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Newspaper Page TextFOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Evaryone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune tublihd Daily Lxcept Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 Northfir St. Phone 2-14l ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCIIKR Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 42S Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, AshJand. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Cfflcial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County Press Full LeasedWire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ur Line U JLA TION WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Office in New Vork Chicago. de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocITatlqn V U O IJJHri.a.'.H. XXM jO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1946 (Saturday) Inauguration of the five-cent United States flag rate Oct. 1 brings Increase in air mail vol ume, Postmaster Frank DeSouza says. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There was a brief ground fog Fri. a.m. On residential streets it caused con siderable blind speeding. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1936 (Monday) The October term of circuit opens with new grand Jury of seven persons. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce requests that flags be displayed tomorrow to mark Navy day. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1926 (Tueiday) Assessed valuation of Medford for 1926 taxes is increased by $943,920, and assessed valuation of Jackson county by $1,223,320, acording to J. B. Coleman, coun ty assessor. Grand jury meets . yesterday; Is discharged after returning ceveral true bills. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1916 (Thursday) Straw votes in Medford show a two to one vote for President Wilson. Henry Clay Hansbrough, for 18 years U. S." Senator from North Dakota, supports Presi dent Wilson. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1906 (Friday) Reames chapter, OES, holds social night yesterday. S. L. Bennett brings to ex hibit building branch broken from an apple tree about three feet long bearing 20 large ap ple. What's the Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Edltorl&J Researeb Report 1. The U.N. Charter was drawn up in a 1945 conference at Yalta. Sari Francisco, Bret ton Woods. Potsdam, Dumbarton Oaks or Geneva? 2. The Suez Canal was built by a British, French, Egyptian or U.S. company? 3. About (a) 5, (b) 20, (c) 35 or (d) 50 per cent of all U.S. fam ilies change their residence dur ing any one year? 4. Drinking on plane flights within the U.S. is or isn't regu lated by a government agency? 5. A general four-day week soon was recently predicted by President Eisenhower, Adlai E. Stevenson, Senator Kefauver, Vice President Nixon, or former Vice President Wallace? 6. Most insurance on damage to homes or household goods does or doesn't cover damage from flood? 7. Smallest state is Rhode Is land. Second smallest is Connec ticut, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina or Idaho? The answers: 1. San Francisco. 2. French company. 3. About 20 per cent. 4. Isn't. 5. Nixon. 6. Most doesn't. 7. Delaware. BRAKE BLAZES Manchester, Conn. (U.R) The emergency brake of a truck showered' sparks along a mile stretch, touching off 20 grass fires. Fire Chief John Merz, who followed the hot trail, said, "We got Quite a workout." MAIL TRIBUNE Magazine Crew Don McNeil, the efficient though often-harried manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, called us the other day. "Well," he said wearily, "we've got another maga zine crew in town." He went on to explain that an' out-of-town group of magazine salesmen had arrived (as they do six or eight or ten times a year), that there was nothing illegal about the way in which they operate but that the Better Business Bureau in Portland takes strong exception to the "pitch" used by the salesmen. TN THE PAST, as readers of this newspaper know, V itinerant crews, with no stake in the community, have passed through selling magazine subscriptions (which is all right, if you don't want to patronize local people who can give you just as good a price), and have pretended to be local high school students, or veterans, or college youngsters, or "contestants" of one sort or another (which is NOT all right, particu larly when it doesn't happen to be true). In the present case, they are offering four maga zines "for the price of postage only." THE MAGAZINES, and their newsstand prices, are Good Housekeeping (monthly) 35 cents; Argosy (monthly), 25 cents; Saturday Evening Post (week ly) 15 cents, and Look (weekly) 15 cents. Add those prices up for a month and they come out to $1.80. The "postage only" price? It's $1.24. That's pretty expensive postage. Most