Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 20, 1963, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON SUNDAY. JAN UAH r ieU. lboJ 5 than Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end 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 column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper, In fact the contrary is often the case. Tlx Everything To the Editor: My under cover agent (no not AH-LAN), in Salem tells me there won't be a nose meter tax bill passed this session because the powers that be feel there will be too many folks so stingy that they will stop breathing in preference to paying the tax. Anyway he says that Ole M-oney O-r H-ell has come up with an idea that's really a humdinger, beats the meter tax all hollow. A 1 per cent withholding tax, on every person who has an income of any amount and from any source. No exceptions, applies to all persons receiving money, from the crade to the grave, from baby-setting to botlegging. No exemptions: a family of ten earning $3000 would pay the same amount as a single person earning that much. A farmer selling a buck's worth of eggs to a neighbor would have to place a penny In the old cookie jar. Ped dling 10 bucks worth of beef, pork, mutton or goat means a dime in the jar; In fact it covers all peddling. Whoa, there's one exception, no charge for peddling the bull. That's the one that would break me. This tax would cover Social Security, veterans pensions, civil service annuities, insur ance disability payments, in terest from savings accounts, dividends from stocks and bonds, in fact all monies re ceived. Once a law it will be as permanent .as ! the rising and setting of the sun, the only change will be an in crease to 2 percent, 3 percent and up when more money is needed. For those that like it, fine, for those that don't, it's bad, and instead of wasting pencil, paper and time figur ing what it will cost, use them to tell your representative in Salem to buck it or expect a chilly reception on returning home and a lot less votes next election. I wish you-all what I hope to have-LYCKO. Claude M. Hall 2860 Placer rd. Sunny Valley, Ore. man and will so remain until the end of time. Man, it is estimated, has been on this earth in his present form for around one million years. He is a new comer on earth. Scientists est imate the earth to be between four and five billion years old. Our globe at first was a ball of fire which gradually cooled off. Geologists can read its history in the earth's rock strata. The biochemists have also evidence of a dif ferent kind, which shows that man once breathed with gills, proving Darwin's theory that life on earth has been a grad ual development from lower to higher forms. About the atavistic proof in regard to man, it is shown as follows: In the early stages of the fetus in the mother's womb, it shows distinct gill marks near the ears. These are ata vistic marks, but along on the third or fourth month of ges tation these marks disappear. When the baby is born there are no such marks. I recently read a book in the library telling me this. The Bible lacks' science. When Joshua, the man of old, Said to the sun-"Stand Still!" And hypnotized the frisky moon With a forensic thrill, Astronomy was not embraced Within his mental girth. Or he would have addressed his spiel To the revolving earth. John E. Ring 1049 West 11th sL Medford. What He's For To the Editor: Was asked today by a grinning friend who reads Arnold Eugene Jenny, "Well, fellow 'habitual aginner', when are you going to start being FOR some thing?" With a pained expres sion we (my conscience and I) managed to recite for him, with tolerance and kindness, the following tiny fraction of the things we are FOR. We are 100 per cent FOR giving Red China a seat in the United Nations-O U R seat. Provided the UN is moved to Moscow, or Peking, where it belongs. We're FOR the patri otism - destroying UNESCO program in schools-Soviet schools, that is. We're FOR fluoridated drinking water. In the Kremlin. Also in the homes of all those who are trying to force it on the Amer- Flower Colors To the Editor: Mountain climbing, as in Switzerland, is hard work. Sometimes one wonders why one does it. One is roped to Swiss guides, above and below. Sometimes, on a steep slope, one's steps are cut in the ice. The strain on the heart is not so severe in New Zea land's South Island, for there the ice is lower, as at Mt. Cook and the Tasman Glacier. In the Andes, (where some times the only food available is llama jerkey and chunyo, flaked frozen potatoes), there also is the mountain sickness called ."saroche." The views, when ascent is gained, are, of course, incom parable. There also is a strange satisfaction about making an ascent. The following theory as to flower colors was outlined by a world-famous specialist. It came when he and writer were making an ascent in the Alps. We were resting half way up when above savant noticed bits of red alpenrosen, also blue gentian, tucked in ' the upper guides hatband. My friend commented: "Curious, our guide