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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 19. l&S
(It was Tuesday)
J. R. Cochran of Astoria pur
chases M M Department store
here, according to Charles S.
Adair, former owner.
From Arthur ferry's " Ye
Smudge Pot column: The first
June peas have shown up in the
grocery stores. Still people make
fun of Sunday papers that go on
sale Wednesday.
2fl YEARS AGO
$iarch 19, 1936
(Itwas Thursday)
County spends total of $5,757
on relief during February, ac
cording to monthly report.
Almost "100 persons die in
floods which sweep eastern
state, no relief in sight.
30 YEARS AGO
March 19, 192S
(It was Friday)
Teachers' local institute sched
uled at Eagle Point tomorrow.
General smudging in valley
for second consecutive morning.
40 YEARS AGO .
March 19, 1916
(It was Sunday)
Department of agriculture of
ficials urge unity in fruit indus
try in northwest. o
Orchards of valley two weeks
advanced beyond the blooming
period of last year.
WhaS's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. President Eisenhower when
in Washington usually holds a
press conference twice or once
a week, or twice or once a
month?
2. Lt. Gen. John B. Glubb was
until recently a leader in the
British, Israeli, Egyptian, U. S.,
Jordanian or Indian army?
3. Almost every beginning
teacher now in city public
schools has a college degree;
right or wrong?
4. Bobby Jones is the only
American to win the British
open golf championship; right
or wrong?
5. The Government's motor
vehicles begin to need major re
pairs on the average at about
(a) 25,000, (b) 50,000, (c) 75,000
or (d) 100,000 miles?
6. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt is or
isn't a member of the U. S. dele
gation to U.N.?
7. Ah odometer measures
smells, wind velocity, rainfall,
atmospheric pressure or mile
age? The Answers: 1. Usually once
a week; 2. Jordanian; 3. Right; 4.
Wrong; 5. about 50,000; 6. Isn't
now; 7. Mileage.
Italian City Cuts
Power for Lack of Snow
Trento, Italy (U.R) Nearly
everyone in Italy got more than
his share -of snow this winter.
Only the city of Trento com
plained it got too little.
Authorities in this Alpine city
ordered street lighting cut in
half and switched off floodlights
around city monuments when
water ran low in the artificial
lakes of hydro-electric plants.
They blamed the lack of water
on an exceptionally light snow
fall during a winter that was
the worst in memory for the
rest of Italy.
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Population Threat
A headline in the Mail Tribune the other evening
said "Overpopulation is World's Big Problem."
It is, too. The story quoted Sir Charles Darwin,
grandson of the famed biologist, and himself a scien
tist of note, to the effect that population of the world
is increasing by 90,000 souls daily, and that there
"won't even be standing room" in the world in an
other 20 centuries.
"THE threat of overpopulation has long been a pre
occupation with us, a threat which long seemed
to be getting too little attention. But there are signs
that it IS getting attention from many people
scientists, governmental officials in several countries,
church leaders.
What the solutions will be, if there is any other
than mass starvation, is not
T. R. Malthus, the English clergyman who first
started worrying about the problem early in the last
centmy, saw no solutions except starvation, war and
plagues.
:' His gloomy philosophy : was largely discredited
as new agricultural areas and methods vastly in
creased the supplies of food. But the problem, while
delayed in some areas, was not solved. It is still with
us, more in some areas than others, but important
and challenging in its implications everywhere.
JULIAN Huxley, another noted scientist who re
cehtly completed a trip around the world, brings
the situation into focus inan article in the current
issue of Scientific American. He gives, in some detail,
facts and figures on population in the critical parts of
the world.
And at the end he says :
Everything points to one conclusion. While every effort
must be made to increase food production, to facilitate dis
tribution, to conserve all conservable resources and to
shame the "have" nations into a fairer sharing of the good
things of the world with the "have-nots," this alone cannot
prevent disaster. Birth control also is necessary on a world
scale and as soon as possible.
