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Newspaper Page TextI 4 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2C&1980 f jr. EVrua, , suuuwrn Oreioo tllO'-'c Rfiftdl Tha Mill Tribunal id; Published Dally axcept SituriiTBjr S3 North fir St. Ph SP 1-1141 R&BERT W BUHL, editor .t'RERB GREY Advf.tiilni Manaiar ...CERAUJI LATHAM But Mcr '''ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mni Editor .-JARL H ADAMS. City Editor "RICHARD JEWETT. Sport! Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKaOH. ClrcUlaUOfl MT . An Indapendant Nawipapar Vntored aa aecond elata mattar Mtdford, Oregon, under Aot of March J, 1197 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy lOe Daily ana sunaar -i year tio w Dally and Sunday 4 moe. 1.04 ounoay moe. i year nao Dally and Sunday Dunoay vruy uni n By Carrier In Adrince Medio Aahland, Centra) Point El ill Point, Jaekionvllle. Gold mil Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rftfut Riv er, .in enu m uiuwi imuivs. Dally and Sunday 1 veer 111 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. lio Carrier and Dealart copy lOo All Termi caan in Aovance "official Paper of CliTer MedforT Official Paper of JatHmm CotmtT united prett mterneuonai Full Leaied Wire fl.P.l. Telenhato Newmlcturea MEMBER Of AUDifBflrlXATr Or CIIICULATIUWO AAvrHdne Rinreiftntltlva mcr Hot.mAV CO.. INC Of. fleet In New York-. Chleafo. Da- trolt, sen Francitco. uot Anieiet. Seattle, Portland St. Louli. At lanta, Vancouver, p.t;. Km NlWSrArM UillSHEti ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI in Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlitory from thi file ol Thl Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vein age. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1950 (Wtdneidty) There are now some 11,484 students enrolled in Jackson county's 25 public ind two private schools. Republicans now outnum ber - Democrats in Jackion county by a total of 13,909 to 12,134, according to the coun- ty clerk, 20 YEARS AGO Sect. 20. 1940 (Friday) The public has been asked by Mcdford's National De fense committee to take part in a scndolf of local soldiers who are going to Ft. Lewis tomorrow. '' From Arthur Perry'l "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The deer hunting heason opened today. The first hunters re turned around noon, with no luck, outside of getting back.' 30 YEARS AGO Sect. 20. 1930 (Saturday). v'The Owen Oregon mill Ji e r e plans to operate one shift througnout tne winter, V The state labor convention &11I be held here next month 'Chief of police says Juvenile delinquency has become a ser- ious problem here - j . 40 YEARS AGO Bepl. 20, 1920 (Monday) More signatures are need. ed on petitions seeking trans fer of the county courthouse from Jacksonville to Med ford. Local police started round' Jng up motorists today who have not yet obtained tneir 1920 license plates. SO YEARS AOO Sept. 20. 1910 (Tuesday) Jackson county Is approxi mately $130,000 in debt this year despite a state statute which limits county debt to 15.000. A knifing here yesterday reportedly grew out of an argument over who won a SO cent poker pot. One man was seriously wounded. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine et lea correct It MM'taU wan oi eioht It etftllentl Hvl w III It toed. 1. Wai the prohibition amendment (18th) repealed In 1933, 1934, or 1935? 2. Name the patron saint of Ireland. 3. A motorist drives his au tomobile 40,000 milts, equally tiring all five tires; how many miles has each tire traveled? 4. Are the remains of Abra ham Lincoln burled In the Lincoln Memorial In Wash ington, D. C? 5. What color is the antithe sis of black? 6. In which Stale is tin Erie Canal?- : 7., Are ther a total of 32, 64, 'or 98 squares on s checker board? 8. in which country was the famous Maginot defense line built before W. W. U? 9, 'Bogala it the capital of which South American country?'- i 10. Name the New York Ji(ald reporter who greeted a Scottish missionary In deep Africa with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Answers, 1, 1933. 1. It. Pat rick. 3. 32.000 miles. 4. No, In Springfield. 111. I. White. 8. New York. 7. 14. I. franca. . Colombia. 10. Henry M. 