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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1853 (Tutiday)
One person died and sevcrnl
were injured in a series of
JO week end accidents in
Jackson county.
Gov. Paul Patterson an
nounced in Salem today that
William Walsh, Coos Bay, has
been appointed to succeed
Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford,
on the Oregon slate board of
higher education.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1943 (Sunday)
Medford shoe repair shops
swamped as shoe rationing
gets under way.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "New
grass is coming up, In the
usual phone book green, an
over the valley."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1933 (Tuesday)
Medford banks to reopen
Monday following "bank holi
day." Joe F. Fllcgel elected exalt
ed ruler of Medford Elks
lodge.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1923 (Wednesday)
John Hampshire, Grants
Pass, receives contract for
completion of Crater Lake
highway.
Cloudy weather expected to
keep eclipse of moon from
being seen In Rogue valley.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 26, 1913 (Thursday)
Valuable vein of gold ore
discovered near old Pierce
mine west of Medford.
Jean St. Lac de Roboam,
84, dies; was veteran of Crim
ean war and operated United
States hotel in Jacksonville
from 1884 until his retirement
in 1900.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine oi ten correct Is superior
even or eight Is eacellcnt; five or
It is good.
1. Charlotte Amalie is the
capitol of what American pos
cession? 2. U.S. Secretary of State
John Hay was largely respon
sible for the Open Door policy
toward what country?
3. What famous scientist
was noted for research in
milk, wine and beer?
4. What English author's
name rhymes with Rhode
Island Reds?
5. What date is represented
by MCMLIX?
6. If "The Little Flower
went to "Little Sauk" who
would go where?
7. In what cily would you
find Fleet, Thrcadnccdlc and
Bond Streets?
8. Miller, Stuhldrehcr.
LJowicy and Laydon were
better known as what?
9. If Jack Benny, Larry Ad
lcr and Pablo Casals had a
Jain session, what would their
Instruments be?
10. What docs one call the
wife of an Earl?
Answers! 1. Virgin Islands.
3. China. 3. Louis Pasteur. 4.
Dickens (chickens). S. 1959.
6. Fiorelle LaGuardia to Min
nesota. 7. London. 8. Four
Horsemen of Notre Dame. 9.
Violin, harmonica and cello.
10. Counlns.
4 A-
FEBRUARY 21. 193
He Will Be
Here ends a way of education, a way of
thinking and a type of sportsmanship, character
istic of a passing generation. This will undoubt
edly be said by many today, those who mourn
the passing of E. H. Hednck, retired superin
tendent of the Medford schools.
But it will not all be true. For in this case, to
contradict Shakespeare, it is the good that a man
does which lives after him.
Now, more than in the prime of his education
al career, the influence
was equally at home with cow hand and Latin
scholar, is being recognized. His philosophy,
founded upon the stern belief that society has
no right to educate a child to a way of life it can
not gurantee, is accepted as new thinking. His
methods have been vindicated as children from
coast to coast are required to study more, not
less. His standards, which some would have
watered down to make things easier for Johnny,
are being upgraded as educators take a realistic
look at the challenges which await Johnny's gen
eration. s
IT. H. HEDRICK was
" man. He wanted for
curity that is born of self
fulness. He wanted every child, regardless of posi
tion, to develop to the maximum of his potential,
and he worked constantly to give children that
opportunity.
He believed that the
is experienced by persons who are too long pro
tected from the realities of life. He had faith in
school children. He expected great things of
them. And they didn't disappoint him on foot
ball field or in classroom.
In a period so infiltrated by status seekers
that authors labeled them as the typical Amer
icans, he refused to compromise for any rewards.
He stood for, and tought
he believed in spite of
sures. His sincere interest in education continued
until the close of his life. "
LJE WORKED, always, without consideration
of self and asked for no special privilege. He
called a spade a spade in the old terminology,
and when strong words were needed to achieve
an end he drew upon his army background for
the proper phrase without flinching. At the same
time he had a gentleness which commanded the
respect of his strongest adversaries, and a sense
of humor which transcended the solving of prac
tically every problem.
Busy as he was from early morning until
late at night, as administrator of a rapidly grow
ing school system, he found time to become, him
self, an educated person.
