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History from tne files of The
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and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1953 (Wednesday)
A larrsn tnlrk "camDed"
Its side inside the "Camp With
Us" grocery story and service
station yesterday in a iruiv
littered accident at North River
side ave. and McAndrews rd.
Rinhnrrl Harris. M e d f 0 T d
smokejumper, injured Monday
while fighting forest fires on
Six Rivers National forest In
northern California, was rescued
yesterday.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1943 (Thursday)
Per pupil costs of educating
county students shown as
$145.73.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Pear
prices are now so good horti
culturists face the rleors of
struggling along next year in a
194') Cadillac u one couia De
purchased."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1933 (Saturday)
County court would have pow
er to name representatives in
legislature in bill to be pro
posed. Keps. Earl B. uay ana
Edward C. helly Dom resign
Oregon State college defeats
Ashland Normal, 21 to 0.
40 YEARS AGO -Sent.
23. 1923 (Sundav
Prink Calllson, new Medford
high coach, arrives to take over
duties.
Miss Doris Brophy leaves to
enter university of Oregon.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1913 (Tuesday)
Medford factory manufactur
tno atiln nrressnrips.
Mrs. Edgar Hafer drives
round trip to Crater lake in 13
hours, 40 minutes, Including
T, J ,J.. JI
Slops, uecora lor iany anver
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
even or eight is eicellent; five or
six ii good.
1. Reno is the capital of Ne
vada: true or false?
2. Is the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia on the Mediterranean
Sea, Arabian Sea, or Red Sea?
3. Vthat is numismatics?
4. Five presidents of the Unit
ed States have borne the name
of James; can you name three
01 them;
5. How many acute angles
In every triangle; two or three,
two. three, or one?
6. Who discovered the law of
gravitation?
7. Who named the Pacific
Ocean?
8. Who was the first vice pres
ldent of the United States?
9. In the Bible story, who sold
his birthright for a mess of pot
tage?
10. Is the official height of 1
basketball hoop 8, 9, or 10 feet?
Answers: 1. False (Carson
City). 2. Red Sea. 3. Science of
coins. 4. Madison, Monroe, Polk,
Duchanan, Garfield. (: Two or
three. 8. Sir Isaac Newton. T,
Balboa. 8. John Adams, t. Esau.
10. Ten.
Crash of Jet Plan
Under Invettlaation
PORTLAND (UPD-An Inves
tigation continued today Into the
crash of an Air Force F-101 Jet
fighter Into a sparsely settled
neighborhood east of Vancouver,
Wash.. Saturday.
The pilot, Capt. Philip H.
Carmany, 32, Chattanooga
Tenn., was killed.
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VSJAtSOCIATION
NATION At EDITORIAL
SEPTEMBER 23, 1963
Partisanship vs. Statesmanship
Nelson A. Rockefeller, who can be identified
these days more as a candidate for president than
as governor of the State of New York, said in an
Illinois campaign speech :
America is bogged down in terms of our world leadership,
and It is bogged down at home. All of this has happened
under an administration whose most vaunted boast was that
it would get the country moving again.
The nation is not as moribund as Rockefeller,
for personal political purposes, would have his
public believe. Great progress is being made in
domestic and foreign affairs and in the broad
field of human rights.
YET ONE would be presumptuous to say the
progress has been as rapid as it should and
could be, or in fact as rapid as dreamed of by
President John F. Kennedy himself. However,
Rockefeller, rather than chiding or even ridicul
ing the administration
the goals of the New Frontier, might better
evalulate the extent to which blind Republican
partisanship has bogged down the nation in the
dismal swamps of inaction.
A strong and vocal opposition is essential to
a Democracy, lest the
smug and arrogant and
A silent or stifled minority leads to dictatorsmp
Equally as dangerous to the welfare of a na
tion is an opposition which seeks to block every
measure, good, bad or indifferent, simply be
cause it was proposed by
-THE PURPOSE, of course, is clear. After frus
trating the administration's efforts to
achieve what may be laudable ends, the spokes
men for the opposition
in the next election year
of the incumbent party.
