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Medlord and Jackson County
History from the tiles of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50' yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13. 1953 (Wedneiday)
General Petroleum compa
ny and Signal Oil company
both announced 1V4 cent per
gallon increases in wholesale
gasoline prices today.
A tank and pumper combi
nation fire truck arrived in
Medford Monday and was be
ing tested today on Barnett
rd.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13. 1943 (Monday) ,
County Engineer Paul Ryn
ning to seek government ap
proval for asphalt to complete
paving of Table Ttock rd.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "New
Brass is coming up. If the
predicted food shortage gels
worse people can scare up a
soup-bone and a hatful of It
and make out a meal some
how." 30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13, 1933 (Wedneiday)
Jackson county promised
maximum of $25,000 a month
for relief needs.
Law requiring three days
residence in Oregon before
marriage licenses arc grant
ed expected to hit Jackson
county finances because of
-large number of persons com
ing here from California for
quick marriages.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13. 1923 (Thundiy)
"Cowboys" round up some
5U0 head of cattle being graz
ed in Table Rock district.
Deputy stale vehicle inspec
tor warns that cars with 1922
license plates will no longer
be allowed on public high
ways. 50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23. 1913 (Saturday)
City of Giants Pass fails to
sell SOO.OUO in bonds for pro
posed Grants Pass to Central
Point lailroad.
Jackson county's assessed
valuation placed at $36,682,
124 by tax rolls completed by
County Clerk Gardiner.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct li superior;
even or eight ii eicellant; tire or
lix il good.
I. Without looking - how
many noics arc there in a tele
phone dial?
2. What (ypes of fish arc
found in Great Salt Lake in
Utah?
3. Which President of the
U. S. wrote the first t e n
amendments to the Constitu
tion? 4. What sea disaster was
partly responsible for causing
the Spanish-American War?
5. What was the first major
league team to win a World
beries?
6. What was Simple Simon
doing when he met the pie
man? 7. What was the promised
land to which Moses led the
Israel lies?
8. Do the Green Mountains
of Vermont belong to the Ap
palachian or Bitleiool range?
9. The Ganges river empties
into what body of water?
10. We've heard It did but
is it a fact that London Bridge
once fell dow n?
Aniwara: 1. Ten. 2. None.
3. Jamei Madison, 4. Sinking
of the U.S.S. Maine. 5. Red
Sox. 6. Going to the fair.
7. Canaan. 8. Appalachian. 9.
Bey of Bengal. 10. Yei, in
1091.
FEBRUARY 13. 19S3
Who Will Buy the Fords?
Yesterday in this space, we set forth some of
the views of an engineer -
the future of the nation
more widespread.
Today we report some
leader, also given at last
Assembly at Lottage Urove.
The labor representative is Irving limestone,
administrative assistant to
dent of the United Automobile Workers. He was
rather less optimistic about automation than some
of the speakers and painted a gloomy picture
unless some startling and radical changes are
made not only in our economy, but essentially in
our way of life.
LJERE ARE SOME of the signs and portents
Mr. Bluestone recounted:
Production has gone up 28 per cent since
1953, but the number of workers doing the pro
ducing has declined 7 per
In the automobile
with 1948, there were 2(J
trucks produced, but 22
employed.
In steel, 1901 compared with 1948, produc
tion was down 2 per cent, but employment was
down 22 per cent.
In rubber, same years of comparison, pro
duction was up 96 per cent but employment was
up only 11 per cent.
In electronics, production was up 116 per
cent, but employment was
a
LIE PUT IT another way: "The number of man
days lost from unemployment in the past 11
months was more than has been lost by strikes in
the past 35 years of American history."
He also recounted one grim -little joke, per
haps apocryphal. It seems that Reuther was be
ing shown through a brand-new Ford Motor Com
pany plant, where many of the operations were
automated with great and complicated ma
chines doing the work of many men.
The manager turned
"Well, Walter, how are you going to collect union
dues from these machines?"
Reuther replied, "Frankly, that's not what
worries me. You tell me
going to buy Ford cars."
IT IS THE studied belief of engineers, econo-
mictc inrl nel eiul icte unrl nfViorc in tlio fnvnf rnnt
of the new technology that, within the next two
decades, it will be possible to do almost all pro
duction work in this nation with automated
equipment machines which not only do the man
ual labor involved, but which do most of the non
creative thinking involved, not only in produc
tion, but also in accounting, bookkeeping, record
keeping, and minor decision-making.