He spoke a common language but he was a
very uncommon man.
He will be missed. But best of all, he will be
remembered. E.H.
Those Guard Scandals
The scandals involving some members of the
Oregon National Guard are chilling, particularly
in a state which has been as historically free of
corruption in official places as has Oregon.
the Oregon Journal comments:
"The record on the scandal in the Oregon National
Guard Is still disturbingly incomplete."
That is true. It also calls to mind that there
have been unverified rumors of irregularities in
the Guard for several years. Some, indeed, were
motivated when the Medford Armory was com
pleted, only to be found lacking in chairs and
other facilities to make it the multi-use building
that Medford and Jackson county people had
been led to believe it would be.
A LMOST three years ago in March, I960, to
"be precise we raised some questions con
cerning certain aspects of the renovating the
home of the adjutant general at Camp Clacka
mas, and were assured it " . . '. was done at the
personal expense of the adjutant general with
the exception of the painting, wall papering, and
minor carpenter work which is normal mainte
nance for this type of building." Also:
"... No monies were taken from (state-owned
armories) in remodeling the division headquarters . . .
Building remodeling was done for the purpose of hous
ing the division headquarters for the entire state.
Formerly, the headquarters had been in an old two
story barracks that was entirely inadequate."
To this we added our own comment:
"We accept this explanation at its face value,
recognizing that in making executive decisions, a
certain leeway is necessary.
"The need for the work, and the style in which It
was done, and the Justifiability of the use of funds
for these purposes, is something we cannot judge.
"We arc glad to place the answers 'on the record,'
and leave to other appropriate authority the decisions
as to whether wise use was made of tax money avail
able to the military department."
IN LIGHT of the revelations of recent weeks
and months, there remains a substantial
doubt that this earlier explanation of seeming
irregularities would hold water.
The questions were brought to the attention
of state authorities at the time, but nothing re
sulted except assurances that all was well.
In any continuing investigation of the scan
dals, perhaps the matters touched on three yeai-s
ago would bear further scrutiny. One hates to
drag dirty linen into the open, particularly if the
individual chiefly invovlcd is no longer living,
but it is necessary if we are to assure ourselves
that nothing similar can happen in the future.
The current suggestion that an inspector gen
eral be named for the Guard, a man independent
of the regular chain of command who could in
vestigate all reports of irregularities, sounds like
a good one. E.A.
Remembered
of this Oregon man, who
.
essentially a very kind
children the type of se
reliance and resource
most tragic insecurity
tor, the things in which
social or financial pres
MbDFOMD
"What Doe. He Think This I
A Legislative Body?"
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary Is often the case.
Little Pittsburgh
To The Editor: Thank you
for your recent article on
air-pollution, What a power
ful source for good an editor
can be!
Yesterday part of the fam
ily played tennis on the courts
near the high school. The
while balls soon became
black with soot, as did hands,
clothes, and some faces.
Showers removed the extern
al dirt, but what about dirty
lungs?
If you lived above the val
ley, as we do on a ridge of
hills to the south, you would
be even more convinced of
our Little Pittsburgh prob
lem. A startling contrast is
often apparent on week ends.
Almost all of the 20-25 belch
ing burners (visible to us) are
then quiet. And if a clearing
wind is present a most beauti
ful sight unfolds itself. The
valley really sparkles!
Are the people asking too
much - the right to breathe
wholesome air? I heartily
agree with you. We should
not merely request action, we
should demand it, and do
whatever is necessary to
achieve results. We are urg
ing our legislators, as a first
step, to pass Senate Bill 25!),
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Feature Syndicate
TEST BAN TROUBLES
Washington - Deep trouble
is building up in the Senate
for any nuclear test bun ar
rangement which may be
PWh reached with
XV tl,e Russians
at the cost of
further sub
stunlial con
cessions by the
United States.
And it is the
Senate which
must in the
end say yea
white or nay t0 Hnv
nuclear treaty. One third of
its membership plus one can
refuse ratification.
