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As We Live ' By ELIZABETH HimOCK. PH.D. ' Ideally, every family should be bound together by strong ties of love and loyalty. No matter how widely scattered the family members are, there should be ' an emotional tie that holds them together as the years pass and each member goes his own way through liie. For too often, this ideal is never realized. Frictions and re sentments grow up and these weaken or sever the ties that would otherwise have bound the members of the family together in a unit. As they grow up, the members of the family drift apart not only in distance but also in their feelings about one another. Bad Situation Sometimes the situation is so bad that some members are not on speaking terms, or line up in camps against each other, wag ing . verbal battles and doing everything they can to spite one another. . i This is always unfortunate be cause, in the long run, "blood is thicker than water." While your friends may be fair 'weather friends, they often desert you when the going gets rough. Then is when the family should be . ready to stand by and help in the emergency. Furthermore, because we are a nation of families, most of our holidays and other special occa sions are family days. These are the times when having a family to be with and do thines with. adds to the enjoyment of the oc casion, if it does not actually make the occasion. People who re at swords' points with their families miss out on these happy times. Family frictions are unneces sary and senseless. It is silly and childish to be jealous of those in the family who have been successful and gotten ahead. You hould .be proud of them and your tie with them. It is equally silly and childish to have . feel ings hurt and dignities impaired by remarks made in fun or by unintentional forgettings of some birthday or anniversary. If members of a family would work as hard (to be pleasant,, agreeable, courteous, kind, and considerate to the members of their family as they are to out siders, these frictions would not arise. Then they would be the ' big, happy family each member could be proud to be identified with.. .- LETTERS FROM READERS ' Cutting Rmarkst "bo some pople try to hurt others by thoir cutting remarks or is it just a matter of tactlessness on their pazxr x.w ': ' (A) When Deonle malra miftina remarks, they usually do not re alize how sharp-edged these re-' marks are until they hear them selves sayine them and see how others react. There are, of coursed some people who intentionally try to hurt others by sarcasm and by attempts to belittle them. You can usually tell, from their facial expressions, whether they mean to hurt others by what they say or if they are merely tactless.- : r-;; Preoccupations , "Lately .'my ktuband just sits and looks into space when he eomes home from work. He seems to be thousands ot miles away and often doesn't seem to hear what the children ox I say to him. Do you think this means he is thinking of some ether woman?" L.W. (A) It ie, of course, possible -that your husband's preoccupa- uuu i uuttvarnea wiui anoiner woman. If I were vou. I would not jump to this conclusion with out more evidence than you now have. He may be tired or he may be worried about his work, some of the people he works with, or he may come home tired and de pressed because he feels he is . . not getting ahead as fast as he should. Why not ask him what he has on his mind and perhaps he will tell you. Then you can help him clear up the things that .are-disturbing him. , Too Conscientious: "Is it possi ble to be too conscientious? My 16-year-old daughter is so con scientious about everything that it worries me. E.W.G. (A) It certainly is possible to be too conscientious and it is too bad when a person becomes so because it - leads to feelings of inadequacy and unhappiness. Try tu nciy yuur aaugnxer aeveiop a better sense of values so she will not take evervthinir sn corinncl,, in the future. . (Copyright 1956, General ' ' - Features Corp.) : A Mcfio J's Worfri of .77 Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Harmon Nichols Washington fU.R) When the boss man of the Department of Labor faces his hired hands he . rocks along on an even keeL, He knows whereof he speaks. Secre tary of Labor James P. Mitchell came up from the ranks himself. The six-foot, 200-p o u n d er once was de- scribed by , a reporter as "big, blunt and Irish." He sure is. -A one-time truck driver who picked up all of $15 a week as an errand boy before that, also knows a little about the busi ness end. He ran a