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in( to look them up.
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozier Lane
Medford
Editor's note: Two ques
tions arise:
1. Where does any docu-
contrary it often tha cata
EDITOR'S NOTE I w e 1 c o m i n g home-coming the Interstate C o m m e rc e
In a recent communication, I troops at the depot, all proper : Commission), "of finance,"
concerning an accident and ( with Mounted Police, the des- (our privately owned Federal
subsequent trial, it was stated j perate committee in ram-1 Reserve System), (3) "rigid
that the defendant was "ascer- shackle cars, took off to ob- censorship," (ilie Kennedy ad
tained" to be drunk by med- scure houses, routed out the ministration has even defend-
ical examination and blood Russian agents, the preacher- ed the use of deceit), (4) "fore
man and female helper and a jble suppression of opposi-
few strike promoters, soon ; ., ., . H Miiinni. isi
had the Russians deported '
and the others clapped into any tendency toward exer
Stony Mountain jail. City of-, cise of severe autocratic or
ficials soon had strikers boot-' dictatorial control as over
ed from office and the big others within an organiza
city back to normal life. tion," (of persons as the illegal
But the most damning state- mmmitment nf Gen. Walker
ment came from the Free , t0 a menXal institution and of
on the Bible? 2. If govern
ment is ordained with the
power to kill, why can it not
rule on such minor matters as,
say, fluoridation of weter?
alcohol tests. In fact, how
ever, he was found innocent
of drunken driving in the jury
trial. The Mail Tribune re
grets the publication of the
imputation of guilt, and here
with retracts it.
Why Did They?
To the Editor: Too many
there are who parrot, "It can't
be that bad, it can't happen
here." Let them be warned
how Teamster Boss Hoffa say
ing labor contracts should end
on a single date, added he was
"not proposing a general
strike but that would be pos
sible under his plan."
But that's the very thing
that did happen, in 1919.
Three hard-core Russian Bol
schiviks, fronted by a starry
eyed preacher and a female
helper, promoted a general
strike in the 200,000 popula
tion city of Winnipeg, just
north of the border, reducing
it to a shambles of primitive
life. Clerks tossed aside
aprons to ignore astonished
customers. Police abandoned
their beats that left unlighted
streets to human jackels. City
water was turned down to
cottage level that rendered
fire fighting equipment use
less in emergency. Newspap
ers were closed, telephone
and telegraph wires cut and
mail dumped outside city lim
its. This was to have been dup
licated in other Canadian
cities, but something went
wrong. Conditions went from
bad to worse for some two
weeks when, with great ex
pense and risking life, offic
ials of the Winnipeg Free
Press escaped the eyes of
prowling guards and smug
gled in a radio sending and
receiving set and soon re
ceived the glad news that the
Russians had NOT taken over
all of Canada and the U.S.A.
as had been word-of-mouthed
about.
With city and government
officials under threat of death
to act, a citizen committee
took over. Under guise of
Press, demanding why the
post office had been closed.
"Did not the Postmaster Gen
eral recognize this stopping of
His Majesty's mails as an act
of war against the sovereignty
of the Canadian Government?
If they did so recognize it
then why did they lie down
under the affront?"
Yes, why did they? Why
does the present administra
tion here allow Russia to es
tablish a military base in
Cuba, worse still, preventing
Cuban patriots to do anything
about it? Does it propose to
downgrade the Monroe Doc
trine to less than a scrap of
paper?
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Eudemonism
To the Editor:
Your wheels are flat, both
front and rear,
And you haven't got a
spare,
When you say the world
could do without,
The Rogue Valley Smoke
Cured Pear!
George Distell
33 North Fir St.,
Medford
Fatcitt Principles
To the Editor: Thank you,
Mr. Allen, for the definition
of fascism in the Tribune last
night. It gave me a good ex
ercise in application of those
principles. (1) "any regime
with severely nationalistic
policies" - (wouldn't you
agree that describes Russia
perfectly?) (2) "exercising
regimentation of industry
(President Kennedy and the
steel industry?): "of com
merce," (arbitrary dictates of
der to talk intelligently, we
should keep an open mind
about everything and be curi
ous enough, now and then, to
probe into a controversial sub
ject on our own.
