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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MLDrORD. VtiE. MEDFORD FJEnsHodnily except Saturday by "BftnwTm rtihl. Editor HERB GREV Advel-tislnt Manacer GERALD T LATHAM Bu Ml Vmrw ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor . nnu MIIDU A N TpInG EditOT Ann iffwFTT Rnnrt Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'" Editor PALE EKIURSUIwi Kuiejyj:- An Independent Nempaper Intcred ai cond elan matter el Medford. Oregon, under Aet 01 March 3. 1897 Uy Mall - In Advance. Copy tOc Dally and Sunday l year "" Dally and Sunday J root 8.0J Dallv and Sunday 3 mat. Sunday Only One year By Carrier-In Advance Med'oi-o Ashland Central Point B ele Point. Jackaonvllle Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. 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A $50,000 gold dredge car rying $1,800 worth of gold broke loose from its moorings last, night neur Grants Pass and was pounded to pieces by the flooding Rogue river. 20 YEARS AGO " Feb. 5, 1941 (Wedneaday) Fourteen head of cattle, two . calves and 25 tons of hay were destroyed early this morning when lire leveled a large barn UownecV- by ; WlUlarnii Martin about two miles south of Eagle Point, a . From - Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Frogs In throats and mud puddles urn olentiful . throughout the valley." 30 YEARS AGO . Feb. 5, 1931 (Friday) ' Tile city of Medford is con- : aider ne Duucimii a ruuu iu uie top of Roxy Ann as a means of aI.iIhm Inrtol imnmnlnvmnnl 'problems. 1 The. West Side pharmacy : was robbed of $142 last night. 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 5, 1921 (Saturday) ' . A Gold Hill moonshiner was entenced to three months in Jail yesterday. Medford High school bas kctballers defeated the Hill Military Academy of Portland : 15 to 13 yesterday.' SO YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 19 U (Sunday) Capt. M. F. Eggleston, a member of the legislature from Jackson county, died early this morning in a Salem hosnital. J. C. Hall of Medford has received a 10-year franchise to bring top shows to Medford, and has said tins assures me city of having a new $40,000 theater. Mai's Your I.Q.? Nina or fen correct It tuperler: even or eight il eicellenfi five ei Is It good. 1. Is the term "Plimsoll's line" a surveying, mining, nautical, or medical term? 2. Is Perchcron the name of a breed of swine, horses, or cattle? 3. Which is the earth's most abundant metallic clement? , 4. Docs a biennial plant last one, two, or three years? 5. Samuel L. Clemens used What pen name? a. was butter, sugar, or meat the first to be rationed during W. W. II? 7. Name the singer who was called the "Swedish Nightln. gale." 8. Who was the first Presi dent to occupy Uie executive mansion? 9. Does the male, female or both sexes of crickets, pro duce the chirping sound? 10. An absolute vacuum has never been produced; true or false? Antweri: 1, Nautical term 2. Horses. 3. Aluminum. 4. Two years. 5. Mark Twain. 6. Sugar. 7. Jenny Llnd. 8. John Adams. 9. Only lhe male. 10. True. ARBITRATION LAW Canberra - The first nation to make disputes between cap. ital and labor a matter of ar bitration in special courts pro vided by law wsi Australia. Fishers Come Back More than three years ago, an editorial in-this space reported on speculation that animals known as fishers might be transplanted to the Cascade country, and that they might be a potent force in keeping the number of porcupines under control The editorial said : "... A group of lumbermen and foresters in this area have an idea which might be worth considering for a 'natural' means of control (of porcupines). "One of them is O. K. Puckett, who has a lumber operation in the Green Springs area. He recalls hearing 'old-timers' tell of the lime when a weasel-like animal called a fisher was prevalent hereabouts. They have . been gone for years, he says, but in the days when they abounded, porcupines were much rarer. "His story is corroborated by an article in the . , Journal of Forestry ... "The fisher is a natural enemy of the quillpig, they (the authors) say, and they cite instance after instance of cases where the porcupines have been numerous un til fishers moved in, then decline as the fishers in creased. "Fishers once ranged the entire northern part of the country, chiefly in coniferous forests, but their range now is limited largely to New England and the Adirondack country in northern New York stale. The animals are about the size of a fox, and have the bodily shape of a large weasel or a small wolverine. They are tough and fast and suffer far less from porcupine quills than most other animals. Puckett says they can even swallow them and get away with it. "The article concludes: " 'Re-establishment of the fisher In areas of the United Stales where porcupine control is indicated might well solve, or at least minimize, the damage caused by this obnoxious rodent. We feel that it would be well worth a try.' ' "In