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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AOO
mi.t a. 19S3 (Saturday)
A unanimous vote of con
fidence for ponce cmei g.c..
by Medford's city council at
a meeting in the city hall
yesterday bucwiuw".
A steady flow of natural
gas to about three to four
feet above lis outlet was ch
eated Monday on the Clltt
Heeter home property in
Sams Valley just north of
Sams Valley school; the gas
..... .triirlc at B depth of 110
feet while Heeter was drilling
a well for water.
20 YEARS AOO
...,.. a. 1943 (Sunday)
Mexican workers arrive to
harvest.
Arthur Perry s Ye
o.,jno Pnt" column: "Cow-
men have been busy the past
week packing salt to the well-
known alleged Deei "'"--;
summering lnineniBn
30 YEARS AGO
Auguit 8, 1933 (Tuaiday)
Earl B. Day of Sams Val
ley is named county judge fol
lowing conviction of incum
bent for ballot theft.
Lions club soup kitchen fed
13,397 last winter, report
shows.
40 YEARS AGO
August 8. 1923 (Wednesday)
Screen Commissioner Wil
liam R. Coleman reports
thousands of trout killed in
Applegate district by recent
landslides.
Cltv to pay its workers
twice monthly hereafter.
SO YEARS AGO
Auguit 8, 1913 (Friday)
Petitions request county
court to call special election
for issuance of $500,000 in
bonds for paved highway
from California line to Jose
nhine counlv line.
Gen. Felix Diaz, Mexico's
special ambassador to Japan
passes through Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct It superior;
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tii it good.
1. What Is the singular form
of the noun scissors?
2. Samar is an island in
which group of Pacific Is
lands?
3. Which Is the better in
sulator for electricity; glass,
rubber, paraffin?
4. Who wrote the book
"Please Don't Eat the Dai
sies"? 5. In what month in 1945
did the atomic bomb fall on
Hiroshima?
6. Is chives something lo
eat, or a disease?
7. Was Jefferson, Franklin,
or Madison the nation's first
Secretary of State?
8. Was Plato or Pluto a
Greek mythological charac
ter? 9. There are two, three, or
four umpires at World Series
games?
10. Would you say that fin
gernails or toenails grow
faster?
Answerii 1. Scissors. 2.
Philippine Islands. 3. Paraf
fin. 4. Jtan Ktrr. S. August.
8. Eat. 7. Thomas Jafferton.
8. Pluto. 9. Four. 10. Finger-naili.
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1963
National
The desirability of charging a fee for the use
of public recreational facilities is now in the
process of reexamination. And a good thing, too.
We hope that the National Park Service will
join in this reexamination. It is our view that
the Parks are "giving away" too much, and not
receiving enough in exchange.
The parks belong to everyone in the United
States. But not everyone in the United States
uses them although the total is getting larger
all the time. Why the federal taxes collected from
a little old lady in Duluth should be used to pay
for the operation and maintenance of a National
Park in California escapes us.
"XE RECENTLY returned from a five-day
T camping trip to Mt.
less than a five-hour drive from here. When we
entered, we paid a $1 fee, which entitled us to
enter or leave or stay in the park any time we
wished during a 14-day period. For $2, we could
have obtained a permit
The $1 fee is paid by those who just drive
through the park, the same as those who use
the campground facilities for two weeks. The
campers are allowed to use wood (of which more
later), the restrooms, the campsites all without
further charge.
I here is, thus, the inequity between the little
old lady in Duluth, who helps pay for the park
but doesn't use it, the one-day visitor who does
use it but pays a small fee, and the two-week
camper who uses it extensively, but pays a fee
small out of proportion.
"ORIGINALLY, when the National Park Service
was being organized, the idea was that the
parks would be self-supporting. It took only a
few years for this to be found to be both impracti
cable and impossible. We make no suggestion
that they should be self-supporting. But we
strongly believe that those who use them should
pay more than those who don't, and that those
who use them extensively should pay more than
those who only make casual visits.
A $1 per night tee is charged by state parks
in both Oregon and California. No one seriously
objects to this. Nor would
tional Parks, if they were
would be devoted to operation, maintenance, de
velopment and preservation of these great scenic
inheritances of ours.
