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Use Our Heads
To the Editor: This is written
in regard to the letter of F. J.
Clifford in Sunday's paper. Al
ways find him interesting and
logical. However this time I am
puzzled and would like to know
where he picked up this Russian
that talked German instead of
his native tongue, when he ex
claimed "scheming m i t d e r
brain." Those two words in the
center are as German as can be.
T should know as that is the
only language I knew the first
25 years of my life and have my
doubts that I ever could learn
Russian or Chinese for that
matter. Could it be mistaken
identity?
. As for -scheming with the
brains I think is an asset instead
of a fault. Of course it often goes
under a different name, like
diplomacy, strate'gy, business
acumen, etc. It's used by all
smart people. As to the Russian
not much inclined to fight, what
intelligent, sensible human be
ing is? However, he will prove
himself just as patriotic as any
other nationality and defend his
country when need be. That he
has proven more than once.
As to Napoleon losing in Rus-
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you claim, Mr. Clifford, because
of lack of faith in him. In the
first instance it was .the ele
ments, bitter cold and ground
covered with deep snow, no food
as the retreating Russians had
destroyed everything behind
them. Moscow was deserted.
There was nothing left but re
treat and thousands of frozen
bodies littered the road on the
long march back.
As to 'the battle of Waterloo,
how well I remember when one
teacher told us how it swayed
back and forth all day, and Wel
lington in despair exclaimed "I
wish it were night or the Prus
sians would come." No sooner
had he "said it, when the sound
of General von Bluecher's can
nons could be heard. Inspired
with new courage, Wellington's
men fought on, Von Bluecher at
tacked from the rear and short
ly thereafter Napoleon surren
dered. Before I left Germany, Russia
was still an illiterate, backward
people, blighted by superstition
and orthodox religion, as evi
denced by the enormous influ
ence the monk Rasputin exer
cised over the imperial family.
To think that now she has be
come the second most powerful
nation on earth is truly amazing.
If you would like to get a true
picture of this enormous change,
read News Week for Feb. 6, "In
dustrial War Can Russia Win?"
Here I submit is our greatest
task and would behoove us to
do more "scheming mit der
brains to retain our Freiheit.
William Krauss
Route 1, Box 373
- Gold Hill, Ore. .
afery, bat are we?
There has only been one man
on this earth that was really
civilized and that was Jesus
Christ, and perhaps John the
Baptist, because I do not think
Christ would let any one else
baptize Him. Because truth and
that greatness of those two men
spelled civilization and truth
When we get all of us civilized
and live the truth we will get
somewhere and not till then.
I was left an orphan at six
years old and made my own way
in this cold old world, a news
kid to start. I would not tell
how much I was abused but I
won out, as often as I took it on
the chin. I have returned good
and helped others. If I had not
spent so much of my earnings I
could have been a rich man to
day. Of course I tried to live up
to the truth and not overcharge
people in all my designing and
building business. I get a small
pension and I try to build a few
cabinets now and then as I can
not do too much as I am past
78 years and not very well.
have had no trouble with man-
made law and have been around
a great deal in all these years.
We could all be enjoying a bet
ter place to live if we were civil
ized. ,
William Ross Sharp '
26 Portland ave.
Medford, Ore.
Civilization and Truth
To the Editor: You know we
are not civilized if we were a
case like that poor colored girl,
wanting nothing better than an
education. My heart goes out to
the Negro, as hundreds of them
have worked for me in Panama
and I found many bright men
among them. Our government
has just been nasty to the Negro
and Indian. I have, heard so
many nasty things done to the
poor Negro in the south it has
been a fright. A real ' master
builder and workman, a pal of
mine, traveled al through the
south many years ago and he
could tell some hair-raising stor
ies how the whites treated the
Negroes. I have had over 100
men working for me at one time,
a fine lot of men, good work
men. We are not civilized. If we
were the terrible things that are
going on in the whole world to
day would not be. We are sup
posed to be reclaimed from sav-
Competent Bricklayers
To the Editor: A statement in
Wednesday's paper attributed to
some local builders concerning
the lack of. competent brick-
masons in the area needs some
clarification.
In- the Ashland, Medford-,
Grants Pass' area there are no
less than seven fully qualified
masonry contractors, each with
a crew competent enough to
start and finish any masonry
job without delay.
Incompetency is a broad
charge.
A public statement such ' as
this isn't likely to prove bene
ficial to our craft.
Your Medford Bricklayers Lo
cal No. 9 guarantees its mem
bers work. If you plan to build
of brick or block contact a local
masonry contractor.
For beauty, economy, per
manence, build with brick or
block! ;
James W. Stevens
Secretary Local No. 9, Oregon
Route 2, Box 158-a
Central Point, Ore.
