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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
March 8. 1950 (Tuesday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce will move head
quarters from Medford hotel
to 5 South Riverside ave., at
end of month.
City council goes on record
favoring daylight savings
time last night, and city may
adopt it at end of April.
20 YEARS AGO
March 8, 1940 (Friday)
The war department today
called for bids for construc
tion of Army's proposed radio
operations building at the
Medford municipal airport.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Astoria boxing commis s i o n
has suspended a wrestler for
unbecoming conduct.' What
In the world could it be?"
SO YEARS AGO
March 8, 1930 (Saturday)
A state frost expert will ar
rive in Medford and take up
duties on March 17.
Phoenix defeats Talent 25
to 16 to win county basket
ball title. -
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40 YEARS AGO
March 8. 1920 (Monday)
S u p e r i n tendent of city
school is verbally attacked by
parents who are meeting to
consider wholesale firing of
school teachers.
A campaign will.be launch
ed against violators of Jack
son county game rules.
80 YEARS AGO
March 8. 1910 (Tuesday)
Local boosters form Crater
Lake Highway commission
and plan to start soliciting
$100 donations from 1,000
persons tomorrow to build
highway which state refuses
to do.
Wagon load of lime and
sulphur spray for trees acci
dentally falls in Little Butte
creek and it is feared it will
kill all the fish. -
Vhai's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; fbra or
lis is good.
1. What quadruped is re
garded . to be the "King of
Beasts '?
2. Invention of the cotton
gin in usually credited to
whom? .
3. . Saintpaulia is another
name for which one of these:
Geranium, Pansy, or African
Violet?
4. Who succeeded Winston
Churchill as Prime Minister
of Britain?
5. The second stomach of
birds, in which the food is
ground, is called the gi---?
6. "Green Mountain State"
Is ; the nickname for which
New England State?
7. According to the pro
verb, "Rome was not built -.
- --?
8. The oath of office of
President of the U.S. is us
ually administered by what
high government official?
9. Which bird has the abil
ity to fly backward?
10. Which of these is used
to measure wind velocity:
barometer, hydrometer, or
anemometer?
Answers: I. The lion. 2. Eli
Whitney. 3. African Violet. 4.
First. Clement Allee. second.
Anthony Eden. 5. Giziard. 6.
Vermont. 7. "In one day." 8.
Chief Justice of Supreme
Court. 9. Hummingbird. 10.
Anemometer. ...
The ADC Welfare Program
All the discussion, much of it heated, about
the "sterilization of unwed mothers" resulting
from Governor Hatfield's letter, has tended to
obscure a couple of important facts.
The first is that the Aid to Dependent Chil
dren program is admittedly an expensive one.
The second is that it does a creat amount of
good, and those wno aouse it are m a small mm
ority.
o
CLSEWHERE on this
which serves to substantiate the second point
t i t i r i T l J
maae aDOve. it is irom a woman wnose nusDanu
became disabled, and only ADC aid has enabled
her to keep her family together, to raise her child
to be a self-respecting, useful tax-paying citizen.
The example which she furnishes is far more
typical of the ADC program than is the lazy, un
disciplined, promiscuous unwed mother al
though this type undoubtedly is represented, too.
The state has estimated that about a million
dollars a vear is naid out
ers and their children.
t i
to snow now mucn 01 wis goes to true umor
tunates, and how much to those who may be in-
-a 1 m ll .
clined to taKe advantage
C1 OVERNOR Hatfield's
of public welfare is understandable. He was
elected, after all, on promises of saving tax
money.
But nowhere in his letter did he propose a
sten which has been demonstrated to be the surest
way to save money in
This is to increase the number and canoer or.
social case workers.
This may sound paradoxical, and in some
ways it is.
"Rut when a o-ood caseworker can handle only
50 cases, rather than the usual 150, he can often
reduce costs markedly.
In Richmond, Va., recently, a special ADC
unit was set up with five caseworkers, each of
them handling not more than 50 families at a
time. Of 850 cases handled durinsr the neriod. 53
per cent were enabled to
rer cent made enough
grants reduced. And about a half million dol
lars was saved thereby.
THIS is one of the facets of the ADC program
vorim4on in on
Redbook magazine, by
titled "The Campaign
dren."
