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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
Ftb. 25. 1948 (Wednesday)
Medford Mayor Clarence
A. Meeker, well-known civic
and religious leader, dies of
heart ailment.
George C. Flanagan, Med
ford lumberman, appointed
to board of trustees at Wil
lamette university, Salem.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 25. 1938 (Friday)
Medford corporation and
Timber Products companyJ
employees return to work
after layoff.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Sbudge Pot column: "The
February weather has been
unusual. Rain fell on the just,
the unjust, and Californians."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 25, 1928 (Saturday)
Seventeen bids opened for
new Ashland city water dam;
bids range from $124,000 to
$181,000.
Judge O. M. Corkins, who
has conducted circuit court
In Medford, leaves for Lake
view to take care of business
matters.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 25. 1918 (Monday)
Captain George von der
Hellen, receives commenda
tion for efficiency and order
ed to Ft. Sill, Okla, for train
ing with field artillery.
From Local and Personal
column: "Ernest Webb, who
is a British subject, plans to
close his ranch near Central
Point, dispose of his fancy
chickens, and enlist in the
British army."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ttn correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; fiva ei
six is good.
1. During World War II,
what office in the Nazi gov
ernment was held by Paul
Joseph Goebels?
2 Bible: Which book deals
with the slavery of the He
brews in Egyt?
3. What was the middle
name of the English poet,
.Percy Shelley?
4. Which State of the U.S.
has the longest Pacific ocean
coastline?
5. Who or what is a toper?
6. Is shellac made from
powdered seas hells?
7. In what country did
Leon Trotsky meet his death
by assassination?
8. What is the VFW?
9. Are there fir, spruce or
cedar trees m Iceland?
10. Which is the second
smallest state in the U.S.?
Answers: 1. Propaganda
Minister. 2. Exodus. 3. Bysshe.
4. California. 5. A drunkard.
6. No. 7. In Mexico. 8. Vet
erans of Foreign Wars. 9. No
(there are no trees). 10. Del
aware. NAVAL MANEUVERS ON
Manila (IP) The greatest
concentration of naval might
in 14 years moved toward the
Philippines today for massive
missile age amphibious ma
neuvers against the island of
Luzon. Some 100 American
and Filipino warships, carry
ing 80.000 men, moved south
ward from Japan and Oki
nawa, in "Operation Strong
back," fighting off "enemy"
submarine and air "attacks"
as they advanced. I
ecai I
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Editorial Correspondence ...
Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb.
here before going on to Tucson, Arizona. This is the longest
trip taken on the "Friendly
time close to 800 miles.
However, if anyone thinks
cactus at the "S.P." they are
The only suggestion we
from Central Point replace
S.P. president. That's all.
This is an election year
Holmes (now of Medford) take over for President Russell
as Generalissimo of the richest, longest, and most unfriendly
railroad in the world.
.
r"FHE former farm boy from
tion for boutnern Oregon, parxicuiany me section from
Eugene to Dunsmuir, California. So if he were running the
S.P.. the "Daylights" wouldn't be running through Klamath
Falls and the barren wastes of eastern Oregon at all but
through the growing and prosperous as well as beautiful
scenic section from the McKenzie river to the source of the
Sacramento.
o
PRESIDENT RUSSELL of
toward this part of the state. As a loyal son of Jackson
ville he has never forgiven
away from his home-town which was then the rip-roaring
metropolis of Jackson county
He vowed (presumably)
would get back at those smarty humdingers and big city-
slickers of that upstart tank
valley chaparral.
He was only an S.P. brakeman at the time. He never
thought he would pull an Horatio Alger story and be one
day "monarch of all he surveyed." But by hard work, brains
and a stiff punch, he got there and when he did, it wasn't
long before the boom town
"whistle-stop" away from Jacksonville, was not only given
the short sharp end of a sticky stick, but was deprived of
passenger trains entirely.
TOB H. would never have
So delegates to the convention we name you that
friendly, public-spirited, loyal
of our good neighbor Central
of the ahem! Southern Pacific. All those in favor say
'Aye. Members of the convention it is unanimous! I will now
introduce PRESIDENT Holmes."
