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MedfordJ$&Tribuni - o "Everyunein Southern Oregon Rcad lTa Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fti Bi.. Ph SP 2-6MI ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advm-Uslna Manaler GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Mnu Ecfltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Edltol OLIVE STARCHER Women's Ed.tor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mf An Independent" Newapaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. 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XT hnriuji'H iiTM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Trjbune 10, 20, 30 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEAHS AGO Jan. 29, 1951 (Monday) A letter endorsing the re activation of Camp White for use as an Army training fa cility was sent to Washington, D.C., today by a group of stockmen and farmers who own or lease property in the area. The Rogue valley had its coldest weather of the winter Sunday when the thermome ter dropped to 20.2 degrees, 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1941 (Wednesday) E. Palmer Hoyt, published of The Oregonian, will be principal speaker at the Jack son County Lincoln club's an nual dinner in Ashland Feb. 11. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "The legislature now proposes , e bill calling for $8 per diem and a SO-day session, instead of the current $3 per for 40 days. This is prolonging the misery. It would be more practical to pay them $50 per day for an eight-day session, with no week end raids on Portland." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1931 (Thursday) A three-year tree planting program at the city's source of water has been completed. The confessed slayer of an Ashland city policeman will go on trial within a month, according to the county dist rict attorney. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1921 (Saturday) A motion for a change of venue In the Bank of Jackson ville scandal trials was denied yesterday. A bill for a coast highway has been Introduced in the state lcgislturc. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1911 (Sunday) A new $40,000 theater is planned at the corner of Sixth st. and Riverside avc., next door to the Natatorium. A federal court has failed to uphold a state railroad commission ruling that would lower freight rates on freight leaving Portland and would have worked to the detriment of other Oregon rail centers, including Medford '- hat's Your I.Q.7 Nina at ten correct is superior: Sevan ot tight is ictllcnt; five o in is fjooa. 1. Persons born between Feb. 10 and March 20 arc bom under which sign of the Zo diac? 2. Correct the following: "Only one of all those players were properly dressed. 3. Arc the male or female birds of most species the more brightly colored? 4. When Is Maundy Thurs day observed? 5. Is cedar, oak, or pine wood generally used for mak ing lead pencils? 6. General Montcalm fell In the defense of what city in Norm America? 7. What Doctrine forbids European powers from inter vening In American affairs? 8. What is the capital of Liberia? 8. Is Carl Sandburg famous for his poetry, play-writing or photography? 10. Which would you eat, and what would you do with the other: Jerky and Jerkin? Answers 1. Pisces. 2. ". . , was properly dressed." 3 Mai. 4. Thursday belore Easter, 5. Cedar. 6, Quebec. 7. Monroe. 8. Monrovia. 9. Poetry. 10. Eal the jerkyj wear the jerkin,vst). Clean Air Laws The state sanitary authority this year is ask ing the legislature to rewrite the laws pertaining to pollution of both air and water. This would be accomplished by the passage of Senate Bills 36 and 40. The former revises exist ing law to delete air pollution control provisions, and makes some changes regarding water pollu tion. The latter creates a new section of law deal ing specifically and comprehensively with air pollution. Senate Bill 40 would give the state sanitary authority somewhat greater power than it now has, allowing it to set standards and work toward air pollution control and the greatest "practical purity" of the air. , IT ALSO would enable the authority to work in cooperation with local governments. But the fact is that air pollution control is, and should be, essentially a state function, for city and county lines do not serve as boundaries for dirty air. State Sen. Lyndel Newbry of Jackson county, commenting on these proposals and similar ones sponsored by the city of Portland, says he favors air pollution control legislation, and declared that these bills appear to be sound and good, offering a practical approach to TTHE five-year program that the county's or- nViai'rliafa Vua linrriin trt innwnwf flinii riiinr,- burning smudge pots to less smoke, would fit in of this proposed legislation, Senator Newbry says, It is not the intent of the state sanitary author ity to see that all the air over Oregon is pristine pure. This would, first of all, be impossible. Purity ot the air is a matter ot What the bill seeks to est degree of purity which is practically possible, considering all factors IN JACKSON county, many of the preliminaries nnnnac'ipw t-rv