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Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson County
History Irom the flies ol Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29. 1952 (Friday)
Oregon's Republican club,
at lis annual meeting in Port
land, has elected Fred Robin
son president.
Due to wintry road condi
tions, chains have been ad
vised for motorists traveling
the several routes out ol Med
lord. 20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29. 1942 (Saturday)
John A. Dickinson appoint
ed constable for Medlord jus
tice of peace district.
From Arthur Perry's "Yc
Smudge Pot" column: "This
neck of the woods sure needs
nn ark. Due to the rubber
shortage there is no use asking
for deep sea diving suits."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29. 1932 (Monday)
New cheese factory sched
uled to open at Central Point;
plant expected to provide new
outlet for milk produced in
Rogue valley.
About BOO men receive food
at Mcdford Lions club soup
kitchen during November.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29. 1922 (Tuisday)
Opening of Women's Civic
Improvement club In Ashland
broadcast by Medlord radio
station KFAY.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot'' column: "Now
that the football season is
over, peace and calm will
settle down upon us, unless
immediate steps are taken to
recall somebody."
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29. 1912 (Thursday)
Man riding on train between
Medlord and Phoenix "startles
the other passengers" by at
tempting to kill himself: at
tempt fails because of dull
ness of knife.
Rogue River voles "wet" by
margin of 65 to 33; 47 women,
the first in southern Oregon
cast ballots.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten cert act It tuptrior;
ttven r iiflhf U xcelltnt; fiv
lit It food.
1. Can grasshoppers hear
2. What is the namr of the
song whose chorus begun,
"Just a song at twilight'.'"
3. In baseball what is tho
keystone sack?
4. From whom did Ihe
United Slates purchase
Alaska?
5. How many dozen in a
gross?
6. Name the author of
"Crusade in Europe."
7. Who was the last Czar
of Russia.
8. What is the "spice of
life"?
0. For how man y days
were the banks closed during
Roosevelt's bank holiday in
1933?
10. What measurement of
lime is reckoned by the
length of time it lakes the
earth to circle the sun?
.Answers: 1. Yas. 2. "Love's
Old Sweet Song." 3. Second
bait. 4. Russia), i. Twelve
doten. . Can. Dwighf D. El
senhower. 7. Nicholas II. S.
Variely. 9, Three days. 10.
The year.
VISITS SOUTHEAST ASIA
Washinglon -Wl- U. Alexis
Johnson, deputy undersecre
tary of state for political af
fairs, leaves today on a 10-day
tour of Thailand and Smith
Viet Nam. Slale Department
spokesman Joseph Reap said
Johnson would confer with
officials in Bangkok and later
In Saigon.
NOVEMBER 29. 1962
Space and Men
One of the things which never ceases to amaze
us is the apfplpratintr nnpfi nf scientific anrl tech-
nological discoveries.
L, : ! l.,i
J." Ul HI."HiUlle, ill lute o Ulie Ul uui, ices uiau
four months before Russia's Sputnik I became the
. ... . , (h Ra-ptt;t.f . we had this tn sav
- - .
in this Column '.
would not surprise us loo much if a rocket landed on
moon within our lifetime. At the rate things have gone
since, it wouldn't be surprising to see this happen
within the next decade."
rr n.,nnnlnl ..l-.l,f t.rf.h-M
ieil jcclio ctgu we Sicv.uiabcu ouuui a luinc
landing on the moon within our lifetime. Five
veai, a,ro we wouldn't be suoi'ised if it hannened
by 1967. Today it's old stuff; it's already hap
pened. WITHIN the last five years there have been
ivwlnrlino- snwn enntaininrr human hpinrrs four
Russians and three Americans.
S.n srahinlae Viqvo rmno al-nlinrl tho mnnn
and one has landed on it. Others have been sent
on trips to Mars and Venus. Even now Mariner
II is on a course that will bring it within 20,000
or so miles of Venus.
Manned trips to the moon are now technically
feasible, and are scheduled soon.
IT WOULD be nice to think that all this would
have happened simply because man is a curi
ous creature. It might have, eventually.
