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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Re4The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HXRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Medford Oregon under Act of Marcn 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrief In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent. mi m ww iiiuiur ruuies: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 140 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance 1 OrjTclirpaper of the Ctty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wlre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: Offices in New York Chicago, da. " onii r 1 iicico. uou Angeiea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOc5TLN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' 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. 28. 1946 (Monday) Leo K. Potter, route 2, Med ford, elected foreman of grand jury drawn at opening of Octo ber term of circuit court. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The pan cake season is now at its peak, with more water in the syrup, than in the iiquid soap. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 28. 1336 (Wednesday) The 1937 city budget totaling S147.03S.98 approved and adopt ed by city council and public hearing last night. Miss Myrtle Otterdale, chief operator for the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, Medford, vacationing in Mexico City, returns here Nov. 3. 30 YEARS AGO Cct. 28, 1926 (Thursday) Gold Hill bridge when com pleted next May may be a gold bridge in fact as well as in name. Medford fire department, with its chief, Roy Elliot, is consid ered the best in Oregon, in hold ing fire losses to a minimum. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 28. 1916 (Saturday) Rogue valley fruit packers are confronted with a serious car shortage. Parent-Teacher circle of Jack son school recommends Miss Anna Jeffrey, candidate for county school superintendent. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 28. 1906 (Sunday) J. M. Hurley, who owj a fruit farm two miles east from tewn on Foothills rd., has four acres which will bring him $150 yer acre this season. From Local and Personal col umn: Dr. J. F. Reddy leaves Medford Saturday evening for a brief trip to Spokane. Wash. What's the Answer? Can Yon Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S EditorUl Research 1. More persons voted in the U.S. presidential election of 1952 than ever voted in any other election anywhere; right or wrong? 2. Pennsylvania in 1952 voted for Eisenhower by a wide or thin margin, or for Stevenson I a thin margin? 3. "Of the people, for the peo ple, by the people" is a phrase from the Declaration of Inde pendence, Constitution, Gettys burg Address or Pledge to the Flag? 4. Federal excise tax on auto tire casings is higher or lower per pound than on inner tubes or the same? 5. An avowed Socialist was once elected to the U.S. Senate; right or wrong? 6. Which state has auto tags bearing the legend "Land of Enchantment"? 7. The New Testament con tains more or fewer books than the Old Testament, or the same number?- The answers: 1. Wrong. 2. For Ike by relatively thin margin. 3. Gettysburg Address. 4. Higher per pound on casings. 5. Wrong. 6. New Mexico. 7. Fewer. New Hampshire was the first state in New England to organ ize a fish and game department. , It was set up in 1865. MAIL TRIBUNE Is It "National Suicide "? How many people, we wonder, have read the speech delivered by former Governor Stevenson, urg ing suspension of further H-bomb tests? Judging by the G.O.P. reaction, not many Repub licans. Certainly former Governor Thomas Dewey of New York could not have read it, or he would never have termed it "an invitation to national suicide" or the product of a candidate unaware of the facts of life, who had failed to think the problem through and needed to be awakened from his sleep. Whafc complete and utter distortion and nonsense ! A NY fair-minded person would willingly match the time spent on studying this problem by Adlai Ste venson the past six or seven months, and the time spent by the famous "bridegroom on the wedding cake. In fact, there is nothing new, impulsive or sensa tional about this proposal as far as Mr. Stevenson is concerned. Listen to this extract from the speech in question, quote: I proposed last April that the United States take the ini tiative by announcing our willingness to stop these tests, "calling upon other nations to follow our lead," and making it clear that unless they did we would have to resume our experiments, too. That was my proposal. It was simple. It was SAFE. IT WAS WORKABLE. And since that time both Russia and Great Britain have declared their willingness to join us in trying to establish that kind of a policy. So I say: What are we waiting for? It seems to me that we should lose no more time in start ing to make the most of what appears