The latest staled American
"minimum demand" in the
zigging and zagging disarm
ament conference at Geneva
has been for a rock-bottom
eight to ten on-site inspections
a year to police Soviet per
formance of any pledge to
halt nuclear testing. The So
viet Union has made a take-it-or-leavc-it
offer of two to
three a year and periodically
threatens to withdraw even
this absurdly Inadequate form
of inspection guarantee.
riMlERE
signs, 1
however, that in our
eagerness to achieve some
progress our negotiators are
not unprepared to go down
!o seven inspections, and per
haps even below that. This
has been privately conceded
even while somewhat ambig
uous public denials have
been floated about
So obvious has it become
that we ate considering a fur
ther softening of our position,
indeed, that so ardent a test
ban advocate as Senator Hu
bert 11. Humphrey of Minne
sota has felt compelled tu
warn that while it Is the Pres
ident who proposes in treaty
matters, it is the Senate which
disposes Senator Humphrey
has said, from his post as an
observer at Geneva, that any
scheme for fewer than right
I inspecltlons would be "diffi
i cult" to get through the Scn-
I ate.
I "Impossible'' would in tact
i be the accurate term.
I
'rilE LONG, long story of
American rffnrts to come
to some agreement with the
MAIL t mount, MLUtOMD, OMtGON
, serjATE
and hope many others will
take the time to do the same.
Irving S. Thomas
Route 4, Box 4276
Medford
o
Editor's note: As an ironic
note, it could be pointed out
that Pittsburgh, Pa., once one
of the worst offenders as far
as air pollution is concerned,
finally licked it. Which proves
that it CAN be done.
Filthy Air
To the Editor: May God's
blessing rest upon the head of
E. A. for his forthright and
honest appraisal of the val
ley's filthy, stinking air pol
lution problems. I am glad
there is someone with enough
foresight to see the absolute
necessity of ridding the area
of this problem.
(Name on File)
Medford
Schools Criticised
To the Editor: An article
in the Mail Tribune last fall
stated that t h e Medford
School District was having
difficulty because of the lack
of classrooms in many of the
elementary schools. Yet, now
with a budget of $4,683,457
they are only planning addi
tional classrooms for two of
these schools.
S. Whit
Russians to end nuclear test
ing, with its consequent nu
clear fall-out, has been a long,
long story of repeated fall
back by us in the face of So
viet pressure for more and
more yielding on our side.
Senator Thomas J. Dodd of
Connecticut has just told the
Senate, in a major speech il
lustrating with rare complete
ness the agony and anguish of
this issue to mankind, of 12
such major American conces
sions since 1958 alone. All
this is apart from the greatest
and most generous concession
of sharing the atom ever of
fered - that long ago by the
commission headed by Ber
nard Baruch at a lime when
the United States had a total
monoply on the atomic wea
pon. Tne agony and the anguish
is this: All men of good will,
and Dodd among them, hon
estly wish to sec an end to
the nuclear arms race. They
arc. moreover, not less human
than other men In wishing
desperaiely for an end to nu
clear tall-out. They arc not
able, however, and a majority
of the Senate will never in
foreseeable time be able, to
follow that articulate minor
ity in current American life
which is so fatally bent upon
some accomodation with the
Russians that it would put
this country's very life In
pawn to what would amount
to a nuclear moratorium rest
ing on Soviet promises alone.
rMUS is not to say that this
government's negotiators
themselves arc so fatally bent.
It is to say however, that in
their understandable drive to
bring off a nuclear treaty
they lean more toward trust
ing than to the skeptical side
in this immense and fateful
question.
It is not easy to cling to
the skeptical side - as Dodd
above nearly all others has
surely had reason to learn.
For it is easy to present the
skeptics as hard of heart as
well as hard of nose; as in
favor of fall-out and against
"peace."
But somebody has got to
mind the store of national
security - and this the Senate
.,1 it.. rTi,j l: ..... . ...iii
i.i n'.c vimi-ii oiMiia win auiraj
y ao. ii it must.
Lack of Land Reform Is Danger Spot in
Mexico s
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
More than SO years after
the overthrow of dictator Por
firio Diaz, Mexico still con
siders i t s e If
a revolution
ary state. The
steep upward
climb of Mex
ican industry,
the towering
office bu 1 1 d
ings and the
new hotels in
Mexico City
LaJ
iswsom
provide con
vincing evidence of the revo
lution's success.
