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History from the files of Th
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1952 (Sunday)
A general storm over much
of the Pacific northwest
brought only .03 of an inch of
rain to Mcdford lasl night.
Bui it brought snow to the
mountains.
Five juvenile boys were ap
prehended by sheritt s depu
ties after they removed and
sold more than one ton of
heavy metal from the Sterling
mine.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1912 (Monday)
Arrangements have been
made to have the 91st Division
soldiers march in the Mcdford
Armistice Day parade.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
next legislature will have few
new laws to enact, it is hoped
and predicted. However, the
soluns can earn their new pay
of $8 a day, knocking some of
the old ones in the head."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1932 (Wednesday)
A lengthy Armistice day
parade is planned, including
marching units of Civil war,
Spanish. American and World
War I veterans; granges, na
tional guard. Humane society
and civic groups will aim
participate.
Welfare Exchange in old
city hall building reports "des
perate" need for donations of
warm clothing before winter.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9. 1922 (Thursday)
Armistic day program will
include parade, prize fights
and annual Ashland-Mcdtord
High school football game.
Canvassing board starts to
taling up vote in general elec
tion; job, being conducted in
courthouse in Jacksonville,
expected to take about a
week.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9. 1912 (Saturday)
Six yc;ir-nld Mcdford boy
loses hunt, when ho touches
match to h black powder e;ui
and it exploded in his hand.
Local post of lire officials
report Hint no mail tor Med
ford was bulieved to be aboard
Shasta Limited train which
was held up south of Califor
nia line.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is tuperior;
even or eight it excellent; five ot
ii it good, ,
1. Ily what other name
dolphin known'.'
Is a
2. What is tin- third largest
city In Hie United States'.'
3. Vox Pop means what'.'
4. Who was Friar Tuck'.'
5. In what
Seminole Indi
stall
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the
live
6. The l)i me (.'inn, ri v
written by w hom'.'
7. When a cow- yels
which end rises first'.'
8. By what purchase did
the United Slates gam most
territory
9. How many stnnc does a
Violin have''
10. Who wrote the Child's
Garden of Verses'.'
Aniweri: I. Porpoise. 2. Lot
Angeles. 3. Voice of the peo
ple. 4. Priest in Robin Hood'i
band. 5. Florida. 6. Dante. 7.
Rear end. 8. Louisiana Pur
chase. 9. Four. 10. Robert
Louis Slevonson.
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VASSO
NOVEMBER 8, 1962
Election
There are several
perhaps, re-learned by inspection of the out
come of Tuesday's election races.
One of the most important is this:
Don't count on registered voter margins to
forecast an election race.
Oregon's voters have
dependent. This was proven again, Dotn state
wide, where Gov. Mark Hatfield, a Republican,
ran un a bigger margin
Wayne L. Morse, despite a substantial majority
of Democratic registration, and in Jackson coun
ty, where voters blithely voted for more Repub
licans than they did Democrats, despite a Demo
cratic registered majority.
ANOTHER lesson is that the editorial recom
mendations of the state's newspapers have
little effect on the outcome of major races.
We should emphasize the phrase, "editorial
recommendations." The press, as such, has un
doubted influence on the outcome of election
races, but it is our belief that the news columns,
which report what the candidates say and do,
have far more influence than the prejudices or
conclusions of any editorial writer.
For instance, Senator Morse won despite the
fact that only three of Oregon's 21 daily news
papers supported him. Governor Hatfield won
also, and was opposed by only two daily newspapers.
A S for our own recommendations, we didn't
" do so badly, as they coincided with the choice
!of local voters in 25 cases, disagreed in 4 cases.
We are, as a result, more pleased than dis
pleased with the outcome of the election as a
whole, while confessing one or two minor dis
appointments. We can, of course, make no claim
that the editorial recommendations affected, or
even largely influenced, the outcome of any race.
We suspect that letters to the editor had more
such influence than the editorials.
But the largest impact, we believe, was the
news coverage and the space given to the state
ments of the candidates themselves.
