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Communications Letters to the Editor muit btar tht name and address o! tho writtr, although under certain circumstances tht ui of a pan nini or initial for publication it permissible. Tha Mail Tribuna reserves tha right to adit all lettan with a view to clarification and condtniation. Letters . submitted for publication muit not exceed 400 words. Tha letteri printed in thii column do not necessarily represent tha views of the papers in fact tha contrary is often tht case. i A Responst j To the Editor: The Medford Wail Tribune, Wednesday, ; March 6, 1963, carried two ' editorials, one discussing the i age-old question of the world's . "greatest men," the other dis- cussing "Whalewatching." The editor, "E.A.," considered ' such list-making a "fasclnat - ing game" and called upon his readers to submit lists of v' 4,the greatest figures of the ' human race." We thought we ' would take him at his word, i inasmuch as such "list-mak- ing" seems to go well togeth er with "whalewatching." WHALEWATCHING - THE WORLD'S "GREATEST MEN" - I: Man must - to swell his worth - loudly prate . Of leaders leading blind, as ' "wise" and "great." Each self-styled "seer" will usually insist That all the world must bow down to his "list." Pray what is "greatness"? - What agrees with us! If you don't think so, you'll stir up a fuss By making list of "leading" men whom "fate" -The silly public - kowtows to as "great." Genius, inspiration, wisdom, mind: THESE are the things one might expect to find Included in the list of things called "great." Justice seems deaf, inebriate, and blind -! For money, pomp, and con tracts with the State i All dominate the scene! 'Tis THESE are "great!" : WHALEWATCHING - H: Now that we know what 1 "greatness" is, let's face S The list of those man puts in highest place. . We nominate for "leaders" only those ' Who guarantee us sleepy, safe I repose.. "None others need apply!" - Ga,dl how we shun ; A man with an IDEA! (It's no fun, ; When keen mind shows us to us - clear as glass - ; And there, instead of "great shakes," stands - an ass!) "Give wealth unto the poor and follow me." ' "Thou Shalt not kill!" said One who met cruel fate; Pearls cast to swine by Man of Galilee, Whose words men scorn! - For all that most men see Is Power, and Wealth, and Comfort. Gold and State Are what most men believe in! - THESE are "great!" WHALEW ACHING - III: It makes a person's head begin to swell, ' If, "above average," he hears someone tell About HIMSELF! In fact, most men insist The "great" are those they like most on TrirJIR "list": Jesus, J. Edgar, Plato, Ein- stin, Marx ... Question such listings and you'll strike some sparks! Bill Shakespeare, Nixon, Adolph, Ghengis Khan -' What genius, fool, or murder er is man! Never desire to be HIM men call "great" -Or be prepared to meet some '. violent fate! Copernicus had to publish after death, . And Galileo had to save his breath. Genius may wait unheeded countless years, Till centuries silence mutton, headed fears! K. (Name on File), Medford Lack of Vision? To the ' Editor: What is wrong in the City Council Is it lack of vision? Is it in difference to the responsibil ity of their office? Is it per haps favoritism?? Recent ao tion by this governing body gives one reason for doubt and misgivings. How could they fail to see the absolute certainty of bill boards being erected along the freeway through Med ' ford? The statement that they assumed the state and federal laws would handle it are weak and evasive. This in no way lessens the guilt of those who have created the present situation Why was nothing done un til after one double sign was erected, then permits issued for eleven more? One dozen These permits could have been revoked. The fees could have been refunded. A re straining order could have been obtained to halt con struction until a solution has been arrived at. Why are these favored few permitted to erect signs at will while all others must ob serve restrictions? If we are to have a dozen billboards, why not two dozen or a hun dred? Better yet, why have any? It is a fact that the ap ' proaches to other cities are plastered with signs extoll ing the merits of attractions in the next city, county and even in some other state. Our City Council is being sold the idea that Medford will benefit. Better wake up and realize that one IS born every minute. Medford could have been the exception to the rule. E. B. Van Horn 605 Franquette Medford. Support Appreciated . To the Editor: The Dorcas Welfare ladies, sponsored by the Seventh day Adventist church, would like to express our appreciation for the sup port of our efforts by individ uals and also by groups', with their material left over from rummage sales, and all others who have helped us in any way. we believe we have made good use of all of it. We have given free of charge. 