this area particularly, where fishers oin-o were numerous, it might indeed be worth a try." THIS experiment, discussed more than three vo'ira arm ia rmur hpinrr nlprAfl in pffppf. Eleven fishers of an recently in the Mountain Lakes Wild Area, west of Klamath Falls. Details of the involved, cooper ative project are told in a story elsewhere in today's Mail Tribune. It will be mterestmir little animal will thrive once lived, and if it will make any significant dif ference in the porcupine population. ; If it dees hold down the number of porcu pines, it will be a boon to pig" does great damage to And the fishers will ping, despite the fact that their dark brown or black fur, tipped with silver, is valued at up to $125 per pelt. E.A. ' Appraised Timber Prices , . Are the federal government's appraised prices for timber unrealistically high? And if they are, L -a 11- - J i is none oi me iaciois wnienis nuiung ute jumuer mdustrvf - . 'yMaylj.e' so,' as some' figure out why. Annraised nrices. of actual Prices uaid ror sometimes lag behind current market values. But the Jag isn t veiv great. Secondly, it s a rare prices don't exceed appraised prices. Otherwise the timber isn't sold. THE OREGON Statesman reports that it was Rill l-TotTnnof ain ovonntivo rf Hia Tnrlnei i'i nl Forestry association, who ing. Congressman Edwin R. Durno then asked the Forest Service to look into the "cost-price squeeze," and added that "it has been caused by failure of the Forest Service to make realistic ap- praisals of timber values. ' The Statesman comments : "We find It hard to figure how cutting the appraisal prices would put ninny men back to work. Federal tim ber is sold on bid, and if the appraised price is too high, loggers don't bid. Even so, there is so much lum ber on the market, and plywood too, that prices are depressed, and mills' margins of profit are narrow or non-existent." ; It follows that, if the appraisal prices were ad- justed downward, even sold, the market further J 1 i i I i i i iinisnect iiimrjer wouici uiuspin aown even iurtner The Coos Bay World puts it this way: "... To blame the price of raw materials for economic difficulties, and overlook the fact that the niL-kct is in collapse no matter how cheaply one gets the materials, is ridiculous , . . Unless there is a demand for lumber and plywood, the Forest Service could give the logs away and there still would be no reason to mill them." A COMMENT by our knowledgeable corre " spondent at Table Rock, R. E. Nealon, seems more to the point than prices, in his column on if nday, he said : ". . . It seems that a real boost to the lumber busi ness would be to get these huge piles of lumber in lhe mill yards moving into construction where they be long." And the only way to do that is to stimulate the economy in general, and the housing industry in particular. The only ones who would benefit by lower ap praised timber prices would be the big firms which could afford to weather a prolonged period of depressed juices. The "little guy," or the firm which cuts its own stumpage, would be damaged, perhaps irreparably. E.A. Count Your Blessings In any counting of blessings by those of us lucky enough to live in the Rogue valley, a place near the top of the list would have to go to the weather. It may be foggy here occasionally, and some times it's too cold and sometimes too hot. But at least we don't have the sub-zero bliz zards which have paralyzed the east for the past few weeks. E.A. eventual 20 were released to see if this fast, tough again in an area where it foresters, for the "quill small trees. be protected irom trap 1 Li 1.1 1 U ; '. , , 'claim, but if so we can't course, are based on the stumnace. and as such timber sale where bid got the controversy go more timber would be glutted, and the price of i - i n... n fussing about appraised Dennis the Menace " - -I Y0U KNOW SOrMeTHIN0.Ate.iMrCHa FOR A MOMENT THERE, YOU DOING THE CHA-CHA-OVW Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE VOTE IN THE HOUSE When we- try to read the meaning of the vote about en larging the Committee on Rules of the House, we must bear mind that it took place at the very be ginning of the Kennedy ad m i n istration. The Kennedy prog ram on Llpnmann which the House will have to act has not yet been published, in deed a great deal of it has not yet been worked out in legis lative form. All that was be fore the House was the Demo cratic platform, campaign speeches of both parties, the inaugural address, and last Monday's message. These are general, statements of purpose and policy but they do not contain specifications . about the laws that will be asked for or the money that will be neeaea. rne task lorce re ports, while they provide in sight into the thinking of Kennedy's advisors, ' are not Administration legislative pro posals. Thus, the action In the House was a reflection" of what has gone before. The vote was close as the election was close. This vote does not necessarily,-or even