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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1960 1 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone in Southern Oregon tvcaua Wat published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph SPa-6141 HERB GREY Adveltlllng Manager ....... I - I 1 TTI . II o. Wtfc ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor UL.1VE. oiAii.-nr.iv uiiiv- ..... DALE ERICKSON, circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of . March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year I1S0O Daily and Sunday mof 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa 4.25 Sunday Only One vear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point li Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor Dally and Sunday 1 vear 118 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo- 1.90 Carrier and Dealers copy lOo All Terms Caah In Advanca Official Paper of City of "Med ford Official Papar of Jackson Connty United Press International Full Leased Wire O P.LJphotoNepJcturea """MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UIKLULATIUna WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago Da. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER UBI.ISHERJ ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI s(pctjiTi(ojH Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. . 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1950 (Thursday) The new bridge at Rogue River will be dedicated to morrow but a name for the bridge remains in doubt. The Medford Central Labor council last night gave its full support to the 1950 Jackson County Community Chest drive, and urged union mem bers to cooperate in the new payroll deduction plan of con tributions to the chest. . 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1940 (Saturday) Thirty -nine Rogue River High school freshmen, the largest class in years, were initiated last night to the tune of resounding whacks from paddles. From' Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: . "The medical profession reports the common cold is more so than usual." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1930 (Sunday) .' 'Medford High school was defeated by Marshfleld last night, 27 to 7. A lone bandit held up the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank here yesterday and took $50, but was captured several hours later in a local hotel. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1920 (Tuesday) Bardwell Fruit company made the largest sale of val ley pears in history on the New York market recently. Sen. McNary Is paying a visit to the city and valley this week. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1910 (Wednesday) City fathers are in a di lemma over how to dispose of the increasing stock of liquor Jn the city hall that has re sulted from police confisca tion of liquor from hoboes and drunks, The city council elected last night to enforce stricter health measures in the city especial ly as regards the handling of food. What's Your 10.? Nine or fen correct It superior: sevsn or eight Is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Three dots and a dash in the Morse code indicate what letter of the alphabet? 2. Jerry Cruncher Is a character In which of Charles Dickens' novels? 3. When does the 24th hour of the dav begin?. 4. When two members of a legislative body "pair" their votes, do they have their votes recorded on the same side of the issue or on op posite sides? 5. Who wrote the "Blue Danube" waltz? 6. "Baldw I n," "Jonathan" and "Mcintosh" are commerc ial varieties of which fruit? 7. Molherj Day is cele brated the first, second, or third Sunday in May? 8. Is baseball a popular game in Japan? 9. What word means the opposite of "windward"? 10. Belmont Park race track is In N u County? Answers: 1, "V." 2. "A Tale of Two Cities." 3. 11 p.m. 4. Opposing sides, S. Johann Strauss. 6. Apple. 7. Second. 8. Yes. 1. Lee ward. 10. Nassau. We re for Some newspapers are professing shock at the "line" being taken by Vice President Richard M. Nixon in his election campaign to the effect that it is somehow unpatriotic for his opponent w point, out, any aeiiciencies in me America oi today. Is, in fact, Senator lor tne (Jommunist propaganda mill as Mr. Nixon alleges: Or can we agree with he says: "I say it is wrong American to keep silent not satisried with what tne iuture. AS MENTIONED, some .papers are "shocked" fVl of Mlvni. -tirrtll 13 liVnQ f nlir nrA riimit nv,A iiiAuii nuuiui uviiwti atui v aiivi uvci aiiKA over again, impute that saying noi enougn nas economic growth, in conservation and develop' ment of natural resources, in care of the sick and aged, in providing a decent education for Amer icans. Well, we're , not shocked. We really rather expected it. For it fits perfectly "Old Nixon" (who was suppjaiitea ay me new 1 L - Jt 1 J.1 lixr paigns of 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1956. WICE President Richard Nixon has a discon certing way of being or issues. Take nuclear testing, of, for instance : In 1956 he said Adlai about Communism for favoring a ban on nuclear testing.. Then, when President Eisenhower agreed to the test ban some time tor it. Or take Indo-China : At the time the French were making their last stand at Dienbienphu, Nixon advocated arm ed U.S. intervention ; then, when that crisis had blown over, boasted that the Administration kept us out of that war. LIE DOESN'T not QUITE call his opponents communists. (In the cases were they actually WERE called communists during his campaigns, someone else did the calling for him.) - . But he comes close enough to it so no one can miss' the point. Harry Truman was charged with "toleration and defense of Communists in high places." Truman and Stevenson were "traitors to the high principles" of the Democratic party. And now he is employing the same tactic on Senator Kennedy, who, giving aid and comfort won t go along with the for the best in this best of all possible worlds. . 1X7E DON'T think it will work. We think that Senator Kennedy's case is too trood: that he is showing, day by day, and by concrete examples, that passed when America from its eight-year nap. He declares, and we time during which American prestige has fallen to a new international low; during which de mands of a growing population have been ig nored or postopned; during which the number of elderly people has tremendously increased along with their needs for dignity ana assistance ; durinsr which the problem of farm supports and surpluses has overwhelmed both Congress and Administration ... Durintr a time, in short, when America crept when it should have run ; should have been vibrantly CENATOR Kennedy is challenging America; asking its people to live up to their proud destiny and their magnificent potential. . Mr. Nixon is soothing America, telling us we're doing "almost well enough" now, and that the little added effort won't strain anyone. And he's trying to shut off debate on the real and important issues of the campaign by declaring with a self-righteous smirk that it's aiding the communists for us to diagnose and prescribe for our own illnesses! The Mail Tribune supports Kennedy, and will do so in the strongest possible terms, be lieving that Richard Milhous Nixon is not a fit person to sit in the White House of the United States of America. E.A. ' . Memo From Lincoln I am not a Know-Nothing; that is certain. How could I be? H,ow can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a Nation we began by declar ing that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men ar created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes o this, I shall prefer emigrat ing to some countr "where they make no pretense of loving liberty to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. (Abraham Lincoln, let ter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855.) Kennedy Kennedy "supplying grist Senator Kennedy when and dangerous for any about our future if he is is being done to preserve Kennedy is disloyal for Deen aone in aeiense, in with the tactics of the supposed to have been VTJ ll il mxon oi me cam on all sides of a variety and the banning there Stevenson was "naive" later, himself came out he alleges, is in effect to the enemy because he happy thesis that all s the time has long since should have awakened " " agree, that it has been a when it dozed when it awake. Dennis the Let me. know when we get to tbxas. - Communications Letters, to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use oi a pen name or initial for - publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is Catholicism and The Stale To the Editor: One of the writers in last. Thursday's Mail Tribune gave the mean ing of Catholic as universal, but she failed to define the difference in Catholic and Roman Catholic. There is a difference. Catholic or Holy Catholic is universal, the Christian Church as a whole. Protest ants accept the Bible and God's Holy Word as the au thority of their faith. They believe in private interpreta tion. The Roman Catholic puts the authority of the Pope and the Church above the au thority of the Word of God, with headquarters in Rome. They believe their church is the only true church. Protestants believe in. sep- eration of Church and State. Roman Catholics believe the Pope has temporal as well as spiritual authority. Senator Kennedy is a Roman Catholic, and that is his privilege, for we are still living in a free America. He is bound by oath to be faithful to his church, but hasn't the right to force it on others. According to the Vatican, one cannot be faith ful