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o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1960 Pope Calls on Catholics To Fight 'Diabolical Conspiracy Against Truth' Vatican City - IUPD - Pope John XXIII, 79, called on the world's Roman Catholics tonight to fight what he called a "diabolical conspiracy against truth" being carried out through all forms of art and mass communications media. in face of the open or covert treason of this Christian Ideal, our heart cannot restrain its anguish and our voice hakes," the Pope said in a sad but confident Christmas message to the world. The pontiff's 5,500-word address was broadcast around the globe by the powerful Vatican Radio and by a link-up of national stations in other countries. It was devoted for the most part to the theme of "truth" -divine revelation and doctrine as preached by the Roman Catholic Church. Against this truth, the Pope said, a current of modern thought is raising an "antidecalogue"-the opposite of God's Ten Commandments - encouraging man to kill, to commit adultery, to steal and to bear false witness. Pope John did not at any point refer specifically to Com munism, and his remarks seemed to be of a general nature rather than aimed at any one group. Despite his stern warning, the Pope made it clear he was ; confident of the final outcome of the struggle between "truth" and its "travesty." . Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Milwaukee, Wis. Rep. Henry S. Reuss, (D-Wis.), on the election of a sponsor for the telecast of the presidential Inauguration: "If we are going to have a commercial sponsor for this milestone in this history of democracy, I submit that beer is as appropriate a product at any. Norfolk, Va. The wife of John Richart, on learning that her husband had decided to remain alone aboard the broken tanker Pine Ridge: "I didn't think he would do it. He's a good man." New York Gen. Douglas MacArthur, on why he chose to answer forme? President Truman's allegation that Mac Arthur wanted to use the atom bomb in the Korean conflict: "I do to only to prevent a complete prevarication oi hit' tory designed to cover up Mr. Truman's past failures." San Quentin, Calif. Gov. Edmund G. Brown's press sec retary, on the accidental sending of a Christmas card signed by the governor to a young killer sentenced to die in the gas chamber: "It's a tragic mistake." Living Cost Again Hits Record High Washington -(UPtt- The cost of living edged up slightly in ' November to another record : high, the government reported ; today. It marked the ninth ! time this year that record levels were set. Price increases for some ; foods, movie admissions, and hospitalization insurance pushed up the Labor Depart : ment's consumer price index : by one-tenth of 1 per cent, the . report showed. , . The November index read : Ing of 127.4 was up 1.4 per ; cent from a year earlier. It I was the ninth time in 11 '. months this year the index has . gone up. Once it declined and ". once it held steady. 1 Some Declines Although the over-all move ! ment was up, there were No " vember price declines for sev ; erai items. These included '. clothing, new houses, medi ; cine and some fresh foods. The department said that ! on the basis of the November index, 225,000 workers would get wage increases. Their pay rate is tied to the index by cost-of-living clauses in their contracts. Most of the workers, chief ly employees in meatpacking and aircraft and missile manu facturing, are to get wage in creases of two cents an hour About 10,000 scattered metal workers will get three cents more. Other employees in aircraft and other lines will get a one-cent increase. Eight Cent Boost Another 25,000 employees of retail foodstores in Los An geles county who are repre sented by the Retail Clerks International Union are sched' uled to get a pay boost of eight cents an hour. This is their first living cost adjust ment in two years, the depart ment said. A cut in the average fac tory work week trimmed the weekly take-home pay of the average factory worker with 8 Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkint Mankind's Inventions Important - But None Equals Miracles of Nature When you sat down to breakfast this morning did you wonder or consider just where that food came from? The eggs you ate, the toast, the cereal, even the coffee you drank, all came from mother earth. The bacon, crisp or limp, depending on your individual preference, was produced by the chem istry of a living creature that ate materials which grow in the soil. The breakfast food, the coffee beans, the cream you poured in your coffee, the sugar that sweetened it, the fruit juice, the jelly or preserves you spread on your toast, all came from that one place. Not from the grocery store, the dairy, the mill - those places were merely dis tributing points but from the earth itself. Provident Nature Could you honestly sit at linen-covered table in fashionable restaurant and treat your taste-buds to the delicious, tingling delight of a T-bone steak without mar veling at the foresight of a provident Nature that made all these things possible? There are those uninform ed