'Stanley. National Health Plan The doctors of America (and we personally know of only one exception) are violently against any form of national (government) health in surance. They are against the principle of administer ing a health service for the elderly through the existing mechanism of Social Security. Their stated reason for this is that it is an opening door to "socialized medicine." , And this they can't abide. The alternatives they suggest are expansion oi tne existing weltare medical services with state and federal participation, plus more wide spread voluntary health insurance. e e f)UR position (and that of what appears to be to be an overwhelming majority of non-doc- turs, ii puna, qutmiunnaii es ana leuers-io-con-gressmen are any criteria) is that the best way of financing medical care for the elderly is inrougn tne social security mechanism. This would provide for nre-naid health in. surance, utilize an agency which is already in ousiness and set up for the job, and avoid the pauper-chanty connotations of welfare health services. The differences in opinion appear to be ir reconcilable. And it is a rare doctor, indeed, who will dare to open his mouth to support govern ment-sponsored health programs, even if he tmnKs that approach is proper. e e SE KNOW of one, however. He isn't an Amer- v ipan ' Vul'o a Pon-arlluri TTia Vir,vi n ficlrta o,-rt substantial. Dr. Harry Paikin, M.D., is a G.P. in Hamil ton, Ontario, where he is a member of the board of education and the board of health, former chairman of both. He is president of the Ontario Urban and Kural School Trustees' association, and a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and byphilology. He thus qualifies as an experienced M.D., as well as a man who knows his way around m gov ernment. In the Aug. 27 issue of Maclean's Magazine he is the author of an article entitled "A Doctor's Case for State Medicine." It is prefaced by this statement: "The medical profession's bitter fight against E repaid government medical plans is a losing attle for a wrong cause, an angry doctor con tends. State medicine has to come, he says, for everyone's sake including the doctors'." DECAUSE this is a live issue, not to say a hot one, in the United States today, we quote rather extensively from his article : ". . . It (a government operated prepaid medical plan) wilt be the best thing that ever happened to the doctors themselves especially if trey hove the wit to join enthusiastically In its plannlug. "Doctor! who spent their time and money fruit lessly to tight (against it) seem to believe they're stand ing up for their rights. In a sense, they are. They're standing up for: "The right to spend much of their time acting as unpaid investigators for private medical-insurance com- panics, by answering endless questions that probe the patient's ability to work keeping for this purpose mounds of otherwise useless records. " The right to work 60 or 70 hours a week while most people work 40, and to enjoy vacations without pay. -' ' " The right to pursue uninsured defaulting pa ... tienti through the frustration and embarrassment of the collection agency and the small claims court. " The right to be asleep on their feet and only half. ' efficient at day's end, largely from doing work that nurses and technicians could do. " The right of young' doctors who lack connec nectlons to starve before building up a practice. " And the traditional inalienable right to feel ' that all this somehow makes them dedicated, although what they're dedicated TO Is questionable. "In short, under the system they dismiss as social ized medicine, among the lives the doctors save will be their own , , . "Myoplcally, they persist In seeing medicine as a business, where you sell so much healing skill for so much recompense, instead of as a public service to ' which every citizen has a right, like education and police protection ... . "Some specialists In England are actually earning more today than they ever did without socialized medicine. But will even the average . . . practitioner find himself less secure financially under a pre-paid medical plan? Look at him today. He doesn't have the . low-cost insurance and pension benefits available to , nearly any factory hand; he has no minimum work " week; no guarantee the patient will pay him promptly, or at all, and no Job security . . . "In addition to what a government-operated plan will guarantee patients, it must contain guarantees for doctors, in other words, It's time the doctors stopped fighting socialized medicine and started demanding ' that It be brought along quickly, and with them In mind. "Of course, doctors will protest that they LIKE their current working conditions, that they love filling out all those repetitive forms, that they delight In losing 80 cents on a $5 house-call fee because a private insurance carrier is lo top-heavy with clerical coit "Education and health, freely available to all, are the two pillars that will support . . . the ancient Ideal of healthy minds and