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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
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cally an accomplished fact.
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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
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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. This system can be dem
onstrated very easily.
E. M. Tucker Sr.
President, Tucker
Sno-Cat Corporation
Medford.
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nancing health care for the
elderly. 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.
For any of Fred Mitchell's
friends in Siskiyou county, if
you want to hear this tape
please feel free to contact me.
Fred wanted his story known.
Henry Johnson Jr.,
2315 Highway 60,
Ashland, Ore.
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