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Dialog and Freedom
We have, in recent weeks, published Com
munications giving socialist, atheist, fundamen
talist, John Birch, liberal, conservative, and
other widely divergent views on matters of the
day.
Why do we print such letters when it would
be far easier simply to toss them in the waste
basket and avoid controversy and the headaches
that go with it?
At least in part, it is because we happen to
believe that any viewpoint held by an American
citizen is entitled to expression within the lim
its of good taste and libel. (Ev-en these have
been stretched just a little, occasionally.)
XE ALSO think it is important that citizens
" be aware that this is a pluralistic society
in which we live, and that there are others
just as good Americans as they who hold
sharply differing opinions.
This is part of the democratic dialog. And
it is a far better thing to keep the dialog going
than to attempt to snuff it out by censorship, re
prisals, threats or intimidation.
This is what the First Amendment guarantee
of free speech and free press is all about, ou
preme Court Justice Hugo Black once said :
"Undoubtedly, a governmental policy of unfettered com
munication of ideas does entail dangers. To the Founders
of this Nation, however, the benefits derived from free ex
pression were worth the risk. ... I have always believed that
the First Amendment Is the keystone of our Government, that
the freedoms it guarantees provide the best insurance against
destruction of all freedom."
"Lat One In It A VicilUting Old Reactionary"
ii i i
ourt Jus-
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1953 (Tuesday)
Wayne Morse, Oregon's Inde
pendent junior senator, deliv
ered a fighting, vigorous speech
to more than 500 persons at
Southern Oregon College this
morning in which he attacked
the Eisenhower administration's
foreign policy and stand on na
tional resources.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1043 (Wednesday)
Armv units from Camp White
led by U. Col. A. L. Wood Jr.,
will lead parade in annual moo
lord Armistice day observance
Barney Riggs has "field day"
as Ashland High School foot
ball learn 'defeats Mcdtord, 19
to 7.
AND, on another occasion, Supreme C
tice William O. Douglas said:
"The command that 'Congress shall make no law . . .
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press' has behind
it a long history. It expresses the confidence that the safety
of society depends on the tolerance of government for hostile
as well as friendly crtiicism, that in a community where
men's minds are free, there must be room for the unorthodox
as well as the orthodox views."
It would be well, perhaps, for all lovers of
freedom to refresh their memory from time to
time as to what it is that the First Amendment
says. Here it is :
AMENDMENT I
"Freedom of Religion, Speech and Press, Right of Petition.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances."
There are many who pay lip service to the
Constitution, but when it comes to the Bill of
Rights, they are often much too apt to add
. ves. but ...
For us, we like to think it means what it says.
E. A.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1933 (Friday)
Four members of Grand Army
of the Republic, including Judge
W. M. Colvig, Pok Hull, Frank
Mangoz and J. C. Woods, to
march in Medford Armistice
day parade.
Max Gilinsky plays outstand
ing game, runs back punt 40
yards for touchdown, as Med
ford High football team defeats
Eureka, 13 to 0.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1923 (Saturday)
Medford Armistice day cclc
bratlon postponed one duy be
cause Armistice Day falls on
Sunday.
Claude C. tale resigns as
Jackson County nRcnt effective
Jan. 1: resignation accepted
"with universal and widespread
regret."
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1013 (Monday)
Negotiations pending for
Thanksgiving day boxing match
between Bud Anderson, Med
ford, and Joe Rivers, Los Angeles,
GREAT IDEAS...
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adfer
(c) 1083, Publisher Newspaper Syndicate
SUCCESS OR FAILURE
Dear Dr. Alder: What did
the ancient and medieval phi
losophers regard as success?
Isn't it true that many ordin
ary people today give lip ser
vice to other Ideals but show
by their behavior that they re
grad the possession of things
and the opportunity to par
ticipate in activities regarded
as status symbols the most
desirable attainments? What
do the great thinkers have to
say about the pursuit of suc
cess? Miss Viola Willcke
510 N. Glcndale St.'
Kenton, Ohio
Forest Closures
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct U superior;
even or ciighl It eicollent; five or
lii It good.