(On measures, however, we believe that edi
torial comments were definitely helpful, particu
larly in the case of the attempt to repeal the
Oregon School Reorganization Law. Editorials
throughout the state warned of the dangers of
this, and said why. The people voted it down by
better than three to two.)
X7E took special pleasure in the victory of I
" Duncan in his race for Congress, and e?
cially because it was a clean, honest, friendly con
test. Duncan and his opponent, Carl Fisher, re
main friends, in the best traditions of democratic
life.
We believe that Duncan will be an outstand
ing Congressman, the more so because of the
nature of his and his opponent's campaigns. He
can go to Congress with no strings, no bitterness,
no commitments except to serve the district as
best he can. v
This is indeed a refreshing contrast to recent
Congressional elections in the district. E. A.
California Comments
Despite our long-standing antipathy for Rich
ard M. Nixon, we can pity him a bit.
Mis rise from obscurity almost to the pinnacle
of American political life was swift, from Con
gressman to Senator to Presidential candidate,
liut his descent was swifter just two years and
one day.
lie lost the Presidency by a hair-thin margin.
And he lost the governorship of California by a
considerably larger margin than that. He is now
Private Citizen Nixon.
One can forgive his bitterness, while at the
same time heaving a profound sigh of relief that
this man did not become the chief executive of
cither the nation, or of the nation's soon-to-be
largest state.
A NOT HER
defeat of
f the notorious Proposition 21 in
I California a measure which would have per
mitted some citizens clothed with questionable
authority to label others as subversive, without
i due process, defense or recoiii'se.
j Pre-election polls indicated it would win, but
a massive late-campaign drive to inform the vot-
! ers of California as to its injustices and dangers
! apparently was successful.
i It would have been a grisly tragedy if the
I voters had reelected relatively 'liberal Oov. Pat
Brown, and at the same time enacted a measure
which would have taken California backward
' :!0D veai s in the field of civil rights.
njl'- were a bit puzzled at the defeat of the '
' California reapportionment proposal. It I
mid have Riven additional Senators to populous ;
; Los Anueles and San Francisco, whicl
' desperately under-represented in the
ate, but which, with their millions of voters,
could have obtained somewhat more senate rep
resentation. This they refused to do, however.
In Oregon, the decision went the other way.
with the voters deciding to retain their present
method of apportionment, based on population
with no regard to area or economic factors, and
rejecting a moderate compromise between the
two philosophies.
It is fun to speculate on why certain elections
came out the way they did. Hut it remains noth
ing but speculation. L. A.
Lessons
lessons to be learned or,
always been notably in
than Democratic ben
Bob
espe-
sigh of relief is called for by the
i now are i
tale sen
MEDFORD
"1 Say We've Been Following A No-Win,
Appeasement Policy, Comrades, And
I Ask, Who Lost China?"
Communications
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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
p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
Daper; in fact the contrary is ofton ha case.
Prose 'Pottery'
To the Editor: I was going
to say "I've been thinking,"
but another beat me to it. I
didn't write one word about
the election, for I knew that
afterwards I might rue it. I
just read Communications
and grinned, but I didn't jot
down any notes. Misters and
Mrs. 'ers look up all spaces
telling all the rest of us how
to cast our votes.
"Vote 'No' for so and so,"
they told us or "If you don't
vote 'Yes' you'll feel the
squeeze. I hey told us why
their choice was the better
man, but I always vote for
whom I please.
One doesn't learn to know.k
his other half for years: How
then, can he judge just who is
who? One can't judge a good
egg by its color, or a would
be top man by a shoe.
Mis friends may help him
loot his horn, but if he wins
he can't change a single thing.
You may wonder why both of
you were born, and why the
U. S, doesn't rate a king.
Ruled by the people? Some
sort o' joke? Even indivi
duals don't like to be in debt.
A nation in the red for many
millions . . . Aiming at the
moon: Is that good etiquette;
If we can't marry the man in
the moon why shoot the poor
fellow through? We'd just
have to stay in debt forever.
Our children's children's chil
dren will have the same to do.
Shepherds of olden times
led their flocks. The meander
ing calf imprinted trails quite
steep. The living of today
will follow leaders very like
the lesser ones called "sheep."
