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History from the tiles ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1. 1953 (Tuesday)
William A. Whilelaw, 80,
founder ot the Whilelaw
Candy company, dies.
A barn raising party was
held at the Korby Tanl home
on Highway 99 north ol Med
ford. 20 YEARS AGO
Sept. i. 1943 (Wednesday)
Rainfall totaling .128 Inch
falls on valley, first since
June.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
fimudec Pot" column: "Miss
HUM
nounces she
bedi9nycar
Jacques Colton announces
will be four years
tember 18. It will
before tho young lndy quits
freely confessing her age.
After that it will be nobody's
business."
30 YEARSAGO
Sept. 1, 1933 (Friday)
Epidemic of fire Biid gns
thefts break out in county.
Members of 4-H clubs of
county hold achievement day
at courthouse.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1. 1923 (Saturday)
City files brief in applica
tion for Sixth si. crossing.
Pear shlpmenls lo date iolnl
853 cars.
50 YEAHS AGO
Sept. 1, 1913 (Monday)
Frank C. Riggs. driving a
Packard, leaves Portland Fri
day and reaches Medford Sat
urday morning; expects to be
in San Francisco Sunday, av
eraging 250 miles daily.
Talent Commercial club
calls meeting in effort lo form
cooperative creamery.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is eicellent; live at
sis is good.
1. Before blotting paper
was invented, what substance
was used to take up excess
Ink?
2. Who said. "I am not
Virginian but an American"?
3. Doct the warden of a
prison have the righl to re
pricve or commute a prison
er's sentence?
4. Lake Chainplain lies be
tween which two Statosf
B. Correct the following:
'The hook sets on the table."
fi. On what sort of surface
Is the game of curling played?
7. What form n popular
sport Is played Willi disks and
cups?
8. Are polar hears found In
the North or South polar re
gion? 9. In what city Is the famed
St. Peter's Basilica?
10. Is ambergris, principal
Ingredient of expensive- per
fume, obtained from musk
oxen, amber, whales or
skunks?
Answers) 1. Sand. 2. Patrick
Henry. 3. No. 4. New York
end Vermont. 5. The book
its . . 6. Ice. 7. Shuff leboard.
t. North. 9. Vatican City. 10.
Whales.
Highway Department
Aecepti low Bids
Salem -fllPD-The State High
way Department accepted 12
low bids for highway projects
and rejected two others at its
meeting here Thursday.
Rejected were bids for re
location ot Cove Palisades
State Park and for a Linn
County rock production project.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1963
Highways and Esthetics
Up in Portland, members of the city's art
commission have protested to the highway com
mission and the Governor that the design of the
new Marquam bridge, now under construction,
is ugly. It looks as though it were being built with
an erector set, the commissioners maintain, and
does not come up to the high standard of beauty
achieved by many other bridges.
Over in Jacksonville a few months ago, only
massive protests prevented the highway commis
sion from cutting a four-lane right of way
through the middle of town for a relocated high
way. These are two instances where the commis
sion has come under fire for neglecting esthetic
considerations, and relying wholly on engineer
ing. CUCH situations, plus the fact that the commis-
sion spends millions or tax dollars every year,
and does so much to alter the landscape, have
resulted in the suggestion an excellent one
that the commission name an advisory commit
tee to which it could turn for recommendations
in this field. ' "J
Such a group could include architects, both
building and landscape; historians, artists, and
others whose background and training make
them knowledgeable in the field.
Thus, when the engineers' plans threaten a
building or site of historic value, or threaten the
destruction of natural beauty, or are lacking in
the grace and style which are possible, the ad
visory committee could step in to help prevent
such irreparable mistakes.
IT would be to the commission's advantage to
have such a group, too, for it could thus avoid
one source of criticism,
meet high standards.
The Oregon highway
the best in the nation.
The percentage of
state freeway system in
the nation. The department has never had any
instances of graft or the misuse of funds. Its sys
tem of allocating funds does not indeed, can
not make every highway-hungry section of the
state happy, but it has satisfied the majority that
needs are being met in an orderly manner. The
state parks division is probably the best in the
nation, providing excellent parks, and more of
them per capita, at below-average costs. The
tourist promotion program is nationally known
for its excellence.
rJPHE commission, in the past and
made splendid use of advisory i
one on state parks, another on travel informa
tion.