probably, anticipate the future which is likely to be very different when President Kennedy has begun to act, and to make de cisions, and to propose not merely policies but programs and measures. Presumably when he is be ing the leader and not merely talking about leadership, he will continue to grow strong er. Indeed he is already con siderably stronger in his pop ular support than he was on election day. - rNE can, therefore, easily "exaggerate the significance of the vote. There is, however no doubt of its practical im portance. In effect, the House transferred to Speaker Ray burn from Rep. Howard W, Smith the power to determine what shall be the business of the House of Representatives. As the Speaker supports the Administration and as Mr Smith is opposed to it, the parly which won the election will have the power to have tts program debated and voted upon in the House. Had Mr. Smith won on Tuesday, the coalition of Rep'iblicans and Democrats who lost the elec tion would have captured control of the House of Repre sentatives. But while the Democrats have won the contest, the Re publican party, it can fairly be said, has been saved much trouble and embarrassment. It Try and -By BENNETT CERF NEWLY UNCOVERED Abraham Lincoln anecdote: At the age of 24 Lincoln served as postmaster in the ob scure hamlet of New Salem, the princely annual sal- ary of $55.70. The postoffice w a 3 abandoned in 1836, but it. was several years before a federal agent arrived from Washington to set tle accounts with ox postmaster Lincoln, now practising law with in different results. The agent determined that the sum of seventeen dollars was due the gov ernment. Lincoln opened, an old trunk, and took out a yellowed cotton bag containing exactly seventeen dol lars. He had been holding- it untouched for all the years. "I never use any man's money but my own," he said. OiMlla Peed defines civilization as "a system under which a man pays a quarter to park his car so he won't be fined five dollars while spending a, dim for cup of coffee.'' I lippmann has been saved from being identified as the party of ex tremist reaction and obstruc tion. To have been in the posi tion where it was led by a Southern reactionary like Howard W. Smith would have been embarrassing for the Re publicans of the North. It would have been embarrass ing not only for Governor Rockefeller but for Case of New Jersey, Cooper of Ken tucky, Javits of New York, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and many others. It would also have been embar rassing to Mr. Nixon. Why? Because, as Mr. Al- sop has told us, Sen. Thrus- ton Morton, the chairman of the Republican National com mittee, realizes that "Presi dent Kennedy has preempted the center. Had the Smith- Halleck coalition won the contest "on Tuesday, the Re publican party would have been unable to challenge President Kennedy's command of the center. ' rpHE " center In American - nolitlnnl lif in an onnr. mous majority of the .people. and the party which controls the center is virtually unbeat able. The Republicans con trolled it most of the time from the Civil War to the Taft-Roosevelt schism of 1912 The Democrats controlled it from the great depression to the Korean War. Eisenhower had a chance to take command of it and to inaugurate a new Republican era. But he did not know how to go about it But this young man Kennedy understands perfectly t h e meaning of the center. He in tends to lead it, and he knows how to go about doing it. He has only to resolve the apprehensions of the Demo crats who left the party on the religious issue, and to draw to his Administration a large part of the Rockefeller Republicans. There is no deep doctrinal or Ideological differ ence between the Kennedy Democrats and Republican; like Rockefeller and Dillon and Case and Cooper. TARRING a catastrODhe " such as war, or an accident like a panic or a scandal, a combination of the center is almost impossible to beat. A victory of the Smith-Hallei'k coalition would have made life very difficult for the Rockefeller Republicans and would have promoted greatly the formation by President Kennedy of a combination of the center. So we can say that while it had a close shave on Tues day, the Republican party did escape a victory which would have been much worse than the defeat. (Copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Stop Me I1J., for which he drew down IM HEKB TO COLLECT ir BUCKS Matter of Fact iy A NEW CAMPAIGN BEGINS Washington - By all the signs, the White House re gards the narrow victory in the vote to liberalize the House Rules Committee only the be ginning of long, inevit- a b 1 y bloody campaign for d e p e n dable C o n g r e s- Aliop sional support for the Kennedy administra tion. This means that the long established Republican-Southern Democratic coalition is going to have to withstand a sustained assault of a type the coalition leaders have nev er experienced. The form can be guessed from the intensity of the effort that produced the