1. Who was instrumental In
Samson, of Biblical fame, be
ing captured following a hair
cui 7
2. Is the religious system of
Lamaism prevalent in China
Japan, Mongolia or Tibet?
3. A person suffering from
acrophobia would have a fear
of what?
4. At 6 per cent Interest, how
much would It cost fur $100
loan for one month?
5. How many voyages did
Christopher Columbus make to
the new world?
6. One would most likely find
a Bunsen burner in a bakery,
coal mine, or chemical lab
oratory? 7. Is a rod a distance of 16'.4
feet. 33 feet, or 68 feet?
8. In round numbers, what Is
the approximate circumference
of tne eartn in miles;
9. There are 16 ounces in an
avoirdupois pound; how many
ounces are there in a troy
Dound?
10. Is the U. S. population
about 166, 183 or 201 million?
Answers
t. Delilah. 2. Mongolia and
Tibet. 3. Csrcal heights. 4. 50
rents. S. Four. 6. Laboratory. 7.
Wk (eel. 8, 25,000 miles. 0. 12
uncei. 10. 183,000,000.
Western Oregonians are used to the annual
forest closures durinir the forest fire season. On
occasion, when the woods have been dry during
October, hunting season has had to be postponed.
Most people recognize the need for such
safety measures. Not all, of course, but most
who think about it.
Professional foresters and lumbermen are in
creasingly conscious of public opinion these days,
and the closure of forests is one of the items
which has caused them concern.
In an attempt to sample public opinion, one
forester who is a member of the Western Forest
Fire Committee has been seeking expressions
from the public.
LIIS QUESTIONNAIRE asks, if extremely
hazardous forest fire conditions prevail in
widespread areas of the state, should publicly-
owned lorests be closed to entry f nivately
owned ones?
If the answers are "yes," who should be ex
cluded from the closed forests? Recreationists?
People who earn their living working in the
forests? Forest residents? Guests at resorts?
Forest managers?
When publicly-owned forests are to be closed,
who should issue the order? The political head
of a forest agency? The administrative head?
Ur lesser administrative authority f
finally, he asks, when privately-owned lor
ests are closed, who should issue the order? The
Governor or his delegate? Lesser state admin
istrative authority? Appropriate county authority?
IF YOU ARE sufficiently interested in giving
your views on these questions, they may
directed to Mr. Waller 11. Reed, Collins Pine
Company, Chester, Calif.
We're sure Mr. Reed would appreciate re
ceiving a wide variety of views, and that they
wouici he h e 1 p f u 1 to him in reporting public
opinion on the matter.
Our own view is that all forests should be
closed to entry when "extremely hazardous"
forest fire situations occur; that exceptions to
the closure should be only for forest residents,
guests at resorts, and forest managers; that ad
ministrative heads of publicly-owned forests
should have authority to make closures; and that
privately-owned forests should be closed by order
of the state forester, or, in certain local emer
gency situations, the local district warden. E. A.
If a man doesn't discard his enthusiasm at
the same rate he loses his hair, he'd ought to.
Sherman County Journal
Dear Miss Willeke: "Suc
cess, said John Masefield, is
the brand on the brow of the
man who has aimed too low."
This remark epitomizes the at
titude of most conscientious and
thoughtful people toward the
pursuit of success.
Many commentators like to
point out the consistent failures
of the great sages, prophets, and
saints in their attempts to es
tablish the good life among
men. The implication is some
times drawn that failure is the
mark of holiness or wisdom, an
inference which is the exact
converse of the classic immoral
ist remark, "Nice guys finish
last." However, if we follow this
trend of thought uncritically,
we may wind up in the absurd
romantic position that failure is
a virtue, which we should strive
to achieve.
A famous historian of philoso
phy, Eduard Zcller, said of the
death of Socrates at the hands
of the community which he had
tried to reform, that it "was the
greatest triumph of his cause
the crowning success of his life
the apotheosis of philosophy and
the philosopher." irci r-iaio,
Socrates' greatest pupil and the
man whose writings about Soc
rates' trial and death inspired
pller's remark, seems to have
had a different notion of what
the success of a philosopher
consists in. Plato believed that
It was the highest task of the
philosopher to reform the com
munity, and that anything else
was a reluctant second best,
necessitated by conditions be
yond the philosopher s control.
