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"Evuryona io Southern Oregon Redi Tim Mail Tribune" PublUhid Daily except Saturday by MKUKORO PRINTING CO W Nurth fit Jl Ph. T7-ll ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GKtV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mir ERIC ALLEN JR. Mm Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1HMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporu Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mxi An Independent Newipapei Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year 111 00 Daily and Sunday moi 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi s ou Sunday Only One year S3 00 Single Copy IMalledl oe By lamer And Motor Route, jelly and Sunday 1 year 21 00 Dally and Sund 1 mo I.7S Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrlei and Vendor! opy 100 Official Paper of "City of Medfora Official Paper of Jarjaun County United Press International Sull Leased Wire O. P I Telepholo Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising rl-presentitive: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC1 ATES OlMces In New York. Chi cago Detroit San Trandsco. Los Angela Seattle. Portland Denver. RATION At E0ITOIIAI A0CATIN J U J Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1953 (Thursday) A 39-year-old Grants Pass at torney was found dead, an ap parent suicide victim, in his car on Fish Lake Rd. yesterday afternoon. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1913 (Friday) Caretaker Eric Andreson re ports geologists have completed survey of Blue Ledge mine and Bureau of Mines engineers have arrived to check the property. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Joe Lou is, heavyweight champion, is scheduled to cavort at Camp White this eve. Citizens who for months have boasted they felt good enough to lick him are not feeling so well." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1933 (Sunday) Carl Tengwald, Jackson coun ty representative of World War veterans state aid commission, authorized by Salem office to do repair work at 10 houses owned by state in Jackson coun- Pomona Grange members meet with E. C. Jerome, gen eral chairman of Oregon's Dia mond Jubilee celebration, and A. H. Harwell, manager of Chamber of Commerce, to dis cuss plans for jubilee. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 29. 1923 (Monday) County Agent C. C. Cate and Lloyd Moss, county club leader, leave for Pacific International Livestock Exposition in Port land. Radio fans scheduled to meet at Medford hotel to form radio club, according to W. J. Virgin, sponsor of plan. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 29, 1913 (Wednesday) Mai. H. W. Bowlby, state high way commissioner, meets in Jacksonville with County Judge frank Touvelle and Commis sioners U. C. Leever and J. C. Smith; sign contract for 50,000 baircls of cement to be used on Pacific Highway. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is escellent; five or sis is good. 1. In baseball, which base is called the keystone sack? 2. Tibet is situated between the Kunlun Mountains and what other mountains? 3. During which President's administration was the Atomic Energy Commission started? 4. Was it the Secretary of the Army, Air Force or Navy who recently resigned? 5. Is a necropolis an obituary column in a newspaper, a dis ease of the neck or a cemetery? 6. In which western state is Zlon National Park? 7. Which dog is naturally tail less? 8. To what religious denomi nation did the late Babe Ruth adhere? 9. A person suffering from ochlophobia would have a mor bid fear of yellow paint, crowds, or pianos? 10. Only one U. S. President was a Quaker; name him. Answers: 1. Second base. 2. Himalayas. 3. President T r u man's. 4. Navy. S. Cemetery. I. Utah. 7. Schlpperke. I. Roman Catholic. 0. Crowds. 10. Herbert Hoove, $SjASOCIATION TUESDAY. OCTOBER 2. mi Automation- Threat & Challenge America's sincle createst domestic problem can be summed up in one Kieht now. about six who are actively in the labor market are without jobs. The labor market is around 1 million persons per year. The number of jobs is growing too, but at a far smaller rate. And, while this is taking place, as the "war baby" crop is coming into the labor market, the number of jobs which is ing out of existence is bounds. The reason for summed up in one word, DECENTLY, a top expert in the bureau of labor statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor estimated that rising productivity due to automa tion is eliminating jobs week, or about 200,000 But, according to one tion experts, this is an excessively conservative estimate. He put the loss of jobs at more than 40,000 per week, or more than 2 million per year. The latter expert is John I. Snyder, chairman and president of U. S. Industries, Inc., maker of automation equipment. He and A. J. Hayes, president of the Machinists Union, are co-chairman of a new organization called the American Foundation of Automation & Employment, the chief purpose of