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MEDFORD MAIL TH1BUNE. MtDrOHD, OHbGON "In Rusiia, abstract art is condemned at Capitalist Art. In this country, it's condemned as Communist Art. Why don't artists seek asylum in a neutral country?" Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the us oi a pen name or initial tor 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 necessarily represent the views of the paperi in tact the contrary is often the case. Ocean From "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd and unknown. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime The image of Eternity the throne Of the Invisible; even from out they slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. Lord Byron o Ta Nineteen Sixty-three New songs may you sing for use. Fresh joys may you bring to us. Courage and faith To walk without fear; May we be awake to you, Fully aware of you, O shining dawn Of another New Year. Ethel Peak ' Santa Barbara, Calif. O Belief Deep and blind, faith or seed, In the certainty of birth Too unquestioning to need Reassurance from the earth. Safe and sure of faith indeed, Knowing in its trusting way Naught of theory or creed Or the strife of yea and nay. Charles Oluf Olsen Portland, Ore. O My Destiny Lies My destiny lies in my lover's eyes, In the light of my lover's eyes. My dreams seem worthwhile when warmed by her smile: When warmed by my lover's sweet smile. My hopes, I declare, are bound in her hair, Are bound in my lover's soft hair. My future will be where she goes with me, Where my lover will go with me. George H. Bell Medford O Potent Is Man's Tongue How very potent is man's tongue For it can be fired at will; And likened to a loaded gun, Its breech is you and your skill. So when in haste your tongue is aimed. Trigger it not in such way That its recoil will find you blamed For a shot that has gone astray. I. John Medford O Sanctuary I bartered everything this life holds dear For the nightclubs and a prison cell. I found God there! All's forever well. William T. Cuddy White City, Ore. Extends Appreciation To the Editor: It is with deepest gratitude that I, on behalf of the Kogue valley Art association, extend our appreciation to Mr. Lloyd Halverson for the loan of his valuable private collection of paintings recently exhibited at the Rogue Gallery. For a number of years the RVAA has attempted, unsuc cessfully, to obtain a show of this type. Because of the ex pense of freight, the require ments of exhibits, and be cause of the hesitance of ma jor museums and collectors to loan such a collection to a new gallery,, and a gallery without permanent quarters, we have been unable to bring to the valley a richly histori cal display as was on exhibit. A number of months ago a local resident, Mr. Halverson offered the loan of his collec tion, acquired while working in the Bay area and Los An geles. He felt, as we did, that such an exhibit was mosi im portant for our organization, nd even more impuriam. that such a show would be of great value and interest to the community. The results of the show nave more than shown the interest of fine art that exists in the valley. Practically all the public schools in the valley LOOK! NO 1 DRIP! Now beautify rooms with amazing new paint that won't drip, splatter, or run down brush or roller! Odorless, scrubbable, dries in minutes. Clean up with water. 1300 Pn-Harmoniiti Colon in NEW DRIPLESS SUPER WALL FAINT NOW AVAILABLE ATI QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From San Francisco: Fnrtv-five city health in- snectors and rodent control enpf alists beean r -use-Qy house and boat t rat hunt in the Marir: other dav. The hunt netted one lone rodent-a gray Norway rat found drowned in the lagoon of the Palace of Fine Arts. SOLATED and unexplained, that little item sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? But wait minute. The drive was ordered after rat was discovered DEAD OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE at Scott and Beach streets in the city by the Great Bay where ships come from all over the world. Rats are car riers of bubonic plague-the dreaded Black Death that kill ed 60 million people during the Middle Ages. This is the point: If ONE olafiue-infested rat oot loose from a ship, MORE RATS might have got loose from the ship. San Francisco has to know. Hence the rat hunt. SHCIAllSTt IN HOMfWAftfS! Tenth and Central Phone 772-5201 PLENTY OF FREE PARKINOI have conducted their students through the exhibit. Because of the demand, the show was extended so that schools in northern California could schedule trips, as