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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
AND-
For your information,
Stan
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traveled half around the
world (he had to take a de
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to find Fremont and deliver
to him the famous message
that wns so secret that some
where along the way he com
mitted it to memory and then
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