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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1949 (Friday)
A one-day milk strike by 75
dairymen in the Roseburg
area ends.
Neon lights, to outline the
large cross on top of Sacred
Heart hospital, presented to
the institution by employees.
20 YEARS AGO
Sec 23, 1939 (Saturday)
Bob Smith, a Medford boy,
will play for the West against
the East in football clash
come New Years.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Ed
Leash, the timber cruiser,
drove to Union Creek the first
of the week and was driven
back by the weather." .
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1929 (Monday)
Local dance halls not em
ploying dance matrons will
lose licenses to operate, city
announces.
Pope denounces Mussolini
for claiming church mixes in
politics.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1919 (Wednesday)
Pnimiv nnurt Henipc annrfl.
priation for home demonstra
tion work .this year.
Japan objects to mandates
for former German colonies
in Pacific.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1909 (Thursday)
A four-story building, in
cluding a hotel and theater,
will be constructed at River
side ave. and Main st.
Work on the Pacific and
Eastern Railroad track pro
gresses; will be in Butte Falls
by spring.
What's Yosr I.Q.?
Nine er fen correct Is soperierj
seven or eight b excellent; five at
sis t teed.
1. Which four state of the
Union have names beginning
with the letter W?
2. What is the national em
blem of Canada?
3. Name the four Presidents
of the U. S. whose last names
contain a double "o.
4. What bird is a symbol of
meekness and the emblem of
peace?
5. Tetanus is another name
for 1 w?
, 6. Which came first - the
automobile or street-car?
7. Which of these Texas
cities is farther north - San
Antonio or Fort Worth?
8. Who was the wife of leg
endary King Arthur? .
dentists, druggists, . butchers
or machinists?
10. Is a table d'hote meal
one that has a set menu, or
one in which the dishes are
chosen .from a menu card?.
Answers: 1. Washington.
West Virginia, Wisconsin, and
Wyoming. 2. Maple leaf. 3. T.
R. Roosevelt. Hoover. Cool
idge and F. D. Roosevelt. 4.
Dove. 5. Lockjaw. 6. Street
car. 7. Fort Worth. 8. Guine
vere. 9. Butchers. 10. Set
menu.
PRESENTS WITH A BANG
Dallas; Tex. -flJPD- Esau
Lewis believes his wife
should get a bang out of her
Christmas presents. The cou
ple's three sons went" shop
ping for their mother's pres
ents and each bought her a
derringer. ;- '
V
. Symbols at
Much of man's life is
Words, for one thing, are symbols symbols
of thoughts and things
r i ii 1
woras are noining oui noise, or squiggies on
paper, until they are given symbolic meaning.
Then they stand for something but they are not.
themselves, that something.
Each religion is full of symbols the Cross:
the Star of David, the Crescent.
Some customs are
hands is an ancient one, originating m a gesture
showing one is unarmed. Tipping the hat is anoth
er, denving from the knight's pushing up his
visor to snow nis lace
tentions and respect.
A CHRISTMAS tree
If a man chooses to
mas tree in his house,
admonition against setting up "trees" as idols,
that's his business.
But it cannot take away from, others the
warmth and satisfaction of using the beloved
symbol of a family Christmas.
We fail to see how a Christmas tree, even
as a symbol of pagan customs, can in any way
harm Christmas, or even detract from the es
sentially religious nature
THE ancients believed that trees were symbols
1 of eternal life, and worship them as such. It
was such idolatry the Bible warned against.
w ,1 J. - J 2.-
jjater. me custom
Christian celebrations, when homes and churches
were decorated with evergreens, as a reminder
of Christ's Godliness, and that the Child born at
Bethlehem was both God
spring up like a tender plant, should always be
preen and flourishintr and live forever more."
The hollv. also a symbol of Christmas, with its
green and red, its sharp
ries, is a symbol of joy
gave it mysterious powers 01 good iuck, protection
from witches, and protection from bad weather.
The use of mistletoe at Christmas also dates
far back in human history;, for it was a sacred
plant to many early tribes in what are now Eng
land and Scandinavia. One legend was that the
mistletoe was so sacred that if two enemies met
beneath the mistletoe in the forest, they laid
down their arms- and maintained a truce until
the next day.