to be a better climate for progress in this imperative field. Therefore, if elected President, I would count it about the first order of business to follow up on the opportunity presented now by the other atomic powers. I would do this by conference and by consultation at whatever level, in whatever place that the circumstances might suggest would be most fruitful. w, In the meantime and, frankly, because bitter experience has proven that we cannot rely on the firm agreement of one . bloc of world powers we will proceed both with the pro duction of hydrogen weapons "and with further research in the field. What is there "suicidal" or superficial about that? It is the alternative, as we see it, that WOULD be "suicidal", namely: this blind persistence in this mad rat-race for atomic supremacy, the defeatist attitude that nothing can be done, and the blunt refusal of the Republicans to take the leadership toward world bet terment instead of world strongest power in the world U.S.A. to assume. What really is bothering Republican "G.H.Q." is not so much, we believe, the "suicidal" nature of the proposal, as the fact that a Democrat beat them to the punch. In their political lexicon that is an unforgivable sin. There is little doubt that if the same proposal had been made by Harold Stassen and the disarmament expert came close to making it there would not only be no complaint from Mr. Tom Dewey or anyone else at the G.O.P. headquarters, but a loud -acclaim of great leadership and progress. However that may be in the Leonard Hall school of practical politics it is not only a question of whose ox is gored, but whose ISN'T. TTHE FACT that so many atomic scientists of the highest standing throughout the country have come out to publicly approve the Stevenson proposal is also extremely irritating to G.O.P.G.H.Q., and worse than that many of them registered as Republicans .have declared they will vote for Adlai Stevenson. One of the latter is Professor David R. Inglis, sen ior physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory and formerly on the staff of the atomic research laboratoy at Los Alamos. Said he, in a recent public statement, quote : "In spite of my Republican past, I am for Stevenson be cause I am deeply troubled by the threat of atomic annihil ation. The almost unimaginable destructiveness of hydrogen weapons puts us in a crucial predicament that few of us real ize. We are in the midst of an ever-mounting arms race of which we can see no end save the disastrous one We should stop the further testing of H-bombs and announce that we will not start again unless some other na tion goes on testing them. "Such a secession of tests would seriously impede the development of new horror weapons about equally on both sides and is the one type of arms limitation that can be ade quately monitored without area inspection This proposal makes good sense. Not so President Eisenhower's rejoinder that there would then be no purpose in developing ICBM's without developing their hydrogen warheads. This . is an interesting disclosure of the state of the art but com pletely mifses Stevenson's point that we should confine our selves only to stopping those developments that we can be sure the Soviets are also stopping." I S THIS also "an invitation to national suicide" or exactly the reverse? Professor Inglis concludes as follows: ' "It is not enough to point to mutual deterrence as suffi cient safety for the present and let the future take care of 'itself. The revolutionary technical developments now in pro gress can't be undone by a future generation. The arms race is rapidly getting more difficult to bring under control while we continue without a national policy to control it even as ' Rome burned while Nero fiddled. I am for Stevenson be cause J believe he WON'T fiddle." AS Mr. Stevenson has pointed out the atomic ex " perts are not a unit in backing his proposal. But they are not a unit opposing it or on anything. There is reason to believe, however, that a majority of them favor his H-bomb limitation plan because it faces up to the most serious challenge the modern world has ever met, instead of dodging it or falling back on the time-honored "alibi" it CAN'T be done! , Whether taking this stand will make or lose votes for the Democratic candidate we don't know. We will have to leave that to those with crystal balls that work and the wise boys (after the event) on November 7th. But we do know this this action is only another dem onstration of the man's courage, intelligence, and the high quality of his vision, as Sunday, October 28. 1956 destruction - which, as the it is the plain duty of the well as his statesmanship. K.W.K. 2 Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop AFTER THE BLOOD BATH The tragic and terrible blood bath in Hungary has now very publicly revealed the real inner tmwm w e a k n ess of ct'tl the "National- 1 f ' jrjr;-"' movement in fcf V??. (KM the Soviet Un- Bt 'a. . : . 