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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha file of The
Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AOO
Afirll 12. 19J2 (Saturday)
A total of about $400 has
been stolen rrom oi.
school. 321 -'eat 11th at., It
1 WASIOCIATIOM
wai reported today by Med
ford city police.
Jackaon county's blood pro
gram la artill lacking 100 don
ora to reach the goal of 500
pints.
20 YEARS AOO
April 12. 1942 (Sunday)
Enough Medford horsemen
to form a platoon ilgn inten
tion! of enllBtlng in Oregon
State Guard.
From Arthur Perry's 'Ye
Rmudae Pot" column: "Now
comet that argument 'every
v,vw la to blame' tor the
han the nation found itself
in as of, and before Pearl
Harbor. Everybody, however
is not rushing to court mar
tial himself." .
30 YEARS AOO
April 12, UM (Tuesday)
Medford pleaa for opening
western entrance to Crster
lake denied by atate highway
commission.
Water officials report heavy
mows around Four Mile snd
Fish lakes srd on Hiatt prai
rie have guaranteed adequate
summer Irrigation water.
40 YEARS AOO
April 12, 1922 (Wednesday)
Benjamin J. Trowbridge
Sr., prominent Medford civic
and fraternal leader, dies un
vnpptedlv in Portland.
Medford men purchase 12
passenger "auto-itage," inau
gurate daily bus service be
tween here and Klamath
Falls.
SO YEARS AGO
Aoril . 1913 (Thursday)
Reports received in New
York Indicate 1,482 peraons
nilad when liner Tltantlc
rams Iceberg In North Atlan
tie ocean.
Workmen discover "rich
bodv" of gold ore at Braden
mine after sinking shaft to
110-foot depth.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nina er tan cerraat la superier:
six it (see'.
1. What is the most shun
dant metal found in the
ground?
2. In what sort of establish
ment does a croupier work?
3. What book Is said to be
the best seller of all times?
4. When the explorer John
Cabot sailed westward In 1497
what was he seeking?
5. Of which country is the
drachma the monetary unit?
6. Which weighs more a
cubic foot of aluminum or
brass?
7. Do you associate Waikiki
beach with the Fiji Islands.
Indonesia, or the Hawaiian
Islands?
8. Are there one or two en
trances to San Francisco
Bay from the ocean?
9. Correct the following
"The United States were rep
resented In the conference."
10. Does the answer to ques
tion 9 depend more heavily
on grammatical or constitu
tional Interpretalion?
Antwersi 1. Aluminum. 2.
Gambling house. 3. Bible. 4.
Asia. S. Greece. 6. Brass. 7.
Hawaiian Islands. I. One. 9.
"The U. 8. wes represent
ed . . ." 10. Constitutional.
Reeds 50th Year
Reed College, in Portland, is in the rather
paradoxical situation of
oi ine Mississippi mver
In the east, the college is known for exceed
ingly high academic standards, for one of the
hiehest proportionate number of Fh. D.s pro-
duced, and the same with Rhodes Scholars. In
anv listinp- of the too
of the United states, Keed invariably ranks near
the top.
In Oregon, however,
ticular, the record of academic excellence is less
well known, and some of the other unusual char
acteristics of the school
IT IS, once again, a case of a prophet being not
without honor save in his own country.
Reed College this year is celebrating its 50th
anniversary, and a real effort is being made to
tell its story the whole story throughout
the state and nation.
It is natural that in Portland the informal,
not to say bizarre, habits of dress of a small
minority of students should attract more (un
favorable) attention than academic excellence
attracts (favorable) attention.
DEED students are accorded a considerable de-
1 gree of freedom. They are treated, in the
main, like adults. As a result, some of them use
this freedom in unorthodox ways, and beards,
sandals, unkempt pony-tails and leotards are not
unknown on the campus
But the unorthodoxv
ed in other wavs. too. Thev haDDen to take the
tradition of academic freedom, and of freedom
of speech, very seriously indeed. They believe
that an open, lnauirine mind is better than one
closed to ideas, from whatever source.
And in the main they
play of study, discussion, research, debate and
thought is more apt to lead toward the truth
than is an attitude of unquestioning acceptance
of what is laid down as
DECAUSE the students and faculty are ready
and willing to listen to. and discuss, unortho
dox and even "dangerous ideas on their merits,
to listen to Walter Huss on one hand and Gus
Hall on the other, they
be dangerous radicals.
