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History from tn files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10, 1953 (Saturday)
Report finds Medford police
"grossly negligent" In death of
Camp White prisoner on July 14.
Medford businessman found
guilty on two of four counts of
income tax evasion.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10, 1943 (Sunday)
Leo Kelly and Chester Wilcox,
both of Prospect, missing on
Herschberger mountain while on
bunting trip.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A hunt
er home intact from the Fre
mont forest shooting reserve
shooting and slaying spree, Is at
a loss to understand how he
made it without being cooped up
in a General Grant tank."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10, 1933 (Tuesday)
Passing of sentence deferred
for lady found guilty of horse
whipping editor of weekly paper.
One killed, two Injured In
Kings highway smashup.,
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 10, 1923 (Wednesday)
Four trainmen slain by ban
dits during holdup of Sou'hern
Pacific train near tunnel 13 in
Siskiyous.
Robert H. Holmes, promoted
by Southern Pacific to traveling
freight and pasenger agent with
headquarters in Salem.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 10. 1U13 (Friday)
Steamer Volturna burns at
sea; 136 lose lives.
Thomas J. Fuson, associated
with Thomas Gordon In manage
ment of Page theater, retires
from firm.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior!
seven or eight Is escslltnt) five ei
sii Is good.
1. Was Lief Erlcson inventor
of the first submarine, a Norse
explorer or a Swedish Nobel
prize winner?
2. Is Rugby French, English,
or Norwegian football game?
3. What is the Roman numer
al for zero?
4. What proverb expresses the
directly contrary thought to:
"You can't teach an old dog
new tricks"?
8. Was Nathaniel Greene a
military leader in the Revolu
tionary War, War of 1812, or the
Civil War?
6. What river marks the
greater part of the southern
boundary of the U.S.?
7. Did the U.S. flag ever have
more than thirteen stripes?
8. Who has been the youngest
man to become President of the
United States?
9. Name the Indian Chief who
led the Sioux Indians in battle
against Custer at the Little Big
Horn river?
10. What state Is bounded on
the north by the Ohio River? ..
Answers: 1. Norse explorer.
t. English. I. There Is none. 4.
"Never too old to learn." 5.
Revolution, a. Rio Grande. 7
Yes. 8. Theodore Roosevelt, 42.
9. Sltllng Bull. 10. Kentucky.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1963
Get On
We hope that County Judge Earl Miller and
Lounty commissioner
guns, and give short shrift to the teapot tempest
which certain individuals, apparently with axes
to grind, have stirred up
Howard rrairie lake recreation area.
Demands for "an audit" (no matter whether
one has already been made or not, no matter
whether the records are open to inspection or
not) serve only to cast
fied suspicion, not only
also upon other county officials and employes.
In our view, Judge Miller and Commissioner
Faber would be fully justified in saying, in effect :
"The Howard Prairie operation is one of the best in the
state, if not in the entire Northwest. We're getting more than
our money's worth, and other areas are studying it to see
how we do it. We have complete confidence in the course we
have taken, and will not be bullied and bulldozed and intimi
dated by 'inspired' criticism without basis in fact."
A NYONE who has taken the trouble to visit the
Howard Prairie operation can testify it is a
superior one.
One can niggle about
the county should have built the buildings or not,
or whether check-out time should be 8 a.m.). But
overall, natrons tret fast, efficient and courteous
service. They get clean
lent and clean sanitary
many other services not
such circumstances.
If the concessionaire
profit from the overall
plain? Isn't our economic
enterprise"?
HPHERE was a time when we objected to the
concessionaire plan "on principle." The prin
ciple, be it said, was probably based on observa
tion of concession-type
many instances are sleazy, unattractive and un
responsive to public needs.
(We suspect that the National Park Service's
suspicion of concession type operations is based
on similar observations.)
"But when a concession operation is good, it
can be very, very good as is the case at How
ard Prairie. And such good operations can lead
to an entirely new depature in public service in
popular public recreation areas.
There are cases (such as National Parks)
where operation probably is best handled by pub
lic employes. But by the same token, there are
cases (such as Howard Prairie) where good con
cessionaires serve the public better than would
civil servants.
DY ALL means let there be an audit of the
county's transactions with the concessionaire,
if this seems appropriate.
