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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. -tvaryone tn Southtrn Orea-oaT R.arl Th. MsU Tribune" ubltih-Hj DaUy except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO. ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GRKY AdvirUiinl Manlier GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mir ERIC v ALLEN JR, Mn. Edlfcr EARL H ADAMS, City Editor SARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor ICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE STARI.'HEH Women'! EdltM PALE ER1CKBON. ClreulaUonMg Entered ao second claia matter at Medforo uregon unoor bw vi March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally and Sunday 1 year lit .00 Dally ana ounaay ''-' uauv ana ouiiu.j 1 Sunday Only One year SS.00 Suifl Copy (Malledl SO By '.arnei And Motor Route. Ually and Sunday 1 year Ml. 00 Sunday Only 1 mo. w Carrier and Vendora CPy 1" Official Paper of City of Medford Ofllelal Paper of Jaclciun County United Preia International lull Leaied Wire 0. f. 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Oh UJrwuimwia Mvertljln: Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOC!. ATES Ot'lcee In New York, Chi cago. Detroit. San franclico, Los Angelca SeatUf. Portland Denver. r NtWSMMt PUIllsHIIS AltOCIATION MATIONAt EDITOIIAl ASKOCMTiaN Z J -J Member California Newspaper Publisher! Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tna files of Tha Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 19, 1953 (Thursday) Bids were called yesterday in Prtland for construction of a new building to house the Med ford branch of the First Nation al Bank of Portland. Eighteen Inches of snow were on the ground at Crater Lake National Park with eight inches of snow recorded in the past 25 hours. 28 YEARS AGO Nov. II. 1943 (Friday) Sophomore Bob Watson stars as Medford High School foot ball team battles Salem to a scoreless tie on local field. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The great hootch drouth continues, Some of the more rugged guz zlers have returned to Jamaica ginger and lemon extract." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 19. 1933 (Sunday) Forty per cent drop in num ber of marriage licenses Issued in Jackson County to California couples reported; Oregon "gin" marriage law blamed. Max Pierce elected president of Medford Kiwanis club; direc tors Include C. C. Lemmon, Olen Arnsplger, Ted GcBauer, Darwin K. Burgher, Robert G. Fowler, Dr. C. H, Paske, and E. H. Hedrlck. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 19, 1923 (Monday) Jackson County grand jury hears many witnesses giving evidence on train holdup and murder at Siskiyou railroad tun nel. Education week opens in Jack sonville with first number of 1923 Ellison-White chautaugua festival. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 19, 1913 (Wednoaday) Tacoma contractors success ful bidders for grading Pacific Highway over the Slsklyous; submit low bid of $107,534; bids on Medford Central Point pav ing project rejected. Dr. J. J. Emmons elected president of Jackson County Pennsylvania Society. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ten cerrect it superiar; even ar aiht Is eacallenl; five at sia is ojaad. 1. Name the canal that con nects Lake Erie and the Hudson River. 2. Who, in a play by Shake speare, offered his kingdom for a horse: 3. How many strings has a VlOlIM 4. Are fish oils richest in Vita mln B, C, or D? 5. What Constitutional Amend ment is said to outlaw public support oi parochial schools? 6. Is the highest U. S. water fall in California, New York, or Wyoming? 7. The earth is divided into how many climatic tones? 8. Is air pressure greater at sea level, or on a mountain top? 9. On the average is the area around the North Pole colder, er warmer, than the area sur rounding the South Pole? 10. When does the U. S. Gov. emment's fiscal year begin? Answers: 1. Erie Canal, t, King Richard III. 3. Four. 4. Vitamin D. I. Firal. (. Callor- ala. 7. Five. 8. Sea level, t. Warmer. 10. July 1. 4 A Km NOVEMBER II, 19U Postponing Trouble A suspicion perhaps an unworthy one r obtrudes. Is it possible that most of the members of the Legislature, now meeting in confused and con fusing special session, have decided not to run for re-election? The question arises because of the fact that lt- f1 mis special session i as recent years) seems determined to leave an abso lutely unmanageable set session to solve. Could it be that members are sayinz to them selves, "Let's get out of this the best we can, and let the next session worry about it. We won't be there." THIS SESSION seems bent on stop-gap and short range easy answers to pressing and immediate questions, but is completely neglect ing any ground-work which could make the tasks in 1965 seem possible. Item : It is "borrowing" $12 million from the 1965-67 biennium, in the form of speeded-up withholding of income taxes. This means the 1965 session will have to find sources of income to make up this deficit. Item : It is attempting ment of coll lege enrollment be made, either through raising tuition rates or admission stand ards. At the same time it is asking the univer sities and colleges to get along on far less