In a ooianant and unforgetta
ble passage in Plato's "Repub
lic," Socrates dwells on the
grim situation of the philoso
pher. In order to stay alive and
to keep himself free from iniqui
ty, he Is compelled to keep
nuict and to go his own way,
removed from the fircce strug
gle for power and profit, liv
ini! a nuod life, and finally dc-
nartine nearcfully from this
world. This in itself would be
a considerable achievement, re
marks another character in the
dialogue. To this Socrates re
plies sadly, "A great work
yes; hut not the greatest, un
less he find a stnte suitable to
him; for in a state which is
suitable to him, he will have
a larger growth and be the
savior of his country. ' well
as of himself."
Plato believed that the phi
losopher's highest task was to
bring his vision to bear on the
reconstruction of society. He
himself tried to establish the
good community in Syracuse,
one of the city-states of his
time. Commenting on mis at
Syracuse. He was forced in his
old age to admit his defeat, and
to withdraw to the position of
a detached spectator. The mark
of this tragic failure is to be
found in his writings. But so
also is the vision of what it
would mean for man if the phi
losopher were ever to succeed
in his highest task. The defeated
philosopher still called for the
embodiment of the ideal in hu
man life.
Martin Buber, a venerable
sage of our own time, has con
trasted Plato's attitude toward
failure with Isaiah's and there
by revealed yet another aspect
of man's attitude toward 'suc
cess and failure. The prophet
too is obliged to call on men to
establish justice in their life
together. He pronounces the
message again and again, no
matter now crushing his failure.
a failure which has been re
vealed to him before he sets
out on his mission.
Unlike Plato's philosopher,
nowever, tne propnet is not per
mitted to withdraw to his own
meditations, far from the mad
ding crowd. Nor may he seek
a more suitable place and peo
ple. He is bound to keep prophe
sying to his own people, in the
faith that his failures and the
failures of men like him are
but steps on the road to the
great fulfillment, which will
come ultimately through the
divine power which has sent
him on his way.
A ,.7 .
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Afsop
ft) New Vork Herald Tribune Syndicate
You can win a 54-volume
set of the Great Books of the
Western World by writing a
letter, not to exceed 150
words, Incorporating a ques
tion of general interest for Dr.
Adlcr to consider for inclusion
in this column. Each week he
will select as first prize win
ners the writers of the three
best letters. He will use ONE
of these letters as a basis for
a future column and will an
swer It in terms of the in
tellectual heritage of the
Great Books 413 works by
74 authors, spanning 30 cen
turies of thought, Address the
letters to Dr. Mortimer J.
Adlcr, In care of this newspaper.
THE SHOTS IN HIS LOCKER
WASHINGTON-Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller's announcement
of his Presidential candidacy is
comically unsurprising, in the
usual manner of formal political
unveilings. But some very real
surprises are likely to follow
this announcement later on,
To begin with, there is at
least a possibility that the New
York Governor will surprise the
wiseacres, who are now so con
fidently predicting that he will
take a bad beating from Sen
Barry Goldwater in both the
crucial primaries in New Hamp
shire and California.
Gov. Rockefeller has a heavy,
admitted handicap in his remar
riage. Even so, the elaborate
advance polls of the Rockefeller
organization show that the pres
ent Goldwater lead in the two
key primary states is no greater
than the initial lead of Gov.
Averell Harriman in New York
in 1958, which Rockefeller then
overcame. In addition, Sen.
Goldwater also has a heavy
handicap, as yet unadmitted.
IN BRIEF, the Senator has
until recently been taken
quite literally at face value, as
a handsome, vital fellow around
whom Republican right-wingers
could rally with ease, only m
the last month or so has atten
tion begun to turn from the
Goldwater package to the ac
tual contents of that package.
Two successive major stirs
have thus been caused, first be
cause the Senator genially an
nounced that he would like to
sell the Tennessee Valley
Authority to private enterprise,
and then because the senator
blithely remarked that if he had
his way, U. S. field command
ers overseas would be author
ized to use nuclear warheads
whenever they saw fit.
