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Show -9- teacher, wondered if the editor might have been better satisfied had he ended his story with the last lines of the communist manifesto: "Workers of the world arise! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win." But when he asked himself how these men could have arisen, he could find no answer. They were merely, as he had shown them, desperate and frustrated men and women, trying in any way they could to earn money to feed their children. Either events in the Professor's life or some quirk in his nature had given the Professor a lifelong suspicion of men in positions of power and authority. It may have begun with his father, a staunch Mormon who was by profession an engineer, who disapproved thoroughly of his son's early ambition to become a writer. It must have been fortified by events of the Thirties, including the rise of Hitler in Europe and the failure of the administration at home to come to grips with the problems of the Depression. It certainly was strengthened by the ineptitude of most academic administrators he had come to know during his career as a teacher in many universities from New York to California. He had always felt great sympathy for his students, perhaps because of his own not too happy undergraduate years during the Depression, when he, like them, had struggled to find the meaning that life promised, but that seemed evex hidden beyond the next horizon. He thought himself wise enough today not to be misled by the mirages of his youth, |