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10 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1953 (Thursday)
" Jackson county medical and
dental societies are discussing
plans ' to submit resolutions
endorsing fluoridation of the
city's water supply to the
Medford city council.
The rim road In Crater Lake
National park will be open
lor travel late today or Friday
morning, due to an unusually
heavy snowfall last season.
20 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1943 (Friday)
s Pierce Auto Freight Lines
...i,. narmit for helicopter
passenger and freight service
between Oregon and Call
nrniii nnlntu after war.
; isvnm Aiihur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Coy
otes are now plntiful In rur
1 areas and make more noise
at night than a male quartet."
SO YEARS AGO
July 30, 1933 (Sunday)
Local firms adopt NRA plan
and agree on wage Increase;
stores to close at 5:30 p.m.
hereafter.
i Preacher testifies that
county Judge gave him hint
of ballot theft two weeks be
fore It happened.
40 YEARS AGO
July 30. 1923 (Monday)
i Cloudy with thunderstorms;
high 101.8, low 86 degrees.
; A. S. Roscnbaum promoted
to district traffic manager by
Southern Pacific; to make
home In city.
50 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1913 (Wednesday)
First order for Barllett
pears brings $1.85, l-80
box.
' Homesteaders In Dead In
dian area win court testa.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct h superior!
seven or eight It .cedent) fix or
Ii It food.
' 1. With the manufacture of
what commodity do you con
nect "peeler logs 7
I 2. The dale of the Pearl
Harbor attack by Japan was
Dec. 7 of what year?
3. Which of these are not
mammals - eel, whale, arma
dillo, antcatcr, pigeon, stur
goon, penguin?
4. Atlantic City. N.J., Is a
summer resort only, and Is
closed during the winter
months; true or false?
5. If a cubic foot of water Is
frozen, will Its volume as ice
be greater or lets than a
cubic foot?
8. With which major league
baseball team did Lou Gehrig
play?
; 7. Is a PT boat larger In
tonnage than a destroyer?
' 8. Manell Antonio d e V a'
rona was Interested In over
throwing the government of
what country?
1 9. In which large Eastern
City is Grant s tomb?
' 10. What does the nam
"Stalin" mean?
' Antwerst 1. Plywood. 2.
1941. 3. Eel. pigeon, sturgeon.
penguin. 4. False. S. Greater.
B. New York Yankees. 7. No.
. Cuba. 9. New York City
10. Steel.
Km
TUE8DAY. JULY 30. 1963
"Watch
Roscoe Fleming, poet,
of those geniuses who have gone too long unhon
ored. He is a frail man but he sings a big song,
He sings the song of man.
He finds man a most curious creature.
And a most wonderful creature.
And a most utterly self assured creature.
He writes of man and the atom as one work
and prays that man, the chemist, will not in the
end blow himself through the roof of his own
laboratory.
H
E WRITES, in What
Mindful Of Him:
I only hope the Lord will not find It necessary to post
a (laming sign on the planet
Visible from a parsec out:
'Closed temporarily for repairs,
Will be open, completely refinished and under entirely
new management
In a comparatively short time, around 1,000,000,000 AD.
The owner regrets any Inconvenience
To which you, the public, may have been subjected.'
Of man and his universe he says:
He lives, and can live, only in a tenuous film of vapor,
relatively thinner than the skin of a soap bubble,
on the surface of his planet.
He can exist elsewhere only by enclosing himself in
an air bubble like a water insect.
Take him two miles up, he begins to pant.
Fasten him a foot under water, he drowns.
The night has a thousand eyes with which to stare him
down
But he stands here and stares right back, and tells
the stars:
'Watch for me; I'm coming!'
HE TELLS of man looking out his window into
trta nirrrir anrl inlinfinrr nino nlanota anrl ao.1f
ing: "Only Nine?" And like the disappointed
heir after the will is read, man says there must
be some mistake that any Creation which could
make so marvelous a product as man surely must
have given more than a miserly nine planets; is
not man the only son and heir of the Universe?
Here Fleming has touched upon the three
characteristics of man which set him apart and
most seriously endanger him : His frailty, his self
assurance, his magnificent, but misplaced, confi
dence that he can go on forever, assured king of
creation.
