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Aren't Dead Yet
To the Editor: Hi, you fellows
who would like to step to the old
fashioned round dances every
Wednesday from 2 till 4 o'clock,
come to the K.P. Hall first door
north of the Groceteria on Grape
st. and brush up on the waltzes,
two-tops and dances you used
to enjoy.
The Security Benefit Club has
325 members; a fine group of
friendly folk who welcome visi
tors of the same personality.
We meet at 11, eat a scrump
tious lunch at noon for only 50c,
sing together, hold a short bus
iness meeting, often have in
teresting programs, visit, make
friends, then dance.
I notice that there is a short
age of gentlemen for partners
and we need every man who
cares to exercise and can spare
the time. Most of us are oldsters
but by gum, we aren't dead yet.
Bob Knight,
Rogue River, Ore.
Incentive 1'lan
To the Editor: Ever since the
tax referendum, our "experts"
have had a field day interpret
ing the "will of the people" and
suggesting new measures. The
qualifications of these appear to
be a mystic insight into the
minds of the voters and healthy
self-interest, like "Let's have a
cigarette tax, because I don't
smoke."
In this spirit I offer my tax
program, based on the insight
afforded me by an old coffeepot
lop which doubles as a crystal
ball, and a set of prejudices
guaranteed to be narrow, unen
lightened and retrogressive.
This program is the INCENT
IVE PAY PLAN:
Industry has used the princi
ple of incentive pay to wonder
ful advantage. When employees
turn out more of a product, or
a better product, they are paid
a bonus as an incentive to do
more of the same thing. For a
bad job, they lose. This benefits
the employee, employer and the
public.
Why not apply this incentive
pay principle to our legislators?
For example, cut their salaries
back to about $4,000 for giving
Ihe voters a tax bill which three
out every four thought bad. Give
Ihem a 51,000 bonus for every
bill which in referendum the
voters decide is good.
This way, your representatives
have a clear-cut motivation for
discovering and carrying out the
will of the people, and dem
ocracy is revitalized within a
fine American framework of
free enterprise.
As my contribution to the suc
cess of the forthcoming special
session of the legislature, I of
fer the following, to be sung
by them in group chorus:
Sing a song of taxes.
Not low, not middle, bul
high:
Sixty millon dollars
Added to the pie.
When the vote was over
What a fearful blow!
We're shocked to find our
taxes
Not high, not middle, but
low.
George Rode,
315 Fluhrer Bldg.
Medford.
Non-Excelsior
To the Editor: No matter how
long or how short the special
session of the legislature, at
this point it threatens to be a
mere continuance of the debacle
of Spring, 1963.
As of this writing, the only
thing which unites the legisla
tors from our county (Lane) is
their agreement that they be
lieve the lax referral means the
voters want economy. As to
what to do about it, their pub
lic statements reflect a com
plete confusion, a lack of lead
ership in either party, and a
desire to do as little as possible
to rock the boat of their own
personal political posterity in
the special session to come.
Oh, to be a political cartoon
ist; what one could do with
that Wednesday meeting be
tween the Governor and the
four legislative non-leaders!
Here's the picture. First, the I
participants are Hatfield, Sen-j
ate President Musa, House
Speaker Barton, and minority j
non-leaders Montgomery and j
Yturri, all trembling and look
ing scared.
On one side, a bunch of irate
voters.
The cartoon caption: "We
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have agreed to hold a special
session, do as little as possible
as quick as possible, and hope
you'U forget by Fall, 1964."
In caption balloons, their real
thoughts as follows: Hatfield
"I hope these guys will go
home soon and not rock my
future"! Barton and Musa
"Let Hatfield do it; and we'll
just leave the mess for the
1965 legislature, in the event
it happens to be Republican";
and Monty and Yturri "We'll
follow our leader; and besides
maybe the Democrats will still
be in control in 1965"! On Bar
ton's coat is the note: "The job
of a legislature is to kill bills,
not to pass them!"
On the other side, a bunch
of legislators, some still mak
ing faces at the voters, others
protecting special state depart
ments (Highways, fish and
game, etc.) from cuts by Free
man Holmer, who has a meat
axe in his hand.
The suggested motto for the
coming session: "Non-leaders
of the legislature, divide! We
have nothing to lose but our
seats! Backward and down
ward!! NON-EXCELSIOR! !"
Keith D. Skelton,
Box 5285,
Eugene, Ore.
Little "Yes" Men
To the Editor: Mr. Howell
signed "Teacher, Errand Boy,
Gardener, Butcher, Carpenter,
Engineer and Administrator."
For one that had his finger
in everything, he sounds very
narrow minded. To think any
one would feel the school doors
should not be opened for an
erring boy that shows such
remorse.
I don't know what trouble
this child got into, but some
of the mischief the teenagers
get into in this community,
and have records for in the
courthouse, would at one time
have been called "sowing your
wild oats," in the last genera
tion. That was before new laws
were made at old ladies' tea
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parties to squelch the life out
of the young.
