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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1948 (Tuesday)
Acquisition of 22,350 acres
of timber land south of south
fork of the Rogue river by
the Medford corporation is
announced.
" Members of the Southern
Oregon Safety Engineers as
sociation, declare support of a
traffic and general safety pro
gram for Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20, 1938 (Thursday)
Authentic version of the
Big Apple, latest ballroom
craze, will be presented as a
special feature at the annual
president's ball in Dream
land. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "A num
ber of candidates have start
ed to seethe and act pleasant,
but none have reached the
point, Wliere .tucjr ouuuuuv.w
they are out to lose.'
'30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20. 1928 (Friday)
';. The Mann drug store on
Main st. is sold by Heath,
Mann and Heath to J. J. Mc
Kair. The first constitutionality
test case of the Medford zon
ing plan ordinance reaches
courts with the trial cf E. II
Silliman in municipal court
,40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 20. 1918 (Monday)
An opportunity to extend
sheep raising industry in east
ern Oregon is offered to local
sheep men by the reclama
tion service which proposes
to lease for 10 years 110,000
acres in Morrow, Umatilla
and Gilliam counties.
All irrigation ditches lead
ing from the Rogue river and
tributaries must be screened
to prevent" loss of millions of
young fish, according to the
state fish and game commis
sion. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Is a peccadillo a mam
mal, a Spanish folk dance, or
the name for a slight offense?
2. Bible: Was Esther a
queen of Judah, Persia, or
Israel?
3. Which important Ameri
can river has its source near
Lake Itasca, Minnesota?
4. Is the United Packing
house Workers' union an
AFL or a CIO, or an inde
pendent union?
5. Which is heavier, steel
or copper?
6. Name the character in
Greek mythology who was
vulnerable only in his heel.
7. John D. Rockefeller Sr.
organized a vast industrial
empire in what basic com
modity? 8. Name the most recently
discovered major planet.
9. What republic in Africa
was established by freed
American slaves?
10. Does the port of Mur
'mansk on the Arctic belong
to Finland or Soviet Russia?
Answers: 1. Slight offense.
2. Persia. 3. The Mississippi.
4. CIO 5. Copper. 6. Achilles.
7. Petroleum. 8. Pluto. 9. Li
beria. 10. Soviet Russia.
What About "Cloud Seeding"?
Elsewhere on this page appears a letter from
a reader in Williams, Ore., asking about a recent
stoiy concerning "weather control" to prevent
hail.
His letter suggests the story may not have
been comprehensive enough particularly to rela
tively r e.c e n t newrcomers to this area. For
"weather control," or at least cloud-seeding, is
sort of an old story here.
I7IRST of all to answer his questions :
The state department of agriculture, un
der a law passed by the legislature several years
ago, was made the licensing agency for all at
tempts to regulate the weather. The law was
passed as a regulatory measure, to prohibit, any
one attempting to seed clouds, any time, and
without notice. The law also requires the licensee
to advertise his intentions with regard to weather
control activities.
The law was not referred to a vote of the
people, for there seemed to be no need nor de
mand for such a procedure, particularly for a
regulatory law.
I70R our correspondent's information, the Med
ford Pear Shippers association (then the
Rogue Valley Traffic association) first retained
the services of the Water Resources Develop
ment Corp., of Denver, Colo., for ground-generator
seeding of clouds, for hail prevention, in
1954. This year marks the fifth year of its opera
tion. But that is not the whole story. In 1951, the
California Oregon Power company retained the
North American Weather Consultants firm, of
Pasadena, Calif., to seed large sections of the
Cascade mountains in the Copco watershed areas
to increase snowfall. This winter is their seventh
season in operation.
Mr. Alden's letter is reminiscent of many re
ceived by this paper in the years these operations
were getting started, and earlier, w"hen cloud
seeding projects were conducted with the use of
airplanes. As a matter of fact, complaints of the
"dry land" farmers were factors in the passage
of the state licensing law.
DUT his letter is the first such we have seen in
a long, long time, for by now most people
are convinced, on the basis of their own observa
tions and on the basis of rainfall records, that
this type of seeding does not prevent rain.