But then let's quit the picayune criticisms
and get on with the job.
The county had to be dragged into the public
recreation field, almost literally screaming and
kicking, through mounting
should be said that, once started, they have done
the best they know how to follow through; to
provide adequate facilities at minimum cost for
the maximum number of people.
The record, while admittedly spotty, is gen
erally good and the
Howard Prairie is one
the record. E.A.
Thoughts on an
Some days it seems
ing unglued.
Some days one ponders on Viet Nam, auto-
mation, civil rights, Castro s Cuba, the Berlin
wall, the Red Chinese, unemployment, taxes,
farm surpluses, traffic fatalities, school drop-outs,
the high cost of higher education, the John Birch
Society, and tax referendums. On such days, it is
easy to become gloomy
Isn t the old world getting any better at all ;
Are things really coming
estly all en route to the dogs; Or the poor house I
IT'S easy to conclude
Then, mercifully, one reads a piece in the
Lugene newspaper. And this is what it says:
"Things are so bad wc are barely able to maintain, and
promote, the highest standard of living the world has ever
known, the highest standards of education, an increasingly
improving cultural atmosphere and for most of us the
greatest degree of individual freedom and protection from
infringement of personal freedoms ever developed in organ
ized human society.
"Thinking back over just the last 50 years, we can see
how much we've lost. And, based upon these observations,
we can pretty well predict how our losses arc going to con
tinue mounting.
"Fifty years ago the average work week was six days
72 hours In all. Almost half the nation's youngsters were
going to school, at least through early grades. And persons
able to read could buy a new book, a good one, with a day's
average wage. Only one In four families were so poor that
going to bed hungry was their custom. Youngsters working
in mills and mines usually were allowed both lunch and sup
per rest periods. Women weren't asked to take part in any
difficult democratic processes, and in many elections men
could count on being reimbursed for voting with free whisky,
or maybe even cash money.
"There's no necessity to probe any deeper into our past.
Even these few random retrospective observations prove the
point conclusively, if we don't take care, we'll not only ruin
this country. We're apt to set an example that will mislead
the entire world."
If that doesn't make you feel a little bit bet
ter, even on a day when things seem to be com
ing unglued, nothing can. E.A.
With It
Don aber stick bv their
over the operation of the
an unworthy and unjusti
on the concessionaire, but
details (such as whether
campsites, water, excel
facilities, firewood, and
ordinarily expected in
is able to make a modest
operation, who's to com
system based on "free
operations, which in too
public demand. Now it
immense popularity of
of the brightest spots in
Unglued World
that everything is com
and pessimistic.
unglued? Are we hon
that all is lost.
'Hey, Guest What People From China Have
Been Escaping To MY Country!"
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contrary is often the case. .
Drinking Control
To the Editor: The American
drinking habits are running wild
according to our daily papers.
Alcoholics are found in all cate
gories of society; men lead
women 5.8 to 1 per cent, yet a
great many women spend their
leisure afternoons at bars. Their
percentage may rise also in the
future.
Control, another prohibition,
the drys along with mob-rule
would most welcome.
I should say not, as this is not
the answer, as we do not want
to witness another mob-rule
along with moonshiners, home
brew joints, hijacking, etc.,
again.
We have a Social Security
card which controls part of our
pocketbook at present and the
future to come.
I would suggest that another
card be issued by our state to
control our drinking habits also,
bearing our picture along with
our name and address. The po
lice department could act as the
complaint department. Void per
mits of known alcoholics, prosti
tutes, bar flys and loafers. Our
present Front st. days will be
over forever. I'm sure that the
better taverns in our state would
welcome such a law.
Howard H. Brown
907 Gilman rd.
Medford
John Birch Speaker
To the Editor: The Honorable
John H. Rousselot, outstanding
patriot who served with great
distinction in the U.S. Congress
as representative of the 25th dis
trict of California, is to speak at
the Hoover Elementary School
Monday night, Oct. 14, 1963 at
8 p.m. His subject: "Disarma
mentBlueprint for Surrender."