Who ever 'tis gets into of
fice, or what party gets for
him the chair; I'll back him
and he loyal to the end. for
always 1 believes in being
fair.
No one can ever please
everybody, for some will al
ways have to gripe. The Red
man knew that peace came
only when all men smoked
the same ol' pipe.
No chain is stronger than
the weakest link. No office
holder can this countries' bur
dens tote: no no matter from
whom comes a big promise,
please don't tell this ol' gal
iiow she must vote!
Pearl Sparkninn
P. O. ;t;t
Jacksonville, Ore.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
VNEWLYWKD Dayton reporter proudly remembered his
mother-in-law's birthday and wired her, "Congratula
tions, mother mine. And may you have 100 more birthdays."
IW fii,.iH ri,.m...-.nm-
i.:.. ...... i
.11111 HIS VIIU.", urn 111 11
he gol home baffled him
until he got a look at the
telegram.
Western Union had left
the two zeros off the 100.
A prosperous Iowa farm
rr pointed out. that. Ins
m S ZZZ'n
paten than li em-omitereil
In a farm fifty timea
1iiri;v 'AVhom ilo thoy ronm
from?'' he. pomimi. A bit
nrttUM, the Mamo man rx-
plainotl, 'Thoy say the fcivat
luiau'r brought Vm." "And vhcte," ncMriVi! the Iowan, "is that
Kl.u'irr now." The Maine man snapped, "It's gone back lot
inori rocks."
t,H'inl!I.H QUOTKS:
l.KssiNil: "A in. m who docs nnt ,vc his rrjMn over corUuri
tilings l-. is nunc to lose."
santaYAN'A: "There is no cure for birth and death save to
tniny tl,i interval." i
LAVKKNOK STI'RNK'S IMMORTAL, SQUKXCH Oe' A
riiHONie! PKST: "I regard you with an indifference closely
borilor.ni; on aversion."
O ly lituuett Cti(. L'limtiuuJ by Ku 'Mluu 8iuJl.il
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
You Have Been Warned
To the Editor: There is no
use to worry about these
startling facts about the sun:
Life on earth would not be
possible without the sun, but
it could possibly destroy us.
The sun has been described as
a hydrogen bomb of cosmic
proportions. Like a hydrogen
bomb, it produces energy by
changing its hydrogen into
helium. Every second, the sun
fuses 600 million tons of hy
drogen into 596 million tons
of helium. The four million
tons that are lost are convert
ed into light and heat.
This has been going on for
six billion years. The sun is
middle-aged; in another six
billion years - Bang! The sun
is expected then to expand to
30 times its present size. Our
earch will be scorched, our
oceans will boil away into
clouds. The oceans will rain
down and the earth will be
come freezing cold. Possibly
man will move to other plan
els in time, or even evolve
inlo a new form of life that
will survive. Nonetheless,
carthling, you have been
warned.
You have only six billion
years to live. So enjoy it while
you can. (From the October,
1062, Modern Woodmen.)
Bert Kissinger
322 S. Riverside ave.
Medford
A Thank You Note
To the Editor: It would be
impossible for us to thank
each one individually, so we
would like to use your column
to express our deep apprecia
tion to all our friends, and
everyone else, for their kind
ness and the many ways they
have helped us during my
husband's long illness.
A very special thanks to the
people who donated blood in
his name while he was in the
Portland hospital.
Again we say thank you.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
(Dick) Wallace
P.O. Box 12
Eagle Point, Ore.
Chester, 111. lUPIt Kaskas
kia. the first capital of Illinois,
is now an island in the Mis
sissippi river. It is generally
still considered part of Illi
nois, though the site actually
i- closer to Missouri and its
only connection to the main
land is the latter state. The
island was formed when the
river changed course.
.
W.?7
New Problems Keep Arising as Europe
Discusses Britain and Common Market
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyit
As each new problem arises
In the incredibly complex ne
gotiations for British entry in
to the Europe
an Common
Market, so al
so do tempers
rise. So it has
been in the
last few days
that even
those most ar
dently hopeful
for eventual
II
Kewiom success of the
negotiations have been warn
ing that Britian can be pushed
loo far and that the negotia
tions can fail, much to the
future misfortune of Europe.