ait' nnllnfinn pnntrnl Ivjvn Kdfin accomplished ; but more we can achieve a desirable degree of air purity. Both orchardists and come this sort of legislation, for it would permit the setting of standards toward which they could work, and would permit the sanitary authority to cooperate in achieving the necessary control. The people of this valley will not put up with the periodic infusions of dirty smoke, soot, cin ders and smudge much longer. So the sooner that a reasonable degree of control is achieved, the better for all concerned. This proposed legislation would be a means toward that end. E.A. ; Man's Use of Alcohol The use of 'alcohol as a beverage has been a controversial thing for centuries. Up in Coos Bay the other day, a panel dis cussion on the problems of drinking was held under the sponsorship of a church group, and it served to emphasize the fact that religious think ing is divergent on the use of alcohol. The Bible, for instance, has many references to drinkintr. Some of the quotations "hailed the joys of drinking," the panel was told, while others called attention to the fNE of the ministers participating said this shows two things, that the problem of liquor is an old one, and that almost anything can be proven by quoting the Bible. Some churches hold that the use of alcohol is a matter for individual conscience, while oth ers hold it to be an unmitigated evil. All of them, though, misuse of alcohol is to be Generally, the Episcopal and Catholic churches teach that licnior, of and sarily evil, but that the individual owes it to him self and society to control his drinking so that he injures neither himself nor others. ZITHER churches have varying attitudes toward it, ranging from emphasis on temperance and self-control to outright condemnation and a call for universal prohibition and abstinence. The fact remains that a large percentage ot humankind does drink alcohol, always has, and probably always will. Prohibition, which has been tried at various times and places, does not work, and usually has led to worse conditions than those where certain degrees of control and restraint arc used. . ALCOHOL, in its many forms, can be both l-,ln.uiiin- oi-irl fnii'cn nnrl cnn-mniif a nf mil' snr'i- ety will always regard it as one or the other, sel dom recognizing that it is both. But everyone, no matter what their individual attitudes, should recognize that it is economically wasteful, and highly dangerous. And its attendant problems, which have been with us since Biblical times, will continue to be with us into the foreseeable future. E.A. Obstructionism, Already Embattled Republicans in Washington are already starting to tlo their best to hamper, ridi cule and frustrate President Kennedy. That, of course, is to be expected. But if we judge the temper of the people correctly, and their reactions to the new President's vigorous start, they'll have to do better than the "humor ous" quoting of the Presidential cat, or just being agin' for the sake of being agin'. There's a job to be done, and petty obstruc tionism will, we judge, be recognized for what it is. E.A. the problem. heaters which put out far nicely with the objectives degree. accomplish is the high in any situation. needs to be done before lumber mills should wel evils ot drinking. . agree that the abuse and deplored. by itself, is not neces Dennis the , HOMES APARTMENTS 7" 'NOW THIS ARM IS KNOWN AS THE 'VllTCHELL NEISH60RHCOD' MD IT TAKES A RfAL SAiESVWJ " Today & Tomorrow By Walter RUSK ON QUIET DIPLOMACY Secretary Rusk's statement that the administration will "use freely the diplomatic channel" has naturally enough raised the question whether this means that the public wi come to know and under stand less of what is going Lippmann on. The ques tion is a perennial one in a democratic society. For true negotiation is impossible if it has to be done publicly and yet a free people cannot be left in the dark. As Mr. Rusk says, "The value of the diplomatic channel depends on its privacy." But the pub lic nas the right and the need to know what is being done. The problem can be stated so that it sounds insoluble. But as a matter of fact it is not at all impossible, although it requires the gifts of leader ship, for a competent govern ment to keep the public well informed without destroying the privacy which is essen tial to diplomatic negotia tions. It can be done by periodic talks, one might almost say lectures, given by the Presi dent and the Secretary of State explaining the situation and how it got to be what it is, and what are the difficul ties and the Issues which have to be dealt with. rpilS is what Churchill did ill hie Wl-out luuv cnnnMin. He rallied men not only by the eloquence and beauty of his words but even more, I venture to believe, by con vincing them that on the is sues of life and death they were in the know. Not many can be so eloquent as Chur chill. But Hie Democratic leaders can tell the story. There is no need for Mr. Lincoln White, for example, to tell the newspapers what Mr. Khrushchev said to Mr. Thompson when they met at the Kremlin, or what Mr. Macmillan said to Mr. Ken nedy in a message passed on by the Ambassador. The in dispensiblc