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r 52nd Year M EDFORD United Pre Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Tribune United Pr Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1957 Pages' 1 to 6 Love of Count ry Accounts i Willingness To Work. Mrs. or Russians' FPU Believes BT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT St. Louis, Mo. As I look back on all my experiences in the weeks spent in the Soviet Union, I want to say first that I under stand well the love of the Rus sian people for their own coun try. It is a vast country, with many climates, many resources, many possibilities yet undevel oped in soil, in coal and oil and metals of all kinds. Above ev erything else, it has vast re sources in human beings. Like all people who have lived close to the soil, there is a de votion for the particular area in which they live. I can see this even in people who left Russia years ago. A taxi driver in New York asked me the other day aijout his old country and said wistfully: "The village I came from near Minsk was wiped out -in the war but I would love to go back and just see that coun try again. I love it still." Lot of Country This love of country accounts partly for the Russians' willing ness to work and sacrifice when they are told it is necessary for the preservation of their native land. A totalitarian regime which regulates all news makes it impossible for anyone in Rus sia to understand that there are different interpretations of events from those they have been given. The fact that none but a Com munist newspaper can be bought within the Soviet Union, even though there may be libraries with some magazines giving a 'air opinion of the world scene, 11 means that the mass of peo have very little concept of its or thinking in the world :de of their own. ie continuing political strug . at the top for power modi only minor situations. The rfror of secret police may be ssened, certain arbitrary rules ay change somewhat. But all t the Soviet Union's leaders lave believed in the Socialist loctrine, so the promotion of this idea goes on by different methods, perhaps, but the basic idea does not change. And I doubt if it will change. Idem Mar Be Modified This basic Socialistic idea may be modified as time goes on, but that will largely depend, I think, on what the free world is able to prove. The free world will have to believe as firmly that the wave of the future is democ raty, freedom and justice and shew how good this can be for Si3aa beings. There is no real hope of modi fying the beliefs of those dedi cated to a Socialist and Commu nist idea, which still holds that communism is the final great hope for the happiness of human beings, unless we can prove by deeds that our accomplishments are greater. In the life of the ordinary man and woman in Russia, all that is good has happened to them since the Revolution. I have told you a little of the ad vances in education and in medi cie. W'e must recognize that there is an increase in urban liv ing, but wTiere the government is the employer, every man and woman in the Soviet Union has a job. If a woman has many chil dren, she may stay at home. Oth erwise, the basis of all planning is to make it possible for men care of their children. There is no comparison be tween life in the Soviet Union and in the United States, for in stance, because the whole objec tive is based on a different con cept. This may modify as the need for a big labor force les sens, but at present it must be the policy of any government in the Soviet Union. We must remember that the vast number of Soviet people have been peasants, have lived in huts in overcrowded condi tions with no sanitation and oth er comforts, without medical care, without education and that religion was largely used to make these poor conditions of life accepted a panacea to keep people quiet and make them think of a future life rather than of the miserable present. So it is natural that the pres- and women to work and, in spite I ent government stresses for the of their working, to take good mass of people the possibilities Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS New York Queen Elizabeth, preparing to leave for home aft er visiting America's largest city. "At the end of a wonderful journey I am very glad that I have been able this time to see New York." Maebashi, Japan Army Specialist William S. Girard, when asked by Judge Yuzo Kawachi if he didn't feel sorry for shooting and killing metal scavenger Mrs. Naka Sakai on an Army firing range last January: "I feel very sorry, sir." Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard Vice Adm. Wallace M. Beakley, on the readiness of his U.S. Pacific Seventh Fleet in the event of a war between Syria and Turkey: "We haven't been sit ting on our ditty-box. Readiness is our mission out here." Atlanta Dekalb County Solicitor Richard Bell, on why he obtained a court injunction against the showing of the movie "Island in the Sun," which features interracial romance and which was picketed by segregationists Sunday night: "Because it is a con troversial movie we thought it best to act before riots result." The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not rive was- nave advice;- it merely reports on problems responsible agencies and counselor. keen dealt with Jill D I won't turn my back on my friend. Mrs. R.D: What will people think of Jill? Jill D. I am a girl of 17 and I've known the facts of life for a long time, so I don't see why my mother should try to treat me like an infant. A certain very good friend at He's the picture of fadtk because he romps on . WARM FLOORS! f I J ys ' 4 V I (m STEGLER GUARANTEES MORE AND HOTTER HEAT OVER YOUR FLOORS tsf frars contort t frorSoo'of (tie rest vis & BibeA f mminG noon meat set now metre wam rem noovs ta SISKIYOU HARDWARE 225 West Main, Medfrod, Ore. PIONEER HARDWARE 732 S.W. 6th, Grants