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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
Sec 25, 1948 (Saturday)
Storks assisting Santa de
liver two bundles of Christ
mas cheer to Rogue valley
homes.
Medford firemen answered
.five alarms yesterday for flue
fires, as local residents got
their chimneys cleared out
.'one way or another for St.
, Nick's arrival.
.20 YEARS AGO
-Dec 25, 1938 (Sunday)
The recently organized
'VFW Bicycle Safety club is
; ready to roll.
From Arthur "Perry's "Ye
. Smudge Pot" column: "All the
'local Santa Clauses did fine,
and not a one ignited his
whiskers on a tree candle."
.30 YEARS AGO
Dec 25, 1928 (Tuesday)
The American Legion Drum
corps' Christmas Ball at Ori
ental Gardens attracts more
than 300 couples.
Medford police report a
"quiet Yule, with only one ar
' rest for drunkenness.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25. 1918 (Wednesday)
j The relief from flu masks
.Is extended to include store
'interiors.
The annual poultry show is
'scheduled to begin Dec. 31.
What's Your LQ.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five of
'; six is good.
1. How many masts does a
; prairie schooner have?
, 2. Complete this line: "Tis
the last rose of summer -."
3. How many legs does a
; common house fly have?
4. A giraffe s front legs are
longer than its hind legs; true
or false?
5. Gaul was the ancient
name of what country?
i 6. The extended right arm
. of the Statue of Liberty is 22,
; 28, or 42 feet in" length?
7. Who wrote "The Man
Without a Country?"
1 8. Correct the following:
'"She said as how she was
coming."
i 9. Is a meter longer, or
. shorter, than a yard?
' 10. Zeta is the last letter of
the Greek alphabet; true or
.false?
Answers: I. It has none,
; (covered wagon). 2. "left
blooming alone." 3. Six. A,
.False. 5. France. 6. Forty-
'Iwo. 7. Edward Everett
Hale. 8. "She said she was
coming." 9. Longer. 10. False.
.(Omega).
Local Industry Asks
-For Christmas Cards
Eric A. Allen, president of
Handicapped Industries, Inc.,
Medford, has asked residents
to save Christmas cards after
Christmas and turn them into
Handicapped Industries.
The cards will be used by
."shut-ins" to make package
tags. Handicapped persons
will be given a half cent a
Ipiece for making them and
,they will be packaged in at
tractive cellophane packs and
.placed in the various depart
ment stores of the area, Allen
explained.
I Those having cards to do
nate are asked to bring or
send them to Handicapped In
dustries, 827 West Jackson st.,
Iedford. J
Misanthrope s
A misanthrope in Medford town
On Christmas eve'ri sat him down
And pondered on his attitude:
Concerning Christmas he was rude.
He thought awhile in silent mooa,
Reviewed the months, then did conclude
That Christmas isn't really bad,
Though rhymed commercials made him sad
And crowded streets and traffic thick
Had always sort of made him sick.
But stop ! he said. That isn't all; :
Let's eye the blessings, sound the call
Of worthwhile things that have been done
Which benefit most everyone.
The thoughts came marching, thick and fast,
Of men and women without caste
Who work to help their brother men
Outside the public's knowing ken.
The men who serve (and gratis, too)
To make life better still for you.
The .Firemen fixing Yule-tide ;toys,
The Lady Lions, sharing joys '., ? (
With little folk who otherwise
Would watch for Santa with .dull eyes. .
The workers for the UMC
Who for so long and valiantly,
Made many calls, without a fear
They'd never make their goal this year.
Those who serve on a committee ,
To make this still a finer city. ' ' . '
The men who tend the public weal
On boards and councils, who must feel
That sometimes all their work is vain
When voters find their plans give pain.
Our misanthrope just shook his head
And muttered to himself. He said: .
"It's nlain to see that I must vield
To proof in every sort of
That men do good, they give their time
And most don't even ask a dime."
The men who give the Scouts a lift,
The ones who give poor
The women working without pay
To ease a sick man's dreary day.
The names came faster as he thought:
Those who led and those who taught ;
Those who volunteered their skills
To ease, another's painful ills.
And even those who work (and should),
To keep the ''business climate" good.
Shakespeare fund drive, YMCA,
They seek to help along the way;
Mercy Flights and all their fliers,
The-lodge of Moose's Yule-tree fires.
These and others show the manner
Men keep high the service banner.
Our misanthrope was now convinced
That he'd been wrong; he rose and rinsed
The bitter thoughts of ill away
And turned to greet the Christmas day.
"I think," he said, "I've been unfair
To many people here and there
Who give themselves (no greater gift)
To help their fellows, give a lift.-"
To work done for our common needs,
A healthy city for all creeds."