Thus an advisory committee on historical and
esthetic matters would
operation.
The commission, in recent years, has become
more and more conscious of considerations in
volving esthetic matters, and is -a leader-inappropriate
highway landscaping.
If it would now carry this one step further,
and seek out the advice of qualified citizens in
matters of this nature, it would again be demon
strating its leadership and responsibility to the
citizens it serves. E.A.
Political Crystal Ball
A group of Oregon editorial writers got to
gether for a bull session recently, and the talk,
inevitably, turned to politics and political spec
ulation. ,
Oregon's current generation of political
leaders is a remarkable one, it was concluded.
But peering into a crystal ball to determine who
is going to run for what, and when, while an
amusing diversion, is also frustrating.
The fact is that few if any of "the current
office holders and prospective' candidates now
know for sure what their next moves will be.
There are too many intangibles, and too many
things could happen to alter circumstances.
QOVKUNOR Hatfield's term of office has an
other three years to go, and he is not eligible
to run for iveleciion. There is speculation that he
may run for the Senate seat now held by Maurine
Neulierger, whether or not she seeks reelection.
Hut his future could also be decided by the Re
publican national convention of. next summer,
Howell Appling Jr., now secretary of state, is
a logical candidate for governor, but he is still
undecided, and his decision rests in large part on
his private business plans.
On the Democratic side, both Howard Mor
gan, retiring as a federal power commissioner,
and Congressman Bob Duncan, are known to be
interested in the governorship, but the time is
still too earlj for either of them to make a de
cision. Bob presumably will run for another two
year term in Congress next year.
IN Portland, Mrs. Edith Green has a firm grip on j
her Congressional district, but she too has cved 1
the Senate from time to time.
Senator Morse and Representatives UUman
and Norblad can be expected to continue running
for their current offices, with a reasonable ex
pectation of being reelected.
And, inevitably, new names and faces will
enter the political arena. There are many polit
ically ambitious men in the current legslaturc.
Jt's a great game, and the only thing certain
about it is that there will be changes, and that no
one can accurately forecast them. E.A.
and be sure that its plans
commission is one of
completion of the inter
Oregon is the highest in
and present, has
committees
fit the existing pattern of
"Thanks A Lot
Matter of Fact
(Cl New York HcraM
(Joseph Alsop is on vaca
tion and gathering mater
ial both In this country and
abroad for future columns.
During his absence top
members of the staff of the
New York Herald Tribune
will substitute for him.)
By RICHARD C. WALD
OF MUSIC AND MEN
New York When 1 was
very, very young, I used to
think that the men who made
recordings must be perfect.
Their music, the singers 1
heard and the pianists, was al
ways perfect. Somewhat later
I learned that you can make
a perfect recording by cutting
out the bad parts and doing
them over. The men who
made them were just as fall
ible a.s anyone else.
It will come as no great
surprise to discover that in
the process of growing up I
found the fallibilities on the
increase, perfections on the
WiDic. I married the only per
fect sperson 1 ever met and in
the course of a reporter's life
which was nourished. early on
church news and crime stories
I completely lost the hope
that our public men could be
private paragons. It wasn't
wisdom; just repetition.
Still, there remains the
hope that public men will act
in the public good and not
from questionable motives
that erode our iaith in the
men who run our country.
WHICH is all jlist a prc--irmblf'tofy-M.?ft-t-rJi
A"l
lorney General of the United
Slates recently put on a pub
licity show that was certainly
one of the best staged nf re
cent limes and prnfjably one
of the nastiest.
Early this month there sud
denly burst upon the scene
Joseph Vnlnchi, for B0 years
Ihe kind of thug who puts the
lie to Hollywood's version of
the underworld, loo stupid to
rise high in Ihe ranks of or
ganized crime bul suddenly,
according to Official Sources,
which can here by translated
into the Justice Department, a
kingpin of American crime.
