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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1948 (Tuesday)
L. Verdell Ragsdale, who
has been coaching at Mount
Angel preparatory school,
named head Medford High
1 Pl XI 11 1-
acnooi iooiDciii coacn.
Frank J. Van Dyke, Med-
fordand two Ashland repre
sentatives appear before the
chairman of the state highway
commission to renew a plea
for improvement of the high
way between Medford and
Ashland.
20 YEARS AGO
June 29. 1938 '(Wednesday)
The first 5,000 of 75,000
parasitizes! earwigs, ordered
from Portland, arrived in
Medford to combat the pests
locally.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
drive for sanity of the Fourth
of July has started getting
results. Some drivers are
crazier than usual." :
30 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1928 (Friday)
Phoenix purchases new fire
truck with two chemical tanks
and 900 feet of four-inch hose.
The Sams Valley Grange is
sponsoring a Fourth of July
picnic on Rogue river just
back of the Nealon ranch.
40 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1918 (Saturday)
Thirty per cent over the
iop is the report on the War
Savings stamp campaign in
Jackson county.
When the registration of
alien German women closed,
nine Medford area women had
registered.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
ix is good.
1. Was the District of Co
lumbia once larger or smaller
in area than it is now?
2. Which Federal govern
ment agency is responsible
for the calculation of tables
of the tides?
3. In the 1936 election, who
was the Republican candidate
for President? . ,
4. The European' city, .Ge
neva, is in which country? ,
5. Do pythons kill their
prey by venomous bites or by
constriction?
6. In which national ceme
tery were the remains of the
W.W. II unknowns buried?
7. Is pure tin subject to
rusting?
8. In what unit of measure
ment does the Weather Bu
reau measure rainfall?
9. What is ornithology?
10. Is a W o o d p e c k e r's
tongue longer than his head?
Answers: 1. Larger (the por
tion ceded by Virginia was
x&ceded to that State). 2.
United States Coast Guard. 3.
Alf Landon of Kansas. 4.
Swilxerland. 5. Constriction.
6. Arlington National Ceme
tery. 7. No. 8. Inches. 9. The
branch of zoology which
-treat of birds. 10. Yes.
On July
It was July z, 17 b,
memorated as the Day of Deliverance," John
Adams wrote from Philadelphia to his good wife
Abigail back at Braintree, Mass. For it was on
July 2 that the Second Continental Congress
voted for independence.
on July 4 was to adopt
and defending its July
On the preceding June 7 Richard Henry Lee;
for Virginia, had moved that these united colo
nies are, and of right ought to be, free and inde
pendent states." After
action was postponed
delegations could get
home.
MEANWHILE, on June 11, Jefferson, Frank
Alin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Rob
ert R. Livingston were
"prenare a declaration"
lution. To Jefferson was assigned the drafting,
This delay in voting
how slowly, even reluctantly, the colonists came
around to the idea. Indeed, actual hostilities
against Great Britain had been going on for more
than a year before the
introduced.
- There was still hope, dying hard, that George
III would redress the wrongs against which arms
had been taken up, so that his American subjects
could still hold on to the British crown. In tha
event, would the colonies
pendence later, or have
governing British commonwealth like adjacen
Canada today?
fN JULY 1 the attack on independence was
w led by John Dickinson of Pennsylvania
accepted as deeply sincere. For one thing, Dick
inson argued that a vote
make Britain intensify
inevitable defeat lor Gen. Washington s army.
John Adams was the chief replier to Dickin
son. He was no orator,
testified that on this occasion Adams was impres
sive. For one thing, the eminently practical colo
nists realized that they
the help of France, and
help unless a piece of
actually to be broken off.
"NLY nine states lined
w tion on July 1. But on
Pennsylvanians shifted
Carolina waited no longer for instructions, Caesar
Rodney arrived to make Delaware 2-1 instead of
1, only New York still
Jefferson had accepted a few suggestions
irom nis ieiiow committeemen m nis Declara
tion. He said later it had not been his duty to
LL J T ti il M AA
invent new laeas aitogetneiy nor to oner any
sentiment never expressed before. Even so the
debate on July 4, a hot,
The South had to be appeased by deleting Jeffer
son s diatribe against the
THE first part of the Declaration expresses the
philosophy, deriving largely from John Locke,
that government was a
reneges on his end of the
are released from their
oi me Declaration itemizes now lieorge ill naa
reneged.