He paused. The dawn came through the fog.
He put on coffee, fed the dog,
He pondered, thought what it would be
If no one gave his work for free
No one to do the needed tasks
That now get done, though no one asks.
The misanthrope then vanished, quite,
And in his place, his visage bright,
There stood another sort of man,
A man who now will say "I can"
When need is seen, to aid, to give,
He'll find it pleasant, now, to live.
To misanthropes, both far and near,
Oh, listen to his message clear:
The day is Christmas, let
Merrier still. Thy gift is
Christmas Gift
field
kids a gift,
it be
thee. .
E.A.
Dennis the Menace
. . . bless Mower, Daw w Ruff. Ambh. out
l ALMOST fORGQTl ME&ZY CHRISTMAS!' - '
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
CHINESE STALINISM
Not long ago. a leading Pol
ish journalist vwas invited to
give a lecture in the Soviet
Union. His
subject was
the develop
ment of Com
munism in Po
land, and
after dealing
with . the so
cialization in
the industrial
areas he be
g a n to des-
Walter
Lippmann
cribe what had been done in
agriculture. There, he ex
plained, the land was for the
most part owned and worked
by peasant proprietors.
When he had finished, there
were questions from his audi
ence, and he was promptly at
tacked on the ground, that
Polish policy in agriculture is
reactionary and anti - Com
munist. He was, it soon ap
peared, a quick-witted fellow.
For his answer was that the
Polish agricultural system is
indeed reactionary from the
point of view of Communism.
But the Polish government
has no choice about it. The
peasants will not tolerate
anything but private property
in their own land. They will
not stand for a system of col
lectivism which deprives them
of their property.
Then, when the audience
was digesting this frank state
ment he added: "You see, our
Polish peasants would resist
the setting up of your system
of collectivism just as your
farmers would resist the in
troduction of the new Chinese
system of the communes."
This was a clincher, and there
were no more denunciations
from the floor of Poland's re
actionary ways.
I WAS told this story by a
Pnlf whn I rilcrfi In tri
councils of his government,
and he had had the story di
rectly from the journalist. It
is a significant story, I think,
because it illustrates a great
truth about the Communist
doctrine. It is that however
uniform and, standardized
may be the theoretical gen
eralities, in real life the ap
plication of Communism
varies, often radically, from
one country . to another, in
any one country from one
time to another.
Thus in the Soviet Union, it
is the current fashion to in
voke the name of Lenin as if
the social order which has
developed in the past 40 years
had been foreseen by Lenin
and its working principles
prophetically revealed by
Lenin. This is, of course, mere
mythology, not unlike the
claims of primitive kings that
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
0LD CX STEBBINS ambled into a Vermont crossroads gro
cery store one bitter cold night, and was furious when he
found that every seat within spittin' distance of the pot-bellied
stove was already occupied.
Cy wiped the frost off
his visage, and asked the
store owner in a loud voice,
"Seth, got any raw oysters
in stock?" ' rienry," oea
assured him. 'Tine!"
boomed Cy. "Jist you open
two dozen and feed im to
my horse outside."
Cy Stebbins was the rich
est old coot in the county,
and the store owner wasn't
anxious to cross him. He
opened the oysters, and took
them outside, and the en
tire company of hangers-on trooped after him to see a horse eat
oysters. Cy, meanwhile, settled himself comfortably and for
good in the seat nearest the hot stove.
Very soon the crowd trooped
"I'm sorry, Cy, but I don't think that horse of yoursTl eat
oysters.
"You don't say," marveled Cy.
and I'll eat 'em myself."
1958. bjr SouMtt Cert. Distributed by King Fes lures Syudicat.
they are descendants of the
gods. ' .'
The existing Soviet social
order is the product of trial
and error. The process of trial
and error is continuing, and
there is no such thing . as s
finished blueprint of a Com
munist society which can be
used in Poland and in China,
in Albania and in Czechoslo
vakia, much less in Western
Europe and North America.
