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History from th tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1952 (Saturday)
The 1952 Medford-Ashland
telephone directory, to be is
sued about Nov. 1. will be
the "big city" size for the lirat
lime. .
About 300 people gathered
Sunday at TouVelle State
park on Rogue river to pay
tribute to Judge F. L. Tou
Velle, Jacksonville, pioneer
Oregon road builder.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1942 (Sunday)
The Alwyr company, Med
ford, is given a war produc
tion board contract to con
struct wood and metal buoys
for the Marines; this is the
first WPB contract to be
awarded any Jackson county
firm. , ,,
From Arthur Perry s Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Clark
Gable ot Hip he-man films
has Joined 11. Fluhrer. the
late demon baker, in the air
corps in Florida where both
will work for Uncle Sam."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1932 (Tueiday)
Joseph O. Grey, business
man and city councilman, an
nounces he will be a candi
date for citv treasurer's office.
Boat loaded with fresh
pears from Medford, Hooil
River and Yakima leaves
Portland for Liverpool, Eng
land. 40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1922 (Wednesday)
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J.
Trowbridge and Mr. and Mrs.
Diamond L. Flynn leave for
a week's visit in San Fran
cisco. Half-hour street dance on
Ivy st. follows concert of Elks
band at city park on West
Main st.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16. 1912 (Friday!
Excursion trip to Weed,
Calif., is marred when W. P.
Minard steps in front ot train,
suffers broken arm.
Applcgatc farmers meet
with Copco to encourage ex
tension of electric power into
their area.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten tarred fa superior:
seven er eight is eicellent; five ei
sii Is good.
1. Are black or white pri
mary pigment colors?
2. Is helium or hydrogen
the lighter gas?
3. Does Africa, Asia, or
North America have the great
est water power potential?
4. Who was the last Vice
President to succeed to the
office of President'
5. Did George Washington
publish his famous farewell
address on the occasion of his
retirement from tile army or
presidency?
6. Which province in Ire
land bears the same name as
a man's overcoat?
7. Is Uncle Abner detec
tive of fiction, a comic strip
character, or an old time ac
tor? B. Is the prairie dog a
small, large, or medium-sized
dog?
9. Which state is nicknamed
"Garden State"?
10. Who said. "No man Is
born an artist nor an angler"?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Hydro
gen. 3. Africa. 4. Harry Tru
man. 5. Presidency. (. Ul
ster. 7. Detective of fiction.
6. Neither-ground squirrel.
I. New Jersey. 10. Iiaak
Walton.
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THURSDAY. AUGUST II. 1362
Reapportionment Compromise
"One man, one vote."
Few would quarrel with this maxim as an
ideal to be sought in devising a system of repre
sentational apportionment for legislatures.
Practically, however, it is impossible to
achieve, given our present political structure. 1 ne
best that can be done is to eliminate, insofar as
possible, gross inequities, such as those mention
ed in recent court decisions, where in some cases
one man's vote was 50 or 60 times as potent as
another man's.
""THERE are other factors which tend to modify
the "one man, one vote" ideal. The founding
fathers recognized this when they allocated two
Senators and a minumum of one Representative
to each state, no matter how small a state's pop
ulation. In Oregon's 1857 Constitution, legislative ap
portionment was based, as closely as possible, on
"pure population," but
nized the impossibility of attaining this ideal,
and set up the so-called "major fraction" system
whereby counties or districts which do not have
sufficient population to entitle them to a Repre
sentative or Senator, still would be allocated one
if they had more than half enough population.
The same provision was contained in the 1952
reapportionment amendment, now in effect, but
it also spelled out in more detail how the legisla
ture should be apportioned, and gave the Su
preme Court power to review subsequent reapportionments.
DUT the apportionment plan worked out by the
" legislature following the 1960 census was
found by the Court not to conform to its interpre
tation, and as a result some of the less populous
counties suffered drastic cuts in representation.
It was this that led to the writing of the reap
portionment amendment which will appear on
the ballot this fall.
At letter in today's communeiations column
attacks this proposed amendment as "vicious"
and "un-democratic."
We dispute this. It is our belief that the pro
posed amendment is closer to the intent of the
original Constitution, and the intent of the 1952
amendment, than is the interpretation of the
1952 plan given down by the Court.
