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Newspaper Page Text4 A i in Southern Onma wn '. """ fubtuhetj Daily cxccntSaturday by n North FIT St.. Ph. SPM141 nUDI.ni T . nwsu, BKHB GREY. Advertising Manager CIKALU T. LAlOAM, ou. K UC W. ALLEN JTU Hnf. Editor I 4RL H. Adams, aty to hot m . - n v fUlDUAHJ Titan aTMirnr OUVE ST ARCHER. Women'i Editor "An Inrfenendent Newroaoer Entered as second claw matter at . x . March 3. 1897 -TmSCRIPTION RATES y Mall In Advance, Copy 10e . puy ana ounaay i 7ar ' tfj and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Vil? and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 . fcunoay Only One year $4S0 Br Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point Eagle -. -Point. Jacksonville, uoia run, 1 Pfcoentx, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- TVnt nff on motor route. pally and Sunday 1 year 18.00 ' XMuty and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c r All Term caan in jtavancc "Official Paper of City of iHtdford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International run Leasea wire pyx Telephoto Newtptetures IdEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of UlltLULftuuna Advtrtitinc RDre tentative WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of- flcaa in New Tone, cnicago, w Seattle. Portland. St Vouis, At lanta. Vancouver, b.m. NfWSPAPt PUSLISHERS ASSOCIATION H ATI ON At E0ITOIIAL r;:;hlo'Tiine Madford and Jackson County History from the file! or The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 end 50 virt go- 10 TSARS AGO f. prU It, ltSl (Wednesday) The Medford city council lut night postponed awarding contracts for construction of a city fire station and sewer projects because of possible flaua In the bids. v ater in the city's Big But springs pipeline will He turned off for several hours tomorrow to allow the new totr 'line to be cut in to the eid Intake at the springs. n "BARS AGO A I li. 1M1. (Friday) ( i im Arthur Perry's "Ye T re Pot" column: "Mush- t hunter here have been successful of late, both ittrg the fungus, and soring, same, without tliri doctor's phone i d considerable daav k.e to unsmudged fruit last sight. T "SARS AGO . 1 II, 1(31 (Saturday) imbers of a Congresslonv committee on approprla i will visit and inspect t Lake and park facili- i June. v'''!': r case of dlptheria and i of smallpox were rev 1 In S-'-im county dur s (ist week. " " i i-0 ''"i . 1 i, ) 1 Hornby) ; r. r...uit, chairman ot V CA Athletic league, s'inounced the spring ill schedule, i an is beina boosted lo- i to have display ot here that are made in ilogue valley. , EARS AiiO 4 ' i 1 It. 1111 (Tuesday) age one headline: "Fruit I i Who Heated Saved Their t ps; Past Week Has Wlt r d Most Strenuous Battle .Ji rrost in History of I ifue River Valley-For Ten yi Vigil Has Been Kept.". There appear to be fewer exporters of valley apples to fngland this year. VM Ycur I.Q.? Nnm t tan cerrtcl b luMrior; ami t tlf kt It exulhiitj fhr t hi h 4. 1. What was the relation ship between Augustine Wash ington and George Washing tent h 2- When a submarine sub merges, does the temperature ot the air within increase or decrease? ' 3. What city is called the Eternal City? ' 4.:- A Fourdrlnler machine U principally, used in which industry? 5. Is the order of calling the roll of states in national ; political conventions alpha betlcal,' geographical, or by population? 6.. What Is the name of the highest military decoration awarded by the U. S.? .7.-Who was Henry-Wallace'! predecessor in the office of vice president? 8. Name the body of land that" connects the North and South American continents. ' 9. In which New England eity was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born? . 10. In which country Is Ran goon? Answers: 1. Half-brothers. 1. Increase. 3, Rome. 4. Paper manufacture. S. Alphabetical. .. Conqrattional Medal of Honor. 7. John Nance Garner. . tstbaaus ef Panama, t. Port laa4. Main. IS. Burma. ' TUESDAY, APRIL II. 1961 Sherman County Charter The Sherman county home rule study com mittee is the first in the state to finish work on drafting a proposed county charter. The document runs to less than six pages, and is a very simple charter, providing the general outline for county government, and reserving the active governmental powers to a new board of county suprvisors and, by delegation, to a full time, appointed county executive. Existing county officials are eliminated under the proposed charter, but the supervisors may appoint such officials, tney deem necessary. THE supervisors five school district in the $50 per month plus travel The supervisors would have extremely limited legislative authority, and the charter specifically provides, "The people of this county reserve for themselves the right to propose laws or resolu tions and the right to amend the county charter." The supervisors' principal authority would be in the buderetinp- nrocess. in aooointment of of ficials and in making the addition to those rights vided to counties. THIS may be an excellent charter for Sherman It does not follow that for Jackson, or any other, county