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Co O o t'SHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Dec. 20. 1957 i Christmas Heritage Discussed at Kiwanis Christmas is a spontaneous drama for all the people of all the country and is the most joy ous season of the year. Dr. George G. Roseberry. pastor of First Methodist church, remark ed Wednesday concluding a talk to members of Medford Kiwanis club. He discussed '"The Heritage cf Christmas" at the Kiwanis luncheon at Rogue Valley Coun try club. Dr. Roseberry described Christ mas as one of the greatest and one of the oldest stories the world has today and as a story which grows richer and deeper through the years. Discussing the ceremonies, festivities and - Dractices of Christmas, he point er! out that the story actually tegan 2.000 years before Christ with a Babylonian festival. Early Christians Early Christians, who were jn competition with the various celebrations of the day, consid- EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIR SP 2-2333 POLICf SP 3-3636 MONEY SP 3-5308 PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL 16 S. CENTRAL 'ered the birth, death and resur rection of Christ, the most im Iportant events in the world and ; began to convince others and win out, Dr. Roseberry said. ; On the fall of the Roman era ;pire. everything died in Rome but Christianity, he pointed out. He mentioned hordes of north ern Europeans went to Rome jand the Christian missionaries i then went back to their lands. ;The minister told of missionary ; recognition of the need to set I up Christian celebrations to re ! place pagan festivals -and told ' how pagan practices were re gained, but given Christian ! meaning, in the Christmas cele ! bration. Arbitrarily Set -Nobody knew just exactly when Jesus was born and the 'date of Dec. 25 was arbitrarily set to celebrate his birth, the ( pastor stated. Dr. Roseberry expressed the 'opinion that Christianity is ex pressed in business better today :than ever before. Third life membership in the Kiwanis Medford foundation ' was received from Les DeAr mond during the meeting and C. W. (Bill) Abbott. Bob Ricks. .Dr. John Weisel and Richard ' Dempster were introduced as new Medford Kiwanians. Fhe Medical Roundup fcmeritui C onsnltant In Medlcln. Mayo Clinic Emtrltns Protessor of Medlcin. MaTO Foundation r i i Or. Alvarez ' The Pan-American highway from the U.S.-Mexican border to j the Panama canal is underway i and is expected to be completed 'by the end of 1959. Open Tonight Till 9 Up To 50 Off GIFTWARES - FOSTORIA - HOUSEWARES - TOYS Thrifty Shoppers! Stretch Christmas Dollars in Our Huge Close-out Sale! Buy and Save! At Lowest Pirces w Q SPECIALISTS IN HOME WARES ! Fue Parking Free Delivery Great Scientists Tell of the Need for Science Recently I was impressed as I listened to Admiral Rickover, Dr. Edward Teller and others of our great lead ers describing our need in A m e r ica for more scientists chem i s t s, p h ysicists, en g i n e e r s and others. W e must have plenty of these experts if we are to hold our own in a new world in which the most impor tant factor in advance, and self protection is scientific discovery. As Dr. Teller said, so impres sively, Russia has won a victory over us that is more important and dangerous than the one the Japanese won at Pearl Harbor. Why have the Russians -won out as they have done? Because, a while ago. their leaders saw. as ours didn't, that science is1 all-important. They saw what our leaders have refused to see. and this is that the greatest wealth of a country is to be found in its highly-gifted young people, the only ones with a brain keen enough to become ex pert in higher mathematics, chemistry, physics, and engi neering. We in America should long ago have seen that it is utterly stupid of us each year to let perhaps 60,000 brilliant and gifted young sters stay out of college and go without a fine education simply because they are orphans or have poor parents who cannot find the S15.000 or so needed for the support of the youngster during his several years of study in a graduate school. We In America have never had enough sense to see that every so often there comes along a great inventor like Edison, Ford. Thompson, DeForrest, or the Wright brothers, and in a few years, around his discovery, is built a great new industry, which gives good jobs to a mil lion or more men and women. Even if we had just "pocket sense" we would be watching for every young inventor with a basement shop, and would be seeing to it that he got the best possible education in science, mechanics, chemistry and en gineering. Usually, these lads are easy enough to recognize very early in life. They are mak ing a radio