Mt,DrOtD MAIL THlbUNE. MEDrORD. OREGON
SUNDAY, JUNE i. 193
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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
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- 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.
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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
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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
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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. "
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