Medford mail tribune., March 24, 1963, Image 5

MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY. MARCH 24. 1963
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Beyond Decency
To the Editor: Many years
ago when Theodore Roosevelt
was a young man ranching in
South Dakota, he with one of
his cowboys was hunting
stray calves. The custom of
the country was to rope and
burn on the brand of the
owner of the range on which
the calf was caught.
The cowboy started to put
the Roosevelt brand onto a
calf caught on another man's
land. "T.R." promptly told
him to go back to the ranch
house and get his pay, adding
; "any man who will steal for
me will some day steal from
. me." .
How much I wish that
"T.R." was President today.
He certainly would have im
mediately fired Arthur Syl
vester, the pentagon informa
tion chief, who stated that it
was the Government's inher
ent right, if necessary,, to lie
to save itself when going up
into a nuclear war.
I do not question that it is
right to keep certain informa
tion secret so that the Rus
sians and other communist
countries can not get it, but
for a representative of the
; Government deliberately to
lie to the press is beyond the
( pale of decency and honor. It
is also stupid. But there may
i be hope. President Kennedy
, certainly told Khrushchev
where he could go.
Horace W. Thompson
3642 Hilsinger rd.
Wedford
Can B Dona ,
To the Editor: This is in re
ply to the editorial of Mon
day March 18, which infers
that all those who opposed
the so called "Home Rule"
system of County government
are against abolishing out
moded county officials such
as constables, and streamlin
ing and modernizing the oth
er departments where it will
mean a more efficient and
economical system.
To the contrary, we believe
these things can be done
under our present system
without having to give up our
right to vote to secure them.
There are many ways in
which the different county de
partments could work more
closely together, thus saving
a great deal of duplication
and expense. This is a job for
the County Court and we
think eventually it will be
done.
However abolishing the of
fice of county constable is a
job of the legislature.
It is a first step.
After seeing the ridiculous
mess that has been made of
billboard control inside the
city limits I find that the city
managership type of govern
ment for the city of Medford
is far from perfect.
Leila A. Morrow '
531 North Bartlett st.
Medford.
Appalled at Roads
To the Editor: As a recent
visitor to your state, I was
appalled at the condition of
your county roads in the north
area, particularly the Beagle
area.
When a family, including
three small children, must
walk three-fourths of a mile
Just because the county crew
is too lazy to gravel Beagle
road, things are really bad.
Every time it rains, this
portion of Beagle rd.'is like tar
at 200 degrees. It sticks to
your feet and makes all travr
el almost impossible.
I hope that this letter will
do some good and get some
action as you have a beautiful
county so why have a mark
against it?
Ronald D. Hutchison,
Box 521,
Washtucna, Wash.
Wants Kindergartens
To the Editor: In a few
months we will have lived in
this community five years. We
find it lacking many things
for its size and growth. I am
going to write about one that
I feel is important although,
evidently, many others won't
agree.
I have lived in cities larger
and smaller than Medford and
I find Medford to be the only
one that does not have public
kindergartens in its schools.
I have heard complaints about
Poets' Corner
Conducted y
Arnold Eugene Jenny
this from many others, mostly
those that have moved here
from other areas. People
brought up here don't seem
to realize the difference. They
seem to feel that since they
can't afford the private ex
pensive kindergarten, that
their children aren't entitled
toit. .
I think something should be
done to get kindergartens in
the schools. If other cities (eel
their necessity and provide
them, I think Medford should
also. The taxes would be the
same anywhere else and kin
dergartens would be included.
Maybe many think they are
unnecessary and would not
allow their children to attend,
That would be their decision
as some schools don't require
attending kindergarten before
entering the first grade.
I for one would like to see
kindergartens established in
the schools or know the rea
son why not. How many
agree?
(Name on rile)
Medford
Cherish Freedom
To the Editor: If you cher
ish freedom, can you do less
than everything in your pow
er now to preserve it? Will
you lift a finger to save
America? Our Congress can
turn the tide if people like
you and me will urge legis
lators to make the effort.
