MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEE FORD. OREGON
SUNDAY. JUNE t. 1913
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Letters to to Editor mutt bear the iuu wd eddree el the writer, although under
certain circumstances the us of pa nana or initial for publication la parmluibla.
Tha MaU Tribune reserves the right to edit all lattara with a viaw to clarification and
condensation. Latter submitted tor publication must uct exened 400 words. Tha latter
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views oi the papers In fact tha
contrary is often tha case.
Speaking oi Pictures
To the Editor: Your editor
ial of May 30 concerning the
bureaucratic attitude of the
U. S. Bureau of Customs
which so far has prevented
the acceptance of ten gift
paintings from Medford's
"sister city," Alba, Italy, il
lustrates only too well the
Biblical saying, "The letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth
life."
Momentous pictures have
been appearing in the news
of late. One, clipped from
the MT of 530, shows a
pretty girl, dressed in a bath
ing suit and with a camera
in her hand, who was "picked
as Miss Press Photographer
of Pittsburgh, Pa."
It is perhaps one of the
photos that could well be
placed in the corner-stone of
some great building of our
time to give citizens of per
haps a century from now an
idea of what our civilization
was most interested in. If we
did, we certainly would have
to include photos such as the
following, which I also
gleaned from your news
paper. I am afraid, however,
that the people of A.D. 2063,
when viewing them, would
come to the judgment: "Their
inhumanity to man did, in
deed, make countless thou
sands mourn!"
Photo 1 shows an empty
school room: "NUN PRE
SIDES The children have
not attended this Louisiana
school since it was ordered
desegregated by the archdio
cese of New Orleans. Here a
nun presides alone."
Photo 2 shows several
Negroes sitting or lying on
the floor: "DEMONSTRA
TION The sit-in demonstra
tion, a silent weapon per
fected by Southern Negroes
fighting for civil rights,
moved into the state capital
building at Sacramento,
Calif., to protest the delay
of action on a civil rights
bill."
Photo 3. "RACIAL BEAT
ING Memphis Norman, 21,
is shown as ha was kicked
and beaten by a man identi
fied as Benny Oliver, a for
mer policeman, after he was
dragged from a lunch coun
ter in Jackson, Miss. Two
other Negroes, besides the
Wiggins, Miss., student, were
also beaten."
Thank goodness, an addi
tional photo that might be
included also will show to
viewers of the future that we
did at least have some pity in
our makeup even if extend
ed only to a bird! "LIGHT
HOUSEKEEPING Wall-to-wall
traffic and stop-and-go
existence don't seem to
bother this sparrow which
took up housekeeping in a
traffic light at an intersec
tion in Redding, Calif. Per
haps a citation should be
issued in this case for
fortitude."
In any event, in view of
our flair for social status and
other relatively inconsequen
tial things of our day, I hope
that history will not record
of us, as it did of Nero, of
Rome, "They fiddled while
their country burned!"
Geo. M. Babcock
427 Hospital dr.
Ashland, Ore.
terest You, out there should
visit Jacksonville's old mu
seum, the Pioneer Village,
and all the antiques, indoors
and out. I'm the only "Hick"
over here: The other oldsters
are all human. You'll like 'em.
Put on your glad rags and
go places. You'll be glad to
take a weekly trip once you
get started.
I should have said "Un
quote" for it wasn't a wood
pecker that warned me that
the bus line could quit us, but
she was red headed, and she
wasn't talking through her
hat; she wasn't wearing one.
Just a J'ville booster.
Pearl Spackman
Jacksonville, Ore.
Ride the Bus
To the Editor: and all my
neighbors far and near.
If we'uns don't get to ridin'
that 'ere Evergreen bus, we
commuters are apt to be rid
ing Shank's mare one o' these
days, and the one I used to de
pend on is balky. She's done
gone and got bumble-foot
worsen a darn old hen.
It costs ' jut $2 an hour
to run even a small bus, and
since I've been a lone pass
enger several times, I know
my 30 cent ticket won't
stretch that far. Of course ol
Pete does his share; likely
likes those pretty, young wo
men drivers. Anyhow you
'uns who begged the bus own
ers to keep the line going are
sure backsliders.
No bus-biz can run on prom
ises, and if they do not
"squormerate"-(Yah, I know:
It Isn't in my dictionary,
either) then this old gad-about
can't go to her clubs, or
chestra, picnics, and just anywhere.