67 quilts and countless num bers of clothing, shoes, and household articles, also fur niture, to hundreds of desti tute people who came to us. Our ladies donate all our work and we help, to the best of our ability, all who come to us, without reference to race, creed, or color. Then what we cannot use locally we ship to our clothing depot in Watsonville, Calif., from where it is sent, immediately, to places of disaster, to be distributed to any and all af fected by such. Many of your gifts may find a use in far away lands. Your gifts of cash during our Ingathering Drive pay for the transportation of this material to the place of need. Our needs are still great. especially for babies, and Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny Governor Hatfield on Poetry Since the earliest beginnings of our civilization, man's deeds have been immortalized song ... i would nope tnat these contributions and that poeiry ana wno are poets win Mark O. Hatfield, Governor of Oregon, in Procla mation on State of Oregon Poetry Day, Oct. 15, 1962 O Written in March The Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The ploughboy is whooping anon-anon: . ,' There's joy in the mountains; There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevaling; The rain is over and gone! William Wordsworth O As Night Begins The glimmer of twilight waiting . . . ' Dusk at gates of night; The stars through heavens freighting, Leaves, wind-tumbled in flight; The trail of an evening comet Caught on the spar of a cloud. Night breezes running the gamut Of hills in slumber bowed; Moonlight aslant the river Sifting silver among the lees, For night is in answer a sonnet Of magic profundities. Rena Ferguson Parks Portland, Ore. O Changeless If I should glimpse you in a complex dream Moving towards me as you used to do, All things would turn to shadows in the dream Excepting you Just as they did so long ago, . Just as before exactly so. Helen Axtell Trail, Ore. O Future's Gate How good it is we do not know, as down life's paths we swiftly go, The things of sorrow, pain and stress or e'en the joys and happiness That face us in the days ahead. It's best we cannot see Inside the gate where future's secrets hide. But patiently wait for what must come of good or bad, of storm or sun, For worry cannot pierce the veil. So let us keep in mind always tomorrows soon are yesterdays; Find more of joy and less of sorrow, this day so quick to be tomorrow And live our days Just one by one. . Edwin C. Roworth Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Calif. VA'"o. IIU It Frtl "OwtrtWltr tMk" YOU INI0U IT MttL No U "l 1 mi fit lfltr cetu for ut. tofftr tvitwn for yw. f Line National Schools flit KHMt Ut ! niin.uiniii.i" "" "f7 a Teftul khMit Meres I Hi 1CT ?-t SO". JW 1 children's clothing, worn blankets, sheets, drapes, bed spreads, table cloths, and any thing we can use in making quilts, such as quilt scraps from your sewing room, also furniture. We have been told that good clothing and bed ding has been hauled to the city dump where it must be destroyed. We are sorry they did not know about us. So, as housecleaning time is near, remember us as you clean out your clothes closets and attics. Also please direct any needy Individuals and families to us at 1900 Green wood at the east entrance. And call us if you have any thing we can use. We have someone who will pick It up. Call Mrs. Florence Pearson, the director, at 773-3953, or Hortense Miracle at 772-7206. Meeting hours are Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Hortense Miracle, Dorcas Welfare Society Route 4, Box 333, Medford. No Conititution To the Editor: A fews days ago you took Dan Smoot through the dew. In my opin ion he is a rabble-rouser, and offers no constructive reme dies. However, there is some truth in the welter of what he says. First, a few days ago I saw and heard on TV a reporter question Kennedy about the wisdom of spending 4.5 mil tion dollars in keeping an Army in Oxford, Miss., to keep one Negro in the U. of Miss. Kennedy replied he had no choice in the matter. The Supreme Court had spoken and had to be obeyed. Second, the statement that for posterity in poetry and all our citizens may recognize the number of