TT POURED the familiar dogs
Dunsmuir, such a deluge
wiper had a hard time to
clouds at times were only a few
The Dunsmuir agent asked
for and we reported (TRUTHFULLY) that the day before
was perfect and Saturday morning was bright and warm
The answer was that had been
now look at it, and the sad-eyed station agent took out his
briar pipe and swept a disgusted hand in the direction of
the flooded window.
npHE DAYLIGHT" was on
. remarked, it's a grand old
ule, there is only one dining-car,
loquacious train agent to announce stops over the loud
speaker, but although we had
we had no complaint. For the
the same, nd the club car
filled. But for the intervention of the California PUC the
Daylight would now have suffered the same fate as the
magnificent "Shasta Limited," the train that served the
valley in the "good old days,"
Versenkt."
fID you know that the "S.P."
it changed its main line between Portland and San Fran
cisco from the salubrious and
fertile Rogue River Valley to
Well, it did.
That was "ok" in the steam
sense in this age of Diesels.
Portland-San Francisco run could be made just as fast as
via the Natron cut-off, and the trip would be a scenic booster
instead of a flat-tire assuming
the enterprise and imagination
Don't take our word for it
belief and WHO could know
and transportation than veteran Pullman porter?
VES, "that's the truth." The
A brick "round-house" at Dunsmuir prove it. It proves the
steam engme is out and the Diesel era is in. Grades and
curves don't have the deterrent factor they did have when
the Natron "cut-off" was built. (Speaking of the Natron cut
off, the undersigned was a guest of the S.P. on the first
Pullman trip over that cut-off many years ago and was
assured by the then S.P. vice president (in the presence of
the late Judge William Colvig of Medford) that the building
of the "cut-off" would not change the S.P. passenger service
to Medford and the valley in the slightest, either then or in
the future. So times change and opinions of even the "Upper
Brass" change with them.)
VUE CAUGHT the "Owl" at Martinez for the night ride to
" L.A. The Owl ain't quite the bird she used to be, but it
was a comfortable trip with a very unexpected good night's
rest.
Something new for breakfast a serve-yourself cafeteria
diner arrangement, with one waiter doubling as "cook" and
the other as "bus boy." Probably a result of Bob Holmes'
"red carpet treatment," the waiter at once spotted the stag
gering couple from Medford as fugitives from the "Old
People's Home." So he not only helped us to a table but took
and served our orders.
Again patronage was excellent and the food ditto. Now
and then one had to dodge a splash of coffee from a passing
customer as the train lurched up the "Ridge Route," but as
far as learned no one was scalded and the general spirit of
the car, including the conversation, was very amiable, happy
and animated.
QUR "vis a vis" from Sacramento deplored the fact she was
" making the trip by train as she missed her plane. "It's
so slow and tiresome," she wailed. How sad. Ok, ok, that is
the popular refrain these days.
In fact, we feel very much like old Mr. Pickwick who
loved to travel in a stagecoach, and could see no greater
sport as long as he lived. The steam engine had been in
vented but he didn't give a whoop, and could see no future
for it.
We don't go quite that far. We can see a future for the
airplane. But how long will even a jet plane stand up against
the man-carrying rocket? When they come in (the experts
say they are bound to) it won't be getting from Medford to
New York in five or six hours, but in five or six minutes.
(Ok make it 10 at 20,000 miles
If speed and more speed is ail the genus homo wants, let
him have it. Like Mr. Pickwick we will stick to terra firma
yes, the firmer the better and stay on the ground with
the trains and on the sea with the ships.
Didn't Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote "Travels With
a Donkey," say something about getting to your destination
in fast time was not half as important as the FUN you might
have getting there?
Whether he did or not we
second the motion! ! R.W.R.
Tuesday. February 25. 1958
23 Taking a coffee-break
Southern Pacific" for a long
we are going to throw prickly
mistaken.
will make is this: that the boy
the boy from Jacksonville as
and we would like to have Bob
Central Point has a deep affec-
1
the S.P. doesn't feel that way
Medford for taking the "S.P.
and the county seat.
if he ever got the chance he
town in the middle of the
that took the expected S.P
done that!
and accommodating native son
Point to be the next president
and cats motoring down to
that at times the windshield-
overcome it, and the weeping
feet above the car-top.
how the weather was in Med-
true in Dunsmuir also, but
time as usual and as often
train. Still on a winter sched
instead of two, there is no
to wait for seats in the diner,
food was excellent, the service
the entire train in fact well
i.e. it would be "spurlos
made a grave mistake when
picturesque Siskiyous and the
Klamath Falls?
