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rOTJKMTDrORD (OREGON) MedfobdJTribune "Iverybody In Southern Ortgon Reeds Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Tir St. Phone a-14I onnnT mt ittwt. Eriitnp HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot Marcn J. iobi ctTDoroiPTtflN RATES auwvi." " By Mail In Advance: Per copy JOc. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dailv and Sunday One month la Carrier and Dealers 3c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official- Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County imh Preffi-Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU T I . . n -.nM,.iirA WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. ChieaK- De troit. San Francisco Los Angelei. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATION At LD,TrPB!1 ASSOCtATHO-N ZJ NIWtPAFll PUUSHI' ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 22, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Eagle Point Grange plans me morial for World War II service men at Eagle Point. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Geologists report the Pacific Ocean is wear ing away parts of the Oregon coast at the rate of a city block a year. It is thought everybody will be able to get to the top of a mountain in time. 20 YEARS AGO Mey 22. 1935 (It was Wednesday) Rogue Valley musicians form Southern Oregon band for pur pose of giving concerts at public events. County court continues year old policy of oiling roads in front of rural residences if resident furnishes oil. 30 YEARS AGO May 22, 1925 (It was Friday) Medford water commission employes Engineer F. C. Dillard to survey city's present and fu ture water supply. Inspection of Jackson county automobile camps for sanitary purposes being conducted to comply with recently passed state law. 40 YEARS AGO May 22, 1915 (It was Saturday) Hot lava from Lassen peak near Redding, Calif., melts snow jfter eruption. Hundreds . of tourists visit Jtogue valley returning from San Francisco exposition. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Rcpert 1. The now sovereign republic of Germany is larger or smaller than East Germany under Red rule, or about the same size? 2. Most epilepsy can now be controlled by drugs and chemi cals; right or wrong? 3. Tuition fees at state univer sities average, over the whole U.S., less than $150 a year, about $200, $250 or $300, or over $300? 4. Sen. Bricker (R.-Ohio) was once or never was Republican nominee for Vice-President? 5. Notre Dame university is in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio or Wisconsin? 6. New York does or doesn't allow absolute divorce on more grounds than most other states do? 7. A cretin is a material for draperies, congenital idiot, top of a volcano, or native of Crete? The Answers: 1. Much larger. 2. Right. 3. About $250. 4. Was (in 1944). 5. Indiana. 6. Doesn't (only for adultery). 7. Congeni tal idiot. Former Business Agent Of Union Sentenced Bend (U.PJ Jack E. Cham bers, former secretary-treasurer and business agent of the Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica local in Bend, has been sen tenced to a term of not more than two years in the Oregon state penitentiary. Chambers pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $7288 in union funds. MAIL TRIBUNE Getting Wise to Secretary McKay When the Portland Oregonian becomes skeptical of Secretary of the Interior McKay and his power policies, that is NEWS. For our worthy metropolitan daily has always been strong for "Mac," but now is not only confused by the conflict of policies in his department, but is waxing critical when it declares "the public can not be blamed if it gets the impression that the interior department, under former Governor McKays direc tion, uses one set of policies for one project, and an other set for others." TTHE Mail Tribune has been critical of the McKay " policies on public power and particularly Hells Canyon for some time, but this is the first time we have noted any serious dissatisfaction from the Ore gonian, which is such a staunch and unswerving sup porter of nearly everything with a Republican label. The confusion and criticism however are war ranted. And as time goes on it will become clearer and clearer, we believe, that Secretary McKay's adminis tration of the U. S. Interior Department, not only re garding power development but conservation, has been the most reactionary, and hostile to the princi ples of promoting the general welfare, since the days of Boise Penrose and Boss Hanna. "FHE Oregonian, however, Is not the only metropoli- tannewspaper strongly supporting President Ei senhower, which has at long last awakened to the fact that all may not be well in the Department of the In terior under the McKay administration. "The Christian Science Monitor" in its issue of May 13th announces that photostatic copies of a hith erto unpublished letter from the files of