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Following Dad
To the Editor:
Summer time is here again,
I'm sittin' here and wishin'
That far away from hunts of
men
We could just go fishin'.
I see the brook we knew so
well
Runnin' past us laughin'
Of all the secrets it could tell
Of "whopper" sly and bafflin'.
I'd clamber over rocks and
logs
And under wooden fences,
Get chased by farmers irate
dogs.
And lake some awful chances.
I'd wade ice water to my neck
And fall off slippery rocks,
Come up lookin' like a wreck
With "craw dads" in my
socks.
My goal at last came into
view,
My heart was light and glad,
For though it took an hour
or two
I'd followed Dear Old Dad!
Myrtle Kesier,
Portland, Ore.
Feeding a Dead Horse
To the Editor: I am glad
that Mr. Prichard was naive
enough to hold up as a shining
example such leaders of the
union as Sacco, Vanzetti,
Mooncy. They were what may
be called the positive type.
Positive that anyone who op
posed the union should be
dead.
' It is not the unions that I
am fighting, but the ones that
govern the organizations and
their methods. Mr. Prichard.
I don't give a darn for what
happened 50 years ago. I am
sorely oppressed by the bur
dens being laid upon the
working man today, and by
the labor leaders. They don't
even have to have a gun to
hold a man up for a half a
month's wages when he gets
a job. Our lawmakers have
provided the weapon - the
closed shop.
The unions fought tooth
and claw against the best leg
islation that has ever been
enacted for the worker - the
Taft-Hartley law, a law that
guarantees against discrimi
nation, against you being
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Winter Delight
When the red sun is setting in the west
And winter day draws swiftly down to night,
A deep nostalgia fills my restless heart
Not even beauty's fullness can requite.
Such longing is not for a yesterday
Far off and glowing through the years.
But for a rapture glimpsed and never known -A
haunting loveliness akin to tears.
Elizabeth Olscn
Portland, Ore.
0
Evening Came
All day a huge cloud capped Tillamook Head.
We read poems: heard Sibelius and William
Faulkner on records; rejoiced with great minds;
walked the wild dunes, heard meadowlarks
scatter their polished song; saw young
deer against dune-grass, powdery forms
fused with the landscape . . .
Evening came:
the long fog, lifting, left a fringe of waves
white below blue horizon of the sea.
We stood and watched the sun: it set,
incredibly red, leaving no afterglow . . .
And someone spoke some lines of poetry.
- William Eberman
Portland, Ore.
o
Cold War
Hear Winter rage his propaganda.
Listening, you'd think
: He had Sweet Summer blitzed and Autumn
Prisoned - barred in a long forever.
Almost he had me fooled. I cried,
"If icicles will free my beard some day,
The Sun's bright shears will clear the eaves
- Only then can icicles be beautiful:
Hear me, lee-tyrant! There'll be a fire -Some
day the Sun! Fire! Sun!
Never-thawing icicles I hate!"
From underneath the glacial curtain
A sound too muted for a despot's ear:
"We're here - down here - your seasons,
- Your underground resistance!''
Love those icicles on your beard
And on the eaves. Soon they'll drip
Before a fire clatter to the porch.
- Matthea Montgomery
Ashland, Ore.
O
O, Little Bundles of Delight!
The day is gloomy,
Mist abounds;
The world is clothed in hazy light.
Comes the sound
But near my window
Of cherry, musical delight.
A little group
Of tiny birds
Flutters and twitters cheerily -No
wit deterred by gloomy hush.
But flit around the sleeping bush -In
gay and happy, sheer delight.
O, darling birds.
O cherrful hearts!
Your music to one's soul imparts
A gayncss to the gloomy day.
So that our burdens fall away -
O, little bundles of delight!
- Kenneth F. Osthimer
Mcdford
1 I
fired if the boss doesn't like
the way you part your hair.
But the thing that galls the
union is. it prohibits them
from gouging you for contri
butions to any cause, such
as a million buck mansion
for a leader here or a fleet
of Cadillacs for another there.
During the war the unions
pulled H.OfO strikes and
caused 36 million idle man
days per year. No credit to
them that we won the war.
In 1959, there were 3,700
strikes and 69 million idle
man days. That year's lost
time would build 10 dams
such as we want on the Rogue.
