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THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1111 : -everyone In Southern Onion Ba.dj The Mill Tribune RbtShKi Dally except Saturday to MEorono pnirrrmo co. U North rir 81., Pn. BP l-nn TfoBmrvrKOHU Editor REM GREY. Advertlllns Manlier nv.li n 1 LATHAM. Bum. M. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnl. Edllol EARL B ADAMS, City Editor , SAURY CHIPMAN. T.lei. Editor ICHARO JEWETT, Sporu Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Womtn'i Editor Aa Independent Newipaper fettered u Meond claw matter a Mediord, Oregon under Act of March S, 1897 , t EUMCRirnON RATES " ' By MaU In Advance. Copy 10c ,' Dally and Sunday 1 yar 115 ' Dally and Sunday mot. 10 '..Daily and Sunday 3 mot. ' Sunday Only Ona yaar $430 y Carrier In Adv.nc Medlora Aahland. Central Point Belle Point. Jaekaonrtlla, Gold fllli, Pho.nl. Shady Cora Rojue Biv. ar. Talant and an motor routei, i Dally and Sunday 1 vaar S1J 00 . Daily and Sunday I mo. 1.50 Carrlar and Dealers copy 100 AU Termi Caih In Advance Tffrklal Paper of Cr of Mad'ord Official Papr of Jackion County United Praia International run Laaaad Wlra 0.l Talaphoto Newiplcturet "MtMBErrbP AtTDTf BUREAU ! OF CIRCULATIONS JTdverBiInt ""raientatlva: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of-'-. ft rat In New York, Chlctco, Da. ; trolt. San Pranclico. Lot Anele, J- Seattle. Portland, St LouU. At. lanta, Vancouver BE, IWtAPI auaiKHf It "ASSOCIATION NATION At EOlTOtlAl 5i Flight o' Time Medfard and Jackton , County Hlitory from the filet of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mar M. I" (Friday) Boy Scout official! expect the first crater iaxe area Boy .Scout circui tomorrow night to be an outstanding scouting event. Saturday was today pro nounced Armed Forcei day by Mayor D. L. Flynn who re quested that the U.S. flag be displayed wherever possible. 10 YEARS AGO ' May U. Jt4l (Sunday) ? A 13-year-old boy was res cued yesterday from an aban doned mine shaft near Ash land where he had become trained while exploring. from Arthur Perry's "Ye famudae Pot" column: "The Optimist International met in Portland over trie wees ena nd rumor hath It they found something to be optimistic bout," 0 YEARS AGO May 1. 1M1 (Monday) - Petitions seeking the estab lishment of a road district in the Tiller-Trail area were preoj sented to the county court to day. i Eugene, ?.oseburg and Med ford are all rumored as the site for a proposed new vet erans hospital. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 1. Mil (Wednesday) Forty-three seniors gradu ated In ceremonies at Ashland High school yesterday. - ., An organized "Clean-Up week" It in progress here. , M YEARS AGO Mar II. li" (Thursday) . The Medford Realty asso ciation last night discussed the need for expansion of the farm and garden produce pro duction here to supply local markets.. - The city has agreed to fur nish tree water tor the new St. Mary's hospital which Is being erected here. IVfcil't Yexr I.Q.7 Mies Of fee lOffOtt Is street tree or etaM is excellent) five or eli m oM. - 1. The King of the Hellenes Is the King of which country? ' 2. Who waa the author of the "Fourteen Points"? t S. Do vertebrates, or invert brates, have a backbone? - 4. Name the Director of the C. I. A. (Central Intelligence Agency.) , 3 5. Complete the title of the John Fox novel, "The Little Shepherd of ...... . , , . .' , 6. Which is the lighter gat, hydrogen or helium? V 7. A sampan It a cooking utensil: true or false? '. 8, What famous surrender Occurred at Appomatox, Vs.? ! 9. A cubic foot of ice Is heavier, ' lighter than, or weighs the same as a cubic foot of water? 10. la a cassowary cooking Utensil, a bird, priest's robe or a prophetess? Answers! 1. Greece, 2. Pretl dent Wexxtrow Wilson. 3. Vet. tebrato. 4. Allan Dulles. , J Kingdom Come.'' I. Hydro- yea. 7. False (small boat), a. peaeeal Lees surrender to General Great, f. Lighter. OAOARIAM INVITED London-iUfI - Soviet space. man MaJ. Yuri Gagarlan will Visit Communist Bulgaria next week, the Bulgsrisn Telegraph Agency reported. What Time Is It? "The standard time for any given area , of the State of Oregon shall be the United States Standard of time as established by the Congress of the United States for that particular area. No department of the . ' state government and no county, city or other political subdivision, shall employ . , any other time or adopt any statute, ordV ; nance or order providing for the use of ' . any other standard of time." Oregon Re-' vised Statutes 187.110. The quotation above is the law of the state in every county other than those of 300,000 or more population, and those adjacent to such counties. . (At least it's the law unless the legislature, in the last minute rush for adjournment, slipped in another amendment which doesn't show in the bill file.) The exception was islature, in what was probably its silliest action of the session. They were warned, over and over again, through the state's press and by individuals, that