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Medlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1946 (Wednesday)
Medford's school enrollment
at the close of the first week of
school totals 3,046 students, six
per cent more than last year.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: This is Na
tional Dog Week. A number of
things that shouldn't happen to
a dog are happening to people.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 193S (Friday)
Federal court will hold Its an
nual session here Oct. 6, Glenn
O. Taylor, resident deputy clerk,
announces.
Proposed affiliation of the
Ashland Chamber of Commerce
and the Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce deferred at a
board meeting of the Jackson
county chamber.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 192S (Saturday)
Reservations for Greater Med
ford club luncheon at St. Mark's
Guild hall Monday must be in by
9 a.m. Monday.
Motion pictures of the first
air mail and other recent local
vents of interest will be shown
at the Copco building tonight by
California Oregon Power com
pany. 40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 1916 (Monday)
'This is a "Dirty Dora' cam
paign: that is the Republican
cry." said Chester E. Contrell,
Memphis, Tenn., in Medford yes
terday on business.
Sells-Floto circus. Buffalo Bill
Wild West champon shows of the
world, will exhibit here on
Thursday, Sept. 28.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 1906 (Tuesday)
Miss Irene Brown will give
recital tonight at opera house.
From Local and Personal col
umn. Among displays at the ex-
hibit building are peppers
grown by Mrs. Delia Lewis of
Eagle Point.
What's the Answer?
Can Ion Get 4 of tbe 7?
Copt. 193S Editorial Research
Report
1. The number of small family
farms is declining, increasing.
holding its own compared with
the number of large "commer
cial" farms?
2. Estes Kefauver, Democratic
candidate for vice president, has
served in the Senate or the
House, both or neither.
3. The Truman Doctrine was
on defending Formosa, aiding
Greece and Turkey against Rus
sia, keeping Red China out of
U.N., or sharing atomic secrets?
4. Mt. Desert, a U.S. island in
the Atlantic ocean, is part of
which state?
5. First President inaugurated
on a Jan. 20 was Coolidge. Hoov
er. F. D. Roosevelt, Truman or
Eisenhower?
6. All nationally prominent
labor leaders have come out for
Stevenson as against Eisenhow
er: right or wrong?
7. The Russian word "Soviet"
means dictatorship, state farm,
council, nationalized factory, or
Marxian socialism?
The answers: 1. Family farms
are declining. 2. In both. 3. Aid
ing Greece and Turkey. 4.
Maine. 5. F.D.R. 6. Wrong. 7.
Council. ...
, What? No Issues in 1956?
We have been asked what ex-Secretary of the In
terior McKay meant when in introducing V.P. Nixon
the other day he declared, quote :
"The Issues don't amount to anything, it's the votes that
count."
Needless to say we can't speak officially for the
GOP candidate for the senate WHAT an assignment
that would be! but our belief is he meant just what
he said.
A CCORDING to Peter Lisagor who reported the
" Eugene meeting for the Portland Oregonian and
the Chicago News this extraordinary statement did
not make much of a hit with the audience nor wTith
the guest of honor Campaigner Nixon, who had pre
pared his speech on what he considered the main
issues.
Lisagor called it a "disarming remark" and "the
bouncy little gent straight out of Sinclair Lewis' Main
Street," gave little comfort to Nixon who was waiting
in the rear of the hall to make his "pitch."
Well it might be added, to quote again, "the
bouncy little gent" is giving
porters, and increasing comfort to his opponents, for
every time he speaks his vote-getting batting average
goes down, and the batting average of the man he so
detests, Oregon's senior senator, goes up.
This is not according to any Democratic figuring,
but the figuring of McKay's staunch supporter, the
Oregonian, whose special poll compiler declares if the
election occured today Morse would beat McKay by
from "29,000 to 32,000 votes."
Well that is quite a bunch of votes to lose, or win
back, in the five or six weeks remaining before the
! ballots will be counted. Unless something unforseen
occurs the Oregonian s bouncy little gent from Mam
Street just can t make it
RUT to return to that extremely revealing statement,
" As remarked we see no reason to doubt that for
mer Secretary of the Interior meant exactly what he
said.