which is automation. SNYDER, testifying before a Senate labor com mitfpp assnilpfl what hp caller! t.hp. "mvths" about automation, which have "tranquilizer!" the American people and their elected representa tives, to say nothing of ers, into complacency about automation. The chief myth which one which claims that to eliminate many .lobs. impact of automation is ply not recognized tor what it is. He said: "We must . . . keep in mind that automation is not only displacing people directly, but also indirectly through what are called 'silent firings,' in reference to workers who would have been hired for jobs eliminated by automation." w A S QUOTED in the Oregon Labor Press, Sny- der also made these points: "A second myth is that automation will create jobs for workers, not only in running the machines, but in maintain ing and building them. The hard truth is that modern auto mated equipment requires very little maintenance. "If it did not, it would not pay to operate it; and if the equivalent number of workers replaced by automation were required to build the machines and systems, there would be no point in automating. "A third myth that needs to to be laid to rest is the be lief that those who lose their jobs to automation can be re trained and put Into other jobs requiring higher skills and paying more money. "As studies have shown, automation is more likely to re duce rather than increase the demands for skills and apti tudes and, besides, many workers are just not retrainable due to their levels of intelligence, education and age. "Still another myth is that workers replaced by automa tion in one part of the country can find jobs in other areas. "The truth is that the workers thrown out of jobs are usually just those who are least able to move. They are the lower paid, the older, the unskilled. Either they cannot afford to move from an economic standpoint or they are psycho logically incapable of beginning a new life in a strange area." TO COPE with this massive challenge, which has so many ramifications in the economic, social and cultural aspects of American life, is going to take a new kind of thinking. Labor expert A. H. Raskin, writing recently in the Saturday Evening Post, says we cannot afford to get rid of featherbedding; if we did so over night, he said, we would be plunged into the worst mass of unemployment and depression ever known. We are rapidly getting to a point where, un less there is a major change in the economy, there will simply be not nearly enough jobs to go around. A NUMBER of proposals have been made to meet this challenge. One is a sharp upswing in the economy, a major expansion which will create new jobs faster than they are destroyed by techniques of automation. This is one of the reasons for the proposed federal income tax cut. Another is for a shorter work week, to em ploy more people to do the same amount of work. Another is for a massive increase in educa tion at all levels, not only to teach new skills, but also to teach people to cope with to take advantage of a great expansion in leisure time. IN ADDITION, it is going to take an entirely new way of thinking, a new way of look ing at work, if the transition to an automated society is to be made smoothly. It is also going to take some brand new ideas, in addition to the partial solutions listed above. Snyder said the myths he cited "are unfortu nately serving as easy either cannot or will not come forward and grapple with the human automation. He said the problems encompassing, too serious a responsibility not to be everyone s, and ological and economic ideas" to help solve them. "To fail is to invite disaster for th nation," he concluded. There are too few being disregarded by those who should b nut concerned. E. A. (j fa word : unemployment. out of every 1UU persons growing at a rate of vanishing simply go growing by leaps and the latter can also be a new one: automation. at the rate of 4,UJU per per year. of industry's automa "to tell the truth about labor and business lead Snyder deplores is the automation is not going He declared that the already here, but is sim palliatives for those who problems caused by are "too large, too all he called for "new soci signs that his Vil nius is MEDKORM "We Didn't Agree To THE ANTI-LEGISLATIVE PROCESS WASHINGTON - "If you can control your people, I can con trol mine." Such was the reported answer of House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana when President Kennedy begged him to agree on a bi-partisan civil rights bill. Halleck meant, in effect, that he could swing Rep. John Lindsay of New York into line if the President could do likewise with Democratic ad vocates of an extreme bill, like Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier of Wisconsin. The President then tried to do as Halleck suggested. The first attempt failed and, as these words are being written, the prospects of later success do not appear bright. Thus the vital civil rights bill is directly imper illed by the sorriest display to date of the