But the sad fact is that the push into space
is a definite by-product of the Cold War, stimu
lated by U.S. and Russian rivalry in weaponeer
ing and space superiority. Only such a stimulus
could have caused the expenditure of billions of
dollars and rubles to thrust rockets out of the
atmosphere and out of the earth's gravitational
pull.
Sad, too, is the fact that much of our other
material progress has been generated by warlike
pressures. The airplane came of age during World
War I; the jet plane was developed during
World War II ; so was the atomic bomb, the fore
runner of all the progress in nuclear physics.
IT IS interesting to speculate what man might be
capable of achieving if his motivations were
as strong in the human and behavioral sciences
as they have been in the physical sciences.
Man has, in effect, conquered his physical en
vironment, or at least has it within his power
fully to do so.
But he has yet to conquer, to any significant
degree, his own behavior, and to achieve the
ideals of peace and brotherhood to which he still
gives lip service.
The Register-Guard in Eugene, musing simi
larly, comments:
"And we wonder, of course, what motivation he
must have to seek mastery of himself with speed and
skill even fractionally equivalent to that he is demon
strating in the conquest of his surroundings."
HTHE WHOLE matter of the assault on space,
and man's present inability to live with his
brothers, was put into context recently by Roger
Revelle, science advisor to the Secretary of the
Interior.
He was discussing the possibility of self-
contained space ships to
galactic void a voyage
ations even at speeds approaching that ot light.
The social problems arising would be tremen
dous, in such an enclosed environment.
Then he twisted the story backward by
stating:
"What is our earth, then, but a two-billioii-man
spaceship hurtling through the void.' We face exactly
the problems that our hypothetical travelers would
ace.
"This round ball, the earth on which mankind
dwells, is a sphere unsupported in space, isolated and
complete In Itself. We who are condemned to live on
it must be self-supporting and self-contained. We must
not, and Indeed we cannot, waste anything. We must
somehow learn to live together, to tolerate one an
other, or else we cannot survive."
When all is said, man must learn more about
himself, whether he voyages to the stars, or stays
at home on planet earth. There is no other choice.
E. A.
Answer
One of the oldest objections to new laws in
many fields, including civil rights anil equality
of opportunity, is the saying that "You can't
legislate morality."
The best answer to this we've seen was given
recently by Martin Luther King, the Negro inte
gration leader.
In a speech at Cornell college in Iowa, he
said:
"It may he (rue that morality cannot lie lcglatcd,
hut behavior can be regulated. It may he true that Ihe
law cannot make a man love nu n. but it can keep him
from lynching me, and 1 think that's prclly important."
It is, too. K. A.
Churchill Turns 88
The birthdays f great men are usually ob
served in any significant public way only after
they have passed from the scene. But every year
that rolls around for Sir Winston Churchill, who
will be iS,S years old tomorrow, becomes more and
more an occasion for public congratulation.
This year's anniversary is especially felici
tious because Churchill demonstrated that even
a man of his age can make a successful recovery
from a broken thigh bone.
If Nov. ,50 is one of Churchill's better days,
he may motor to the House of Commons (which
he first entered (ill years
ditional birthday cheers.
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take families across the
which take many gener
aim. to receive the tra
E.R.K.
"Well, To Start With,
He'. A
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Geneva:
President Kennedy, in a
statement to be read to the
reopening of the 17-nation
disarmament conference, says:
"A moment may be at hand
to initiate the beginning of
the end of the upward spiral
of weapons competition. The
U. S. has completed a recent
series of nuclear tests. There
is hope that Russia will com
plete its test terics soon. This
suggests that the time may be
ripe for a real start toward
halting the arms spiral."
LET'S all join in this pious
hope. But let's not lorget
that we are dealing with
COMMUNISTS. In Lenin's
Ten Commandments of Revo
lution, this is No. .3: "There
arc no morals in politics.
There is only EXPEDIENCY."
In his ninth Commandment,
Lenin said: "Promises are like
piecrusts; made to be broken."
It's quite proper to deal
witli comnuinists-but in our
dealings we must keep our
fingers crossed. We must hope
for the best and prepare for
the worst.
rjHlAT'S enough preaching.
Let's turn now to the grand
old Clatsop Fir-which is be
lieved to have been growing
for a thousand years. It stood
firm through Ihe Columbus
Day typhoon, but went down
in last Sunday's big storm
along the northwest Oregon
coast.