The union's battle cry has
always been less work and
more money. Man was made
to struggle for his existence.
Take away his cause to strug
gle and you have destroyed
him as an individual, '"."e
shall cease to exist as a na
tion long before wc become
one fingered button pushers.
I will admit the worker is
riding the gravy train but
why does he have to pay so
much to get on and ante up
every mile of the way. We
are still feeding a horse that
has been dead for 20 years.
Let's bury the critter.
Geor? Brown,
Box 259,
Prospect
Mental Illness
To the Editor: At least 1
person in every 10 - 18,000.
000 people in all - has some
form of mental or emotional
illness (mild to severe) thai
needs psychiatric treatment.
With good care and treat
ment, at least 7 out of 10
patients can leave mental
hospitals partially or totally
recovered. Data from a num
ber of states show that about
75 per cent of those admitted
are discharged within the first
year. The chances of partial
or total recovery from the
serious mental crippler schizo
phrenia, have jumped from
20 per cent to 70 per cent
in the last 40 years.
In the past, readmission
rates have been as high as
35 per cent of the patients
discharged within a year. Re
search has shown that this
figure can be reduced to
about 10 per cent with thor
ough rehabilitation service,
including medical, social and
vocational after-care.
Schizophrenia falls befveen
IS and 35 years of age. In
volutional psychosis falls be
tween 45 and 60. Manic-depressive
psychosis falls be
tween 35-50. Severe alcohol
ism between 25 to 55. Psycho
neuroses between 25 to 45.
Mental illness occurs at all
ages, including childhood.
Since facial expressions oft
en reflect emotions, some
mental patients will obvious
ly appear to be different.
However, in most instances
it would be impossible to
separate normal from men
tally ill persons in a large
group providing they were
similarly dressed.
It is safe to say that not
even one mentally ill person
in a hundred is dangerous.
About 30 per cent of depress
ed patients ma, be potentially
dangerous to themselves be
cause of suicidal thought.
"Cast from shackles which
bound them, this bell shall
ring out hope for the men
tally ill and victory over men
tal illness.'
Medford
(Name on File)
Concentration Camps
To the Editor: Another ultra-liberal
on the rampage,
Mr. Ray Pritchard (MT 2-10-63),
worried about a U. S.
senator, a secret society and
a dog food commentator mak
ing the United States into a
concentration camp.
If you really want to worry
about this concentration camp
business Mr. Pritchard, don't
waste grey hairs on any ama
teurs. I hear that there is an
outfit headquartered in Mos
cow, who have had us in mind
for this camp operation for
quite a spell. They are experi
enced along these lines, too,
and have many camps thriv
ing today. Why, they have
one real close, just off Florida.
Florida, as someone said, is
a non-Communist country 90
miles from Cuba.
These Communists are such
experts that they have solved
all the problems. No big busi
ness, no "vested interests," no
labor corruption, no business
corruption, no freedom, no
strikes.
Why, they haven't had a
strike since that one in Hun
gary. A lot o mal-contents
left through Berlin but they
solved that, just built a wall.
Now, I doubt if Technocra
cy would stand much of a
chance against them. Lately
(last 30 years) democracy
hasn't done too well either.
Now a republic with a good
constitution might just make
out pretty well, but we must
have lost them or else they've
been pretty well liberalized
lately.
Yep, if it's concentration
camps Mr. Pritchard, I would
not worry about amateurs.
We've had lots of U. S. sen
ators, secret societies and plen
ty of dog food but very few
concentration camps.
Now don't let this Commu
nist thing worry you, after
all, they are clear across the
ocean, well, across 90 miles ot
it anyhow.
James K. Shafer
Route 2. Box 210X
Mcdford.
Stratagems of Debate
To the Editor: Abuse, in
sinuations and false accusa
tion are stratagems of a debnl
er who has run out of legiti
mate arguments. When he as
sociates these with references
identifying his opponent
public discussion without di
rectly naming him, he com
pounds his mischief with a
lack of candor, forthrightness
and possibly even courage.
James K. Shafcr's letter of
210 was of that kind.