He adds:
Though I may seem to have painted the picture in
gloomy colors, I would like to end on a key of hope. Just as
the portentous threat of atomic warfare has brought human
ity to its senses and seems likely to lead to the abandonment
of all-out war as an instrument of national policy, so I
would predict that the threat of overpopulation will prompt
a reconsideration of values and lead eventually to a hew
value system for human living. But time presses: This year
will. add more than 34 million pedple to humanity's total,
and certainly for two or three decades to come each suc
cessive year will add more. If nothing is done soon, world
overpopulation will be a fact well before the end of the cen
tury, bringing with it an explosive cargo of misery and sel
fish struggle, frustration and increasingly desperate prob
lems. THE realities of overpopulation are not the gloomy
imaginings of dreaming pessimists. They are
facts. These facts have a dreadful import for every
family, every individual in the world, including
those in relatively happy, prosperous and well-fed
Jackson county.
Starvation on the other side of the world is not
so far away. Giant surpluses of food do not last for
ever. We would hate to think that our children and
our children's children will face misery and death
because we of this, generation would not look facts,
however unpleasant, in the face. E.A.
"Great Decisions"
Jackson county residents will have an unequalled
opportunity during the next two months to get into
the debate on foreign policy and on a highly person
al basis.
The opportunity is being furnished through a
"Great Decisions" program, which has been highly
successful in other areas. It starts here next Sunday.
The program is informal and loosely-organized
and maximum voluntary participation is encouraged
by the temporary committee which is sponsoring the
program here in cooperation with the Foreign Policy
association.
THERE will be eight topics for discussion, one each
week. Background material on each of the topics,
prepared by experts in their own fields, will be made
available to anyone interested, through this newspap
er, over the radio stations, the television station, and
in the form of fact sheets.
It is hoped that a number of discussion groups will
be formed to follow the topics as they are presented.
At the "end of each week, the groups will be en
couraged to use ballots, which are being provided, to
let our representatives in congress, and the state de
partment, .know of the conclusions which the discus
sion groups reach.
,
THAT'S all there is to it.
The value of the program has been acknowledged
by leaders in government (including the President
and the Secretary, of State), in labor, business and
other fields. It is to be hoped many people will take
advantage of the chance being offered. E.A.
Oregon Reserve Wing
Portland -4J.R) Chico, Calif.,
will be the home base for some
700 officers and men of Oregon's
403rd troop carrier reserve wing
taking part in two-week active
duty training this summer, Col.
R. W. Sheets, wing commander,
announced yesterday.
The move to Chico will be a
test of the Oregon unit's ability
to transport itself to a distant
field, Col. Sheets said.
The Chico facilities are owned
by the city but have been leased
for reserve training programs
during the summer months.
The wing's 16 C-46s will
transport tactical crews - while
C-124 Globemasters of the 18th
Monday, March 19, 1958
so clear.
To Be Based at Chico
air force will transport the sup
port units. . ,
The Oregon group is sched
uled to hold its active training
Aug. 12 through 26.
CANADIAN STATION OPENS
Werl, Germany (U.R) The
first Canadian radio station in
Europe will open Wednesday for
the 6,000 Canadian NATO sol
diers and their 4,000 dependents
stationed in Germany. The 250
kilowatt station will broadcast
Canadian news, ice hockey
games and women's programs
in both English and French.
-Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday; other dayi S30 previous day.
Lobby Investigation May Show
Activities of Ex-Congressmen
Washington (CQ)-Senators
investigating pressures on Con
gress may find themselves check
ing into the activities of former
Congressional colleagues.
Sixty-six ex-Senators and Rep
resentatives are among the 4,216
individuals and organizations
registered as lobbyists since the
1946 enactment of the Federal
Regulation of Lobbying Act, a
Congressional Quarterly study
shows.
Not all 66 are active now
the lobby law makes no . pro
vision for the withdrawing of a
registration once it's filed but
many are earning a living as in
fluencers of the type of legisla
tion they once helped enact.
Full-Time Heads
Two former Congressmen are
full-time heads of major lobby
groups. Ex-Rep. Jerry Voorhis
(D-Calif., 1937-47) has been ex
ecutive director of the Co-operative
League of the U.S.A. since
he lost his seat to Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon. Ex-Rep. Clyde
T. Ellis (D-Ark., 1939-43) is gen
eral manager of the National
Rural Electric Co-operative As
sociation, which he joined as
soon as he left Congress.