Besides, those drivers need
lobs, the busses need gas, and
you'uns need to get out and
see both sides of the trail be
tween bus stops. The lovely
yards and their flowers, the
new buildings, the people on
the walks just so much of in-
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
water of tha mighty Colum
bia. Commenting on California's
desperate plight, tha Oregon!
an says, "One result, too,
might be removal of water
starved Industries from Cali
fornia to Oregon where water
is plentiful. This would seem
to be the simplest solution."
Of course! It would be so
much simpler to uproot and
transplant an entire state
than to build a pipeline to
California. (The millions of
acres of farmland would prob
ably present the most chal
lenging transportation prob
lem.) I suppose the peoples of all
regions will have neither
peace nor security until the
thieves fall out completely.
Certainly it is not in their na
ture to share, except for a
price.
E. L. Forster
5104 N.E. Cleveland ave.
Portland 11, Ore.
JBs and Christians
To the Editor: In the June
5 issue of M.M.T. there is an
article regarding the book,
The Last Temptation of
Christ," and linking the lady's
name with the John B. so
ciety. I understand the John
Birch group is active in
fighting unAmerican propa
ganda and any people who
speak against this group are
giving aid and comfort to the
communists.
The book, the lady men
tioned, was unfit to read. I
don't know. But this I do
know: There was no tempta
tion that Jesus Christ suf
fered that he did not over
come and gave his life, shed
his blood on Calvary that all
who believe in him might re
ceive Eternal Life.
We are judged on how we
receive or reject Jesus, who
is the only Begotten Son of
God.
We can't be a Christian
and a communist at the same
time.
Mrs. Mary Morgan
618 East Ninth st.
Medford.
Rumpling Brains
My interest In young people is In rumpling their brains
as you might rumple a good head of hair. Robert Frost.
(Diner's Club Magazine; reprinted in Reader's Digest, De
cember, 1962).
O
Tha On Great School Of Poetry
The one great school of poetry Is the poets in their
poems, and there is no other. Any writer who really wants
his work criticized need only turn to the masters to ask
of their pages in despair if he is capable of reaching them
and capable of honest despair what is wrong with his own.
John Ciardi, In Saturday Review, 12162.
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For John Ciardi And Robert Frost
How does a poem mean
Never a Joke to seem?
Snmpfhinff T CJinnot sav.
Essay or ever glean.
Yet on this winter day,
Here by a white-capped bay,
Searching my texts I find
Little that makes me gay.
How can a simple mind
Eke out the words that bind
Frost to a birch bent low,
Making the critics kind?
Onward these rhymes could flow,
Never assured to know;
How does a poem grow?
How does a poem grow?
Lloyd B. Halverson
Medford
O .
Poetry
If poetry be what the sages say
And who can doubt when history so proves
Then poetry should rightly have its day.
And to that worthy end the trend now moves.
The Book of books in cadenced melody,
From Job's lament to David's Shepherd lay,
Isaiah's warning words and prophecy,
Was written in Hebraic poetry.
The English bard whose sonnets, songs and play
Gave him that place so honored, safe and high
No other has attained throughout all days.
Decreed that poetry should never die.
High tribute to the wise, discerning one
Who sees its scoDe and gives it recognition.
Blanche Ellis Norvell
The Manor, Medford
O
How Often . . .
How often have I told my heart: Beware
Of dreams that lure but never can come true
To find it still pursuing paths that dare
The unknown heights, the unrecorded blue?
Charles Oluf Olsen
Portland, Ore.
O
North Star
I mav be small, nor shine as bright
As other stars that gem the night,
But while the Dipper circles ME
I find no fault with things that be.
Ethel E. Griffith
Portland, Ore.
O
Rainbow
My arms cradled
A new-born child.
I watched a stormy sky
Suddenly a rainbow appeared and
I knew I held the gold.
Ivth R. Edmunds
Portland, Ore.
Sordid Things
To the Editor: I go along
with and thoroughly agree
with a Mrs. Ella Powell, com
ments 6663.
I can see no good reason
for anyone, whether a liter
ary giant or one like me, to
make fame or perhaps for
tune by recording or writing,
let us say, the filth and the
sordid things of life.