in Oregon. The reason for home can work out charters situation, and what might be right in Sherman (population 2,430, area 830 square miles) may be all wrong for Jackson county (population 73,316, area 2,817 square miles). A county less than one-third the size of Jack son, with a population Central Point, does not problems we do, and therefore the form of gov ernment need not probably should not be identical. Without commenting Sherman county charter, but only academically. proposed for Jackson county, then will be the time to decide whether it is right for us. E.A. Varieties of Freedorn .. One man's freedom is another man's injustice. And vice versa. ' , ; ; ' Sound paradoxical? It isn't, really. It is all part and parcel of the development of rational government, and the protection of one man's rights from another's depredations. Under our theory of government, all men are free to do whatever they want just so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others. Thus, men are restrained from committing murder -the ultimate crime. And, as populations have grown and society become more complex, the restrictions have grown and grown. They have, in truth, limited unfettered freedom. But freedom which injuries others isn't freedom at all it is license. V THIS all may sound theoretical and abstract. Dllf in .ThMrann inimfu fnia iraai. if ion'f of oil abstract. It is a very live issue, one which is being debated hotly, and of which we will hear more. The debate at the moment surrounds such things' as county subdivision ordinances, zoning, planning and building codes. Yes, some of these things involve certain re straints on unfettered action. But, in truth, if properly applied, they result in greater not less freedom. . . . 1 . MAN can say : ., "This is my property. I 'own it. I can do anything I want on my own property. And no one is going to ' tell me otherwise." This is. fine; this is freedom up to a point. This. point is reached when, by his use of his own property, he begins infringing on the rights of others, by depreciating the value of their prop erty, by limiting their freedom. Does a man have an unrestricted right, say, to establish a wrecking yard on his property, if, in doing so, he damages the property values, the peace and quiet, the rights of privacy, of his neighbors? . .i t .-'.,- WHICH should predominate in such a case? It VbV4Wa VV AJ HO TV All Cb ill iliabld what cost, inconvenience or loss to his neighbors? Or .the "freedom" of his neighbors to enjoy their property unimpaired bv up-lv scenes or other distractions? This is the problem, amental aspect And the our enure social structure, through all phases of our community life. AS indicated, this is more than a theoretical de Viafa Tf la nMl mlnnnnln ni.nnli.nl aha Wn..n wotc. ib .o an iiii.ciiocijr pi actual uue, licit: and now. The problem is this: We must design our mit a maximum of individual freedom on one hand ; and on the other hand the safeguards must furnish protection from the admitted abuses which can arise out of unlimited freedom which verges onto license when it damages others. This is not an easy task. It is one which has occupied the best brains of America ever since our nation was founded. And it will be a con tinuing task, here and everywhere, as population continues to grow, and as society continues to become more complicated and condensed E. A. boards or commissions as of them, one from each county would receive expenses, and that is all. rules governing them, in and powers now pro it would be a good one rule is so that counties applicable to their , own little more than that of have the same kind of on the merits of the we find it of interest, When there is a charter ' . reduced to its most fund ramifications go through legal safeguards to per Dennis, the Menace . A PERSON HAS TO SET tSD TO VAWC GLASSES IF she's eom to vzfAMOis some myj . Communications Latter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. although under certain circumstances the usa of a pen name or iniial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribun reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; In fact the contrary is often Registered Rabbits To the Editor: At this time of year many people just start ing, and some trying to im prove on what they already have, buy rabbits. It appears rabbits are being sold as reg istered rabbits because they have tattoo markings in their ears. These do not necessarily mean the rabbit is registered. More often than not this is an Identification mark made by the grower. Any rabbit officially reg istered will have a number followed by a letter tattooed in its right ear (always in the right ear and always with the letter following the number), also .a certificate of registra tion. The registration certific ate should be properly filled out on the back and signed over by the seller at the time of sale. The new owner, NOT the seller, will send the pa pers with 25c to the American Rabbit Breeders Association, 4323 Murray ave., Pittsburgh 17, Penn. When it is done and everything is in order the As sociation will return a cer