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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. MEDF01 IBUNI "Everyone in Southern Oregon Keaas ins mbii inoune Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFUHU ritlivi irnj KJ 33 North Fir St.. Ph 8P 2-6141 rorfrt w RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advettlilng Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr P.HIC W ALAJSN JR. Mm EARL. H ADAM8. City Editor nmnv rHIPMAN Teles Editor nirmnn .IP.WF.TT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE EH1UKBUM, yrcmawun " An TnilMnntlripnt NeWSOBDer entered as jecond class matter it Medrora. Oregon unuor nvi March 3, 1807 atmar-nTOTTnN RATES By MalJ - In Advance Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday i year 'vv Dally and Sunday mos son Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One vear ft 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Cold H I " Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogll. Rlv er. Talent and on motor tj Duly and Sunday 1 vear 18 00 Dally and Sundpy 1 mo 190 Carrier and Dealws - copy tOc All Terms Cash lnAdyanca TSfnelai Finer of City of Medfnr Official Pap" of Jaolwon County UnlteiTpreiB KKternafionel rull Leased Wire v U P.l TelephMoNewspletures Member of AiiriVr mraEAU oxcrecuiATioNS Adverflilne Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CC INC Ol . Ices In New York Chicago pa ' trolt. San Franclnco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis At- ' lt"ta Vnnp.'iuver a n NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL gjaAc6T'tN Ir.m.Plim'.HJ.I.lJ.g Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago, . 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 1B51 (Wednesday) The Medford city council Inst night , received resigna tions from Airport Manager John Applegate and Building Superintendent Manfred Ol son. Uniform opening hourg for . downtown stores were agreed upon this morning at a meet ing of the retail trades com mittee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. 20 YEARS AGO - '- - , : Feb. 21, 1941 (Friday) The railroad station was jammed last night with rela tives and friends of 28 draf tees leaving here for lervlce In the Army. From Arthur Ferryi "e fimudae Pot" column "The j ...UVi onn. shine again yesterday like cl-l it nl. I. ...WW. taln" 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1931 (Saturday) A last-minute bill has been Introduced in the legislature to permit Copco to build a new $4V4 million develop ment on the Klamath river. Knute Rocknc, famous ath letic director of Notre Dame university, stopped briefly In Medford yesterday. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 21, 1921 (Monday) - The entire county court Is In Salem today to protest a bill which would provide that a portion of the county road taxes raised in cities should go for city streets. A reapportionment bill has cut two representatives from Jackson county. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 21. 1911 (Tuesday) Leaders of the Sisters of Mercy and Providence have arrived here to inspect noo hill, the proposed site of a new $100,000 hospital, A buck deer, slowly walk ing across the tracks, delayed the morning train from Jack , sonville today. What's Your I.Q.7. Nine ei Ian cerreel Is supeiiori even or eight is excellent; five M ii la seed. 1. Who wrote the book ;"Ten Years In Jnpan"? 2. Two presidents of the ' U. S. have been chosen by the House of Representatives be. . cause no candidate had a ma jority In the electoral college; name them. 3. Where Is the port of Cheribon? 4. Which Is greater, the polar or equatorial circum ference? 5. What rank In the Navy corresponds to Major In the Army? 6. Which Italian city has been called "The Bride of the Sea"? 7. Bees will not sting a per son while he holds his breath; true or false? 8. Does the law require that the Secretary of Defense shall be a civilian? 9. In Dickens' novel "Dav id Copperfleld", what was the name of David's child wife? 10. The chemical composi tion of the blood of all races of people is the same; true or false? . . Answersi 1, Joseph C. Grew. 2. Thomas Jefferson and John Qulncy Adams. 3. Island of Java. 4. Equatorial 5. Lieutenant Commander. 6. Venice. 7. False, t. No. 9. Dora Bpenlow. 10. True. FEBRUARY 21, 1S61 A "Mockery" of Law? Is it true that, in granting many "routine" divorces, every circuit judge in the state is in ef fect a party to a fraud? Is it true that some half of all attorneys in the state refuse to accept divorce cases because they refuse to take part in fraudulent activities? And that the other half just don't care because it is a lucrative business? We don't know the answers to these questions. But they are highly disturbing ones, and arise from hearing a talk last week by one of the state's circuit judges, Virgil Langtry of Multnomah county, who also is disturbed, A REPORT of. his talk, printed in the Eugene Register-Guard, set forth Judge Langtry's worries this way:. "It's hard to instill a respect for law In Juveniles :, when divorce courts almoBt dally ridicule and flout the law, Judge Virgil Langtry of the Multnomah Coun ty Circuit Court declared in Eugene Friday . , "Divorce courts usually hear only one side of a case, and not always the