MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MKDFDRD, OREGON
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1M3
we must keep our bodies clean.
Our bodies are God's temples.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2315 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Slaves To Hate
To the Editor: How can we
hold an entire country responsi
ble for the sinful act of one
man? By realizing that the en
tire country, the nation as a
whole is guilty!
We are guilty of allowing hate
to run rampant in our land.
We have hated the Jews, snub
bed them in every social order
from the gutters to the country
clubs; hated the Catholics, made
them objects of fear and dis
trust; haled the Negroes, kept
them bound in corners of illiter
acy, poverty and shame; hated
the right wing; hated the left
wing; hated the middle-of-the-road
people; hated the law
breakers and the law makers;
hated the Christian and the athe
ist. In this land, born of the love
of freedom, we have allowed
ourselves to become slaves to
hate.
Yes! We as a nation are guilty
of the crime of one man and
we shall pay the penalty as a
nation. Confusion, corruption,
loss of our "public image" and
loss of confidence in us by our
allies may be our payment.
Each of us will privately pay
through the pangs of conscience
and the deep sense of hurt and
loss we feel whenever we think
of the death of a brilliant, vital,
young man who led our country
as he felt it should go.
Mrs. D. L. Bandy
2417 Springbrook Ave.
Medford.
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Ludicrous To The Gods
To the Editor: Of the "forest
of question marks" left by the
assassination of President Ken
nedy (term first used by the
newspaper "Die Welt" in West
Germany), perhaps the great
est is the gangster "Ruby" Ru
benstein, who said he "killed
him" (Oswald) because he "did
not want Jacqueline Kennedy to
have to come back to Dallas to
I testify." Of the women bereaved
: by the triple tragedy of Shake
j spcarean dimensions, perhaps
, the most pitiable is the Russian
: widow, Marina.
This terrible event cannot but
hasten the denouncement that
became inevitable when this
country twice chose the wrong
path first after President
Wilson with his program for
world peace through goodwill
and disarmament and his "New
Economic Freedom;" and the
second time after President
Franklin Roosevelt who foster
ed and strived for the same
peace and the more fair dis
tribution of wealth and labor.
Perhaps should be mentioned
an earlier mistake, which oc
curred after President Lincoln
when the government decided
on a course punitive and exploi
tive against the South lor caus
ing the Civil War. Lincoln's
plans and ideas for reconstruc
tion were never known, nor put
into execution, the history books
say. The Negro was never given
a chance to develop his own civ
ilization and adjust to the world,
after his shame of slavery.
Now we have another assas
sination, very evidently from
an unbiased point of view for
the same reason as the murder
of Lincoln.
If the man Oswald was guilty
or not. the tragedy is as great,
and both murdered men and the
policeman, are martyrs. A gro
I tcsque hero is the gangster,
i peddler of vice and delinquency;
! a fact so significant it cannot
be overlooked by anyone who
has regained his senses, nor by
anv historian ot the luture.
President Wilson lies in bro
ken - hearted disgrace in h i s
grave. President Roosevelt's
program was ditched with the
coming of World War Two. And
President Lincoln is a hero of
superstitious proportions whose
ideas in regard to integration
were once published, in his own
words, in this column by this
writer. Now another President
has been martyred, who was
caught in a welter of conflicting
interests and ideologies, which
clash flamed briefly into the
flashing of three guns of de
scending calibre, till there were
three corpses where there had
been three vibrant men a
leader . a reformer and a
man sworn to perform his duty.
And three widows mourn, while
the world wonders.
But the tragedies of men are
ludicrous to the gods at whom
men stand in awe at such mo
ments, for by their erring they
bring them upon themselves.
Ralph McKinnis
P.O. Box 321
Ashland, Ore.