tificate. No rabbit can be reg istered till It has reached adult rabbit weight for its own particular breed. In order for a rabbit to be registerable it Is required to have a complete pedigree cov ering three full generations, no ancestors missing. Of course the pedigree is only the basic step in registering a rabbit. The individual rab bit Itself besides having the pedigree must pass all the Standard of Perfection re quirements for the particular rabbit breed in question, when examined by an official reg istrar. It is Impossible to squeeze these requirements in-, to this space but 1 will say the rabbits cannot have any visible faults besides many not so easy to see. An example of error In rab bit qualifications occurred in a recent article In the Med ford Mail Tribune, quote ". . .. Growers association favor the New Zealand white rabbit. This large, pure white rabbit will average 0 to 9V4 pounds." The correct weight for New Zealand White rabbits is does, 10 to 12 pounds, and bucks, 0 to 11 pounds. To be specific, Irt order for a New Zealand White doe to qualify for reg istration she must weight at least 10 pounds but not more than 12 pounds. The same ap plies to the buck within his weight limits.1 American Rabbit Breeders Assoc. By H. L. Gllddon Representative for SW Oregon 243 South Stage rd. Medford, Ore. Awful Thing To Do To the Editor: I was just reading about the new Fed eral building. If the new post office is going to be built on the site next to the Library Park on Holly street, it sure will put a lot of old timers and retired people out of homes. These people have had their own homes for a good many years and to move them would be an awful thing to do. It seems to me that the Med ford Planning Commission needs some new blood, as do a lot of other state and city organizations. I for one, and a good many more of the peo ple who live in this area, are not going to write to our con gressman. How would some of these said Planning Commissioners like it if they had lived and owned this property for 20 or 30 years, as - have many of these people in this area. and then tell them they had to move. Boy would they squawk. As for writing Durno who has done nothing for Oregon since elected, ohl of course if he thought that It would MEDFORD MAIL the case. cause someone trouble and grief, he would sure recom mend the bill. What is the matter with taking the blocks on .West Fifth and West Sixth, Grape and Fir streets? That big warehouse on West Sixth, be tween Grape and Fir streets is sure an eyesore. Of course it would hit a couple of big people, but why take it out on the little people who have bought their homes, and are getUng along in years, to be transplanted? This location that I have just mentioned would be centrally located and no traffic problems, as some say about the place that has been mentioned on South Riverside and Central. As for motels, well I have seen' quite a few in Rogue Valley and Medford, and I have yet to see any of them filled up winter or summer. It seems to me they would try to get some industry in Medford that would do away with unemployment prob lems. Let's live and let live for a change. . B. F. Smith, . 136 South Holly st., ; Medford P.S.-I am in this zone and have lived here several years and hoped . to make it my home from now on,, where the Planning Commission is trying to have the new civic center. - The Same Error .To the Editor: Your error seating Judge Main , on the bench in place of Judge Kelly caused me to make the same error you did. I therefore apologize to Judge Main. Malemute Slim White City, Ore. Spare Them a Calamity To the Editor: A recommen dation by the County Plan ning Commission, reported last week in The Mail Trib une, has caused deep concern of the residents South of Talent. This recommendation, by divided vote, to the County Court to approve a license for a 9-acre auto wrecking yard, extending right up to the back yard of adjacent homes, shows an utter lack of con sideration for owners of fine residences in this region. The courage of some members of the Planning Commission in standing out against foisting this, monstrous thing upon these residents is warmly ap preciated. . The writer, A teacher at S.O.C., found old Highway a desirable location for a sub urban home, and he has watched with pride and satis faction the development and improvement of this region into a residential area. It is most shocking therefore to read that any one with con sideration for the welfare of the residents in this area would recommend the estab lishment of a junk yard near by. It is earnestly hoped that the County Court will spare the families of this region from the calamity of living by a junk yard. Loren E. Messenger Route 1. Box 33, Talent, Ore. Correct Solutions To the Editor: Since your communicants cannot agree on the following issues, shall squander a few moments to give, them the correct solu tion. UNEMPLOYMENT: C u t wages in the middle. Fold, and cut again. Then maybe someone can afford to hire help. COLOR LINE: Free all colored men from military service. If unfit to eat in our gobble-shops, why give them