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A meeting of Gold Hill resi dents will he held Monday in the city hall to form an organ ization to promote tho area, particularly in relation to high way conditions through the city. 211 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 11H3 (Saturday) Hiram Andrew Hoolcn, tw, veteran of Civil War and long- lime resident of Brownsboro, Sams Valley and other Rogue vallcv areas, dies after brief Illness. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The last week of the year is coming up. Quite a few will devote it to finding a New Year's resolution they can keep and a lull calen dar." Illl YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 19X1 (Monday) Bill Straus, Sams Valley rancher, severely burned in an explosion caused by escaping gas. Neva Samuels returns to Med ford after spending holiday in Portland. Ill YEARS AGO Dee. 25, 111211 (Tuesday) Medford City Recorder M. L. Alford announces proposed city budget totals $711,112. Professor Irving Vining pre dicts a record breaking "tourist crop" In the Rogue Valley dur ing 11121. 5(1 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, lllllt (Tliurtiduy) Medford City Recorder E. T. Foss requests opinion from Ore gon attorney general on recall petitions against two city coun cilmen. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct li auperlorf even or eight il excellent; five or lii ii good. 1. Give the next line: "Twns the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . . 2. Who wrote the story in which Ebonczor Scrooge is a principal character? 3. What great German-American contralto singer was famed for her Christmas eve rendi tion of "Silent Night" some years ago.' 4. If you get the (uri'lulum of the fowl at Christinas dinner, would you get the wing, neck, or wishbone? 5. Name (lie eight reindeer in the poem, "A visit liom St. Nicholas." ft. Kid the decorated Christ mas tree originate in Germany, France, or Holland? 7. Mistletoe is associated with what ancient priesthood In Britain? B. Who composed the oratorio "The Messiah"? 9. Profits from the sale of the double-barred Christmas seals arc used to fight what disease? 10. In what countries are the following Christinas specialties: Strasbourg pie, marzipan, Magi cakes, doughnuts? Answers: I. "Not a creature was ulli ring ,nnl even mouse." '2. Charles Plrkriin, ,1. Mm. SclHiiniinn-llrink. I. Wishbone. 5. Dasher, Dancer, Pnitircr. Vi xen, Comet. Cupid, Homier, niittrn. Druids. I'-iidd. France, land. Grrmnnv. 7. The S. Frederick George ft. Tiihrrculnsls. III. Germany, Italy, I'o- 4 A m W'u,tl,HEI" VJAHOCIAIION DECEMBER 25, 1963 Happy Holiday, You All Another year is almost done, Old Father Time is on the ran.' It's Christmas, time of sheer delight, When trees of green are all alight, And families all gather 'round To make a joyous Yuletide sound. The heartsick days a month ago Begin to fade, although it's slow; We cannot truly yet forget A nation's grief and shame and yet, The gentle, healing hand of time Makes possible a wish in rhyme. In this season, without remorse, We have good thoughts of Wayne L. Morse. Mark O. Hatfield, Clarence Barton, Earn our greetings, a full carton. Medford's Mayor, rotund Jimmy, , May his festive cup be brimmy. To all the teachers in the schools We wish the best of all the Yules. To each policeman on the beat We wish full comfort for his feet. And firemen may they remain So warm and dry, not in the rain. For paperboys and salesmen too We wish a special sky of blue. For car-hups working in the cold We'd wish a greatcoat to enfold. And all who work on Christmas day Are made of very special clay. Our hat we doff to those who write The letters always free from spite. To those who labor in the field Of charity, we will not yield One jot or tittle less acclaim Than those who give funds to the same. To Campfire Girls and Brownies, too, And Scouts of every sort of hue, We wish a bag of Christmas treats; To railroad men a box of sweets; To waitresses and niaitres de, A special bauble on their tree. To Masons, Elks and Pythian Ks, We offer up deserved praise. To ministers, men of the cloth, Congregations that do not scoff. Doctors and lawyers, merchant chiefs, Should be confirmed in their beliefs. The newsmen of the UPI . : Deserve a special piece of pie. For those who serve us without pay, On boards and councils, day by day, Must needs receive our special thanks Instead of their expected spanks, And let us give a praiseful yell, And ring the clapper on the bell, For those unsung yet vital folk Who carry mail though rainfalls soak. Oh Santa Clans, bring gadgets gay For soldiers lined up for their pay. For sailors, loo, and for Marines, And airmen fill them full of beans. We'd all delight to see more praise Of till who work in any phase Of guarding close the nation's health, Especially nurses. Bring them wealth. Oh, Father Christmas, bring delight To men and women in the fight For peace on earth, good will to men, May they succeed, both now and then. And special kudos nay, some glory To those who tell the safely story. Oh, wave a special sort of banner For those