Some of the resulting unemployment can be,
eventually, absorbed into service occupations,
which in recent years has been among the fastest
growing parts of the economy.
Still, before this can happen, there will be a
drastic toll of human misery and worry and fear
unless we prepare for the transition.
RUT, IF THE dimensions of the problem are
not overstated (and we do not believe thev
ire), an even greater problem remains. What will
happen to those who do not have the skills and
education needed to work in the service indus
tries? What of those who, because of sheer num
bers, eaitnot find other employment?
A corrolary to the assumption that machines
can do all or almost all of the production is that
the wealth thereby created would exceed that be
ing created today.
But, if half the labor force is unemployed,
who will, who can, buy?
Somehow a device for
throughout the populace
ancient ami honored wage-salary system must
be devised, not only for
will have no jobs, but
economy going.
THERE ARE other problems.
Tw .1 , 1 , 1 ! I i. 1 i-nnimv
ill uiaiiiiiwn ii fil ing lutti. till: iiiiiiiuua ilii-
out jobs are fed and housed, and provided with
the wherewithal to continue being consumers of
goods, the human desire to be needed and help-
iul and productive must somehow be satisfied.
Few people will want to spend their lives
collecting a government check. Most people must
be doing something ami doing something which
gives them the inner satisfaction of knowing that
it is in some manner useful or productive.
Vast new amounts of leisure time will be
available to millions. What to do with it?
AT THE ASSEMBLY, those present kept com
ing back to education continued, intensive,
broad, and universal education. One speaker
speculated that up to half the population could
be involved in education and in what he termed
"exploring" not only the earth and the seas ami
the siiace around us, but also exploring the human
iinnu ami psyene.
These concepts are startling to a generation
raised in the old tradition that work is a positive
virtue, and that idleness is, somehow, reprehens
ible, and that anyone not living on money earned
is a social parasite.
Hie tradition is so linnly ingrained that it
will be most difficult to change.
lint the r-inns all point to the conclusion that
machines soon will lie doing the bulk of the labor
now done by people, and that new attitudes to
ward work, leisure, education and productivity
are going to bo necessary if we are going to con
tinue to be masters of our own destiny, and not
pawns of a mechanistic determinism. E. A.
industrialist concerning
as automation becomes
of the views of a labor
week s facuic Northwest
Walter Reuther, presi
cent.
industry, 1961 compared
per cent more cars and
per cent fewer workers
up only 23 per cent.
to Keuther and asked,
how these machines are
snreadimr this wealth
a device to ronlace our
the benefit of those who
also simply to keep the
fli.il I It 1 1 1 1 .-.no utilli
"Idol Mutt Have
...Communications...
Wrong Tangent
To the Editor: "Never speak
out in print unless you are
standing on firm ground."
Reading this sentence makes
me approach the writing of
this letter with a certain de
gree of trepidation. But then
I remember Elmer Davis's ad
monition, "Don't let them
scare you.
Having about the normal
supply of human conceit, I
will say that I had most philo
sophical and human facts
straight before I commenced
reading Communications in
the Medford Tribune. Other
wise I might have been brain
washed.
The purpose of this letter is
to lake issue with those letter-
writers who extol the virtues
of HCUA, that monstrosity
born and bred out of hysteria,
and which is a poor reflection
on the American dream. It
started with the Palmer raids
after the first World War,
then continued with McCar
thyism in the 50s and is now
firmly established in the
HCUA. For every person
caught with a slight taint of
Communism, there are ten
who are unnecessarily har-
rasscd and whose lives are ir
revocably wrecked by the ir
responsible methods of this
branch of government. In
combatting Communism, is it
necessary to adopt the meth
ods of the communists?
To further bolster my con
tention that we are taking off
on a wrong tangent, I would
like to present three quotes
from the book. "The Sixth
Column," by Roger Burlin
game. The first is by 137 Cali
fornia ministers:
'Any group or individual,
however well 1 n t e n tioucd,
that promotes a program of
hatred, suspicion and distrust
of our free American institu
tions ... is unwittingly serv
ing the cause of those who
would destroy those institu
tions." The next two quotes arc
from Reverend Father Cronin;
"In many parts of the coun
try, hysteria and suspicion arc
becoming increasingly evi
dent. A virulent form of dis
unity is weakening us In the
world struggle against com
munism and performing this
disservice in the name of mili
tant anticommunism. Many
Americans are confused and
bewildered by the whole
trend . . ."