- engine - age but doesn't make
For with a super-Diesel, the
of course the S.P. heads had
to see it.
this is our Pullman porter's
more about railroad trains
rubble and ruins of the old
an hour.)
stick with Pir-kwirL- AND
'SOME PEOPLE CONT KNOW MWlO KEAOJ SOME PEOPLE
Communications
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uaper; in fact the contrary is often
Salvation by Empathy
Tn the Editor: Any reader
sometimes can't help wonder-
ins whv an author didnt ex
press himself concisely, such
as: "indulse in empathy, in
stead of "thinking one's own
thoughts into someone elses
thoughts to get the other per
son's viewpoint, or see from
his angle.
Then the eminent phiioso
Dher claims it's the hardest
thing ever to do, but also
points out a world couia be
lifted out of its chaotic predic
ament, by that very thing,
were it done universally. At
any rate by putting his idea
in simple form, he may have
eiven it Denetrating power
and punch, to reach the read
er's innermost thoughts and
bring forth the desire to give
it a trial. To apply his method
in evervdav life might well
save a lot of heartaches, and
start a chain reaction that
would eventually involve all
humanity.
Seems like tolerance would
take on a very necessary and
important significance, arid
compromise could well ma
terialize. That author's plan
to change the world to comply
with the Golden Rule, if prop
agated and rjracticed. might
well be a panacea to revive,
the world, and save civiliza
tion from extinction.
It would certainlv mean
sacrificing one's viewpoints,
at least ou per cent, and step
ping on our own pride in do
ing so.
If simulation can bring re
ality, when diligently prac
ticed, all it would take is
courage to take the first step,
and then reiteration. The emi
nent philosopher believes en
couraging love and diminish
ing hate is our only salvation.
From a human aspect, and re
liance on ourselves. ' it is
bound to seem hard to do. But
with the help of the super
natural, nothing is impossible,
we are told.
Emma Lou Carpenter,
811 Sherman St.,
Medford.
Boy and Helmet
To the Editor: Yesterday as
I came out of a funeral home,
a boy, about seven, carrying
a red helmet was waiting to
cross Sixth st., at Mam. As
he stepped off the curb he
leisurely put on the large hel
met over his faoe as a base
ball guard and very slowly
crossed this busy street peek
ing through the holes in the
top of the helmet.
I was where I couldn't get
to him, but perhaps his moth
er may see this and teach him
how not to cross such a busy
street at 3 p.m.
E. K.,
(Name on file).
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A BANK ROBBER was reported driving like mad some
where in Virginia and every sheriff in the state was
alerted to watch for him. Taking no chances, one conscientious
sheriff decided to stop every
car on the road and cross
examine its occupants. The
dowager in a sleek limou
sine took this amiss. "By
what authority do you pre
sume to stop this car?" she
demanded angrily.
The sheriff took his badge
out of his pocket to show
the lady and blushed vio
lently. The badge was a tin
affair marked "Space Ship
Patrol." His 9-year-old son
had switched badges.
Collegiate quickie: "Where are you headed, dear wife, in the
middle of the night?"
"Downstairs to get some water."
"In your night gown ?"
"No, my love, in a pitcher."
1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate,
the case.
Unen-mlovment ComDlaint
To the Editor: Does it pay
to be honest and tell the trutn
in Oregon?
I have been here for 26
years and have been paying
in to the State unemployment
and have never drawn 5 cents
until now, and I did not know
that you should not tell the
board the truth when they
ask vnn if vou were looking
for work. I was honest and
told them that I went out to
the woods to see about getting
some work, and I got wet and
sick and was in bed for two
days, and because I was hon
est and told them the truth
they cut off my check for a
week and I only get $23 per
week and I Dav for that.
' I would like to hear from
others and get their opinion
on such a deal as this and
what encouragement there is
for a man to go out and try
to get work when it is wet
and cold and you get sick and
then have your unemploy
ment check cut off for your
pf forts when you need it-
more when you are sick than
when you are well.
t winder if the people that
are responsible for such rul
ings are docked lor Deing
sick, or do they get their full
pay? Such deals as this do
not encourage people to try
to get work or to be honest.
