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TMs Is Not the Answer" . Had anv of mv rhilHmn hn
in school at the time of this
tragedy, they would have been
brought home out of respect for
a great man who in my opinion
died helping the people of this
nation to live in freedom and
greatness.
We the people gave Mr. Ken
nedy the responsibility of run
ning this nation, and now that
this murder has been commit
ted the least we can is to show
the respect that he so deserved.
When a 5-year-old child can
feel the effect and cry over the
loss this country has suffered,
the least so called adults can do
is show in every way humanly
possible the respect and grief
due Mr. Kennedy.
He was one of the best Pres
idents this country has ever had
or will in the future elect.
Karen Medcalf
Route 3, Box 186-B .
Medford.
SUNDAY, NOVEMUEK 24, 1963
. To the Editor: I find it hard
not to be prejudiced when a ca
tastrophe envelopes you, your
way of life, your thoughts, your
country as a whole. To look
logically for an answer is im
possible . . . for there is no
answer.
The reasoning behind people
who cause a holocaust for pri
vate thought, gains, or hate is
beyond' our comprehension. In
sanity is the end seems to be the
only answer.
What will probably happen
next? The majority of American
people since World War II have
just sat back, have had a life
less and uninterested concept of,
"Let the other man do it." I
hope that the people of the
United States will not make this
mistake in this time of grief,
sorrow, and confusion. From
this trying experience I hope the
people will see a need for peace
of mind and of soul. It cannot
exist in its entirety in today's
world of barriers and hate. I
pray earnestly, that from this
shocking experience a love for
mankind might develop, leav
ing a world to live in.
I am not trying to be idealis
tic, forgetting the realism that
surrounds us in our daily living.
But as we look at our realistic
world we can see much need
for improvement.
Let us try as responsible hu
man beings to back our heads
of state through right, wrong,'
and the many shades of gray.
You owe your executives this
much respect. He never created
a transgression that deserved
death as a vote of thanks.
The final word is not that the
greatest sin has been commit
ted. The greatest sin may be
created by the American people
if they allow complacency to be
the answer.
Mike Hoover
2 White Oak Dr.
(Medford Senior
High School Student)
Respect
To the Editor: The Medford
school board expressed the feel
ings of a great number of peo
ple in this country. "So what?"
Race and Religion
To the Editor: Speaking of
tolerance, perhaps people would
remain composed if they real
ized that no one is one-half Jew
ish, including Barry Goldwater.
Because Judism is not a race,
but a religion, Mr. Goldwater, a
Christian, is certainly not one-
half Jewish. He may be part
Hebrew (I don't know his racial
background), although many
Jewish people are not Hebrew
This is not meant to infer that
if he were Jewish in faith, his
ability as a president would
be lessened. However, saying
someone is one-half Jewish, or
one-half anything for that mat
ter, may infer an undesirable
quality. As you previously
stated, a man should be judged
by merit, not religious affilia
tion. But just for the record, Mr,
Goldwater can not be one-half
Jewish any more than he can be
one-half Protestant or one-half
Catholic.
Cindy Anderson.
1341 Murray St.
Medford.
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Editor's note: An interesting
point, but not quite accurate.
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
defines a Jew as "any person
of the Hebrew race or whose re'
ligion is Judaism." But defini-
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
tions differ. Many Israelis do
not practice Judaism, but proud
ly claim to be Jews. On the
other hand, a Roman Catholic
priest of Jewish origins recently
was rejected when he claimed
citizenship in Israel. In popular
usage, however, the word Jew
applies to both race and re
ligion.
Status Symbol
To the Editor: Referring to
Mr. Schiffman's talk on the fu
neral business, I wonder about
the statement "Costs of contem
porary funerals and burials co
incide with the deceased's sta
tion in life."
Evidently the American way
of death is to present ourselves
to our Lord and Creator as a
status symbol, which prevails as
an integral part of the American
way of life.
Julia M. Smith.
21S N. Columbus Ave.
Medford.
Guidance Clinic
To the Editor: This is written
to show my gratitude for the
help given to me with my emr
tional problems by the "Family
& Child Guidance Clinic of
Jackson County."
Unable to keep my job due
to anxiety, and having no physi
cal problems other than those
caused by my emotional upsets,
my doctor arranged an appoint
ment for me with a Social Work
er at the Guidance Clinic. It
was a difficult step for me to
take. This was in July and
now in November, I feel ready
to return to work shortly.
I was amazed when I learned
there was no charge for me be
cause I am unemployed. You
pay according to your income,
You may continue to go until
you are well. It might take two
weeks or two years.