to his church, and hold a high government position where many decisions have to be made, without each being approved by the Roman pow er. Which will it be? Our forefathers came to America for the purpose o the freedom of worship, and I believe we want to keep it that way. They do not be lieve their one church is the only true church but have the liberty and freedom to worship God in any church they choose to attend, pe it Quaker, Baptist or Methodist, etc. Vice President Nixon still has that privilege of worship ing God wherever he wishes. The writer said "You cannot serve God and Mammon." How true. You cannot serve God and someone who places himself equal to God, at the same time. Senator Kennedy and his brother keep bringing the re ligious issue before the peo ple, yet if anyone else even mentions it they call it bigo try. Let us think on these things. Mis. Ernest Santo, 204 Lozier Lane, Medford. Editor's note: In this con nection, we find the words of the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the internationally known and respected Baptist minister, of interest. In a re cent letter to the New York Times, he had this to say: T wish in comment oartlcu- larly upon that part of Sena tor Kennedy's statement be fore the Greater Houston Ministerial Assoc iation on Sept. 12 in which he discussed the Importance of religious liberty for all: . Protestant, Catholic and Jew. I ouote him: ". . . while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger ot suspicion is pointed, in other yKirs It has been, and may some day be again, a Jew, or a Quuker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist . . . Today 1 may be the victim-but tomorrow It aaKy be you-until the whole S?ric ot-nur harmonious so ciety ispped at a time of grajt national peril. V seems to me that these words cannot he too hcavilv underscored. The history of religious ireedom ana rignis in m,r nntinn hm Heart mnrrprl time and again by religious persecution sucn as senator Kennedy has warned could happen tomorrow. Menace often the case. The Baptists were the first to petition for religious free dom before the Virginia House of Burgesses, Roger Williams fled Massachusetts Colony and established Provi dence Plantation because he could not endure the oppres sive religious strictures of his brethren. A Presbyterian, Samuel Davies, influenced Jefferson, Madison and others to secure religious liberty. Article VI of the Constitu tion explicity rules out a re ligious test for public office, and this is as it should be. To require a religious test-even indirectly-is repugnant to the ideals of democracy, just as is any limitation on political rights, on grounds of race, color or creed. The right to be a Quaker, or an Episcopalian, or a Meth odist and to be fairly consid ered for President is the right which applies equally to a Catholic. It is the same right which every American shares and to deny that right to one is to weaken its strength for another. To quote Senator Kennedy again, a basic principle in our democracy is the "belief in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish - where no public official either requests or ac cepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the Na tional Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source - where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials-and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all." At any rate-and I am sure that millions of Americans will agree-whatever candi date I vote for, the "religious issue" will have no influence in my decision. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister Emeritus, The Riverside Church, New York City Skid Road To the Editor: We enjoyed the letter of F. J. Clifford very much. Not because he gave this writer honorable mention, but because he stir red up a nostalgia for bygone days. He revived the romance of the "skid road" that has been corrupted into "skid row" as a figure of speech. We are ' in sympathy with Mr. Clifford. From a literary standpoint we resent the use of skid row for skid road, regardless of how pat the expression. Skid road came first and it should remain so for the sake of tra dition. Certainly the gutter snipes will call it skid row. but the hardy sons of toil that carved the west out of the wilderness know that spot where Greek meets Greek as the skid road, and Mr. Clif ford has shed some light on the subject. The skid road is a classic ex pression along with the cov ered wagon. We opine it is as western as the Barbary Coast. And as realistic as gyppo." To elaborate on Mr. Clifford's theme, we agree that when it became necessary to leave the bays and rivers to acquire logs for the lumber mills, it was essential to convey logs by ox-team. Roads were built up gulches and gullies to the tall timber. Logs were cut at least one foot