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P 1 Tclephoto Newsplcturea "SlKMBKH OF' AUDIT" BUREAU" Of CJItLULA l iua NF.I.SIW ROBERTS & ASSOC1- ATI.-C DMIr-fa In New York. Chi' rnco Detroit. SHn Francisco. Los Ancules Seattle, porn a no Denver, MemtMir Calllornii Newspaper Piihlisheri AiiocUtton Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from Ins files of The Mail Tribuno 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Ill YEARS AGO Dec. 26, III33 (Saturday) Several burglaries in Medford solved Christmas day by the arrest of 14-year-old Talent boy. Tommy Y'Blood, 18, of 1217 WithinKton St., has bicycle li cense No. 1 in Medford. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 2fl, 1113 (.Sunday) Three Medford restaurants closed by district OPA head quarters for overdrawing on the ration accounts. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The fret of the people flourish. Along with the current worries and the war cumes me predic tion that fishing next spring will lie poor and Mm golf courso turf needs fixing." YEARS AGO Dec. 2li, lll.'l.l (Tuesday) Medford All-Slur basketball team In play high school five; All - Star squad includes Odd Hughes, Bud Lindley, Wilton While, ,loc Pulton, Connie La tham, Red Scheel, Phil Knips and Lloyd Hammet. County Judge Earl B. Day discussed proposed Oregon f.-iles tax before meeting of Medford Lions Club. Ill YEARS AGO Her. 2ii, 1112:1 I Wednesday) Mail arrested on burglary charge saws way out of Med ford cil v jail. County Clerk Chauncey Flor- ey announces he will not be b candidate for reelection; Sheriff C. E. Tcrrill, "stormy patrol of Jackson County politics," ex peclcd In seek a job. 5(1 YEARS AGO Dec. 2ii, 19i:i (Friday Judge William M. Colvig was named tax attorney and right of way agent for Southern Pacific railroad. Mr. anil Mrs E. E. Gore on t.'ilain (or Mi and Mrs. Will Gore, Miss Mary Core, Jay Gore Mr. and Mrs Shields and Flora Coy. 3t's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight it evertlcnt; iive or sit is good. 1. On what Kiilish ship, tin il'T (he command of Captain liligh, did notable mutiny take place' 2. Ill Mining in tcnis dm", "love" mean? what j ;i. What Is a codicil? I Who was (he uu'.hor of "I'.logv Written in a Country 1 nurciiyaid ' ; a mii 11111 ,i:r is a town in which l'. S Slate'' ti. What do the initials ASCAP i-ignity'.' 7 If an animal were des ct ibed as inocuous, would it be h-irmless or harmlul? .:. Tile Ober.immeigau Pas sion Play is scheduled at how iiianv years' internals, in normal limes'.' !l. The famous "Venus of M1I0" statue is notable 111 that Us arms are folded, upraised, or missing? in. In bowling "duckpins" wh.'il is the maximum one can make in a single frame? Answers: I. II. M. S. Ilounty. 2. Nothing seorrd. 3. Supple ment to a Will. 4. Thomas Oray, 5. Alaska. A. American Soeleiy of rontposers, Authors and Pub lishers. 7, Harmless. 8. 10 year biN-nuils. tl. Missing. III. :w. 4 A'- VSAOCIATION NATIONAL E DITORI At DECEMBER 2B, 1963 Gratitude or Guilt? Two Oregon editorial writers, pondering the Christmas season and what it means, as well as the contrast between wealth and poverty, point out that, despite America's vaunted wealth and general level of prosperity, the poor remain with us. P'ormer Gov, Charles A. Sprague of Salem remarks on the mixed feelings of gratitude for the good things of life and guilt that they are not more widely shared. And the Oregon Labor Press points out what it is too easy to forget that about one-fifth of all Americans are so poor that they cannot buy the minimum of food, shelter and clothing to main tain good health. X7HAT are we to make of a nation, the richest ' and most affluent in the history of the world, which cannot provide the wherewithal to keep all its people from hunger? Who are these people? The Labor Press says: "These are the forgotten people, not even seen in day-today life by mosl of us, even those of us who work for com paratively low wages. The social workers see them, the police see Ihem, the school teachers see them until they drop out of school In confusion and discouragement." This, in our eyes, is the most puzzling the most pressing national problem of them all. What can be done about it? FIRST, it seems to us, is the necessity for us all r to realize that it IS a problem partly invisi ble, perhaps, but real and persistent. Second, it must be realized that these people do not have the resources in strength, skills, knowledge or determination, to help themselves. They must have help. If they do not receive it, the problem, now of depressing dimensions, will turn into a national disgrace. The help must be of two kinds. The first is simply the food, shelter