There is evidence, in fact, to the contrary
that rainfall is increased, rather than decreased,
by the activities in hail-prevention seeding, for
the method used is the same one used elsewhere
to increase precipitation.
So we now have, and have had, virtually year-
around cloud-seeding in the spring and summer
months by one organization to prevent hail, and
in the fall, winter and spring months by another
firm to increase precipitation.
P VALUATION of the economic success of these
programs is an "ify" proposition, for only
long accumulation of weather data, and compari
sons to those of earlier years, can provide evi
dence. And even then the conclusiveness of the
evidence is debatable.
But this much is certain that both the Pear
Shippers and Copco are convinced that signifi
cant and beneficial results have been obtained.
Otherwise they would hardly continue the con
siderable expenditures involved year after year.
And Mr. Adlen's letter almost makes us
nostalgic. It's been a long time since we've heard
similar complaints about lack of rain. E.A.
VIP vs. VUP
The VUP, we learn from the "Letters" column
of the Oregonian, is the opposite of a VIP.
A VIP (not to be confused with a "veep") is
a "very important person," the coinage originat
ing from GI slang of World War II. A VUP, by
the same token, is a "very unimportant person,"
in the words of one of the Oregonian corre
spondents. Another letter-writer salutes the coinage with
delight, and signs himself "VUP, j.g., retired."
UE hails "VUP" as a more dignified name than
"the common man," which has always filled
him with resentment because of its implied con
descension. While doubting the lasting qualities of
"VUP," we fully share his feelings,- for we too
have always thought that "common man" was a
phrase we could do without.
Eveiy man is UNcommon to someone, even
if only to himself. Each man has some worth,
some quality which setshim aside from others. If a
person thinks of himself or others as "com
mon," he loses something of truth, and an insight
into the variety and individuality which make
people the fascinating creatures they are. E.A.
Hard
A correspondent . . . says the winter has been
the hardest ever known in Oregon. It is calculated
that over ten thousand head of stock died in Ore
gon from the severity of the winter . . . The wheat
crop does not promise well; the field mice and
wild geese having eaten one half that was sowed
. . . The emigration this year is expected to be
large. Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel, Friday, May
27, 1853.
Monday, January 20, 1958
Winter
WAAr
'Hey, wake up; rivttero shavS1.'
Matter of Fact
THE KENNAN RUMPUS
Paris The rumpus stirred
up by the brilliant Russian
expert, George F. Kennan, is
such a remarkable sign of the
'X times that it
. 1
4 ucocivcs tiuse
study.
The excite
ment Rtartorl
l when Kennan
5 delivered a
series of six
1 e c t u res on
BBC Radio in
Britain. What
Kennan had to
Joseph Alsop
say about the Soviet Union
and its relations with the
West attracted vastly more
interest and stimulated vastly
more controversy in Britain,
France and Western Germany
than anything either Presi
dent Eisenhower or Secretary
of State Dulles has said in
recent memory. The excite
ment therefore spread to the
United States, where former
Secretary of State Dean G.
Acheson has just rebuked his
ex-advisor with extreme
brutality. Altogether, Ken
nan has received enough at
tention to delight most cast
off policy-makers; but Ken
nan, quite characteristically,
has only been made miser
able by it all.
This Kennan rumpus con
tinuously reminds this report
er of the line in the old spirt
ual, "Everybody talkin' .'bout
Heaven ain't going' there."
The reason is that "Every
body talkin' 'bout Kennan
ain't readin' him." But if you
do read his BBC lectures and
you have any familitarity at
all with George Kennan, what
you discover is just what you
would expect.
THERE is a superbly lucid,
cool and penteratihg an
alysis of the present state of
the Soviet Union. There is
witty but rather gentle critic
ism of the peculiar diplonacy
of Secretary Dulles but
there is no personal attack on
Dulles. There is a big plug for
an old Kennan idea, that the
West should offer the evacua
tion of Germany by all NATO
forces plus a guarantee of
Germany's future neutraliza
tion in return for Soviet
evacuation of all Eastern Eu
rope plus permission for Ger
if
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Stray Notes, from
Eastern Oregon
- By SAGE BRUSH SALLY
New Bridge (Special) r
Another holiday season has
gone. Another year has end
ed and we have a new year
which we hope may be one
of progress, more tolerance
and understanding at home
and abroad.