For to him the issues don't count. He doesn't want
to count them. For on
tidelands oil, through Al Sarena to the exploitation of
our natural resources instead, of their conservation,
Douglas McKay has been wrong, and no one realizes
it better than he that if he' agreed to debate the
issues involved in his effort to oust Wayne Morse and
take the seat for himself
than he i3 today which as
So he says there are no
be brought up don t amount
to him is all tnat counts. .
YkJELli we have to hand
T for his candor. For a
per cent coat-tail candidate passenger could hardly
be imagined. The issues to such an aspirant are of no
importance, but getting votes by capitalizing on the
personal popularity of General Eisenhower is impor
tant, and that is all Mr. McKay has done and appar
ently all he intends to do, until the finish line is reached.
TN ANOTHER one of his
A ept remarks a few weeks ago, Candidate McKay
was equally revealing and
his supporters when he said the "people of Oregon
were still yackety-yacking about Tidelands oil," and
that he would probably get
in his own state for he had always been for states
rights, etc., etc.
We don't believe any close observer of the political
scene in Oregon as of today would dispute this con
fession of weakness. But it must have come as some-
thing of a shock to the rabid Morse-haters, to have
their specially selected and officially anointed candi
date admit it.
Such admissions just aren't done in the midst of a
hot campaign in the Upper Echelons of the Grand Old
Party, however. The Big Chiefs may think it at times,
but they don't SAY it.
AND there is another thing they don't say. Accord-
mg um i!Jcviai uciauvc ill tile iiauuuail.albui)
they don t say what they really think about Mr. Doug
las McKay, both as a Republican Secretary of the In
terior, and as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
They are stuck with Mr. McKay and are going to
stick by him. But as Secretary of the Interior Seaton
remarked during his western trip in support of his
predecessor, "I can assure
Al Sarena case will ever
HIS administration. If it was so virtuous and legally
compulsory, why shouldn't it? The Ellsworth law cer
tainly, if the policies of the Interior Department under
Secretary McKay are not
it
VES, WE BELIEVE ex-Secretary McKay's recent
remarks have one admirable quality. There is, for
a cnange, no aouoie taiK
He means what he says. He
more votes m lexas, but
and states rights white-supremacy fanatics about him,
he would, we feel sure, feel much happier and more
at home down there than
the U.S. Senate. K.W.K.
Belding Candidate For
Grants Pass Don Belding,
formerly of Grants Pass and
now living in Los Angeles, has
announced his candidacy for
mayor of Los Angeles in the
municipal election next April.
Belding, chairman of the
board of the Foote, Cone and
Belding Advertising agency and
Tuesday, September 25, 19SB
little comfort to his sup
every important one, from
he would be far worse off
indicated is not good.
issues or those that may
to anything, getting votes
5
it to the GOP candidate
better definition of a 100
extremely frank but in-
equally embarrassing to
more votes m Texas than
the people nothing like the
happen again that is m
changed would never stop
or evasiveness aoout inem.
not only would today get
with so many big oil men
he does up here running for
Mayor of LA
vice president of the Los Angeles
Airport commission, is a gradu
ate of Grants Pass High school,
He has lived in Los Angeles for
33 years.
He was graduated from the
University of Oregon in 1919 as
an honor student after serving
with the Army for six months.
Neutralist'
Necessary
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The East Asian "neutralists"
are not doing so weU at the mo
ment. Both India and Indonesia.
the No. 1 and
No. 2 neutral
ists, are doing
a bit of diplo
ma t i c back
peddling. Indi
an Prime Min
ister Jawahar
lal Nehru,
who rushed to
the support of
Egyptian Pres-
Charles M. McCajin
ident Gamal
Abdel Nasser in
the Suez Canal dispute, is hav
ing some sober second thoughts.
ne is trying with evident anx
iety to get Nasser, whose bellig
erent attitude he encouraged, to
be a little more reasonable.
Indonesian President Sukarno
is in trouble at home because
of a pro-Communist joint com
munique his foreign minister.
Ruslan Abdulgani, signed in
Moscow during their recent visit
to Russia.
There is talk in Jakarta, the
Indonesian capital, of a cabinet
crisis. Abdulgani may well lose
his job.
The Indian and Indonesian de
velopments have resulted from
the way East Asian neutralism
works out in practical diplo
macy.
