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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22, 1952 (Friday)
Traffic violators appearing
before Judge Warren Lcssage
In police court during the next
two days will be given tneir
choice of paying fines of
donating a pint of blood for
servicemen fighting in Korea.
The Medford station of the
U. S. Weather bureau report
ed a ID-degree temperature
reading, low for the season,
this morning.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22. 1942 (Saturday)
Medford high school boys
undergoing strenuous physical
education program to prepare
themselves for military train
ing. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "Christ
mas wil be observed through
out the land. For awhile it
: was cared Sunta Claus would
not take lime off from his
war effort to glue on his cotton-batten
whiskers, and all
i the jingle-bells had been turn
ed in as scrap metal."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 22. 1932 (Monday)
Medford High school foot
ball team ' loses 33 to 0 to
Jefferson High school in Port
land in game for mythical
tatc championship.
Influenza epidemic spreads
through Rogue valley; resi
dents warn ed to secure
prompt treatment for the dis
ease. 40 YEARS AGO
Nove. 22. 1922 Thursday)
Headquarters 382nd infan
try, organized reserves, to
open offices in Medford.
Sheriff C. E. Tcrill goes to
Grants Pass in attempt to
Identify men held there as
culprits in automobile holdup
on Blackwell hill.
50 YEARS AGO
Great powers said prepar
ing for war following conflict
ing statements on Balkan sit
uation; France and Germany
mobilize army corps.
Three boxes of Bosc pears
grown by Bear Creek or
chards receive first prize at
New York stale fair.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
ail is good.
1. Should an airostrophe be
Used in the form of "Yours
Truly"?
2. The moon is sometime
visible from the earth's poles;
true or false?
3. Name the author of the
novel "Main Street."
4. Seoul is the capital of
which country?
5. If a London housewife
refers to a "pram" what docs
she mean?
6. Which ex-boxer Is nick
named "Slapsle Maxic"?
7. Is the process of com
bustion fundamentally the
same for coal, wood, oil and
gasoline?
8. In 1899 which of the
colonies moved its seat of
government from St. Mary's
to Annapolis?
9. Is the highest peak on
the North American continent
located In California, Alaska,
Colorado, Montana, or Can
ada? 10. For what offense may
a civil officer of the U. S.
Government be impeached?
Answers: 1. No. 2. True.
3. Sinclair Lewis. 4. Republic
ol Korea. S. Baby carriage.
6. Max Rosenbloom. 7. Yet.
1. Maryland, t. Alaska (Mt.
McKinley). 10 Treason, brib
ery, or other high crimes and
misdemeanors.
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VS AS S O C I At I O M
This Day
Dear the people coming home,
Dear glad faces long away,
Dear the merry cries, and dear
All the glad and happy play.
Dear the thanks, too, that we give
For all of this, Thanksgiving Day.
Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Year of Decision
"Next year will be a year of decision for education
beyond high school in Oregon. Next year Oregonians
will face a lest the like of which has not confronted
them before."
This quotation appeared in the East Oregon
ian. It was written by a man who knows what he's
talking about, Editor J. W. Forrester Jr., who also
serves as a member of the State Board of Higher
Education, and has long been interested in prob
lems of education.
The two key questions, Forrester says, are
these :
"How much education do Oregonians want to
provide beyond high school for their young men
and women? To what extent do they want quality
of that education to be
These two broad questions can be broken
down into a number of
COR INSTANCE:
RVinnlrl uro ottnrrmr tn
tion for every child able
school? Or should we limit college and university
enrollment? If so, how?
or college entrance tests;
What kind of higher
tempt to provide? The best, in all categories, and
at the graduate as well as undergraduate levels?
Or will we have to skimp somewhere, and re
quire our very ablest youngsters to go elsewhere
to complete their educations?
What about college locations? Do' we have
enough now? Or should we attempt to bring col
lege education closer to everyone's back door?
AND THIS doesn't include the new community
nnllrirrn rii'nfn'Qitl A cimilur carina nt rmna.
tions can be asked about
How many should we
should the state continue to furnish much of the
money for them? How should they be directed
academically, or vocationally, or a mixture of
both?
Should they be integrated with the state sys
tem of higher education, or should they continue
to be creatures of the local area and the state de
partment of education?