He does look at the
"Watch out for me ; I'm
LflS limitations do not dull his curiosity and he
fashions equipment which takes him outside
that tenuous film of vapor and permits life, and
the same goes for the depths of the oceans. He
knows he has fashioned
could destroy him but in
says this will not happen and so he goes on cre
ating even more deadly potions.
Of man it once was said: "You can always
tell a human being but you can t tell him much.
Looking upon it all we have to ask : Was it a bil
lionth of a second ago by the universe's clock or
unimaginable eons when
came into being? Will it
ond or unimaginable eons before what is to be
comes to pass?
And will that ' what
ing himself through the
an interstellar creature who has staked the entire
Universe as his privte domain?
bacramento Bee.
The Big News
Many newspapers cross this desk. One that
doesn't often show up appeared in the stack the
other day. It was the Worker, ragged descendant
of the old Daily Worker of New York.
Its a frankly Communist sheet, and by no
means a husky one these
appeal, the Worker asks
things in the capitalistic
can't meet its capitalistic
kick in.
More impressive, however, was the "news."
On Page 1 there is, besides the appeal for money,
a nice story about the Russians lady astronaut,
and, the big story, about guns and police dogs in
Mississippi. Inside the 12-page paper, in column
after column, appear articles about the American
racial crisis.
IT IS played up in an attempt to show what life
is like in capitalistic America. As a propaganda
job, it's not very good because it's too obvious.
But it a a valiant try.
This racial strife plays directly into Commu
nist hand9. The way to lick the problem, how
ever, is not to stop the
eliminate the shameful
tent.
The Communists will
poverty, and injustice.
Zipped
The ZIP program may work into something
worthwhile. But a happening of the other day
makes us wonder if it's working out iust the way
Postmaster General Eddie Day envisioned it.
The editor of the Corvallis newspaper sent
a letter to the editor of the Bend paper. He in
cluded the ZIP number. (Where ne got it we
don't know.) It was postmarked in Corvallis. A
second postmark was in Coos Bay. Obviously
someone in the Corvallis Post Office got Bend
and North Bend mixed up.
Which is just the sort of thing the ZIP codes
were supposed to make impossible.
The Bulletin, Bend.
for Me"
author, teacher, is one
Is Man That Thou Art
stars and he does say:
coming."
the chemicals which
his self assurance he
this peanut of a planet
be a billionth of a sec
is to be be man blow
roof of his laboratory, or
days. In a large Page 1
for handouts. Such are
system that the Worker
bills unless its friends
demonstrations, but to
causes of Negro discon
always exploit strife,
Lugene Kegister-Cuard
Again
"Courage, Men, Till
Communications
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of tr-4
paper. In fact the contrary it often the case.
'Transportation Policy'
To the Editor: The Kennedy
Administration is accused of
more than its share of tax
stuffed "pork barrel" legisla
tion. It also deserves credit
for an outstanding piece of
proposed legislation an
nounced in the President s re
peated transportation m e s-
sages.
The proposal is unique be
cause it involves no billion
dollar appropriation from
earnings of future generations.
It requires only the introduc
tion of justice and fair play
Into the unholy mixture of
haywire economics and rotten
politics known as "transpor
tation policy." The over-regu
lated railroads as well as
shipping and traveling tax
payers would benefit.
Well oiled pressure groups
of subsidy-pampered non-rail
transport by airway, water
way and highway are raising
noisy objections. They refuse
to give up their pound of tax
payers' flesh! Are our Con
gressmen's souls so dead that
the voice of justice and fair
play Is drowned out by the
political clamor to spend John
Doe's taxes to buy Richard
Roe's vote?
K. Fritz Schumacher,
Former Stant Fe "Rail"
81 West Grand View
Ave.,
Sierra Madre, Calif,
Ptiliiom, Donations
To the Editor: and all cit
izens in the low income brac
kets, our Oregon Legislature
has voted that a $60 million
tax grab is to come right out
of your pockets. And even if
your income is so low that you
owe no tax at all, you 11 still
have to pay a $5 filing fee
just to file your return.
