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... Communications ... Letters to the Editor muit bear the nam ind addrtsi o( the wriltr. although under certain circumstances the use ol a pen nam or initial lor publication it permissible. The Mail Tribun reurvet th right to edit all lettert with a iew to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views c the paper; in fact the contrary is olten the case. MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Civil Rights quite well assured. I think it To the Editor: It seems that j time to switch to the next we have tiie tax question issue of importance, civil pretty well cussed and dis- J rights. c.ised and the referendum 1 While it is true that this FOR THE FINEST IN DINING! DINING ROOM OPEN EVERY DAY 5 P.M. to 11 P.M. 10 P.M. Sundays FOR BANQUETS and PARTIES Call 535-9710 Talent subject has been pretly well covered, there are still phases and angles which I have never seen brought out in print, namely the individual and psychological aspects. I feel quite sure that the civil rights issue will be re solved in the affirmative and eventually become the way of life with full recognition in nil Its aspects, but I also feel it only just that every one should be told of the untold number of lesser incidents that will appear. Some of them may well be classed as of nuisance value. It has been quite easy for a good many I people to favor civil rights but when it comes to making Here TONIGHT! Time mm m iLfuvvwiy Gates Open 7:15 P.M. Show Starts 8:10 P.M. "PT 109" On Screen at 8:15 pm & at 12:45 am Wekome to fhe South Fcfic ijeutenanTnPnnecb CUFF ROBERTSON;;; THE STORY OF A BAND OF MEN LEFT FOR DEAD IN A FLAMING SEA AND THEIR EPIC OF HEROISM AND SURVIVAL. Technicolor Panavision e years meat uikad .bout roiei TY HARDIN - JAfvlES GREGORY-ROBERT CULP GRAMLIrWS-ssJrTOm 2ND HIT! c On at 1 1 pm 1 AarNING!THIRIRTHP (LPlFll&Pvit? jVCZSI TECHNICOLORT PANAVISION- m Georsia MOLL waiTsriiau Warner Bros, wackiest, wildest, mast wonderful comedy of the year. the necessary concessions the individual will be called upon to make, such as integration of your own neighborhood or on the job, here is where the problem will become personal and, I am sure, in many in I stances call for a measure of self discipline to overcome whicn is, in most cases, the psychological phase. To make the close inter mingling of the races harmon ious will call for adjustment on both sides. Herein is where these incidents will ap pear but lime will prove a great factor in smoothing the relations, for as the parties in volved become more accust oiscd to close association with each other the easier it will be to accept one another. In other words what seem to be ob stacles now will disappear i; we approach them. In the co-mingling of any two groups of people brought up under diflercnt standards, the menial attitude, a sincere desire to understand each other in the start is of great value to the success of the veglure. So if we enter into tins new relationship with dis regard for race, creed or color we will find it little different than what we have been used to among our own, where in dividuals are not always con genial to each other. It need not ruin the overall pattern. The mass march on Wash ington was a fitting climax in calling the attention of the entire nation. C. rt. Burrill fi34'2 Cherry st. Central Point, Ore. SUNDAY. 8EPTEMBER 1, 1113 taxes and yet we have t: spend more for insecticides in order to be able to exist out here. Thl is definitely a very bad health health prob lem here. We call upon our health department to do something fur us. How many others feci as I do? Let your voices be heard. Betty Poole, White City. Ore. the All You Gotta Do . , . To the Editor: The Bircher's say go to right i And we will be in clover. Well, the right's been running things In England now, for several years And Holy Cow; just look em over. The prissy right, so lily white, By Christine's charm was smitten; The stage is set, and you can bcl, That they are through in Britain. Or, as Aslor said to Profumo, "When you gotta go, you gotta go" That Mandy was no kitten. Oh, the Bircher's can cure anything Both domestic or foreign. All you gotta do is impeach Earl Warren. Now. the Bircher's wish to hcjp we hicks By a return to 188(5. Then a union dared not show its face . And the "colored brother' "knew his place". You worked twelve hours for a buck a day. And the rest of the time was I yours to play. Things were better then; You wouldn't dare to even mention medicare. And as for social security, To approve of that, would show lack of maturity. And then we had no income tax, Or income either to tell the facts. As for this "aid to education", It was "let no one rise above his station". I Of course, we folks had not been born So tine word wasn't out to "impeach Earl Warren". j Now, Mr. Welch is Uie leader, He a the one who gets the dues From the Utile old ladies in tennis shoes. He never knew Christine or Mandy, His money came from making candy And I bet he made good candy bars, No if's, no and's, or but's. After all. he has a corner On the world's supply of nuts Remember: all you gotta do is impeach Earl Warren, .lohn F. Musgrove Box 583 Sutherlin, Ore. Defanst of Animals To the Editor: I