in diameter and ten or twelve feet long, and they were placed ten feet apart at right angles with the road. These logs were called skids and were buried in the ground with about two fifths exposed above ground. Oxen hauled logs 32-feet long and over on this road. Loggers on Talk of Russia-Red China Split As 'Just Talk' At Present Anyway I By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The West should regard with considerable skepticism the talk of a deepening rift between the Soviet Union and R e d China. D i s agree ments, yes. But disagree m e n t s fre quently occur within any family with out any final So, with the USSR and JafU. A PHIL NEWSOM break. Wilson Sees Dick Warming Up Campaign By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - I1IP1I - If there Is to be a "new Nixon" in this presidential campaign, the un veiling may b e expected in a b o u t a fortnight. Tues day, Oct. 18 would be an appro priate date. That would be precisely t h ree weeks i.vi. c wilioo Deiore elec tion day. Oct. 18 would be appropriate because Vice President Richard M. "Nixon believes that the three weeks i m m e diately preceding an election are the weeks that count the most. their way to and from work traveled on this skid road. The cook house and bunkhouses were at the water's edge. The loggers got in the habit of lifting their left foot every other step higher than usual. That was to clear the skid and not stumble. When they walk ed on the streets in the city they continued this walking pattern. As they congregated, it was in the worker's domain of the business part of cities, composed of grog shops, pawn shops, cheap hotels and lodg ing houses, Chinese restau rants and waffle joints, shod dy clothing stores and flop houses, gambling dens and soul savers, along with the flotsam and jetsam of a predatory society, such as drunks, dope fiends, pick pockets and beggars. Here we' find the rag tag and bobtail of free enterprise, the business and human fail ures and the ne'er do wells. The loggers called it the "skid road." "the loggers hangout," but the social scientists call it the "skid row." That is be cause we find there the vic tims of greased skids - the great exploited, beggars of life. Walter Reece Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Craiy Law To the Editor: I agree with "E.A." in the Oct. 3 Tribune on "What's the Score?" There is confusion about what's going to be on the ballot about dog control. What sense is there in hav ing "For dogs running at large" twice? To my way of thinking once is enough. Oth erwise put it this way: "For dogs to be confined; "For dogs running at large." Seems to me someone in the courthouse that handles the printing of ballots could think of some way better than what they have. It has got to be a mess as the law at present is not en forced because it can t be done unless there is an army to do so. I have lived here in Med ford 14 years and there are all kinds of dogs running at large at present. Mine is confined to com ply with the crazy law that was passed in May. H. W. Steelman 107 Lozier Lane Medford I P.S. I am outside of the city of Medford. Anti-Porter To the Editor: In his recent endorsement of Congress man Charles O. porter, "E.A." of the Mail Tribune lavishly praised Porter's boldness and fresh approach to foreign af fairs. Porter's approach is bold, true, but also lacking in good judgment and common sense. After watching the firing squads ie) action at the begin ning of Castro's blood bath in Cuba, Mr. Porter declared: "Many important voices have been raised ' in the United States to protest the trials as drum-head courts-martial, and the executions as a blood bath. These procedures are' far from ideal, but how significant are these shortcomings? (N. Y. Times, July 7, 1958). Does Mr. Porter really feel that hundrcdO'f people shot down without trial are not significant? And from a Porter speech which was published in the Conaw-ssional Record for Jan. 26, 1339; "Persons critical of Red China, the disagreements do not necessarily umean an impending split between the world's two greatest commu nist powers. It is noteworthy that most of the "news" regarding the Chinese and Russian differ ences has come through Com munist "leaks." To this, then, has been add ed so-called evidence drawn from Red China's silence on Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United Nations, and on its notable lack of support for his plan for world disarma ment in four years. In Last 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt was another politician who be lieved elections best could be won with a late start and a fast and furious finish. That is Nixon's campaign theory, emphatically so. Therefore, it would be logi cal for the drama critics of the current political play to await the last act and the final