The members had
copies of the Declaration, and a new and clean
copy was ordered. (The one from which the
printer worked disappeared.) So only John Han
cock, president of the
on July 4. Embossed on parchment, the Declara
tion was signed by the Congress on Aug. 2 and
later. New members had come along, and several
signed the Declaration who had not voted for it,
and several members on July 4 never did sign.
L.K.R.
Hospital Insurance Higher
Hospital insurance costs more all tlie time,
because hospitalization costs more all the time.
Whereas physicians' fees averaged from 60 per
cent to 75 per cent higher between 1936 and 1956,
rates for hospital rooms jumped ho less than
265 per cent.
Hence many state insurance commissioners,
in sanctioning higher premiums for hospital insur
ance, have stipulated at the same time that steps
be taken to cut costs. The New York officials
told the Blue Cross it could make "some econo
mies" in its advertising, personnel costs, office
and other administrative expenses.
UOSPITALS also are under pressure to save,
1 by joint purchasing, sharing equipment,
standardizing costs, using beds and facilities
more effectively, better accounting practices.
Even within the same geographical area the costs
often vary sharply between one hospital and
another.
And doctors in treating insured Americans
about three in every four of us are being
warned against unnecessaiy operations, unneces
sarily high fees, unnecessaiy commitments to hos
pitals, unnecessarily long hospital stays. Such
practices, runs the warning, could make the insur
ing agency price itself out of the market.
And that in turn would threaten the whole
present voluntary system. E.R.R.
4, 1776
tnat ougnt to be "com
it.
What the Congress did
a statement explaining
2 vote.
some debate, further
to July 1, so tnat some
instructions from back
named a committee to
supporting the Lee reso
on independence proves
Lee resolution was even
have achieved full inde
developed into a self-
for independence would
its military effort, with
but Jefferson himself
could hardly win without
that France would hardly
the British empire was
up for the Lee resolu
July 2 a majority of the
to .independence, South
abstained.
sultry day, was intense.
slave trade.
compact. When a ruler
agreement, his people
part. The second part
heavily interlined their
Congress, signed for it
Dennis the Menace
Washington Report
By William
HOMING CHICKENS
Washington The postwar
world has seen no blacker
example of chickens coming
home to roost
than is now
sadly apparent
in the Leba
non crisis.
No American
can take any
pleasure
in this. But no
American
should refuse
ivillam S White lO lOOB. dk 11
A- 1 1- i. Si.
squarely, if only for lessons
for the future.
For the situation illustrates
that in certain things and at
certain times nothing could be
more dangerously irrelevant
than any party label. .
The Eisenhower Adminis
tration' is twice cruelly self-
fettered in its honest desire to
end in Lebanon a Communist-
backed conspiracy to press the
West farther and farther back
in the strategically vital
Middle East
TN the first place, this Ad-
ministration came to power
in 1952 in part because of a
savagely partisan and pro
foundly irresponsible Repub
lican attack on the Korean
War. Whatever its shortcom
ings, that was war tougnt oy
the Truman Administration as
the one practical means of re
sisting a Soviet drive in Asia
similar in purpose to what is
now going on in the Middle
East.
Those in this country who
had responsibility for Korea
were bitterly repudiated and
politically destroyed. And re
pudiated, too, was the whole
concept of fighting "brush
fire" wars as alternatives to
intolerable Soviet expansion
and then a third world war
No politician Republican
or Democrat has forgotten
what happened to those poli
ticians who put in with the
Korean action. ,
Thus, what the Republicans
themselves did as to Korea, to
break public toleration of lim
ited warfare, now turns upon
them. To a significant degree
they are enfeebled and made
timid in their own approach
to what may become the ter
rible necessities of Lebanon.
In the second place, the Ei
senhower Administration late
in 1956 joined the Russians in
condemning the British,
French and Israelis for their
attempt, by mvasion of
Egypt, to sanitize the center
of Communist infection in the
Middle East. That center is
still there, only more virulent
now.
THOUGH in 1956 action
against that invasion was
no doubt within the spirit of
the United Nations, it was a
hopeful evasion and a sterile
legalism and nothing more.
Moreover, it compromised the
last remnant of real British
power in the Middle East and
left the United States holding
a very ugly baby.
The first lesson for the fu
ture is that the country simply
cannot afford extreme parti
sanship in world affairs
certainly not in a hot war or
in a cold war that might at
any moment burst into flame.
