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Newspaper Page Text, "Everyone In Bouthern Oregon i KBOiiUBlllultv Published Dally except Saturday by SS North fir St., Ph. SP 2-6141 "nr"nfil w RIIHL.. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. 5lC ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER. Women's Editor DALE Kmtjnauff, Limumnw' ' . Tnrinndent Mewsnaper entered as second class matter at ueatora. vreBu" ""yy " March 3, 1897 ' mraapstpTrnN HATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c , ': n.n.. mri Btinrlnv A moS. J 6.00 ' n.llv and Sunday 3 mos. ' 4.25' ' Sunday Only One year 4 .20 By Carrletv-In Advance Madford i.kianrf ' rKlnl Pntnt Basle ; Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, : J Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv- r. Talent and on motor routes. Bally and Sunday 1 year Slf.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 - Carrier and Dealers copy luc All Terms. casn in flnvawic KTit-,t ,. At nitv of Medford Otflelal Paper ot Jaclcson County Tjnlted Press International Vull leased Wire TJ P I. Telephoto Newsplctures nfiEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: . " WEST HOLIDAY CO,. INC. Of- ' Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At- . lsnta. Vancouver, NEWSPAPER UlLUHiH? ASSOCIATION HATtONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from, the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 20. 1(51 (Thursday); Robert Shaw., formerly an official with the joint council of teamsters in BcatUe, . ar rived In Medford this week to succeed the late Don Stansell as secretary of local 982. y The state forest patrol re ported this, morning that the state forester has halted the 1 suance of all burning per r lt effective immediately. 7.8 AGO : i. 1141 (Sunday) tner Medford man, H. ock, has been elected i Eolse, Idaho. . 'vn-r Perry'i "Ye " co'umn: "The la blossom, ve start- i I t ti e , of auie." ) Y. 1KB AGO U la, 131 (Monday) i ore than 1,000 persons H i Crater Lake during . - k end in pre-eeason j of the road , to the i coun'y court today i r ni valley and Eagle i Xt inspect roads; I r. 1 service Is said Sai u these areas. , i I telaeeday) ; county sheriff : last ied a workable but Ul in the brush along k; it was smashed. . .edford post of the n Legion will push ,it of a state veterans', I I YEARS AGO J iU at. 1111 (Thursday) , The city council's program ' of paving Medford streets Is progressing on schedule; a big . contract for paving Jackion blvd, was let last night. " W. J. Roberts, the engineer who designed Mcdford's grav ity water system, has been named Washington state high way commissioner. Wbl's Your I.Q.? Nine 'er ten correct Is superior; H er ejiflhr Is excellent) five or , el b istd, ' 1.-Bouganvllle Is the name of an island much in the news during the Pacific campaign of W.W. II; In which group of Islands is it? , 2. In the ' U.S. hops are grown only In the southern states; true or false? 3. Mount Borah is the high est speak in which state? 4. A Kerry Blue Is what breed of dog? 5. Is it possible to vaccinate dogs against rabies? , 8. Was the opera "Alda" composed by Mozart, Verdi or Chopin? 7. How many players are on a hockey team? 8. What does the name Cos ta Rica mean? 9. Do like magnetic poles attract, or repel each other? 10. Do : you associate the word "ceramics" with funeral garments, pottery, or stage lighting? : . Answersi 1. Solomons. 2. False, 1. Idaho. 4. Terrier. 5. Yes. i. Verdi. 7. Five. I, 1 ich Coast. I. Repel. 10. Pot- Politics and. Ethics I 'Quite .by coincidence, a small publication entitled' "Politics and Ethics" was on our desk the other day when we happened across a Mail Tribune news story which bore a headline saying "Republican Says Don't Be 'Too Fair' ". , , ' -, ' ; The story quoted Gene'Brown of Grants Pass, a former state senator, in a talk he gave to the Medford unit of the Oregon Federation of Wom en's Republican Clubs. " ; "If you're too fair in politics,, you're a poor Republican," Mr, Brown was quoted as saying. And the story added, that Mr. Brown "believes this is not political dishonesty, but simply the facts of political ' life, a realistic, practical approach-to winning elections." . ' IT WOULD be interesting, to know 'how, inany of his fellow Republicans agree with his im plicit message that there are two standards of morality, one for everyday life, the other for politics. '' -V i ' ' '-'; ; The little ' booklet on "Politics and Ethics," written by Robert Gordis and published by. the Center tor the Study or starts out by saying: "The split between ethics and politics Is essentially .a modern phenomenon. . , v r t , '. "It did hot exist for Aristotle, for whom 'Politics' " ..-"'rind 'Ethics' were two subdivisions of the same' Work . . . In the modern post-Renaissance world, the subject . has bifurcated into the two parallel concepts of an amoral politics and an unpolitical ethics. ; . "Amoral politics takes several forms. There Is the ; cynical theory of politics associated with Machlavelli . .. Far more to the point is the widespread practical cynicism of modern politics, . . . though the 'men of " affairs' involved in these enterprises are rarely con- .' ' cerned with finding a rationale for their conduct . . ." "'.,..'