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MEDFORD MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDrOHD. OKLGON SUNDAY. JULY 1, 1962 ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of .the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. 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 coluiro do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. a social club rathpr than a division in the army o( the Lord. The church is meant to be the leaven in the lump, but in America today it is not transforming society, it is being conformed to society. "Deep in the heart of our 'religious boom' has been the be riiscouraced. A a matter nf fact. President Kennedy wouldn't be in the White Mouse today if his father hadn't been extremely dedi cated to Jack's being there and if he hadn't been extreme ly rich. You don't see a good driver Going to Seed To the Editor: This is the way we are taught to live: Get as much as you can for as little as you can give; buy low, sell high; work at an easy job at high pay; loan out money you did not earn at a high rate of interest, or for as much interest as you can get; have the government give you money; hire laborers to work for you cheap and get as much as you can from the products of their labor; cheat on your income tax if you can; chisel or steal from the public if you can get away with it; have a racket; marry a rich husband and later divorce him and get a "settlement"; or, at least, if you can manage it, get on pub lic or private charity rolls: To wit: Get something for noth ing or for as little as possible, even If you must work hard to get it! This includes all degrees of the practice of har lotry. All of which is an Amer ican's idea of "freedom" or "democracy." It is called "free enterprise" and also "rugged individualism": the legitimate and respected goal of every one so believing is "to get rich" or at least to have "a high standard of living" and "to feather his or her own nest" and guarantee future se curity as far as possible. In so doing, there has re sulted the slow wearing down of all modesty, all honesty and decency, most all humanity and fair play between indi viduals, and even the creeping into the popular and accepted language of the words and I you.' Instead of adhering to terminology o' gangland and christian principles of right eousness and moral rcsponsi' inea that 'religion is good lor going flow n the highway on the left or middle, hut stays Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny The Love of Country Breathes there a man with a soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell! High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim: Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentrated all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprang, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. -Sir Walter Scott O Lead. Kindly Light Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom, Lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to fee The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead thou me on! I loved the garish day, and. spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years! So long thy pow'r hath blest me, sure it still , Will lead me on O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night Is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile. Which I have loved, long since, and lost awhile! -Cardinal John Henry Newman (Suggested by Anna M. Streed, Medford) O Hope I walked today In fallow fields Where hopes lay withered and sere, That yesterday were fragrant and fair With much that to me was dear. The beauty that mantles the earth and sky Is gray with the pallor of death. The music that flowed from the strings of my heart Is gone like a passing breath. My being is plunged like a plummet of stone Down the abyss that yawns at my side. Despair has thrown around me its stygian shroud And carries me down on iti tide. Yet into the depths that swallow me up An Omnipotent Hand is thrust. That shall yet lift me up into fragrant fields That are blooming with hope and trust. -Frank Roberts Medford O For Me The Thistledown For me the thistledown shall blow On wide and weary lands; Wherever living waters flow There proud the thistle stands. For It was written In the book; The thistle is my flower. To bloom in low and lifted nook And all my hills to shower. And who shall say that thistles are Not harvest fit for praise. When rain and sun and wind and star Sustain them all their days? -Charles Oluf Olsen