The Democrats, whose backs
are still sore from the blows
of 1952,. are under great temp
tation to seek partisan re
venge in the difficulties that
the Eisenhower Administraton
has so largely created for it
self.
The question now is wheth
er they will heed the demands
of national safety and refrain.
Inquiry among them indicates
that they will.. No party has
better reason to undertsand
the impermissible danger of
any other course.
The attitude of powerful
Democrats, in the Senate and
elsewhere, suggests that they
will be critical of the Admin-
S. White
1
istrauon u we become in
volved in Lebanon but will
basically support the enter
prise.
Some believe intervention
by us and the British, even
under U. N. sanction, might
do more harm than good
They fear this would make it
politicaUy impossible for our
remaining friends in the Mid
dle East notably the leaders
of Iraq and Jordan to re
main our friends. For, of
course, anti-Western propa
gandists would raise a hissing
all over the valley of the Nile
that the West was moving
imperialistically."
iiLVJ!.nxiiJ!,jJjii&s, t n.e s e
same Democrats will do
nothing, if the chips must
come down, to harass the con
duct of operations. Those who
may mutter angrily will also
have their shoulders to the
wheel. There will be no real
political division in Washing
ton.
As to the second lesson,
figures of incontestable loyal
ty to the U.N. are increasing
ly perturbed by its limitations.
They have told this corres
pondent that they can sum
mon little faith in the Middle
Eastern mission of the U.N.
Secretary General, Dag Ham-
marskjold, though they have
the highest respect for him.
As they see it, he necessar
sues of the Middle East agai
ily approaches the harsh
issues of the Middle East
against the background of all
that he is. He is heir to a centuries-old
Scandinavian faith
in neutrality which has never
understood the sometimes-
necessary use of naked power.
And his instrumentality, the
U.N., must in the end flinch
from naked power. In short,
these men believe that the
U.N. will no more clear up the
Middle East in 1958 than it
did in 1956. They do not wish
in any way to injure the U.N.
They simply want people to
see it for what it is not, and
cannot be, as well as what it
is, lest public disillusion at
length destroy it.
(Copyright, 1958. by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Editorial
Comment
SHARPSHOOTING AT
THE SEATON BILL
The Seaton bill to provide
for orderly disposition of
Klamath reservation assets,
in connection with termina
tion, which passed the senate
without opposition, is under
fire in the house.
It may not be able to get
through that body without
some changes from the senate
version, but the people of Ore
gon have a great stake in see
ing that it is not amended to
death or defeated outright.
Among the principles which
must be preserved are those
of a fair deal for the Indians,
sustained yield operation of
the 4,000,000,000 board feet
of timber and protection of
the Upper Klamath marsh as
a waterfowl refuge.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger,
who spearheaded the passage
of this administration - spon
sored bill through the senate,
is rightly outraged at the tac
tics of the National Lumber
Manufacturers associ a t i o n,
which, in attempting to kill
the bill in the house, is using
the name of an Oregon lum
berman in its attack.. The
NLMA had earlier . declined
to testify at hearings either
in the senate or house. Sen.
Neuberger contrasts this with
the attitude of the Weyer
haeuser Timber company,
which had some reservations
about the original Seaton bill
but is wililng to support it
with minor changes, changes
Matter of Fact
MUNICH IN BEIRUT
Washington Nothing quite
like the Anglo-American per
formance in the Lebanon has
the world
stage since
C h amberlain
and Deladier
made their
exits. That is
4 the first point
one- wants .to
mil ting home
Stewart Aisop again.
The similarities of the Leb
anese crisis to the Munich
crisis are in fact rather num
erous. Britain and France
guaranteed the independence
of Czechoslovakia, because
they knew that a successful
attack on Czechoslovakia
would make Hitler the master
of all of Europe.
In the same fashion, the
United States and Britain
promised to protect the in
dependence of the Lebanon,
because they knew that a
successful attack on Lebanon
would make Egypt's Gamal
Abdel Nasser the master of
all the Arab lands of the Mid
dle East.
In both cases, friendship
had its role in the quarantees
that were given. But in both
cases, the role of friendship
was minor. The real reason
for guarantees was the urgent
need to protect the vital in
terests of the nations that
gave the guarantees. Yet in
both cases, these same nations
began to wriggle and writhe
and delay doing what they
had promised to do, just as
soon as the real crunch began.