Groups and Cliques? .-
To the Editor: As long as we
have lived in Medford, special
interest groups and cliques have
been leading the herd around
by their noses and making them
like it. We have to live in' city
limits when we prefer to stay in
county, and one thing after an
other is done to increase taxes.
Now. they. want, to put poison in
out wonderful drinking water
and make us pay for it.
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children's teeth become a matter
of mass-medication? It still is a
controversial Question with
sosne experts claiming that a
percentage will suffer from mal
formation of teeth due to the
fluorides. ;
Everyone is free to add fluor
ine to his drinking water if he
so desires and there is no valid
reason why it should be made a
matter of compulsion.
Mrs. Dacia Jones,
Barnett rd.
Medford, Ore.
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Political Malaikey
To the Editor: Hold every
thing! The battle is on. Not be
tween flesh and blood Democrats
and Republicans, but the unseen
forces of "creeping socialism"
that stems from someplace on
high. Colorado's former gover
nor Dan Thornton must have
gotten into Tom Dewey's 1948
batch of campaign speeches and
hauled out one titled "the heavy
hand of government." How gul
lible can politicians really get?
Socialism cannot take root in
any country that has a middle
class society. How can socialism
take root in the United States
when we can produce and con
sume goods and services of $350
billions annually? How can so
cialism become a reality with
$7 billions of surplus food, over
15 thousand different businesses
operating full tilt, employing 65
million people, which is an av
erage of IV2 members of each
family working at the highest
wage rates that have been
known since man has been upon
the earth. Where is one single
sign of socialism whenever the
people of this country pay more
money in personal income taxes
than the total revenue 4 of any
other, country in the world?
Sure, there are many things
wrong with our system. The
most prominent one is that we
have far too many people in low
income groups. That's why some
forms of subsidies and controls
are necessary, but that doesn't
mean socialism. As long as Amer
ican industry is operated for
profit and remains in private
hands, and as long as we have
the consuming power of the 22
millions of middle class families,
socialism is about as far off as
the. return of the side saddle or
the wooden churn. Far too many
people listen to political malar
key and not ' enough common
sense.
Earl Allen, '.
176 South Stage rd.,
Medford, Ore.
Sunday, February 12, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
The Old Marilyn Monroe Still Around;
Plans To Co-Star With Laurence Olivier
New York-JOJ.R) The "nei
Marilyn Monroe was unveiled
Thursday but another, unsched
uled unveiling left little doubt
that the old Marilyn Monroe
was still around.
Miss Monroe, a blooming
young actress who wants to do
dramatic parts, met the press
along with her new associate,
Sir Laurence Olivier.
For a time everything went
along just fine and the "new"
Monroe discussed a picture she
plans to make with Olivier as
photographers . duly recorded
the spectacle of a black sheath
dress that covered roughly the
lower two-thirds of her famous
frame.
Old Marilyn Busts Out , '
Then, a strap broke and the
old Marilyn Monroe busted out
all over.
There was a near stampede
and flash bulbs popped in daz
zling profusion.
. . Someone (a -woman reporter)
produced a safety pin but the
ice had broken . along with the
strap and things took on the at
mosphere of a Mardi Gras.
Amidst the assertion of pho
tographers that they could die
happy, Olivier loudly volunteer
ed to take -his coat off, too.
No one took up his offer so
Chevalier clung to his dignity
Democratic Give-Away -
1 To the Editor: While millions
of independent liberal voters
sadly looked on, the party of
Jefferson staged as reasonable a
facsimile of a Republican "give
away" as one could wish.
For on the 7th day of Febru
ary," in the year of our Lord
1956, the Democratically con
trolled Senate of . the United
States, 53 to 38, handed the al
ready over-subsidized and under-
regulated oil and gas industry a
fabulous fortune, thereby setting
the stage so the Republican party
could neatly turn the tables and
place the Democrats in the posi
tion of sponsoring a "give away,"
should the President have cou
rage enough to veto the bill.
Of course he will not but one
cannot help contemplating the
immense possibilities in such a
veto. Ike, champion of the "little
guy" sounds like something out
of Arabian Nights.
Meanwhile, "The hungry sheep
look up and are not fed."
Lee Wilmeth
Ashland, Ore.
Likes Osteopathic
To the Editor: Having been
recently -for 11 days a patient
in the Medford Osteopathic hos
pital, I wish to take this oppor
tunity to publicly express my
sincere and deeply felt gratitude
to the doctors, nurses, labora
tory, and office staff for their
kindly and efficient handling of
my case.
I. have nothing but good
words for the Medford Osteo
pathic hospital and its staff.
The Rev. H. R. Bulman
Route 1, Box 316 A
Medford, Ore.
Against Fluoridation
To the Editor: We are glad
that the Jackson County Medical
association has openly stated its
position regarding fluoridation.
We wonder just how much indi
vidual investigation has been
made by those voting for this
resolution.