coalition's jecent defeat. This was without any real precedent since the titanic struggles to enact Franklin Roosevelt's great pre-war measures, like the draft ex tension bill which passed the House by a single vote in 1941. The real effort began in the middle of last week, when veteran Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn realized that he did not have the votes to regain control of the Rules Committee by enlarging it. By then, it was almost too late. TTOUSE Republican Leader Charles Halleck had long since taken the precaution of putting the big stick of com mittee assignments for new members in his back pocket, until the votes could be count ed. Wily old Rules Commit tee Chairman Howard K. Smith of Virginia, the arch conservative of the House Democrats, had also prudent ly persuaded most of the Southerners to commit them selves publicly, in ringing statements to their home town papers. But Rayburn had yet to call the big battalions of the White House into the fray. On call, they plunged into the fray with startling vigor. In the first phase, the Presi dent's Congressional liaison man, Lawrence O'Brien, and his political secretary, Ken neth O'Donnell, got their baptism of fire. But even after O'Brien and O'Donnell had used all the new White House's ordinary powers of persuasion, they and Rayburn and his two lieutenants. Reps. Richard Boiling of Missouri and Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey, were still fearful of the out come. Defeat was still ex pected as late as Sunday, in fact. riN THE Monday before the v vote, therefore, the Pres ident himself, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and At torney General Robert Ken nedy all took the field in sup port of the Speaker. The old device of the Presidential tele phone call was used once again-after how long an Inter- val!-once without success in the case of Rep. Harold Cooley of North Carolina, but with success as well. In addition, outside support of all sorts was successfully mobilized, sometimes from un expected sources. For exam ple, four Republican Senators, John S. Cooper of Kentucky, Clifford Case of New Jersey, Jacob Javits of New York, and Hugh Scott of Pennsyl vania, besought members from their states to vote with Speaker Rayburn instead of Republican boss Halleck. And so, in the end, the veteran Speaker won his victory by five recorded votes, with six more votes on call if he really needed them. The pattern of this victory dictates the kind of campaign that the Democratic Congres sional leaders and the White House are now jointly begin ning. There were 22 Repub- l vSri Two Programs for the Cold War Future By ERIC SEVAREID The world is lining up to watch another act in a famil iar pantomime. Moscow and Washington are edging towards one an other, across the stage. The former holds j out the carrot in one hand, the stick bare ly discernible in the other hand behind its back; the latter extends the olive branch, fingers tightly clench ed around it for quick with drawal at the first false move. Everyone in the audience ob serves the same actions and reactions. But to one-half of the audience they mean quite different things than they mean to the other half. The spectators have come in through different doors and they were handed different programs to rend in advance and prepare their Understand ing of the drama. Perhaps the simplest way to illustrate this is to take two advance programs written Joseph Alsop licans who voted with Ray burn. Since every vote counts in this closely divided Con gress, right-voting Republi cans like these will be gen erously encouraged, in the us ual ways, by the Democratic administration. MORE important, there were 62 House members from the old states of the Con federacy who voted against Rayburn. At least 40 of these, and probably 45, constitute a hard core of men who can not be talked to. But the rest can perhaps be talked to. Win ning the maximum number in this group is the main ob jective of the new rampaign, State by Southern state, all the members who voted with Rayburn (rare as hen's teeth except in Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana) and all those who now want to make their peace with the White House, will find all doors opening to them, all good things avail able to them. The members of the opposite persuasion will instead be met with chilly, unfruitful politeness. The methodical organiza tion of the new campaign is distinctly impressive. Not only Cabinet members and heads of agencies are to be warned to be discriminating in the persons they do busi ness with. Personnel directors, and other officials Congress men and Senators must also approach on business, are to get the word too. When play ing politics, in short, the Ken nedy administration plays for keeps. There will be outraged cries no doubt, since Washington has half-forgotten what it is like to have an active po litical leader in the White House. But political leader ship is a traditional Presi dential function, and one which John Fitzgerald Ken nedy evidently enjoys. ,(c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Kennedy is re ported to be committed - rain or shine - to legislation de signed to - 1. Increase and expand the minimum wage. 2. Provide permanent aid for communities with chronic unfimployment. 