passing the exception would breed nothing but -T r i-j w.i it i i i. - coniusion compounded. pressure from the Portland area, anyway. Wow look at the mess! '. . e . IF THE Medford Retail with the nlan thev voted on vesterdav. their clocks will say 8 o clock say 7 o clock. The banks (if they go along) will close an hour earlier than the county treasurer's office. Airline clocks will say one thing: downtown clocks another. Children will attend school (at least until school lets out, mercifully, a week after the new time starts in the stores) on a schedule an hour behind that of their fathers. And people working in establishments which do not choose to adopt will find their r shopping DADIO and television schedules, already badly enough bolixed by the uneven pattern of day light time on the west coast, will be further con fused. ,-, ,. We don't blame the merchants, particularly, for wanting to open and close an hour earlier than they do now. Nor do we blame them for pre ferring to set their clocks ahead, rather than simply shifting working schedules an hour earlier. But the result is awful. And for this the legislature must accept the full blame. ; " (We are haPDv to report, incidentally, that all three members of the Jackson county delega tion voted against this bit of asininity.) THE inevitable result, as daylight time, or sum mat arthartnlAa ftvaon amno.a rlia arnfa . ! un. utterable confusion. If one adds together tions, missed television sions and general unhappiness, the bill will be tremendous. We believe the governor would be fully justi ed in calling a short special session of the leg islature to undo this legislative monstrosity. It s even worse than is in direct violation of a November. E.A. Medford's Is the recession over? We'll leave the definitive answer to that Ques tion to the economists, but or view, it certainly seems to be coming to and end rapidly. Employment is up, not only nationwide, but also in Jackson county. great guns. Everywhere one looks, it seems, things are being built highways and buildings going in all over the place. The lumber market, still shaky, gives promise of future health as the home-building industry is reported to be on the upswing. . AND there appear to be signs of greater liber ality on the part of people generally, too. Recently we commented on the general suc cess which school district budgets achieved in elections throughout the state earlier this month. And, perhaps even Eugene the other day, voters approved three rath er considerable spending levy to provide ?150,000 per year to purchase park lands and for development of new and old sites; a two year levy to raise $290,000 to increase the salaries of city employees, and a bond issue touting $2,400,000 to build a new city hall. , THUS the people. of Eugene, by substantial margins, voted to increase their own property taxes by more than $3,ou,ooo to pay for pur poses they teit to be worth wnue. Are the people of Medford less proud of their city than those of Eugene? Or are they less willing to do what is needed to pleasantest city of its size in Oregon? We don't think so. Medford has never parks, and now much up by the freeway. We City employees need aren't going to get them being considered. And. while there's city hall, we re going to Perhaps it is time broadening our civic provided by the late leg. .1 ; iei wiey sutxumueu w Merchants go through while city hall clocks daylight time voluntarily curtailed by an hour. e all the missed connec shows, schedule confu it might be, because it vote of the people last Horizons - from a layman's point Construction is going more significantly, up in measures a six year make it (or keep it) the had enough acreage in of that is being gobbled should have more. raises, but apparently under the budget now no urgency about a new need one some time. to begin thinking about and municipal horizons. Dennis th 'AVM IfiffrSONNA LET WE PUy WITH THE HEW UKTRIC MIXER tfJU HAVETOBIIY. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not contrary is often the case. A Correction - To the Editor: Please pub lish this correction of spelling and errors for their historical value: On page 6A, May IS, 1061, Medford Mail Tribune, ap peared an article titled, "State Legislators Get Stone-Ground Bread From Valley." In ad vertising a product from the Eagle Point, Oregon, pioneer rebuilt mill owned by George Putman; the pioneer, original miller's name waa misspelled, "Daly." It is Daley. Also the ox-team hauling la questioned vs. horse-drawn freight wag ons. Miss Venlta Daley 343 North Orape st. Medford Very Nearly Far-sighted! - To the Editor: Some folks who plan have vision far. They see at least a "six"; But then their "six" is month, not y'ar That's why we're in this "fix'M "Gold Hill Billy" Gold HIM, Ore. You've Got le Know Ta the Editor: Sunday's "Communications" had let ter ' from a well-meaning gentleman who ended his let ter "I hope I may be with them," referring to the Chris tians who are with the Lord now, in Heaven, having passed