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t 4 WcJMsJay, Dec. 24, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregva Ready The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-611 ROBERT W RUHLs Editor HERB GREV, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business ilgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor ZARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Zntered as second clas matter at Medford Oregon under Act of . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4-23 Sunday Only One year $430 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pboenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c op; 10j All Terms Cash In Advance ffl.-lal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDA Y CO.. .INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. grj$fi NIWSrAPft wSf ruBiisHEtf ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 Dec. 24, 1948 (Friday) A county iail inmate re ceives- Christmas clemency, and is released after serving three months of a one-year sentence. Strong winds this morning rip a board from a scaffolding and drive it through the wind shield of a car, but the driver escapes injury. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 24, 1938 (Saturday) Three Medford markets In troduce "quick-frozen" foods, the very latest in modern gro- cerydom. ,: - ' " From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Dear Kris Kringle: Don't leave any boy or girl with nothing in their stockings but their feet." 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 24, 1928 (Monday) Local farmers and orchard ists hail a soaking rain as the nicest gift Santa could have brought. Because of inc lement weather, the -judging of out door Christmas lighting has been postponed to Dec. 26. 40 YEARS AGO Dec 24, 1918 (Tuesday) Trains southbound through Medford are in two sections and packed with . doughboys homeward bound for Christ mas. Post office crews just about get one shipment of packages to their local destinations when Train 13 brings in an other. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ts superior; even or eight is excellent; five et six is good. CHRISTMAS QUIZ 1. Spingerle, a kind of cocky with an embossed de sign, is of French, Swedish, or German, origin? 2. "Xmas" - the shortened form for Christmas - is a word of Greek, Italian, or Latin, derivation? 3. At the time of Jesus' birth, who was King of Ju dea? . - . 4. How many reindeer does Santa have? 5. The wise men from the East brought three gifts to the newborn Infant Jesus; name the gifts. 6. Why did Joseph and . Mary have to take shelter in a stable? 7. What celebration by the ancient Romans took place at the same time of year as Christmas is now observed? 8. Why were Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem at the time the Infant Jesus was born? 9. How many days after his birth was the Infant Jesus given the name Jesus? 10. The custom of candles . on a Christmas tree was in troduced by whom? Answers: 1. German. 2. Greek. 3. Herod. 4. Eight. 5. Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh, 6. No room for them at the Inn. 7. The Saturnalia. 8. To be counted. (Census) 9. Eight days, (at time of bis circumcision) 10. Martin Luther. ... A Christmas Parable Labor legislation still languished in Congres sional subcommittees, but Santa Claus wasn't worried about it. Up at the North Pole, the gnomes and elves employed in his "open workshop" were all mem bers of Arctic Artisans, Local 1. They worked cheerfully under a contract featuring liberal fringe benefits for those with whiskers. And they all had whiskers. But one day two strangers arrived by dog sled. "We represent the hood of Teamsters,. Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America," they told Santa. ."We have come to organize you. "Me?" chuckled jolly employer! "Get with it," the men said. "There's no per centage anymore in being an employer." They pointed to his reindeer. "You're the only team ster left that hasn t been organized. Wp need you. CANTA offered them pasteries, and after was persuaded to sign Mrs. Claus, "technically deer I am a Teamster anyway. And they told me I d be a great asset to their union. He soon received an headquarters enclosing card and a letter that began, "Dear Brother San ta." The letter stated that since the union's treas ury was growing so huge the Boss desired a new safe for Christmas. It gave specmc dimensions for the safe and stipulated that the combination be secure' against federal It was a big order, fill it, even though they dreds of toy trains to provide enough metal. They finished the mammoth safe on schedule, wrapped it in gaily colored paper it. Then Santa discovered that when the safe was placed 'in his toy sack, there was ho room left for any toys. This would never do.He sent a telegram to Teamster headquarters, informing them; he couldn't deliver the safe after all. ' AGAIN, two men from 1WU11 X U1C 11110 tyllllC UJT AldlUSICX J. IIVJT were heftier than the first pair. See here Santa, they in your membership contract says you gotta do what the .Boss tells you. goods or we snip off your beard. " - Santa knew he had no choice. Without a beard, he wouldn't be recognized. Children see ing him come