Can you do anything about
this tyrannical levy on your
meager supply of dollars
which you so desperately
need for food and other neces
sities of life? You bet you
can. At this moment an Ore
gon newspaper editor is mak
ing the fight of his life for
you against the "big spend
ers" and selfish interests who
are cramming this law down
our throats.
And you can help him.
Write Immediately to Francyl
Howard, Editor of "Greater
Oregon", the Greater Oregon
building, Albany, Ore., for a
blank petition. Work fast ana
quickly; get this petition fill
ed. Be sure each person who
signs Is a registered voter.
when your petition Is filled,
follow instructions which I'm
sure will tell you to take It to
the county clerk j office to
have the names checked (I
haven't received my petitions,
yet). Just as soon as you can
get the petition back from the
county clerk mall It back to
Editor Francyl Howard, or
such other person as your In
structions may designate.
Each petition must contain
18 pages of the tax law plus
cover and signature pages.
Expensive? Yes. And our Edi
tor Is a poor man, even as
you and I. Send him a small
donation, if you can spare It,
to help with printing costs.
The Enemy has delayed us
In every possible way, hoping
that there will not be cnouKh
time left to get the 23.186
sood signatures required to
put this tax law on the ballot
Everything that can be none
to cheat the voters out of
their right to vote on this SrtO
million tax grab will be done
by Ihe "big spenders." Let s
show them that they can't
keep the people of Ort'Ron
from exercising their Constt-
tutional Rights. Now Is the
time to act.. Send for your
petition now. We must win,
or our freedom along wilh
our dollars will go down the
drain.
Tony Galll
1720 SW Bridge st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
MEDFORt) MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
the Cloud Come Back'
i-terties.i-cpeK,
Un-Americanitm
To the Editor: What is "un-
Americanlsm"? Is it deeply
un-A merican" to advo-
cate the abolition of the right
of private property pluto
cracy a government or state
in which the wealthy class
rules? If so, the American
people made a mistake when
they took the 13 colonies
away from King George III.
They erred a second time
when they abolished chattel
slavery in the South, thereby,
in effect, destroying about
two billion dollars' worth of
slave property.
If the American people
have twice overthrown spe
cies of property, they estab
lished a precedent for the
socialist demand that private
ownership of the socially op
erated means of production
be abolished. American tradi
tion rejects the theory that
property, especially plutocra
tic property, is sacred.
There appear to be two
kinds of "Americanism." One
is spurious, being a reflection
of property Interests. The
other has Its roots deeply im
bedded in American tradition
and is in harmony with tne
loftiest aspirations of the
founders of our republic. The
immortal document the Dec
laration of Independence-spe-cifically
declares that when
ever any form of government
becomes destructive to the
ends of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness, It is the
right of the people to altur
or abolish it, and to institute
new government, providing
new guards for their future
security.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne st.
Prescott, Ariz.
Partake Discussed
At Roundtable Event
Of Medford C of C
The operation of a firm
dedicated to seeing small busi
nesses succeed was discussed
at the Monday noon luncheon
of the Medford Chamber of
Commerce roundtable.
The national organization Is
called Partake, and Its area
director, Hal Hardin, has re
cently opened a branch office
in Medford at 1 King st. For
the present, however, he will
work mainly out of his Eu
gene office.
Hardin told the group that
"3 out of 5 men who go into
business for themselves fail
within Just a few years."
There are many excuses
and reasons to explain the
failures, Hardin said. "But
the main question we should
ask is, was the man suited in
the first place for the business
he entered?"
Concern of Company
The concern of Partake, he
said, is that a man take In
ventory of his aptitudes and
abilities before he takes the
initial step to open his own
business.
Typically, Hardin said, a
man will come to Partake who
is "not moving ahead or ful
filling himself" In his present
Job. If the man decides to en
gage the services of the firm,
the speaker said, Partake will
compile a "profile" in note
book form on him.
The binder will Include all
vital statistics on the man, In
cluding such information as
his educational background,
his business experience, his
extra professional activities,
and other personal data.
Given Series ol Toils
Then Partake gives the ap
plicant a series of test de
signed to ascertain his skills
nd preferences. He Is also
asked to complete a question
naire to reveal his potentials,
i
Britain's Conservative Government
Changing
By K. C. THALER
United Press International
London-flJPB-Britain's Con
servative government is quiet
ly switching around to Presi-
dent Kennedy s plan for a
mixed-manned, Polaris-equip
ped nuclear surface force
The shift is prompted by a
revised appraisal of the in
ternational situation and Ger
many's future role in the al
liance.