the Interior Department, "indicate" that officials of the depart ment solicited and then followed the recommenda tions of the big private utilities as to changes in its own power policies. In another letter marked "confidential" a certain private utility made 13 recommendations to the de partment regarding what should be done regarding the public versus private power issue, and 10 of them, says the "Monitor," were "followed verbatim." These changes, continues the "Monitor" and one of the best and most objective NEWS papers in the country incidentally were made "with the mini mum of publicity and without consulting other inte rested parties in the federal power system, such as farm cooperatives and individual localities buying and distributing government produced power." ")NE of the most controversial of the changes was recommended by the Pacific Gas and Electric company of Portland, according to the "Monitor." This action reversed both a court ruling and the Inter ior Department's established policy of what is known as "wheeling" which means in brief to allow a joint use of power lines, public and private, to avoid du plication reduce expenses thus reducing costs to the consumer. The Pacific Gas & Electric company did not like this arrangement so on its recommendations the prac tice was discontinued and as the "Monitor" con cludes : quote, "This received no publicity at the time other than publication in the little-read Federal Reg ister!" If this move wTas proper and above board why all the secrecy? The paper thereupon quotes C. Girard Davidson former assistant Secy, of the Interior as charging Sec retary McKay as follows quote: "His policies relinquish valuable rights of the govern ment, make the sale of government power more difficult and costly, tend to permit the monopolization of govern ment power by limited groups, and it is definitely contrary to the public interest." , rURING the last congressional campaign the at- tacks on Secretary of the Interior McKay and his extreme pro-private power policies, were generally discounted by many voters as purely political with no true basis in fact. When newspapers, however, like the Christian Science Monitor and the Oregonian both strongly Re publican, agree , that "something is wrong" one thing is certain, Secretary McKay may or may not be as bad as he is painted by the political op position, but criticisms of him and his administration of the Interior Department can no longer be dismissed as merely "playing politics." The charges are clear, definite and from Republi can sources, the sooner they are met and answered satisfactorily the better for him, his department, and his party. R.W.R. Tyranny of 'They9 We wishlo quote on a pertinent subject a United States senator, a letter from a reader, and ourselves. Says Senator Richard L., Neuberger, writing in the magazine Railway Progress: I happen to be a nondrinker. I just don't like it. I'm not a prohibitionist but I am a teetotaler. If I mention this at a party when tendered a highball I'm invariably amazed by the number of others around me who seem to take courage and add, "I'd like tomato juice, too. I'm likewise a nondrinker." But if I had not mentioned the matter first I am sure they would have kept silent and toyed bravely with Bourbon and soda. In a letter reprinted on this page a few days ago one of our readers in Chicago writes : Six of us . . . were sitting near the outdoor dance floor of one of the hotels. When the native bar attendant ap proached our. table all but one ordered beer or martinis. But when they learned, through my order, that the bar could, and with some reluctance would, serve limeade, all but one changed his order. And as long as five years ago we observed editorially: Sunday. May 22, 1955 Matter of Fact REPORT TO A PARTNER (NOTE: Joseph Alsop has just returned from six months in the Far East. What follows is excerpted from an informal memorandum by his partner, Stewart Alsop, bringing him up to dale on the Washing ton scene. Washington Since you left, domestic politics has been sound ing more and more like a cracked phonograph record. Over and over again, the oracles ask the same three questions: Will Ike run? Will Adlal run? Will Ike beat Adlai? And over and over again, the oracles answer t h e m s elves: Yes. Yes. Yes. Stewart Alsop This performance tends to a cer tain monotony. So does the performance on Capitol Hill. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson is no doubt the most thoroughly professional Congressional leader of our times. But that's just the trouble. He slips- legislation through so quickly and quietly that nobody notices, or even cares very much. There has not been a single good loud roar since this session began. Sometimes one can't help feeling a certain nostalgia for the late Joseph R. McCarthy. Mc Carthy, incidentally, is so sunk without trace that its hard to believe that he Was dominating the headlines when you left for abroad. BUT the dizzying chopping and churnings on the foreign front have more than made up for the dullness at home, that is if you prefer vertigo to tedium. If you had come straight back from Formosa about five or six weeks ago, you would have found the country in the grips of a tre mendous war scare. It was only about that long ago that Admiral Carney was talking about "war by April 15" and he was mere ly voicing the most widely held official view, and had the bad luck to be unfairly used by our profession. Now the Far Eastern crisis, which you covered so ably, has suddenly disappeared from view, rather the way McCarthy has. Presumably it is still there, "as presumably McCarthy is. But as in his case, it is considered tactless to mention its existence. When Chou En-lai rather con descendingly remarked that he was willing to talk to us, and the President and Secretary Dulles (after some pretty confus ion) replied that we were will ing to talk too, everybody sighed with relief and said, "Well, that's over." It isn't really over at all, of course, as I suspect you may point out, in your tactless way. But all concerned seemed to have agreed that the best policy for dealing with the Asia crisis is simply to pretend that it isn't there any more. If there is any other policy, I have been unable to find out what it is. MOW the talk is all of peace in our time. The almost in stantaneous transition from war scare to peace talk has been a really amazing phenomenon. At first, after the Russians signed the Austrian treaty and agreed to the meetingvat the summit, alj concerned were very cautious. From the President and Mr. Dulles on down, there were many warnings against expecting miracles. But now small, irre pressible, hopeful noises have begun emerging from the Warn ers themselves, as from children at Christmas time who pretend to be too grown up to believe in Santa Claus, but really do all the same. Of course there may actually be a Santa Claus, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. You will find men whose opinions you respect speculating seriously that the Soviets may be genuinely anx ious to make a European settle ment which the Western powers could accept. The Russians have certainly been acting in a surprising way. The surprises range from the big surprise of the Austrian treaty to the very small surprise of a Russian visa for myself, only a few weeks after we had been denounced as warmongers in Pravda." BUT the Russians also sprang another surprise, with the overflying of Moscow before and after May Day. This could well be the most significant single event that has occurred since you left. As usual these days, the Pentagon tried hard to muffle and play down the meaning of the event (remember Operation Candor?). But the essential facts have come out, and their mean ing is plain. The Soviets have a fully mature and remarkably well equipped all-weather air de fense system. And they have a "They all do" . . . Perhaps the greatest single obstacle in the way of getting the evils of liquor under control is custom a vast inertia made up of tacit acceptance that -"that's" the way it is." . . . Customs are both cause and -effect. They are self-perpetuating only so long as the ma jority bend the knee to the tyranny of "they." The junior senator from Oregon and our sub scriber in Chicago apparently have discovered this truth for themselves. Christian Science Monitor. By Stewart Alsop rapidly maturing strategic jet air force, with tankers for air re fuelling, so that Soviet jets can now unquestionably bomb tar gets in this country, and return to base. The Moscow overflights knocked into a cocked hat all our defense plans Secretary of Defense Wilson himself, you remember, was saying only a year ago that Soviet war pre parations were wholly defen sive. But again, it is considered somehow unsporting to mention such things. I WAS in the Senate gallery the other day when Syming ton of Missouri made a short but cogent speech pointing out that we "may have lost control of the air," and calling for a re port by the President on the meaning of the Moscow over flights. He might just as well have been baying at the moon, or extolling the virtues of North Dakota, like old Sen. Langer, who got the floor after him amid a babble of general indifference. It is much more popular, these days, to believe-in Santa Claus. Cheaper too, of course. Anyway, welcome home. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis lible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Approves Church Plan To the Editor: As pastor of the Temple Baptist church, 794 Lo zier lane, which is cooperating with the Southern Baptist Con vention, I wish to give my word of approval to the Presbyterians for the work they are about to do in the establishing of a new church in Medford. I believe the establishing of more churches and Sunday schools puts more people to work for the Lord and thus will reach more people for Christ. Two individuals can do more than one individual. In the same way, two churches can do more than one church in a locality. Reaching people for Christ is the thing people should be in terested in, rather than building a name for themselves, and their own congregations. I am sure that the establishment of a new Presbyterian church in Medford will not draw from nor diminish in size nor prevent the growth of any other congregation in town, even though it be across the street or across town. But it would be the means of reaching many others for Christ that would not otherwise be reached. This is a proven fact. One has only to examine records of simi lar occurrences to know this truth. I do not believe that the Pres byterians preach Christ in a "Contentious" (Competitive) nor "Pretentious" way. But even if I felt they did, I should say along with the Apostle Paul in Phillipians 1:15-18: "Some preach Christ even of envy and strife ... of contention . . .But the other of love . . . What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether In pretense or in Truth, Christ is preached, I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice!" To in any way prevent the Presbyterians from establishing another church would not only keep people from being reached for Christ that might not other wise be reached, but would be suppressing the "Freedom of Evangelism" which is the. "Free dom of Speech". It would also be hindering the "freedom of worship" to people who worship the Presbyterian way. Floyd H. Yeats 794 Lozier Lane "Down the Centuries" To the Editor: How well we remember before turn of the century in a small mid-western hamlet while yet a youngster, we took our first train ride, a distance of 25 miles on a North ern Pacific branch line road. (Like the friendly Southern Pa cific here), they only ran one passenger round trip each day. Our greatest delight to see was an electric lighted "small city," a water-power grist mill and also a small coal mine in operation. After a full day sight seeing and bustle and activity of being temporarily "in another world," we probably slept through our trip back to the old familiar community of the wide open spaces, for we still remem ber when we had to change rail tracks about 12 miles away from the main line on a turn table. It was then the age of the iron horse, today the air age seems to hold first place instead. In a scientific sense, a God from a clod emerged down the cen turies in a changing world. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardraan, Medford. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS If you read your newspaper and listen to your radio, you are aware of the fact that the world is full of trouble. The list of the world's troubles is too long to be gone into in detail here, but let's cite a FUNDAMENTAL trouble: Everybody in the world wants peace, but we can't have peace because the free countries and the Communist countries CAN'T FIND A WAY TO GET ALONG WITH EACH OTHER. When you come right down to it, most of our troubles in this world arise out of the fact that people can't find a way to get along with each other. THE immediate trouble of the moment is a strike against three big long-distance trucking firms in the Far West Con solidated Freightways, Pacific Motor Trucking and Pacific In termountain Express. The dispatches tell us that if the shutdown spreads through out the industry it will affect some 100,000 teamsters in 11 western states and will curtail trucking as far east as Chicago and Kansas City. They add that the effect of the tie-up is not expected to be felt in the larger cities for several days because of stockpiles of goods in the big ger centers, but that smaller com munities will be hit almost im mediately. NEWSPAPERS will be among the first to be affected. In the Far West, newsprint production and consumption are so nearly balanced that the news papers have been taking the paper from the mills as rapidly as it comes off the paper ma chines. Under these circum stances, it has been impossible to build up an adequate backlog. Over recent years, as a result of competitive conditions in the transportation industry, much of the newsprint hauling has been shifted from the railroads to the trucks. Now all newspapers that have been" receiving their paper by truck are rushing to get shipment by rail. As a result, there aren't enough railroad cars to go around. So. the size of newspapers especially in the smaller com munities, may have to be limited sharply. nPHE newspaper, of course, is -- only one of many industries Its situation is no worse than anybody else's. In these days, ALL business depends upon transportation. When transpor tation is interrupted, everybody suffers. WHO is at fault? What shall we do about it? Frankly, I don't know the an swer to either question. I doubt if anybody does. T ET'S put it this way: We are all citizens of this great