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History from the tiles ot Th
Mail Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vears ago-
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 17. 1952 (Wednesday)
. Mayor Diamond L. Flynn
has proclaimed Saturday as
"Douglas McKay Day."
: Low temperature of 15 de
grees this morning was the
coldest recorded so far this
season, according to the U. S.
weather bureau.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27, 1942 (Thursday)
Total of 484 Camp White
soldiers entertained as guests
of Medford residents on
Thanksgiving day.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "If the
weather continues unchanged,
a committee will be needed to
wire Washington, D. C, for
priority on a community ark."
30 YEARS AGO
Hnv. 07. 1032 (Saturday)
Int iimhonl Sheriff Ralph G.
Jennings, a write-in candi
date, asks recount of ballots
cast for sheriff in general elec
tion. Ernest Wolver, secretary of
Medford Horseshoe club, de
feats state horseshoe pitching
champion, 50 to 38, in left
handed match.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27. 1922 (Sunday)
Medford High school offic
Juts cancel football game with
Ashland as result of "un
sportsmanlike , conduct" of
that school in protesting elig
ibility of Ncff and BHUgh
mnn, "two of Mcdford's fin
est players."
Final approval given for
Medford school district bud
get totaling $102,500.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27, 1912 (Tuesday)
Hall becomes lost 111 fog
twice ns Mcdtord High school
football team defeats alumni
1R In 'l
l.m-f,f number of annlicailtS
from all sections of Pacific
roust reported for Job as
matron at Medford city Jail.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan correct U superior;
seven or eight is excellent; fflva ar
sit is good.
I What do the Italians call
Naples'.'
2. What President of the
United States preceded Lin
coln? 3. What would this be in
Arabic numerals
MMCCXXX1V?
4. What animal is the mas
cot of the Naval Academy
football team?
5. Who was the hero in the
"Merchant of Venice' "'
6. What colors are contained
In the French flag'.'
7. What Is the number of
the Psalm beginning, "The
Lord is my shepherd; 1 shall
not want. . . ."?
R. Did the Kninaii Empire
ever include Holland"
Who was 111' chlrst son
of Adam?
10. Name the author ot
"Ivanhoc."
Answers: 1. Napoli. 2. James
Buchanan, 3. 2234, 4. Goat, 5.
Antonio, 6. Red, while and
blue. 7, Twtnly-third. 9. Yes.
9. Cain. 10. Sir Walttr Scott.
Youngster Dies
Of Crash Injuries
. Hood River - (ITU - Kevin
Aitken, 7, died in a hospital
here Monday of injuries
received Sunday in a head-on
collision on Highway 3(1, His
grandmother dird in the crash.
Three persons died In Mon
day auto accidents In Oregon.
NOVEMBER 27, 1962
A Fifth Milestone
(The following is adapted and condensed from a
talk recently given by the writer.)
Mankind has achieved four milestones in the
art of communications. The time, we believe, is
ripe for achievement of a fifth.
The first milestone was l'eached in some dim,
prehistoric time that cannot be given a date, but
it most probably occurred between 100,000 and
1,000,000 years ago. It began when one living
being uttered a grunt or a yell, and it was under
stood to mean something by another being. It was
the beginning of language.
From the first sounds of fear or danger or
endearment or hunger or pain, slowly there arose
new sounds, which, by common consent and with
out conscious, intelligent deliberation, came to
mean other more subtle things. The concepts of
here and there, up and down, near and far, began
to emerge,
AT FIRST these sound-symbols, these proto
words, would have been sufficient, being ut
tered more as ejaculations than as meaningful
attempts to convey coherent messages.
But once the use of words became common,
the process of stringing them into more complex
thoughts began to occur. And the process fed up
on itself, for as more complex and sophisticated
messages became possible, new words became
necessary, and were invented or improvised.
But the time this had happened long enough
and frequently enough, language the ability of
one man to express his thoughts to another had
been achieved. How lone this process had taken,
or how long it took to reach the second milestone,
can only be speculated.
THE second milestone,
velopment of the written word.