set, or building a hot rod car, or rebuilding a broken down motorcycle that they bought cheap. But as Edward Teller said so wisely, it is not enough just to see to it that our most bril liant youngsters are given a sci entific education: we very much need better teachers of science in our high schools, and among the public we much need more understanding of science and sci entists, and more sympathy with and respect for what scientists represent and are trying to do. We can"t grow all the scien tists we need in an unsympa thetic atmosphere. The public generally still has too little re spect for the scientists and his point of view. For instance, after I left high school, I spent nine years of hard study before I felt I was ready to practice internal medicine, but my mother's cleaning-woman years ago bought a diploma for S25, called herself a "Doc tor.'.' and went to work prac ticing medicine. More than half of the people in this United States would vote any day to give that cleaning-woman much the same right to practice medi cine that I earned, at so great a cost of time and money and effort. They cannot see that there is much difference between us. So long as more than half of our people feel that little respect for science, many young men will prefer to go into business. More Understanding We need, also, much more un derstanding of science in our high school teachers. When I was in high school I had a num ber of devoted teachers who were very kind to me, but they did not know that a boy like me, already much interested in science, and planning to go into medicine, most certainly should be learning to read German easily. They actually refused to let me study German, and so, until I was 30 and buckled down and learned the language, I was much handicapped in my study ing. 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Graham, 22-year-old sol dier, was held by Army author ities today in connection with five alleged attempts at suicide because he said his wife "doesn't love me any more." Fayetteville police said Graham, stationed at Ft. Knox, Ky., drank kerosene, tried to drown himself twice, at tempted to hang himself and tried to break his neck between cell bars. Washington (IP) The Agricul ture Department estimated 906, 272,000 bushels of fallplanted winter wheat will be harvested in 1958. a scientist is a "long-hair" or a "queer bird," or an impracti cal absent-minded dreamer, or a narrow-shouldered weakling. Actually, years ago, when Pro fessor Hrdlicka, the country's leading anthropologist, studied the ablest scientists of the Unit ed States, he found most of them were big handsome men who, in their college days, had been crack athletes. Every anthropolo gist knows that the finer a man's brain, the more likely he is to have a powerful, well-built body. Many scientists, with their keen minds, have proved themselves to be able administrators, who have done a magnificient job of running a big laboratory or insti tution. Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for information or to attempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1957) Contract Awarded For Timber Ribs The county court awarded a contract for timber ribs for the addition to the Jackson county machine shops Wednesday after noon to Timber Rib Structure company of Medford. The bid was SI, 207 minus a two per cent discount, County Judge Rodney Keating reported. County commissioners said two identical bids were received for the timbers, the other in Portland. The court awarded the contract to the local firm. The county this week called for bids for installation of a low pressure steam system in the machine shop. Bids will be re ceived at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8. County officials said construc tion at the shops is being done by county highway personnel. Theb uilding will increase the area by one-third, and will be used to house large pieces of ma chinery. The steam system will be used to heat both the old and new parts of the building. Officers Installed In Cascade Lodge AF&AM Shady Cove New officers of Cascade Lodge 208 AF&AM were installed recently. They are Glenn Barrill, mas ter; James Hopkins, senior ward en; Charles Spence, junior ward en; Irwin Howe, treasurer; G. W. Massey, secretary; R. Bruce Grieres, senior deacon; William Brewster, junior deacon; Wil liam Littlefield, senior steward; Richard Easton, junior steward; S. W. Burrill, chaplain: Robert Chamberlain, tyler; and Wyles Berry, marshal. S. W. Barrill, past master, was the installing master, Ray Briggs. the installing marshal and Harold Barber, installing chaplain. IS HIS r ACE RED i St. Paul, Minn. W tt1 jRep. Alfred J. 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