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O FOUR MEDFOBD (OREGON) Tvery one in Eoutriern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturlay by MX D FORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager CERALX) LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A l.i FN JR Man'firs Editor KARL H ADAAI5. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Teei;iapn Editor KICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHXK Society Editor DALE ERICKSON . Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 v SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year S1V00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. Ey Carrier In Aavance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent ond on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1J0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, ae troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis AUaniz Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION W A I IU Pi A I (UMUIII vy I I AsTbefA'fiN G ' fr'iJI'Fli&r.lTTTTM NATION A I f 0 I T 0 1 1 A i Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO !& 20. 1947 (Friday) A freight train wreck last night on the Southern Pacific railroad north of Roseburg causes bout 16-hour delay to mail from north. Postmaster Frank De Souza said today. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The duck season openi again next Tues day. Hunters are reminded they must not quack too loudly, fly too low and leave their 1948 li cense at home. JO YEARS AGO De. 20. 1937 (Monday) Banquet sponsored by Gates and Lydiard for children will be served in the Elks temple Thursday. Two special trains, the last of a four-train movement, pulled out of Medford this morning carrying eighth corps area CCC enrollees back to camps in Okla homa, Texas, Wyoming and New Mexico. : - 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 20. 1927 (Tuesday) Central Point citizens praised by the Jackson county health department for their cooperation in locating source of diphtheria in that community. Plans underway for the Elks' carnival dance to be held at the temple on New Year's eve. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1917 (Thursday) From local and personal: "Be cause of the demoralized train service from the north, the mail service is also badly demoralized. There will be a delay in Med ford for delivery of Christmas packages." Sale of Red Cross stamps de voted to the prevention of tuber culosis nets $240, a spokesman says. Vfhafs Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or eieht ts excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is a diving bell open at the bottom or the top? 2. Bible: Who sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons? 3. Trygve Lie held what posi tion in the United Nations Or ganization? 4. What city in the U. S. is said to be "the home of the bean and the cod?" 5. In which grand opera is the "Jewel Song"? 6. What act of respect is re quired of ladies who are pre sented at court in Great Britain? 7. For whom is the Soviet city of Leningrad named? 8. Parcel post is what class mail? 9. Was Finland once a part of Sweden? 10. Lily Langtry was called the "Jersey .."? Answers: 1. Open at the bot tom. 2. Adam and Eve. 3. Secre tary General. 4. Boston, Mass. 5. "Faust." 6. Curlsy. 7. Nicolai Lenin. 8. Fourth class. 9. Yes. 10. "Jersey Lily." MAIL TRIBUNE Spirit of Christmas Each year along about this time we seem to get to wondering what "Christmas spirit" is. And each year, we conclude that the definition is different with each person. Some feel it more than others; with some it verges on sentimentality; with others it is chiefly religious in character. But we have yet to find anyone who is not touched, in some measure or in some way, by Christmas. I LA GRANT, a columnist the spirit" last week, and how it happened to her. She said it was sort of like catching the measles. "Something clicked somewhere in the mechanism that I like to call my mind," she reported, and that was it. For Ila, it was late this year. She had thought, somehow, during the long months of spring, summer and fall, that she had become "immune" to Christmas spirit, just as, many years before, she had become immune to the measles. She said: . . Until recent years, I always broke out with the 'Christmas spirit' about the time that the first gift cata logues came through the mail. It reached a high peak in mid-November, and about Thanksgiving time, I started badgering my parents ,for a Christmas tree. And did I want to take it down on New Year's Day? Not on your life! And I didn't. In fact, one year I kept it in the sunroom until my birthday, in March, so I could show it to my music teacher, who had been away on a trip. "Maybe it was because I overdid the whole thing as a child, but as I approached the cynical thirties, I had less Christmas spirit every year. And finally. I decided that I had 'had it.' I was immune, forever." TLA is a good reporter and a first-rate writer, and A she has recorded an experience which happens to many of us. For instance, it is easy to forego the Christmas spirit when shopping in overcrowded and under staffed stores for gifts that you can't find or that cost too much for people you don't really care a lot about. It's easy to get tensed up, and worried about "What the HECK can I get Cousin Susie," and tired and disgusted. It's easy to take a look at the line in front of the post office window, and decide that it just isn't worth the trouble. Everyone, we suspect, has felt this way one time or another. DUT