Gentle reader, you may be one
of the multiplied millions who
feel there is something terribly
wrong in our nation today. Does
the cowardly tolerance of a So
viet Cuban fortress on our door
step make you a little sick at
the stomach? Has the scuttling
of our "Sky Bolt," B70 bomber,
and anti-missile miisle program
given you a feeling of uneasi
ness? Does the opening state
ment in the Test Ban Treaty
pushing for "the speediest pos
sible achievement of general
and complete disarmament" get
under your skin? Do you believe
that the United States should re-
tain its national sovereignty, and
that we should preserve our
Declaration of Independence
Our American way of life? Then
you should by all means hear
this great dynamic speaker who
is risking his "all" to bring the
truth to you.
Should America maintain na
tional armed forces sufficient to
protect us from Communist mil
itary aggression? Or should we
let the Arms Control and Dis
armament Act," now known as
"Public Law 87-297," passed by
Congress and signed by our
President in 1961, remain in
force? Most Americans do not
even know that this law exists
and that it activates the plan in
Department of State Publication
7277 by providing for the dis
mantling of the entire u.s.
armed forces and for their
transfer to the Communist con
trolled United Nations. Or that
when this happens, the com
mander of our military forces
will be the Rusian Red, Vladimir
P. Suslov, the 8th Moscow Red
to consecutively hold the post of
head of the UN Security Coun
cil (UN Military) since 1946.
If that statement staggers you
if you can't believe it and
want absolute confirmation that
it's true if you want to know
the full extent of this terrible
danger that threatens your free
dom and the freedom of your
children and grandchildren, then
vou most certainly want to hear
former Congressman John Rous
selot speak. This man was in
Congress when this infamous,
treasonous law was railroaded
through. He was there! He
knows! And thank God he is
MEDFOKD .MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
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fearlessly telling the American
people about it.
To get to Hoover Schol go out
East Main St., turn right on
Willamette ave. to Siskiyou blvd.
and up Siskiyou one-half mile.
L. C. Powell
316 SE Eighth st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
No Answers?
To the Editor and Rep. Dick
Hoyt: Having read your inter
esting comments in the Medford
Tribune I'd like to ask you the
same question I've put to a num
ber of the tax bill's supporters
and which, to date, haven't had
one answer. Why not give us
both sides of the situation in
stead of yours, the big spenders'
side? Why not, instead of adding
1800 new employees at a cost ot
ten million dollars to the already
overstaffed departments, reduce
these to a point where there will
be some real efficiency instead
of them falling over each oth
er? I'll bet that you, as a busi
ness man, do not add a flock of
unnecessary employees to your
staff each year. So why can't
you chaps run the state on the
same basis? Dare you to an
swer. The 1961 surplus is gone all
right, but you failed, intention
ally I guess, to say where it
went. Probably to support Ore
gon as a "high service state."
For whom? The big spenders
or the common folks? High ser
vice means, in plain English,
higher and higher taxes. You
say, "I am appalled mat mere
are so many people wno want
to keep their cake and eat it
too." Aren't we entitled to this
luxury the same as the high
mucky-mucks ; Here s tne tun
ny part, this tax will put Ore
gon in highest bracket in the
U.S., yet we were told that in
approving a salary mcrea&e it
would attract better qualified
representatives. Ha! Ha! Wc are
modernized all right but the old,
old saying is still usable, "Ac
tion speak plainer that words."
Telline the students to donate
part of their fees to the YES
Campaign if they wanted better
grades. Why not go an tne way
and place the wheel-chair loung
ers and the blind on street coi
ners to collect pennies?
Claude M. Hall
2860 Placer id.,
Sunny Valley, Ore.
Trash
To the Editor: I am not one
to often get on my "soap box"
and become concerned enough
to trv to right the world, but
after going to the Cratcrian The
ater last Saturday night 1 tcel
this had better be said.
Wc were two "hunting wid
ows," and for want of something
better to do, and because there
was no other indoor theater
ooen. we followed the hordes of
pre-teen-agers and teen-agers to
the "Crate, one snow was ai
most bearable, about a beach
party crammed full of suggested
sex. physically over-developed
females, and mentally under-developed
males. Even this was
not too offensive, but certainly
nothing to build the moral cali
ber of our youth.
The other feature was called
"The Choppers." It glamorized
a teen-age gang who stripped
and mutilialed cars. It was very
careful to show our kids how to
get away with it all. Suddenly 1
heard our well scrubbed, crew-
cut Medford vouth (yours and
mine) cheering the gang and
booing the "cops." The "cops"
were in their mind the had guys.