curtain. Much of the special political corres p o n -dence that gushes out of this city by telegraph and airwave i s variously unsympathetic with the Republican party and with Republican candi dates. Swayed by Charm That has been true for a great many years, firmly so since Franklin D. Roosevelt began exposing the news men and women of Washington to his extraordinary charm. The old timers had been accustom ed to Calvin Coolidge's news conference rigidity and then to Herbert Hoover's chill dis comfort when faced by the press. The press corps and the columnists were rooting for FDR almost 100 per cent in the 1932 campaign. They liked his banter and Informality and a lot of them, too, liked that short paragraph at the end of the 1932 Democratic platform which promised pro hibition's repeal. So, when, FDR took office on March 4, 1933. the political writers and commentators were prepared to like him, and they did. For a great many diverse reasons the pundits also grew to like FDR's political party, its breathless, free - swinging performance and the over-all handling of a great domestic crisis in the affairs of the United States. Nixon Criticism . This political affection or alignment has remained rath er strong over the years. It probably has contributed in some degree to those oc casions when it could be said that Nixon was suffering from a very bad press. Nixon is under a tattoo of criticism now on charges of campaign ing with a substantialiy set the trials and executions do not realize the magnitude and high morality of the revolu tion." Does Mr. Porter really feel that mob justice and banditry are highly moral? From another speech by Mr. Porter in the House on May 18, 1959, reported in the Congressional Record: "Castro's Cuba is getting better every day," and "Cuba going ed? No, but in the other direction. Go look again." Is this an authority on in ternational affairs, a student of world events a judge of people and government? Do we want this man as a representative for the Fourth District of Oregon? Betty C. Sexton 108 Florence . Medford Lost Cavern To the Editor: One of the strangest stories ever told to me by a well known pros pector and miner of Jackson and Josephine counties some 40 years ago, was about one of his many exploits in the early nineties. On one hazardous trip, with pack op his back, he hiked into the then wild Trin ity Alps of California. His whereabouts, if he told me at that time, I do not recall. But he did some exploring, he explained, on a well beaten wild animal trail he was fol lowing in virgin rough ter rain. He suddenly came to the entrance of a cavern that was black as pitch. He enter ed a way with a lighted candle and he heard a roar ing stream of water running and could see there were fish in the subterranean river. My prospector-miner friend did not talk about the episode in later years. We often had been together and tramped the hills, but the incident was never brought up again. I often wonder if the secret cavern was ever discovered againHiince then. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman it., Medford. ' There also was Russia's marked lack of enthusiasm for China's border quarrel with India. Idaolrjuieal SdHi? Special emphasis has been nlaced on the ideological quarrel between Khrushchev and Red China party leaner Mao Tze-Tune. UPI correspondent Henry Shapiro, a close observer it the Moscow scene for zo years, sees little of substance in the Khrushchev-Mao Tze Tung quarrel. Both, he points out, are dedicated communists who Weeks speech which is more general than specific and more emo tional than either. An unfriendly editor i a 1 writer with a solid punch in his words recently mentioned Nixon's "penchant for seem ing to narrow the gap be tween his own and Demo cratic views." Others, un friendly too, are urging the vice president to come out slugging for the Rockefeller party line. He could have his penchant and slug too. From the; conser v a t i v e cheering section there are, of course, cheers. Also, there are some yelps of dismay. Conservatives, too, want the vice president to come out plugging. More, they want him to come out slugging with an issue which will tingle their spines and start them to marching in the aisles. Peace in our time has not done that. No farm program will. Maybe it could be accomplished with the issues of spending, taxes and inflation. In the Day's News By FRANK President Eisenhower re jected a neutralist proposal put forth last week . for an immediate summit conference between himself and Mr. Kroosh on the subject of dis armament. In turning down the propos al, he says in effect that whenever it appears that the Soviet Union is prepared to return to the path of peace ful negotiation with some prospect of fruitful results he will be prepared "to meet and negotiate with a repre sentative of the Soviet gov ernment and with the heads of 1 OTHER governments as their interests are involved. He thus holds the door open for a return to summit di plomacy "if Premier Khrush chev will take steps to pave the way for USEFUL nego tiations." - . 