Some of the ideas they discuss freely are,
indeed, radical. But in the half century of Reed's
existence, few if any (none, to our knowledge)
ol its graduates have been
of ideas into anything
or subversion.
To the contrary, its
professional men, scholars, lawyers, teachers,
doctors, businessmen, to name only a few of the
fields in which many have gained eminence.
JHE college's first catalog stated : .
"Intercollegiate athletics, fraternities, sororities,
and most of the diversions that men are pleased to call
'college life' as distinguished from college work, have
no place at Reed College . . . Only those who want ts
work, and to work hard, and to gain the greatest pos
sible benefits from their studies are welcomed."
Work and study still remain of first impor
tance at Reed. This is
work and no play. But play falls into its proper
perspective with most students.
Oregon can well be proud of this distin
guished institution. E.A.
Mr. Nixon's
We have watched
amazement the performance of Richard M. Nixon
in recent months.
Defeated by a hairline margin from victory
in his lone lone race for the Presidency of the
United States, he is now
to win the Kepublican
of California.
It is becoming less and less certain that he's
going to make it. Mr. Nixon has generated reams
and reams of comment, editorials and news
stories in recent months, much of it less than
favorable.
But it remained for a far-distant observer
to provide the briefest and most cogent comment
on recent Nixoniana. It came in the form of a
short editorial in The Commonweal.
I TNDER the title, "The Style Is the Man," it
said:
"The shrewdest politician of them all, as Richard
Nixon is commonly thought of. is Just not a very
shrewd politician, we have decided. And for a man
who has specialized In the projection of an image, he
has an uncanny knack for projecting the image of a
man below the dignity of the White House.
"In the past few weeks he has: published a book
not about international or national affairs but strictly
sbout his own personal political fortunes, with nation
al and International affairs as the backdrop; in that
book paid off a number of political scores, one of
which involved accusing President Kennedy of en
dangering the security of the nation for campaign
advantage; in a revised edition of the book added a
footnote strengthening his charge against Mr. Kennedy
by means of a strategically edited quotation from a
newspaper story but omitting to mention that the
charge has been denied by his own prime witness;
called the President and Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy 'these carpetbaggers'; not least, made his
umpteenth appearance on the Jack Paar show, mourn
ing Jack's farewell."
Sic transit the "New Nixon." Tricky Dick has
returned. E.A.
being better known east
man 11 is in lis own state
colleges and universities
and in Portland in par
are better known.
t
and environs.
of students is manifest
believe that the free
truth by Authority.
often are considered to
corrupted by the flow
approaching radicalism
graduates have become
not to say that it is all
Tribulations
with interest and some
engaged in attempting
nomination for Governor
Dennis the
R I HI II H I f INI J II III II III T I
t oof believe it, put Wilson ws the Himavs vorro
fewiS THE KID 'AOST LIKELY V V
Communications
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edit all letters with a view ts clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; In fact tha contrary is often
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To the Editor: This photograph of Medford's Mayor. John
Snider, was recently sent to me. I can only presume It cap
tures the spirit of the Mayor's consternation at the avalanche
of keys reportedly descending on him. I sympathize with
your Mayor in his dilemma
have happened to a more deserving guy.
Us's Worms
To the Editor: Us under
stand and appreciate an edi
torial w r i t e r' frustrations
over We snd I. Successful
newspaper people are extro
verts, as are successful actors,
successful Teddy Roosevelts,
and us believe, since it is the
prime mover of all worth
while achievement, it needs
no apology.
The editorial writer with in
hibitions employs "we" be
cause, as Mark Twain said, he
means himself and his worms.
Ethan Grant,
125 Cottage st
Medford.
Retrocession
To the Editor: Senator
Wayne Morse recently spon
sored a home rule bill for
Washington, D. C. Washington
residents have no home rule,
but because of the 23rd
amendment they can now
vote for President and Vice-
President.
This bill also contains the
Morse formula for giving
more Federal money to the
District.
Senator Morse reasons that
since about half of the 45,000
acres of land which make up
the District are tax-exempt,
the Federal Government
should finance about half of
the city's budget.