The story of Mexico's revo
lution actually may be divid
ed into two parts, one that is
succeeding and another that,
li it cannot be called a fail
ure certainly has not been
keeping pace.
Mexico's 1917 Constitution
provided specifically for land
reform, but as President Ad
olpho Lopez Mateos enters
his last two years in office.
We hear plenty about the
expensive courses they ar
range for the top few, but
what about the hundreds of
"average children" who are
being crowded together be
cause of lack of classrooms?
Shouldn't the majority be as
important as the minority?
If the School District would
come down off of cloud 9 in
their efforts to show how su
perior Medford is to other
School Districts and concen
trate on basic needs, I think
the voters would view their
budget with more understand
ing. (Name on File)
Medford ,
Speeder Danger
To the Editor: To begin
with, I am a property owner
on Faith ave. at Ashland, Ore.
Or rather, I am trying to be
a property owner as I am
making payments on it.
Faith ave. is a through
street between Highway 99
and Highway 66, and quite a
few people use this street as
it has been paved and is a
wonderful speedway between
the highways.
Now, on this street, which
is approximately five blocks
long, live abbut 30 children
ranging in age from 1 year to
15 years with the majority
running from 1 to 8. I have
tried to get license numbers
as speeders go by but can't
always do it.
Approximately two years
ago I got the majority of the
property owners on Faith ave.
to sign a petition which I pre
sented to the city council
thinking they would place a
restricted speed sign on this
street, but I was told the city
didn't have the money to
place signs on all .the streets
in this fair city.
Now I noticed a 20 mile
speed sign on Terra ave.,
which is practically a dead
end street, and I have been
wondering who lives on Terra
ave. that has enough pull or
authority within our fair cily
to get this sign set up.
I forgot to mention that at
the time I had this petition
signed there was also a pri
vate school on Faith ave. with
quite a few children attend
ing. The city police have been
quite cooperative whenever I
call and complain about a hot
rodder, but they have quite
a lot of city to patrol with
what equipment they have.
I'll not ask you to keep my
name on file as I am not
ashamed of having written
this letter. So. Mr. Editor,
place it rig.it at the bottom.
J F. Perry
733 Faith ave.
Ashland, Ore.
"Il s not fair. We inlegrate without incident and gel
very little publicity. Pernios we should put up token
tests
Revolutionary Success Story
Mexico's farm front still
a picture of unrest.
In the states of Oaxaca,
Chiapas and Morelos in the
south, peasants have fought
pitched battles with Mexican
soldiers. In Chihuahua, just
below Texas, squatters have
attempted to move against
large cattle ranches.
Putting pressure on the
government is a new organi
zation called Independent
Peasant Central. It is Com
munist - supported and claims
one million members.
Matter of Fact
(cl New York Herald
THE YEMAN CRISIS
Washington - The Presi
dent is currently considering
whether to move additional
units of the
Sixth Fleet in
to the Red
sea. The move
ment has been
proposed b y
the U.S. Fleet
commander in
the Mediter
ranean, in ful
f i 1 1 m e nt of
Aimp U. b. pledges
to Saudi Arabia.
These pledges are in ques
tion, in turn, because of the
signs that an attack on Saudi
Arabia is at least being con
sidered, if not actively pre
pared, by Egypt's Gamal Ab
del Nasser.
Some months ago, Nasser
established a bridgehead on
the oil-rich Arabian Penin
sula, by promoting a Nasser
ite coup d'etat in the imamate
of Yemen, and then rushing to
the aid of the new republican
government. The Yemenis,
disliking the prospect of sub
jugation by Egypt, rallied to
their royal family and organ
ized a determined guerrilla
resistance.
The popular resistance was
Way to Power
To the Editor: After 60
years of eagerly reading and
listening to our Presidents, I
cannot remember one Com
mander in Chief of this great
est of Christian nations ever
writing or uttering the Sacred
Name of Jesus.
As a cub reporter on The
New Orleans States I once
spent a full Sunday afternoon
in a most unauthorized inter
view with William Howard
Taft In the St. Charles hotel.