...('........... ' MR. BROWN. qyite. evidently has given a con AA siderable amount of thought to the: praa ticalitv of Dolitics. Whether he has riven thouerht to the ethical and moral questions raised by nis advice not to be "too fair we don't know. : , . But 'we do know that Russia is ruled by a completely amoral system. So was Germany un der Hitler and Italy under Mussolini. : It had always been our. own conclusion that morality in government ing principle which set "last, best nope ol tne if government is amoral:. if politics (which is the operating force of then we automatically become an amoral so ciety. And then God help us. .''... ...'.'.- ';.' A BIT. more from "Politics and Ethics": .. "To permit' politics and ethics to be divorced from one another is fatal to the future of society, "H may simplify the task of the religious believer who wishes to wrap himself in the mantle of piety . and mystia contemplation, and turn his back on the - ' world, i , ' ... . , - "It may ease' the task of the cynical manipulator of the political process by freeing him from any moral -.check or discipline. '(..,' ' "But the basic insight of the Biblical world view. "remaina'true a society divorced from morality must PettSh . . . ...;'!;':.,; f" - : . "Always politics and ?thics may seem to diverge, . but it is the task of the leaders and the citizenry of the free society to strive perpetually to bring them ; . into harmony . . ." . OENE Brown, who has been a political leader .Via .his'own community, and who reportedly has given thought to seeking higher office, puts ft in very, simple terms-don't be too fair." . And, our story reported : ". . . (he) advised his fellow Republicans to vote for their party's candidate, even though they believed , the opposition candidate might be more able. He quail- lied this somewhat by adding that voters must draw ' the line if a candidate was too bad, but said in that case they should not cast any vote for that office.", ' For a citizen to vote for a man he believes to be inferior to his opponent, of to refrain from voting for a superior man, is for him to betray his responsibility t6 his country. . 'We cannot believe that Mr. Brown speaks for Republicans generally in calling for this divorce of politics and ethics, of government and mor ality. E. A. ' ' New City Hall? Over the past dozen years, with increasing frequency,, reports have come from the old Med ford city, hall that the building is no longer ade quate to do the needed job for the city. In recent years two offices those of the Med ford school district and of the local bureau of land management have moved out of the old structure. - This has provided more room, but as the city's responsibilities have grown, so has the amount of space necessary to take care of them. The old building is maintained well, but it is no beauty, it is inconveniently arranged, and is no particular credit to the city. . 1E do not propose that we rush out tomorrow or the next day and build a new city hall. But we do believe the city could well afford to do some thinking about the problem, whether it is sufficiently acute to worry about within the next few years, and if so, what should be done. Perhaps a. good way to go about this would be to appoint a citizens committee, composed of leaders in various fields of endeavor, who would be asked to make a study of the city hall, its adequacy, and, if appropriate, possible plans for its replacement. - THE committee could make an on-the-spot assessment of the real needs of the city ad ministration, take cognizance of proposals that a city hall might actually be separated from a building housing police and , fire departments, work with the planning commission in coming up with a logical site or sites for future consider tion, and, generally, put the discussion into focus. Perhaps the present city hall is good for an other dozen or twenty years; perhaps it isn't. t We think that an impartial study committee might be a good way to find out. E.A. Democratic Institutions, was the one great abid this nation aside as the worm. government) is amoral ; Dennis th YOU HEARD ME. DENNIS.' l OQtIWNTMY TV ANIfcNNA WASHfclr Communications Letters to tht Editor must bear the name' and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot s pen name or Inilal for publication is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit ell letters with view to clarification and cendensaton. 