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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
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"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-
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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.
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