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Timebinder, v. 1, issue 3, 1945
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the old maxims, although we may put them into new words. I think the two most important decisions in every person's life are what we want out of life, and how we are going to get it. To a lot of people in the recent past, becoming 21 hasn't meant much. If you've read Dr. Douglas' THE ROBE, you may remember the ceremony it describes at the time Marcellus came of age. I am not suggesting anything as elaborate as that, but some sort of ceremony to make the young people more conscious of, as you say, not their "rights and privileges, but THEIR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES" as citizens. ( ( Some cities have had such mass celebrations yearly for those coming of age that year, and I agree wholeheartedly that it is a wonderful thing.--EEE) ). In conclusion, I want to say that if all people would and could (and they could if they would) drop the great SELF and work and plan for the good of all, what a wonderful place this old world soon would be. When our job here is done and the tangible mortal is laid away, we do not know how near or far from this planet the life-spark (that thing which, having it, makes a man alive, and not having it makes him dead) may be. I like to think, however, that we'll know what is going on, even though we are no longer a part of it actively. ( (Thanks for your splendid analyses, and I am only sorry a lack of space prevents me from using it in its entirety. You can see that I am continuing THE TIME-BINDER, and hope to do so indefinitely.--EEE) ). * ** * PAUL ALLEN CARTER, USN. First of all, my heartiest congratulations on the spirited defense of the C. O.'s in THE TIME-BINDER. Few people even know that there are varying shades of opinion among Objectors, as was so ably demonstrated by your daughter's article. To the ones she enumerated one must add another class, a small but interesting one -- the "rationalistic" objector, who does not object to war per se, but specifically this war. An excellent example is one of my shipmates who is pro-German, but consented to Naval service partly because he does not hold a similar position toward Japan, and partly because, as he observes, "our stand is not recognized by the government" -- a trifle of understatement! I feel that there must be thousands like him, both here and in Germany (whence came his ancestors), whose status in the post war world will be even more forlorn than it is now. For he combines German contempt and hatred for England, and 19
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the old maxims, although we may put them into new words. I think the two most important decisions in every person's life are what we want out of life, and how we are going to get it. To a lot of people in the recent past, becoming 21 hasn't meant much. If you've read Dr. Douglas' THE ROBE, you may remember the ceremony it describes at the time Marcellus came of age. I am not suggesting anything as elaborate as that, but some sort of ceremony to make the young people more conscious of, as you say, not their "rights and privileges, but THEIR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES" as citizens. ( ( Some cities have had such mass celebrations yearly for those coming of age that year, and I agree wholeheartedly that it is a wonderful thing.--EEE) ). In conclusion, I want to say that if all people would and could (and they could if they would) drop the great SELF and work and plan for the good of all, what a wonderful place this old world soon would be. When our job here is done and the tangible mortal is laid away, we do not know how near or far from this planet the life-spark (that thing which, having it, makes a man alive, and not having it makes him dead) may be. I like to think, however, that we'll know what is going on, even though we are no longer a part of it actively. ( (Thanks for your splendid analyses, and I am only sorry a lack of space prevents me from using it in its entirety. You can see that I am continuing THE TIME-BINDER, and hope to do so indefinitely.--EEE) ). * ** * PAUL ALLEN CARTER, USN. First of all, my heartiest congratulations on the spirited defense of the C. O.'s in THE TIME-BINDER. Few people even know that there are varying shades of opinion among Objectors, as was so ably demonstrated by your daughter's article. To the ones she enumerated one must add another class, a small but interesting one -- the "rationalistic" objector, who does not object to war per se, but specifically this war. An excellent example is one of my shipmates who is pro-German, but consented to Naval service partly because he does not hold a similar position toward Japan, and partly because, as he observes, "our stand is not recognized by the government" -- a trifle of understatement! I feel that there must be thousands like him, both here and in Germany (whence came his ancestors), whose status in the post war world will be even more forlorn than it is now. For he combines German contempt and hatred for England, and 19
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