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 tact tne contrary is otten me The Use of Junk To the Editor: First off, I'll admit I do not live in the vicinity of someone else's wrecking yard, but I've got a fair start toward my own. Of course, I'm not in the auto- parts business. My "wrecking yard" is for my own person al use. I'm perpetually build' lng something and I find the auto manufacturers were kind enough to put on their products items I can use. in fact, many times they would be extremely difficult to make,' I've everal Items in process of building and because - I sometimes lack the particular item I need to finish the ma chine I am building, I find it necessary to "put it on the shelf" temporarily. At pres ent, the works are a fence, nost sharDener (I, need cast ing made), a tractor for pull ing yew fence ana ancnor posts to the truck (I've been working on' it tor almost a year of spare time), a winch for moving loads too big to move otherwise, a truck cab (I need a solenoid or small vacuum cylinder to enable me to shift gears remotely), a small motorcylce (need a tire. tube and wheel bearings, and a few other parts not in my junk pile), and last a wire brush machine to give wood shingles a rustic or. raised grain finish on one side, Of course if I could find a bank which would give me the keys to the front door,' the combination to the. vault, a truck to haul away the "sam ples", 'and flash a green light for me to 'go ahead', most of my troubles could be solved. That is: the troubles which force me to put my projects "on the shelf unfinished. ' There have been a num ber of persons who, have sug gested that I sell my scrap iron to the junk dealer. I'd get about a cent a pound for the scrap but to buy new raw material costs at least 20 cents per pound and then it would be necessary to turn the raw material into gears, sprockets, brackets, levers, links, etc.. etc.. and' would increase the cost beyond rea son. Much of MY scrap iron is usable with very little alter ations. So scrap dealers please stay away. So it is clear that , may attitude does not coincide with those people who are complaining about the wreck ing yard in the Talent area The people who want to put in the wrecking yard snouia complain about their neigh bor's a little, I'm sure, com' plaints about those flowers and. shrubs, patios, . pent houses, fancy driveways and other items primarily design ed to impress someone. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Rt. . , Butte Falls, Ore. Medical Care Article To the Editor: Through the courtesy of your paper, may I recommend that all who are Interested in the subject of medical care for the , aged read "How England Cares for the Aged", In the April 22 issue of The Saturday Even ing Post. . Ethel M. Thompson 3642 Hllsinger rd., Medford. Drama and Soap To the Editor: And to Mr. D. who phoned to say "Why 'n HI 1 1 did you join a Drama Group if you are nearly 80 and what do you expect to gain?" Well, my Dear Fellow 'Bean,' I still have a future, tho it may be only hours long. Who knows? I do not expect to regain my once fine memory or win a career, but, if trying to learn will keep this forgettery from going plumb haywire, Menace cese. hurrah for Thayer Tarvin, of oldsters who meet at 3 of oldresters who meets at 3 o'clock Wednesday at Senior Center, 601 East Jackson St., Medford. . That . Drama group is just another project of the Fifty Plus Club and our President, Dr. Frank Roberta, knew that we needed training, aheml Mr, D., wash out your mouth (with soap), clean be hind your ears - (if that's where your memory lies) and come down: Even you'uns might get helped: besides, it is inter esting. ' I am sorry I hung up right In your face, but I was so late at getting my breakfast dishes washed. As I mentioned before "I am Irish" and when an Irish woman hasn't a quick answer right on the tip ot her tongue, she does the next best thing. Any Tribune readers who wish to be someone else, might try' 'acting' just for kicks. It might even help one's hearing. Doesn't, cost anything. Anyhow, a good laugh la good for- the health, even If It does sound like a 'horse-laugh.' For such a little: bit of a small, tiny, wee building that Senior. Center surely has surely has housed many hap py groups of seniors. . Pearl F. Spackman, P. O. Box 33, Jacksonville, Ore. "Evil Destiny" (sic) To the Editor: It should be made known to the American people that in September, 1083, a man. of evil destiny was "appointed" to the post of chief justice of the U.S. supreme court. For the first time In nearly 45 years a man with no previ ous judicial experience took that jobl . That man is Earl Warren ; On May 17, 1954, Chief Jus tlce Warren and a court ma jority struck the first ruinous blow against our constitution with the infamous "Desegre gation Decision." This act completely reversed an 1896 ruling of this same court wich (sic) held that segrega tion is not unconstitutional It the segregated races are pro vided with equal facilities. Do enough Americans have the ability to discern just what this security destroying reversal means? It is evident that far too few Americans really do realize what is be hind these brazen dictorial (sic) decisions. U.S. Congressman Gordon H. Scherer of Ohio had the following to say about the dic torial (sic) powers already as sumed by our U.S. supreme court: "The court has userped (sic) the powers of Congress ... It has rewritten and nulli fied law to fit Its own social, political and economic phi