When the "Fuzz" were killed by
these hoodlums our kids
cheered. Now I am well aware
of the perversity of youth, but
in the final scene when the gang
was caught the leaders words
were, "We had a Ball. Our kids
were sad.
Maybe it would be a good
idea, in the future, if we parents
got out of our comfortable "TV"
chairs and went along with our
children to the trash, made ex
citing and glamorous to them.
Maybe it is high time, not only
Circumstances Combining To
Change on
By PHIL N'EWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The instructions to Lord Den
ning, Britain's second ranking
judicial officer, had been to look
into "rumors
which effect the
honor and in
tegrity of pub
lie life." For
those who had
expected a sort
of British . Kin-
WW
sey report on
hi-jinks in high
P'f es- 'he J.ur
ist s sob e r 1 y-
worded report was a dissapoint-
ment.
No other British ministers
were found to have comported
themselves in the manner of
disgraced former War Minister
John Profumo and there had
been no breach of security.
But for Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan there was wide
aggreement that the report pro
vided still another nail in the
political coffin his opponents for
the books they read, but this
more far-reaching media should
be cleansed.
(Name on file)
Medford
A Warning
To the Editor: The tax bill
that is causing such a furor is
neither as good as the propo
nents claim nor as bad as the
oponcnts say it is. In fact, it
is a very mediocre bill. I think
most of us have missed the sig
nificance of this protest, or re
bellion, which is a symptom
tAatter of Fact
lei New York Herald
A HAZARDOUS PREDICTION
HONG KONG-The first ques
tion to ask about any govern
ment which is frustrated and
boxed-in is how
the particular
men who lead
this particular
govern ment
are likely to
respond to
their predica
ment. The pos
sible responses
r a n ge from
morose resig
nation to hysterical rebellion.
The Chinese Communist lead
ers have been passing the word
that their response will verge
on morose resignation. They
have now faced the fact, they
tell all and sundry, that another
quarter-century will be needed
to realize their ambitions for
China. But the paranoiac rec
ord of the last five years hard
ly suggests that Mao Tse-tung
and his aging, angry colleagues
will find it easy to be as patient
as they swear they are going to
be.
Paranoiac is a hard word to
use of any great nation's gov
ernment. But consider the
phases of the bitter Sino-Soviet
quarrel. The symptoms of
something very close to para
noia in Peking all but leap to
the eye.
IN the first phase, the quarrel
centered on ,Chinese internal
policy. The Chinese decided on
their "great leap forward."
The Soviets warned that it
would be disastrous, and even
sought to secure a policy re
versal through Marshal Peng
Teh-huai. The intervention
failed. The disaster ensued, as
forecast.
Whereupon the Chinese lead
ers reacted to this disaster of
their own making by beginning
to press the Soviet leaders to
take the kind of risks that
would have led to a thermo
nuclear war. If one can trust
the Moscow documents, the Chi
nese all but argued that it
should not matter much if the
whole world were reduced to
heaps of rubble since the Chi
nese heap would then be as
high as any other, if not higher;
and so China would find her
rightful place again. This led
on to the present rupture.
Both in the "great leap" pro
gram itself and in the second
phase response to its dreadful
failure, there was obviously
something not quite sane or nor
mal. And now these same men
who tried one hideously drastic
remedy, and then pressed for
another remedy even more
hideous and drastic, are not
merely frustrated and boxed-in.
They are in some danger.
rpilEY are in danger abroad
A because the Soviets have it
in their power to exercise an
almost uncontainable pressure
on China's northwestern fron
tiers. This pressure on Sinkiang
province alreadv seems to have
begun. Troop movements on !
both sides are reported. Yet. if ;
worst comes to worst, China in
her present plight can hardly
sustain a serious effort in the
remote Sinkiang border where
the Soviets will hardly offer In-
Government of Great Britain
weeks had been preparing for
him.
Lord Denning had tried to be
kind to everyone but in his re-
of something far more serious.
As a pain in the human body
gives warning of a more severe
illness, so the protest of the
people to this tax increase
shows that they have lost faith
in their government, both state
and national.