There are those, of course,
who protest that a little
knowledge is a dangerous
thing; but I still like what a
school-teacher once said to
me: "Use your imagination!
Know EVERYTHING about
something and SOMETHING
about everything."
How thankful we should be
that great men in all ages
HAVE used their imagination
- daydreamers such as Colum
bus and Magellan, who voy
aged to discoveries that pro
foundly changed the course oi
Daydreaming
To the Editor: Eleanor
Roosevelt once said: 'We have
to face the fact that either all
of us are going to die together
or we are going to learn to
live together-and if we live
together we have to talk." To
this I presume to add: In or-1 world history: researchers
such at Galileo, Newton, Dar
win, Einstein and other im
mortals, who persisted in their
efforts to expound natural
laws; writers like Jules Verne,
who foresaw the coming of
underwater craft; and inven
tors of the caliber of Marconi,
Edison, Ford and the Wrights,
who gave us so many modern
day wonders - to say nothing
of the "space spectaculars"
from Cape Canaveral.
And now we have plans to
go to the moon - alas, leav
ing behind our "best of all
worlds" In something of a
mess! It seems that there are
those who are trying to head
us off: visitors from outer
space, who arrive via their
flying-saucers! The thought
comes to me: Can we afford
without making tome effort
to ascertain their authenticity,
to dismiss at "daydreaming"
or "seeing things" the storiet
of those who say they have
actually talked and dealt with
space-beings ot high intelli
gence - especially when we
recall the ridicule and dis
honor that were heaped upon
bygone prophets and revela
tors of both spiritual and mun
dane things?
It seems that the space
men are here to confirm what
we ourselves have begun to
suspect: that our social and
moral awareness has fallen so
far behind our physical
achievements that we are dan
gerously "out of balance.'
They claim that their main
objective in coming to earth
at this time la to help us re
store that balance and uaher
in the millenium they call
"The Golden Age."
All I can aay is: Could be!
Surely, with' the horrible
nightmares that now beset our
world, we new) someone
from somewhere - to help
SAVI US FROM OURSELVES!
George M.
1ST Hospital i
Ashland, Ore.
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1365 Kings Hwy Medford
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Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Of Hani and Poatt
"They put on the wires today," said a
unit from the telegraph desk, "an Irish
poet saying when he's going to write a
poem he has the same feeling a hen has
when she's going to lay an egg."
Carl Sandburg
From the author's Complete Poems, p. 550, (c) Harcourt,
Brace & World, Inc.
0
High Leaf
Let me imagine your image, your face
glowing with goodness again, that fine
complection of purity . . . You were
somewhat like this high leaf unfolding.
tenderly green, half-opened heart.
I cannot remember you clearly,
only tall cleanness, and stern kindness,
rejecting my love . . . And it was best:
better now this broad light shining
on you, on the leaf, than my love
that was somehow darkness to you . . .
Let me remember your brightness.
Willis Eberman
Portland, Ore.
O
Her Garden
Among the butterflies and bees.
Song birds and flowers
She felt their gentle ministries
For many happy hours
She touched the ivory dog-wood frays,
Watched iris wings unfold
And gladly nurtured small rose sprays
In scallop shells of gold.
When pools of deepening shadows lay
Across the polished grass
She said that every closing day
Smiled, as it hurried past.
Helen Axtell
Trail, Ore.
o
Vows
Mystic moment,
Timeless space.
When two lovers,
Face to face,
At last declare
Sweet naked words
On breathless air.
George H. Bell
Medford
O
This One
One laboring on Mammon's prickiy acres.
