Medford mail tribune., April 29, 1962, Image 5

MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
SUNDAY. APRIL 29. 1962
... Communications ...
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.The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
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- printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views oi the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
.- Honesty
To the Editor: Confronted
with the theft of $91,000, the
employee claimed that "every
;penny I took rightfully be
.longs to me." When he reach-
:ed $100,000. the share of the
. profits he felt was due him,
he said he planned to stop
stealing.
What is honesty? Do such
people understand what a
.beautiful word really covers
or uncovers? Are they able
"to separate the true meaning
"or worth? For here a word
that stands out among the
:rest, offering honest lookers
a view out over the world
from a recognizable vantage
point.
Honesty spins a yarn of
truth that doesn't leave you
dangling or guessing. What's
: so outstanding about the word
"honesty"? It has a very spe
cial quality that quickens the
blood or seizes the imagina
tion or turns indifference into
enthusiasm and involvement,
but it is miserable, undevel
oped, and abused by so many
. pushers of greed and lust.
We will never rid the world
of dishonesty, but there must
' be tens of thousands of people
around the world ready to
Join in the effort and adven-
. ture of such an experiment.
"Some people add a crown of
honor to the word honesty,
for they believe there is more
to life than getting through
unruffled. They care enough
' about their beliefs and atti-
' tudes to try to communicate
honestly and warmly w :i a t
-' they hold important.
This is one of the great
safeguards to our liberties.
For in honesty there are frag-
. .merits of beauty and truth
that strengthen our daily life,
thereby helping to put fam
ilies into places they are
proud to call our home town.
Truth serves to polish up
the lens through which we
see the world about us. Let
Tionesty be your seeing eye
aj you enter a hidden future.
Grady Conner
723 West Jackson si.
Medford.
Oughta. Son
To the Editor: The purpose
of this letter is to appraise
for the benefit of all voters,
but particularly at this time
all registered Democrats, the
relative qualifications of Otto
sen and Stephens, the two
Democratic candidates for
Sheriff of Jackson county. We
urge all registered Democrats
to work for, and to vote for,
Harold D. Ottosen.
Let us look at the record:
Stephens cites nine years
service in the Medford Police
Department as a patrolman,
and a short term of employ
ment in an undefined subor
dinate capacity in the office
of present Sheriff Joe Walsh.
Ottosen cites seven years
service as Chief of Police of
Eagle Point.
You may say, "Then Steph
ens was a little frog in a big
puddle and Ottosen was a big
frog in a little puddle. There
is not much to choose.
But if you look at the mat
ter more discriminatingly, you
must perceive that the duties
and experience of any Police
Department head, no matter
how small the jurisdiction, in
volve certain ultimate or all
i n c 1 u s i v e responsibilities
which are utterly foreign to a
patrolman, a deputy sheriff,
or any other subordinate in
a Police Department or a
Sheriff's office.
As Chief of Police of Eagle
Point, Ottosen was required
to carry, and did successfully
carry, the following respon
sibilities, among others:
(a) the preparing of a prac
tical and realistic budget each
year, free from extravagance,
yet adequate to meet the prac
tical requirements of an ef
fective and efficient admin
istration: (b) the managing of the
funds provided so as to op
erate within the budget:
(c) the maintenance of ve
hicle and other equipment;
(d) the managing of the jail
from the standpoint of health
and sanitation, guarding the
prisoners against escape, at
tending to the feeding of pris
oners, etc.;
(c) the keeping of clear
records of all receipts and dis
bursements in a form suitable
for audit; and
(f) the maintaining of good
relations between his depart
ment and the City Council,
Evidence
To the Editor: Mr. John
Gutisten had some sound ad
vice (423) for the "Bible
.thumping authorities." as he
.called them, who attempt to
support their arguments with
Scripture references (usually
taken out of context) or who
use them to lend seeming au
thority to what they have to
say. He suggested that they
might better apply their
preachments to themselves.