would like to"raisi 'my'VoIce in defense of dumb animals. Yesterday, while returning from our gro cery store on Prune st., a car ; passed n e by like a streak of lightning, and that was not so bad, but I felt so soiry for me little tan and white spot ted dog that evidently be longed to the people in the car. They were driving at a fastralc.at. least 40 miles an hour, and the dog was trying his best to keep up with them. Surely they knew he was with them. It will ie ft. miracle" if- he is not dead by this morning, after having to run that fast for such a long dis'iance, in this hot weather. How can anyone love and care for their animal and treat it in such a disgraceful manner? I hope they see this article, and be more kind to it in the future. I will always be for the defense ol dumb animals and hope that the poor little dog gets better treatment in the future. Our street out here seems to be a race track for some people most of time, es pecially in the evenings, be- Mosquito Problem To the Editor: We here In the White City area have been patiently waiting for our county health department to give us some relief from the terrible mosquito situation here, but so far we have re ceived only promises for n number of years now. Nothing hBS been done about the Hoo ver lakes, where it stands to reason is an excellent breed ing place tor them. They arc so much worse here than at any place in. the valley we have visited at any lime. The biles of these in; sects are so bad that we arc unable to let our children out doors because they make them ill. Therefore they are housco Inside all summer long and do not get their needed sun shine, fresh air and exercise. 1 personally have spent around $30 each summer ffr the past three that I liLve lived here for mniuilo repel lent and DDT to spray about my home. When visitors visit me from other places thty ask me how do e here stand these inserts We here feel that there badly needs to be more effective effort applied to this area to rid it of mosquitoes. , We support our county health department with our tween Main and Prune st. Mrs. Florence Tomlinson 325 Chestnut t., Medford. Sunday and Heathens To the Editor: MT., Aug. 23; Mr. Thomas N. Bostwick. and Aug. 28, Mrs. Barbara Corwin; in answer: Wish to stale that 1 heart ily agree with Mr. Bostwick in regard '.o pagan and gentile beliefs that have crept into our Christian world today. Look it up in history. One of the greatest errors that was ever made was when Chris tianity accepted Sunday from the Gentiles as the day of worship and the worshiping of the cross. Look on page 302, General History, by Myers, revised ed ition, for the changing of Sat urday to Sunday for the day of worship, and page 300 for the cross. This was accepted by Christianity and still in force but God will soon straighten this out together with graven images and stat ues, banquets and social af fairs in the supposed house of the Lord. The only part where I do not agree with Mr. Bostwick is the word 'Heathen. Read your scriptures and you will find that name used to iden tify the people of today out side of Israel and .ludnh. On page 42 of same history you will find Saigon 11 captured the Ten Tribes of Israel and scattered them in the year 722 B. C. In Rev. 11-2. the Gentiles reign 42 months, a day for a year, 1260 years. (Rev. 12-8) God's church fled from the power of Dan. 7-25 for 1260 years. Add the two. Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny On tha Natura of Poetry Poetry survives. It endures even the occupation of the poet. . . . The poem is an expression not of a private area of a man called his talent, but of the entire individual, the talent being the manner in which that man gels himself objectified inlo the poem. Paul Englc, in The New York Times Book Review, 51263. o A Thing of Beauty IFrom "Endymion") A thing of beauty is a joy forever: lis loveliness increases; it will never ' Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearlh Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darken'd ways Made for our searching: yes, in spile of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such arc daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely talcs that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. -John Keats O Aristolla Now "... The Epic pools were succeeded by Tragedians, since drama was a larger and higher form of art." ' -Aristotle, Poetics. If Aristotle's theory's right, As reading him confirms, TV's the thing for every night. All books are for the worms! W. Arthur Boggs Oswego, Ore. From the author's "Odysseus And Other Poems," by permission. Originally published in New Mexico Quarterly. 