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Mt,DrOtD MAIL THlbUNE. MEDrORD. OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE i. 193 A 5 ... Communications ... S rsjss r Arsis its.t'taa'rssas: condensation. -Letter. lubmitM for publie.tion mut not exceed 400 words. Th. letter. No Comment Midt To the Editor: It is best that no comment le made on the following letter. David Frisch, P.O. Box 292, White City, Ore. Post Office Department, Bureau of Operations, Washington 25, D.C. Dear Mr. Frisch: This will acknowledge your letter of April 24 to the Post master General about reloca tion of the White City, Ore gon postal facility. We regret we must move the postal facility from the Veterans Domiciliary; how ever, the Post Office Depart ment has no jurisdiction over utilization of the building. You may be sure that the needs of the veterans will be taken into consideration in arriving at a decision on the new location. Sincerely yours, John D. Swygert, Director, Installations, Management Division Deserves Recognition To the Editor: As a con cluding activity to our study of Asia, our class decided to have a Chinese meal. We con tacted Mr. Henry Fong at Kim's Restaurant, who very generously offered us a meal with the compliments of Kim's. We were served an excel lent Chinese meal, complete with souvenir chop sticks, which we took home. We feel that a warm, generous ges ture such as this deserves rec ognition. We wish to publicly thank Mr. Fong" for an excellent meal, very pleasantly served. Ruth Cautkon Secretary, Seventh Grade Talent Junior High something to be left up to undermine the council's sol each individual. This is get- j idarity on CD. ting too close to communist The conservative organ sug tactics to be healthy. and ! 8"ts (with overtones of threat) I that tnp rnnnril npain "reviour goodness knows we have enough wars and strife in the world today without asking for more. When you start using force and interfering with individual preferences, you are bound to have troubles. I say that the whites there have cause to be offend ed. I think this is the trouble there more than the whites mistreating Negroes. It truly is a deplorable situation. (Name on File) Tagle Point, Ore. Misleading the Public To the Editor: Knowing full well that 4 out of 5 council members voted to abandon Portland's CD. program, the "Journal" nevertheless singles out councilman Stanley Earl as the "major critic" (May 25). This shameless attempt to mis lead the public is designed to ' that the council again "review carefully the situation," add ing that, "it also would be well if we had more specific leadership from Washington - from military and diplo matic leaders - on the role that civil defense is expected to play." By all means throw Wash ington's most powerful con servative brass at our rebel lious councilmen (individual ly and privately) and they will surely see the error of their "unpatriotic action. How dare they treat so lightly more than 10 mountainous years of expensive CD. liter ature and TV propaganda! How dare they think for them selves when our finest con servative minds have had the desired program worked out for years! How dare they be intelligent enough to see through the falsehood! First of Picnics To the Editor: In tonight's Tribune I noticed the first of the "State" picnics to be held. "Our" state always left the grounds so clean, I thought maybe our method would help other picnic groups-especially after hearing of one park caretaker ask a teacher, when her pupils scraped all the ta ble leavings, paper and all under the table - "Is this the way you live at home?" They looked sheepish, but did a good job of cleaning up. Our method is, "Save part of the money to be spent for prizes and treats, and buy candy kisses etc., but do not distribute this until when the picnic is ending, every bit of paper, pop bottles, bottle caps etc. is picked up from our area, and placed in a nearby trash can. This has worked for years and years and all get a good laugh as kids scramble after the trash. The' ones with the most in their boxes or bags get extra prUcs We expect It to work again at our pic nics, state and otherwise. At least it is an idea. (Name on file) Medford. Should Be Proud To the Fditor: The people of this district should be proud of the fact that in Sen ator S. W. Newbry they have, in Salem, a man representing them who has the good sense and the courage to say he voted against submitting the New Constitution of the vote of the people, because he could not "ask the people to vote to deny themselves the right to vote." John C. Stille, Shady Cove, Ore. Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny The conservative programme! vet calls for all local governments to cooperate in sustaining fear of atomic attack. If the Keen, "shocked and amazed." Some of these bills would cr.rry stiff penalties, others would protect postal Datrons from obscene mail edge of fear is allowed to get j matter and Communist propa too dull, it will soon dawn ganda, which is coming into on a rational American people that their worst enemies are not hordes of bomb-brandishing foreign arch fiends but a handful of wealthy and pow erful educators right here at home. E. L, Foster 5101 NE Cleveland ave. Portland 11, Ore. Deplorable Situation To the Editor: We hear so much about how badly mis treated the southern Negro Is by the whites there. I do not agree with this idea myself. Having lived there for some several years among the Ne gro I never heard of or wit nessed any whites mistreating Negroes. On the contrary, there were some white and Negroes that were pretty good friends. True, there was segrega tion in the schools, etc., etc., but this was accepted by both parties as natural, and no one seemed to be offended about it. It wasn't until the Gov ernment decided to step in and free the Negro that the trouble started, and now that the Negro has been told he is being mistreated and given some power over the white man, he is getting belligerent with this power just as they did in the Congo. As for schools for the Ne gro, they have them there same as the whites, but most 1 decline to use them. They pre-1 fer to work in the cotton fields VI day. A few desire to i make something of them selves, and segregation or not. these few have proven that it 1 can be done. I do not hold with using force to make races associate with one another as Is being done there. I think this is From "The Vision of Sir Launfal" And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above is for light, - Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green. The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade to mean To be some happy creature's palace. -James Russel Lowell o . - The Unremembered Poems I find her book of poems on the low ihelf. She died too soon. I had to buy the book from her pudgy publisher, unautographed, untouched by her hands ... Today is rain again, blurring the windows, making the bamboo seem like a misty bush. And suddenly I remember that summer night of moonlight and bamboo rustling, now and then, within the breeze; her window, high in night, above the sweet whisper of leaves . . . our words as lost, as lost as that illumined nifiht. . Her unremembered poems . . are here beside my hand. How quietly the ivory pages open to the light. How lovely were her poems, outmoded now, beneath the mounting terror of the world. Willis Eberman Portland, Ore. O Spring Comes To Chino Pass Spring arrives in Chino Pass whistling a brisk wind-tune; paints the hills and in the hollow lays a thickness of grama grass. Chino grass of valley fame: Here are held the insect drone, birdsong and highway-traffic-hum; sound-race in a travel game.. Chino wakes from winter's rest, her fields and pastures stirring: Spring is playing the valley's host, Nature's helpmate at his best. Helen Gerhardt Russell Los Gatos, Cal. , O Envy Me Not Please, little maid, don't envy me. The rich accessories you see Have filched away the greater part Of what v-as once a soul a heart. Don't touch the cushions where I lean Here in my gracious limousine The pulse you hear, the throbbing, beating Was once a heart its lover greeting And yet I fear you envy me. I can't expire with one renouncing breath. I must break, wear, rust to scattered death, And yet I fear you envy me Me without identity; Me a thing of unjoined pieces. Matthea Montgomery Ashland, Ore. The Voice of Freedom To the Editor: Alas, that J 00 years after the Civil War our Negro citizens are still not really free! At a time when we need more than ever to present a united front to the world, we are yet at odds over the Negro question. Cer tainly democracy, like char ity, should begin at home. Slavery plagued us for a long time, bolstered by an attitude such as that expressed by the well-known Joaquin Miller in 1862: "A child cannot but hate the plea of freeing of the Ne gro to save the union. Slavery and servitude must and will be in some form in all time among all people. Hewers of wood and drawers of water were made by the Almighty to serve their superiors, and the insane attempt to change this inevitable decree is today en slaving the noblest nation that ever existed." Is the attitude of the segre- gationalist of our day much different? Must it take anoth er 100 years to change it? As to Miller s assertion that the "Almighty" is behind it all, I prefer to agree with what Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said, in discussing the implications of the First Commandment: "If you believe in one God for all people, then all people are the children of God, and there can be no such thing as racial or national differences having any real significance." Sci ence, too, has confirmed the Biblical statement that we are made to "one blood" to dwell upon the earth. We vigorously and rightly condemned the Berlin wall; but what of the many "walls" that we have erected against our Negro citizens-hateful re strictions that forced thou sands of them to leave the South at the same time that thousands of East Germans were fleeing to the West? Were not these migrations somewhat shamefully compar able? Admittedly, the South is faced with having to turn over much of its destiny to people with educational and cultural standards well below those of the white man, as did the Colonial nations in Afri ca. The problem is, indeed, "loaded with dynamite." But it must be solved-and soon! for the voice of freedem is re sounding throughout the world, and we in America would do well to heed it and lend our voices-not by shout ing Dixie war-songs of 1S62, but by rejoicing together in "Bringing In the Sheaves." George M. Bibcock 427 Hospital dr. Ashland, Ore. our schools and to the youth You parents who have re gard for your children should write our congressmen to back these bills on