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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1944
(It was Sunday) .
Glenn Jackson, Medford, ad
vanced in Army rank to colonel;
serves on staff of Gen. Ira
Eaker in Italy. . ..... ,
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Thursday
was the shortest day of the year.
Outside of having a minimum of
daylight, it greatly resembled
the orchard run of days. . .
20 YEARS 'AGO -Dec.
24, 1934
. .1 (It was Monday)
Country Gentleman magazine
carries story about Prof. F. C.
Keimer's 23 years of - experi
jnents with blight at Talent ex
periment station.; .
George Putnam, editor and
publisher of Salem Capital Jour
nal, and former editor and pub
lisher of The Mail Tribune, ar
rives in Medford with sister,
Miss Elizabeth Putnam, for
Christmas holiday.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1924
(It was Wednesday)
County Prohibition Officer
Sam B. Sandif er arrests local
man and charges him with trans
porting moonshine in a motor
bus. .
Featured picture at Craterian
theater is "Sundown," starring
Roy Stewart, Bessie Love.'Ho
bart Bosworth, and Charlie Mur
ray;, Betty Brown to play "The
Rosary" .at "the -giant Worlit
zer." 40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24. 1914 ,
(It was Thursday)
Van R. Pierson and R. N. Fos
ter establish new "auto city pas
senger service for schedule and
special trips."
From the Local and Personal
column: Wong, the Chinese
handy man of Dr. J. F. Reddy,
was struck by an auto driven
by L. P. Black last night, and
was shaken - up and frightened
by his experience. Wong alight
ed from the street car and was
struck by the auto coming up
the hill. Black stopped the ma
chine just as the Mongolian
was hit. '
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of th 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
1. President Eisenhower has
been out of Washington about
one-half, one-third, one-fourth,
or less than one-fourth of his
term so far?
2. Americans spend more dur
ing the year on furniture and
household ' equipment, or ' on
autos and parts; or about the
same on each?
3. With northern Viet Nam
under the Reds, the U. S. is or
isn't committed to go to war to
prevent them from taking south
ern Viet Nam?.
4. Color blindness Is much
more common among men or
women, or about equally com
mon among each?
5. The AJIi. and C.I.O. are
getting closer to uniting, or
farther away from it, or stand
on it about as five years ago?
6. U.S. aid to Great Britain
over the last six years has
amounted to about $5,000,000,
000, considerably more or some
what less?
7. Which major league base
ball team used to be called the
Superbas? - -
Th Answers: 1. About one
third. 2. About the same on
each. 3. Isn't. 4. More common
among men. 5. Are getting
closer. 6. Somewhat less than
$5,000,000,000. "7. Brooklyn. ,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Christmas Letter From Germany
(Editor's note: The following are excerpts from a letter
received this week from Dr. Franz Oexle, city editor of the
Konstanz (Germany) Suedkurier, by the city editor of The
Mail Tribune. It is in reply to a "Letter To Germany print
ed in this space some weeks ago and, because of its descrip
tion of Christmas in Germany, was thought to be particu- -larly
appropriate for publication this Christmas eve.)
Dear Eric '
It really looks like my friend in faraway Oregon
has been very busy those last months . . . Whenever
I had time I followed the election campaign in your
country, in our newspapers as well as in American
magazines I could pick up at news stands.
Now this hard-fought battle in Oregon and the
other states is over. Consequently I could tell you
something about German provincial elections they
definitely were interesting and even important in
Bavaria and Hesse but as you know, our last big
election was in September, 1953, the date when we
arrived in New York.
1MEANWHILE, however, another more peaceful
YA campaign has started all over the world: It's
Christmastime!
You might like, Eric, to. hear something about
Christmas customs in my home country. Don't be as
tonshed when I start with our newspaper, which you
remember covers the area between the Lake of Con
stance and the Black Forest. Last week in our editor
ial staff we thought about a special Christmas story
we could offer our readers. Y
We found one, and it was not fiction. The idea
is this: There' are 23 children in Konstanz who don't
have parents. They are living in nurseries and the
lovely boys and girls' never received Christmas gifts
from a happy father or loving mother.