- Lobsenz documents his charge that the ADC
program is under attack, and adds :
"In itself that is nothing new. ADC has been at
tacked almost from the day it was set up in 1935. What
is new is the vehemence of the attacks and the prom
inence of the attackers. Recently two United States
Senators charged, in effect, that ADC was subsidizing
immorality ...
"Unwed mothers and irresponsible fathers are the
chief targets of ADC's attackers. But critics of the pro
gram also cite its ever-growing caseload and cost of
operation. They point to cases of fraud a father who -fakes
a desertion so that his family can get aid, a
a mother who uses an ADC check to buy liquor instead
of food. They claim that many families 'make a career
of living off ADC."
'.
LOBSENZ goes on to knock most of these alle
gations in the head. While in a few cases
they are true, he declared these are the exception,
not the rule. He says:
"In the course of a three-month investigation into
workings of ADC I found evidence that most ADC
families are honest, reluctant to accept aid, and eager
to return to self-sufficiency. The program has helped
thousands of families like these over critical periods
of real need ..."
While ADC has erown ranidlv in ecent
years, it is less a case of
to mulct the government lor their living man it
is the increase in population, and a breakdown
in families divorce, desertion and illegitimacy
rates BEFORE government help is sought.
-" In other words, ADC is not a cause of in
creased moral decay, but the increased use of
ADC is a symptom of it. And he makes the point
that, often, ADC becomes the "bridge" that helps
a family back to self-sufficiency and self-respect.
pHE author makes another point, too :
"But even from an entirely selfish point of view,
the only alternative to helping people in trouble is a
dangerous one. The people, on public assistance are
not dwellers in another world. They live in our cities
and towns; their children will live in the same cities
and towns as our children. By helping to improve
their lives, we are insuring the safety of our own . . .
"The average ADC family remains on the rolls for
slightly more than two years-not exactly a 'career,'
. as some critics have charged, and hardly an. indica
tion that it is a pleasant way of life . . ."
: v His article is an interesting one, and we com
mend it to all who, like Governor Hatfield, are
concerned about the proper use of tax money.
THE ADC program, like other welfare pro-
grams, such as Old Age Assistance, aid to
the Blind, and the others, probably never will
"pay for itself" in the usually-understood mean
ing of that term. '
Mrs. Esther C. Brunton, who was supervisor
of, the special ADC unit which saved $500,000,
is conscious of that aspect, of course, but to her
there is something more. Lobsenz quotes her this
way:
"But while monetary savings are important, the
. savings in human values cannot be stressed too much.
Clients and children have been seen as human be .
ings . . . They have been helped physically and emo
tionally to become more responsible members of the
community, and to lead more purposeful lives."
That sounds like a pretty good use for tax
money to us. E. A.
paere today is a letter
to surmort unwed moth
But it makes no attempt
it i i i
01 tne program.
'
concern with the costs
welfare administration.
leave ADC; another 42
progress to have their
Norman M. Lobsenz, en
Against neipiess inii-
people finding it easy
,
Dennis the
"Gee. did A EVER SEE SUCH
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views of the paper; in fact
On Human Frailily
To the Editor: I am one of
the mothers who are receiving
assistance under the Aid to
Dependent Children program
My husband became too dis
abled to support our child.
Rather than shift the child
around from one sitter or fos
ter home after another and
deprive her of both parents,
I applied for welfare aid.
I understood that the A.D.C.
was to help keep families to
gether and to aid mothers in
raising their children them
selves while they were young.
Believe me, it is a blessing
to find such help in time of
need.
The social security will on
ly allow benefits to depend
ants of disabled men over the
age of 50.
To thoughtlessly term chil
dren on welfare as "undesir
ables" is unfair. Why not pre
sent, along with the bad side,
the good aspects of this pro
gram? . There must be many
mothers who are trying to do
the best they can to raise good
children under difficult cir
cumstances. As to the unwed mothers
(no unwed fathers, eh?) the
chronic offenders certainly
should be dealt with some
way. But it would be difficult
to determine which ones
would be beyond rehabilita
tion. How many illegimate
children would be considered
"too many"? An already des
perate girl would turn to
abortion or the black market
baby racket rather than as
sistance and an operation.