and clothing necessary to support life in decency and dignity. The second, even more important, is the provision of the skills and abilities to become productive members or society. And this, in turn, means more work opportunities. COMPLICATING the problem is the fact that automation is eliminating more jobs than it is providing. And those jobs which it is providing are skilled ones, requiring much in the way of education and training. It is also true that a disproportionate number of these unfortunates are held back, not only by lack of preparation for the competitive world, but by the fact that their skin is the "wrong" color. Prejudice compounds the injustice of technologi cal change. Thus, while the wealthy lean the benefits of the new technology, and living better than ever, Americans is poor, and I seeing Jus opportunity ior betterment getting in creasingly slimmer. So, as Mr. Sprague remarks, we are torn between gratitude for our own good fortune, and guilt to think of the millions of our fellow citizens who are not sharing in the American dream of progress and abundance for all. IS. A. Letting Air Into The Church Members of the Roman Catholic church and non-Catholics alike have watched with increasing wonder and enthusiasm as, during the past five years, more change has occurred within the church than at any time since the Reformation. It began in late 11)58 when Pope John XXIII succeeded the gentle and ascetic 1'ope Pius XII. Pope John, well along in years, was thought by many to have been chosen as an interim, or "caretaker," Pope. Instead ho became one of the great innovators in his attempts, in his words, to "let a little air into the Church." PARTLY through his own partly through shrewd through courage, Pope John set in motion a w series of events and changes run their course. The most notable was the convening of the Second Vatican Kcutnenical Council, where it was shown that the Church, so long thought of as monolithic and immovable, was in fact a dynamic and energetic force in world affairs affairs temporal as well as affairs spiritual. Pope John, who surely will be ranked by his tory as among the greatest of the Pontiffs," died before his plans came to fruition. Put his succes sor, Pope Paul VI, gives work, of intiiiuing the LIE SAW to it that the Council was held as planned by he was perhaps not ouite while as lus predecessor m guiding the ( (Hindi in the ways he desired, still he was gratified to see great reforms enacted, and the way paved for more. His announcement that he would visit the Holy Land in January, while it may not seem important lo some, in actuality is a startling break with tradition, and is a dramatic personal underscoring of the new directions being seen within the church. Not only does it symbolize a freshness of approach to the L'Oth century, but it also will open new avenues to religious tolerance, and perhaps even the erasure of the age-old injustices heaped upon the Jews. Surely Catholicism in general, and the Vati can in particular, so long the objects of suspicion, , distrust and actual hatred, are' earning' new re-, sped and good will from all the non-Catholic world. V.. A. ' 1 the skilled worker is one out of every five getting poorer, and is great personality, diplomacy, partly ole which have not vet every evidence, not only but even of speeding it. second session of the Pope John, as effective "We're Ready To Start The Big Push" M ....... ' I ",' .y Mriwi-' Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises, lite. PURELY PERSONAL PREJUDICES The child wants all its wishes to be granted; and what those adults who remain children have failed to learn is that if all our wishes were granted, fulfillment would be as common as dirt, and, losing the desire to wish, we would die of boredom and satiation. If you cannot understand the opposite of your position, then yim runnnl understand your own position: (his is why blind hate Is always self-destructive, and eventually topples the very cause it presumes to serve. The people who want to be both popular and right are no more deluded than those unhappy souls who believe that being unpopu lar is a token of their Tightness; all the great prophets were un popular but so were all the prigs and misanthropes, for very good reasons. Education In ilsrll ran never persuade a fanatic to change his mind: as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., superbly pill it: "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of (he eye: the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. " it secretly flatters us to read all the Faustian legends and to imagine ourselves selling our souls to the Devil for some immense gratification on