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Pcets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny Quench Not the Flame (This poem was entered In the author's diary in 1944 while he was a 17-year-old, rebellious member of the Nazis' Arbeiu dienst or national labor service, and is a protest against Nazi refiimentation. hence the hatred Voiced in the last lines). Why does no God descend to loose the bands that bind my tongue? I would cry out, that those in huts might hold high their head and those in palaces tremble! For the indifferent, the floor would fall away beneath their feet and the secure would stagger! Yet my voice is silenced; still am I not allowed to speak. But when the day is come when each voice shall have Its freedom, the fire may well be found extinguished. Therefore stir, my Friend! Stir the embers of hate in my heart, that Time may not quench the flame! -Gustav-Adolf Krapf O After the Encounter Composed in 1046 after Ger many's defeat, this poem ex presses the sense of relief from the bewilderment, confusion, fear and anxiety with which Nazism and all its evils most of all, the war, had burdened this young and sensitive soul; ex perienced after what he re corded in his diary as the "En counter with Christ" which changed the direction of his life. I met Gus Krnpf while he was a student at Heidelberg and had the privilege of helping him be come Germany's first postwar exchange student to this country in 1948 where three years later, he received his Ph.D. from Yale. The translations from German into English are mine. A.E.J.) Oh my soul, how wert thou darkened! Heart of mine, how thou didst tremble in fear and anxiety! Why didst permit thyself to be bound who hadst a mes sage to proclaim? Guilt hast thou laden upon thy self unending as the sea! Christ is arisen! From death He redeemed thee, Taking thy sin upon His divine shoulder! Immeasurable the love that moved Him To save thee from the sea of thy guilt. Oh Love that hath bound me, that ever doth support me, Love of the Father, strength en me, make me able Thy work to do, a messenger to be of Thy Kingdom. -Gustav-Adolf Krapf -O Chrysalis A lowly creature, primor- dially endowed, Conceived of dust, warmed by Creation's breath, Then beaten, twisted, shaken, torn and bowed With eyes uplifted, even unto death. Once asked the shifting sands along the shore: Is there nothing else to life but this - no more? The swelling surf gave an swer: There are hills, The winds, the opening flowers that swoon, While the swinging pendulum of summer spills Its thaumaturgy of the sun at noon. Some day the stars will your disciples be And lead you to your human destiny. -George Dislell, Hertford O The two following selections were quoted by the Rev. Thomas McCamant, Minister of the Congregational church of Medford, in his sermon at Rogue Valley Manor's vesper service on Sunday, March 12: ". . . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; . . ." -William Wordsworth The Wrong House I went into a house, and it wasn't a house, It has big steps and a great big hail; But It hasn't got a garden, a garden, a garden, It isn't like a house at all. I went into a house, and it wasn't a house, It has a big garden and a great high wall; But it hasn't got a may-tree, a mny-tree, a may-tree It isn't like a house at all. I went into a house and it wasn't a house, Slow white petals from tiic may-tree fall; But it hasn't got a blackbird, a blackbird, a blackbird. It isn't like a house at all. I went into a house, and I thought ii wis a house, I could i-ear from the mny tree the blackbird call, But nobody listened to it. nobody liked it, Nobody wanted it at all. -A. A. Milne A Tribute to Oregon My heart is longing for Ore gon, my home state: I didn't miss her until it was much too late. Oregon wears a bright crown of emerald green, Her majestic, huge mountains stand proudly aloft Above billowing white clouds so misty and soft. The tallest sugar pines seemed to tremble and sway As I gazed at their tops on a warm summer day. The whispering wind gently runted the green leaves; Rows of golden hay slands drying and numerous Wild deer standing erect, plead with soft brown eye, While a little spotted fawn is hiding nearby: Mountain streams murmuring and gurgling swiftly along, Blending into Mother Nature's lulling sweet song. I recall Rogue River so treacherous and swift, Pink salmon jumping through the air from a small rift, Lumber mills humming and whining all through the night: Oh dear Oregon, you're such a wonderful sight! I'm stranded out here on the great Illinois plain; To look out my window really gives me a pain, Because all I can see is pigs, corn and blue sky. Oh! I'm so lonesome for Ore gon that I could cry. -Juanita Hornsby, Fairbury, Illinois Song of a Shirt Mussolini In black shirt With his back to the wall; Franco in his blue shirt Riding for a fall; Hitler in his brown shirt Towering over all Three cheers for Gandhi With no shirt at all! -Copied from a YMCA monthly seen on a reading table in the YMCA of Co lombo, Ceylon, September 13, 1940-A.E.J. O This above all: to thine own self be true And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Shakespeare (Hamlet) Agricultural note in the Wall Street Journal: "Spring weather in the corn belt is