On the international scene
I have just read in the Jan.
21 Look Magazine two (in my
estimation) good articles,
"Why We Must Learn to Live
With Russia," by Walter Lipp
mann, and "Open Letter to
Eisenhower and Khrushchev,"
by Britain's Bertrand Russell.
Paul Hoffman's "A Crash Pro
gram for Peace" is also good.
On the local scene, the old
town of Robinette on Snake
river is soon to be razed to
clear the way for the waters
backed up by Brownlee dam.
And we folks who have from
the beginning of the Hell's
Canyon argument hoped to
see a high federal dam at
Hell's Canyon agree with the
many competent people who
have stated that Brownlee
dam could be used to advan
tage in connection with the
high dam plan. In the Jan. 2
issue of The Grange Bulletin,
Joan Baker's "Hell's Canyon
and the Nation," is good, and
our Baker Record Courier has
a fine editorial "High Dam
How." In view of our rapidly
changing sources of power, a
dam built for production of
power only is as obsolete as
a flintlock gun would be in
modern war.
On the holiday scene at
By Joseph AIsop
man reunification. It is an
idea with several attractions
and one fatal defect, that the
Soviets would . never take
their troops out of the satel
lite states, particularly after
Hungary. But on this point
Kennan says, quite sensibly,
that if the Soviets refuse
such an offer, they will then
have the blame for prevent
ing a sane European settle
ment. Finally, there is a char
acteristic Kennan disquisi
tion on the Western military
posture, which includes the
engagingly eccentric recom
mendation that the defense of
Western Europe might better
be planned on the Swiss
model.
Anyone who has ever seen
Kennan succumb to something
like an attack of moral
shingles at the mere sight of
the Pentagon, of course knows
that he suffers from an al
most neurotic horror of mili
tary power in all its modern
forms. It is odd in so courage
ous a man, and it is a real
weakness since military
power above all needs to be
thought about calmly and un
emotionally. In , the present
case, Kennan's weakness led
him into patches of plain
sillinness. Even so, he went
far to correct himself in his
final lecture.
HE DID not mean, he said
with great emphasis, that
"military strength would not
be cultivated on our side
until we have better alterna
tives." He did not favor "un
ilaterally giving up the nu
clear deterrent," or 'desisting
from the effort to strengthen
the NATO forces in Europe."
To all this he added,
throughout all the lectures,
a long series of coldly realistic
condemnations of Soviet im
perialism and grimly stern
warnings of the Soviet's im
placable hostility to freedom
and the West. One is a first a
bit bewildered, therefore, by
the Kennan rumpus.
Yet the real explanation of
the rumpus is simple enough.
In the appalling crisis of con
fidence that now afflicts the
Western Alliance, vast num
bers of otherwise sane people
feel a gnawing hunger for
comfortable self - delusion.
home, Christmas was as usual
a happy time at our house.
Christmas evef and Christmas
day friends and relatives were
with us.
Christmas was a lovely
warm day. We had no snow.
In the churches in Richland
and our little Nazarene church
and in Grange halls in Rich
land and New Bridge there
were special Christmas serv
ices and the schools had
Christmas programs. All were
well attended.
On Dec. 27 It snowed and
our weather turned colder.
New Year's eve we spent
quietly at home. My brother
Jay and a party of friends
stopped by and invited us
to go with them to watch the
old year out at the ranch of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilkins.
But we were too comfortable
to leave our warm living
room and TV.
New Year's eve Edith and
Elaine Kivets of New Bridge
and Mr. Ludwick Swem of
Pendleton were here to watch
Pasadena's Tournament of
Roses parade and the football
game with us. Thus passed
the holidays.
Last Thursday, Jan. 9, the
First National bank of Baker
commemorated 75 years of
business in Baker. It was in
corporated Jan. 9, 1883. Con
and I joined the more than
1500 people who were on hand
to help celebrate the occasion.
Best wishes for 1958.
. Sage Brush Sally.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's listen for a moment
today to Donald Douglas,
chairman of the board of the
Douglas Aircraft Company.