THAT is why families hang mistletoe in door
ways. Passing beneath implies a pledge of
peace and f nendship, and
greeting or Kiss.
T.iVhted candles are
bol which dates back to
nf Christ.
Pagans used them to
the sun, and they were
runners of today's lighted electric duids.j
Christian use of the candle, symbolic of
Christ as the light of the
combination of Koman and tfebrew customs.
The use of a Christmas tree, as such, is at
tributed to Martin Luther,
reason to believe that
used it even before that
ZITHER cultures have other symbols.
In 'Latin countries, the pinata (a clay or
paper bowl or figurine, filled with candy, which
is broken with sticks, thus scattering the candy
amongst the eager youngsters; is -a unnstmas
svmhnl.
In Nprway, children
on poles or spruce trees for tne Dims tneir own
Christmas trees.
Tn the Low Countries, children use wooden
shoes (instead of stockings) for the expected
largess of St. Nicholas, the forerunner of our
"Santa Claus."
Santa himself is a symbol a symbol of love
and affection and generosity at Christmas time.
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I
S IT bad, is it wrong, to allow the universal
human habit of investiner objects with sym
bolism to add to the traditions of a celebration?
Wp see no harm. We see a crreat deal of good.
The fact that Christmas, as a celebration of
the birth of the Christian Saviour, is observed
at the same time as were the old pagan celebra
tions of the Winter Solstice, when the sun again
begins its slow movement into the northern skies,
is no sacrilege at all, but the affirmation of uni
versal human experience, dating from far back
in the misty origins of human worship. E.A.
Religious
"Controversy makes headlines. Conciliation
doesn't" '
That was the lead of a recent story by the
UPI's Louis Cassels, a talented writer who deals
with religion in the world today.
His story listed evidence that, despite doc
trinal and dogmatic differences, many of which
wind up as neadlines, the Protestant-Catholic
schism is narrower today than it has been in
many years "for centuries," Cassels reports.
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MUCH of this "thaw" has resulted from the
. ;iew image of Catholicism projected by Pope
John XXHI, the story indicated.
But we think it is also true that people gen
erally, with the obvious exceptions, are more tol
erant of other creeds that once was the case, and
a little quicker to realize that a man's reli
gious beliefs are personal, and, both as a mat
ter. f constitutional rights, and as a matter of
common sense, have no bearing on his worth as
a citizen or as a friend. E.A.
Christmas
i
lived with symbols, t
and actions and concepts.
1
symbols, too. Shaking
a gesture 01 peaceiui in
see
is a symbol.
refuse to have a Christ
as a result of a Bibhca
of the occasion. ,
was incorporated imo
and Man, "who would
prickles and bright ber
ana peace, aany Deaeis
is sealed by a inenoiy
another Christmas sym
a time before the birth
symbolize the, return of
fastened to trees (fore-
world, is said to be a
although there is some
some Germanic peoples
place sheaves of wheat
"Thaw
Dennis the Menace
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paper; in fact the contrary is often
People-Not Guns
To the Editor: The second
amendment to the United
States Constitution reads: "A
well regulated militia being
necessary to the security of
a free state, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed."
This is more than a justifi
cation for private firearm
ownership, but a civil duty
and inalienable right, '
From our Holy Bible, Luke
22:36: "He that hath no sword
let him sell bis garment and
buy one."
"Private ownership of guns
causing increasing problems.
says article in Dee. 18 Mail
Tribune.
Guns are in the hands of
young hoodlums who also
have home-made zip guns
made by themselves in their
school shops. They also have
unregistered bicycle chains,
ball bats, and ice picks.
Criminals have made guns
in prison. But of course they
always registered them! Those
they stole from the police and
National Guard were already
registered.
American servicemen
whose duty it was to risk
their lives with guns, smug'
gled home 50,000 of the wea
pons they had faced on one
troop ship. Smuggled? That's
what the article said.
Our nation's ring of anti
missile missiles, super bombs
and bombers have made us
forget the day of infamy 18
years ago, and the Nazi bund
who marched in Madison
Square Garden carrying Nazi
flags in huge rallies during
the 1930's.