endemic disease of American liberalism, which is the liberals' fatal fondness for empty, competitive posturing. . WHE posturing began when the A Administration s comprehen sive and reasonable civil rights bill was referred to a liberal heavy subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. At torney General Robert Kennedy pleaded with the Judiciary Com mittee Chairman, Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York. He and his aides besought the Leadership Conference, which includes white advocates of strong civil rights legislation like Walter Reuther as well as all the ma jor Negro leaders. To these men, and to the sub committee members, the same story was told again and again. They were warned, over and over, that it the subcommittee voted extreme and unacceptable features into the Administration bill, this session of Congress was unlikely to end without passing any bill at all. Chairman Celler in effect re plied that he and his colleagues could safely indulge their pen chant for striking noble atti tudes, because the noble atti tudes would then be struck out of the bill in the full committee. The other House members, and the members of the Leadership Conference, were no more ra tional than Rep. Celler and considerably less forthright. e THE result was the bill now I hofnre th House .ludk'iarv Committee. It is a bill marked by features of extremely doubt ful Constitutionality; and it is just about dead certain to die in the House Rules Committee or to be killed on the House floor. Some of the liberals do not seem to be disconcerted by this prospect. Solid results have nev er greatly interested them. But Jr -J o JJ "It's dirty u.-inR civil rights as rimpaign hsur. q 1 lh hd religion as an IsstWj aRIOJ"j MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. Stop Testing You" Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate poor Rep. Celler, who docs want a solid result, is now wringing his hands in dismay. For the conservative Southern members of the House Judiciary Commit tee have welcomed the subcom mittee's draft of the civil rights bill with smiles of delight; and they are not going to let it be toned down to the point ol con gressional acceptability if they can possibly help it. The Southerners could n o t help the committee's reporting a moderate and acceptable civil rights bill if committee mem bers of the Kastenmaier-Lind-say stripe would join the com mittee s center-group, tne bin would then be rewritten, as Cel ler at first expected. And it would therefore be handed on to the House Rules Committee with good hopes of being report ed to the House floor, approved by the House, and sent to the Senate. BUT the obstacle to this result is the one succintly describ ed to the President by Rep. Halleck. Halleck was only rea conable. After all, he can hardly be expected to ask his Republi cans to join in toning down the sub-committee draft if Kasten- maier and other Democrats of his type are still to be allowed the pleasures of empty postur ing. Republican self-denial must be matched by Democratic self- denial. When the committee meets on Tuesday, the outcome will be known. Meanwhile, this desperately-needed piece of legislation is quite obviously endangered because the enemies of civil rights legislation are shrewd, tough men, while too many of the friends of civil rights are vain, empty, and impractical. The pattern is an ancient one. But it is a new thing, nonethe less, for this pattern to prevent necessary action in a time of urgent, dangerous national cri sis. It is easy to forget that on the civil rights front the present is such a time, but it is, all the same. THAT A the was amply proven of Negro leaders of the Leadership Conference. They refused to stand up for a mod crate bill, authough they well knew such a bill was the only kind that could pass, because thev were too fearful of the Ncuro extremists. If there is no bill, the Negro extremists will take over; and if that hanpcns, this old, un pardonable ulcer on the body politic win at once oecome ma iinnant. in sum, you could hardly find a better demonstration of the anti-legislative process, which has become the specialty of the U. S. Congress. r OREGON Leaders of Peace in Algerian-Moroccan Fighting By PHIL NEWSOM UPI rorsltn News Analyst In Rabat, a UPI correspon dent just back from the scene of the desert fighting along the Algerian-Moroccan frontier, sat down at his typewriter and en deavored to sort out his im pressions. ". . . . like something out of Beau Geste," wrote UPI man Carolos Mendo. "In Hassi Beida, I counted eight date palm trees. No town. No vegetation except for those pitiful palms clustered around one well . . ." Indeed, it scracely seemed worth a man's life. But around the small Hassi Beida oasis men were dying, even as leaders of both Africa and the Arab world maneuvered for peace." There were compelling rea sons for settling the quar rel quickly. But there also were reasons why peace would not come easily and why, if it did come, it might prove as illu sory as Arab or African unity. Fighting May Spread A compelling reason for peace was a fear that, if continued for long, the fighting could not be confined to a single border. In Paris, with intimate know ledge of both, there was a be lief that militarily the Moroc cans were better trained and equipped for this kind of fight ing and would win out over Al geria. But there was also the belief that United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Communist bloc would intervene to save Algerian Presi dent Ahmed Ben Bella from dis aster. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: Did you get up at 2 o'clock Sunday morning and set your clocks back an hour? Probably not. But that was the exact mo ment at which Daylight Saving Time ended in Oregon. If you didn't change your clocks then. you were BEHIND time until you did change them. AND- Here's news for you: If you want to stay right on the button as to time, you 11 have to make ANOTHER CHANGE on Thursday of this week, at 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. AT THAT exact moment, you must turn your clocks back 100 MILLISECONDS. A milli second is one-thousandth of a second. So 100 milliseconds will be a tenth of a second. You'll have to be rather care ful about it, for a tenth of a sec ond isn't very much time. If you overshoot the mark, you'll be ahead of time again and goodness knows we've had ruck uses enough already over this business of fast time. Let's not start another one. WHY all this monkey busi ness? Well, according to the U. S. Naval Observatory and the Na tional Bureau of Standards, the earth is SLOWING DOWN. It will have slowed down 100 milli seconds more in the four days intervening between 2 a.m. last Sunday morning and 4 p.m. on Thursday of this week. rpHAT raises this question: How old is the earth? SCIENTISTS, using what is known as the uranium-lead method, estimate that the earth is probably somewhat more than TWO BILLION years old. We will probably all agree that at that advanced age it can hardly be blamed for slowing down a little. Most of us mere mortals start slowing down much earlier. ONE more question: How did this daylight saving business get started? 'IMIANK Benjamin Frank 1 i n A for it or tell him off. de pending on how you feel about the whole controversial business. When he was U. S. ambassa- i dor to France, he woke up one morning with the sun well up in the sky ancl siarioa iretiing about the waste of candles. It occurred to him suddenly that if everybody went to bed an hour earlier and got up an hour earlier a lot of candle wax could be saved. He mentioned the idea to the French authorities, but then as now nobody in Paris was even faintly interested in going to bed early not to mention getting up early the next morn- St) HIS idea died in infancy. It was resurrected in 1918 to save daylight hours for the World War'l war etfcrt. We've been fighting about it ever since. (O) Africa, Arab World Seek Eventually, such a war would engulf the whole of North Africa. There were plenty of would be peace-makers, including vir tually every head of every state bordering on the Sahara. The belligerents also spoke of a de sire for peace but continued military maneuvers to nego tiate from positions of strength. But these were moves viewed from the short term. In the longer view, Ben Bel la of Algeria and King Hassan of Morocco had become the per sonifications of a struggle con- ... Communications ... Letters io the Editor must bear the nam ind address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Continued Neglect To the Editor: The recent "unexplained" accident involv ing three young girls which oc curred on the Crater Lake High way has firmed a resolve of long standing to bring to the front the extremely hazardous condition of that much-used and highly-neglected road. My home is one mile beyond Trail on the Crater Lake High way and I drive back and forth to Medford to my job five days a week, rain or shine, ice or fog, and have been doing so for nearly nine years. During that time I have never seen any portion of the highway be tween our home and Reese Creek (Butte Falls Junction) which has been completely re surfaced. All that has ever been done has been a haphazard job of patching the "worst" spots. This year even that has not been done, probably because the whole pavement is so bare and slick that it would be a farce to try to pick out any one spot to which to apply a bit of sur face. How any car is going to make it up some of those hills when they are covered with ice is beyond my compre hension. This, as much as anything, is what prompted my "no" vote in the recent election. New abodes, and fancy ones at that, have been built to house the Liquor Commission, the Unem ployment Office, etc.. but noth ing at all has been done to try to save lives by improving a road which receives a great deal of use, both summer and winter. In many places there is not even a shoulder onto which one could run one set of wheels to gain a little traction. I have differed