well as making more time available to the many demands by private organizations that desired private evening showings. Newspapers from Seattle to San Francisco have acknowl edged the show. Citizens from these areas, and from many other areas have visited Med ford for the express purpose of viewing the Halverson Col lection. During the run of the show much of the responsibility fell on Mr. Halverson. He not only delivered a number of public and private lectures, but assisted in the installa tion, and graciously made himself available to the many inquiries concerning the ex hibit. Again, the Rogue Valley Art association, the public schools, the out of town visit ors and the local residents, extend their appreciation to Mr. Halverson for his strong belief that his collection would be a valuable experi ence to the viewer. The ex perience has been just that. Ben Trowbridge, Jr. Exhibition Chairman The Rogue Valley Art Association. ments to bring this legisla tion in line with the general purposes which I have outlin ed above. Rep. Eugene G. Hulett (Lane county) Statehouse Salem, Ore. Trading Stamps To the Editor: I read with interest your March 8 edi torial on trading stamps, re ferring to the purpose of the bill which I have introduced in the Oregon House of Rep resentatives. I would like to personally assure you that it is not my purpose to "do away" with trading stamps but only reg ulate them more to the pub lic benefit as has been done in some other states. In essence, I proposed that the consumer be given an opportunity to redeem the stamps in either merchandise or money and that the trad ing stamp companies be re quired to pay taxes in the same manner as many other business firms which carry substantial inventories. It is my purpose to see that trading stamps be given a legal value, which is the claim to the public. As you may know, trading stamps, under the law, are not given a value and consequently do not pay an inventory tax. It is also the purpose of this bill to provide several mil lions of dollars in income to offset property tax for local government. On closer exam ination, you will probably agree that a tax on trading stamps would provide revenue from a source which is not now taxed. This is particularly important at a time when our slate is searching for every possible avenue to support the cost of Oregon government For your information, the trading stamp bill, HB 1642, will come up for hearing be fore the House Planning and Development Committee on April 3, 1B63. It is my hope at that time to offer amend- Disapprove Building To the Editor: Thank you for adding Congressman Bob Duncan's reply to Mrs. Mar garet McWhorter's inquiry from Rogue River to my com munication in the March 3 Mail Tribune. Also thanks to F. C. Foster of Trail for his letter in the March 10 Trib une. The 16 persons who signed the letter to chairman board of zoning adjustment, Wash ington, D.C., did so, I'm cer tain, because each of them, plus Mrs. McWhorter, and the tens of thousands others who protested, d i s approve the erection of any building in Washington, D.C., that would tower above America's Na tional shrines. - Such would be an insult, and worse, to the integrity and dignity of Americas freedom principles, and all who have died for the cause of freedom of mankind, free- dom from personal slavery, freedom to think, speak, act. Those protests were pos sible because we are privi leged to live in a land and under a constitution which nrovides for "freedom of thought, speech, press, wor. shin." freedom to elect law- making officers by vote of the people, and right to oust them. No people ruled by i dictator has such privileges. Men of vision wisely pro vided for separation of church and state at a time when dif ferent religious groups sought supremacy and state favors, Fortunately, that was written into the United States Consti tution, and adopted by and written into state constitu tions. The constitution per mits all isms, and favors none. Believers in one faith would not sanction the state being dominated by another sect. Every person who appreci ates America s freedom should realize that we must steadfastly maintain separa tion of church and state, safe guarding America's freedoms constantly, if America is to be land of free people. John E. Cribble Medford. Between The Lines To the Editor: In reading over "The Story of Philoso phy" by Will Durant, giving better understanding of the great minds of the past, than their own works portray, since the personalities and the periods they represented are portrayed, a clue is given that may explain the world's di lemma today. It