Such a self fulfilling
to the partisan extremists to be good political
strategy. Maybe it wins
good legislation for narrow partisan reasons can
be dangerous to the progress of a nation.
This is the philosophy of rule or ruin. And
regardless of which political party is in power,
if it were carried to its ultimate conclusion the
nation could be brought
which is moving swiftly
not only in Washington,
capital from Sacramento
THE NATIONAL welfare must be put ahead of
partisan extremism. This is a measure of
true statesmanship. Honest opposition is one
thing and is to be encouraged.
But to contrive to bring the nation to a dead
stop in order to gloat over the administration's
inaction is good neither for the political "outs"
nor the country.
True political statesmanship in fact calls for
doing more and doing it better than it is being
done by the other party.
High
In some Oregon high schools almost twice as
many seniors will graduate next June as last
June. That's because 1964's 17- or 18-year-old
represents the first wave of the real baby boom,
the bumper crop born the year after the old man
trudged home from the wars. Many of these
graduates will want to go to college. But the way
things are shaping up, many of them, able
enough, just won't be able to go.
This was spelled out in letters a foot high at
the recent meeting meeting of the State Board
of Higher Education. The board is already in a
bind because the Legislature gave it barely
enough money to operate the colleges and uni
versities. Now it faces the possibility that voters may
repeal the last Legislature's tax program. That
would mean the board would have to cinch up its
belt another notch.
THE ONLY answer: Educate fewer kids.
J Tint Inn rnnlrl lin
Oregon already has the
West. 10 raise it to $-4-15 a year is to say that only
the children of well-off families can go. Already
we're pricing many boys and girls right out.
Standards could be raised again. But this
would deprive many a so-so student of a crack
at college. And the so-so students also need it
if they are to play a role in an increasingly com
plex world. Furthermore, some students who are
only average, or less, in high school, bloom late.
In college they make brilliant records.
This is one price of the referendum next
Oct. 15. Eugene Register-Guard.
In Balance
It's an old story: The squabble of the day
blots out the achievements of the age; what is
wrong with the world takes precedence in the
headlines over what is right; what divides men
and nations, no matter how trivial or transitory,
tends to conceal the much larger objectives that
united them.
This us usually true, is probably inevitable
and not necessarily bad. Few great objectives are
reached without a fight, but it is more true than
ever now partly because most of the free world
is riven by internal election campaigns and partly
because of the way we debate ana report great
issues in this country.
. . . Keeping tilings in balance is the problem,
for the day-to-day concentration on details
makes public affairs
ominous and depressing
James Keston in The
for its failure to achieve
administration become
the people uninformed,
tne in political party,
can take to the hustings
to point to the failure
maneuver may appear
some votes. But stymieing
to a halt in a world
forward. And this is true
D.C., but in every state
to Augusta, Maine.
bacamento Bee.
Price
iico - . a train Rut of
highest tuition in the'
look and sound more
than they probably are.
New York Times.
"Who Do You Think You Are
Indonesian?"
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paper. In fact the contrary is often the case.
Negroes and God
To the Editor: I will start by
saying I am not opposed to
Negroes having their rights as
Americans, but only when they
are ready to accept those rights
as Americans, and a small mi
nority are ready now.
But the majority is not, for
they want not equality, but su
premacy. I am ready to give
them their rights with some
reservations. Hotels and motels
can provide rooms and cabins
for them equally furnished so
that they would not be sleeping
in the same beds as whites, and
also passing a law that would
prevent blacks and whites from
marriage or even keeping com
pany. I have lived 60 years
among the Negroes and I know
them quite well.
There will be an awful lot of
sad whites in Medford, Grants
Pass and Ashland if we encour
age Negroes to come here to
these towns. It will only be the
riff-raff that we will get, and
property owners will see their
property turned into slums, their
lawns and houses will be ruined,
because this class of Negroes
Bring tneir own bed-bugs, cock
roaches and head-lice, the head
lice being spread through out
schools. Property will decrease
In value very fast just as in
other places. Take a trip and
inspect property In other cities.
Then too, I suppose a lot of
Medforditcs will be pleased to
have Negroes make vulgar pass
es at their wives and daughters.
It will happen, and often. Mr.
Ralph McKinnis was speaking
the truth.