on from this earthly life. I would like to ask this gen tleman a question, hoping that he will ponder on it thoroughly: "Don't you know for sure whether you will be there or not?" I believe all of God's children can know lor certainty that they will ne there. It surely isn't boasting when you can say, "1 know I'm going to Heaven some day." It's actually the oppo site. We've got to numDie ourselves and admit that nothing we can do will get us there and then Just take God's free Data" that He gives to anyone who asks for It. A free ticket to Heaven? In your business world we'd have to say that someone has to foot tha bill for tree passes into any tyrie of public attraction. This free -one to Heaven has been well-paid for by our Lord Jesus Christ, who loved us enough to pay for our sins with his life that we wouldn't have to. We can't boast to know that we are sinners saved by grace; that our sin sent our precious Lord to the cross be cause someone had to pay tor that pass through the gates of Heaven. We can't boast In our salvation, because It is a gift from God. Undeserving though we are of such a precious gift as eter nal life, we can still know we have It when we've accepted Christ as our Saviour and Lord and repented of our sins by placing them on the cross that we may never be cnargeo for them. People's "beliefs" may be "beautiful." as this gentleman put It, but beliefs won't get us eternal life. There's only one way recorded all through the Bible and that's God's way, not some of man's mixed up ideas. The gentleman also stated that some may not want to enter Heaven when they see that things there are different from their "beliefs There are only two choices Heaven or Hell. Can you Imagine anyone deliberately choosing Hellr There s no third place for fence sitters and the two places there are last forever and ever and ever. How can anyone choose the "wait and see" theoryT You ve got to know, now. Mrs. Russell Elder Shady Cove, Ore. MEDFORD Menace necessarily represent sne views 01 ine peperj in n me ' - ' '-; - Picture Staggers To the Editor: Although yours truly is a resident of of California, deep admiration has always been felt for the peoples of Oregon, especially for their level-headedness and strong willed purpose. . But the picture on page one, Monday, May 18, was really staggering! . It seems there must be some error, as we read your paper daily and therefore are reasonably certain that D.S.T. was voted down by the people of Oregon in the last election. Perhaps the sign that Mr. Westgate was pointing to, should have read, "We will open an hour earlier, "We will close an hour earlier." Paul T. Wilson Route 1, Box 316 Yreka, Calif. Disgraceful Editorial To the Editor: Upon read ing Monday's paper, I read one of the most shocking and disgraceful editorials ever printed.- It was entitled "Op eration Abolition" and print ed' in answer W a letter ques tioning the paper's views on the film "Operation Aboli tion." In the course of the edi torlal, which incidentally was unsigned, It was stated, and I quote: "In the course of the film, the Committee an nouncer, or narrator says: 'One student provides the spark that touches off the violence when he leaps a bar ricade and attacks an officer' . . A great many people have wondered why none of the newsreel cameras recorded this interesting incident. The answer seems to be that the incident never occurred." The editorial also stated that the riot was a result of the police turning fire hoses on the dem onstrators and that comma nism had no more to do with the origin of this case than the 'uprooting of a pair of goal posts at a football game. I would like to point out that the views of the author of this editorial and J. Edgar Hoover are in great conflict. In an article in the U.S. News & World Report, July 25, 1960, pp. 68-71, Hoover, in an FBI report, stated that the riots were communist plan ned and led. In the editorial it was stated that this student was acquitted after the jury heard all tha evidence and therefore the incident never occurred In the first place. In Hoover's article It was stated: "Judge Albert A. Axelrod dismissed riot charges against 62 of the persons arrested. The Judge pointed out that there were ample grounds for conviction but the defendants were stu dents who could well be haunted for the rest of their lives by the stigma which conviction would attach to them," The article also vert tied the fact that this incl. dent, which the editorial claims never occurred, actual ly did happen, and started the riot. The fire hoses were turn ed on after the riot began, not before, as stated in the article. In conclusion, Hoover's ar- tide supported everything that Monday's editorial tried to disprove and he showed that this riot was communist Inspired and led. I sincerely hope that none of the MT's editors were responsible for this misrepresentation of facts. Alvln Kroon. High School Student 1SS South 4th St., Central Point, Ore. Editor's note: The editorial In question which, Incidental ly, was