There are far better and
wonderful things that may
be recorded and words print
ed, in my humble opinion.
than this trash book. I would
hope and I would like to see
this book burned and the
writer along with it, particu
larly if he made money out
of it, which I have no doubt
he did.
I am perhaps 73 years old,
have seen quite a lot, both
good and bad. I am not con
vinced, nor do I believe that
I should advise, tell or pro
mote my young offspring
about the rotten things of
life either by written word
or mouth.
I do believe if I thought
otherwise I could write a
movie or maybe a TV script.
The essentials to be of course
sex with no details left out.,
And of course the smash
line, "Adults Only," commer
cially speaking, I mean,
would cinch it.
Hardly expect you to agree
with me on this. If you read
this and want any more,
which I doubt, with the pa
per, I have a dandy about
His Honor the Mayor and his
look in or investigation on
crime, vandals, break-ins, rob
beries, etc., etc., etc. The old
boy must have run out of
gas or shears to cut ribbons
with or something. Anyway
no report from what if any
thing he has done or not done
about it.
T. T. Goldfrap
775 Posse lane
Medford
Two Books
To the Editor: This letter Is
concerned with the recent let
ters printed in your Commu
nications column regarding
two books, and one in particu
lar, that two persons seem to
consider lewd and immoral.
I had hoped that book-burning
would never begin in our
valley, but now that it has, It
is too dangerous to be ig
nored. Granted, there are
some books which children
should not read, but where is
the justification in denying
these books to adults simply
because they might corrupt a
child?
I am no stranger to litera
ture. I am an English and lit
erature major at SOC. Though
do not know either Mrs.
Black or Mrs. Mosley, I think
I am justified in saying that
they have no more right to
tell other people what they
may or may not read than I
do, and I have no such right.
I read both the books in ques
tion in high school, and I have
yet to be called perverted or
immoral. I took the books for
what they are: A presentation
in an original manner of some
aspects of human experience,
both material and spiritual.
I would like Mrs. Mosley
to prove her statement that
there is "a well planned pro
gram now being efficiently
carried out by subversives in
America to entirely corrupt
the impressionable young
minds of her children." And
if this insidious plot did exist,
where is the proof that these
books are part of It?
In the past, such books as
"Huckleberry Finn," "Tom
Sawyer," and the "Tarzan"
books have been banned by
book-burners. The truth is, if
one goes intc a book looking
for something lewd and im
moral, he is sure to find it.
This is as true of the Bible as
it is of anything else. The dif
ference is that people recog
nize the Bible for what it Is:
A devoted religious work
Why can't these same people
treat other books for what
they are? They are too busy
looking for smut to see the
real values of the book.
As for the case of an actual
removal of "The Last Tempta
tion of Christ" from the Santa
Ana library, if it were taken
to court, the book would soon
be back on the shelves. Are
the courts of America subver
sive? Certainly not. They re
alize what Justice Is. They
know that no one has the
right to dictate what other
people will read. They despise
book-burners, because they
undermine their own cause by
their actions: they take away
one of the rights of the individual.
In conclusion, let us not
grant a minority that does not
seem to understand the pur
poses of literature the right to
tell the majority what to read.
Let us not- let Jackson county
become the home of book-burners.
Dan Hays
431 South Front st.
Central Point, Ore.
ceases to benefit materially
from tha subjugation of
another group and opportu
nity is available for all will
the artificial barriers of race
fall away and the aspiration
for human brotherhood be
fulfilled.
The following, quoted from
"Man's Most Dangerous Myth
- The Fallacy of Race, by
Prof. Ashley Montague, is in
teresting and informative:
'There Is every reason-to
believe that a single stock
gave rise to all the living va
rieties of man. All belong to
the same species and have the
same remote ancestry. AH hu
man varieties are very much
more mixed than are plant
oi autmal forms. From the
biological standpoint the phys
ical differences which exist
between the varieties of man
kind are so insignificant that
when properly evaluated they
can only be described in terms
of a particular expression of
an assortment of genes which
are common to mankind as
whole."
Can anyone doubt that all
blood is red and all tears are
salt?
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne st.
Prescott, Ariz.
A Plea
To the Editor: I am a W.W.I
and II veteran and was in a
car wreck and lost a leg. I
would like to see some V.A.
men who could let me know
in what way to get an artifi
cial leg. I was in W.W.I and
II, discharges, character ex
cellent, and don't know
why I am not entitled to a
leg, or what is wrong with
the V.A. rules. I would
rather be dead as the way I
have been left.
