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contrary It ofttn tha case.
Anti Dunai
To the Editor: I have just
tent the following letter to
Senator Neuberger;
Dear Senator Neuberger: I
want to comment on your in
teresting discussion of your
Oregon Dunes bill on the
''Let's Face It" panel broad
cast over KOIN-TV, Portland.
(1) You stated that oppo
sition to your bill had died
down. How can you recon
cile this
with the fact that there
is a steady flow of individual
letters to the newspapers ex
pressing opposition?
with the fact that papers
in the area directly affected
are in opposition? Not only
the Siuslaw News but, for ex
ample, the Charlestown Em
pire Builder, the Bandon
Western World, and even the
Fort Umpqua Courier at
Reedsport which formerly
supported your proposal?
with the fact of steady
opposition of civic organiza
tions? One hundred and
twenty persons attending a re
cent "town hall" meeting of
the North Bend-Coos area
most loudly applauded two
opponents of the Dunes Bill
speaking there.
with the fact that the
Coast Association, which for
merly supported your bill, re
cently voted down a resolu
tion to continue their sup
port? with the fact that an at
tempt to get a memorial fa
voring the Dunes bill through
the Oregon State Legislature
was defeated last March?
with the fact that in ad
dition to the thousands of
people represented in the
foregoing list, a state wide
meeting of the Oregon State
Grange passed a resolution in
opposition to your bill by a
majority vote of delegates rep
resenting 26,000 members?
(2) You stated that the
Cape Cod Seashore people
who originally opposed its es
tablishment are now "very
happy with the National
Park" and that they "ask why
the Park wasn't made larger."
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
"Alien"
- He trampled the hills of old Carman,
.. Where sea-winds feathered a far-down mist
' And the tartan plaid of his highland clan
Was rowan-red with a silver twist.
The reed-thin cry of the wild curlew.
The sheep-wool soft of a plover's nest,
A lamb's first bleat these things he knew
As well as he knew the east from west.
He took to his step the heather's spring.
His word was fashioned of granite stones.
"Earth by itself's too tender a thing," (
He would say, "Without the hard rock bones."
He knew of a winter's lancet thrust
When waters of Lomond Loch were ice,
And he learned to skate on the cold white crust
While the moon waxed once and waned yet twice.
He traveled the sea to a Westward land,
His heart but a door with a lifted latch,
A brogue only natives could understand
To grow in garden a heathered patch.
Jesse Osgood
Ashland, Ore.
Tha Butterfly Traa
I saw a glowing, coppery tree
That grew beside a cobalt sea.
Although the branches gently swayed,
The breeze no longer played
A titillating serenade.
Thinking to solve the mystery.
I reached up and touched the tree,
But as I brushed the leaves of gold,
I saw a thousand wings unfold
As though a warning drum had rolled.
And there before my wondering eyes,
I saw a cloud of butterflies
Swirl high above the shining sea.
To leave behind a springtime tree
Bedecked In plain green finery.
Evelyn D. Young
Mountain View, Cal.
At certain season of each year, Pacific Grove, Calif.,
experiences an invasion of monarch butterflies. Believed to
come from hundreds of miles away, they settle on many
trees of the area.
Tha Iran Gala
I went alone to the broad iron gate
And spread the portal wide;
"It's lonely without him," thought I at first
And wandered on inside.
The flowers smiled as though they knew,
And the thrush had told the sea.
My heart beat fast and I knew at last
That my Love would come to me.
The garden was fair and the fountain sang
Of its dreams that were soft and dim.
It sang across to the purple hill
And the songs were all of him.
"Impatient heart, be still!" I cried;
"He'll come, he'll come, I know!''
I threw my flowers down. The gate clicked shut.
And then I turned to go.
' Emile Abbott
Los Angeles, Cal.
(c) 1962
According Te Hoyl
Two simple rules hold many a woe In check:
Control your tongue; do not stick out your neck.
Jack Finel
Central Point, Ore.
How do you reconcile this
with the fact that the Flor
ence Chamber of Commerce
wrote to all those on record
as in opposition at the Cape
Cod hearings, to ask if they
had indeed changed their opin.
ion; and the majority (I be
lieve 80 per cent or 90 per
cent) replied; of these only
one had he had changed his
mind? Others reported that
they wished they had been
better organized and could
have made their opposition
more effective.
(3) You stated that "every
senator wants to take home
a dam or conservation pro
ject and say 'See what big
boy I am.' " How do you rec
oncile this with your previous
public statements of senti
ment and love and disinter
ested devotion to the Dunes?
Mrs. John Stark Evans,
5322 S. W. Hewett blvd.,
Portland 1; Ore.