losophies. It has destroyed basic and fundamental states rights. It has invaded and taken over prerogatives of the executive branch. It has sup planted the jury and trial judge when expediency (sic) demands. It has hand-cuffed the police and the F.B.I. In criminal cases." The function of the su preme court is to "determine" tne constitutionality of any Issue brought before it . not to fall to up-hold the constitution and hand down rulings that violate it. How ever, that is what the Warren court has done on more than one occassion (sic). It's getting to be a habit with Earl Warren to throw out the constitution and pro ceed to make new laws as if he were the law of the land which he is not. Our Congress ot the U.S. is the only body to wich (sic) the constitution gives law making power. ' It the American people would force Congress to im peach Earl Warren, there Communist Parliamentary Tactics Shown In United Nations Debate on South Korea By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst. "Every Communist member of Parliament must bear in mind that he iff not a legisla tor see k i n g a g r e e m ent with other legislators but a party agita tor sent into the -enemy camp to exe cute party de cisions." : From Yalta through the ft Mawsoai current atomic tests talks, the world has learned to watch the execution of this Commu nist dogma, adopted by the second Comintern congress on Aug, 2, 1920. t v Political sophisticates look Strictly Personal y Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp, ' PURELY PERSONAL PREJUDICES) ''"'. When an event is postponed to a later date, is it pushed "forward" or "backward"? It goes forward in time, but backward in that it comes later, and I can never de- I A . an - 5GlpPu?rWayt0 et-lVL 9 How much ww juu niiu ry about the ef fect of speeding? If you hit a would very likely be so many "shocking", facts uncovered that it would convince - all Americans that there are a lot ot "Left" turns on the "Red" signal in high places. ' I'm convinced that an an gry public opinion , would then force the newspapers to stop referlng to Earl Warren as a "Great" American, i Leslie R. Wedekind, 116 Granite Hill rd., . Grants Pass, Ore. Big Red Lie? To the Editor: Why do we take everything the Russians say as gospel truth? Concern ing their space flight, I don't believe It. . What proof do we have that they were successful? Except Krooshe's word for It? I be lieve if they told us that they'd gone to tne moon and back In one day we'd believe It. I think they've tried it alright. probably using prisoners as passengers, but successful? I say phooeyl More people should read "The Big Red Lie" by Loyd Mallan in "True," the man's magazine, In the May, June and July, 1959, issues. I think people could sleep better. The first word of doubt I saw anywhere in print was Frank Jenkins' column, won dering how come Mr. Gagarin could see 200 miles through a windowless craft. ' Gee,. I hope I'm not the only American out of step! If so, will some one show me? I need proof. Mrs. Garret Millard, Trail, Ore. 50th Anniversary To the Editor: Some months ago through this column I addressed something , of a tongue-in-cheek letter to Sister Mary Norbert of Sacred Heart hospital. Its purpose was to recall some of the instances In which sister had given in comparable help to patients and to thank her for that truly sympathetic care. ' The letter had another pur pose - to suggest that too many of the valley residents were ignoring their moral debt of obligation (and per haps a financial debt, too) to the hospital and the Sisters who .had answered a plea to help the community. Sister Norbert, I hinted, would be leaving Medford (for at that time we thought the hospital must close) with the knowl edge of these ingratitudes but with too much love In her heart ever' to admit, much less reveal, them. I should have known that a faith and love such as hers, and many others like her, would win! For the community did NOT ignore its obligations, the hos pital did NOT close and Sister is still here to add, we hope, another decade to her many, many years of serving God by loving his creatures. And Saturday she will join the other hard-working Sisters and lay members of the hos pital staff at mass In Sacred Heart church to give thanks for the privilege of observing the hospital's 50th anniver sary. Nothing would please them more, I'm sure, than to have all their friends there, thanking God with them and asking for His blessings in future years. Marjorie M. Hochstatter, 924 Jasper St., ' Medford. r """1 !'L I Harris for Russia and its friends to use negotiations not to reach agreement, but to prevent tneir opponents from getting anywhere. Soviet tactics in last week's U.N. filibuster against seating South Korean representatives in the debate on Korean re unification therefore cause lit tle surprise. For 4Vi hours, eight delegates-all : from the Soviet block except the representa tives ot - Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia . and Sudan-kept the Political Committee from vot ing on whether the South Ko reans