country. According to the immortal principle laid down in our Declaration of Independence, "all men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness." That statement, which is one of the fundamentals of the Amer ican way of life, doesn't apply just to employers. It doesn't ap ply just to employees. It ap plies to ALL of us. SOMEHOW we're going to have to find a way to get along with each other. Or We are going to be in for a lot of trouble "for a long time. Armed Bandits Take $90,000 From Bank Jacksonville, Ala. (U.R) Two armed bandits robbed the First National bank of $90,000 Friday, forcing the vice-president to open the bank while two con federates held the officer's wife and two small children hostage at their home. The FBI said the carefully planned robbery was staged aft er the gunmen went to the home of Jesse N. .Wood, assistant vice president and cashier of the bank, and forced him to accom pany two of them to the bank before it opened this morning. Two other gunmen were left at Wood's home where they held Mrs. Wood and the couple's two small children at gunpoint as hostages, pending success of the holdup. Bigger Air Force May Be Needed, Twining Says Los Angeles (U.R) Gen. Nathan F. Twining has strong ly hinted that new Soviet air power gains may force the Uni ted States to build a bigger Air Force to maintain its lead over Russia. The air chief of staff also scorned the idea of a nuclear "stalemate" with Russia. And he asserted that there is not yet any "reliable way" to bring about disarmament. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has signed into law House bill 727 appropriating $415,000 for completion of cell block "A" at the state penitentiary. POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The guy that writes headlines on local stories in The Mail Tribune owes an apology to the Medford Hoi ice Department. Why? Well, a Page 1 headline in Friday's paper said: Threat of Bombing Here Thought To Be Hoax by City Police This is to go on record with the full belief that the incident was NOT a "hoax by city po lice," but by somebody else. The police, as a matter of fact, were johnny-on-the-spot in inspecting the building after the call came in. 'Scuse us, -fellers. A small french poodle came to visit the newsroom Satur day, and cavorted around on the floor, in the captivating way of immature canines. The puppy, unlike some pups we've seen, left no puddles. Staff member, after the dog had left, complained that she didn't really believe that it was a FRENCH poodle. Why? she was asked. Her reply: "No Oui. oui." Those of us in this screwy newspaper business ase acutely aware of the possibility of mis representation in presenting the news. The siUy error mentioned at the head of this column is just an example of what can happen, all too easily. That is why we often take criticism seriously, and often, long after a critic has forgotten what he was griping about, keep thinking about some item which was criticized. One such occurred last week when a telephone caller accused the M-T of misrepresentation in a Page 1 headline, the one that said "President Vetoes Pay Hike for Postal Workers." It was overplayed, he said, and didn't give Ike due credit for having supported a lesser in crease for postal employees. He was pretty burned up about it, actually, and indicated he thought the headline was written the way it was with political motivation. To make it still more aggrevating, he refused to tell his name. We thought at the time the headline was OK. But because of the call we took the trouble to find out how the same story had been handled in other pa pers. The "play" given the story varied from paper to paper, but as far as we could determine this was because of how the in dividual headline writer felt about the importance of the story not because of political inclinations. The Mail Tribune gave the story a head with inch-high let ters, eight columns across the top of the page. The Grants Pass Daily Courier (nominally Independent but mostly conservative Republican) used a similar size of type, "Pres ident Vetoes Postal Pay Boost," in six columns. ' Today and By Walter TUESDAY'S SHOW Watching the performance which was put on at the White House on Tuesday evening it was painfully evi dent that tele vision plus p rof essional stage manage ment is not n e c e s s arily what it pro fesses to be a new and bet ter way of in forming peo Walter Lippmann ple, of letting them see and hear directly and at first hand what their officials are really like and what their officials are really thinking. These stage-managed shows with props made out of the House furniture, with live officials reciting or reading the script, are not a new and ad vanced form of journalism and true reporting. They are fiction and theater meant to give the illusion that they are true re porting. This is by way of saying that the picture painted by Secretary Dulles of the great