privacy ot diplo matic intercourse can be pre served if the leaders know how to talk informatively to the people on the issues of policy. To talk informatively is in the main to narrate the his tory and to be very sparing of pious generalities and of the old stereotype of exhorta tion and defiance. For if the leaders will interest and do not bore the public, there will be less interest in keyholes and in eavesdropping and leaks. QUIET diplomacy must not be identified with with drawal from the public view, with the withholding of knowledge, with locking the door and pulling down the blinds. In a democratic so ciety quiet diplomacy is pos sible and can be fruitful only if at the same time (here is an increase of communication on foreign affairs between the Chief Executive and the pub lic. Moreover, it can be said. I think, that diplomatic inter course can be kepi quiet and private only if it becomes routine and commonplace. Mr. Khrushchev's interview with Ambassador Thompson Is not a true example of quiet di plomacy. For the meeting is not quiet when it is an nounced to the whole world, and the proof that it w not quiet is tint tlx-re are leaks about it all over the piece. There viU rant be cAretivc quiet tJijiioiriicy unttl In Mo MEDFOlf gIL TltllUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Me lippmann cow and in Washington diplo matic meetings are so habit ual that they arc not public events. Let us hope that we shall get to this. For the great questions which have event ually to be negotiated cannot be resolved by arm's-length pronunciamcntos. They can be resolved only if intimate and informal talks open the way for formal negotiations, (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' In this space recently, this question was asked: Did Melba, one of the great operatic singers of all time, live for a period of her life in our State of Jefferson - in Linkville, perhaps, or in Klamath Falls after the change of name? The answer seems to be that Melba never lived here, but her husband and their son did. The husband was Captain Charles N.F. Armstrong. He lived here somewhere around the turn of the century. Their son was with him at this time. MELBA was born (about 1861) in Australia, near Melbourne. Her christened name was Helen Porter Mitch ell, but when she became world famous she adopted the name Melba, in honor of Mel bourne. She is known in the j-ecords as Nellie Melba. She began to study the piano at the age o three, and sang to her own accompaniment when she was six. In 1887, she made her Eu ropean debut in Brussels as Gilda in Rigoletto. The rec ords of the Metropolitan Op era Association reveal that in 1888 she married a Charles N e s b 1 1 Armstrong, said to have been the son of an Irish baronet. The made her Ameri can debut in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She remained at irregular in tervals during five seasons. Her last appearance with the Metropolitan was during the season 1910-11. riMIE impression among peo--- pie who knew Captain Armstrong here in the early days of Klamath Falls is that he had married Melba in Aus tralia and had financed her musical education. They in cline to the belief that when she became world famous he couldn't take being merely the husband of a celebrity and urged her to retire from the operatic stage, which she re fused to do. It is known that they sepa rated. There are some indica tions that they were later re united, but apparently the reconciliation ended in fail ure and they separated again. It seems to have been agreed that the son would be left with his father until he reach ed the age of 21, when he would be free to choose which parent he would remain with. At any rate, he was with his father here. He is describ ed as a frail youth, who need ed the outdoors. The high, dry climate seemed to be just what he needed. CAPTAIN Armstrong is de scribed by those who knew him here as of the Eng lish type, big. strong and handsome. He was an amateur boxer of great ability and spent much time training his son as a boxer. He is describ ed as pleasant, courteous, well educated and "well raised" -a charming person. He was generally believed to have been an officer in the British army. He was regarded as a man of considerable means. INTtRTJiTlNt; qucellon: H ft d i 4 Ctotain Arm 1rcri fetch ibt (Litmath Matter of Fact j..ph ai.op KENNEDY'S TEST FOR KHRUSHCHEV Washington - A tiger was the real victor of one of tr.e most important recent mill t a r y engage ments in Laos. -$ The tiger ate the Lieuten ant Colonel com manding one of the C o m m unist- led Pathet Lao battalions. The battalion was demoral I z e d Alsop by its sad loss, and was there fore defeated by Laotian gov ernment forces. These remarkable facts, solemnly reported from Vien tiane to Washington, under line the singularity of the war in Laos. Yet the outcome of this remote and singular con flict will control the future of all of Southeast Asia, in the unanimous opinion of 'he American government's Asian experts. This was why the situation in Laos was studied in full de tail, including the battle won by the tiger, at a nine-hour meeting of the highest govern ment officials of the State