This is, in fact, the sort ot
thing Sen. Goldwater has been
saying for years. But it sounds
different, somehow, and it has
a lot more impact now that the
Senator has come to be regard
ed as a serious Presidential
contender.
IT remains to be seen what
the full effect will be, but it
will hardly be helpful when the
Goldwater program gets equal
billing with the Goldwater per
sonalityas is sure to happen
in the end. Meanwhile, Gov.
Rockefeller also seems likely to
nave more on-tne-spot help in
the key primaries than most
people now suppose.
In California, in particular,
the fact that former Sen. Wil
liam Knowland is planning to
lead a pro-Goldwater slate of
convention delegates is already
widely advertised. But it is
probably more significant that
California's greatest Republican
vote-getter of recent years, Sen.
Thomas Kuchel, will almost cer
tainly head the pro-Rockefeller
slate.
Sen. Kuchcl's motive for
plunging into the contest if
he does so will not be a pas
sionate attachment to the Rock
efeller cause. It will instead be
a feeling that there will be very
little room for men like him
self in a Republican party that
chooses Sen. Goldwater for its
standard-bearer.
'PHIS feeling of Sen. Kuchel's,
A in turn, points to the other
surprise which the Rockefeller
candidacy is quite certain to
produce, whether or not the
Governor's showing in the pri
mary fights exceeds present expectations.
The plain truth Is that Gov.
Rockefeller is grimly determ
ined to go on to the convention,
even if he loses in both New
Hampshire and California, and
to challenge his fellow Repub
licans to say, in plain terms,
what kind of party they want.
The main vehicle of his chal
lenge will be a very strong
civil rights amendment.
Even if Rockefeller by then
has only a scattering of dele
gates outside New York, he will
still be able to count on wide
support in the big states for a
strong Republican stand on civil
rights. In Pennsylvania, for in
stance. Gov. William Scranton
is already planning to name
Sen. Hugh Scott to tne Plat
form Committee. And Scott will
surely stand four-square with
Rockefeller. Sen. Goldwater's
very different notion of a suit
able civil rights plank in the
Republican platform was set
forth in an interview in u. a.
News and World Report, in
which he advocated "a simple
statement like 'we believe in
the freedom of the individual'."
" A LL right," the Senator
"I suppose, If I were a Negro, the-words 'with liberty and
justice for all' would stick 1 my throat once in a while, too:
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
continued somewhat
tonishingly. Sen. Javits can
take that in New York and
apply it to civil rights, the
Negro question, and everything
else. I can take it and apply it
to the 'Right to Work.' I can
apply It to state s rights."
What Sen. Goldwater cannot
take, however, is the kind of
strong, specific civil rights
plank Gov. Rockefeller is de
termined to fight for to the bit'
ten end. The whole Goldwater
electoral strategy is based on
carrying the- Southern states
and ignoring the Northern
Negro voters "because we can't
get their votes anyway." Hence,
giving way to Rockefeller will
knock the Goldwater strategy
into a cocked hat.
In other .words, Rockefeller
means to corner Coldwater on
the issues, and U make him
stand up and be counted with
out benefit of charm or vital
ity. This approach may not
nominate Rockefeller, but the
possibility that it may stop
Goldwater should not be overlooked.
The U.S. Army sends another
convoy through the Soviet
checkpoint at Marienborn in the
Western edge of. Berlin and the
Russians clear the 22 men in
the convoy's ten trucks in only
20 minutes.
Informed Western sources
say that LARGER convoys will
be sent out in the next few
days to lest the Russians. The
point seems to be how many
men in how many trucks will
the Russkies let pass without
kicking up a ruckus?
IN THESE days, we can't help
thinking sadly how wonderful
it would have been if, back in
1945, we had gone ahead and
TAKEN BERLIN FIRST, in
stead of holding back and letting
the Russians take it first.
WHAT to say about it all?
Let's leave it to John
Greenleaf Whittier who a cen
tury ago told about a chance
meeting between the Judge and
Maud Muller. Maud, you will
remember, was raking the
meadows sweet with hay when
the Judge came along. The
Judge was thirsty, so Maud
dropped her rake and brought
him a drink of water from the
spring.
