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History from the file ot The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
EEC And The Farmer
10 YEARS AGO
March 19, 1953 (Thunday)
The first frost warning
broadcasts for the Rogue val
ley have tentatively been set
for Monday night. Federal
Meteorologist Roy Rogers said
today.
A total of 1,252 Jackson
county men have been induct
ed into the armed forces since
1948, the chairman of the
selective service board has re
vealed. 20 YEARS AGO
March 19, 1943 (Friday)
George Harrington and Ice
land Clark to take Civil Aero
nautics administration course
as air traffic controller train-
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: ."T h e
omnlnvment situation is crltl
cal. There is so much work
there is no room for anybody
to lay down beside II.
30 YEARS AGO
March 19, 1933 (Sunday)
Mayor of Rogue River,
charged with . ballot thefts,
promises to give self up; three
"Greensprings mountain
boys" jailed.
Stale senate passes bill call
ing for special election In
July on prohibition repeal.
40 YEARS AGO
March 19, 1923 (Monday)
Three Grants Pass residents
fined for turning automobiles
in the middle of Mcdford's
Main st.
Clarence Williams, Medford
High school guard, named to
all-state basketball team.
What goes on in Brussels these days is of com
pelling pocketbook interest to the American
farmer. From $1 billion to $1V1 billion of Ameri
can larm exports go to hurope annually.
The future of much of this market depends
on decisions by the agricultural ministers of the
European Economic Community (EEC) on farm
policy within the Common Market Saix.
U. S. poultry raisers already have been hurt
The six nations France, Belgium, Holland,
Italy. West Germany, Luxembourg early in
1962 agreed on a common policy for eggs and
poultry, Iruits and vegetables.
The import duty on chickens was boosted
from 4'i cents a pound to 12V- cents. The levy
in West Germany, our bitrcrest outlet, rose from
4.8 cents to 13 cents a pound. The result has
been that poultry exports to EEC slumped fast
after midyear to Slz.b million in the four-month
period ended Nov. 30 from $20.3 million a year
earlier.
THE poultry market was doomed, anyway. As
ennn qo Fnvnnoan ni'nrlllrol-a loai'rtarl in maca
auun hi) umvjji.Hii fl ' ' utiiivviu ivniiivu bis 1 1 1
produce birds as we do they would be able to
meet our prices. But in the meantime the Six
have, in effect, erected a wall against our chick
ens.
The six were to have worked 'out an agree'
ment on cereals by April 1, but now that deadline
has again been set back.
Smooth negotiations within the Market
weren't helped by President de Gaulle's veto of
cntain s entry, and so the talks may drag on and
on. When a common policy is worked out, feed
grains, wheat, flour, rice, and vegetables are the
most likely candidates for additional tariff pro
tection. Rule out cotton ; Europe is not a major
producer of that fiber.
"It's called 'Grand Design' "
A
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SO YEARS AGO
March 19, 1913 (Wednesday)
George II. Millar, Mcdford's
Socialist city councilman from
the third ward, charges that
Mayor Elfcrl is behind a
grand Jury investigation ot
his business methods.
Medford city council con
sidering purchase of 340-acrc
ranch in Little Bullc creek
area; price of $7,000 sought
for properly.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eioht Is excellent; five or
sii Is good.
1. How many slates com
prise the section known as
New England?
2. Name the capital of the
Republic of India.
3. What three letters of the
English alphabet are most
used?
4. Docs the Arabian or Ihc
Ractrlan camel have only one
hump?
5. "So you're the Utile wom
an who wrote the book that
made the great war." What
President said it to what writ
er? 6. Is the population of The
Saar, industrial and mining
area north of Lorraine, main
ly German or French?
7. On what river is Stalin
grad? 8. What was President Wil
son's first name, dropped by
him in later life?
9. Desperado Jack McCall
committed murder in Dead
wood, Dakota Territory; name
the renowned victim.
10. What was the popular
name of Thomas Jonathan
Jackson?
Answers: 1. Six (Me., VI.,
N.H.. Mass., Conn., R.I.). 2.
New Delhi. 3. E. T, I. 4.
Arabian. S. Lincoln lo Harriet
Beecher Stow. 6. Mainly
Carman. 7. T h Volga, 9.
Thomas. 9. Wild Bill Hickok.
10. "Stonawall."