should be seated imme diately. Five attempts to force ad journment without a vote failed, Efforts to compel a two-thirds rule or delay the wall with a certain force at 30 miles an hour, do you hit it with double the force at 60 miles an hour? No, as any. child can tell you - you hit it with four times the force at 60 miles an hour, -and with nine times the force at 90 miles an hour. Paste that in your windshield. ! The most serious indictment of TV is that many of the best and most intelligent pro grams come on atter mid night; it is as . if newspapers printed their foreign dis patches and cultural reviews In 2-point type and inserted them -In the' want-ads, after carefully blurring the Ink. ,-,,. Can some ardent New End- lander tell me why, Maine Is called "Down East" when it's obviously Up? . ' The teaching of foreign lan guages should be abandoned in high schools, as an absolute waste of the pupils' time and the teacher's' talent - unless we take languages seriously and begin them as early as the fourth grade. It's astonishing how . one word can obliterate another in less than a generation: the word "Utopia" has been ut terly replaced by "Shangri- La" In our time, and the only remnant of the earlier word is "Utopian" as a political sneer, ("Utopia" was coined in 1516, and "Shangri-La" in 1933.) ' The only time we don't mind being interrupted is by applause.. - - - Smug people who secretly delight in finding flaws in everybody else should keep in mind, the analect of Chuang-Tse: "Of the five vices, the vice of the mind is the worst. What is the vice of the mind? The vice of the mind is self-satisfaction." i' a To advise someone to "stop worrying" is about as effec tive as ordering a tooth to stop aching: the first sign of a stupid counselor is that he calls for a display of will power when the will has been paralyzed. The outside world Is more a reflection of us than we realize: the sensitive person lives in a world of snubs and slights; the fearful person in a world of perils and palpita tions; for what we call "re ality" is a refraction of our own personalities in the prism of the universe. . A "celebrity" in modern times is generally one whose face and name are known in Inverse proportion to the value and significance of his life-work. Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF P)R THE BENEFIT of those who want to know more about our fiftieth state, Hawaii, the familiar "aloha" means both "Hello" and "Goodbye." "Wau ea oe," means I love you." Hill a maids haven't worn genuine grass skirts for ages. In Hawaii the costumes are made from the leave of the Ti plant They last only a week at best. In America they're made of synthetic grass, grown in the wilds of Sears Roebuck. i Quisaing a prospective son-in-law, a retired Scots man demanded, 'Are you. quite aura you can support a family? Think carefully, young man. There are seven C-verheard at an upstate resort: "Don't let her fool you. Her arm the doctor la eery a dentist.'' O.MW..; lleenett Cert. Ptotributut by King features Siadfcate vote on a technicality failed. Sixty-three points ot order were introduced. In normal parliamentary . usage, a point of order is a request for the chairman to rule on some is sue essential to' the orderly conduct of the committee's business. Most of last week's points, of order were camou flages for further delaying speeches. The spectacle led Bruno Bohiadi of Chad, a newcomer to the United Nations, to wonder aloud, "Why are we wasting our time on all these points of order? I am disap pointed with -the manner in Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE DOUBLE STANDARD Saigon Like it or not, the future of Southeast Asia al most certainly depends upon beleagu e r e d South Viet nam. T h i s country is now under heavy Com- munist attack. The danger here will be vastly greater if Laos is per- Alsop mitted to fall under effective Communist control. Maybe this Is a poor time to be , asking general questions. . Yet what is happening here insistently poses a rather urg ent question. Why are pro- Western governments of this character so prone to trouble? Or', more specifically, why Is the South Vietnam's Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem in the gravest difficulties, after bringing to his people a solid increase of prosperity and well-being, while the North Vietnamese Communist re gime has been able to take the offensive in the boldest manner, although its people live in , the conditions of a bleak prisoner-of-war camp? The fashionable Western answer is mat- we always back the wrong guys." In oth er words, if this answer is correct, President Diem is in trouble because he has failed to inaugurate an ideal parlia mentary democracy; because his chief advisor is his broth er, Ngo Dinh Niu, I which leads to charges of nepotism; and because, in sum, he is re markably unlike Adlai Ste venson. M'. v-m? BUT the fashionable an swer merely reveals the ludicrous double standard that now falsifies most West ern judgments of these prob lems. For why should Diem be called upon to pass the