of the Medford magazine dealers can match or better that price and they won't tell you a phoney stoiy about "postage," either. E.A. Cranes Returning What is the latest word on the whooping crane? Perhaps the middle of a complicated and emotion al election campaign is no time to consider the plight of this almost-vanished species or perhaps it is, just as a matter of relief. (There are moments, we must confess, when the candidates of all varieties, the measures, the argu ments, the name-calling and emotionality, get us down, juet a bit.) THE LATEST word on the whooping crane, then, is that six of them, including a young one, have ar rived at their winter quarters at the Aransas national wildlife refuge in Texas. They were obviously tired from the 2,000-mile flight from the summer nesting-grounds in northern Canada. If all goes well, and the rest of them arrive safely, it will mean that a total of 28 of the big, white birds the world's total known population will be safe again. The migration is the worst time of the year because of natural hazards, and the chance that an .un informed hunter might take a shot at one. , THE TOUCH-AND-GO survival race of the whoop- ing crane has a special fascination. Over the past 17 years, an average of four birds are added to the tiny flock, but an average of 3.35 birds are lost, mean ing that, statistically, the species has increased by .65 of a bird each year, an increment just barely big en ough to prevent annihilation. Some years the flock increases, some years it loses. But slowly, oh, so slowly, it is gaining. Despite the "lack of cooperation" of the cranes themselves (they breed slowly, and have a disconcert ing habit of staking out new, unknown, and possibly dangerous nesting places in the northern wilderness, as well as being pretty independent characters), the day may come when the flock will be strong enough to prevent any danger of extinction. E.A. The The United Medford Crusade, which stands at about 62 per cent of its $117,000-plus goal this week, is doing pretty well but it won't be good enough un til the goal is achieved. For those who have forgotten, the UMC furnishes all or a goodly portion of the support of a couple of dozen worth-while organizations, including the Boy and Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, YMCA, Salvation Army, Red Cross, the Child Guidance Clinic, and a number of statewide and national organizations which perform a wide range of important and neces sary services. VXE ARE particularly fortunate, in Medford, in the efficient way in which the UMC is set up. Ad ministrative costs amount to only about 5 per cent, compared with an average of 8 to 11 per cent through out the nation. The United Fund plan is too well known to need explanation. It works, and works well. It deserves our support. E.A. "Unequivocal"? , . What will happen in the case of towns located on the present Interstate System (under the new Federal High way program?) "The answer Is unequivocal: the new highways will go around them. Access roads, generally built with Federal-aid-to-primary roads money 50 per cent from Uncle Sam and 50 per cent from the state will angle out from either side of the town to the new highway. Economic studies have shown that such a bypass for through traffic invariably benefits a small town by easing congestion in its shopping and business centers ..." Quoted from "Coast to Coast Without a Stoplight" by Richard Thruelsen in the Oct. 20 issue of Saturday Evening Post. Friday. October 28. 1958 UMC Today and By Walter POLAND AND EUROPE It can be said of what is hap pening in Poland that it was sure to happen once external condi tions permit ted. I have been to Poland only once since the war, sj-tl an that is I C':'?"4? I some years I Vt :tJ back wh e n Gomulka had Waiter Lissmami purged and WOO Ctill i f fice. It was perfectly evident then, even before the worst of the Stalinist tyranny began, that with rare exceptions th Com munist Poles were like almost all other Poles, very anti-Russian and proudly Polish. Among the Westerners who have been to Poland since then I cannot re member meeting anyone who thought the Russians had ha, any success in winning over the auegiance ol the Foles. In fact, if sentiment alone had counted, what we call Tito ism, the longing for national in dependence, has had all along even strnnppr rnnt. ; rji i than in Yugoslavia. The Yugo slavs, never naving been under Russian rule, have felt their kinship with the Russian nunnla and have had a great deal of natural affection. The Poles have a history of beinp and subjugated which for all practical purposes makes impos sible any trust or affection in their relations with Russia. Why then did the Yugoslavs assert their national independ ence of-Moscow eight years earl ier than have the Poles? In the last analysis, 'because Poland is occupied and surrounded