4 j?tB inn'c Furnncan satellites. On the one hand, the Pol ish and Hun g a r i a n drive f or f r e e d o m from Kremlin great popular domination is a movement, sus tained and borne along by a strong surge of popular opinion. Gomulka in Poland had the peo ple squarely behind him because he had shown he also opposed Kremlin domination; and for this same reason, Imre Nagy in Hungary had the people behind him too, at least until he turned the tanks and aircraft on them. But although Gomulka and Nagy have been dissident Com munists, long out of favor and even in danger .w oi ineir lives oiCiima because of their national ist tendencies, they are stiU Communists all the same. And the surge of popular opin ion which has carried them to Stewart Alsop power is not only nationalistic. It is not only a surge of opposi tion to the rule of Poland and Hungary from .the Kremlin in Moscow, It also tends very strongly to become an anti-Communist surge. It is hard to judge the events in Budapest from this distance, but the American officials best qualified to form an opinion are rather unanimous that Nagy was squarely caught in the above-outlined dilemma. When he took over the Hungarian Premiership the students and workers in the Budapest streets were not mere ly shouting for "National-Communism." They were actually shouting for no Communism at all. T'HUS the new government with Nagy at its head, strong ly National - Communist as its make-up appears to be, was just as much threatened as the prior Hungarian government headed by Erno Gero and Andros Hege dus. Therefore Nagy called in the troops, actually including Soviet troops, to restore order in the capital and to insure his government's authority. The very fact that Nagy or dered this blood bath casts doubt on the future course his government will take. Will it, or will it not continue to live up to the National-Communist pro fessions that originally won Nagy popular support? It will hardly be easy for Nagy in Hun gary, after using the Red army s guns against the Hungarian peo ple. Yet even for Gomulka in Poland, where he has thus far maintained complete mastery of the situation, the future can Wanted More Charley Sprague, editor of the "Salem Statesman" and former Governor is, of course, staunchly Repub lican. But in sharp contrast to most of the other Repub lican leaders and editors in Oregon, he is always fair. And he is so well informed, (partly, no doubt, as a result of his brief tenure as delegate to the United Nations), particularly regarding this country's for eign policy and world affairs that we seldom miss his "It Seems to Me" column, although this department is usually on the other side of the tracks, politically-speaking. WE WERE particularly 1 i? li . ui oojecuve ana iactuai iauness wnen in a recent offering of mail we found the Republican party termed the "party of peace" and the Democratic party of course, "the party Only a short time ago sort of partisan flap doodle and nailed it to the barn door, only instead of calling it flap-doodle Editor Sprague called it "twaddle" which, of course it is. We quote : This talk about Democrats being the war party is twad dle. Stevenson's policies would probably closely parallel Eisenhower's. They might even be more imaginaUve As I see it "peace" is not a major issue in this presidential campaign. Entirely time ! And where, with all his nprsnnal charm "Ike" does lack the aualitv of imao-ination. Adlai Stevenson has it in abundant measure. QF COURSE, Editor Sprague is whole-heartedly for thp Prpsirlpnt hut nnlilro en manv t.nn manv of his party contemporaries he refuses to Tall, for "I f ll 1 -N ft J J 1 1 - example, ior uie roruana uregonian s iantastic meory of sainthood and the exudation of an "aura," but sup ports his case with common sense, wisdom and facte. Tr. is rpDTPttnMp rhpvo ' ar nnr mnrp Rflitfir Spragues with his well written and enlightening "It 1 i H 1 il 1 ..1 T"l 1- seems to lue column in tnis overwneimingiy itepuo lican state overwhelming that is as far as the journ alistic representation is concerned, as contrasted with the registration. R.W.R. hardly be taken for granted. The plain truth is that new Polish and Hungarian govern ments are altogether different, and in an altogether basic way from the Yugoslav Communist government which they are seek ing to imitate. Marshal Tito and his comrades are not recent im ports, after all. They are the former leaders of their country s wartime resistance. In wartime they fought side by side with the Yugoslav masses. THIS very nativeness, this local origin of their power was what made it possible for the Yugoslav Communists to defy Stalin, it also gives Tito's gov ernment a special kind of se curity at home which Polish and Hungarian "National - Commu nist" governments cannot hope to enjoy. The new Polish and Hungarian governments are somewhat in secure, because the Polish and Hungarian Communists, wheth er of the nationalist or the