healthy bodies. We've built two-thirds of the educational pillar free com pulsory schools and free secondary schools . . , "Thli would make It easier to build the second pillar of universal health, on which we've made hesi tant beginnings with our medical welfare plans, our hospital Insurance, our free tuberculosis x-Rays and our free Salk shots. A young doctor assured of security, who hasn't had to endure grinding penury as student and intern for eight or nine years, will surely be more likely to remember one of the high concepts of his profession; NON M AGISTER SED - MINISTER Be not master but tha lervant of humanity." Dennis the Menace I feor Gee wwz iVe hao VGTAetzs4$r n3ht y Question of Red China's Joining U.N. Remains; Balance Shifts in Memebrship By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor For 10 years, largely due to the efforts of the United States, Red China has been banned from member ship in the United Nations. But from this day on, the United States may be fighting a rear- guard and losing ac phil NEWso.M tion. Ironical ly, the new or under-develop ed, nations which have the most to fear from aggressive Communism probably will e the ones to open Red China's way into the world organiza tion. Last year, with the help of European, Latin American and some Asian states, the United States successfully staved off for the ninth time Red China's membership bid This year, Cuba has broken, tions from the scourge oi the solid Latin American front and 14 new African na. tions are now scheduled for UN membership. Most of the latter can be listed in the neutralist bloc and all of them have been assiduously wooed by the Reds. Their membership could bring about a decisive change in the voting which last year was 44-29 against Red China Arguments Still Good Neither in the United States nor among its allies is there unanimity for the U.S. stand. But the arguments against Red China remain as valid now as they ever were. The United Nations charter adopted in 1945 in San Fran cisco begins with a brave statement of determination "to save succeeding genera- war. It provided membership for all "peace-loving states which accept the obligations" of the charter and which "are capable and willing to carry out these obligations. It also provides that any member which consistently violates these obligations may h xnelled. In arguing its case last year, the United States cnarg- ed that the reiping regime had massacred "thousands" of Tibetans and had "kept it self in power by bloody purg es and by the uouiaation oi some 18 million Chinese in nine years." It also accused Red unina of promoting six foreign or civil wars-Korea, Tibet, Indo China, the Philippines, Mala ya and Laos. The argument asserted that to admit such a country to tht UN would "make a mockery of our charter and rob it of all . . . moral authority." Those arguments, valid a year ago, still are valid, with the added emphasis that once more Red Chinese supported Communist guerillas are at tempting to take over Laos. About the most effective argument used by those who favor Red China's member, ship la that it is a force in being, controlling tha lives of 600 million people, and that no world organization can hope to function effectively and ignore it. The question is not so much whether the UN can properly function without Red China. It is rather, can it function with Red China and still pretend to adhere ts its own charter? ... Communications ... Letters ts the Editor must bear tha name and addrass of tha writer, although under eartain drcumstancas the usa of a pan name or initial for publication U permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves tha right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper) in fact tne contrary is otten me case. Why Wait? To the Editor: I went to see the first two Medford High school football games, was pleased with the out- come of both games. There was practically SRO at both Now is the time to build another grandstand at the field. It has been suggested before that the old stand should be removed and re placed. I'd suggest the new stand be at least 120 yards long, extending from the end of each end zone and at least as high as the present hew stand. The first cry we will hear is that it will cost too much Wait for lower prices, or just wait. Some of us have spent our entire lives wailing, but for what? Let's roll up our sleeves and get the job done, Another suggestion on the same subject. Let us (Med lorcmes) put away our masks" and turn in our shooting irons" to the local marshal" and have the Med- ford-Ashland . rivalry con fined only to athletic