Over half of the land In the
state of Oregon la owned by
the Federal Government. Over
75,000 acres are under exclu
slve Jurisdiction of Congress.
Persons living on these Or
egon enclaves have no voting
rights of any sort, not even
the 23rd Amendement. Nor
does the state of Oregon get
any special Morse formula
funds.
In 1956, 1957, 19SS and
1959. President Eisenhower
backed retrocession leglsla
tion that would have returned
Jurisdiction over much of this
land to the states.
Senator Morse makes no
mention of Oregon Federal en
claves when he sponsors D C
home rule bills, yet the pres
ent home rule bill could easily
be changed to a general retro
cession statute.
If you think retrocession
should be applied to all Fed
eral enclaves why not let Con
gress know now? Congress
men sometimes listen during
an election year.
Barry Bisson,
Citizens for Retrocession,
1921 Kalorama rd N.W
Washington 9, D. C.
Bonneville Worries
To the Editor: All of us. In
terettrd In the need for con
tinued economic growth In
Oregon and concerned about
the Importance of broader Job
MEDFORD MAIL
Menace
name and address of the writer,
the use of a pen name or Initial
the case.
and can only say it couldn't
Gene W. Rossman
2336 SW Osaga
Portland, Ore.
opportunities for peoplt liv
ing in this state, must be gen
uinely concerned about the
recent announcement from
Bonneville Power Adminis
trator Charles F. Luce of an
other sizable deficit during
the past fiscal year of Bonne
ville operations.
unless mis trend is re
versed, in a very few years
the surplus built up in Bonne
ville's account will be elimi
nated, and it then will be nec
essary for Bonneville to con
sider rate increases which
will seriously impair the fu
ture economic growth of Or
egon. This should be avoided at
all costs. Active, strong, vig
orous support for construction
of the Hanford Reactor Proj
ect is one measure that will
help improve Bonneville's op
erations. The addition of 900,
000 kilowatts of firm power,
which would result from the
Hanford Reactor, supplying
power at a rate cheaper than
our low cost hydro-electric
power, would be of tremen
dous benefit. Another need
ed development is a federally
constructed and operated in-
tertie with California, opening
up new markets, but, in this
regard, we must insure feder
al legislation to protect, for
Oregon, priority power so
that firm power will not be
siphoned off to California.
As w recognize the contin
uing problems which harass
and plague the lumber Indus
try, we should recognize more
clearly the vital Importance to
the industrial growth of this
region of low cost public
power. This has been the
backbone of our economic vi
tality in the past in those
areas not connected with the
forest products industry.
Robert W. Straub,
State Senator, Lane Co.,
Route 4, Box 111,
Eugene, Ore.
Funny Page
To the Editor: Tuesday's
Letters to the Editor page was
funnier than the funnies. If
this sort of thing keeps up.
I'll start reading "Peanuts
second, and I'm afraid it will
be strictly anti-climax
In one letter I read that
the Home Rule movement
was a Socialist plot and in
the next that it was a South
ern Pacific conspiracy, and
the picture of the Friendly
SP conspiring to socialize
Jackson county was almost
more than I could stand.
How about getting a little
sense into this discussion?
The Home Rule question is
a decidedly serious one for
the peoplt of this county and
TRIBUNE, MEDPORD, OREGON
U.S, Reaction to Berlin Problem
Changing
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
An Important change has
taken place in United States
policy toward West Berlin.
Until very re
cently,
u. s
reaction to So-
v i e t threats
against the
city primarily
was military.
The military
phase receiv
ed stepped-up
emphasis aft-
Newseaa e r President
Kennedy'a 1061 Vienna meet
ing with Nikita Khrushchev
in which the Soviet leader
placed a year-end deadline on
Matter of Fact y
(el Naw Vork Herald
AND STILL THEY COME
Macao A fine harbor, a
lively waterfront, a cluster of
little hills charmingly covered
with pink and
green and yel
low and white
n e o - baroque
architecture
that is the out
w a r d Macao.
Beneath this
pretty surface,
this little Por
tuguese col
ony on t h
Alsnp
China coast has always hsd Its
darker depths. Gambling and
gold-smuggling are the prin
cipal local Industries. But
nowadays you find here such
a confrontation of good and
evil as is difficult to imagine,
because of Chinese commu
nism's unending, cruel pres
sure on the humble Chines
masses.