British leaders who have
beer, critical of Kennedy's
multi-national force project
now feel the Idea may prove
the best way of securing West
Jackson To Get
$147
,496 From
Highway Revenue
Salem (LTD Oregon's coun
ties will get $3,122,409 as
their share of state highway
revenues for the quarter
which ended June 30, Secre
tary of State Howell Appling
Jr. said Monday.
Under state law the coun
ties get 19 per cent of the col
lections from motor vehicle
registrations, gasoline taxes,
motor carrier fees and fines
for traffic violations.
Distribution is made on the
basis of the number of ve
hicles registered in each coun
ty. The shares include:
Baker $30,861; Benton $60,-
319; Clackamas $193,823; Clat
sop $42,433; Columbia $38,-
935; Coos $93,083; Crook $17,
922; Curry $26,763; Deschutes
$47,407; Douglas $116,413;
Gilliam $7,038; Grant $15,
054; Harney $13,782; Hood
River $25,716; Jackson $147,-
496; Jefferson $18,223; Jo
sephine $6,0,885; Klamath $92,-
221; Lake $15,085; Lane $307,
271; Lincoln $41,833; Linn
$107,836; Malheur $43,243;
Marion $204,610; Morrow
$11,641: Multnomah $857,811;
Polk $45,392; Sherman $6,636;
Tillamook $31,442; Umatilla
$87,731; Union $33,570; Wal
lowa $13,937; Wasco $37,711;
Washington $161,272; wneei
er $4,088; Yamhill $60,906.
Fred Meyer Chain
Target of Order
Washington - (UPD - The Fed
eral Trade commission has
tentatively ordered Fred
Meyer, Inc., Portland, Ore., to
cease what the agency
charged was the Inducing of
discriminatory price conces
sions and production allow
ances from suppliers.
The FTC charged In Its or
der that the 13-store super
market chain received money
or special services from cer
tain suppliers to promote
their products rather than
those of competitors.
Fred Meyer has 20 days in
which to answer the charge.
which can be developed, and
his shortcomings, which can
be improved. Three refer
ences, who have known the
applicant for some time, are
also asked to complete the
same questionnaire on the
man.
After these, and other data
about the applicant, are com
piled and analyzed, the pro
file is "matched" with certain
favorable job categories for
which the applicant might be
suited. He is asked to review
the employment alternatives
in light of his personal pref
erences. Franchises Art Offered
"We then offer him three
business franchises," Hardin
said, "but the applicant must
be completely convinced
about his choice before Par
take will sell him a particular
franchise."
The speaker said his firm
had a wide variety of business
franchises available for the
applicant to choose from,
ranging from full-time opera
tions to side-line selling of
small items.
After the choice of a fran
chise is made, Hardin said his
firm conducts an "in depth"
industrial survey In the area
in which the man will be op
erating. Among other factors
checked are the amount and
nature of competing busi
nesses. If the applicant Is
short of capital. Partake can
often make arrangements for
assistance from certain in
vestors. Even after Ihe man Is es
tablished in his business, the
area director maintains a
"continuing relat I o n s h 1 p"
with him, serving as a kind
of liaison agent between the
businessman and the manu
facturer of the product he
sells, Hardin said.
Views on
Germany's adherence to the
Western Alliance.
They are also coming
around hesitantly to Ken
nedy's view that the project
of a mixed-manned nuclear
NATO force may be the best
way of stopping the spread
of nuclear weapons.
Maintains Cool Attitude
The government intends for
the time being to maintain
publicly its cool attitude to
the project, largely for inner
political reasons and to silence
the Laborite opposition before
an election.
But the Conservative gov
ernment, if re-elected, will be
inclined to take another look
at the mixed-manned force
project with a view to adopt
ing it.
British reaction so far has
been negative to the plan for
both political and technical
reasons.
Some of Britain's top ex
perts have said the idea is not
practical and that running a
nuclear force with mixed
crews would lead to friction
and trouble.