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God's Temples
To the Editor: The other eve
ning I read that Jackson County
had received so many dollars
as its quarterly kickback from
liquor revenue. At the time I
wondered what Jackson Coun
ty's cost was for taking care of
liquor problems? How many
broken homes, liquor caused,
have individuals on public wel
fare rolls. Frankly I believe the
individual who causes the trou
ble should be made to pay.
The attitude now is, if a
fellow is ignorant enough to get
drunk it's his own hard luck.
Yet if some cunning male se
ducer lured a local underage
girl into his clutches and
mangled her, you'd see the ire
of the local population at a
fever pitch until he was appre
hended and justice was meted
out.
Yet we foster, pamper and
coddle the greatest killer of all
time. Supermarkets disnlay the
poison as if it were perfectly
all right. Radio and T.V. extol
its merits and newspapers help
the propaganda along.
Yet with some professed
church members condoning
liquor and tobacco, how can one
expect much less?
Francis Soper, editor of Listen
Magazine, recently visited with
high Indian officials. He per
sonally told me that in India
we Americans have a very poor
name. Students from India re
turn from American colleges
with the drinking and smoking
habit. So Indian officials now
believe that this is what Chris
tianity is doing for their people.
What a blot to place on us.
Yet can we blame them?
Recently I wrote to a group of
high churchmen.
In my letter I deplored the
drinking and smoking practice
among their own clergymen.
You know what sort of reply I
received? In a free American
society it was fantastic. They
thought that I was a member
of their organization who had
gone overboard. I was told not
to read material other than
"my own church" and "there is
nothing wrong" with my pastor's
smoking habit.
I do not say this with boasting
but the pastors of the church I
attend do not smoke and do not
drink intoxicants. We believe
that our Lord is soon to return
and that in order to be ready
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Peace With Love
To the Editor: When I listened
to President John F. Kennedy's
inaugural speech over the T.V.
and he mentioned a part of the
beautiful piece of Scripture re
corded in Isaiah 58:6 to end of
Chapter, I felt he was going to
be a President that would fol
low in the footsteps of our be
loved President Abraham Lin
coln, who always recognized
God in his mission on earth to
liberate the Negro slaves and to
bind our nation together.
Who can say they were not
sent to earth like Jesus had
been, who had created this
earth with His Father for us so
that we could come here and
learn to choose the good from
the evil, and so that we could
also progress and become per
fect as our Saviour told His
Disciples shortly before he de
parted from them?
President Kennedy was to
have used in his last speech,
from Psalms 127, "Except the
Lord build the House they la
bor in vain that build it," etc.
Why cannot America find its
soul again, as in the time when
we were small and weak and a
prey for other nations and we
caused to be stamped on our
coins "In God We Trust," and
the Great seal on our folding
money (the Pyramid)?
God sent Jeremiah to earth
and ordained him a Prophet to
the nations before he was born
in Israel's time and Jesus was
sent to earth in the meridian of
time to set up his church and
kingdom with its officers, priest
hood, ordinances and laws.
Who can say God did not send
Abraham Lincoln and John F.
Kennedy to earth now in our
time to prepare the way for the
Lords prediction to his Dis
ciples the Gospel of His King
dom would again be preached
in all the world for a witness
unto all nations and then the
end of wickedness would come?
If Jesus had not scaled his
mission upon the earth with the
most terrible death that human
being could invent by the spirit
of the devil, would not his
church and teachings have been
mostly forgotten by this time?
By the untimely deaths of
Presidents Lincoln and Ken
nedy, their missions on earth
will long remain with us. The
world is slowly moving toward
the time when peace and love
will reign upon the earth.
John F. Peterson
fill S. Holly St.
Medford.
National Heart Picture
Called Discouraging
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - If
your father died of a heart at
tack and if you smoke quite a
bit and drink a lot of coffee,
the chances are a heart attack
will fell you.
That grim prediction was
made recently at a heart sym
posium here by Dr. Oglesby
Paul, chief of the division of
medicine at Passavant Memor
ial Hospital in Chicago. He
called the national heart picture
"discouraging."
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