obscene literature, and try to stop flooding the mail with this trash. With permission I wish to quote part of an introduction of a composition, written by a college student from Med ford. "During the past decade we have observed with much alarm, the widespread revival of moral corruption, murders, robberies and fraud are in creasing: cigarettes, beer, cars and Hollywood movie stars are supplanting the virtuous symbols of the good Christian life. We are becoming particu larly concerned with the rising tide of sexual impro prieties. Everyone seems o be obsessed with sex, sex in our movies, in our literature, and on TV. Sexual offenses, such as child molesting, rape and sodomy are on the rise. Sex is everywhere, virtually de legating a populace, that has been offeree) paradise. Espec ially the trend in sexual mis conduct in the young. Adoles cents given cars, money and their freedom, play freely in the pleasures of sin, leaving in the wake, millions of emp ty beer bottles, millions of cigsrette butts, millions of homeless babies and unsuc cessful marriages. Our sex education system in schools is not as effective as they were in the past. "It is obvious that these deplorable conditions must cease in order that the earth might rightly receive its King." The above is by a student whose parents can wsU be proud of. Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozier lane Medford til WT1 if IPf I PROFESSIONAL BUILDING Work has started on an of fice building at the corner of Barnett and Murphy rds. In the vicinity of the Rogue Valley hospital. A building permit for the $53,0011 structure was Issued last week by the city building department. This is an architect's sketch of the proposed one-story structure o( frame construction which wi! have 4,000 square feet of floor space. The build- ing. owned by Monl Crest Development mpany, vrilj be known as the Claude E. Mclntyre build fig. Off ice .srace will be available for medical and other offices, it was ex plained, with occupancy scheduled for Sept. 1. Edson and Pappas, Medford archltecutral firm, designed the building. Harry Salter is the construction contractor. . Yreka High School n the Day's News senior wins even. Yreka- Marsha Cavin, Yreka High school senior, has won the. Yreka Kiwanls club's es say contest "You and the Law." Second and third places went to Trish Lacey of Mon tague, also a senior, and Mon te Freeman, a junior aiso from Montague. Receiving honora ble mention were Charles Walker, David Alberts, Jul aine Herriden, C ! a rl e n e Cordes, and Hazel Ou'.sen, all of Yreka. A total of 100 essays er submitted in the content which asked students to write their thoughts on a booklet distributed by the Kiwanls club. A Direct Insult To the Editor: A word on the "Vile Book," a novel en titled "The Last Temptation of Christ," mentioned in a let ter 5-28-63 that our tax dol lars pay for. Is it possible the library board selects these books without first reading them? What little I saw and read of it, one can't feature anyone believing in our Lord recommending it. It is a direct insult to our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer who knejv no sin. The filth and obscene liter ature and pictures one re ceives through the mail is sickening. There are now five bills in Congress about these obscene literatures and ads. In a recent hearing, the members of the House Appropriation committee expressed them- Interested Student To the Editor: Proudly would I take a modest bow if the status attributed to me, under the picture which ap peared in Wednesday's (529 83) Mail Tribune, were true. The fact is, I am only a very interested student of the two mentioned arts. The extreme ly fine and able instructors are Mrs. Edward (Wilda) Bar nctt, knitting and Mrs. Frank (Ruby) Ralston, sculpture. Also, It should be known that Ethel Shuck Is the artist responsible for the greater and most beautiful part of the painting to be named. . Mrs. Richard (Mildred) Price, 701 South Modoc ave., Medford By FRANK JENKINS Two question: 1. What i Memorial Day? 2. How did it yet started jlf EMORIAL DAY is a patri "1 otic holiday - a day lo honor those members of Amer ica's armed forces who have given their lives for their country. Originally, Memorial Day was set aside ti honor men who died In the Wur be tween the Slates. Its official observance now includes those who died in the S p a i I s h American War, in World Wars ( and li, and in the Korean Wr. Unofficially, it is a day to be devoted lovingly to the memory of everyone's dear departed. On the Union side, 110,000 men were killed In action or died "f wounds, and 250,000 died of disease or starvation. The Confederates lost about 75,000 killed or fatally wound ed and about 90 000 from dis ease and starvation. Planned Puppet Show To the Editor: This is a reply to Mrs. Phyliss Lewis' letter to the people of the south. You are witnessing one of the world's best planned pup pet shows manipulated by the master magician in Moscow who has been quite successful in taking over a large part of the world already, and now he has his show in North and South America. It took him a good while to set up his show here be cause he had to help get the right actors for the scene and get n lot of "star gazers" to cry for the supposed victims, whom he will use to take over the U.S.A. and then he has the world In the palm of his hand. Save your tears for the rest of us and the