those who enjoy increase. NationitSchooli icwoot tinrrwcuTin iMt'nW.ttw 9 J iim u4 tree Mil Sceeel Dept. 1 .'0iintW 130 MtDrOHD the Constitution guarantees equal rights to all. Fact: The so-called 14th amendment is Judgemade, it was never a part of the Constitution, for it was never ratified by the States. However, that makes but little difference, we have never been governed accord ing to the Constitution since John Marshall took over in 1801. He literally threw the Constitution in the waste pa per basket and with the con nivance of the Federalists made himself and the lackeys who occasionally sat with him, the absolute law-making body. Fob all of the deluded and misinformed: This was a Re public. All of the prattle about "this democracy" and our Constitution ' is a very effective smoke screen. My Republican friends bemoan the present state of affairs and say, "We must return to a government of law and the Constitution." How can we return to something we never poss essed? It might be a good Idea to take the Constitution out of its glass casket, and sub mit it to our representatives, both State and National, and see if we want to be govern ed under it. I agree with Smoot 11.1 per cent on his proposal to impeach Earl Warren. The other eight should be im peached also. Merton G. Buel Route 1, Box 113 Talent, Ore. New Hearings To the Editor: John E. Grlbble's letter In your issue of March 3 concerning plans to circumvent the building ordinance of our national Capitai for the purpose of erecting a housing complex 155 feet high (at the low side), to be 'known as Watergate Towne, which would over all a d o w America's national shrines, including Lincoln and Jefferson memorials and the Capitol, itself . asks "what group, organization, or per sons are back of this move ment and what is the object of this so-called 'non-profit' group." According to very thorough Investigaton made by POAU (Protestants and Other Amer icans United for Separation of Church and State) this hous ing complex is proposed to be erected by Societa Generate Immobilaire, of Rome, Italy, a subsidiary of the Vatican Letters of protest against this proposed change in build ing restrictions, received by the White House, and by Samuel Scrivener, Jr., are officially stated to have reached lO.OQO at each office and to be still pouring in Senator Bible, chairman of the Senate District of Colum bia committee, states that this is the largest volume of mail they have ever received on a single issue. New hearings are to be scheduled. F. C. Foster Trail, Ore. The Lord's Sabbath To the Editor: Thank you for your fine editorials on the Sunday closing law. I agree with you 100 per cent. The law is wrong regard- I 1 IM I I CALL 773-7103 To Consolidate Your Bills Into One Payment Without Borrowing CREDIT EQUITY, Inc. 201 Medical Center Building Mail This Clipping far Further Details No Obligation Name Addrtu All Information Strictly Confidential. I....... Optn t a.m. to 4 .m. MAIL '1HIBUNL, NU.DFOHD, less of the day. let It be Frl day, Saturday or Sunday. God created man a free moral agent; let us keep him that way. Is it not surprising at the lack of knowledge (?). Even one of our Baptist min isters implies in his Tribune letter 3-6-63 that he did not know that thousands of Bap tists believe Christ when He says: "The Sabbath was made for man . . . Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27.28). They believe Christ being Lord of the Sabbath. niHkes it the Lord's day. They do not believe, "man" in the above Scripture means Jew, for in the beginning, woman was made for "man" as well as the Sabbath. If "man" means Jew, then we gentiles must look elsewhere for our help mate, if God made the woman and the Sabbath only for "man" Jew. Those thousands of Baptists believe Christ fulfilled the law, and to fulfill a law is to obey it, not to destroy it. If fulfil means "destroy," then we have no righteousness. (Matt. 3:15). No doubt, the great apostle Paul believed as thousands of Seventh Day Baptists, and millions of others, that the Seventh Day Sabbath of the ten command ments is the Lord's Day. We find Paul holding Church services at many places. At Corinth Paul worked as a tent maker a year and six months, and preached every Sabbath to both Jew and Gentile (Acts 18:1-11). This was many years after Christ. Many years ago I heard an old Chinese Christian preach on the Sabbath question. He said: The Jews crucified the Lord between two thieves, and now the world Is crucify ing the Lord s Sabbath be tween two thieves, the hea then sabbath which