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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.
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Smudge Pot" column: "The
fret of the people flourish.
Along with the current worries
and the war cumes me predic
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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
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charge saws way out of Med
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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.
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h-irmless or harmlul?
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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.
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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...
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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!"
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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.
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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.