The Press: Will Rogers Recycled

"I have been accused of being worried over this 'inflation.' I wasn't worried. I was just confused... When you are worried, you know what you are worried about, but when you are confused you don't know enough about a thing to be worried."

Those lines, which recently appeared in more than 150 U.S. newspapers, might have been written by any contemporary columnist last week, except perhaps for the dated, folksy tone. In fact, they were composed by the late Will Rogers 41 years ago. Since early March, Rogers' wry, apt commentaries on U.S. life in the '20s and early '30s have...

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