17HY DO we say this? Primarily because it re-
stores the major fraction rule as the basis for
allocating all the senators and most of the repre
sentatives. Many probably most students of
apportionment problems believe the major frac
tion rule is the fairest that can be devised when
allocating representation to counties and districts
of widely varying size and population.
The plan also has these other features, which
we believe to be steps in the direction of fairness
and equity:
1. It recognizes that no citizen should be too
far removed from access to his representative,
and in doing so recognizes the principle of mini
mum representation.
2. It is sufficiently flexible to meet changing
population trends.
3. It retains the historic county lines as the
basis for senatorial and representative districts,
and recognizes that when counties are combined
to form a legislative district, the combination
should be based on a community of economic,
agricultural, geographic, social and cultural inter
ests. 4. It retains population as the primary basis
for representation entirely, in the Senate but
also takes into consideration, in the House, the
needs of sparsely populated areas.
5. It retains Supreme Court review in case
the legislature fails to act in reapportionment, or
acts unconstitutionally.
6. It provides an odd number of members in
both houses, to avoid deadlocks, but retains the
ratio of about 2 to 1 between house and senate.
7. It has a built-in safeguard against excessive
over-representation of any area.
IN SHORT, supporters of the proposal believe
it will recognize the rights to adequate repre
sentation of similar numbers of people, whether
in a metropolitan county or a rural combination
of counties.
They believe that to deny representation to
combinations of small counties, on a minimum
basis, would in effect disenfranchise the resi
dents. They believe it is fair, because it recognizes
the legitimate demands of population, yet gives
minimum recognition to the state's varied areas,
resources and economic and social patterns; that
it is not regional because its benefits would ac
cure to all parts of the state, and that it is non
partisan, because it is supported by outstanding
citizens of Oregon from both parties.
IT IS FOR these reasons that we support the pro-
posed amendment.
It will not satisy those who want a "federal
plan," with each county, no matter what size or
population, having a senator.
Nor will it satisfy those who believe that no
weight should be given to the points enumerated
above.
But, to fair-minded people between the two
extremes, it is a fair and workable compromise,
an honesty compromise, which "liberals" and
"conservatives" alike can support in good con
science. E. A.
the authors also recog
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contrary is often the case.
Step Backward
To the Editor: Every sup
porter of fair representation
in Oregon's Legislature, based
upon people rather than area,
should be concerned that the
Associated Oregon Industries
area representation plan, vari
ously described as the "An
nala Plan", the "Citizens Com
mittee Plan", or "Ballot Prop
osition Number 9", is being
presented to the voters at the
Nov. 6 General Election.
While I am confident that
the voters will defeat this
vicious proposal, if they un
derstand what it is intended
to accomplish, unfortunately,
Oregon's Supreme Court re
fused to approve a properly
descriptive ballot title.
In view uf all the national
publicity on reapportionment,
many voters, unless they are
informed to the contrary, may
think that a more represen-..
tative rather than a less rep
resentative proposal is being
submitted to them. This is not
the case.
The people's best recourse
is to support the efforts of
the Bi-partisan Committee to
Retain Equal Representation
to defeat this undemocratic
proposal. No one but the
selfish special Interests is ever
benefited by the destruction
of grass roots democracy
which this amendment pro
poses. Fortunately, on the ques
tion of the adoption of this
proposal, every man and wom
an in Oregon will have an
equal voice, with each being
entitled to cast one vote, with
out regard to how much land
he owns, where he lives, or
how wealthy he is. I cannot
believe that tlic people of
Oregon will knowingly give
up their sacred right to an
equal voice in government.
Oregon has the most repre
sentative legislature of any of
the United States. Let's stay
in first place and not take "9"
steps backwards!:!
Vernon Cook.
State Senator.
Multnomah County,
SI 9 N E. Fourth st.,
Gresham, Ore.
O
Editor's note: Sec comment
in Editorial column.