with the stand of "E.A." a number of times, though in general am inclined to agree with him, but the most upset I ever got with the learn ed gentleman was the day, sev eral years ago, when he wrote his editorial about the fine shape of the State roads. Right then, and ever since, when I have crept home over that slick highway with only the Lord's Prayer and the Twenty-Third Psalm to sustain me I have wished that he could be riding along with me and perhaps his opinion of some State highways, at least, might change consid erably. How many lives are going to have to be lost and how many people injured before something is done? Of course there may be a dam up there some day and extensive improvements should, perhaps, be held in abeyance, but there is no ex cuse at all for complete disre gard of public safety by this continued neglect. Elizabeth Wilson. Star Route 1, Box 360, Trail, Ore. Consider Writings To the Editor: To those who doubt, or don't believe in the baptism of the "Holy Ghost." Consider these things that are written, Eph. ch. 1, verses 9 to 13 "having made known unto us the mystery of his will, ac cording to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in him self: that in the dispensation of fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance. being predestinated according to the purpose of him who work cth all things after the coun sel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye ?so trusted, aft er that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your Sal vation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of prom ise, which is the Earnest of our inheritance until the re demption of the purchased pos- i session unto the praise of his ; glory." ! Consider also, that in all the I Epistle, that they were writ ten to the "called" of God, I sanctified, anointed, chosen. baptized of the Holy Ghost, or Elect. Consider also what t e e Lord said in the Olivet Dis co rse, "for there shall arise false christs. and false proph ets, and shall shew great signs and wonders: insomuchthat, if CO vulsing both the Arab and the African worlds. Ben Bella is a dedicated so cialist, an admirer both of Nas ser and Fidel Castro of Cuba. And Moroccans ask Western reporters: "Have you forgotten Cuba?" In Moroccan eyes, Morocco stands between Nasser and a socialist federation of North Africa wherein private enter prise would be subject to na tionalization, political opposition crushed and free enterprise dis couraged. There also is bitterness in Morocco growing out of a belief it were possible, they shall de ceive the very Elect." "Romans," now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. "Gal.," God hath sent forth the Spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. And to all who believe turn your hearts to God, in all sincerity, having Godly fear, and studying the scrip tures to show thy self approv ed unto God. Having this as surance of the Apostle Paul, faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. Ted M. Sletten Route 1, Box 224 Rogue River, Ore. Has Same Problem To the Editor: I certainly do agree with the woman and her objections to the large amount of home work the children are required to bring home these days and I can't see any call or sense to this at all. I have the same problems with my children. By the time they get their home work finished each night, they have no time for their chores or sociable life Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. RIGHT BEGINNING Speaking of bridge, as 1 was yesterday, reminded me that the most decisive element in any bridge hand is usually the open ing lead. More than half the time, this move determines the success or failure of a contract. The Spanish have a saying, "The first step is half the dis tance," whose truth we do not fully appreciate. I have found it to be true even in so subjec tive a process as writing a daily column. To write the first sen tence is much harder than writ ing all the rest of it. If my "opening lead" is right, then whatever follows is smooth and well-proportioned; hardly a word needs to be changed or a sentence restructured. If the opening sentence is poor, it is easier for me to throw it away and start another tipic than to proceed from a maladroit lead. The Importance of getting off to a good start with a child, for Instance, can hardly be overestimated. The first year is by far the most im portant yet many, if not most, people wrongly believe that a baby is simply a lump of protoplasm which does not need serious and tactful atten tion (beyond changing and feeding) until it can stand up and babble a few words. A wrong start, by Its very nature, keeps getting more and more awry, and each day it becomes increasingly diffi cult to correct the curve. Once a boy. for example, becomes tagged as a "delinquent," his tendency is to become more so not necessarily because of his nature, but because his treatment by others sets up a vicious circle of mistrust and resentment. Only heroic ef forts (on both sides) can erase the initial