3. Stimulate housing. LET'S PUT it this way: The big question in the case of No. 1 is will it in crease or DECREASE employ ment? The minimum wage applies chiefly to unskilled labor. In the case of unskilled labor, will there be jobs at $1 an hour, but NO JOBS at $1.25 an hour? IN THE case of No. 2, might it not be belter to move the unemployed from places that are chronically depressed "(that is; where there is chron ic unemployment) to places where there are employment possibilities? In areas where there is chronic depression, resulting in chronic unemployment, there is usually a reason. Lumbering may have been the principal industry in the days when the community was do ing well. Due to over-cutting, or unwise conservation prac es, or no conservation prac tices at all, the timber may all have been cut off, so that the community's basic re source has been exhausted. . OR IT MAY have been a coal town, and all the coal has been taken out of the ground. Or a copper town, and all the copper ore has been mined. Or a town that was making wagons and buggies when the truck and the auto mobile came along and took by two distinguished men of equal good will and compar able alarm at the world's drift. Both yearn for- peace and the flourishing of Western values and .'nstitutions. Each, so it happens, has written his interpretation of the forth coming performance in terms of advice to the new President of the United States. One of these men is William R. Mathews, the Arizona edi tor, whose advice is printed in the Atlantic magazine. The other is Salvador de Madari aga. the expatriate Spanish scholar, whose advice has ap peared in the Neue Zurchcr Zeitung. What Mr. Mathews says, in effect, is, "Let Mos cow pluck the olive branch from your hand and you will find that the stick behind the back will be dropped." What De Madariaga says is. "But put away the olive branch and free both hands to take up a stick of your own." Mr. Mathews, as I read him. is one of those who. like so many European intellectuals, believe that both sides are equally at fault in preventing the peace the world desires. Ha tells tha President that POTLUCGC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Jewett Elementary school in Central Point is located at Tenth and Manzanita streets. This bit of information is for the edification of those Central Point citizens who don't know. And it appears there are quite a few of them, judging by the fact that three visiting teachers were direct ed to the Central Point Ele mentary school, rather than Jewett, by one resident, and only escaped leaving town without getting to their meet ing at all because someone at the rural fire department knew where Jewett school was. Meanwhile they had spent nearly an hour waiting at the wrong school. Others attending the meet ing also had similar difficulty. Happily, it all turned out all right, with some 135 peo ple finally arriving at the meeting. "Quality operation with dignity," is ihe boast of one local radio station. The claim usually is made just before a commercial which starts out with a silly fe male voice chanting "Poop-pcop-a-doopl" . Our women's editor, who gets upset quite easily, got upset last week by a refer ence to Ham, the chimpanzee-astronaut, as "who," in stead of "which." She was not alone In her concern, apparently, for we read in the Eugene Register Guard that staff members on that worthy paper spent some time debating which pronoun to use. But that was all settled by an authoritative editoral writ er, who declared: "We don't know what the grammar experts on the desk will decide, but if we had a vote, we'd say that any crea ture, monkey or not, which (who) has had an adventure like that to his (its) credit is entitled to the dignity of WHO." the place of wagons and bug gies. In such cases, it seems more Intelligent for the unemploy ed to move elsewhere, where jobs are to be had, than to re main in a chronically depress ed area and accept what amounts to soma kind of a dole. AS TO No. 3 -There is dependable evi dence that in VERY many areas - even In our rapidly growing Southwest - there are already more houses than tenants. Why promote more empty houses? Is that good business? It doesn't seem so. HERE in Oregon and in Far Northern California, the lumber industry, including the building materials indus try in all of its variations that include materials tracking back to trees, is our mainstay. When it flourishes, we all flourish. When it isn't doing loo well, the rest of us are apt to be doing not too well. But - Over the long pull Is it good for our lumber In dustry, and for our towns that depend on it as the source of their payrolls, to subsidize the building