down the chimney would think him a burglar and be frightened. .No, he had to deliver the safe. He would store all the toys carefully away, and next year there would be that many more for the children. And so on Christmas minute misgivings, Santa for .1 eamster headquarters. His reindeer stramed against the heavy load. AS THEY passed over uauua wcto oul ut-A. vjy uuuouai oiguic. . j-i v u g lines of men .carrying placards trudged through the streets. Windows normally a-glitter with Christmas tree lights were When they reached Santa discovered a man with a tommy gun guard ing the chimney. "Take it down to the growled. "The Boss is waiting for you." The Boss dragged on "Good," he grunted as Santa pulled up. "We'll put it in a stockroom for the time being." "Just a moment, please explain why those cold carrying placards?" "They're picketing. Don't you know about the Strike?" And the Boss were on strike during the time ot year," he said. "But why must there be a strike?" Santa asked. "Why do you want to ruin Christmas for people?" "Higher wages," the charge higher dues and new safe you brought me." Santa stroked his beard for a moment "Well," he said with a twinkle, "I suppose , since I'm "a Teamster I must be on strike too. I guess I can't deliver your safe, can I?" "Oh yes you can," t h e Boss said sharply. "Come on, let's get in unloaded." RUT Santa gave the reins a vigorous jerk. "On Dasher!" he cried. "On Dancer!" And the reindeer sprang upward intothe night sky. They returned at top speed to the North Pole, where Santa's helpers dumped the safe into a snowdrift and re-filled his sack to the brim with toys and good things to eat: - And Santa set out a second time that night. This time he visited the homes of good children all over the world, leaving presents just as he always had. He couldn't resist visiting Teamster head quarters once more, though. The man with the tommy gun, his coat collar about his ears, was sound asleep. Santa - dropped his union membership card down the chimney. On it, he had written: "MER RY CHRISTMAS TO ALL." E. W. - International Brother St. Nick. "But I'm an mint tea and marzipan a long conversation he up. "After all," he told with my sleigh and rein envelope from Teamsters his union membership investigation. ' but Santa's helpers could had to melt down hun and tied a ribbon around ......... the union came to the said. There's a clause Either you deliver the eve, frowning with last- embarked with the safe the rooftops, however, darkened. Teamster headquarters, warehouse," the man a stubby brown cigar. Santa said. Would vou poor men are out in the told Santa all Teamsters holidays. "It's the best ; Boss snapped. "So I can put more money in this Dennis the Menace WM I fill 1. i tl00f(tZGtt iMcl&.tetiT Matter of Fact WHERE IS THE EPICENTER? Paris-The doubts and trou bles of the West are so numer ous that it is easy to ignore the Wf!M si ens of some thing very like an earthquake inside the So viet system. Yet the follow ing recent signs are well worth ponder ing: ITEM: A meeting of the 4osph Aisop central com mittee of the Soviet Commu nist party, differing in cer tain ways from any such meeting in the past, where poor old Bulganin has public ly accused himself of wallow ing in "an anti-party swamp." ITEM: Extraordinarily ven omous attacks at this meet ing on the other members of the "anti-party group," and especially on Khrushchev's former rival, Georgi Malen- kov. These attacks, delivered by both Bulganin and Khrush chev himself, appear to fore shadow a show trial. Or per haps they pave the way for a simple announcement that the traitors have received their just desserts. ITEM: The sudden dismissal of the grim Chief of the So viet Secret Police, Gen. Serov, the last Soviet official with real power that antedated Khrushchev's consolidation of power. ITEM: An even more unpre cedented, immensely prolong ed meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party at Hankow. The unimaginably ruthless new L-ninese "agrarian re form," the establishment of rural "communes," was the chief topic. ITEM: The resulting aban donment of all official execu tive functions by Mao Tse- tung. This leaves the Chinese Communist boss in a good po sition to blame any subse quent trouble on the "errors" of his replacement. THE Western experts gener allv afrrw that' nil tViooa things happening almost at once suggest that a major earthquake is going on, or is at least foreseen, somewhere or other in the Communist half of the world. There is no other easy explanation of the world. There is no other easy explanation of. Khrush chev's haste to consolidate his own power. For that matter, there is no "other easy explana tion of Khrushchev's appar ent haste to inflict the most shattering defeat on the West, since he will be so much bet ter placed to threaten Berlin a little later on, when the period of the missile gap begins in deadly earnest. By why is Khrushchev in such a hurry, when there is no apparent reason to expect serious trouble within the So viet Union? The answer of the few experts who have any real familiarity with Chinese conditions is that the earth quake's epicenter is in China? These men are inclined to believe that the . argument about the rural communes re veals a crisis that can hardly be resolved until all China has been bathed in rivers of blood. There is very little doubt indeed, to begin with, that the Chinese have now reached the point that Stalin reached during the first five- year plan, when he collecti vized Soviet agriculture. In other words, the Chinese Com munists are unable to finance their program of forced in dustrialization any longer, without severly depressing the standard of life. In order to do this, they must: sternly take in hand the countryside, where most of China's na tional income is.