TAKE wheat. France has a support price of
ilhnllf $9 Sii a hllchnl aa orrainof tha 1 09
price support here. West Germany supports wheat
at $3.15 a bushel.
According to Farm Journal, the uuoer limit
for the eventual market-wide support already has
been set "even higher than the present German
level, which is the highest in the world.
Now the prophets of gloom predict that De
Gaulle will push for the higher German price to
make France "Europe's granary." France grows
more than three times as much wheat as West
Germany.
THE current gloom presupposes a Gaullist Com-
mnn Markflr Rur. .Toan Mnnnol (ha aivViittinr
- -- v. u j . .&v.a..uw, wiv uii.iiiui.vv
ot bliiC, looks to an agricultural community in
which inefficient farmers will be discouraged, ef
ficient producers will be encouraged, and needed
agricultural products that cannot be efficiently
prouucea win De imported.
The Monnet Plan was responsible for France's
post-World War II agricultural recovery as well
as for its gigantic economic strides. Through a
program called remembrement (putting together
of limbs) France's small land holdings were re
grouped into factory farms. This is the aim for
the others in the Six.
In West Germany, where the farm population
is about 25 per cent of the total, agriculture is al
most as inefficient as in Southern Italy. Through
out the Common Market the average farm con
tains only about six hectares, or 15 acres.
And even De Gaulle could be made to see
the dangers of a strict protectionism for the Com
mon Market overproduction, inflation, high
wages, and hence high prices for the very indus
trial products the Six must ship to thrive. E.R.R.
The Greek Way
The measure of the rebirth of Greece, which
celebrates its 133rd Independence Day on Mon
day, March 25, is that the United States plans
soon to take it off the foreign aid dole. Nearly
.ihj uuuun vt rvuit.-iiv.ctii iuu nits ueen poured into
Greece since the end of World War II. But the
tab has drooped to a modest $30 million annually,
virtually all of it for military assistance.
Axis forces progcssivelv stripped the Greek
economy during World War II, and then syste
matically destroyed what was left before pulling
out. Civil strife followed. The United States sent
in a rescue mission in 1947 to keen the country
from falling behind the Iron Curtain. By 1949
the Greeks were able to put down the Communist
supported guerrillas and concentrate on economic
rehabilitation.
THOUGH still among the poorer nations of
tiiiropc west of the Iron Curtain, Greece s
economic miracle is not to be faulted. In 1945 only
five of the country's passenger ships remained
and less than one quarter of its cargo vessels
were still afloat; today, the merchant fleet sailing
under Greek flag totals 1,100 ships. If all Greek
owned ships were registered under its flag,
Greece would be the world's third-ranked mari
time nation.
Greece's gross national product has been
gl owing at the rate second only to that of West
Germany for the past decade, and a li per cent
annual increase is planned for the next 10 years.
Last November Greece became the first as
sociate member of the European Common Mar
ket countries but permits imposition of some
tariffs or imports for the next 22 years. This is
a fillip for Greek exports, which include such
luscious products as olives, fruits and Melina
Mercouri. E.R.R.
United States Engaged in Delicate
Diplomatic Game in the Middle East
By STEWART HENSLEY
United Press International
Washington-dPU-The United
States engaged in a delicate
diplomatic game in the Mid
dle East in an effort to keep
revolutionary ferment among
the Arab states from spark
ing new tourmoil.
One the one hand, Washing
ton firmly supports United
Arab Republic President Ga
mal Adbcl Nasser. And it
quickly recognized the new
pro-Nasser revolutionary re
gimes In Yemen, Iraq and
Syria.
At the same time, the Ken
nedy administration has re
newed and strengthened its
pledges to help safeguard the
sovereignty of baudi Arama
and Jordan, both ruled by
monarchies attacked as "re
actionary by the Arab revolutionaries.
Troops in Yeman
helping the revolutionary
government maintain the con
trol it gained last September.
He has promised the United
States we will pull them out
if Saudi Arabia ends its fi
nancial and material aid to
royalist remnants clinging to
a corner of Yemen.
The adventure is costing
Nasser more inoney than he
can afford. The United States
believes he wants to with
draw and is bringing pres
sure on Saudi Arabia to stop
aiding the royalists. But
Washington sternly warned
Nasser against any repetition
of bombing raids early this
month on Saudi supply
points.