A newspaper reporter and
a magazine reporter were
both fed tl'ie startling facts of
his disclosures. Apparently as
an incidental gesture, the
District Attorneys in areas af
fected by their story were al
so sent a 22-page report of
what he had told the Justice
Department. The private
document held "nothing new
to anybody," one D. A. said.
rMIE headlines were faint-
Ions. Although Ihe Attor
ney General wasn't saving so
DIRKCT.LY. a briefing by Of
ficial Sources told the piping
masses ihat Valachi was
worth $1(10,(101) dead pay
ahlt in a Swiss hank. That he
had blown the "iri""uT "tlir"
I'nsn Nostra, a name so secret
NATIONAL SAFCTY COUNCIL
TaAffiC '.OIL ESTIMATE
"Poor guy-I knew he couldn't get through another big
holiday week"eftcn"
KLUtOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
But No Thanks"
By Joseph Alsop
Trlhune Svnrtlrate
Ihat not even some of the peo
ple in it seem to have 'known
about It.
The merry-go-round was go
ing 'round.
There is a pretty reliable
story that Valachi, a man ad
mittedly involved in more
than a dozen murders, was ac
tually first tapped as a source
by an agent of the Narcotics
Bureau. They heard he want
ed to talk, they started listen
ing, they got interested and
told Ihe FBI. That was their
first mistake. The FBI and
the Attorney General snapped
him up like Publicity from
Heaven and nobody but their
little man ever saw him
agnvn:- "
The names being thrown
around arc redolent of dirty
doings. They are not redolent
of court cases. Neither
Valachi nor anyone he seems
lo have talked about will be
appearing in court soon. Next
stop is the Senate committee
room and Another spate of
headlines.
IiHE D.A.'s and the assistant
D. A.'s and the State At
torneys General and the as
sistant State Attorneys Gen
eral are all lined up waiting
to talk to Valachi and their
chances of getting anything
meaningful out of him are nil.
If there was anything mean
ingful to have been gotten, it
would be out by now. They
weren't considered important
enough to consult before the
news stories broke apparent!
'rfjiecause the news stories are
more imporiant man iney are
and the United Slates Attor
neys General do nnl make
their reputations on court
cases brought by assistant
D. A.'s.
The charitable suggestion
has been made that maybe the
government brought the sub
ject up in such a precisely
planned publicity-stunt way
because it wanted to prepare
public opininn for new laws.
What new laws" What about
using some of Ihe old laws
that let law enforcement de
partments cooperate with
each other so that each little
piece in the national jig-saw-puzzle
can be put together
coherently with the idea of
putting the bad guys behind
bars and not worrying which
of the gulxt guys gets the
credit?
And the example of Ihe na
tion's leading law officer
seems to be catching. The
Queens D A travelled lo
Washington with a loud hoo
hah about Ihe big things he
was going to do. He called Ihe
usual press conference. The
usual press showed. His assist
ant had to make the apologies
that he had nothing to show.
rrilK. District Allorncv of
I N;tss;iu County c.illcri tho
"chief hf.xis of his locale in
for a niyht-tinie grilling. Big
I I'!
GREAT IDEAS...
(c) 1963,
Dear Dr. Adlers In my
reading I occasionally come
across the word "existen
tialism." I find it difficult
to get a clear definition of
this trend of thinking or
philosophy. What exactly is
existentiaiism, and how
does it differ from other
types of philosophical think
ing? M. L. Kuipers
R R 4
Kelowna, B. C. Canada.
Dear Mr. Kuipers: Thinkers
lo whom the term "existen
tialist" is applied often
against their will have a
central concern with human
existence and Its problems.
These for them arc the prob
lems of becoming one's true
self, and of undergoing the
anguish, despair, and always
imminent death that are the
lot of all human beings. Ex
istentialist thinkers find
meaning, truth, and value in
personal existence and com
mitment, rather than in ab
stract thought about the na
ture of things.
A concern with Jiuman
problems is no new tiling in
Western thought. Socrates,
Augusline, and Pascal are
good examples of thinkers
who were intensely concerned
with the eternal questions of
the human condition and des
tiny. However, "existential
ism" in its current usage re
fers to a type of thought that
originated a little over a cen
tury ago and which became
prominent only in the past
35 years.
Soren Kierkgaard,..a '.".My
century Danish religious phil
osopher, was the father of
modern existentialism. He re
belled against the systematic,
rationalist philosophy of Heg
el as Irrelevant to his per
sonal condition and spiritual
needs. He sought to illuminate
the human condition and
achieve inner transformation
and integration by investigat
ing his own existence, stress
es, and strains. And he held
that it is onl.9 through such
an inquiry that man can
grasp the truth, insofar as it
is available to the existing
individual.