TT IS too early to say, as yet,
whether the Lebanese
crisis 'will end in a Middle
Eastern Munich. But it is by
no means too early to say
that a heavy price will have
to be paid, in one way or
another, for the wriggling
and writhing and delaying of
the last month.
The chief responsibility for
all this wriggling and writh
ing furthermore rests on the
American government. Wash
ington pleaded for delay, it
can now be revealed, while
London long ago urged honest
fact-facing and quick action.
If the original guarantee to
Lebanon was right, London
was certainly right.
At the outset, of course, it
was entirely natural for the
Washington and London policy-makers
to hope that the
Lebanese would be able to
solve, their own problem.
Within two weeks after the
crisis began, however, it was
already clear that the Leban
ese could not do anything of
the sort. Theoretically, per
haps, the Lebanese Army
sjjjg fjj
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Partisan Persiflage
To the Editor: I believe
most of your readers can rec
ognize, without help from me,
that the statements made by
Fay Bristol in his letter of
June 16, 1958, are partisan
opinions, not facts. 1 11 not at
this time comment on his
opinions about Talent and Al
Sarena although I'd be glad
to point out his errors if any
one is interested.
What I want to make sure
is that none of your readers
mistakes Mr. Bristol's opin
ions about my interest in min
ing for facts. Although I can't
recall any letters from him, I
have received many communi
cations from miners in the
which Neuberger says he is
willing to accept.
It should be pointed out
that the Western Pine associa
tion, which opposed the Sea
ton bill in the senate, has
made no move against it in
the house. Western Pine had
taken the 'position that some
change had to be made in
public law 587, which will be
come effective unless the
Seaton bill passes this session.
Western Pine had stated that
present law would have a
"catastrophic" effect on the
Klamath area economy, would
give the Indians less than fair
value and lead to unsound
forestry practices.
The point to be remember
ed now is that the Seaton bill
is the only alternative to pub
lic law 587, and this is the
last opportunity for change.
It's either the Seaton bill or
chaos, and this is recognized
by many people in the lumber
industry for whom the NLMA
does not speak. It is recog
nized by leadership of both
political parties in Oregon.
Nor is it a partisan issue in
Washington, D. C.
It is hoped that the broad
base of support which this
measure has will outweigh in
the minds of house members
the effects of -the NLMA's
snapshooting. Oregon Jour
nal, Portland.
Joseph AIiop
Commander, Gen. Shehab
might still have crushed the
rebellion by more determined
action. Practically, however,
it was clear that President
Chamoun could not induce
Gen. Shehab to take such ac
tion.
flNCE this unpleasant fact
had been 'established by
experience it was fully es
tablished about a month ago
the whole picture was auto
matically transformed. It was
no longer reasonable to hope
that the problem would be
solved by the Lebanese alone
Hence it 'became desirable to
come to the aid of the Leb
anese government as rapidly
and as decisively as possible
Everything ought to have
been done to encourage Presi
dent Chamoun to ask for our
aid at once, if we meant to aid
him at all.
A 1 ...
instead, everything was
done to discourage President
Chamoun- from asking for the
aid that we had promised
Our reiterated pleas, added to
Chamoun s own natural hesi
tations, were entirely success
ful. Thus a month has passed,
in which the situation has
worsened immeasurably.
The rebels in Lebanon have
been heavily reinforced and
have dug themselves in rather
strongly during this wasted
month. Passions in Lebanon
have risen, too, and it has be
come far harder to solve the
political problem of legally
electing a legal successor to
President Chamoun.
jiurisiuji; the .Lebanon, in
" this, wasted month, our
own indecision has tempted
some of our best friends, es
pecialy Canada and the Scan
dinavian countries, to take
the curious position that we
have no right to comply with
an allied government's re
quest to safeguard it from ex
ternal attack. The same in
decision has also tempted the
Soviet Union to begin to
strike threatening attitudes
In sum, what could have been
done quite cheaply a month
ago can only be done now
with much risk and cost.
Meanwhile, although still
admitting that the subversion
of Lebanese independence will
be a mortal blow to Western
interests, we are still placing
the whole burden of decision
on the shoulders of President
Chamoun. Alone and without
advice, he is to decide wheth
er we come to his aid before
it is too late. Thus the great
powers of the West1 are in
effect allowing the beleaguer
ed President of little Lebanon
to decide their whole future
policy in the Middle East,
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
name and address of the writer,
the use of a pen name or initial
the case. -
Grants Pass area and else
where. I hope to receive more.