7 VERY day, therefore,
brief stories of these youngsters in order to inter
est childless people in them. Surprisingly, the result
was great every morning
We should like to adopt
love to make Irmgard our
still free?"
Can you imagine how
see the eyes of the kids shining under the Christmas
i ii i i j i j
tree in uie nomes oi ineir new parents.
N December 6, there wasStNikoIausdayinSoutb
w ern Germany. In my home town it is Ueberling
en, only 10 miles from here across the lake they
have a lovely old custom. During six evenings the kids
go to church with burning
ral, built in the 14th century, the minister holds a St.
JNiKolaus service every nignt. The children sing
Christmas carols, their faces reflecting their joy m
the light of hundreds of colored candles. Particularly
I like to see Protestant and Catholic boys and girls en
joying, together, this old Advent custom.
Advent is the most mysterious season of the year
over here. Days are so short; the surface of the Lake
of Constance is covered with fog. Perhaps only once
a week', when it isn't raining or snowing, you can see
the snowcapped peaks of the Swiss, Austrian and Ba
varian Alps surrounding the gray water of the lake.
Nature seems to be dead. But there is life inside the
narrow paved-stoned streets, before the shiny small
shop windows, and under the high roofs of medieval-
styled houses.
P VERY morning, the children before they go to
" school, open a window in the colorful advent cal
endars which are pinned to the wall beside their beds.
Only ten days, then eight days, then four, three, two
days until Cristmas . eve. '
spends all her time in the
cookies m the wood-heated baking oven. On Sundays,
after supper, father lights the four candles of the ad
vent wreathy and mother
work a foretaste of Christmas.
In this way the days pass almost too fast and
one night the last window of the Advent calendar has
been opened:. Christmas eve has come!
THE lights in the offices, workshops and factories
are off: There are only the candlelights of the big
Christmas tree to be seen in every house. It is the
night wher? all people sing "Stille Nacht, Heilege
Nacht." - ' :Y
. . . Let me say good bye
gnt, and once more: Frohe Weihnachten und ein
glueckliches Neues Jahr. My best wishes for you and
your family. e.
As ever,
Franz
Jackson School Presents Program
The fourth, fifth, and sixth
grades of Jackson school joined
in presenting, "Musie- Fills the
Air," in story, tableau, and song,
Tuesday, Dec. .21, at. 2 p,m. for
parents and friends. " '
The 20-piece Jackson school
orchestra under the direction of
Miss '. Audrey Brist : opened "..the
program with the playing, of sev
eral Christmas numbers. A Vio
lin solo was played by Ruth
Ann Milligan. A violin trio con
sisting of Ruth Ann Milligan,
Lennie Jacobs ; and Sharon
Smith played "Hark! the Herald
Angels Sing." ' ; !
Band Plays
I. A. Mirick led the 40-piece
Jackson school band as they
presented a number of carols.
As a special feature, a brass
trio composed of Eric Ewald
sen, Jerry Piland and Robert
Schroeder played "Up On The
Housetop." Billy - Hanhaford
played a trombone solo "Silent
Night." ' A clarinet duet was
Friday, December 24, 1S54
we publish pictures and
people call at our office:
little Hans . . . we would
new daughter . . is she
we like this? Already, we
candles. In the old earned-
In the afternoon mother
kitchen, making Christmas
distributes samples of her
now. Regards from Mar-
, played by Donna Fosgate and
Betty Young. . '
.The fourth grade directed by
Mrs: Gloria Johnson and ac
companied by ' Mrs. Joanne
Sousa satag two Christmas num
bers as a prelude to the play. .
. The program continued with
tableau, story and song depict
ing Christmas Carolers, A City
Scene at Christmas, an Old
Fashioned Christmas, and The
Nativity Scene. The narrators
were John Fontaine and Robert
Rutter.
The 80-voice chorus under
the direction of Mrs. Delia Web
er and accompanied by Mrs.