At a police-sponsored gun
registration bill hearing m
Los Angeles, the principal
speaker was the secretary of
the Communist party. The
bill died then and there.
A subversive element in
side our country could hurt
us seriously if the x citizens
were unarmed or the subver
sives knew who had the guns.
Guns cause accidents. Let's
look, at the 1953 accidental
death rate figures supplied
by the National Safety Coun
cil Feb. 26, 1954: autos; 38,-
300; burns: 6,400; poison, 16,-
000; drowning: 6,800; occupa
tional: 15,000, and guns
2,450.
Existing federal and state
firearms control laws are suf
ficient. We need more severe
penalties for those who com
mit crimes while armed and
broad firearms safety train
ing.
Guns don't kill people. Peo
ple kill people.
William N. Redhead
2449 Obispo dr.,
Medford.
A Joyful Christmas
To the Editor: Regarding
Christmas trees and idols, cer
tain scripture references in
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Exodus and
others bear on the Canaanitish
practice of carving wooden
images. Then the images were
overlaid with silver, gold or
brass and set up as idols to be
worshiped. They were kept in
shrines, houses, temples or
groves for years, sometimes
for generations and worshiped
as gods. V-
These scriptures have no
reference whatever to Christ
mas trees, decorated to delight
children and bear gifts for
family or friends-.After a few
days they are stripped ot tneir
beauties and thrown out on
the brush pile to be burned.
It would be a rare instance,
indeed, for the tree to become
an object of worship.
As to Christmas day and the
birth of Jesus, we have no
data as to His niital day. Ref
erences to shepherds abiding
in the fields at night indicate
a warm season, certainly not
midwinter.
Early Christians celebrated
name and address of the writer.
tha case.
the death of martyrs, not their
birth. Northern Europe cele
brated, by yule log burning,
the winter solstice, when the
sun apparently reached the
southern end of its journey
and started north again. When
Christianity spread over Eu
rope, gradually this celebra
tion was adopted as Christmas,
since there was no definite
data as to that day.
God is a soirit. It is the
spirit that counts, not the tech.
nicality. If we misquote or
misuse the Bible to support a
personal- view point, are we
more Christian than when we
decorate a Christmas tree?
We wish you a joyful
Christmas and a good New
Year with plenty of turkey
and cranberry sauce, unspray.
ed and delatinized.
L. G. Weaver
301 Haven st.
Medford .
Police Commended
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press my gratitude to the
Medford city police for their
fine job of directing and keep
ing traffic under control, on
the corner of Tenth and Front
sts. on Dec. 17. My truck
frame broke in carrying a
load. Their assistance was
greatly appreciated.
. Ted M. Adams
2495 West Main st.
Medford
Highway Safety
To the Editor: A recent let
ter to you signed L. H. Guy
has stirred me to put in my
two cents' worth.
Every day we read about
cars skidding out of control
on wet roads, collisions, peo
ple being killed or . injured.
Of course there is a reason
for these accidents. Last year
the head of the Oregon State
Police announced that "Ore
gon drivers must adjust to
winter driving conditions."
That sounds reasonable, but
I wonder if the responsibility
for the majority of these ac
cidents lies with the driver
alone or could it be that the
Oregon State Highway de
partment is at fault-.
The western half of our
state is noted for its mild cli
mate and for the great num
ber of wet days per year, yet
Highway 99 is constructed of
materials known to be the
worst type for visibility and
nonskid qualities when wet.
Our highway department
will tell us that cost is the big
item in building roads and that
asphalt is much cheaper to
construct than is the new mod
ern non-skid type of road. This
is very true if you consider
first cost only, but any bus
iness man knows that the
product with the lowest over
all cost is much more econom
ical in the long run. It hasi
been established that a new
modern type concrete high
way costs more to build .but
the higher first cost is offset
by the extremely low mainte
nance costs. The modern new
concrete highways have been
tested over several years and
many thousands of miles in al
most every state and have
proved to be almost mainte
nance-free for as high as ten
years, and even after that, re
pair costs are way below that
of asphalt which requires re
pair crews to work on it at
one end while still under con
struction at the other. Witness
the much touted "Death Trap"
Baldock freeway.