I hope that if any of you have
an emotional or mental prob
lem, you will not hesitate to
seek their services. They pub
lish a very fine pamphlet ex
plaining the clinic. You may
pick this up at their office in
the Third Floor, Courthouse An
nex. It is free.
Many people do not know
about this fine service our val
ley has to offer. The staff con
sists of Dr. Erin Merkel, clini
cal administrator, a psychia
trist, a psychologist, and three
social workers. The board of
directors consists of 21 and
there are eight oh the Technical
Advisory Board.
This non-profit organization is
financed by the state, Jackson
county, United Medford Cru
sade, membership fees and pri
vate donations. It deserves all
the praise and support, finan
cial or otherwise, Jackson Coun-
can give it. Believe me,
know. I speak from experience,
(Name on File),
Medford .
Closure Disliked
To the Editor: The Oregon
State Game Commission's in
tention to close the Rogue River
to spring salmon fishing above
Elk Creek has come to my
attention.
Trout season opens a month
late so the young salmon can
return to the ocean. Since this
is the only solution to the salm
on migration this is of a neces
sity. But. to close the upper
Rogue, when the entire length
is involved, and to state that
this is for "resting pools", when
snagging is the major factor,
is like closing all the highways
because of a few traffic viola
tors.
For years I have stood shoul
der to shoulder with the snag
gers and have watched them in
action. Proper fishing gear will
eliminate them completely.
Snaggers' best gear is the larg
est legal treble hook, needle
sharp, . with nothing but yarn
on it. Eliminate the treble hook,
make single hooks or the small
treble hooks the only legal gear,
and you eliminate the snagger,
above and below Elk Creek.
I have fished Rogue River for
salmon for the past 33 years
and use small triple-strength
treble hooks, preferably a No.
2 with proper size drifters or
spoons, and have fished day
after day above Elk Creek with
out snagging a single salmon.
I, personally, think this type
of legislation, closing of the
Rogue River above Elk Creek,
to eliminate a given problem, is
a direct and clear vision of the
Game Commission concern for
the sportsman. Somewhere I
once read electricity iouows
the path of least resistance."
Monroe McGonagle,
1417 S. Whitman St.,
Medford
P.S. A copy of this letter has
been forwarded to the Game
Commission.
A Good Poem Celebrates Life
A good poem celebrates life and quickens us to it. Not only
to the mysteries but to the commonplace, which it makes both
mysterious and precise, and both at once. The good poet cannot
fail to shame us . . . through our senses by awakening us to a
new awareness of the peaks and abysses locked in every com
monplace thing. John Ciardi, in Saturday Review, 323.63.
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How To Make A Poem
Just take a bit of inspiration;
Embellish H with rime;
Lace with lilting, lofty phrases;
Let season for a time.
Now, add a dash of ecstacy;
With metaphor adorn.
If artfully you blend it all.
A poem will be born.
Malcolm L. Melville
The Manor, Medford
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Poetry Primer, Gerald Sanders; First Principles of Verse,
Robert BUlyer; and How to Revise Your Own Poems, Ann.
Hamilton. AEJ.
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In Present Dark, for Future Need: A Sonnet Sequence
- Sonnet II
To dream and work within the shadows of
The dreamers and the masters of the past,
Is like the wish to love, yet not to love;
Or hiding in the shade until the last '
Of wanted sun has set and darkness fills
The world and weary mind. It may be late,
But surely when tomorrow flames the hills
A renaissance can come; destroy the fate
Of those who struggle needlessly. To hold
A steadfast faith and build upon the past,
In present dark, for future need, is gold
That will not buy redemption but will last.
And so we travel on in search of light.
To lift our minds from history's endless night.
Lloyd B. Halverson
Medford
' 'Begun 1117,' to be continued in four further instalments,
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Speak Not To Me . '. . '
Speak not to me of gilded banquet hall
Where wealth and beauty grace the glifring board,
Where glint of gems on snowy bosoms call
A challenge to the gleam of radiant wine,
Where softened music like a pleasant dream
Steals on the sated ear in strains divine;
But kindly spread my banquet 'neath the trees,
With tried and kindred spirits clustered 'round,
Where wealth of intellect and grace of soul
And trusted friendship ever may be found.
Richard Posey Campbell
From "Dick Posey's" "A Daushter of the Roium." A
Tale of the Rncue River Valley, published 1919 in Ashland.
Courtesy of Alice Appleiate Pell, Th. Manor, Medford.
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"That Which Goes Up . . ."
Today I baked a cake
Which at first rose as if on '
the incandescent wings of Hope!
A gust of wind rammed my tower.
