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o . . . Communications . . . Lelteri to the Editor must bear the name and address of tht writer, although undar cettain circumstances the use oi a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The i 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 papen in fact the contrary is often the case. Laugh or Weep? To the Editor: I' hardlv know whether to 'laugh or weep after reading Robert J. Howard's letter in Friday's MT. So now the Foreign Pol icy association is suspectl Well, well! Next thing you know some befuddled group of super-patriots will come out with a list of "suspects" in cluding Ike, Dick, JFK, LBJ, HST, FDR and our other na tional leaders of all parties all the way back to Honest Abe and George Washington. I'm not kidding. I remem ber hearing President Frank lin D. Roosevelt addressing a record assembly under F.P.A. auspices at the famed Waldorf Astoria in New York in the late 40s, and many another notable before and since, American and foreign, of ev ery shade of political, faith except Communist (I w o u 1 d even agree with Edgar Hoo ver of the FBI that we must learn all we can from Com munists, too, if we would fit ourselves for effective oppo sition to their doctrines and ways). That was all in the good American tradition. But all those speakers, along with the rest of us in attendance or p a r t'i c i p a ting in F.P.A'.'s "Great Decisions" discussions of recent years, are now sus pect by the mccarthyite guilt by-association. Or so we are to believe, according to t h e booklet, "The Truth About the Foreign Policy Association put out by an American Le gion Post in Atlanta, Georgia (as if that fair city did not already.' suffer enough at the hands of some of its benight ed citizens!). The TRUTH about F.P.A.2 I'm relieved to note that Mr. Howard doesn't claim it for that booklet. He merely sug gests that reading it might "keep us from committing an intellectual blunder in the name of patriotism." If Mr. Howard really wants to know the truth about "Great Deci sions" discussions or other ac tivities of F.P.A., I invite him -and ail others interested-to join, or at least visit, any of the local groups during the current season, in February and March; "Great Decisions" Is an an nual review by- hundreds of thousands of Americans, of the most important international problems facing the people and government of the United States. The only aim is "to get the facts, talk them over in the American way, gain a deeper understanding, and reach your own INDIVIDUAL opinions on these critical is sues of U. S. foreign policy, and let your opinions be heard by policy-makers in Washing ton." For information about dates and places of. meeting of "Great Decisions" groups in Jackson county, write Jack son County Extension Agent, P, O. Box 1069, Medford. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Double Protest To the Editor: You may add my note of protest against two proposals now before the public. First, I am opposed to the use of public funds to build a stadium. If the idea is as good as it promoters claim, why don't they invest in it, and carry it out as a private enterprise? I can see a much greater need for an adequate civic au ditorium. Second, where do we line up to organize and get action to stop the construction and operation of the private log ging road as proposed by Med co? It would not be quite so bad for them to have the road, though that is bad enough; but for the trucks on that road to have the right of way over all other traffic is just not right. I notice that very little was said about this by either Med co or the state highway de partment until it was practi cally an accomplished fact. Close-Oui Sale Prices Burn-Rite Logs KOGAP Lumber Industritt it liquidating thir ifock of Burn Rite Loqi. New you n iivi i much 26c ptr carton. Burn-Rift Logi art packaged in eaty to carry 10 paeki and 6 packs. Each log ia 3 inchts in diameter and 12 inches long and will give hours of warm, comfortable heat. Burn-Rite logs are available at our mill on South racmc Higway 99 or we will deliver orders amount Ing to $15.00 or more. Sorry No Charging on these special prices For More Information Call . . . SP 3-6601 9 Ext. 46 Surely there is some manner in which the public, can be protected against such opera tions as this one. J. A. Johnston .912 Newtown Medford. Southern White View To the Editor: Habits are forged of tough and lasting materials that make for trouble when too suddenly changed, or attempted. So, when passing time tells me that my dear one has met up with someone out of the past, and they proceed to bring said past into the present, my re course is to amble to the po lice or bus station for some thing worth while on this or that. A while back when federal forcing of school integration down south had top place in the news, my inquiringly cocked ear caught a ' deep- south accent, when a well dressed man inquired for bus- time arrival. Returning to his seat, to my first tentative in quiry, he replied, "Oh, jes' looking around. Sure good to find easement and folks friendly like." To my next one he gave a slow but revealing answer: "How can there be good feeling when white-folks are threatenin' trade at yo'r eatments and nick-nack sto'? An' the blacks boycottin' yo at the same time? Sho' makes you want to get away fr'm hit all." When one knows not what to say, it's best to say nothing. The troubled man from the south continued, "What gits me th'' most is pictures of them po 11 1 black kids being forced into white schools. 