Suspicious of West
Officially, the party line is
that the neutralist countries pur
C"
Communications
Not "Rock 'n' Roll-
To the Editor: A recent article
on the front page of your news
paper had this headline: "Rock
n' Roll Riot Sends 15 Service
men To Hospital." Reading fur
ther I discovered that apparent
ly a large amount of beer had
been consumed at the dance, and
in the fifth paragraph I find that
the battle apparently started
over a remark made to a girl
by an enlisted man. It seems
logical to consider that the riot
started as a result of these two
circumstances, and not because
of the music.
I consider your article to be
a prime example of unfair, bias
ed journalism. On the whole
yours news coverage is very fair
but your narrowmindedness on
this subject is typical of a large
segment of our adult population.
I am sure that if you made a
study of the numerous dance hall
brawls of say 20 years ago, you
would be forced to admit that
they were not caused by "rock
'n' roll" music either.
David Mack,
(teenager and proud of
Route 2. Box 489
Gold Hill, Ore.
it)
Stand by Wayne Morse
To the Editor: The Republi
can bosses in Oregon are trying
to use the party lash to whip
the voters in line against Wayne
Morse. In 'this they will meet
with dismal failure.
The voters of Oregon are not
servile slaves to be dictated to.
The voters are free born, inde
pendent, American citizens who
on election day vote for their
own interests and who will stand
by the man who stands by them.
That is U. S. Senator Wayne
Morse.
Get on the Democratic band
wagon, and remember the Maine
election.
Charles W. Sherman,
Kerby, Ore.
Supports Humane Bill
To the Editor: Humanitarians
will hope that Senator Neuberger
will have a long life in the Sen
ate. Many times he has volun
teered to fight cruelty to animals.
Senator Neuberger testified for
the Humane Slaughter Bill,
S.1636, which was enacted in the
Senate. Neuberger declared that
packers who could not make a
profit without cruelty should go
out of business. Congressmen
continue probe of packers de
spite politics and even while the
Democrats were assembling in
Chicago, members of the House
Agriculture committee were
making a field study of cruelties
in slaughtering, going to the kill
ing floors of packing plants to
see for themselves what is done
to animals. The congressmen saw
the use of the brutal pole-axe on
cattle. They watched while fully
conscious hogs, calves, lnbs and
sheep were knifed. This study of
slaughter house methods will
continue during the congression
al recess and new bills will be
introduced as soon as Congress
meets again.
So if you would enjoy your
hamburgers and pork chops,
please write our Senators to sup
port this humane legislation.
Paul Harvey, American Broad
casting company commentator.
reported these congressional
studies during his broadcast of
Aug. 12 and expressed hope that
the Congressmen would press for
a humane slaughter law this win
ter. Senator Morse is also sup
porting the legislation, but I have
yet to hear what Mr. Douglas
McKay's stand Is on the bill.
Maybe some humanitarian Re
publican will let us know.
Mrs. Ruth Johnson
Pacific, Hwy. South
Phoenix, Ore.
Nations Finding It
to Back-Pedal a Bit
sue foreign policies independent
of the great Western and East
ern "power blocs."
In practice, however, it near
ly always happens that the atti
tude of the neutralist nations
in big international problems
favors the two great Communist
powers, the Soviet Union and
Communist China.
One reason is that the chief
neutralist nations, newly inde
pendent, are extremely suspici
ous of "Western imperialism"
and "colonialism."
Whenever there is a clash of
interests between the Western
democracies and the Communist
nations, the neutralists incline
to take it for granted that the
democracies are wrong.
Thus Nehru lost no time in
approving Nasser's attempt to
seize sole control of the Suez
Canal.
He said in a speech that the
Western allies were running "a
grave risk of war" when they
announced their plan to form
a Suez Canal users association.
Not long afterward, Nehru
apparently got the idea that Nas
ser was doing some risking him
self. He sent V. K. Krishna
Menon, his roving ambassador,
to Egypt to urge Nasser to be
reasonable.
Visits Saud
Now Nehru himself has gone
to Saudi Arabia, Egypt's Arab
neighbor, to visit King Saud.