A sliding scale of charges, along these lines,
makes sense and is considerably more equitable
than the current one.
INURING our recent visit, a companion figured
out that a camper there for two weeks paid
less than 8 cents per night for the privilege. In
our case, the five days (and four nights) we were
there cost about 20 cents per day. This hardly
covered our use of the
for our share of the costs of operation and main
tenance, or the longer-range costs of development
and preservation.
Too, the National Park Service is pressed,
lacking both funds and adequate personnel to
do the full job they would like to do.
For example, policy at Lassen is that camp
ers may use down wood
exceptions). But, close to campgrounds, it is
scarce. And the wood pile provided at the largest
camp consists solely of huge logs that no camper
is equipped to buck and
e
IN THEORY, the Park
unscrupulous campers hack away at trees and
shrubs in the camping area, to its considerable
detriment.
One solution would
concession to some college student during the
summer, and let him buck and split wood and
sell it for a modest charge to campers.
Another would be to encourage the sale of
Presto-Logs or wood at the concessioner's store
in the park.
' Either of these would accommodate the camp
er, relieve the Park Service of a headache, and
eliminate the problem of scrounging burnables
in the camp areas. E.A.
Waste Wood Survey
Completion of a survey of the amounts and
kinds of wood "waste" available in this area was
announced the other day. A report based on the
survey will be issued soon. We shall await seeing
a copy with interest.
How significant this survey will prove to be
remains to be seen. But it could be exceedingly
significant for the forest products industry of
southern Oregon and for the average house
holder, too.
One of the industry's biggest problems is a
twin one: The fact that wasting of wood fiber
(sawdust, mill ends, bark, and so on) is uneco
nomic, and the fact that the only readily avail
able means of disposing of it burning causes
air pollution, smog, and an irritated citizenry.
IT IS our sincere hope that this survey will dis-i
1 close some way in which this problem can be I
soiveu, in wnoie or in part. Acinen cionars in tne
pockets of lumbermen and mill workers will
benefit us all.
So, Lord knows, would be a diminishing of
the air pollution problem.
The industry deserves praise for supporting
the survey.
If new markets or new uses can be developed
for these by-products now going to waste, it will
be a big step forward toward economic well-
being and a cleaner, pleasanter area. E.A.
Park Fees
Lassen National Park.
good for the full year
they object in the Na-
assured that the income
facilities, let alone paid
for firewood (with some
split for firewood.
Service provides the fire-
be to grant a firewood
Matter of Fact
c New York Herald
(Joseph Altop will be on
vacation this month - and
gathering material both in
this country and abroad for
future columns. During his
absence, top members of
the staff of the New York
Herald Tribune will sub
stitute for him.)
By DON COOK
DE GAULLE'S ISOLATION
Paris - Far from the mad'
ding crowd of Anglo-Saxons
and Russians signing their nil'
clear test ban treaty in Mos
cow on Monday, the Presi
dent of France was relaxing
in splendid Isolation - physi
cal as well as political - at
his country home at Colom-
bey-les-Deux - Eglises east of
Paris.
Isolation, however, is a fa
miliar, historic, and some
times heroic posture for the
tall, austere, and imperious
Charles de Gaulle. He is not
only used to standing alone.
He prefers it, plans it, ma
neuvers it, strives for it. For
de Gaulle the word is not
"isolation" but "indepen
dence." A position which
other diplomats and poli
ticians may regard as nega
tive, regretful, and weak
simply looks to the General
himself as. a position of
strength.
TT IS ironic that, while corn
's- plaining forever about the
exclusion of France from
Yalta and Potsdam, de Gaulle
should now be isolating him
self from what looks to be
the beginning of a new and
historic East - West dialogue.
As his press conference last
week showed so amply, de
Gaulle himself is fully aware
of the "breakthrough" po
litical implications of the
Moscow test ban treaty.
But his only contributions
so far have been purely nega
tive: a refusal to join in
either the nuclear agreement
or any non-aggression decla
ration, and a warning to nis
allies and to the rest of
Europe to be wary of Anglo
Saxon deals which "might
once again commit Europe's
fate."