Watering coarse and pithy stalks, letting
The delicately tendrilled go a-thirst
Chafing at durance, furtively peering
Through gilt-staked fence toward freedom.
The same one straining to see
What those without make of their freedom.
Then what shall this one do'
Shall he shriek? Shall he sob inwardly''
Shall he make believe an acquiescent calm'
Secretly should he search for some high ridge
In Mammon-land, to transplant salvaged so-called
weeds
And. too, a height to search for evenina slar?
His scourger names such a star a figment,
A vapor, imagination stretched unto illusion.
Someone bring succor: help this one to know
His weeds are weeds no longer: his star is real
Matthea Montgomery
Ashland, Ore.
groups as of the government's
control over farmers). These
are only a few illustrations of
fascist principles in action.
Have you ever, Mr. Allen, ex
pressed one word of criticism
concerning them?
On the other hand you have
frequently accused the John
Birch group of being fascist.
Following is the personal
creed not only of John Birch
members, but also oi ail so
called right wingers. He
wants to "run his own busi
ness, select his own doctor,
make his own bargains and
buy his own insurance. He
wants to select his own read
ing matter, provide for his
own old age, make his own
contracts and select his own
charities. He wants to edu
cate "his own children as he
wishes, make his own invest
ments, select his own friends
and provide for his own rec
reation. He wants to compete
freely in the market place,
grow by his own efforts and
profit by his own errors. He
wants the privilege to dis
agree with the administration
he has helped to put into of
fice. He wants to take part
in the competition of ideas
and be a man of good will.
He wants to worship in a
church of his own choice,
which is free of domination
by the National Council of
Churches." In other words he
is an American of the original
breed.
Against such as these you
have frequently written very
harsh words of disapproval.
Such words are understand
able from a Communist
source, as they were origin
ally, but they are incompre
hensible from one who claims
to be a loyal American. Will
it not become somewhat ridic
ulous to continue with such
utterances when the opposite
is so obviously the true
fact?
Anna M. Streed
38 North Peach at.
Medford.
Editor s note: Have you
read the Bluebook of the John
Birch Society recently?
Divine Right of Government
To the Editor: The question
in my mind has been, am I
for or against capital punish
ment? Those who are against
it say the Bible says "Thou
shalt not kill." I took the
Bible for my answer. True
the commandments say we
should not commit murder.
But then we find Gen. 9:6
says "Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood
be shed." Lev. 24:17, "And he
that killeth any man shall
surely be put to death." Duet.
19:11,12. "If any man hate
his neighbor, and lie in wait
for him and rise up against
him and smite him mortally
that he die, and fleeth into
one of these cities, then the
elders (officers) of his city
shall send and fetch him
hence, and deliver him in the
hand of the avenger of blood
that he may die. 'Also Num.
35:30. "Whoso killeth any per
son, the murderer shall be
put to death by the mouth of
witnesses, but one witness
shall not testify against any II
person to cause him to die.
The government role is des
ignated by the word of God.
Humanitarian efforts must 1
respect justice and justice de
mands that the innocent be
acquitted and the guilty be i
punished. Rorn: 13.4 is a com
mission from God for the
state to exercise authority.
The Apostle Paul recognized
that some crimes are worthy
of death, that Government
authority had the right to put II
to death; and that he had no I
right to protest against tne
death penalty if he were
guilty of a Capital crime. Acts I
25:11.
In a Baptist convention at
Raleigh, N. C, over 2,500
delegates were ready to vote
for abolition of capital pun
ishment, when Judge Johnson
Hayes, who had been dealing !
with criminals since 1927 and I
cited some of the cases as he
spoke, sat down, there was a
motion to kill the resolution.
(Binghamton. N. Y., Press,
Nov. 16, 1962.
Since our nation is based
on the Bible and it plainly
teaches capital punishment,
are wo going to throw it
aside (as many are trying to j
do) or are we going to believe
it and live by its standards
There are many more ref-
: erences in the Bible pertain-
) ing to it. It would be interest-1
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