impression his con duct has made. Equally, in our relationship with a new person, if we get off on the wrong loot, things can only go from bad to worse. How often have we found, however, after not seeing such a person for a long time and then re meeting, that we were wrong in our first impressions, and it is possible to be friends. Making an utterly new start is the only way out. We commonly think of (be "beginning" as just a point in time, from which developments proceed in regular movements; this is a wrong conception. The beginning includes the end. con tains the seed of its own future, and is thus more crucial than any other part of the event. Anyone who remembers, as a child, getting off to a poor start (either inside or outside the classroom) in a new school will vividly recall how difficult it is to establish an equilibrium after the first wrong step has been taken. We can recover from late catastrophe more easily than from early failure. . that the Western world is more interested in the oil of the Al gerian Sahara than in the rights or wrongs of Morocco's case. But in the long run, whether by evolution or revolution, the struggle must go beyond the boundaries of either Algeria or Morocco. For this is a struggle of opposing ideologies. The rev olutionary socialism of a Nas ser or a Ben Bella cannot for long tolerate peaceful co-existence with a frankly pro-Western Tunisia or the monarchies of Libya, Morocco, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. and even most of their week ends are taken up with school work. This is not just a local prob lem either. Sometime ago I read an article by a psychiatrist to the effect that we are getting a lot of emotionally ill children as a result of too much school work and not enough social life and time off for relaxing. It seems today that entirely too much importance is put on the book learning. The children are push ed and forced, and too many time limits placed upon them, too much work in too little time to do it in. The teachers give them such big loads and expect them to accomplish miracles in getting it done on time. They almost refuse anymore to assist them in school, as was done in years past. If we had a problem we didn't understand, we went to teacher and she helped us. Now they tell them to take it home to Mama and Papa, and since they teach differently now, we do not understand it our selves well enough to help them much. It is my opinion that is one big reason why children drop out of school they .can't stand the pressure they are placed under, and . who can blame them? I ask also for the sake of my children that my name be withheld. (Name on file) Eagle Point, Ore. Notes Corrections To the Editor: I have been reading the article in the Sundav Oct. 20 Mail Tribune entitled "Timber Management Practices Reviewed on Tour of Area For ests" by Joe Cowley. It has come to my attention that the article states that the tour stopped at a weighing sta tion maintained by Medford Corporation (Medco). This weighing station was put in and is maintained by Austin L. King. The log loader on this site is clearly marked Austin L. King Logging Inc. Also the man who weighs the trucks was hired and is paid by King. I noticed other things in the article which are not exactly correct. I would like to suggest that your information be check ed more carefully when writing an article such as this one. Mrs. Jo Ann Herrs 1049' W. 11th St. Medford. Descended From Noah To the Editor: Thank you for the opportunity to answer the Rev. Donald Krug of his letter in M.M.T. Oct. 25. I apologize for the typograph ical error in spelling Cush Crush: 1 hope to be careful with my typing this time. I must say I believe the Bi ble to be the Scriptures, which was given by inspiration of God. I do not believe Gen. 9, 10. 11 is an untrue account of events, nor do I believe it was an attempt on the part of the Hebrews to justify any preju dice against the Egyptians and Canaanites, for it was after the dividing by different languages and nations that there became nations called Canaanites and Egyptians. Notice I said divid ing instead of segregate. And there was no account ing of the Hebrews until aft er God called Abram some 200 years or more after the flood. I quite agree with you that God has always sought to re concile the world regardless the color unto Himself through Christ. But even this curse does not exclude them (the Canaanites) from the possibility of obtain ing Sail jtion. The curse ex tends not to the soul but mere ly to their bodily labor, but if they or anyone refuse Sal vation on God's terms then the wrath of Divine justice must come upon them. My letter was my comments i trying in my humble way to I say, I believe the Negroes were humans as well as any nation ion earth. I do not believe in ! evolution regardless of what the schools teach today. ! The Negroes are no missing ' link as some would have us ! believe. Every nation has de scended from Noah and his sons and their families. Mable Harmon 1035 Cherry St. Medford. o