How far should they go in providing a post
high school education? And should their gradu
ates be admitted on an equal footing to institu
tions of the state system of higher education ;
THE ANSWERS to some of these questions
will depend on the educational philosophy of
the state's educators and people.
But, it is sad to state, the answers to most of
them will be dictated by one thing money, and
how much of it we are willing to spend to achieve
excellence in education.
If we maintain our educational standards at
the SAME LEVEL as they are now, and admit
the SAME PROPORTION of high school grad
uates as formerly, we're going to have to pay the
piper to the tune of tens of millions of dollars
more than we are now, simply because of rising
costs and the increasing number of students.
THE FACT is, however, that those who care
about education want the standards raised. At
the same time there is every indication that a
higher percentage of high school graduates will
want to attend college or university.
Can we deny either the elevation of stand
ards, or the desire for an education?
If we answer "no" to either or both of these,
we must face the fact that taxes will have to go
higher.
It isn't going to be an
19M legislature. E. A.
Logging
Some months ago in this column we were
sharply critical of the desolate scene created by
logging along the road up Heaver creek, off the
Applegate road above McKee bridge.
It was, as we said, frankly a mess, and some
one had made a mistake in laying out the show.
Now it is our pleasure to report, after a trip
there in recent days, that one of the best cleanup
jobs we have ever seen in a logged off area has
been completed.
It is not, obviously, still the timbered roadside
beauty that it once was, but shows what can be
accomplished in restoring ugly seal's when intel
ligence and skill are applied to the job E.A.
Disaster.
If some disaster were to kill all the inhabitants
of Medford, Central Point, Phoenix and Gold
Hill, it would make black headlines the world
around.
If some mysterious ailment were to wipe them
out over a period of a year, the same kind of
headlines would be printed.
That is the approximate number of residents
of the United States who were killed in traffic
accidents during the first nine months of W2.
E.A.
emphasized .'
more specinc ones.
nrnvirlfJ a hirrVipr prlnpn.
to graduate irom high
By grade point averages,
education should we at
it.
attempt to provide, and
easy job serving in the
Cleanup
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contrary is often lhe case.
Right To Hunt
To the Editor: Hunters and
fisherman, you are just about
to be priced out of the game.
If you fished and hunted all
types of game this year you
paid $16.50 in licenses. Next
year you will pay $26.50.
Subtle discrimination against
the poor.
I for one cannot afford this
God given right of hunting
and fishing. Now is the time
to put a stop to tliis before it
becomes a game that only the
rich can play at. If they do
raise the fee there will be
poaching by many that would
otherwise be law abiding.
The license itself does not
lend any flavor to fish and
game. The state does not have
enough jails to hold all of the
people of lesser means. I ad
vise the powers that be to lay
off. If hunters get so thick
that they stand shoulder to
shoulder, I want the right to
be one of them.
George Brown,
Box 259,
Prospect, Ore.
UNICEF Comment
To the Editor: Ester Robin
son, when speaking for the
United Nations (MT 11-18-62),
demonstrates the admirable
virtue of charity in being
concerned for needy people. It
is hoped, however, her natural
concern (shared by most rea
sonable people), docs not con
tinue to lead her to rail, with
a noticeable lack of restraint
and prudence, against those
who refuse to believe commu
nist nations, upon receiving
UNICEF funds, will in turn
demonstrate the same virtue
of charity practiced by those
who contributed to the Hal
loween fund in the first place.
The truly surprising thing
about Ester Robinson's letter
was her admitting that be
cause ol some cun, inonun
vague comment about "not
being interested in helping
communists'," people, or some
one, took it upon thcmself to
investigate' the situations
and 'tracked" a few instances
(of refusal to contribute), to
the. source of Freedom Center
In Portland; and then drawing
the conclusion that virtually
all who refuse to contribute
to the Halloween fund are vic
tims of organizations who
seem (to some UN hopefuls),
to misrepresent and pervert
truth.
Docs the scope of UNICEF
alwavs include this kind of
extraordinary, rather ques
tionable activity'.'
Robert J. Howard,
7 HI! Bookman St.,
Medford.
Thanks Giving
To the Eitiiur: Thanksgiv
ing Day is today; and yester
day and tomorrow and every
new day to come.