Long afterward the Judge,
meditating nostalgically on how
wonderful it would have been
if he and Maud had married
and lived happily ever after
ward, uttered these mourntui
words:
"Of all sad words
"Of tongue or pen, '
"The saddest are these:
"It MIGHT have been."
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
"A fY, MY," reminisced a bogus old party at a sportsmen's
J-'J- dinner. "The tigers I shot in my day in the wilds of
Africa!" "Very interesting," interrupted a disgusted listen
er, "but there don t hap
pen to be any tigers in
Africa." "Of course not,"
agreed the old party
without batting an eye
lash. "I shot them all."
A retired old banker
sauntered down the main
street of a Southern town
on a cloudless Spring; day
(porting a big umbrella.
"I'm not the eccentric you
take me for," he explained
to a young friend who had
been eyeing him suspicious
ly. "Fact is, with my arth
ritis, I need a stick to help
me walk. If I carried one, people woud pity me for becoming a
helpless old man. I prefer having them say, 'Look at that fool
with the umbrella!' "
Dr. Pullman, the society dentist, extracted a rich paUent's In
fected tooth, and sent her a bill for $25. "That's too much money,"
she protested, "for a job that took you exacUy seven minutes."
"You should have brought that point up sooner," the good doe
tor told her. "1 could have pulled the tooth mora slowly."
O 1863, by Bennett Carl Distributed by King Features Syndicate
QUESTION:
Just how ticklish Is this
present Berlin situation?
WELL, dispatches from
Washington assure us that
as yet the HOT LINE between
Washington and Moscow has
not been used. The dispatches
add that under a policy of not
talking about the "hot line"
neither the White House nor the
Pentagon will say whether the
emergency communication chan
nel has so far been called into
service, but it has been learned
authoritatively that it has not
been used in connection with the
blockade by Soviet troops of a
U.S. Army convoy en route to
Berlin.
QUESTION No. 2: '
Do you reckon that If
Kroosh had it in mind to START
SOMETHING BIG in Berlin he'd
call JFK on the hot line and
tell him what he was going to
do and listen while JFK under
took to talk him out of it?
Or would he HIT FIRST and
TALK AFTERWARD?
INTERESTING little tale in
the news:
At Tuesday's election, New
Jersey voters gave Democratic
Governor Hughes a sharp set
back, defeating decisively his
proposal for a $750 million bond
issue to finance highway con
struction and school aid and
PUT IT ON THE CUFF. He had
told the voters that if they de
feated his bond issue he'd go
to the legislature for a TAX
with which to do the job. The
voters called his bluff and told
him to bring nn his bears.
INTERESTING question:
Do you reckon the New
Jersey voters have been looking
at the fabulous sum that Uncle
has put on the cuff and came
to the conclusion that it might
be just as well for New Jersey
to pay as it goes and STAY
OUT OF DEBT?
'Rage To Live' Creating a New Italy
By ERIC
SEVAREID
(Olstrlhllted 1 56 J,
By The Hall
Syndicate, llir.)
(All nlt.hU
Reserved)
ROME This anclenl and love
ly land, like all the modernized
nations of this bewildering era,
is frenzicdly on the move but
doesn't know where it's going.
Like the unbelievable Roman
traffic, which produces the im
pression of much vitaless dolce,
Italy seems to be going in circles.
The universal symbol of mate
rial bliss, the automobile, has
ruined the serenity of the Eter
nal City, making It again as
noisy as it was in the chariol-
nnH-rnhhleslnne rhivs nf the
tempt in his letters, he said , Caesars, when Cicero and his
that if he had not engaged in1 noble friends complained that
this effort, he would have been , they couldn't get a decent sleep
ashamed ot nimseu as a man m the citv. By the end of 1964
of "nothing but words. The j uio.ooo more cars will have been
philosopher, he said, is bound ! added to this congestion and
Prostitutes line the streets,
giving pain to the old time
Socialists who had firmly be
lieved the Marxist line that vice
was the product of poverty. It
is the product ot human nature
in the presence of money; but
Freud, alas for the ideologues,
came along alter Marx.