Finches I
To the Editor: Making wild i
gooseberry jelly at an August
High Sicrran campfire is fun. I
Aflcr such an evening, one's I
next morning's sleeping bag (
snooze may be rather pro- Can't Let It Pass
longed. At such a time, one To the Editor: In yestcr
mny be awakened by the Cas- day's Medford Mail Tribune,
sin Finch's call notes. PRe 8-B, there was an item
This finch has found its concerning the Southern Ore
niche In the high mountains, gon Humane Society in which
It thus has acquired peculiar it stated I had resigned the
food habits. Its lowland rela- position of humane officer. I
live, Ihe redheaded linnet is I want it clearly understood
a weed-seed eater. This slmi- by all the membership of the
larly colored finch, in adapt- Humane Society and by any
iiiK itself to alpine conditions, of the board of directors that
can make a living off pine or might have such an idea, that
fir buds. This is important it is entirely false. My scrv
where the season that affords ices were terminated two days
bird seeds is likely to be un- after 1 was released from the
comfortably short. hospital following an opcra-
The Ciissm "purple" finch j Hon for hernia and t was still
is a bird that endears itself to ; unable to go back to work,
visitors into the High Sierra j No member of the board
as in (lie Back of Yosemite. of directors visited me during
Wilh such short summers, its i the five days spent in the hos
nestini: may commence in I pita, nor did any one of
June Its "cousin." the linnet, 1 (hem let me known thev were
usually has completed its
kindergarten by this time. The
linnets cheery song almost has
ceased as Cassin's is commenc
ing.
Perhaps the time one appre-j
dates the company of Cassin
most is on a ski trip. The
cneery little Hashes of red-1 deal of my own money and
heads are gladsome as they iahor helping to get the or
(orage on huds protruding , (jamiatinn on its teet and pav
from limbs bent with snow I ing o(( $2.noo judgement
wi'igm
C M Goc.the
.1731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16. Calif.
Plan of Salvation
To the Editor: My views on to be n opportune time to item appearing in the Oregon
entering into our spiritual ! terminate my services" an papers recently under the
life, as discussed in Helen 'exact quote of the one board heading. "Mutual Funds Ree
Prevos recent fine letter in member that has contacted me i ord Good." and with the first
r r- r
the M-T, would be by faith
and works. In James 2:26 we
are told, "as the Body is dead
without the spirit so is faith
dead without works."
The apostle Paul says in
Col 2:12, "We are buried with
Christ in the watery grave."
And we come forth, symbolic
of his resurrection into a new
life. Is not that then the first
step in entering into -our
spiritual life?
Our Savior was born a
mortal from his mother's side,
and the first part of his mis
sion on Earth was to be born
of water and the spirit (Holy
Ghost). As he told Nicodcmus.
(John 3:5) Jesus had no need
of being baptized, but He said
to John, "suffer it so now that
all rightousness may be ful
filled." God's law is rightous,
and the Holy Ghost descend
ed upon him in the form of a
dove.
He had then obeyed the
fundamental principle of the
plan of salvation. That must
have been given to us at the
same time he was chosen to
be (he Lamb slain before the
foundation of this Earth, and
we all sang and shouted for
joy over the promise of this
Earth life (Job 38:1-7).
When Adam ale of the for
bidden fruit, he brought our
temporeal death, by the
change in his body from the
spirit of God to our Earthly
element we call blood? He
must also then have suffered
a spiritual death, as he could
not walk and talk with God
face to face any more.
And God gave Adam the
plan of salvation in the tem
poral priesthood. And Jesus
came in due time and estab
lished his church and spiritual
part to overcome Adam's
spiritual death, through the
higher pristhood and the gift
of the Holy Ghost with it?,
ordinances. Jesus is the light
and life and spirit that is giv
en to all both good and evil.
But the gift of the Holy
Ghost is given to us by the
laying on of hands by one
who has that authority, (Heb
5:4). And its function Is to
enlighten our minds, and to
lead us into all truth and
rightousness. as Jesus told his
disciples (in John 14:16 to end
of chapter) shortly before he
departed from them.
John F. Peterson
fill South Holly st.
Medford
contemplating replacing me. I i
was notified by special do-
livery letter and no reason
was given for my discharge.
After devoting 24 hours a day
for four years of my lite (thejsion trusts, and other invest-
first year without one cent
in pay. in fact, I spent a good
against the Society and then
building up the good will
and services to the point it
is self-supporting) it is bit 1
shocking to be kicked out!
simply because. "It was found :
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Stepped-Up Aid to Latin America From
Europe Seen as Increasingly Needed
By PETER KNOX
United Press International
London - (UPD-There is a
growing feeling in Europe
that the old continent might
have to bail the United States
out of trouble in Latin Amer
ica. The story running the
rounds of the diplomatic chan
nels and getting increasingly
into print is that President
Kennedy's Alliance for Pro
gress plan is moving with dis
appointing slowness.