Why? For what Is there to
he thankful'1
For me there Is but one
complete answer. It must
come from willun and yet
lie intricately laced with all
I svo; with all 1 touch and all
that touches me.
For siviiigt For receiving.
For the capability of believ
ing Rrhrving in all there is
to believe.
For never allowing one mo
"i"'1
ment to slip away
tasting its bitter swee
For the tears 1 can shed
in compassion or pain and for
the sound of laughter and mu
sic when the pam seems end
les.a. For the ability tn remember
each lesson learned and the
right to apply it wisely.
For livini; each day Willi
opened eves and heart, and
for a miiitl willing to cm
brai'c every new aw akeniuc;
hoping, over expecting to find
the anMvci's to unansw eratile
questions.
For loving, with a fervent
love, the sparkling dew on a
leaf; the fragrance of flow
er; the glory ef a rising sun
And for the small, dying bits
of life fading in the breath
taking beauty of a sunset.
For the warm smell of
wheat fields on a summer
day and the scattering rain
bow of song-birds in the gen
tle grace of a tree.
For the bareness of a rest
ing land through the long
winter's sleep.
For the pound of the
ocean's surf and the taste of
salt-spray on my lips,
i And for the majesty of
mountain's rising above the
aching serenity of a plain of
wild-flowers.
For the sandpapery feel of
a little dog's tongue on my
hand; his eyes worshipping
me soulfully in spite of my
human failings.
For the whistling wind
sweeping the sky like a giant
vacuum cleaner. And the pelt
ing rain or snow soaking the
earth with clean, fresh aroma.
For time gone and time to
come; even knowing it's an
elusive thing to be respected
and treated with thoughtful
care.
For those who stand beside
me and for all men alike
who, regardless of race or
color, may believe as I do in
all things.
For the zest of living which
comes day after day; and, as
long as I am able to face
squarely their repetition, I
can be thankful for no fear
of death since it can come
but once.
For humbly realizing my
self to be a minute speck of
creation, yet feeling proud of
the immensity of it; of the
privilege of being part of all
there is.
I am grateful that I am
me and you are you; that the
wise and deciding hand of
the Creator patterned each
and every wonder of nature
into His unparalleled design.
Yes -. I am thankful; eter
nally thankful to love and
accept and to cherish all
things in which there are
to believe.
But, above all, I thank God
for allowing me the one un
believable miracle; His trust
in my worthiness to be.
G. B. Farfan,
723 South Newtown St.,
Medford
General Walker
To the Editor: I have been
reading the report of the state
ments made under oath to the
Senate subcommittee investi
gating the muzzling of the
military. I have also read the
special minority report writ
ten by Sen. Strom Thurmond.
This reading has been most
informative in many respects.
I strongly urge every loyal
and patriotic citizen to read
this report. It can be had by
writing any of these senators,
Wayne Morse, Strom Thur
mond or John Slennis. Senate
Office Building, Washington,
DC. It will also be in our
library.
From the report I learned
that the President's open in
sult and down grading of
General Walker was not be
cause of his supposedly Birch
He pro-blue program. The re
port of the committee slates:
"It is well, however, to com
iiiciu on me popular miscon -
' ception that General Walker
I was disciplined because of his
ment on the popular miscon
troop indoctrination activities:"' ,j,c' ",lm
i, ,-nn.-tir,n u-ilh lh 'Pr.
Blue- program. This is incor-! pf, ' h,,sc v"v expensive cars
rect. The Armv investigating,"'"1'""'" ",e "ly
officer specifically found that i Nevertheless we are told the
the division information and world best market for cars
education program conducted enamelled in gold is, not Tex-
hy General Walker under the
name 'pro-blue' was 'basically
sound.' and he consequently
recommended that it continue
to lie implemented in the 24th
Infantry Division. It is still in
force and Is being extended
I into other areas. I'nder this
program church attendance leaves of ramelthorn into hu
increased 500 per cent, 'dis- man food,
riplinr. morale and combat The Crescent, instead of th
trsining improved ind delin-j Cross, was overhead for more
Matter of Fact By j0.ePh Mi0P
(ci Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
CUBA AND THE CHINESE
Washington The Cuban
affair is moving towards an
other climax as these words
are written;
and although
it is reason
able to be
hopeful, the
outcome re
mains unpre
dictable. As
an interim
footnote of
some signifi
cance, howev
Alsnp
er, It is worth recording that
the divisions in the Commun
ist bloc have been a major
topic in all the long and anx
ious meetings of the leaders of
the American government in
recent days.