He tells the senate prepared
ness subcommittee in Wash
ington that an anti-missile
HAS BEEN FEASIBLE FOR
SOME TIME and he is pre
pared to START BUILDING
ONE as soon as he gets the
green light.
TIE OPENED his testimony
on an optimistic note.
"I don't share the gloomy
opinion that the race for wea
pon supremacy has been lost
forever," he told the mem
bers of the senate subcom
mittee. "The armed forces and
industry have been doing a
much better job of keeping
peace with ANY potential en
emy than the public realizes."
He recommended that
something be done to improve
"the time-consuming, agoniz
ing process of waiting for of
ficial decisions," and added:
"The problem will not be
solved by piling committtees
on top of committees and
czars on top of czars."
What we NEED most of all,
he intimated, is to quit talk
ing so much and BUILD
MORE WEAPONS. It sounds
like good common sense.
piIRST
" What's an anti-missile
missile?
It's a DEFENDING missile
that will go up in the air and
knock ATTACKING missiles
out of the sky BEFORE
THEY REACH US.
SECOND
Who's Douglas?
Well, the aircraft company
that bears his name built the
DC-3, the good old work-horse
of aviation. I suppose every
body in America who. has
been willing to trust himself
in an airplane (not to mention
the rest of the world) has
taken a ride at one time or
another in a DC-3.
T SUPPOSE you're aware of
- the hullaballoo over our
alleged shortage of engineers
and scientists and the conten
tion that Russia is so far
ahead of us along that line
that unless we begin at once
to turn them out on an as
sembly line the Russians will
have us over a barrel.
Here's the other side:
A young New Yorker who
runs a job placement busi
ness and makes a good living
at it says he has 14,000 train
ed specialists listed on an
automatic card machine in
what he terms a "national
manpower register."
He says he could furnish
10,000 engineers and scien
tists every year.
ONE day somebody says the
Russians are so far
ahead of us it's pitiful. The
next day somebody shouts
that we are away out in front.
Today somebody says DO
THIS.
Tomorrow somebody says
DO THAT.
And so on.
PERSONALLY, I think one
thing that may be wrong
with us is that so many of us
KNOW SO MANY THINGS
THAT AIN'T SO.
This shows itself mainly in
a strong drive for negotiation
with the Soviets at all costs,
just for the sake of negotiat
ing, plus an equally strong
drive towards unilateral dis
armament, "in order to end
the arms race."
PRECISELY because most of
what he said in his lec
tures was so obviously au
thoritative and penetrating,
all these eager self-deluders
have seized upon Kennan's
name to make their own
strange impulses respectable.
His idea about Germany has
been distorted into the
startling semblance of the so
called Rapacki Plan. His na
tural advocacy of continuous
diplomatic contact with the
Soviets has been transformed
into a call for non-stop sum
mit meetings, which he ex
pressly condemned. His
patches of silliness about the
Western military posture have
been interpreted as a call for
unilateral disarmament,
which he also expressly con
demned. It is a frightening phenome
non, this carnival of opium
eating. It augurs much worse
to come when men less cap
able than Kennan begin to
gain a hearing. But the cause
is not Kennan. The root cause
is the Western crisis of con
fidence, so largely resulting
from our Allies' total loss of
faith in the present foreign
policy-leadership of the United
States.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
EXPLORER'S REWARD
South Pole ttPl George
Lowe, a member of the Ant
arctic expedition led by Dr.
Vivian Fuchs. arrived at the
South Pole Sunday after a
1,000-mile trek across the fro
zen wasteland, and received
his first mail since Nov. 24.
It was an income tax state
ment from the New Zealand
government.
Wilson Discusses Growing Tax
Collections, Climbing Debt
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (W In the
New Deal days, Franklin D.
Roosevelt got started on a
t kMVi yax " collect-
" "-f in; n i n e e
SO v?83 llke a record-
breaker for ail
time.
Harry S.
Truman came
4a, aiong ana in
fewer years
collected even
Lyie c. Wilson more tax
money and by a startling
margin.
Comes now President Ei
senhower who has licked 'em
both. He came into office just
five years ago today and al
ready is the champion tax
collector up to now. It's a title
not likely to endear him and
the Republican party in the
hearts of the voters.