Apparently it began after the tribes had estab
lished a viable agriculture, and thus were able to
settle in cities, rather than leading a wholly noma
dic existence. This congregating of men together,
coupled with adequate shelter, a more stable
economy, increased leisure time, and the need to
trade and to institute forms of government, pro
vided both the necessity and the opportunity for
the development of a form of commuication more
permanent than the spoken word.; not only more
permanent, but also transportable, so that men
could talk to other men
At first written language was primitive, both
in materials and in execution. Bits of clay, inscrib
ed with the magic markings, were dried and hard
ened. Soon stone was being inscribed, and papy
rus and parchment being written on with ink.
A FTER a period of some 7,000 or 8,000 years,
"and after further refinements and improve
ments, the time was ripe for the third milestone.
This was achieved by Johann Gutenberg, who
experimented with carving- letters backward on
little blocks of wood so designed that they could
be arranged into words and sentences, smeared
with ink, and then used to impress the words and
sentences on paper not only one sheet of paper,
but many, time after time.
This device so simple m retrospect created
a revolution, one which
only could man now conmninciate with others at
a distance, not only with others at a future time ;
now for the first time he could communicate with
hundreds and thousands at once, where as be
fore he was limited to one or two or a dozen.
THE weapon of the written word had become
o mnja u-nonmi It iruilrl 1m ivinlilml lw ormm
drels as well as by geniuses; by kings and popes
as well as by poets; by fools and wise men.
And it opened the world of reading to all; no
longer was it limited to a small elite.
Today all printing, despite improvements and
mechanization, is directly descended from Johann
Gutenberg's little wooden blocks.
From the invention of printing to the fourth
milestone was only about 100 years, whereas the
earlier leaps forward had been separated by only
thousands of years.
"THE telegraph, the telephone-and the radio all
were invented within the past 120 years. They
have been expanded and developed into televi
sion, teletypewriters, facsimile, and other modern-day
miracles of electronic communication.
Today we bounce television images from man
made satellites, something utterly incomprehensi
ble only a few short decades ago.
The fourth milestone was the use of electrons
in comnumciations, which permitted man to
send his thoughts with the speed of light.
Is there, will there be, a fifth milestone? If so,
what form it will it take?
XH can only speculate. Could it be the adop
tion of a universal language, to make all men
understandable to each other? Could it be im
portant advances in the infant art-cum-seience
of semantics, so that men, by communicating prc
iesely as well as rapidly, may help erase many of
his causes for friction and misunderstanding?
Could it be improved understanding of the
I processes of teaching and learning, thus again
increasing ine quality ot communications;
Could it be something else, already with us
but as yet unrecognized?
Man slowly learned to talk. He learned to
mark down his thoughts, lie learned to dissemin
ate them widely. And he learned to transmit them
with the speed of light.
Today he is readv, lomr nasi readv. alas, for
the next step in the history of communications
the step which will be taken when eoitinninciation
means not only the exchange of information, but
also the exchange of understanding and of love
and of respect. E.A.
i
i-
of course, was the de-
at a distance.
is still developing. Not
Communications
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oaper; In fact the contrary is often the case.
Who? Who? Who?
To the Editor: Everybody in
America should read the story
of Alger Hiss in the Novem
ber Reader's Digest. For here,
as told by former Vice Presi
dent Nixon, is living proof
that a traitor can climb to
some of the most influential
positions in our government.
Hiss, a powerful, top State De
partment functionary, a top
adviser to President Roose
velt, and one of the head men
in setting up the United Na
tions, was identified by former
Communist party member
Whlltaker Chambers and Na
thaniel Wcyl before Congres
sional committees as a mem
her of the Ware cell of the
Community party; with Cham
bers furnishing absolute proof
by documents and micro-film
that Hiss was deeply involved
in espionage against the U.S.
government.
This revelation slaggcred
America in 1948. But what
about today, in 1962? Do we
have any "Alger Hisses" in
our government today? The
best way to answer that ques
tion is to ask some more. Who
is behind the un-American
and treasonable censorship
and muzzling of the military?
Who promoted Wicland of the
State Department for his work
in bringing Castro to power?
Why are U.S. Reds allowed to
get away without registering
in accordance with the law
and Supreme Court decision?
Whose hidden hands manipu
lated the selling of our jet
bombers lo Communist Tito
for 10 cents on the dollar,
then trained his pilots at our
Texas air bases to fly them?