Kindly amused by my re
portorial awkwardness and by
my unwarranted intrusion on
his privacy, the then Chief
Justice answered all my clum
sy queries on what he thought
of faith healing. I had just
discovered "Brother Isaiah"
in the greatest stroke of luck
ever granted a young reporter
in the South and so, felt my
self an authority on a subject
of which I knew absolutely
nothing. My stories on
"Isaiah," the faith healer,
made that simple Colorado
sheep herder so popular the
city of New Orleans had to
build a tent city to care for
the crowds. He cured many
to my suspicious amazement.
Mr. Taft stated he knew of
the greatest of faith healers
who came from Bethlehem
and he had his doubts about
all others. But he never men
tioned Jesus or the Christ.
This, to me, very peculiar
hesitancy or indifference on
the part of our Presidents
causes me to believe that the
Medford branch of the Na
tional Council of Churches
and the Holy Name Society
of Sacred Heart might ro
mantically unify and found a
Mission to the Presidency for
the sole purpose of having our
Chief Executive reverently
write and proclaim the Sacred
Name every time he officially
calls upon the name of God.
This simple act could advance
the power of our Nation in
thus having our greatest voice
join in "All Hail the Power
of Jesus Name."
William Thomas Cuddy
V.A. Domiciliary
White City, Ore.
W:icer
JJ fir '
4
It demands immediate ex
propriation of large farms and
ranches.
Prominent among its sup
porters is former President
Lazaro Cardenas, the man
who expropriated U. S. and
British oil interests in Mexico
in 1938 and who in more re
cent times has been an out
spoken friend of the Castro
regime in Cuba and the Red
Chinese.
He attacks U. S. "oppres
sion" and demands the end of
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
so effective that Nasser was
forced to pour no less than
20,000 troops into this tiny
country, and these Egyptian
forces are now the sole sup
port of the puppet Yemeni
regime. Nonetheless, the res
istance has continued, leaving
Nasser in a position identical
with that of the French in Al
geria before the fighting end
ed. AS THE Algerian resistance
fighters had bases across
the Moroccan and Tunisian
borders, so the Yemeni guer
rillas have been allowed to
use bases in Saudi Arabia. In
sum, Nasser has the same mo
tives for wishing to attack the
Saudis that the French had
for wishing to invade Tunisia
and Morocco.
The signs that Nasser may
yield to this temptation are
rather impressive. To begin
with, he has frankly told at
least two recent American
visitors that he intended to
wind up the Yemen affair by
"going to the root of the mat
ter" in Saudi Arabia; and he
has added that his troops
"could be in 'Jidda," the sec
ond Saudi capital near the
sea coast, "in no more than
two or three days."
In the last fortnight, Nas
ser has also quite dispropor
tionately increased his ship
ments of his Soviet - provided
arms into the Yemen. This
suggests preparations to move
on the ground against the
Saudi Arabian border oasis
of Najran, which Egyptian
planes have already bombed.
TMNALLY, 20 tons of air-
dropped Egyptian military
equipment have been discov
ered in the empty desert near
the Saudi port of Yenbo
which would be a logical tar
get for an Egyptian landing
preparatory to a move on Jid
da. This air drop of arms in
the Arabian Desert is still in
adequately explained, but it
has the look, at least, of being
intended to prepare for a
landing.
Nasser's threat to invade
Saudi Arabia puts a term of
sorts, or at least ought to put
a term, to what can only be
called a Chester Bowles chap
ter of American diplomacy.
The chapter began with
Bowles's selection of an em
inent Middle Eastern do-gooder,
John Badeau, as Ambassa
dor to Cairo. Badeau at once
set about making warm
friends with the Egyptian dic
tator, who has never failed to
bite a hand that fed him.
Badeau's be nice - to Nas
ser policy was also adopted
by the Assistant Secretary of
State for the Middle East,
Philip Talbot, who is another
of Bowles's appointees. One
result was the American dec
ision to recognize the Egypt
ian's puppet regime in the Ye
men, on the basis of a cynical
ly false promise by Nasser to
withdraw his troops if rec
ognition were extended.
Among the Middle Eastern
policy-makers, the blame for
Nasser's broken promise is
given to the British rather
than to the promise-breaker,
on the ground that Nasser
really would have called
home his troops if the British
had followed the Americans
in recognizing the Yemeni
puppets. "If you can believe
that, you can believe any
thing." is the only possible
comment.
