POINTS TO PONDER III
From Reader's Digest
June, 1980

Morris Mandel, on progress
After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-doored huts.

It was ever thus
In Yale's rare-book and manuscript library is an Egyptian letter written in Arabic in the ninth century A.D. The message, in part, reads: "We are all well and hope your are the same. Why don't you write?"