who live within the Manor. To students, home at Christmas-tide, We wish it wondrous sort of ride, And fine reunions with their friends; If needful, let them make amends. The time grows long, the list grows short, But do not overlook the Court Where justice lives in Ihis good land, And judges mete with even hand. To bailiff, jailor, sheriffs loo, Merry Christinas! It is their due. And even those who happenstance Hits placed in jails should have a chance To have a bit of merryncss Upon this holiday we bless. To clerk and tierkess in the. store, May Yule bring salesmanship of yore. To boss and underling alike, Whose youngsters always want a trike, We hope the day will surely bring A great big package wrapped in string. A gentle, haunting Christmas tune To those who think it came too soon. And finally, to all who pine To sing a verse of auld lang syne, We wish ;i week of blest surcease From problems that our foreheads crease. Our song is done, our task is o'er. So Merry Christmas! one time mote. E. A. , V r45?SteamiCf!9 Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Herri (c) field Enterprises. Inc. (Reprinted . NO, VIRGINIA, THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. There is no ruddy fat man with merry eyes and a white beard, who comes down the chimney at night to reward little boys and girls for being good. Because, you see, Virginia, all over the world there are mil lions of littie boys and girls who have been as good as good can be but they get no toys, and sometimes they awake on Christ mas morning without enough food to eat. There arc fathers and mothers, Virginia, who have been ap pointed by God to love their children and they give them love, although they cannot always given them presents. And these mothers and fathers, Virginia, are more wondrr r 1 1 and magical and mysterious than Santa Clans cnulil ever be. They bring something infinitely mure prreious than dolls and trains to their children they bring the mark of God's Inve down to every boy and girl. And, sometimes, even these fathers and mothers are taken away. But there arc others in Hie world, divinely touched, who look after these children and share with them their meager possessions. Compared with this miracle of care and tenderness, Santa Claus is a pale figure of fantasy. For he, you sec, only re wards hoys and girls who have heen "good." But in the eyes of God, and parents, all buys and girls arc truly good at heart. Presents at Christinas are fun, of course, but do you Imagine, Virginia, Ihat the children with the most presents are Hie happiest? When there is little love in a home, there is little merriment and without merriment, the doll is dust and the train is tin. All over the world, on Christinas morning, children will be waking up without a visit from Santa Claus or with a gift you would hardly luok at, an orange, an extra slice of bread, a frayed piece of string. Yet if there is someone who loves them, who frolics with them and heals them, they have a greater gift than any fat man in a tight red suit could possibly bring them. There are fathers who work for their children, and mothers who sing to their children, and God who gives fathers the strength to work when they arc weak, and mothers the spirit to sing when they arc sad. No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus there docs not need to be. Yuletide Message: "Rah, Humbugs!" By Arthur Hoppe Merry Christmas. All our I loo. He's warm and pleasant, hearts arc filled with love. And ' It's not that he seems so dedi it strikes me as the ideal oc-icated to doing what he thinks casion for us ace newsmen to pay tribute lo our nations po - litical leaders. Mainly because hardly anybody's going to find time lo read the paper today. So, no matter what anyone who doesn't read Ihis thinks, 1 wish to say flatly that I like politicians. As a friend said the other day: "I never met a poli - lician 1 didn't like. Nor an actor I did." and while Ihat may be going a little tar (1 once moi a hit player in an amateur the atrical who talked for several minutes about something other than himself), it's certainly true about politicians. Of course, some arc vain and some are greodv and some are cowards and some are overly- ambitious. Hut all at least all I've ever met me likeable. And if you don't believe me, look at Senator Coldwator. ... As you know, half Ihe country loves the Senator with a pas sion. And the other hall hates him with a passion. Half say his brilliance will save us. Half say his stupidity will destroy us. The Senator himself, like most politicians, takes the middle road: "I'm not even sure," he savs, "I've got the brains to be President." , Sec? While you may argue with the statement i alter all. we've had a lot of stupid l'rcsi- dents), you must admit it's lor- ribly likable thing to say. II really is. Thus it's no surprise all us ace newsmen like Ihe Senalor. Some may love him and some may hate him. But all of us like him. And I think vou would MEDFORD MA1X TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, E By Request) is right. It's that he can laugh ai nimscii winle lies doing it. 1 And all