money. And this at just the time when the huge wave of "war babies" will be seeking higher education. ITEM : It is, at this writing, rejecting any chance to plan for new sources of income, despite widespread sentiment for a cigarette tax, and perhaps even a sales tax. If it couldn't sell the people on a modest increase in income taxes this year, what makes it think they'll stand still for other new taxes a year hence, with no chance to pass on alternative revenue sources before then? Item : It is also postponing any decision on whether the reduction in state services and pro gams, made necessary by the Oct. 15 election, will be permanent or temporary. Item: It is avoiding any confrontation with the fact that, even if the reduction is permanent, new revenue sources will be necessary in com ing biennia; if the reduction is only partial or temporary, or both, even larger revenues will be needed. DERHAPS it is true, as many legislators and the Governor assume, that the Oct. 15 elec tion was a "mandate" against any new taxes. There are strong signs, however, that the mandate was eauallv forceful for a chance in the tax program. And, while special session is the place to hammer out a new program, it certainly could establish the frame work for devising one. Also, equally important, the "tax revolt" was l ; a a!.i not a manaate against essential state services, and, once the impact of the cuts on these services becomes evident to the voters, they most certainly will support tne taxes necessary to restore them. All in all, it appeal's to us the Legislature is not, at this time, "borrowing trouble." It is post poning it. And in doing so, it is magnifying many times over the trouble to be faced by the regular session of 1965. E. A. Words and Tune This newspaper supported John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election. It probably will support him again next year, barring any major changes. Still, we have had our disillusionments with Mr. Kennedy's performance as President. There are a few specific sources of discontent. But es sentially it is a disappointment of mood and tenor, rather than in performance. James Reston, the perceptive New York times columnist, voiced this same vague discon tent into a piece he wrote recently: IN PART, he said: l "The President In Washington seems a world apart. He talks about things like the balance of payments, and inter national 'liquidity'; and multilateral forces, and the 'satura tion' problem of anti-missile missiles, and all this sounds im portant, but mysterious and remote. "He has touched the intellect of the country but not the heart. He has informed but not inspired the nation. He Is undoubtedly the most popular political figure of the day, but he has been lucky In his competition. Or so it seems after an informal survey from Alabama to the Canadian border. . . . "In this atmosphere, Kennedy dominates the field. He ' makes the news. He has the headlines. He Is on the television screen more than all his opponents combined, and while there is cieariy some opposition to his civil rights program in the North, particularly over the Negroes' demands for equal hous ing and jobs, it would probably be wrong to talk about this as a 'revolt' that might cost him the election. "Accordingly, his problem is probably not how to get elected but how to govern. He is admired, but he has not made the people feel as he feels or lifted them beyond their private purposes to see the larger public purposes he has in mind. "He is simply better known than anybody else, and this will probably be enough to assure his re-election, but this is a far cry from the atmosphere he promised when he ran for the Presidency In 1060." IT SEEMS to us that Reston has hit the nail on the head not only insofar as the present mood of the nation is concerned, but also as to the attitude of many individuals who enthusi astically supported Mr. Kennedy in 1960. Once, when Mark Twain was upbraided by his wife for swearing, she repeated, word for word, a long string of his blasphemies. Thoughtfully, he r dp lied, "You have the words, my dear, but not the tune." Maybe Mr. Kennedy has the words, but has missed the tune which would inspire the nation to more enthusiastic responses. E.A. 1 1 nave regular sessions in of problems for the 19b5 to insist that no curtail no hurried and harried "He Say That After The Bloodletting He Can Bring Us Peace" THE DOUBLE PURPOSE CANDIDACY NEW YORK A great many practical politicians write off Nelson A. Rockefeller's Presi dential candidacy as a mere symptom of the same mania that has driven poor Harold Stassen to go on making candi date like noises, in more and more humiliating and ridiculous circumstances, for so many years on end. In reality, however, this Rock efeller candidacy is a serious and remarkably interesting pol itical phenomenon, as anyone can discover who bothers to try to understand the New York Governor's motives. Ambition, of which he has a surplus, is the most obvious motive; and his ambition is powerfully en couraged by his innate opti mism. Yet even Nelson Rockefeller's desire for the great prize and his tendency to believe that he can win any prize he realty trieB for are not enough to ex plain his decision to damn