Most of the retired lawmakers
are free-lance lobbyists, combin
ing their activity with ' a law
practice or other occupations.
One of the busiest in this group
is ex-Rep. Wesley E. Disney (D
Okla., 1931-45), who has regis
tered for 48 groups since 1947.
Most of his clients are mining
and oil interests.
Others with more than 10 reg
istrations are: ex-Rep. James M.
Barnes (D-Ill., 1939-43); ex-Sen.
James P. Kem (R-Mo., 1947-53);
ex-Sen. Scott W. Lucas (D-Ill.,
1939-51); ex-Rep. J. Hardin Pet
erson (D-Fla., 1933-51); and ex
Rep. Albert L. Reeves Jr. (R-Mo.,
1947-49).'
Most End Public Life
For most former Congressmen,
the start of their lobbying is the
end of their public life, but a
few have made the tricky tran
sition from legislator to lobbyist
and back into public office.
Federal Judge John A. Dan-
Matter of Fact by
KINDNESS OF MR. FINLEY
Washington The National
Gallery of Art is only incident
ally located on Constitution
Avenue; it is not local but na
tional, as its
name implies.
The true ad
dress of this
vast pink
marble treas
ure house is
really not
W a s h i ngton,
D.C., but sim
ply the United
States of
iosepb Aisop America.
These fairly obvious facts are
worth pointing out at the mo
ment because David Edward Fin
ley is now retiring from the
National Gallery Directorship.
mmn The almighty
made the Yel
lowstone and
the Grand Can
yon. The Capi
tol, the White
House and our
other man
made land
scape features
are owed to
Stewart Aisop scores oi nanas
and minds. But David Finley,
the real creator of the National
Gallery, has added a new. and
major feature to th American
landscape almost single-handed.
There is a good deal -of con
fusion on this point, no doubt.
The National Gallery is often
called the Mellon Gallery; and it
is certainly true that Andrew
W. Mellon generously spent
something like fifty million dol
lars buying pictures for and en
dowing and building the great
gallery. But where Mellon gave
money, Finley gave himself,
which was rather more import
ant in the long run.
"IN FIRST acquaintance, to be
sure, you would not suppose
that David, Finley is the sort of
man who could matter quite a
lot more, all by himself, than
fifty million dollars. He is a
short, slender fellow of decided
ly avian appearance, with the
almost exhaustingly good man
ners of ' an old-fashioned South
Carolinian. He never speaks an
unkind word or does an unkind
thing. He is an enthusiastic gard
ener, but you feel he is even
polite to the weeds as he uproots
them. He goes to church, sits on
the vestry, and is loyal to old
friends. Altogether, you would
say, a complete epitome of all
the milder virtues..
But David Finley's beautiful
manners and mild appearance
mask a steely determination and
a happy ruthlessness that would
not be entirely out of place in
the Kremlin. He has never want
ed much, rather luckily, for him
self. But when Finley wants
something for the National Gal
lery, iron men are twisted into
knots; strong men blanch and
stand aside; and obstinate men
do not know what has hit them.
THERE was the occasion, for
example, when the Pennsyl
vanians were being small-minded
about keeping Joseph A. Wid
ener's incomparable pictures at
aher of Connecticut (R) and Gov.
Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona
(D) registered as lobbyists after
their Senate terms ended and
before their new jobs began.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D
Wyo., 1934-53, 1955) lobbied for
the Upper. Missouri Development
Association and North American
Airlines during the two-year gap
in his legislative career.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C),
who was in the House during
1946-47, registered as an agent
of the Southern Railway Co. be
fore entering the Senate in 1954.
Ervin says he made but a single
appearance for the railway and
received no compensation for
his work. He was also employed
as the company's trial lawyer.
O'Mahoney reported receiving
$1,000 for two months' work for
the Upper Missouri- group and
had a $5,000 retainer plus pay
"on a merit basis" frbm North
American Airlines.