kind of test which Ho - Chi Mlnh so obviously does not pass? It is perfect twaddle, in any case, to talk about parlia mentary democracy (In- a pea sant country with the thin nest possible crust of educat ed men at the top, who must, of necessity, manage all the country's affairs. The French, who carefully forbade almost all advanced education except for pharmacists and physi cians, did not exactly prepare South Vietnam for immediate parliamentary democracy, That does hot mean that President Diem has made no mistakes. Undoubtedly, he has made many. Probably his big gest single mistake was to leave in place so much of the machinery of public security and provincial and village ad ministration which the French left behind them. This was a hard mistake to avoid. Some sort of machin ery was needed to manage the country. Non - Communists who had resisted the French, like President Diem himself, were very few and far be tween. The human materials for a reformed administrative machine were thus extremely scarce. But a more radical of us. which the United Nations does its work." Soviet Ambassador Valeri an A. Zorln appeared to enjoy the exhibition, probably re calling another dictum of the second Comintern: "P a r 1 i amentarianism . . from the qutside seems to be an organization of the 'popu lar will' standing outside classes, but is in essence an instrument of oppression and subjection." When the minority ran out of points of order, the com mittee voted to seat the South Koreans: 44 to 15 with 18 abstentations. By Joseph AUop Tribune Syndicate change ought to have been at tempted, if only to avoid a seeming continuation of the detested French administra tion. rpHIS mistake of President Diem's, one must add, is far more understandable than some of the follies that were committed .by the Americans here, such as the creation of a cumbersome, strictly conven tional army in a country mainly threatened by guer rilla attack. One must add further that President Diem has been la boring manfully to correct his past errors. The impressive ef fort that the ex-Communist province chief, Lt. Col. Thao, , is making in Kien Hoa is a new departure personally sponsored by President Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Niu. It reflects their views about the right way to meet the guerrilla attack. If they can find many other men to make the same sort of effort in many other provinces, the Communist underground as sault on South Vietnam may be repelled in the end. But this business of dole ful ly denouncing President Diem for being undemocratic, while utterly forgetting Ho Chi Minh's dark, iron dictator ship, is only the first part ot the accepted double standard. The second and even more important part of the double standard is to be found in the rules of the game that are ap plied to Diem and to Ho Chi Mlnh. TIO CHI MIHN'S people live "xi a state of regimented wretchedness. To be sure, they are not being put through the same meat grind er as the miserable Chinese masses. The time for that will come if and when Ho gets South Vietnam in his grip. But all the evidence still sug gests that the North Vietna mese masses are just as bitter, disillusioned, and hostile to their Communist regime as are the masses, say, in Poland. North Vietnam, in other words, is a ripe target for pre cisely the kind of tinder ground assault now being made on South Vietnam - if anyone had the guts to take the risk of sponsoring and supporting this kind of as sault. Instead, the Western lead ers have come to accept tho fact that these two govern ments - and many other gov ernments which offer the same contrast - must play the game under quite different sets of rules. Provided or ganized North Vietnamese di visions do not cross the of ficially demarcated frontier. Ho Chi Minh is at liberty to take any other measures he pleases against Ngo Dinh Diem, Including sending men, arms, propaganda materials, money, and every other neces sity of a subversive move ment into South Vietnam. He can do all this, furthermore, without fear of reprisal. JJUT Diem can do none of " these things. He is requir ed, by the peculiar but ac cepted rules of the game, to stand meekly on the defen sive. He is expected to meet and contain a guerrilla attack quite openly commanded and sustained from North Vietnam without attempting the small est counterpunch on North Vietnamese territory. Perhaps he will win on the defensive. One must pray that he will, for if he fails, a chain ' reaction of disasters will en sue in this part of the world, which will in turn produce chain reactions elsewhere. Yet it is very clear indeed that even if Diem wins this round here in South Vietnam, continued acceDtance of the double, standard will eventual ly be fatal to the West. You cannot permit an enemy unlimited- freedom to hit you whenever and wherever he oleases, while never hittinp back yourself, without suffer, ing mortal damage In the end. That is the ugly thought that must fill the mind of any reasonably thoughtful person who is saying farewell to this unhappy country at this time.