What a laic that old fir
could have told if it could
talk! About the time it was a
sprout, Canute had become
king of England, ' Denmark
and Norway. He was the
chesty character who walked
down to the beach one day
and COMMANDED THE
WAVES TO STAND STILL,
and the tide to turn back.
Unfortunately, he had
boasted in advance of what he
was going to do, and quile a
crowd was on hand. The
waves refused to stand still,
and the tide kept right on
coming in.
Canute had to run for II
to keep his feet from getting
wcl.
SOME lime back, at a mo
ment when lie was feeling
his oats, Old Kioosh beat him
self resoundingly on the chest
and boasted lo us:
WE WILL UURY YOU!"
The old Clatsop fir could
have reminded him Ihen, if
it could talk, of Canute's un
fortunate bragging, and the
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
LEE FA1HCHILD recalls the story of the village
m-f or
priest who told his congregation. "Next Sunday I pro
pose to give a sermon about liars. 1 suggest that before then
you all re.id Chapter 1'
of St. Mark's.
Came the following
Sunday, and the priest
began. "Will all those
who obliged me by read
ing Chapter 17 of St.
Mark's please raise their
hands." Every right hand
in the congregation shot
HP
Observed the priest,
"Thcic happens to be
only 16 chapters in St.
Mark's. I will now de
liver my sermon on
liars."
Vl'OTAHI.K CJVOTrlS:
.nboly v.ho to not believe in miracles in times like these
la simply not a realist" Ben tiunon.
"Mow sail that ai'tuevement so oft,n marks the death of en
uVavor anil the birth of disgust !" Ambrose Hiclve.
"I hae never known a person to live to 100 or nioie. and then
die. to be reniaik.ible for anything else 'Josh Billinss.
"Tlu't e is notHHty so irritating aa somebody w ith li's intelli
gence but a lot nioie plain common sense than ve have." IAmi
HoroM.
"A good listener la not only popular everywhere, but after ft
while he knows something." Wilson Mimer.
In Long Island they are now teaching subdivision in the
third term.
C tr fccnnm Cfit. LisUitutft by Kib features Syndicate
Of Coure You Know
Nut"
JENKINS
humiliation that followed it.
WHEN the old Clatsop Fir
was a sapling, Duke Wil
liam of Normandy was land
ing on the shores of southern
England and starting the
battle of Hastings. He was a
cagey character, and smart to
boot.
Observing that the shields
of the saxons were turning
back his arrows, he ordered
his bowmen to SHOOT HIGH,
so that the arrows would
COME DOWN on the Saxons.
One of them caught King
Harold In the throat-and that
was that.
The old Clatsop fir would
have been approaching mid
dle age when the English
bowmen, at the Battle of
Crccy, got even with the
Normans.
AND"
When the old Clatsop fir
was a good-sized sawlog, it
saw Glienghis Khan sweep out
of what is now Communist
China to lag Europe in ashes
and blood. It saw Attila's
horsemen sweep over Europe
-leaving behind them the
grim tradition that the grass
never grew again where the
feet of Attila's horses trod.
It's too bad the old fir tree
couldn't have talked. It could
have told us so many, MANY
things about what has gone on
in this world of ours.
Mikoyan Enjoys
Russian Ballet
New York-WPIl- Soviet First
Deputy Premier Anastas Mik
oyan enjoyed some made-in-Moscow
entertainment Wed
nesday night after a round of
talks on the Cuban situation.
Mikoyan, U. S. Ambassador
Adlai E. Stevenson and other
U. S. and Russian negotiators
attended a performance of the
Bolshoi Ballet at Madison
Square Garden. It was the
first of a special scries by the
Russian ballet corps.
Mikoyan and Stevenson
stood for the playing of the
United States and Russian Na
tional anthems, then sat to
gether to walch the Bolshoi
progra m.
Others in the special box
included Soviet UN Ambassa
dor Valerian A. Zorin and
John J. McCloy, chairman of
President Kennedy's Co-ordinating
Committee on Cuban
Policy.