As for Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Allison, I would not offer one
cent to see you out of the coun
try as this is your country too
and you have a right to speak
up, just as Mr. McKinnis did,
but you should investigate be
fore you speak. We as Ameri
cans all have that same right.
Do we not?
And now Mrs. George Guthrie,
I am afraid you are wrong.
You see, Mrs. Guthrie, the word
of God plainly says. Call no
man your father upon the earth:
for no one is your Father,
which is m heaven. Matt. 23:9.
Ca va .-. finhi r glwave
1 Pj1'51 Wr not as
FauVr or Rev.
Lewis Perry
910 Valley View dr.
Medford.
Can't LI In Him
To the Editor: Many are now
concerned with the question,
"Are we, or are we not. a Chris
tian nation?" Christian means
a follower of Christ, but many
of our cltitena don't believe in
Him. Yet our constitution em
phatically statea that they are
as much American as those of
us who do, majority or minor
ity. Our Lord's constitution is even
more adamant, with no amend
ments, no repeals. It is the Ten
Commandments, plus one: that
we love one another, our neigh
bor as ourselves, our enemies,
everyone. Supposing we were
to ask Him what He thought
about It. It Is very probable that
He would reply, "My concern is,
are you a nation of Christians?
Who are my mother, my broth
ers, my nation? Those who keep
my Father's Commandments,
plus one."
Our question would be an
swered, we can lie to ourselves
but we couldn't lie to Him.
could we?
Mrs. Margaret Roseborough
no Oakdale dr.
Medford.
A New Day Dawns
To the Editor: What 1 miser-
ably distorted view of the civil ; of Bear Creek, "Medford City
rights Issue Ralph McKinnis Memorial Park."
presented in the MT of 9 16! Oh, NO! To most folks (tour
And what a tragic and pitiful 1 Istji this would indicatt city.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON
I exhibition of his own extreme
racism mat prompted it! His
violently anti - Catholic, anti
Jewish, and anti-Negro prejudice
was revealed in almost every
sentence. Not one of his ac
cusations against these groups
of fellow-Americans has any
basis in fact. Indeed, the whole
piece constitutes a vicious libel
against them. The most rabid
Ku-Kluxer, Nazi, or Bircher
could hardly out-do this preverse
and wicked diatribe.
What a striking and truly
heart-warming contrast was pro
vided in your issue of 92 by
Nancy Duncan's magnificent
declaration of true Americanism
and Christian witness! Daughter
of Congressman Robert B. Dun
can and recent honor graduate
of Medford High School, Nancy
movingly described her partici
pation in the March on Wash
ingtonwhich Time Magazine
in its issue of 98 called a "tri
umph ... a day that would
never be forgotten:" and which
an editorial in the Christian Cen
tury of 911 called "a religious
event of first importance
(whose) effect will be felt far
beyond the political arena."
Wrote Nancy, among other
things:
"I was a part of the 200,000
believers in equality and digni
ty of man. I helped to express
this belief by adding my own
dignity as a human being to
the dignity of others, who have
long been striving to have this
dignity recognized. The pride
which I knew was Bursting in
side of me, I saw reflected in
the solemn eyes of every glis
tening black face, every flush
ed white face . . . There was a
strange bond, a feeling of kin
ship, between every marcher.
Such a feeling is unparalleled
for it is the kinship between
Negro and white man which is
a rare thing today, yet very
precious ... I can say, in all
honesty, that I had reached the
point where I could not see
color anymore."
On Aug. 24, 1855, Abraham
Lincoln wrote to Joshua P.
Speed: "As a nation we began
by declaring that 'all men are
created equal, except Negroes.'
When the Know-Nothings get
control, It will read 'all men
are created equal except Ne
groes and foreigners and Cath
olics.' When It come to that, I
shall prefer emigrating to some
country where they make no
pretense of loving liberty."
Mr. McKlnnis wound up his
doleful dirge: "It is Evening.
Good Night." Let me counter:
H is Morning, the Dawn of a
New Day!
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Anticlimax
To the Editor: What an anti
climax that our President could
spare only 15 minutes for the
whole state of Oregon. Yet he
has days for red carpet recep
tions honoring Tito, Sukarno
and Mme. Nhu.