Pay Records Sketchy
The official records are too
sketchy to give any indication
of how much the average ex
Congressman can make as a lob
byist. But ex-Rep. Howard M.
Baldridge (R-Neb., 1931-33)
signed on with the U.S. Cane
Sugar Refiners Association at
$2,200 a month and ex-Rep. An
drew J. Biemiller (D-Wis., 1945
47, 1949-51) reported a $10,000
annual salary from the AFL
CIO. Do lobbies hire men who have
aided their cause as Congress
men? In some cases, yes.
Thomas H. Burke, who now
works for the United Auto Work
ers, had a strong pro-labor
record as a one-term Democratic
Representative from Ohio.. But
the American Finance Confer
ence hired ex-Senator Lucas in
1951 and he testified against
consumer credit controls, even
though he had voted for them
the previous year.
In most cases, ex-legislators
are attractive to pressure groups,
not because of their specific opin
ions, but because of their close
acquaintance and presumed in
fluence with their former col-
Joe and Stewart Aisop
home in Philadelphia. The Penn
sylvania legislature passed a
special estate-tax bill designed
to. prevent Widener from giving
his pictures to Finley. Finley
got President Roosevelt to ask
Congress for another special bill
to allow the U.S. Treasury to
pay the tax. The entire Penn
sylvania Congressional delega
tion was alerted to defeat tris
bill of Finley's. There were 30
of them. There was only one
Finley. But Finley managed to
whisk through his bill by
unanimous consent when all 30
Pennsylvanians were absent-
mindedly looking the other way.
Or there, was the other oc
casion when David Finley ar
ranged to kidnap a, Michelangelo
out of Italy. That story cannot
quite be told, even today. ' But
it can be said that the Finley
kidnaping, or rather picture-nap-
ing, scheme would surely have
worked, if a key American par
ticipant had not been too fearful
of being stoned in the street by
enraged. Italian art-lovers. To
this day, Finley shakes his head
over such poltroonery and want
of patriotism, ,
But while the Finley drama
has had its iron scenes, the sym
pathetic scenes have been far
more common. . Finley has an un
usual gift of sympathy (except
for anyone who wants something
the National Gallery ought to
have); and it was this special
gift of his, one suspects, that
made Andrew Mellon, aging, a
little chilly and isolated by his
fantastic wealth, choose out
David Finley for his man Friday
among all the young officials of
the Treasury -who might have
filled the post. '
Tlf ELLON is was who first con-
x ceived the notion of giving
an art gallery to the nation. But
it was Finley, very certainly,
who decided that the gaUery
must be fit to stand comparison
with the Louvre and the Prado;
the National Gallery of London,
the Hermitage in Moscow . and
Pitti in Florence. And it was
Finley who made . the . great
scheme for a national treasure
house into the dominating inter
est of Mellon's later years. '
How the Soviets sold the Gal
lery the masterpieces of art they
inherited from Catherine the
Great;- how; the magnificent
Kress collection, the splendid
pictures "of . Chester Dale, and
many more came to the Gallery
all this should of course be
told.
But the truth .is that except
for J. P. Morgan's lovely Ghir-
landaio portrait that went to
Switzerland, almost nothing that
the gallery should have had and
could have had has failed to find
its way there somehow.
' "Mr.' Morgan," says Finley,
still visibly distressed after 20
years, "was in much too much
of a hurry to sell to Baron Thys-
sen." But this - one defeat can
surely be forgiven in David Fin
ley's long record of splendid
triumph on our behalf.
Copyright 1956 New York
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leagues. And the ex-Congress
men have one marketable ad
vantage over their competitors
in the lobby ranks: the privilege '
of going into the cloakrooms and
onto, the floor of the House and
Senate to buttonhole legislators.
Rankles Some
Use of this right rankles some
Congressmen and many non-
privileged lobbyists. Some legis
lators complain privately of feel
ing trapped and abused when a
favor-seeking former colleague
corners them in the cloakroom
before a vote. George J. Burger,
vice-president of the National
Federation of Independent Busi
ness, urged publicly last Decem
ber that "no special considera
tion should be extended to a
former. Member of Congress"
who has registered as a lobby
ist.