De partment on Sunday. This was why Laos was the first indi vidual problem of foreign pol icy to be exhaustively studied by the new President, at a two-hour meeting at the White House on Monday These meetings were symp toms that decision is now re placing drift. And this is im portant, in view of the slake in the game. ABOUT ten days ago, the military picture in Laos had already drifted to the point where the American government was seriously considering raising the ante. "Raising the ante" is the cur rent government jargon for increasing the military a i d being given to the Laolian government forces. This phrase is used because of the risk of a counter-raise, in the form of more active Soviet support for the Communist forces in Laos. In ascending order of importance and risk, the possible ways to raise the American ante are as follows: First, stiffening the Laotian government battalions by sending into the field with them officers of the American Army training group in Laos. Second, supporting the Lao tian government forces on the ground with American war planes flown by mercen ary pilots, and using the same aircraft to halt the Soviet air lift to the Communist forces. This air lift is already esti- country? There could be many answers. This fascinating re gion of ours has attracted all kinds of people - explorers, Indian fighters, gold seekers, railroad builders, big business people. But in this case there appears to have been another reason. Rex Borde, then owner of the Borde ranch out toward Olene, now owned by George Stevenson, had apparently been associated with Arm strong in the sheep business in Australia. That made the Klamath country a natural place to come. He was asso ciated with Mr. Borde in the sheep business while he was here. A NYWAY. that's the Melba story. It is amply support ed by many people who knew Captain Armstrong intimate ly while he lived here. Premier K By ERIC SAVAHEID President Kennedy's inaug uarl declaration of American determination never to nego- IWirfS "lie o u t of alto while never fearing to negoti ate was - with all its ring of a newly mint ed cliche - the proper, the best, the only note he could strike before Stvareld the American people, our al lies and the Russians, at this stage in the world story. He could say no more and no less and it leaves his hands entirely free. The United Slates will not close its mind against any proposal Khrush chev has to make. It will go further and. on the issue of disarmament, where Western offers do not constitute ipso facto concessions to Russia ns they would on the issue of Berlin-it will make new pro posals of its own. This is what our own peo ple, because of the immense arms tax burden, want to hear, and it is the one matter on which all our allies would agree. For the "arms race" it self has acquired a palpable identity of its own in the con text of world tensions. It is no longer merely a reflection and extension of outstanding, specific political qimrrels, to be contains uid diminished it 1 ' mated to have laid down 1,000 tons of war supplies ontao tian territory. , Third, sponsoring interven tion in Laos by the Thai army; and in order to secure this in (nrnAnHnn makins a commit ment to Thailand of full and active American military sup port in the Laotian war. THESE military measures being unappetizing, the Ei senhower administration in stead decided to adopt an ex pedient long pressed on the President and Secretary of State Christian Herter by Prime Minister Macmillan and Foreign Minister S e 1 w y n Lloyd. Approval was - given to a British proposal to the Kremlin, that the Geneva born International Control Commission should be recall ed to Laos. This was almost the last act of the outgoing administration. But just about all Ameri can officials on the staff level were, and still are, convinced that recall of the International Control Commission must eventually mean a Commu nist triumph in Laos. This is because the Communist Polish member and the pro-Pathet Lao Indian member compose a majority of the three-man commission. As a result of this staff feeling, the American govern ment insisted on the insertion of certain safeguards in the British proposal to the Krem lin. And although the great majority of American policy makers regarded the safe guards as dangerously inade quate, the insertions were enough to cause a hostile Kremlin reaction to the "Brit ish proposal, at least on the first round. IF the British proposal is not accepted in the end, Presi dent Kennedy will have to choose between negotiating on the Kremlin's terms-which really meant the surrender of Laos - or raising the military ante in the fighting in Laos. One gain had been made, however. The British govern ment's deep-rooted delusion that the Kremlin wanted something less than surrender in Laos - something called a "neutral" Laotian government - had been partly cured by its recent experience. And be sides this gain, there was a hidden asset produced by the simple fact of President Ken nedy's inauguration. This asset was Nikita S. Khrushchev's obvious, almost feverish anxiety to begin ne gotiating with the new Presi dent about a whole scries of major problems having noth