on all Sides bv thp Rpn Armv i.rV,aMn . .....j, nueinu Yugoslavia was not occupied aim 15 noi surrounded but "has an open frontier with the West. THIS leads us to ask why now the Poles have been able to assert in independence which they could not assert a few years earlier. The answer to that is that the great militarv stalpmato which now prevails in the world nas relaxed tne tension and has gone far toward neutralizing military force. Because the tension is sn mn.h relaxed, because there is such a general feeling that a world war is improbable, the totalitar ian system inside of Russia and in the satellite orbit is harder and harrier tn maintain TTor g totalitarian system needs the mreat ot an external enemy to sustain its suppression of lib erty. And because militarv nnw. er in its nuclear development is now so hideously dangerous, all the powers are afraid to use any military force, fearing that it nnyui ieaa to a nuclear war. This underlying condition in world affaire evicts nn hnth ciifo. of the iron curtain. What is hap pening among the Soviet satel lites in Eastern Enrnnp is th counterpart of what is happen ing irom iworocco to Indonesia. ine nussians are .aeierred in dealing with Onmnllra Vw iha same ultimate considerations which deter the Western powers Danger of Inflation Discussed by Babson By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Accord ing to an apocryphal story, a legislator in Mexico moved that Gresham's Law (that bad money drives out good mon ey) be annul- YVip ' I led. When told I , I that it was a I natural law $tJ I and could not De annu 1 1 e a, he t hen sug gested that it Roger be suspended for a time. The question of value has been a problem ever since money was invented and, in fact, even be fore that time, no matter what commodity was used as the med ium of exchange tobacco or wives. Money has always had a tendency to depreciate in value, and it has at some time or other met with disaster in practically every nation as in Germany when the mark went to zero in 1923, spelling the end of inflation for Germanv. What Is Inflation? "One cause of inflation is a much greater increase in' the quantity of money in circula tion relative to the increase in the volume of goods and services. This forces the price level up wards. Price indexes for a per iod of years show that there have been great fluctuations in the value of money in practical ly every country. When the pur chasing power of the dollar has decreased too much, injury has been done to the investors and creditors as a group. Credit inflation can be gen erated by confidence; and mone tary inflation can be caused by lack of confidence. Inflation re sults from a combination of two things: Oversupply of money and or under supply of the na tion's good and services. Nation al debt figures in that it creates bank deposits. It is not how far Tomorrow Lippmann in their dealings with Nasser. The stalemate in nuclear wea pons has been spreading to all other weapons. For there is a growing conviction that were shooting to start in which the great powers were involved, even at second hand, they would probably be drawn into using nuclear weapons in the end. V TF, as the latest news indicates, the Soviet Union will not try to crush the new Polish govern ment, it is, of course, probable that the whole satellite empire will become Titoist. We must begin to think of what this is going to mean in world politics. We must begin, I think, by tak ing fully into account the cru cial importance of Poland in the relations between Russia and the Western world. We can never afford to forget that Poland lies between Germany and Russia. We must not forget that she has annexed much German territory. We must not forget that for Russia, be it Communist Russia or Czarist Russia, Poland is of vital military interest. No Rus sian government will tolerate, if it can prevent it, the existence of an unfriendly Poland which has become part of the military system of the West. We may expect that because of all this, Polish-Russian rela tions will come to a fork of the road. One way will lead to a reaffirmation of the military al liance, of which the core is a Russian guarantee as against Germany of Poland's newly ac quired territory. The other way, which supposes Polish-Russian enmity, is the classic gambit of a Russian-German alliance based on the unification of Germany and the partition and domina tion of Poland. The second way will not be possible while Aden auer is in power. But it must not be ruled out of our calcula tions. IT is to this fork in the road that- we should address our minds, examining the possibili ties of a statesmanlike solution that would safeguard the inde pendence of Poland. The key to such a solution would ap pear to be, on the one hand, to provide the Soviet Union with convincing guarantees that an independent Poland would not be a hostile military base, and, on the other hand, a settlement of the Polish-German frontier which both countries accept and ratify. The most promising idea is still, it seems to me, that of a neutral belt, neutral in respect to military alliances, in Central and Eastern Europe which might extend from Scandinavia to the Balkans. This would make a re spectable place for the former satellites, also for Austria, Yugo slavia and Greece, and not in conceivably, for a united Ger many. There are risks and com plexities in such a multilateral project. But they may be small er risks than the most likely alternative, which is a series of bilateral deals, especially as be tween Germany and Russia. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. the debt goes that makes people lese confidence; it is how low production goes. If production keeps up with debt, there is no harm psychologically. Lack of pioduction means that the value of money is under suspision. In flation is always an attempt to escape heavy burdens; debt is often the core of the problem. The principal force making for price inflation is a huge expand ed stream of income purchas ing power which beats against a diminished supply of civilian goods and services. Effect of Inflation The tragedy of inflation is the loss of purchasing power on the part of those who have been the most thrifty in saving money and building up assets and in come for a rainy day. These are the holders of bonds and pre ferred stocks, the holders of in surance annuities, and those who have amassed large cash assets. It is characteristic of inflation tnat the time required for it tc take hold is much longer than most people imagine. The most dangerous period is usually when the general public has been lulled into a false sense of security. It must be remem bered that today we have a 52 cent dollar and that the cost of living is still going up. It is quite possible that within the next ten years prices may be much higher than they are to day. Ever since the inception of our national government, money ar.d its value has been a concern of various administrations. It is one of our major problems at the present time. There are num erous opinions as regards the value of money. The late Sen ator Long's campaign slogan, "Every Man A Millionaire," did not take into account the fact that if all men were million aires no one would be willing tc work. The problem today is the effect of inflation on busi- Polish, Hungarian Revolts Top Foreign News Events Of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN By United Press Correspondent The week s good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia's grip on eastern Europe was threatened this week by revolts in two of its seven satellite countries. First in'Pol- and, then in Hungary, the people rose to demand free dom from Mos cow domina tion. In both countries, street dem- Chtrlei M. McCaod o n s t r a t ions against Red leaders who had supported the "Stalin" policy of dictatorship turned into re volts against Russia itself and Communism in general. Waldislaw Gomulka, who had been imprisoned as a "Titoist" for opposing Russian domina tion, was restored to .the leader ship of the Polish Communist Party. Then Hungarian university students started demonstrating in Budapest. They were joined by surging throngs of Hungar ians of all sorts even including soldiers. Securtiy troops and poiice opened fire on the demonstra tors. The demonstrations explod ed into bloody battles and spread to other cities. Imre Nagy, who like Gomulka in Poland had been purged as a Titoist, was hurriedly made pre mier. But the fighting continued. The 'government called in Rus sian troops to aid in suppres sing the uprising. Russian tanks and even jet planes fired on the crowds. Budapest was cut off from all communication with the outside world for 36 hours. Reports seeped out that hun dreds of people had been killed. Gomulka told Poles in a speech that Russian troops, bitterly bated, would remain in Poland. But in Hungary Nagy promised that he would ask for the with drawal of all Russian troops. France was faced by a serious new outbreak in Africa. Five leaders of the anti-French rebellion in Algeria flew from their headquarters in Egypt to confer with the governments of newly independent Morocco and Tunisia. They were welcomed as heroes in Morocco. France regarded this as an affront. The five Algerians took a French plane to fly to Tunisia. The pilot was directed secretly to land his plane in Algiers, capital of Algeria. French police took the Algerians off the plane at gun point. As a result, savage anti-French riots broke out in Morocco. About 60 Europeans were murd ered. The governments of both Editorial Comment DEMOCRATIC TREND It cannot be denied that the registration figures reveal a deep flow of sentiment toward the Democratic party. Whether this will -be