and
the old chieftains abroad have
been pushed aside by the pol
iticians who are far more
"flexible" than the diplomats
ever dreamed of being.
Perhaps if the diplomats
had been allowed by the old
statesmen to be flexible
enough to negotiate effective
ly, tlfty would not have been
pushed aside by the young
politicians. Dr. Adenauer and
Gen. de Gaulle have deflected
Mr. Macmillan and they have
held Mr. Herter in an unne-
gotiable position. But they
have been unable to hold the
Republican party in an elec
tion year. For their pain, they
have Mr. Nixon to deal with,
and Mr. Nixon is not only
running for President but is
running on a. very popular
line, which is to avoid war by
seeing a lot more of the Rus
sians. Pr MOST respects, Mr. Nix
on's television address in
Moscow was self-respecting
and well directed to the Rus
sians who heard it. But on
one important point, his ex
uberance took him onto soft
and dangerous ground. This
was in the implications of
what he said about co-existence:
that co-existence is not
good enough and that we -should
have not two worlds
but one world. The implica
tions of this passage were
that Mr. K. would or could
not detach the Soviet Union
from its interest in and - its
support of the great revolu
tionary movements in Asia,
Africa, and Latin America.
This is not possible, and it
will not happen. The Soviet
Union may not, or iinost cer
tainly will not, give direct
military support to any of the
various revolutionary move
ments. But it will help them
by measures short of war, and
because of that we shall not
be living in "one world" of
like-minded nations but in at
least two worlds of co-existing
but competing rival na
tions. . It is unwise to let exuber
ance create illusions, and to
let the best, which would be
universal harmony, become
the enemy of the modest good
which may be practicable.
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