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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MfcDKOKD, OREGON aiji' i LiniuLstv la, lath Communications ...i- 1?J,? . b"r tt Mm ,nd lddl imouSh under tI- M.n t,,1 ,h u? of P,n MB " publication i. permissible. iJ t lh "8ht to .dit ,11 letter, with a view to clarification nd condensation. Letters submitted lor publication must not exceed 400 words. Th. letters P I if. C.w Umn do n0, Me"T represent the views oi the paperi in tact the contrary is oiten the case. On Tax Revolt To the Editor: In reference to the series of articles on the tax referral by Zan Stark. He speaks of "Tax Revolt," "Economy," etc. This is not a "Tax Revolt" and I don't think the people of Oregon want the state govern ment to economize any more than they have. It is a revolt against high income tax. The legislature just keeps raising the ante on those that have paid practically all the taxes in past years. The people want every one to get in and help. The man that works in the summer and lives on job insurance through the winter, the tourist and some others. A cigarette tax would have helped some. Anyway I think the "jig is up." They had better find an other tax source. Could it be that high state in come taxes are used for a pur pose other than to raise rev enue? Grace Etherton Cave Junction, Ore. back is broken by war, depres sion and mongrelization, the Red Flag would fly over the parlia ments of men. The Communist timetable is set for 1970 and the hands on the clock are moving rapidly. Alice I. Black, 812 So. Newtown st. Medford. May Win Someday TO the Editor: Mv allonlinn was called to the nnli rv nf vnnr paper while visiting my daugh ter, mrs. a. j. Barber, in your city last May. The article that attracted most was the extract from Smedley Butler's book. Disgusted To the Editor: This is my first letter to the Medford paper and will probably be the last. I was born and raised in Oregon and finished grade and high school in this state. But when my two teenagers came home tonight and told me what they were compelled to take for studies in high school I just simply blew up. One, the oldest, has to take swimming and dancing lessons Oh my aching back. No mention of the old three Rs. What, I ask you, when a kid finishes school, what good do dancing and swimming do him when he s looking for a lob? A big percentage of the boys and girls that do finish high school never have a chance or the money to continue their schooling and what they do learn in school in this day and age doesn't help them one lit tle bit. Maybe I'm behind the times maybe Ira old fashioned, or mabye just old. But I can still out-work, out-fight or out-any- thing else 98 per cent of the so called people that set up the school program we have in Ore gon now. Kids are made to go lo school until 18 years age, hut the par ents must shell out for entrance fees, also for a list of supplies made out by the school board. Then every week or two it's 5 bucks for this, 10 for that, and that continues the whole nine months. But still we have free schools or that's what they tell us. What a miserable mess. No, I'm not mad, just thoroughly and down right disgusted. Guess I've written enough. Thank you kindly for listening. Gilbert E. Lee 717 North Riverside ave. Medford. It is too bad there aren't more publications with such policy and editors with your courage. You deserve great praise in vour good work. A short time ago my daughter sent me several clippings from your columns. I was pleased with Senator Kuchel s speech and convinced of the truth it portrayed. If there were more publications such as yours this might in a measure be correct ed. It is a crime that in a coun try that boasts of its might, as the U. S. does, it keeps its peo ple in such ignorance. Your answer to Mr. Patter son's letter, appearing in the May 16 Mail Tribune was he roic and Is certainly most truth ful in Its entirety. You surely are doing very good work. Keep it up, and per haps justice and peace will someday win. Alice Hedgpeth SB55 North Gay ave. Portland, Ore. Proud To Help To the Editor: Just a few lines to the people who are griping about Medford's new high school stadium, and the shacks on the front lawn of the high school. Maybe these people do not know that this stadium vas donated to the high school. Seats were sold on a 5-year basis to finance this project, and it did not cost the taxpayers one cent. The best thing the taxpayers can do to eliminate these shacks is to vote bonds for a new school. Our family lives In another district but we have five seats in this stadium and we are proud our money can help this worthy cause. Arthur H. Boye, Route 1, Box 193, Gold Hill, Ore. Coverage Liked To the Editor: We want to thank you for the coverage you gave the Tudor Guild Summer Book Fair. The fair was very successful this summer, netting over $300 for the Shakespearean Festival actors' scholarship fund. This project would not have been successful without the sup port of the community in donat ing and purchasing books. We appreciate your coopera tion. Mrs. Edward Fitzpatrick Mrs. William Purdy Tudor Guild Ashland, Ore. Remove the Blot To the Editor: It disturbs me no end to read letters in which bigots use, or try to use, reli gion to defend their prejudices. If these people could only rea lize the dark and wretched side of their persons being revealed they would be more discreet in their comments. It is not possible to use the Bible or the Christian faith to uphold racial or any other kind of prejudice. God has created mankind to be one family and to live in harmony with each other and himself. I often think that Jesus Christ probably was too dark or had too big a nose not to offend some of our "so called Christians." He came from a heritage that was neither light or dark, East or West, North or South, so that he might be the rallying point of humanity and the one who over comes all of those petty things which keep men in hostility to each other. If religion is to be evoked in regard to the racial problem, let it be the words of Ezekicl 45:9, "Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God." However, the silence of good people Is more devastating to the cause of justice than the ravings of the hate mongers and the morally depraved bigot. Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Con gress, said, "When I was a rab bi of the Jewish community in Berlin under Hitler, I learned many things. The most impor tant thing I learned . . . under those tragic circumstances is that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgrace ful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence." Mail in support of Civil Rights Legislation is now so light as to lead Congress to believe the Civil Rights is really no national issue. Christian people, in true brotherhood and out of a sense of Justice should write to their representatives urging passage of Civil Rights legislation, so that this blot on the national conscience can be removed. The Rev. William A. Saladin Chairman, Church and Society Committee Presbytery of Southwest Oregon Phoenix, Ore. HEADS CONTRACTORS WHITE SULPHER SPRINGS, W. Va. (UPI)-A Portland con tractor, W. Ray Rogers, has been nominated without opposi tion for the presidency of the National Associated General Contractors. The Hands on the Clock To the Editor: He was an ac tive Communist for four years, then God came into his heart. Now, by word of mouth and books that he has written, he is telling others about Communism as he knows it and lived it. He will be in Medford soon to tell you about it. Remember the name Kenneth Goff; remember the date Sept. 19; remember the time and place 7:30 p.m. at Hoover school, Siskiyou Blvd. Come and bring your friends. The following is from his books: After joining the Communist Party there followed a rigid course of training in revolution' ary techniques such as, how to seize a city, how to infiltrate or ganizations such as clubs, civic societies, political bodies, churches, etc., and how to poi son water supplies. Fluoridation was discussed and now it is oe- Ing used as a tranquilizer in the prison camps in Russia and that if it could be induced into the American water supply, it would keep the people docile during the encroachment of Communi-, ism. He worked in the N. A. A. C. j P. which official records show ; has consistently affiliated itself with Communist movements. In his book, Reds Promote Racial War, is a photostat of secret minutes of the Young Commun ist League showing their con-1 neetion with the N. A. A. C. P., ! also a map from the secret ; files of the Communist Party; with blacked in area represent- ing what will be the Negro Com munist Soviet in the U. S. after the revolution. Ten million white people will be driven out of their homes. In 1946 the ground work was laid for the present forced in tegration that we see now sweeping our country. In schools our young white girls are forced to dance with Negro boys. In many places a Negro boy is chosen for prom King, a white girl for prom Queen. If the girl protests having to go out with him, she is expelled from school. Whether the Anglo Saxon Celtic races are conscious of it or not, they are slated soon for destruction on the Communist timetable of world revolution. 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A crescent of a moon o'erhead; The gorgeous picture seems complete. "Twas painted by a Master-hand With whom no artist can compete. Lila Curtis Bates Eagle Point, Ore. O The Artist If only I could dip my brush In the last red tinge of evening's sunset beam And, spreading it o'er my canvas white, Transfix the colors of that lingering gleam That all posterity might feel The stir of Beauty throbbing in its heart: Then my life would be worth while I'd be content lo know I'd done my part. In frenzied haste I seized my brush, But e'er my hand a single stroke had made The hue I sought had dimmed and gone. But, lo! I sought a yet more perfect shade And, seeking it, the two were lost. I tried again but fast the daylight paled, And then I knew that mortal brush God's glory lo portray again had failed. But why be sad when oft at night Across the canvas of the western skies God paints again the sunset gleam: All heaven's promise there reflected lies. So many see, yet are unmoved! No thrill of rapture greets that sight divine. How hopeless, then, where He hath failed, To reach those hearts by hands unskilled as mine! Malcolm L. Melville The Manor, Medford O By the Almanac There came a time when the rich dark loam Was ready to "work" at our country home. The team would rest by the giant oak And my brother and I very seldom spoke Of the trout that lay in the deep cool shade By the river bank that the willows made, Until the almanac showed the date. Then off we would go with our can of bait And our hook and line and our fishing pole To spend a day by our favorite hole. The zodiac, in that far-off day, Held a time for work a time for play. George McDonald Dufur, Ore. o The Martyr Her club work, though a thing sublime, Yet wrecked her long before time. Now people read, with bated breath, Upon her tombstone: "Clubbed to death." Jack Finel Central Point, Ore. I wear contact lenses! 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