There are three inferences
one may draw from this first
cla.4 snub: either he is sure
Oregon is in the Democratic
pocket for '64; or our few elec
toral voles are too insignificant
to be noticed; or can It be Mr.
Morse does not have the
prestige in Washington ha would
like us to believe?
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ellis
Route 3. Box 57t
Central Point, Ore.
Whose Memorial?
To the Editor: In Triday
night's Tribune (9 20) a news
item suggests a possible name
for the curving park alongside
Fall Arrives; But Congress Shows Little
Hope of Civil Rights
By ARNOLD 8AWISLAK
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPD-Fall'S
official advent brought horn to
Congress today a chill realiza
tion it probably can't complete
action this year on both the
lax and civil rights bill labeled
163 "mut" by President Ken
nedy. Final action on taxes this
year has been a prime target of
t h e Kennedy administration
since January. Three months
ago, the President added civil
rights to the priority list for this
year.
It might have seemed pes
sible back in June to get both
In the Day's News
ly FRANK JINKINS
There's NEWS today.
Maybe BIG news.
A T UNITED Nations, In New
York, President Kennedy
calls on the communist world to
BURY THE COLD WAR and
engage the West In a contest of
achievement instead 01 a con
test of intimit'- 'm.
Speaking before the 18th Gen
eral Assembly of U.N., he said
he welcomes such f contest be
tween "those who envision a
monolithic world and those who
believe in diversity."
He outlined the areas where
the Soviet Union and the United
States, together with their al
lies, could achieve further
agreements agreements which
spring from our mutual inter
est in AVOIDING MUTUAL
DESTRUCTION.
IN THE field of space, he said,
where the United States and
Russia have a spe'-al capacity,
there is room for new coopera
tion Includ1 the possibility
of a JOINT EXPEDITION to
the moon.
Pointing to the fact that by
resolution of the U.N. General
Assembly member nations had
foresworn any claims to terri
torial rights in outer space, he
asked rhetorically WHY MAN'S
FIRST FLIGHT TO THE MOON
SHOULD BE A MATTER OF
COMPETITION.
"Surely," he said, "we should
explore whether the scientists
and astronauts of our two coun
tries indeed, of ALL the
word can not WORK TO
GETHER for the conquest of
space sending '0 the moon,
some day in this decade NOT
the representative of a SINGLE
nation, but the representatives
of all humanity."
OUR President told the hush
ed assembly that for the
first time in 17 years of effort
a specific step has been taken
to limit the nuclear arms race.
He said:
"I refer, of course, to the
treaty to ban ' iear tests in
the atmosphere, in outer space
and under water, concluded by
the Soviet Union and the United
States and already signed by
nearly 100 countries."
MEANWHILE
At th ralalivelv tin,, ct.ol
and glass international enclave
on the banks 0." the Hudson
river in New York City where
the representatives of NATIONS
can meet with no guns in their
nip pockets-
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko proposed vester-
day that an 18-nation summit
conference on disarmament be
held before June 30 of next
year.
His proposal was made In a
major speech delivered to the
U.N. General Assembly. It was
mud in tone and devoid of cold
war language.
owned graveyard!
Any town in dry California
would feature even a brook in a
public park. Why not boast of a
stream and call it Bear Creek
Park or Streamside City Park?
Please, let's leave out the
memorial and give the grave
yards a break. By the way
whose memorial?
Anne Fisher
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Try and Stop Mo
By IINN1TT CERF
AN INEXPERIENCED nursemaid, taking baby for a
ride in the park, encountered a friend of the family,
who peered inside the carriage and observed, "I see the poor
little thing has his father s
nose."
"Good heavens," gasp
ed tht nursemaid. "I
thought that was a nip
ple." a a
"Living In America, la an
expansive proportion e
peeuUly lor a rruurlea man,"
prates la French actor
Claude Dauphin. "Every
time three wtvea a.r seen
doing nothing, someone
builds a department stora
next to them."
A chap In a big testing laboratory obviously a very busy fd
kwnaj been davotinf quite soma Urn to figuring out just how
loud a human anor is. He now announces that at its maximum.