The Kennedy administra
tion believes Nasser has be
come a sober and responsible
leader, a stabilizing force for
Egypt and the largest power
in the Middle East. The Bri
tish agree that Nasser has
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
(cl United Feature Syndicate
ment is Yeman, where Nasser
has more than 20,000 troops
... Communications ...
Letters lo the Editor must bear the name and address of th writer, although under
certain circumstances the us of a pan nam or initial for publication is permissible.
Tht Mail Tribuna reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the piper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Evidence Explained
To the Editor: Recently In
the Editorial column of this
paper, Dan Smoot and I were
bitterly attacked for calling
Romulo Betancourt of Vene
zuela a Communist. But noth
ing was said about Congress
man Rouselot of California
and Congressman Cramer of
Florida who put Betancourt's
Red record in our Congres
sional Record. It is this evi
dence that the Smoot Report
392 is based on, and this is the
evidence and documentation
that must be explained away
before anyone has the right
to villify, smear, and slander
Smoot.
Further evidence against
the Venezuelan President can
be found in the 1958 Clements
A s s o c 1 a tes Report, which
states, "At the present time
he (Betancourt) ' . doing more
to aid the Kremlin's cause in
Latin America than Fidel Cas
tro in Cuba. With these con
siderations in mind, it can be
stated with emphasis thai Ro
mulo Betancourt is a Com
munist." Also, In the April, 1960,
issue of American Opinion
magazine, Betancourt's life as
a hard core Communist from
the time he was 17 up to
1960 is fully recorded and
cannot be explained away.
Another extremely diffi
cult thing to explain is, if
Betancourt is such a staunch
anti-Communist, why Is Perez
Jimenez, one of the greatest
anti Communist leaders in
Venezuela and all Latin Amer
ica, in the U.S. seeking poli
tical asylum, afraid for his
very life? And why is Com
rade Betancourt moving heav
en and earth to get him ex
tradited and returned lo Ven
ezuela where he can destroy
him by execution or imprison
ment?
To me, the clincher is the
fact that our pro-Communist
State Department Is going all
out to convince our Congress
men, Senator?, and private
citizens that Betancourt is an-ti-Communlsl,
Just as they did
with Mao Tse-lung of Red
China, and as they did with
Achmed Sukarno of Indones
ia, and more recently with
Fidel Castro himself.
Yet, in spite of all the above
evidence, our Editor has
thrown every smear word and
innuendo in his arsenal at
Smoot and all those who be
lieve In and quote Smoot
Reports. Why? Perhaps the
answer lies in the short Edi
torial below the main one.
titled "Words, Words, Words."
It is about Sidney J. Harris's
column, "Antics With Seman
tics," and shows how a clever
writer can play back and
forth with the meanings of
words and phrases. For exam
ple, to the Right Wingers
Smoot is honest and "forth
right," while Ihcre Is no doubt
at all thai to our Editor he is
slanderous." And, savs our
Editor. "Take your choice. It's
only words."
Frank Koch
412 South First st.
Central Point, Ore.
religion. Conslanline real
ized Christianity was Becom
ing a power in the Roman Em
pire and he hoped for its uni
fying influence throughout
the Empire though he nev
er received the rights of bap
tism until his last illness in
A.D. 337.
Nearly 1,400 years later our
intelligent and liberty loving
forefathers established t h e
first government founded on
the principles of the separa
tion of church and stale. Let
us keep these principles.
Charity R. Sander
408 Oak Grove rd.
Medford.
Lai's Keep Principle
To the Editor: Why bring
up the Sunday closing law?
For goodness sake! Aren't we
having enough trouble now?
Aren't there enough prob
lems internally and external
ly in our country and t h e
world today without trying
to afflict upon us some of
the old Blue Laws "No one
shall run on the Sabbath day,
or walk in his garden, or else
where, except reverently to
and from meeting."
This Sunday observance has
been a controversial topic
ever since Constantino made
his edict "which enjoined the
solemn observance of Sun
day" (Gibbon's Rome) in
the year A D. 321 when he
nude Christianity the Hale
Concerned About Drags
To the Editor: I am a stu
dent at Medford High, one
who has attended the "dan
gerous" midnight drags. The
article in the paper gave me
quite a shock, as the time I
went out there, I was impress
ed with how well the kids had
done in organizing the drags.