This ic not tood publicity for
our state when tourists hear
ahout deals that the working
neonle get here in Oregon. I
will be glad to answer any
questions that anyone would
like to ask. I read the com
munications in the Mail Trib
une every day and I think it is
one of the best features any
newsnaner can have. It gives
the public a chance to hear
the whole truth.
Ray Garland,
Box 81, Talent.
Big Words
To the Editor: In reference
to Mr. James Redden's letter
of Feb. 21 where he states
that "a rising literacy rate al
ways increases Democratic
registrations," my I add that
we are happy to lend the
Democrats those who have
just learned their ABCs.
When they get to the big
words like "responsibility,
'self - sufficiency" and all
those non-catchy phrases,
they're ready for the Repub
lican party!
Mary A. Ragland,
3182 Pacific Highway
South, Medford.
A RARE FLAT
Saxmundham. England
(IP) A garageman turned over
to police the cause of a flat
tire he renairpd Mondav an
undamaged gold ring set with
rubies and diamonds.
Stop Me
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, Demo
cratic leaders are assembled
in Washington for a two-day
meeting of their party's na
tional . committee. The meet
ing will kick off the political
campaign for control of the
next congress.
One of the first items of
business was a resolution cen
suring President Eisenhower
for his handling of what the
committee calls "the depres
sion that is now gripping the
country." The resolution says:
"We condemn the Hoover-like
approach to this problem. It
is a disgrace to tell the unem
ployed . . . that prosperity is
just around the corner."
IORMER President Truman
is scheduled to make the
big speech that will pull the
cork and open the campaign,
and four GOP senators
promptly challenged him to
renounce the "campaign of
professional pessimism" . they
say the Democrats are con
ducting. They added:
"Don't sell America short
before the world."
THE Republicans are also
handing out advice to Ike.
The anti-Benson group of
the GOP (now grown to a
membership of 25) is plan
ning to tell the President his
secretary of agriculture is a
political liability that if Mr.
Benson stays in office the
penalty will probably be the
loss of from 10 to 25 seats in
the house in the November
election.
And so on.
SOMETHING to remember:
The big issue in this cam
paign that is opening (as in
other political campaigns) is
WHO WILL SIT IN THE
SEATS OF POWER?
In this political Donny
brook Fair that is getting un
der way your job and mine is
to sift out the wheat (if any)
from the chaff (of which there
is a plenitude).
HERE'S a timely thought:
Saturday was Washing
ton's birthday. In his school
boy copybook, George Wash
ington wrote this sentence at
the top of one of the pages:
"Labor to keep alive in your
breast that little spark of ce
lestial fire that is known as
CONSCIENCE."
He grew up to be the Fa
ther of His Country.
AT THIS point, I think I'd
better write a note to
myself:
DON'T GET TOO CYNI
CAL. It's true that at times these
three-ring circuses we call po
litical campaigns tend to be
come a little tiresome and
more than a little disgusting
all
J. Bib If Vi.
American System of govern
ment. The American System
of government is the best sys
tem in the world. It has built
not only the greatest nation
in the world but the best na
tion to live in.
No American in his right
mind would swap it for any
other system.
T ET'S keep this in mind:
When light-weights get
elected to office in times that
call for what Josiah Gilbert
Holland described a century
ago as "Tall men, sun-crown
ed, who live above the fog in
public duty and in private
thinking," the fault lies not
so much with the panty-waists
themselves as WITH THOSE
OF US WHO VOTE FOR
THEM.
Portland Council .
Opposes ER Plans
Portland (IP) The Cen
tral Labor Council Monday
night voted to oppose a bal
lot measure to remove the lo
cal Exposition - Recreation
center to the Delta Park site
from the Broadway-Steel
Bridge site.
The council also voted to
oppose a city-manager form
of government.
A ballot measure seeking
to change the site of the E-R
center was filed Monday but
the E-R Commission said it
would not change its plans to
go ahead with construction at
the already-selected site.
The Labor Council honor
ed Gust Anderson, its secre
tary for 35 years, for "out
standing service to labor."
Porter Tells Aid
For Hills Creek Job
Washington (IF) Rep.
Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.),
said today an "important
hurdle" has been overcome in
the campaign to get addition
al work going on the Hills
Creek Corps of Engineers pro
ject in' Lane county, Oregon.