Ask Bruce Manley of Med
ford or Hollis Dole, the State
Director of Geology and Min
eral Industries, who spent
several weeks in Washington
recently, whether I am sym
pathetic and cooperative.
There are serious problems
in the development of our
mineral resources, whether
chrome, nickel, gold or some
thing else. I've still a lot to
learn, no doubt about that,
but to say as a fact as Mr
Bristol does that "all" I've
done is "try to discredit any
mining in the State of Ore
gon" comes under the heading
of partisan persiflage. I'll con
tinue to oppose timber-mining
in the National Forests and to
support in every way I can
bona fide mining ventures.
Charles O. Porter
Member of Congress
Honesty in Medford
To the Editor: On our vaca
tion. I made a 'phone call in
Medford to my brother's
home on Pioneer rd., from
Standard station No. 632 (at
237 North Central ave.). Why
I left my address book, Stand
ard and also Union oil credit
cards, I'll never know. We
were in a hurry- Next day we
went back and Mr. Jim Hobbs,
manager, had mailed it to me
the night before. We offered
him money for a reward, but
this he refused. This is just
to show there are some hon
est neonle. and most of all the
kind gentleman who found
my book in the phone booth
and gave it to Mr. Hobbs. we
thank him kindly.
I lived in Medford three
years before World War II on
the Frank Bybee ranch, and
made many friends. We have
been here in Pomona since,
and every year we have vaca
tion, we go back to Medford
to visit relatives and friends,
also hunt rocks. This time we
made it as far as Agate Beach,
Ore., for one night only, and
back home, fast as we could
(By M-T Staff
In a word, that was a spec
tacular storm a week ago to-
day.
The police log, in describ
ing the plight of the man
trapped in his car when a live
electric wire fell across it,
stated that "Mr. Staten ap
peared to be nervous." Well,
with 2,400 volts shooting
through the car who in heck
wouiont appear nervous?
Another nervous individual
was the big collie dog that
lives across the street, and
whose owners were gone dur
ing the storm. He took shelter
at our house, cuddling up to
the man of the house (of
whom he'd been a bit leery
before) and sticking his head
under the man s arm.
Finally the dog came right
into the house, and paced,
trembling, back and forth,
rather to the unhappiness of
the dog that lives there.
As the lightning flashed and
the thunder cracked, another
neighbor (this one human)
and his son dropped by. And
the embattled group three
adults, three youngsters and
two frightened dogs watched
and listened as the rain
rushed down in rivers.
The dogs weren't the only
ones upset by the sudden on
slaught. The householder and
his wife were sitting on the
sofa by the widow when the
first lightning bolt struck
seemingly only a few feet
away and the thunder
crashed at almost the same
split second. Suddenly he
found his wife sitting on his
lap, quivering. This hasn't
happened in years.
And one of the more popu
lar western TV shows was
cut off by the storm just as
the hero had been shot and
pronounced dead, leaving the
fans breathless to know
whether he came out of it all
right.
Up around Hiatt lake,
en of the residents claim
ed that tha hailstorm piled
the icy pellets 18 Inches
deep near the lake, and that
cars had to be winched
over the road to the resort
area. A man who heard him
suspects he's getting fish
stories and weather stories
mixed.
Speaking of Hiatt ' lake,
does anyone know, FOR
SURE,- how it's supposed to
be spelled?
It is spelled Hiatt by some,
Hyatt by others, and both
appear to have equally re
spectable bona fides. The bu
reau of reclamation says it
should be "i" and cites as
authority the U.S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey. But a B. of
R. map. and a sign at thejake,
both spell it with a "y." we
have two county maps in the
office, both "official" ones.
One spells it Hiatt, the other
Hyatt.
What's a 'poor confused
newspaper reporter to do?
A large group of people
visited Hiatt (or Hyatt) the
other day on a tour of the
Talent project, and one of
the men that went along
reports a wide yariety in
wearing apparel en the trip.
A local man, lie said, wore
a bright plaid sports cap,
together with a set of khaki
pants and shirt, making
him look like a retired
officer of a Highland regi
ment. In fact, our man said,
he looked more like a
colonel than the only REAL
colonel that went along.
.