is attract ed by a red, also a blue flow er. I, as you know, am a prac ticing specialist. For years I have studied the effect of flower color on my patients. In my opinion a pot of red blooms Irritates. A vase of blue flowers depresses. So convinced am I there is power for good or bad in flowers to the sick I have a rule. My first prescription often is: 'Yellow flowers. I find they cheer, They are, indeed, what the Redskin calls "good medt cine." The testimony is repeated here because it may be of some value in helping our sick friends toward recovery. C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea st. Sacramento 16, Calif. Man and the Universe Tn the Editor: There are some observers in our society who predict an explosion ii the Earth's population before h nvt SO vears have Dassed. which will undoubtedly hap pen, if an atom blast docs not come about before and that, we all hope, will not happen. So. if we are to avoid the predicted explosion from too many babies being born, there Is only one remedy birth control regardless of God's vnrH in the Bihle. Someone in your column recently said that God has forbidden such a measure. a. i u it. the God 1 he licve in, the Almighty Cre ator, who set the glows oi ..nU.ana .ninninir in their orbits, and who created life nnr nlsnet: He cave me man the Dower and brain ca nr!iif tn envern hit own fife. This power is inherent in Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny The Mirage Let him who will, his dreams pursue Of wealth and powr and fame; But blest is he whose soul looks up And seeks a nobler aim. Mirages, these are round to be, . Whose spires upthrust and bright Are dancing ever just beyond Where day is merged in night. If, after years of bruising toil, Perchance his weary feet Should cross their borders once so fair He finds them bitter sweet. The sordid years that mark the way ' Of greed and toil and fear. Have touched his soul with flaming torch And left it charred and sere. Frank Roberts Medford O Foggy Morning A cat is creeping through the mist. Belly in the grass, Through the wet leaves of a tree Phantom bird-wings pass. Wind-puffs flutter, low and lost, From dripping wood; Mournful flowers bow their heads, A weeping sisterhood. To the window where I lean, " Saddened, alone, Comes a snatch of listless song In a monotone. Charles Oluf Olscn Portland, Ore. O Sweetheart of Yore A lingering vision of the days of old, The drowsy lanes, the sunset's dying gold. The whispering winds, the gently falling dew, Blend all in one sweet memory of you. Jack Finel Central Point, Ore. O The Voice of Love Hark! A voice of gentle sweetness Whispers to the listening ear, Bringing joy and peace and gladness, Faith and hope Instead of fear; Shedding light where all was darkness, Happiness where all was gloom Just a low sweet voice which murmurs: I will lead you safely home. Every one may hear its message: King or begger, high or low, ' Soldiers 'mid the din of battle, Sailors when the tempests blow, To the man of business worries. To the orphan left alone Comes the low sweet voice which murmurs; I will lead you safely home. Whose the voice' that comes so sweetly, Leaving peace along the way, Healing all the broken-hearted, Cheering each so tenderly? 'Tis the voice of Love that whispers To the weary ones that roam: Courage! I am with you always, I will lead you safely home. Eliza L. Palmer Medford (Composed around 1904, when the author was past 80 Submitted by her niece, Mrs. Henrietta A. Medynski, Med' ford) ican public. We're FOR inte grated schools for those who want them, and FOR segre gated schools for those who don't. For the federal govern ment leaving education to the states as the Constitution in tended. FOR "self determina tion" for all foreign states, in cluding Katanga and the once sovereign State of Mississippi. FOR giving foreign aid to Mississippi as we do to all other conquered peoples. We're definatcly FOR those wonderful American patriots who are putting up such a magnificent fight to stop the sale of slave labor goods in America. FOR boycotting the renegade merchants who arro gantly insist on selling this blood-money goods. FOR in forming President Kennedy (Who thinks buying this Com munist stuff is O. K.) that letting American trade-dollars flow into Communist pockets is giving aid and comfort to our enemy, and smacks of treason. We're FOR Gen. Edwin A. Walker who suffered the first illegal, political arrest in America, his Constitutional rights completely disregarded. FOR J. Edgar Hoover who can catch Communists faster than our Supreme Court can turn them loose. FOR our House Committee on Un-American Activities, the only Committee we have in the House stand ing between us and a Com munist take-over. We're FOR impeachment and punishment (as prescribed I mm. 3 .??'3fcf!73ECT3v 4 WPi i jit If you hav only pennies left from your pay check after paying monthly bills, give u a call. AK for a Paycheck Stretcher Loan. QITY FINANCE COMPANY me r -,; ct Phnnu. AA9.9A31. Ahlanrl OJ KIOIII V. i.w. ' - - '-- Life insurance available on all