Write today to Representa
tive R. B. Duncan, House
Office Building, Washington,
D.C., and Sen. Wayne Morse
and Maurine Neubergcr, Sen
ate Office Building, Washing
ton, D.C. Tell each of them
that you want America saved
from communism and social
ism and that Congress must
assume responsibility for the
nation's survival. Suggest that
Congress:
Cut the budget so income
exceeds outgo, applying the
balance to the national debt.
Immediately reorganize the
State Department, removing
all socialists there and in
other departments as well
(with their beliefs they should
never have taken the oath to
defend the Constitution).
Urge cooperation with Lat
in American countries who
will insist communists leave
our hemisphere under penalty
of embargo and closing em
bassies in cooperating coun
tries.
Determine to take the cold
war (actually World War III)
to communist side of the 50
yard line, using tactics they've
used on us - upset and em
barrass, exploit weaknesses
behind Iron Curtain, keep off
balance by imposing problems
and crises on them, and iden
tify ourselves with hopes of
the enslaved rather than their
masters.
If Administration blocks
this kind of action, the Execu
tive should be removed as
provided in the Constitution.
Tell him if he will support
the Constitution and a return
to the people of their God
given powers, you will sup
port his reelection (even if he
is not of your political party.
Our country must come first,
and it cannot. survive without
such statesmanship on the
part of our elected representa
tives. Ask friends at a distance
to write similar letters to
their representatives. Their
local newspaper office will be
able to give them the names
of their legislators in Washington.
x Mrs. William Fcllerscn
Route 1, Box 217
Orland, Calif.
Losing Confidence i
To the Editor: You were
highly incensed and virulent
ly loquacious in your editorial
column a few days ago con
cerning an inference by one
of your Communications let
ter writers that the Kennedy
Administration was lying to
the American public and cod
dling Communists. I believe
you called it "a damning but
untrue narrative of outrage."
And now, lo and beholdl
Screaming headlines on the
front page of the March 19
Mail Tribune say, "J.F.K.'s
administration accused of de
ception during Cuba crisis!"
And the subtitle heading un
derneath screams even louder,
"News media say actions Imi
tate red techniques!"
Quoting the news story be
low, "News publishers, edi
tors, and broadcasters accused
the government today of de
ceiving the American people
during the Cuban crisis. They
warned that this Imitate Com
munist techniques. The news
media representatives told the
House government informa
tion sub-committee that the
government has no right to
lie to the public in any situ
ation short of all out war, or
unless national security is
vitally involved."
And how about it? Do we
also coddle Communists? We
have Just witnessed our Presi
dent going down to Costa Rica
and protecting Castro and
Communist Cuba. Six Central
American countries wanted
to take stiff action against
Castro, but President Ken
nedy would not agree to it.
A subtitle to the main head
line story of March 20 Mail
Tribune tells the story "No
promise given on stiffer ac
tion against Castro."
So by our own paper this
"narrative of outrage" is both
"damning" and true. Frankly,
I'm losing confidence in your
editorials, even as I lost all
confidence in the Kennedy
administration a long time ago.
And as its spokesmen insis
tently and almost hysterically
tell us that the Venezuelan
president, Romulo Betancourt
is an anti-Communist, every
instinct within me warns me
of danger.
We'd better heed the warn
ing in Communications by
Frank Koch of the Red dan
ger in Latin America. If those
people in our State Depart
ment who set Castro up in
Cuba, succeed in making
another Cuba out of Vene
zuela, we have had it. For
then we will never be able
to stop the Communist en
circlement and strangulation
of the United States.
Tony Galli
1720 SW Bridge st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Naw Frontiah
To the Editor: Th loss of
China, Korea, Poland, Cuba,
Czechoslovakia, South Ameri
ca, Egypt and Africa, the huge
National debt, high taxes, un
balanced budgets and the loss
of our gold are all New Deal
chickens.
Now I wouldn't exactly say
that the New Frontiah wuz a
bunch of chicken thieves, but
I don't see how every dahn
one of them New Deal chick
ens managed to get himself
locked up In the New Fron
tiah chicken koop.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
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Science and Poetry '
' Science answers some of the questions which man
asks about his world, encourages him to investigate that
world, and helps him control it. Poetry satisfies his heed
for meaning and beauty.