117HAT is common to all the
" countries which fall,
which are pushed or are pull
ed, into the Communist orbit
is this. They have very power
ful governments which rest
not on elections and the con
sent of the governed but on
their proclamation of their
own right and their own ca
pacity to shape the future. On
this implied contract which
is the implied contract in all
revolutionary movements -
on this contract -to raise the
standard of life and to make
a powerful society, the to
talitarian state demands and
obtains not only the passive
acceptance but the active col
laboration of large masses of
the people. I was very much
impressed with a Soviet wom
an who told me that while
the flat she now lives in is
over-crowded and uncomfort
able, her family are going to
have a very good flat in 1963
It is plain' enough, I think,
that once a revolutionary
movement has passed the
phase of liquidating the old
regime, what it can do after
that will be determined by
the kind of country it is deal
ing with. Russia was a back
ward country 40 years ago,
but it was backward only as
compared with Germany or
England, not as compared
with China or Indonesia or
Iraq. For the old Russia con
tained the essential elements
of modern technological de
velopment and the skeleton
of an administrative system
to operate a large and com
plex society. China is far
poorer in these essential ele
ments, and far poorer, of
course, in the fundamental
capital structure of its econ
omy. WHEN we think of the ter
" rible price paid by the
Soviet people in order to over
come their own backward
ness and the devastation of
war, it is horrifying to think
of the price the Chinese peo
ple may now have to pay. In
Russia, at least among the
minority who know what is
going on elsewhere, there is,
so it seems to me, great awe,
compounded of fascination
and fear, as to what the Chi
nese equivalent of Stalinism
Stop Me
back and the storeiceeper saia,
"Well, then, bring 'em here
Matter of Fact
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT
' Berlin - The inn at Bethle
hem, where the world's hope
was born, was a mean enough
1 place. So per
il a p s one
should not be
too astonished
by the mean
shabbiness of
M a r i anf elde
refugee camp,
which is the
birthplace of
new hope for
several thous
women every
lostpb Alsop
and men and
week.
This is the
first stop for
most of those who "vote with
their feet," as the free Berlin
ers say, against the Commun
ist slave state in East Ger
many. Nowadays, almost all
the East German refugees
come to Marianfelde, for free
Berlin is the only easy escape
route that is still open.' '
In this bureaucratic age, aU
states, whether slave or free,
feel compelled to "process"
and pigeonhole their citizens.
When men and women are be
ing "processed," the effect
produced is always and every
where the same. You think at
once of the novels of Kafka,
and of "little man, what
now?," and of Menotti's "Con
sul" and all the other works
that have sardonically or pity
ingly portrayed this entirely
modern phenomenon - the
helpless entanglement of ordi
nary people in the strange, in
human, paper-built machin
ery of the state. :
rpHE setting, a-bleak clump
of workers' apartment
houses surrounded by a high
wire fence, is depressing in it
self. The "processing" is
worse. Everywhere there are
the same long, patient queues
of ill-clad people, slumped on
hard benches, eternally wait
ing to be registered and inter
rogated and assigned to dorm
itories and re-interrogated and
assigned to new homes in
West Germany and given air
plane tickets and finally herd
ed towards the buses that
take them to Tempelhof air
field.
But purgatory, though pain
ful, is probably a rather
cheerful place, because its in
habitants know they have es
caped hell and can hope for
neaven. or just these reas
ons, at any rate, Marianfelde
is quite exceptionally cheer
ful. The habit oi years keeps
the people in the queues from
talking too freely. But they
do not complain. They help
one another. They are warm
and friendly and full of the?
promise of a better future,
And they do not mind being
"processed" so endlessly, part
ly because they are used ,' to
worse, and partly because
they understand the reason
for it.
"Back. there," a spry old
beldame explained, "we had
a spy in every street, in every
block, almost in every house.
Who can tell whether they
have sent spies out, along
with all the rest of us?"
TlfY day at Marianfelds was
1T1 jt after the week end,
so several hundred people
were already waiting for reg
istration to begin in the chilly
darkness just before the be
lated winter sunrise. It is
simplest to escape on a week'
end, because the worker is not
missed from his work; and the
family can tell the guards on
the train that they are going
of forced development and
capital formation is going
to be.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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Wishing One and All a
VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
and a
BRIGHT (ir PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
In accord with our annual
tradition, we will be
Closed Dec. 26th
as an added rest for
our employees
By Joseph - Alsep -
to visit friends or relatives in
Berlin. Once in Berlin, the
time of suspense is over. All
that is needed is to take one
of the suburban trains that
cross through the free city at
the rush hour.
At this season, the flood of
refugees is less because,
one young couple from Dres
den remarked to me, . "It is
hard to leave your own place
just before Christmas, even
when you have decided it is
all bad and you must go.'
But no ups and downs in the
weekly totals can alter the
fact that this human flood is
a massive hemorrhage of the
East Germany body politic.
Too many of the thousands
who flee each week are the
best and the most valuable
skilled industrial workers re
belling against Communist
educations just completed;
and now professors, engineers,
scientists, and other highly
skilled technichians of all
sorts. These, last are a new
element. They did not come
before, ; because they were
well paid and comfortable and
had much to lose. But since
the East German government's
return to a hard Stalinist line,
even these . privileged men
and women are ready to lose
everything in order to gain
freedom.