and unthinking individuals who vehemently and stupidly maintain that . Nature plays no part in their lives. That the birds and bees, the flow ers and the plants, the soil and the sun, are only non essential things having no ac tual bearing on business, prof its, or commerce. For the Birds' "Nature," says the stupid man, is for the birds. He may add, "My business is real estate, manufacturing, com merce; banking (or any num ber of other things) all con cerned with business. I have no time for the birds and bees routine. I make automo biles, aspirin tablets, ma chines that lighten house work, or simplify living it self. Nature is for the crack pots, and the time-wasters." Sure, machines that spin yard to keep us warm, cars to carry us from place to place, guided missiles to ex plore, outer space all are im portant to some degree, but not a single one of them sus tains the human machine. They all assist in making life easier, but there is not a miracle in the lot. All mankind's inventions combined can hardly equal in importance, a blade of grass, an ear of corn, an apple or an orange. The combined knowledge an .inventive geni us of all the people on this earth cannot make a loaf of bread without the grain that grew from the good earth. Neither can they make a bean, an apple or a cabbage. Man, and all his inventiveness has never made a single article that he, or a monkey or a mouse can eat - and we stu pidly say "Nature has no meaning for me." (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960 Talents of Messenger Service Taxed at Christmas Holidays By HENRY J. BECHTOLD ' UPI Financial Editor New York (UPD - Messenger services are continually ful filling unusual requests for their customers but their tal ents are really taxed around the Christmas holidays. Mercury Service Sys tems, Inc., has had a fair share of these orders, and proudly notes that it accom- Henry BechtoK plished them a". Several business firms each year ask Mercury to deliver business gifts with the mes sengers garbed in Santa Claus suits. In an out-of-season switch, one firm last year had the Mercury messenger dressed in a rabbit costume to promote his upcoming line of clothes for Easter. A national magazine once asked ' Mercury to deliver Christmas gifts to advertising agency space buyers with messengers outfitted in space suits. Probably the most unusual order came from a wealthy dowager who requested a Mercury messenger dressed as Santa Claus to walk her two beribboned pomeranians down Fifth avenue in New York to give them "a touch of the Christmas spirit." Of course this is only the lighter side of a very profit able business that started 22 years ago as a one man oper ation. The one man was An ton J. Roper, president of Mercury. Largest in World Mercury is one of 90 mes senger services in New York City but Roper said it is the largest in the world, it now has 300 foot messengers; af filiates throughout this and other countries: operates a Heet of small trucxs for "im mediate trucking;" is the of ficial ground carrier with radio-equipped trucks for freight in New York; and operates a helicopter-ground delivery service in coordina tion with New York Airways. The company grossed about $1.5 million this year, 7 per cent ahead of 1959, but Roper said this was one of the smal lest year-to-year increases on the company s books. It us ually runs about 12 per cent, and he blamed the slowdown in the economy for the dip. He explained that an adjust ment or recession period that the business world has been going through brings about much cost-cutting in most firms, and messenger service sometimes is included in these cuts. Early Upturn Seen However, the Mercury exec utive looks for the messenger business to start rolling again in February or March, much earlier than the experts ex pect the economy to get back on the uptrack. He said that by then the new administra tion should have given some indications of what it plans to do for the economy, help ing the indecision now en veloping businessmen. Roper said his firm's suc cess lias been made from the following ingredients: Ener gy, imagination, patience, in dustriousncss, and a pleasing personality. But, he noted that these ingredients do not spell success unless opportuni ties are sought to put them to work. Mercury has a staff of a dozen men who continually call on businessmen to show them how they can save mon ey by hiring messenger serv ice. Looking ahead, Roper said his firm is continually seek ing acquisitions because there will come a day when acceier ated expansion will be neces sary to meet increased de mand, "and Mercury wants to be prepared." Acme Office Machines 1949 W. Miin SP 3-7964 I THE SLANT-OMTIC' MACHINE BY SINGER mam lnJHri AST MIMCNI World's finest sewing machine. SINGER' SEWING CENTER lit lid In phon bonk undt flHGCR SEWING MACHINE CO. 31 8 East Main St. Phone SP 2-7153 A Tndmut of THE SIKOER fttro. CO. KNEW WHERE TO GO Waukegan, 111 .-IUPD - Com mercial fisherman Mathon Kyritsis last fell studied the habits " of Lake Michigan perch and came up with the prediction that it would be a mild winter. 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