Stop Me
...AND TH
EN lS
SERMON
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AMAZINa
'"J:"" 1 VI
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Cuban Affair Eased Berlin Crisis, But
It Still Is One of Toughest Problems
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Ntwt Analyst
Berlin - HOT - The Cuban
crisis may have eased tempor
arily Communist pressures on
Berlin, but the
divided city
remains one of
the world's
most acute
p r oblems.
West Berlin,
9
ine no. 1 in-
I I dustrial city
lllJ in Germany,
nas recovered
from the first
N'cwsob
effects of the wall which the
Communists flung across the
Communications
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contrary is often th case.
Deserve Attention
To the Editor: I hope the
new members of the county
commission don't forget the
people of this out of the way
place. We have been promised
a paved road from Prospect to
Butte Falls. About eight years
ago they paved about 3 miles
of it, but that is as far as it
went.
We were lo get two miles a
year but have not yet got any
of it. About all we get is a
little maintenance off and on.
They put a new bridge in
across South Fork and haven't
yet fixed the approaches and
it is real rough.
In the winter time the road
gets so rough you can hardly
drive over it. I think that
they could spend some of the
money up here instead of so
much that is being spent at
Howard Prairie and Hyatt
lakes.
I think we the taxpayers de
serve a little attention instead
of so much down in the lower
end of the county.
Ralph Young,
P.O. Box 22,
Prospect, Oregon.
Difficult To Comprehend
To the Editor: Well, E. A.
has done it again! He has fur
ther demonstrated his unique
ability at extreme editorial
prejudice, as in the MMT
112362 "What Now for
Cuba?"
In this literary masterpiece,
Senator Goldwater is once
more condemned for his "mil
itant attitude," which appar
ently perturbs E. A. consid
erably. It seems to me that all
patriotic, conservative, a n t i
Communist Americans trouble
the good editor no end.
On the other hand, a paci
fist, advocating what amounts
to absolute U.S. encourage
ment - indeed assistance - of
Castro's fanatic effort to com
munize the Americas, is up
held by the managing editor
of the MMT. We are told that
these steps of appeasement, as
outlined in the above men
tioned editorial, are a legiti
mate viewpoint, and, as such,
should be thought about and
discussed, the better to enable
Americans lo "arrive at
sound, valid and thoughtful
conclusions."
Do not Mr. Goldwatcr's
ideas on this subject likewise
constitute a legitimate view
point? The way E. A. tossed
them aside, it would appear
that he docs not consider them
so.
Why the press continues to
heap abuses on anti-communists
while rolling out the wel
come mat for those who would
sell us out completely is diffi
cult for this writer to com
prehend. 1 suggest the editor study
" Ihe Night the Reds Clinched
Cuba'' and "The Great De
bate: How lo Eight the Cold
War" in the November 1962
issue of Reader's Digest.
Glenn A. Archibald,
534 Dc Barr,
Mcdford.
Try Again
To the Editor: Ester Robin
son in a recent letter in Com
munications told us there
were some who refused to
contribute to the UNICEF pro
gram and that there was
"some curt, though vague
comment about 'not being in
terested in helping commu
nists'." Josephine Abercrom
bie iMT 1 1-25-621. lolls us
"alarmed narents" broucht a
certain pamphlet to public (?) !
attention, and therefore "no
sleuthing'' was required Jo-'
sephine Abercrombie told us
further, that Freedom Center
Identified itself on the pam
phlet and did not have to be
"tracked ". Well and good: 11
Why the fuss then ' Either the
refusals to contribute were
too few to be of any real con
cern lo anyone, or 21 a rela
tively large number of people
refused to contribute and peo
ple, or someone within the
local UN Group "tracked" a
significant number of these
refusals to Freedom Center.
Will Ester Robinson or Jo-
sephine Abercrombie please
tell us which situation ap- are they not campaigning al
plies If No. 1. why the fuss? ! ready to get the laws of the
Couldn't the L'N Group Icive I clear states Incorporated in
city on Aug. 13, 1961.
Orders are being filled and
goods are moving steadily on
the railroads, highways and
canals.
About 15,000 new workers
have come into the city to
make up partially for the 60,
000 lost when the wall went
up.
