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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thurtday, January 2, 19S8 ore of Everything to BY FRANK ELEAZER Washington HJ Rep. Har old C. Osterdag (R-N.Y.) says the word for the coming ses sion of Congress undoubtedly will be "more." More defense is mostly what Ostertag had in mind for the new year He might have added more noise, more bickering, more investigations, more viewing with alarm; more efforts by more members to hook more pet projects onto the de fense bandwagon; more of ficial inspection trips, along about the end of winter to sunny places like Hawaii and the Panama Canal. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturaliir Probably the. most Impor tant units of time that govern our lives are the months of the year. Here are the stories of the words which stand for the months. January. This month is named for the Roman God Janus who was always rep resented with two faces one that gazed at the past end one that looked to the future. Ar.d so, when the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve and December passes into January, we say farewell to the year just gone and hail the New Year ahead. February. This month got its name from an ancient rite During the middle of this month, the women of Rome when barren were beaten wit sacred thongs called februa. Struck by these "instruments of purification" they would rfb longer be barren. February had 29 days but the Roman senate took away one day and gave it to August so that Aug ust would not be inferior to July. March. This month was de dicated to Mars, the god of war, and named after him. Before the time of Julius Cae sar, the Roman New Year began with this month. April. This month being the time when the first flowers open was given the Roman name Aprilis which is based on the Latin word aperio, which means "open." May. The origin of May is uncertain. It may be from the Latin word Maia, the mother of the god Hermes. Although this is the "time of the singing birds" in Roman days it was not considered a romantic month. In fact, it was considered an unlucky month for marriage for on this month fell the festival of the unhappy dead. Protectress of Women June. Some scholars believe June came from the goddess Juno who was the protectress of women, since June has been the favorite month for marriages all the way down from earliest Rome. (Possibly the ancient taboos against May marriages caused the June rush to the altars.) Others think that the name c?me from Junius, the name of a Latin family to which the murderers of Julius Cae sar belonged. July. The name of this ' month was proposed by Mark Anthony in honor of Julius (July) Ceasar. The name came Into use the year of Caesar's assassination. August. This month rec eived its name from Octa vian. the nephew of Julius Caesar. The Roman senate had given him the official title of Augustus in honor of his distinguished services to the state. . . and although born in September, he chose the month August on which to bestow his name. September. Because th" Roman year originally oca. in March, September was the 7th month and the name is taken from the Latin word "septem" which means seven. When the calendar was changed and September be came the ninth month, the name was not changed. October. Octo in Latin means eight and this is the eighth month of the old Ro man year. November. Since Emperor Augustus had his month and Julius Caesar his, the Ro mans thought it only proper to proposed that November be renamed for Empero" Tiberius. But fortunately Ti berius objected saying: "What will you do if you have eleven Caesars?" So the name re mained November from the Latin "novem," meaning nine. December. Emperor Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus of Rome once asked his girl friend, "Amazonius" how she would like to see her name on the calendar. Even though he tried, the Senate would not go along with him and apparently told him to go and watch the gladiators and lions instead. So -December remain ed December which stands for "decern" the Latin word for "ten," the tenth month of the year. (Copyright. 1957, by Eugena Burns) Also, more of a gap than ever between hope and per formance on economy, a bal anced budget and a tax cut. None of this is any reflec tion on the 435 House mem bers (less five vacancies as of opening day) and 96 senators who will be returning to their desks Jan. V for the second session of the 85th Congress. It's just the way the seltzer fizzes. Like most everything else it all can and will be blamed first on Sputnik and second on Republicans or Democrats, as the case may be, depending on which party you happen not to belong to. 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Choose flattering setf jeom or slimming dark seams in two lovely thoa'esi 8V3-1L Unit, 3 to ewtonte. this year for our missile mak ers. Scientists once again will be spoken to, and kindly. President Eisenhower wants to spend about $40 billion in the new fiscal year on de fense. What's already worry ing him is how to keep the Congress from giving him more. Last year it was just Nuremberg Trial Psychiafrisl Dies Berkeley, Calif. HP) Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, 43, chief U. S. psychiatrist at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, committed suicide Wednes day by swallowing poison in the library of his home. The Kelley family physic ian, Dr. Harry Borason found a glass of what apparently had contained potassium cya -4 "SX Show . the other way around. Soviet party boss Nikita Khrushchev, obviously, is Ike's best lobby ist. Too bad he isn't around to answer some of the ques tions at the innumerable hear ings into how come Russia was first. - Tax cut: Quit kidding your self and each other. Count nide in the library, police said. Kelley chose to end his life with the same poison that en abled Nazi leader Hermann Goering to cheat the gallows. As professor of criminology he was in demand as an ex pert witness in a number of noteworthy criminal trials in the San Francisco Bay Area. MEN'S FLANNEL SPORT SHIRTS Unbelievable, isn't it? A cotton flannel shirt for under o dollar! Colorful, warm, wonderful to wear. Get a shirt for him to day . . . there ore colors and patterns for every mon on your gift list. It's the perfect shirt for work or leisure. Sorry, ot this low price, there's a limit of 2 to a customer. Up luring iJext Session of Congress yourself lucky taxes aren't going to be raised. With the budget at a peacetime high (S74 billion is what it looks like now), and revenues decl ining, there's no room for a tax cult, no matter what the wishful thinkers are saying. Benson in Trouble Offsetting economies: This Is another laught, April 1 style. Congress claimed to have cut the President's mon ey requests last year by bil lions, and what came of it? Nothing. Spending rolled along. And last year the word was "economy." This year, remember, it's more." Farm price supports: Ben son wants authority to lower them. The farm bloc doesn't know what it wants except that this isn't "it. Dairy state congressmen hope tq repeal Benson's recent order cut ting supports under milk. As for the deal they may have to make with other farm in terests to put that one across, your guess is as good as any body's. One thing is certain. It will cost money. Postal rates: They'll go up for sure this time. You may as well lay in some of those pretty new red, white and blue four cent stamps for let ters of complaint to your con gressman. Blame this one on Sputnik II. Uncle Sam will need the extra half billion dollars yearly which a rate increase would produce. Civil rights: Plenty of talk about this, with a Sputnik angle here too. 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