"Those who would have
Americans concentrate on a
minor threat of domestic sub
version and ignore subversion
and communist pressures in
Europe. Asia, Africa, and
Latin America are misleading
the American people. What
ever their motives, they arc
effectively aiding the Com
munist cause."
Carl Hjordahl
P.O. Box 343
Medford
Safety in Tralf'r
To the EdiU ;: So v ery j
sorry to read of another dis- '
astrous traffic accident on
tile bridge. If you will print
this in your paper, maybe we
might save a life.
You know. I have thanked
the Lord many times, and J
knocked on w ood for the good
luck I have had in traffic I ;
have driven a car about a mil-:
lion miles in 4S years and
have injured not a single per
son. I have been caught in
bad situations and almost al- ,
ways pulled out lucky: a few
mashed lenders, had my car
bumped in the rear once or ,
twice. I have nrvrr turned a
car over; nine had to leave
the road and run down the
ditch, and once ran up the
bank and dow n behind a car !
that came at me head on, on '
a turn. He took all the road 1
on my side j
I have always tried hard lo
Human Sacrifice"
avoid traffic trouble. My pol
icy has always been, don't
drink and drive, and watch
for all the road speed signs.
Where it says 30 I drive 30;
45-50-60 or 70, I don't aim
to run over the limit. When
I come to a highway or
street from the side, I watch
and wait until I am quite
sure I have plenty of room
and time to enter, and when
the party behind me begins to
blow his horn to rush me, I
just ignore it and let him
worry.
And another thing, when I
am on a highway where traf
fic is fast, sometimes from 60
to 80 miles, and we come up
behind a truck, one has to be
very careful if you attempt
to pass the truck. It may be
going 50 miles in the same di
rection and way down the
highway is a car coming to
wards you. There seems to
be lots of room to pass, but
don't forget that gap between
you, and that other car com
ing towards you may be trav
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller
tc 1 irt:t. Th
ON THE CUBAN QUESTION
TODAY
111 the past week, the ad
ministration has gone to ex
traordinary lengths to win
the country s
confidence in
the reliability
of its informa
tion about the
military situa
tion in Cuba.
Since the Oc
tober confron
tation, there
can, of course,
be no lack of
Lippmann
confidence in the President's
courage and determination to
protect American interests
once the facts of a threat arc
established.
The crisis of confidence
originates in what happened
in the six weeks before the
October confrontation. Dur
ing the month of September
and into October, the admin
istration was insisting that the
Soviet Union had not brought
offensive weapons into Cub.i.
Senator Healing was insist
ing that they had.
When he was found to have
been right, there occurcd a
loss of confidence in the ad
ministration's i n t e lligcnce
services which it is still strug
gling to repair.
U'lTH
' first
others. I have had
t hand experience
which enables me to under
stand how difficult it is to
restore confidence once it
j has been shaKcn. On two oc
i casions it was explained to
me by high officials how re
liable was our photographic
surveillance of the island and
how certainly we could detect
the exact nature of the woa
onus being installed in Cuba.
These private explanations
came after the President had
said categorically in his press
conference of Sept. 13 that
"these new shipments do not
constitute a serious threat to
anv other part of the hemi
sphere'' Some two weeks la
ter, on Oct. 3. the u" ter soere
tiny of state. Mr Ball, save
lo a congressional committee
a summary of the intelligence
infnrnvit"vi which c;ime fro'll
the CIA- The point of the sum
merv w as that there were no
offensive weapons in Cuba.
Put in fact there were. A
week '.iter, on Oct. 10, Sena
tor Keating inited that there
were intermediate rinne mis
siles in Ci'ha. and five days
later the President received
the photographs which con
firmed the charge.
