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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
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W. Va. (UPI)-A Portland con
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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.
In 1936 Eugene Dennis said that
white civilization was the only
remaining obstacle in the path
nf the final triumph of world
Communism, and that once iu
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Ah, wondrous glory of the night
Betokened in day's afterglow
i sit beside the river's brink
The sun at eve is bending low.
Midst banks of fluffy, feathery clouds,
Soft-tinted by the sun's last rays,
A veritable wealth of gold
And azure 'tis that meets my gaze.
And, as I watch, the scene is changed
From blue and gold to silver-gray,
Surrounded by a beauteous shade
Of rose: a marvellous display.
What splendor! And 'tis doubly grand
Reflected in the quiet stream
That flows along with rippling song
And sparkles in the twilight gleam.
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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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Central Point, Ore.
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