My cake suffered a traumatic shock
And sank
Like the leaden anchor
Of Despair.
Rodney A. Badger
Gold Hill, Or.
Written while a lookout on Huckleberry Mountain In
eastern Oreton. comments the author: "The very title reveals
the gravitational forces wblrh are In direct opposition to aoy
elevated position and hints of the possible fate of anythlnr or
anvone whlrh seeks to rise above his natural position. (Hut)
hco t wrote the piece. 1 merely (had In mind) 'a requiem
tor a lost chocolate layer cake'."
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assertions of nonsense -about
race" that appear to pass as
facts" among the uneducated
and prejudiced. You will find
in Adolph's pages all the current
arguments" against the Negro
(as well as against white non-
"Aryans ) that have for years
been trotted out by anti-Negro
southerners (or Northerners).
In 1942, M. F. Ashley Montagu
of the Department of Anatomy,
Hahnemann Medical College
and Hospital, Philadelphia, pub
lished his "Man's Most Danger
ous Myth: The Fallacy of
Race," summarizing the find
ings of science on the subject of
"race". He stated that all but
a few individuals take it for
granted that scientists have es
tablished the "facts" about
"race" and that they have long
ago recognized and classified
the "races" of mankind.
Dr. Ashley Montagu con
cludes: "... There are no
superior or inferior groups by
birth. If there are any inborn
mental differences associated
with the physical differences
which distinguish different eth
nic groups, then science has
been unable to discover them.
Physical differences are pure
ly external and are only super
ficially associated with cultural
differences existing or imputed.
Yet these external differences
provide a convenient peg upon
which to hang all sorts of imag
ined internal differences, moral,
intellectual, mental and emo
tional. In this way physical dif
ferences become the basis for
social discrimination and the
creation of social inequal
ities ..."
And Jean Finot concluded his
scholarly work, "Race Pre
judice," first published in 1905,
with the statement that the dif
ferences among men are only
individual, and that true solidar
ity and equality arise and are
founded on "a rational senti
ment of respect for human dig
nity." K. Osthimer
(Former Medfordlte)
Route 1, Box 12
. Pennsvllle, Ohio
Facts and Fancies
To the Editor: Anna Streed's
solicitude (117) for my well
being was much appreciated
and is warmly reciprocated.
However, her new recital of
"facts" to prove General Eisen
hower a "traitor" is no more
reliable than her earlier absurd
ities. Moreover, when she pleads
for my tolerance of others' opin
ions she only compounds her
confusion. Opinions, facts and
truth are not necessarily syn
onymous; indeed, opinions often
are totally devoid of fact or
truth.
I have written much here and
elsewhere in defense of freedom
of expression even if reading a
lot of arrant nonsense parading
as opinion is disagreeable, at
times even nauseous. But
"facts" which are obvious fab
rications and "truth" which
proves falsehood I not only can
not abide, but must expose and
disprove, wherever found.
By quoting from the Congres
sional Record, Miss Streed pre
sumably seeks to establish the
authority of and respect for her
sources. I would remind her
that the mere fact of publication
in the Record by no means
authenticates anything. Not only
are many utterances of mem
bers of Congress, mere piffle
and twaddle sometimes even
clear perversions of the truth
but as Miss Streed should
know, the "distinguished mem
bers" often obtain consent to in
sert in the Record extraneous
matter never before seen or
heard in the halls of Congress
("there being no objection"
from other members to such In
sertion). I repeat that Eisenhower not
only never "returned 2,000,000
men, women and children to
Russia to torture, slave labor
camps and death" but, on the
contrary, he proclaimed Amer
ican policy that no displaced
persons were to be repatriated
against their will as I proved
(1110) by quoting from my
reports as YMCA-UNRRA of
ficial in Germany, 1945-46.
Most DPs having been forced
workers or prisoners of war in
Germany, their fondest hope
and first aim after liberation
by Allied forces naturally was to
return to their homelands and
families as soon as they could.
It was Allied policy to lend
them every assistance possible.
Altogether, out of more than
8,000,000 DPS over 7,000,000
were repatriated. Significantly,
out of 2,288,300 citizens of the
USSR, 160,300 chose not to re
turn. Similarly, out of 1,232,700
Poles, as many as 358,200 re
mained in Germany to await op
portunities for resettlement in
other countries.