Conflicting articles published"
in their own journals ,indicate
that there is far from 100 per
cent agreement among the pro
fession as to whether or not
such endorsement is justified.
Reference is often made that
those who oppose fluoridation
are religious fanatics or cite
Christian Scientists as. leaders of
this opposition. This is not true
in Medford. The Mormons op
pose the use of any beverage
or any substance injurious to the
body. Pope Pius XH, speaking to
delegates attending the First
International Congress on the
Histopathology of the Nervous
System in 1952 on the theme,
"The . Moral Limits of Medical
Research and Treatment," said
in substance that man has no
right to destroy himself. He
concluded, "I refer here to the
tendency of fluorides to cause
abortion. Do you not think the
Catholic church, as well as other
churches, would object to this
result of fluoridation as a sin"?
. It should be remembered that
chlorine does its work as a bac
teria killer and can be aerated
Phoenix Church To
Honor Boy Scouts
Phoenix National Boy
Scout Sunday -will be observed
in the Phoenix Presbyterian
church today during the 11 a.m.
service.
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts
will be guests of honor. - The
Rev. E. R. Volkman will give the
sermon, "Samson, the Strong
Man Who Was Weak."
The Men's club will hold a
meeting Monday, Feb. 13, pre
ceded at 6:30 p.m., by a potluck
dinner. William Green, a local
revenue officer, will speak.
. A meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday evening, Feb. 14 for
teachers of the Sunday school
when plans will be made to dis
cuss work for -the next few
months. All teachers and officers
are invited.
It is pointed . out that Mrs.
Lloyd Schmelzer recently was
appointed to assist with work
in the primary department. Ear
lier it was announced that she
was appointed as superinten
dent. Mrs. Walter Bolz was su
perintendent last year.
Report CO Per Cent
Of Tax Collections
A total of $4,451,484.24, or
80.2 per cent, of county taxes
have been collected for the cur
rent year, according to County
Treasurer Karl Janouch.
Of the total, Jackson county
received 9.8 percent; state for
estry board, .1 per cent; cities,
12.5 per cent; irrigation districts,
4; school funds,- 70.8; and wa
ter, sanitary and rural fire dis
tricts, 1.9. "
Janouch reminded taxpayers
who did not pay their taxes in
full on or before Nov. 15, 1955
that second quarterly payments
are due on Feb. 15. Two more
quarterly 'payment - dates re
main for the 1956 tax payments
after Feb. 15.
or boiled out of water; boiling
fluoridated water only concen
trates fluorine and aeration has
no effect whatever.
- Proponents refer to fluorides
occurring naturally in water.
These are calciiyn fluorides and
are assimilable by the body in
small amounts; while sodium
fluoride, which is what is being
proposed for use here, is a metal
lic, synthetic, inorganic poison,
and even in minute amounts it
will accumulate in the body and
do damage as the concentration
increases. Sodium fluoride inhib
its the -calcium in our bodies,
taking it from the blood stream
and bones, and this attraction
has been blamed for the increase
in cancer, heart disease, diabetes,
and kidney ailments. This state
ment is a matter of record in
test cities, a "number of which
have voted fluoridation out after
having tested it thoroughly.
If fluoridation is desired, why
may not the public .health ser
vice supply fluorine tablets with
proper directions for use to all
those who desire that children
take them? : Children of all
groups, , rural . as well as city,
would then have access to what
ever beneficial effects might be
possible; Expense would be neg
ligible, and . good or ill results
would be easily determined, thus
leaving pure water for those who
desire it.
I suggest we had better un
wrap ourselves from our cloak of
smugness and take another look
at the problem. Oftentimes, a
fighting minority is right.
We feel that the public health
service has done and is doing a
terrific job, but in this instance
they are misquided and misin
formed. .
J. Verne Shangle
v .- 1445 Kings Highway
Medford, Ore. J
until the tumult died down and
the strap was pinned up.
"No leg pictures of Miss Mon
roe, boys" he cautioned photog
raphers, "from now on, she's
too ethereal." .
The news conference reveal
ed, among other things, that
Miss Monroe has hired Olivier
to star in a film, "The Sleeping
Prince," being produced by Miss
Monroe. She said she will co
star, using the new dramatic
techniques she has learned in
New York's exclusive Actors'
studio.
Asked if she still wants to do
Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers
Karamazov," Miss Monroe said:
"I don't want to play the broth
ers Karamazov. I want to play
Grushenka. She's a girl."
Brilliant Comedienne
Asked his opinion of Miss
Monroe's acting ability, Olivier
said: 'Miss Monroe is, in my'
opinion, a brilliant comedienne
and therefore an extremely
good actress."
"I hope we produce a movie
in London. I've never seen.
Europe before," Miss Monroe
said. "If I go I'll see Dame Edith
Sitwell. She'll : show me the
sights." -
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