Medford mail tribune., July 15, 1962, Image 5

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in this eolunvn do not neceaiarilv reoreient lh Titws of th paoan In fact tha I officially inflicting the prayer
contrary is often tha casa,
Lava Bed Country
To the Editor: It surely was
encouraging to note the bub
bling esprit de corps of the
student body on the field-trip
to the lava bed country that
Southern Oregon college at
Ashland provided their sum
mer scholars recently.
Hardly a dull moment on
the entire fauna, flora and his
tory study-trek by Greyhound
bus and shanks-mare. Sand
wiched between naturalist
commentary over the PA sys
tem, nearly every problem
confronting us as a people
was given a going over.
A fourth - grade teacher
from up-country across the
aisle, was the spark-plug back
ing most of it. His humorous
comments veined with a
cheerful optimism that leaders
would arise from obscurity to
be' a Moses out of the wilder
ness of political and economic
entanglements, a Gen. Grant
to help a humble rough-hewn
Lincoln in preserving the Un
ion, would always be found.
Especially when arriving at
the Stronghold, he was first
In take off alone up the rock
strewn winding trail. We
passed him a short way up,
his badly polio crippled legs
did help him to be among
others for a short distance at
least. Our wives (we were
with the Earnest Santos) elect
ed to stay with the comfort
ing coolness of the big bus.
Friend Earnest was bent on
photographing the location
data boards telling of the
Stronghold battle for his ex
tensive colored-slide collec
tion. My objective was to renew
memory of the unrecorded lo
cations pointed out to me nigh
40 years ago by my Modoc
tillicum Jeff. Riddle, son of
renowned Winema and his
white father, Frank Riddle,
interpreters from Gen. Canby
and officers. For Jeff, a lad 12
years of age was ever by his
mother's side through it all,
he concerned with her safety
and she with his, both hoping
to survive the ordeal, she tell
ing him what to do, who he
should go to, in case he was
left parentless.
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Pialm Twanty-thre
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadcth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadlh me in the paths of righleousness
for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me;
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
From the Holy Bible, Authorized (King James)
Version.
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Episod
Thp old homestead acacia wore, a cedar double-spired,
a posted sign denoting where astounding feats transpired.
Quaint the little house appeared for personage so great,
with latticework and gingerbread the muse to stimulate.
Surrounded by a foliaged fence from roadway it reclined,
wisteria and clematis around the porch entwined.
The garden was a glory of bloom no season could retard,
the occupant was seldom separated from his yard.
Morning or dusk would find him there in pursuits various
his snow towsled head abow-on knees-'twas ever thus.
He laborered nn a plane apart; mysterious he extracted
from nature-then the garnered fruits unto the world
contracted.
While ambling home from school one day I shyly stalled
to stare
quite suddenly ha handed me a flower for my hair.
Though numerous yean have come and gone, in cherished
memory
I hold the beauteous blossom Mister Burbank gave to me.
Thelma Carson
Prospect, Ore.
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Tha Little Black Dog
I wonder If Christ had a little black dng,
All curly and woolly like mine;
With silky ears and a nose round and wel,
Eyes brown and tender that shine.
I'm sure If he had. that litlle black dog
Knew right from the start he was God;
That he needed no proof that Christ wa. divine
Rut just worshiped the ground that he trod.
I'm afraid that he hadn't, because I have read
How he prayed in the garden alone;
While all of his friends and disciples had fieri
Even Peter, the one called a stone.
And oh. I am sure, that little black dne,
With a heart so tender and warm.
Would never have left him to suffer alone
By creeping right under his arm
Would have licked those dear fingers in agony clasped,
And counting all favors but loss.
When they took him away would have trotted behind,
And followed him quite to the cross.
Elizabeth Gardner Reynolds
(Submitted by Mary A. Williams. Mt. View, Cat.)
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A Waiting Audianca
On the basis of more than twenty-seven years' experience
as editor of a nationally circulated poetry magazine, I am in a
position to say that there is a silent waiting audience which
is not nn'iv interested in poetry but hungry for poetry that
is to say. poetry as it has always been known before the
innovations of the past half century. What this audience j
Desires is not only the sving of a singing rhythm and the:
delights of a rhyme, but in some respects deeper still and
more fundamental the pulse of a genuine emotion and the
sweep of imaginative utterance, j
-Stanton A. Coblentz, New York Times Book Review,;
I 62. !