Stalin-stooge brand, were orig inally carried to power in the baggage train of the Red. army. Unlike Tito, they are conspicu ously imported articles. The question must always be in their minds, as the events m Hungary have now so hideously indi cated, whether they can main tain their power without the Soviet backing which was the first source of that power. Gomulka is clearly going to try to do so. He has already in dicated he wants the Red army to "leave Poland. Despite the blood bath, the betting still is that Imre Nagy wiU also make a bold attempt. Abandoning National-Communism at this mo ment would be too stultifying, too inconsistent and probably too dangerous. Even Nagy, even after the blood bath, can hardly change his course. TUT in the eyes of the masters of the Kremlin, the difficul ties that loom ahead of Gomulka and Nagy must look very im portant indeed. "Suppose they try and fail," the Soviet leaders must now be saying to them selves. "Suppose that instead of National Communist govern- ments, independent of us but still closely linked to us, we are eventually faced with Polish and Hungarian governments as hostile as those we knew before the war." The possibility exists and can not be denied. No doubt it was the thought of this possibility that caused the Soviet leaders to come up to the very brink of using military power to re store their control in Warsaw. No doubt, for this same reason, the Kremlin regarded Nagy's need for force in Budapest as a heaven-sent benefit. And for this same reason, one should wait to forecast the final shape of Soviet policy. At least until Gomulka has led his planned mission to Moscow and returned to Warsaw without un due mishap. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. "Statesmen impressed by this quality i m i . i of war." the Statesman took up this , Today and By Walter THE H-BOMB TESTS Were the hydrogen bomb tests not involved in the campaign, and therefore at once exagger ated and over-simplified, what precisely is the substantial sue between President Eis enhower and Gov. Ste v e n son? Basically it is whether the testing of the big hydro gen bombs pre Waiter UssmaJiB sents a special problem, requiring a- special solution, distinct from and dif ferent from the problems posed by all the other weapons, in cluding the atomic bombs and the smaller hydrogen bombs. The Governor's position, when it is precisely defined, which it has not always been, is that the big hydrogen bombs are a special problem which can and should be dealt with without waiting for a general agreement cover ing the regulation of all arma ments. The President s position is that the big H-bombs are not a special case and that the test ing of big H-bombs cannot and should not be limited unless and until there is a general agree ment, with satisfactory safe guards of inspection and control, on all weapons. On this basic issue there is little doubt, I submit, that the Governor has the better of the argument. It does not follow, I hasten to add, that the Gover nor's solution of the problem is satisfactory. What cannot be de nied successfully is that the big hydrogen bombs are a special problem, and a close reading of the President's statement of Tuesday including the accom panying memorandum of the ex perts goes a long way to justify this conclusion. . THE explosion of big hydrogen bombs is a special problem because the fall-out is not con fined to the country which is testing the bomb-It can and it does pollute the air of neighbor ing countries. When, for example, the So viets exploded a big bomb last September, there was a fall-out in Norway which was about ten times as highly radio-active as the normal atmosphere. Accord ing to the specialists "the absorp tion rate was about one-tenth of the international norm for dan gerous radiation." This was all very well. But it did not reas sure and it did not please the Norwegians. For the fact was that poison was being dumped on Norway without their having anything to say about whether it should be dumped, about how often it should be dumped, and what was the legitimate amount of poison that could or should be dumped upon them. The Norwegians were in the position of a man who finds that every now and then his neighbor puts some arsenic in his morning coffee, accompanied by the as surance that it is not enough ar senic to kill him. There is no denying, it seems to me, that be cause of the fallout on other countries the testing of hydrogen bombs is the legitimate concern of the international community. The testing is a proper and a necessary subject of internation al regulations. And no nation, especially not this nation, can afford to have a policy which refuses to recognize that the world community has a legiti mate interest which must be pro tected. TN THE Tuesday document from the White House, the ac companying memorandum of the experts admits the basic fact that the big bombs are a special problem. The President's state ment itself