- Bonaro Wilkinson
o
Despite Time
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thypramids built up with newer might,
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
... They are but dressings of former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy.
Not wondering at the present nor the past;
For thy records and what we see do lie,- . .'
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
This do I vow, and this shall ever be,
. I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.
William Shakespeare
O '
Vilanalla For a Pioneer
My grandslre cleared this tract of land
Nearly a hundred years ago,
Wielding the ax with his own hand.
' One team of oxen at his command.
Working through heat and rain and snow,
My grandslre cleared this tract of land,
And built the home his young wife planned.
The work was tedious and slow,
Wielding the1 ax with his own liand.
You ask what makes my heart expand
. Year after year, watching things grow? r
. My grandsire CLEARED this tract of land . . .
One man alone, mild-eyed and bland,
Laid a matted wilderness low,
Wielding the ax with his own hand.
I wonder if you understand
How humbly proud I am to know
My grandsire cleared this tract of land.
Wielding the ax with his own hand.
- Mary Boyd Wagrwr
New York, N. Y.
A villanelle is a poem of fixed form, usually of a pastor
al or lyric nature, consisting normally of five three-lined
stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rimes thorugh
out. O
Biography
A woman's cry in deep travail,
A child is born, a life set sail
Upon uncharted seas;
The radiant morn, the sunny noon.
Then evening comes, and night: how soon
The tomb triumphant to appease.
Then bursting forth with shackles riven,
A soul shall wing its way to Heaven,
Uncharted seas no more to sail,
For through the eons it shall roam
Amid the splendors of Its Home
Prepared by Hands within the veil.
Frank Roberts
Medford
O
. Point of No Baturn
I think that I shall never see
A Tax Rebate that's meant for me.
Mine Just says (and It makes me burn!):
"You've reached the point of no return!"
- Evelyn D. Young
Mountain View, Calif.
Quotation Out of Conlaxt
To the Editor: Back around
1916, in an article in a YMCA
publication, I advocated absti
nence from the use of alco
holic beverages. A University
of Buffalo chemistry profes
sor challenged my refutation
of the popular notion that al
cohol is a food, quoting a
British authority's assertion
that "Alcohol is a food." My
professor friend emphasized
the "is" but failed to cite
the rest of the Englishman's
statement which was, as I
learned through further re
search: ". . . but a very un
desirable food, indeed, a very
.detestable food" since it could
perform only one function of
food, namely, produce heat,
but could not build nor repair
tissue.
That was a good example of
taking a quotation out of con
text to "prove" something,
whereas the full text might
state the very opposite. This
is a trick a number of Com
munications writers like to
employ.
Thus, Ella Powell, 3-19,
argues against my writing of
"true brotherhood as lived
and taught by Jesus." She
asks, "Which brotherhood?
and goes on to talk about
Jesus' Immediate family rela
tions and introduces a lot of
other irrelevancles which
have nothing to do with the
larger brotherhood implicit in
all of Jesus' teachings and
that of his disciples, as for
example, in Mark 3:32-35
(RSV):
And a crowd was sitting
about him; and they said
unto him, 'Your mother and
your brothers are outside,
asking for you. And he re
plied, 'Who are my mother
and my brothers? And look
ing around on those who sat
about him, he said, 'Here are
my mother and my brothers!
Whosoever does the will of
God is my brother, and sister,
and mother'." -v -
Since Mrs. Powell seems to
prefer the King James ver
sion, she may want to read
the above reference there.
O.K. In only slightly differ
ent words, it says the same
thing. Both versions, of course,
are translations from the orig
inal Greek. Mrs. Powell ri
diculously denounces the Re
vised Standard Version as
having been produced by "95
men .... 30 of whom had
more than 99 communist front
connections. Sounds as
though that came straight
from Smoot, and probably did
In any case, not only utterly
absurd but totally false.
Now a word for Frank
Koch. Time magazine, hardly
a communist Journal, said of
Betancourt on March 1: "No
other chief of state south of
the border has been under
sharper attack from the ex
tremes of left and right or
fought them all off more cour
ageously." Well said!
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley Manor,
Medford .
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