clearly identified as coming from the respected Washington, DC, Post, rep- MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Civil War Spreading By PHIL MEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In the Portuguese West Af rican province of Angola a war is being waged which in s av a g e r y rivals any thing in Al geria or even the Mau Mau terror in Ken ya. On the one hand are the mart Juana smoking, painted rebels tactics include whose terror mutilation of their white vic tims. On the other are ap proximately 17,000 Portu guese and loyal native troops whose tactics of ruthless sup pression have been scarcely less harsh or much more dis criminating. Details of the fighting fil ter only in dribs through the strict censorship imposed by the Portuguese regime of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. But so far it appears resents the position of this newspaper also. The fact remains that a 12- member jury found innocent the only student against whom charges were not dismissed earlier. Since actual eye-witnesses disagreed as to what happened, and in what se quence, we rather wonder how Mr. Hoover, and Mr. Kroon for that matter, can be so certain Just what happened. Second Spring Cleaning : To the Editor: Most women at one time or the other (usu ally spring and fall) give their house a good cleaning from top to bottom. . . . My second spring -house cleaning started when friend husband came home . from work after 8 p.m. (his usual quitting time) and sanded our knotty pine walls in the house, and that or dust flew every where. I've packed away brlck-a- brack, dusted African violet leaves (I only have 31 pots of A.V.S) and those two para keets I spoke about In a pre vious letter, scolding me all the time. My feet are In knotty pine dust as I'm writing this and more sanding going, on to night. I'm so tired, if friend hus band were here now, he wouldn't think me very iriendiy. Remember Oregon's Centen nlal? When men had those hor rible beards? My mother bought my hus- Lband a mustache cup. This is the assortment I found in it. 1 part of a doll's hand (only the fingers), 3 paper clips, 1 pair tweezers, 1 long and 1 short pencil, 1 pair nail clip pers, 1 hair clip, 1 magnifying glass, 1 old M.T. receipt from Jan., 1961, 1 piece of chalk, two notes from people left in our door when we were away and 1 large needle. At the speed I'm getting this mess cleaned up, I wlU be as old as Methuslah before I finish. . P.S. - Who ended up with the sanding Job? Me. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Can't Follow The Winds To the Editor: I wonder how prevalent is the belief among us that America can get any where today following the winds, as once it could, and certainly did. Our "Ship of State" can no longer be ex. pected to get anywhere "sail Ing before those winds." Those elements are left far behind us as we move into the realms of space. Yes, even upon the seas, or beneath their surface, Amer ica must move ahead by a force more controlled than the winds that blow. That Is, if our country Is to hold its place among the nations of the world, it must turn to new ways and means discoverable by science. It cannot afford to drift along in already devel oped scientific fields, even. Every man and woman, even Juveniles, the young people, must be thoroughly Instructed in the full measure of respon sibility which they must bear for their country In the pres ent, look forward naturally, to the future. The much talked of "space race" Is, in fact, a complete fallacy, an utter sham, inso far as America's security for the future Is concerned. The pressing need is for a more potent weapon, a more virile instrument of assault against possible, and we know actual, existent enemies. The real need, NOW and TOMORROW, is for a counter-weapon that will make missiles, controlled space craft (I think that con OREGON in Angola I nto Salazars Portugal, Also that up to 1,000 persons have fallen victim to the native terrorists, while the number of those killed by the Portu guese runs T.uch higher. Matter of Fact ip (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate ' - CAN CHINA EXPLODE? Honk Kong - Among all the experiments made by govern ments of men, the experiment now being conducted by the Chinese C o m m u nist government is certainly the most ruthless I I TfcV I also the most I 1 1 n t e r e sting eeABieeeei .that has been attempted in modern times. To be sure, It is not a novel experiment. As already point ed out in this series of reports, Mao Tse-Tung is clearly fol lowing Josef Stalin's book in the most literal fashion. Be ginning with the first five year plan, Stalin made the Russian peasantry pay for the forced industrialization of Russia. Mao is now trying to do precisely the same thing in L.mna. For this purpose, however. Stalin had to organize the countryside in a quasi-military manner, in order to free re sources for his investment program, he also had to force down the standard of life of the Russian masses by one half. And in the