Christmas spirit remains, and will remain. Most of us maybe all of us come to the moment when something "clicks" inside us and, Bingo ! we've got it. Then will come the unbidden but welcome well ing up within us of a feeling, a sensitivity a "spirit," which lets us know that it is, indeed, Christmas. And Christmas is a magic time. It is friendship and love and family. It has deep religious meaning. It is remembrance of things past and anticipation of things to come. It is hectic gaiety and quiet prayer. It is a tide, a season, a culmination in the hearts of men. And children particularly children. Christmas is wonderful. E.A. Which Comes First? A letter from a smart young man now studying economics at the University reports the class discus sion has turned to a new phase of this arcane subject. Economics, traditionally, has been the study of how td create the greatest satisfaction of human wants through the use of available and limited resources. Now, our student friend relates, comes a qualify ing hypothesis, namely, that many human wants, these days, seem to be satisfied by change, and change alone. He cites as an example an automobile company spending millions upon millions of dollars to restyle a new-model car, which was restyled only the year before. He says, "A lot of evidence points to the fact that folks just like plain change, for its own sake." This presupposes that the automobile companies provide what people want. TN A changing world, this may be true. But our favorite society editor disagrees. She believes the automobile companies do not provide what they think people want, as much they set out deliberately to create a desire for what they provide, and that they provide something different each year so that their merchandising can be more glamorous and attractive. This is a little like the old chicken and the egg argument. But is a 1958 Ford, say, or Chevrolet or Plymouth, intrinsically and esthetically any more attractive or "better" than an older model a 1952 or '53 one, for instance? Or is it only "better" because the ads tell us it is more beautiful, more stylish, more apt to boost our prestige? TT MAY be feckless, this argument about wThether " people like change so that it is provided, or whether change is provided and people are influenced into liking it. It probably doesn't make any difference one way or another, except, possibly, as an exercise in human motivation. Or doesn't it? If everyone were satisfied with a three-year-old car, without tail fins, or a half-dozen tail lights, or automatic thingumawhiches, what would happen to the automobile industry? And to the steel industry? And to our galloping economy as a whole? Maybe it does matter whether the automatic thingumawhich itself, or the customer who wants an automatic thingumawhich, comes first. We'll never know. E.A. Friday. December 20, 1957 for the Bend Bulletin, "got recorded for her readers DlON'T YOU HEAP MB 7vu ir ruuvi; OfcfcN A Today and By Walter THE SOVIET PEACE OFFENSIVE In what was evidently a well oiled automatic .response, brought off without the expendi- t u r e of any brain power, the State De partment dis missed the whole elabor ate Soviet peace offen sive as prop agand design ed to influence the NATO Walter Lippmann conference. There is no doubt that Russians would like to in fluence the countries that be long to NATO. But when we have said that, we have still to ask ourselves whether the Rus sians have put out anything that NATO has to listen to, and to examine seriously. They have said at least one thing which will be listened to in Europe, and which we can not afford to ignore. They have suggested that there should be established a zone in the center of Europe consisting of the two Germanys, Poland and Czecho slovakia where there shall be no nuclear araments. This is an exceedingly attractive idea. There is undoubtedly a mass of the German people, even in West Germany, who would support the idea. For they realize that if the two Germanys are armed with nuclear weapons, e s p ecially weapons with a fairly long range, then in the event of war East Germany will be a prime target of NATO and West Germany a prime target of the Soviet Union. This is the reason why Dr. Ad enauer, who is a strong partisan of the West, is refusing at this time to make any precise com mitments for missile bases. THE Soviet Union, in other words, is proposing to make a limited local disarmament agreement which corresponds with the vital interests of the vital interests of the German nation. Such an agreement would also correspond with the very wide and deep feeling all over Europe that it would be better if a reunited Germany were not also a nuclear power. The Russian suggestion, there fore, is on its face, negotiable. For on its face it offers to ex tend to Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany the kind of limited disarmament which the West Germans would, if they are free to choose, like to adopt for themselves. The idea may, of course, be mere propaganda, in the sense that the Russians have put it out with the intention of using it not to reach an agreement but as a trading counter to ar rive at something else. Even if that is their intention, there is only one way to prove that they are conducting mere prop aganda. That is to explore the idea thoroughly and tenaciously in a careful negotiation. THE practical test of "sincer ity" is whether the Soviet Union is willing to settle on this one proposal .'or nuclear disarm ament in the center of Europe, or whether this proposal is tied to all the Soviet Union's other