One reason for the tortoise
pace, as seen from this side,
is the age-old suspicion Latin
Americans feel for North
American motives. Sober pa
pers like the London Times
and the Guardian of Manches
ter both have mentioned these
doubts in articles on the al
liance. Few people here believe
Europe could ever seriously
expect to rival the United
States' influence in Latin
about it, before or since.
I hadn't intended making
a public issue of my ill treat
ment, but to let an article
like that pass, stating that I
had resigned, was more than
I could stomach.
William O. Herring
P. O. Box 171
Medford.
The Prospector
To the Editor: Re Aladdin's
Magical Lamp (Bert Kissinger,
Mail Tribune, Aug. 14, '62).
He stood on a hill; then he
bent, looking down
To a trench he had made
in the gumbo ground
In pursuit of a vein of quartz
with it's mold,
A token of float, speckled
yellow with gold.
He was young and the urge
of success was strong
And he reasoned no harm
in the delve, or wrong
As the search for a metal in
virgin soil
Would rob neither wid
ows nor orphans by toil.
There was sweat on his brow
and his anxious face
As he plied the pick for
the Illusive trace
The months had rolled by and
there yet was no sign
To encourage the pros
pect of golden mine.
But just then came a voice,
from he knew no where -"Why
not seek for the
lasting", came out of
the air.
From that moment onward,
as new thoughts took hold
Old thoughts were divert
ed to new kind of gold.
So precious its prospects, so
gorgeous Its find
No tongue can describe
satisfaction of mind.
The peace to the weary is
beyond compare -
Peace comes to Christ's
children, comes out
of the air.
When you prospect for wealth,
by whatever means
Will you weigh in the
balance, and watch the
scenes?
World's wealth is uncertain
and cannot bring joy.
Just masses the troubles
and things that annoy;
But when you find Jesus, His
riches are yours,
Tbis world and its pov
erty, loses its lures
An Heir of Salvation, a "Joint
Heir with Him",
The richest of persons,
your lot, and His kin.
He purchased that balance on
Calvary's tree
To justify all that will
hear and be free
The prospector's strike can be
yours, no compare -
He's calling. He's calling
you, out of the air.
James Williams.
P.O. Box 441.
Jacksonville, Ore.
Mutual Funds
To the Editor: Both before
and after the great decline in
the stock market from March
through June of this year, we
have seen many news stories
concerning the Securities and
Exchange Commission's invi.
ligation into the operation of
the nation's securities markets
and the operations of stock
brokers, mutual funds, pen-
ment groups. Despite this pub
licity, you see a great many
news stories by financial writ
ers which are grossly mislead
ing. In fact. I would wonder
if most of the big press asso-
ciations stories on the stock j
market are not written by spe- j
cialists in sports or advice to
the love lorn.
This particular letter is the
result of an Associated Press
America. Fewer still believe
Europe would want to. There
is a growing body, however,
that thinks Europe is going to
have to step up its help to
Latin America.
The indication are that
President Kennedy and his
advisers would not only not
resent Europe showing some
more interest in Latin Amer
ica, but actually are encour
aging it.
Latin Americans over here,
both diplomats and business
men, also have shown that
paragraph reading:
"NY (AP) - A new survey
of first half performance
showed Friday that many bal
anced Mutual Funds did bet
ter than the popular stock
market averages while some
small growth funds suffered
damaging blows."
The news story is a brief
synopsis from an article ap
pearing in. Business Week
which was actually headed,
"Few Funds Played It Right"
(the understatement of the
decade). The Business Week
Article emphasized that the
Dow Jones average had fallen
23 per cent in six months and
many mutual funds had suf
fered even greater loss. The
article did not emphasize that
mutual funds did better than
the popular stock market av
erages, and that only small
growth funds suffered damag
ing blows. In fact, the article
emphasized that the 40 com
mon stock funds surveyed, 29
showed even poorer results
than the non-selective Dow
Jones Industrial Average.
Such stories as this make
one wonder if the public is
being really informed by such
stories, or whether these gar
bled, self-serving articles are
not mere "plants" by the mu
tual fund industry.
As another example, many
will recall that the newspa
pers, television, and radio em
phasized that the great stock
market crises on May 29 was
prevented from developing
into a 1929 type crash by mu
tual fund buying. Again, this
is just not true. The latest re
ports on the first six months
of mutual fund operations
show that many did very little
buying, and in fact, many
joined the public in panic
selling.