Who promised aid to the re
volting Hungarians then dou
ble crossed them? And who
sabotaged the arrangements
made by Spain to help these
poor people fighling for their
lives and freedom? Who per
mitted models of our nucbar
submarines to be sent to Rus
sia? Who Is behind weakening
our Air Force by slopping pro
duction of our bombers? Who
is behind brainwashing the
American people that in event
of war we cannot win - and
must surrender? Who is it in
doctrinating our troops with
a "no-win policy"? Who is be
hind the world wide move
ment to purge our defense
forces of right wing officers
and men? Who is it that wrote
the "Arms Control and Dis
armament Act" which is now
law and will eventually dis
arm every American soldier
and every American civilian?
Who wrote the treaty de
scribed in the State Depart
ment document 7277 which
will turn all our nuclear
weapons, conventional weap
ons, our Army and our Navy,
and our Air Force over to the
United Nations?
Are there any "Alger Hiss
es" in our government today?
Most right wingers believe
that Alger Hiss wouldn't even
make a patch on the seat of
the pants of the supor-salxi-tagers
who are working havoc
in our nation, now, in liltij.
Frank Koch
412 South Firsl si.
Central Point. Ore.
Tired of Christmas
To the Editor: I am greatly
put out at our radio stations.
televisions, and even I h c
newspapers. Thanks giving
! was over only a few days ago
J and already we are urged to
! do this and buy that for
! Christmas
j If I remember correctly you
I ''ad a full page of advertise
j me nt m Thursday's. Nov. 2'J.
j paper stating Medford mor
I chants are all ready for Christ
I mas. Oh. vnu re not (he only
I ones starting an early Christ
! mas. the radio stations ate
already singing Christmas
carols' The television stations
are advertising placet to buy
early Christmas presents.
I hear so much about Christ
mas at Thanksgiving, that this
holiday is practically over
looked. I personally think that
Christmas isn't Christmas!
without the last minute rush.
I'm so tired of hearing of the
coming holiday for so long,
I'm tired of Christmas when
it's finally here.
So, please, let's curb the
shopping early, the early ad
vertising, till at least Decem
ber. I even wager, Santa Claus
is tired of Christmas long be
fore Dec. 25', if he listens to
the radio or TV, or reads the
newspapers.
Sheila Schlosscr
Student at M.H.S.
Route 2, Box 76B
Jacksonville, Ore.
Tell tht Ptoplt
To the Editor: Why, oh
why, can't our county offi
cials leh' the people ahead of
time, what they are planning
on doing. Why, may I ask, do
they refrain from a discussion
with interested citizens in re
gard to their plans?
When I was a candidate for
county commissioner last
spring I stated that it was my
intention that the residents
of our fair county should be
fully informed as to what the
court was considering and had
decided to do, if I were
elected.
For example: I note the
alignment slakes for the Fish
lake road east of the end of
pavement follow the same old
cow trail it has followed for
more than 32 years.
The roule for this road
should be changed to the East
side of Willow Creek lake and
on up the West Branch of Wil
low creek to Willow Prairie
to connect with the present
Fish Lake road (and the Win
nemucca to the Sea highway).
This would much belter serve
the traveling public. True, the
vast majority of the area
through which (his re-rouled
Fish Lake road has been cut
over ralhcr severely by the
loggers but that is the only
objection I have thus for been
able to come up with in dis
cussing the subject with oth
ers. The gradient is much
flatter (more level) than the
present route.
If I couldn't survey a road
to benefit the public to a
greater extent I'd hide my
head.
I sincerely hope thai we,
the people, can get better in
formation in the future, and
I thank you.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star route
Butte FalLs, Ore.
"How's business?
Business ii good
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Chinese Attack on India Severe Blow
To Nation's Struggle
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
While Indian Premier Ja
waharlal Nehru clings wist
fully to the hope that some.
how the So
viet Union
will get the
Red Chinese
off his back,
he also is be
ing forced to
the more un
pleasant view
that his strug
gle with the
L
Aid
Newiom Chinese most
likely will continue for years.
This in turn means a severe
Matter of Fact
lei New York Herald
THE PAUSE
Washington - The Chinese
Communist cease-fire on the
Indian border is being more
diversely in-
ed,
contra-
ly
ed.
than any ma
jor develop
ment of t h e
last 16 years.