In Indonesia's case, Sukarno
and Foreign Minister Abdulgani
Praises Nurses
To the Editor: I want to write
a note of commendation on the
conscienciousness of the nurses'
aides at Sacred Heart hospital,
especially the fourth floor. I am
not very good at this, but I have
been a visitor and patient both.
Especially one, she wouldn't tell
me her last name, but always
a smile or joke for you, never
gripes if extra work is needed,
tries to carry her work with
dignity. She makes you laugh if
there is a way to do it. Seems
tireless. Her first name is Anna
I can't describe her genUe, kind,
forgiving way and nature. Her
way with old people, js marvel
ous. I know she is doing tour
hours special now. Loyal to hos
pital and Sisters.
I live in California. God bless
Nurses' aides, the teachers and
Sisters too.
Mrs. George Geober,
Pasadena, Calif.
A Man Without Fear"
To the Editor: Senator Morse's
swift, personal acceptance of the
long distance challenge of three
Eastern Oregon big shots to "de
bate anyone" regarding the Sen
ator's worthiness to represent
Oregon in the U.S. Senate, must
have plopped like a cold, wet
fish in the center of the boister
ous trio's rosy dream.
The three challengers (two
lawyers and a business man) set
up the condition that they must
have two fuU weeks to prepare
their debate (probably so they
could re-read and memorize the
by now dog-eared passages of
the current GOP propaganda
textbook, the so called "Docu
mented Record of Senator
Wayne Morse.")
They doubtless banked on
their challenge being accepted
by some lone Morse supporter
with more courage than educa
tion, so that their three-against-
one debate would be assured of
the proper verdict in the press.
Instead, here comes the head-
spinning, ear-ringing acceptance
by the Senior Senator himself,
who is surprisingly (to them)
eager to answer for his own rec
ord even under fixed and hos
tile conditions.
To quote his acceptance of the
challenge: "I personally wiU
come to Malheur county at an
arranged time to debate accord
ing to your challenge or any
other issues with any one of
you or all three of you at once,
Douglas McKay himself, or any
combination of persons you may
desire. I would prefer a question
that would compare the records
of McKay and myself."
It brings back the words of
Eleanor Roosevelt when she
spoke in Medford at the Roose
velt Memorial Dinner in April:
"I have never felt that Senator
Morse was afraid. He is a man
without fear."
Mary Greicor Kelly,
906 West Fourth St.,
Medford, Ore.
Southerners' Comments
To -the Editor: We arrived here
expecting Medford to be our
"home" for a week, bought your
paper, saw the letters by Mrs.
Poole and Mr. Strickland. We
are so glad we bought the paper
before checking in at hotel, for
surely we would not be welcome.
The hotels, restaurants, filling
stations and stores would have
received quite a bit from us in
a week, as there are six in our
party
You are welcome to the Pooles'
and Stricklands.
We prefer the colored people.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Jackson
and party,
Charleston, S. C
warmly praised Russian leaders
during their -visit to the Soviet
Union. They saw Russia as a
peace-seeking, friendly, demo
cratic country.
But Abdulgani went over
board in his joint communique,
which he and Soviet first Depu
ty Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko signed.
The communique emphasized
the "solidarity" between Russia
and Indonesia. It stressed iden
tity of views on disarmament,
anti-colonialism. Western de
fense pacts and the testing or
use of nuclear weapons.
Five of the eight parties in
the government coalition pro
tested.
The cabinet, at a special meet
ing, ordered Abdulgani to sign
no more communiques during
his tour of Europe and Asia. It
was announced that he would
be questioned about the Moscow
communique when he got home.
Ai.d it was intimated he might
be invited to resign.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I was absorbing a quickie
sandwich at a drug store counter
the other day being a little
short on time for a more ex
tensive luncheon. The segment
of the counter at which I sat
was presided over by a teenage
youth who was obviously some
what less than thrilled with his
job. He kept stealing glances at
the clock, and eventually the
hands reached a point that mark
ed some kind of an epoch for
him. He shrugged his shoulders
and muttered to his next door
neighbor on the working side of
the counter:
"Boy." Another hour of this
grind and I'll be through.
"Then I can begin to LIVE!"
rpHE poor kid!
-- I couldn't help feeling sorry
for him.
Not because of his weariness,
because I couldn't believe that
the hours of his shift that had
elapsed up to then had left him
over-wearied. He hadn't been
putting steam enough into his
efforts for that.