Miss Streed may believe the
fables she reatU, and that is
her privilege. I prefer to stick
to historical facts, especially
when I was an eye-witness to,
them or even helped establish
them.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
No Added Taxes
To the Editor: Mr. Murray's
statement that some tactics
used to discourage negative
votes have confused voters
(M.T. 11-15) is an understate
ment. Over 9,000 Jackson Coun
ty recistration cards were for
feited last year. Doesn't this in
dicate that too many voters
have become so discouraged
they have given up? We also
have a large number of poten
tial voters who have never reg
istered because they felt their
vote didn't count or that they
were not intelligent enough to
vote. One contributing factor
could be that it seems even the
members of our Legislature
have forgotten they are paid
representatives, not rulers, ot
the people, and that it is their
duty to consider the will of the
people in their legislation.
Aren't we a bit premature in
arguing about what a proposed
sales tax would do? What can
we hone to gain bv naving one
tax from one side ot tne
pocket to save what is in the
other side? I think those who
read the statement to the In
terim Tax Committee, by for
mer state representative George
Annala (M.T. 10-27) as to the
inadequacy of the Senate's 3 per
cent sales tax bill, know it could
never have been anything but
an additional tax.
We should be concerned with
the problem of cutting non es
sential services from all tax
supported budgets. We have the
old rule that a state, as a form
of government, should only pro
vide for the people sucn serv
ices as they cannot better pro
vide for themselves, to guide
us. It could be, though, that
the Legislature does not have
control over all budgets. If my
memory doesn't fall me, just a
few years ago one of our rep
resentatives told members of
the Portland press that the self
supporting boards, bureaus and
commissions should be allowed
to set their own policies and
rates, as the Legislature was
wasting too much valuable time
regulating them. However that
is the task we nave piacea in
the hands of the Ways and
Means Committee.
Let's not confuse them with
talk of additional taxes, but
let's concern ourselves with the
problem of convincing every
adult taxpayer that the right to
citizen participation in the law
making procedure Is worth
fighting for. To paraphrase an
old song "If everyone marked
iust one little ballot, what a
wonderful change there would
be."
Mrs. Verna Flowers
355 Berrydale Ave.
Medford
Three Reasons
To the Editor: In regard to
the proposed closure of the
Rogue River to salmon fishing
above the mouth of Elk creelc:
There are three good reasons
for. writing this letter. First, I
like to catch and eat what to me
Is the best fish to eat there is.
Second, we have some very
good friends in the motel busi
ness. And third, my complete
disgust of and my lack of confi
dence in the way the Game
Commission has conducted its
so-called fish and game pro
grams. What will those "arm
chair" fish and game counters
think up next?
The closure of this part of the
river to salmon fishing will be
a terrible blow to the motel
owners and the river guides.
These good people look to the
sports fishermen for the major
part of their income for the en
tire year. How many fishermen
will stay along tbis part of the
river, lust to eaten a tew lousy
tame hatchery trout? Very few.
They will go over to the coast to
spend monev and time. The mo
tel and guiding business is a
tough way to make a living at
best and with salmon out of the
picture, they face a rather ma
jor calamity.
Now as to the third reason.
From here it looks like this clos
ure to salmon fishing is an out
and out admission by the Fish
and Game Commission that tncy
cannot cone with the problem
of enforcing the fishing regula
tions. It is an admission tnat tne
state police have been unable
to enforce these laws. Ana nere
is a Question. Do the state police
want this job anyway? Haven't
they got enough to ao in just
performing their other many
duties? And the "snaggers"
have had many a good chuckle.
The police warden might as well
go along ringing a loud cow-bell
or use a loud-speaker saying
"Look out boys. Here comes
John Law."
So. the Commission would like
to take the easy way out. We
will just close this part of the
river. This will make enforce
ment very simple and at the
same timu we will give the
"snaesers" a good sound spank
ine for their many misdoings.
What this will do to good honest
fishermen and many others at-
fected by this closure is out of
our department.
Hope all you guys and gals
signed that petition of your
good friend Lewis Clevenberg
and sent it in. If not, please do
so, pronto.
Bill Brewster,
Route 1, Box 550
- Trail. Ore.
Peculiar Creature
To the Editor: It may be said
that man is a peculiar creature
who lays claim to a spiritual
nature, often in a most ma
terialistic manner. We may see
this peculiarity at work espec
ially in tne American sown ana
in connection with the Negro
people in our democratic na
tion.
Spiritually, men claim to be
products of a Divine Spirit; yet,
even concerning tneir icuow
man who is black, some men
seem to reveal a Satanic and
rather materialistic belief in
some supposed "white superior
ity". For them, Scripture must
read: "Suffer little WHITE
children to come unto me."
Perhaps the most "classical"
example of race .hatred being
sown by an Ignoramus was
Adolph Hitler in his "Mein
Kamuf." From the odds and
ends of certain mental garbage
pits, he gathered and exhibited
the uninhibited, unintellectual
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