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10 YEARS AGO
Tin-. 22. 1953 (Tuesday)
Ray Clark elected president
of the Medford Junior Chamber
of Commerce at ma jacuson
Unfnl tnpalint?.
Fred Parkinson, manager of
Central Point Drue Store, ap.
pointed to the Central Point
Citv Council to fill vacancy
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Noel.
20 YEARS AGO
iw. 22. 1M3 (Wednesday)
Kasper Kubli, 75, ton of pio
neer Jackson County resiacnis
prominent merchant and form
er speaker of Oregon House of
Reprcscntatlvea, dies in Port
land. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "John C.
Mann had Grandpawhood con
ferred upon him Monday and
has returned from a trip to (he
stratosphere.
.10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1033 (Friday)
Rogue River man arrested by
federal authorities on charges
of operating unlicensed still.
Total of 14,000 pounds of gov
ernment pork arrives In Jack
son County for distribution to
needy.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 11, 1923 (Saturday)
Sheriff Tcrrill of Jackson
County states: "I am running
the sheriff's office, and the first
dry enforcement officer I catch
hack of the counter, I will throw
Reports received ' that T)eAu-
Ircmonl brothers, wanted In
connection with Siskiyou tunnel
railroad holdup and murders,
have been in Minnesota.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1913 (Monday)
S. S. Bullis reports that South
ern Oregon Traction Company
has received a carload of rail
way rails for line on East Main
Street into Siskiyou Heights
area.
Medford City Council sched
ules Inst ditch fiuht for salaries
for councllmen and mayor; City
Attorney McCabe says they will
sidestep recall pennons.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or fen correct li luperler
even or eight li aicellent; live ei
ik it good.
1. Congress created which of
our armed forces in 1798?
2. Which tribe of American
Indians were engaged in the bat
tle at the Little Big Horn River?
3. Correct the following sent
ence: "His eye is keen as a
hawk "
4. What Is the name of the hal
cutomarily warn by a Mexican
peon?
5. Of which religion were Ihe
Moors?
6. Which is the capital of
South Carolina Columbia, Sa
vannah, or Atlanta?
7 Is lead heavier or lighter
than quicksilver?
8. Which branch of our armed
forces would most likely make
use of a BBzooka?
9. When water freezes, docs
It expand or contract?
10. A baked pudding of apples
and bread crumbs in layers is
called i B B ?
Answers: 1. U. S. .Marine
Corps. 2. Sioux (Custer's Last
Stand). 3. "His eye Is is keen
as a hwak's." 4. Somhern. S.
Islam. 3. Columbia 7. Lighter,
ft. Army. 9. Expands. 10. Brntvn
Betty.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, ItlQ
On ChoosingRight and Wrong
With the nation's tragedy still fresh in mind
(the one-month mourning period ends today),
and with the advent of the season traditionally
devoted to "peace on
men." the nation s nerrenial introspection re
mains heightened.
What kind of a people are we? Are we in a
period of moral decay? What are the causes
of the increase in crime? In juvenile delin
quency? Do we, as a nation, no longer know
right from wrong?
These are valid questions, and they deserve
thought. Answers, of course, will vary accord
ing to who provides them.
1MARYA MANNES, a noted social critic and
author, believes we have gone too far down
the road of blaming others for our own short
comings. In a recent article, she said :
"It's Society. It's Environment. It's a Broken Home.
But it's hardly ever You.
"Today no one has to take any responsibility. The psychi
atrists, the sociologists, Uie playwrights have gone a long
way to see to that.
"A fellow commits a crime because he's basically inse
cure, because he hated his stepmother at nine, or because
his sister needs an operation. A boy takes a bribe be
cause his mother didn't love him (or overprotocted him)
or his brother bullied him.
"A policeman loots a store because his salary is too low.
A city official accepts a payoff because it's offered to him.
Members of minority groups, racial and otherwise, com
mit crimes because they are economically deprived or
socially estranged."
MISS MANNES'S biting indictment has a
of truth in it. It is true that often we
tempted to blame the ills of society on society
itself, and thus exonerate the individual.
It is also true that each individual is and
must be responsible for his own actions, and,
because, to differing degrees, each individual
has free choice and will power, each is capable
of choosing whether to do right or wrong.