T TALKED with several of
- them. Possibly Herr Ul
bricht will not greatly mind
the gap left by the young art
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On this Christmas Day, let's
for the moment forget Santa
Claus. Let's put out of our
minds the gifts we've given
and the gifts we get. Let's give
no thought for a few minutes
to the -volume of the Christ
mas business and whether it
was larger or smaller than
expected. Let's cease to worry
J-about whether or not we re
membered everyone we
should have remembered. ;
Let s concentrate, ever so
briefly, on WHY IS CHRIST
MAS?
CHRISTMAS is the anniver-
v sary of the birth of Jesus
of Nazareth.
: In His short life, Jesus of
Nazareth changed this earth
more than any other person
who ever lived on this earth.
,rnHe .wrought ... these changes
by the simple beauty of His
own life and the eternal truth
of his teachings.
r 'WAS an unwholesome
world when He came into
it.
The good things of the
world were rather exclusive
ly in the hands of - the
GREATS of the world. There
was little enough left over for
the little people.
. Jesus changed that. He
changed it NOT by the sword.
He changed it NOT by the
power of armies. He changed
it NOT by the power of prop
erty. He changed it NOT by
the power of politics.
He changed it by the simple
beauty of his life and the
purity of His teachings.
ONE can't help feeling that
if in the Christmas season
more thougnt was given to
what Christmas REALLY IS
there would be more satisfac
tion with the Christmas sea
son and more happiness
throughout the year and
throughout the world.
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MEDFORD
STATIONERY
STORE
historian with a minor muse
um" post." He had fled "be
cause I care only for my sub
ject, and all the professors
with whom I can pursue my
studies have fled already."
But consider the signal en
gineer from the East German
state railways. The East Ger
man state had invested seven
full years in this man's en
gineering training. And now
he and his capable wife and
his two gay, bright-haired
children had all come out to
gether, only three months
after he had taken over the
job he had been so laborious
ly trained for.
"It will not be easy," said
the wife, "to get another job
as good as that. But he knew
what we must do. It is strange,
no, that we are all so cheer
ful 'to lose everything and
start new?"
The others in the long
queue nodded and smiled. At
the Christmas season of 1958,
Communications
Letters to the Editor ' must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Nice Words
To the Editor and the Mail
Tribune staff: Some of the
nicest gifts are unexpected -such
as opening our newspa
per and seeing pictures such
as your paper carried on Sun
day, headed "Christmas Sym
bols." Your pictures of hunt
ing a few weeks ago were also
beautiful.
Mrs. John Brandenburg,
507 Barnes ave.
Medford.
-P.S. - The only trouble is
that newspapers are made to
read and throw away. If you
start making them too nice to
give up, what are we going to
wrap the garbage in? But
thanks, anyway.
Editors' note: Some of the
nicest gifts are unexpected -
such as letters of appreciation
like the one above.
Veace on earth...
ood will to men...
FOR THIS 'WE PRAY Amen
Acrm from ifw
RANK MOtGAN HAH OLD SNOOGRASS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY Oft NIGHT
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when the threats of. blockade
again hangs over Berlin, those
people in their queue make
a good Christmas thought. '
Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial Comment
A TEENAGER'S LETTER
TO SANTA CLAUS
Dear Santa:
Not so many years ago we
wrote to you faithfully, prom
ising to be good and asking
for dolls and trinkets. But
then one year we discovered
we were too old for such
things or so we thought.
Now we've found that noth
ing can replace the simple
faith we had in you. So again
we turn to you to share the
prize you, Santa, give to all.
This year, however, we
would like to ask for some
thing without physical mean-
ing-not a top or bauble but
something so much more im
portant something through
which to make others happy.
fiease, faanta, give us the
ability to smile in all situa
tions, to make the best of
everything. Give us a good
disposition, without our teen
age moods. Those "moods"
often give our parents many
worries which they do not de
serve.
Give us a faith in life, in
all that's good a hope for a
brighter tomorrow.
Don't let us wrap ourselves
up in our selfish problems to
the extent we shut others out.
Help us to think of others
before ourselves. Help us to
give freely without expecting
something in return.
Let us be honest in our
dealings with others. In our
school work let us do our best
and not expect others to do
more than their shared
Give us high ideals and the
ability to make life in the
adult world a better place for
generations to come.'
Last of all, dear Santa, give
us patience and tolerance in
all we set out to accomplish,
and fill our hearts with love
and a joy of living.
A Teenager
E. K. in Talent (High
School) Hi-Life.
CourlheuM
PHONE SP 2-8039
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