'HIS
is how Sonalor Keat
won the rich! to be
ing
listened to. and this is
the administration has
belatedly, made the
why
now.
right
i move, which is to arrange for
rv
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Disarmament Talks Drag On and On, As
Agreement Seems as Far Away as Ever
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newi Analyst
If ever a man would seem
to have a lifetime job, that
man is William C. Foster,
head of the
U. S. Arms
Control and
D i sarmament
Agency. Fos
ter is a Re
publican who
has spent a
large part of
his time doing
important jobs
for Democrat
MWMBB
ic presidents and this week
he resumed talks with the
Russians in Geneva on world
disarmament.
The setting is the 17-nation
conference on a nuclear test
ban and disarmament, but for
the 15 others present it is
mostly a courtesy role with a
vote to count only when or
if the United States and the
U. S. S. R. first reach agree
ment among themselves.
If chances of success are to
eling 70 and you also travel
ing 70, and the truck is mak
ing 50; that gap' is closing at
the rate of 190 miles an hour,
and you may not make it.
I am sure it is situations
like that that cause many
head-on collisions, due to
poor judgment, and not re
alizing how fast that gap is
closing. Now days on the
highways and in towns, there
is such a pitiful little bit of
common courtesy that you, if
you expect to live long, must
be very careful and take care
of yourself and passengers,
if any, and don't let the nut
behind you try to rush you
into danger by honking at
you, and remember it is not
the old, dilapidated cars that
are dangerous; it is the nut
that holds the steering wheel
that keeps the traffic death
rate high. And, obey those
road signs, they are there for
your protection.
James L. Cook
P. O. Box 123,
Marysville, Calif.
lippmann
Washington Post
consultation and an exchange
of information between Sen
ator Keating and the CIA.
This should put an end to
the unseemly controversy
about who is telling the truth
between a senator of the Uni
ted States and the President
of the United Stales. But I am
not sure it will repair alto
gether the damage done to
public confidence by the mis
leading information given in
September and October.
The administration may
well have also to make a full
explanation of what went
wrong in September and early
October.
EXAMINING the remark
able intelligence briefing
by Mr. John Hughes of the
Defense Department, I find
myself quite convinced that
our photographic intelligence
is now reliable. But I am
struck by the fact that there
was a blank space in Mr.
Hughes' testimony for the
period from Sept. 5 to Oct. 14.
Photographs taken on Aug.
2!) of the San Cristobal area
and on Sept. 5 at Sagua La
Grande show positively that
no missile sites had been
built. The next photograph
referred to by Mr. Hughes is
that of Oct. 14. It shows inter
mediate range missile sites
being erected. This is the
photograph which precipi
tated the international crisis.
here, we arc bound to
ask, was our photographic in
telligence between Sept. 5
and Oct. 14? That was when
the administration was telling
the country that there were
no offensive weapons in Cuba.
This is the source of the in
fection which will have to be
removed if full confidence is
to be restored.
...
1 1. WING said this. I would
say that there is no rea
son to doubt the thorough
ness or the reliability of our
photographic surveillance of
Cuba and of the sea around
it. The situation is extraordin
ary. Wc arc depending on be
ing able to fly dally photo
graphic reconnaissance planes
at high and low altitude. In
Cuba, there are a large num
ber of tile latest anti-aircraft
weapons manned by Soviet
soldiers.
Wc may say, how come?
Vp to the present - knock on
wood - the Soviet anti-air-era
a gunners arc not aliacs,
tug our reconnaissance planes.
They must be under orders
from Moscow, where it is
well-known that if the plants
were attacked there would be
an immediate reprisal.
Li
UT WHFKE docs this leave
us.' It leaves us with a
fiKile revised version of t he
original Khrushchev Kcnne-
dy agreement.
In the key let-
ler of Oct,
President Ken
be measured in terms of prog
ress over the last IS years,
then Fosters'! job truly is of
liftetime duration.
This is a tragedy of the
times because this very repe
tition leads to boredom and
to a sense of futility. This in
turn leads nations still not
possessing "the bomb" to a
belief that agreement never
will be reached and that there
only safety lies in their own
ability to destroy.
Occasionally attempts are
made to recapture the urgen
cy which the problem de
mands. One such attempt came in
the wake of the Cuban crisis
and for a time it appeared
progress might.be made.
Nikita Khrushchev sudden
ly agreed to two or three in
spections on Soviet soil each
year to check suspected un
derground nuclear test blasts.