N e v e r t h e less, Gen. de
Gaulle has made so much his
tory in the past from positions
of lonely and splendid isola
tion that it is difficult anci
indeed dangerous to write
him out of the picture. It is
even more difficult to fit him
in.
"PHE French President en
l joys a number of advan
tages in this game of isolation
which he plays - most ot them
rather irritating lo those who
must deal with him or try to
figure out how to deal with
him. De Gaulle is never sub
jected to any public cross
examination or political pres
sures of the electioneering or
"report to the nation" kind.
He has far less to say pub
licly about his policies or
thinking than Khrushchev.
Twi"e a year he holds a press
conference, and the rest of
the time he ponders, while
the world picks up the pieces
nnd tries to figure out what
French policy is.
Moreover, just as it was in
1940. de Gaulle enjoys the
luxury of playing this role of
"isolation" or "independence"
well behind the lines of se
curity provided by his allies.
He is perfectly safe in de
rlaiminc as he did at his last
oress conference about the
necessity tor "important
ms; of
our participation in the al
liance." because he knows
that in the nuclear stalemate
his country is secure.
He risks nothing except
that which he is not in the
least concerned about-friends
and enthusiasts. He has been
alone far too often to worry
about whether other people
think he is right or not.
'mHE view of the world fron
A coiombey-ies-Deux Engiis
MLDr'OHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MLUt OHD, OREGON
By Joseph Alvop
Tribune Syndicate
es this week, therefore, is prob
ably one of Gaullist self-satisfaction.
The Anglo Saxons
and the Russians are having
their get-together as they did
at Potsdam and Yalta, with
out France, but France does
not subscribe and hence re
mains the true custodian of
Europe's personality and fu
ture. Will it be that way?
Will it work?
This much seems to be true,
A majority of governments in
Europe are perfectly happy to
have de Gaulle carry the ball
in opposition to a non-aggression
pact, in opposition to
any "deals" which freeze the
European situation too solid
ly, too historically. From this
the General and his Foreign
Office are currently deriving
a certain sense of usefulness.
But in the larger scheme of
things - the Gaullist concepts
of Europe's uniting on the
model of the Franco-German
treaty, agreeing on an agri
cultural market formula by
the end of the year, being sus
picious, wary, and resistant to
Anglo - Saxon talks with the
Russians - things look pretty
empty for the General.
THE suspicions are not
- shared. The European
sympathies for the plight of
the French farmers does not
seem to be very strong. Even
the Germans are not inclined
to put the model of the
Franco-German treaty ahead
of the concepts of NATO or
the Treaty of Rome.
From his isolation, de
Gaulle has turned up the
corner of one small card. He
proposes to call his own dis
armament conference, before
the end of the year. But hav
ing isolated himself for 2'V4
years from the "disarmament
dialogue" (how ever fatuous
the Geneva conference might
have been), he is not exactly
in a position to assume the
mantle of leadership and
statesmanship.
In any case, suppose the
Russians suggest that as a
first step toward disarma
ment, before Russia would
attend de Gaulle's conference,
France adhere to the Moscow
treaty? A French sponsored
disarmament con ference at
this juncture in history does
not look like much more than
a small pair in a high-stake
poker game. Meanwhile, the
French President seems to be
expecting somebody to deal
him an ace.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
THE MUSICAL, "Mr. President," suggests that a chief ex
ecutive feels lost after he leaves the White House for
good. Several actual Presidents of the U.S.A., however,
seemed to be rather re
lieved when they retired
from their exalted office.
George Washington, for
instance, declared, "I'd
rather be in the grave
than in the presidency
again." Said Thomas Jef
ferson: "Never did a pris
oner released from his
chains feel such relief as
I shall in shaking off the
shackles of power."
And James Buchanan
whispered to Abraham
Lincoln, "If you are as
happy, dear Sir, on en
tering the White House as I
happiest man in the country!" !
e e ;
Nat Wartcls. a 2-handicap golfer, stopped in at a sporting
(roods store iust off Times Souare and bouc-hr a dnzn pnif hall. :
"Shall I wrap them up?" asked
Wartels. "I'll just drive them
Jack Fuller would have you believe that a Peace Corps worker
from the deep, deep South reported to his superiors via. transat
lantic phone, "What we're trying urgently to plant here is peace
and harmony." A month later a freighter arrived loaded down
with split peas and hominy grits.