-still pro duced. THE character of the rural communes themselves casts WSEffl0f TRACKS?' By Joseph Alsop further light. Their most ex traordinary feature is what amounts to military mobiliza tion of all the peasant man power in China, at a fearful cost for all concerned. There can be no point in this unless there is an actual shortage of manpower to maintain agricul tural output. This is really the only possible reason why the Chinese have found it neces sary to go so much further than Stalin did. - If there is such a shortage of manpower to till the fields, in turn, it can only mean that the Chinese Communists have been trying to carry out their program of industrialization by the historic Chinese meth od of gigantic labor corvees. The use of forced labor on a staggering scale is nothing new in China. Up to a point, it works miracles, as anyone can testify who saw the. air fields for the B-29s being built during the war by a corvee totaling 600,000 men and women. But beyond a certain point, the workers in the corvees cannot easily be fed. At this point, the excessive use of labor corvees amounts - to mass murder. Given the low ness of the Chinese standard of living, an intentional de pression of the living stand ard to finance industrializa tion must also amount to mass murder. In the similar period of Russian history, Josef Stal in was in effect driven to kill something like 15,000,000 of his own people in cold blood. This was his hecatomb on the altar of the power of the state. For the same purpose, but under much more diffi cult conditions, the Chinese rulers are, too, likely to have to kill not just millions, but many tens and scores of mil lions. - F appears, in fact, that just those ghastly conditions are being intentionally cre ated, which no Chinese gov ernment in the past 4,000 years, however powerful, however totalitarian, has ever survived for very long. If this is indeed the case, then the earthquake will be -very ter rible and its outcome will be quite unpredictable. Whether or no the system survises, its survival will be imperilled while the human sacrifices continue to the new Moloch of industrial power. Maybe this analysis of the present situation in China is too pessimistic. Less is known today of what goes jn in China than was known of what went on in the Soviet Union in the early thirties, when the whole world was deceived. At any rate, the analysis is founded on known Chinese facts. It logically lo cates the epicenter of the shocks which are so visibly affecting the whole Commu nist world-system. In short, it is the best working explana tion that has yet been offered of a great mystery of extreme concern to every thinking person. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Record Pilgrimage To Hoy City Seen Jerusalem, Jordan CPD Of ficials predicted Tuesday the biggest influx of Christmas pilgrims to the Holy City in ten years. They estimated some 6,000 persons . would come to the ancient city of Jerusalem for the current Western Christ mas and the Greek and Arme nian celebrations in January. THUMB FUN Pueblo, Colo. -(EPD- The Junior Chamber of Commerce reported that a Pueblo girl has written Santa that she will do her best to stop suck ing her thumb if he will leave a cigarette lighter and ash tray at her. house. The reforming miss said she plan ned to take up smoking to break her thumb sucking habit. i 'Gram paw7 To His Bribed Little By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD I am Grampaw to a nest of four little children, and it occurs to me that it is time some one started a movement to protect the very young from the cor ruptive influ e n c e of me .yie c. wiison ana my Kina. I bribe 'em; buy their love. Grampaws, as a class, are scratchy old men who crave respect and affection but who have lived long enough to dis appoint themselves and their contemporaries in just about every way. Expose old Gramps to little grandchildren and he resorts at once to bribery. The bribery is to arouse in the little tykes an idolatrous affection and ' to convince them that Gramps is the world's greatest man, likely, next time around, to be nomi nated by both political par ties for president. Unloading the Loot That is not a far fetched conception fora little guy or a little gal who knows Gramps will arrive in his car a couple of times a week and begin to unload loot. "Grampaw!" the kids then holler. They come running accompanied by the neighbor kids, of course. The neighbor kids know that toys and can dy are about to be served up and that they will get their share. "Grampaw!" the little, ones chorus confidently as they assemble-around Gramps car. Hopefully they scan the inte rior for packages and con the worshipping 3? In the Day's News By FRANK I suppose you read about the aerial dogfight the other day along the Israeli-Egyptian border. There was quite a bit of shooting in the clear skies up above the desert that rules in that region, and somewhere from one to four planes were reported shot down. The Israelis say THEIR planes were jumped without provocation by Nasser s Egyp tian: planes.