To the list
of explana
tions already
Alsnp
offered, one more is worth
adding, because it is favored
by the ablest American ex
perls on the affairs of the
Communist bloc. These men
suspect that the Soviets
stopped the Chinese dead in
their tracks, by threatening to
withhold the Russian petrol
eum deliveries on which
China still very heavily de
pends. As yet, there is not a shred
of factual evidence to support
this theory, or any of the oth
er prevalent theories either,
for that matter. The theory of
the Soviet experts is interest
ing, nonetheless-all the more
so because of the marked re
semblance between the
strange cease-fire on the Indi
an border and the cease-fire at
Quemoy in 1958, which the
Russians certainly forced on
the Chinese.
WHATEVER produced the
Indian cease-fire, it com
pletes what may be called the
post-Cuba pause. To all intents
and purposes, the Cuban af
fair itself has now been liqui
dated. The oratory at the UN
still has to be got through, but
that seems likely to be even
more inconsequential than
most UN oratory.
What has not been liqui
dated, however, is the politi
cal after-effect of the Cuban
affair. The after-effect has
been especially powerful, as
might have been expected, in
the Communist half of the
world. In recent days, its pow
er has been demonstrated at
the Hungarian Communist
Party Congress in Budapest.
Here the scenes of the Bul
garian party meeting in Sofia
have been replayed, in the
manner of an angry repeat of
an angry Punch - and - Judy
show. A vicious attack on the
"revisionist" policies of Nikita
S. Khrushchev was delivered
by the Chinese delegate. Wu
Hsiuchuan. An even more vi
ciou reply was made by the
Hungarian party boss, Janos
Kadar. The Chinese then
walked out. The Congress is
likely to end with further
downgrading of potentially
pro-Chinese Hungarian "Sla
iinists." ANOTHER repeat of the
Punch-and-Judy show is
to be expected soon at the
Czech Party Congress in
Prague, where the official par
ly paper, Rude Pravo. has just
come down hard on Khru
shchev's side in the Sino-So-vicl
row. Here there may be
considerable added drama, if
there is any substance to the
persistent reports from War
saw of ail oncoming thorough
purge of Stalinists in the ob
stinately Slalinst Czech party.
In Moscow, meanwhile, the
Central Committee meeting
has ended with a significant
FAUOUT
SHELTERS
WE BJiL9 'EM-
ToUSTOU'ENl!
t .y J terpret
i ' , U more con
if ml tradictori
rl f- 51 ex pi a i n
That's the trouble.
. very. vtty. very jood
setback for the Indian econ
omy already facing severe
difficulties.
In the fiscal year ending
June 30, India received $727
million in U.S. aid for an
over-all total of around $4
billion.
Even with massive aid from
the United States and else
where, it was estimated it
would be at least 10 more
years before India could be
come self-sufficient.
As a nation of 400 million
attempting a leap from a
backward agricultural ccon
amy to full industrialization.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
decision lo cut heavy industri
al investment in favor of in
vestments in agriculture, and
to reorganize the whole econ
omy on lines proposed by
Khrushchev.
There was every indication
that Khrushchev was com
pletely in the saddle at this
meeting, with no one to chal
lenge him from any quarter.
It remains to be seen whether
Khrushchev in the saddle
means an eventual open break
between Moscow and Peking.
That may come, but no one
knows. What is apparent is
that Khrushchev, with his
home base secure, is hard at
work picking up the post
Cuba pieces all over the rest
of the Communist world.
The first stage of this proc
ess is the political tidy-up that
is now in progress. Precisely
because a setback has been ex
perienced, dissidence can no
longer be tolerated. Hence,
dissidents, open and potential,
are being eliminated, in the
European satellite parties first
of aii. Where this is possible,
one may expect other Com
munist parties to be briskly
tidied up later on. Even the
Soviet party leadership may
not be immune, over the long
run.
'
yHAT to do about China, is
' ' is clearly the central prob
lem of this first stage. By the
same token, what to do about
Berlin is likely to be the cen
tral problem of the second
stage, in which Khrushchev
wiii have lo decide how to ad
just the broad lines of Soviet
foreign policy in the light of
the Cuban experience.
The Berlin decision may
well be affected by the de
cision on China. For if Khru
shchev dares to react to Pe
king's extreme provocations
by an open break with the
Chinese comrades, he may
also dare, perhaps, to depart
rather radically from other
rigid attitudes of the past.
The entire process, of polit
ical tidying within the bloc
and policy-adjustment beyond
the bloc's borders, will not
and cannot be swiftly com
pleted. The present pause may
therefore be expected to en
dure, with luck, for two, or
three, or even four months.