falls on Friday and the pagan sabbath which comes on Sunday; the Catholic Church being the first to accept in the third century. I knew this to be true from the study of my own cate chism of Catholic doctrine. God forces His Sabbath upon none. To accept or reject God's Sabbath is our privi lege. Let us not try to force a heathen or a pagan sabbath upon our fellow man. F. E. Beverly, 112 Geneva st. . Medford. Teenager and Jobs To the Editor: In regard to the letter published in the March 1 issue of the Tribune, I would like to add my point of view, v I am another teenage "job hunter" who has been looking for downtown work for the past two summers. Granted, It is hard to find work, and especially when one is still In school, but if x felt tnat my meager need for work was ousting a more deserving per son out of a job, I wouldn't want the position. Teenagers need work for a number of reasons. Probably one of the greatest is for job experience. With each new job we gain a broader back ground. Many high school students plan to go to college. FOR IXAMPLI: If yea ewe Pay little i $1,000 $18 per week $2,000 i2i per week Phone .......I & Sot. 9 .m. to 1 p.m. OHtGON Not only are the standards for college entrance rising, but so are the prices! This adds an other reason for working to the list. Summer activities, new clothes, new shoes, and smaller wants, all cost mon ey. One more great reason for working is for the almighty dollar, which isn't always spent on worthy goods. Some times a student takes the re sponsibility of working in or der to help his family. This person is very deserving of a job. As we teenagers work for our reasons, so do the adults. Many adults are still support ing a family or themselves, and even if they are receiv ing social security, the extra money helps. Maybe the stores do hire more adults than teenagers. Why? Pos sibly the answer is this, they have had more experience. Certainly they know what they are doing or they never would have been hired in tho first place. Have you ever stopped to think that those "older ladies" might not want to work? If this is the case, then 1 sympathize with them. However, no person should be turned away from society be cause he has reached the age of fifty. If these people want to work, and can. then far be it from us to try to discour age them so we can get our selves a job. We want and need jobs just the same as, everyone else. Now, however, that the shocking truth of the difficul ties of job hunting have come to light, it is hardly right to expect everyone else to move over. We will all go on struggling but, somehow, I think we will manage. Miss Marty Merriman 304 King st. Medford. P.S.-You know, it is a pity that there are not more op portunities for the teenagers today. You wouldn't happen to know of any, would you? Criteria for Greatness To the Editor: Your kind Invitation to join the search for the twelve greatest men In history should prove inter esting. The task is Impossible, of course, but the exercise is welcome. At the outset appears the DEEM FOR STEAM IRONS No mort dfitllltdovalor funl Dtem. mokoi top wnltr aft for irom from. Minerals fllrtroo out auto matically. Uio ovor and ovtr. C679 Polished hardwood knlte holder. Holds S kitchen knives. Color ful hand-painted design. SA.NI-BLU New foimula automatic toilet cleaner ends scrubbing, freshens looms. Blue-tinted, mildly fla grant. Install In tank. C335 J t tH ' ' " MW'FWeje(JJje$pejee I- "J 1 J yp-...u .i i, n ii p- i T- - - FUTURAMA TEAKETTLE Teakettle In bright, polished aluminum. Heat lesistant handle In black and gold. Flip-top action spout lids. 2 Cup plus capacity. K 12911 VOLLRATH stainless steel mixing bowls fj fact that the real problem lies In selecting the criteria for basing judgement, rather than merely selecting a list of twelve men however great. Thus it behooves one to at least attempt to state these bases, thereby giving the re cipient opportunity to judge the results, and make an in telligent reply. The following list contains my choice of the twelve men, the absence of whom would have most greatly changed the history, as we know it, of their succeeding generations. They are: Sargon I. Zaralhus tra, Hammurabi, Yajnavalk- ya, Buddha, Thales, Pericles, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul, Peter the Hermit, Martin Luther, and Copernicus. In any such group of names there must always be some honorable mentions. Under this guise I will submit eight more: Urukagina, Gudcn, Cy rus, Mahavira, Aristotle, Mu hammed, Ghengis Khan, and Peter the Great. It