Jeff was most insistent In
pointing out the battle loca
tion of Ellen's Man, for that
was the only name of that re
doubtable leader of the Mo
docs. For Capt. Jack, as Jeff
explained, was only heredi
tary chief whose concern was
to prevent fighting, for if con
tinued, it meant the end of
them as a tribe. But Ellen's
Man would have none of that.
To him it was kill or be killed,
which most of them preferred,
rather than be driven from
their ancient homeland.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.
Clarifies Contract
To the Editor: I wish to
correct an error in Mr. John
ston's review of the Howard
Prairie contract that appeared
in the Mail Tribune, July 6.
He stated that-'The con
tract was planned, approved
and signed by all members
of the County Court." The fact
is quite well known that I did
not approve of the contract
and I did not sign it.
Simply stated, 1 would not
be a party to a contract that
allows the county to subsidize
private enterprise at the tax
payers expense. Under the
terms of the contract, the
county provides all the facil
ities for the concessionaire's
use, including boat docks,
camp sites, trailer sites, picnic
tables, restrooms and a $50,
000 recreation building.
In addition, the county will
return to the concessionaire,
all of the camping fees. (Last
year's camping fees totaled
about $3,600.) In return, the
concessionaire will pay the
county $1,800 per year-ln oth
er words, the concessionaire
can make a yearly income of
up to $40,000 without making
anv further payment to the
county. However, the county
will continue to pay iui
repair and maintenance of all
the buildings and facilities.
In view of the fact that oth
er business men interested in
the concession were willing to
pay 10 per cent of their gross
receipts and also allow the
county to retain the camping
fees, I dr. not feel that the
terms of this contract are fair
to the taxpayers of Jackson
county.
Edwin H. Taylor,
County Commissioner.
Haplies io Letter
To the Editor: This is a re
ply to Mr. Stille's letter July
6.
Many of our colonists came
to America to escape the reli
gious intolerance and perse
cution of certain intrenched
Christian organizations in Eu
rope. There had been a long
history, extending over many
centuries, of religious wars,
heresy trials with burnings at
the stake, etc., none of which
could have occurred if the
principle of separation of
church and state had been
consistently understood and
practiced.
Our founding fathers were
determined to assure that no
one would suffer here because
of official preference for any
religious sect, or for any reli
gious belief. They, of course,
considered Christians and non-
Christians (including atheists)
equally entitled to the protec
tion of our laws, there being
no second class citizens here.
Perhaps Mr. Stille will rec
ognize the correctness of the
Supreme Court decision if he
will consider the following,
purely suppositious case.
Let us suppose that in an
other state, say Oregon, a sec
ond case arises because the
school authorities there sug
gest that the students in the
public schools start the day by
reciting a creed as follows:
"We recognize that there Is
no almighty God upon whom
we are dependent, and we un
derstand that we can expect
no help for ourselves, our par
ents, our teachers or our
teachers or our country from
any such source."
This expresses a view dia
metrically opposed to that of
the prayer which the Supreme
Court banned in the New York
Regents case. It is precisely as
repugnant to the Constitution
as the prayer is no more,
no less. It differs simply in
the fact that it gives offense
to a different segment of the
population.
It is evident, of course, that
if the prayer had been approv
ed in the New York case, the
above quoted creed, on the
basis of the New York case
as a judicial precedent, would
have to be approved by the
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court in the Oregon case. At a
matter of law, the two cases
are indistinguishable.
If Mr. Stille has carefully
land dispassionately followed
my reasoning to this point, he
in the New York case upon
a ar,tit,a o,,4,An-a wnill.H hnl'O
abandoned the principle of re-
ligious equality which the
Constitution sought to estab
lish. How fortunate we are to
live under such an enlightened
government as we do, and to
enjoy the protection of a court
which is so diligent in the pro
tection of our civil rights.
Clarence M. Crews,
4706 North Pacific
Highway,
Central Point, Ore.
Deserve Reading
To the Editor: Two articles
in the M T. of 7 862 deserve
reading by thoughtful citizens.
A Fed Up Citizen by a Cali
fornian was submitted by
Anna M. Streed, Juggernaut
by Eric Severeid. These arti
cles will not appeal to con
firmed optimists. They both
present an unpleasant picture
of America today.
