MEOrOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
SUNDAY. JUNE II, IMS
. .Communications . . .
Lsttatt to tha Editor must bou tha duo tad addrasa oi tha writar. although undat
cartain ciicumstancoi to w oi pa aim or initial tor publication it parmUsibla.
Tho MtU Tribune resanras the right to edit U letters wUh a iew to clarification and
condensation. Letters tobmittad ior publication mutt not axcaad 400 word. Tha lattart
printad in lhU column do not aacauaril; rapruant tha views oi tha papers in iact tha
contrary it oitan tha cat.
Tha luua
To the Editor: Tn respect to
the controversy oi the Rogue
Valley book-burners, we, my
seli included, are missing the
point. The question boils down
to this: Who is to say whether
or not "The Last Temptation
oi Christ" is obscene? Cer
tainly not a group of preju
diced, devoted book-burners,
such as we now have in action
in Jackson county. By the
same token, not a group elect
ed or appointed by a city or
a city government, nor a
county or a county govern
ment, nor even a state or a
state government. Only the
United States courts speak for
the people.
It is for this reason that
any obscenity law passed in
Jackson county or anywhere
else would be illegal. It is
illegal because it prevents the
people from exercising their
rights. It is illegal because it
sets up a few people as gods,
literally, who dictate to oth
ers what they can or cannot
read. It is rather like dictat
ing to others when they can
or cannot breath. The freedom
to read what we please is as
valuable as the freedom to
breath the air of the United
States. Making obscenity laws
unconstitutional prevents the
type of prejudiced vendetta
we in the Rogue Valley are
witnessing today.
Naturally, a line must be
drawn somewhere. This is
why a book is taken to the
courts when a reasonable num
ber of people begin to con
sider it obscene. The courts
then decide the issue openly
and freely, weighing both
sides of the argument against
each other. Each member of
the court responsible for judg
ing the book reads it as many
times as is necessary for him
to do so in order to under
stand it. Then, and only then,
does he render his judgment.
It is obvious that not all of
our book-burners have read
the book they oppose, which
is a typical thing with book
burners, and the ones who
have, do not really understand
it. This is supported by the
quotations pulled out of con
text that Mrs. Black used.
In summing up: The issue
is not now whether or not
the book is obscene, but who
shall judge it so. Let us not
lose sight of this in our ac
tions. Dan Hays,
i 431 South Front st., .
Central Point, Ore..
ticularly when they are so
flagrantly untrue. But if this
is the pattern of the capacity
to think and the ability to
truly state the circumstances
of provable economics and
law, then it would seem to
me that it is high time for
Mr. Redden's removal from
the Slate Legislature."
Mrs. G. S. Jennings,
218 Saginaw dr.,
Medford
Thoughts on Raca
To the Editor: "Is the pot to
ask the potter, why has thou
fashioned me thus?" (Romans
9, 29). Later in the new testa
ment we are reminded of
"vessels of clay." It is only
through the will of God, as
manifested in the natural law
that certain "vessels" are
fashioned from a different
color clay.
Color problem? No! Rather
what concerns us principally
in man is his higher life. For
it is the higher life that makes
man so priceless. It should be
kept in mind, however, that
clay admirably symbolizes
man's fraility.
But why should there be
different races? An answer to
this can be found in a brief
study oi tome scientific con
clusions resulting from re
search of five key words: Mu
tation, selection, adaptation,
migration and isolation.
Multation occurs from an
abrupt change in the structure
of a gene. In the case of dark
skinned people, they may
have been favored in an area
of intense sunlight. This re
flects the theory of natural
selection. Skin color is only
one of a number of character
istics subject to this kind of
development. Scientists do not
know the skin color of early
man, the mutation could just
as easily have been from dark
to light skin. Migration and
isolation played even a more
important role. After early
migration people lived for
thousands of years in isolation
and yet scientists conclude
that men of different races
have a great deal more in
common than they do at vari
ance. When we consider the
myriads of genes, those ac
counting for the differences in
races are very few, which
leads to the fact that all are
basically one race.
Then what of race superior
ity? There is the blood, divid
ed into tour types; but aside
from varying concentrations
of blood types in some races,
blood has no racial signifi
cance at all (yet we get some
idea oi fear, confusion and
ignorance present today when
in the U. S. some doctors are
required to keep Negro and
white blood separate). There
is the argument from evolu
tion, and race supremacists
point to the comparisons of
the receding forehead and
small brain of the ape. They
then go to the larger brain of
the Negro, thence to the
Mongoloid and lastly to the
still larger brain of the Cauca
soid (average). Well scientists
reject evolution from the ape
in a single line; also the ape
is hairy and thin-lipped, and
oi course, the hairiest and
most thin-lipped oi the three
major races is the white
races. . . .