The writers of some of these
letters surely can't be sure
that perhaps their desirable
children might become unwed
mothers or fathers some
day.
Sterilization might save the
taxpayer's money, but it won't
solve the moral problem.
After all, we are bombard
ed with erotic books, movies
and other forms of entertain
ment. No one fusses much
about it all. Most of our high
ly advertised books seem to
be about shady people and
the seamy side of life. The
readers must get a vicarious
thriU out of these best sellers.
The whole problem should
be carefully considered by
clergy and legislature and not
be merely an ordinance to be
passed on like any bill.
Mankind may solve the se
crets of outer space, but we
are still plagued by the fine
balance between good and
evil and" the fraility of human
emotions. .
(Name on file)
Medford
The Man. Also -
To the Editor: The woman
taken in adultry (John 8:3 to
11), according to the law of
Moses she and the man taken
with her were to be stoned
to death. But the scribes and
Pharisees were loath to bring
the man, because he might be
some high Roman 'official.
So if you are going to go
back and use the bid Moses
law, bring in the man also.
You might be greatly sur
prised who you find these
fathers are. But regardless of
who they are they should be
made to support these babies
arid their mothers. If you
sterilize the women, also
sterilize the man. You just
might find the same man re
sponsible for several of these
girls' plights.
It would be good if these
people would read Lev. 20:10
verse to 20 verse, also Deut.
22: verses 20 to the 30. Notice
the 25th verse.
Mrs. H. R. Randleman
P. O. Box 108
1 Rogue River, Ore. .
Menace
SKNNY&zMiT
not necessarily represent the
the contrary is often the case.
The American Tragedy
To the Editor: You say Sen
ator Wayne Morse is arro
gant. If true, it is a grievous
fault, and grievously you
would have him answer for
it. Those with whom he dis
agrees are all honorable men,
men well versed in the art of
compromise on means, all, all
honorable men skilled in how
not to cut themselves off from
effective channels of influ
ence and persuasion.
Our country never faced
more perilous times; this our
people learn more clearly
with the explosion of every
bomb and the launching of
every satellite. Such times call
for men with the courage of
their convictions, men of the
stature of Wayne Morse.
You did care for him once,
not without cause. Now you
are fearful that he lacks hu
mility. If he is right, as you
say he is most of the time,
and he has the courage to
stand by that right, what more
do you want?
The American tragedy is
that we do not have more men
with the courage of Senator
Wayne Morse.
Bruce J. Manley
" 212 Leverette Bldg,
Medford
What is "Shocking"?
To the Editor: Several of
Mr. Hatfield's supporters seem
to have been upset by the
remarks of George Rode in
his poem.
I feel that any vulgarity
which arose was from the
subject matter itself, which
was Mr. Hatfield's own choos
ing, and not from Rode's own
choosing, as to the choice of
words.
To those who were disturb
ed, let me ask:
Is not the act itself, a com
pulsory major operation up
on an unwilling woman, in
finitely more upsetting to the
sense of decency, than any
words that could be written
about it?
Anyone who was upset by
the poem cannot help being
profoundly shocked by con
sidering the act itself.
"Compulsory sterilization"
is a high sounding phrase that
doesn't make sense and the
reality of the deed itself not
a whit less revolting.
It seems a governor should
be more careful in his state
ments and in his actions.
Arthur C. Lewis
P. O. Box 1442
i Medford.
On Babies
To the Editor: Those who
were horrified, repulsed, dis
gusted, revolted, nauseated or
slightly chagrined with Mr.
Rode's poem would have
avoided all these feelings had
they followed Mr. Rode's sug
gested direction and beat a
slop bucket or bongo drum
as accompaniment. -
The humor of the ditty
would have shone through.
I liken Mr. Rode's poem to
the Golden Trash of Ogden
Nash and feel that he has
missed his calling entirely.
Were it not for llligitimacy
we would have been without
Abraham Lincoln (Nancy
Hanks was supposedly so) and
the Smithsonian Institute.
Let's keep care for all dear,
sweet, innocent, lovable ba
bies -think of all the 10
pound "preemies" who just
made it under the line.