The wall itself is a symbol
of a fear which West Berliners
will have to live with until
some solution is reached to
the entire problem of Berlin.
For Berlin, to live and pros
per, must have guaranteed ac
cess to the outside world.
bear tht nam and address
the situation to the good judg
ment of most people to ignore
any unreasonable or mislead
ing publication? If number 2
applies, I again ask - Is the
"investigation" and "track
ing" down of such a group
as Freedom Center within the
scope of UNICEF? After all,
UNICEF is part of an inter
national organization.
Our local UNICEF people,
it would seem, are not quali
fied to "i n v e s t i g a t e," or
"track" or "label" any other
group. It is not my intention
to attempt to minimize the
charitable work and interests
of Ester Robinson, Josephine
Abercrombie or UNICEF, es
pecially when their efforts
can do so much to augment
the many other organizations
and individuals already doing
the same kind of good work.
I would like to try again
to get an answer to my ques
tion. Robert J. Howard,
702 Beekman St.,
Medford
VFW for Hospital
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter from the office of
the Adjutant General, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, Kansas City,
Mo., should prove of interest
to every veteran on the West
Coast.
"Dear Sir: This will ac
knowledge and thank you for
your letter of November 13,
1962 addressed to Commander-in-Chief
Gentry.
"As you perhaps know, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States has gone on
record a number of times in
favor of the increase of hos
pital facilities at White City,
Ore.
"You may be sure our
V.F.W. Legislative Service
will work as diligently as pos
sible to bring about such an
establishment.
"With kind regards, 1 am
sincerely yours,
"E. L. Jenkins,
"Assistant Adjutant
General Admin."
Submitted by
David Frisch,
White City, Ore.
Appreciation
To the Editor: Just a brief
note to express our sincere ap
preciation for the excellent
support the Medford Mail
Tribune and Rogue Valley
sports fans gave our Thanks
giving Day "Battle of Cham
pions" football game between
Whitworth College and South
ern Oregon College.
The Mcdford Kiwanis club
was delighted lo have had a
part in bringing this action to
Southern Oregon. We also
would like to express our
thanks for the vital part thai
SOC played in presenting this
game-without their effort the
game simply would not have
been possible.
Thanks again lo your fine
newspaper and all those who
had a part in making this
game a success. In looking for
ward lo more of this type of
entertainment, we remain.
Billy D. Blackstone,
DMD, club president
Herb Partridge.
Game Chairman.
Kiwanis Club,
Medford
Copy Cats
To the Editor: Can you or
anyone give us the reason I
why the "copy cats" of Cali
fornia and Washington who
worked so assiduously before
our election recently, have
retired from copying from the
above named states?
I saw one of their programs
on television, a picture por
traying California and Wash
inglon to be such beautiful
clear slates, and our stale.
Oregon, was dark and streaks
across it. I never thought I'd
see the day when an Ore
gonlan would display his or
her stale in such bad repute.
I'm not an Orrgonian -by
birth, but 42 years ago I
adopted Oregon, or rather
Oregon adopted mc
Now, if these people are so
happy with the laws of Cali-
j fornia and Washington, why
Walter Ulbricht, the East
Communist boss who has been
loudest in his attacks on West
Germany and in his demand
for a separate peace treaty
which would cut off West Ber
lin's life stream, at the mo
ment is soft-pedaling those de
mands and talking instead in
vague terms of a German con
federation. Presumably, this talk is on
orders from Moscow in anoth
er of the twists and turns of
Communist policy.
On the West German side
there also may have been a
slight softening or switch in
policy.
of th writtr. although under
their cloudy states?
If they were sincere about
Oregon having same laws as
California and Washington,
why are they not now trying
to move our people to have
a state tax, with the Washing
ton and California sales tax
law copied into our legisla
tion by the coming session
of our legal body? Under
what cover are they hiding?
I go to Los Angeles two or
three times a year and some
times I wander into Washing
ton as far as Seattle and I pay
the sales tax gladly for the
two states take better care
of their, old people, much bet
ter than we do, so I'm told.
Also they have money for
more road building, I'm told.
I've not heard of any plan
to tunnel under the Siskiyou
mountain as California is do
ing under Oregon mountain.