It la equal in decibels to the bellow of an angiy bull
1ML by Btuett Cert Ciatrteuted br Kli( Teaturea nllctl
bills through the House and
Senate in 1963. It doesn't look
that way now.
Congressional leaders havt
been reluctant to talk about
this. One reason la that the
choice is a hard one and is
certain, either way, to make a
lot of people unhappy.
Some civil rights backers cur
Strictly Personal
ly Sydney
(1 rial KrtterprliM Irw.
MODERN ART
Attending the opening of an
art exhibit some time ago, I
overheard a sweet little lady
protest to the
painter: "Why
la modern art
th way it Is?"
To which he po
litely shrugged,
and murmured
tactfully, "Why
is modern life
the way it is?"
But the best re-
arrla sponse to this
constant query has been given
by Robert Beverly Hale, of the
Metrooolltan Museum in New
York, who once made the fol
lowing explanation:
"If our art seems violent.
It is because we have per
petrated more violence than
any other generation. It It
deals with weird dreams, it
Is because we have opened op
the caverns of the mind and
let such phantoms loose.
"If It is filled with broken
shapes. It Is because we have
watched the order of our fa
thers break and fall to pieces
at onr feet.
"We have seen. In onr cen
tury, the development of fan
tastic scientific paraphernalia
and much ill will. We live In
the fear of some monstrous
event which will bring, at
best, a curious and distorted
future; at worst, annihilation.
The artist is in part a proph
et. We should not complain
if the shadows that have late
ly haunted us have for some
time been visible upon his
canvas."
He offered Moscow as a site
for such a meeting. The cor
respondents report that his
speech was generally mild in
comparison with Soviet declara
tions, and add that he stressed
repeatedly what he called the
"changed international cli
mate." GRIM question:
Is Russia's latest proposal
another Trojan Horse?
TT COULD BE.
- The word of a communist
is subject to many reservations.
But
The world of today has reach
ed a grim stage. Two nations
possess the power to DESTROY
THE WORLD. Their power is so
nearly equal that if one nation
starts it the other will have
sufficient RETALIATORY Dow-
er to DESTROY THE AGGRES
SOR.
The rest of the world at the
same time.
WHAT does it aU mean?
It means that It's hioh
time to begin to consider, seri
ously and honesUy, ways to
keep the peace.
Communicable
Diseases Listed
Only nine cases of communi
cable diseases were reported in
Jackson county last week, ac
cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel,
medical health nfficer.
Three cases of influenza were
reported in Shady Cove; two
cases of pink eye In Phoenix to
top the list. One case each were
reported of impetigo in Medford
and mumps in Ashland. Pneu
monia was reported in Central
Point and Medford, one case
each.
and Tax Legislation
rently suspect that when and if
the choice it maae, taxes wiu
get the nod. That could set off
loud and long objections from
civil right supporter.
The cards appear to be falling
in favor of the tax legislation,
and not entirely as a result of
efforts by civil rights opponent.
For example, the House will
i. Harris
In one sense, great art is
timeless; in another, it is the
product of its times. Bach's
music could not have been writ
ten except in an extremely re
ligious atmosphere. Modern
composers don't even try to
sound like him, for they are
looking at an entirely different
world from an entirely differ
ent angle.
The long, leisurely Victorian
novel is out of mode, for the
tempo of the times has changed.
Our novels are staccato, charg
ed with demonic fury, brutal,
bitter and resentful. The artist,
after all, only works with the
material he finds at his dis
posal. Even Shakespeare made
most of his Greeks and Romans
speak and behave like 16th cen
tury gentlemen.
The modern painter is no long
er "realistic," in the old-fashioned
sense, because the uni
verse has taken on a different
aspect of reality.
All the ancient gods have
been questioned; some have
been overthrown; and nothing
has yet arisen to take their
place. The chaos in the frame
is, in its own way, a realistic
reflection of the chaos in the
mind of modern man.
EDITORIAL
PEPARTMCNT
"What's the sense in doing a Cartoon on the bombing in Birming
ham? It'll only be seen by people who wouldn't think of doing such
a thing in the first place!"