Macao, you see, offers im
mediate harbor to any refugee
who can manage to cross its
borders. So any day here, you
may see the spectacle I saw
two rickety, overladen little
Junks wildly beating before
the wind, desperately trying
to reach the protection of the
Macao water police before the
pursuing Communist patrol
boats could come within
range.
One junk made it, one cap
sized; so 13 refugees were
added to Macao's total for the
day; and another 20 or so
were added to the thousands
who have already found their
last resting place in Macao s
neighboring waters.
IN two short, recent days,
there were three such inci
dents. Of five small Junks
carrying over 30 people, only
one got through with seven
refugees, and two persons on
the second were rescued. Of
two frail sampans carrying a
large peasant family, one got
through and one went down,
taking the father and mother
to the bottom before the eyes
of the adolescent boys and
girls.
Not all the stories are so
tragic. A couple of months
ago, a fairly large Communist
river steamer was successfully
stolen by a wonderfully in
genious plot. Twelve truck
drivers stole gasoline, drop by
drop, for over a year to pro
vide the fuel. Eight mecha
nics in a Canton dockyard
found the right vessel and
painted it the same gray as
the Communist patrol boats.
Three cooks in a naval mess
stole half-a-dozen uniforms of
the river patrol force. So 70
people sailed down the Pearl
River in perfect safety, seem
ingly on river patrol.
But there are few such
stories to provide grace notes
in the dark tale of fear and
flight. You see the new-come
refugees everywhere here, in
huge huddles at the big police
station, where the Portuguese
police are surprisingly gentle
with them; in still bigger
crowds at the Casa Riccl,
where the fathers give them
food and aid; even lying on
the waterfront like beached
fish, unable to move for a
while after reaching the
longed-for shore.
As
S conditions have grown
doubled and tripled. At the
Casa Riccl, 248 refugees were
received In March, 1959; 330
In March of 1960; no less than
It might be a good idea for
some of those objecting loud
est to read it before condemn
ing it. The big objection -
after one wades through all
the nonsense - seems to be
that under Home Rule, we
would lose our right to vote.
This is absurd. True, we
would elect only seven county
officials rather than eight, but
at the same time, we would
free ourselves from the abso
lute domination of the State
of Oregon so far as county
affairs are concerned.
I can count, and I'd prefer
seven home-elected officials
making decisions which affect
m rather than 90 representa
tives to the Oregon legisla
ture - only three of whom ar
from Jackson county.
William Dawklns
208 West Main st.
Medfosd
From Military to Economic
a peace treaty with East Ger
many and abolition of Allied
rights in West Berlin.
Tense moments followed as
Gen. Lucius Clay arrived in
Berlin to be the President's
personal representative and
the U. S, began re-establishing
its rights on the German
autobahns, in the air corri
dors, and on its side of the
wsll dividing the city.
Now a second phase equal
to the military is being em
phasized. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk left Geneva with the be
lief that so long as the Soviet
challenge remains, there also
remained a serious threat to
West'Berlin morale and a sub-
Joseph Alsep
Trlbuna Syndicate
841 in March of 1961; and to
day the flood Is greater still.
Prolonged semi-starvation;
increasing desperation; much
greater risks taken and many
more lost along the road; in
creasing wretchedness among
the quiet, fatalistic, rag-ciad
people who get through that
is the refugee story.
But there is another story
here, too. Fsther Ruiz, dash
ing about town on his beloved
Vespa, now bringing sudden
hope to an exhausted group
on the beach, now carrying
huge sacks of bread to feed
the hungry line at the police
station, now making his jokes
to cheer the crowds at Casa
Riccl, is very much part of
that story. So are the other
Casa Ricei fathers.
Still another part of the
story are those, like the Rev
erend Mother Maria Tolmira
and her Franciscan sisters of
th School of the Morning
Star, who try to help ' the
refugees in their second stage,
after they have settled in
Macao.
a
rpHIS reporter one wrote a
-s- piece suggesting that the
best bargain in this bargain-
famous part of the world was
an investment in Mother Tol-
mira's work for the poor chil
dren here. This helped to start
a chain of events in which a
retired New York Jeweller,
Nathan Newman, and Mary
Lasker, and President Ken
nedy all played their generous
parts. But the chain was still
$15,000 short of producing a
solid result when Mrs. Eliza
beth Godfrey Bird walked in
out of the blue, so to say.