end, he had to condemn no less than 18, 000,000 of his people to death. Five million died in a single year in the fearful Ukraine famine, and 13,000,000 more succumbed to hunger, or ex pired under the lash of the police, or were quite simply shot before the second Soviet five-year plan ended in 1939. IN THESE respects, too, Mao Is imitating Stalin. The Chi nese Communes, like the So viet agricultural collectives, were started in order to take the countryside in an iron grip. The drop in the standard of life of the Chinese masses after the communes were started was at least as grave as the drop of the Russian masses' living standard after the collectives were set up. But right here we encounter the factor which makes it necessary to ask whether China may not explode as a result of this ruthless experi ment. For the Russian masses were living not too badly when Stalin launched his pro gram of forced industrializa tion; whereas the Chinese masses were only ekeing out the barest subsistence when their government decided to double its exactions. Cold cal culation suggests, therefore, that If Stalin's forced indus trialization cost the lives of 18,000,000 Russians, Mao's forced industrialization may quite possibly reduce the pop ulation of . his much poorer, far more crowded country by as much as 150,000,000. This need to be so much more ruthless than Stalin, and more ruthless, too, over a longer period of time, clearly makes Mao's experiment more risky than Stalin's expert mentrWhen any government4. has embarKed upon a course that appears to require tens of millions of human sacrifices per annum, one must surely consider the possibility of failure. And in this reporter's trolled space craft Is some thing the Russians,, even, do not have) subject to our own, America's, Judicious whims, if that can make sense. I feel certain that we need not be idle - that a Job Is cut out for us, that we should be found working out a solution. Only upon such may we be able to survive and go places. Fee Clifford Esteb 148 South Holly st Medford Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF - - CHARLEY WEAVER admitted to "his people" that he had been in class 4-A for two full terms: Roosevelt's and Truman's. He also explained a slight discoloration around his left eye. He and a friend had played a little game on the telephone for some weeks, calling up acquaintances . at 3 o'clock in the morning to cackle, "Guest who?" One acquaintance finally guessed who. Two of the leading fig ures In a nudist camp be came Involved in an argu ment One lost his temper completely and began shouting at the top or ma lungs. The other, more temperate, laid a restraining hand on his shoulder and counseled, "Hector! Hector! Keep your shirt off I" j e Have you heard about the irate orchestra conductor who grabbed an errant musician by the collar and thundered, "You don't know the difference between a brass band and an oboe!" O lstl. d Beaaett Cert Putribuleo b Kinj reataires Byadketa Savage; Dissent Is As the rainy season comes to an end Portugal plans to pour an additional 25,000 troops into Angola to stamp out the rebellion which it opinion, which is still admit tedly a minority opinion, the creeping famine in China is already beginning to cause very massive annual popula tion losses. A GOVERNMENT edict has been published threaten ing punishment of any party cadre in whose commune the death rate rises much above normal. A leading Peking planner has also promised re cently that in ten years the Individual ration will be rais ed to no less than 1,500 calo ries per day - or less than Western nutritionists regard as absolutely needful for any working man or woman. This, after a full decade of further toil and hungerl After two bad crop years, grain is being imported to maintain the ra tions of the army and the show-case cities. But there is no discernible sign that the government intends to miti gate its harsh policy. Here in Honk Kong, there are those who say that the agony of the Chinese masses will come to an end if there is a good crop this year. But in the first place, it is very doubtful whether a really good crop is possible, even if nature is kind, , when more than 20 per cent of the farm ers in the fields are showing the first symptoms of beri beri. And in the second place, unless the policy is changed, the government's exactions to pay for forced industrializa tion will continue as before. To this blood chilling re sume, one must also add the point made in the last article in this series. A mass of re c e n t eyewitness testimony from the Chinese mainland points to a serious breakdown of discipline, both a break down of the strict discipline of the party cadres, and a breakdown of the public dis cipline of the. drilled, intimi dated people. THE breakdown of discipline must mean that-the condi tions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light a gigantic fire, as has happen ed before In. China in com parable circumstances. Thus the question whether China can explode boils