Wrote Khrushchev to Presi
dent Kennedy: "We believe
that now the road to agree
Matter of Fact
(cl New York Herald
DE GAULLE'S REAL
DESIGN
Washington - A high pro
portion of the worst mistakes
of American policy-makers
arise from
what may be
called the
Pearl Harbor
error. The
Pearl Harbor
error consists
of disreg a r d
ing or down
g r a d ing the
hard evidence
Aimp ot a loreign
government's intentions - in
the Pearl, Harbor case, the
broken Japanese naval codes
-because those intentions look
altogether too irrational from
the special angle "lsion f
Washington.
The returns are not yet in
from the reappraisal on the
highest lcvl v.- " h the Presi
dent ordered aft-r tl.e whole
situation of the Western alli
ance was abruptly transform
ed by Gen. de Gaulle's brutal,
solitary act. Yet it is n- too
soon to ask whether the Pearl
Harbor error i- not about to
be committed once again, and
on a t ' grandiose scale.
It is clear, at any rate, that
the hard evidence concerning
the real nature of Gen. de
Gaulle's design for Europe is
currently being downgraded,
if not absolutely disregarded.
This is the case although the
broad outlines of the de
Gaulle design are clear
enough.
A N EXCLUSIVE Europe,
dominated by the Franco
German partnership, and led
by dc Gaulle himself, as the
awe-inspiring senior partner -these
are the main elements.
The chief, indeed the only
real obstacle to full realiza
tion of this design is the German-American
relationship.
Gen. de Gaulle could not
have scored such a shattering
initial success with his design
if the Kennedy administration
had dealt more wisely with
the German-American rela
tionship. The pros and cons
of the President's dealings
with de Gaulle are eminently
arguable. But if dc Gaulle
was to be crossed, opposed,
and enraged, it was sheer
folly not to do everything pos
sible to maintain Dulles-like
tics with Chancellor Ade
nauer. There can be no argu
ment about that.
But although the German
American relationship has
been impaired, and although
this impairment gave de
Gaulle the needed opening
for his Franco-German pact,
the old relationship's solid
base is still very much there.
The American military pres
ence is the chief defense of
Western Germany.
...
ET. some time in the fu-
ture. Gen. de Gaulle rath-
nedy accepted the folloying
terms of settlement:
The U S S R, would remove
offensive weapons systems
under "United Nations obser
vation and supervision."
When this was done, the Uni
ted States would end the guar
antine and would "give as
surances against an invasion
of Cuba."
The U S S R, removed the
missiles and the U.S.A. ended
the quarantine. But Castro
would not permit United Na
tions' observers to come to
Cuba, and, consequently, the
United States would give no
assurances against invasion.
What we have now is a sub
stitute for the original agree
ment. We arc able to carry
on photographic reconnais
sance without interference
from the Soviet anti-aircraft
weapons. And Cuba is jot
tnm. in lieu of a United
States' guarantee against in
vasion, a build-up of its de
fensive capabilities Both
Moscow and Washington
know that this strange work
ing arrangement cannot be
upset deliberately without
bringing on a much mightier
confrontation than that of last
October.
ment is straight and clear.'
The United States original
ly had demanded 20 on-site
inspections, whittled it to 12
and now said it might setUe
for eight.
The United States had
agreed that unmanned seismic
stations to record under
ground disturbances might in
some cases replace human in
spection teams. It believed
that at least a dozen of these
stations should be on Soviet
soil. Khrushchev said three
would do.
Then, suddenly, the Rus
sians broke off talks which
had been progressing in New
York and demanded that they
be returned to Geneva.
The way obviously was
neither so straight nor so
clear as Khrushchev had pro
fessed to believe.
But Foster sees a ray of
light. He says:
"We are both interested in
preventing the destruction of
the world."
By Joseph Altop
Tribune Syndicate
er plainly hopes to remove
this obstacle to his grand de
sign, by the simple expedient
of forcing the withdrawal of
the American troops from Eu
rope. The bard evidence that
this is his real intention is
being ignored in Bonn, as
well as downgraded in Wash
ington but it is there none
theless. The strange French effort
lo drive English out of the
German schools and the Ger
man general staff is symbolic
of Gen. de Gaulle's purpose.