The cost figures quoted by
highway planners do not in
clude higher insurance costs,
uninsured damage costs, medi
cal costs, and certainly not the
tragic cost in pain, physical in
jury and death brought about
by unnecessarily slick and
dangerous roads.
Even though we cannot af
ford the best and ultimately
cheapest type of highways the
ones we have can be made
Tired Old Lyle Wilson Calls for Firm
Stand Against' Christmas Card Slavery
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -fflPD- It beats
me why someone has . not
come up long before this with
a new. Eman
cipation Proc-
almation. 1 1
should be - a
proclamation
to emancipate
the American
people from
"their slavery
to Christmas
cards.
Lyie c. wusea I realize
that many persons will con
sider this to be a subversive
thought. ' Some of my neigh
bors will caution their child
ren to come indoors when I
pass by. Little old ladies who
heretofore have given me a
friendly nod when I see them
on the street, likely will Ig
nore me when ,we meet.
My good friends who have
favored me this year as in
the past with the season's
greetings will think of me as
an ungracious grouser who
should have both better man
ners and some gratitude. I
am sorry if that is the way it
must be. If so, so be it.
"The Christmas card must
go.
Compared to a Christmas
card, the exaggerated tail fins
on my new car are useful and
necessary contraptions. One
tenth of the money and ener
gy squandered each year on
Christmas cards would suf
fice to create for the United
States missile and rocket pro
tection unsurpassed.
Pity The Postman
Talk about watse! The
stamp bill alone would buy
a fleet of nuclear submarines.
For printing much more is
spent than for stamps. More
over, the patient postmen are
hump-backed from lugging
those great sacks full of cards
and they suffer fallen arch
es, corns and bunions by rea
son of the extra mileage our
Christmas whimsey imposes
upon them.
And, there are among some
individuals (your correspon
dent is one) who shucked
most of the shackles of Christ
mas cardery long since, but
who regularly receive cards
in shoals and avalanches. This
causes these free souls much
anguish in the region of their
consciences. They know in
sadness that among their
loving friends are some with
the lint-picking habit of card
indexing the whole Christmas
business so that during the
days immediately following
Dec. 25 there occur in living
rooms across the land such
scenes as this: . ;
The Little Woman: Oh,
Fred, we got cards today from
the Goosens and the Whooz
its and the Zumphs. The
Zumphs' is real pretty.
Fred: Yeah, they musta
mailed 'em after they got
ours.
The L W: Look in the in
T for
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the body
of' 117-year-old Walter Wil
liams lies in state in the ro
tunda of the county court
house in Houston, Texas. Hun
dreds of people are filing past.
It will remain there1 until
Wednesday of this week,
when funeral services will be
held in Houston. Burial will
be at Franklin, Texas, where
he lived for many years,
was Walter Williams?
h i n k everyone who
reads or listens to the news
knows. He was the last veter
an of the Civil War - or, if
hereditarily you prefer it that
way, the War Between the
States.
A FTER the lapse of nearly
a century, let's put it this
way:
Walter Williams was the
LAST REMNANT OF A
TRAGIC MISTAKE. The Civil
War shouldn't have happened.
It wouldn't have happened if
there had been fewer hot
heads and more wise and
tolerant people on both sides.
It was hotheads who led the
attack on the arsenal at Harp
er's Ferry. It; was hotheads
who ordered the firing on Fort
Sumter.
A SOBERING thought:
We are living again in
ticklish times. There is the
cold war which could flame
much safer by the simple ap
plication of a non-skid surface
of crushed rock such as we
have on the mountain passes.
These roads are more nonskid
with a thin layer of ice than
the valley roads are when wet.
Think! Then for economy in
money, injury and death,
write your Governor, your
congressman, and demand
action.
E. B- Van Horn
605 Franquette St.
Medford
dex, Fred, and see if the
Whoozits sent us one last
year. Bet they didn't.
Women Are to Blame
Fred: Nope, nor the year
before, either. I'll take 'em
off our list.;
The L W: No, leave 'em on,
but let's send a real cheap
card next year and mail it
a couple of days after Christmas.