"What are you going to do
for the rest that you need?
Mrs. Bird asked the Reverend
Mother, after subjecting the
School of the Morning Star to
a severely practical inspec
tion. "The Lord will provide," re
plied Mother Tolmira, quite
sincerely one may be sure,
since the Lord has helped the
Reverend Mother as ofter as
a bull market helps a wise
investor.
"Well I'll give the other
fifteen thousand," said Mrs.
Bird.
QO that was that; and an
" orphanage for 145 won
derfully clean, gay, bright lit
tle girls has now been added
to the school for 750 day
pupils.
Besides frail-seeming, beau
tiful, iron-strong Mother Tol
mira, eleven other nuns, a few
lay teachers, and three cooks
do all the work the children
cannot do, including provid
ing a dally total of 2400 meals
filling breakfasts, lunches,
and suppers. As all this is
done on a cash income of
$1200 a month, plus flour and
the like from the Catholic
Welfare, the Morning Star is
still the best bargain in the
Far East.
But in Macao, bargain-hunting
is less important than
goodness-hunting. Among so
many reminders of man's in
humanity to man, one needs
people like the slender Polish
Reverend Mother and her
bustling Spanish friend, Fa
ther Ruiz, to restore one's
faith in the human race.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
DAMON RUNYON landed his first newspaper job In Den
ver, Col. He waited in the anteroom of the city editor
while an office boy announced hii presence. The office boy
reappeared and said,
"Th boss wants you to
send in a card."
Runyon had no card
nor did he ever have one
after he became famous
but he did have a pack
of playing cards in his
back pocket He care
fully extracted the ace of
spades and told the office
boy, "Give him this." The
city editor not only hired
him, but treated him to
lunch.
Martin Podoll avers that he heard two sharks talking off
Sandy Hook recently. 'Take my Up and stay clear of Coney
Island." one shark was advising the other. "Irving was swim
ming down there last weekend and he got mugged."
O IMS, tT BaaiaU Cart Distributed by Kins rsatiiraa Syndicate
sequent threat to Investment
and production.
On this basis then, Soviet
harassing tactics in the air
corridors represented less a
challenge to Allied rights of
free access than to the spirit
and economic health of West
Berlin an attempt to discour
age establishment of new busi
ness and to encourage West
Berllners to leave.
In answer, the United States
is trying to encourage U. S.
firms with operations In Ger
many to open branches in
West Berlin. Student exchang
es are being considered, as
are suggestions to make West
Berlin universities centers for
international education pro
grams. A glance at statistics illus
trates the cause of concern.
West Berlin gained steadily
in population from 1953 to
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Japanese vignettes:
At the Higashi Hongangi
temple in Kyoto, there is an
interesting historical exhibit.
When they were building the
temple several centuries ago.
they couldn't find ropes
strong enough to lift the im
mense pillars designed to sup
port the temple roof. The
pillars were cut from the
trunks of huge pine trees.
When they tried to lift them
Into place with hempen ropes,
the ropes broke. They then
had special cotton ropes made.
The ropes also broke under
the strain.
So
. They called upon the wom
en of the area for a sacrifice.
The women cut their long
hair. The hair was spun into
ropes. These hair ropes held
and the pillars of the temple
were lifted into place.
The ropes are still shown
as a part of the temple shrine.
They are nearly three inches
in diameter, and still look
strong and trustworthy.,
THE pine, the plum and the
bamboo are the HAPPY
trees of Japan. You see them
all over the country. The bam
boo grows everywhere, and is
used for an unbelievable num
ber of purposes.
In, Japan, the pine tree is
the symbol of 'longevity.
'TRAVELING by rail from
Kyoto to Tokyo, one pass
es through Japan's largest
agricultural area. Mulberry
trees are to be seen frequent
ly along the way. Th leaves
of the mulberry are the fa
vorite food of the silk worms.