truth, he declared. Even when perjury is discovered in testimony, something Is not always done about it, he said, because juries and the public think 'perjury isn't important because it's just a domestic case.' "The judge said It is a frustrating experience to sit in Juvenile court during the mornings, trying to build respect for law, then spend the afternoon hear ing divorce proceedings and 'act a part' In a mockery of law ... "Judge Langtry said Oregon's marriage and divorce laws need a thorough overhauling, yet a bill to set up an interim committee to make such a study has been tabled by the judiciary committee In the state legislature ..." IP what Judge Langtry says is true, and we have no cause to doubt it, the Oregon legislature should dust off the plans for such a study, and get it going. (Even if it has been tabled in the Senate judiciary committee, there are a number of ways to get a similar bill back under consideration.) The Oregon Bar Association recommended that such a study be made, but apparently little if any pressure for its enactment has been applied. And if, as Judge Langtry says, our circuit courts , and about half our lawyers, are, in effect, forced to participate in "a mockery of law," simp ly because of unrealistic statutes, it is a shocking thing one which should be cured as soon as can be done. E. A. Economic Upturn Due? Is Oregon, hard-hit by unemployment and a depressed lumber market, going to make a come back in 1961? No one can say for sure. But there are indica tions that it will. One of the indications is contained in the very substantial amount of new construction which is in the works construction which will put some- wnere around $igu million into circulation, em ploy thousands upon thousands of people, and nma fha anMin Vs.,-, VI my,. give the entire economy F)ON McNeil, the manager of the Medford Chamber of Commerce, became interested in these prospects the other dav. and compiled a nar- tial list of construction projects planned in nine of Oregon's cities. He boints out that thev are "haatilv e-atherfid. incomplete, and undoubtedly inaccurate ..." " But he also declares that they "do reflect an upturn in Oregon's economy this spring, at least in the construction picture." His list does not include dams, federal forest work, or even highway the total figures would IN MEDFORD alone, the total of planned con- ofi.iiitinv. (nnA 4-V.tr, In , . U. .. ow UV.WUJ1 vauu WHO iO major projects, and does of smaller ones, nor some which have not yet been announced,) runs to In Jfortland, the total is about $54 million. Other representative citv totals include T.nkeview. $1 million; Eugene rails, nearly $5 million; Koseburg, more than $6 million; McMinnville, more than $1 million; Ashland,- $1 million; Grants Pass, more than a half million dollars; Salem, $2 13 million. It should again be emDhasized that these figures are not the result of an accurate, com- prenensive survey. But, with these totals struction, other public works projects, and new state building, the total amount of expenditure, much of it private money, speaks well for an economic upuirn cms year. ti.A. Waste in the Navy Waste in government? Yes indeed, there is. Yesterday we received 11 envelonos from the Navy's Fleet Home Town Lakes, 111. One was mis-sent to cause of a faulty address. Une contained a blank sheet of paper. The other nine were identical news releases. except that each had the name of a different local serviceman who was to participate in cere monies marking the 19th anniversary of the Pa cific Fleet Amphibious Force. 1"HE cost? Not counting iciiio iw cntn ciiveiuue mm eni'iosui e, 01 77 cents for one day's mailing to the Mail Trib une alone, when 7 cents would have done it. And this should.be multiplied by the number of men in the Pacific Fleet Amnh'ibious Force. and the number of newspapers in their home towns, ine total could be several thousand dollars. It isn't much, in a multi-billion dollar defensp budget. But it's irritating n unnl construction. With these, be far higher. uuiy iui suuit: Ul LUC not include a number about $6 million. $16 million; Klamath added to hitrhwav con News Center at Great the Mail Tribune be- clerical help, about 7 at tax time. E.A. a real lift. Dennis the Menace "Hi, Mom ! I was just shown' Joey that was utue ohcb,7ooi" Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of 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 publication must not exceed 400 words. The lellers printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. 