reflected at the ballot box a week from Tuesday can not be known. California has had a Democratic registration majority of nearly 1,000,000 but has consistently elected Repub licans to major office. Perhaps the new registrants, many of them young, first-time voters, have been attracted by the youth of the state Democratic leadership. Perhaps recent Dem ocratic successes at the state's polls, after so many lean years, have encouraged a larger follow ing. Perhaps the political resur gence of organized labor and its special emphasis on registration and getting out the vote have been factors in Democratic gains. Perhaps some combination of political issues has had a more striking effect than the cam paign would indicate. Whatever its causes and they are certainly complex the new Democratic complexion of the state's poll books cannot be wiped out by superficial expla nations or excuses. There is rea son for the Republican party to reflect on its lack of success in selling the Republican philoso phy and program to the people cf Oregon. The Oregonian. Portland. ness. Politically, one party wants business to remain good until after election; while the other party is not so anxious to see good business before election. GOOD MONEY The Mexican legislator was not far off in wanting to annul Gresham's Law. We would like to accomplish it in the U. S., but no political party can suc ceed in doing so. Practically all of our paper money has on it face a promise to pay, ' but the government will not give us anything for it, except the same kind of money Printed promises by any government mean little. The great financial need today is a national educa tional campaign by both parties combined, to teach the American Voter the honest truth about inflation. Tunisia and Morocco threaten ed to break openly with France. President Eisenhower angrily rebuked Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin for a note he sent to Washington on ending tests of nuclear weapons. Bulganin referred to the American election campaign in which Adlai E. Stevenson'de mands that the tests be stopped. He also criticized Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Then Moscow published the test of the communication before an Matter of Fact By Jo and Stewart Alsep WARSAW'S NEW DAWN Washington There is a fair measure of confidence in Wash ington that the Soviet govern ment will not send troops to bring Poland's govern m e n t to heel. The conf i d e n c e may perhaps V . prove to oe I Vk.id'-i m'sPlaced De I i?f 1 fre these LSjjJ words are loieim Aiaop printed, dui the reasoning on which it is founded appears convincing. In brief, if the Soviet leaders had been willing to use naked force in Poland, the decision ought logically to have been taken before the fanastic War saw journey of Khrushchev, Molotov and their companions. The desperate Russian effort to halt the march of events would have had real point, if Khrush chev and Molotov had been ready to back up their angry ultimatums with Russia's over whelming armed might. But they were not ready to do this. Hence the ultimatums to the Polish Central Committee were reduced PS to the level of mere angry hectoring. And 1 the Soviet leaders' hur ried flight to Warsaw was trans formed into an open demonstration o2 their own defeat. Ff .jam f Stewart Alsop 'M'ONE the less, a future Soviet resort to the use of force against Poland cannot be ab solutely ruled out, for the simple reason that the consequences of a fully successful Polish bid for independence will be so en ormous and so uncontainable. There is a shadow of doubt about it. Nothing less than Soviet control of Eastern Europe is now at stake in Warsaw. If the Poles get away with it, so will the Hungarians, and in the end the Czechs and East Germans and even the Ruman ians and Bulgarians will follow the same path. Throughout the satellite area, to be sure, conditions vary greatly from country to coun try. In Eastern Germany, for instance, a huge Soviet occupy ing force is already in position. In Czechsolovakia, again, the government of Antonin Zapo tocky has been far less independence-minded than the gov ernments in Hungary and Pol and. But the proof that othe satel lites can gain their effective in dependence if they struggle for it will surely weigh more heav ily, in the end, than any other factor in the situation. If Zapo tocky chooses to ignore this proof, other Czech leaders will not ignore it. The same rule can be expected to apply in all the other satellites too. riUTHERMORE, the Soviet rulers have no worthwhile guarantee that newly "equal and independent" satellite regimes on the Polish pattern will still remain close Soviet allies; as the Poles are now promising to do. As the Western nations have good reason to know, newly in dependent peoples seldom waste much affection on their former imperial masters. In Hungary, for