con tests, and then just among the participant!. Let's invite SOC to have all their home games at Medford High field. Let's set up a FAIR rent for the stadium use. either percent age or flat, and invite them to help pay for this project. The same could of course be extended to Crater, which Is scheduled to play Grants Pass there this year. Shall we get started on this project. Or shall be wait another 10 years? Robert L. Brantley Route 3, Box 59-B Medford. ALL this, of course, smacks of a doctrine which doctors will find subversive or seditious, if not actually treasonable. But there is some sense u u. And. note. Dr. Paiken is talking about Can- ha U talUfna About n total OU(l IIWV WlC VefcJ v nv health plan, not the very limited one proposed lor the elderly in tnis country. Mavbe someday the United States will begin to catch up with Canada, Britain, Germany, Den mark, Norway and Sweden in exercising its re sponsibilities for the health of its citizens. E.A. Didn't Do Any Good To the Editor: It was evt dently your intention to stir up the 111 feelings for the vet eran at White City, against your fair city of Medford. This was evident by your re cent editorial against the vet eran. Unprovoked editorial at that. H is my belief that you have succeeded well and that you have done neither your self, nor your advertisers, any good. Malomute Slim (Edwin C. Gearhart Sr.) White City, Ore. Gintlemen Candidates To the Editor: Mr. F, J. Clifford's letter under the caption of "What is 'Fair'?" generates more heat than It does facta or logic. The best that he is able to say for can didate Nixon is that ha is a "gentleman." Not knowing what Mr. Clifford's definition of a gen tleman is, we cannot argue that point. By the same tok en we Infer that he implies that Candidate Kennedy is not a gentleman, nor fair. We are in no position to argue that either. If Mr. Clifford wants to say name calling Is fair or logic he may. ' What we would like to know is: What point does he wish to ejtablish? Is 't that his conception of a gen tlcman Is better presidential material than that of some one else? This writer will concede that both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy are gentlemen. Both are honorable men. Both are patriotic men. Both arc reli gious men. Both are opportu nistic men. Both are politi cians. Both want to be presi dent. Both are in this to win. As for getting hot and both ered about tactics pursued or to be followed by the two candidates Is a matter of choice with them. This is America. We live under a Capitalist economic system and a welfare social system. That Is . a "class" social system. Both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy have relative views on our economic and social systems. Mr. Nixon chooses to adhere to the term conser vative, which implies that he favors the political ideas the upper strata of our social system. Mr. Kennedy is member of that upper strata and he chooses to dub him self a liberal, which implies that he is willing to throw few crumbs to the lower stra ta of our society; especially those who are about to die. As far as ridiculing and castigating our political lead ers that have gone before from Grover Cleveland to our president at this time well, all of us have our con victions, and they are de termined by our knowledge, and economic and social circumstances. Therefore it is the conviction of this writer that more serious thought and less emotional heat will better solve our critical so cial problems, both at home and abroad. ,The Democrats, including Mr. Kennedy, realize that we have fallen into second place in the family of nations, and want to do something about it. As to what, no one is quite clear: at least they don t say But the Republicans and Southern Democrats are hopeless. We will vote Ken nedy. Walter Reese Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Facts Compatible To the Editor: In light of Senator Kennedy s most rec ent statements in regard to his belief, complete separation of Church and State, one would think that this so-called religious issue would be si lenced once and for all. However, it appears that this will not be the case. All reasonable questions which the American voter had the right to ask in regard to the Democratic candidate's stand on this issue have been un equivocally answered. There fore, I suggest that any furth er discussion, is nothing less than a calculated attempt by some people in this country to discredit the . Catholic Church itself. ' ' I for one would like to go to the polls in November with clear and objective mind, However; it Is becoming in creastngly