100 Per Cent, Full Steam To the Editor; This is an open letter to Congressman Edwin R. Durno. Dear Congressman Durno: By now you are undoubted ly very unpleasantly aware of a powerful movement both in and out of Congress to abolish our House Committee On Un-American Activities. The Reds, Pinks, and Fellow Travelers in our country call this program of theirs "Opera tion Abolition". Ever since Chief Justice Earl Warren and his Supreme Court handculled and practi cally destroyed our F.B.I, with the Jenks" and the ' Wat- kins" decisions, the American peqple have looked upon this Congressional committee the last bulwark between the Communist conspiracy and the survival of our country. By fearlessly exposing all manner of vicious, treasonous subver sion wherever found, this brave little group of men has earned the undying hatred of the Reds, So they and their allies have frenziedly smeared and villi fled, and now are determined, by putting every conceivable pressure on Congress, to com pletely destroy this heroic Congressional committee. And the infuriating part about it Is that the very Constitution and form of Government, which they so bitterly hate, and are so mercilessly deter mined to destroy and over throw, protects them from the wrath of the American people. Therefore, Dr. Durno, we, as your constituents, must look to you and your col- leagues to fight this battle for us, right there in Congress. It'll be a rough fight. You'll have tremendous pressures put on you by every left-wing organization in this nation But, as everything that is pre cious in the American way of lite is at stake, we are all hoping to see you "go in slugging with both fists". I'm betting that your home town people will back you up to the very limit all the way. And I've got a mighty strong hunch that some of thorn will clip this letter out and mail it to you there at the House Office Building, Washington, D.C., telling you so. Be assured Dr. Durno, that an overwhelming majority of us wnnt our gallant House Committee On Un-American Activities LEFT STRICTLY ALONE, and kept functioning 100 per cent full steam ahead L. C. Powell, 31B S.E. Eighth st., Grants Puss, Ore. Two Articles To the Editor; There have been two articles in your pa per recently that were of par ticular Interest to me. The first was your editorial In which you so enthusiasti cally placed your blessing on the new dally paper that has started in Portland. In the first place It is a spite paper that was started by tile unions because the courts would not uphold them in their suit for the employees that caused the trouble at the Oregonian and Oregon Jour nal. In the second place it is not a free enterprise business. The union members have to support it whether they wish to or not. The rest of us Irfive to ac cept the Judgment of the courts when the decision goes against us, but apparently not the unions. They will spend millions of the workers' mon ey Just to save face and up hold a few radical members. The second Item of interest was the story of the people that were arrested for refus ing to return their library books. Did you know that the Com munists systematically loot MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ommumccKBOEis ... the libraries of anti-Commu nist books and lose or destroy them? And pretty soon they are out of print. The vandal ism is much worse in the large city libraries. The John Birch Society has had special printings of many of these books. They are available to the public. Society members can sup ply you with a list and tell you how to secure any copy you desire. Leila A. Morrow S31 North Bartlett st. Medford. More About Hunting To the Editor; In answer to Mrs. Henrietta Bergh, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, I feel she doesn't know the full mean ing of sports, as she was prob ably raised in some big city, and had to run for her life every time she crossed the street. It is these people in high powered cars that worry me. I have no argument against the YMCA, or the Scouts, as they are good activities. I have hunted the biggest part of SO years and have never killed anyone. I think that is a pretty good percent age in favor of the hunters. I know a lot of other people who agree with me. My wife and three sons fully agree be cause they go hunting with me all the time. Most of the people who en Joy outdoor life, and especial ly hunting and fishing, arc the safest people of all. Those handling guns are taught to handle them safely. I'll toke my chances, any day in the week, out inthe woods with these people who shoot jack rabbits and digger squirrels. I hate to see those old jackrabblts eating high priced feed from our livestock, as eight jackrabblts will con sume as much feed as one beef. Twenty digger spuirrels will eat enough grain to feed 30 laying chickens all winter. So I feel it would be far better to give these teen-agers a gun and fish pole so they can grow up to be sportsmen, than to give them high pow ered cars that will get them into trouble, either by killing, or being killed, or crippled for life. I think Mr. Conway's TV show is tops. Marlon Hulse P. O. Box 893 Jacksonville, Ore. A Clobbering To the Editor: Pity the poor R e p u b 1 i can contemplating running against Senator Morse in 1882. What a clobbering ho will get! David Frlsch P. O. Box 2112 White Citv, Ore. Argument To the Editor: I have been crowding you a little lately, with my junk, so, like Leo Townsend, I'll submit the en closed and lay off for a while. Some letters are like the first chapter of a book, a Sunday sermon, etc., anyway. I would Just like to say that if the enclosed clipping from the Portland Journal of Feb. 16 is not the best argue- ment against abolishment of capital punishment, 1 will never write another word. What do you think? Malemute Slim White City, Ore. F.ditor's note: The clipping, In purl, said: Redding. Calif. - The bodv of 8-year-old Vlcki Lee Morris was found Wednesday and Sheriff John Balma sajd she had been slain and apparently