But in January. February, or
Marc h, President Kennedy
and the other Western leaders
will have lo be ready for the
end of the pause.
At that time, Khrushchev
will have to move, cither to
wards serious co-exislcncc or
renewed belligerence. He can
not stay indefinitely where he
is now, or on dead center; but
none can now be sure which
way he will go.
Last-Minute
Talks Seek To
Avert Walkout
Burbank. Calif. - 'IT: - Nego
tiators fur the International
Association of Machinists
were to meet today with rep
resentatives of Lockheed Air
craft Corp. in last minute ef -
forts to avoid a strike against ; to India. But it is also fa'r to
the aerospace giant scheduled ! demand of our national lcad
for midnight tonight. j crs. in the present administra-
Union representatives Mon- Hon and in those administra
day issued a counter-proposal I tions to conic, that Ihe United
to the latest offer from Lock- j states shall never again be
heed, renewing the IAM re-1 pi,t jr ihe position of this
quest for an employee vole on , graceless and needless kow-
the key issue of a union shop,
which is the crux of the dis
pute. Union officials said Ihe of
fer made by Lockheed Satur
day showed a "decided im
provement" over the com
pany's previous position, but
added there were "serious
omissions" in (he proposal.
The Lockheed offer by
passed the critical issue of a
union shop It called for blan
ket wage Increase over Hie
next throe years and added
employee benefits.
Lockheed asked (hat if un
ion negotiators turn down the
offer, the proposal should be
i put to a vote of the employ,
i ecs. However union spokes-
men indicated that if Lock
I heed refused to include the
1 union shop issue in the paek-
age. (he strike would proceed
j as planned
! The scheduled walkout
would affect some 5.000 work
ers of l.ockheed-Califi'rnia
Co ?nd Lockheed s Missile
I and Space Division.
for Development
even the normal ditlicullics
made India's problem a huge
one. But with each step for
word also came new diffi
culties. New, expensive factories
ran below capacity because of
shortage of electric power,
railway cars and coal.
Government operations sup
posed to turn in a profit to
finance new projects failed to
return a profit.
Training of new managers
and technicians lagged behind
the economic cevelopmcnt.
Just how much the Red
China conflict further will
delay Indian self-sufficiency
is a matter still to be deter
mined, but it must be meas
ured in years.
If there is a bright side, it
us this:
The Indian population is re
ported united now as it never
has been before.
The struggle will relieve
Nehru from heeding the pleas
Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
HARD CHOICE
Washinjt l The desper
ately hard choices which
sometimes must be made by
ir-trgStv XV. a great power
in the cold
war have nev
er been more
i 1 1 u s tralcd
than in the
i
j m
cf current grant
of emergency
American mil
itary aid to In
d i a in her
white struggle
against the Chinese Commu
nist invasion.
This is a case wher- we are
damned if we do and damned
if we don't. We assist a "neu
tral' " country, I '.ia, wlv-h
for years in fact or in spirit
has joined our Communist en
emies in biting at us and ob-st-ucting
o'"- poli.ics. A' ' in
the pucess we outrage one of
our most faithful allies in the
Far East, Pakistan.
Probably 'here is -n cle
ment of propaganda in the
current threats of Pakistan to
pull away from us altogether
and herself to become "neu
tralist." But such a course,
however unwise, would be
humanly understandable.
IjtOR years. Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru of In
dia, with the self-righteous ar
rogance that has become his
international trademark, has
refused any fair settlement of
India's border quarrels with
Pakistan.
For years, Pakistan has
been in fear, juslificd or not,
that this more powerful neigh
bor, India, would one day act
to overrun her territory and
vital interests as "peace-loving
India" has already overrun
Portuguese territory and in
terests in the small colony of
Goa.
Now Pakistan is in fear,
again justified or not. thai the
weapons we now send lo In
dia to resist Chinese aggres
sion will later be turned
against Pakistan herself. Yet
we go on giving these weap
ons to India for the most
compelling of all reasons
because we must.
AS LEADER of the world's
anti-Communist forces, we
cannot leave unchallenged any
major Communist aggression
anywhere. Certainly we could
not let it go unchallenged in
so vast and critical an area
as India. For anything ap
proaching lotal Communist
success there might so em
bolden Ihe Chinese as to throw
the whole of Asia, and pos
sibly the world, into war.