There were a number of
problems, including the
drinking and fights, but, it
seems to me that proper su
pervision could correct these
faults in a hurry. The prob
lem should be "how can we
get these drag strips super
vised?" not "how can we get
rid of them?
I admit this may be a bit
harder than closing the area
off and forgetting the whole
business, but I believe the re
sult would more tha-1 make
up for the trouble. To be hon
est, the things for high school
students to do that are super
vised and approved are rap
idly dwindling. There are a
few dances on week ends,
shows, and now that the ball
games are over, that's about
it. I, for one, would like to
register my protest against
this step.
This problem appears to be
a very important one: as the
size of Medford increases, the
number of supervised activi
ties decreases.
Are there any alternate
plans for recreational facili
ties to take the place of the
drags? Or is it going to be up
lo the kids themselves to find
entertainment? Private drags
on the street are a lot more
dangerous than drags on a
supervised strip. I hate to ad
mit il but we have to have
something to do for kicks.
The district attorney, in his-
speech to the Crater basket
ball team as published in the
paper, stressed the import
ance of "helping this other
kid, those who are not quite
fortunate as voursclvcs."
He also said, "We're rcspoisi-
blc for the bad guy, each one
of us." Well?
1 realize there are some
people in Medford who do
not accept the responsibility
lor providing recreation for
young people. This mav be
right, but if the town will
not help create some substi
tute tor the drags, I don't be
lieve they are accomplishing
much in the way of control
ling delinquency by banning
them.
Miss Prppi Clark
34.18 Madrona lane
Medford. '
MEETING IN CONTEST
Washington - Irresistible
force and immovable object
are meeting in a great and
The critical point at the mo- melancholy contest now
drawn taut
between the
s t r o n g est
mem ber of
the Cabinet,
Defense Sec-
st retary Rob
ert m c a-
mara, and the
strongest
men of Con
gress. Some
body will be hurt; and this
is a pity. But if the principal
victim is McNamara it will
be a very bad thing, indeed.
For the real issues lying
between the devoted Robert
McNamara and the equally
devoted men of Congress are
infinitely bigger than even
the chief present symbol of
their disput, the multi-billion-dollar
contract now being in
vestigated in the Senate.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(cl New York Herald
Tribune Syndicate
Plans Meeting
To the Editor: H. B. 1263.
now being stt.died In Salem,
is a bill, if passed, will give
the cities the power to annex
areas bordering any city with
out Ihc vote ot the people.
To hear a review of this bill,
please meet with others
Thursday evening, March 21,
7:30 p.m. in the Bellvicw
Grange. Tolman Creek road,
Ashland. This is approximate
ly one mile south of Ashland
on Highway 99.
This is urgent, people. If
you cannot go. sec that a rep
resentative does.
Olive Fountain
614 Cherry si.
Medford. I
KHRUSHCHEV AT
CANOSSA
Bonn - What is happening
in the Soviet Union grows in
creasingly mysterious. Yet it
is plainly
more impor
tant than any
thing else that
is happening
at the mo
ment, since a
profound
change in So
viet world
policy, and
Aisnp perhaps even
in the Soviet leadership, now
seems to be taking place.
No other conclusion can
logically be reached, on the
basis of the exchanges be
tween the Soviets and the
Chinese Communists which
have now been published. To
begin with, every serious stu
dent of Soviet and Chinese
affairs has long agreed that
the Sino-Soviet quarrel could
never be effectively patched
up without a change of leader
ship in Moscow or Peking.
TN THESE circumstances, on
February 21, the Soviets
sent the Chinese an invitation
to open discussions of their
common differences. The first
answer to this invitation was
the gravest, the most com
plete, and the most damning
indictment of Khrushchev, his
supporters, and his policies
that has yet issued from Pe
king. After this fearful barrage
of ideological invective, the
Chinese then said they would
love lo have a jolly chat; and
they arrogantly suggested that
Khrushchev himself come to
Peking for the purpose.
Against the background of
what had already passed, this
was nothing more or less than
an invitation to Canossa.
Nonetheless, instead of break
ing off at once, the Kremlin
signified its intention of pro
ceeding to negotiate with the
Chinese by publishing the
texts of the Sino-Soviet ex
changes in Moscow.
rFHIS seems all the more re
mnrkahlp nnw ihat I ho
main thrust of the Chinese at
tack has been revealed by the
official theoretical journal of
the Western Communists, the
Marxist Review, published in
Prague. In an article that
must have gone lo press about
a fortnight before the Moscow
publication of the Sino-Soviet
exchanges, the charge is spe
cifically made that the Chi
nese have been "raising cries
for the removal" of "the lead
ers of the Soviet Communist
parly.