Fed Up Citizen says he is a
sick American, sick of 30
years of panaceas, excuses,
etc. The powers that be, and
want to keep on being, tell us
we must forget the past and
look forward to New Fron
tiers. But one of the basic el
ements of improvement has
always been the ability and
willingness to recognize and
admit the errors of yesterday.
For 30 years an aggregation
calling themselves "Liberals"
has been running our nation
al affairs. Successfully or oth
erwise depends on the point
of view.
Today, the number of think
ing people who are taking a
dim view of conditions is in
creasing. And we are not all
paranoics. But the sad part of
the matter is that the ones
who have been responsible for
the deteriorations refuse to
perceive their errors. On the
contrary, they seek to divert
attention from their faults
by heaping scorn and ridicule
upon their critics.
When patriotic Americans,
driven by hindrance and frus
tration, instead of correction
of abuses, become radical in
their demands, they are called
ugly names, extremists and
worse. Remember, the Ameri
can Revolutionists were called
extremists.
The Liberals, from White
House to Perkins Corner, try
to pin these labels on their
opponents, for political pur
poses. The President made a
speech urging Congress to for
get politics as usual and get
down to bipartisan affairs.
Then he made a "non-political"
visit to California where
he allegedly urged Pat Brown
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John Birchers. I suppose that
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nalism and alcoholism caused
the decay and downfall.
It should not require a Billy
Graham or an Arnold Toyn
bee to perceive the devastat
ing effect of these isms ln
America today.
L. G. Weaver,
301 Haven st.,
Medford.
In God Wa Trust
To the Editor: (In reply to
Anna Streed's letter of July
8.) Yes, the Communist Spec
ter has scared a great many
people since the Bolshevist
revolution in 1917; made
many people sick, made many
die.
Once, at the end of World
War 1, capitalist forces could
have rallied and organized an
expeditionary force and with
the old Czarist officers, quick
ly smash the Bolsheviks. This
was not done although the
White Russians (Czarists) car
ried on a Civil war against
the Communists for five years
(1917-1922) and lost.
They got no help from the
Western Powers. Bolshevism
(Communism) grew like a
weed, and In the Second
World War, It got substantial
aid from the West so it could
beat Hitler. At the end of the
war in 1945, voices of some
outstanding individuals were
raised calling for marching on,
eastward and destroy commu
nism. (Clare Booth Luce was
one voice who spoke out for
this.) But the men In power
did not heed that call.
As it now stands, there is
no chance for the "sick people
who can't stand the action and
doings of our elected offici
als," to get well, because Com
munism, as of now, has be
come of age, has grown to be
a giant, as big as Uncle Sam.
War, as a means of destroying
Communism now is unaccepta
ble, even to the best military
mind. So, what are you going
to do about it? Do like the
old Jews, wait and cover your
self in sackcloth and ashes?
I would say, don't cry, lake
it easy and let us settle for
co-existence. The future?
Whatever will be will be,
the future is not ours to see.
In God we trust.
John E. Ring,
1049 West 11th st.,
Medford
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To the Editor: In June we
visited your city and found
it delightful. However, our
six-month-old son became
dreadfully ill and we had to
locate a doctor. We found a
wonderful pediatrician, and
want to sing about him. The
people of Medford are Indeed
lucky to have so much knowl
edge and understanding as is
in our Dr. H. L. Boehnke.
We feel as do many others,
that doctors never receive
enough praise for Jobs well
done. Each case is different,
but the treatment is the same;
full diagnosis, genuine inter
est and elation when recovery
begins.
Therefore Medford, we are
grateful that you had Dr.
Boehnke for our emergency
And to you Dr. Boehnke - We
Salute!
Duane M Barbara
and Eric Gibson,
El Mar Trailer Village
Missoula, Mont.
Academic Approach
To the Editor: G.H.B. in his
editorial advocating euthan
asia uses the same plea that
is often used to justify suicide,
no Injury is done to one who
is willing; but our U. S. Con
stitution calls life an "Inal
ienable" right. Life therefore
is not at the disposal of the
sufferer.