On Sin
To the Editor: I think the
editorial on sin in the June 27
paper can be summed up in
the lack of response. I have
seen two letters written in an
swer and sometime before you
wrote on gambling as a sin
and I think my letter was the
only response. You can't get
a very lively discussion on sin
because I have tried.
Your article was very good
but I must take exception to
one of your closing remarks:
Quote: "To others it may
mean transgression against a
moral code based, not on re
ligious teachings, but on the
universal command to do unto
others what you would have
others do unto you." This
teaching comes directly from
Christ and if you asked to
have the Bible summed up in
one sentence, that would be it.
Christ says that this is the
law. Sin is the transgression
from God's law.
I feel that where we go
wrong on sin is that we try
to put it into categories. We
tend to say that one sin is
bigger than another. You con-
stantly hear that one person
is a bigger sinner than some
other person. Sin is sin and
you can't classify it. In fact
Christ says that it is just as
bad to think of something as
it is to do it. What one of us
can say we have a clean mind?
Sin is as prevalent today as
it was any time in history, but
I feel that one of the reasons
we don't hear so much about
it is a change of attitude in
the church organization. Re
ligion is being taught less on
fear of hell's fire and mnr nn
love. Fear ha never shIvaH
any of the world's problems.
The only problems that the
world solves are through love
and understanding.
ureston McNeel
2987 Delta Waters rd.
Medford.
No Multimillionairts
To the Editor: Sniith.rn
California has more to offer
your readers than just balmy
air and smoa. This is the lanH
of the EPIC and the Town-
send movements that once
swept across the continent
They didn't do the job, so now
we nave tne Lee Plan for
progress throush tav reform
It is brand new and growing
oig and fast, like our famous
fruits and vegetables.
Here is the story first hand:
A few months ago, a police
officer named J. D. Lee arose
in the warm sunshina at T.nno
Beach's University-by-the-Sea
ana launcned a revolutionary
tax reform rjlan. It calls for
enactment of a two point pro
gram on the federal level
which would limit annual
sonal income to a paltry $100
uiousana, alter taxes, and it
would nut a celti
$1 million on individual
wealth - holding. The idea
caught on fast and nnw is
spreading like the plague. En
thusiastic Citizens for the Lee
Plan are plastering a million
"Stamp Out Multimillion
aires!" stickers all over the
state. Politicians, Republicans
and Democrats alike, am umr.
ried, and the 'economic royal-
isis are crying "unconstitu
tional" and it wlll'destrnv
initiative." Wow!
So. fellow citi7fns nt n.
gon, if you want a chance nf
pace, new and exciting Ideas,
ana a great vacation, come to
ooutnern California. We have
evervthinB at a rjrice vnn nn
afford to pay, and pay, and
pay some more for.
John and Jan Copping
S02 Orange ave.,
Apt. 19 '
Long Beach 12, Calif.
Work of Damons
To the Editor: Since my
two previous' letters regard
ing the book, "The Last
Temptation of Christ," many
people who do not think it
a fit book to be in our pub
lic libraries have ask me,
why don't the ministers do
something about it? That's a
good question and I also ask,
why don't they?
Jesus wasn't afraid to die
an ignominious death for us,
why are we afraid to vindi
cate his name when it is be
ing dragged through the gut
ter by Nikos Kazantzakis in
his book, "The Last Tempta
tion of Christ"?
My Bible says that Christ
died for our sins (1 Cor. 13:3)
and there is no other name
under heaven whereby we
must be saved. (Acts. 4:12).
If we do not try to vindicate
his name when it is being so
disgraced, how can we ask
him to cover us with his robe
of righteousness (the merit
of his shed blood) which is
our only hope here or here
after. I and many others will
appreciate an answer from
the ministers who are silent
on this important issue.
All who claim to be follow
ing our Lord and his teach
ings are now on trial. The
righteous judge said, "he that
is not with me is against
me." (Matt. 12:30). Every one
of us shall give account of
himself to God. (Rom. 14:12)
Be not afraid of those who
kill the body but cannot de
stroy the (future) life; but
rather fear him who can ut
terly destroy both life and
body in Gehema. (the death
from which there is no resur
rection) Emphatic Diagloti.
"The Last Temptation of
Christ" abounds with proof
that it is the work of de
mons. Little can be given in
a 400 word letter. Webster
defines demon a devil; evil
spirit. A spirit being is a super-human
being. I' has pow
er to materialize and de
materialize. Webster defines
colossus any huge or im
portant person or thing.
Page lS-"Standing on the
threshold was a colussus
(huge person) with a curly
red beard, open shirted, bare
footed, red faced, sweating."
Page 496-"ln Crete, how-
ever, he (Nikos Kazantzakis)
was granted a Christian '
ial, and a colussus (huge per
son) seemingly right out of
one of his took, seized the
coffin and lowered it single-
handedly Into the grave.