instance, the students who the advance guard of the inde pendence movement are already using slogans which are not just "independent Communist", but even overtly anti-Communist. For the Soviets, therefore, the choice that must now be made is truly horrible. A resort to force will not only be extremely risky from a simple military Sewing Contest Will Be Held Saturday The Medford-Grants Pass area "Make It Yourself with Wool" sewing contest will be held Sat urday at the home of the district director, Mrs.' Perry Strom, 1464 Dixie lane, Medford. Judging of entries wiU begin at 1 p.m. followed by a style show at 2:30 p.m. Entries have been received from Medford, Eagle Point, Ashland, Applegate and Grants Pass, officials re ported. Judges will be Miss N. Jean Brooks, Mrs. Genevieve Neill and Miss Marjorie Hattan. Dis trict winners will participate in the state contest Nov. 9-11 in PorUand. official translation had been re layed to the President, some what belatedly. Mr. Eisenhower lost no time in replying. He said that Bul ganin's note constituted an in terference in the election. He complained because the note was published prematurely. He said that Bulganin's criticism of Dul les was "not only unwarranted but is personally offensive to me." Finally, the President said that some of Bulganin's state ments "seem to impugn my own sincerity." viewpoint. It will also do cruel and perhaps fatal damage to the promising Communist positions ir the Middle East, the Far East and Africa. But if these risks are avoided and force is not used in Eastern Europe, then the Sov iets must prepare to lose the great protective belt Insulating them from the West, which was their grandiose gain from the second world war. No wonder then that there is no real certainty in Washing ton about the final outcome; the upheavals in the Soviet Presidium, including the fall from power of Khrushchev and Bulganin, are being widely dis cussed; and that the result of the forthcoming Polish mission Moscow is being awaited with breathless, almost agonized, in terest. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What goes in Poland and Hun gary? In this (maybe) showdown with their colonial satellites, the Russian communists have had two choices. They could pull in their horns, or they could shoot. In Hungary they're SHOOT ING. As this is written, Russian tanks and warplanes are pouring hot lead into the rebelling Hun garian populace. In Budapest, dispatches relate, these Hungar ians are tackling Russian tanks with their bare hands. The list of dead is reported to be in the many hundreds. WHAT is the REAL cause of this bloody revolt? This is it: Moscow attempted to FORCE Russian communist ways on people who didn't like Russian communist ways and wanted their OWN ways. That's the long and the short of it. WHAT will come of it? I wouldn't know. But the light of the past helps us to peer into the future. Let's take a look at the Sepoy Rebellion in India just 100 years ago. Here's what started it: The British (seeking to force their ways of life on the In dian ways of life) compelled the sepoys (native troops conscript ed into the British army of India) to use greased cartridges. To use them the sepoys had to bite the end patches from the cart ridges. The religion of the Hindus forbade them to taste anything prepared from the meat of a cow. The religion of the Moslems forbade them to taste pork. The bloody and terrible Sepoy Rebellion followed as a result. (I think everyone of mature age must remember the shocking pic ture of Indian sepoys being shot from the mouths of British can non.) IVHAT came of it? " Well, the British put down the Sepoy Rebellion. For more than a century they continued to force their ways of life on the unwilling people of India, who preferred THEIR ways of life. But India is now free. And In India there still lingers the hatred of the British who per sisted so long in their effort to force their ways of life on the people of India. And Britain is no longer a top world power. yHAT of communist Russia? " Again I wouldn't know. Let's quote the words of a pres ently popular song: "What is to be will be; "The future's not ours to see." But I believe strongly that Russian communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. It may be tottering now. It may recover its balance. These great sweeps in human history take time. But I can't believe that Russia's foul communist imper ial empire can endure perman enUy any more than Britain's far less foul colonial imperial empire endured. AUR job is to stay strong and " clean and pure of heart, re membering Sir Galahad's motto: "Our strength is as the strength of ten because our hearts are pure." And Never forgetting that we were the first people in the world to throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism and insist,. no mat ter what the cost, on RUNNING OUR OWN AFFAIRS.