Nehru Seen as Confused and
Bitter Facing Red Dilemma
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The infuential Times ot
India not long ago thumb-
nailed Prime Minister Jawa-
harlal Nehru
this way:
"At one
time he had a
s o 1 u tion to
every diffi-
'Zn culty; today
ne races a au-
ficulty in ev
ery solution.1
it was an
Phil Nawsess Dt deseriri-
tion of Nehru, who in 1954
signed the five principles of
peaceful co-existence with
Red China and today finds
mmseii embroiled in a bor
der dispute with Red China
piling upon -him woes deep
er than the Himalayan snows,
In recent days these have
been Nehru statements of
position:
In a letter replying to Red
Chinese Premier Chou En-
lai's proposal that they meet
Dec. 26 to negotiate either in
China or Rangoon, Burma:
"I find it quite impossible
to go to Rangoon or any other
place within the next few
days."
Negotiate, Negotiate
In Parliament:
"We will negotiate and
negotiate and negotiate to the
bitter end,
On a CBS television broad
cast:
"I - don't think, however
strong China may be, it will
succeed in conquering India.'
For centuries the Chinese
have regarded themselves as
a super race, an opinion
"more Chinese than Commu
nist." Together they help to cre
ate the picture of a confused
and harried man caught in
the web of his own neutral
ism,, facing a problem for
which he himself sees no
solution, and lending addi
tional force to the further
comment by the Times of In
dia: -
"As the years rolled by the
very foundation on which
Nehru's prestige and reputa
tion rested began to wear him
down.
Nehru has run head-on into
a cynicism for which his
philosophy leaves him ill-pre
pared,
into HOT WAR if wrong de-
cisions, resulting in hasty ac
tions, were made. There is in
flation, which could bankrupt
us all if permitted to get out
of control.
These things stir fears of
the future. They could result
in trouble if wrong decisions
are made.
VlfHAT is our great need?
For an answer, I think we
can turn to Josiah Gilbert
Holland, who lived and wrote
about a century ago. In his
poem "The Day's Demand" he
says: .
"God give us men! A time
like this demands
"Strong minds, great hearts,
true faith and ready
hands ...
"Tall men, sun - crowned,
who live above thevibg
"In public duty and in pri
vate thinking."
THAT is still the day's de
mand. Last Civil War
Veteran Buried
Houston, Tex.-(UPD - Today
marks the end of an era with
the burial of Walter (Old
Reb) Williams, 117, the last
veteran of the Civil War.
The blue and the gray stood
shoulder to shoulder Tuesday
night at memorial services
honoring the old rebel who
fought with the Texas Bri
gade at the age of 22.
A fife and drum corps from
Mount Vernon, Ohio, played
"Dixie", "Johnny Reb" and
the "Battle Hymn of the Re
public" during the service.
Hundreds of persons were
on hand to pay homage to the
honorary Civil War general
including representatives of
President Eisenhower and
each of the 11 states that
formed the Confederacy.
IS
Fred: (Readine soorts page)
Yump, awright.
It is the women, of course,
who keep the Christmas card
business going, wailing be
fore, during and after the pro
cess of selecting and address
ing their offerings that it is
an infernal chore.
Christmas cards have be
come an. oppressive burden.
In the apartment -building in
It was this same sort of
Communist cynicism which
once led the late Josef Stal
in to reply to a warning
about the world influence of
the Roman Catholic Pope:
"How many divisions has
the Pope?"
So as Chou En-lai reads
Nehru's statements and sees
him take a firm stand on both
sides of the fence, ht also
may inquire:
"How many divisions has
Nehru?"
Few Against Many
Nehru himself has admit
ted he does not have enough
perhaps 300,000 men against
five million.
Before his own Parliament
Nehru is committed to de
fend India's borders, but his
defense must be to "negotiate
Editorial Comment
THE DOORS MUST
BE OPEN TO ALL
Many Democrats have been
saying that Robert Duncan
will be the Democrats' answer
to Mark Hatfield. Mr. Dun
can, a Medford attorney, was
speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives in the Oregon
Legislature this year and
came out of the legislative
session with a high rating by
members of both parties. He
is young, aggressive and in
telligent. At a Douglas County con
vention of Democrats this
month Mr. Duncan told the
Democrats they couldn't af
ford the luxury of a party
purge. Instead of driving peo
ple out of the party, Demo
crats should be trying to get
more in, he said.