If they had faith in their leg
islators, and government, and
knew their money was being
spent wisely, not wasted, they
would accept the increased tax
burden, perhaps with some
grumbling and griping, but it
would be accepted.
The only thing to do is to wait
till next general election then
throw out all the liberals, new
dealers, new frontiersmen, one
worlders, etc., etc., in both par
ties and go back to a more con
servative type of government
until we can get our country
back on its feet.
We have given countries over
the world billions of dollars and
to what end?
They spit in our faces and
make fun of us behind our
backs. The "One Worlders" say
"Look how we have put Eu
rope on ner teet! t wonaer.
The European Common Market
which was supposed to cure all
Europe's ills is already begin
ning to crack up.
The Bible says that nations
will not cling together "even as
iron will not mix with clay."
It is time that we mend our
own fences for no one will
do it for us. And in the back
of peoples minds they know this
-they are fed up.
This tax referral is a warning
and it had better be heeded.
Leila Morrow
531 North Bartlett st.
Medford.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate.
dian-style opposition.
At homev meanwhile, the
quarrel with the Soviets is a
plus, since it appeals to the
deep Chinese dislike of foreign
ers. But at home, the Peking
leaders have also had their
warning, from the strange epi
sode which caused a temporary
flood of refugees to pour over
this city s borders last year.
The course of this episode
has at last been reliably traced.
It began when the Canton pro
vincial authorities announced a
slight relaxation of the rules
governing exit permits to Hong
Kong, apparently to get rid of
potential trouble - makers. It
swelled into major trouble when
the rigid bureaucracy could not
cope with the resulting applica
tions for permits.
THERE was a riot. The mayor
of Canton was attacked in
his car; and troops were called
out. This alarmed the provincial
party secetary, T'ao Chu, so
greatly that he ordered the
border thrown open, evidently
on his own responsibility. The
refugee Hood began, and was
only stopped when the British
Embassy in Peking made strong
representations to the central
authorities.
The fact that the border was
then closed is far less import
ant than the other fact that
stands out of this story the
fact that as great a big wig as
T'ao Chu suffered an obvious
though temporary loss of nerve.
That is a very unhealthy sign
indeed, especially in South
China where Chinese trouble .
traditionally starts. !
The Sino-Soviet frontier and '
South China are in fact the two i
tangible danger areas for the
Peking regime. There is also
an intangible danger area,
however. Here the danger is
that the Communist leaders will
at length respond to being frus-
tarled and boxed-in by losing
their patience and committing
another great act of folly like
those already committed.
AS already suggested, the So
viet threats to the Chinese
frontiers are probably designed
to deter another Chinese Com
munist venture against India.
But even if this deterrence
works, there are other external
adventures which may end by
tempting Peking.
It is more likely, however,
that the folly will 'be internal,
taking the form, perhaps, of
abolishing the peasants' private
plots or renewing the former
squeeze on the countryside in
order to pay for resumed in
dustrial effort. Every kind of
temptation to unwisdom sur
rounds the Chinese Communist
leadership, in short.
In addition, Mao Tse-tung is
fu, mill uie iniitri name ui povs
er will hardly be trouble-free i
China's present plight. For al
0, and trie inheritance of pow-
in
all
these reasons, though predic
tions are always hazardous, it is
a fair prediction that we have
seen only the beginning of the
trouble in China. The next 12
months, even the next 24. mav
be relatively tranquil. The fur-
Iher troubles, when and if they
come, may yet be mastered.
But it will be very remarkable
if bad trouble does not come
in the end.
port was the clear implication
that Macmillan himself bore
chief responsibility for an error
in judgement that could have
endangered British security.
Therefore, it will not be sur
prising this week if British Con
servatives holding their last
conference before general elec
tions spend more time in con
sideration of a man rather than
on issues.
British general elections can
be held any time between now
and the October, 1964, deadline.
But since even the Conserva
tives seem resigned to a Labor
victory in the elections, the
question becomes one of both
leadership and timing to prevent
total disaster and to place the
Conservative party in a position
for victory the next time around.
Macmillan understan d a b 1 y
does not want to give up his
party leadership under a cloud.