difficult to main- tain any degree of objectivity in the face of these attacks on my religion. Granted, the intelligent American who has taken the trouble to investigate will not be affected ' by this type of bigotry. Yet there are those fair minded people among us, who, having seen a statement or article in print, believe it to be absolute truth. . . The resultant suspicion and istrust can only lead to further disunity at a time when all of must be ready to stand behind our next Presi dent, whether he is Mr. Nixon or Senator Kennedy, Protest ant or Catholic, Republican or Democrat. I am an American; I am also a Catholic two facts of which I ' am equally proud and which I find are com pletely compatible. Mona Austin (Mrs. Alex J. Austin) Route 4, Box 369-B Medford. Teddy. HST or Aba To the Editor: It ts with a good deal of shame that I write these lines. In the M.T. of Friday we see a woman from our embassy In Cuba be ing held by Castro. Never in our history have we paid tribaXe to an arrogant dicta tor, such as this. Our president of the United States fiddles with his golf clubs, our vice president and i his wife receive the spit of mobs in Latin America, our president is only allowed in a few countries to hold aloft his arms and acknowledge the cheers of people we have giv en lots of money to. President Eisenhower's ad ministration will go down in history as slightly above the one of Warren Harding, cniei- ly because there wasn t so much corruption, but not be cause there wasn t any. Oh, for a Teddy Roosevelt or a Harry Truman, tney were not afraid to step on the voters' toes. If one of these men were in office, we would be able to hold up our heads, According to a piece in tne paper, Mr. Nixon has had his eyebrows plucked to enhance his aDDeal to the women vot ers. Do you want him or his ilk? As a veteran of World Wars I and II. as an Episcopa lian, raised, confirmed, and married in an Episcopalian church, not a Catholic, I can not think of "Honest Abe" of about 100 years ago, and of "Tricky Dick" of today with out remorse. Frank D. Casey Horse Creek, Calif. Impeach Herterl To the Editor: Secretary oi State Christian Hcrter's be trayal of South Korea is vivid ly described in the June, 1960 issue oi "American opin ion," Page 6, as follows: "During the past 15 years our Government has played a leading part in all the decep tive procedures for handing over one nation after another to the Communist tyranny. But NEVER, even in the worst days of Dean Acheson and his good friend Alger Hiss, has it done anything to equal in ncfariousness the deliberate betrayal of Syngman Rhee and his South Koreans; im posing on South Korea, by force and by pressures of our Government, the rule of a small, noisy, dirty, vicious, Communist-led minority." So much for our State De partment's callous and consci enceless amorality toward South Korea-after more than 50,000 of our boys died there to keep It free. Now-that our State Depart ment favors destroying U.S. Sovereignty over our Canal Zone in Panama is proven by letter to Christian Herter. printed In the Aug. 1, 1960, John Birch Society News Bul letin, in which Congressman Flood tells Mr. Herter, "I am I Candidates Can Rest Easy, as Mr. K Says Both Are 'Lackeys' irrri in mm By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPI) - Nikita Khrushchev has a word for Vice President Richard M, Nixon and MiSSl Sen. John F. word is "lack ey, He has call ed them "lack eys who make a pair. "We have no c h o i c e," ar wav v u .. a.i.... i.. i. c. union r ii i u .iitiicv told an amused audience last month at a Hungarian exhi bition in Moscow. He meant that Kennedy was about as bad as Nixon so far as tne Kremlin was concerned. Both candidates, therefore, may relax a bit from anxiety lest the visiting Russian jolt the presidential campaign oy expressing a choice between them. They probably will not relax, however, because K.nru- shchev is unpredictable. He might reverse himself on the candidates. That possibility could keep the two young men awake at nights. Neither could afford to be loved by Khrushchev. That may have been in the mind of Paul M. Butler last June when he told a Milwau kee audience that he had spot ted Khrushchev's candidate for president of the United States. Butler then was chair man of the Democratic Na tional Committee. Butler said Mr. K. wanted they will neither campaign nor vote for him unless Chris tian Herter is impeached. L. C. Powell, 316 S.E. Eighth st., Grants Pass, Ore. Elephant Language To the Editor: 1 have some bad news for the lady who is a good Democrat and who plans on voting for Dr. Durno. am a good