Joanne Sousa furnished the
musical background for the
presentation.
DRY CHRISTMAS DUE
Duncan, Okla. (U.R) A
dry Christmas is forecast for
Stephens county. Sheriff Elmer
Zigler reported his deputies de
stroyed a whiskey still and 150
gallons of "working" mash
Thursday. ;i,
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING
The American Bible So
ciety, the Medford Ministerial
Association and the ledford
Council of Church Women
are cooperating in sponsoring
daily Bible reading in the
period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
. The suggested scripture
reading for today is:
Revelation 21.
For Saturday, Christmas
day, Luke 2:1-20.
in the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The stock market whose
averages are already far up the
mountain, in areas where no
stock price average ever trod
before GOES HIGHER.
1 WONDER if that's good news
constructive news.
I can't help doubts.
I'm afraid it will start people
to thinking about EASY MON
EY. That's dangerous as wit
ness 1929. -
THE next time you get to
thinking wishfully about
easy money and reflecting on
what a sap you are to work so
hard and maybe leaning a lit
tle toward the demagogue poli
ticians and the fuzzy-minded
economists who keep promising
you something for nothing it
might be a good idea to recall
this passage from Genesis:
"And unto Adam the Lord
God said: ... 'In trie sweat of
thy brow shalt thou eat
bread...'" ,
SO MUCH for the stock mar
ket. Let's take a quickie
look at the commodity markets.
In. general, they're a little on
the up side. .
In the big midwest markets,
hogs are 25, cents lower to 50
cents higher (depending on the
grade). Cattle are generally
steady to 25 cents higher. New
York wholesale meat prices are
steady. Butter in New York is
up three-quarters of a cent.
IS THAT good?
With the farm situation what
it is, higher prices are of course
good. As long as prices of what
the farmer HAS TO SELL are
lower than prices of -what the
farmer HAS TO BUY, the farm
er will be out of luck.
BUT
The BIG trouble with agricul
ture, is that consumption of agri
cultural products hasn't been
keeping pace with production.
As a result, we have some six
billion dollars worth of farm
products stored up, FOR WHICH
THE TAXPAYERS HAVE PAID
but which haven't been con
sumed. SPEAKING of taxes:
The teletype confides that
the Tax Foundation of New
York reports that in the last fis
cal year the American people
paid out a record 91 billion dol
lars in federal, state and local
taxes. (Federal taxes accounted
for about two-thirds of the to
tal.) The tax bite, the Tax Founda
tion says, averaged $572 for
every man, woman and child in
the country. That means that if
you are the breadwinner for a
family of four, you were stood
up for a tax total of $2288 last
year. ,
THAT would pay for a lot of
beans and bacon, wouldn't
it?
As a matter of fact, it would
go quite a long way toward the
purchase of a new automobile,
which all of us crave far more
than beans and bacon.
THE next time some ambitious
i- politiican tells you about all
the things he's gomg to. get you
free - for - nothing - from - the -
government, give a thought to
that $2288 you pungled up to
the tax collector last year. '
BUT" '
You say
"My taxes didn't amount to
anything like $2288. I'm a little
guy. The BIG SHOTS pay the
taxes. As long as the--Democrats
stay in power, I'll be sitting
pretty."
T'M SORRY to have to disillu-
sion you, sir, but you're kid
ding yourself. Taxes are added
to the cost of production, and
therefore have to be added to
prices. The unpalatable truth is
that you paid your $2288, wheth
er you knew it or not.
Architecture Discussed ...
At Vocational Meeting
Jack Edson. of Keener .and
Edson, architects, discussed the
profession of architect recentlv
for 26 Medford High school sen
iors interested in this vocation.
Edson described framing1 re
quired to practice as an archi
tect, as well as type of qualifi
cation necessary and financial
aspects of the field.
The program of . career talks
at the senior high school will
resume Jan. 10. with a srjeaker
and film on the vocation of air
stewardess. Ken Cook, Medford
manager for - United Air; lines,
will be in' charge of the program.