C ISM. by Bennett Cerf. Dutrlbuttd by Kins rtatures Syndlrate
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contrary is often the case.
Betraying America
To the Editor: The picture
of the A-bomb of Hiroshima
(Sunday, Aug. 4, Page 1) was
appealing but what became
of the picture of the battle
ship Arizona with its 700 dead
inside who answer the duty
roster each morning? You
should have completed your
story and printed the faces
of the 300,000 men whose
lives the A-bomb saved, or
you could have printed the
pictures of the faceless, nose
less and eyeless men that
were subjected to the hands
of the gentle Japanese.
Then there is a picture you
could have used of the attack
in December when Pearl Har
bor was. Who are the people
who precipitate this stinking
legend? I heard a professor
once say people only think
they think. Now I understand
what he meant. You, whoever
you are, are betraying the
men who once had faces and
noses and ears, hands and
feet but who now live out of
sight in some veterans' hos
pital so as not to offend your
sight. Why not let them tell
you of the gentle Japanese
and show you their nanas
where once bamboo sprouts
grew?
You blythly betray Amer
ica and most of all her chil
dren by repeatedly pointing
to her mistakes. You proudly
foster skepticism in our
young when you should be
working to restore their faith
and purity in the American
way of life. The young must
not be left unarmed in this
fight for the future. Confu
sion is rampant among our
young people. They no long
er know what to believe.
Yes, the crumbs of self
criticism are gobbled by for
eign countries, but we who
live here in America know
that as rotten as America
has grown, as long as the
stars and stripes flies over
head, we as Americans are
fairly safe.
As you pass down the cor
ridor of memory let us not
forget completely the long
hospital trains or the air con
voys or that long march that
handful of men still remem
ber of Corregidor. We still
owe that much courtesy.
Genevieve Briggs,
Whitewater Ranch,
Wilderville, Ore.
Age of Tension
To the Editor: "There is no
fear in love; but perfect love
casteth out fear: because fear
hath torment. He that feareth
is not made perfect in love."
(I John 4:18.)
In a time when tensions
run hign Decause oi rapiu
world chance, the Christian
is caught and carried by tides
of patriotic and spiritual
thinking. Armed with pro
phetic knowledge and a' strong
nstinct for survival, tne De-
liever is motivated to warn
and judge the uninformed of
the impending disaster. A step
further would be to join every
wind of discouragement which
points to the disintegration of
our freedoms and to cry foul
concerning the duly elected
officials, whether they be
school board members or the
leaders of the country. Curi
ously enough, one of the basic
concepts of the Christian faith
is that the believer in Christ
shall not resist the higher
powers, and not to be afraid
of the power, but to do that
which is good. (Romans Ch.
13.)
It is also a lime when emo
tion prevails over reason and
knowledge, and suspicion is
rampant, thrusting its dismal
head into homes, churches, or
am on leavinc it. vriu are the i
the clerk. "Don't bother." said
home.'
8 3
bear the nam and address
not necessarily represent the
ganizations, and perhaps life
long friends. A frame of ref
erence, a relation of activi
ty, a job, a liberal thought,
or perhaps an independent
spirit, may be interpreted to
the left, or to the right .
and it is cowardly to remain
in the middle.
This atmosphere harks back
to our Puritan heritage which
scorned believers such as
Roger Williams for wanting
to accept all men as fellow
citizens and not wanting to
dance to the tune of any or
ganization or sect. The fram
ers of our constitution were
under high suspicion and ridi
cule for providing the free
doms which all citizens could
worship as they please or not
worship if they please. We
cherish the freedom of not
having to pay ten shillings
for missing a worship service
as once was the custom under
the "Christian" code of liv
ing.
It is discouraging to the
alert believer to see the bit
ter sheet of rebellion and rev
olution attached to the cause
of Christianity. It is even
more discouraging to watch
those who do not do their
"homework" attack educa
tion, legal decisions, etc., with
no depth of understanding .
and fly the Christian banner.