of still more houses at a time when there is de pendable evidence that in the areas where we find our mar kets there are already (for the time being, we hope) more houses than tenants? It seems to me these three proposals deserve a lot of thoughtful study. while the American people are prepared to make war, they are poorly prepared to make peace. They have been condi tioned against inevitable com promise as acts of "appease ment" he says, believing we are always right, the other side always wrong and that if we don't achieve victories we are bound to achieve defeats. He believes American as well as Soviet sincerity is now at the test: That the Kremlin will respect our primary in terests in Latin America, Ber lin, Korea, Japan, Formosa and the Philippines if we re spect Russia's primary inter est in Eastern Europe. In other words, Mr. Mathews ap pears to believe that negotia tion can end the cold war. The Spaniard also pleads with the new President for a new vision, a new faith-but it is faithful acceptance of the grim view that everything since the rape of Czechoslo vakia should have taught us, namely that for the Russians negotiations are only a form of warfare, that the Soviet Union means war, not hot war, but hard, relentless cold war every where possible. Let thera be no more illusions, he "Do you believe in clubs for women?" "Yea, if all else fails." We are happy, happy happy to be able to report that in addition to being tha sixth week of A.D. 1960 (and third of the "New Frontier"), it is also: American Heart Month, Catholic Press Month, Nation al Sickroom Needs Month and American History Month. Nature's Snack Time runs from Feb. 1 to April 30; Len ten Cheese Time (a little more modestly) runs from Feb. 1 to March 31, coinciding with Good Breakfast Months. Feb. 3 to 8 is Take Tea and See Week: Feb. 5 to 11 is National Children's Dental Health Week, and it is also Advertising Week and Nation al Electrical Week. Boy Scout Week is Feb. 7 to 13. Will anyone join us in pro claiming National For Heav en's Sake Don't Be So Darn Silly Week? . And now, friends, left lei the youngster! take over the rest of the column. We herewith present excerpts from four very excellent elementary school newspa pers, the Rogue Rider Re view of Roosevelt School, ihe Jackson Journal, of Jackson school, the Hoover Hi-Lite of Hoover school, and a new one (Vol. 1, No. 1). the Blue and Gold, of Hornbrook school. Here we go: Reporter M a r g o Finnell, fourth grader at Roosevelt, reports: "These last twelve weeks our room has been doing soma very hard work. "We wrote a letter to a relative thanking them for a gift. On Friday we walked to Keene Way and Main to mail our own letters. We learned how to tell when the mailman would pick up let ters. It was fun and we en joyed our walk. Happy New Year to all! I !" Kenny Phillips, a poet in Mrs. Watson's third grade clasa at Jackson, writesi The winds all blow, ' Down comes the snow. Hockeyl Hockeyl What a gamel You need a lot of ice all the same. There is a snowman over by the fence. Here comes a snowball, my eyes sense. Look at the mountainl See the cloud? I feel like yelling right out loud. ; The winds all blow. ! Down comes ihe mow. Kathy Zanotto of the Horn- brook school has this to re port: "A while ago, Pat and Kathy Zanotto went to Port land. While there they want ed to go on an elevator. They got in,, and supposedly went downstairs. When they got there, they were up on the top floor. Then, they got back in and pressed for upstairs and went downstairs. When they got downstairs, they took an elevator to the floor their room was on, and went in Room 34. But it was not their room. Their room was 43. They finally got home." And finally, Michelle Hicks, in 3R at Hoover school, gives us our thought for the week, thus: "Long, long ago, in your great, great grandmother's time, there were Indians that did everything for themselves. There were no tools, and all there was. was wood and tone. Think how lucky you are now." s says, about an understanding or a compromise. Let us ac cept the challenge, organize the free world for the fight, if necessary establishing a new free United Nations if the Russians succeed in de stroying or making unimpor tant the present one. r Surely, there has been enough evidence these many years for all intelligent adults to know which interpretation, which program they believe in. Yet not many do, with clarity and conviction. If I were to add footnotes to the programs, as a guide to the audience, one would have to be the recent declaration of the World Congress of Com munist Parties. Its basic theme and determination was stated in these words: "Peaceful coexistence of countries with differing social systems does not mean con ciliation of the socialist and bourgeois Ideologies. On the contrary, it implies INTENSI FICATION of the struggle of the working class, of all the Communist parties, for the triumph of Socialist ideas." (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)