that surprises me is that I j people who hate him are stir-1 prised they like him. I For I've been sitting here. i thinking nostalgically of all the I other politicians I've followed! around as an ace newsman. I 1 Call me a rollyanna if you will, I but I like them all. I I like Mr. Johnson (he tells! grand folksy jokes). And Mr, Nixon ( particularly when he's just chatting with you). And Governor Brown (he's wonder fully human being). And Mr. ltockelellcr and Mr. Adlai Sto- nson and Mr. Robert Welch of the Birch Society and Mr. Gus Hall of Ihe Communist Party and Mr. PeSapio of Tammany Hull and all the rest. You may love thorn or hale them. But I think you have to like them. And just thinking of how much I like our political leaders will warm my Christinas Pav heart all this It smacks of human brotherhood. Yes, by George, I think there's hope (or Ibis sorry old world yet. Because, after all. who's pri marily responsible for the sorry state this old world's in Our vain, greedy, cowardly, amhi- tious politicians, that's who And thus if I may offer you a c h e e r y Christmas message, packed with hope of brother- hood, it's that if you can like them, you can like everybody. Oh. I know what you're going to say. You're going lo say. "Even aclnrs'.'" Well. 1 know it's ChrNm.is, hut let's not get carried awav. dvJ OREGON Echoing Gunfire on Cyprus Is Reminder Of Unhappy Past and M. By PHIL NEWSOM UI'I Forpisn New Analyst Gunfire echoing on the Medi terranean island of Cyprus is a i'EACE ON EARTH It is not, I hope, frivolous or disrespectful to say that the most telling act of last week's conference of NATO countries was lo adjourn in good spirits after two, rather than the cus tomary three, days. There are, as we know, sup posed to be momentous issues of strategy which divide the alli ance. I here are unanswered questions of when and how to use nuclear weapons and wheth er there should be a really sig nificant buildup by the Euro peans of their conventional forces. None of these questions has really been answered. Yet the meetings seemed to go off with no feeling that anyone had been defeated or that the security of the alliance was threatened. rpHIS could not have happened, -- Hirl nnt tho F.IIrnnnanc nnH the North Americans feel, with out avowing it, that they have outlived the situation to which Ihe supposed issues and ques tions were addressed. Is the So viet Union preparing to con quer Western Europe? In the late forties before NATO was founded, that was a real ques tion. Will the Soviet Union seize West Berlin while the United States stands supinely aside? Only a few Europeans think so. Perhaps one should say only a few Europeans profess to think so. It would require some tall thinking to suppose that the United Slates would abandon its own men, women and children in West Berlin and Western Germany. Is there a genuine need of a European nuclear force which can detonate a thermonuclear war without American consent Examined closely, the notion is absurd in that tricks like that cannot be played with matters of life and death; an independ ent detonator of thermonuclear war would first of all incinerate the detonator. Is there, then, a really urgent need for a sacrificial program ol European armament? Not unless one supposes that the Soviet Union would contemplate launching a serious invasion of Western Europe in the illusion that the United Slates would not use nuclear weapons to de fend its own troops. 'IM1ESE unresolved issues and questions arc conund rums which are ceasing to interest the mass of the people of Eu rope and are no longer a seri ous concern of their statesmen. These questions and issues can not be settled by a formula of agreement. For that would mean too much loss of face. But nobody is sufficiently inter ested in them to insist that the discussion about them must con tinue. All this has happened because there have been historic changes in world affairs. They can, I believe, now be identified. Though we are not in sight of the end of the cold war, there is an impressive pause in the race of armaments. And in the two worlds of the postwar pe riod the Communist and the non-Communist the abnormal unity of each great coalition is giving way to a pluralism of many powers. The process is known among Communists as "polycentrism." The current issue of Foreign A'fairs contains a brilliant de scriptinn of polycentrism, which is. I believe, must reading for serious students. II is by Am bassador George Kennan. I HO NOT think it is too early lo say thai in Ihe perspective of history men will look upon John F. Kennedy as the man who seized the opportunity to bring the race of armaments to a halt. I believe it will he said that he used American wealth to build up military power that could not be defied, that he siiiveoiieii in maning inis power a quite credible deterrent to i namely Foreign Aid). This is war and that he had the magna- rather ludicrous considering the nimity to convince the Soviet fact that the Mail Tribune cam In ion that it could live comfort-, paigncd for his reelection and ably within the existing balance must accept its share of the ot