The young have no release
for their high spirits, which
crave to run with the wild wind.
There are too many people
willing to cry "wolf, wolf," to
distract attention from their
own crookedness, especially un
der the name of business.
One reads so much about our
high school drop-outs, but still
it is so easy for children to be
expelled. We are trying to have
all little "yes men.
J. C. Walker,
4030 Old Highway 99,
Ashland, Ore.
Lawless Applegate
To the Editor: When we came
to the Applegate in 1952, it was
as fair and peaceful a land as
Eden at the dawn of creation,
when, it is recorded, God looked
on all his handiwork and found
it good.
In the space of 11 years, all of
this has been changed. We are
told the pioneers lived danger
ously in this area, if they lived
at all being under constant
threat from scalping Indians,
claim jumpers, and renegades.
Our present situation is not
much different, for the Apple
gate again has become a place
where law and order do not ex
ist, where the rights of private
property are openly scorned and
flouted, and where it is open sea
son on everything all year long
from registered cattle to U. S.
mail carriers!
It is a place where pot-shooters
blaze away with rifles from
public roads almost within spit
ting distance of residences
where spot-lighters operate in
every likely meadow pasture all
year where log trucks func
tion sans muffler, sans speedom
eters, with one headlight, and
with drivers not legally quali
fied to drive.
The question was asked in a
recent editorial: What kind of
man would bomb little children?
I answer, exactly the same kind
of man who invades private
property in broad daylight to
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slaughter a pet fawn, shooting
12 to 15 times from the state
highway toward a house to ac
complish this glorious example
of American sportsmanship.
This act was witnessed by 14
members of the Applegate Gar
den Club on Oct. 17, two of
whom attempted a citizen's ar
rest, but the culprits two men
and a young boy escaped, flee
ing in atruck at excessive speed,
taking the body of their victim
with them. Their license plates,
I might add, were concealed.
Since appeals to constituted
authorities have availed little,
governor to send us a unit of
the National Guard. In any
event, "we've had it" and are
growing a bit desperate over the
deteriorating situation.
Grace N. Pearson
Route 2, Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
Moral Aspects
To the Edilor: This letter
deals with moral aspects which
militate against cooperation with
the Russians.
Our citizens believe in God as
a supreme power. His name oc
curs in the federal constitution
and in every state constitution.
We are known as a Christian na
tion. Russians hold a diametri
cally opposite view and have
sworn to eliminate God from the
thinking of their people.
During the patriarchal period
of civilization the Israelites cor
responded to the present Chris
tians in that they believed in the
power of God. The tribes around
them were heathen or anti-God.
In the story of the Israelites,
God's commands to them stand
out. All laws of God are inexor
able. They must be obeyed just
as His law of gravity must be
obeyed or disaster results.
One of these laws prohibited
their cooperation with the tribes
around them. They disobeyed.
Another inexorable law of God
is the law of cause and effect.
When they disobeyed the law of
cause and effect began operat
ing and the Old Testament from
Joshua on is a record of their
difficulties and final disaster as
a result of this disobedience.
This record has been given to
us for our guidance. We can not
cooperate with the Russians
without activating the laws of
cause and effect. The Russians
have said they will bury us and
that our children will grow up
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under Communism. They have
also said they will rule the
world. Everything they do is de
signed to further those plans.
Hence when we cooperate with
them we are hastening our own
destruction and their take over
of the free nations.
Paul in the exquisitely beauti
ful passage in 2 Cor. 6:14-18 puts
it this way: "Be ye not unequal
ly yoked together with unbe
lievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteous
ness? And what communion
hath light with darkness? And
what concord hath Christ with
Belial? Or what part hath he
that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols? For
ye are the temple of the living
God: as God hath said, 'I will
dwell in them, and walk in
them; and I will be their God
and they shall be my people.
Wherefor come out from among
them, and be ye separate,' saith
the Lord, 'and touch not the un
clean thing, and I will receive
you, and I will be a Father unto
you, and ye shall be my sons
and daughters,' saith the Lord
Almighty."
Are we not selling our birth
right for a mess of pottage?
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
noldwatcr's Views
To Ihe Editor: Like most
Democrats I hope that Barry
Goldwater will be the Repub
lican nominee for President next
year. When he was in Eugene
last week Oregonians saw with
their own eyes the kind of cam
paign he means to wage by com
ing out foursquare (or "free
dom" and for "victory."
Perhaps it is in order to re
mind any bemused observer, as
will be done in the campaign if
Barry gets the GOP nod, of a
few aspects of this gentleman's
record prior to his effort to win
over the moderates.
Goldwater has said that col
lective bargaining results in "a
weakening of the individual per
sonality of self-reliance," and he
would outlaw industrywide bar
gaining, repeal the Norris-La-Guurdia
Act, prohibit union
shops, and turn control of labor
disputes over to the states.