Who should be running
scared in times of tension?
The Christian? Did Paul ex
hibit the hysteria concern
ing Roman domination? What
is the true fruit of the Chris
tian spirit spoken of in Gala
tians Ch. 5? Certainly not
fear, suspicion, hate, rebel
lion. Look it up.
(Name on File)
Medford.
Veterinarians
To the Editor: On Sunday,
a friend's dog was seriously
injured and no veterinarian in
the valley could be contacted
at their office or at their
home.
Watching the dog suffer, I
couldn't help but wonder why
the Veterinarian's association
doesn't see that at least one
veterinarian is "on call" on
week ends. With 10 or more
veterinarians in the valley it
would seem this wouldn't be
difficult. Do others agree?
Thelma Ritter
Route 4, Box 23 1C
Medford.
Questions
To the Editor: Some ques
tions: If you believe that man was
created in the image of God
or that Jesus was the Son of
God, then you will believe
that man will assume human
form in the Hereafter only
much improved.
I know nothing about Heav
en. What do you know?
I have the feeling that sci
entists are on the verge of
making a discovery that will
set Creation back another mil
lion years.
Question: What do you
know about the origin of
races?
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Fluoridation Again
To the Editor: The other
day I had a call from a friend
in Ashland which disturbed
me very much. It was in re
gard to a move on the part
of the U. S. Public Health
Service to secure vast sums
of money from Congress for
the sole purpose of propagan
dizing fluoridation throughout
the nation. The plan calls for
57,000,000 for fiscal 1964, in
creasing gradually to $17,000,
000 for 1968. In the Senate
the bill. S-1208, is in the Com
mittee on Labor and Public
Welfare of which Sen. Lister
Hill is chairman. In the House
the bill, H.R.-5482. is in the
committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce of which
Mr. Oren Harris, congressman
from Arkansas, is chairman.
This is a particularly per
nicious move on the part of
USPH Service. The source of
the money asked for is from
our income taxes. It is appar
ent to anyone that such a
move on the part of USPH
Service is unnecessary for it
has been proved over and
over again in cities across
the nation that wherever
the opponents to fluorida
tion have been able to get
their facts before the public.
Americans have defeated the
proposal. For such facts are
available from research lab
oratories all over the country.
Even here in Oregon in our
medical school there is enough
information on the harmful
effects of fluordiation to for-
ever stop agitation for it if
onl' Dean Baird would per-
mit its release. Read "Hello
Test Animals" by Cox.
Another had feature of the
proposed law is that since I
opponents far outnumber its
proponents, most of the mon
ey used would come from
them. It is increasingly evi
dent that more and more of
our money is being wasted
by bureaucrats in Washington
who spend money as though
the public supply is Inex-
of the writer, although under
views of the paper; in fact the
haustible. Economists and oth
ers who have given this sub
ject much thought and study
say that the only way to stop
this waste is to dam up the
supply by repealing the 16th,
or income tax, amendment.
This the so-called Liberty
Amendment proposes to do.
I therefore urge all who are
opposed to this mad scheme
to so write each of the Ore
gon members of Congress as
well as the chairmen of the
two committees. In addition
next year vote only for can
didates who can be trusted to
work for the repeal of the
16th amendment.
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford
Theology Versus Bible
To the Editor: M.T. 7-31,
Dr. Winrod's books and many
others. No doubt they are
wonderful stories. They have
gone way beyond the reality
of human society until they
have left the people with a
serious and wishful thinking
expression, looking for their
Gods. Not satisfied there, they
have attempted to go way be
yond the realm of God's sim
ple laws to establish the vi
sions to their own way of
thinking.
Here are some of them.
They have Christ coming the
second time before he has
proclaimed Zech 14-4, his feet
were seen thus, he is coming
in 15 years, radio in the days
of Noah took several months
to get Noah settled before
Christ comes in 7 years (Math
24-30). They had Christ com
ing in 1844, now they call it
atonement. What does Christ
say? Math 24-26, believe it
not, what do they see? Math
24-27, power, read carefully.