' A film and speaker on the
field open to ...medical " techni-
cans will be presented Jan. 17
and forestry careers will be the
topic Feb. 7.
COMMUNICATIONS
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words. .. . .
Senator Morse Reports
To the Editor: Here Is my
final word to the people of Ore
gon for 1954:
This is a season of rejoicing
and hope. It is a fitting time
to refresh our spirit for the tasks
of the year ahead and to rededi
cate ourselves to the principles
of brotherhood.
May each of you have a joyous
Christmas with family and
friends.
In, preparation for the next
session of Congress, I have been
reviewing the private bills which
I introduced last year. Most of
them. concern individual immi
gration problems of relatives
apd friends of Oregonians.who
are seeking to come into the
United States f6r a better way
of life. Several are refugees
from Communism. Quite a few
of the bills concerned young
sters 'adopted by Oregonians
serving in the Armed Services
and other missions overseas.
Happily, quite a few of the bills
were enacted into law during
the past two years and many of
the other applicants were ad
mitted into the United States,
or will be, partly as a result
of my office's efforts in their
behalf. Not many of the bills
will have to be reintroduced
next year.
The plight of millions over
seas, who yearn to come to this
country to enjoy its freedom
and opportunities, holds a lesson
for each of us at Christmas time.
We are the luckiest people in the
world.
It is not too soon for students
expecting to be graduated from
high school next June to be
planning ' ahead. Young men
who will be 17 (and under 22)
by July 1, 1955, may be inter
ested in applying for admission
to the Coast Guard Academy at
New London, Connecticut.
. Competitive examinations for
the Academy will be held Febru
ary 28 and March 1, 1955. . Ap
plications must be submitted by
January 15. There are no Con
gressional appointments to this
Academy, but I will be pleased
to furnish further information
to anyone interested, or you may
write directly to the U. S. Coast
Guard, Washington 25, D. C.
In this last newsletter to reach
you in 1954, the Morse family
and office staff, which works for
you the year around, wish you a
healthy and happy New Year,
You will be hearing from me in
1955.
Wayne Morse,
Senator from. Oregon,
. 417- Senate Bldg., . v
Washington, D. C. '
A Reply to T. R. Thompson
To the Editor Referring to
T. R. Thompson who "doesn't
believe in Christmas." I wonder
if he ever received a birthday
gift or had a party celebrating
his birthday? If he doesn't be
lieve in celebrating Christ's
birth, then he had better
advise, his family to forget his
birthday.
He stated we celebrate Christ's
death " instead fof His birth.
Where has anyone's death been
celebrated? certainly not our
Lord's. But on Easter Sunday
we . do celebrate His -"resurrec
tion" which gives the Christmas
a hope of a renewed and eternal
life. ... '.. ;
- True enough Christ has been
taken out of Christmas to the
extent that many people have
forgotten the meaning of Christ
mas, only . as a means of ex
changing gifts and having a
riotous time. Christ was the
gift to the world, and if ever
we should honor that gift it is
at Christmas time, by worshiping
mm, tnrough helping the needy,
etc., and not by gluttony and
drunkeness, which is disgusting
in the sight of God, and above
au children should be taught
the true meaning of Christmas,
mat unnst was God's gift to the
world that .we might be saved.
Christ Himself promised to
come again (John 14) and that
is what the Christians are look
ing forward to, that they may
go and dwell in that place He is
preparing for them.
Why shouldn't we celebrate
His birth? - .
Mrs. Ernest Santo, ..
204 Lozier Lane.
An Appeal for a Neighbor
To the Editor Anna Dale is
now at home after suffering a
relapse of her former illness. She
was at the hospital 10 days this
time. She cannot be out yet,
but needs Visitors and cheer. I
am a neighbor and know how
she misses her GOC (Ground
Observation Corps) work, wor
ries over failure to help on Red
Cross Motor pooL
Now her husband has to have
his leg broken over? again to
straighten it. One ' year ago
Thanksgiving he broke it. Never
a complaint, cheer or love for
all who chance to see her.