"Liberal," "world traveler,"
"education received in the
cast'' (as though that were
something awful! - actually
obtained also in the south,
west and abroat), "white
shirts laundered more cheap
ly than sport shirts," "Irrele
vant" - these were some of his
relatively innocuous referen
ces to me, though my name
was not mentioned. However,
the rest of his letter unfortun
ately consisted mostly of mat
ter falling in to -be categories
cited in the opening sentence,
above.
Mr. Shafer's ill-humurcd re
marks evidently were trigger
ed by my assertion that most
of his comment has been ir-
rcvclant Well, to absolve
himself of the charge he needs
only to cease being irrelevant
and, instead, to stick to the
subjects at issue.
Our present discussion be
gan with my query about the
spectrum of phobias charac
teristic of a number of writers
in these columns. Mr. Shafer
among them. Subsequently,
seeking to justify himself, he
rambled all over the lot with
more, assorted irrelevancies
(i.e. matters not applicable
or germane to our discussion).
When he professed his be
lief in brotherhood - with
certain limitations, and in the
Constitution - up to a point,
MEDFORD
I suggested that Jesus' teach
ings put no such limitations
upon brotherhood; nor the
Constitution, upon liberty and
justice. But Mr. Shafer con
tinues to indulge his predilec
tion for irrelevancies instead
of confining himself to these
points. His dispute, really, is
not with me but with our
Lord's plain teachings on
brotherhood and the equally
clear provisions of the Con
stitution. Brotherhood, liberty and
justice are indivisible and of
universal application. Any at
tempt to limit, restrict or dis
tort them constitutes a denial
of them. These are the facts
with which I have been chief
ly concerned. They arc not
opinions, whether Mr. Shaf
er s or mine. And as tacts.
they are irrefutable and no
arguments on his part or mine
can deny or diminsh them.
I pray that Mr. Shafer may
learn to accept the Gospel and
the Constitution in all their
fullness, and to live like Lin
coln, "with malice toward
none, with charity for all" -and
thus enlarge his own soul
and the sum total of good in
the world.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Answers Question
To the Editor: What do I
mean when I say. "There is
no 'ism like Americanism?
Americanism means life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. Life that is free
from the threat of Commu
nism or any other ism that
is foreign to tne American
concept of a free society. Lib
erty to worship as one de
sires; to vote without intimi
dation, and to move about
free from fear; pursuit of hap
piness, to strive for economic
well-being and obtain a liber
al education without discrim
ination because of race, re
ligion or nationality.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Need Good Tonic
To the Editor: We have
been taught to take evil seri
ously even though it was not
our fault that sin exists. Evil
is an effect of desire, passion
and lust, which might be
cured if women were not
such shocking lofty souls.
Women are indeed delightful
to see and are necessary.
The secure, motherly,
image of woman, that tradi
tion has cherished has given
place to the now woman,
some thing unknown, disturb
ing and problematic. In any
case In was man who has pro
duced the decisive turning
point in woman. They should
never allow woman to carry
the blame alone.
Man is like unto a narrow
necked bottle in sharing the
blame of woman's actions.
The less they have in them,
the more noise they make
getting out of a tight spot.
Women are soul savers and
have been criticized desper
ately. For it is their strength
which men condemn in their
morals of what they are try
ing to save the souls from.
Since it was woman who
first sinned, God put man in
the lead and woman to follow
him. But where are our men
leading the women? Most
Christians are weak and ane
mic, weak from parasites fast
ing on the life they lead.
What Christians really need
is a good tonic of the Sermon
on the Mount.
E. Dykes,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Kcnncdy'sT ax Program
To the Editor: Tax Cut? Re
ports out of Washington say
that Kennedy wonders why
people do not show more in
terest in his tax program.
lie calls it a tax cut (to
get votes), but check the tax
to be paid under Kennedy's
Tax Bill. People have come
to the conclusion that it
should be known as Ken
nedy's Tax Increase Measure.
I am sure, for the citizens of
Oregon, that it will be a tax
increase.
For those citizens that own
their homes and contribute
to church and community . . .
it is a tax increase!
For the lumber industry, It
is a tremendous tax increase.
The same is true for the farm
er. This lakes in most of the
people of Oregon.
If you live in an apartment,
own no property, do not help
your neighbor or church, you
will get a very small lax cut.
So, let's call it by its right
name, Kennedy's Tax In
crease program.