Meanwhile, a quite signifi
cant change in Ihc Soviet
leadership has in fact taken
place. The man who has been
continuously in charge of
arms production for the Sov
iet armed forces since the
year 1941, Dimitri F. Ustinov.
has been promoted to be one
of three First Deputy Pre
miers of the Soviet Union
and has been made the czar
of the whole Soviet industrial
economy.
An argument about Soviet
investment priorities, and es
pecially about the share of
Soviet resources lo be allocat
cd to the armed forces, has
been going on in the Krem
lin for a long time. Khrush
chev, it is well known. -has
long withed and repeatedly
tried to reduce defense invest-1
ment in favor of the civilian
economy. Simply by virtue !
of his former office. Ustinov j
must surely have been on the I
v I
Wtllta
A PTLY enough. This in
quiry is being conducted
Ac
by one of the best groups in
congress, the Senate Perma
nent Investigations subcom
mittee headed by Senator
John L. McClellan of Arkan
sas. McClellan's panel is dog
gedly examining why McNa
mara let a contract for the
all-purpose TEX warplane lo
General Dynamics corpora-1 military policy, and lo many
lion rather than to the rival ol"cr w ?
. ,. . . :lnot overly concern the uni-
cocing company, wnicn naa i oTmed military fellows,
offered what seemed on its
sideration, it was his judg
ment that General Dynamics
could do the job in the least
time, at the least risk, with
the best result in weaponery
and, in the end, also at the
least cost.
The right and wrongs, in
sheer terms of immediate dol
lars and cents, are quite be
yond any independent evalua
tion by this columnist and
may forever be. For by their
very nature such vast outlays
by the Pentagon include such
immense and varied factors
as to make any outside judg
ment as difficult to grasp as
a wavering moonbeam flitting
across the ceiling of a shutter
ed room at midnight.
r.THER and more important
v things, however, can be
said with complete confi
dence. Involved here is a chal
lenge to McNamara's ulti
mate civilian control over the
Pentagon by uniformed offi
cers with pipelines to con
gress who beyond question
are far less interested in econ
omy than he is. Their profes
sional interest, and rightly so.
is in having all the arms they
want of the kind they prefer,
period.
His interest must be in pro
curing the best arms avail
able; but with due regard to
economy, to unified general
face at least to be a lower
bid.
With equal doggedness, Mc
Namara is defending that de
cision on Ihe ground that,
taking everything into con-
opposite side of the argument
to Khruschev.
VET here is Ustinov, put in
charge of all Soviet indus
try, given the fourth place in
the Soviet administrative
hierarchy, and reportedly
slated for promotion to the
Soviet Presidium as well.
That implies a decisive settle
ment of the investment argu
ment, and a settlement, too,
that is highly unfavorable to
Khrushchev's known view
point. Other, less important but
quite similar signs, all point
ing in the same direction,
were recently discussed in
this space. Add up all these
signs plus the bewildering
exchanges wilh the Chinese,
and you are forced to make
one of two deductions.
Either the Soviets are
actually preparing to accept
the intransigent Chinese the
ses - which must mean that
his opponents, aided by the
Soviet military, have so suc
cessfully ganged up on
Khrushchev that he retains
only the facade of power.
Or Khrushchev has had to
pay a very high price to the
more conservative Soviet
leaders, by the Ustinov pro
motion and in other ways,
in order to buy their assent
lo making a final break with
the Chinese when the Sino
Soviet negotiations begin. Be
tween these two alternatives,
you can take your choice.
And involved - though not
in the McClellan committee
itself as a whole - is a deter
mined movement in congress
to reduce the authority of this
civilian head of the Pentagon
and to increase that of tha
generals and admirals. There
is no "conspiracy" between
the men in uniform and the
men in congress. But there is
undoubtedly some working
purpose to cut McNamara
down to size.
a
AT LAST, Ihe whole ques
tion comes to this: is civ
ilian authority to be supreme,
or is it to be abridged in the
clearly well-intentioned but
profoundly dangerous notion
that, in these days of cold
war, the generals and admi
rals really know best?