But with or without this ad
vantage, it seems clear that in
years to come many more Con
gressmen will follow the 66 who
already have found that defeat
at the polls or retirement from
public office does not necessarily
close a Capitol Hill career.
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The august senate of the
United States traditional home
in .America of dignity and states
manship is busier today than
the legendary cranberry mer
chant. It is trying, to reach a
vote on the senate's version of
what a farm bill in the critical
political year of 1956 should
contain.
T FEAR that the grave and dig-
nified senators, ' like their
somewhat more rough-and-tumble
comrades in the house ' of
representatives, are more inter
ested in the votes that will be
influenced by the 1956 farm bill
than in what it will accomplish
in the way of getting American
agriculture back onto a sound
ancLstable basis.
After all, it will take a LONG
TIME to rescue our agriculture
from the dangerous predicament
in which it finds itself as a re
sult of unwise political farming
methods. The political situation
which involves the all-import
ant issue of who will stay in and
who will be thrown out will be
resolved on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of Novem
ber of THIS YEAR.
The senators, like their con
feres in the house, are primarily
interested in first things first.
"IN Tuesday, by a narrow mar
V gin, the senate wrote into
the farm bill the long-controversial
two-price plan which would
give to wheat growers 100 per
cent of "parity" on that part of
the national . crop used . for hu
man consumption. .
The rest of the crop estimat
ed at about half would go for
whatever it would bring on the
export and feed markets. Wheat
growers in Oregon and Washing
ton are applauding the senate's
action.
The administrator of the Ore
gon wheat commission says the
amendment passed by the senate
is virtually the Oregon plan. The
master of the Washington State
Grange says the nation's wheat
growers have won a signal vic
tory. " .
I WONDER. - :
.. The great trouble with the
wheat business, as with the cotton
business, has been that the prices
guaranteed by law have made it
profitable to produce more wheat
and cotton than the markets will
absorb AT THE PRICE. The re
sult has been a staggering ac
cumulation of surpluses that
hang over the markets like a
dark thundercloud and will con
tinue to do so as long as the
surpluses exist.
If the two-price plan CON
TINUES to make it profitable to
grow more wheat than the mar
kets will absorb, nothing will
have been gained. Whether it
does so can be determined only
by experience if the house goes
along with the senate on the two
price wheat plan and the Presi
dent signs the bill.
THIS particular campaign
year, we must remember that
the political farmers in the con
gress and elsewhere are not so
much concerned with getting
American agriculture back onto
a sound economic basis as with
the votes that may be influenced
by subsidy legislation.
Rogue River Dragged
For Body of Riverman
Gold Beach, Ore. (U.R)
Curry county sheriff's deputies
continued dragging the Rogue
river today for the body of Mose
Fry, well-known Gold Beach
riverman, who fell out of a
boat into the water late, Friday.
Officers said Fry . and two
other persons, neither of whom
was. identified immediately,
were taking some diesel oil to
a camp up the river when the
accident occurred about 20
miles upstream from here.
Sheriff Glen Sabin said an
investigation was being made
into the apparent drowning. .
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Big Powers
To Try Frustrating
Disarmament Effort
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The big powers are off again
on their long frustrating attempt
to work out a disarmament
agreement.
Delegates of
the United
States, Can
a d a, Great
Britain, France
and Soviet
Russia met in
London to try
tq get going
on a program.
Charles McCann This in Itself
is a minor conference. The dele
gates met as a subcommittee
of the United Nations Commis
sion. . v.
Any agreements they might
make would have to be worked
out in detail by the govern
ments concerned.
There is ' no indication that
Russia is ready to agree to a sys
tem of inspection which would
be essential to guard against
cheating.
But hope persists that some
tinie, in some way, the path be
opened to an. agreement that
would lessen the increasingly
terrible threat of a great war.
New Plan Seen
The path might possibly be
opened at last at the ' London
conference.
This time Britain and France
are to present a new disarma-
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On "Warmongers'"
. To the Editor: I just read a
lady's comment on Democratic
Presidents being in office during
times of wars. It's one that I've
often heard. Looking at it in
this same point of narrow mind-
edness, the most tragic war we
have ever had was the Civil War.