As for sterilization of sec
ond offenders show me a
man or woman who has never
made the same mistake twice
and Til show you an Angel
or a liar. '
Jesus said-to forgive 70
times 70 (that's a lot of wee
ones) can we lowly mortals
do less? Of course there are
mothers who couldn't care less
about the product of their
"love." I would wish that in
cases like these the babies
could be given to the thou
sands of couples whose arms
ache for a baby to love and
care for and support.
J. M. Peters
549 Oak St.,
Central Point, Ore.
On Welfare 'Chiselers'
To the Editor: I agree with
Mrs. Doran 100 per cent but
how about the fathers that let
the welfare take care of their
children?
I've known several of my
renters that got relief and
wouldn't even raise a garden.
One woman said: "Why should
I work when the county will
take care of me?" Others say
if they work they won't get
help. So they stay home and
watch the kids demolish the
furniture.
One young woman had a
room here for about four
months. Of course her hus
band wasn't at all like she
claimed, so when her mother
got t i r e d of babysitting, she
went on relief .
They only allowed her $35
for rent, and she wasn't able
to work, but could go out un
til 4 in the morning on a date
while a baby sitter kept the
children.
I know there are those who
need help and they should
have it. But these chiselers
should be made to work.
What we need is a rock pile,
or some other work and make
them work.
Paul said, "If any will not
work neither should he eat."
As for Governor Hatfield,
he says he did not support this
proposal, but was merely at
a meeting wnere it was
brought up. Of course he is a
Republican, makes it worse!
As far as unfortunate girls
are concerned, there is a good
home for them and the babies
could be adopted.
There is no excuse for a sec
ond mistake.
Mrs. F. H. Dressier,'
1107 East Main St.,
Medford.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Fort Dix, New Jer
sey: Elvis Presley leaves this
army post for civilian life, ap
parently ready, willing and
able to resume his show bus
iness activities. He heard 5
a.m. reveille for the last time.
witn nis separation papers
and his final pay of $109.54,
he will be on his own.
As, he passed through the
gates on his way out, the
army prepared to heave a
collective sigh of relief. His
tour of duty presented prob
lems. One of the big problems
was PROTECTING him from
screaming fans and milling
newsmen every time and ev
erywhere he appeared.
BUT, HIS superiors say, he
made a FINE soldier. He
came in as a raw recruit and
rose to the rank of sergeant.
These . fan demonstrations
never upset him. He stuck to
his knitting, and learned his
trade as a soldier, earning his
promotions the hard way.
PERSONALLY, I think El
vis' hitch in the army did
him a lot of good.
If so, WHY?
Well, it's like this:
He became a celebrity very
young. Being a celebrity is
dangerous business. It is UP
SETTING business. It upsets
all the normal standards. It
leads those who achieve it to
think they are something spe
cial and wonderful-that they
don't need to live by the stan-
Dick West
Bong
o Drums Much
To His Own Dismay
By DICK WEST
Washington (DPD Since
President Eisenhower is not
an ordinary tourist, he prob
ably avoided becoming a bon
go drum owner during his
travels south
of the border.
If so, he is
luckier than
most of his
countrymen.
Nowadays, a
U.S. citizen
who visits the
Caribbean
area brings
Dick west nome a Dongo
drum as surely as one who vis
its Switzerland brings back a
watch.
Not only that, for the past
two or three years we have
been importing bongos in
large numbers. Not only that,
several U.S. firms are mass
producing domesticated bon
gos. 1
I was blissfully unaware of
the bongo boom until last
Christmas when the yuletide
peace was shattered by what
I thought was one of the chil
dren emptying a sack of marb
les into the bathtub.
I regret to say I was mis
taken. The disturbance came
from a set of bongo drums
which some misguided Santa
Claus had deposited down the
chimney. :, . v
Ike's Trip Said Personal and
Diplomatic Success for U.S.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The United States is com
ing to occupy a seat in the
American family."