On this the Eugene Register-Guard
has this editorial
comment:
"Mr. Duncan understands
the nature of an American
political party. He agrees with
former Vice President Garner
that a party must be "a party
of all sorts of views." There
is wide latitude in the Demo
cratic Party for Morse of Ore
gon, for- Lausche of Ohio and
for Eastland of Mississippi.
Republicans must make room
for Goldwater of Arizona, Hat
field of Oregon and all those
in between.
"Neither party in the
American system can afford
.the luxury, of becoming doc
trinaire, mat s possible in a
European system with a dozen
or more parties. But it can't
work where there are only
two. There are more than two
sides to most questions and
there are many questions.
Two parties can accommodate
the majority of Americans
only if considerable latitude
is permitted each member.
"Moreover, the direct pri
mary, recall, the initative and
referendum and the ease of
registration makes it almost
impossible to impose real
party discipline. A . political
party is not a select lodge.
Membership must be easily
acquired and easily shed."
There are many persons
who take their politics straight
who would like to put all the
conservatives in one party
and all the liberals in another.
They are Republicans who are
"sick and tired" of the Re
publican party talking like
the Democratic party. They
have our sympathy. It would
be much easier for many vot
ers if a clear and clean dis
tinction could be made be
tween the parties. But it isn't
going to happen and it would
n't be- good if it did happen.
It's much better that party
doors be open to all comers.
-Pendleton East Qregoaian.
May the joyful spirit of Christmas light
the way to many years of health and
happiness for you and your loved ones.
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main
ASHLAND
We Never Close
which I live the nice women
who tend to things behind the
desk are card-weary and
shaken by now. In this Christ
mas season, they have stuffed
thousands of them into the
numbered boxes in which my
neighbors and I receive our
mail.
This thing is out of hand,
folks, and something should
be done about it.
and negotiate and negotiate,"
hoping for a Red Chinese
turnabout he himself does not
expect.
For, once more in his own
words, he knows that China
never in history has recog
nized any loss of territory,
surrendering it perhaps in
periods of weakness but al
ways . regarding the loss as
strictly temporary.
In his reply to Chou En-lai,
Nehru "regretted" that the
Red position still was based
on invasion of traditional In
dian territory.
But against him is the cold
ly logical Chou En-lai who
pointed out that the Chinese
built a road and for nearly
10 years controlled such ter
ritory without Nehru even
being aware of it.
PRESIDENT AGAINST
TEST OATH
Now that President Eisen
hower has flatly stated his
disapproval of the anti-Communist
affidavit required of
students seeking federal
loans, Congress w h e n it re
convenes should strike down
this obnoxious test oath. The
President objects to it for the
same reason that a number
of schools, including Harvard
and Yale, have refused this
aid to their students. At his
press conference on Wednes
day the President said:
"I personally a m ready
each morning to take an oath
that I am not a Communist
and that I am loyal to the
United States. I think, how
ever, that when we begin to
single out any group of citi
zens and say, . This is a mat
ter of legal compulsion,' I, can
see why they are resentful."
That is the big point. To re
quire this oath of college
students and not of citizens in
general Is to single out the
students and to imply that
their loyalty is questionable.
That is a gratuitous insult,
and a serious one. This was
recognized by Congress when
in adopting new labor legisla
tion last summer, it repealed
the Taft-Hartley statute's re
quirement of an ihti-Com-munist
oath by union offi
cials. The oath amendment was
slipped into the education act
almost by sleight of hand. Yet
when Senator Kennedy
sought its removal, too many
Senators lacked the courage
to vote for its repeal. The
Kennedy bill was maneuvered
back to committee by a vote
of 49 to 42.
The test oath is no protec
tion for the nation. But it is a
gratuitous offense. Since the
indignity is resented, it frus-
trates the very purpose of the r
education act, the training of I
specialists essential to the na
tional defense. It should be '
wiped out. - St. Louis Post- i
Dispatch.
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Mrs. Lltwiller
'It is better to know us and not need us
than to need us and not know us."