TY THE same token, the
" head of the Saudi govern
ment. Prince Faisal, has been
strongly pressed to cease
lending aid and comfort to
the Yemeni popular resist
ance. Prince Faisal's conten
tion, that a Nasscritc Yemen
will be a daggar at Saudi
Arabia's heart, has been air
ily dismissed. It has even
been contended that Nasser's
Yemeni puppets will help to
show Prince Faisal the road
to progress and reform.
It can be seen, then, why it
is fortunate that the Pri si-
dent has taken the matter
personally in hand. It is high
time for a hard-headed judge
ment such as the President
can be expected to make.
The stakes in this game,
after all. arc the important
American interest in Saudi
.rdo!a. tne equally important
--..wo.. .mi ii-ai ,ii III' 11-
boring Kuwait, and the Brit
ish interest in Kuwait, which
is. literally, a matter of eco
nomic life-or-death for Brit
ain. Hard headedncss it cer
tainly In order.
foreign investments and of
"foreign monopolies."
Thus he places the Lopez
Mateos regime on the defen
sive on two fronts. On the
farm front, Lopez Mateos has
announced he will break up
every large privately owned
farm and ranch within the
next two years, but he denies
it is because of leftest or Car
denas pressure.
Cardenas' talk is the kind
to strike fear into the hearts
of American investors who
have around a billion dollars
invested there.
Internally, the country is
anti-Communist and the gov
ernment has not hesitated to
jail local Communists or to
expel Communist diplomats
interfering with Mexican in
ternal affairs.
Lopez Mateos has described
his government as "far left"
but he himself has been mov
ing toward center. His pro
gram fits in well with the Al
liance for Progress program.
He has spent increasingly
huge proportions of the na
tional budget for education.
As for Cardenas, he prob
ably would describe himself
as less pro Communist than
pro - Mexican. But he and his
kind deal with fire if, for pol
itics alone, they seek to divide
the country between left and
right and undermine confi
dence in the country's future.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c. Field Enterprises, Inc.
WHY THEY WIN
I happen to know a bridge
player in Florida who wins
consistently, year in and year
out, against
some of t h e
finest players
in the coun-
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his opponents
are better
than he is.
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son for his success. In bridge,
as in most competitions of
skill, the technical ability is
not the determining factor.
Above a certain plateau of
prowees, it is the psycho
logical elements that swing
the balance one way or the
other.
A couple of years ago, I
picked up a master work on
bridge, written by the two
French champions, Albarran
and Jais, called "Comment
Gagner au Bridge (la parlie
libre)." The authors insisted
that there are three factors
that make the difference be
tween a winning and losing
player.
In the order of impor
tance, they are (1) Strength
or weakness of personality;
this is, of temperament and
psychological qualities; (2)
The methods employed; and
(3) Technical ability. And
it is true that some of the
finest technicians are the
biggest losers across the
table.
Then the authors listed
the five commonest faults
among bridge players,
which cost the greatest
number of points. It will
surprise the laymen to
learn that none of these
has to do with ability per
so:
These five crucial fail
ings are (1) Carelessness
and lack of concentration;
(2) Selfishness and obstin
acy; (3) The art of making
simple situations difficult;
(4) Arrogance and conceit;
(5) Obvious contempt for
partner and opponents.
All these failings, be it
noted, are psychological and
temperamental; not one is
connected with the actual play
of the cards, with coups and
eliminations and throw-ins
and end-plays. Indeed, as the
authors' take pains to point
out with plentiful illustra
tions, the good players suffer
more from these above faults
than the mediocre players do.
This is not a column on
bridge, but on competition
generally, and on the over
estimation we commonly
make on technical skill in any
endeavor. It is true that we
need to master the rudiments
of any given game, but tech
nical mastery is often a boom
erang if it is not accompanied
by the proper attitudes and
reactions.
In bridge, as in most nur-
suits, fine technical ability is
called for on perhaps only
one hand out of ten. and here
tne expert shines. But it is on
the ordinary hand that temp
erament and character pre
vail: and this is where stub
borness. con ceit. contempt.
carelessness and the tempta-
i uri io n
cuie wrecks so
many otherwise good players.
The winner, in more serious
games than bridge, is the on
who understands himself. M
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