It is only fair, therefore,
to say that there is no ration
al or responsible alternative
, for our present military aid
towing to "neutralism" any
where in the world. j
Given an open and firm
stance long ago against Nch- I
ru's hypocrisy, hy Hie Kenne- I
dy administration or by the 1
Eisenhower administration be
fore it. and we should not to- i
day be faced with the neees-i
sity of humiliating a valued !
ally lo support an almost in- !
supportable "neutralist'' who
has made a profession of bit- j
ing the hand that has fed him.
'IHIE justification fo
toadying lo Nch:
this
g lo Nehru has
been Hie expressed anxiety
(hat India might otherwise
"go Communist" or that this
alleged "showcase of democ
racy in Asia" might in some
other w ay be lost. There never
was any valid reason to sup
pose thl
lll spite
would happen, tor
of official India's
bootluknu' of international
communism, the Indian peo
ple are at heart on the side
of freedom.
of politicians for district pork
barrels. Greater attention will
be paid to development of.
such industries as coal, steel.,
transportation and electric
power.
For Nehru it was a tremen
dous break with the past
when he was forced to ask the
United States for military aid.
It was an admission that
India could not defend itself
alone and that the attempt to
balance herself between the
great powers had failed.
Even as Nehru has thanked
the United States for under
standing his continuing ef
forts toward non-alignment,
his eyes have been upon the
Soviet Union and upon theo
retical Soviet aid rather than
aid already received.
Having already bun tie."
ceived by Red China, j,e ap
pears not to take into consid
eration the possibility that
Soviet Union could deceive
him, too.
S. White
There is now a compelling
necessily to rid this and fu
ture administrations of the
kind of minds which p:eler
the pretentious piety of a weak
Nehru to the honcsl candor
of a strong Ayub Khan of
Pakistan.
We should never try to dom
inate those countries to which
we give assistance. But cqual-'-ly
we should never again per
mit any one of them to domi
nate our own policies to the
point where our friends are
kicked for their pains and
those who have thwarted our
international purposes are re
warded for the harm they
have done us.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
FASTEST WAY THROUGH
Perhaps the most difficult
lesson lo learn in growing up
is this that it's easier to do
a thing right
than to do it
over. Most of.
us learn this
only the hard
; waywhen we
have stumbled
and t r i p p ed
our way into
adulthood.
Robert Frost
Hams once express
ed it his his usual admirable
brevity and simplicity, when
he wrote in a poem: "The fast
est way out is through." Un
til we learn better, most of
us try to go around, to take
short cuts that turn to be long
cuts, to trim and turn and
twist until we have expend
ed more efforl, with less re
sults, than in going through.
The most homely and strik
ing example of this painful
truth was borne upon me the
other night when I volunteer
ed for the new baby's lale
feeding. She awakened, as pre
dicted, about 3 a.m., crying
for milk.
When I was a new father,
many years ago, I tried to
make this chore as brief as
possible indeed, I tried to
do it without opening my -eyes.
I would get a bottle.
heBt it, feed the baby, and
flip it back into bed as
quickly as possible, and
then climb back into my
own.
But it never worked. Fiva
or ten minutes later, the
baby would be whimpcrinrj -again.
It wanted more milk.
It needed lo be burped. It
called for a change. So I had
to get up out of bed again
and groggily perform theso
operations sometimes two
two or three times.
Now I have learned that
the f a si t s t way out is
through. I get up once, and
once only. I make sure she
has all the milk she wants.
And when I put her down,
she is down for the nigh!. So
am I.
1 This more laborious proce
dure actually takes half the
j time and energy of popping up
again, as I used to do. Tiie lone
I cut is really a short cut: it
i reminds me that thorough"
and "through" come from the
; same root-word.
! But it is not an easy lesson
; to learn, even for an adult,
and much less for a child. The
: temptation is ever present to
cut corners, (o make do, to
i give a lick and a promise. We
suffer from the perpetual r!e
! lusion that in this wav we arc
! making life easy for ourselves.,
(when in truth we are making
j it harder.
It is all part of mankind's
I uncrasin mirst to find r,!.
lire and to escane n.nn And
the last piece of wisdom
win is that pain is an inevi
table part of the price tvt)
we have to pay for pleasure.
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