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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON SUNDAY. MARCH 3. 19S3 ., . Communications . . . Letter, le th Editor must bear th nam and addrej. of In writer, although undar certain circumstance! th u of a pen nam or initial or 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 necesiarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. To End The Filth To Die Editor: I have re ceived from Senator Ted Hal lock a copy of your editorial "Let's End This Filth" from your Friday, Feb. 22, edition, together with several letters from individuals in your area referring to this editorial and endorsing Senator Halloek's sponsorship of Senate Bill 259. We are appearing before the Committee in support of this bill tomorrow morning, and I have taken the liberty of making copies of your edi torial which together with the letters from the people in the Medford area will be supplied to the .various Committee members. We appreciate your forth Tight stand and hope that either with or without Senate Bill 259 we will be able to alleviate the air pollution menace in your area. I came through Medford In the past ten days, so I know something about this condi tion. Thank you again for your line public stand. B. A. McPhillips Acting Chairman Oregon State Sanitary Authority McMinnville, Ore. - Smart While Man To the Editor: Who is the smartest, the white man or the Indian? When the white man took over the country it was long on birds and short on bugs. Then came the white man, a very smart man, who plants cherry trees, shoots birds by the hundreds for eat . ing his cherries. Then along comes his bird killing cats. I am not a cat hater, but I have had lots of experience with them as I have had lots of them on the ranch, and I know what they will do. Truly they will kill mice, but most of them would prefer a bird. The country is so full of cats I believe the Dellenback cat law would help. Then you quite often see a dog hunting for bird nests for the eggs. Then along comes the sportsman with his fine shot guns to shoot what birds have dodged the cats, dogs and poison spray. It's a wonder we have any birds left at all. Yes, the white man is a very smart man. Bill Holman 402Vj Newtown si. Medford. Gold Tale To the Editor: One of a few big gold strikes that reached the five figure mark 60 some years ago in the wilds of Josephine county was really discovered by sheer accident. As the story goes, a young rugged placer miner set out one day with his dog on a deer hunt. In order to sup press his dog from making a "break" to run, the lone hunter stooped down to pick up a stone to toss to halt his dog. Lo and behold! the first glance and heft told him it was laden with "pocket" gold. Right there the deer hunt came to an abrupt end, for the time being. He returned to camp to break the news to the family and secure their help to mine the rich find that yielded a small fortune. In due time after the fabu lous strike was made as an adventurer, never having been to a big city, the young prospector soon set out lo see Portland, Ore. After sight seeing in the metropolis, he soon became broke. After telling some city officials of his plight and the story of his recent fortune and misfor tune, the good and helpful people took heed of the be wildered young man's dilem ma and volunteered to send a telegraph message to Grants Pass for more information. In due time a return mes sage stated that the young prospector had an ample sup ply of gold on deposit at a local bank and that all the prospector's wishes would be realized. So there ended an other episode of another one of southwest Oregon's hey Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny Grief I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnighl air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls, as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express Grief for thy dead in silence like to death Most like a monumental statue set In everlasting watch and moveless woe Till itself crumble to the dust beneath. Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet; If It could weep, it could arise and go. Elizabeth Barrett Browning O A Sergeant's Prayer Almighty and all present Power, Short is the prayer I make to Thee, I do not ask in battle hour For any shield to cover me. The vast unalterable way. From which the stars do not depart May not be turned aside to stay The bullet flying to my heart. I ask no help to strike my foe, I seek no petty victory here, The enemy I hate, I know, To Thee is also dear. But this I pray, be at my side When death is drawing through the sky. Almighty God who also died Teach me the way that I should die. Sgt. Hugh Brodie Of the Royal Australian Air Force, one time Melbourne University student, reported "missing" in 1943. O Paragraphed Poem Must a poem be set down in lines like a dinner fork's parallel tines, or can it be jumbled, uneven, mixed, appearing as prose, similarly fixed? For freshness of appearance as well as of thought, it teems to me some poems are wrought in paragraph portraiture, so much to be sought. The only thing wrong with this reasoning, somewhat like pie's subtle seasoning, is a fact that leaves me aptly surprised: a poem, like a fork, should be recognized. Winifred Rcsikell Laylon Salem, Ore. O Sunday Dinner at Uncle John's Feather clothed and kettle bound, While meat, dark and bone, Unmindful of the grisly sound Of steel on stone. Chopping block, a lump of wood That had withstood The lusty brawn Of Uncle John. Kitchen stove, a family member, Aunt Tcssie s pride and joy. Biscuits, chicken, dumplings boy, A repast to remember! George McDonald -Dufur, Ore. o Hard Prescription How can I follow doc's advice? He tells me to relax; His bills amount to half I earn; the rest is income tax. Jack Finel Central Point. Ore. day romances of adventure and drama of the gay nineties. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford Building Protest To the Editor: The follow ing letter, signed by sixteen aroused Americans, and their addresses, has been mailed: Mr. Samuel Schrivener, Jr. Chairman Board of Zoning Adjustment, District Building, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Schrivener: Word comes to us that plans are un der way to circumvent the established building ordi nance for the Washington, D.C. area for the purpose of erecting an "apartment" building by a "non-profit or ganization" in the city of Washington, D.C, which would overshadow America's national shrines, monuments to George Washington, Thom as Jefferson, Abraham Lin coln, our national capitol building, Arlington memorial cemetery, burial place of known and unknown defend ers of this land of liberty, freedom, justice. We consider such an at tempt abominable, unpatri otic, un-American. We feel that such an abrogation of the established ordinance of Washington, D.C, would be an insult to our Nation, a loathsome breach of sacred trust, by whomsoever might be in authority to evade the time - honored Washington, D.C, building ordinance. Only by accident have we learned of this attempt to thwart this long -maintained ordinance. Please advise us in detail just what group, or ganization, or persons are back of this movement and what is the object of a so called "non-profit" group? John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford. Editor's note: Another Rogue Valley resident, Mrs. Margaret McWhorter, Route 1, Box 41A, Rogue River, also concerned over this matter, wrote to Congressman Dun can. Here is hi3 reply: Dear Mrs. McWhorter: Thank you for your recent letter and the enclosed clip ping regarding a proposed apartment building which would stand taller than sur rounding national monu ments. I contacted the National Capital Planning Commission and enclose home material they sent me. You will note that the Zoning Commission has approved the plans for this development on the con dition "that the maximum height of 130 feet (permitted under governing regulations) be limited to 25 per cent of the building complex. Also enclosed is a thermofax copy of a map of the area showing the proximity of Watergate Towne to the Lincoln Me morial and the Washington Monument. Watergate Towne will front on Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues. As a matter of comparison, the Howard Johnson Restaurant at 26th St. and Virginia Ave nue is 90 feel high plus 26 feet for the penthouse making a total height of 116 feet. I hope this allays somewhat your apprehension which I share. I appreciate hearing from you on this and hope you will continue to give me the bene fit of your thinking on mat ters of public interest. Robert B. Duncan Member of Congress Washington, D.C. a Public Utilities Commis sioner, Tax Commissioner and State School Superintendent as well. They are all servants of the people and the people should have the right to elect, recall or reelect them. We have only to look at the outrageous increases in our utility bills and the shifting of the tax burden to see the fallacy of allowing an elected official, whose largest cam paign contributors were util ity executives, large stock holders in utility corporations and timber barons, to appoint a Public Utilities Commission er and a Tax Commissioner who have permitted excessive utility rates to be put on cit izen users, spawned legisla tion which can create a power monopoly, and maneuvered a tax-shift most beneficial to the large timber interests. Why throw such tempta tions in the path of a man? Why encourage him to ampli fy, cultivate and sustain his power at the expense of the people who are powerless to eliminate these "lackeys" who are duly annointed by special interests before being ap pointed? If we are to have a Gov ernment of the People, by the People and for the People," God deliver us from those who want to chop away our democratic right to use the ballot box as the ultimate check on officials who are elected to serve the interests of the people. So they want some measure of responsibil ity? "The voice of the People is the voice of God" (Alcuin). So they want to simplify vot ing and make it easier on you? "When someone wants to give you something for nothing, yell for a policeman" (Anon.). 'It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it; they pay the penalty; but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autoc racy, they are unimportant. (Calvin Coolidgc). Robert A. i reeman, 4625 N.E. 118th ave., Portland, Ore. More Democracy To the Editor: The Commis sion for Constitutional Revi sion presents "A New Consti tution for Oregon," which they term "a responsive and effective whole document which adheres to fundamen tals." What fundamentals? One of the essential fundamentals of a democracy is the right of citizens to elect, recall or re elect representatives of their choice. It is missing from this so-called "whole document." Under the guise of "placing responsibility," "stream lin ing." "shortening the ballot" and "making it easier to vote," they have set up the Governor as the only slate wide elective state executive officer. In a sense they are telling us we are not capable of governing ourselves and that we had best leave this up to a select few in power. This ii a fundamental of Butocracy If there are ills in out dem ocratic processes, at the state level, they can best be cured by more democracy. This can be accomplished by electing more state officials than we now do. The people should elect not only their Governor. Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney General W - f kr I j . ., , - I Sin and Law To the Editor: In the Trib une, 22163, in an interest ing article (Religion in Amer ica) Prof. Hinson of the South ern Baptist Seminary says: The churches are not crack ing down on such blatant acts of immorality as adultery and drunkenness. Then he quotes from Paul's letters to the Christian churches in Paul's day. Paul made It clear mat Christ came to save sinners, but would not tolerate hypo crites in the church who took the name of Christ while mak ing mockery of his teaching. None should realize better than Prof. Hinson why this is so. In Paul's day, they taught and believed the old Testament, they taught and obeyed God's Ten command ment law as God spoke and wrote it (Exodus 20:3-17). Those verses are the only ones in all the Bible that God wrote with his own hand and spoke with his own mouth in the hearing of over 2,000, 000 people. Today the people say: tnat is the law of Moses, it was nailed to the cross. Not be cause they believe iv, but to justify themselves, while mak ing up a set of ten command ments from their pet quota tions. They are unhappy with God's law, so they make their own. They do the same with the law of the land. In California in 1961, over 80 per cent of the 109,000 fatal and injury auto accidents involved a law violation. The same year the California State police issued over 1,000,000 citations. What a price people will pay for the privilege of making their own law as they drive. And it can be even more expen sive to make up your own commandments while you live. The police don't issue one citation in 1000 violations. But God records every viola tion of his law even to the words we speak, and every stop sign we run, let it be on the Lord's Sabbath day or on Sunday, the first day of the week, going to church gives us no right to break the law of our fair land. 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