II you will allow it, I would
like to continue these thoughts
in another letter.
Robert J. Howard
792 Beekman St.
Medford.
For Enllghtmant
To the Editor: This is writ
ten tor the enlightment of the
several writers whose letters
revealed their lack oi knowl
edge of historical facts with
reference to Jesus and the
Radden Challenged
To the Editor: In Rep. James
A. Redden's letter of 51263,
Medford Mail Tribune, he
made several misstatements
in answer to my letter that
I wrote in favor of the Liberty
Amendment. I sent his letter
to Mr. Willis Stone, the origi
nator of the Liberty Amend
ment. Mr. Stone writes: "Mr.
Redden is guilty of some fla
grant misstatements of truth.
Either he has failed to read
the Liberty Amendment or
the Constitution or both. Un
der any circumstances, he has
failed to comprehend either."
He said that the sponsors
would have gladly testified at
the hearing but because of
his long association and re
search on the subject, he was
invited to appear before them.
Mr. Stone wanted to know
how Mr. Redden could prove
that the sponsors intended to
vote against the resolution.
"This is on the wild side
without any indication of
truth."
Another misstatement was
made that no House member
had said that they would vote
for it. Despite fantastic pres
sures brought against the
committee, three members oi
the nine man committee did
vote for it.
Mr. Reddev, said: "Take
the government out of all
business." Another misstate
ment, because the govern
ment of the United States
has legitimate business activi
ties which are spelled out in
the original Constitution of
the United States. As the Lib
erty Amendment is designed
only to give force and effect
to the Constitution, all of the
activities and natural business
of the government of the Unit
ed States will be retained ex
actly as the Constitution pro
vides. Mr. Redden should
know this.
When he says that the Lib
erty Amendment would crush
corporations, "Mr. Redden
hasn't the remotest idea of
what he is talking about. It
would do nothing of the kind.
It would relieve the corpora
tions from the most ruthless
competitor ever known to
man. It would stop the in-1
human practice of double tax-1
atlon upon the earnings of
corporations."
Mr. Stone ends his letter
by laying; "The most flagrant j
untruth in the whole thing I
is that statement by Mr. Red
den that I admitted that the 1
fourth section of the Liberty
Amendment it Just a 'gim
mick.' I have no idea why
Mr. Redden hat chosen to put j
tuch words in my mouth, par-1
Poets' Corner
Conduct!1 by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
From: To A Skylark
, Hail to thee, blithe Spiritl
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near It '
Fourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
What thou art we know not;
What is most like thee?
From rainbow clouds there flow not '
Drops so bright to see
'As from they presence showers a rain of melody. .
Teach us, sprite or bird.
What sweet thoughts are thine;
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine s
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
O
Tha Giver
She drove a six-horse team across the plains,
With her two babies on the seat beside her.
Though barely seventeen, she held the reins
In fists of steel and trusted God to guide her.
She never saw the inside of a school,
But, being wise as nature she could fight
Adversity and sin by the same rule:
And so she taught herself to read and write.
She washed and ironed, scrubbed and sewed and cooked .
She aided neighbors: heard the homing cry
Of children or laid out the dead: all looked
To her for help to live or help to die.
She merged herself and all that she possessed
Into the bone and sinew of the West.
Mary Boyd Wagner
New York, N.Y.
From the author's volume, "Roots," published by The
Wings Press; reprinted by permission.
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View From Ashland's Lofty Crest
I stood upon Mount Ashland's lofty crest,
Niona at my side, to watch the sun
Rise from its golden couch beyond the hills.
We saw the shadows lift, and one by one,
The mountain peaks were tipped with liquid gold;
The shades of night went racing to the west
And all the higher places smiled to greet
This daily miracle from out the east.
First, Shasta rose, shaking night's sable robes
From brawny shoulders, snowy crest held high,
Shaping the outline of his giant bulk
In silhouette against the streaming sky;
Then the new-born day in buoyant glee
Caught old McLoughlin In its warm embrace
And planted a kiss upon his glowing brow;
And next old Baldy showed his pallied face
From nightly vigils o'er the "Marble Caves;"
Then Griizly, Roxy Ann and Pompadour
Shouldered into view; and then the valley
Glowed in the splendor of the morning hour.
It was a view well worth the arduous climb
Through darkness Up the steep and rocky trail.
And ttays Impressed upon my memory
Where loftier views in other climes but fail.
Richard Posey Campbell
From "Dick Posey's" "A Daughter of the Roguet," A
Tale of the Rogue River Vtlley, published 1919 in Ashland.
