SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018
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LETTERS
A DIFFERENT VIEW
ON IMMIGRATION
I have been a small busi-
ness owner. For 25 years I was
a director and operations man-
ager for companies that
employed immigrants as the
main part of their work force.
I worked with Puerto
Ricans, Haitians, Vietnamese
and Latinos in locations from
Bedford Stuyvesant, NY, to
south central Los Angeles,
Oxnard and Agoura, Calif.
When those companies
were hiring, the chance of hir-
ing a relative of those already
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employed was very high. The
employee who made the rec-
ommendation of family or
friend made sure that the hiree
had the right skills and tem-
perament for the job.
They often were involved
in training the new employee,
and the new worker appreciat-
ed the opportunity and
demonstrated it through hard
work.
The work ethic of those
minorities was such that you
would find men and women
who didn’t miss a day of work
for 10-25 years.
Many developed skills as
machinists, electronic techs,
supervisors, etc.
My experience has shown
me that if people are treated
respectfully and compensated
according to the level of con-
tribution they make to the
company, they will reward
you with loyalty and honesty.
We hear the words today
Buckwald AccounƟ ng
& ConsulƟ ng, PC
about “chain immigrants”
made to sound like they are
part of a “chain gang.”
I speak of family people
who have contributed to the
strength of our country.
—Ron Preisler
Florence
R ESPONSE TO AN
OLD U.S. M ARINE
I am compelled to respond
to Tony Cavarno’s Letter to
the Editor (“Thoughts from an
old US Marine,” Feb. 17).
As an old veteran of the
U.S. Army Security Agency
who served in Korea, I won-
der if Mr. Cavarno would like
the current generation to know
the myths or the facts about
this country’s imperialistic
venture in Korea.
Would he want them to
know that conquering those
hills was a repetitious non-
strategic total waste of human
life? Or that the South Korean
government that the U.S. was
supposedly defending charged
rent for the land used for mili-
tary bases? (which U.S. tax-
payers paid for.)
I suggest he read the book
by U.S. Marine Corps Major
General Smedly Butler, “War
is a Racket,” and think about
President Eisenhower’s com-
ment on the war in 1951:
“Small attacks on small hills
would not win the war.”
—Bill Durst
Florence
D ISAPPOINTED WITH
M C K EOWN
We are greatly disappointed
and outraged that our Rep.
Caddy McKeown voted “no”
on HB 4145, the Domestic
Violence Victim Protection
Act, becoming the only
Democrat to join Republicans
in opposing this bill.
When our delegation from
Florence met with her in
Salem on Moms Demand
Action Advocacy Day, she
raised only two technical
issues that in our opinion were
not sufficient reasons to
oppose the bill. We would like
to know specifically her rea-
son for opposing this bill and
others like it in the past.
We have supported her can-
didacy not only with our votes
but with hard work in the
community. This year with the
growing
gun
violence
throughout our country, we
will no longer support candi-
dates that fail to support sensi-
ble gun violence prevention
measures.
We signed Gabby Gifford’s
pledge: “I promise that I will
vote courage in November
and support candidates who
will stand up to the gun lobby
and take action to make our
communities safer from gun
violence,” and have encour-
aged others to do the same.
In all future elections, we
will follow the lead set by
President Obama when he
passionately stated in an Op-
Ed in the New York Times, “I
will not campaign for, vote for
or support any candidate, even
in my own party, who does not
support common-sense gun
reform.”
We encourage others to do
the same.
—Mike and Pat Allen
Florence
W HEN WILL THEY
EVER LEARN ?
The recent news regarding
the latest tragic school shoot-
ing in Florida makes me sick.
Here we go again. As a parent,
I always worry that it can hap-
pen here and feel deeply for
the parents who are facing the
death of their child.
I also read that the National
Rifle Association is being
investigated for funneling
laundered Russian money into
the presidential campaign.
Oregon’s Representative Ron
Wyden is working on the fore-
front of the investigation, to
make information available to
the public.
Then I read the ad in
Siuslaw News about the up-
coming Fraudville fundraiser
for our local Boys and Girls
Club and held at the casino
every year. The newspaper
just ran a long story about the
needs of the BGC, and my
children have been in excel-
lent programs there — so I
support them fully.
But the big raffle item this
year is... a 9mm pistol?
What happened to raffling
off handmade quilts or roman-
tic weekend get-aways? Now
we have to raffle off a gun?
The irony here is huge.
Personally, I would gladly
give up my constitutional
right to own a gun if I knew it
would prevent tens of thou-
sands of gun deaths per year
here in the U.S.
But I also have almost no
hope for this country changing
its gun laws. Certainly not if
our NRA is funneling Russian
laundered money.
What’s that refrain in the
old song, “Where Have All the
Flowers Gone?”
“When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?”
—Mary Beth Rawlins
Florence
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