Still, it appears to us, Miss Mannes goes too
far in her blanket indictment, and for two rea
sons. The first is that the vast majority of hu
man beings DO know right from wrong, and
choose to adhere to the right. The second is
that environmental factors DO make it far more
difficult for some to make such a choice than
it is for others.
ONE is tempted to suspect that Miss Mannes
line. rart; l-innn hiinm-v nr pnlrl ni ncrrarM'firl
because of her color, or been a member of a
family of six or eight or ten jammed into one
room, or out searching vainly for a job, or tried
to subsist and maintain a family on a welfare
hand-oul after her husband has left her-
It is true that a number of individuals have
overcome these and other handicaps to become
productive and respected citizens. And the
more credit to them.
particular combination
determination which is
How much easier it
combination to make a
time, he does not have
which are the lot of the
THE ancient argument
environment, and how much each affects
each life, is part of the same picture.
Some people simply are blessed with more
intelligence, more drive, more ability, than
others. And some people have had the advan
tage of loving homos, of superior education, of
the assurance of three square meals a clay.
When these two happy conditions coincide,
the result is more apt than not to be an out-
stanflinR individual
When the opposite
chances arc that the result will be one of the
unhappy many who are fated to remain for
ever at the bottom of the ladder.
w
OTILL, Miss Mannes has a point, and we agree
with her when she says that too much of the
blame for social evils is foisted off on the near
est handy excuse, and that not enough emphasis
is put upon personal responsibility, personal will
ingness to see the difference between right and
wrong, and willingness to make the right choice.
She said:
"If the line between right and wrong Is erased, there
Is no defense against the anarchy of evil. Before this hap
pensand it is by no means far away it might be well
(or the schools ol the nation to substitute for the contro
versial prayer a daily lesson in ethics, law and respon
sibility to society thai would fortify conscience as exer
cise .strengthens muscles."
Such teachings have long been the province
of the church and, more important, the home.
If these abdicate the responsibility, should not
the schools attempt to lake up the torch? E. A.
Sen. Morse Replies
Elsewhere in this section today appears a
longish letter from Sen. Wayne L Morse, in reply
to a Mail Tribune editorial of Dec. 10.
We are glad to publish it
Still, bavins re-read the editorial in ouestion
in light of the Senator's comments, we see no
reason to make any change in our opinions,
We disagree on the necessity for condemna
tion in any effective Oregon Dunes National
Seashore bill. We disagree on his position on
the foreign aid bill.
Despite the disagreements, we retain a high
respect, and considerable affection, for Senator
Morse, whom we have known for some SO years.
To us, however, he remains an enigma, and ti
the degree that he has failed to fulfill his brilliant
potentialities a tragic figure. E. A.
earth, good will toward
lot
are
They did it through a
of brains and guts and
not the lot of all men.
is for one with the same
success if, at the same
to combat the handicaps
poor.
between heredity and
conditions coincide, the
Temporary Visa
11
BODIES
DRIFTING IN MIST
WASHINGTON - "It's like
watching bodies drifting through
a mist. We can see the direction
of movement. We know the
movement has been going on for
several months. But we can't
measure this movement, much
less be quite sure of its Imme
diate or ultimate purpose."
In this suggestive but non
committal manner, one of these
who man the local watchtowers
recently described the Soviets'
gradual but persistent reinforce
ment of their Chinese frontier.
The region to which the rein
forcement is mainly directed is
the border of the most remote
and vulnerable of all the prov
inces of Communist China, Sin
kiang, in Central Asia.
Attention was first concentra
ted on the Sino-Soviet border
last September, when one of
Moscow's more violent denun
ciations of Peking included a
bitter complaint against "5,000
border violations" by Chinese
Communist troops and citizens.
An intensified watch has been
kept since then.
By Oie normal rules of demo
nological interpretation, it must
be added, the Moscow statement
of last September was mainly
i.nificant for another passage
warning the Peking leaders that
they could count on no support
from "the armed might of the
socialist camp" if they pursued
certain Chinese "aims and inter
ests" which did not deserve that
support.
At that time, there seemed to
be some possibility that the
Chinese might be considering
another attack on the still - un
defended Indian border. Thus
the September statement had to
be interpreted primarily as a
deterrent reminder that the
Chinese might have trouble on i
their own border if they made
further trouble on the Indian
border. i
What is so striking about the
Soviets' reinforcement of their!
border with China is the fact
that it has been communing,
without remission, ever since
last September, and therefore
long after there was any like
lihood of another Chinese ad
venture against India.
The frontiers of S i n k ia n g
which are now being reinforced.
are just about the most remote
and least penetrable area of the
Soviet Union. Thus it has been
learned only within the last year
that quite serious border fight
ing broke out in this area as
early as 1960, just after Sino
So iet relations soured for good.
It is not exaggerating, in fact
to say that there was a brief
border battle between Soviet and
Chinese troops, (or organized
iff
Snr.rs.v; a- :w
"I ilnn't like all this snnl-searrhing Amrrirs Is tnlns thrnush
f have no Idrs WHAT we'll rome up ith!"
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
c) New York; Herald Tribune Syndicate)
military units were engaged on
each side. Since news of this
battle took nearly three years
to seep westwards, it can be
seen why the present position
on the Sinkiang frontier is hard
to estimate precisely.
As to the Soviet troop build
up on this remote frontier, there
can be little doubt any longer,
even though the watchers only
see "bodies drifting through a
mist." Soviet military publica
tions have printed warning
hints. Soviet troops are known
with certainty to have been re
moved from Poland, and other
troops are thought to have been
transferred from East Ger
many. As to the motive of this So
viet troop build-up, however,
there are almost no limits on
speculation. One sugg e s t i v e
item of evidence is the fact that
the Poles recently made a fair
ly desperate effort to damp
down the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Wladyslaw Gomulka sent per
sonal emissaries for this pur
pose, to Moscow, to Peking, to
Rnlnrarle. and to Rome and
Paris for meetings with the
French and Italian Communist
leaders.
Judging by the ever-mounting
venom and hysteria of the
Peking attacks on Nikita S.
KhriMirhev Ihe Gomulka effort
has got nowhere, at least as yet.
Moreover, tne l'oics, use an tne
other Eastern European Com
munis!,: nninv and hpnefit from
the freedom of action conferred
on thorn by the Moscow-Poking
split. Hence it seems likely that
r.nmnlka was Irvine to prevent
something worse than a mere
split.
Again, the area being rein
forced by the Soviets is decided
ly suggestive. For a sustained
border conflict in Sinkiang. so
rnmntn fmm the renter and so
hard to supply, would certainly
impose a maximum strain on
the crazy Chinese Communist
ocntmmir - military m a chine.
even if the border conflict were
carcfullv limited. If Moscow
wants to test the possibilities of
causing an economic - military
collapse in Communist China,
the Sinkiang border is a good
place for a modest experiment
of this sort.
The great majority of analysts
until very recently pooh-poohed
the smallest suggestion that
really bad trouble might be ap
proaching on the Sino - Soviet
boidcr. Very likely, this con
servative view of the matter Is
still the correct one. But it has
to be noted that border trouble
has lately begun to be regarded
as "a real possibility' not a
probability, mind you. but a
possibility serious enough to be
weighed with vivid, somewhat
anxious interest.
GREAT IDEAS...
(c) 1063,
LOVE OF FELLOW MAN
Dear Dr. Adler: Today we
hear much about love discuss
ed In uur churches as related
to God and our fellow man.
In Ihe movies, on the stage,
and on television, love Is pro
trayed for us daily. We hear
songs of love in opera, sung
by singers on the stage, on
our radios and on recorded
music. Yet the following ques
tion is asked by many people
today: What Is love? What is
the basic teaching In our tradi
tion about the love between
man-and his fellow man?
Mrs. Lucille Hlllin
HIS Stanley
Stillwater. Okla.
Dear Mrs. Hillin: "Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself."
This simple precept in Leviticus
sums up the essential moral
message of Bibical faith accord
ing to Jesus of Nazareth and the
Talmudic sages. From it we
may derive guidance as to the
proper relation among men in
our present situation.
The precept is, indeed, a sim
ple one, but like many seeming
ly simple Bibical injunctions, it
presents knotty problems of in
terpretation. If we take the say
ing literally, it seems to mean
that we should take the attitude
of self-regard and self-care as a
model for our attitude toward
others that we should look upon
the life and welfare of another
as if it were our own. Then the
commandment becomes, "Love
your neighbor as if he were
yourself."
Certainly empathy and sym
pathy with the other person is
plied belief that all men are
place and understanding how he
feels. The reason for this sym
pathy, however, lies in some
thing more than individual feel
ings; it lies in human commun
ity and brotherhood. We are
bound together in kinship, man
with his fellowman: with his
"brother," or "neighbor." or the
"children of his people."
Going still further behind
these words, we discern the im
plied belitf that all men are
God's creatures and that we
were all created in His image
that "we all have one Father."
If we hate, hurt, or vilify our
neighbors, we are hating, hurt
ing, or vilifying God's image and
God's children. In loving and
helping our neighbors, we love
and serve God. We are doing
his win on cartn.
Love, then, is something more
than fellow-feeling and good will.
Love, let us remember, is com
mandedas a duly to God and
is grounded in the ultimate
source and order of things. The
reason given for Ihe precept
in Leviticus is simply: "I am
the Lord." Love is required of
us as a matter of justice under
the law of the Creator and Ruler
of the universe. And justice is
embodied in acts of loving-kindnessin
the works of love.
But what does the word
"neighbor" mean in the pre
cept? Does it mean, as the con
text seems to indicate, a tribal
brother, a member of one's own
nation, somebody of one's own
racial origin? Such an interper
ation is belied by a later verse
in the same chapter of Leviti
cus: "But Ihe stranger that
dwcllel with you shall be unto
you as one born among you. and
thou shalt love him as thyself."
The love of "strangers" is en
joined llti times in the Old
Testament, and is often coupled
with the reminder that the Jews
themscli'ves were strangers in
the land of Egypt, and hence
1UM
The Day Breaks; The
y ERIC
SEVAREID
Utlitrthittrd thi
rty The mil
Syndicate, Inc.)
( Ml nirhn
RMerfl)
Our period of mourning for
the death of a good hut mortal
spirit is ending as Ihe period
of joy for the birth of the im
mortal spirit of goodness itself
is beginninc. It is as If we had
need (or the happening of a
I month ago to make us remem-
ber that we ought to be in this
i country, as well as for that of
I two thousand years ago to make
us remember what we ought to
be in this life.
I
This is the second time in one
1 generation that such a concaten
ation of events has scraped the
Nines of our being The first
time was the Decemtwr season
'of IfMl when we had to try to
; believe that all men are broth
' ers and that love shall rnnqurr
hatred, hard upon the stunning
act of organized lunacy known
s Tearl Harbor. Twire this,
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adler
Publithers Newspaper Syndicate
should "know the heart of a
stranger."
In the wildest sense, then, the
neighbor is simply our fellow
man. He is the person living
near us, one with whom we
come into close contact in every
day life, whatever his origin,
background, or belief. Even our
enemy, the Bible teaches the
man with whom we are in ser
ious conflict is our neighbor in
this sense, one whom we are
commanded not to harm, but to
love and to treat kindly. We are
forbidden to bear a grudge or
to retaliate even against the
man who has done us wrong,
who has oppressed us, who has
harmed us. We are commanded
to help him when he is in need,
for he is as we arc, to be treat
ed as one "like thyself."
The import of this doctrine is
clear in the present situtation:
that we are to act justly and
kindly toward all men, and not
to bear hatred or act hatefully
toward any man, nor to feel
scorn or enmity toward any
group of men. Last January, the
National Conference on Religion
and Race spelled out the applic
ation of love of neighbor to our
tense racial problem thus:
"Seek a reign of love in which
Ihe wounds of the past injust
ices will not be used as excuses
for new ones; racial barriers
will be eliminated; the stranger
wilt be sought and welcomed;
any man will be received as
brother his rights, your rights;
his pain, your pain; his prison,
your prison."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Some interesting figures:
In 1800, (he work week in the
U. S. A. was 84 hours.
In li)09, a little better than a
century later, it was 52 hours.
rPODAY, the average work
week is slightly under 40
hours.
The unions, seeking to spread
employment, so that a larger
percentage of our population
I may be employed, are working
lor a 35 hour week.
Joseph Prendergrass, of the
National Recreation Association
predicts that within a century
the average work week in Amcr-
J ica will be SEVEN hours.
TImmmmmmmmmm.
" In the face of these figures
it's beginning to look like one
of the big jobs of the future will
be to learn how to be happy and
contented tnougn idle.
IS ALL this new?
The answer is NO.
Herbert Hoover, one of our
great thinkers, said many years
ago:
"This civilization of ours is
not going to depend on what we
do while we work, but on what
we do in our TIME OFF."
rpHAT'S what Mr. Prcnder
grass and his National Rec
reation Association are thinking
about when he savs that within
a century Ihe American work
week will he down to seven
hours.
What he means is that if and
when the American work week
gets down to something like
seven hours it's going to be nec
essary for Americans to learn
how to spend a laree share of
their time in WHOLESOME
PLAY.
Otherwise our nation will go
to the dogs.
American generation has been
struck from behind and twice
it has tried, in the name of j
Christ, if not to forget and im-j
mediately forgive, at least to
save itself from the poison of
hatred.
We are an immature people j
in many minor ways; there arei
cancer spots of venom and panic !
in our system. Yet. when the
major tests have come upon'
us. the world has observed that
we stand steady in our shoes, j
It is this steadiness that leaves
room for goodness. In the
American hierarchy of values,
it is not brilliance or strength
or even success that crowns the
structure, but goodness This is
the true secret of America, and
if so many foreign observers
miss it. it is not only because
goodness does not make news.!
but because we do not know,
how to talk about it except now
and then in mawkish embarrass
ment. Foreicners are not alone in
their misapprehension There
are more than enough native
Americans, including the re
maining Communists. Ihe white
supremacists and the Birchitrs,
who do not understand that the.
real force which u driving,
FRUGALITY
AND RETRENCHMENT
In supporting Secretary McNa
mara's efforts to cut back mili
tary spending on superfluous in
stallations, President Johnson is
no doubt improving the pros
pects of his tax bill. But at the
same time he has lifted the cov
er on a contradiction in our pub
lic life. The contradiction is be
tween what we do and what it
is proper for public men to say
out loud.
For the fact is that govern
mentfederal, state and local
buys about a fifth of the goods
and services produced oy tne
American economy. To cut back
this public spending substanti
ally would produce a strong re
action in employment and in
business.
Thus, the two Republican sen
ators from New York reacted at
once when they heard that seven
installations in New York State
might be closed down or their
operations reduced.
ACTUALLY, the McNamara
economies are a mere nibble
at the immense costs of the de
fense establisment. The economy
administered by the Pentagon is
over two-thirds as large as the
whole economy of Great Britain.
Our military supply system is
now some 17 times larger than
the largest private enterprise,
namely gigantic General Motors
complex.
In seven states, employment
in defense industries is from 20
per cent (Arizona) to 30 per cent
(Kansas) of total manufacturing
employment.
In fact, then, the United States
economy is no longer a plain
private enterprise system. Un
der the impact of the second
world war and of the armanents
of the cold war, the American
economy has become an organic
mixture of public and private
money, public and private man
agement. Any serious reduction
of public spending must, there
fore, have far-reaching effects
on the whole economy.
T'HERE are some who say they
- think that government and
big spending can be reduced by
cutting down civilian expendi
tures while leaving alone or even
increasing military e x p e n di
tures. This is a device of politicians
who are merely pandering to
popular prejudices. There is only
one way by which serious and
substantial retrenchment can be
made, and that is by a reduc
tion of armaments.
Desirable, but comparatively
minor, savings can be had by re
ducing the amount of some of
the civilian subsidies. But the
amount will be much too small
to make itself felt in the bur
dens of the taxpayer.
The immediate military cut
backs we are hearing about are
really concerned with waste.
They will not reduce in any way
the military power of the United
States. They are directed only
at useless expenditures, those
which employ men and materi-
QUESTION suggested by
reading a lot of newstapes
and listening to a lot of radio
and TV broadcasts:
How can you pass a law that
will prevent the spread of ju
venile delinquency of which we
; read and hear so much?
j pERSONALLY, I doubt if it
I can be done by passing a
j law or a whole batch of laws.
I The prevention of juvenile delin
I quency starts in the home. If the
j home training is right and sin-
cere and honest and effective,
! there will be relatively little ju
I venile delinquency.
Shadows
them to defeat is this simple
one of good will. It ic why
"isms" do not take hold in this
country, why our economic sys
tem is so flexible, why social
stratifications, even those of
race, break up. It is why, one
might observe in passing, the j
attempt of the Birch Societv.
a u i in a
Z t,?, t
, V-
official mourning period was
Ufl IIIHIUl.t'U nun f Mlrillie
than anger.
Where lies the root nt this
constant groping for goodness''
To Jacques Marilain. the
French philosopher, it was re
vealed in the remark of an
American friend "We are
bruised souls." He meant the
effect of the whole cargo of
ancestral sorrows and wounds,
and the present cargoes of
moral distress and
physical
poverty that arrive with each
arriving ship.
Our bruise, said Maritam. is
of an evancelical nature: it has
produced compassion. It is "The
deepest reason for the sense of
mercy and pity, and the sense
of responsibility toward all
those in distress, which are
rooted in the collective Ameri -
Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(CI 1963 Tha Washington Port
als for no real military purpose.
ALTHOUGH this kind of fru
gality will not effect tha
budget importantly, it will have
a salutary effect nevertheless.
For it is demoralizing to ses
public employes assigned to
waste the public money.
But beyond the tidying up of
waste, including a certain
amount of lush and conspicuous
extravagance, there ie visible on
the horizon the prospect of much
more substantial retrenchment.
I do not myself regard it as
likely that we are anywhers
near a general disarmament
treaty. The fundamental issues
of principle are stubborn, and
their reconciliation is probably
too embarrassing to all partici
pants. But while what is under
way is not a negotiated agree
ment, there are parallel trends
toward the stabilization and then
toward the reduction of military
spending.
rpHESE parallel trends am
activated by a common reali
zation, acknowledged in the test
ban treaty, that neither side has
anything to gain by spending
hugely in pursuit of the will-o'-the-wisp
of the absolute weapon.
Once that point has been reach
ed, there is a balance of power
which, though relatively favor
able to the United Stales, ia
tolerable to the Soviet Union and
cannot be changed seriously by
gigantic military expenditures.
This is the origin of the present
trend toward stabilization in
both countries.
At the same time, the Soviet
Union has found that the burden
of the existing armaments inter
feres with the vital needs of tha
people. It has been impossibla
to carry out the program for the
modernization of Soviet agricul
ture by chemical means without
cutting down the military bud
get. We can be reasonably certain
that the Soviet arguments for a
reduction of armaments are sin
cere. They spring from neces
sity. The United States is under no
comparable pressure, and it can
be argued that we could exploit
the Soviet predicament by ac
celerating rather than reducing
the race of armaments. This is
a conceivable line of policy,
which can be held in reserve, "if
the Soviet government took a
provocative line, say in Latin
America.
TUT if it follows the present
line, which appears to be one
of gradual disengagement, tha
American people will, quite
rightly, allow themselves to be
come conscious of the real bur
dens of our defense establish
ment. We are paying for our
necessary and invaluable mili
tary power by a failure to pro
vide the facilities of civilian liv
ing to keep pace with our needs.
Cutbacks in defense expendi
tures would cause difficulty to
the economy and encounter less
political resistance if the econ
omy were running at a good
pace instead of sluggishly. When
;5'i per cent of the labor force
i is unemployed, and the national
product is 35 or 40 billion less
than it could be, the prospects
of subtracting any part of the
i demand for goods and services
is disconcerting.
i It is not too soon, therefore,
to begin thinking about what
j we weald do with the resources
released by a cut in defense ex-
penditurcs. We must prepare
ourselves not only for the minor
j readjustments to the first Mc-
jNamara cutbacks, but also for
the larger readjustments which
will become necessary if and
when we enter upon an actual
reduction of armaments.
Flee Away
. can psyche, deep beneath the
; hardness and harshness of the
hunt for material interests.
This spark of the Gospel lying
deep in people who more often
than not do not think at all of
the Gospel, is not a thing that
one speaks of. . . . n exists,
however, and is active in the
Preiat mace nt fU t .1
what ls mme valuable in this
"!i. an to find a trace
oi uospel fra
among men'''
of Gospel fraternal love acme
nong men?"
We shall not soon forget No
vember twenty-second; hut it ia
December twenty-fifth tnat en
dures of itself. To the suprema
cists of any color, to the Castro
lies and Birchites and all of
their spirit, this writer wouid
like to direct some farmilar
words of uncertain authorship
but certain meaning:
"o hpavpn ran rnma In ,,
ann.
mir hfiarrn ftnri met in
it today Tak(1 h.aV(,n No
i, m thc flIlure wnich js not
hidden in this present instant.
Take peace. The gloom of Ihe
world is but a hadow; behind
it. yet within reach, is joy. Take
joy. And so. at this Christmas
time, I greet you with the
prayer that for ou, now and
forever, the day breaks and the
i shadows flee awav."
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