the honor of protecting our precious white hides? HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICARE: This one is TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Cold War Back To By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Generalissimo F r a n c i seo Franco is about to complete the long, hard road back to in- PWS ternational re- "'gj'J spectability. x n i 8 win V'i have been - 1 achieved A1 when British '-ir A Foreign Secre V I tary Lord w I Home pays an official call on MfJ Franco in Ma- Newiom. drid next month. It will be the first time in Franco's 22 years of power that a British official of Home's rank has visited Spain. It follows a pattern set by French Foreign Minister Mau rice Couve de Murville, Presi dent Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles and West German For eign Minister Heinrich von Bretano. ; For Franco it is the end of an international quarantine Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp. BE ABLE TO ADMIT FRAILTIES The willingness to admit ignorance is often an endear ing trait, and it is surprising h o w, in so many cases, our pride and vanity inhibit us from the frank admis sion that we do not know. A noted physician was telling me at dinner last night that one of his biggest problems in a "teaching" hos pital is to get the internes and residents to admit that they are baffled by some proce dures. ' "They seem to feel it is a reflection on their expensive medical education if they can't immediately apply their book-learning to some case," he said. "The most serious blunders, of course, are made by those who jefuse to con fess their limitations." In the young, as in the old, however, such limitations (freely admitted) can win our sympathy and respect. Those who commonly try to do more than they can do are usually motivated by vanity more than by valor. On the racing courses, for instance, it is al ways the immature driver who takes the most perilous chances; the brave veteran driver always has a healty fear of exceeding his limita tions. In his newly published book, "A Victorian in Orbit," Sir Cedric Hardwicke re Harrli Washington Report By William S. White (ci United Feature Syndicate DER ALT Washington The extraor dinary importance of being Konrad Adenauer-and the ex traordinary power of personal character and personal hon or is being curiously il- 1 u s trated in the old West German Chan cellor s c u r rent visit to the United States. White S e v enteen years ago this very spring American and British troops were marshaling all over the island of England for the greatest invasion in history against the most bloody-minded enemies in the long story of warfare, the Nazi Germans dug in on the soil of France. This spring, the leader of the free Germany which emer ged from the defeat of the Nazis is here in the United States as an honored and trusted indeed an almost rev ered guest. TT IS true, of course, that American self-interest and high politics as well as senti ment have given the heads of an ex-enemy land this high, peculiar status among us. For he leads the free world's out post in Europe, the West Ger man republic; he is an in- simple. Refrain from getting sick or injured. STRAY CATS: Since hu mans cannot agree on this issue, why not leave it to the cats? They might see eye to eye. HOME RULE: Agree with the wife from the start. Your jaw will never stand the argu ment hers will. SMOG: If you can grope through the murk to the mail box, I'll leave this one to you. Jack Fincl 3710 Hilsmger rd. Medford. Realignments Bringing Franca Respectability Among Allies dating from his joining the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis short ly before the beginning of World War II. Shifting Attitudes Neither the United States nor its European allies have forgotten the fanfare with which Franco greeted a tri umphant Hitler after Nazi ar mies overran France in the fall of 1940. Nor his outspo ken hope that the Axis pow ers would win the war. Nor, no doubt, has Franco forgotten the repeated Allied snubs after the war, the fact that he was barred specifical ly from United Nations and from receiving Marshall Plan aid. ' But although neither side has forgotten, time brings changes. As Russia and its former allies became Cold War en emies, Spain's strategic posi tion overlooking both the At lantic and the Mediterranean became of paramount impor tance. ' counts the most moving mo ment he has ever seen in the theater. It was seeing Ellen Terry when she was close ' to 80, playing in the trial scene in "The Merchant of Venice." As she approached Portia's "qual ity of mercy" speech, her face suddenly became bleak and lost. She struggled vainly for a moment, then moved down to the footlights. "I am a very silly old lady," she said, "and I cannot re member what I have to say." . Almost to a man, Hard wicke recalls, the audience shouted the lines and cheered as she smiled her thanks and returned to her place. She played the rest of the scene to an enthralled audience. A 'lesser actress (and a les ser person) might have tried to bluff her way through, or might have collapsed