It was Chi
lean Foreign
Minister Ger
man Vergara
Donoso's sum
m a t i o n of
President
E i senhower's
four- nation
South Ameri
c a n tour
which turned
Newsnm
into a tremendous personal
triumph for the President and
provided heartening reassur-
lei
"toil
Matter of Fact
THE PROBLEM OF
PONTIUS PILATE
Havana, Cuba - Anyone en
gaged in exploring the troub
led present does well to re
member the
the troubled
past The look
backward, so
to say, cor
rects and amp
lifies the look
at what is
happen
ing now and
what may lie
Joseph alsop anead.
x or these reasons, this re
porter brought along to troub
led Cuba the Jewish War of
Flavius Josephus. The old
translation of this blood-stain
ed, terrible yet ' wonderful
chronicle was inordinately
hard to read; but now Jose
phus has been put into mo
dern English.
Across the gulf of 18 cen
turies, Josephus therefore
tells his hideous ' but moving
story as though he were re
porting current events. Here
he describes the second massa
cre of the Jews that was order
ed by the most frequently re
membered colonial governor
in the whole history 'of the
West.
"After this Pontius Pilate
stirred up further trouble ty
expending the sacred treasure
known as Corban on an aque
duct 50 miles long. This rous
ed the populace to fury, and
when Pilate visited Jerusalem
they surrounded the tribunal
and shouted him down.
"But he had foreseen this
disturbance, and had made the
soldiers mix with the mob:
wearing civilian clothing over
their armor and with orders
not to draw their swords but
to use clubs. He now gave the
signal from the tribunal and
the Jews were cudgelled, so
that many died from the
blows, and many as they fled
were trampled to death by
their friends. The fate of those
who perished horrified the
crowd into silence."
dards that govern average
people. Nothing can be more
dangerous than that.
HIS hitch in the army,
Elvis Presley faced a rou
tine of hard work and disci
pline. Nearly everybody de
spises hard work and disci
pline. But they are good for
nearly everybody. Especially
a certain amount of hard
work. The primrose path sel
dom develops character. More
often than not, hard work and
discipline DO develop char
acter. It may turn out that Elvis
Presley's army service was
the best thing that ever hap
pened to him.
Discovers
Some- Adults Play
In the following weeks I
was to learn that bongo "play
ing" is hot restricted to. chil
dren. Some of ' my adult
friends have taken it up, with
uniformly disastrous results.
Convinced that we are fac
ing a new menace to our na
tional sanity, I stopped by a
local music store to . investi
gate. This confirmed my. dark
est suspicions. -
The bongo clerk told me
that he alone sold more than
300 sets during the Christmas
season at prices ranging from
$8.95 to $33.50. "It shouldn't
be .long before every Ameri
can home has bongos,"- he
said. '. -
Little Talent Needed
Shuddering, I asked if he
could account for their' cur
rent popularity. It accompan
ied, he said, the recent rise of
calypso music. Amateurs took
to them, he added, "because
they don't require any formid
able amount of talent."
I don't know what the bon
go binge is going to lead to,
but I recently heard a story
which indicated the direction.
It was told to me by a col
league with whom I was dis
cussing the problem.
He swears that while visit
ing a neighbor he saw bongos
being played by a French
poodle. .
laiu9''lk. Bm n I
ance that not all of Latin
America regards the United
States as a grasping nation of
scoundrels.
The impact of the tour will
extend all the way to next
May's summit meeting in
Paris.
For in promoting his cam
paign for hemispheric solidar
ity, Eisenhower also promised
his Latin American hosts that
their views would be carried
with him when he and other
Western leaders meet with So
viet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev. Parallel Tours
This emergence as hemis
pheric spokesman provided
By Joseph Alsop
BEING an unimaginative bu
reaucrat, the procurator
of Judea no doubt felt the
dead deserved their fate in
both of his massacres. The
first had been provoked be
cause Pilate set up in Jerus
alem the official statues of the
Emperor that were displayed
in every major city of the Ro
man empire. To be sure "grav
en images were forbidden by
the law of Moses." Being a
well trained official, Pilate
quietly erected the statues by
nignt, xo avoid needless dis
turbance. But one may be cer
tain he never doubted that es
tablished imperial practice
ought to prevail in the end ov
er the Jew's strange law.