It appears to me that the
mutual fund industry had a
horrible record from the point
of view of preserving the cap
ital of the investor in the re
cent stock market crash.
These institutions advertise
expert and astute manage
ment, but the facts lead me
to seriously question such
claims. If the worn out bogey
man of inflation disappears,
one will be able to tell how
expert the management really
is. My sincere hope is that it
will be much more expert in
the future than it was during
the recent stock market down
trend. Our nation needs individual
investor's capital, but if these
investors are going to continue
to invest in mutual funds,
these funds must begin to
manage and stop concentrat
ing on sales based on "status
portfolios."
Dale M. Harlan, Alty.,
1108 Main St.,
Milwaukie, Ore.
Enough Hate
To the Editor: It is certainly
easy to agree with Mr. Dykes
as to other people's cats and
dogs that live naturally on his
properly. It also makes me ill
to see tons of love poured onto
some animals when millions
of children could use a few
pounds of it themselves. The
type of person that behaves
that way with an animal
needs love himself desperate
ly, but that is another story.
If everyone would provide
consideration for their ani
mals and fence their own yard
for them, many others would
be attracted to dogs and not
repelled. This is pure dream
ing on my part, but the dog
would be first to appreciate it.
His ego wouldn't be hurt
when someone had to chase
him off a patch of grass, he
wouldn't suffer the pains of a
hit and run driver, and he
would be around to be ap
preciated by the hands that
feed him.
It is my opinion that a dog
deserves a certain type of af
fectionate handling. If you
own a loyal animal that acts
intelligently it is easy to be
come attached to them. Mr.
Dykes right now is seeing the
worst side of uncared for an-
" He hould retaliate. He j
i complains but offers no con- i
'. structive ideas. Why doesn't ,
"e purchase an intelligent
i watchdog that would scare
the heck out of the other
hecklers? Also I'm sure he
would be able to keep fleas
off as they have a pill out now
that gets rid of them.
Soon the hate would leave
ana gradually a certain type
of love would fill the empty
spot. There Is enough hate in
this world and too little pre
cious time to fill your life
with it
Mrs. James Anderson.
Coker Butte rd..
Route 3. Box 64.
Medford.
they want more European
money, know-how and en
couragement to lessen their
dependence on Washington.
Under present plans. West
ern Europe, together with Ja
pan, will chip in about $300
million annually for Latin
America, against the $1.4 bil
lion the U.S.A. is pouring in
there apart from another
$300 million which comes
from the international agen
cies that are also heavily de
pendent on U- S. money.
Everyone recognizes that it
will be tough to get more
money out of European gov
ernments for Latin America,
although West German Min
ister for Economic Coopera
tion Walter Scheel has visit
ed there on an extended tour
discussing ways to improve
cooperation.
Even if the government
money were to be slow in
moving to Latin America,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In his first radio-television
report to the people since last
March, President Kennedy re
jected an IMMEDIATE "business-spurring"
tax cut. The
latest figures for July, he said,
do not indicate the country is
drifting into a new recession.
Looking ahead, he said, there
is every reason to expect fur
ther progress.
But he promised to summon
congress into emergency ses
sion to slash levies if the econ
omy skids later this year. He
then added:
"I want to make it clear
we are not talking of letting
spending GET OUT OF CON
TROL." WHAT he has to say about
keeping spending under
control is interesting, but this
question arises:
"What, in his opinion, is the
point at which spending will
get OUT OF CONTROL?"
To a lot of us of the con
servative persuasion, that
point seems to have been
reached already. We are so
conservative as to believe that
when our nation owes three
hundred billion dollars and its
annual INTEREST BILL is
larger than the entire cost of
running our federal govern
ment only 22 years ago spend
ing has ALREADY got out of
control.
IN HIS report Monday, the
President assured the
American people that he still
is going to ask congress next
year for tax reforms that
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
lc) Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
It puzzles me that scientists
can design a method of pro
tecting spacemen against a
crash impact fifty times the
force of gravity, and yet we
haven't wanted to, or been
able to, build an automobile
which protects riders in high
way accidents.
A great deal of what we
call "molding" and "im
proving" our children con
sists in systematically re
moving the spontaneity
and direct honesty they
were endowed with, and
replacing these with docility
and hypocrisy.