Democrat too and I'm for Porter, so my vote will nullify hers. I'm glad, though, she wrote the letter, as by showing it to friends four Republicans have decided to support Porter. If Ole leapin Lena doesn t blow a fuse or run outa gas, 11 get a lot more converts. The doctor has been quite lavish in his criticism of Mr. Porter s interest in foreign af fairs, and in so doing he is, in a round-about way, ad mitting that Mr. Porter's clear cut evaluation has placed him far ahead of the administra tion in pin-pointing coming hotspots, where an ounce of Teddy's extinguisher would put the fire out before it burst out of control. The administration, including the writing you to give notice , vaunted CIA, in its blindfold- that should a formal display , ed, evasive approach, using of the Panama flag over the Canal Zone be made with the knowledge of your depart ment, members of the House will press for your impeach ment, ' On Aug. 16, 1960, in Miami, former Ambassador to Peru nd Brazil. William D. Paw- ley, labelled Castro as a Com munist enemy, and the worst threat to confront the U.S. in SO years; while maintaining that Trujillo was a true friend of the U.S. So our State Department's brutal severing of diplomatic relations with our staunch antl-Commu.nist ally, Trujillo, and his Dominican Republic, while merely giving Castro itentle "wrist - slapping." should leave no doubt In the mind of any American on which side of the fence Mr. Christian Herter stands. Is there any way In which the American people can stop this man from completely sell ing America and alt our anti- Communist allies down the river? I'll tell the world there is! We can join the (nation wide) effort of the John Birch Society and the multiplied thousands of people who are writing from all corners of this nation to Vice President Nixon, and telling him that t money, soft soap and diplo matic garble, only made mat ters worse. I'm surprised that the doc tor hasn't figured a way to blame Mr. Porter for the 'warm' reception Nixon re ceived on his South Ameri can tour. That will probably come later. Mr. Porter Is for the Fo-rand-Morse bill giving medi cal benefits to retirees. The doctor is against it, saying that such a 'compulsory' tax is unAmerican. Just wonder what he calls the taxes we now pay. Probably a free hearted, generous expression of gratitude to the adminis tration for its sincere efforts to Improve our living stand ards. I suggest the doctor forget me rosy picture he saw when sitting atop Jumbo, come down to earth, and scratch out some grass root senti ments. I don't understand Elephant language, but from the patient, docile expression, It's plain that Jumbo was say ing, "Folks, I'm not here will ingly, I'd like to pack my trunk and go back to the big tent where I can sail under true colors!" Claude M. Hall. ' 2860 Hartley lane, ' Granta Paw, Or. l Nixon. The Russian believed, according to Butler, that Nix on would be the easiest for the Communists to handle. At that time Butler generally was regarded as an active ad vocate of Kennedy's nomina tion by the Democrats. The chairman said it was Khrushchev's strategy to say that he disliked Nixon on tha assumption that Americana would react by voting for tha vice president. Khrushchev would be capable of that, no doubt, but there was little sup porting evidence for Butler. About the time Butler was talking in Wisconsin, the Communist newspaper, the Worker was discussing va rious potential presidential nominees. The paper especial ly denounced Kennedy and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as supporters of "the bankrupt Eisenhower - Dulles, Truman- Acheson policies, the cold war policy, the policy of war prep arations. In another column, an ar ticle by Clarence A. Hatha way, chairman of tha Com munist party of New York, accused several presidential prospects of offering simple minded solutions to foreign and defense problems. Hatha way's simple-minded states men Included Rockefeller, Kennedy, NixOn, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. There was no kind word in the Worker for any of these statesmen, all being indicted as wrong-headed war-mongers. Khrushchev has said nothing to qualify the Impres sion that Nixon and Kennedy are lumped with the others as unfit and undesirable. Tha Worker was not wholly so negative in that issue, how ever, in its approach to the presidential election. The Worker believed that it would be best to nominate Adlai E. Stevenson. Matter of Fact By Joieph Allot) ft irM iter ANOTHER RISK AHEAD Washington - Our eminent uninvited euest, Nikita S, Khrushchev, most probably has not just one, but