-: Fighting back DEFENSIVELY, . they say, they shot down at least one of the attackers. The Egyptians tell an ex actly opposite story. They say THEY were attacked by the Israelis, and add that they shot down FOUR of the at tackers. . WHO is right? Who is wrong? Keep your fingers crossed. Basically, it is a propaganda incident, and propaganda is apt to consist of lies cooked up for a purpose. I know that sound cynical. Perhaps it is. But at least there is as much truth as cynicism in it as you must be aware if you follow the Russian propaganda line. Propaganda is one of the great modern evils. It has al ways existed, but in these days it is more potent "than ever before because of the fabulous perfection of mod ern communications. T can we do about it? The answer is NOT Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A VISITOR to California asked Eddie Cantor how poor he had been as a boy on New York's East Side. Til tell you how poor we were," recalled Eddie. "When somebody telephoned, mama, she had to walk up- stain to the butcher shop.' Distinguished lady author, had an embarrassing experi ence at Christmas time. She suddenly recalled a nephew she hadn't seen in years, and impulsively sent him a bubble -blowing set. He gravely thanked her by let ter, adding that he has been a colonel in the U. S. Army for the past 17 months. . Office group singing carols on Christmas Eve noticed that something was a bit wrong. It proved to be a recent addition to the staff, recently Imported from Mobile, Alabamy. She was singing, "O, liT ol' town of Bethlehem . . . An observation by the English (remember Amos V Andy?) la always In order. "Relatives," says he, "is like radishes. Just when you think you've heard the last of them there they Is again." O 135. t7 Bennett Cert Distributed by Sing Features Syndicate. SISKIYOU HARDWARE Is a Great Man - - - old man's pockets for any promising bulge. ' If the car lacks packages and there are no obvious bulges in gramp's pocket, the little ones will try again. There will be in their voices this time, however, an accusing note, a downward, hopeless inflection as they sound off. This signifies anx iety and doubt as they get to the point: "Grampaw, what did you brought us?" According to Plan That cues their mother, if she is on the scene, to shush them aU against such forward conduct. . For Gramps, how ever, the cue is to go into his magician act. He planned it that way. When the little kids almost have abandoned hope, old Gramps unlocks the trunk of his car and, presto, the loot is there. "Hey, Gramps," hollers Barry, "did you brought us any toys?" Barry's mother shushes him some more. All the kids are squealing by n6w and the neighbor kids are opening packages. A small riot ensues. From this riot, 3-year-old Connie emerges vic tor. Connie wins because she has no inhibition against seizing anything she can lift with which to whack over the head any brother or neighbor kid discovered opening a package she regards as hers. Connie can lift her father's little French car. . Peace returns when the loot is divided. The grandbabies Barry, Davie, Connie and Chris climb up Aid over grampaw, whispering in his ear and rubbing crackers or melted chocolate in his hair. What they whisper are invi tations -to return for sure to- JENKINS MUCH. But this we CAN do: .We can apply the test of our in telligence to all such inci dents. If the alleged facts sound reasonable, we can ac cept them with perhaps a precautionary grain of salt. If they sound utterly unreason able, the best thing to do is to pass them off as propa ganda and forget all about it. TN READING the papers or listening to the broadcasts, it is well to remember that fundamentally there are two kinds of news: 1. Ordinary, factual ac counts of something that hap pened. .' 2. JAWBONE news. Ordinary, factual accounts of something that happened in the normal course of events are gathered by careful re porters and embodied into a story designed to inform or to entertain. JAWBONE news is WHAT SOMEBODY SAID. In evalu ating it, one must take into consideration WHO SAID IT, and WHY he said it. Most-po- l.'x! 1 2 i T liucai news is jawuuuc ncwa, which is a good reason why all political news must be ac cepted with caution and at least a fair sprinkling of salt. International news, unfor tuately, is about 90 per cent jawbone news. That is why it must be accepted with GREAT caution. To Our Friends and Patrons Wishing One and All a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS from all of us at o rf WERE VOU POOS, ) Grandchildren morrow and, if possible, to night. Gramps beams. Some times they whisper, "We love you grampaw," and grampaw kind of squinches up his eyes. I know it is wrong to buy their affection and I suspect Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary is often the case. A "Thank You" Letter To the Editor: We