I love the outdoor life.
R. L. Hubbard
Holland Hotel
Medford
A Phoenix Oregon"
To the Editor: It happened
years ago when Miss Mildred
was 13 years old, as she had
watched her father starting
out, and sometimes with local
men. But this man was a
stranger to her, the men on
horseback headed off over the
mountains, and would be gone
for weeks on end. The next
morning a sound came with a
deep moaning in the early twi
light, as if whatever was burn
ing was groaning out of pain.
Mildred flipped back the
covers and ran to the window,
and Staring at the fire. She
held her breath, then caught
her throat, then said, "It is
Tom's place." It was a big
fire with leaping flames. She
noticed the black smoke pour
ing from the broken windows
of Tom's home. Tongues of
flame licked up toward the
attic dormer.
"Oh dear," she had whis
pered, shrinking back, when
a knuckle pounded on her
door, and she whirled for her
robe. "Yes, yes, I will be
there," she called out. It was
her girl friend, with a blanket
thrown about her nightdress.
Her dark eyes were wide with
terror. Her friend said, "The
town is burning up.
By that time she was fully
dressed. The thought came to
her, the fire had too much
of a start. However, she con
cluded, If the wind doesn't
vary soon the whole town is
doomed.
Breakfast was served a lit
tle past noon on the second
day, and it seemed to follow
the fire. There was no life and
an unnatural stillness lay
everywhere. As was the cus
tom, everyone pitched in, and
soon a new house was built,
raising from Its ashes like a
Phoenix, a bird of great beau
ty, the only one of Its kind
to raise from its ashes in the
flesh of youth, from that to
another cycle of years.
D. E. Rogers
245 North Grape
Medford.
could hava brought tha Unit
ed States, and not Russia, into
the world scene as the first
Communist nation."
Gentle people, tha Interna
tional gangsters who rail
roaded the 16th Amendment
through our Congress and
fastened the unlimited income
tax on our backs knew exact
ly what they were doing.
Through this tax they are
making you pay for the raging
Socialism now rampant in
America. You are paying for
your own destruction for
the destruction of the sov
ereignty of your nation, your
Constitution, your Bill of
Rights, your freedom. And
more, through the foreign aid
billions of your tax dollars
you are being made to finance
Socialism and Communism all
over the world; and to finance
empires of foreign industries
which are now taking over
American markets, both for
eign and domestic, and closing
American factories. With this
unlimited bite on your pay
check America is being taxed
and plundered as no other na
tion in all history.
No, Mr. Redden, the income
tax proviso in the Liberty
Amendment is no "gimmick."
It is the very core of the
Amendment, even as the con
fiscatory, Marxist Income tax,
itself, is the very core of the
conspiracy which is now sub
verting and socializing Amer
ica. Were you and your col
leagues really too "busy" to
face up to your responsibility
of doing your part in taking
this lethal weapon away from
the Marxists? Or were you
just plain scared?
L. C. Powell
316 S.E. Eighth st.
' Grants Pass, Ore.
Difficult To Understand
To the Editor: It will al
ways be difficult to under
stand why you make such un
fortunate moves in choosing
words to describe the ideas
and positions of others when
they are opposed to your own.
You have repeated this tech
nique In your editorial of June
6 concerning the Issue of a
certain book now in the li
brary. As a Journalist and editor,
you constantly find yourself
involved in the kind of activ
ity you call "bookburning".
Of course, it Is bookburning
only when others advocate
this activity.
As a newspaperman you
must pick and choose what
will be printed. It is at this
point we feel you avoid neces
sary distinctions: Have you
not, on occasion, allowed
some things to be printed that
you later wished you hadn't?
Well, you make these deci
sions, and once printed, the
decision cannot be reversed.
Sometimes you can correct or
apologize for an error in judg
ment or oversight. Now peo
ple, or someone at the library
makes decisions as to what
will be allowed on the
shelves; but are these deci
sions necessarily and always
final? If there Is an error In
judgment or an oversight,
must the decision be irrevers
ible? It so, why?
Earlier In Communications,
Mrs. Loucks asked about
standards at the library. If
there are standards, do they
allow for books such as the
one in question? If tho book
does not meet these standards
should it not be removed?