Portland, Ore. hoodlums Is it any wonder that a na tion with such mores and folk ways has a crime rate that is increasing four times as fast as its rate of population in crease? Formal religion does not help, is given only lip service, its superstitions and dogmas are tacitly accepted as each week it serves as "recre ation" and entertainment for the increasing memberships in increasingly elaborate, beauti ful, and expensive church Temples. Of course, such Chris'tianity has a minimum influence upon men. Capitalist-Christian society has passed its zenith and is going to seed, and what one witnesses as evils is evidence of the rot. Of course this is not a popular statement: To be a Daniel in a lions' den re quires faith or else foothardi- ness, for capitalists are lions to all socialists, and all the little pups even are danger ous. If present trends continue, i.e. reaction versus socialism or the United States and West Europe versus rest of World, the former in less than a few generations, barring nuclear war, will turn out to be the mud holes of the earth. Ralph McKinnis, P.O. Box 321, Ashland, Ore. LOOK Auto Safety Belt Headquarters MiiMuMfciaatMuuaya Drlvi with eonfidencs with top rated, fully approved belts. ""1 i PER BELT LOWEST PRICE EVER HURRY Offer Ends July 4 12TH & SO. CENTRAL Filthy Creek To the Editor: Why doesn't the city council do something about Bear creek? It is the filthiest creek I have ever seen. When the freeway Is fin ished, people going through Medford will say, "Why don't they do something about that eyesore?" It would be nice If they would stop dumping sewage in it and stock it with trout or catfish. (Name on File), Medford. Unleavened Lump To the Editor: Several times during the past year and a half I expressed my appreciation and commenda tion of some of your more outstanding editorials - and there have been many others to which my response was, in effect, "that hit the nail on the head," "timely and well said" or just a hearty "Amen, brother!" G.H.B. has evoked a simi lar response on several oc casions, notably with his "Mc Carthy Reincarnate" of 611 and again, with his "Spiritual Void" of 6 29-this latter, an especially perceptive and well reasoned commentary on the recent Billy Graham meet ings in Chicago. Apropos of the 6 23 edi torial, there was a significant comment by the eminent Bishop James A. Pike of Cali fornia, in the MT 12660: "Although church member ship is at an all-time high, the rolls include millions . . . who are not committed fol lowers of Jesus Christ, and who look upon the church as bility, we have often dealt with our religion in terms of a 'cheap tranquilizer.' A liv ing Christianity will disturb peace of mind as much as it will provide for it." In similar vein, Dr. Ray mond E. Balcomb of First Methodist Church. Corvallis, said (9 758): "The greatest danger facing (the church) is substituting respectability for religion. . . . Instead of being something dynamic and trans-! Minstrel Show on the right of the highway and to the extreme right when turning a corner. We need some EXTREME LY intelligent and EXTREME LY dedicated men and women to furnish us EXTREMELY good leadership if we arc to survive. Ate we going to the left, middle of the road or right? Mrs. Ernest Santo, 1 04 Lozier lane, Medford. with small flags of other coun Ivvo Men Appear In District Court forming, religion has tended to degenerate into a 'decent formula wherewith to embel lish a comfortable life'." With regard to the Graham "crusade" in Chicago which occasioned G.H.B.'s comment, the distinguished undenomi national "Christian Century" pointed out 6 27: "The Billy Graham meetings are taking on the features of a rally rather than a crusade. Buses and other forms of transpor tation are used to assemble people from a wide area." That was true also of the Graham meetings in Madison Square Garden, New York, several years ago when my church sent busloads some 40 miles from our Long Is land suburb. That, too, was largely a rally of church peo ple rather than a crusade to win sinners outside the churches. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford lo the Editor: I wish to thank Victor Croxton for scouting for Grange talent, the Salvation Army for the use of the tambourines. Huh Freu nf Upper Applecate and Mrs. Mahoney of Grants Pass, who helped with the acoustics, the Merlin Dixie Band, and Ralph El tel. who look time off to play the banjo, and In all the Grangers and members of their families who gave so freely of their time and tal ent to make the minstrel show both a success and a pleasure. Thank you. Edna G. Sawyer. Route 2. Box 5RD, Jacksonville. Ore. 