'Cause I've heard 'em bawl an' cry "Ah doan wanntt go to that ol' white school. The kids there are mean to me an' don't play like we colored kids do.' But their ma whups an' scolds 'em till they do go." Turning to me he bitterly remarked, "Y'all know how 'tis. No kid, white or black, likes to be yanked out of a school he's bin a-going to and put in a strange one? He gits picked on unmerciful, 'special ly if n he stutters or has some disfigurement. But put. him in a school of different color and ways of a-doin' things, he's one sorry kid. . "We wuz gittin' along fine, livin' better, both white an' black, them getting new schools that of course was bet ter than some whites.. Then that carpet-bagger thing that almost ruint the south after the war 'tween the states, got into the s'preme co't an' the rulin' from hit set that NAACP thine a-going and all hell is to pay now. The blacks are gittin' to hate the whites an' whites a hatin' the blacks. Jes' where hit'U end, God only knows." ,F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Outpour-of Soup To the Editor: Mr. Frank Jenkins whose interesting col umn appears daily in the Medford Mail Tribune, has of late been wrestling with a perplexing problem: how to make multimillionaire cabinet officials happy, how to cir cumvent the doleful, the piti fully inadequate above-board salary of only $25,000 per year. It's a momentous concern. It touches the heart of all good Republicans, for who in the world with great brain power can possibly under stand how to live on the pit tance of only $25,000? To suggest that these public spirited citizens use the in terest of some of their own money to supplement their $25,000 salary which they can not understand how to live on-that would be un thinkable for these people arc not "spenders." Here indeed is a grave prob lem, inordinately so, because are we not almost convinced that we must hold on to the 'brains" at all costs? Hopeless? No, a solution to Mr. Jenkin's dilemma might very well be found. Supposing we picked up democracy, and elevated de mocracy to an unprecedented, a scintillating height of justice. Well-for not to become dis mayed, supposing we just picked up democracy and only infused it with sufficient jus tice to revise the tax laws, base them on ability to pay. Now taxation in accord ance with ability to pay, that would lend prestige to lip service in democracy. It would help the treasury, and best of all it would be a boon to the multimillionaire cab inet official in his great task converting his huge overbur den of wealth into tax exempt securities. Whatever makes these in dispensable multimillionaires like Mr. McNamara, like Mr. Dillon, essential to the cab inet, must by their indispen sibility be almost a mortal blow to the industrial empires they left. But there are compensa tions: they will know pre cisely what is expected from them, where to make the tax grabs. For the past several years the whole government struc ture has been permeated and run by this type of men, who have no idea how to live on $25,000 per year, but who nevertheless, oddly enough, are convinced that you can live on soup. Grotesque is their handi work, their slogan: "We have reached an unprecedented heighf'-unprecedented mush rooming of multimillionaires, and multitudinous soup-lines, unprecedented outpour of soup. Sulen Drangen 417 Lane st. Yreka, Calif. Switch Not Working? To the Editor: This inquiry directed to Mr. Charles Hall: For a long time I've thought all TV sets, like all radio sets, came equipped with a turn off switch. What was the trouble with the one on your set Sunday night? Mrs. Paul W. Elgin 1221 Withlngton st. Medford. Build a Better Mousetrap To the Editor: I heard that a mousetrap of better design, Would win world acclaim evermore; But somehow the pattern got altered in mine, And just mice beat a path to my door. H. W. Robertson 103 North Central ave. Medford. Football Game To the Editor: We have watched the East-West foot ball game since 1932, the East side Communists versus the West-side Americans. We have been playing this game for the millions of spectators in the grandstand, hoping to win them to our side. We have not been doing so good. We have spent one hundred billion dol lars and lost half the spec tators. We don't use an ordinary pig-skinned football filled with air, we got to stuff it with a billion dollars and toss it around like hay. Congress tosses the ball onto the field, hoping to hit the right receiv er. The right receiver never seems to be where they throw the ball. The Communists scoop up the ball. They don't run for a touchdown. They run for home and take the ball with them. That ain't the worst part. They always take take somebody's country with them. Last year, we tossed a foot ball into the grandstand and Castro got his mitts on the ball. He ain't about to give it back. Why should he? Who would give a billion dollars back, if they knew nobody was going to ask them? At the end of the first half. we are still playing football like a bunch of monkeys play ing basketball with the Har lem Globe Trotters. The score board don't look too good for us. We are still on our own 10 yard line. We have Just put in a new coach, a new referee and an entirely new team. Let's wish them all the luck In the world and hope the third quarter turns out better than the last two. The next billion dollars we toss onto the field, let's kick it over the Communist goal post and go sit on It. If we can't sit on it, let's fill the football with sand and spend our billions at home. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Blow Away the Fog I To the Editor: A simple method to displace the fog 1 from the valley: 1 Build a drain tube very sim ilar to the one on Stewart avenue, deep in the bottom of Bear creek, leaving open ings sar as a convenXiayal tev.Pi system, grates every I o 0 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUB) giDHD, ORE. Editorial Comment COMING OF AGE The White House Confer ence on Aging which ended on Thursday can be credited with real accomplishments. It fo cused public attention on a problem too long ignored and too little understood. It gave its participants a real forum for discussion and in doing so effectively exorcised some hobgoblins. It took a long stride toward acceptance of a sensible approach to the fi nancing of medical and hos pital care for the aged through the Social Security system. There can be no doubt that the American Medical associa tion, or at least the most vocaK faction of the AMA, suffered a defeat at the conference. It is even possible, perhaps, to hope that the AMA learned a lesson. The foremost instructor was Marion B. Folsom, an eminent and indubitably hard - headed businessman, former secretary of health, education and wel fare in the Eisenhower admin istration. He told the delegates that Social Security afforded the only "logical" plan for fi 100 feet or so. Then install huge fans, above high water marks, one or more opposite the airport, probably 1,000 horsepower, more or less or the size of large airplane pro pellers. By operating these big fans, it would displace many thousands of acre feet of fog in a few minutes-shoving the fog down into the can yon at the lower end of the valley. These fans would only be used occasionally, and could also operate in hot weather and could be operated in freezing weather bringing in warmer air from the moun tains and forcing out the frost, which would save the hazards of smudging and pollution during certain seasons. The drain would by-pass the water which helps to create fog. If Stewart avenue can afford such a project, I feel that our airport and freeway can do a similar job. A small tube not to exceed Stewart avenue's tube would be suf ficient and in case of excess floods, the water could run in the same channel, possibly a few day in winter. As further proof of the above plan, I have worked in large factories where small fans forced air through plants covering several acres. "Also, here in the valley, there arc numerous plants such as mills do operate continuously in or der for the workmen to breathe fresh air, as also coal mines and similar projects, having thousands of acre feet of displacement, using fans bringing in fresh air and driv ing out foul air. Now as a matter of further proof of this plan, simply stand in the draft of a large plane taking off and estimate the amount of air blowing back and forth. If this air was confined in a tube, the fog and foul air would disappear from the valley. There could be several such fans installed along the line at much less than the cost of having such disastrous conditions as we have every year. The delay of our airport traffic and acci dents alone is tremendous and should warrant the expense of the cost of the entire sys tem. In my way of thinking, this method would eliminate i c e freezing on highways and pull in warm air from the higher hills, permitting the sun to shine. 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And he also told them, clearly and unequivo cally what was perhaps news to some of the doctors there, that under the Social Security program "the individual would Still have tllp snmn fi-..n choice as to hospitals and doc tors that he now has." Mr. Folsom rendered a sig nificant public service at the conference. His common sense respecting the medical care problem was reinforced bv the significant contributions of Arthur Larson, another for mer official in the Eisenhower administration, and Prnf Wil bur J. Cohen, who headed the Kennedy task force on the health care problem. Together these men made it indisputably plain that it is nonsense to apply the label "socialized medicine" to the financing of health care through Social Security. Not all the doctors mav have learned the lesson; but their spokesmen will certainly find it more difficult from now on to befuddle the public on the matter. - Washington (D.C.) Post. Atheism and Faith To the Editor: Recently a man who stated that he was an atheist, wrote a communi cation for your paper. He stat ed that he had read some place that "a belief in God and the Bible brings peace of mind and a benevolent atti tude toward ALL men." Perhaps our friend, like many others, has seen too many professed Christians, not real Christians. Actually I can hardly blame him. The ScriDtures themselves slate that some of the results of our Lord being in the heart with His Spirit will be love, joy, peace, gentleness and so on. How then can some of our non-believing friends be led to a belief in God when they see so many Christians who bear the opposite traits? Those who call themselves Christians are to be "living epistles known and read by all men." Many times yours truly knows that he has been a pretty poor "epistle." The only Bible some ever read is the lives of God's professed followers. Several years ago the writer of these lines was practically an atheist. Why? Because of looking on those around him. True, he occupied a church bench every week, was even a member. Yet when certain ad verse circumstances struck close to home he found his profession was merely on the surface. Sometimes God al lows us to pass through these trials to awaken us. I think of a man who on last Dec. 5 said "I'm so happy I found God before it was too late." He now rests in the little cemetery at Hornbrook awaiting the call of the life- giver. Fred, up until a few weeks before his death, wasn't sure if there was a God. On his sick bed his Saviour reached him. He met death unafraid. He wanted his testi mony of what God had done for him to be known by his friends so in a 12-minute tape- recorded that he has left for his friends in his own words what Christ really meant to him. I personally made the tape. You should have seen the peaceful look on his face. Yes, there is a God who can save us if we will but reach out. 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