in panic. But Miss Terry did not mind confessing her lapse of mem ory, and she was not too proud to call upon the good will of the audience, which always responds to such ges tures of human frailty. It is our strength that may attract people to us, but it is our weakness that makes them like us. We do not feel comfortable even with the great unless they reval some flaw, some common touch of human weakness, some link with our own inadequacies. And, by an iron law of psychology, the desire to seem always strong and knowing is a symptom of some structural weakness in the personality. The doctor who needs to play God is the furthest removed from Him. dispensable watching ally against the Russian hordes just to the East. . ' This, however, is by no means all of it. For more im portant even than his position in the allied jpower structure is his nature as a human1 be ing. A man who always fought Hitler and what he stood for, Adenauer has personally since then reclaimed the decency and integrity of the German people. An unshakable friend of the West, he is also an un shakable enemy of his own homeland of that odd infec tion of savagery which so often in the past cursed the Germans in Germany. He is more than a great political leader; he is an example, at its very best, of that thing called European civilization. A little while ago, his prin cipal political rival, Mavor Willy Brandt of West Ger many, was also here. He, too, was welcomed everywhere. But to this observer there is a great difference neverthe less in Washington's response to the middle-aged and clever Brandt and to the massive and laconic 85-year old Ad enauer. TJOTH evoke respect here. But Adenauer perhaps because of the somber dignity of his years and achievement and perhaps because of a per sonality having the weathered strength of a great old tree draws a special regard. It can be seen more easily than it can be described. He seems to represent some quality of timelessness; of a traditional, patriarchial lead ership; some strange and rare victory of age over youth rather than of youth over age, as it usually goes. Nowhere in all the chan cellor's official rounds here was this more plainly true than in his brief appearance before the United States Sen ate. This, too, is a traditional, Political objections, once enough to touch off anti-Franco demonstrations in the streets of Paris and London, receded in the face of the new danger. In 1953, the United States and Spain signed agreements providing for U. S. construc tion and use of air and naval bases in exchahge for U. S. economic and military assist ance to Spain. That U. S. aid to Spain now totals more than $1 billion. In 1955. Spain joined the United Nations. ' Britain and France, once bitterly opposed to Franco Spain's membership in NATO, now travel to Madrid to dis cuss western defenses with Franco. , Still Not in NATO ' Spain is not now, nor will it be in the foreseeable future, a member of NATO. . But it seems almost as much by Franco's choice as any other. Matter of Fact By Joseph AUop - (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate WARNINGS APLENTY Saigon In the spring of 1959, the Communist leaders of North Vietnam and their senior part ly..! ners in the t.ZjS is.remun n a a oeen waning 1 fr over five , V years, with in- J creasing impa- Pected weak- Ij ness and divi- " " sion to bring Auop South Viet nam into their grip, Instead, the South Vietnamese govern ment 'of President Ngo Dinh Diem had been making solid progress. On May 13, 1959, the Central Committee of the North Vietnamese' Communist Party therefore gave the watchword after a meeting in Hanoi. The time had come, said the Committee, to "strug gle heroically and perserver ingly to smash" the govern ment of President Diem. Except by a very few, this warning was almost wholly ignored. But towards the end of August in that same sum mer, the first open attacks were launched - not in South Vietnam but across the border of Northern Laos. This first invasion of Laos was not pressed home, but it quickly produced the desired result. The incursions across the northern border quickly drew into the northern provinces almost all of the small, ill trained Laotian army. South ern Laos, which borders on South Vietnam and Cambodia, was thus left quite unguarded. Communist infiltrators then made their way down the so called Ho Chih Minh trail, to establish rear area guerilla bases for rest and supply purposes, both in the Sara vane and Attopeu regions of Southern Laos and the border provinces of "neutralist" Cam bodia. IY THE autumn of 1959, " the time was ripe to call up the members of the Com munist underground who had been left behind in South Vietnam when the country was partitioned by the Gene va Accord of 1954. Few south ern , Communists who had gone north were now sent back to the south. After their first-hand experience of the "people's paradise" the great a timeless, a patriarchial kind of body. And here "der alt" (the old one) was most per fectly at home. His little talk was received by the Senate with a warmth rarelv eiven to that of anv man. Some who most applaud