loans at low group rates 2522 TO 150022 by our Constitution) of all those guilty of promoting the treason treaty plan, outlined in State Department Docu ment 7277, for the surrender of all our armed forces and nuclear weapons to the Com munist UN. We're FOR the Christ cen tered Constitution of the Unit ed State, not the Soviet UN Charter. FOR Old Glory, OUR flag, not the UN rag. For U. S. sovereignty first, last, and al ways, not UN Dictatorship. FOR liberty and justice for all, not just for Communists and traitors. "Habitual aginner"? Not us. As you can plainly see. ' L. C. Powell 316 S. E. Eigth St. Grants Pass, Ore. Letters and Shouts To the Editor: "Youse Is a louse!" So began an anony mous letter I received back in the '30s when I was Execu tive Secretary ot a Branch of the New York City YMCA. It came from a member of a neighborhood athletic and so cial club which had made ar rangements to have a basket ball game and dance in the "Y" gymnasium-on condition that no liquor would be per mitted on the premises. The inelegant outburst in the idom then characteristic of some segments of the community was provoked by that "no liq uor" rule. Notwithstanding Medford's generally high cultural level, such literary gems are not very unusual even here -as this correspondent and, doubt less, the editor can testify. Sometimes such letters arc unprintable not only because they are unsigned but also be cause they are vulgar or even libelous. Their authors, obvi ously lacking ordinary decen cy or perhaps intestinal forti tude, are really to be pitied rather than scorned. One such missive I received recently contained the follow ing comparatively mild bit: "Your ramblings in the press... are nothing . . .but the marks of a senior deliquent." Its writer indicated that he (or she) evidently rcgared my let ter of 16 as an attack upon "legitimate hard working business and professional men." Readers may recall my quite reasonable queries, among others, about odd prac tices and high prices of Med ford laundries and the rela tively high fees of doctors, dentists and lawyers in com parison to Long Island's. The protester ignored my compli ments in that letter (as in others recently) to the busi ness community and citizens of Medford generally. One laundry replied that "long sleeve cotton shirts re quire 30 per cent more labor to finish than a dress shirt, hence, the higher charge (which I've also had to pay on short sleeve shirts.) If laundries elsewhere can turn them out in the same way and at the same price as dress shirts, it would seem that Med ford laundries haven't learn ed all the trick:, of their trade. F. H. Gray's letter of 18 In dicates another thing his laun dry hadn't learned: courtcsy since he never even got a replay to similar questions. It was pleasant, however, to read that he found himself in full agreement with me, "as usual." The "simple cure" for Ore gon's high income tax rate of fered by some who wrote or phoned me is just a bit too simple, I fear (however, laud able advice, in general): "Elect more statesmen and fewer politicians." Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Weather Lore To the Editor: According to some ancient astronomers, the earth (that is, including the sun's family of nine planets) goes through cyclic, changes over a long period of intervals, from an ice age, to one called "the great sum mertime." There is biological evidence to sustain the earth's periodic law of universal changes of the past, and ge ology traces the revolutions theory. According to the ancient Egyptian priest-star gazers, the solar year of 1963 will be ruled by the planet Mer cury. The springs are always dry, cold and changeable; the I summers wet; the fall wet too; except the early part of winter will be mild. There will be violent accidents both in sports and Increased world violence. Mercury produces much wind. Grain crops will vary; fruit of some kinds will be abundant. More or less a sterile year for fish. Easter Sunday will fall on April 14, another Indication the spring will be late. Bert Kissinger, ' 322 South Riverside ave. Medford. Fogbound To the Editor: I have been asked to write about the fog And the subject has me all agog Because there isn't any- It, thing more noticeable fog We have too much of and it seems I'm fog-bound even in my dreams. Now what are we going to do about : Setting the (oggy mist to rout? Are we simply going to take it with a shout? ' We can't get rid of it by lying down Or groping blindly all: around the town. While Ashland makes all. kinds of fun, Basking In the glories of the sun. Sid Hollingsworth : White City, Ore. Public Notice! In regards fo recent letter to the Mall Trib une Editor by an Irate reader; and due to the fad that telephone answering service ap pears to be the ultimate target for hit com plaint, we with to advise the public, our clientt and prospective clients that our firm was not involved. Further (had it been) the call would have been treated with our usual cordial and courteous manner. 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