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MCDFORD. OREGON
Only a demon can do that
and I am not quoting out of
context.
I am informed that our li
brary board decided that
"The Last Temptation of
Christ" is a fit and proper
book to stay in our libraries.
Alice I. Black
812 So. Newtown st.
Medford.
Constitution
To the Editor: Governor
Hatfield is quoted in the
public press as predicting a.
clean sweep of the Oregon
Legislation in 1964 for the
Republicans, and all of the
state offices except the at
torney general. Quote from
the press report, "When he
had finished, Hatfield said he
almost forgot the attorney
general." "There are times,"
he said, "when I would like
to forget that office."
The vindictive nature of
that quotation, calling atten
tion to the personal enmity
between the governor and
the present attorney general,
makes one wonder, again how
much influence the governor
had on the members of the
Constitutional Revision Com
mission to Induce them to
write into ihe proposed new
Constitution a provision giv
ing him artibrary power to
appoint all state officers.
And, looking back over the
last four years, many of us
wonder again if we want the
attorney general, state treas
urer, secretary of state and
the commission of labor ap
pointed by any governor.
True, we still believe the
present Constitution is anti
quated and that we do need
a new one. One that will do
away with a number of semi
independent boards and com
missions and thereby place
more power in the hands of
the governor and make him
more responsible to the peo
ple. The chief one of these,
one that we must abrogate if
we are to have responsible
government, is the three
headed monstrosity called
the board of control.
To remove this excrescence
from the body politic would
not affect the constitutional
duties of either state treas
urer of secretary, but would
relegate them to the purely
administrative d u 1 1 e s for
which they are elected. Nei
ther they or the commission
er of labor interfere in any
way with the executive, ju
dicial or legislative branch of
state government. The attor
ney general is the interpre
ter of the law for the entire
state and although his duties
are largely advisory it is im
portant thBt his elecion re
main as the choice of the
people.
There are many reasons
why Oregon should adopt a
new Constitution, with spe
cial attention to two sections;
1st, that the power- of the
governor to arbitrarily ap
point non-executive officers
and judges, except in be
tween election emergencies,
should be removed from the
draft, and 2nd, that the pro
posed new Constitution must
retain the type of legislative
apportionment that will pro
ect the principle of one
man, one vote. All state or
ganizations interested in good
government should be pre
paring now to carry this bat
tle to the 1965 session of the
Legislature.
D. Ivan Frills
974 Fortner lane
Ontario, Ore.
Impaach Warren
To the Editor: The follow
ing is a direct quotation
from the National Review for
7263, page 21, title, "God,
Go Home."
"Mrs. Madalyn Murry In
an interview to The Realist:
'If I can't come through this
case the same offensive, un
lovable, bull-headed, defiant,
aggressive slob that I v s
when I started it, then I'll
give up now. My own iden
tity is more Important to me.
They can keep their gawd
dam prayers In the public
schools, in public out-houses,
in public H-bomb shelters,
and in public whore-houses.'
Those, as we say, are the
words not of the Supreme
Court that wrote the decision,
but of Madalyn Murry, who
brought the case to the
court. You do understand
that what has been accom
plished, net, is to shield Mrs.
Murray's son from exposure
to religion in the schools. Re
ligion is for the home.
"It remains to be seen
whether the nation has
energy enough to resist the
Supreme Court before which
we are always told to be
reverential. The question be
comes, Increasingly, How can
you revere this nation's his
torical Institutions and also
the Supreme Court of the
United States?"
Dear reader, are you
shocked? Enough to take ac
tion? If so then get a copy
of Rosalie Gordon's "Nine
Men Against America" from
the library. After reading it
send 10 cents to the John
Birch Society, Belmont 78,
Mass., for a printed Impeach
Earl Warren petition and get
It filled. Or send $1 for the
Impeach Earl Warren packet.
Anna M. Slreed
36 North Peach it.
Medford.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF
DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN tells about a saloon keeper who
had just unlocked his premises for the day's business
when a pink elephant and a purple rhinoceros mooched up
to the bar. "I'm sorry,
boys,'" said the saloon
keeper, "He hasn't come
in yet"
Years ago Batty Comden
and Adolph Green wrote a
hilarious parody of Sig
mund Romberg's "The Stu
dent Prince" that they
named "The Baroneaa Ba
aooka." Romberg', without
their knowledge, was in the
audience one evening when
they performed their paro
dy. Romberg didn't realize
it waa just a spoof and set
the party into an uproar by
jumping up and hollering, "It'a rank plagiarism! I'm going to
sue!" i
(Another time Romberg actually protested that a songbird in
a tree was copying; one of his melodies!")
Going the rounds Is the story of the green olive in a martini
who noted angrily that the olivea in all tha other drinks vera
black, and spluttered, "Nobody told me thia dinner waa going
to be formal!"
