Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 21, 1963, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. JUNE tl, IMS Do As Little Damage As You Can 8 Arthur Hoppe It was a nice day and I was out in the backyard spraying aphis and thinking about an old-fashioned brass plaque I'd seen once on an elderly real estate man's desk. It said: "As I go through life I only pray I can make our world a little better place to live in."A very nice motto, I'm sure. Except, I decided, it isn't mine. ' I decided this because I was spraying aphis. I used to spray aphis with a relatively clear conscience. True, I would feel a twinge now and then for the aphis I was slaughtering. (They're beautiful jewel-like creatures, if . you examine them closely.) But you have to kill the beautiful aphis in order to make a beautiful gar den. ; ' But now, as I sprayed, I thought of Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring and all the fuss it's caused about pestcides. I don't really understand the ecology in volved. But as I pumped the sprayer and killed the aphis in my God-like way, I had the uneasy feeling that I was poisoning generations of rob ins and bluebirds and butter flies yet unborn. And I felt guilty., Earlier, in the kitchen, had washed my hands in de tergent and watched the gas tening - bubbles slither down the drain. It used to be a most satisfying sight. Yet now thought of the documentary I had seen on television dirty, virtually insoluble bub bles everywhere, polluting our streams, killing our fish and fouling our drinking wa ter. And I felt guilty. And from the back porch I had looked across the valley to where the bulldozers had Try and Stop AAc -By BENNETT CERF- gouged into the greenly-for ested hill, laying bare the raw red earth for a new, faster road a road I am looking forward to using. And I had noticed the faint smear of smog hanging in the morning air. And particles of it. thought, had come from the exhaust of my own car. And I felt guilty. And I thought, as I sprayed of all the times I had read of how man is plundering his planet eroding its soil, pol luting its waters, killing tits living things, despoiling its very atmosphere. Selfish, ego centric man. And yet I had never before stopped to total up the damage I alone have done in trying to reshape my own world closer to my de sires. I alone with my mod ern sprays and my modern detergents and my modern car. And yet should I suffer gnats and mosquitoes and flies with an aerosol bomb at my fingertip? Should I struggle with grease while the deter gent bottle stands there on the sink? Should I walk through life when I can ride in up holstered comfort? And I knew though perhaps I should, I won't. And then I thought the sad dest of thoughts: Inevitably, the physical world we all love so well will suffer for my beine on it. Inevitably, I will leave it worse than I found it Like a careless camper in the wilderness. And if I had to cast a brass plaque in these times, the best it could say is: "As I go through life I only pray I can do as little damage to our world as possible." A WATER COLOR specialist found an old Indian squaw in New Mexico who struck him as a perfect model for a painting. Promised sufficient wampum, she agreed to pose, but after remain ing absolutely still tor a half hour, she began to squirm. "B e patient," urged the artist "I'll soon be finished." Ten minutes later she started wriggling again. "I thought Indians were pa tient and stoical," grum bled the artist "What makes you so nervous?" "Well, for one thing," explained the Indian squaw, "I'm sitting on a swarm of bees. Th discoverv of coffee as a drink, according to one big mocha and java importer, goes back to about 850 A J when an Arabian herdsman named Kaldl noted that his goats became very frisky and wide-awake after eating berries from a nearby shrub. He and the abbot of a nearby monastery experimented by boiling the berries in water. Results: (1) Kaldi sold his goats and opened the first coffee house and (2) The abbot experienced no runner trouble in keeping his monks on their toes for late evening prayer. - Caskie Stinnett tells of a new comedian who has scored a fantastic hit in Argentina. His name is Gaucho Marx. O 1963, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate JFK's Civil Rights Message at Glance Washington - (JTI - Presi dent Kennedy's civil rights message to Congress at a glance: The Problem The result of continued federal legislative inaction will be continued it not in creased racial strife causing the leadership on both sides to pass from the hands of reasonable and responsible men to the purveyors of hate and violence. This would en danger domestic tranquility, retard the nation's economic and social progress and weak en the respect with which the rest of the world regards this country. Congress should stay in ses sion this year until it has en acted - preferably as a sin gle omnibus bill - the "most responsible, reasonable and urgently needed solutions to this problem, solutions which should be acceptable to all fair minded men." In addition to earlier recommendations, new legislation should be en acted dealing with public accommodations, employment, federally assisted programs, a community relations service and education. Budget amend ments also were requested to improve the training, skills and economic opportunities of the economically distressed and discontended, white and Negro alike. Congress also should enact previously re quested legislation to protect Negro voting rights and give the Civil Rights commission a new four-year lease on life. Schools Authority was requested for the attorney general to initi ate in the federal district courts legal proceedings against local public school boards or public institutions of higher learning to enforce desegregation under certain conditions. Federal money help should be given areas having trouble complying with school desegregation orders. Employment Additional funds were re quested to broaden the man power development and train ing program and to finance the pending youth employ ment bill. Additional funds also should be provided for vocational education to pro vide a work study program for youth of high school age and to raise the ceiling on adult basic education provi sions in the pending education program A ,5 Unsurpassed Cert for tht RUPTURED! Ml tus (! Cr' TRUSS WITH LUXUMV MATBHIALS NCVBM lirOM AVAILABLE. A combination el 3 liyvnt of now mlracJt mato ntv-on, fw1ontMMwooint town rut innar Uyr covcrtx! on muO with aoothlnc b cot nd on outvote with durable, Mntoruod duefc. 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Miami Dr. Antonio Macco, president of the Cuban Revolution Council, addressing exiles in the wake of an- nniim c-npnla that commando Undines had been made on their homeland: "This is a time for all Cubans to unit for lh liber ation of our country, which will com if everything de velops according to plans." Introducing ill Is JUS to re ...YesfaSPARE TIRE IN A CAN! A sensational new Aerosol product that instantly inflates and seals a flat tire ( '" I r -Js-lU e r ' m iVi v--: I i X 0 DON'T RISK ... a DANGEROUS TIRE CHANGES IN TRAFFIC a RUINING TIRE BY DRIVING ON A FIAT a FRAYED TEMPERS AND SOILED CLOTHING a COSTLY DtLAYS FROM THE UNEXPECTED Insist on road tested spare tire! with DUPONT Freon Propellent and CA Sealant NADISCO OF OREGON, INC., Don Broetje, Pres. Medford-S. 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