Fayette I. Bristol,
5(1(10 Rogue River hwy.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Wish TheyWeMHere
To the Editor: Recently,
some friends of ours, an Army
physician and his wife, took
a trip to California, their pur
pose being, to find a desire
able community in which to
WHO?
See Thursday's
Mail Tribune
T
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
live and practice after the doc
tor is discharged from the
Army.
We, being Oregonians, faith
ful and true (even though we
live in Texas), suggested that
as long as they were going as
far as Redding they might
as well look in on southern
Oregon. There, we told them,
you will find a truly marve
lous place to live, work,
school your children in first
rate schools and so on.
Not satisfied with Califor
nia, they followed our sug
gestion. They fell in love with
the beauty and charm that
Oregon offers, even though it
was raining "pitchforks."
Being strangers, yet want
ing to know more about Med
ford, they telephoned a physi
cian, in the same field as
our friend, and he graciously
welcomed them into his home
to discuss Medford, the sur
rounding area and its need, if
any, for another doctor.
I can't begin to tell you
how proud we felt when our
friends, upon their return,
called to tell us that we didn't
exaggerate about Oregon's
beauty and her friendly
people.
I wish I were there!
Agnes Herman,
(Mrs. Charles Herman),
5207 Munim lane,
El Paso. Tex.
Best Forgotten
To the Editor: When I re
plied to Mr. Raymond D. Rob
erts' letter (Communications,
Feb. 5) it was not my inten
tion to start a personal ven
detta with him. It still isn't.
I will point out, however,
that while my figures did not
agree with his, the very fig
ures Mr. Roberts quotes repu
diate his own contention that
a control bill is not needed.
As far as waste in the cost
of legislation is concerned, I
would suggest that both Mr.
Roberts and myself could bet
ter turn our guns . . . er, type
writers on a much more fool
ish bit of legislation now pend
ing. I refer to the archaic Sun
day closing law, which is a
relic of the past and, along
with all other such Blue Laws,
is best forgotten. This last
statement I clearly identify
as opinion and not fact.
W. L. Stevens Jr.,
52 West Vilas rcl
Central Point, Ore.
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OREGON
Asked a Question
To the Editor: I have been
asked, "What about that verse
in the Bible that says, if they
hit you on one check turn
the other?"
I once heard about an
Irishman who had the answer
and 1 give you the story as it
was given to me. Bully hit
Irishman on one check. Irish
man turned the other cheek.
Bully hit Irishman on the
other cheek. Irishman beat the
-you know what-out of bully.
Bully respected Irishman for
ever after.
If all of the free nations
of the world would unitedly
do likewise to all of the bully
nations that are trying to rob
them of their God given
rights to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, me
thinks the cold war would
end "pretty soon q u i c k."
There is only one word in a
bully's dictionary that he un
derstands and that word is
force.
My Bible tells me about
a bully that was so wicked
the Lord had to strike him
blind before he would depart
from his wicked ways, and
thereafter, that man became
the Lord's most beloved apos
tle and served Him faithfully
unto death. Acts 9:1-19; 2 Tim.
4:6-9.
Excuse please, the bit-o-Irish
that shows.
Mrs. Alice I. Black,
812 Newtown St.,
Medford
Presents His Views
To the Editor: This is a
copy of a letter which I sent
to a constituted who was con
cerned about CD (civil de
fense). It prelty well states
my views.
L. W. Ncwbry
Slate Senator
I sincerely appreciate your
letter on the subject of Civil
Defense. Certainly your con
cern is justified and is shared
by us all.
First of all lev me make
my position eminently clear.
My opposition to the civil de
fense budget Is not based up
on the philosophy of the
peace movement as present
ed by the Eugene Peace In
formation Center or any other
group advocating peace at
any price.
220 NORTH BARTLETT
lo Greyhound Phone 773
OUR CONVENIENT PARKING
My criticism of civil de
fense, on the state level has
been of its lack of accomplish
ment and of its expenditures.
I feel that wc as taxpayers
are not getting value received
for our dollars. This is not
entirely the fault of our state
directors since they must
necessarily look to the Fed
eral Government for guid
ance. The Federal Program
has been confused. They start
ed on a program of evacuation
which is now generally
agreed to be impossible and
ridiculous but this program
cost us several hundred thou
sand dollars. Now the pro
gram has switched to one of
fallout snclters, this program
on the state level alone cost
$390,000 during this biennial
and they are requesting $410,
000 for the next two years.
