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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
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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
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, 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
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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
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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."
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