arriving early, getting wheat, oat and other crops off to a fast start. . .In southern Illinois, many farmers are well along with plowing and harrowing. One farmer in that area has already finished planting oats; a year ago his fields were blanketed with snow. Corn usually isn't sown until late April or May." SO THEY PLANT their oats. They SOW their corn. How things must have changed back there since the days when dirt farmers sowed their oats and planted their corn. PRESIDENT KENNEDY sends to the congress this morning a message on a new type of farm program he is proposing. It seems to pass the buck to the farmers. The news summary of it says: "Farmers would be author ized to use a wide-ranging kit of tools (a do-it-youself kit. ap parently.) The tools would in clude marketing quotas based on bushels, tons or other units of production, government-financed price supports, defi ciency payments, government purchases of surpluses and dl version of them into by-products or other uses, and export subsidies." ItHE summary adds: "The purpose of the Individual commodity programs would be to lnlnn"e production with demand, so there would little to deprcrs oriccs nr re quire use of government sup ports." It goes on: "A perfect pro gram would come out exactly even with d-eiand. The re sulting prices would be ex peeled to fiive farmers what President Kennedy has culled 'a parity of income with oth ers.' taking la'ior. capital and management into considera Unn." It continues: "In such a cn.-e. there would be no inv crnment expenditures on price supports, payments or the prrdii"tion lii.e. How - ever, to tne extent prortuci:"n DID exceed n:iri.e:s, tl i re would he gove-jiin A ACQUI SITION Of I - S'Jpp'l1"! under price s appor'.s or pur chase arranfcjm'.n'.s.'' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I Communications Letters to the Editor muit bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible, j The 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 paper; in fact the contrary ii often the case. Shouldn't Go Unnoticed To the Editor: The efforts of the coalition of Senate Re publicans and conservative Democrats to promote Ore gon s rivers into sewers and air into smog should not go unnoticed by the voters of Oregon. Passage of this legislation vastly inhibits the power of the State Sanitary Authority. Limitations on the authority to promulgate only those reg ulations that are "technically practicable and economically feasible'' gives a green light for all Industry to go ahead and pollute. What is "economically feas ible" to an industry is not al ways "economically feasible" to society. If the State Sani tary Authority is prevented from regulating industry, how can we then make polluting industries pay their full and just cost of production? The state cannot, so you and I will pay the cost. Will industry pay lor re search for water and air con trol unless there is some de mand? No industrial process is "technically practicable" until money has been spent on research and technology pro duced. If the House concurs with the industry-oriented Senate coalition, we, the pub lic, will be prevented from demanding this research through regulations, and we will have a smoggy Oregon. The only recourse will be for us taxpayers to pay for in dustry's research. Why should we continue to subsidize industry? Why shouldn't new indus tries locating in Oregon pay for the full cost of producing their products? Why should you and I pay by having our air fouled and our water pol luted? Why shouldn't industry now located in Oregon be forced to devise efficient ways of stopping the pollution they have created? Our forefathers wrote noth ing in the Constitution indi cating that private concerns should be given unbridled reign in perpetuity to pollute streams and the air. John R. Churchill, Route 1, Nehalem, Ore. Does Lion Scream? To the Editor: The long con troversial subject has popped up again in "Strange As It Seems" United Features, by Elsie Hix. Does the mountain lion make terrifying screams? We answer in the affirma tive. A North American moun- THE President thinks the news summary adds, the plan would at least HELP to solve the pressing problems of low farm incomes and the costly government purchase and storage of surpluses, which now total about 9V4 billion dollars." In other words: The new type farm pro gram he is proposing couldn't be much worse than the farm program we have now. OUR economy - what is it? It is an economy of sur pluses. There are the farm sur pluses mentioned in the Presi dent's message - some nine and a half billion dollars worth of them. In addition, there is a present surplus of about a million automobiles piled up in the warehouses and as yet unsold. There is a surplus of labor- with millions of unemployed. And so on. ABOUT the most consoling thing we can say of it all is that an economy of PLEN TY (reflected in piled-up sur pluses) is at least preferable to an economy of SCARCITY. We can point that out to Mr. Kroosh. who is wrestling with SHORTAGES. rpiCKLISH question: J- Why do we have all these surpluses? One possible answer could he that GOVERNMENT TAKES OUT OF THE PEO PLE'S POCKETS SO MUCH IN THE WAY OF TAXES THAT THE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH LEFT TO PAY FOR THE THINGS THEY'D LIKE TO HAVE. Italian Names Out for Series New York - ft'PD - Producer Desl Arnaz agreed Friday not to use Italian names for fic tional hoodlums in the contro versial television series, "The Untouchables." At a meeting attended by leaders of the National Italian- I American League to Combat 1 Defamation, Amez also said would seek opportunities to enhance the role of Italian de tective Nick Rossi, the right r.atul man cf the main charac ter, Eliot Ness, in the TV series. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. tain lion, a large cat like carnivorous animal, does oc casionaly scream. In all of our outdoor life, spent more or less in the mountains of southern Ore gon, only on one rare instance did we hear the scream of a lone cougar on a foggy winter day in 1924. The coy otes all over the surrounding hills seemed to join in the chorus in one hideous volume of distant rabble. Old mountain residents in formed me that a cougar or commonly called a mountain lion do scream though are only heard on rare occasions, presumely a call of the wild instinct. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford Injects an Idea To the Editor: Since the verbal duel between Mr. How ard and Mr. Jenny is showing no sign of abatement, may I inject an idea that has far not been divulged? It has occurred to me that not one of those who have so loudly traduced the HUAC hearings in San Francisco last May, from Mr. James Roose velt and his mother on down, have made any claim to have been present in the courthouse at the time of the riot. Where have they obtained their in formation? By what authority do they speak? On the other hand those who have upheld the work of the HUAC speak with the authority of either having been present either in the chamber where the hearings were held or in the court house. The film would never have been released in the first place had not the members of the committee endorsed it as be ing a fair portrayal of events. Mr. Christopher, Mayor of San Francisco, whose office is directly across the hall from the chamber, has declared not once but several times that the film is a correct version of events. Lastly we have the sworn statement of a large group of Protestant clergy men oi tne Bay Area. These men sat in the rear of the room on- a raised platform so that they could look down upon the scene on the floor of the chamber. They declare that the film is a correct por trayal of events as they oc curred. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover has stated recently that our dan ger from Communism is great er today than it has ever been. Are not there people who make derogatory statements of a duly constituted commit tee of our Congress giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Anna M. Streed, 36 No. Peach St., Medford, Ore. Principal Characters To the Editor: There is a sort of dispute taking place in the little family of corres pondents, the principal char acters being Robert J. How ard, who claims to be young and Immature, and Arnold Eugene Jenny, a seasoned vet eran of world affairs. What Mr. Howard lacks in experience, he makes up in energy. We gather by Mr. Howard's letter that he is gaining experience in writing. This is commendable. It shows ingenuity. However, In pick ing Mr, Jenny, we would ad vise the use of that expedient called tact. Tact, and its use, is an agreeable way to make friends and influence people while a challenge to a man's integrity will close the door to meeting on common ground. It is quite obivous by Mr. Howard's letters that he sees but one viewpoint, and that is the one to which he has been conditioned. That condition will do well In many endea vors, but it will never pro duce a philosopher. In this day and age when so much stress is placed on sell ing something from prunes to patriotism and where one man's gain Is another's loss, It behooves each of us to keep our powder dry. Walter Reece Galice Road Merlin, Oregon, Understand Each Other To the Editor: Well, uncle, now you and me understand each other. You stopped my pension and I am not the least bit put out about it. It looks like my third at tempt was a charm, since I tried to stop it on two occa sions and wasn't successful. Of course that was in Cali fornia. But I will admit I am little perturbed at the way in which it was done. Uncle you could have at least sent me some kind of notice In place of the check. Then I wouldn't have ruined my shoes wading a quarter of a mile through rain and mud to the mail box looking for it. But that Is to be expected from our Govern ment. Now that takes care of that, so I will switch to a more ser- ious subject. Like for Instance MEDFORD, ORE -don't get sympathetic, be come soft hearted and get all taken in (Jack) as this gener ation of ours would say. Don't chicken out kid. Now that I no longer receive a pension . kindly donate same with my compliments to a fund for needy ex-presidents. Leo J. Townsend, Route No. 1, Box 620, Eagle Point, Ore. items Reported Taken From Toenf Hardware Talent - Someone took six sets of wrenches from the Tal ent Hardware store Thursday afternoon while the proprie tor was in the back room, Tal ent Police Chief William Young said Friday. 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