'Rightists' in History To the Editor: We read and hear so much about the ex tremists, especially extreme rightists. There seems to be a need of more extreme right ists. The Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader recently said the Christian world as we know it today or the United States would not exist if it hadn't been for extreme right ists. If Moses hadn't been an ex treme rightist, the Jews would still be in Egyptian bondage. If Christ hadn't been an ex treme rightist, He wouldn't have died on the cross and there wouldn't have been any Christian religion. The way of the Lord is right. If Columbus hadn't been an extreme rightist, he .would never have discovered Amer ica. He would have listened to the non-extremists who in sisted the world was flat. If George Washington had not been an extremist, he never would have left his home at Mt. Vernon to lead a forlorn hope for freedom. If Patrick Henry hadn't been an extreme rightist, he never would have stood up and said, "Give me liberty or give me death." If the farmers around Con cord and Lexington htdn't been extremists, they never would have tried to oppose the mighty British Empire. President Kennedy and ex President Eisenhower say nowadays that extreme right ists are bad people and should One Nation Under God To the Editor: The adminis tration's program for Federal Aid to Education is certainly proving to be well thought out. Not the least of its ad vantages is the way it fits into the State Department's for eign policy. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's record of decisions in favor of Commu nism, whoever deployed that august body into outlawing the non-denominational pray er adopted by the schools in New York, certainly stuck a knife right into the very heart of the Constitution of the United States. Prayers to God are offen sive to atheistic communist nations. And the atheistic communist nations' good opin ion of us is obviously more important than our own self respect, and than our allegi ance to the God of our fath ers, under whose guidance this nation was founded. Now tht.1 we have displayed lo the world our devotion to athe ism, will the Communist na tions take us to their hearts and accept us as blood broth ers? Can we now discontinue our preparations for defense against them - or, should we build them up, so that we can help Red China defend her self against that ruthless killer, Chiang Kai-shek? If there have been any doubts about the Supreme Court's affection for Commu nism, their decision to pro hibit a simple non-sectarian prayer in our public schools should dispel that doubt. Ev ery government has within it self the seeds nf its own des truction. Could this be the coup rie grace? In the Senate and in the House at Repre sentatives disgusted criticism of the Supreme Court's action crosses party lines, as reported recent issues of The Mail Summer Reading Program for Children Is Under Way in Libraries in County Displays in the children's tries, a large old fashioned has a hook, department nf the Public Li- globe, and many colorful Wh,n the 10 hooks are mm brary of Medford and Jackson . travel folders , pletcd. the child is awarded county the past few weeks The purpose of the displays a certificate, and is invited to have included a rase filled is to generate interest in the a nartv scheduled nt Hie end summer reading p r o g r a m of the program, sponsored by the library, the) The party is sponsored by theme of which this summer j the Friends of the Library, is "Around the World with Each branch library also will Books." have a party, picnic or some The program, which takes observance to recognize chil place in all branch libraries drcn reading 10 books. : as well as the mam one, is: Of 7.000 registered children designed to cultivate in chil-: in the departments throughout William Baldwin Jr.. 36, of ' dn,.'ho hill,it ' 1,1 i '""' approximately route 1 box 460 Centnl ai1dlll"n' it provides an educa- 1.400 of them are registered Point, was bound over to the!",""1 rCi,dinK '",sr lh'' lhe PrK". of " 20 grand jury after appearing ! thlldrr"' '"-'"'"'"K to Omar percent, in Jackson county district , B;'l'"' 1'b''a"',n . Names Are Posted court Friday on charges nf Boys and girls from 6 to 14 Each child has a circle with assault with a dangerous ' vrnrs old '' eligible to join hi, nilmP on l ;ha, is pnsl(,d weapon. Ih'' rending ''Hib. Those