proposals, and can be adopted if it is part of a big package deal. No large package deal is possible in the foreseeable fu ture, and every government knows it. The surest sign of a sincere readiness to negotiate Why Not A Good Book for Christmas? Something that can be read and reread and treasured for a lifetime. A Grants Pass Author has written a book entitled: "It's FUN BEING WELL." He has approached the problem of Healthful Living from a Bible Viewpoint. How to attain Victory over resentments, fears, and worries; how to revive one's energies through rest, exercise and nourishing food. How to consider medical and surgical aids and how to accept the Direct Touch of God's Power you will enjoy reading this book. Look for it at your favorite book store. , LAD ? I ASKED our. Tomorrow Lippmann is the willingness to enter into specific and limited agreements. It is a pretty good working rule in this matter that when a gov ernment insists on settling too many questions at once, it is not really in the mood to settle any of them. If this is true, as I believe it is then this extremely interes ting Russian proposal cannot be answered at NATO by large words about our very compli cated plans for general disarma ment. This is a proposal for limited and specific disarma ment in the most critical area of the globe. Until the proposal is either adopted or fully ex posed and discredited, our mili tary plans for NATO will be the subject of constant contro versy in every European Parli ament. THERE is a certain similarity, which may have a useful, moral, between the condition of the NATO alliance today and the condition of the Allied al liance in 1917. That was the year when America was drawn into the first World War and revolutionary Russia was with drawing from the war. The West ern Alliance was dangerously demoralized, and President Wil son saw quickly that if the Al liance was to be revived and consolidated, two great' things had to be done. The military power of the United States had to be mobilized, and at the same time, indeed before it could be fully mobilized, the people of the Alliance had to be convinced that they were suffering and en during for the sake of a good peace. The moral I draw from this is that Mr. Dulles, the real archi tect of our foreign policy, is con cerned with only half the prob lem. He truly believes in arming the Alliance. But for one reason or another, he does not believe in, or perhaps he does not under stand fully, the other half of the problem that a great Alliance must be armed not only with rockets but with hope. If he did understand this half of the problem, he would long since have taught the spokes men of the State Department that when they talk like hope less men who believe in nothing, they are demoralizing the Alli ance of the democracies. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Apprentice Registration About Same as in '56 Salem Registration of ap prentices in skilled trades is ap proximately the same as in De cember, 1956, despite a consider able decrease in the employment of skilled journeymen. Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen has reported. Nilsen said studies of on-the-job training which will be sub mitted to the meeting of the State Apprenticeship Council in Portland Monday show several factors have contributed to the constant employment total of apprentices. He said mounting registration of apprentices in some areas of the state has offset numbers of apprenticeship agreements can celled because of employment terminations. Apprentice train ing in Pendleton, Albany, The Dalles, Bend and Salem has in creased while fewer trainees are on the job in Astoria, Roseburg, Medford, Klamath Falls and other southern Oregon cities. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS After a series of disheartening fizzles, the U.S. successfully fired an ocean-spanning rocket on Tuesday. That's big news in this dizzy modern world so BIG, Wednes day morning's dispatches tell us, that it changed the whole diplo matic picture in Paris, where representatives of the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are gathered to decide whether or not they will PER MIT the United States to locate missile bases on their soil to HELP DEFEND THEM AGAINST RUSSIA. SO SHOCKED were these coun tries by our previous missile fizzled that the big issue in Paris when the NATO delegates began to assemble appeared to be this: Shall we ALLOW the United States to put missile bases on our terrain, thus exposing us to pos sible attack by Russia, or shall we GO NEUTRAL and tell the Americans to stay out? So IMPRESSED were they by the successful launching of our long-range rocket that they are inclined to forget their fears and encourage us to go ahead with our European missile base pro gram. A WORD is in order here on the fizzles. By chance, this rocket-launching program came to a head on almost exactly the 54th anniver sary of the first powered air plane flight, which was accom plished by Wilbur and Orville Wright on Dec. 17, 1903. It is well to remember that this first powered flight lasted only 59 SECONDS. The Wrights' plane, with its rudimentary en gine, barely got off the ground. The distance it traveled from the time its wheels first left the ground until they touched ground again was only about 120 feet. But that was enough to prove that powered flight was possible. THIS successful launching of an American long-range mis sile even though it was inten tionally brought down after a flight of only a few hundred miles is enough to prove that the United States