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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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