down to the question whether China's ar my will always be ready to put out the fires that chance sparks may light. It .is an in teresting question. On the one hand, this is a peasant army drawn from the very class that Is suffering most sorely. And the wives and families of the officers and non-commissioned offi cers were sent back to live in the peasant villages at al most the very moment when the worst ordeal of the vil lagers began. On the other hand, political control and po lice surveillance of the army are both intensely strong. And the army is . recruited, not from conscripts, but from young men specially selected f( or military duty by tne party cadres In the communes. The duty Is a privilege because of the soldiers' higher rations. Thus one can only say that even if the agony of the mass es is prolonged and the break down of discipline is progres sive, the army may well re main dependable. But the oth er result Is. far from unimagi nable. One can also say that the chance for an explosion In China will be immeasurably increased if the government attempts a foreign military op eration in the present state of the countryside. And this is an immediately significant point, in view of the present situation in Southeast Asia. claims is being fostered by outside nationalistic. African forces. Last week Portugal claimed to have captured 71 Ghana ians who were said to have In filtrated . into Angola from the Congo. From his Congo headquar ters in Leopoldville, rebel leader Holden Roberto spurn ed the charge. He said he had received no help from Ghana, and, in fact, considers Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah too far to the left. Be that as it may, Portugal, under the Salazar dictator ship, is fighting to remain tha last major colonial power south of the Sahara. ' But in Portugal, as well as in Africa, the winds of change are blowing. Portuguese rebels drama tized the mounting opposition to Salazar's 32-year-old dic tatorship last winter when they seized the luxury liner Santa Maria and defied not only Portugal but the United States and Brazil as well. Eventually they had plan ned to lead a revolt against Salazar from Angola. This week the Salazar re gime, under fire at home, in Africa, and in the United Na tions, was reported to have arrested three more of its op ponents.' They are accused of being among the leaders of 68 per sons who signed a document demanding sweeping internal and external reforms In fi nance, economy and agricul ture and held a news con ference to publicize it. The government charged that the news conference was illegal and arrested them un der a seldom - used law ban ning such conferences with out official sanction. .- t Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Cora. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The only true test of the Integrity of a politician is whether says In office exactly what he said in op position. , No fact seems clearer to me than that we live today in what future ' civili zations will surely call the Dark Ages: if rlarrla mankind manages survival or revival, we will be looked back upon with shock, horror and loathing, as some per verse growth in the history of our organism. Men fear thought aa they fear nothing else on earth -and all such evils as repres sion, violence, mass hatred and bigotry, are a fearful flight from the necessity of taking thought. a e It Jefferson were writing and talking now, he would most likely be haled before the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee; as Charles Beard, the American histor ian, once said: "One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citi zen these days Is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." - The moment someone chal lenges our views, we become more dogmatic about them; thus, all conflict tends to make us more extreme than we are normally. j The ancient saying that "only the brave deserve the fair" can be understood better if we rephrase it to "only the brave can cope with the fair," for a man without character and courage cannot hold a beautiful woman, in or out of marriage. ' e e Law Is a bottomless pit; there is no case so hopeless that some lawyer cannot dig down deep and dredge up a "precedent" that will cover, or at least partially clothe, the issue at stake. I Three things are necessary for the salvation of : man, wrote St. Thomas Aquinas: "To know what he ought to believe, to know what ha ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do." These are hard words, but I find them more palatable than the slack modern assumption that simply "believing" or "having faith" In some vague deity makes one religious. One vay lo instill humility Is to give a person authority over those who have had au thority over him; he will quickly learn, In amazement, how much he resembles them when the roles are reversed. The minute we begin to think we're interesting, we're not. "Duty" Is what we expect from others In a situation In which we ask only "Intelli gent self-interest" from our he