Mrs. Alice 1. Black's latest
feYmonette (422) intended for
. my special benefit is a good
. example to illustrate Mr. Gu-
tisten's point. Needless to say,
I heartily agree with her that
we should apply the Golden
Rule to our discussions in
.Communications, and that this
old world would be a happier
place for all if that were done
generally. However, I should
like to remind Mrs. Black
that the Bible has some other
equally important things to
say to us.
Of special pertinence in this
connection is the ninth com
mandment of the decalog:
"You shall not bear false wit-
.ness against your neighbor"
fExodus 20:16). Our libel and
. other laws are based upon
that commandment. Much of
what I have written in past
Communications about the
Birchers, Dr. Fred C.Schwarz.
Dan Smoot and others of their
ilk, has been concerned with
this very point. I have been
insisting that they speak the
truth and cease their false ac
cusations, outright or by in
nuendo, against honored and
respected citizens or organi
zations that hold opinions oth
er than theirs about a variety
'of public issues.
" Mrs. Black had a very
quaint response to my sug
gestion that she do her own
homework to verify Dan
Smoot's "evidence" cited by
her previously. She now says
she did it. How? By reading
more of Dan Smoot's Reports:
Typical Smoot and Schwarz
"evidence" of communist in
filtration Into our churches,
schools, government, etc., is
contained in the story Bishop
" Raymond A. Grant of Port
land told Methodist Men of
the Rogue River valley few
days ago.
Said he: A propagandist of
this type, recently enjoying
the hospitality of an assembly
platform at Alaska Methodist
university, drageed out one
of the stock accusations of
these extremists of the right,
that "there are 7.000 commu
nists among the clerey of our
Protestant churches." Pressed
by the univerisay presiden.
the bishop, students and the
local press for specific identi
fication, the speaker fell back
upon more such absurd quotes
then finally admitted he did
not know a single communist
among the preachers!
How like McCarthv. Welch,
end now "Mr" Walker' Poor
Koul".
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Life Without Passion
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do tiie things they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow.
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expenses;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die.
But if that flower with base Infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
-William Shakespeare.
O
Night Watch
Come stand with me and listen to the rain
That falls within the silence of the night
And washes clean a weary world of pain.
Come stand with me and listen to the flight
Of jets, that chalk the sky with vapor trail.
And turn our thoughts to missions that might fail.
Come stand with me aware of life and death,
Aware of moments slipping silently
Across the arch of time and numbered breath.
At last, come willingly, and stand with me.
That we might share this watch once more
Before we step inside and close the door.
-Lloyd B. Halverson
Medford.
O
Into the Sunset
Let me die working!
Still tackling plans unfinished, tasks undone.
Clean to its end, swift may my race be run
No laggard steps; no faltering; no shrinking!
Let me die working!
Let me die thinking!
Let me fare forth with an open mind.
Fresh secrets to unfold, new truth to find;
My soul undimmed, alert, no question blinking.
Let me die thinking!
Let me die laughing!
No sighing o'er past sins; they are forgiven.
Spilled on this eartii are all the joys of heaven;
Let me die laughing!
Let me die giving!
The substance of life for life's enriching:
Time, things, and self on heaven converging,
No selfish thought-loving, redeeming, living.
Let me die giving!
-S. Hall Young.
o
Fred
He was a trucker off his route,
a train off its track,
a mirror without reflection.
He didn't ingratiate or slobber,
or polish or climb
or act phoney.
And they forgot him
Because they said he was a troublemaker.
Too bad. Mankind, you missed again,
Just because he was black.
-S. Stephen Eichelberger
O
Things
Apples
Idiots
Babies
Bubs
Photosynthesis
Make me think.
-Bruce Niedermeyer
Medford.
(' Senior. Medford Senior High School.)
PHYSICAL THERAPY
AND REHABILITATION
524 East Main Street, Medford
MOVING TO
. 625 STEVENS
Near Hawthorne Convalescent Hospital
On April 30th
R. D. Scofield, R.P.T. H. I. Gilbert, R.P.T.
PHONE 772-9097
and between his department
and the public at large.
These duties correspond
precisely to the more respon
sible duties which the Sher
iff, himself, must fulfill. The
successful p e r f o r mance of
them for seven years, and the
experience gained in that per
formance, mark Ottosen as
outstandingly qualified to I
serve with credit to himself,
and to his party, as Sheriff.
