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contrary is often the case.
Sees Contrast tured by Merk & Co. read I drinking water is a vehicle of
To the Editor: Frklay's POISON! WARNING! MAY Red warfare is verified by
paper had two articles which BE FATAL IF INHALED OR Rena M. Vale, a former Corn-
shed light on two candidates
One article was titled,
"Duncan says own voice gels
tiring." In it he says, "the
most difficult phase of cam
paigning is hearing myself
over and over, day after day."
Apparently, this is typical of
the Democratic administra
tion, the same old story over
and over.
The other article is titled:
"Fisher says 'Cuba Issue in
Campaign.' ".
When Carl Fisher speaks,
the citizens sit up and take
notice. His voice never gets
tiring for he intelligently dis
cusses subjects of vital inter
est to all of us, non-partisan,
Democrat and Republican.
Mrs. Jack Lynch
139 Kenwood ave.
Medford.
Fluorides
To the Editor: The grossly
misleading impression given
in your Sept. 24 Oregon La
bor Press editorial reprint
that fluoride is not any more
poisonous than common table
salt must not stand unchal
lenged. The labels on the cans
of sodium fluoride manufac-
SWALLOWEL. Ever see salt
labeled that way?
Just how poisonous is flu
oride? It is the killing agent
in rat poison. And in gaseous
form it is the killing agent in
fluorine gas used in chemical
warfare. One breath of the
vapor is fatal. One drop on
the skin will kill within 30
minutes.
In diluted form fluoride is
used by trainers of wild ani
mals to dull the senses of, and
induce docility in their jungle
beasts by producing paralysis
of the brain cells. For the
same reason it is added to the
drinking water of the en
slaved people behind the Iron
Curtain to deaden their
minds and destroy their will
to resist Communist domina
tion. We have known this for
the past 17 years ever since
Major George Racy Jordon,
expediter of "lend lease"
during World War II, uncov
ered the grisly fact that Rus
sia was using the huge quan
tities of sodium fluoride,
which we were shipping her,
for that purpose.
The fact fluoridation of
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Fit For A King
If some proud king should ask of me
The favor of my property,
All things should go except this one
My garden drinking in the sun.
Four walls and comfort I'd resign
If hollyhocks might still be mine.
Spirea would be wealth indeed
Though food and clothing I might need.
In beds of asters I might lie,
Considering the Junetime sky.
The earnings of the year I'd spare
To hold secure my roses fair.
And face with cheer a pilgrim's plight
To keep my pansies dewy bright.
But what I'm saying-beg your pardon
Is simply this: I like my garden!
-Thomas Curtis Clark
Triolet For A Meadow
I went to the meadow at early morn
When jewels of dew were on the land
And clouds were freighting, weather torn;
I went to the meadow at early morn
To gather blossoms of white hawthorn
Tendering fragrance on every hand;
I went to the meadow at early morn
When jewels of dew were on the land.
-Rena Ferguson Parks
Portland, Ore.
-O-
Elegy To A Severed Blade Of Grass
O little blade of grass.
How magnificent was the hour
When you at last
One beautiful spring day
Thrust yourself proudly through
The earth In bright array
And became a world of beauty to my eyes.
O single blade of grass,
So insignificant in a
Labyrinth of the immeasurable;
So tiny, yet so important to Nature's plan;
A blade of insignificance to many
Becomes a blade of joy, solitude,
And immeasurable beauty to me.
O little blade of grass,
How dreaded was that fateful day
When the mower made its fiendish way
Through the legions of your brothers
And severed your proud head
Like a French guillotine,
And left you to dry and rot
Upon the good earth from
Whence you sprang.
- Nicholas F. Gier, Jr.
(Senior, Medford High School, '62)
Homestead Happenings
The old man with his gun to the forest,
His wife with her hook to the stream;
The bear, deer and fish would make a good dish -Should
they happen to catch them, I mean.
- Eliza L. Palmer
Medford (1903)
(Submitted by Hcnriette A. Medynski, Medford)
-O-
America. a Land of Poets
Is America a land of poets? PARADE'S readers have
answered with a thundering yes - in what may be the largest
poetry contest ever held in the U. S. Almost before the ink
was dry on the announcement of our search for modern,
unpublished American poetry, the entries began flooding in.