have in our neighborhood two little boys of 2 and 3 who are at a disadvantage when out on the street with the other children because they do not .have tri cycles. But through the kind ness of the Lady Lions and the Firemen, each will receive Christmas morning his own tricycle, so beautifully redone as to look like new. ' So on behalf of their par ents, I am taking this means to thank all concerned: the busy parents who donated the tricycles, the firemen who re finished them, the Lady Lions in generalv and Mrs. Lee Mel lish in particular, who have charge of the project. Surely this is an activity that is prompted by love. "He that loveth not know-J eth not God, for God is love. ' 1 John 4:8. Anna M. Streed' 36 North Peach st. Medford Wonderful Years To the Editor: With so many youngsters denied the right-to-work till past their best years to start learning, it is so revealing to see how such problems of the day find their own answer. Like a few weeks ago when we chanced on a 350-head herd of cattle being brought down from high mountain summer pastures ahead of threatening snow. Such a sizable herd of white face, in fine condition is not only a surprisingly pleasant surprise down here in the valley, but also proof that this is still cowboy land. But there was very little of the cowboy air and dress displayed by the following trail-riders. The ten-year-old herd boss seenied a bit bored as was his sister of 7 years and the out-rider off to the right,' a sister of 3V& years old, nudging the young weary stragglers up with the main herd as she thumped her cow- pony's ribs with heel and toe, far, short of the stirrups. Back of them came their mother, driving a modernized chuck- wagon. "Oh ves." she told us later on as I remember, "the chif dren have been riding since big enough to hang onto the saddle-horn. Now it's getting to be just another chore. But I think they still enjoy it, at least more than some of the ranch - work they must help with. And I'm sure they like to think it's necessary for them to be in the saddle, though I'm sure the horses feel they could do as well without them. And likely they could. They surely are of real help with the ranch - work, more so as they grow older. Sure would be hard to get along without them." As we drove on, came the thought of when the years had fenced these children in, they would remark to their grand-children, "My my, you kids should be learning to work as we had to at your age. We really were lucky, though we didn't think so then, for work keeps you out of mischief and gives you something .worth braggin' about, which children like to do and grownups too. But we had time to do what we liked to do, most of the time. Work is good medicine for everybody, young and old, teaches you value of money, respect for rights of others. They were wonderful happy years." F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point C M. Litwiller May the joyful spirit of Christmas light the way to many years of health and LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chape' Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main . ASHLAND Wb Never Close - At Least that I am warping the chil dren's characters, making gold diggers out of them aU. But I'm not going to stop. Not, anyway, so long as I can make those kids believe I am really a great man. Thank You Medford! To the Editor: I wish "to take this opportunity to thank the people of Medford for the support to a successful con clusion of the annual United Medford Crusade. Many people gave of their time and contributed a fair share, then gave generously again to make up a deficit of 57000 m seven days when they learned of the need. Their generosity enables the " board of directors to allot the full requirements of all 26 agencies for another year. The hard and sometimes discouraging job of plugging throughout the campaign on the part of the people who did the actual soliciting was outstanding. The successful completion of the United Med ford Crusade campaign for the sixth year is another ex ample of the terrific Job which the people of Medford do when the chips are down. I am proud to be a citizen of Medford and to have been a part of this effort. R. H. Travis Campaign Chairman United Medford Crusade From Farm Horn To the Editor: This is in ap preciation, to the residents of Jackson county, who by their kindness have made it possi ble, for us as patients at the Jackson County Farm home to be blessed with the wonder ful care of our superinten dents, Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman. We likewise feel grateful to the nurses, culinary and other members of the Hoffmans staff for their never - tiring e'fforts to watch over us by day and night, to assure us comforts unsurpassed.. , . Also our sincerest apprecia tion to the Jackson county court, the Jackson county wel fare commission and others for their kind assistance, to the clergy, bringing to us all comforting words of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, not only at Yule-tide but throughout the year, together with the many pleasant visits by Med ford and Ashland civic organ izations and others. May we wish you all a "Merry Christmas and a Hap py New Year." 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