Kierkegaard's thought was
centered on particular per
sonal existence, which he
doings promised. He averaged
about five minutes each with
Jhem, half-an-hour with the
press. No news of court aclionjosophy.
yet.
The law officers of several
communities now seem en
gaged in the ridiculous pur
suit of insisting that their
local hood is really the lop
man of the organization- what
ever its name is. And this
nitwit antic will' probably
soon be bolstered by Officia
Sources reporting that Ih
hoods are all heads of little
organizations and the Attor
ney General of the United
States has the big head of the
big organization.
No one has the right to ask
perfection. But a little less
cynicism and manipulation
from on high might increase
rather than decrease the store
of faith the citizenry deposits
with its leaders.
America Cah'-tSave Everyone With Money
By ERIC SEVAREID
For the first time. Congres
sional Republicans in an or
ganized, partisan attack, have
broken with
the President
on the sie of
.he f o r e i gn
aid authonza
t i n n. But
there is little
reason to
think that this
is the begin
n 1 n g of the
end of I'CMiti-
cal unity on basic foreign pol
icy. It is not rven the end of
unity on the foreign aid pro
gram which is still accepted in
principle on both sides of Ihe
aisle.
Nevertheless, the phenom
enon contains various implica
tions ot consequence, one of
which is that there no longer
exists in this country a popu
lar consensus about foreign
aid In regard to this matter.
' as in regard to various do
Imcstic ar-fo-m movements.
7-Trcsident Kennedy happened
to take otfiee on an ebbing
i tide.
I It swills clear that the mood
' for consolidation and tidying
up, symbolized o-y the rela
tively placid Eisenhower
years, has not vrl run its cy
cle. In any case there is al
ways a rr, ig1" orHvr of priori
ties tor the nalie.ial attention
spanr and it is not possible
for an old. familiar endeavor
like foreign !d. no maimer
how grand In fur httnric-
sense, to retain its hold on
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher! Niwipaper Syndiritt
saw as dependent on its rela
tion lo God. This relation in
volves personal risk and com
mitment, and a "leap" faith,
which transcends rational
thought. According to his
view, God exists only for the
existing individual in his
uniqueness, not for men as
church members or officials,
Kierkegaard's religious em
phasis is echoed by some con
temporary existentialists, bul
is rejected by ethers. Martin
Buber and Gabriel Marcel, for
example, are God-centered ex
istentialist thinkers; while
Martin Heidegger and Jean
Paul Sartre are agnostic or
atheist philosophers. Athe
istic existcnliaiists have taken
Kierkegaard's idea of the sol
itary individual who can trans
form himself through his per
sonal decision, and have devel
oped from it the view of man
as alien and alone in the uni
verse, "thrown" inlo exist
ence, and forced to be free.
Friedrich Nietzsche, one of
the most influential forerun
ners of contemporary existen
tialism, was a convinced op
ponent of Christianity and
even proclaimed, though with
considerable anguish, that
"God is dea"
Another dmerence between
existentialist thinkers is that
some of them enfjTnasize the
community of men, while
others stress their scparate
ncss. Still another difference
is that some of them try to
construct systematic exposi
tions of existence or being,
while others consider this an
impossible project, and prefer
more modest and fragmentary
Existentialism has undoubt
edly had an energizing and
renovating effect on philoso
phical thought since World
War II, especially in Europe.
It has recalled philosophers
to a concern with the human
condition and destiny, illumi
nated aspects of experience
that were not adequately ex
plored before, and contribut
ed a renewed interest in
metaphysical questions. The
main charge that may be
brought against existentialism
is that it scorns objective, ra
tional thought, with- its uni
versal categories, and hence
undermines the very basis of
5 1-Auman knowledge and com
munication. Even the ambi
tious system-makers of exisl-
itntialisl thought, it is chare-
cd, are writing autobiography
or poetry disguised as phil-
You can win a 54-volmue
set of the Great Books of
the Western World by writ
ing a letter, not to exceede
150 words, incorporating a
question of general interest
for Dr. Adler lo consider
for inclusion in this column.
Each week he will select as
first prize winners the writ
ers of the three best letters.