attempts to argue away the importance of this basic fact. But in section two of their memorandum, the experts speak ing of fall-out, say that the phe nomenon of fall-out from atomic weapons has been known since the first tests in July, 1945. The experts then go on to say that fallout "acquired a greatly in creased importance with the ad vent of early thermo-nuclear (hydrogen) weapons, although the objectionable fall-out of an atomic explosion, especially the component Strontium-90, is the result of atomic fission, which is the specific reaction in exist ing small atomic weapons." The question we may ask about this not very qlear sen tence is, why did fall-out ac quire increased importance with the first hydrogen bomb tests? The answer of common sense is that the much bigger ' bombs caused a much bigger fall-out. The President's own statement confirms the conclusion that there is a real difference be tween the smaller and the bigger bombs.- In spite of the casuistic argument that all bombs have some fall-out so why single out the big ones the President says, "It is true that tests of very large weapons would probably be de tected when they occur. We be lieve we have detected practi cally aU such tests to' date. Why have we detected thera? Be cause the fall-out is not con fined to the territory of the So viet Union. This would seem to settle the issue as to whether or not the big. hydrogen bombs are a special problem. " MS Tomorrow Lippmann THE President and the Gover ernor have also had a differ ence of opinion, as to how an agreement to suspend the testing of the big bombs could be en forced. The Governor has said that if the Soviet Union broke the agreement by exploding a big bomb, our reply would be to re sume exploding our own bombs. The President's argument has been that we could do nothing and that we would be set back dangerously in the race of arm aments. . Neither, of them, it seems to me. has visualized correcUy the situation which would exist: Let us suDoose that an international treaty had been negotiated in the United Nations which stipulated that bombs of a certain size big enough to cause fall-out and big enough therefore to be de tected may not be exploded, Let us suppose, which I believe we ought to insist upoTT, that the treaty stated that the Ulegal ex plosion of such a big bomb is an international crime of which the United Nations shall at once take cognizance. The violation of the treaty would at once precipitate an in ternational crisis. The United States and its allies would have the right to take the position that the violator of the agree ment has committed an act which was preliminary to war, like mo bilizing on the frontier of a country, and that counter-measures, collectively if posible, sin gly if necessary, were justified. The reply to a violation would not be, it seems to 'me, anything so tame as Gov. Stevenson's sug gestion that our own testing be resumed. Nor would it be any thing so abject as doing nothing except complain that we had lost the race of armaments. What would happen is that the viola tion of an agreement of this crit ical character would either pre cipitate war or sanctions that were the very nearest thing to war. AN INTERNATIONAL treaty to suspend the testing of bombs big enough to be detected abroad, big enough therefore to pollute the air abroad, would if it were properly negotiated stand no greater chance of befng violated than many of our other agreements for example the agreement which enables us to stay in West Berlin. Like those agreements it would be observed unless the So viet Union decided to start the Third World War. And if the Soviet Union decided to do that, it would not start the war by testing an experimental bomb. It will start it by using the prov en bombs it already has. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Big Question: What is REALLY GOING ON in Poland and Hungary? IT'S HARD to say, because of the complete censorship that prevails, but this seems to be about the answer: Two kinds of communists are fighting for power. One kind wants to get out from under Russia's thumb and run its own affairs, kowtowing to Moscow at every turn, smiling when the Kremlin smiles, frowning when the Kremlin frowns and going along with the Kremlin toward the objective of a communist dominated world. ON THE basis of what sweeps thrduffh the Iron Curtain. that seems to be about the size of it at present. This is the big point: In Hungary, Russian guns. aimed by Russian eyes and trig gered by Russian fingers, are SHOOTING DOWN Hungarians who don t want to go along whole hog with Moscow. T SUSPECT at least, I hope that back of these two kinds of communists are millions of Poles and Hungarians who -want no truck with the whole foul bus iness of communism and yearn for the wonderful time back be fore World War 2 when they had REAL LIBERTY. Our long range hopes lie with these silent masses. Our sympa thies lie with them. Our sympa thies