"It would," said a Conserv
ative member of Parliament,
"be a tragedy if over-clever
European negotiators be
trayed the true interests of
Europe and handed the Krcm
lin a gigantic consolation
prize for Cuba."
At the moment, difficulties
center upon British efforts to
protect Commonwealth ex
ports from the temperate
zones, and in the differences
between British ' and Euro
pean systems of protection for
agriculture.
Still to be negotiated is the
status of Common Market im
ports of tropical goods be
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
STORM SIGNAL IN VERSE
Washington - The Cuba
born tensions in the Kremlin
were quite probably first re
vealed in the
oddest pos
sible manner-
by the publi-
cation of a
long, very bad
poem in the
sacred col
umns of Prav-
da. Pravda's
publication of
Aisnp Stalin s In
heritance" by Yevgeni Yevtu
shenko has already received
some notice, as was only pro
per. It was a most meaningful
event, even without its hither
to unsuspected Cuban back
ground. The poem's clcphantincly
clumsy central image depicts
Stalin in his grave, "just tak
ing a nap, to rest a little,"
with a telephone convenient
ly placed by his side, to "im
part his instructions" to his
"many inheritors." In the So
viet Union, official publica
tion of this sort of thing has
profound political implication;
and Yevtushenko's limping
but virtuously anti-Stalinist
verse must be read with this
in mind.
UT there is more in this
poem than the public
warning to the Kremlin's neo
Stalinists. which has already
been so widely commented on.
To begin with, the leader of
the neo-Stalinist faction in the
Soviet Presidium appears to
be pinpointed, for the first
time on record, in the follow
ing lines:
Some of (Stalin's) inheritors,
in retirement, are prun
ing roses.
But secretly they consider
this retirement only tem
porary. Others are even cursing
Stalin from the rostrum.
But when they are alone, at
night, they yearn for the
old times.
Obviously, nowadays, it is
for good reason that Sta
lin's inheritors have heart
failure.
On reading this passage in
the Yevtnshcnko poem, every
Soviet Communist must in-
stantly have recalled that So-1
viet Deputy Premier Krol Ros
tov suffered a severe heart at
tack some months ago. This
burly Leningrad leader and
Presidium member, who has
duly "cursed Stalin from the
rostrum," was once indicated
by Khrushchev as his intend-!
ed successor, in a conversation j
with Gov. Averell llarriman. I
Koslov is generally regarded
as a conservative hard-liner
among the American experts
on Kremlin dcmonology.
IF the Yo
was indeed
vtushenko poem
d intended to pin
point Koslov, as seems pretty
certain, there has been noth
ing quite like this in the So
viet Union for many years.
The search for precedence
would have to go back to the
remote days of almost open
Aion Retires After
56 Years With Firm
St. Louis - UPI - Theophil
Klemme has retired after 56 ,
years with the same publish
ing firm.
KIcnime started as an as
sistant bookkeeper in lflOB
when he was l! year? old and
advanced to head bookkeeper
and cashier of Eden Publish
ing house, now owned and
operated hy the Evangelical
and Reformed Church, part
of the United Church ol
Christ.
cause Commonwealth inter
ests extend around the globe
and into every climate.
And this is of special inter
est to the United States, the
pledged protector of Latin
American economies depend
ent upon sales of coffee or
sugar or meat.
But even these hurdles still
represent only the beginning.
There remain such ques
tions as the use of metric or
decimal systems, the problem
of taxes and wages, rights of
investment, the free flow of
labor and transport, and con
vertibility of currencies.
Beyond all this is the head
long rush of the present Com
mon Market membership
France, West Germany, Italy,
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxmbourg to complete
their economic integration
ahead of the 1970 deadline
and to open the way even
more quickly to political in
tegration as well.
Each year chopped off the
original schedule increases
Britain's problems.
However, these all are
problems that were foreseen
in some degree.
The pace of world events
brings others.
One such event was the de
velopment of the Cuban
crisis.