Stephens' experience marks
him as a good patrolman but
demonstrates no capacity for
the office which he seeks.
The choice of Ottosen is a
plain one.
"Vote for Ottosen - you
oughta, Son,
And since he'd oughter, you
too. Daughter."
Clarence M. Crews,
Chairman, Bipartisan Com
mittee for Ottosen for
Sheriff.
4706 North Pacific Hwy.
Central Point, Ore.
Reducing Costs
To the Editor: How to re
duce the costs of campaign
ing is one of the major chal
lenges facing our system of
elective government. We don't
want success at the polls to be
a matter of money, yet cam
paigning is communicating
and communicating by TV,
radio, newspaper, pamphlet,
or even personal handshaking
costs money.
Lately I've been meeting
voters in mills, super-markets
and on main streets. This is
the way I like to campaign,
but when I'm doing it I'm not
earning a living for my farrv
ily in my law office. The Re
publican candidate for Con
gress, who is unopposed in the
primary election, has the fi
nancial resources to allow
him to devote full-time for
seven months and to hire a
staff to help him.
Campaigns should not be
soap-selling. Public relations
techniques, vast advertising
budgets and "hidden persuad
ers" figured out by wily
pitchmen make a mockery of
the democratic process. The
late Dick Neuberger and I
worked on legislation to cut
campaign costs. I would like
to require that TV and radio
stations give candidates side-by-side
time, with opportuni
ties for debate and questions.
Meanwhile, we candidates
with slim campaign funds
will depend mainly on shoe
leather and personal cam
paigning, hoping that the vot
ers will understand, as they
have on several occasions,
that billboards and slick radio-TV
programs don't neces
sarily inform them accurately
about (tie worth of a candi
date. Charles O. Porter
2680 Baker st.
Eugene, Ore.
Better and Better One
To the Editor: "The butch
er, the baker, the candlestick
maker" and, in fact, all who
have services or goods for
sale, seem to wish to increase
those sales. This certainly is
a legitimate ambition, but
sometimes possible only nt
too great a cost. As Ben
Franklin said, they "pay too
much for their whistle."
These who have goods and
services to sell want more in
dustry, to produce more pay
rolls, to support more people,
to buy more goods and serv
ices. But more industries may
produce more smoke or
smells. More people produce
more congestion and tieath on
the roads and crowr in the
schools and the woods nri the
lakes and also more need for
taxes. Also they attract more
competition as was found to
be the case when the new
shopping center opened up.
If some folks want to live
under these conditions, there
are plenlj of large cities to
choose from. I left Chicago
many years ago and now live
in what could be a true Gar
den of Eden. So why not stop
straining for a bigger and big
ger Medford and just work
for a better and better one?
I was delighted w'len one
of the candidates for commis
sioner had the brains and the
wits to point out that since
the county income from the
O and C lands is now at its
peak, more population would
mean more taxes. I feel sure
that the charms of a beautiful
lady would not double with
her pounds.
Horace W. Thompson,
3642 Hilsinger rd..
Medford.
cancer;
Perhaps someone without
dime
Will finally find the
answer.
Tom Graff
Robinson Hotel
Medford.
Catch
To the Editor: Aye still fish
from hip boots, but Aye don't
catch no fish. Aye yust catch
motor boats.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Hunter Safely Class Planned at YMCA
The second in a series of ,
Hunter Safety Courses at the
Medford YMCA for boys 10 i
through 17 years old Willi
start at 7 p.m. Thursday, May I
3. Enrollments are now being
taken.
The course will be limited
to 25 boys for the four les
sons. Head instructor will be
Carl Bennett, 73 Clover lane,
Medford; assisted by Willard
Henc, Harold Willis and John
Glover.
Boys who attend the four
sessions and pass will be cer
tified. Those desiring to en
roll must take a certificate of
permission from parents,
which can be secured at the
YMCA, 522 West Main st.
There are no charges for the
course, YMCA officials noted.
By Candlelight
To the Editor:
They spend millions at a time,
To subdue the phantom,
.ar
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