By the time they stopped coming, poets in every state had
sent in an amazing 100,000 poems! - PARADE, 6362.
munist party member who
turned rabidly anti-Communist
20 years ago. In testi
mony before the House Com
mittee On Un-American Ac
tivities she has stated that the
Communist plan to use fluori
dation in America, either for
outright poisoning of the
population, or for reducing
the mentality and the will to
resist.
Also Dr. Nocholas Nyaradi,
former Minister of Finance in
Red Hungary, and now an
escapee to America, states
that Comrade Zhuchovitski,
legal adviser of the Soviet
Ministry of Foreign Trade in
the U. S., told him of the plan
to poison the water reservoirs
of our Country. And Princes
Lleana of Roumania states
that Anna Pauker, recent Red
Dictator of Roumania told her
of Communist plans to poison
America's water supplies.
Experts on Communism in
cluding ex-Communists, and
J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI,
all testify that one of the first
acts of violence by Commu
nists in event of war will be
seizure of our public water
systems to poison the popula
tion. To aid the Reds by in
stallation of equipment to
carry out this plan of mass
murder-to-stockpile at our
city water plants one of the
deadliest poisons known to
man for them to use on us, is,
to me, stupidity that is only
eclipsed by the utter insanity
of putting the poison in the
water ourselves.
L. C. Powell
316 S.E. Eighth st. .
Grants Pass, Ore.
Man and Nature
To the Editor: "Equality is
a debunked theory . . .; no
two blades of grass are alike,
etc." were statements made
in the letters section of M.T.
Sept. 25. I would like to pre
sent another perspective con
cerning equality.
Tht above statements are
true in regard to nature.
One of the foremost evolu
tionary laws of nature is in
equality. This is the law
underlying variety, selectiv
ity, and progress, without
which life as we know it
could not exist all would be
monotony and stagnation,
hence, no life.
All animate and inanimate
forms of life are subject to
the physical and psychologi
cal laws of nature. This in
cludes man who Is not a sepa
rated being but an integral
part of creation. However
exalted he likes to think of
himself, the sooner he faces
this fact, the sooner some of
the confusions of life will
clarify themselves. It is diffi
cult to see how he can ever
establish sound moral values
before first learning some
thing about himself.
There are no evil forces In
nature. Her laws, though con
structive, are neutral. Man
cannot escape the effects of
natural law, neither can he
completely contiol them; but
unlike all other creatures, he
has the ability to morally di
rect them. This is no easy
task. It requires dogged de
termination, sacrifice, cooper
ation, and the constant cuti
vation of better thinking
habits in order to maneuver
the laws of survival to the ad
vantage of humanity in
general.
Until we grasp a better
understanding of the relation
ship of man to nature; accept
her laws for what they are
persistent, impersonal, but
morally plastic and endeavor
to wiselj channel them so as
to reap the fewest disasters
and the greatest benefits for
all, man will ever be con
fused, and blindly erecting
barriers to his own welfare,
happiness, and spiritual
evolvement. The results of
evident non-reflectiveness are
all too plain to be seen hu
man misery; inequality; over
population; under and over
conservation; war and de
struction. "What shuts his eyes
When he should watchful be
Need never hope from God
Prosperity." Chaucer
Thelma Carson
Star Route Box 60
Prospect, Ore.
Drinking Teeth
To the Editor: At last I am
glad to read letters that do
not seem censored. I have
never said or written a word
that I won't back up.
So I hope the valley will
get up in arms and shoot an
"X" in the "No" square
against fluoridation of the
wonderful water we are
blessed with.
Now listen, people will
you put water in your sto
mach that you cannot put in
car batteries?
I would like to know for
sure just how much of a
breakfast your children cat
before going to school, or
grown tips either. Smash the
Coke and candy machines
and put government tested
milk in the machines, and
you will have children that
will starve the dentists.
Better to say "No" and In
vestigate the danger of tam
pering with a pure water sup
ply, because Brother
you
"ain't" going to drink your
teeth from a water fountain.
Harriett Gibbs
1375 South Columbus
ave;
Medford.
Spirits of Devils
To the Editor: Some one,
'name on file," White City,
took exception to an article
by me which appeared 9-14
headed "Psychic Phenomena,"
and suggested that only the
Old Testament scriptures sub
stantiated the ideas presented,
I am sure the New Testament
is just as plain as is the Old
in teaching that man is mor
tal and that God only hath
immortality. (I Tim. 6:15, 16,
I Tim. 1:17). True, those who
obey God's revealed will, will
"put on" immortality when
the "last trump" is sounded.