It brought new realization
By Joseph A I sop
Tribune Syndicate
party controversy, before Sta
lin eliminated his rivals.
What makes the development
even more striking is the pe
culiarity of its timing, which
has also been missed thus far.
In brief, the Yevtushenko
poem appeared in Pravda on
Oct. 21, just one day before
what may be called the public
beginning of the Cuban crisis
with President Kennedy's
Monday speech to the nation.
Within the Kremlin, how
ever, the Cuban crisis must
actually have begun several
days before the President's
public speech.
As already revealed in this
space, there was only one
crucial, missing part in the
Kremlin's ingenious and ruth
less scheme to use Cuba for
a political - strategic Pearl
Harbor. The command and
control system of the already
emplaced SA-II anti-aircraft
missiles had not been complet
ed on schedule, before con
struction began on the Soviet
ballistic missile sites. Thus the
SA-lIs were not ready to shoot
down our intruding U-2s, and
the Soviet scheme therefore
failed.
BUT although the SA-II
command and control sys
tem was not operational un
til Saturday, Oct. 27, their ra
dars were in good order long
before Oct. 14, when a new
ballistic base was first sighted
by an American U-2. Follow
ing the Oct. 14 U-2 flight,
moreover, the SA-II's radars
had plenty to look at: for the
schedule of U-2 flights over
Cuba was at once increased
to six missions per day, in
order to cover the whole is
land with utmost speed.
Although the SA-Ils were
not ready to track or shoot
down the U-2s, their radars
could see the U. S. planes if
they happened to pass through
the radar beams. It is known
that this happened more than
once. Thus the Kremlin must
have had word that the U.S.
government had probably
penetrated the great Cuban
secret, at least four or five
days before the President
spoke to the nation.
During the same breathless
days, the fleeting radar evi
dence was confirmed for tile
Kremlin, beyond much doubt.
by the special emphasis the
President placed on Cuba in
his mid-week conversation
with Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, And these storm
signals must have been fur
ther underlined for the Sovi-
ets by the same internal
indicators which caused the
Washington Post to warn of
a coming crisis two days be
fore the President spoke.
IT IS reasonable to presume,
therefore, that the masters
of the Kremlin began arguing
about what to do if the U.S.
got tough at least two or three
days before the Yevtushenko
poem was published. If this
is correct, the poem's publica
tion must then be interpreted
as a by-product of the Krem
lin debate - a bludgeon blow
in Soviet political terms, and
a bludgeon blow, too, that re
corded the debate's tentative
outcome.
The debate's outcome must
still be considered a
tenta-
tivc. because of the
ti,.. u. mu.-i; vi nit" lllttll,
1 symptoms that Cuba-born ten
sions are continuing and per
haps even mounting in the
Kremlin.
Furthermore, if n man of
Koslov s stature is leading
the opposition, very probably
with support from many of
the Soviet military chiefs, it
is clear that Nikita S. Khrush
chev now faces a political
challenge of the gravest sort.
to the nations of Western
Europe and to Britain for the
need of the strongest possible
Europe with a voice of its
own, independent of the two
great nuclear powers, the
United States and the U.S.S.R.
It also brought a new de
mand that Europe no longer
Inihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
An earthquake measuring
six on the modified ftlercan
scale of 12 rocked Northwest
Oregon and Southwest Wash
ington the other night, it was
felt as far north as Longview
and as far south as Eugene.
Furniture jumped around,
dishes rattled and homes and
buildings swayed.
A pint-size twister skipped
through Newport, over on the
Oregon coast. It lifted the roof
from a shed, picked up a pan
el truck and spun it around
and whirled a dog high up in
to the air, dropping it in a
patch of rose bushes.
From here and there, 65
mile winds were reported. In
the Taft-Ocean Lake area of
the Oregon coast, a water
spout was reported a mile off
shore. EVEN the weather seems to
have gone off its rocker
over the election this year.
FROM Oslo comes word that
the Nobel committee of
the Norwegian parliament
(which is called the Storting)
has decided not to award the
Nobel Peace Prize for this
year. The announcement adds
that the prize money will be
held over for next year.
Why the postponement?