has what it takes to develop effective mis sile weapons. That is why the NATO dele gates changed their tune in Paris. rpHE capacity of the United States to build weapons in fabulous numbers is well known. It has been proved in two wars. These NATO dele gates have seen it proved. So They reasoned Russia may be ahead of the U.S. in INVENTING an ocean spanning missile, but in the long pull the fabuolus productive ca pacity of the American indus trial system will swamp the Rus sians and put them out of busi ness if it comes to a showdown. That about the long and the short of it. FINANCIAL ACCARD Ottawa, 111. (IP) Gas station operator Lloyd Keiber and an unknown burglar who tried to rob him were "in full agreement today. Keiber left a not in his cash drawer reading, "No money in here." Keiber found the post script, "You weren't lying." Do Your Christmas M2 Shopping Wy ip at . . . IfgS Babson Sees 'Faith' As Tight Money Cure By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. The dif ficulty today is not "tight money." Money rates are like the tempera ture recording of a thermom eter or the air pressure read ing by a bar ometer. "Tight money" is not a cause, but only an effect of some under- Koger W Babsun lying Wrong. We hear much atjout the pop ulation growth ahead of us. This is an optimistic factor; but many oriental nations now have big populations and are living in poverty. To benefit from a large population, the people must have a sane education and a sane religious faith. Our democratic government is a basic reason for optimism. The "American way of Life," with freedom of enterprise and equal opportunities for all, must continue. However, Rome, Greece, and other nations also had democracies. But the peo ple lost interest in exercising their precious right to vote; they discarded their religions; they deteriorated spiritually and col lapsed. Funds for Research Many financial experts today consider the large appropria tions being spent upon research as insurance against depressions. I believe research spending is now approaching $10,000,000, 000 rjer year. This, however, will not save us. The develop ment of printing, the scientific work of Sir Isaac Newton, the discovery of America, the har nessing of steam by Watt, and the electrical age by Edison gave great periods of prosperity. However, their effectiveness weakened because they were not used for spiritual advancement. I might add other causes of so-called prosperity, such as the growth of installment selling, radio and TV advertising, high wages without a corresponding increase in production. All these things may have their useful ness, but they lead to inflation and higher living costs. Infla tion is like stimulation by liquor The habit of depending upon either becomes slowly destruct ive. We need only look at Eu rope to realize the curse of slow inflation. To try to remedy "tight money" by issuing more money is suicidal, Because of two tragic bereavements In the family 3 recently, we take this medium to thank and wish 3 3 3 3 our friends who sent us cards, and all other friends, neighbors and patients A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS o AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. o Dr. and Mrs. Jouett P. Bray MEL-J MEDFOBD, OREGON j A Wide Selection of Gifts for Everyone Shop All 3 Floors MAIN FLOOR, BALCONY & 2nd FLOOR. OPEN NIGHTS 'TIL 9 P.M. "The Store of a Thousand Thoughtful Gifts" Legislation for Depressions? History shows clearly that all such legislative attempts have been useless. Several have been suicidal. The fixing of prices, wages, and rents have been tried many times during preceding centuries. All have fal!ed. So will our attempts to fix or sub sidize farm prices likewise fail. Unemployment insurance and pensions seem to be worthy legis lation, but they have not worked. They were tried in Rome, France, England, and even in Germany before World War I. Such legislation was usually blamed on "tight money," as was the socialist movement led by William Jennings Bryan in the early Nineties. They were backed by selfish groups seek ing feather-bedding without regard for the good of the na tion as a whole. Manufacturers fought for tariffs; home build ers for 95 per cent loans; while labor unions succeeded in re maining exempt from anti-mon opoly legislation. Frankly, these false movements were due to lack of real religion, which caused the "tight money" of those days. Material vs. Spiritual Growth History proves that these two must progress together. When a nation is actuated by sane relig ious growth based upon the Ten Commandments, it enjoys con tinued material growth. On the other hand, when material growth exceeds spiritual growth, then depression follows with its falling prices, unemployment, and business failures. The real reason why money is "tight" to day is because most people have gone haywire materially seek ing money, entertainment, and more gadgets, including stylish clothes, autos, TV sets, and all the other things their neighbors have. Church leaders quote statis tics on church attendance, but church attendance is largely the "froth" of religion. The best barometers of the trueeligious state of this nation are Sunday observance, family prayers, tem perance, devoted families, re spect for law, civic interest, hon esty, industry, and the practice of the Golden Rule0Truly spirit ually minded people always have faith in God, their coun try, their fellowmen and them selves. Such faith is what Amer ica needs today. It will provide the only relief from so-called "Tight Money." & O O D o