What I pitied him for was his
BOREDOM with his job. Nothing
is more terrible than boredom
with one's job. And nothing is
more wonderful than such com
plete absorption in the job you
are doing that the minutes and
the hours slip past unnoticed
and the arrival of quitting time
leaves you with a faint feeling
of regret.
That is LIVING.
Being bored to extinction with
your job is mere existing.
T'HE more I see of life espec--
ially the kind of life lived by
this poor kid who could hardly
wait for his work shift to end
so that he could get away from
his job and begin to LIVE the
more impressed I am with one of
our modern devices for placing
young people in jobs.
I am referring to aptitude test
ing whose purpose is to find
out what kind of work people
have a natural learning for. In
creasing years of experience in
dicate that these tests are supris-
ingly accurate. Employers who
use them are finding that it
seldom pays to go against the
findings of the test.
rTHIS is of great value, of
course, to the employer for
the cost of training a worker
for a specific job Is rather con
siderable. When it turns out that
he isn't FITTED for the job the
time that has been expended in
training him is wasted.
But it isn't the employer I am
thinking of at the moment. The
TRAGEDY of such a misfit is
in the life of the worker himself.
He is condemned to years of
boredom in a job he isn't fitted
to fill. That Is real tragedy as
witness this youngster at the
lunch counter. -" '
If wider use of aptitude test
ing can prevent even a reason
able number of these tragedies, it
wiU be wonderful.
A LL this moralizing reminds
me of another teenager I
just happened to notice a few
days ago. He was crossing the
street on his way to high school.
It was a busy intersection as
approaches to our schools are
coming to be in these days when
our youngsters come in auto
mobiles and school buses Instead
of walking, as their grandparents
did.
This boy was strolling across
the intersection READING A
BOOK. On all four sides of the
crossing, cars were stopped. On
two sides, traffic was piled up
for half a block back waiting
for him to get across.
He looked neither to the right
nor to the left as he put one
foot leisurely before the other
on his way from curb to curb.
His eyes never left his book.
TJE WAS probaly putting on a
show. But I hope not I HOPE
the book he was reading was a
good book, filled with informa
tion, and that he was so engros
sed with the' knowledge he was
acquiring that he didn't even
notice what was going on.
Knowledge is a splendid thing.
It adds so fabulously to the
fascination of living.
No one can ever have too
much of it.
Matter of Fact sy stewan aisoP
THE EISENHOWER AURA
Des Moines, Iowa Those
Democrats who are already be
ginning to count unhatched
chickens and there are a lot
of them ought to have followed
Dwight D. Eisenhower around
during the hours he spent here.
the day before Adlai Stevenson's
appearance. The experience
might have proved a rude shock
to their complacency.
In a brief speech at the air
port, Eisenhower remarked that
the crowds that lined the streets
to see him and Mrs. Eisenhower
were a turnout such as we've
never seen before." Veteran re
porters agreed with him. But
the vast, good-humored crowds
which lined the streets were
only part of the story.
A more important part was
the Eisenhower aura, the effect
he has on people. It is a very
special sort of aura, exclusively
his own. Unlike Franklin Ro
osevelt or other great politicians,
he inspires, instead, a genuine
personal affection. Above au,
he cheers people up.
VOU only had to look at peo---
pie's faces after he had passed
by to see that this is so. They
looked as though they bad had a
good tonic. They looked cheer
ful, amused, and happy, they
were almost all smiling.
It is interesting to watch Eisen
hower closely, as he passes
through a crowd, and try to
analyze the special quality of the
aura. The smile Is part of it, of
course. But a kind of shy-seem
ing earnestness Is another part.
And. still another is a sort of
"aw shucks" manner, as though
to say, "I don t know what you
people are making such a fuss
about me for."
At the national plowing
match, which was the President's
most important port of call
row of children had been lined
up 10 meet mm. They were
nervous, standing awkwardly at
attention in the way that child
ren have on such occasions. But
the President talked to them ser
iously, without condescension,
in the manner of a man who
really likes children, and they
were immediately smiling and at
their ease.