It is at this time of year
that taxpayers begin to fret
about their forced contribu
tions to government. They
would fret more if they had
any understanding of what
they may get into because the
huge sums they contribute to
government have not prevent
ed the servants of the people
in Washington over the years
from vastly overspending the
government's income.
Debt Taxpayer's Burden
So the taxpayer not only
must share payday by pay
day with the federal treasury,
he must also accept responsi
bility for the government's
debt which was assumed in
his name. How heavy that
burden of responsibility has
become is indicated by the
fact that, of all the tax reve
nue collected . now by the
government, about $1 of every
$10 must go to pay interest
on the debt.
Largely responsible for that
debt and the high level of
taxation are wars, subsidies
to special interests, welfare
and other services demanded
of their government by the
citizens. All of these spend
ing pressures are in effect to
day, although the war is a
cold one.
What all of this adds up to
is a rising trend of taxation,
an even faster rising trend of
spending and a constant in
crease in the public debt.
Somewhere in the ascending
scale of public debt is the
destructive point of no re
turn. None knows just where that
point may be nor, actually,
whether it already has been
reached or ominously awaits
some millions or billions of
dollars beyond the present
Editorial
Comment
WATCH-DOG OF LIBERTY
Saturday afternoon a group
of Eugene neoole will try to
drum up some interest in a
unique organization devoted
solelv. and successfully, to
the proposition that "liberty
is always unfinished busin
ess." They will meet at 12:30
D.m. in the faculty club of
the University to acquaint the
rest of u with the American
Civil Liberties Union, intrep
id foe of the Communists, the
Fascists -.nd others who live
by pushing other people
around.
The ACLU got its name
long before it was consider
ed unwise to form an organ
ization with a name like that.
Now, because of the many
subversive and quasi-subversive
organizations with simi
lar names, the ACLU has had
tough sledding. People get it
mixed up with one of the
"listed" groups, which it most
emphatically is not. Over the
years, and right now, it has
attracted Americans of all po
litical faiths, save those faiths
in which human liberty is not
important.
Many have been its victor
ies over censorship, discrim
ination, and denial of the lib
erties that are the birthright
of all Americans. As a watch
dog of liberty, it has had no
equal among American organ
izations. Support of the
group should be encouraged.
Eugene Register - Guard.
DERBY ORIGINS
Lexington, Ky. (IP) The race
horse, Omar Khayyam, is the
only Kentucky derby winner
foaled outside the United
States. Sixty-six winners were
foaled in Kentucky, three in
Tennessee, two in Texas, New
Jersey and California, and one
each in Montana, Ohio, Vir
ginia, Kansas, Florida and
Missouri.
How To Hold
FALSE TEETH
More Firmly in Place
Do your false teeth annoy and em
barrass by slipping, dropping or wob
bling when you eat, laugh or tali?
Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on
your plates. This alkaline (non-acid)
powder holds false teeth more firmly
and more comfortably. No gummy,
gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not
sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture
breath). Get FASTEETH today at
any drug counter.
debt level. Better understood
is what happens when that
point of no return is reached:
Credit Sags; Bonds Skid
What happens is this: Gov
ernment credit sags toward
zero, government bonds skid
in value and skid some more,
the purchasing power of the
U.S. dollar begins to slide
toward nothing. That is what
an overload of public debt
can and unquestionably would
bring about. Things would be
tough all over and Nicolai
Lenin would have proved his
point which was this: That a
political society such as that
of the United States must in
evitably spend itself into
bankruptcy.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words.
Weather Control Questions
To the Editor: In the Jan.
13 issue of your paper, I no
ticed an article on the front
page entitle "Weather Com
pany Gets State License."
No need to repeat the claim
of said Weather Company, but
I would like to ask the ques
tion: What department In the
state is authorized by law to
issue such a license? And
when did the people of the
state ever have the chance
to vote that authority to such
department?
No doubt long periods with
out rain help the pear grow
ers. But how about the lack
of rain on our chief crop, the
forests? Also the dry land
crops scattered over the area
affected, not Medford alone
but all the area?
Personally, it seems to me
the wealthy fruit growers of
the area hold too much power,
considering how many there
are.