would be a fascinating study to note the manner in which the names on the list change, as the criteria upon which the list is based change. Laurence Ware 714 West Sixth st. Medford. Wisdom To the Editor: American plutocracy boasts of iis capi talist system, the system, it is claimed, under which America has grown great. What a strange boast is thai! True, America has grown great under capitalism. So did Greece and Rome grow great under slavery, and what has become of the glory that was Greece and the boast that was Rome? It seems trite to say, In this day and age, that there is no permanency in political and economic systems, yet the contentions of the fatuous defenders of the profit sys tem imply precisely such per manency. They .will concede that there was need of funda mental social changes once, but there is none now, they argue. There was history once, but history is no more! There Is movement, change, they ad mit, but upon examination it will be found that the move- menl and change are of the VEGETABLE BIN Staekable bin for fruit vegetable storage. 7-3" x 13U" x 7". Unbreakable poly. In bright kit chen colors. PHBW699 EVERY ITEM BUY NOW... AND SAVE tlslisnimrorielToni!,Ciiipind ""P Set c,f alu"". holds illusive ipinhetii. Chrome. grip handles. Save Now. plitcd flexible steel. 6.95 value For Only $2" Set of 3 piacei. tMulti-Usa Bowl V 1 Vi - 3 qt. sixas bUHUAl, MArtCH In the Day's News By FRANK Stan Delaplane, columning in the Sonoma country, says in his Postcard column In the Chronicle: "I drove through the Son oma valley, where (back in 1846) California raised the Bear Flag of Independence that flies over our (California) schools and public buildings. "An interesting point of this is that these rebellious Americans were loaded with Fort Sutter whiskey rather than wine (in which the val ley now specializes). "A good many of them criticized tht artist they said the bear looked like a pig. The artist mi spelled Cali fornia, and had to insert the final 'i' above the line. "However, it was an his torical monument and adds charm to the Biggest State in the Union. TUT! Tut! Stan. The artist you refer to so frivolously was William L. Todd, a nephew of the dark- eyed, lively, Kentucky born Mary Todd who, four years before the raising of the Bear Flag at Sonoma, had married Abraham Lincoln and had gone with him to live in a kind that characterize an ant hill. There, to bo sure, we find plenty of movement, but the same dull, endless traffic of insects whose sole endeavor and life-purpose are the pres ervation of the ant-hill, and the form and kind of life that are found around and within it. So, logically enough, the contentions of the up holders of bourgeois democ racy come to represent a plea for the reduction of human society to the status and level of the ant-hill, and the reduc tion of the workers to notlv ing more nor less ll.an the state and condition of endless ly toiling working-ants. Such sloppy thinking passes for wisdom among our capi. talist intelligcnsla. Lydia Burnham, 814 Warne St., Prcscott, Ariz. PAN PRE! New food product cuts colorfes, keeps ffiacoroni.and.cheeie, eggs etc., from slicking to pan. Speeds cleaning. Plastic squeeie bottle Cull fol Intake. C6I5 EZ ee Plenty of Fret Parking t OUAUTY AT VflrftV yJtOMMA d IOWEST PRICISI iPiciAiurs Tenth and Central IN a 10. 19E3 JENKINS boarding house in Springfield, Illinois, where her 33-year-old husband was practicing law. Their room and board, by the way, cost them four dol lars a week.' Living was simpler for newly-weds in those days. PETTING back to Mrs. Lin "coln's nephew, he is said by historians to have had a certain amount of artistic tal ent. But his materials were cruae. ine Historic Bear Flag that was raised at Sonoma that day was a piece of whit ish brown cloth a yard and a half in length probably an empty flour sack, or some thing of the sort. There is a legend to the ef fect that Todd made a crude brush by pounding a twig un til the end of it was reduced to fibers. In the absence of paint in the pioneer village of Sonoma, he is said to have dipped his brush in some pokeberry juice. He placed upon the cloth a large star in the upper right- hand corner, and facing star he placed the figure of a grizzly bear. Having come lately from the East, he wasn't too familiar with grizzly bears. Native Californians gazing contemptously at this design were heard later to call In "the shoat." But it served its' purpose. The flag was raised and the Bear Republic came into be ing. 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