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Show standards fo live by . . . Anecdotes and stories about J. Edgar Hoover, ' the indomitable, incorruptible head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 50 years will continue to circulate as long as the United States endures. In a piece entitled "J. Edgar Hoover's Farewell," U. S. News & World Report reprints a statement Mr. Hoover wrote in response to a query from "Family Weekly" on events that had influenced his life. Mr. Hoover recalled that some of his happiest and most instructive moments occurred in a sand-lot sand-lot ball park. There, he said, "I. . . . learned a code of conduct . . . We learned to play hard and play fair . . . Our sandlot was a democracy in microcosm. micro-cosm. For the rules of hard, fair play and good sportsmanship that we absorbed there translated themselves into rules of honor for school behavior and into terms of thoroughness and legality in the profession of law enforcement. It is to me today a major personal precept. . . that our investigations be pursued with as much zeal and vigor to free the innocent as to convict the guilty. That is only fair play . . . How far are the truth and justice of adulthood adult-hood from the fair play and sense of honor demanded demand-ed on the sandlot? Closer than might be supposed." suppos-ed." A lot of contemporary problems are created by people who have never learned the rules of the sandlot ball park. |