tne torpedoes and go full speed ahead into tne New Hampshire and California primaries. The odds against him in these pri maries are in fact heavier than he has ever been willing to ac cept In the past. HE USED to have a personal rule of thumb that if he had a 40 per cent chance and the other fellow had a 60 per cent chance, the contest was worth the gamble; but if his chance was below 40 per cent, the gamble was too bad. Thus in New York, he waited and worked and polled again and again, until his pollsters show ed him splitting the state's vote 4040 with Gov. Averell Harri- man. Thereupon he said in ef fect, "That's good enough," and he made his challenge. He is now breaking his own rule - of - thumb, however. The pollsters hired by Lloyd Free, his staff member in charge of opinion testing, report that in trial runs against Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rockefeller is cur rently getting "a bit" less than 40 per cent of the New Hamp shire Republican vote and "quite a bit" less than 40 per cent of the California vote. But there is another motive, besides ambition, which has driven Rockefeller to defy the odds. He has his share of what an impatient business associate once called that damned kock efeller do-goodism." In this case, this do-goodism mainly takes the form of convictions on a few subjects like national defense, that are much more strongly held than most poll ticians' convictions. rvNE OF these pivotal subjects happens to be civil rights The first John D. Rockefeller's mother ran a station on the Underground Railroad, and strong feelings on this subject m school 'That's telling 'em. ladles. The way It's celebrated now. It's no longer a religious holiday anyway!" MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Matter of Fact By Joseph Altop id New York Herald Tribune Syndicate are in the blood, so to say. In the present instance, more over, Gov. Rockefeller is strong ly and perfectly logically per suaded that the nomination of Sen. Barry Goldwater with his 'Southern strategy, as tne Senator calls it, will make the Republican party in truth the lily - white party," as some of Goldwater's leading support ers have openly boasted. This. Rockefeller is grimly determined to stop at all costs. "Win, lose, or draw in New Hampshire and California," as he has put it, he will carry his fight to the Republican Conven tion. But if he loses bom pri maries to Goldwater, Rocke feller will go to the convention, not with real hope of being nom inated, but with the unshakable aim of getting the kind of Re publican civil rights plank that cannot possibly be combined with the Goldwater Southern strategy. THUS the Rockefeller candi lacy has a double purpose- to win the nomination tor him self if possible, and to stop the Republican party from lending aid and comfort to the white supremacists who form a large element in Sen. Goldwater's political army. If Rockefeller fails to attain his first purpose, he is con vinced he can still attain his second purpose. And he still hopes to attain the first. "I think this thing is going to go very well," he says, with obvious sincerity. "I think I'm going to win in both New Hamp shire and California." On this head, it is well to remember the story of the dis comfiture of Sen. Kenneth Keat ing. At the Republican state convention in 1958, when Rocke feller was twisting Keating's arm to get him to take the Senate place on the New York state ticket, he kept telling Keating as a great talking point: "The polls show I'm sure to beat Harriman!" AFTER the hurly - burly of the convention was over, Keating then asked to be allow ed to study these famous polls. He was more than a little dis comfited to discover that the most recent poll showed Ham man ahead of Rockefeller by a 60-40 ratio. With some aceribty, Keating therefore asked Rockefeller just what the devil he had meant by saying that the polls showed a sure win. "But Ken," Rocke feller answered, open - eyed with astonishment, "you've got it all wrong. I've gone up every time we've polled. It IS a sure win even though I haven't quite overtaken Harriman yet." In that case Rockefeller turn ed out to be right. In the pres ent case, as above noted, the New Hampshire-California odds against 'Rockefeller are sub stantially heavier than in 1958, and if he loses those primaries he cannot conceivably be nom inated. But the odds on Rocke feller's attaining his second pur pose are actually In his favor. Civil War in Yemen Continues, More Than Six Months After Truce Agreement r PHIL NEWSOM UP! Foreiin News Analyst It was last April 30 that United Nations Secretary Gen eral U Thant announced that both the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia had agreed to withdraw from the conflict within the Republic of Yemen at tne tip of the Arabian Pen insula. The theory was that without outside help, the civu war be tween Revolutionary Kepubli- can forces and the ousted Imam of Yemen soon would collapse and another potential explosion point in the Middle East be eliminated. Now, more than six months later, the civil war continues with large parts of Yemen un der Royalist control and an es' timated 30,000 Egyptian troops still inside the country. A United Nations observer mission