this earth; and it rarely occurs to us that most souls arc not boldly bad enough to interest even the Devil, who would have no use for our weak, watery, indecisive sort of self indulgence. All the elaborate psychometric tests are not nearly as ac curate a means of reading character as simply observing a person walking his dog in his attitude toward the animal, toward lawns, and toward other dogs, one can gain an enor mous knowlrdge or the walker's (eellngs about himself and others. My recent paragraph about repentance often being a kind of credit we extend ourselves for future transgressions recalled that fine aphorism of Josh Hillings: "It is much easier to repent of sins we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit." Speaking of dogs, it is foolish to hold up the "loyalty" of dogs as an example of what human beings should he and are not for a dog is not loyal to his nun kind, to other dogs, hut only to humans and In his master: it is (he essence of his peculiar domestication that he prefers people to canines. tiAWi THE S8TH CONORESS By and huge, the critics of the Rlllh Congress are those who have been tiie advocates of the chief Kennedy measures. The i apologists for the Congress are the opponents of those mea sures. Rut is that all there is to it? Is there no issue of prin ciple al stake in the way the Congress has behaved? An apologist for the Congress has told us that "it may he as sumed lb.it Congress, in its fashion, reflects Ihe will of the country to go slowly." This amounts lo saying that the proper way to assert the will of the country to go slowly is not to debate the legislation, amend it and vole for or against it, but to prevent the elected representatives of the people from expressing the people's will. 'pilKRK is here a fundamental issue of principle Consider the lax bill which was proposed by (he President in July, 1!HI2, and IR months Inter is still in Senator Byrd's committer. On what ground ot principle can that delay be jus tified" If the bill is a bad bill which will unbalance sill! more the budget, then whv not bring it to (be floor and defeat it? Is the answer to lln question that Congress might not defeal il and Ihnt therefore it is natrioiie and wise lo smother Ihe hill oft stage in Ihe committee'.' It cannot be domed. 1 believe, that the SSIh Congrses has been paralyzed by a furtive filibuster in the eommitlee. by what may fairly be described as a con spiracy to susnend representa tive government 'THAT is not the whole of th had job done by the fwth Congress In addition to setting up a manipulated blockade of the greater part ol the President's program, this Congress has gone further even than the last ( MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (CI 1963 The Washington Post Congress in attempting to usurp the President's constitutional power lo conduct our foreign re lations. I am not referring to the cut in the appropriations bill for foreign aid. For it is the indis putable right of the legislature to refuse to grant money asked for by the executive. What the legislature has no right lo do is to lay down iron clad injunctions and prohibi tions as to how the President shall conducl relations with the outer world. This is an invasion of the President's prerogative. Yet that is what Senator Mundt and Representative H a 1 1 e c k have wanted to do in the case of trade with Communist coun tries. IF the President ol Ihe United Stales is effectively prohibit ed from making trade arrange ments with countries on the other side of the iron curtain, he is limited and stultified as is no other head of government in the non-Communist world. The Constitution never intend ed that the Congress should not only advise and consent, but that il should also manage and conduct our foreign policy. Thus we see on Ihe one hand a refusal to legislate, which is the function of the legislature, and on the other hand the at tempt lo administer, which is the function of the executive. This has been a bad Congress, and the country needs and de serves to have a better one than il has had Oregon Chrision Deeqafes Depart PORTLAND i ITU -Fifty-two Oregon delegates and (heir chaierones left by train here Wednesday to attend the 19th Ecumenical Conference on Christian World Mission at Ohio University al Athens, Ohio, Dec. 27 through Jin. 2. The conference is held every (our veais. OREGON Emotional Need at Present, Health Expert SAN FRAiNCISCO (UPD- Emotional immaturity is the world's greatest problem, ac cording to a former director- PHIL NEWSOM upi Forrim Nrw, Analyst World Health ...Communications... Letters to the Editor muir bear the name and addresl 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 