(I Cor. 15:51-54). Yes, two
faithful men, Enoch and Eli
jah have been translated with
out seeing death, and a nunv
ber were called from their
graves at the time of Christ's
crucifixion (Matt. 27:52) and
Moses was resurrected (Jude
9).
It was the disciple John
who prophesied that spirits of
devils, not departed loved
ones, would play an important
part in the final scenes of this
earth's history. "And I saw
three unclean spirits like
frogs , . . For they are the
spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto
the kings of the earth, and of
the whole world to gather
them to the battle of that
great day of God Almighty."
(Rev. 16:13, 14).
Christ Himself warned of
"false Christs and false proph
ets who would show great
signs and wonders, and
warned us to "believe it not.
(Matt. 24:24-26). The apostle
Paul also warned (in I Tim.
4:1) "Now the Spirit speaketh
expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to se
ducing spirits and doctrines of
devils. It is hoped that many
who read these lines shall
rather give heed to Christ's
words when He plainly states:
Marvel not at this: for the
hour is coming, in which all
that are in the graves shall
hear His voice, and shall come
forth; they that have done
good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done
evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation." (John 5:28, 29).
In the days of the conquest
of Darius the Mede a young
prince and his beautiful wife
were captured. Darius gave
the young man the choice of
giving himself up to torture
and death or giving his wife
to slavery and shame. The
young prince unhesilat i n g 1 y
chose the former so that his
wife might be set free. Darius
was touched by such courage
and ordered that they both be
freed. Later the prince asked
his wife if she had noticed the
noble appearance of the king.
She answered, "My eyes were
on the one who said that he
would give his life for me."
The One who was willing to
give His life for you and me
stands today with outstretch
ed, nail-pierced hands, plead
ing "Look unto me and be ye
saved all the ends of the
earth." (Isa. 45:22).
James Russell Lowell
wrote:
"They are slaves who fear
to speak
"For the fallen and the
weak:
"They are slaves who will
not choose
"Hatred, scoffing and abuse,
"Rather than in silence
shrink
"From the truths they needs
must think. -
"They are slaves who dare
not be
"In the right with two or
three."
Harold J. Relth
113 Briggs bldg.,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Power Issue
To the Editor: Quoting cer
tain newspapers, Gov. Mark
Hatfield seems to be prophesy
ing great things for East Ore
gon in the immediate future
in way of manufacturing in
dustry, based on cheap labor,
cheap building sites and lower
taxes, but with special empha
sis on cheap non-union labor.
It might be well to remind
the people of East Oregon that
these are the same induce
ments which drew industry
into the deep south immediate
ly following the second World
War but that the promoters of
industry soon learned that as
industry moved in real estate
prices advanced, as people
gathered around these indus
tries taxes had to be Increased
to provide the services de
manded and as better schools
were made available and
working people associated
with each other they learned
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that the labor union is not a
great black beast lying in wait
to rob them of their hard
earned wages, but is in fact
a cooperative effort by which
they are enabled to force their
wage scales up to a level com
mensurate with wage scales in
the cities.
The answer to this demand
of the working people in the
states of the deep south was
"right to work" laws designed
to outlaw the union. Do Mr.
Hatfield's followers think
such laws can be enacted in
Oregon?
The limiting factor for in
dustry in East Oregon always
has been available power in a
quantity to do the job and at
a price industry can afford to
pay and the conspicuous lack
of any reference to power
sources or power costs in East
Oregon marks this Hatfield
political ballyhoo for exactly
what it is.
The tremendous Influx of
Industry into the lower Co
lumbia river valley, especially
on the Washington side, fol
lowed the offer of cheap pow
er in large blocks from gov
ernment built dams under the
Bonneville Power Administra
tion. Malheur county and Ida
ho's Snake river valley could
have had its share of that in
dustry if ihe Army Engineer
had built the high dam at
Hells Canyon and transported
its 640 thousand kilowatts to
a "sub station in the vicinity
of Boise, Idaho."
Two bills were defeated in
the 1961 session of the Oregon
Legislature that were de
signed to increase the amount
of cheap power available to
industry in Oregon and one
was passed that was clearly
intended to cripple the
P.U.D.s. Does Governor Hat
field explain why his party
voted in favor of the private
power monopoly on all of
these bills?
D. Ivan Fritts,
974 Forlner Lane,
Ontario, Ore.
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