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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyone to Southern Oregon IKsidJ The MaU Tribune" lubllihed D,11Jr ""Si 8iJuJSy B S3 worth rir 8t.. Ph.gP a-SMt " nnrT w. RUHL. Editor HERB ORE. Adertlln Manager GERALD T lATH.M. Bui. Mgr. iSlCW: ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor SARL H. ADAMS. City Editor RICHARD" EWETi-jl Sporte Editor OUVE BTARCHER. Womtn l Editor PALE ERICK80W, ClrculUOllMgr, Ail Independent Newspaper Entered eecond '"?," Mediora, Oregon, unuw - March 3, 1897 . iiBrinwrinl RATES B Mill In Advance, Copy 10c Diily and Sunday 1 yeer "I Ti . Twu and Sunday moa. 800 pUy and Sunday moa. J j .. iwi. fSrtm vaar 14.10 By Carrier In Advance Medtord iriiiand. Central Point Ea lie Point Jacksonville. Gold Hiu, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue ruv- t -- .n4 mm itiAbir route! Bally and Sunday 1 vear SIJ.OO f- Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 150 - Carrier and Dealer! copy 10c All Terma tun w iw Official Paper of Cltr ol Medlord ' official Paper of Jackson Conty United Preaa International '," Full Leaaed Wire UP! Telephoto Nowiplcruree ""MEMBlk OF1 XU01T BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AdverMilnf Renreientative: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of r In New York, Chicago, De troit, San EranelKO. Loe Angeles, Seattle. PorUand. St Louil. At. lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUIUSHIRS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Thi Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. i 10 YEARS AOO Seitoku Shlnzato, execu five secretary of the Okinawa Teachers association, arrived here today for a study of Med ford and county schools. A Medford man yesterday sent a watermelon to a dying 8-year-old girl in Sidney, Nebr., after reading that the girl has a craving for water melon, but is unable to ob tain any In her home town. 30 YEARS AGO . The public is being notified that a series of long blasts on Medford fire sirens and other whistles it to be the warning signal la case of an enemy attack or other dis aster. , From Arthur Perry's "Ye 8mudie Pot" column: "The rains ere interfering wlt1 golfing, fishing, orchard work, and confound the gloommon- gen, who, due to the jhoweri, are behind wltn tneir arouw predictions for this month." 10 YZABS AGO A carload of extra fancy Medford D'AnJou pears sold recently in New York for 91.10 a box. Copco has applied for hy droelectric rights on seven sites on the Umpqua river. , 40 YEARS AOO Farmers of the county have expressed their approval of plans to manage the county fair in a more aggressive man ner. Plans have been announced to reopen the state lime plant at Gold Hill which has been closed for the past year. SO YEARS AOO Gov. Woodrow Wilson of N.J. may stop in Medford dur ing a nation r wide tour to sound out public opinion re garding his chances as a presl dentlil candidate. . Sams Valley farmers have been notified to remove and realign soma of their fences s the first step in construc tion of a new road from near Eagle Point to the site of a proposed new bridge on Butte creek. t VYkil's Your I.Q.7 Nhie re correct Is iu eerier; even er eisM la ucelkat; five er tli h fee". 1. Which veterans' organiz ation is abbreviated G.A.R.? 2. Does coral belong to the nimal or vegetable kingdom? 3. Four of the states of the Union have names which end with ""; how many of them can you name? . 4. In going around a left hand curve does an auto tend to lean to the left or right? 5. In which western state is the Sequoia NaUonal Park? 6. Name the composer of our National Anthem. T. Is a young hare known as a cub, kit, leveret, or chick? 8. If afflicted with ergo phobla, would you dread work, self-praise or poison Ivy? . There are four standard timet zones in the continental U.S. of which two are Eastern and Pacific; name the other two. 10. A part of Pennsylvania Is bounded by Lake Erie; true r falsa? Anewem 1. Qrand Army f tfca Republic 1. Animal. S. Delaware, Maine, New Hemp- hire, Tonaoseeo. 4. Right. I. Key T. Leveret. . Work. t. Ceatral aa4 Mountain. 10. Tra. y THURSDAY, MAY 4. 1M1 Battle of Don Robinson used to work for the Mail Tribune as a reporter. He was a good pne. He now works for the Eugene Register-Guard as a reporter. He a still a good one. v The other dav he eot curious about the cur rent spate of "eas wars"' which have plagued service stations and delighted customers up and down Oregon in recent months. He did some dig ging, and came up with a two-part story wnicn gave some answers. The story was printed in the Register-Guard. a a . IT IS a long story, but 1 The major producing firms the "big oil companies" have tremendous amounts of money 1 1 i j ; -i . invested in tneir producing anu ieiining inani ties. Letting them stand idle is a waste they can- not abide. So they tend tut, even when the market is over-supplied with gasoline, one of the end A complicating factor is that gasoline market ing, at both the wholesale and retail levels, is viciously competitive, not Jors Dut among independents, most 01 wnom iuy their gasoline from the majors, even when it is marketed under