Informed sources say the
committee regarded the world
situation as too LABILE to
make any award this year.
LABILE?
Yes, there is such a word.
Webster discloses that it
means "apt to slip; character
ized by adaptability to change
or modification; plastic, un
stable." I reckon we'll have to admit
that when the Nobel commit
tee decided not to make an
award this year it chose the
right word to describe the
world condition that makes
the award of the prize inad
visable in 1962.
MORE time-killing news:
Family physicians, gath
ered at Fort Worth, Texas, for
their annual convention the
other day, heard a report from
a member that "for reasons
unknown some warts can be
charmed out of existence.'1
One of the best charms, he
added, is swinging a dead cat
three times around the head
at the stroke of midnight in a
cemetery."
That, he added, is supposed
to be infallible.
HOW about the dry bone
You find a dry bone. You
pick it up, being careful not to
disturb the dirt beneath it.
You then rub it on the wart.
After that, you replace it in
the exact manner in which
you found it, being careful not
to disturb even a grain of
dust. If you have followed di
rections precisely, the wart
will disappear at midnight.
STILL killing time:
One of the famous elec
tion stories concerns Aristiries,
of Athens known as "The
Just" because he was so hon
est. He was strolling down
the street on election day
when a voter stopped him and
asked him to write the name
Aristiries on his ostrakon
the little shell the Athenians
used as a ballot, writing on it
the name of the candidate
they wished to vote against.
Aristiries asked the man
why he wished to vote that
way. The voter replied: "Oh, I
have nothing against him: I'm
just dead weary of hearing
him called 'The Just'."
Aristiries wrote his name on
the shell and let it go at that.
How about negotiating the
weapon' aimed at the
should be dependent upon the
United States for its nuclear
defenses.
It strengthened the hand of
President Charles De Gaulla
who has insisted upon de
veloping France's nuclear
capabilities over United
States objections.
Britain already is a recog
nized nuclear power but so
far has adhered to her agree
ment with the United States
not to exchange nuclear
know-how with have-not na
tions, including France.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
W h e never we cannot
make a person "good" in
the way in which we think ha
or she should be good we
proceed to make him or her
miserable; for no matter what
our political and economic
views, no one really practices
laissez-faire in his personal
relations.
It is only a generation af
ter a war that the ordinary
people begin to admit that
it was a futile, foolish and
unnecessary war which is
something the prophets
poets and philosophers were
nearly stoned for saying
just before it began.
Precise and punctilious peo
ple never learn the truth ot
Melville's shrewd observation
that "There are some enter
prises in which a careful dis
orderliness is the true meth
od." Space is more important
for the welfare of a family
than money; a rural region
has less delinquency than
an urban one because chil
dren have space for growth
and seclusion; in a crowded
slum, the very density of
housing creates frictions
that soon explode into de
linquency. The nagging wife deludes
herself with the thought that
with a different kind of hus
band she would not be a nag;
but she ignores the fact that
she chose the sort of man she
could nag, and that her nag
ging gratifies even while it
upsets her.
If everyone were given,
tomorrow morning, his or
her prime desire in com
plete fulfillment the
morning after that, the
germ of another prime de
sire would begin to form it
self and would come to full
growth before a year was
out. The range of human de
sires is infinite and insat
iable and thus happiness
can come only by rigorously
limiting our wishes, not by
relentlessly pursuing them.
Speaking of happiness, that
most fragile, elusive and equi
vocal of words, perhaps the
best and most succinct com
ment on the subject was made
by Erasmus, when he said: "It
is the chiefest point of happi
ness that a man is willing to
be what he is."
A woman who is proud of
her chastity is like a man
who is proud of his honesty
in both cases, the sin of
pride can be more damag
ing to the character than
the vices they reject.
With the temperatures al
ways hovering around 12 the
year around, how do the peo
ple in Hawaii open a casual
conversation?
If you can't teach an old
dog new tricks, he was
probably never much good
at tricks when he was a
young dog; age does not
change us, it merely makes
more rigid our innate ten
dencies. "Unreciprocated love" is a
meaningless phrase; it is as
impossible as clapping with
one hand.
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