0 Worms I saw a man of woman born, With can in hand one lovely morn, Looking for a hapless angleworm That soon from some fierce hook would squirm. The world was draped in pearly mist, Like "gentle lover gently kissed; And Time, swift demon on the run, Was racing madly 'gainst the sun. Man, like a heedless, careless boy, Both fish and self seems to destroy. Christ was a fisher among men It's time for Christ to fish again. Kenneth F. Osthimer Pcnnsville, Ohio O Age of Transition We will not look backward to the known and grieve because of pathways that are lost; but rather we shall school ourselves to step With courage on the threshold to be crossed. Etnel Peak Seattle. Wash. 2520 years. Take away the years that Israel captured, 722 B.C., and you have 1798. Look in history, page 655, and sec what happened. The ref ormation starts from this date, this leaves us in this status, (Rev. 13-11), two horns, not civil as no crown shown, but two ecclesiastical powers. God has a' flame for each periods of time (Ezck 36-24) in our lime just Uefore the Lord's Day, the name Heathen and others. R. E. McMamis, Rt. 1, Box 3311, Gold Hill, Ore. A 5 In the Day's News By FRANK JHMKINS Wednesday was quite a day i in our history. Our nation had braced it self for trouble in Washington, where a throng of more than 200,000 white and colored Americans had assembled to call upon the Congress to end all manner of racial discrimi nation. But trouble didn't come. Kind Words To the Editor: During many years of extended travel through most of our states, I had become painfully aware of the generally low quality of many city newspapers. Featuring cheap sensational ism and devoting excessive space to trivialities, news of real importance whether local, national or internation al often is meager and sketchy by comparison. Edit orial fare rarely is any better. Newspapers of quality are, unhappily, the exception: among them, such as the em inent and unrivaled New York Times and its less dis tinguished yet also excellent neighbor, the Herald-Tribune; the Christian Science Mon itor. Atlanta Constitution, Raleigh News and Observer, Detroit Free Press, Louisville Courier-Journal, and -praises be!-the Medford Mail Trib une. Notably poor, as I ob served again on a recent trip to the east, arc the news papers of Boston, Mass. really a sorry lot. That great cultural, commercial and in dustrial center deserves a bet ter fate. Medford has reason to be proud of its many cultural and other community assets: not least, its own disting uished newspaper (mindful of its having been the recipient of a Pulitzer prize and its managing editor last year having served on a Pulitzer award panel). In this connec tion, I, offer an excerpt from my first letter to the MT, 102760: "I have become an avid and appreciative reader of the si STARTS TOIIITE WHAT A COMBINATION! WHAT A CAST! KIRK DOUGLAS TONY CURTIS ERNEST BORQNINE JANET LEI6M BURT LANCASTER GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA WHY not? John Heywood, who lived and wrote back in the 16th century, may have given us the answer when he wrote in his Proverbs: "OF A GOOD BEGINNING COMETH A GOOD END." Medford Mail Tribune. I have been delighted to find its coverage of national and world news exceptional for a city this size . . , Particularly gratifying to me is your paper's able, independent and forthright editorial comment and its judicious use of quotes from such outstanding writers as Walter Lippman, 'Scotty' Rcston and others." Quite unusual, too, Is the generous space you regularly devote to letters lo the editor. Commendable also is Uie im partiality of treatment accord ed these communications. However, I share your con cern that such a dispropor tionate number of these is from assorted cranks: (ill mlnations and sputterings of the perennial "antis" most ly uncredited quotes from the professionals of that breed who have collected fortunes from their gullible followers. As a regular reader of our "Trib" these three years, I of ten say to my fellow Manor residents: "Now that you are a citizen of Medford, the Mail Tribune is your 'home-town' newspaper and you should read it regularly, so that you may be well informed on local affairs and activities as any g ood citizen should be." Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford 'THE good beginning? A It was provided by a Little Old Lady. rpHE Little Old Lady? A She is Mrs. Acquila Bale man. Colored. Seventy . four years old. And crippled. She limped on her bad leg to the Lincoln Memorial. There, standing before the gigantic statue of Abraham Lincoln, chiseled by Daniel Chester French some four decades ago, she bowed her head in reverence and asked, the dis patches tell us, a small favor of the Lord. She prayed: "Oh Lord, be with us today, and keep us in the hollow of your hand. May we love each other. May we GET TO GETHER. I pray that nobody will do anything PERSONAL BAD to anybody else in Wash lngton today." IT WAS a good beginning for a day that might have been fantastically tragic. If Booker T. Washington was hitting somewhere on a cloud and Hstening, he must have murmured reverently to himself and whispered: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." WHO was Booker T. Wash ington.' He was born a slave. At the age of 16, he walked 500 miles from his home to Hamp ton Institute, where he work ed his way through and grad uated in 1875. Afterward, ha taught at Hampton Institute. He showed such ability that in 1881 he was chosen to or ganize a similar school for Negroes at Tuskegee, Ala. He opened his school in an old church with only 30 pu pils, but in time the school grew into the famous Tuske gee Normal and Industrial Institute. He grasped the fundamental fact that EDUCATION was the way out for the members of his race. It is STILL tha way oul. 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