Matter of Fact
(e) New York Herald
THE NEW NEGRO LEADER
Philadelphia - At the tu
multuous recent convention
of the National Association
for the Ad
vancement of
Colored Peo
ple, the able,
veteran NAA
CP leader,
Roy Wilkins,
confided to a
friend, per
haps a little
wearily: "This
J,nD is the vear of
the revolution. The Young
Turks are taking over."
The most conspicuous of
the Young Turks is almost
certainly the new NAACP
leader here in Philadelphia,
Cecil Moore. Spend a few
days here talking to people
who know, the civil rights
story in this city, with its
typical Northern Negro ghet
to. Then spend a few hours
talking to Cecil Moore. You
will learn that a profound
change has come over the
greatest single problem facing
the U. S. at home.
To begin with, the quite
sudden emergence of Cecil
Moore marks a sudden shift in
style that speaks volumes in
itself. The old style is typi
fied by Roy Wilkins, whose
quiet dignity, reasonableness
in discussion, and personal
trustworthiness could not be
disputed by the most rabid
Southern segregationist - if
any such allowed himself to
be exposed to Wilkins.
T)UT whereas Wilkins is so
ber, undramatic, and the
very opposite of flashy, Cecil
Moore is vivid, violent, in
tensely dramatic, almost too
highly-colored in everything
he wears and says and does.
His aim, plainly, is not to
inspire confidence in his white
interlocutors. His aim, rather,
is to excite and stir his own
people.
To an extraordinary degree,
he has done just that since
he took over the NAACP
leadership in Philadelphia
just about a year ago. This
vigorous ex-Marine was then
a rather obscure figure - a
defeated congressional candi
date, a busy but not enor
mously successful lawyer, a
junior personage in the civil
rights movement.
When he assumed the lead
ership here, the older estab
lished NAACP was on the
verge of losing its popular
support in Philadelphia to the
more militant Congress of Ra
cial Equality. And a contest
in militancy was the essence
of the decisive episode in
Moore's rise to power.
ORE had picketed a city
building project employ
ing the rigidly segregated
craft unions of the construc
tion industry. The city had
backed down. Whereupon
Moore and the NAACP picket
ed a comparable project of the
Philadelphia school board.
The school board did not back
down. And days of violence
and actual bloodshed ensued
before the school board was
forced to accept most of
Moore's terms.
Since that time, Moore has
been waging an uninterrupted
war on two fronts - against
anti-Negro discrimination in
all forms, but also against all
older Negro leaders of Phila
delphia who have not accept
ed him as the unchallenged
and unique spokesman and
strategist of the Negro people
here. Some of the aspects of
this second war have been
pretty bizarre.
"You know how I deal with
them," he said to me. with
an enormous grin, when I
asked him what he did about
Communists trying to Infil
trate his picket lines. "I just
set the Amazons on them. If
I used men, they'd yowl about
Nuclear Force
They also have argued that
surface ships would be too
exposed to enemy attacks and
that at any rate the financing
of the force would be too
costly.
Labor Party Opposed
The Laborite opposition,
which is divided on the ad
visability of an independent
British nuclear deterrent alto
gether, Is strongly opposed to
a mixed manned force which
would give Germany a fin
ger on the nuclear trigger. It
rules out British participation
in it.
When Kennedy and Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan
met here earlier this month
they agreed that "various pos
sible ways" should be discuss
ed with the allies on closer as
sociation of NATO members
with the nuclear deterrent.
The official communique spe
cifically stated that discus
sions in the mixed manned
force would be "without pre
judice to the question of Brit
ish participation."
Macmillan at the time in-
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
a 'goon squad. But some wom
en are just as strong as men,
so we've got us some Ama
zons.
By common consent, far
from universally given with
joy, Cecil Moore has attained
his object. Among Philadel
phia's Negro masses, at least,
he is now accepted as a unique
spokesman and strategist. His
secret is to give the poorer
Negroes, crowded in their hid
eous slums, a sense of doors
being battered open and ways
of escape from their predica
ment being provided by mam
force.
"TK WE weren't militant, the
people wouldn't follow,"
he told me. "You've got to be
militant, or you aren't a lead
er nowadays."