It may seem odd for Amer
ican policy-makers to be con
cerned about the Communist
bosses' envenomed rows with
one another. Yet this has been
unavoidable. The point is that
the Chinese Communists have
been borrowing a leaf from
quency declined'."
The charges against him
were made by the Over Seas
Weekly (called by the soldiers
"Over Sexed Weekly") be
cause he wished to ban it
from the newsstands in the
PX's in his command. This
paper is listed as subversive
in the Pentagon. Furthermore
its moral influence is very
bad. A commander is respon
sible not only for the physical
welfare of his troops but also
for their moral safeguarding.
Hence he is legally empower
ed to banish any publication
he considers objectionable.
Yet in spite of all these
facts he was prevented from
doing his plain duty by the
President and the State De
partment. One can not but ask
who wields this evil influence
in Washington?
While the investigation was
being made by General
Brown, General Walker was
sent to Heidelberg to fill a
position vacated by a colonel,
which was not a suitable as
signment for a two-star gen
eral. After the investigation
he was assigned to Hawaii as
Deputy for Operations and
Training in Headquarters,
U.S. Army Pacific. This was
a better assignment than that
held in Europe. But he re
signed in order to be free to
tell the American people what
is happening in high places in
government which he could
not do if in uniform.
Could it be that this assign
ment was in the nature of a
bribe?
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
Thankful
To The Editor:
How thankful we should be
for all our blessings,
The hand that feeds our bod
ies and our souls,
Creator of all things, hear our
confessings,
We are thankful for Thy
bounteous doles.
Thou has given us the seeds
to plant our plains,
Hast clothed the mountains
with the mighty pines,
Thou hast watered all that
groweth with the rains.
Hath prospered with their
fruit and trees and vines.
The bees have made their
honey adding sweetness.
The land is flowing with the
milk of kine
Temporal blessings swell with
their completeness
While Thou hast withheld
nothing that was thine.
E n Christ, the Bread of heav
en. Thou hast given.
Extended life we mortals may
obtain.
That immortality may be
from heaven
And that our migrant life be
not in v'nin.
Thankful; not on lust one day
a year. Oh Lord! .
But thankful every day we
see the light-
Our thankfulness to continue
one grand cord
That echoes through the heav
en's dome, so bright,
.lames Williams,
Jacksonville, Ore.
ir
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I 1 0 'he Ld',0.r,: CurrC,lt
. Tex-
such as
: ir ncniini uus one
11111 ""'"eh Arahia
In said Arahia, writer found.
a half century ago. camel
calves were rationed Onetcat
of tiie mother would be tied
as reserve for humans. The
camel is the only machine that
can convert bitter but green
the book of Sen. Barry Gold
water. In other words, they
have been seeking to put Niki
ta S. Khrushchev on the spot
politically, for pursuing a "no
win'" policy in Cuba.
V
IN ADDITION to mocking
Khrushchev for being
"scared stiff," and for "be
traying" the sacred Commun
ist cause, the Chinese have
been trying to make trouble
between Khrushchev and Fi
del Castro. Besides lauding
Castro to the skies, they have
repeatedly hinted that ' he
would be just as well off with
out his link to the Soviets.
These propaganda statements
have also been reinforced, ac
cording to report, by the direct
and active secret intervention
of the Chinese mission in Ha
vana. The Chinese have nothing
whatever to offer Castro, of
course except for moral
support, which will feed,
clothe, and arm no troops at
all.
It is quite possible, nonethe
less, that their Havana trouble-making
has had some suc
cess. In the great Sino-Soviet con
frontations in Moscow, some
Latin American Communists
were among the small minor
ity supporting the Chinese.
There is reason to believe that
the Cuban Communists would
also have followed the Chinese
line in these earlier debates if
their material dependence on
Soviet aid had not been so
great. In Havana, therefore,
the Chinese have at least had
sympathetic listeners.