By the same token, if Jer
usalem needed water, and if
the provincial revenue did not
suffice, how sensible to build
the necessary aqueduct with
the superfluous funds of the
temple! Any modern civil ser
vant, with proper views about
public health and r"-blic ser
vices, would have made the
same decision. But here were
the zealots rioting again, real
ly asking for, really insistent
ly demanding their own de
struction. And all because
their ciiy had at last been giv
en pure water at no cost to
themselves! .
, In truth, it is hard not to
feel a certain sympathy for
the unfortunate procurator of
Judea, who had to deal with
such inordinately difficult
people, so sadly different
from the warlike but easily
civilized Gauls, the proud but
compliant Greeks and aU the
other races of the Empire.
Pilate must often have
thought with longing of all
the far less taxing colonial
posts, which the Emperor Ti
berius might just as well have
given him. And -when he had
to judge the intricate, irration
al case of Him who shed His
blood to save all men, how Pi
late must have fretted and
fumed at this forcible involve
ment in the obscure religious
squabbles of his province!
INHERE IS a good reason why
the problem of Pontius
Pilate - a very real problem
indeed, if you think about it
is worth a moment's reflection
here ni Cuba. It suggest two
points of cardinal importance
to anyone who seeks to under
stand the grave Cuban situa
tion.
The first point is simple
Governments and leaders of
governments,, like aqueducts
and events, can present alto
gether, different images to
different eyes.
The other night, for in
stance, I went to hear Fidel
Castro's extremist boss of the
Cuban economy, Major Ernes
to "che" Guevara, speaking at
the University of Havana. My
eyes could discern nothing in
spiring m this pasty faced,
violent, long-haired man who
ranted so viciously against the
wicked North Americans. But
the student militia and all the
student crowd saw something
different. They rocked and
rolled for Guevara, even when
he hinted that the Castro gov
ernment might soon take con
trol of their free university,
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another of the interesting
parallels to develop from the
barnstorming tours under
taken simultaneously, but on
opposite sides of the world, by
the two leaders of the West
ern and Communist blocs.
Khrushchev also sought to
make himself a spokesman,
and in this he had some mea
sure of success. . i
From India's Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru during
a "little summit" meeting in
Calcutta, Khrushchev drew
praise as a worker for world
peace. -s
"Mr. Khrushchev has
worked a lot for his country
and the world during the last
few years," Nehru said. "But
the biggest thing is that he is
flying the flag of peace." -
Shares Praise
In Indonesia, President Su
karno also hailed Khrushchev
as a man of peace and even
delegated him as a spokesman
for unrepresented nations at
the summit conference. But in
each case Khrushchev had to
share the praise for his efforts
toward world peace with Ei
senhower, and so. the second
half of his mission to under
mine the influence of Eisen
hower's Asia tour failed.
In South America, the
President had gone a long
way toward assuring Latin
Americans that the United
States neither supports dicta
tors nor is forgetful in the
midst of world responsibili
ties of obligations closer to
home.
But there also was agree
ment that the trip, in partially
erasing some old problems,
also had created new ones and
that initial enthusiastic re
action could rebound unfavor
ably unless follow-up steps
were taken.
This is true because each of
the nations Eisenhower visit
ed has its special problems. "
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UPI's State Department Re
porter Stewart Hensley ac
companied the Eisenhower
tour and noted some of them.
A major sore spot in Chile
is the U.SI tax on copper, im
ports, Chile's major export.
Many Chileans now believe
this tax will be removed.
In Argentina, President Ar
turo Frondizi is in political
hot water because of his rigo
rous austerity program. The
Eisenhower visit could either
help or hurt him, with attend
ant effects on U.S.-Argentina
relations. --.-.
Brazil, Argentina and Chile
all need money. Uruguay does
not ask for aid but wants
loans for its own development
program.
whose freedom had been so
long and stoutly defended
against other governments. -
As for the second point, it is
simpler still, and it bears di
rectly on the explosion of the
ammunition ship here. There
are times in human affairs
when it is fruitless to argue
about what is reasonable, or
efficient, or practically advan
tageous or factually true. At
these times, great numbers of
men are caught up, wholly
and willingly caught up,! in
strong tides of unreasoning
passion. And at such times,
the passion itself is the .fact
that has to be faced and hand
led, without regard to its ra
tionality or its inspiration. .
(c) 1960. New York Herald
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