to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact the contrary is often the case. Old Time Schooling To the Editor: Our friend Floyd R. McCabe's communica tion in a recent Tribune re minds the writer of his early day schooling experience. We had one mile to walk to and from school, usually a seven month term with one to two weeks winter vacation. Our athletics consisted of baseball, football, and in winter, boxing exercises. Also in spring was running, jumping, weight lift ing, throwing and wrestling. Most of the pupils wore rugged in physique as nearly all got a lesson in "hard knocks". The three R's were reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic. On Friday af ternoon there was either a spell ing bee or a ciphering match. Above the teacher's blackboard were usually two water elm or willow switches, just in case of any required discipline. We did most of our school work during school hours, as we had chores to do after classes were dis missed. All in all, we enjoyed every minute both in and out of school sessions. Bert Kissinger ;I22 S. Riverside Ave. Medford Still Reigns To the Editor: Two thousand years ago a Saviour was born in a small city called Bethlehem. This saviour was born for this purpose: to save his people from their sins and to reconcile man back to God. His name is called Immanuel, Councilor, the Prince of Peace. Yes, his name is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin of the seed of David Jo seph was going to have Mary, his fiancee, put away because he found her with child; but, an angel appeared unto Joseph and said "Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the I Holy Ghost and she shall bring torth a son and tbou snail can his name Jesus: For he shall save his people from their sins." Jesus was baptized in the Ri ver Jordan by John the Baptist and then He was baptized by the Holy Ghost. Jesus went about doing good and healed the sick and all manner of diseases among the people. Jesus became very popular among the people. The people wanted to make Jesus a king; but Jesus departed fram them because He knew that He had to become despised and re jected by all men to become the Saviour of the World. Jesus was from then on mis understood bv the children of 1 Israel. Many of his disciples i left Him. The Jews sought to take Jesus' life many times, I but His lime was not yet. ! Jesus faced Gethsemane ' where He willingly turned over ! His life for our sins. Judas Is- eariot, one of the disciples, be ! trayed him for 30 pieces of silver. Jesus was then taken to Pi late Pilate sent him to Herod and Herod sent Jesus back to ' Pilate. Jesus was falsely ac- cused by the Jews and yet Je Isus opened not his mouth. Pi- late offered one of the prisoners wor on him. conditioning his to be set free lo the people since mlnd for coming back to Amen I (hat riav there was a (caS. ca and slaying the President, in i The people chose Barabbas, a - ricr 'j13' the crlme Jn11!;ll', b.e murderer, etc. j -'hargcd against good Amen- I Jesus was scourged, which means that He received 39 lash les upon his back. Then He was ! crucified on a cross. Three days later, the people found an empty grave. Jesus arose from the dead. Today Jesus is siding at the right hand of God making inter- Santa Claus Finds Child in Hospital PATTERSON. Calif. (CPU Kathy Sliallon. 4. sobbed as she was being rushed to the hospital Christmas Eve. She had swallowed sale- falsely accusing him of stirring Iv pin while she was eating up hatred against Kennedy But cereal. Bui that was not what the great Senator has been very was warning her. She cried moderate and reasonable in his "Santa won ! he able lo find magnificent fight for America me he thinks I'm al grand- against Communism. m" '-" He has come personally to It all turned out finr. The represent the greatest hope for safely pin was removed and a free America against the Kathy was in good condition headlong rush toward Socialism today. And she had her pros- in every area of American Gov erns, too. Ho Sann was able crnment and life Today, as In find his way to the hospital. never before, amid this vicious Maturity Until men become sufficiently mature to respond to changing circumstances in this dynamic world, said Dr. G. Brock Chis holm, mankind will continue down the road to universal de struction. The price of salvation, he said, will be the abandoning of some time-honored but no longer applicable conscience values that aie blocking the achievement of world coopera tion in such areas as peace, food distribution and popula tion control. Chisholm, of Victoria, B.C., spoke at a University of Califor- cession for your sins. Yes, Jesus died for your sins. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Come to Jesus beouse he said "He that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out." Jesus Christ today reigns in my heart. Richard Gary Morgan 618 East Ninth St. Medford. A "Thank You" To the Editor: We would like to take this opportunity to ex tend Season's Greetings and a big "Thank You" for your inter est, time, effort, and sacrifices which have helped to promote the welfare of this school. May you and yours have mahy Christmas blessings. May the New Year be a happy, holy, and peaceful one. (Rev.) John J. Keane Principal For the Faculty, the Stu dents, the Parents' Club St. Mary's School Medford. Marxists To the Editor: And all the Christian readers of your paper, a merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year. But I can not say that to all the atheists, Communists, Socialists, Marx ists, because they don't want it. They brag about it, how nice it would be, if all the profit sys tem would be abolished. Who would like to work without get ting paid for it? Who would like to give you a loan of money without getting some extra mon ey in return? If the Marxists have all this worked out, I have heard nothing of it. Why did the Marxists in East Berlin put up the concrete wall around their part of the city to keep their own people from crossing over into West Berlin to escape from Socialism, Marx ism.' Hitler brought National Socialism to Germany. Stalin with Khrushchev brought Marx ism to Russia and all of eastern Europe. Khrushchev had h i s hands full in the butchery of Budapest in Hungary. A year ago the peaceful Marxists from China tried to get a slice from India without the Indians' con sent. In 1908 the Socialists told me a war now would be impossible, the Socialists would not stand lur 11. since men me two mosl horrible world wars the world has ever seen and the cold war still going on. And now. the! Marxists threaten us with 100 megaton bombs and a pislol at the back of our heads. Xavicr Widmer Route 3, Box 186 Medford. Cuildwatcr Fan To the Editor: Fellow Ameri cans: How would you feel if 1 v j: , , o,,u Limauni turn- montatnrs were nnhlinlv ing YOU of causing the "hate" attitudes in the mind of the assassin who killed the Presi dent? Ask Barrv Goldwater, for he d "f " . ij ni.ij3iii mill ill nidi way. home of us believe that in the three years that Oswald was Russia that the Reds there Laos miu ii(ii' uivu aiuuaui opposition lo Communism. As (he great Dean Manion says, "The Socialist-Liberal Commu nists, in their last stand, will bend every effort to place the murder of John F. Kennedy on what they call the 'Right Wing' Americans who are so valiantly fighting the Reds And in their grief, many people are ready to believe anything even a fantastic story like this." Anyway, because there is no man in the U.S. that the Reds and radicals so hate and fear as Senator Goldwater, he has been receiving many letters World's Greatest nia conference on "Man Under Stress" at the university's San Francisco medical center. When people fail to mature emotionally, he said, they re spond to stress in a typically childlike fashion with either passive submission or hostility, unplanned and emotionally determined. "This is the kind of person to whom the symbol becomes the reality, the slogan ultimate truth, and revelation the only reliable evidence," Chisholm said. "His heroes are absolutely good and his opponents abso- and false attack upon him by the Reds and their allies, Barry Goldwater needs word from each of us personally that he has always our devoted sup port in his heroic and indomi table battle against the foes and forces that are steadily destroy ing this greatest country of free dom that the world has ever known. Please do the following today: 1. Send him a personal letter or postcard of support, air mail or telegram. 1. Send separately or as an enclosure a birthday greeting He observes his 55th birthday on Jan. 1, 1964. 3. Address messages to Sena tor Barry Goldwater, U.S. Sen ate, Washington, D.C. 4. Millions of INFORMED AMERICANS regard Barry Goldwater as being the last hope for saving our country from the Red takeover that is already in progress. 