While it is true that, as Kin
Hubbard long ago observed,
intelligent people are always
on the unpopular side of any
thing, it is equally true that
many disgruntled personali
ties take the unpopular side
merely because they think it
makes them seem intelligent.
Teamsters Clash
With Bricks, Bats
Philadelphia - mm - A thou
sand Teamster Union mem
bers clashed last night with
bottles, bricks and bats-rebels
versus supporters of James
Hoffa.
Two policemen and 12 team
sters men were hurt in the
brawl. Police confiscated 12
baseball bats and an assort
ment of steel tools.
Police said three shots were
fired through the windows of
Local 102 s waterfront head
quarters before the melee
began outside. Ten cars were
damaged. Police dogs and fire
equipment helped break up
the battle.
Violence had begun earlier
in the day at a trucking termi
nal shut down when the union
local's insurgent faction.
"Voice of Teamsters 107."
walked otf their jobs and
began picketing.
An estimated 60 million or
more native-born Americans
have no legal proof of their j
birthplace.
there was a growing feeling
that it would find its way
there eventually.
One commentator said:
"There is clearly a limit to
the amount the United States
can provide in her position as
foster parent to the. whole
subcontinent.
"This means that the door
is left wide open for far-sighted
businessmen from East
Germany, Holland and Italy
who are prepared to take a
fairly safe gamble on the fu
ture of what is a rapidly-expanding
market. If at any
time they falter, then the So
viet Union will be more than
willing to substitute."
The fear that communism
will sweep Latin America is
a real fear here, although per
haps not as vital as in the
United States. But it is an
impelling motive for Europe
to help out increasingly in the
area.
would include a reduction in
rates, effective back to Jan. 1,
1963.
THAT also is interesting.
Federal tax rates are
staggeringly high.
For example:
If your taxable income
(meaning your net after per
mitted reductions) is not over
$2,000, your tax will be 20
per cent of it. Twenty, per
cent of $2,000 is $400. That's a
lot of money to take out of
an income of $2,000.
SUPPOSE your taxable in
come is $2,000, but not
over $4,000. In that event
your income tax will be $400,
plus 22 per cent of the excess
over $2,000.
Suppose your taxable in
come is $4,000, but not over
$6,000. In that case, your tax
will be $840, plus 26 per cent
of the excess over $4,000.
Again, that's a lot of money
to be taken out of taxable in
comes of from $4,000 to
$6,000.
There is a lot of moonshine
to the effect that the Big Shots
pay the bulk of our federal
taxes. Sure. They pay a LOT
of taxes. But the people down
at the bottom brackets ar
VERY numerous.
The Big Shots are relatively
few in number.
WHY these staggeringly high
tax rates?
The answer is absurdly sim
ple. It is because of too much
RECKLESS SPENDING.
J. Harris
Some married couples get
along so swimmingly not
because they are well-adjusted
but because their
maladjustments happen to
mesh; the clinicians call this
"interlocking neurosis." but
I heard a more vivid and
accurate description t h
other day: "The rocks in his
head perfectly fit the holes
in hers."
Some of the most pioiu
people I have ever known
have also been the most par
simonious: perhaps on the
warped theory that if they
place all their trust in God,
they don't have to place any
in their fellow men.
We are not nearly as care
ful In choosing our pleas
ures as we are in avoiding
calamities -'and we never
learn, until too late, that
the latter generally come
from the former.
It is essential to most re
formers that they never suc
ceed; for success would give
them nothing to be against,
and the dynamics of their
personality would collapse.
.
What we call "faith" in
the modern world is largely
a substitute for genuine re
ligious belief: it is a "falsie"
worn to uplift the soul, and
not the real thing at all.
"Whatever liberates our
spirit without giving us self
control is disastrous." said
Goethe, thus anticipating by
two centuries the danger
points in "progress" and "de
mocracy." The lowest form of hu
man life consists of those
pathetic and contemptible
creatures who gather
around the scene of a fire,
accident, or any other
catastrophe, with no desire
to help but only to gawk
and to obstruct those doing
their diffi-u t duty. If I
were I rman or police
men wo-hing under such
circumstances. I would
sprey xhe crowd with a high
pressure hose until it dis
persed. Those who try to impress
wi:n their superiority su, ceH
olv
imTresslr.i; .;iem 7; it it
their d-.'-rate need to make
an impression.