raped. We Must Stop To the Editor: In the last few months a great many ofiby the rest of their Ameri- our people, for the first time I Germany Foreign Aid Contribution by &a Diinon By . PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst For many months, the Unit ed States has been trying to persuade its orosperous allies that they must ereater share zJ of a burden 3 which since 3 World War II has been borne by the United States, almost alone. This was the question of for iewsom eign aid which was running at a clip of $4 billion annual ly, and which, even for a nation of the United States' great wealth, was more than it could afford. The result was the "save the dollar" campaign insti tuted dramatically in the clos ing days of the Eisenhower administration and since pur sued by the new Kennedy administration. Foremost among the nations which the United States be- in their lives, have taken a long, hard look at our gov ernment, our schools and at politicians, and they are both shocked and angry at what they have seen. The vast majority of our citizens do not want our Re public turned into a socialist state, but, without our realiz ing what "was happening, s comparatively small group, usually calling themselves Liberals, have already push ed our country a long way to ward this evil and unwanted system. If we would save our Re- public we must stop and then reverse this trend at once as we are already very close to the point of no return. Fred Buss, Westlake, Ore, Drop Ike To the Editor: Why can't you drop old Golf Ball Ike from your paper? " - The nation is heart-sick of reading every day of his lux ury living and golfing while the working class are starv ing. , - C. W. Corey, Phoenix, Ore, Snow Job To the Editor: It is curious the eminent Sir Charles P. has been able to "Snow" you into accepting the argument that "motives don't matter" (editorial 2-17-61). What, if not motives, have brought the sit uation to its present enorm ously complex and critical state? Now disarmament of itself not unworthy of sincere men, and "foolproof arms con trol presupposes a sanction. First sincerity: The exist ence of a world-wide commu nist conspiracy is no less real than Sir Charles' scientific certitude. This conspiracy op erates under a moral code of its own, its fundamental tenet being the denial of God. From here the way is left open for the implementation of their most effective tools, deceit and force. Only their motives could justify their methods. Under deceit must be listed the frustration of all truth, and the encouragement of all harmful fallacies. Empirical evidence reveals , the use of force includes all forms of homocide (genocide murder, etc.), atso subversion unlimit ed, extortion, torture, all hu man depravity. Against such a degenerate adversary, and in light of the marvelous yet fearful develop ments of science, the right of any state to self-defense can not be denied, unless we are prepared to accord free move ment to international crim inals. This in no way disturbs the fact that unjust war is to be considered the gravest of crimes, for which internation al penal law must proscribe tile heaviest penalties, no such sanction exists today. Robert J. Howard, 828B West 14th St Medford. O Editor's note: A question- Is "self defense" another phrase for "mutual anihila- tion In a world containing multi - megaton hydrogen bombs? Asks Other's Views To the Editor: I want to ask what the other people in this Rogue River Valley think about the trouble they are having in Southern California with the imported Mexican Nationals who have been im ported into the Imperial Val ley to work in the lettuce fields, etc., and take the jobs away from the American laborers who have by now ex hausted their unemployment compensation and are now on welfare, being taken care of can countrymen, who like 3 Finally Agrees To Increase Its lleved could increase their contributions were booming West Germany and Japan. Last week end pleasant news came from West Germany. Billion Dollar Offer A .delegation headed by West' German Foreign Minis ter Helnrich Von Brentano informed President Kennedy that West Germany was ready to up Its contribution of aid to underdeveloped nations to about $1 billion a year. It was an unexpected 'climax to a situation which threaten to put the severest strain on U.S.-West German delegates of any time since the end of the war. For the West German gov ernment it also represented an about-face. Last January, when Robert B. -Anderson, President Eisen hower's secretary of the treas ury, took the problem to Bonn, the Germans refused to ac cept the view that the gold shortage was more than short range. They contended that the outflow of American gold, leaving the United States with a 1960 deficit of nearly $4 billion, was a temporary situ ation which quickly would correct itself, Mutual Rejections The Germans rejected a U.S. demand that they take over $600 million in NATO troops supply costs. The Unit ed States, in turn, rejected a one-time offer of German help to the extent of $972 million, mostly in advance payments of German war In the Day's News By FRANK ... From Washington: Secretary of Commerce Hodges will head a commit tee named by President Ken nedy to study problems of the U.S. cotton textile industry