Pass, Ore. Bauder Hardware & Appliance 296 East Main, Ashland, Ore. high school was going with a boy for a long time and they were planning to marry, but their par ents wanted them to wait. Well, Cecile bacame pregnant and fi nally she had to get married. Everybody knew and there was a big fuss in the neighborhood. A lot of girls were very nasty about it and wouldn't even talk to Cecile, but I just don't think that's right. I talk to her .the same as ever and went up to visit her and her cute baby. I realize that she did wrong, but she is my friend and I'm not going to turn my back on her the way my mother wants me to. Mrs. R.D. I couldn't have been more horrified about this scandal if it concerned, my own daughter. I thought Cecile was one of the nicest girls in the neighborhood. I was always very happy when she and Jill went out on double dates together. Now that I look back on it, I almost turn sick ... to think that my Jill was with that other couple. Jill swears nothing im proper ever took place while she was around, but I don't know what to believe any more. I could have sworn that Cecile was a mere baby. Aside from that fact that I don't want Jill to have such friends, I am very much upset about her reputation in the com munity. Everyone knows they went around together a great deal. What will people think of Jill if she continues to see Ce cille? The Council: Mrs. R. D. ap pears to be rushing to lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen. The period during which Cecile's influence may have been dangerous is at an end. Jill has had a very close and probably somewhat frightening glimpse of serious trouble. She probably wants to reassure Tier self of the happy ending in this case. Cecile is now a resectably married woman and is most un likely to influence young girls to follow the treacherous road she traveled. As for Jill's reputation, any one malicious enough to cast slurs on her because of Cecile's wrongdoing is unlikely to be in fluenced by Jill's present atti tude toward Cecile. Jill shows that moral stand ards are important to her when she refuses to turn her back on a friend. Now that Cecile must settle into the humdrum prob lems of daily life, Jill will very likely soon lose interest in her unless her mother continues to make this friendship an import ant issue. (Copyright, 1957, General Fea tures Corp.) of education, the giving of medi cal care, the security of a job and an old-age pension, even though it asks for sacrifices and offers comparatively slow prog ress in the more modern com forts of living. Can Give Hope These things can give hope to the Russian people, and m the signs in the factories which say "Be grateful" have in back of them some real improvements which we must recognize. In addition, leaders of this re gime not only believe in educa tion but they have a real enthu siasm for research and a respect for the scientific mind and the processes which bring advances in the present-day world and which they feel bring them. greater security in the struggle with the capitalist world. It seems to me that this situa tion calls for understanding on our part, respect for these achievements, but a firmer be lief in the possibilities of our own system. (Copyright, 1957, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- A DIVORCE COURT judge had a tough case with a stubborn, unyielding man and wife who refused even to look at each, other. "O.K.," conceded the judge. "Go through with the di vorce, but understand that everything you possess will have to be divided equally." "What about our three chil dren?" demanded the wife. "That's something you'll have to figure out for yourselves," said His Honor. The wife made a sudden de cision. She seized her spouse by the collar and ordered, 'Come on home, you lug!" To the judge, she threw over her shoulder, "We'll be back next year with our children." It was humiliating enough when Cleopatra personally kicked her erstwhile favorite, Marc An thony, down a whole flight of Egyptian stairs, but I am assured by an old Roman who was present that she added insult to injury by cheerfully explaining, 'I'm just toeing the Marc." " O 1957, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Features SyndicsU. Boxcar Loaded Vith Shells Catches Fire Piedmont, Ala. (W A boxcar loaded with artillery shells caught fire early today on the outskirts of this small Northeast Alabama town and an estimated 200 to 300 persons were evacuated from their homes to escape exploding frag ments. The fire severed a power line, cutting off electricity to P i e d m o nt and surrounding areas. No one was injured. Police and firemen plus a small detach ment of troops from nearby Ft. McClellan moved in to evacuate about 50 homes in the tianger area, about a half mile from the center of town. Authorities cleared out an area about a mile square. Mayor J. O. Chaffin said the boxcar containing the shells had by mid-morning burned down a "smouldering hulk but the shells were still popping off although not as frequently as before." Potato Freight Rate Boost Draws Protest Salem (IPl Increased freight rates on potatoes shipped to east ern points from Malheur county in Oregon and Boise valley in Idaho were protested to the In terstate Commerce Commission Monday by Oregon Agriculture Director Robert J. Steward. The increases, recently filed "Washington Iffl The Jus tice Department disclosed it has launched a "full-scale FBI in vestigation" to determine wheth er big oil companies which own pipelines are taking unfair ad vantage of their competitors. by the railroads, are to become j effective Oct. 25. Use M-T Classified Ads- 'WITH SMIRNOFF Specify Smirnoff when ordering vodka drinks. It's the Vodka of Vodkas mxrti TIE GREATEST MAKE III off VODKA MisSto 80 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF FLS. (DIVISION OF HEUBLEIN ). 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