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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.
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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
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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.
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