Sales tax seems reasonable for
wc brag about so many mil
lions of dollars spent in Ore
gon by tourists. They tax us
north and south and why can't
these people start a movement
lo put Oregon in a clear pic
ture? This is not intended as a
personal affront to anyone.
Jouetl P. Bray
317 Lozier Lane
Medford.
What More Do You Want?
To the Editor: No, chlorine
is not fluoride. It is a neces
sary evil. But if we were
without it, something real ser
ious might strike the commu
nity. The water as it comes
down from the hills runs
through spots of filth and
among other things, is known
to pick up malaria germs.
Chlorine kills such germs and
makes the water safe to drink.
Human beings all have a tiny
amount of chlorine in their
body, so if you happen to be
short of your quota of chlor
ine, here it is in your city
water, in addition to protec
tion against malaria.
What more do you want?
John E. Ring
1049 West 11th st.
Medford.
SOS
To the Editor: To what
lengths or measures does one
have to go to in order to get
decent AM-FM radio broad
casting in the Medford area?
The only choice you have, if
you can call it choice, is west
ern music, news every three
minutes, rock and roll (which
shouldn't really be considered
music), or constant repetition
of the same taped music.
FM radio used to be a haven
where a listener could find
tranquil and dulcet music. I
However, now you hear the I
same programming on FM I
that you find on AM, that is !
from sign on to 7:45 p.m. !
when regular FM broadcast-!
ing resumes. If this program-
immk nas niL-i uie sausiacuon
oi ine majority men 1 am
wasting time and space. I
therefore will revert to re
cordings. R T. Panuccio
1755 South Peach st.
Mcdford
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be son tort of t loyalty e.lh they want us 0 ,ign ......
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ister Gerhard Schroeder hint,
ed as much in Washington re
cently. Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, who adamantly has op
posed any sor' of recognition
for East Germany, has indica
ted he might agree to soma
sort of international guarantee
of Berlin access such as al
ready is in effect on some of
Europe's great rivers, such as
the Danube and the Rhine.
On such a commission East
Germany would have a voice,
at least as agent acting for tha
Soviet Union.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
tc- Field Cnterprlsea Ine.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Equally obnoxious is tha
man who is assertively proud
of his healthiness, and tha
woman who is (with a fina
air of martyrdom and self
sacrifice) proud of her sickli
ness. A new anthropological
theory, just advanced, is
that mankind evolved not
once but five different times
from the primates which
makes much more sense in
accounting for the existence
of an Einstein and an Eich
mann within the same spe
cies. The only effective lime to
keep a boy from getting into
serious trouble is about 10
years before it happens; but
such "preventive delinquen
cy" is still a scaled book lo
most parents, both at the low
er and at the upper ends of
the economic spectrum.
A paradox of flattery was
neatly exposed by Washing
ton Irving, when he ob
served that "Whenever a
man's friends begin to com-'
pliment him aboi . looking
young, he may be sure that
they think he is growing
old."
Some men apparently feel
that the great commandment,
"Love they neighbor." is too
perfectionist for them lo
meet; therefore, they havo
modified it and scaled it down
to the modern level - "Lova
thy neighbor's wife."
Whenever I hear one per
son say of another, "Well,
he grows on you." I always
envision a personality some
what like a fungus.
Dogs are servile creatures,
and not at all the discerning
judges of character they are
popularly supposed to be; my
attitude toward them is ona
of huge indifference, if not ac
tive antipathy, and yet they
invariably muzzle me as ar
dently as if I were Albert Pay
son Terhune.
Suicides are usually com
mitted not by those who are
disappointed with life, but
by those who are disappoint
ed with themselves; not by
those who feel that life has
failed them, but by those
who feel that they have fail
ed life; and thus their act is
not a rejection of the world
but a repudiation of self, not
so much a sin against God
(which always involves
pride) but a sickness of the
soul (which involves a pa
thetic loss of self-respect).
Some unhappy wives taka
their revenge on a husband by
being promiscuous, but tha
more subtle ones takes their
revenge by remaining
ten-
i acumsiy laithful.
What the ardent alumnus
apparently wants most of all
is lo get his ion admitted to
the same college he went to,
where he will presumably
learn as little as his father
did.