They have given away our
1,000 years and promises by
stating that there would be
no human flesh on earth to
tempt (Rev 20-3). Their in
terpretation on this (Jer 4-23-
25). Read Jer 3rd and 4th
chapters and you will find
it the status of the holy land
after it was captured by Ne
buchadnezzar. Read history.
You hear Germany rising in
third war and will capture
us (Isaiah 11-10-12), read it
carefully. It is God himself
that is going to capture Judah
and Israel again.
It is starting now. The gath
ering and separating lost Is
rael, England and U.S., and
a few other nations. They
well not join the common
market (Math 24-31). On the
other side (Rev 16-13) three
unclean spirits, common mar
ket headed by an ecclesiasti
cal power (Rev 17-8), Arab
nations including Egypt, and
Russia.
Three powers, three wars,
one right after the other. The
U.S. will participate in two
and we will never be cap
tured, that they are telling
you. Story some other time.
If you like this hope to move
to Revelation next time. We
are now in the 7th seal (Rev
10-10). The book is no fur
ther than John's mouth. Are
we going to accept theology
or the Bible?
R. E. McManus
Routs 1, Box 339
Gold Hill, Ore.
Astronaut Taking
Few Days of Rest
Kent, Wash. - (UPD - Astro
naut Maj. Leroy Gordon Coo
per arrived here Wednesday
for a "quiet few days" at the
home of his father - in - law,
E. J. Olson of Kent.
Cooper, who spent 34 hours
in space last May, arrived at
the Seattle - Tacoma Inter
national Airport by private
plane.
"This is the first real vaca
tion I've had in four years,"
Cooper said. The astronaut
said he had been engaged in
"round the - clock public re
lations since his space
flight.
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"I doubt if it't any of your butinets, madam, but if you
mutt know, yet, w wear bathing tuits under these things!"
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
c Field Enterprises, tne.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
It is easy to tell when a
woman cares for a man - if,
while talking to her, he gazes
away, her eyes will uncon
sciously follow the line of his,
to see if he is looking at an
other woman.
Watching a plumber at
work in our kitchen the
other day, I thought of
Charles Dudley Warner's re
mark: "Nothing can move
a man who is paid by the
hour; how tweet the flight
of time seems to his calm
mind."
The greatest disadvantage
of fame is that it compels the
famous to live their lives ac
cording to the opinions of
others; and only the strongest
characters can achieve the in
dependence in fame that the
ordinary person has in ob
scurity. A man who has never
made a fool of himself over
some woman, and is proud
that he hasn't, deserves (and
usually gets) the kind of
woman who makes a fool of
him without his ever know
ing it.
Parents who are always
"sensible" with their children
- who do the practical, punc
tual, reasonable things, even
on vacations - are depriving
their children of the joyful
spontaneity that is so impor
tant a part of growing up:
and most of the depressed per
sonalities in adult life arc the
victims of such perverted
'sensibileness."
Public attitudes have not
changed much in the half
cent u r y since William
James observed that a the
ory usually goes through
three stages in its career
from birth to acceptance:
"First it is attacked as pre
posterous; then it is admit
ted to be true, but insignif
icant; and lastly it is con
sidered so important that
those who once attacked it
claim it to be their own
discovery."
A person without a highly
developed sense of Nature can
never be a first-rate creative
artist; if he is not deeply in
terested in, and moved by,
the natural world, he is tem
peramentally incapable of
penetrating into the secret
places of the human heart.
Speaking of these "secret
places," it has been my ob
servation that hardly any
one understands less about
human beings than most of
the "experimental psycholo
gists" who work with ani
mals and then project their
behaviorisiic reactions into
theories about people.
There is a certain combina
tion of piety and parsimoni-
ousness that offends me more
than vice; the flamboyantly
wicked man is less a scandal
than those conspicuous church
goers who open their arms to
God and close their fists
against their fellowmen with
out ever realizing the funda
mental contradiction.
Couples who are "blindly
in love" need to be remind
ed of Madame Recamier's
comment that "lovers
should keep their eyes wide
open during the courtship
and half closed after the
marriage." In most cases,
it's precisely the reverse.
Most biographies are so bad
because they are written by
inferior men about their bet
ters, whom they scarcely un
derstand; it requires a certain
affinity for greatness in one
salf to write about a great
man.
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