three i m p o r t a nt meet ings on his immediate schedule. Aft er making his usual con structive con tributions to the Interna- joskp-b alsop "onai zoo at the U. N., he may well go to Cuba for a cozy week end with Fidel Castro. And in Oc tober, he is expected to meet with Mao Tse-tung in North Korea. Among these dates which the demonologists think Khru shchev has on his calendar, the one that will make the lease immediate noise, the meeting with Mao will surely be the most significant if it takes place. The point Is that the rela tions between the Soviet Un ion and Communist China are now so tense that there is a clear possibility of an open break between the two giant powers of the Communist bloc. The obscure evidence for this view, gathered from in telligence sources and from the Communist press, has al ready been summarized in a previous report in this space. m 9 m T IS enough to' say, here, that the evidence pointing to a Soviet-Chinese break is far stronger today than all the warning evidence that wai available before the Soviet- Yugoslav break. Although Khrushchev will no doubt bel low for admission of Commu nist China to the United Na tions, this will be a ritual ges ture. The reality will still be the possibility of a break. in his quarrel with the Chinese, moreover. Khrush chev has no free options. The Kremlin cannot back down in this quarrel, without compro mising Moscow'i claim to be me new Home of Commn. nlsm. It ii Mao Tse-tung who nag io ueciae wnether to back down or to accept the break. And as yet there it no evi dence at all that Mao Tse tung ii getting readv to hack down. In these circumstance th point of Issue in the quarrel has great potential Import ance. Superficially, It is doc trinal. The Chinese have call ed the Soviets "blasphemous" for asserting that the holy Lenin believed in the possi bility of peaceful coexistence with the capitalist powers The Soviets have called th Chinese "blasphemoui" for laying that th holy Lenin be lieved in the Inevitability of war with th capitalist now- era, at a necessary prevlaw to the world triumph of th Com munist cause. DUT thli luperficial, doctrln " 1 dispute undoubtedly conceali a far more crucial dispute about a concrete issue. As one dispute must also re flect the other, the concrete issue is all but certain to ba Chinese insistence upon a war like adventure which the So viets regard at altogether too risky. If Mao Tse-tung finally accepts a brak on this issue, it must mean, in turn, that ha is prepared to launch his da Sired adventure without as surance of Soviet support. Such is the logic of the Slno - Soviet quarrel. Other points are involved, but th war-vs.-peace conflict is fair ly central. If a break comes, therefore, it will knock into a cocked hat one of the abso lutely basic and most com forting assumptions of th western policy makers - the assumption that the Soviets can always be counted on to retain a power of veto over Chinese adventure involving any military risk. The collapse of that long standing assumption is an ugly thing to contemplate. Yet ! a Chinese challenge to the Soviet power of veto is about the only way to make sense out of this Sino-Soviet quar rel. There is nothing else that could drive Khrushchev to consider a break with Mao, as he is obviously doing, un less Khrushchev believes that internal strains in China ara so great that the Chinese re gime itself is in danger from within. The two factors may inter-act, in truth, but their internal strains would natural ly produce a desperate Chi nes hankering for external military success. ANE qutition remain!: v Where on earth can the Chinese hope to gain a nation ally unifying military succesa without full Soviet support? There is, unhappily, a possi ble answer. Ther ii tha ex posed position on the offshor islands of the Formosa Strait, that th Soviets authorized the Chines to make a careful ly limited assault two years ago. That assault failed, nartly because of American action. but mainly because of tha iheer military incompetence of the Chinese effort. In par tlcular, the Chinese Commu nist artillery, which ought to nave interdicted all access to the offshore islands, instead altogether failed to establish an effecUve blockade. Sine that time, little has been don to strengthen the offshor is lands. But since that time. according to the best Inform ed estimates, everything has been done to strengthen th Chinese Communist artillery preparation. For these ilbllity of a Sino-Sviet break, which ought only to rais th hopei of th Wit, ii also cam-' tag coniidarabl Weitern ap prehension. (e) 1M0. New Yatk HarlU A umB,Ia. - ...