As this is written, Italian
troop formations gather on the
outskirts of Rome for the Arm
istice Day parade. If war came
they presume they would march
though even that is uncertain
but in what direction and ex
actly why, they have no idea
They can't be expected to know
that they are in the grand at
liance, at American insistence,
for political reasons, or that for
geographical reasons their coun
try would be a military liabil
ity in war, which is why the
British didn t want them in.
to manifest what he Is In con
crete reality, in the communal
life of mrn.
Plato failed in his attempt to
establish the good society In j 1pm and gave up.
what's to be done, nobody has
the faintest idea. New York's
dashing traffic commissioner,
Mr. Barnes, looked at the prob-
states in his famous encyclical
thousands of Italian men imme
diately told their devout wives
that they could now vote Com
munist and remain faithful to
the Church; and the Communist
vote increased, thoroughly con
fusing everyone and scaring
more than a few.
Traditions are crashing, right
and left. Under 'he gn.at dome
of St. Peter's, the rank and
file if that's the expression in
the Ecumenical Council have
the bit in their teeth, and the
bureaucracy of the Curia really
is fighting a losing battle against
the renovation of the oldest con
tinuing human Institution on
earth.
And Italian politics are being
renovated, at this moment. Old
Pietro Nenni, who couldn't say
no to Toaliatti's Communists all
these post-war years, has now
decided to say yes to the bour-
The greatest industrial bcm gooisie. He wants to take his
in the north Is in its u.
year, but somehow the general
prosperity doesn't seep down to
the farms and villages in the
south, and tens of thousands of
southerners drift into Milan
every year, adding to the con
gestion, the relief problem and
the prospects for Communist
agitators precisely the story all
around Africa and Latin
America.
The late Pope John spoke ac
comodatingly of the Communist
ulking Socialist party into a
coalition government with the
Christian Democrats. At the
risk of a party split he may be
able to do it, and this just
may end up in the isolation of
the Communists, when their
hopes and strength were rising
To this reporter, who first
went to see Nenni after the Ger
mans surrendered Rome when
he huddled in an overcoat In an
unhealed room "on the Via Sis
tina, the current Nenni seems
unrecognizable in his new role.
But history has distorted his
theories of those days, Italy has
grown generally prosperous by
a different method than his, and,
after all, a politician in his twi
light years would like a taste of
office and power.
Nenni's decision to try to work
with the capitalists is the most
important development in Ital
ian politics since the narrow-
squeak defeat of the Reds in
the 1948 election, an event that
helped determine the whole
course of continental West Eu
rope, then so exhausted and em
bittered.
A s everywhere, television,
movies and the glossy maga
zines are tearing up the old
roots of life, especially in the
countryside. "Live!" say the
magazines and the screen to
the bored and the hitherto hum
ble. "Live richly, glamorously
famously" in never-never land
somewhere, but not where you
are now. The screens and the
colored pages say very little of
humility, hard work, patience
and contentment.
So the rage to live is convuls-
ne this
convulses the rest of old Eu
rope. Few prophets will dare
to say all this is bad, hut there
remains the chance that it will
all end up in race, period.
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Fight Fan
To the Editor: Beine an avid
fight fan myself, I can certainly
appreciate the feelings ex
pressed by Pat Redmond in his
letter to the Editor on Nov. 7.
Boxing news has always been
mc-e or less scarce, either over"
radio or television, especially
in this area. Now, one station
has the unmitigated gall to an
nounce the outcome of a fight
that is to be shown on a com
petitive channel at a later hour.
Usually, this Same station sel
dom bothers with non-title
fights, and gives very poor news
coverage of truly important
ones. Now suddenly, they feel
that they can attract viewers by
ruining a program on an oppos
ing station.
Like Mr. Redmond says in
his poem, "On Friday nights,
I'll stay on "10," and maybe on
the next six nights also.
G. L. Murray
P. O. Box 904
Central Point, Ore.
When Their Time Comes
To the Editor: And Lydia
Burnham, ot Prescott, Ariz.;
your letter of 11-21-63 in the
Medford Tribune.
Interesting If true. From
whence did your figures come?
How many of your atheist
friends are atheists when their
time comes?
Anyone who has had the
hlrvuQinff nf tiuina in fha aj
ancient land, as it i states, should be ashamed to
have a letter of this type pub
lished. '
James Stephen
4r,9 S. Pacific Highway
Medford.