D. E. Alden,
Williams, Ore.
Sunday or Lord's Day
To the Editor: Preachers of
Protestant churches, why not
preach to your people about
the born-again experience
real salvation which will re
move the desire to break the
Sabbath or Lord's Day, in
stead of trying to remove the
temptations?
Even the stores will close
on this Lord's Day if they get
condemnations from hearing
and believing.
Remember, God gave the
rest day to keep holy not for
recreation as you seem to
think is a major reason for
Sunday closing.
Preach the word and get us
to believe it and your troubles
will be over concerning the
condition.
Mary S, Morgan,
618 East Ninth st.,
Medford, Ore.
Paul McKee Is Mentioned
. To the Editor: The private
power companies, including
the Idaho Power company,
have no doubt already select
ed Mark Hatfield's campaign
manager in his race for
the Republican gubernatorial
nomination. But if they have
not, I suggest Mr. Paul Mc
Kee frankly take over.
The open secret in Salem
that it was the private power
lobby which initiated the Hat
field boom has not yet been
discovered by the press ap
parently, but the Unander
forces should insist now on
a complete revelation of the
facts. Mr. Hatfield is a "lobby
candidate" and it's a limited
lobby and far less democratic
than a Republican nominat
ing convention would have
been.
D. L. McDonough,
495 West Rural,
Salem, Ore.
)
Almanac
To be Rumble to
superiors is duty,
to equals courtesy,
to inferiors nobleness.
PERL
Funeral Home
LADY ATTENDANT
Phone SP 2-6675
The public debt was a mere
S19.4 billion in 1932, the year
FDR was first elected Presi
dent. It had grown to $258.2
billion by 1945, the year he
died. It was $266 billion in
1953, the year Eisenhower
took office. The figure is in
excess of $274 billion today.
This in spite of extraordi
nary tax collections. The U.S.
Chamber of Commerce cal
culated that all presidents up
to and including FDR collect
ed $244.1 billion in taxes.
That was a span of 158 years.
Truman collected $342.2 in
7?i years. In 6Vi years
from Jan. 20, 1953 to June 30,
1959 Eisenhower's take
I will be about $474 billion.
Grateful for UN Ad
To the Editor: Warmest ap
preciation to you for taking
the initative in printing the
plan, "A Sane Nuclear
Policy."
My personal endorsement
was expressed as I mailed the
clipping with my signature.
I thought you would like to
know.
Florence Perry Sampert
158 Renault ave.
Medford, Ore.
"Know Thyself"
To the Editor: Your recent
editorial, "The Man From
Mars," should, I believe, be
commended for its high prin
ciples and fresh approach to
ward the insecure monthi
ahead.
I should like, if I may, to
continue the fanciful "Little
Man From Mars" statements,
when asked to delve deeper
to the core of our present
conflicts here on the planet
Earth. I believe his convic
tions would run as follows:
"When I arrived on your
planet, I could see that for
all of your marvelous accomp
lishments in the various fields
of science, you have, and con
tinue to, sidestep the key to
all of your answers. You have
possessed that key since the
beginning of human life on
Earth Your own Mind!"
The Man from Mars was
strangly serious and deter
mined now as he continued.
"Your minds have probed
to the very depths of the
atom, yet strangely enough, it
has barely touched its own
surface. It knows more of the
latest spring fashions than it
does itself!
"You are poised on the edge
of your greatest adventure,
the conquest of space, but the
excitement is dimmed by the
unrest of nations which don't
know peace. How can they?
For as yet they don't know
themselves, or where their re
lationship with the Universe
is.
"The best I am at liberty to
advise at present, is for your
science to undertake the study
of the mind as determinedly
at you have converged on
weapons for your own dis
truction. Work from all sides,
even to the still controversial
parapsychological aspects of
mind, but finish the job!
"You will blunder many
times with the intangibles of
mind, but the rewards are
beyond the scope of imagina
tion. With this accomplished,
the planet Earth will know
her right direction."
"In conclusion, and at the
expense of sounding extreme
ly unscientific, you may find
yourselves a very lengthy"
stride in the direction of your
creator."
W. A. Berry
1215 Saling ave,
Medford, Ore.