Milford chronicle., 1958-03-28
THE BEST YEARS

THE BEST YEARS
Which are your best years? That is
question which is the subject of many stor-
les, plays, and movies, and which we event
ually all ask ourselves.
There are those who always claim that
the "old days" were the best days. But we
suspect that even the oldtimers who remem-
Der the old days as the good old days"
would not like to go back to the discomfort
and lack of cOnvenienceS they experienced In
the old days.
For millions of lis, some years seem to
have been great years. The march of history,
and the tide of human events causes some
year or years to stand out in our mind as
history-making or pivotal years in the trend
of civilization on this earth.
There was that era after the Franco
Prussian War and up to World War |, when
industrial expansion and peace prevailed
That is, there was no World War for some
forty-four years, and there were those who
thought another World War would not erupt
on the face of this earth. Then there was
that period of the twenties, remembered by
so many, so nostalgically, and there was the
electric drama of the thirties-as the world
drifted into another World War.
But the answer to the question is that
these years are the best year. The present
years are the best Our advice to every
reader is to make the most of them, for the
best years of your life are now, and in the
future-if you make them that.
And, one last thought worth considering
is the inevitable fact that time never stands
still. Make the most of your time today, and
tomorrow, for today will never return, and
each day you will have little less of this
most priceless of all life's commodities, time.
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A PRACTICAL ESTIMATE
Adai E. Stevenson put the summit prop
osition of the Soviet leaders succinctly:
Lets get together and make propaganda"
There is still no evidence that the Kremlin
seeks an understanding on any terms but its
own, and the Kremlin terms are dangerous
and could even be cuicidal for the Western
nations.
In the present situation internationally,
some distinctions must be kept clearly in
mind. The causes of the world crisis are
many. The danger of war existed before
there was a Soviet Union and there might
never have been Soviet Union but for the
First World War. But the danger of war in
volving the Soviet Union is related to that
nation, to its form and structure of govern
ment, to certain aspects of it's ideoogy and
to the leaders in the Kremlin, especially
Khrushchev.
A summit meeting cannot eliminate
causes of war. A summit meeting should be
estimated practically, and in terms of the
personalities involved and their intentions
insofar as we can grasp these intentions.
Thus Khrushchev's famous boast that he and
his clique will "bury" us should be evaluated
as one indication of Krenflin intentions.
Furthermore, summit conference should
not be evaluated by means of formal and
abstract principles.
The danger of falling overheard i'm alb
stractions is now great. Sincere and honest
men, able in their own field often fall over
board because they are almost totally mex
perienced in dealing with, analysing and
clearing grasping the features and trends
of world politics, and most Importantly, the
politics of the Kremlin.
COURTESY CAN SAVE LIVES
Some of the accidents that occur on high
ways could be avoided by the exercise of
good manners on the part of the drivers in
volved
The rush to beat other vehicles to the
start and to get ahead in a traffic jam often
leads cultured people to take advantage OF
other drivers in manner that does not re-
fleet proper consideration for others, even
in modern traffic snarls.
Drivers should always bear in mind the
possibility that others, like themselves, mis-
calculate speed and other factors, and some
times get in jam through mental error. If
we would make an allowance for this poss-
ibility, we could definitely add to the safety
of the highways.
Too often, in driving along the open road
one meets an approaching vehicle which, in
passing another proceeding in the same di-
rection, comes dangerously close to causing
a collision. 1t is probably natural to "say
something about such driving without re-
membering similar occasion when, through
an error in judgment, we have done the
same thing.
Common everyday courtesy is a good
thing for everyday living, and it produces
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