Moores militancy, which
has so endeared him to the
Negro masses, has also shock
ed many people in the white
community of Philadelphia,
including a good many liberal
white civil-righters for'whom
Moore shows open contempt.
Yet it is very clear indeed
that other white communities
besides Philadelphia are go
ing to have to learn to live
with Negro militancy. The
shift in leadership-style which
has appeared here in fact re
flects a deep shift in the
American Negro community's
mood.
Furthermore, the new lead
er that the Philadelphia Ne
gro communinty has now
thrown up is a personality
worthy . of his role. Cecil
Moore's energy Is astonishing.
His Courage is impressive.
His wiliness is great, as those
Amazons testify. He is not
merely wily, either; he is ex
ceptionally intelligent, and he
passionately believes in his
cause.
i
TN TRUTH, once Cecil
Moore's militancy has been
accepted as an inescapable
fact, there are only two main
questions about this interest
ing man. He will certainly
be sorely tempted to become
a self-serving exploiter of his
hold on his own people, in
the manner of Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell. Only time
can tell whether Moore has
the needed qualities to resist
this temptation.
Being the kind of man he
is, Cecil Moore will also be
greatly tempted to cross the
fine line dividing militancy
from excess, thereby damag
ing his people and his cause
by consolidating a hostile
white majority. But once
again, time alone can give the
answer to this second ques
tion, which Is so supremely
important to the whole Negro
movement.
r1 1 NEIGHBORHOOD YfatJ
k -UOUOR.
"That's right, our group it threatening you with a
boycoii. Take the girlie magasinas off ih rack, or
we'll buy our boost tlstwhtrtl"
sisted on the insertion of this
clause, presumably to guard
against Laborite insinuation
that he had made any secret
commitment to Kennedy.
The official British line will
to all appearances continue
to remain reserved or even
critical of the project, but the
present government's thinking
is cnanging.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises. Inc.
SUMMER READING
Autobiography is the easiest
literary form in which to
write, and the hardest in
which to write
well. Some of
the most skill
ed and pro
found authors
have writt e n
the worst
auto biogra
phies. It in
ter ested me,
t h erefore, to
turn. ' receive a nolo
this week announcing the pub
lication next winter of Lorcn
Eiseley's autobiograph, "Ac
quainted With the Night." I
have long been an admirer of
his writing, his thinking, and
his special blend of science
of humanities.
If you are looking for sum
mer reading that is both sub
stantial and charming (in the
deeper sense of the word), let
me recommend any of Dr.
Eiseley's books, and especial
ly "The Immense Journey,"
and "The Firmament of
Time."
We live in a literary age of
specialists on the one hand,
and popularizers on the other.
The specialists write in a de
humanized jargon, and, tend
to think in rigid categories.
The popular izers, on the
other hand, tend to be too
vivid in their writing and too
sloppy in their thinking. Few
men in our time are able to
bridge the gap between pre
cise knowledge and graceful
expression.
C. P. Snow has made us
aware of ihe chasm be
tween what he calls the
"two cultures" - the world
of science and the world of
the humanities. Whether his
ultimate analysis is right or
wrong, the fact remains that
there is little communica
tion between these two
worlds: the scientist too oft
en knows little about his
tory and philisophy, and
the humanist is either igno
rant of, or actively hostile
toward, scientific truths.
As an anthropologist and
a professor of ihe history of
science. Dr. Eiseley is ad
mirably equipped to span
this chasm. He offers us a
world-view (what the Ger
mans so untranslaiably call
a Welianeschauung) that is
humane and flexible, neith
er blindly committed to tra
dition nor wildly infatuated
with present and future
achievements.
This double strain of "the
visible and the invisible" parts
of man runs through all his
books; not only the two I
have mentioned, but also
"Darwin's Century," "Francis
Bacon and the Modern Dilem
ma," and "The Mind of Na
ture." There are passages or
beliefs we might quarrel with;
but there are none that do
not stimulate us to further
thought, that do not open
doors and windows we have
too long locked.
Whether or not his autobi
ography fulfills the promise
of his earlier work - and I
strongly suspect that 11 will -contemporary
America is
heavily in his debt already;
and the best way we can re
pay it is by preferring him
over the specialists and the
popularizers alike.
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