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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
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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.
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