And if it should, surely "book
burning" Is not the label for
it. Such action would be more
accurately described as pru
dent anaor responsible.
You have made this point
Mr. Allen The opportunity
to remove certain books from
the library can be abused: but
such a possibility should be
greatly minimized when the
procedure Is made public, as
in the present case.
Robert J. Howard
702 Beekman St.
Medford.
Hard Nut
To the Editor: There is an
old saying among certain
strata of society, give that
guy an inch and he will take
a mile.
A news item In the S.F.
Chronicle shows a straw in
the wind as to what might
happen In the proposed inte
gration of the black and the
white.
The Chronicle Item stated
that at a municipal council
meeting a member, named
Johnson, a Negro, had pro
posed that the council Issue an
ordinance to integrate China
town at once. Mr. Johnson's
proposal was Immedatcly re-
A 5
Jected by all the other mem
bers, Johnson being the only
Negro member.
The S. F. Chinatown has its
own Integral government and
would not want to integrate
either with white or black.
Besides the Chinaman of tha
top class in Chinese society
has, for 6,000 years or more,
been in possession of as high
or even a higher culture than
the white man, except that
for the past 200 year or so
the whites have risen above in
science.
Now here is a Negro, recent,
ly a jungle dweller, telling
people to have a section of
Chinatown dwellers to be
moved out and slum Negroes
to move in. That is exactly
what Mr. Johnson's proposal
said,
All I can say Is that the in.
tegration proposal will prove
hard nut to crack.
John E. Ring
104S West 11th st.
Medford.
CHURCH of CHRIST
EASTSIDE
An Invitation by the
1047 low St.. AihlMd, Or.
To attend a GOSPEL MEETING
Sun. Jun 9 thru Sun. Jun 16
Sunday Servicts
10:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m.
Strvicci Week Nights
7:30 p.m.
Eslon Catlett, Minister
When Thir Fall Out
To the Editor: The Jolt
handed parched Southern Cal
ifornia In the Colorado river
tug-o-war exemplifies a grow
ins economic condition in the
western trade "community"
regional selfishness. The con
flict rages not only between
states but also between the
United Slates and Canada, Ja
pan and the common market.
As the tax bite continues to
have profit margins and pop
ulations continue to increase,
the battle will grow more des
perate and bitter. Northwest
industry is one of the worst
offenders for repulsing all
pleas to share the power and
Red and Salt
To the Editor: Why does
racial prejudice persist in
spite of scientific demonstra
tions that have disproved the
superstitions of the racial
doctrine? Science has exposed
as utterly without foundation
the racist theory of Inherent
"superiority" and "inferior
ity" of racial stocks, and it
has assembled impressive evi
dence which points clearly to
the conclusion that given
equal social, educational, and
economic opportunity, no sin
gle race of men will excel
another in Intelligence, abil
ity, genius, or moral char
acter. Notwithstanding this, the
cankerous growth of race
prejudice remains to plague
mankind. The reason is, of
course, that the class and ma
terial interests which are
served by race prejudice re
main. Only when one group
Core of Conspiracy
To the Editor: In' this col
umn of 51263 Rep. James A.
Redden attacks the Liberty
Amendment without explain-'
ing that the 700 corporations
operated unconstitutionally
by our federal government in
direct competition with pri
vate enterprise are run at a
yearly loss of about $40 bil
lion ($44 Vi billion with for
eign aid); more than the an
nual revenue of the federal
personal income tax amounts
to. If and when the Liberty
Amendment takes our govern
ment out of these businesses
and stops this Insanity of
pouring these billions down
rat holes, there will be no
need of a federal Income tax.
Rep. Redden also attacks
the integrity of Mr. Willis
Stone, the man behind the
Liberty Amendment, infer
ring that he, Mr. Stone, con
siders the Income tax proviso
in the amendment an imprac
tical "gimmick" put in just to
attract attention. This I do
not believe of Mr. Stone. For
like any other well Informed
patriot on this subject he cer
tainly knows the following
facts: 1. The confiscatory,
graduated income tax is the
key plank in the Communist
Manifesto of Karl Marx. 2.
Lenin said, "We shall force
the United States to spend it
self to destruction" (impossi
ble without the income tax). 3.
Beria, former chief of Soviet
secret police said (documented
in Congressional Record),
"The income tax law, had it
been followed thoroughly,
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