They are less numerous
now than formerly, as syn
thetic fibers are cutting heav
ily into Japan s silk markets.
Silk, however, la still spun
and woven into beautiful fab
rics. The silk industry reach
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
lei General
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Everything in the world
can be understood except the
very simplest and most ele
mental things; complexity can
always be broken down and
analyzed into Its components,
but simplicity seems to con
tain within itself an inviola
ble secret.
All the jokes and cartoons
about husbands and wives
squabbling over the bridge
table ignore the fact that
this outlet often keeps them
from bickering about other
matters which might threat
en the marriage more griev
ously than the correct play
of the trump suit.
No hostelry which provides
only wire hangers for its
guests deserves to be patron
ized a second time; who needs
the TV set In the room if
the shades are torn, the face
cloth is missing and the hang-
Now
1958 when Khrushchev issued
his first ultimatum against
the city. Since then, there has
been a slow but steady de
cline. The population, which
reached a peak of 2.2 million
in 1960, has been projected to
1964 at an even two million.
German government offi
cials explain it partially by
the fact that Berlin is a city
of the old, with a death rats
far exceeding the birth rate.
But it also is true that West
Berlin's work force has dimin
ished at a rate of between
15.000 and 20,000 a year since)
1958.
Formerly, the city replen
ished its work force with refu
gees from the East. The Soviet-erected
wall cut off that
flow to scarcely more in a
year than used to arrive in a
week.
JENKINS
ed Us peak when Kyoto was
the ancient capital of Japan.
The luxury loving nobility
of that period loved these
rich silks. The elaborate pat
terns dyed upon them in
volved an ingenious method
that is still used.
THE dyed fabrics are washed
in Kyoto's rivers, whosa
waters are believed to be
especially effective in fixing
colors. The excess dye, run
ning off into the water, turns
the rivers into vivid shades
of orange, purple and green.
The washed fabrics are then
dried on the river banks, in
high racks so the air can get
at them. They make a gor
geous sight.
ONE of Kyoto's famous
shrines is the Kinkakuji
the Gold Pavilion. The orig
inal structure was built in
1397. It was desroyed by fire
several years ago. The pres
ent building is a reproduction
of the original structure. It is
covered almost entirely by
gold foil.
The Gold Pavilion is visited
annually by tens of thousands
of Japanese school children,
who come in school buses.
They park their buses and
march in orderly formation to
view the Pavilion. On the dH.v
when our pilgrims from the
cruise ship arrived, they were
marching to the Pavilion as
we were leaving il and they
halted to let us pass.
We seemed to interest them
even more, if possible, than
they interested us. They greet
ed us with loud and friendly
"hallo's," and broke their
lines to shake our hands jnd
try out their English on us.
(English is taught in the Jap
anese schools.)
They were a charming lot.
One can't help liking thesa
Japanese youngsters.
J. Harris
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ers don't hold up the clothes?
New Yorkers who a r -snobbish
about their city
should recall Don Herold's
deflating remark some years
ago: "There is nothing dis- .
tinciive about living in New '
York over eight million
other people are doing it." .
Brevity may be the soul of
wit, but a great many speak-:
ers manage to be brief and;
tedious at the same time.
Speaking of brevity, few ;
statements can equal th .
ironic compression of Rabe-
lais' will: "I owe much; I '
have nothing; the rest I
leave to the poor."
Having a cold is not nearl
so exasperating and unconv
fortable as dragging around
with the feeling of being about
to get one; the anticipation
and uncertainty (in this as in
so many other things) arflL
worse than the affliction it
self. a a a
It Is not for honesty's sake -that
most men ar honest,
but for fear; just contem- .
plate what you might do if .
guaranteed that no on
would ever know it and that .
you would not be punished. :
When we are on the inside,
we complacently refer to if
as "our set"; but when we
are on the outside, we scorn
fully refer to it as "their
clique."
Shakespeare tells us that '
men ar April when they :
woo and December when :
they wed but it might be .
said with equal justice that .
women are kittens during ;
courtship and tigresses aft-.
erwards.
It is fruitless to "blame"
parents for the delinquencies'
of their children, unless you:
carry it a step backward and
blame their parents for not
rearing children who made
better parents, and their par
ents and so on toward an in
finite regress of recrimination.