O IMS, by Bennett Ctrl. BUtritmted by Xing Features Syndicate ,
No Prayers
To the Editor: I note that
several writers expressed
their displeasure with the Su
preme Court ruling banning
prayers and Bible reading in
the public schools. Without
exception all of them had the
wrong slant on the subject.
The fact is that no prayers
of any kind or the reading of
Bible verses have any place
in our public schools. The
school is a place for academic
enlightenment, not religious
exercises. It has been said
that children whose parents
objected would not have to
take part in reciting a prayer
in school unless they wanted
to. But would those who re
fused be free from abuse and
coercion? Their failure to
take part would lead to rejec
tion by their classmates, and
thus would be created a very
unhappy situation.
' Last, but not least, if a
teacher were required to ac
tively lead his students in
prayer or the reading of
verses from the Bible as part
of his teaching assignment
and this was against his con
victions, he would be forced
into hypocrisy in order to re.
tain his position.
As far as the efficacy ' of
any prayer is concerned, are
prayers ever actually answer
ed in the true sense of the
word? This reminds me of
trie Incident where prayer
for rain that was desperately
needed was continued for
three weeks by a minister
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and his congregation who
gathered on a hill-top to make
the supplication. When after
the period of time mentioned
there still was no rain, the
minister turned to the. people
onrl coirt' "f'm enrrv frtllre
We may as well give up. Un
less the wind turns it won t
rain." Should they then have
settled down on the hill-top
to pray for the wind to turn?
With no more assurance that
another prayer would be an
swered, they gave up.
It appears that Abraham
Lincoln was right when he
said: "What is to be will be,
and no prayer of ours can ar
rest the decree."
Lydia Burnham,
814 Warns st.,
Prescott, Ariz.
National Antipathy
To the Editor: God punish-
es the misdeeds of parents
unto the third and fourth gen
eration, according to the
Bible.
Now in the case of the
black slavery; this crime was
committed by the white man
some six or more generations
ago and as of now looms up
as a curse of God on the off
spring of the slavecatchers,
or traders.
Now, in the majority of
the white race I can say for
sure that, regardless of what
the priests may say, there is
an inborn senna of antloathv
ot the white man against close
association with the black
race.
To prove this statement
sfcijrr
..Jk
you only have to observe
what has happened in South
Africa since the Boer war
ended in 1902. There the
whites, greatly outnumbered
by the blacks, rule the con -try.
The blacks have no voice
In government.
I have never heard of any
black uprisings or parades or
demonstrations by the Ne
groes in South Africa against
the whites. If there have been
such, they have met with no
success.
As to Negro demonstrations
In the U.S.A. at the present
time, they can't serve the
black people. They only dis
turb traffic and normal busi
ness. The race problem here has
two phases, economic and
racial antagonism. Big busi
ness and the lawmakers in
Washington can do something
about the first phase by estab
lishing state socialism, and if
that were resorted to, they
had better keep In mind and
establish separate workshops
for the Negro, as forcing the
white to rub shoulders with
the black would cause fric
tion fireworks.
John S. Ring
1049 West 11th st.
Medford
Prejudice
To the Editor: This is a
letter from an avid reader
and a slow writer. The letters
I really enjoy the most are
from those who testify of Him.
I realize we must have varia
tions and current events and
personal prooicms are .iwnyo
with us, and we know some
of this is caused by people
with big Imaginations that
produce only a foot In the
mouth condition. Perish the
tin gods and the idol worship'
ers or anything that leads
away from common sense.
Isn't there natural barriers
of and within the human race
that makes good sense if we
confirm as to each his own?
It seems to me to condemn or
accuse someone of being
prejudiced is the same as ac
cusing them of being air
breathers. I believe we all
have a measure of it and are
in the same boat, so to speak,
and when we start fighting
prejudice with prejudice it
has a hollow ring. When a
person gives his honest opin
ion from the heart we may
not agree but we should have
respect, for honesty is pre
cious. National problems create
personal problems. Some of
us in humble circumstances
struggle on to meet our obli
gations that are growing too
big for us, caused by a wel
fare condition more abroad
than at home. Our nation is
not rich enough to support
1 the world or even halt of it,
or wise enough to solve Its
distress.
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prison term and $10,000 fine
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open veins cause the main
body to become anemic? We
keep repeating that we know
the baby needs milk but we
must get to the moon regard
less of the cost. How well our
enemy knows our weakness.
God in his heaven has said,
who will forbid? Or who will
let Him? By His word and
law he makes it plain that
the only great man is he who
knows he is not great.
I would like to see again
letters I have been missing
since somebody said some
body else was prejudiced.
. Ida Kelly
16 Quince St.
' Medford
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