ed him had lost sons to Ger man fire in the war; some had themselves gone through Ger man fire. A LL the same, if a strictly confidential poll had been tanen as, of course, it was not-this correspondent would have had no doubt of the result. "Der alt' would carry any popularity contest in the Senate above any other allied statesman, not even excluding British Prime Minister Harnlri Macmillan. .Macmillan would run ahead in such a private poll among the southerners and perhaps among the old-Yankee tvnes of easterners. But he would finish second among the mem bership as a whole. Beyond doubt there is an irony here here in a pnnntrv founded by British men and resting upon British law and British-made institutions of freedom and speaking the great tongue of the British race. Anynow, tnere it Is. PsrhaDS it is because dpr alt has done so much against such great odds. And perhaps it is also because he has con quered age in the eyes of a forum where age is a far more common thing than youth. r.O .data n The Spanish government feels that this country is in directly linked with the West, ern defensive system through its treaties with the United States and, consequently, does nc; need to be a member of NATO. Further, there is among Spanish official circles even a reluctance to join the de fensive organization. This springs from the lack of support Portugal received, primarily from the United States, in the recent United Nations attacks on her policies in Portuguese Angola.. In any. event, Home's visit Is expected to be a big step toward improving relations between Britain and Spain. Another important visitor soon will be Germany's finan cial expert, Ludwig Erbard. From this may come Spain's integration in the European Common Market' - another step toward respectability. majority were no longer trust worthy; - Instead, small numbers of hard .core northern training cadres were used to form the first of the new South Viet namese guerilla battalions. These first battalions seem to have been formed in the trackless depths of the Plaine des Jones, conveniently close to both the Cambodian and Loatian support bases. Before Christmas of 1959, the guerilla war on President Diem's government was start ed in deadly earnest. The first battalions ready in the Plaine des Jones moved secretly into their assigned provinces; they applied the familiar pressures of mingled terror and per suasion; and thus they spawn ed additional companies and sections in each province. The caches of arms, also left be hind by the Communists in 1954, supplied equipment. By the winter of 1960 much of the countryside in many of the provinces was already in Communist hands, at least by night. Further bases, like that in the Plaine des Jones, had also begun to be established in other especially impene trable areas such as the Ca mau Delta and the forested region not far from Saigon and just beyond the town of Can Tho. - In September, 1960, a North Vietnamese Communist Party Congress reiterated t the ear lier declaration of under ground war by the Party's Central Committee. Almost si multaneously, the attack on Laos was renewed, this time with open Soviet logistic sup port. The Communist Pathet Lao forces, previously defeat ed by the Loatian Army, soon gained the upper hand after being greatly stiffened by bor der crossers from North Viet-' llEANWHILE the formation of additional battalions began in the Camau Delta, the Plaine des Jones and the other difficult areas where the Communists had their South Vietnamese bases. The scale of the effort may be gauged from one of these bases which President Diem's paratroopers recently discovered and de stroyed. Besides mess hall, lecture hall, makeshift infirmary and other main buildings, the base in the jungle clearing had close to 300 palm-huts-or accommodation for some where between 600 and 1,000 men. At the present juncture, therefore, the Communists have at least three, and more probably six, new battalions which are ready to move out of their jungle protected train ing bases and join the guerilla war. In addition; a ceasefire in Laos, if and when it comes, will probably release three to four thousand border crossers for potential use in South Vietnam. i The fact that these large Communist reinforcements may soon enter the strug?'e in South -Vietnam is triDly significant in view of another fact. In a few provinces, like Kien Hoa where this reporter spent some days with the courageous Colonel Thao, the Communists have lately bewi losing ground. In many others, the struggle is evenly bal anced, and in some areas the Communists have been gain ing. Overall, you miaht say that the South Vietnamese army is like a bottle just large enough to contain the existing Communist strength. But let the Communists pour in much more strength, and they may not be contained. If the record is surveyed, it will be seen that there have been warnings aplenty since 1959. most of which were blandly ignored by the Amer ican government until very recently. But a further warn ing is in order now, for this can become a supremely dan gerous situation in painfully short order.