.
YET THE POINT of primary
concern for the U.S. policy-makers
has not been the
effect of the Chinese interven
tion in Havana. It has been,
rather, the impact in Moscow
of the vicious Chinese attack
on the Soviet leadership in
general and Khrushchev in
particular.
The question has had to be
asked, in fact, whether the
ideological barrage from Pek
ing was not limiting Khrush
chev's ability to carry out his
complete Cuban bargain with
President Kennedy. Pending
the answer to that crucial
question (which may be forth
coming before this sees print)
it is worth asking what the
Chinese motives are in this bi
zarre but dangerous business.
One motive, very evidently,
is to try by all means to top
ple Khrushchev and other So
viet leaders who think as he
does from their present seats
of power. Rightly or wrongly
wrongly, if the American
experts are correct the Chin
ese clearly believe that there
are powerful elements in the
Soviet Union, probably center
ing in the armed forces, that
can still be stimulated to
move against Khrushchev.
Yet one cannot stop there,
by any means. Suppose that
the American experts are in
error, and that elements capa
ble of toppling Khrushchev
really exist in Moscow. If so,
these unidentified Soviet per
sonages to whom the Chinese
are appealing, must logically
believe in the nuclear confron
tation with the U.S. which the
Chinese have been denouncing
Khrushchev for avoiding.
TN PLAIN words, the Chin-
ese attacks on Khrushchev
add up to nothing more or less
than a persistent appeal for an
immediate nuclear confronta
tion, plus an effort to secure
general Communist support
for such a confrontation. The
conclusion is unavoidable, in
fact, that the Chinese Com
munist leadership .today has
reached the lunatic stage of
actively desiring an H-bomb
war.
There are reasons for this
horrifying state of mind in
Peking. One reason, beyond
much doubt, is simple ignor
ance of modern weaponry and
its meaning. Another and
more important reason, again
beyond much doubt, is the
melancholy and precarious in
ternal situation of China. For
leaders who have brought
(heir own country to the very
brink of ruin, reducing the
rest of the world to ruins mav
have some attraction.
To be sure, Mao Tse-tung
and his colleagues have not
lost their cunning. It was cun
ning of them to thrust a bay.
onet into the mush to which
birthdays through a series of
writer's years. Thus he came
to appreciate, as above, why
green is sacred. Green accord
ingly was the favorite for tur
bans of returned pilgrims.
This, to indicate they had
been to Mecca. Bearded ones
dyed whiskers green.
Perhaps the most satisfac
tion we Americans can have
as to our influence in Moslem
lands is that American Know
How, developing Arabian oil
wells, has cut camel freights
PS per cent. Hinterland folks,
who once tied camel teats for
milk as above, can now afford
dates for food. This, though
the date gardens are miles
distant That food, cheap at
the palms, once ua prohibi
tively priced w here the desert
grew only camrlthorn.
C M Goethe
.1731 Tea st.
Sacramento 18. Calif.
Washington Report
By William
(ei United Feature Syndicate
DEGREE OF
CHEERFULNESS
Washington It has, what
with one thing and another,
been a dark autumn thus far.
but it is now
possible to see
a certain de
gree of cheer
fulness break
ing through.
Nearly all
over the free
world and
also o v e r a
good deal of
that hitherto
"neutral'' world which will
never be quite so "neutral"
again realism is replacing
woolly unrealism in the cold
war.
Men are throwing away
their empty dream of life
without risk and of victory
over international Commu
nism without sacrifice or dan
ger. Can-do is replacing can't
do as the basis of cold war
policy. The honorable advo
cacy of honorable power is
coming into international
fashion again in the west
and has, perforce, been ac
cepted in the non-Communist
east as well, In the case of
erstwhile "neutralist" India.
The non-communist nations
are at last acknowledging the
responsibilities of leadership.
A terrible slide away from
those responsibilities among
the decent countries a slide
very similar to the one in the
'30s, which permitted Hitler
ism to rise in all its horror
and peril has clearly now
been arrested. This is the
supreme new fact of our pres
ent days.