eight in ,hc nbrarv. As he reads a Baldwin is being held in yoi"'s olri anri "Mrr- nl' askrtl bonk, a small black dot is the countv jail in lieu of to rcad lhrep irnvei b""ks ' pasted on the circle. $1,500 baii. !an-v olnor srvrn bo"ks th(-'j Since the beginning nf the He is charged with .Irikins : !TrP' r 81 "nd wvon-ypar j rpadinB program June 1, I.iiTh e r ZcZ I ambe;f.!"lriS d ""' 10 h'' ny children have already Prospect, in a Shady Cove i Glves Short Resume j read 10 books, and a gieal tavern June 26. Lambert was! After reading a hook, the i many have read more than treated at a local hospital and j '-hild civrs sl",rl rosumr of j the required number. Some released. lhe stm y to the librarian. She ! have read only a few, but ci,. i;,. i j n u "'en records the name of the! have ample time In complete u rn on P wlrrn. 1" J i hook anfi aut hor in a read- the number hefore July 14. trlcl court Thursday I inR d "ook child ! when the reading program Robert Arthur Berry. Trail Creek, Ore., will be tried by a district court jury July la on charges of pointing a fire arm at another person, and on July 19 on vagrancy charges. He was released on his own recognizance after appearing In district court. Berry also was arrested by slate police Thursday on a district court warrant. He is accused of pointing a firearm at some neighborhood chil dren and using foul and ob scene language at the same time. A 5 will end. The artwork connected with the program was done by Phyllis Morse. She decorates the certificates and handle other artwork. Many children have entered into it with enthusiasm. Bacon said, and ' led that it is hoped that participation in the summer program will start children toward good reading habits that will stay with them. HAVE FU till... but don't cut your vacation in half. Running "short" while on vacation spoils th whole trip. Money on your signature only, car or other security. IQCAL D AN 535 . JACKSON BLVD. Mtdford Shopping CtnUf Phone 773-7456 Dick Webb, Mgr. Opm Friday Evtnlnfs 'Til f ftHMffTltSWW- Mm IBsniHHMMMnMBMi fc rir:'ihMlft ii '" m,m!m.k i lit! aM'tlk''jiii liifi;4.Tii PI ' .n'lrneTn Weighmasters Receive Long Service Awards Otis T.. Dewev and fart T? Kliever, state highway depart ment weighmasters, recently received service pins for long service to the department. Dewey's award was for 25 years nf service, while Kliev er received a 15-year award. Presentations were made by chief weighmasler Clinton Deyn, Salem. Effective July 1st there'll be a brand new name for a grand old store Now it's BIIAI7MIV PHARMACY Formerly Gier's Drug Continuing To Offer the Finest in Reliable Prescription Service Tribune. Hep. Boy A. Taylor (D-N C ). and Sen. .1. Glenn Beall (R-Md.) are both offer ing bills in their respective houses to make. Ineffective this court action. Is it too much for us to hope for a new Supreme Court, composed of decent Christian Americans? Bruce Y. Kleinsmld, 1719 S.E. Portola Dr., Grants Pass, Ore. Lf.Jhf.' If' me Lljjy r l' J?? Open 9 A.M. Until KP" V"i (Closed Sunday) Dennis Ferrin, Manager 104 SOUTH MAIN PHOENIX Phone 535-1 66V For emergency service day er night and holidays call 535-4062 ,V;iiiijiip MnWJllP'llll,"lll. .jajW vjH.W'IMj'WI r-ni'niti'-t'-n' -.- - 'J 71 PRESENTING . . . The very latest program for your shopping convenience in Downtown Medford. Look for the Ride-N-Shop sign in your down town Medford participating merchant's window. IS4 Starting Monday, July 2, you can take advantage of this convenient way to ihop. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: (1) Board the Evergreen But a your near est stop (2) Purchase a One-Way Ticket (3) When you shop downtown Med ford have the lore validate your ticket (4) Show the driver your vali dated ticket and ride home FREE. FREE RIDE HOME Plenty of Trips Each Day ASHIAND (9 Round Trips), CENTRAL POINT (6), JACKSONVIUE (ii, WHITE CITY (5i, EAGIE POINT (2;. All trips terminate at MAIN and CENTRAL In the hert of downtown Med'ord. JCF Congratulates the Central Valley Subdivision MfJttajL Y'i , 1 1 r' T -; -art.. . - t 5 3 B W'l fv.i j ' j l1" I Attend the grand opening lo- gj I r ' M ) 1 ' ' ' "" ,,''"c, ,n horn SI I ppt 11 ;urn n w" pin ,,r"t " Bllifar 1 t" I ify' . ' Orange Co op in Central Point Bif If It iWJII rr, v YOU CAN OWN A HOME TO FIT YOUR FAMILY'S REQUIREMENTS . . ON EASY-TO-HANDLE TERMS. f f p JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL fl U SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. 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