continues its efforts to ward peace but a settlement seems just about as far away as ever. Beirut observers see in the Yemen struggle an extension of much longer conflict which gradually is extending through out the Middle East. This is the fight for Arab leadership between President In fhe Day's News r FRANK JINKINS In New York last week. Pres ident Kennedy told the AFL-CIO national convention that the na tion's need for jobs and eco nomic security is the nation's No. 1 issue and contended that prompt passage of the adminis tration's tax cut bill is the best single remedy. He strongly implied through out his speech that he feels no other bill even including the controversial civil rights meas ure which he has previously rated as of equal priority with tax reform is as vital to the national welfare. WHAT he means is that cut ting taxes would leave more money in people's pockets for tne people to-spend, and it the people spend more money busi ness will be better. Well, of course that would be true temporarily. If taxes were reduced and government spend' ing was held to the present level, it might be possible to keep enough money in the peo ple's pockets to enable them to SPEND MORE, thus expanding the economy. UUT- AJ If taxes are reduced and government spending is IN CREASED, the result wiU be to force taxes higher because as spending is increased taxes will have to be increased in order to obtain the money for Interest on the growing national debt. JNTEREST on the national debt is already the No. item in the federal budget ex ceeded only by national de fense. Only two and a half decades agcln 1940-the TOTAL COST of the federal government was somewhat less than the present bill for interest on the national debt. That's what comes of spend' ing persistently, year after year, more money than is taken in and putting the difference on the cuff. (QUESTION: " IS our economy shaky? WELL, if it is, we have com nanv. A copyrighted dispatch in the Wall Street Journal says: "The Soviet Union s shortage of grain has brought on a pre' dicament that is turning Rus sians red in the face. They are being forced to seek U.S. alco hol TO REPLENISH THEIR DWINDLING SUPPLIES OF VODKA!" It's a weird world we're liv ing In. WHAT also could hardly be called sound economics. Perhaps it is even LESS SOUND than our proposal (in' volved in the bill the President says is vitally necessary to the nation s welfare) to spend more, tax less and put the difference on the cuff. HISTORICAL note: Thirty years ago (Novem bcr 16, 1933) President Roose velt recognized the communist government led by Joseph Stalin and expressed the hope that the two countries would grow closer and more intimate with each other with each passing year. Stalin's foreign minister, Max im Litvinov, called the develop ment a creative factor in in ternational affairs which will be beneficial to mankind." ITMMMMMMMMM. 11 Something seems to have slipped. Abdel Gamal Nasser of the United Arab Republic and the Baath party which won control of Iraq last February in a mil itary revolt, took over Syria last spring, and then seemingly lost Iraq in another armed coup this week. The party functions through underground cells in Egypt and Jordan, is legal in Lebanon and has limited numbers of follow ers in both Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It began as a philosophy dis cussed in the Damascus homes of its leaders in 1940 and emerged as a definite force in 1963 when It seized control first ...Communications... lefteri ft the idltor muif bear the nam and address of the writer, elthoua h under certain circumstances the uie of a pen nam ar initial far publication ii permiuibla. The Mall Tiibuna reiarvei tha riant t adit .11 l...... wi.k . vi.w a clarification and condeniation. Letter, submitted tar publication muif not eiceed 400 wardi. Tha letteri printed In tha contrary Ii often the casa. No Satan To the Editor: To most people it is almost a crime to question or doubt the religious teachings they have received in childhood. Their reasoning is so prejudiced by their home and religious training that it is hard for a new or different concept of things to gain an entrance in minds. Take the idea of a devil or Satan. They have been taught that it was Satan who came into the Garden of Eden as re corded in Genesis 3 and caused Adam and Eve to fall, although his name is not mentioned. Paul, writing in 2 Cor. 11:3 4,000 years later stated, as it does in Gene sis, that it was the serpent. Satan is given credit for being the originator of sin. I doubt if Henry Johnson or one person in a hundred can without refer ring to a concordance tell when the word Satan first occurs in the Bible or how many places it is mentioned in the Old Testa ment. I believe if God, who is supposed to have given the Is raelites so much detailed in structions to live by, would sure ly warned them of the wiles of Satan and left a record of it in the Old Testament if he existed. The evils and curses that be fell mankind were originally sup posed to be sent by God. Read Deut. 28:15-68, 2 Chron. 21:18. In 2 Sam. 24:1 it says the Lord tempted David to number Israel. This was written before the Cap tivity. Then in 2 Chron. 