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...criticizing my participation in a forum over WHDH on behalf of the Harvard Young Republican Club, Mrs. Jones rather lengthily bemoans the fact that such a latter-day Cotton Mather should "represent" Harvard. In this she does less than justice to Mr. Dick Hayes of Harvard the New England Regional President of the Students for Democratic Action who was on the same forum and likewise represented Harvard. One can only speculate as to what induced Miss Jones to overlook Mr. Hayes so completely; my "boorish" tactics certainly did not stifle him altogether...
However, there are some parts of the write-up which present an untrue view of the beliefs and practices of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
Mormons today do not expect divine intervention in this sinful world before they have exhausted their own final resources. And 100 years after the Mormons' perilous trek to Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from being exhausted. In its self-made oasis on the Western desert, it is flourishing like a green bay tree...
Triumph. To the Latter-day Saints, who once expected the nations of the earth to rally unto them, and who are still fond of calling themselves "a peculiar people," these tangible triumphs constitute only a partial fulfillment of destiny. But, considered coldly, they seem almost incredible...
Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...