His opponents, however, point
out that, the Profumo case
aside, Macmillan now is near-
ing 70, and claim that a young
er, more vigorous man is need
ed for the determined drive
necessary to reverse public opin
ion polls that have recorded a
steady decline of Conservative
party popularity.
The Profumo case may have
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) Field Enterprises. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
It's a puzzling and fascinat
ing correlation, but has anyone
noticed that it's the insensitive
people who always drop in for
a visit at the most inopportune
times, who are the most sensi
tive about being slighted or
treated with less than regal hos
pitality at such times?
Every child knows that stag
nant waters become poison
ous, but we fail to apply the
same consequences to stag
nant minds; unless the mind
is permitted to circulate free
ly and is continually renewed
from fresh sources, it be
comes not merely dull but
positively toxic.
Imposture fails when it most
succeeds: the man who has fool
ed absolutely everybody must
be the most lonesome and wret
ched creature on earth; for the
true self must be shared in or
der to experience any joy.
.
Grave and prudent delibera
tions about marriage general
ly don't fare any better than
hasty decisions; as Samuel
Rogers remarked a long time
ago: "It doesn't much signi
fy whom one marries, for one
is sure to find out next morn
ing that it was someone else."
What it is totally impossible
to know from even the most in
tense readings in history is
whether people in remoter ages
were as happy as we, happier,
or less so; all such statements
are guesswork.
Speaking of history, it is an
arrogant mistake to assume
that our age can be under
THE INCOME TAX MEASURE
This is one of a series of brief presentations
of some little-known aspects of the income tax
measure on which Oregon voters will decide
at a special election on Oct. 15.
A "yes" vote approves the law; a "no" vote defeats it.
QUESTION
I am an elderly person with $4,000 a year in adjusted gross
income. My wife's serious illness is costing me $3,500 a year in
medical expenses. How would the 1963 Tax Law affect me?
ANSWER
The old law limited your extraordinary medical expense
deduction to a maximum of $2,500. The 1963 Tax Law permits
you to deduct all your actual extraordinary medical expenses
above the minimum, reducing your tax 75 per cent.
QUESTION
If passed, when would the tax become effective?
ANSWER
It would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1963. Increased withhold
ings from employe pay checks would be started as soon as
possible to reflect the new rates.
"Good heavens! 1 thought thev wera
kidding on 'The Beverly Hillbillies'!"
Enforce
pointed up a certain softness
within a party that had been in
power for an unbroken 12 years.
Earlier there had been the
blow to British pride when
French President Charles da
Gaulle locked the door to the
European Common Market
against them, and the charge
by the Laborites that the gov
ernment had no alternative
policy.
There had been a succession
of defeats in by-elections and
there had been a hard winter
marked by growing discontent
and stubborn unemployment.
Some of these conditions have
changed. The effects of a spring
budget are being felt and there
is plenty of money.
Unemployment is down to
less than 3 per cent of the work
force.
The signing of the partial nu
clear test ban treaty and en
hanced chances for peace might
also have been expected to re
store some of the Conservative
party fortunes.
But the plain fact is that they
have not and that the British
voter apparently is convinced it
is time for a change.
And this is the dilemma which
faces both Macmillan and his
party.
stood by us if past ages are
not just as an adult cannot
be fathomed without penetrat
ing into his childhood; or, as
Ortega so felicitously put it:
"The song of history can only
be sung as a whole."
Taken all in all, if a man is
dull he is considered "decent,"
even though he merely lacks th
courage of his fantasies.
The greatest danger of so
ciety does not come from
demagogues who lie to others,
but from fanatics who lie to
themselves; thus, self decep
tion is the most serious of
human flaws, and all genuine
social reform must begin with
individual insight, or It be
comes corrupted and ineffec
tual. (If Hitler, for instance,
had been simply a politician,
.and not a psychopath who be
lieved his delusions, the Ger
man people could not have
been enticed into such mass
folly masquerading as "re
form.") The principal difference be
tween the wise man and the fool
and perhaps the only real dif
ference is that the former
learns from the mistakes of oth
ers, while the latter learns,
slowly and painfully, only from
his own mistakes, if at all.
It is much easier to hold to
a negative than to a positive
position; for every one per
son who knows what he stands
for, a hundred know only what
they are against and can
orient themselves only in op
position to something.
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