He will use ONE of these
letters as a basis fbr' a fu
ture column and will an
swer it in terms of the in
tellectual heritage of the
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centuries of thought. Ad
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timer J. Adler. in care of
this newspaper.
popular Imagination or Con
grcssinnal devotion in the era !
of a space race and a mass
Negro revolt. j
In the history of foreign t
aid, we have reached a middle j
stage of stock-taking and1
searching for a second wind. '
Basic promises are being re-'
examined. The total result of:
foreign ti id has hern just eon-!
fused and contradictory i
enough so that any number
of Congressmen feel quite un-i
certain whether an appropri- j
atio.n cut of even a billion dol-!
lars (or, for that matter, an ,
addition of such an amount;
would leave the world, the!
cold war and America's posi-1
tion in any measurably dif- j
fcrr-..' mdilion ten years.
from now.
It has become very difficult
lo sell the program any longer
as the "keystone" of Ameri
can foreign policy, just as it
is hard to convincingly de
scribe the United Nations that
way and the same statesmen
have used tl,e same label for
both institutions. It has be-;
come just as plausible to dc-;
scribe the protection of the
American dollar, now threat-:
died hy the foreign drain on
sold reserves, as the keynote
cf our policy. All thc--.e en
deavors sit together, foreign
aid has simply been moved a
notch above the salt from Us
position at the policy table.
No aouht, the niggling par
ticipation hy our European al-j
iivrlhemselvrs made nros-
peroui in good part by Amer-j
I
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller
' iffi3. The
THOUGHTS ON
WEDNESDAY MORNING
This is being written as the
i march in Washington is form
ing, and I am telling myself
that if any
thing goes
wrong, it will
be due to an
unforeseen ac
cident. The
gov eminent
and the Negro
leaders h ave
worked close
ly tog ether.
Lippmann
starling with
agreement thai this is to be
a demonstration nf protest for
the redress of legitimate grie
vances. They are agreed, too,
that it will be more impres
sive and persuasive if the
marchers have the discipline
In refuse to be provoked to
violence.
This fundamental meeting
of minds differentiates the
demonstration sharply from
all other massive protests In
other parts of the world. As
Mr. Roy Wilkins of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
has pointed out to the Chinese
Communists, the Washington
marchers are not in rebellion
against the government of the
United States. Apart from the
eccentric fringe, the over
whelming mass of the Ameri
can Negroes are asking only
for their lawful rights which
are the nprmal prerogatives of
non-colored American citi
zens. The American Negro move
ment is not at all revolution
ary as have been the anti
colonial movements in Africa
and Asia. The American Ne
groes are demanding Ihe
rights which have been le
gally theirs since just after the
War Between the Slates. They
are not trying to oust and re
place the white man, but to
join him inside the existing
American social order,
lF. MUST never forget,
" however, that if this thor
oughly n o n r e v o 1 utionary
movement is repressed loo
long, if the redress of griev
ances is denied too long, it
could and probably would be
come clandestine, violent and
ugly.
Looking back, it now seems
clear enough that the position
today would be quite differ
ent if the Southern Stales had
in fact provided separate but
equal educational opportuni
ties for Negroes and whites.
The compelling reason for the
reversal by the Supreme
Court of the old rule was that
for HO years the separate
schools have been grossly un
equal. There have been some
exceptions. But by and large
the schools for Negroes have
been very bad.
Those who now deplore the
complications of more than
token integration in the
Southern schools should ask
themselves what would have
happened if the public
schools, though separate, had
for the past 60 years really
been equal.
All this illiislrales th" rule
that the longer you put off
the redress of reai grievances,
the harder become the Reme
dies. rrHK grievances of the Am-
erican Negroes are coming
in two successive and over
lapping waves. The first wave
is the unfinished business of
abolishing what Mr. Justice
Harlan called in 1B83, "the
ican aid -has had something
to do with the Congressional
loss of patience. It has finally
dawned on many that so long
as America shows its willing
ness to take up the slack vir
tually everywhere, the Euro
peans will sit on their hands,
or ai least on one hand. A
good many plain travelers as
well as sophisticated students
of Machiavrlli have been try
ing In make this point for
qui'e a while.
...
Rut the phenomenon in
Congress represents, or so
th:i writer thinks, a deeper,
if less specifically measurable,
shift of teeling hy informed
and responsible men. It rep
resent the beginning of
America's coming to terms
w ith the reality of the world's
size and complexity and with
the true pace of history.