Apparently G.H.B. will have
to set aside his mis-guided
compassion until he can bring
about a fundamental (you
might say fatal) change in our
constitution. G.H.B.'s argu
ment appeals to sentiment, but
only in a disregard of reason
and it is a grotesque use of
the false principle that the end
justifies the means. Once ad
mit the latter and all morality
ceases to exist.
The position of G.H.B. is
this: Physical sufferings of
any incurable person are with
out value, and so without any
justification for existence.
Therefore public authority
should allow the end of suf
fering of incurables by ter
minating the life of the suf
ferer. G.H.B. should answer two
questions that immediately
present themsedves: (1) Is it
true that such suffering is use
less? and (2) Whence comes
the authority of the state to
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cent persons?
Perhaps it is a basic lack of
compassion on my part; but I
experience no anticipation of
that day when a dedicated,
trained and competent Medi
cal doctor hangs nut his shin
gle announcing his specialty
Dispenser of Death, though
perhaps Dispenser of compas
sionate air bubbles would be
more acceptable. Surely the
medical profession itself nour
ished a more intellectually
healthful approach to this
moral question, even if what
is surely the sad academic ap
proach of G-H.B. remains so
unmindful of morality in this
matter.
Robert J. Howard,
R28 B West 14th st.,
Medford.
Buys A Ticket
To the Editor: I just bought
a $15 ticket, and it wuzn't a
season ticket to Shakespeare.
I don't even get a chance to
look through a knothole in
the fence for my $15. The
state police got my $15 and it
ain't good for anything. It's
what 1 paid for driving a
short Jeep with a long piece of
water pipe, S15 for 1 3 Va
Inches of used steel wnter
pipe. Nn. It wuzn't gold plat
ed. That's about $2,500 for a
ton of steel. Wouldn't that
blow the lid off the While
House? II would, only it al
ready went for $6.
1 started getting tickets in
101 1 and it grew into a hobby,
a policeman's hobby. The first
ticket I got wuz for hitting a
horse with a long suitcase full
of carrots. The horse wuz
lucky, I could have hit him
with a suitcase full of eggs
which I wuz taking to the
grocery store. Now there
wuzn't no law against hitting
a horse with a suitcase, so
they made one. I got a ticket
for having a wide load, the
suitcase wuz wider than a
Brush car.
One time I got a ticket for
holding a trunk in my left
hand and driving with my
right hand while mowing
down a picket fence. The
charge wuz-having a wide
trunk on a narrow running
board. I can't help it, that's
the way thry built cars
Today I got a car big
enough to put a suitcase in
the glove compartment or 2
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Brush cars and a wheelbarrow
in the trunk, but I ain't got 2
Brush cars and a whcelba
row, 50 I just carry a trunk
full of air. I don't need a
trunk, I can put everything
1 got in the glove compart
ment. I come pretty close to gel
ting a ticket I could use once.
I bought a ticket on a passen
ger train, then they eliminaed
trains.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland. Ore.
Invited To Village
To the Editor: Recently I
was invited to spend the eve
ning in Pioneer Village, sub
urban Jacksonville. I got only
one mosquito bite and made
the acquaintance of some very
nice, friendly people that
made me forget the bite until
just now.
Likely subconsciously try
ing to think up some durncd
thing to gossip about, but be
lieve it or not, the couple of
dozen happy-go-lucky people
who relaxed around that 'ere
square in the yard didn't even
argue politics or religion. Odd
too, for they are such stormy
subjects these days.
Oh well, even the weather
is seldom stormy In Oregon.
Sort o' nice hereabouts, don't
you think?
I didn't see anyone else
swatting at a mosquito so I
guess I was being sweet. Don't
answer that.
You'd never guess what
wuz thunk up by thai gang
er -1 mean "those people."
Perhaps I should have called
'cm "Old Timers" but their
grand timers were playing
around there, too.
Well siree, they want to
swing an honest to goodness
show some day, using local
talent as much as possible,
but I haven't been "local"
very long so I didn't n ention
that I attended Drama Clasj
last year, but I do know "up
stage" from "down stage" and
I offered to help paint or
whatever work I can do with
out getting tired. They don't
know yet that I was born
tired. Ha!
More evening get-togethers
out in the fresh air and I bet
a bunch of us could cook up
two shows, eh vot? Try it,
folks! Good coffee, too.
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Jacksonville, Ore.
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