5. And include this gallant champion of Human Freedom in your prayers for America. Important: Please send copy of your letter (carbon O.K.) to William E. Miller, Chairman, National Committee, 1625 Eye St. NW, Washington 6, D.C. Charles R. Weede 278 Idaho St. Ashland Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this , is written, there's blood all over the moon in Washington. What's it all about? Well, according to the dis patches, the 88th Congress in a shouting-mad temper, the cor respondents r e p 0 r t scuttled plans to adjourn for the year and ordered sessions to continue this week in an effort to end a bitter deadlock over the foreign aid spending bill. The bone of contention was an amendment concerning credits for wheat and other sales to the communist countries. lyHAT about these credits? The situation was like 1 this I The controversial amendment j lo the foreign aid bill would ; cunau ine r-resineni s powers 1 In EXTEND CREDIT (n the Russians in sales of wheat and other commodities. Which is to sav: It would require Russia to pay for these commodities in gold or American dollars in stead of permitting the U.S.A. to EXTEND CREDIT to the So viet Union which, in effect, would amount to putting the bill on the American cuff and trust ing to luck that the communist fcuciiiiueui 01 r government of Russia would n k:n : 1 "'"-.'. ,V3 . " m S"'u or negotiable dollar exchange. I That's about the long and the short of it. ! fl-'ESTION How do you, as a taxpayer, Ll " . , 'n,: j n,i ,uu muni,; aim i-at:i lu put anomcr billion or so on the ! cuff to help Russia out in her present stale 01 1 1 n a n c I a 1 stringency? A NOTHER question: " Why is everybody in Wash - "Those are the t'MCEF cards we got we have tome right-wing friends wr like lo bug!" Says lutely bad. For him 'we,' who ever we are, are always 'the good ones,' independently of our behavior. God is always on our side. We never have fought an unrighteous war or c h a m pioned an unwortny cause. "All our difficulties are the results of the machinations of the 'bad' ones, who, according to his particular prejudices, are the communists, the Jews, the Catholics, the Protestants, sub versives, liberals or almost any thing different from himself. Such a person, Chisholm said, is the "arch enemy of social, political and religious evolu tion and growth." The time has come, he said, when the ancient and deeply imbedded concept of "survival groups" tribes, states, nations is outdated and downright dangerous. "We can no longer hope to survive by ruthless competition backed by our capacity to kill; from now on we will survive as life on earth and by cooperation or not at all." The consciences of most peo ple under present-day circum stances may be "disastrously misleading," Chisholm said. Many millions of people, he said, still believe on the basis of what they learned in child hood that the proper response to threat is to increase the ability to kill and thus keep the enemy in line. This has resulted in a situation where man is capable of eliminating himself from the earth three or four times over. Yet, Chisholm said, vast num bers of people still believe they would feel more secure if the killing capacity could be in creased to perhaps 10 times. "There is really no advantage in killing all of ourselves more than three or four times," Chis holm said, "and to believe that is obviously insane." If the human race is to sur vive, men must conquer sucn feelings as these, Chisholm said. They must also change many other old ideas such as reliev ing that having large numbers of children is admirable. There are "hopeful signs," Chisholm said, that the present generation has the technical ca pacity to take charge of its own destiny. But, he added, it must also have the emotional matur ity to handle its problems. ington so peeved about it all? TT would be wonderful to bo - able to feel that the welfare of the U.S.A., including the wel fare of its taxpayers, was the sole consideration at issue. But there were other issues. Members of congress, who have been dying to get home for Christmas in good time, must now remain in Washington and, as of now, no one knows how long that may take. Con gress may get into another wrangle that could go on for days and days maybe for weeks. The President, who is report ed to bp fifihtinrr mad ahnllt the I whole business, had to delay his j departure from Washington to i spend the Christmas holidays at nis Texas ranch ! : QNE of lne most interesting v reactions to the ruckus comes from Mayor Elect John F. Shelley, of San Francisco, who retired from congress to become the city's mayor. Asked by interviewers what he would have done if he had still been in Washington, he said he might have voted against the bill to empower the President to ex tend credit to Russia for the purchase of wheat. One reason why he would have hesitated to back the wheat bill, he said, is that he never got any help for the San Francisco Naval Shipyard from congressmen now sponsoring the grain measure. XlfE'RE all sure our American SVSlpm of Dnuornmonl ic tnc best system on earth but 1 113 peculiarities ana peca idilloes. We want economy, but we aiso wani an tne federal money we can get in our home ' communities.