We are adjusting in our
sense of time., We have tend
ed to act as if the tragedy of
the human condition in many
land'.. ;. just recently dis-covered-by
American explor-ers-as
if the tools for progress
were invented by Americans,
and as if some kind of world
w ide collapse was about to oc
cur "Inch would be averted
by the rapid spending of
American dollars.
We know now that h r
proposition is not really one
of foreign aid at X number of
dollars per year or a world
collapsing into Communism;
we know that Soviet economic
aid is not everywhere danger
ous and undesirable; we know
lippmann
Wa&nlneton Post
badges of slavery and servi
tude." These badges consist
of PUBLIC discrimination on
the basis of race. The Su
preme Court decision in the
school cases, the civil rights
measures against disfranchise
ment, the public accommoda
tions measures are part of the
unfinished business of mak
ing American citizens out of
chattel slaves.
The succeeding wave of
grievances is economic and
has to do primarily with the
inferior jobs and the inferior
housing to which most Ne
groes are condemned. In con
siderable measure, though no
one can say exactly how
much, this kind of inferiorily
is due lo the fact that the
Negro is poorly educated and
poorly trained and that, for
a hundred years since his an
cestors were emancipated, he
has still had to wear the
badges of their servitude.
But it is even more Import
ant to realize that the econom
ic grievances of the Negroes
are due preponderantly to the
fact that they are so poor.
They are poor, not only be
cause they are Negroes, but
because the1 American econ
omy is operating well below
full capacity and employment,
In fact, there are more poor
and unemployed whites than
there are Negroes; but rela
tive to their numbers, the
Negroes have a greater per
centage of unemployed. Be
cause of their race, the Ne
groes tend to be the last to
he hired and the first to be
fired. But if there were not
a chronic surplus of labor,
they would have much better
jobs.
THE economic grievances of
the American Negroes can
not be redressed without
series of measures which will
make buoyant our sluggish
economy. The candid truth
here is that this is not likely
to happen soon. For measures
are required to stimulate our
.economy which are distrusted
find opposed in Congress and,
it would seem, in the coun
try as well.
It is probable, therefore,
that while the Negroes will
prevail in regard to the first
wave of their grievances, the
removal of the badges of slav
ery, no substantial improve
ment of their general eco
nomic situation is likely to
come soon.
For this will require the
conquest of dire poverty, and
the country is not now ready
for such an undertaking.
Combine Apparent
Low Dam Bidder
East Wenatc'.ice, Wash-tOT-A
five-company combine led
hy Morrison-Knudsen, Inc.. ot
Boise, Idaho, Thursday was
named the apparent low bid
der at $50,878,375 for the
Wells Dam project on tha
Columbia river.
Construction on the hiign
Douglas County Public Utili
ty District project, 50 miles
north of here, is scheduled to
begin in November.
The joint bid also included
Ulah Construction and Min
ing Co., Peter Kiewit and
Sons, the Kaiser Co., and
Perini Corp.
The government estimate
for the project was $51,343,
090. There were four other
bids.
that in some countries-Vene
zuela for cxample-the heav
iest American dollar infusions
will not guarantee an end lo
the Communist threat.
We know that the ability of
one nation to alter deeply
rooted social and class struc
tures in an alien nation is ex
tremely limited. We are he
ginning to know that the ac
cumulation of capital and
skills that required genera
tions In America or Europe
cannot be done in semi-primitive
societies in a decade, mod
ern science or no modern sci;.
ence.
We are a relatively young
people and we are only now
coming to terms with the true
pace of the long pilgrimage nf
the human race and the im
mense variety of the human
condition, Europeans inher
ited this knowledge from their
total race experience; we have
had to learn it for ourselves,
the hard way. That is the sig
nificant result of "crash"
programs-the result in our
own thinking.
And by product of all this,
thank heaven, is the realiza
tion, at long last, that Ameri
can inefficiency or bumbling
lanorance arc NOT the real
reasons why progrr-s in alien
lands conies slowly It is a re
alisation that is going to put
a lot of fervent after-dinner
speakers and writers nf
quickie bonks out of business.
(Distributed 1963. by The
Hal! Syndicate. Inc.) (All
Rights Reserved)
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