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.
The proprietor, C e d r i c
Scharfe, heard the bell on the
door ring as someone entered,
then heard the door close
again. Checking later he dis
covered the wrenches were
gone.
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pipe, fitted with concrete weights to overcome buoyancy
and wooden slats to give protection against rocks, is ready
to be "walked" by bulldozers into a trench at the bottom
of the Oldman river which runs through the gully at cen
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STORM TIME
Chicago - Spring and early
summer are the most likely
times for tornadoes to occur
because of the collisions of
cold polar air and air streams
from the gulf's warmer
weather.
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New York - First broadcast
of a presidential inauguration
was that of Calvin Coolidge in
1925. The first telecast of
such an event was Harry Tru
man's inauguration that oc
curred in 1949.
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