He added that, periodical
ly, there was an interesting
snac dod and crackle heard
during the walking part of
the triD.
It wasn't breakfast food, he
explained: just the joints of
some of the more sedentary
members as they got up from
their rest periods and started
walking again.
Now that school's out,
kids are underfoot more
and more, and we have a
report from one of our con
fidential observers of the
passing scene who say that .
the tempers of more and
more mothers are getting to
the breaking point, as the
"little devils' get more and
more obstreperous. But, he
says, he really didn't realize
how far it had gone until he
saw a recent, story from a
local 4-H club, in which
one of the members said
that the program concluded
when "two of the members'
kids were also dehorned."
We received a letter last
week which read, in part, as
follows:
drive, and made it in time to
go back to work.
Will be in Medford on va
cation next year, among hon
est people.
Susie and Clarence Goodin
1780 James Place
Pomona, Calif.
and Contributors)
"... A week ago Tuesday
I went home to supper to find
things strangely disarranged
in my small apartment. The
tumbler and toothpaste were
in the washbowl, the toaster
was on the table instead of
the shelf, the geranium was
resting upside down on the
African violet, the screw top
was off the jam jar, the paper
napkins were crumpled and
scattered over the floor, and '
the Readers' Digest I had been
reading at lunch was riddled.
Yet every door and window
was closed and fastened, and
nobody seemed to be within.
"After half an hour of per
fect quiet, I heard a stirring
just as I was about to leave.
I couldn't find anything, but
when I called, out from be
hind the refrigerator crept a
little grey squirrel who ap
parently had . been napping
there in a nest she was mak
ing of paper napkins and
Readers' Digests.
"She must have come in
during the morning when I
was at home and been shut up
when I went to work at noon.
She's been there before, on
what I thought was a purely
social call. I had no idea she
was 'casing the joint'."
The same letter, reported
on another couple who live
in the country, and who re
cently found a little brow
snake in the silverwaae
drawer.
Back to the storm again,
and here's a note we found
the day after, from a man we
know who takes great pride
in his gardening:
"As one of the refugees .
from the hail-devastated areas
of Medford, I should like to
report that we are facing
shredded lettuce, crushed
corn - stalks, broken and
mangled berry vines, a half-a-tree-load
of plums on the
ground, twisted and broken
artichokes, macerated spin
ach, mangled tomatoes, crush
ed apples (no cider), frizzled
gladiolus, frowzy daisies;
feathered rhubarb, degoosed
gooseberries, eclipsed sun
flowers, obliterated pansies,
diced onions, denuded carrots
and depilated asparagus.
"However, we are deeply
grateful for not having a
greenhouse, because it could
have been much worse."
Some of the good people
of San Francisco, keeping
in mind the current furore
over Sherman Adams, and
so on, must have been
startled at a recent headline
in one of the S.F. papers,
which, in large type, said:
"White House Sold; Top
Aides Named. Sale Brings
$2,850,000." Down In the
story it explained that the
transaction was not what
one might expect these 9
days, but involved the sale
of a San Francisco store
named "The White House."
In f he Day's Newt
By FRANK JENKXYS
On the cold war front:
For weeks we've been dis
cussing with the Kremlin the
idea of holding a meeting of
nuclear scientists to see what
can be done in the way of
making a ban on testing of
nuclear weapons (atom and
hydrogen bombs) workable.
The -meeting was scheduled
for Geneva (Switzerland) next
Tuesday.
Then, the Russians eame
through with a statement that
they won't attend the meeting
unless the United States
agrees in advance to END
THE TESTING OF NU
CLEAR WEAPONS.
TS THAT bad?
- What real good can come of
making agreements with peo
ple (or nations) whose word
you can't rely on?
THE Moscow radio promptly
unleashes a new propa
ganda attack on the West.
The broadcast condemns the
segregation situation in the
United States. It says the up
roar over recent Hungarian
executions was "drowned out
by U. S. machine guns turned
on the Lebanese people."
The Kremlin "reds also
blasted, the French for their
stand in North Africa and the
1956 invasion of Egypt.
ITfHArS it all about? -'
It sounds like the old
technique of the pot calling
the kettle black.
LETS be serious for a mo
ment. The purpose of the Krem
lin communists is to conquer
the world for communism.
They will be diverted from
that purpose only by a clear
showing that the free world
is too strong and too tough to
be tackled.
Our job is to STAY
STRONG.