Testimony before our com
mittee indicates that this pro
gram is now in doubt on the
Federal level and may be
altered or abandoned. The
Director of Civil Defense ad
mitted that they did not warn
the people of Oregon of the
Oct. 12 storm because they
did not know of it until it
actually hit. The assistance
that Civil Defense claims to
have offered after the storm
only amounted to offering
communciations to the state
agencies. The actual disaster
relief was carried on by long
established agencies of gov
ernment, which until disaster
hits, are known as the police
department, water depart
ment, electric department,
street or road department,
etc.
As your representative in
the Senate and as a member
of the committee on ways and
means, it is my duty to see
that you are retting value
received for your lax dollar
not only in the area of Civil
Defense but in all areas of
State government. During the
campaign people indicated to
me that they wanted expen
ditures cut. This is absolutely
necessary, otherwise we are
faced with the prospect ot
much higher taxes on the
state level.
Again thank you for your
letter, I hope my comments
will be of help in understand
ing my position.
L. W. Newbry
State Senator
- 4394
LOT
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY, 17. 1963
Radiation Fallout Shelters
' To the Editor: Reading
about "shelters" brings some
vague and apprehensive
thoughts, whys, wheres, for
whom? etc.
From sources we presume,
"radiation fallout poses no
threat to human health," from
OSU radiation specialist, J. R.
Prince, and olher sources.
If true, why all the scare
added to the already over
burdened public emotions and
confusions? And why added
millions of tax dollars? Who'll
get them, shelters and dollars?
If in a courthouse or capitol
building, who'll get into the
shelter, and by what authority
will others be kept out, and
how.' The judge, the gover
nor, wouldn't leave his fam
ily out; the janitor must get
in to keep the place clean, if
not sanitary; the sheriff must
be there to keep order; clerk
to keep records: a cook to
prepare food; waiters to serve
meals, or would each "eat
himself." a saying when one
tends to his own hunger
needs. Who'll be the chosen
few?
A recollection comes to me
of the Chicago Iroquois thea
ter tragedy about 1905. Over
600 persons died, mostly tram
pled and crushed in the pan
demonium when one word,
"fire," was screamed. Bodies
were piled higher than the
door tops in vain efforts to
escape. I saw truckloads of
bodies, men, women and chil
dren's feet and legs extend
ing from grocery delivery
wagons, police wagons, every
kind of rig that could be
pressed into service to haul
the dead to morgues. Bodies
were tossed into wagons like
hunks of wood.
Who would prevent similar
cataclysms at shelter en
trances, and how? Law re
quires outside doors of public
buildings to "open out," since
the Iroquois catastrophe. At
schools, pupils, teachers nor
parents, crazed mothers, could
control nor be controlled.
Shelters might cause more
deaths than they'd prevent.
Instead of shelters from for
eign enemy radiation fallout,
wc do need shields against
methods used to acquire
wealth and power by some
posing as good American citi
zens. In her letters to the editor.
"Where You Buy Is
Important As WHAT You Buy.'
Medford Mail Tribune 327
60, 3463, and others, Mrs.
Marie Bosworth sounds, and
thousands of other warnings
have been sounded, as to
where the missile race is lead
ing. . . . Must civilized, Chris
tianized, educated man de
stroy the hopes man's strug
gled for up through the grief
and pain, and ignorance of
centuries?
John E. Cribble,
Mcdford
Appreciate Interest
To the Editor: We are grate
ful for the opportunity to
present the adult education
curricula tc the Rogue valley
community.
We particularly appreciate
your keen interest and efforts
in presenting such attractive
layouts.
Wc sincerely appreei ate
your friendly assistance and
participation in this program.
Lindsay M. Vinsel,
Director
Adult and Vocational
Education
Proposes Boycott
To the Editor: Will all who
object to the tall billboard
monstrosity at 10th st. and
the freeway, please boycott
those business firms?
Or at least we, the public,
should voice our disapproval
to all business firms who thus
create such objectionable
structures.
(Name on File),
Mcdford
i"Well Flip My Wig"
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