whole world, be cause that is who will need them. Don't people realize that this is the Communist "death shot" to liberty for the world? The Negro is just added spice in the stew brewed up, they just happen not to run the government now and are best suited to his plan to carry his plans out. Maybe we will meet in some concentration camp when this show is over. Mrs. Abbie Bufkln Route 1. Box 80 Belzoni, Miss. Spcrtsmanihip? To the Editor: I am very sure the sportsman was very proud of the fish he caught at the Woodruff Meadows Camp bridge Sunday, but I wonder If he was also proud of the way he cleaned those fish and left the cleanings on the bank. It made a lot of blow flics happy. That same afternoon a fam ily group went to that same place for a little relaxation taking their little happy go lucky doggie with them. She didn't know any better than lo pick up some of the heads. Now we have to wait and wonder If she has been pot soned. It is nice to have your fish all cleaned and washed to take home, but surely some other way could have been ar ranged to dispose of the clean ings wlthou' causing discom fort to others and endangering the lives of pets. Isn't God's beautiful cre ation littered up enough with out utter carelessness? (Name on File) Shady Cove, Ore. WHICH IS to say: Out of a total of approxl m a t c 1 y 4,000,000 men who saw service in the field on both sides in the War between the States, some 525,000 were kille.' in action or died of wounds or disease or starva tion. War was deadly business in those days. Restaurant Owner Gets Achievement Award Harold Butler, president of Denny's Restaurants, one of which Is located in Medford, has been named recipient of the 1963 Industry Achieve, ment award o( The National Foundation of the City of Hope. The lelection was maae on the occasion -of the Found, lion's 80th anniversary. But ler Is a resident of Orange county, California, TS ORIGIN Is an interesting story. Memorial Day originated when Sou'. hern women scattered spring flow ers, lovingly and tearfully, on the graves of soldiers who died during the War between the States. They honored the Northern dead as well bs their own dead. It was not until 1868 Unit Gen. John A. Logan, as com mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, named May 30 as a special day for honoring the graves of the Union soldiers. The G.A.R. had charge of Memorial Day observances In the Northern states for many years. The American region took over this duty after World War I never forget what they did here." Freedom To Decide To the Editor: In reply to Oscar Jacobson's letter of May 31 regarding the accounts of the events following the death of Jesus, no Unitarian has to believe what van Paassen or any other individual writes or preaches. Many would take little stock in van Paassen's account. The point is, we have the freedom to decide for our selves what we will or will not believe, and wo try to evaluate people by their tela. tutting their personal beliefs remain just that - personal. Unitarians ask no comfort from other religions; they tend to apply the Golden Rule and earnestly wish that some of their Christian associates, especially those with Bible quoteritis, would do the same. Elaine K. Barnes 408 Windsor ave. Medford Is 1 T7 TTT . Wmi nir nm-rrjrri'nii I iTi r. inu i n n t im by the 10th EARN from the 1st Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Assn. Home Office-2 E. Main, Medford Ashland Branch-337 E Main, Ashland f tn Annum ill i'lir't'ihiiYiTf jlila1arifs',K- y;'i 2a&& 4Mb f.UT OF THE War between " the States came two liter ary gems-of which the first and greatest is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has been read at thousands of Memorial Day observances. On that November day at Gettysburg in 1863, midway of the war, Lincoln said,- in part: "We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a por tion of that field as a finjl resting place for those who here gave their lives that (our) nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But In a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot conse crate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, liv ing and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far listed 2,667,000 men who saw beyond our power to add or service In the field. The Con- detract. The world will little federates enlisted a total of note, nor long remember, about 1,400,000. I what we say here, but It can DECADES LATER, Walt Ma son. a writer of syndi cated doggerel verses in cur rent slang, rose to greatness with these four lines that are so Ividly descriptive of the Memorial Day observances of that time: '. "The little green tents "Where the soldiers sleep ' "And the sunbeams play and the women weep "Are covered with flowers today ; . ." TVJRING THE War between the Stales, the Union en- I'M AFRAID that If the peo pie of that day, when May 30 was still a living Memorial, could see a modern Memorial Day, they would think It sacrilegious. They might be right. " 11 CARDS - When you cart enough - lo send the very ben 217 f. Main St. Medforc' OPEN SUNDAYS 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. ( Bring the whole family . . . shop in all 54 big departments, where the se- 1 lection it wide ... the savings big. Treat the family to a delicious luncheon ROGUE SIDEWALK CAFE SUNDAY & MONDAY ONLY... 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