power. I responsibility for returning him The crowning act of this poll-1 to Washington, cy w as the signing of the test I Every one knows that Wayne ban treaty. Since then. Ihe race ! Morse is a true independent. If of armaments has ceased lo he ihe feels something is right he the dramatic affair which in I follows it through come hell the race for absolute weapons , or high water. reminder of an unhappy past and an uncertain future. For three years since Cyprus achieved independence on Aug. 16, I960, a restless peace has prevailed under a constitution which sought to protect in equal portions the rights of 400.000 Greeks and the 100,000 Turks who form the island's minority. It is an impossible constitu tion patched together to escape an impossible situation marked Today and Tomorrow By Walter tippmann (C) 1963 The Washington Post its was threatening to become. It is no accident that the first NATO meeting since the conse quences of the treaty became visible should have showed so much good-natured loss of inter est in the old stubborn conun drums of the military bureau crats. rpHE wide-reaching and close-ly-relaled develo pment- polyccntnsm in both eoali lions is reducing decidedly Ihe tensions which existed when there were two and only two nosme centers ot power in the world. Now, bo it in Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague or in Hanoi, Saigon and Bangkok, there is no longer the simple confrontation of two superpow ers. All kinds of new political combinations and permutations are becoming possible. The small breaches made dur ing the Christmas holidays in the Berlin Wall are a small symptom of what is happening in all sorts of ways between the two halves of Europe. The partition of Germany, which is Ihe partition of Europe, will in time be healed by boring holes through the iron curtain which allow an increasing intercourse in human relations. And so I say we must he careful not to hope too much. And then I say we must be careful not to be afraid to hope at all. For, while there is not nearly enough good will among men, there is a belter prospect of peace than we once dared to hope for. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view lo clarification and condensation, tetter submitted for pubiication must not exceed 400 words. The tellers printed in this coiumn do not necessarily represent Ihe views of tr oaper. in Tact tne contrary is often the cese. Scandanavian Christmas To the Editor: Christmas time coincides with the return of the sun, and it was celebrated by the pagan Northmen many hun dred years before Christ was born. In Upsala, the old capilol of Sweden, there are remains of large stone altars, which ethnologists declare, served at sacrificial rites for the pagan priests who made human sacri fices to the Sun god, similar to those of the lncas in Peru. As the early Christians were honorable and preached Peace on Earth and good will to men, they convinced the Northmen that Christ had sacrificed him self to the great Sun god and that any further human sacri fices were unnecessary. The changeover lo the Hvite Krist was brought about without much bloodshed. The pioneer Padres from Rome who started to arrive in Ihe north in the 12th Century built churches with symbolic altars for the worship of Christ, who was declared the Son of God, and human sa crifices ceased. Music and arts were fostered and the northern heathen eventually became civi lized, and a different wav of celebrating the return of' the Sun was adopted. But the feast ing, eating, drinking, merry making and exchange of gifts still remains, an old Nordic custom Sweden was the first country in Scandinavia to get a Catho lic monk to preach the gospel. His name was Ansgarius, a Swede, who went to Rome and was accepted as such by Ihe Church and returned to Sweden to start the new religion. After Ansgarius, the Pope sent other monks to the royal courts of Sweden who were ac cepted as teachers. John E. Ring HM9 West 11th St. Medford Morse I'phrld To the Editor: I have noticed that Eric Allen and KM ED-TV have been criticizing W a y n e Morse for daring to oppose part oi me Nonnedy National Policy Uncertain by years of bloody violence and near-break between Greece and Turkey and an accompany ing threat to NATO aetenses m the eastern Mediterranean. The violence began in 1952, when a black-bearded, Ameri can educated Orthodox priest became archbishon of Cvorus I under the title Makarios HI and used his office to press his campaign for "enosis" union with Greece, and independence from Britain. It reached its peak in 1955 and 1956 when Eoka, the Greek terrorist organization turned the main street of Nicosia, the capital, into "murder mile" and nearly 1,000 persons were killed or wounded. With Turkey demanding par tition of the island and Greece demanding its union and neither they nor the Cypnots able to agree on a solution, a council of Zurich reached a patchwork agreement later completed in London. It provided for a republic of Cyprus to be headed by a Greek president and a Turkish vice president, each with a right of veto. the division of authority ex tended even down to