and suggest solutions. The White House says the panel will look Into such questions as the industry's ability to meet mounting imports, cot ton subsidy price levels and technological developments. Possible federal help for textile plants and workers hurt by import competition will also be considered by the committee. HMMMMMM, Let's see if we can get a straight look at the facts in this cotton textile business. Here is what has been happening: We subsidize the cotton growers, thus bringing about SURPLUS of cotton. In order to get rid of the sur plus (when we begin to run out of storage space) we sell it abroad at a CUT price, themselves, have always sup ported this country, its schools and institutions and its armed forces. I would especially like to hear what our patriotic Camp White veterans and any others who have ever been unem ployed and forced to go on welfare, think about the situ ation. Southern California has now been declared a disaster area, and some of the most depressed have been arrested for attacking the Mexican labor camps and attempting to force the Mexican laborers out of the country, The ones they should have attacked were the ones who brought them into this country and the ones who hired them. We have the same situation right here In this valley and I'm wondering how long our unemployed are going to s.tond for it. The agents go around to the pear orchards and get the owners to sign up with them to have their pears picked and then they go to Mexico and get the Mexican laborers to sign up to come and pick the pears for so much a box. Of course the orchard ist likes- this because he not only gets his pears picked cheaper than an American union laboring man can pick them, but he doesn't have to pay any social security or un employment, etc., because his employees are not American citizens. They just come over to this country and get as much as they can from it and take it back to Mexico. And what does the orchordist get? He gets his boxes filled up with all kinds of crumby old pears, sticks, stones, leaves and anything else the picker can gets his hands on. includ ing the refuse from his lunch. I hope the people of this valley wake up and get busy to prevent tins from happen ing again this year. Write to your state senators and repre sentatives and U. S. senators and representatives and I be-1 lieve something can be done about it. for this is going to be a year for the laboring man and a year for all of us to do what we can to get rid of this 5.5 million unemploy ed. Let's do our part. Mildred Engman. 1107 East Main St., Medford. debts and munitions pur chases in the U.S. Kennedy's rejection of a similar German offer as fail ing to meet either the "prob lem or the opportunity" aroused in West Germany the same resentment as had been Matter of Fact -(Editor's note: Joseph Al sop was married on Feb. 16. and lo permit him a brief honeymoon, his brother and former partner Stewart Al sop, who has recently re turned from Africa, writes the following column and one to follow.) By STEWART ALSOP Khrushchev's Saucepan Washington-President Ken nedy has calmly but firmly warned Niklta Khrushchev not to intervene in the Congo, If Khrushchev ignores the warning, as he has threatened to do. he will be taking an enormous gamble of a sort the Kremlin has not taken before, And it is important to realize that, if he takes the gamble the odds are, or ought to be, all in our favor. If Khrushchev won h i s gamble, the reward would be a solidly established, disci plined Communist satellite state in the Congo. Look at a map and you will see how glittering this prize must seem to 'Khrushchev. Stanleyville, headquarters of Communist Antoino Gizango, is in the very heart of Africa, and a Communist Congo would be an enormous stride JENKINS which is absorbed by the sub sidy. Then FOREIGNERS buy the cheap cotton we are dumping, spin it into cloth with labor that is much cheaper than our labor and sell the cloth back to us at prices that are lower than our mills can meet. That seems to be the long and the short of it. IJUSINESS note in the news: " A round hot dog that looks like a doughnut is in the works. The president of the concert that hopes to start national distribution of it' this ; spring says consumers have long asked for a frank furter- that fits circular ham burger buns and BAGELS. QUESTION: What's a BAGEL? It stumped this department, which tends to deal more with economics, sociology political philosophies and the lessons of history than with new-fangled hot dogs and such. So we fell back on the dictionary, consulting first Webster's Collegiate edition, which doesn't take up much space on a desk. No soap. The Collegiate goes from bagatelle to bag gage, with no mention of ba gel. So we tried Funk and Wagnalls' New Standard Dic tionary. Still no soap. We went from there to Webster's Unabridged, whlfth weighs about 20 pounds. N6 mention of Bagel. So we asked our sports editor - and he came across without an Instant's hesita tlonv A bagel, he said, is a round bun, a little on the tough side, and filled with fish or anything that happens to strike the fancy of the maker. Bagels, he added, have long been popular around baseball parks. Conclusion: When you want to know something, ask the sports editor. JETTING