Non-Violence Is
Too Good for Us
6 Arthur Hoppe
When I first read about the
bombing of the Birmingham
church I was sitting in the kit
chen drinking coffee. I head
how four Negro girls were killed
by the explosion. And 1 was,
like most of us, I suppose,
filled with rage.
As I read I tried to visualize
the men who could throw such
dynamite sticks from a passing
car. I saw them as typical of
the rabid segregationists I have
met: justifying themselves by
their doctrine of superiority,
armored In their sullen right
eousness. And I could hear the
man who threw the dynamite
saying defiantly to himself and
humanity and God: "That'll
teach them uppity Niggers."
For that is how they justify
what they do.
But into a church. To kill
children. And at that moment
I wanted to kill those men. I
wanted them dead.
The very thought of revenge
was a tremendous release. All
the hate and frustration and
rage I felt poured out, laced by
the mere thought of violence.
And I felt much better.
But then, on an inside page.
I read about the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. and how he
was flying to Birmingham "To
plead with my people to remain
non-violent." To preach in the
ruins of that blood-spattered
church, the doctrines of love
and peace and non-violence.
And I wendered at the man.
I don't pretend to know how
the Negro In Birmingham feels.
I haven't grown up in humilia
tion nor lived In fear. Nor was
It my children who were killed.
But I do know how I felt.
know how I relished the hate.
I know the catharsis of re
venge. ! know the simple, ele
mental appeal of violence. And
if I knew these things, sitting In
act on the tax bill this week.
The civil rights bill hasn't even
been approved by the House
judiciary subcommittee that has
been working on it for months.
The efforts of northern Demo
cratic civil rights advocate to
carry along Republicans, rath,
er than delaying tactics by
southerners, have taken the
time.
When the subcommittee, domf.
nated by pro-civil right mem.
bera, clears a bill, it must be
considered by the parent judici
ary committee. Southerners have
a strong voice there and are
not expected to pass it out
quickly. Once that hurdle It
cleared, the southern-led House
Rules Committee must be by
passed or prodded to act before
the House can even take up the
bill.
One supporter of the the civil
right bill says privately that
he would be pleased to see final
House action before Dec. 1.
That, of course, would make it
clearly impossible to get a bill
through the Senate by New
Year' Day. Southern filibuster
ers could hold up a bill that
long without extending them
selves. In the meantime, the tax bill
will be in the unfriendly hands
of chairman Harry F. Byrd,
(D-Va.,) of the Senate Finance
Committee. Byrd has made it
clear he will insist on lengthy
hearings,' and he probably
would suspend all activity on
the tax bill if civil right action
was impending.
Thus, if congressional lead
ers insisted on Senate approval
of civil rights legislation before
the tax cut, they might end up
with neither. If they make it
clear the tax cut has t clear
track, they might be able to
get that bill through before the
end of the year.
my white middle-class kitchen,
how must the people in Birming
ham feel?
And I knew then that the
beautiful doctrines we preach of
love and peace and non-violence
are too good for us. Most of us
are not equal to them. Not yet.
Sitting there in the kitchen I
e
remembered sadly what high
hopes I had held for this strange
non-violent movement. I re
membered how moved I'd been
when the Rev. Mr. King had
said: "If the streets of Birming
ham must run with blood, let it
be our blood and not that of our
white brothers." 1 remember
how much I had admired those
people of his who could with
stand firehoses and police dogs
and brutality without retalia
tion. But most of all I mourned for
the high hopes I had held.
Tor I deeply feel that if our
world is to survive this con
fused, violent, destructive age,
there must be a moral break
through. And I honestly thought
that this non-violent movement
could well be It, that these
Negroes were marching for us
Yet how easily, in a moment
of rage, I betrayed this whole
concept.
So at I sat there I feared
what would happen in Birming
ham, what would happen now
to this movement. And I could
only hope that if it shattered tit
the coming days, someone
would pick up the pieces and
try again. Tor the good of us
all. ..
For I think each of us. de
spite our failures, must go at
aspiring te the beautiful doc
trines of love and peace and
non-violence. Not despite Um
fact that thev are better thM
most of us. But because they
are.
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