A T THE livestock show, when
-rl he asked about such matters
as the average number of piglets
per litter, he sounded genuinely
interested in the answer which.
like any other amateur farmer,
he no doubt was. And in the
two brief speeches he made one
at the plowing match and the
other at the airport he display
ed conspicously his great asset as
a public speaker, the ability to
seem to mean what he says.
What he said was certainly
not very original, and not even
very interesting. Another politi
cian who talked, as the President
did at the plowing match, of "the
Editorial Comment
MORE THAN ONE
NIGHTCRAWLER?
The Southern Pacific company
In Medford, is trying to justify
its abandonment a year ago of
passenger service from Eugene
to Roseburg, Medford and Ash
land.
The southern Oregon peopli
are miffed, but SP says it has
lost shocking amounts of money,
because cars, buses and planes
have spirited off the trade. The
railroad, strangely, admits it
can't compete.
We've looked at the company
case for abandoning the 30-mph
train called, without love, the
"Nightcrawler." We rode it on its
last trip and it is not mourned
as such.
But we wonder about the
firm's attitude on its main line
The Cascade now is booked up
days ahead. Even in slack sea.
son, in-state passengers are told
that the train is not for them.
Agents in no uncertain terms
say that it is a long-trip train and
point out that someone who
wants to ride only 100 or 200
miles is allowed only to fiU
slack seats.
Reservations must be con
firmed four or five hours in ad
vance, in person, by the plead
ing short-tripper. The Shasta
isn't so bad. But it doesn't run
frequently enough.
We've heard the reasons for
this lousy service. The reasons
are good as far as they go. We
agree that with the present as
signment of equipment and the
present schedule, things can't
be helped much. But why not
improve them?
Or is the Willamette valley to
be another Nightcrawler line in
a few years?Albany Democrat-Herald.
DR. ROBERT L. HARLAND
OPTOMETRIST
Announces with pleasure the Opening of his Professional Office for
the practice of Optometry in alt its branches.
AT
213 EAST MAIN STREET "
Medford, Oregon
Practice devoted to examination, analysis and rehabilitation of the
visual functions.
BY APPOINTMENT
Telephone 2-2210 Office Hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
plow as the symbol of peace,"
might well have sounded like a
vote-grubbing hypocrite. But the
President sounded as though he
were deeply dedicated both to
peace and to the plow. Another
politician who talked, as the
President did at the airport.
about how he always "thought
first about the interests of all
16S million Americans," might
have aroused cynical snickers.
But the President aroused, in
stead, to judge from the reaction
of the enormous crowd, sym
apthy and belief.
No-one who saw him in action
here, in short, could doubt for
moment that the Eisenhower
aura is far and away the Repub
licans' greatest asset. It remains
to be seen, of course, to what ex
tent the almost universal liking
for the man will be translated
into votes. This reporter had a
chat with a master-plowman who
had just been congratulated by
the President for his prowess.
He s a fine man, a great
man, said the master-plowman.
still a bit starry-eyed. "Then
you're going to vote for him?"
he was asked. "Well, uh, no, I
guess not," the master-plowman
replied.
NO DOUBT there are others
like the master-Dlnwman. But
surely there are many more
whose "I like Ike" is translated
their minds into "I'll vote
for Ike." That raises the ques
tion of how the Eisenhower aura.
as the central Republican asset,
is to be exploited. The question
is particularly important since
the President's two Illnesses.
Many in the huge crowds that
turned out here must have come
to see for themselves how the
President looks. He looks well.
Indeed, part of the Eisenhower
aura is a certain ruddy vigor,
far more apparent in person
than on the television screen.
THUS there will surely be
heavy pressure on the Pres
ident to repeat his triumph here
in Iowa for his day here was
indeed a personal triumph. The
pressure will come, of course.
from Republican politicians who
want to benefit from the aura,
but it may come also from with
in the President himself. For
he very much wants to win. And
the pressure will mount if the
indications increase as they
have been here, where polls
show Aldal Stevenson steadily
closing the gap that his win
ning is no sure thing.
(C) 19S6. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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not put an end to war? This is
the day of salvation. God is
now calling
out a people
on whom he is
to spend his
Father love in
ages to come.
Christ is to re
to return and
sweep out this
present world
order. He will
then set up the
new day where
in dwells righteousness. Turn,
let your heart believe that
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