the com munity level, and affected all phases of government, includ ing foreign affairs, tax laws and the makeup of the army. This is the issue which has proved unworkable. The divi sion between Greeks and Turks has led to failure to collect taxes and Turkish Vice Presi- In the Day's News By FRANK From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and from the Cana dian border to the Gulf of Mex ico this great nation of ours is now quiet, after weeks of being a-bustlc with preparations for this greatest holiday of the Christian world. Troublesome thought: Could it be that these prepa rations have got just a little out of tune with the REAL meaning of Christmas Day? SEARCHING question: What IS Christmas Day? rpHE answer, of course, is that - it is the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. And that prompts another question: Why is the anniversary of the I have never voted for the man. However, I am beginning io leei tnat in these days when it is almost impossible for legislator of honesty and integ rity to survive in Washington without succumbing to the tre mendous pressures of lobbyists, self-interest groups, and politi cal obligations, one man of Wayne Morse's stubborn individ uality and incorrupt ability is a very valuable asset. While his abilities are not always chan neled in the direction we would like, it is a comfort to know he is there like the rock of Gibralter. Before you agree with Eric Allen that Morse was wrong in opposing the Foreign Aid budg et, I suggest that you write to him and ask him "for his full report. It certainly is an eye oiener. I think I can sec the pattern that is shaping up. The Mail Tribune will grad ually try to build up Duncan lo take the place of Wayne Morse. You can bet on it that Dun- can will never do anything to world today? jeopardize his voter popularity! 2- What's wrong with our or rarty support. He is like a;tion? cold computing machine. In these times I prefer the Wayne Morse type to the Duncan type of legislator. Leila A. Morrow 531 N. Bartlett St. Medford 'EACE ON EARTH... GOODWILL 1&WARD MEM. . 0srr!sM,r-ft ISfhiml the (,h irr n. 7,1 I. VI " Ha . , Vt V ,y 0 . Future dent Fazil Kutchuk to complain that he is kept ignorant of at fairs which he has the right to veto. Makarios, who became the country's first president and still holds the post, on his side jbas complained that separate Greek and Turkish authority in the communities is unworkable. and he blames the Turks for making it so. He has demanded constitu tional changes which the Turks say would infringe upon their rights. These changes were the un derlying causes of the most re cent clashes in which both Greeks and Turks died. Underlying the violence also was the Turkish belief that the Greeks still have not given up their desire for union with Greece, although it specifically is forbidden by the Zurich agreement. Feeding Turkish suspicions was Makarios' own assertion last March that the Eoka "struggle is not yet ended." Makarios has said that Cyp rus is "more inclined to the West than the East," but he has not hesitated to complete many barter deals with Com munist countries. Meanwhile, the struggle In Cyprus can only be of benefit to Cyprus' own Communist party, the best organized in the country, powerful in municipal governments and in labor. So far, the Communists have) been willing to bide their lime. JENKINS birth of Jesus the greatest holi day of the Christian world? The answer is this: Into a world that had got sad ly out of kilter, Jesus brought a new and BETTER way of life. T ET'S take a look at this world of nearly 20 centuries ago. The Golden Age of Greece had come and gone. The Great Days of Rome the period when Rome was laying the founda tions of a new way of life based upon law and order had coma and gone. : POWER was the goal of this world that had come to be. SUPREME power. Power with out limit. The power to order the death of any man, without trial. The power to decree the death of any nation that got out of line. Power held in TOO FEW HANDS. Power to be exercised by the few, with no consideration for the rights of the many. TT WAS into this world that - Jesus came. It was Jesus who, in the Ser mon on the Mount, laid down the rule that if followed faith fully by all mankind could have changed all this for all time. The Golden Rule. The rule that if followed by all mankind could have made this a perfect world. The rule that is simply express ed in these words: "Do ye unto others as yn would that others shall do unto you." TPO THE extent that this rula - has been followed, this world has become a better place to live. To the extent that it ha; NOT been followed, this world has become a more EVIL place to live. You see It is little wonder that Christ mas Day. which is the anni versary of the birth of Josti.?, has been the greatest holiday of the Christian world. UlNAI, probing questions: 1. What's wrong with T THINK this is the answer: If anything is wrong with us . . . with our way of living , . . it is that we have got loo far away from the REAL meaning of Christmas Day. - ' ' "J l f, jS V 10 1 1 " the Christmas Message o 1