couple ot stores up in New Jersey, where he lost his shirt, and also his britches. Questions Submitted ' The big guy with the wiry tangle of white hair likes to meet the good folks in the Labor De partment. The other day he opened the door for a question and answer session, i The invitation he sent to all the help was a come-all deal. And most everybody did. , There on the floor and in the gallery of the departmental audi torium were his guys and dolls, 1500 strong and all of them handy with the draw and ready to shoot questions. The bold, told ahead of time they didn't have to sign their names, submitted written ques tions. Exactly 266 of them did. The timid just listened, and ap plauded. The secretary realized he didn't have time to run through the whole batch of questions, but he did his best. And he prom ised to answer the rest later, pos sibly in a departmental bulletin. Jim Mitchell is trigger fast. One question asked was: "What are the chances of the Labor Department getting new jobs from Congress? Without new jobs, promotions will be slow, won't they?" Idea To Kill Germs ' The secretary, witRout a look at the books, said ' the depart ment's budget last year was in creased enough to. provide 800 new jobs and 787 employees got promoted. '"Now," he said, "I expect that this year there ,will also be many hundreds of jobs added." One question stumped the for mer driver of pick-up trucks. It read: ' in order to cut down on Washington Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Dies Salem U.R) Joe Mehan, 65, long-time sergeant-at-arms at the Washington state Senate, died at a. hospital here Thursday night. He' had been ill about six months with a liver ailment that brought about his death. For the past three years, Me han had run the variety depart ment of a supermarket south of here. His last service as sergeant-at-arms of the Washing ton Senate was during the 1951 colds, wouldn't it be a good idea to have a monthly flooding of all offices with a violet ray ma chine? This . would ' kill many germs that now plague us." Mitchell put on his Irish grin and said he thought that one, picked out of the barrel at ran dom, was a little over his head. But he said he, too, was con cerned about the rash of bugs running around the building giving folks the sniffles and .he sure as thunder would have somebody look into the matter. Such little folksy sessions are popular with the people who work at Labor. Most of the time during working hours,; unless another wheel is around and locked in for an important meet ing, Jim Mitchell's gate is wide open to the help.' Southerners Rally To Defend Confederates Atlanta flJ.R) Seuthern ers rallied to defend the three surviving Confederate veterans Saturday from the "insult" of getting Yankee money to pay their medical bills. Officials of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy declared the fading old soldiers can get along without the pension pro posals being considered by a House judiciary subcommittee, thank you! Southern congressmen . intror duced j the proposals because congress last year voted to' pay the medical expenses of the last surviving veteran of the Union army, Albert Woolson, of Du lath, Minn. Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-SC) warned Friday that if the old vets' home states do not provide for their medical care they, "canont complain of the invas ion" of their rights by thefeder al government. Thurmond had solid . backing from the UDC in South Carolina and Texas, and if Florida's spry, 108-year-old William ' At (Uncle Bill) Lundy needs medical aid he would be last to admit it. Lundy, of Laurel Hill, Fla., gets a state pension, as do 113-year-old Walter E. Williams of Franklin, Tex., and John Sal- ling, 108, of Slant, Va. Sunday, February 51956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREK COPCO Road Open to Upper North Umpqua Roseburg A 15 to 20-mile long California Oregon . Power company road to installations on the upper North Umpqua river will be completely acces sible from Roseburg this week end, according to company offi- Oregonian Sentenced On Extortion Attempt - Sacramento, Calif .