are so STRONG that the time MIGHT come when we would be willing to FIGHT side by side with them in the sacred cause of human liberty. we Americans are a strange people. Claiming to be hard-, boiled realists, we reach at times such heights of idealism that we stand ready to DIE in the cause of human liberty. In our career as a nation, we have demon strated that over and over. BUT As of NOW Our job is to remain clear- eyed and INTELLIGENT. We are, and should be, pleased to see hitherto monolithic communism breaking into KINDS OF COM MUNISM. We are pleased to see COMMUNISTS FIGHTING COMMUISTS. When communists are busy fighting other commu nists they won t have any time left to FIGHT US. - That's the long and the short POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A crowd of 1,500 or so per sons was at the Medford airport Friday for the arrival of the vice president of the United Stat es. Among the crowd were secret service agents state police, city police and deputy sheriffs, alert to the least danger to the life of the vice president. Oblivious to the crowd, the ex citement, and the armed officers of the law were a couple of kids and a dog, returning from a hunting jaunt in nearby fields. Both boys were carrying shot guns. There was a beautiful rain bow Friday afternoon, when the sun came out brightly after shower. There was an imme diate dispute amongst parti sans in the newsroom. Some claimed it was arranged to herald the arrival of Vice Pres ident Nixon. Others, however, pointed out that, from where they sat. it ended in a pot of gold the first National bank. A woman we know went visit ing the other night," while her husband was busy with some overtime work. She called on a young couple who live half-way across town. A couple of days later she tele phoned them, asking, "Have you seen a stray earring?" The fam ily hadn't, but the husband, at his wife's suggestion, started search ing in the overstuffed chair where their guest had sat He found five pencils, three crayons, a comb, a balloon (de flated), a large blrd-in-a-caga whistle and the missing ear ring. (P.S. The couple have chil dren as if you didn't know.) (P.P.S. The visting wom an, incidentally, got lost In the wilds of west Medford on her way home.) The wife and mother-in-law of a news staff member parked the family car at the court house the other day, and spent most of the day inside. One of them called the newsman so he'd know where the auto was, if he needed it. Their business finally completed, they walk ed to the Mail Tribune, waited quite a while when he com pleted his work, then found they had to walk all the way back to the courthouse where the car had been all the time. This is about a young woman (we'll call her Jane Smith be cause that isn t her name) and a young man (we'U call him John Doe for the same reason). They had a date the other night, and after a pleasant eve ning he took her home. Then he went home to Ashland, and she immediately got absorbed in a project, the nature of which has no bearing on this story. After a while, she noticed her wrist watch was missing, so she look ed up Doe's name in the Ash land telephone directory and placed the call. A sleepy voice answered. "Will you look in your car and see if I left my watch there?" Miss Smith asked the voice. "Alright," the voice replied, "but I hope it isn't, because I don't think my wife would like it." . Jane thereupon learned, to her horror, that not only are there TWO John Does in Ashland, but the time had slipped by and it was 2:30 a.m. She hasn't quite recovered yet but she does have her watch back. . Last year rfnd this have bid sort of mixed up weather, to the confusion of local flora. Last week Mrs. Avis Weisen. 118 North Filth st, 'Central Point, reported that an Easter lily given her by her son last year, has just bloomed for the second time this fall. A day er two our favorite feminine col umnist and women's editor re ported she has a tulip which has bloomed several months ahead of schedule. The next day it snowed. And the leaves aren't all off the trees yet. An editor of our acauaintance was greeted by a vast accumula tion of mail, most of it political, the' other day. Alone amidst the propaganda was a statement from a department store. He looked at it and signed. It's a relief to see a bill these days." of the present situation. LET'S not kid ourselves. We've kidded ourselves too often in the past. ;' Let s not let anybody Kid us. We have let other people kid us too often in the past. WE SIMPLY MUST remember that in what is presently happening in Poland and Hun gary and what may happen in the other satellites of Russia there are THREE parties: 1. The communists who want to run their countries independ ently of Russia. 2. The communists who want everything run from Moscow. 3. The REAL MASSES ur THE PEOPLE who want to be FREE UTTERLY of the whole foul mess of communism and get back to the time when there was real liberty in their countries.