More grief, sorrow, and hard
ships came from it than any oth
er war we've ever had.
But can we blame Lincoln? No,
if you are judging it by human
rights, which was the purpose
of it.
I have yet to read or hear of
Democrats using this as a cheap
political football. But its a good
thing a Democrat wasn't in then,
or we would never hear the end
of it. So lets consider the rea
sons and not the person..
In regards to Mr. - Roosevelt,
maybe you're right. Hitler broad
cast to the people over here and
pleaded that he didn't want war
with us. His scientists were
working day and night to get the
A bomb. But Roosevelt, the war
monger, had to jump in and ruin
things for him. But if he hadn't,
instead of counting tens of thou
sands dead, we would have been
counting in the millions men,
women and children.
And instead of "suffering'
under Roosevelt, we would have
been under the glorious dictator
ship of Hitler.
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Central Point, Ore.,
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Open Trade With Ceylon
Colombo, Ceylon (U.R) Two
Communist satellite . countries
are expected fo open trade nego
tiations with Ceylon soon, offi
cial sources said today.
The sources said a ' Romanian
trade delegation has arrived
here to explore trade possibili
ties and a Hungarian trade team
is expected later In the week.
Two Czechoslovakian members
of a team which signed a trade
agreement with Ceylon have re
turned to sign a payments agree
ment. 1 .
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ment plan. Prime Minister An
thony Eden and Premier . Guy
Mollet agreed on it during their
recent talk in London. Their
plan may or may not turn out
to offer new possibilities of
agreement.
But the conference also will
take up seriously the question
of control of atomic weapons.
The basis for this phase of the
conference has been laid down
in the last few months, by the
exchange of correspondence be
tween President Eisenhower and
Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul
ganin. The correspondence stems
from the President's proposal
at the Geneva "summit" confer
ence last July for "open skies"
air inspection of military facili
ties and an exchange of blue
prints of military strength. ,
In his latest letter to Bul-
ganin, sent last month, the Presi
dent said:
"In my judgment our efforts
must be directed especially . to
bringing under control the nu
clear threat. . . . The United
States would be prepared to
work out, with other nations,
suitable and safeguarded ar
rangements so that future pro
production of fissionable mate
rials anywhere in the world
would no" longer be used to in
crease the stockpiles of explo
sive weapons."
Czar Called Conference '
The attempt to work out a
disarmament agreement has
been going on now for 57 years.
Strangely enough it was Russia,
now the greatest threat to world
peace, that started it.
To ring in the 20th century,
Czar Nicholas II called for a
three-point agreement. It was de
signed to freeze fighting forces
for a fixed period, freeze mili
tary budgets, and start discus
sion of arms - reduction. . Inci
dentally, this formula is still
part of disarmament talks.
The Czar's conference met at
the Hague, Holland, on May 18,
1899. Twenty-six nations attend
ed it. Germany balked at at
tempts to define excessive arma
ments. The conference collapsed
on July 29, 1899. '
Also, at the instance of the-r-i
Czar, a second Hague conference
was held in 1907. It, too, ended
in failure; to bring disarmament.
Some agreements were reach
ed including one, at the -1899
conference to "prohibit the
launching of projectiles and ex
plosives from balloons or by oth
er similar new methods." That
agreement just seems to have
given people ideas.
But again, there seems to be
the feeling that the big powers
must agree sometime, or else . . .
Come As You Are
GEO. N. TAYLOR
God stands with wide open
arms to make you his own for
ever. But you must first lay
hold of the
blood of Christ
as blotting out
your every last
sin. First turn
and r e c i e v e
Christ into
your heart as
your only Lord
and Saviour.
At that, God
remembers
your sins "against you no more
forever. After that, when you
sin, tell God and get back into
step, for Christ died for that sin
also.
Receive Christ into your heart
and you become His new crea
tion. The liar becomes truthful;
the drunkard - quits drink; the
murder halts. The. goody-goods
get saved. Don't wait and die
lost. Come now. And to grow,
read the Bible.
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