Porter said Rep. Clarence
Cannon, chairman of the
House public works approp
riations subcommittee, has
made known his support of. a
plan to transfer $2,230,000
from other delayed projects
to Hills Creek.
Reds Seeking Recognition for
East Germany and North Korea
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Communists are con
ducting parallel drives to win
diplomatic recognition of East
fT Ti Germany and
North Korea.
The North Ko
rean Reds are
using the hi
jacking of a
South Korean
a i r 1 i ner by
C o m m u nist
agents as a
means of try
ing to make
Charles M.
McCann
the South Korean government
enter direct negotiations for
the plane's return.
This would mean recogni-
Matter of Fact by Joseph aisoP
LONDON: FACADE
AND REALITY
London In the pale March
sunshine, 13 years after the
great victory, London hardly
seems the
same wound
ed hero of a
city that it
used to be for
so long after
the war. The
outward sur
face is more
p r o s p erous
than ever.
Joseph Alsop . J-ne magical
London combination of green
open space and crowded ave
nue, of intimacy and public
splendor, of double polished
glossiness and carefully pre
served patina of age, is also
more magical than ever, be
cause it is so unchanging in a
fact changing world. And
London is more than ever the
most agreeable of all the
great world cities for a for
eign visitor.
These reflections on Lon
don's surface may seem more
appropriate for a postcard for
the homefolks, showing some
such familiar tourist sight as
the changing of the guard.
Yet they are necessary, in or
der to put into perspective
the fairly brutal thing that
also needs to be said. In sum,
this London with its rich and
charming surface, whose shin
ing courage so recently set an
example to the world, is now
a city that all but stinks of
defeat.
THE fact, if it is a fact, is of
infinite importance to all
the nations of the West. But
judgments of atmospheres are
unavoidably personal; and so
I shall speak more personally
in the present report than is
customary in this space.
In the postwar years, I have
made at least one visit of in
quiry to London each year. In
all that period, whether un
der Labor governments or
Conservative gov ernments,
the essential London drama
has been the same. It has
been the drama of the British
people grimly struggling to
maintain a Britain's historic
role as one of the great world
powers, after the fearful hu
man and material and strate
gic losses of the Second World
War.
It has been a pretty moving
drama to watch, but now it
seems to be coming to an end.
There are just too many signs
of the disarray that always,
in every army, foretells the
acceptance of defeat.
FOR example, the feature of
British political life that
has always most amazed me
was the fact that any given
moment, almost everyone
from the Prime Minister
downwards, at every level
and in every sphere, somehow
struck the same note. It might
be a belligerent note or a
friendly note or any other
kind of note. But it was al
ways the same.'
It used to make me feel
like a geologist climbing
about over an enormous rock,
tapping with his hammer ev
erywhere, and always getting
exactly the same "ping" or
"pong," wherever he tapped.
But all this is over now. The
most extraordinary and dis
cordant variety of notes is
now to be heard, from the
different leaders of the two
major parties, from the civil
servants and the Ministers
they are charged with advis
ing, even among the higher
permanent staffs of single
Ministries.
The cause of this wholly
novel discord of ideas and at
titudes is really simple
enough. Britain today is
squarely confronted with at
least half a dozen major prob
lems which Britain alone
does not have the means to
solve.
rPHERE is Britain's economic
- problem, which keeps Bri
tain on a permanent brink of
disaster. For example, ap
proximately 22 per cent of
Britain's lifeblood, the hard
currency revenue of the Sterl
ing area, comes from two
highly unstable ex-colonial
countries, Ghana and Malaya.
Again, the loss of the Middle
Eastern oil sources, which are
now in ever-greater danger,
will add a cruel billion dol
lars a year to the debit side
tion of the North Korean pup-,
pet regime.
At the same time, both the
Chinese Communist and
Norm Korean Keel govern
ments have embarked on a
new attempt to effect the
withdrawal of United Nations
forces from South Korea.
In East Germany, Commu
nist Leader Walter Ulbricht
has revived a plan under
which East and West Ger
many would enter into a fed
eration of separate states, en
joying equal . status.