Now please print this to let
her know we miss her, and her
husband, as a Christmas wish
from GOC friends and neigh
bors. - 'O -;-? ?
Mrs. Huron, . r
Medford. . 1
The nuthatch is the only tree
climbing bird that climbs down
the trunks of trees head first.
TV Versus Trashy Movies
To the Editor Thank you for
printing my last letter.
I found many others also ob
ject to these trashy movies of
which there have been all too
many recently. .
I . agree with Mr. Fuller of
Ashland that some new material
for the front page : besides the
Big : Feud would be ;ref reshing.
A column or two on how. to
get rid. . of such lurid enter
tainment would really be unique.
I suppose the movie industry
thinks they have to show that
sort of movie to lure people
away from their television sets.
Well, we will leave our TV set
for a good decent movie, but not
for that junk and most people
will do the same.
Mrs. Margaret Rose,
. 916 Alta St. .
Is That So?
By Eugene Burns '
Ranger-Naturalist
. The Star of Bethlehem, which
guided the three wise men of
the east to Bethlehem so the
legend goes has been made the
symbol of Christmas and so we
place a five-pointed star on the
spire of our Christmas tree.
Quite likely the Star of Beth-
lehem was a brilliant light
which resulted from the colli
sion of dead worlds, perhaps
hundreds of thousands of light
years earlier.
Mindful of our Christmas sym
bol, however, let's step out to
gether into the dark this Christ
mas evening and look up into
those stars in the heavens. And
then, perhaps, repeat the rite
which the naturalists, William
Beebe and Col. Theodore Roose
velt, performed at least 40 times.
After an evening of exploratory
talk, perhaps about the fringe
of knowledge of some new pos
sibility of getting inside the
minds and senses of animals.
they'd step outdoors and look
up.
Searching the sky until they
foimrt the faiiif: Vipawnlv ennt
of light-mist beyond the lower
left-hand corner of the Great
Square of Pegasus, one or the
other recited: .
"That is the Spiral Galaxy in
Andromeda.
"It is as large as our Milky
Way.
"It is one of a hundred mil
lion galaxies. '
"it is 7ou,uuo light years
away.
"It consists of one hundred
billion suns, each larger than
our sun."
And then, after a silence,
Roosevelt would .say: "Now
think we are small enough! Let's
go to bed." - ..
Look at Design
Then, next morning when the
sun shines into the room, look
at our Christmas tree and . the
symbol star at the top. Looking
from the tip-top, look at the
branches below. See how per
fectly and mechanically they
are designed and engineered
to streamline with strong winds
or withstand the stress when
boughs are snow-laden.
Then, look, too, at the thous
ands of needles on each branch
leaves, really. Each is perfect
ly formed, composed of millions
of cells, within each of which
are again a million molecules,
And each molecule is a . constel
lation of atoms, . and in every
atom revolve electrons like plan
ets around the sun.
And what of man? He stands
humbly, I hope between elec
tron and star. ,
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By ROGER W, BABSON
Babson Park, - Mass. (Special
to Main Tribune) Three spe
cialists, just back from Europe,'
discussed the
effect, of our
dollar-aid pro
gram abroad.
Since this was
a small, closed
meeting, I
shall not iden
tify these
men. What
'they said was
Baser W. Babtom . that the mil
lions of dollars spent in Europe
have not, as had been "' hoped,
won very many of our European
neighbors to our way of think
ing. The thinking behind our mul
ti-billion-dollar aid program was
that we could raise the living
standards of Europeans by in
creasing their productivity. This
means by showing them how to
develop mass markets for their
manufactures. We hoped to win
converts with1 refrigerators,
shoes, radios, and many other
Hems. :
What we seem to have over
looked is the fundamental Eur
opean desire for security. The
American economy is dynamic.
Competitiveness is inbred; risk
taking and venture capital are
common denominators of our
success. The European economy,
on the other hand, is a static,
protected economy. Production
is stabilized; prices are con
trolled; the worker is protected;
competition is discouraged; the
common denominator is secur
ity. People are interested in
working harder for security, but
not in selling more units at less
profit per unit.