back to this entre " preneur and his round hot dog, he may have some thing. The trouble with the old-fashioned frankfurter is that it tends to stick out over the edges of the bun. So . . . you're at a loss as to where to begin when you tackle one. Shall you bite off the ends? Or sholl you tackle the bun from the side, leaving the ends of the frankfurters hanging out for the last de licious bite? It's a problem. These round hot dogs will present no problem. You'll just wade Into them. You're familiar, perhaps, with this business proverb: "If you write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door." It sounds like the round hot dog man may hit the jackpot. T)Y THE WAY, there's a lot of controversy over who wrote that classic bit of busi ness advice. Some excellent literary authorities credit it to Ralph Waldo Emerson and add that it was cribbed with out credit by Fra Elbert Hub bard about a generation ago and used in his little maga zine, The Philistine. encountered earlier by the Anderson mission. Some of the German reluc tance has been based on oppo sition to raising German taxes in an important election year. That reluctance now seeming ly has been overcome. By Stewart Alsop towards Khrushchev's dream of Communist control of Af rica, the last great storehouse of unexploitod natural re sources, OUT look at the map again, and you will see what risks are involved in an at tempt by Khrushchev to arm and supply the Glzenga re gime, n order to enable it lo conquer the Congo. The Com munists have often armed and supplied Communist move ments on the periphery of -the Iron Curtain, as ifi Korea, Indo China, Laos, Greece, and' Azor Baijan. But the Congo is not on the periphery of the Iron Curtain. Stanleyville is nearly 3,000 miles from Soviet territory. The only practical way for the Soviets to supply the Stanley ville regime with important quantities of military materiel is by mounting an air lift, us ing Cairo as the staging area. The landing facilities in Slan leyville are primitive, and the Soviet air lift would have to over-fly the Sudan illegally, as well as Greece, Turkey, or Iran. Surely this would bo a very risky undertaking. It might be worth the risk if Khrushchev could be sure that the West would stand idly by while he built up his Communist rump regime. But he cannot be sure, as Presi dent Kennedy has made clear. At the least, Khrushchev must assume that if he intervenes to support and supply Stanley ville, the West will support and supply the U.N.-recog-nized regime of President Kasavubu in Leopoldville. To fall to do so would be to hand the Congo, and ultimately Af rica, to the Kremlin on a silver platter. ASA third glance at the 'map will suggest, if Khru shchev forces a show-down In the Congo, the military logis tical advantages will be all on the side of the West. But the gamble might still pay off for Khrushchev, if the political advantages were all on his side. If it were true that the Con golese rrmsses worshipped the late Patrice Lumumba as a hero and'patrlot, Gizenga, as Lumumba's stand-in, would have a great political advant age. With mass popular sup port, and aid from the Soviets and the Egyptians, the Gizen ga regime might then burk the military-logistical odds to conquer the whole Congo. But the notion that Lum umba is or was worshipped by the Congolese masses is a myth. Lumumba was an ac complished demagogue, when he found the time between bouts of gin-drinking, hashish smoking, and amusing him self with his harem of doxies. He had a certain following among the small minority of de-tribalized city dwellers. But he was also roundly hat ed. On two separate occasions, the anti-Communist Col. Jo seph Mobutu saved him from assassination. Lumumba was hated for many reasons, most of them good. But the main reason was that his attempt to establish a unitary state cut across the tribal loyalties which are the Congo's central political real ity. Thus Gizenga and com pany are certainly not going to conquer jon the cheap, sim ply by invoking Lumumba's name. Furthermore, the plain fact is that the Gizenga re gime, economically blockaded and plagued by warring fac tions, is in very bad trouble. 1VE MUST get over our in " feriority complex about Africa. We must not be so ter rified of being called "imper ialists" that we are paralyzed. Khrushchev is going to con tinue to use all means, from bribery to the threat of force, to bring Africa into the Com munist orbit, as is his sacred duty as a Communist. But we do have the power to persuade Khrushchev and his frient's that certain measures, includ ing unilateral intervention 'n the Congo, involve too great a risk and too small a chance o success. To that end, it is important to realize that, if Khrushchev does force a show-down in the Congo, the odds are in our favor. "We are going to make the imperialists dance like fishes in a saucepan," Khrushchev boasted recently. We are the imperialists, of course-United States and its allies-and Af rica is the saucepan. If we do not want to dance like fishes in Mr. Khrush chev's saucepan, we must have tne courage to let him know that there is a real risk that he might get scalded himself. That is what President Ken nedy has quietly but boldly done. (c) 1961. New York Herald Tribune Inc.