Goldwater has said that relief,
social security, and public hous
ing "weaken" the individual per
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Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Prose and Poetry
Prose engages a small part of the reader's attention; poetry
all of it. Writing poetry is going into a sort of trance. The 'result
should raise the reader to the same heightened sensibility the
poet experienced while he was writing. Robert Graves, in
Life, 6 28 63.
Pleceful Co-resistance
All Asia has been "mystic" muddle,
Since white man stepped in Far East puddle;
Bringing opium chests blessed by the cross;
And by consortiums tried to toss
His weight around the "Backward East"
Or, rather, "undeveloped" yeast.
sonality and self-reliance. "Let
welfare be a private concern,"
he recommends.
In the Senate he has always
opposed public works with one
exception, the Upper Colorado
project which would benefit his
home state. He opposes any fed
eral aid to education and even
voted against the Eisenhower ad
mistration's small step toward
medical care for the aged in
1960.
Goldwater's beguilingly simple
and direct solutions to national
problems appeal to many peo
ple, but not only will these so
lutions not stand factual analysis
but Barry himself dares not re
peat them as he seeks to broad
en his support.
At the 1960 Republican Con
vention it was Goldwater who
won the most cheers. Now he
leads the GOP popularity polls.
He deserves the nomination, but
let it be clear that his resound
ing defeat by Jack Kennedy next
year is assured because most
Americans arc undaunted by the
great and complex challenges of
our age and look ahead in hope
and confidence.
Charles O. Porter
858 Pearl st.
Eugene, Ore.
Victory for Economy
To the Editor: The people of
the State of Oregon registered
their protest against extrava
gant and wasteful spending of
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the taxpayers money by elected
officials.
It might be well to note the
reaction lo that protest as well
as the effects. Suggestions have
been made to cut the stipend
of the blind, to lower the food
allotment, the medical and nurs
ing home care of the helpless.
Instead of penalizing the
lame, halt and the blind, it
might be well to cut the sal
aries of the legislators, their
$20 per diem expense amount,
the $17 per day seven days a
week for clerical help, as well
as vacations to Hawaii. Also to
cut the salaries of several of
ficials that were raised when
the legislature took on the extra
pay checks. Perhaps the 1800
increase in the number of state
employees can be shaved to
meet absolute needs.
The protest of the tax package
saved thousands striving to ex
ist on a thousand or less of 30
cent dollars, from a tax of $5
a head.
The same trcalment given the
Oregon state tax package should
be extended to Washington to
halt the drift toward Socialism,
the open door to Communism
as well as the drift toward
bankruptcy. Also to cut the bil
lions wasted on the U.S. efforts
to act as nursemaid to more
than 100 countries of the world,
whose combined national debt
is less than that of the good
old U.S.A.
Ed Black
2573 Camp Joy rd.
Grants Pass, Ore.
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Time flics it always
And future change must make one ill. . . .
There's India, the land of peace.
Which feels that all such "rot" must cease;
Like Pakistan, arming to the teeth
The dove must yield to Martian wreath!
Nehru, who pined 'neath British heel,
And castigated Gandhi's wheel
As slow to end Colonialist rule.
Today sits pupil in their school. . . .
A Bengal tiger dull fang pares.
And dines at ease with millionaires.
Poverty is still king in the East,
And many millions do not feast.
What matter? They're "untouchable"
And Brahmins look not to such rabble.
The Lama's prayer-wheel spins, and souls,
Like Dervishes, dance upon hot coals.
Now fire-breathing Chinese dragon,
Like fabled bull, in Asian shop,
With fiery tongue and tail awagging,
Has put Lord Brahma on the hop.
Nehru, Tibetan heights must scan
Torn 'twixt Kashmir and Pakistan.
While not far off, that devil "K",
Looking amused, won't go away.
At least as long as Mao and Sam
Lean lions eye the Asian lamb.
Tibetan prayer-wheel spins. . . . Who knows
What Time or Karma will disclose?
Kenneth F. Osthimer
Pennsville, Ohio
Judge Not
We never know the reasons for the actions of a man
For aught we know, he's striving hard lo do the best
he can;
We know not Ihe foundation upon which his life is built,
Nor the soul that we dishonor, to it ascribing guilt!
'Tis just a wee bit probable his ways he'll not disclose
So the workings of his conscience none other really knows.
'Tis possible that he prefers within himself to live.
Not relating to the public all the reasons he might give.
I'm 'minded of a story in a Book that we all know
A tale in which the Master, in days so long ago,
Reproved a throng of knockers assuaged their clamorous
din;
He said the first stone must be cast by him who had no
sin.
That fatal stone was never hurled a new idea he'd sent
Into that crowd who'd gathered there with violent intent,
"he laws our Master gave to us will through the ages stand;
"Judge not, lest ye be judged," he said. 'Tis still a
great command!
Lila Curtis Bates
Eagle Point, Ore.
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