It is a hard question super
ficially, but to those who have
read the Constitution it has
only one answer. The Secre
tary of Defense must remain
the Secretary of Defense. If
he falls into fatal error, it
will be necessary to get an
other man. But neither con
gress nor the general-admirals
can run the Pentagon - or
should.
At the same, there is trag
edy here. The men in congress
who are striking at McNa
mara are acting from the
highest motives. And the man
they are striking at has been
regarded up to now by these
very men of congress as the
best Secretary of Defense in
history, tough and non-political.
Congress clamored for
years for a secretary who
would knock heads together
at the Pentagon. Congress has
got him now - and is not so
happy with the choice as it
was before.
been good for Egypt. They
are not so sure he will prove
to be good for the Middle
East.
Monty from Both
Nasser received $257.4 mil- '"
lion in U.S. economic aid in -the
fiscal year ending June
30. 1962, and is getting about: -$150
million more this year.
However, he also has re-- ,
ceived $600 million in recent
years from Russia for the As- -wan
dam and industrial de- .
velopmcnt. He is in hock to ."
the Kremlin for a consider- :
able part of the $2.5 billion
in military equipment sup
plied by Russia during the -past
six years.
Some critics of administra
tion policy believe Nasser is
playing the United States for ;
a sucker. The Kennedy ad-r
ministration does not think ,
so. .,
Washington officials point s
to his continued suppression- :
of Communists within Egypt,
me great aeerease in anti-i.
Western propaganda there.
and Nassers willingness to
consult closely on method
for stabilizing the Middle -
East.
This U.S. policy soon may ¬
be put to some stern tests, -however,
as a result of tha "
emergence in Iraq last month
and Syria this month of new :
revolutionary regimes plug
ging for a militant "Arab
union" with Nasser and "lib- -eration"
of Jordan and Saudi
Arabia. '
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises, Inc.
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TOM J
'GRATITUDE'
At dinner the other night, :
someone was telling about a
famous artist who, when poor '
and struggl-;
ing, had bor-v
rowed money ,
from a rich :
friend. Many.
years later,-,
he told his
friend: "I
have repaid
the debt -not
b y returning
Htrn- the money lo-
you, but by passing it on to a
young artist who is now
where I was then."
This anecdole reminded m
of a true and touching obser
vation on that much-abused
word "gratitude" made a long
time ago by the French writ.
er, Frederic Paulhan. He said:
the obligations of erati.
tude, like all approved obli
gations, are a low form of
morality. Real ratitt de does
not consist in loving a person
who docs us a service and in
doing him a service in return.
Gratitude consists in Drnf.
iting by the service that has
done so that we can act as
well as possible toward the
whole of humankind, and not
only toward the Individual to
wnom we are grateful."
Parents often made ihe
calamitous mistake of ex
pecting their children to be
"grateful" for sacrifices or
advantages; but a child's
gratitude does not have to
go back lo his par ts-it
should be passed down to
his own children
If we do things for the
child in the hope of win
ning his gratitude, we are
really engaging in what
Paulhan properly calls "a '.
low form of morality." The J
higher form consists in
wanting the child to behave j
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"Heavtnsl Already? I've barely recovered
from tha last enel"
as decently, as
kindly, to all people as we ,
aa to mm, '
Artists, after they be-
come affluent and famous,)
may be grateful to their pa-1
troni for having given them
the initial push; but how!
many of them express their '
gratitude by offering ihe '
same help lo snuggling no- f.
vices? This kind of grali-t
tude is much rarer, and
much more valuable, Sadly
enough, only a handful ofj
composers, a u t h o r and ;
painters have been noted -for
their willingness to give i
a hand to the newcomer, J
whom they commonly re-J
gard as a threat,
It is easy to feel grateful
toward someone who haf
done us a considerable serv
ice, but the debt is not riis?
charged when we pay him off;
it is not discharged at all un
less his kindness has started at
chain-reaction, and we do fot
someone else what he ha
done for us. i
Illness is catching, bu(
health is not. In the sam
way, ill feelings seem to trav
el from person to perron, like)
a contagion, but good feeling
usually remain static: they do
not radiate outward a they
would if we really understood
the nature of gratitude and
love and the other positive
emotions. For most of us. like
King Lear, w t to get back
what we have given, want to
balance our emotiomi books,
and cannot stand to be in the
red.
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