ing to do with Laos, such as disarmament and nuclear test control. As he hinted in his inaugural address, President Kennedy tentatively regards Khrushchev's desire to nego tiate with him as genuine, and he does not discard the possibility of practical agree ments being reached with time. But it can also be stated on good authority that President Kennedy is by no means will ing to negotiate with Khrush chev on the basis of the Soviet boss's talking peace out of one corner of his mouth while he orders war out of the other corner. This Kennedy attitude has obvious bearings on the Laos crisis, moreover. TN 1959, the previous Soviet- Asponsorcd assault on Laos was called off precisely be cause Khrushchev wanted to negotiate with President Ei senhower. The Communist at tackers got the command to withdraw, in reality, in order to prevent cancellation of the vs. President K: An as those quarrels are contain ed and diminished. A palpable identity, but one unique. It is not accurate to say, as we have all said at one time or another, that this arms race must be stopped be cause, like all arms races in history, it must end in war. Previous arms races were de signed to achieve a superiority which could produce a DECI SION in war, and the arms were used by aggressors when they believed that point had been reached. . Between Russia and Amer ica that point has been passed. No decision by either is attain able save joint extinction. The "missile gap" may not be closed, but the deterrence gap has been closed. As between the two giants the power stale mate has been reached, bar ring some new, unforeseeable scientific miracle. A control led and partial reduction of Russian and American atomic arms would release resources in both nations for saner pur poses and reduce the over weening military influences in both, but it must be control led, and in our time it can only be partial. It may be true to argue, as some do, that it is the over hanging shadow of atomic weapons that gives to spot quarrels, such as Korea or Suez or Laos, an unnatural, inflated quality ot fear and tension. But it has air) been true that tltt ? atomic shadow tcvirl tva plo- O o0 , o POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) One of the Potluck editor's favorite people is Mrs. Kathe rine Chapman, who is also known around the office as "Mrs. Hornbrook." She is our correspondent in that vigorous little community south of the border. A dedicated Republican, Mrs. Chapman tried to convert some of the shameless Ken nedy supporters in the office last fall by baking some "Pat Nixon fruit bread" and pass ing it around. (Even this large measure of devotion failed, alas.) Anyway, she was in Med ford last week and during her visit she had her hair trimmed hv one of the city's leading hair stylists. It was damp and curled when she left town, put by the time she reached home it had fluffed out nicely. But now she's in despair. All of her. friends have ex claimed to her, "Katherinc, when did YOU get that Jackie Kennedy haircut?!" Mrs. Hornbrook also re ports that she was talking to a man who had an expla nation for the descriptive -term, "Rogue Wonderland." He says when you get up on the foggy mornings we had recently, you look out the window and wonder how you're going to get to work. . There was an unfortunate typographical error in the Mail Tribune last Tuesday. It was a story dealing with the Rogue Valley Art Association. Somehow or other, a line or two got dropped from the story and it came out "Rogue Gallery Art Association." The following day the Ash land newspaper had a story about the same thing, and it, too, came out "Rogue Gallery Art Association." Now we know how the Tid ings gets its news - or some of it, anyway - right down to the errors. Which reminds us of the comment of a friend (not a newsman, incidentally), who declared, "KBES-TV gets more of its news from the Mail Tribune than from any other single news source in southern Oregon." Heh, heh. This is supposed to be the dawn of the era of automa tion, when everything can be and will be done as much as possible by machinery - even bookkeeping and, to a degree, thinking. Well, it may be the dawn. Eisenhower-Khrushchev meet ing at Camp David. The parallel with the pres ent situation is interesting, although the present situation in Laos is far worse. From this parallel, it can be safely deduced that Laos has been made a sort of test of Khrush chev's willingness to do bus iness with Kennedy on a basis that is really acceptable to Kennedy. If Khrushchev docs not pass the test, which should be known in a day or so, the choice between giving up in Laos or raising the military ante will then be made. Hence this is a fairly breathless moment, for President Ken nedy is not likely to wish to begin his administration by giving up in Laos or anywhere else. (Copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) sions and restricted their spread. In the long "twilight" struggle ahead that the Presi dent spoke of, suspended be tween cold war and cold peace, there will certainly be many small wars that cannot be prevented from starting, but none, very likely, that cannot be prevented from in volving the full