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
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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."
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Space does not permit a listing of all the values offered throughout the store.
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SPECIAL
SALE TABLE
Values
to 6.95
29
MEN'S COTTON
FLANNEL SHIRTS
1.49
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J (J ff) J BOYS' j
SI y-y DRESS SOCKS I
71 mHHBiKH-av-HiiiHkWffii-nHnM H II
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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
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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
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