Courtesy of Mrs. Alice Applegate Peil, The Manor, Medford.
supposed "resurrection."
Let me assure them that
Pierre van Paatsen, the Uni
tarian writer I mentioned in
my letter, is an authority on
the subject. In the light oi
modern research and Biblical
criticism he hat stripped the
traditional story oi myths,
legends, and other accretions
oi time and produced a recital
of breathless interest in his
book "Why Jesus Died." .
Here is a revealing iact
with which the average per
son is not familiar, quoted
from Pierre van Paassen's
book:
"The metaphysical person
age who emerged from the
creeds drawn up in various
Councils succeeding the Coun
cil of Nicaea in the year S2S
-who was 'conceived of the
Holy Ghost, born of the
Virgin Mary, who descended
into hell, rose from the dead,
and ascended into heaven to
sit on the right hand of God,
the Father', is not a human
being. He is the Christ oi the
Church, a symbol borrowed
irom Greek philosophy and
mythology. He is a dogma, a
i 1 e e t i n g unseizable image
existing in the thought oi
schoolmen. He Is not the
Jesus of history, the man who
lived and breathed and slept
and died in Palestine at the
beginning of the present era."
In other words, the Jesus
who was "resurrected" never
existed. He is simply one of
the world i 16 mythical cruci
fied saviors about whom the
same story is told. The real
Jesus never rose from the
dead after his death on the
cross. That is an impossibility
for any human being. Those
who still believe in the "resur
rection" of a Jesus who was
not human are worshipping a
myth. Enlightened people, on
the other hand who know the
facts, unanimously agree that
the crucifixion of the inoffen
sive Jesus was the worst crime
that was ever committed.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.,
Prescott, Ariz.
Conviction! Shaken
To the Editor: Have you
ever been a firm believer in
your convictions and then sud
denly had those convictions
shaken and change your
mind?
Recently I had the oppor
tunity to represent my firm
of Harry and David in a tour
of tome of the Portland agen
cies that are recipients of the
United Medford Crusade and
I must say, my convictions
were very much shaken.
Many people believe tnat
the cases handled by these
agencies In Portland are some
one else's problems. Such is
not the . case. All of these
agencies help many, cases
from our own Jackson county.
The accomplishments of
these agencies on such limited
funds is astounding. I would
like to present some of th
"pictures" that I saw on this
tour.
I wish that it were possible
for all people to meet Miss
Elda Russell oi the Louise
Home ior Girls, a school for
delinquent and wayward girls
and of the Albertina Kerr
Nursery.
Miss Russell is one of those
rare persons who is so com
pletely and wholeheartedly
dedicated to her work of
helping people. In fact, when
you listen to her speak of
her" infants and young girls.
you feel ashamed ior having
begrudged your contribution
to the Crusade. This woman
has assumed work load that
would make husky man
stagger, in order that others
might benefit by her sacrifice.
Some oi the other agencies
that I refer to are:
St. Mary't School tor Boys:
Where Father Goodrich'! phi
losophy and understanding is
extended to young boys re
gardless oi race and creed.
Some of these boys have never
known the comforts oi a real
home. What this home lacks
in modern conveniences, it
makea up ior in the personal
attention that each boy re
ceives irom Father Goodrich
and the Sisters.
Our Lady oi Providence
Nursery: Where each Sister
personally worries through
the long nights with a sick
child, handicapped or normal.
The University oi Oregon
Medical School: Where your
contribution goes into re
search. Each and every per
son benefits by this research.
Everytime a person becomes
ill and receives a miracle
drug or a new type oi sur
gery, these and many more
achievements in research are
due to a contribution.
So the next time you are
asked to contribute to the
Medford Crusade, before you
give your pat answer of, "My
husband gives at the office!"
Stop and think! Thank God
for the agencies and dedicated
people mentioned above and
feel good in your heart
knowing that your contribu
tion is going to help a young
ster to know a normal way
of life for the first time, or
perhaps it will be YOUR con
tribution that will help find
the cure for cancer.
Stop and think!
Violet S. Cummings,
Personnel Assistant
for
Harry and David,
Medford .-.
by different parties. Both
branchet operate under an
obsolete state constitution.
Given these formidable handi
caps it is a wonder that any
thing at all was accomplished.
It is also true that dishar
mony prevailed, particularly
toward the end oi the session.
But this is not bad: it it good.
It is a manifestation oi con
flicting convictions strongly
held. Without such convictions
they would Indeed have a
short, harmonious session. But
it would be characterized ay
apathetic consent to every
whim of every special Inter
est, and the state would be
left In a shambles.