The device by which he hopes
to achieve his purpose - ap
parently before the defense
sensitive Germans really
grasp what is happening - is
an attack on the highly vul
nerable U.S. balance of pay
ments. The attack has already
begun, though without suc
cess thus far. As previously
reported in this space, de
Gaulle tried and failed in
Paris to secure a flat German
commitment to give French
sources absolute priority
whenever buying amis
abroad. The French Embassy
in Bonn is keeping up the
pressure for German arms-
buying in France rather tnan
the United States, "in the
spirit of the Paris pact."
As already explained here,
this is a direct French assault
on the German-American "off
set agreement," which is such
an important factor in the re
cent improvement, insuffici
ent yet significant, of the U.S.
balance of payments. But the
assault on the offset agree
ment is not the end of the
story, by any means.
rpHE U.S. trade negotiator.
- Gov. Christian A. Herter,
has now returned from Eu
rope with grim forecasts of
a sharply exclusive European
policy towards U.S. farm
product exports. These now
amount to over $1 billion a
year.
Hence a "drastic reduction
of our farm exports to Europe
might be enough, in itself,
to provoke the gravest kind
of balance of payments crisis.
Once again, the French are
in the lead in the assault on
the farm export flank of our
payments - balance. Yet the
French are well aware that
the maintenance of the U.S.
forces in Europe will become
desperately difficult, if not
absolutely impossible, if we
run into a really bad balance
of payments crisis.
Such is the evidence. Most
American policymakers can
not believe the evidence
means what it seems to mean,
because Uiey say Gen. de
Gaulle "cannot be mad
enough to wish to deprive
Germany and France, too, of
their only serious defense."
But those who say this leave
out of account Gen. de
Gaulle's apparent estimate of
the value of his home-made
nuclear deterrent, which will
be examined in a third re
port. lUte Hint
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By Sydney J. Harris
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WISHING MANKIND
Unlike all other animals,
man is distinctively a "wish
ing" creature. The bear and
the bat, lha
wolf and the
walrus wish
for nothing
but what
their ancest
ors had - the
same home,
the same food,
the same ev
erything. It is
no accident, I
fairy stories
Harris
think, that
(which always reveal the
deepest needs of man) are so
concerned with wishes. Read
ing a book of such tales to
the children the other nighl,
I was struck with the preva
lence of "three wishes'" run
ning through so many of
these stories.
But while man may be de
scribed as a wishing creature,
this does not mean that wish
ing is easy. On the contrary,
may many of our dilemmas
not come from the fact that
we do not know what wa
properly should wish for? In
the fairy tales, the first two
wishes are always vain or
foolish; even a child, who is
a bundle of desires, does not
know what to wish for.
In his superb essay on
"Man iht Technician," Or
tega y Gasset made the
point that "desiring is by
no means easy." He remind
ed us of the quandary of
the newly rich man. "With
all wish-fulfilling means at
his command." Ortega
points out, "he finds himself
in the awkward situation
of not knowing how to
wish. At the bottom of his
heart he is aware that he
wishes nothing, that he him
self is unable to direct his
appetite and to choose
a m r n g the innumerable
things offered by his en
vironment." Such a man has to look
for a middleman to orient
him. He gets an expert to
help him select fine paint
ings. His wife hires an in
terior decorator for the new
house. The current fashion,
the latest rage, the predom
inant wishes of other peo
ple, determine these
choices. In a sense, he en
trusts others with wishing
for him.
The first things the newly
rich get are better automo
biles, newer television sets,
electric razors, mixers, and
so on. But these are not gen
uine wishes; they are what
Ortega calls "the ficlure and
the gesture of genuine dc
sire." They have not been
thought of originally and for
oneself, but are repeated
blindly and automatically,
because that is what the cul
ture calls for.
Then Ortega, as usual,
strikes to the heart of the
matter: "Every wish for this
or that particular thing is ul
timately connected with the
person a man wants to be.
This person, therefore, is the
funamental wish and the
source of all other wishes. I
a man is unable to wish for
his own self because he has
no clear vision of a self to
be realized, he can have but
pseudo wishes and spectral
desires devoid of sincerity."
What he calls "a crisis of
wishing" may be upon us to
day. The world offers us al
most limitless choice, but if
we lack this clear vision of a
self to realize, the more our
wishes come true, the mora
we recede from happiness,
and become instead merely
drunk with the fulfillment of
pseudo wishes.
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