-4U.R) Wil liam ; Ellis, 'an unemployed la borer from Hillsboroj Ore., has been sentenced to one to five years in state' prison for a $100, 000 extortion attempt. Ellis had pleaded guilty to at tempting to solve his chronic un employment problem by extor tion money from wealthy Sacra mento lumberman George Stei- ner.' Ellis admitted ' he threat ened the lives of Steiner and his wife.'' . .' ' : Probation' Officer John Shel- lenbarger rejected Ellis' plea for leniency on grounds the circum stances of the case were too serious to warrant probation. El lis was arrested Jan: 10 after he picked up a handbag purported ly : ; containing ' the' extortion money Jrom a bus station locker. He also had admitted helping plan a similar extortion attempt against a Portland bank official. cials. The route, which has been closed since before Christmas, was damaged by high water, slides and fallen trees. The in stallations have been accessible only from Klamath county, ex cept for a high-pass route from Roseburg. At the Morrison-Knudsen con struction camp below Toketee a five-ton load limit -was placed on a forest service bridge after the December storms. Copco crews will finish repair of a tempor ary bridge near Soda Springs Friday or Saturday,- off icials re ported. . Edmund E. Hass Resident Monoqer JaCIFIC KoRTHWIST CoMPANI Smca 1913 HOTEL MEDFORD LOBBY Phone 2-8379 Consult With Mr. Hass on v INVESTMENT and .RETIREMENT Programs . Using the Securities of i Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial and Investment . .. Company Shares. Incomes of 3 to 6 Can Be Obtained. Other offices in Portland, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane. Tacoma, Aber deen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla. Hemorrhage, Not Bite, Fatal To Housewife Honolulu U.p3 Doctors said Saturday that Mrs? Ethel Tanabe, 42-year-old Honolulu housewife,- died of cerebral hemorrhage not as the result of a poisonous spider bite. Mrs. Tanabe died at Kuakini hospital Friday, five days after she was bitten by a rare cherio canthium diversum yellow and red South Seas spider. She had been confined to an iron lung. However, pathologists at the hospital said pressure building up in the woman's skull caused the inability to breathe. They said thespider bite and the stroke were "coincidental and completely unrelated." STASIS i ' Ir artmeni More s iia TERRIFIC SAVINGS IN OUR LADIES' & GIRLS' DEPT. This gigantic store wide sale with its outstanding bargains is our way of saying "thanks a million" for your wonderful support during the past year. Come in tomorrow and look over these buys. Space does not permit a listing of all the values offered throughout the store. Open Week Days a.mvto 6:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. r SPECIAL SALE TABLE Values to 6.95 29 MEN'S COTTON FLANNEL SHIRTS 1.49 - y fjzz"-.i V r "W M m -.---M M " ' -p" yf v . Q'L'SA"S F,NAL PLEASE! J (J ff) J BOYS' j SI y-y DRESS SOCKS I 71 mHHBiKH-av-HiiiHkWffii-nHnM H II H y 'I BOYS' JACKETS Reg. 3.95 1 v 99 PEG PANTS 10 Colors Reg. 3.95 89 1 MEN'S BOYS' SPORT SHIRTS-T-SHIRTS and SHORTS Values to 2.95 . 49 j ' 59 :. BOYS' 1 MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS PAJAMAS v Values to 4.95 1.69 2A9 ; ; MEN'S WASHABLE 1 MEN'S DRESS SHOES NYLON WORK JACKETS Reg. 17.95 "S 499 I SALE 10" mmm MEN'S SPORT COATS ; MEN'S DRESS SLACKS Reg. to 29.95 Values to 20.00 995toT889 j 389tol495 ir 1 MEN'S MEN'S -WOOL SHIRTS FADED BLUE DENIMS Reg 8 95 1.98 j 5.98 MEN'S " MEN'S WORK DRESS SOCKS SUIT PANTS and SHIRTS 39 II 4.49 MEN'S PAJAMAS Special JEWELRY Grab Bag Reg. to 4.95 Values to 8.95 2.89 99n,149 , ' IL L Reg. Values To MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS MEN'S JACKETS .... MEN'S SWEATERS MEN'S WESTERN HATS . .. .... ....... MEN'S DRESS SLACKS MEN'S WOOL SOCKS MEN'S LEATHER BELTS "....:...: MEN'S DRESS SOCKS MEN'S DRESS SOCKS MEN'S TIES .1... MEN'S BOWS MEN'S PINK DRESS SHIRTS .... ...... MEN'S COAT SWEATERS ............... MEN'S PAJAMAS .. ..................... MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS MEN'S 50 WOOL UNIONS ....... MEN'S DRESS WESTERN SHIRTS ... MEN'S MOCS .. ..... 1.. .. MEN'S WOOL SHIRTS, WASHABLE MEN'S WOOL SHIRTS i.;...... . MEN'S PART WOOL SHIRTS ......... MEN'S CORDS ............. MEN'S NYLON WHIPCORDS ......... MEN'S SHOES . MEN'S CALK LOGGER BOOTS ........ MEN'S WORK SHOES .................... BOYS' JACKETS, WOOL r BOYS' SPORT SHIRTS ..... BOYS' CORDS .....1. BOYS' DRESS SLACKS BOYS' DENIMS .. ........l BOYS' 13-OZ. JEANS ... BOYS' HIGH TOP SHOES BOYS' WESTERN SHIRTS BOYS' SWEAT SHIRTS ... ...... BOYS' SWEATERS MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS Value to. 3.95 1.49 LADIES' BLOUSES Geatly Reduced ?7 . ' MEN'S DRESS JACKETS Start as Low as 3.89 1 LADIES' SWEATERS ' Reg. to 9.75 , 3.99 GIRLS' FLANNEL PAJAMAS and GOWNS 198 GIRLS' TRIPLE ROLL SOCKS BOYS' COMBAT BOOTS CLOSEOUT 2.49 MEN'S WESTERN SHIRTS 2.69 V Second & Pine Sts. Pol Second & Pine Sts. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads
