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1'L'KKDAV. MlDFORDvUTBIBUNt "Everyone ip Southern Oregon Reada The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDKJRD PU1NTING CO . XI North FlrSt.. P.mnlM ROBERT W RUI1L. Editor HERU GREY Advertisinc Manager CERALD T LATHAM. Biu Mgr ERIC w Al.t-EN JR., Mnc Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporu tailor OLIVE S1ARCHEH Women i Edilo, DALE ER1CKSUN. Circulallul. Ms; An Independent "Newipnpci Entered as second class matter at Medtord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Daily and Sunday I yeai $18 00 Datlv and Sunday 6 tnos 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi SOU Sunday Only One year 5O0 Sinslo Copy IMnilcdl By Carrier And Motor Route. Jallv and Sunday 1 year Vi .go Pally and Sunday 1 tno r,.l Sunday Only 1 mo MJ Carrier andVcndorj Copy 10c Official' Paper of Cllv of Mertford Official l'ajero Jackson County UnltecT Press International Vull Leased Wire U. P I Telepholo Newsplctures MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OKCIRCULAT10NS Anvcrti'sinfi "P'wnlllv: NKI.SON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Ot'lcea In New Yolk, Oil raso Detroil. San Francisco. Lot Aneeh-s Seattle. Portland Denoer. 0" NfWSPAMl NATION Al EDITORIAL kgudiinm.'.n.'.iiiM Mcmhcr California Newspaper Puhllshcri AsBOcialion Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jjckson County History from Ine file of Tha Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. III Y 10 A IIS AGO Dec. U. 195.1 (Thursday) New transmitting antenna for KBES-TV is expected to be raised by sections this week end and should go into service to broadcast New Year's Day bowl games. Donald T. Wilkinson, an air man, arrived Saturday to visit for two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wilkin son, 726 S. Kcenewiiy Drive. 20 YKAHS A;0 Dee. 21, l!li:i (Friday) Mrs. Edward C. Kelly leaves for Detroit, Mich., to spend hol idays with her husband who is an Army captain. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Kmnnno Pnt" column: "It is now loo Into to do your Christ mas shopping early. .10 YKAHS A(i() Dec. 21, IM (Sunday) Ed G. Brown, Mcdford, in jured in automobile accident on Ross Lane. lilack Channel mine, sold at Sheriff's auction on the court house steps for $1.5-111. 115. II) YKAHS AGO Dec. 21, ira (Monday I Modfuiil Mayor E. C. Gaddis nppolnts himself as temporary city judge. Former Mayor C. E. Gates talks to children attending com munity Christmas party in city park. 5(1 YKAHS AGO Drr. 21, l'.n:i (Wednesday) J. Percy Wells. Jackson Conn-, tv school superintendent, elect-! cd president of western division of Oregon Stale Teachers Asso ciation, i Portland Attorney B. H. Bock-, man in Mcdford to spend holi days with his parents. Mr and i Mrs. C. C. Bcekman. What's Your I.Q.? j Nina or ten correct it lupcriot; leven or eight it excellent; five or til it good. I 1. Mozart had what given name? 2. Over what ancient country , did the dynasty of the l'liaroiihs rule? 3. The title Dalai l.nma sug gests what central Asian cotiu-! try? 4. A "lift" is ordinarily lound where in a shoe? 5. Name the longest river i system in Ihe United Slates I 6. Kor how many veors did j Jack Dempsey hold the heavy-! weight boxing championship ti tle? 7. Are there approsimaloly 2.0O0, 4,000, or fi.Ootl coltco beans in a pound? 8. Who was the male star nl the motion picture "Ben lltn '"' 9. Does a cal use a front paw. or a rear paw to sci -alt h its head? 10. Is brandy made from veg etables, grain or fruit'' Answers: t. Wnllgang. 2. Egypt. 3. Tibet. I. Heel. 5. Mis sissippi Missouri, li. Seven years. 7. 4.IHKI. 8. Cliaillnn lies ton. 9. A renr paw. 10. lrtiil. FltlMl.ll l I lt I It 1-: I I POINT AHGIKI.I.O. Calif (UPl) The Greek (leigliter S S. Ellin, struck on a sandbar near here for six days, was finally pulled free Sunday and went on to Los Angeles today under lis own power for inspection 4 L VSj Ai S O C I A 1 1 0 N DIX'EMIIEI'. 21, l!H Would We Crucify Him? To the Editor: Some of us here at the Manor were very deeply impressed by Sydney J. Harris's column, "Would We Crucify Him?" which appeared in your paper on Dec. 25, 1962. Could it re-appear Christmas week, cither as an editorial or as a special article? We believe it would be very worth while. Ijiretla Smith Itogue Valley Manor Mcdford. By SIDNEY If there should be, on Christmas night, a, second coming would there not be soon a second crucifixion? And this time, not by the Romans or the Jews, but by those who proudly1 call themselves Christians? I wonder. I wonder how we today would regard this! man with his strange and frightening and "im-j practical doctrines 01 numan nenavior and re lationships. Would we believe and follow, any more than the masses of people in his day believed and followed? WOULD NOT the militarists among us assail him as a cowardly pacifist because he urges us not to resist evil? Would not the nationalists among us assail him as a dangerous internationalist because he tells us we are all of one flesh? Would not the wealthy among us castigate him as" a troublemaking radical because he bars the rich from entering the kingdom of heaven? Would not the liberals among us dismiss him as a dreamy vagabond because he advises us to take no thought for the morrow, to lay up no treasures upon earth? TlfOULD NOT the ecclesiastics among us de- nounce him as a ranting heretic because he cuts through the cords of ritual and com mands us only to love God and our neighbors? Would not the sentimentalists among us de ride him as a cynic because he warns us that the way to salvation is narrow and difficult? Would not the Puritans among us despise and reject him because he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners, preferring the company of winebibbers and harlots to that of "respect able" church' members? Would not the sensual among us scorn him because he fasts for '10 days in the desert, neg lecting the needs of the body? 4 w v WOULD NOT the proud and important among us laugh at him when he instructs the twelve disciples that he who would be "first" should be the one to take the role of the least and serve all? Would not the worldly-wise and educated among us be aghast to hear that we cannot be saved except we become as children, and that a little child shall lead us? Would not each of us in his own way find some part of this man's saying and doing to be so threatening to our ways of life, so much at odds with our rooted beliefs, that we could not tolerate him for long? I wonder. Christmas We share a fairly widespread prejudice against the use of the word Xmas in place of Christmas. ! But it is, simply, a prejudice. For the use of! Xmas as a shorthand w rcl for the day is hal lowed by long and reverent usage, dating well' back into the middle ac.es. i The use of the capital letter X was consid- ered a si.mi of reverent reference to the Son of (!od by early Christians, in Creek, X is the let ter "c'hi" which is the first letter in the word "chrislos," which is the origin of the lMiglsh word "Christ." WAKIOL'S modifications of the X symbol have been used over the years, with all rev erence. Some of them were quasi-secret in na ture, duriiii; the period that the early Christians were beine. persecuted. One of the symbols was that of a fish (which ilsell was one ol the early lorms ot the X, used lone; before Christ). This symbol had special mettninu', for the Creek word for fish was iehthys, and this in turn contains the letters of the name and title of Christ: lesous Cllristos, Theou 11Y ios, Soter Jesus Christ, Son of Cod, Savior. Thus the symbolism of Christianity has lone; been with us, and remains so in many churches. Still we prefer Christmas to Xmas. 1'). A. Full Each person, probably, has his own way of visnalixini: a year. Our personal version is a circle, with Christmas ami the winter solstice at the top. Now, as the days uiatlnally begin to net lotiuer, ue descend through winter and spring, with the long, hot days of late July ami early August tit the bottom. The long pull from Labor l)ay to Christinas is all up. We're glad we've arrived at the top. Christinas is, to most of us, the most beloved and most joyous holiday of the year. To Chris tians it has special meaning-. Hut even non-Christians can and do take comfort in its message. Too. al! the "hi legends the Yule log, mis tletoe, holly, the tree, the spirit nf giving, the tinse! and glitter and subdued excitement all the non-Christian aspects of the day, can be en joyed by everyone. Anyone who doesn't must hej an impervious old Scrooge. K.A. J. HARRIS vs. Xmas Circle MEUFOIID "You Don't Think He "'fpp A l)l-'.IIT IS OWED i the second chapter of the story WASHINGTON In the last; that opened with the U-2. three years, the true shape of j Because the intervals be thc world we live in has been ! tween U-2 flights were unavoid radicallv chanced bv a new i ably long, and (or other tcchni- fact, which very few people know about even today. The fact is that we now KNOW the true nature of the power balance between this country and the Soviet Union. Despite its closed society, the Soviet Union is now open to in spection in the most literal sense. We could only guess be fore; but since August, l'JiiO, we have KNOWN. This is a change incalculably profound and far-reaching. It is also an incalculable gain for the United States. And this needs to be pointed out now be cause the man to whom this change and gain arc largely owed is now leaving the public service, uncelebrated, unre warded, almost unlhankcd. I F ANY member of the gen- i 1 era! public recalls the name of Richard M. Bisscll, it will probably be because of Ihe Ray ot Pigs. Before that fiasco, Bis scll was due lo succeed Allen Dulles as Director of Ihe Cen tral Intelligence Agency. But someone had to lake tile rap (or this sorry failure, for which everybody from President Ken nedy on down had a share of blame; and Bisscll was chief among those who took the rap. Another job followed n fair ly big job, but one which is now ending for reasons which arc not especially relevant. All that is relevant, at the moment, is lo record just how the closed Soviet society ceased to be closed for all practical pur poses. This remarkable story began in Ihe summer of lifil when one ol President Eisenhower's num erous special advisory commit-!s"e tees, the Killian Committee on Surprise Attack suggested hiiildine a in'mmaiiii, ,,i,,,n of the tvpe of the U-2. Such -t plane had already been pro- s,lte coulsc was 10 posed to Ihe Air Force hv the 11,0 Soviets were indeed produc brilliant Kellv Johnson of Lock- i ,nS "' deploying these ulli heed Aviation, but ihe idea had matc 'Pons. Their failure to been turned down flat. I 00 s0 was facl a ggat By Ihe intricate, half-acciden-!01"""'- . '11AT did the convicts do? Inl processes familiar in gov- ' But after August. I'.niO. we II T,roc f them ran to the eminent, Ihe Killian Committee began ' KNOW that Ihe j (.amp raij0 t0 loi) (1e sheriff's recommendation brought io- ICBMs were not there; aiul this i office of the deputy's accident, gether a three-star team, com- in turn changed the entire stra-!Somp f tlc rCsl'gavc emer posed of Kelly Johnson, the fa- 'egic aspect of the world by the , B(,nt.v fjrst aj(i t0 c deputy mnus E. 11. Land of Ihe Polar- lime President Kennedy took of-; , u:jn(, hjm batk ,0 conscious oid Co . and Bissell from Ihe ticc. No historian oi analyst , ncss 1 1 A. who was the friend of both the others ; ' ' I : IU-A tutu lllle. Iliese Iliree 1 bulled the U-2 through from concent to reality. The stranee new aircraft was thereupon as- (signed to the CIA. Bissell thus became commander ot an Hide- pendent U-2 air force, in addi- lion lo his other duties. So much is fairly well-known to informed persons. What is not weu-Kiu wn and wotuu not lie discussed in this space il the main fads had not already been published elsewhere) is "l or Mime reason il doesn't It should be!" r---s ,'.' v . '.i -.1 w MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOItU, Mean Us, Do You?" Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop TO New York Herald Tribune Syndkate cal reasons as well, the U-2 did more than open a small chink in the Iron Curtain. Con trary to what many imagine the U-2 did not really replace guesses about the Soviet Union with true knowledge. Yet the new plane's success was very great, all the same. And this success in turn direct ed attention to the reconnais sance satellite project previ ously initiated by the Air Force Research and Development Command. IjMlOM this public project, un til then rather languidly prosecuted, a chunk was quick ly cut off, as it were. The chunk was strictly classified, but amply financed. And an all-out secret effort to build a work- able reconnaissance satellite began. This lime I,t. Gen. Bernard Schricver of Ihe Research and Development Command worked with Bissell. Brig. Gen. Oswald Ritland was Bissell's day-to-day partner. "Din" Land again lent a hand. And others might be mentioned. Yet in the official Air Force account of this matter, the main credit for the success of the re connaissance satellite is none theless given to Bisscll. Au gust, IDliO, when the first of the new "birls" with seeing, re membering eyes made its suc cessful flight, is a date that will be remembered in history books. 1 1 IS A date with much bear-1 uig. to begin willt. on Ihe silly controversy about the mis- S'1!'- Lm" Wl' mcjun meir way io me jou. uiey I ov'ots ',a(' not deployed the I were led by a deputy sheriff. intercontinental ballistic mis- j whose job was to show them siles which Ihev were entirely where lo work and what to do. cl,Pa0'c ' producing, Ihe only can compute wnai uus irue knowledge has since been "'" I"- i" 'hi: desperate days of l"C swomi v noan vusis, mi in- stance, or much earlier, when Khrushchev at Vienna threat- ened a big war over Berlin. i Such. then, is Ihe debt owed to Dick Bissell. As he happens ! lo be this reporter's oldest: friend, the debt is here asknowl-: edged with pride. But every i thinking American will surely : wisi o say. " I naiiK you am good luck, to thus exceptional public servant who is now re- turning lo private life . I -TW srrtti as bright and merry AM - feff OREGON Pakistan Remains Unconvinced Would Not Side With India in Dispute By PHIL NEWSOM UPl Foreign Sews Analyst If surface indications may be believed, then Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor in his visit to Karachi little more success than j other distinguished Americans in reassuring Pakistan on the question of U.S. military aid to India. Nor is it likely that he was any more successful in at tempts to dissuade Pakistan from its increasingly close re lations with Red China and other members of the Commu nist bloc. Pakistan mistrust of India reaches emotional peaks scarcely even equalled by the people of divided Berlin and springs from similar sources. India splits Pakistan into east and west in an arrangement based upon religious groupings rather than geographic practi calities. Pakistan is convinced that In dia intends eventually to re absorb Pakistan and that Amer ican arms flowing into India will help her to do it. Reassurances to the contrary by the late President Kennedy and a personal visit to Pakis tan by Undersecretary of State George W. Ball, all within the last few months, failed to con vince Pakistan otherwise. Typical of the Pakistani atti- In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, Secretary of State Rusk urges the Western Allies to help Russia win its power struggle with the Chinese communists. Question : Is he right? Or is he wrong? SEEKING an answer, let's try another question: Did you ever butt into a fam ily quarrel in an effort to bring peace and tolerance? If so. you will be prepared to say lo Secretary Husk: "You are wrong, sir. NEVER inter fere in family quarrels. Both sides will gang up on you, and you'll come out of it beaten to a pulp." Let's STAY OUT OF IT! I-JOWN in San Mateo County, 1' in the Bay Area, they have what is known as the honor camp system. Under the honor camp system, prisoners in the county jail go out each morning to work on various public proj ects. They give their word of honor that they won't try lo escape. So Ihcy are not guarded while thev work. In the evening. when their shift is finished, they come back to the jail house The other morning a crew of 0 was starting out to work. He had the keys in his pocket Suddenly, he fainted and fell and hit his head on the con- crete floor, knocking him out i completely. i 'h0 ,.fst wcnt about wolk assignments No, one (lcw ,hc coop heir: You never can tell about peo- i pie . x .NC1ENT question i )no ()a( iias puzzled us all a( nno t imo or another j(m, (ops sim(a claus. who 1-Cj,lltetllv roiind and rolv- !, i,u .,' ..,ii m,,ln ihai would shock the average tailor , lkm. K, avel.aRC mixk,,. iinlnt,v- i ' ' IT PUZZLED aged :i. who John Deodluc, lives down in Santa Clara. So He decided the other day to find out. LEFT his home in the late afternoon, climbed a six-fool fence and walked up the sloping roof ot Ihe empty house ; next door, climbed into the fire-; place chimney and with no Irou- j bit- at all he cot halfwav down. Then- Disasler struck. He GOT STUCK. j VS A small boy screamed for should. help. His !!,, ,,, nl" do,!, The fur laddies responded and with Ilk'T help Ihe reached the floor ol the fireplace some two hours later. As a special favor, he asked his mother to let him stay up public is the absolute prerequisite for democratic survival. With j ALL NIGHT on Christmas Eve: out this, trie networks and all the other media of communica- so he could find out how Santa I manages it. dude was the comment of Kar- achi's English language Daily News regarding the Taylor vis- I cords with various Communist lneir old solidarity. The News said that while the nations have come thick and i The United States now turn United Stales is arming India fast. I ishes Pakistan with $350 million against the Red Chinese "andj Pakistan has reached a bor-! annually plus military supplies, is trying to convince the region ; der agreement with Red China i Toward the end of Septom of a threat of Communist ag-jin her part of disputed Kash-;ber, the two signed a $70 mil gression, Pakistan has no prob-1 mir, has concluded air agree- lion loan agreement for U. S. lem with the Chinese, nor does I ments with both Red China and iron, steel and other products, she consider communism a ; the Soviet Union and entered Pakistan retains its member threat to Pakistan." into a number of barter deals' ship in the General Treaty Or- The News said that India's reported approval of visits to Indian Ocean waters by the U.S. 7th Fleet "is at least part ly directed against Pakistan." Diplomatic souecs in Ka rachi and many Pakistanis in sist that Pakistan's moves to ward the Communist world are less the result of enchantment ...Communications... Letters to the Editor must bear Ihe name and addren of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edir all letters with a viaw lo clarification and condensation. Letters submitted lot publication must not exceed 400 word,. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Solirpnss To the Editor: With apologies to Gelett Burgess: You sometimes meet a sour puss, Sometimes youeven see one, But I'd rather see a sourpuss Than ever have to be one. Jo Hcin 48 Morse St. Ashland, Ore. No Spiritual Existence To the Editor: Referring to the letter written by Mrs. Frank M. Duncan which was nublishcd on Dec. 12, she says she is not a fatalist but still claims It was j taiuasuc ueyunu. President Kennedy's "time to ' The universe consists of mat go." The reason as stated in her j tcr that is a substance without second paragraph reveals anoth-1 cause, without purpose, and er false concept the idea of a i originally without consciousness. soul." I explained in a previ ous letter how such an idea originated and that the true source was the mind. It exists nowhere else. Her third paragraph is a con tradiction of the first narl of her letter. If Mr. Kennedy "could have averted his own destrue - I lion by adhering to the precau - t ons set ud hv those tirofos- sional authorities who were paid to guarantee his safety," the tragic event that occurred was j not inevitable. It is not some-' thing that simply had to hap-' pen. Then why hold on to the I absurd claim that it was his j "time to go"? Mrs. Duncan says that death is not a disaster, it's a gradua tion. Graduation to what? I can't imagine the average mix-cd-up person "graduating" to anything beyond the natural physical life on this earth. Death is as natural as life and there is no "spiritual" existence spart from the material body. Life is an inherent quality in matter. When the individual or ganic form is dissolved the end of that particular life has been reached. All thai survives this dissolution is the life energy in the molecules and the atoms fcrcnt meaning, that compose Ihe matter in-1 If more people would take the yolved. trouble to look up the quotes The anthropologists have, Ihat are "used" to prove or shown that the belief in i disprove some question, they "spirits" came about by ex-'probably wouldn't become so Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harrii (c) Field Enterprise. Inc. CONTRAST IX TV COVKHACE TFI.I.S Mtllt M I The magnificent coverage lost week end was a reminder normal use and abuse of that tremendous medium. Why should it take a catastrophe of such dimensions lo un lock from the closet of talent so many programs of merit, thoughtfulness, maturity and illumination? Must the everyday use of this medium be dedicated so overwhelmingly to' the service of depilatories and detergents and deodorants? One does not ask the impossible; one does not ask. or ex pect, so relentlessly "serious" a diet of programming during ordinary times. But the contrast was so great, so vivid, so star tling, that Ihe sudden return to mediocrity and insipidity was as much an insult to intelligence as it was a surcease from tragedy. II is perfectly line, as Ihe broadcasters Insist, that large numbers of people will not consistently watch programs nf quality, anil Ihat advertisers do not find It economically leas ihlr to sponsor them. But broadcasting is a public service as well as a private enterprise; and privalf enterprise always invites government control when it ignores it public obliga tions. The surest way not to get government broadcasting (as many loreign nations have it. alongside private operations) is to undercut Ihe need and demand for it by a more judicious balance of programs. From a purely practical point nf view. Ihe television networks can best maintain their profits by Iheir willingness lo give tip a little, before more is taken from them. There is. however, another changing the format of television programs. What the public learned over that week end should not be reserved for times of ! crisis. The talks, the panels, the serious appraisals of our nation l,c I al trends, are desperately needed as an integral part of our cultural diet We do not let our children nlP"' make gluttons of themselves with peanuts, popcorn and pie. tct this is exactly what television provides for adults - litlln that ic nnnrichini, fnr tho minrt nnH eniril a rtmnt tin that is soft and sickly sweet and ol coma This is a luxury (and a false afford in the turbulent world of lion cannot long remain free 1 upon a citizenry awake, not in a with communism than the fact : lnat Pakistan will line up with any force against India. In tho lad voar PnL-ictsn an. ! for exohanrze of eoods. I She will receive 100,000 tons of Chinese cement in exchange for jute, and has made similar arrangements with both the So viet Union and Poland. She is working on other deals with Czechoslovakia and Hungary, j Despite press attacks and a continued cooling on the part of tcrnal impressions. It arose from physical phenomena, not so - called spiritual influence. Substance in some form is per manent. It is indestructible; therefore, it has always been in existence and was never cre ated. That which had no begin ning will have no end. But or ganized life had a beginning. Man did not always exist. He is not immortal. Organic life con sists of birth, growth, decline and death. This is perfectly natural and is just as it ap pears. No one escaped from this earthly life to another in some and subject only to mechanical laws of attraction and repulsion, impact and pressure. Conscious ness has been derived from this substance and perishes with the dissolution of organic bodies. Sometimes you even see one, ! of nature, and if there is any 1 purpose for life it's sclf-devel- ! opmcnt - to give the best tha "5 mus tor me uciiciu oi an ! humanity Lydia Burnham 814 Warne St. Prescotl, Ariz. Rless You All To the Editor: As a result of my letter you so graciously printed in Communications Dec. 12. I've received some calls and letters from persons evi dently agreeing with me. My husband and I, sincerely interested in these people's be liefs and their foundations, very carefully read some enclosed literature with questions and Scriptural answers. We took the trouble to look up these quotes, which were in many cases only parts of sentences, and found ihat after reading the verses preceding the quote, the quote often took on a completely dif- provided bv television over Ihat of all that we are missing in the and more important reason for munch sweets all day long, and encourages apathy to the point one. at that) we can no longer todav. An informed and alert i for freedom basically depends stupor. That U.S. Pakistani leaders, the United states has been trying to re- store relations with Pakistan to eanization and in SEATO. It has assured the United States it does not intend to enter any military pact with the Red Chi nese. However, the Pakistanis hava hinted broadly that the Red Chinese would come to their aid if they were to be attacked by India. easily confused and as a result discouraged from all religion. Anyone can prove OR disprova ANYTHING with a quote di rectly fr,.m the Bible. The Bible cannot he taken literally nor can it be inter preted by the quart capacity of man's mind. Very few possess the key to the true inner mean ing behind the words in tha Scriptures. I did agree with one who wrote that only God can satisfy man's longing It is a simple truth Ihat EVERY man is searching for his true identity. Each man. being a pure cell of the body of God, searches for this God-part, consciously or unconsciously. Many go about it in the wrong ways and they always suffer for it. If they did not suffer, how would they EVER come to think of search ing for the self in the right ways? The day is here in which a large portion of humanity has already outgrown the old con cept of Divinity. They have lost their faith in teachings based upon faith alone; they have learned that to be good in order to gain a heavenly reward after death, is a fallacy, a very low ideal,, this idea of being good for the reward's sake, and llio special privilege of playing harps and singing psalms foi cver. They have realized that this is an expression of self interest only, and completely foreign to the teachings of Ihn Christ of God, the God-man fully alive. The letter from Frances t!ay in Sunday's Communicalio'w hits the nail right on the head! God bless, you. one and all. Mrs. F. M. Duncan, 114 Summit Ave. Medford Farm Properties To the Editor: As a properly owner of some river fronlaga and other attractions that go with woods and streams, wa would like lo express our appre ciation of Senator's Moise's stand on the Dunes Park issue. We feel that condemning property for no other reason than to add to what seems ade quate is a ralher poor way to enhance respect (or govern ment. It seems lo us thai E.A. knows or cares very little of what all comprises a farm. If he would look around thp valley a little he would find that many going farms have been handed down from one 1, oration to another. Farms are not easily come by. To own one usually takes years of sacrifice and the abil ity to endure many hardships. And to pay out and develop a farm to near or full potential is apt to take two or more gen erations. Most farmers that have put in most of their lives acquiring a (arm have a very different (that E.A. perhaps can't under stand), (eeling toward it than they would (or just ordinary property. It has been the greater part of their lives and they look for ward to seeing it carried on by Iheir heirs. It is not often Ihat we agree with Senator Morse, but on tliis I issue we agree with him 100 I per cent. We are also grateful that we have a Senator that is not afraid to look at the ral hold as well as the loop holes in I our taxation. As to name calling we think il would be a wonderful thing if a great many of us would lake a few minutes to look in the mirror and repeat a few lines from Robert Burns, to the effect, "That the greatest gift ' f"at, God could us ould ""' " "'"t'5 SCC US. John L. Ncalon, Koute 2. Box 279. Central Point. Ore -O Editor's note: No farm prop erties are proposed for acquisi tion lor the Oregon Dunes Na tional Seashore. O