Reaction of Cynic
To Bid for Europe
One cynic in the group said,
"All right, then why do we try
to force the American ways on
turope.' inese Europeans are
happy; why should we unload a
dose of American ulcers' on
them?" A . comment from an
other went something like this,
"Austria's productive capacity
has been sharply increased since
World War II. We were not con
cerned about them before the
war; wny snouict we be. con
cerned now?" A reputable econ
omist in the group raised an
other issue: "Europe knew it had
a threat from the East, an enemy
in Communist Russia. Might not
Europeans now believe that they
have two enemies seeking to in
filtrate or absorb them Rus
sia and America?"
My own belief is that we must
fight poor economics with good
economics. We cannot, hope to
sell democracy to . people who
are economically enslaved -by
their institutions. If we do hot
act constructively, we shall lose
Europe to Communism by de
fault. : . -
Dollar Good Measure
Of Spiritual Values
I have a, pet notion which I
know will shock some of you,
but think about it a while. Our
dollar bill is a good measure
of our spiritual values! A paper
dollar isn't worth anything of
itself; but, as.a medium of ex
change, it is a measure of values.
It reflects such spiritual values
as honesty, , wisdom, courage,
and integrity. From 1939 to 1953
the value of our dollar declined
from 100 cents to about 55 cents.
Does this decline in dollar value
mirror our decline in character?
Dollar depreciation is largely
a result of war..Buf why? In
stead of paying as we went, we
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Soon the day will arrive when you will joy
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Yuletide festivities. '
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the future. This could be per
fectly O. K., because we owed
nobody but -.ourselves. But : it
gave us the illusion, of prosperi
ty. It sidestepped self-sacrifice
while increasing our national
debt fivefold during these, war
Sacrifice Needed "
To Buy Freedom .. . '-
We "have given young Ameri
cans the notion .that they can
charge their present, happiness
against some future' date of a
counting. We have " developed
the materialistic "belief ' .that
money will buy everything' in-r
eluding the , way , Europeans
think! The present value of the
dollar reflects this belief. Per
haps it will take defeat' in
Europe to bring us to the realiza
tion that freedom cannot be
bought with dollars without sac
rifice. We should have learned
that lesson 175 years ago.
The practical cure for Com
munism is not material, it 13
spiritual. It is not the amount of
dollars you pour into a situa
tion; it is the ideals. It is not
security and pensions and com
fort; it is ideals and ethics and
character. It is those principles
that make our dollar worth
something. Right now our' dollar
is below par; I have faith, how
ever, that as more Americans
come to realize this great truth,
we will put our own house in
order. Then maybe what we
have to say will make more
sense to Europeans. We must
practice and teach sacrifice.
Ex-Reporter Assigned
To Alaska AF Base
A1C William MacDougall,
1805 Thomas rd., recently join
ed the staff of the office of in
formation services at Ladd Air
Force base, Alaska, according to
a release from the Air Force.
nc is a xuruici ruuuu u a vex
ing scholar and reporter for the
Portland Oregonian and former
ly a reporter for the base news
paper at Lackland Air Force
base, in Texas.
MacDougall, 23' is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. David MacDou
gall Jr., of the Thomas rd., ad
dress: He is an airman graduate
from Willamette university at
Salem and completed-a journal
ism course at the graduate
school of journalism, Columbia
university, New York, in' 1953.
He was granted -a1 Pulitzer
traveling, scholarship from. Co
lumbia and toured western Eu
rope last year before joining the
.Air Force, and was overseas re
porter for' the Associated Press
at .the .Madrid, ; Spain, bureau.
He also has served as a corres
pondent . for the Oregonian to
the United Nations. . " .
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whether you are earmarking
your savings to provide se
curity for later life, extra
cash income now, or are just
starting to accumulate . an
emergency fund, it will pay
you to investigate here. .
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SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
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27 North Holly
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