1R. Kroosh puts it more " flatly. He says: "Some people say Khrush chev and Ike should be locked in a room and kept there un til they come to an agreement on disarmament. But this is naive. We may sit there in definitely. BUT IF NO DE SIRE TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT IS EVINCED BY THE PRESIDENT, noth ing will come of it." So that's that. WORD on the five neu tralists who put the re quest for the summit propos al. They are: Nehru of India, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nasser of the Arab Republic, Tito of Yugoslavia and Nkrumah of Ghana. Nehru is a sincere neutral ist. He wants to STAY OUT of the ruckus-as who doesn't! At first, he seemed to lean toward Communism, but he Try and Stop Me : By BENNETT CERF T MET JOE E. LEWIS, the impetuous night club star, in - Miami Beach one evening and asked him, "How are you doing at the track this season?" "Great." enthused Lewis. "I made $8,000 at Aque duct, $14 grand at Sara toga, and $9,000 at Hia leah." "Of course," he added after a moment of reflection, "that doesn't include my losses." Owner of a vast timber tract sent out a crew of fifty husky men with three women to do their cooking, and told the camp boss, "Don't send me lengthy re ports. A couple of key fig ures eRch week will keep me aDreast or tnings."; ' The camp boss' first report, a fortnight later, read simply, "Six! percent of your men ha.ve married a hundred percent of your women. j ; '.-.- Shelley Berman tells of an Indian faWrt wife who appeared in the bedroom one momlng with a hammer and a pail of nallsT "Get up," ahe ordered the fakir. 'This is the day for chaneins; our beds." C 1360. by BanntU Cerf. Distributtd by Kinr Featnne 8itir.( Viewed might disagree oy, methods but never on he final objeo- f tive. It might well be that there is a personal rivalry between the two for prestige within the party. ne uaart, relatively siaDia i; after a little more than 40 i years, disagrees with Red China's haste because it be lieves that time is on its side. Therefore, it could sympa thize with Red China's de signs on Indian territory but disagree with the rough-shod methods. It could agree " with Red China's demands on Formosa but heartily disagree with any precipitate action which might unleash a war. . But for the world to be lieve that deep differences separate .the two, simply works to the advantage of both Red China and the USSR, carrying as it does the possibility that it will lull the West into a false sense ol security. ; Future Problems In the future not yet fore seeable, it may well be that important differences will arise. One cause might be China's explosive population problem. Another might arise from the proven fact that there can be no such thing as co-equal dictators. The lands to the south of China are far richer than Russia's Siberian wastes to the north, and can support a far greater population than they now do. But for the moment. Khru shchev needs a friendly China at his back. And Chi na needs Russian industrial know-how. In addition, there are far greater worlds still to be conquered by Communism than either could gain by turning on each other. JENKINS got a rude shock when Com munist China wiped out little Tibet and began to make rough gestures toward India, Sukarno is a Communist. Nasser is an opportunist who is looking for a break that might be good for Nasser. Tito is a Communist, but he wants to be top dog in his kennel. He resents being down-rated by Kroosh. Nkru mah of Ghana (one of the new African nations) seems ambitious to join the ranks of Communist stooges. We incline to lean cour teously toward the neutrals because we probably have some hopes of Nehru, who in clines to lean more toward the West as the brutal despo tism of Communism becomes more and more clearly appar ent to him. Hence (probably) Ike's careful handling of the neutralist proposal for a Russian-American summit ses sion on disarmament. TN conclusion, a question: How important are SUM MITS to the future of the free world? One wonders. There is Yalta in the background of the comparatively recent past. Yalta was a summit meet ing. Present at Yalta were President Franklin D. Roose velt of the United States; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain: and Premier Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union. The agree ments reached there included policies and plans for the oc cupation of Germany, includ ing the West Berlin situation, which is the root of so much trouble NOW. Yalta set the stage for the cold war that is plaguing us now. Why risk another Yalta?