is apparent in the grop ing of leaders in every part of the world for the an swers" that are always need ed, and that came up with Aristotle, Francis Bacon Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant and the more recent thinkers who moved the world in the mo dern era. A review of this nature brings out the essence of truth, which they expounded, along with the chaff of the age in which they lived, which has blown away or been completely set aside by war, revolution and the dis covery of new evidence in the quest of knowledge. We see the strange Irony today of Soviet leadership and people accepting some of the laws of nature which Dnr win brought to light, and the parallelism that exists be tween material concepts and spiritual values. A reevaluation is In order concerning the universal doc trine of equality which is evi dent in the mad scramble for more education, more of the world's goods and more ap preciation of the cultural in fluences, which special knowl edge and ability produce. If this trend could be given more publicity and attention than it receives, the vicious impulses that create misun derstanding of basic condi tions might be dissipated, avoiding some of the catas trophes that predominate in the news of the day. The people every where want to progress out of the darkness of the past. This much we can read between the lines. Sid Hbllingsworth Medford Hotel Medford. Clifford; Cliff and Nerah are fun. Whether it's music or picnics - they are always ready to help. I bet on the fight and lost. Makes me awfully sad. Guess I will trick my Chihuahua into her nest and then drink a big glass of sour buttermilk before I retire to dream of other days. Maybe I won't even sleep, for somehow there's no sheep to count now. Pearl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. Reading Poem j To the Editor: I was read ing George Distcll's poem and as he wrote of wings, I reach ed back and felt of those sharp things that have sprout ed on me lately. Shaw, I might have known they'd turn out to be shoulder blades? Just then George's wife walked in. She's a friend of mine and wouldn't have hesi tated to let you know that I don't have wings. Ahem! As soon as Mrs. Distell left, two more of your writers dropped in - Mr. and Mrs. Legislature Called Back in Washington Olympla - (UPB - Gov. Al bert D. Rosellini today called the legislature into a special session to consider the bud get, redistricting and a num ber of other proposals. TAX WORK MADE EASY Rent er Lease Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8th & Grip Eny Parkin 772.4100 GrMn Stamps Dickenson's PRIMROSE GARDENS Giant Hybrids Wide Rang of Colors On Mil OH Highway on Old Ferry Read SHADY COVE, OREGON HERE'S how bubonic plague soreads: A rat ... or a ground squir rel .. . or other rodent . . . u ihp riispase. A flea bites the rat and takes a nip of its infected blood. The flea men BITES A PERSON and the person gets the plague. If you kill all the fleas, the snrpn ri of Ihp nlaeue will be stopped and it will die out. But it's easier to kill the rats. That's the job San Francis co is tackling. A THOUGHT: in snlie nf all the tommy- rot we read in the news, the world is getting better. There was a time when this bubonic nlamip InrlHrnt could have prostrated the world with fear. And wltn gooa reason. Aa lalo no thp 1300'S. 8 form of bubonic plague known as the Black Death destroyed one-fourth of the entire popu lation of Europe. Many of us can remember the great flue epidemic that followed World War I. It was a BiNnFMlP. or world eDi- demic. In 1918 and 1919, it spread first throughout Eu rope, and from Europe 11 spread to America. It was grim enough, good ness knowns. At its height, the world was dark wltn tear, wo one knew in the morning who might be stricken by night. But the flue epidemic of mai period was a mere incident when compared with the Black Death of 500 years before. ANOTHER thought: In a much milder way, AUTOMATION is spreading fear among us. What will It do to our jobs? Well, if the scientists could conquer the BiacK ueain, they can eventually cnange automation from a job-destroying monster to a friend of man. Give them lime. HEAVY DUTY MUFFLERS Instolled While Yea W.it Phone 779-1966 NATIONAL BRAKE CENTER 1216 North Court Whatever you fe Saving fofoo. There's no like JCF . The earnings are good and your sayings are insured up to $10,000! Place aTLk.. J.'t nAii stm!' vvuy uuii i yvu auui a Savings Account at JCF -- and do it real soon! JCF JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. Home Office - 2 East Main, Medford Ashland Branch - 337 East Main, Ashland