power of the giants. It is not insane nor is it inane to believe, as some Eu ropean historians now do, that the over-all shell of big power relationships that encases the world is balanced more stably today than it has been at any time in this century. Because of the atomic stand-off and because the only NATURAL great powers-America, Russia and China-have finally readi ed, or almost reached," what seem the natural and always implied limits of their areas of direct authority. Within the enveloping shell it is and will be in our time a disturbingly, often frighten ingly, different story. In that sense and realm Khrushchev has once again put us on no tice that he will settle for no manner of stalemate or stabil ity. In his latest long speech he calls again for Russian sup port of "wars of liberation." for subversion of free coun tries through Russian support for pacifists and "peace fronts." He will not directly assault the structural steel in the house of the West. He will endles:0' seek to undermine it but the full hot noon of tha era of automation is some dis. tance off yet - or at least one would be led to think sn h stories which are creeping out ui meuiuiu mgu scnool. This year, for the first lima the high school has contracted' to have its report card grades class schedules, and such, han' died by an IBM computer. II the reports we hear ara half-way correct, the result has been a monumental foul, up of honor roll records, class schedules, and report cards. Presumably this is all eel. ting straightened out (anyway, the report cards were mailed out last week), but we did near oi one gal winding un in a second year French class instead ot tne Latin class she had registered for, and another student finding she was scheduled for two class, es, in separate rooms, at tha same time. Somehow, all this hardly seems justification for the jump in the price of IBM stock last week, and the big plans for a stock dividend lat er this year. A man we know took brief trip to California the other day, and, just as he was crossing the slate line, he saw a dog crossing the border in the opposite direc tion. "Aha," said our friend to himself. "This proves that dog control is an interstate matter, and as such should come under the jurisdiction of the federal government." He immediately envisioned a new position in the Ken nedy cabinet - Secretary of Dog Control, with Under secretaries charged with the responsibility for the up. keep of the United Stales Dog Pound Bureau, the Bu reau of Dog Catching, and perhaps even a Bureau of Standards for Muzzles, Leashes, Collars and Scoop shovels. On the other hand it might not be worth cabi net status, so could be han dled by a new regulatory agency, the IDCC - Inter state Dog Control Commis sion. If you have problems, con sider the plight of the poor mushroom raiser. It is, frank ly, a plight which somehow had escaped our attention in the past. But last week we received a copy of a communication from the executive of the American Mushroom Institute (yes. there really is one) ad dressed to the new Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Free man. The problem, it appears, is that people keep referring lo wild mushrooms as mush rooms instead of toadstools. The American Mushroom Institute takes a dim view of this, and thinks that only cul tured mushrooms (agaricus campcslris), grown scientifi cally and safely in immacu late, dank cellars, should be called mushrooms, and that any fungus growing wild should be called a toadstool. The AMI has succumbed to the pattern of our age and called on the federal govern ment for help. But what can Secretary Freeman do? Well, the AMI asks that "the ruling on this distinction (between tame mushrooms and wild toadstools) be made known to the press as well al the scientific world. Avaunt! Up the agaricul campestns; down the family agaricacae! ! Analysis by sapping and tunneling. Hi will try to remove, one by one, its outlying supports. pulling away every possible area with its resources, its trade, its political system and influence, in order to isolata and divide the West, until il is left with nothing but an un usable weapon. If he has to wreck the United Nations of build his own facsimile to la- cilitate the process, he will do so. Unlike Hitler, he will nev er make the mistake of frontal attack; but like Hitler, he ia thinking in terms of a thou sand years of supremacy. What he calls peaceful co existence is merely his term for a world framework per mitting spasmodic, varying, but rentless pursued guerrilla warfare. Whatever the picas ant tone of his current mes sages to Mr. Kennedy, how ever loudly he calls for a ncW summit conference, he has no intention of proposing a truce in the world guerrilla war Very probably his first pur pose in these diplomatic in itiatives is to test the climate and the mettle of the new American administration. There has been nothing in Mr. Kennedy's utterances, nothing in his actions so far. to sug gest that the first President born in the Twentieth Ccn turv docs not recognize "d accept the identifying hall mark of his t-enliirv (Distributed 1961 by the Hall Syndicate. 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