If more people could have
teen the legislature in action,
particularly its toilsome com-
ittees, more would Join In
thanking the representatives
and tenatort for a job done
under difficult circumstances.
Janet McLennan
Executive Secretary,
bipartisan League to
Retain Equal
Representation
7101 S.E. 36th ave.
Portland, Ore.
Legislature Defended
To the Editor: The sharD
criticism of the legislature
prompts me to speak up in its
defense. As a private citizen
and an official of a citizens
group, I worked closely with
the legislature on a number
of bills and resolutions. Of
course I was disappointed that
certain bills failed and that
others passed. Nevertheless, I
was impressed by the dili
gence, courtesy, and sincerity
of most legislators. They put
In long hours of work start
ing early in the morning and
often lasting Into the night.
They are subject to harass
ment, ridicule and Intense po
litical . pressures. , Yet they
spend months away from
home at an indispensable a
beit thankless job. The aver
age legislator is, in a word,
unappreciated.
The legislature is criticized
for not accomplishing much
(despite their hard work) and
for a great deal of wrangling
and bickering. But is it the
fault of the legislature that
little was accomplished? The
House is split with 31 Demo
crats and 29 Republicans. The
Senate is dominated by an
uneasy coalition of Republi
cans and conservative Demo
crats. The executive and legis
lative branches are controlled
"Mr. Bob Ma ben, Jackson I
county game biologist, will I
be at the next meeting of the :
Jackson county chapter oi the :
Oregon Fish and Game Coun-
cil which will be held June
22, 8 p.m. at the Central Point
Sportsmen's Building on Pine.
He is going to bring some
slides that were taken along
the irrigation ditch in the
Howard Prairie system. The
problem oi the deer being lost
in this ditch will be discussed.
Our organization will work
with Mr. Maben in trying to
reach a satisfactory solution
to bring the death rate of the
deer along this ditch down.
We cordially invite everyone
interested to attend this meet
ing." Mrs. Ken (Shirley) Oswald
Secretary
Jackson County Chapter
' P. O. Box 83
Gold Hill, Ore.
PET TALK
3y M. I. L
BLM Tour
To the Editor: Mr. Walter
Craig, president of the Jack
son County Chapter of the
Oregon Fish and Game Coun
cil, has the following com
ments regarding the field trip
with the Bureau of Land
Management that we would
like to have printed In the
paper:
The Jackson county chapter
and the Klamath county chap
ter of the Oregon Fish and
Game Council met with the
Bureau of Land Management
at 9 a.m. Sunday, June 9, at
the BLM office In Lakevicw.
Mr. George Lea, district su
pervisor, took the members
on a guided tour of the areas
they were spraying to kill
the sagebrush. The area
ranges from about seven
miles touth of Hart Mountain
to approximately three miles
into Nevada. It was found that
the BLM is spraying nothing
but sagebrush. Mr. Lea stated
that they were leaving
the Bitterbrush completely
alone, that they are re-seeding
these areas with crowned
wheat and alfalfa which is
to be utilized by both cattle
and wildlife. Mr. Lea stated
that they had cut the grazing
permits in halt this year ana
that the wildlife, In the future
as well as in the past, will
have preference over live
stock.
"It Is the opinion of the
Oregon Fish and Game Coun-
ell that the BLM it doing
their lob well In restoring
sagebrush ground to a useful
purpose. We go on record as
being 100 per cent benma tne
BLM In the reseeding of tnese
sagebrush areas. We feel that
the reseeding the BLM it do
ing will place a greater
amount of food at the disposal
of our wildlife and the BLM
should be commended for a
Job well done.
It might be furiner men
tioned that they are building
dams in all areas possible to
catch and store the winter
run-off. Mr. Lea has Invited
us to another field trip at a
later date to check the prog
ress of the reseeding and we
have accepted this invitation.
Raca and tha Constitution
To the Editor: I admire your
editorial oi June 7, 1963 and
its clear cut understanding oi
the Constitution of our nation,
I was alto very much inter-
1 1 e d in your editorial oi
Wednesday, dealing with the
teaching oi Communism in
schools. You recognized the
value oi a perfect understand
ing of this controversial Ide
ology. You also expressed a
real fear that subject might
not be taught In the proper
manner, that the full truth
and aspects may not be
brought out or be slanted by
b i a t e d personal sentiment.
Any subject oi this magnitude
should be taught In a truely
academic sense. Your fears
are well Justified by the man
ner in which our Constitution
has been handled.
This wave of racial prob
lems, with which we are faced
today, is only the outcome of
the injustices of man to man
at far back as history record.