Would Mean Recognition
This, of course, would mean
recognition of the East Ger
man puppet state, with a pop
ulation of 17 million, as- a
of Britain's national balance
sheet. A single individual, the
Sheikh of Kuweit, contributes
very nearly 10 per cent of the
new capital annually availa
ble in the Sterling area,
which is desperately short of
capital. And so the story
goes. . '
There" is Britain's strategic
problem, which is insoluble
because, of the economic prob
lem. For example, the so-called
support costs which the
Germans have been paying
for the British divisions in
NATO amount to less than
$130,000,000. But because the
Germans are refusing to pay
these costs, the British gov
ernment is thinking of cut
ting its NATO contribution
beyond the point of acute
danger, in a way that will
prejudice all Britain's rela
tions with the new Europe,
and for a sum really hardly
larger than the British pig
subsidy.
fTlHERE is the Middle East-
-- ern problem, which looks
like it is growing desperate.
For example, the old Iraqi
strong man, Nuri Pasha, was
recently in London to repeat
his anguished warnings that
the Kremlin would soon play
the anti-Israeli ace, which
will in turn take every trick
in the Arab pack. The lead
ing British experts are now
reluctantly convinced that
Nuri's warnings are probably
well founded. But in all the
British government, I could
not discover any man with
any positive idea about parry
ing this prospective Soviet
maneuver, which will be like
a dagger thrust at Britain s
very jugular.
One could continue the re
cital almost indefinitely, cov
ering all the foreign policy
problems involved in the ap
proach to the summit confer
ence, all the domestic politi
cal problems revealed by the
Conservative parties swing
ing defeat in the Rochdale by-
election and so on. But I have
said enough to illustrate the
tragic point I have been try
ing to make.
If it is a true point, it is
tragic for America as well as
for Britain; for Britain's de
feat will almost surely mean
the West's defeat. Worse still,
we in America will have our
own share of the blame for
the tragedy. For vigorous, im
aginative and courageous
American leadership is now
the most essential ingredient
in the solution of almost all
our allies problems and Brit
ain's above all. And this es
sential American ingredient
has been utterly lacking for
the last five years.
(Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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sovereign country equal to .
free West Germany, with a"
population of 51 million.
The Russian occupation
commander in East Germany
announced last week the de
tails of the announced Soviet
plan to withdraw 41,000 of
its troops, as part of a pre
vious announcement in Moscow-that
the Russian armed
forces would be reduced by
300,000 men. . -
This was a bit of propa
ganda intended to convince
West Germans that Russia
would be willing' to. withdraw
its forces from East Germany
if ' the allied troops were
withdrawn.
There is good reason to be
lieve that Russia would usr
the Polish "Rapacki Plan,"'
providing for the banning of
nuclear weapons from Poland,
Czechoslovakia, East Ger
many and West Germany as
an .argument for troop with
drawal if by any chance it
were accepted.
Armed Superiority
The West German govern
ment has firmly rejected the
Rapacki Plan. One reason is
that the nuclear weapons-free
zone would give Russia over
whelming superiority because
of the size of its armies.
Another reason cited is that
if such a zone were agreed
upon, the United States might
decide to pull out its troops.
Communist China and North
Korea said in a joint state
ment last week that all Chi
nese Red forces would be
withdrawn from North Korea
by the end of 1953.
Chinese Red Premier Chou
En-lai followed this up by de
manding that U.N. forces get
out of South Korea. The North
Koreans have now joined in
this demand.
In bpth the East German
and Korean situations, the
Communists are using as bait
the suggestion that troop
withdrawal would be a step,
toward eventual reunification
of those countries.
Editorial
Comment
LIGHT IN GEORGIA
Sometimes it seems that
the racial bigot is beyond
help, that despite the law, the
courts,, common sense and the
wisdom of the ages, persons
reared in the tradition of
white supremacy will never
learn otherwise. But there
are gains. They may te slow,
but they exist.
Just the other day the
Georgia House of Representa
tives killed a bill that would
have required that whole
blood transfusions be labeled
as to race.. The representa
tives did so, not necessarily
because Georgia doctors told
them the bill was nonsense,
that blood has no essential re
lationship to pigmentation of
the skin, but because the doc
tors said that racial typing
would be an intolerable nui
sance. So, it's obvious. They do
learn. Georgia state senators,
however, may still be in the
dark on the subject. They
passed the same bill a few
days before, 35 to 0. Port
land Oregonian.
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We wonder If it's common
sense.
To ask the Lord to save us,
And then from speed,
We never need.
Destroy the life He gave
us.
Bill Fuh