PRESIDENT Kennedy's de
cision not to let the Soviet
Union get away with it any
more in Castro Cuba a
decision taken alone because
others in the west would have
higgled and "negotiated"
has not merely helped restore
the position in this hemis
phere. It has also actually
produced more unity among
the very western allies who
were not consulted. For they
now grasp the hard truth that
mere "negotiation" is not
enough in each and every pos
sible occasion; that where
vital interests are vitally chal
lenged we must be ready to
do as well as to talk.
In France, the symbol of
this policy of being prepared
to do as well as to talk. Presi
dent Charles De Gaulle, has
just won monumental vic
tories in elections which leave
him an even stronger leader
than before.
In West Germany, and not
withstanding the present do
mestic difficulties of his gov
ernment, Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, another advocate
of doing - plus talking, has
come more willingly into the
western concert than ever be
fore. THOUGH tragedy hovers
over me uriem, it is
mixed with great hope.
Though the Chinese Commu
nist invasion of India is
brutally costly in Indian dead,
the blazing light it puts on
the folly of Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru's military
unpreparedness brings posi
tive returns.
The fact has gone deeply
home that Nehru's cynical
playing of Communist east
against free west, while ac
tually favoring Communist
east, has not brought India
even temporary safety from
the very Communist powers
to which he toadied so long.
Krishna Menon has reduced
India's defenses, rather than
to undertake a bayonet thrust
at this time into other, more
potentially profitable areas.
But cunning is not always
inconsistent with megaloman
iac madness. And when the
leaders of a major power suc-
cumb to megalomania, as
seems to have happened in
China, this grave development
needs to he carefully noted
and prudently guarded
against.
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"There must be some . . . er . . . 'teboo subjects'
we haven't made i movie about what other
'taboe subjects' are humani capable of . . . t"
S. White
The Indian people today
are in no mood to hear about
"neutralism." When they re
ject for good this soft and
monstrously irresponsible doc
trine, as they surely will be
fore this affair is over, w
shall see the end of an era of
fatal nonsense which followed
World War II.
THIS, brought up to date,
was just the kind of non
sense that led to the birth of
Hitler the notion that be
cause power evilly used
brings evil results, power it
self is always to be shunned.
It was said by one-book in
tellectuals that there wasn't
much difference between Hit
ler and Chamberlain England.
Until recently, much the same
was said by the same kind of
people of the United States
and the Soviet Union that,
after all, both had immenss
nuclear power and so both,
must be more or less evil in
purpose.
The incredible silliness of
this theory is, under provi
dence, dying now before it
has been necessary to spend
millions of lives as it was"
before to show its intel
lectual rubbishness and moral
cowardice.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harrli
(c Field Enterprises Xne.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
The alcoholism of t h
rich consists in compulsive,
traveling; the poor man can
alter his environment only
internally, by narcotising
himself through liquorl
while the more affluent are
able to alter their environ
ment externally, by con
stantly traveling for no pur
pose except release from
reality.
Most moralists think they ars
following "God's will" but
what they are really saying,
in their strictures to society,
is, "This is how God would
have made the world if Hs
had taken my advice."
All of us suffer, in some
degree, from what I call the,
"delusion of magnitude"?
that is, the false belief that
because a thing may be
good in small measure, it
is even better in larger mea
sure; if one vitamin pill will
make up for a dietary defi
ciency, then three pills at
once will have us bursting
with health and vitality.
This is almost our national
disease.
Women who are taciturn
and men who are garrulous
have a higher proportion of
the opposite sex in their na
tures than the average; the)
rate of verbal flow is a truer
index of feminine and mascu
line natures than looks, body
build or mannerisms.
Many people accept what
they call the "inevitability"
of this trend or that move
ment or the other destiny,
not out of any deep philoso
phical conviction, but sim
ply because such an atti
tude frees them from lhe
embarrassment of choice.
A grasping man believes
that everybody is greedy at
heart; he could not live with
himself unless he forced him
self to estimate others at his
own level of cupidity. (And
those who do not display any
of the fruits of greed, he con
temptuously dism i s s e s as
"fools").
The paradox of thought is
that, at knowledge increas
es, ignorance increases; to
one using his naked eye the
sky at night seems fixed
and limited, the stars count
table; but to an astronomer
using lhe most powerful tel
escope, space is infinite, gal
axies innumerable, and the
cosmos is a mystery con
stantly receding before us.
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