This is not local or surpris
ing for every medium of news
reflects man't cry for Freedom
the world over, nor It It any
thing organized or planned; it
it only that education on part
of the oppressed Is enhanced
by class distinction, racial
hatred and all other forms oi
bigotry and ignorance, tended
to bring to head the turmoil
that has through all these past
ages goaded men everywhere
to demand their rightful Jus
1 1 c e t at this chronological
period in history.
Too few have been taught
or have grasped the fact that
slate rights and ttate tover-
elgnty went out when the
Confederation of Statet tailed
It
class.
The magazine "True" for I sacrificed at a relisiotu rit.
January, 1962, published So it Itn't Just ignorance.
tome very revolting pictures What is it? Not the cruelty
of dogfights at a convention, due to want oi knowledge ot
where the plight oi torn and how to handle animals nran
stricken victims It even less erly. Not the greed in exploit.
revolting man mo eager, con- ing OI animals for mnn.v.
centrated, Intense gaze oi the whether In a circus, or ior
spectators, gloating over the their iur and oil,
aavagery. The greater the savagery
Dogfightlng Is against the the greater the thrill. Th
answer It supplied by. a psy.
A 5
law in the U.S. It if adver.
tlted secretly and various
rutet are retorted td, in order
to outwit the S.P.C.A. and the"
law enforcement offlcera. At
a recent meeting over 1,000
spectators were present.
ANALYSIS OF CRUELTY Cock-fighting also Is out.
The subject of cruelty it Uwed in 45 ttatet but th
endless. We are concerned editor ot "The Gamecocu '
here with only two proposi- ei,imate tner BOO pits'
lions: that cruelty It unlver- states D V
sal, and that it is Immoral. From , ,,. .
Cruelty is so, universal osseum onwards, crueltv has
that it cannot have been dls- become so Ingrained In un
semlnated by word or ex- regenerate human nature thai
ample only. It it found In all " f.,ouna over tn world
,, , . . .. , till: sometime! public and
nations, peoples and tribes at L.mni.n.o . . Jl.i " 7.
every stage of their clviliza- diUon in Mexi d
tion. beginning very early lnQ , blood ".ports" every-
ana con. nuing. even ii unaer- wnere. Fox hunting -
ffrntinH Ihrnnffh thjklp Tnlth I, ...
--- i nunui in irr lanrt
it not confined to any Iorm5 protected as a national
custom, in Africa, horses arts
tn five our Infant nation anv I chologist who was Present at
binding fabric of unity and ,ne dogfight convention, ha
protection. Therefore it be- ?ala: "I've got a theory, but
came evident that a parent 11 ' not Pretty. There's some
body, namely a Federal Gov- h'n8 vaguely sexual In alt
ernment, with obligations and tne violence. The more pro.
uthorlty, a supreme law that nouncea the violence, tha
assures equality and protec- more pronounced the texual.
tion and unity guaranteed by -
the Constitutionally created So, tn general, the dlsrep.
system ot legislative. Judicial utable pleasure people fincj
and executive, was needed. in witnessing organized cruel.
The acceptance of the Con- ty to animals must be traced
stitution and Its first seven 1 sadism, which means per?
famous words of its preamble verted sexual pleasure.
"We, the people of the United civilized society ha
States," also the clearly de- evolved many forms ot rival.
fined second paragraph of ry, wmch should satisfy all
Article 6, automatically re- the pugnacious Instincts ot
placed states' rights and ttate numan nature. These physical
sovereignty In the y e a r ot contests are both - team,
1789. The adoption ot amend- matches or Individual con
menti 13, 14 and 15 In 1870 tests. These are respectable.
put a legal end to racial dls- satisiymg ana nave all th
crimination, and It Is to the thrills oi combat.
everlasting glory oi our Presl- But cruelty, to animals It
dent that he demands we immoral. It upsets the Dlvlna
make a reality oi that to order ot creation, It is con
which we have heretofore trary to the care God has
given only Up service. for his creatures, It exceeds
Since no race or nation has man s rights to use creatures,
a monopoly good or bad It but not possess them, it has a
is pitiful that otherwise Intel- baneful effect on character.
llgent citizens wear away and it It declared punlthabl
most of their superiority In I by God
trying to convince othert that
they have It.
C. R. Burrlll
83414 Cherry St.
Central Point, Ore.
"Any reckness desire to
kill oft animals, all unneces
sary harshness and callous
bruelty toward them Is to b
condemned." Plus XII.
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Don't Delay-Summer goes by quickly. By fall
you or your family may well be on your way
towards attaining a musical education' that
will give life-long enjoyment.
PUE.UC.IEEi
MUSIC HOUSE
1 1 1 No. Central Phon 773-7538