movement of things in the world today was true only as far as it went, which was not very far. He painted a picture of the Soviet Union re ceding because of the unity and strength of the Western Nations. This dramatic and attractive pic ture leaves out one of the great and determining developments of our time namely, the in creasing tendency of the smaller, most vulnerable nations- to pull away from the- military orbits of both of the two great atomic powers. llfHAT Mr. Dulles talked about was at best only half the truth. The other half of the truth is that with their new pol icy the Soviets are riding a wave of the future with good pros pects, if we do not look out, of attracting wide popular support in Europe and in Asia. There was not even a hint of these developments in the Tues day show and that was, it seems to me, disturbing. For if in the coming encounter with Moscow The Portland Oregonian (con servative Independent - Republi can) used type almost as large, seven columns wide, "President Vetoes Postal Pay Increase Bill." The Oregon Journal (generally conservative Independent) used a one-column head -at the top of the page, "Ike Vetoes Postal Pay Hike Bill." (In earlier editions, the Journal used a banner on the story.) The Roseburg News-Review (con servative Independent-Re publican) also used an eight col umn banner, in inch-high type, "Eisenhower Vetoes Postal Pay Bill." The Ashland Tidings (Repub lican) used a one-column head, top of page, "Ike Vetoes Postal Pay Hike Bill." The Daily News-Register, Mc Minnville (Independent-Republican), used a two-column head near the top of the page. The Coos Bay Times (Inde pendent, with strong liberal leanings) used a three column head, moderate sized type, "Postman's Pay Increase is Vetoed by President for the Sec ond Time." We found no newspaper whera it did not merit important, page one play. The point to be made, if any, would seem to be that the story was felt to be a relatively im portant one, although some pa pers (not following any political pattern) felt it to be more im portant than others. And such are the things we worry about!! Noticed through an open door last week: A man Indus triously sweeping a long flight of stairs while a black cat walked back and forth across his shoulders and draped , It self around his neck. Teamsters Lose in Bargaining Attempt Ontario, Ore. (U.R) AFL Teamsters' local 900 of Pendle ton has been defeated in its attempt to secure bargaining rights, for employees of Oregon Frozen Foods .Company here. A National Labor Relations Board spokesman Saturday said the union's bid was defeated by a vote of 158-75, with 39 votes contested by the NLRB. Ballots had been impounded by the NLRB following the elec tion several weeks ago. Still to be decided in the year old dispute between union and management groups was a union protest against the election. The union charged the company with "flagrant violation" of election procedure. If the NLRB overrides the pro test, the union would be pro hibited from attempts to organ ize employees at the plant for another year. Tomorrow Lippmann and Peiping our own public opinion is crystallized on the half truth which was Mr. Dulles' theme, the Administration will not have the kind of informed support in Congress and among the people which it will need to have. VHE shall be under-estimating " the force of the new Soviet policy if we assume that it is merely a retreat made necessary by economic trouble at home and by failure of the old policy. The essentially new thing about the new policy is that it rests on a new appraisal of a worldwide tide of popular feeling, and that it is shrewdly designed to make the Soviet Union stand forth as the champion of what the peo ples want. We can, I think, understand better the inwardness of the new policy if we remind ourselves how in Asia the Soviet Union managed to identify its own in terests with the popular demand for national independence and for the liquidation of foreign and ; native ruling oligarchies. If the new policy of neutrality and dis- ' engagement is given a free run, if it is merely denounced with ; stereotyped phrases, the Soviet i Union will be in a position to monopolize and to exploit an enormous wave of popular feel- ; ing. This is the desire for es- I cape from nuclear warfare, a longing comparable with the longing in the Asian peoples for ; freedom from the white man's '. rule. ' ! TT IS wishful and indeed high- ly conceited thinking for us ! to tell ourselves that we are leading from strength and that J our adversaries are leading from ; weakness. For when everv al- I lowance has been made for the I economic troubles in Russia and in China, the fact remains that in reaching out for the support ', oi tne masses of mankind who ! want to diseneaee themcoi from nuclear warfare. ets are by way of acquiring new aim very popular strength. Copyrieht. lfiss New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