21 :1 recording the same incident it says Satan tempted him. Evi dently the Israelites learned of Satan while captives of the Per sians. By the way, this is the first place the word Satan oc curs in the Old Testament, ap proximately 3,500 years after creation is supposed to have taken place and the fall of man The Persians still have a char acter in their mythology by the name of Shaitan. The other three places the word Satan occurs in the O.T. are in the book of Job. chs, and 2, Ps. 109:6, and Zech. 3:1, 2. The word Lucifer, which oc curs only once in the Bible, Isa. 14:12, and is generally con ceded to mean Satan, cannot be proven. The word Satan means adversary, and no where in the O.T. docs it state his origin nature or status. In the first Book of the New Testament he is mentioned in connection with the temptation of Christ. Matt. 4. It is hard to conceive of anyone knowing ly and voluntarily submitting to such a character as Satan is supposed to be. None but the most gullible could swallow the story of the legion of demons that asked per mission to enter the swine as recorded in Mark 5. As far as I know, no one out' side of the Bible except Martin Luther is supposed to have seen Satan. As to being necessary to have him as the originator of sin, Mark 7:21-23, James 1:14 and 1 Peter 2:11, seems to indicate the human heart is all that is necessary and that we need no other scapegoat. (Name on file) Medford Where It Goes To the Editor: I wonder if the rest of the public would be in terested to know where their good hearted donations are end ing up.' lhe donations to a certain well known, nation wide organi zation, of one branch our fair town has, aren't always placed in a proper place such as the city dump. Frequently, this organization advertises for unneeded furni ture and clothing for donations to their store and for needy lamnes. I have donated to this orcani zation but shall reconsider from now on. some ume back, l hauled a load of trash to the city dump. Upon arrival there I noticed a large truck unloading a latge amount ot clothing, shoes, hats nearly new toys and many tnings loo numerous to men' tion I was shocked to see the em blem of this well known organ! zation on the side of the truck. Some while later after the truck left, several people includ' ing myself walked over to sec just what they had discarded, for we could see that even worth while furniture and usable ar ticles were discarded. I will sav of Syria and then of Iraq. It has resisted Nasser's demands for one-man leadership but, as does he, professes its goal to be Arab unity and socialism. In Yemen, there have been frequent reports of near-agreement on a government accept able to both sides. A major stumbling block has been the insistance of both Jor dan and Saudia Arabia that whatever form of government finally Is agreed upon, it must come after total withdrawal of Egyptian troops. But, since there is a strong belief that Yemen's Republican regime would collapse without this column do not necessarily repraient tha viawi of tha paper; lit fact we had a field day. It was like a store cleaned house. Almost new toys were discard ed, a lot of them, any child would give their eye teeth to have. Upon asking why such' good things were discarded, we were told the men who work In the sorting room don't have time to sort everything that is do nated. There is a used clothing store in our city, this organization runs, that hold their prices so high on things that the actual needy have to think twice be fore paying the asking price. Almost every week this same truck makes a visit to the city dump, but are playing wise and drive up to where trash is burn ing to deposit their clothing and furniture so people can't sal vage good usable articles they throw away. Why do they beg for dona tions only to destroy a large amount of what they don't want to sort out? We have many a needy fam- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprise!, Inc. WHAT EINSTEIN BELIEVED Following my recent piece on Einstein and Freud (in which I pointed out that Einstein did not believe that "everything is relative" any more than Freud believed "everything is sex"), a college student in Maine ask ed me to elaborate on Einstein's position as I did on Freud's. Einstein's theory of relativity was restricted to the physical field. Time and space are rela tive to the observer. Except for the speed of light used as the ultimate measurement there are no "absolutes" in the phys ical universe, as was believed until 1900. What happened, however, was that Einstein s physical relativ ism was illicitly transferred to other fields, since he apparently did away with absolutes in phys ics, some of his semi-educated devotees immediately proclaim ed tnat an absolutes had been banished from human thought. .1 He was speaking of behav ior of blind matter and energy. They spoke of the behavior of human beings and societies. They denied any such concepts as "goodness," "truth," "free dom," as having any objective meaning whatsover. Ethical values became a mere matter of personal preference, like preferring vanilla Ice cream over chocolate. But Einstein himself did not believe this. He did not draw such fallacious human conse quences from his physical the ories. Indeed, he was extreme ly "old-fashioned" In his eth ical beliefs, just as Freud was personally "moral" In his pri vate standards of conduct. Not only did Einstein reject the shallow attitude that "ev erything Is relative," but he even spent the latter years of his life looking for more co herence and unity In the uni verse Itself. When he died, he was working on a "unified field theory" which would rec oncile and Integrate the vari ous and conflicting aspects of the cosmos as we know It. In a letter to his colleague, Prof. Max Born, Einstein once wrote: "Raffinicrt ist dcr Hcrr Gott, aber bosh aft ist Er nich or, in effect, "I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the world . . . "The universe is incomprehensible to man, he added, but "the pres ence of a superior reasoning power . . . forms my idea of liod." This is not to say that he was religious in any traditional or conventional sense of the word, But it is to say that he did not regard creation as a matter of chance, of statistics, of acci dent, or of anything but a pur poseful plan. He literally be lieved in a universe, not a multi verse. v newer he was right or wrong, it is foolish and ignorant to cite Einstein as the great apostle of "relativity." Egyptian aid, these demands meet strong resistance from Nasser. There is also the question of selecting a man to head a com promise government. Mentioned as a most likely candidate is Mushin Al Ami, Yemen's present delegate to the United Nations. But he is widely regarded as a Baathist and therefore unacceptable to Nasser. The Baathist-Nasser struggle also extends to Jordan where King Hussein is attempting to counter pressure from Syria and Iraq by moving closer to Nasser, a traditional foe. ily in the valley. Why can't they advertise and say, come get it, we have too much to handle. I am sure they could use it better than the city dump can. I am sure if the rest of the kind people who donate to this organization will be as shocked as I was to find where a lot of our donations are going. it anyone has doubts as to the truth of this, visit your citv dump around the. first part of each week. R. Campbell Eagle Point, Ore. Christianity To the Editor: Undoubtedly there are many people who be lieve that only in Christianity is there true liberty and that this freedom can achieve the truly civilized state. This is debatable. There is not a single important feature of Christianity that cannot be found in substance in the belief of customs of primitive people now existing. The study of rudi mentary structures in the human body, which points to man's animal ancestry, has its mental parallel in the survival of ideas and beliefs that can be traced back to the undeveloped intel ligence of the human group. Christianity asserts that man is full of evil. It is not true. He is what life makes him. He is bom neither a fool nor a philosopher, but he has a great capacity for developing in either direction. If his reading is wide enough and his understanding strong enough, he will find no difficulty in recognizing that throughout the history of re ligion all religion moves to de cay as man learns to under stand and to exercise mastery over natural forces. Belief is everywhere the lifeline of the gods. Without belief they shrink into nothingness. When the Christian church de veloped, it gave to the world a mass of superstitions that the civilized people of the pagan world were beginning to shake off. By its cruel methods it es tablished teachings that acted as a successful bar to scientific development for well over a thousand years, from the in fluence of which we have not yet recovered. As John Burroughs, the noted naturalist, said: "Science has done more for the development nf Western civilization in 100 years than Christianity did in 1800 years. We cannot keep the old beliefs, the old creeds. They belong to a condition of mind which is fast being outgrown." Lydia Burnham 814 Warne St. Prescott, Ariz. i Divorce Reform To the Editor: Enclosed are examples of editorials being printed all over our nation on the subject of the need for di vorce reforms. Any publicity you can give us along this line will be greatly appreciated. ' We are presently interested 'i forming a chapter in your area. Harold O. Canyon ' . Chairman, Roseburg Chapter U. S. Divorce Reform, Inc. Route 1, Box 133 ; Roseburg, Ore. O Editor's note: The editorials enclosed by Mr. Canyon support the belief that "present laws give preponderant advantages of divorce to the women and thus act as an incentive for more divorces." The Roseburg News-Review, for instance, said: ". . . No matter how much blame for a breakup of a marriage is laid at the doorstep of the woman, she goes into court with an ad vantage so great that she is al most certain to gain almost any thing she demands. The outlook for the man is most often fi nancial crippling and loss of his children, if they are involved." Benefit To the Editor: The officers and members of the Tudor Guild wish to thank you and your staff for the publicity you so generously gave to help us advertise the benefit theater party of Nov. 12. A large share of an acting scholarship wis realized, and we are truly grate ful for your aid. (Mrs.) Ruth E. King Corresponding Secretary Tudor Guild Ashland, Ore. C i .