a different brand name. : ASOLINE price wars arise out of these cir- Vcumstances, when conditions are just right, and they range from undercover price cutting ("under the canopy cutting as it is called) to outright, overt price slashing the kind that re sults in the big sign with the small price being posted at the warring stations, Gasoline marketing, process, with many ramifications. But basically, gas wars are caused by over supply and fierce competition. , - Don's story concludes: ' : "A constant oversupply of gasoline will continue . to exert heavy pressure for greater sales volume. The pressure for volume will continue to produce more -'under the canopy' price cutting. "And when one participant begins to lose too - - heavily in the concealed price competition, retaliation in the form of open price competition and a gas pries war is bound to come again." ,-''.- THE consumer the And the big producers for thev have such tremendous volume that they can still operate, particularly in view of the fact that they manufacture many products other than gasoline. it s the middleman, the "little guy" wno is trying to run a service station, independently, on a . purchase agreement, hurt. And, because of the big firms' greater bargaining power they can force him to go along on a price war he desperately doesn't want. X7HAT can be done W , - Fw woioi Some people are seeking legislation which would amount to concept which is repugnant in an economy which likes to call itself "free enterprise." ' However, the free enterprise systenl is pre dicated on the free and , unregulated operation of the marketplace. The free marketplace can be affected by many things not all of them gov ernment regulation. Monopoly restricts does oligopoly, which is what we have in the oil business: Domination by a few giant concerns. - e - THE service station operators, therefore, need some sort of protection from the unrestricted price competition of the majors, or they can be forced out of business through a price squeeze which is no fault of theirs, this would benefit no one. The "free market" doesn't protect them from the manipulations of the oligopolistic major oil firms. ! v. ment stepping in witn some xorm 01 regulation to restrict this sort of suicidal competition, al though arbitrary, localized price-fixing hardly seems to be either a desirable or effective answer. DOBINSON'S story quotes Jake Hamon of Dallas, Texas, an independent oil producer and former chairman Of the board of the Amer ican Petroleum Institute, as saying: "The Industry has been guilty of compound in sanity In the last few weeks through heavy refinery runs which have added to the existing surplus gas oline." Texas is a state which has limited pumping of crude oil to conserve supplies. Perhaps this precedent should be extended to refinery opera tions. In any event, unless some steps are taken, the ruinous gasoline price ware will continue, and manv a small operator will be crushed in the battle of the giants. E.A. Support a Veto If Governor Hatfield vetoes Senate Bill 32, as he indicated he likely will do, he should have the support of every highway user in the state except, perhaps, operators of trucks weighing 44,000 or more pounds, and particularly those weighing 77.000 pounds and over. If these big trucks are relieved of their cur rent share of the highway tax load, it means one of two thinars. or both, will haDDen: 1. Highway construction will be curtailed by lack or monev. 2. Other highway users will pay a larger pro portion of hiehwav construction costs. If Hatfield vetoes it, aone.--&.A. v the Giants . it boils down to this: to operate them at full products. only among the ma- it appears, is a complex automobile driver of are not seriously hurt, or on lease, wno gets about ending gasoline , se .'.,,. , . , state-dictated price-fixing, a free enterprise, and so . he merits a hearty "well y Dennis th H0W MUCH FOR A BANANA SPtlT IF I GOTW tWRWAWA?' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances ' the use of pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserve the righ to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do 'not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact the contrary is often the crse. ... Sad Amusement To the Editor: It is with sad amusement I have been watch ing this filtration plant squab ble being waged in Gold Hill. What I would like to know is why - the Mayor and the Old Guard think that Gold Hill will ever double its pop ulation, much .less triple it! With the cement plant there it will never increase and if the plant shuts down perman ently the town will fold up. The Mayor s total estimated cost, of the filtration- plant is a stasaerlnil sum for 220 legal voters to assume In hopes of providing for a potential in crease in residents. A home-owner desiring fil tered water could install their own system and have enough money left over for a vaca tion. Using the same amount which would be allocated as their share of the proposed system. . . . I would have been content to remain quiet on this issue, as It does not affect me, had I not read' a, copy of the May or's leaflet, containing undue sarcasm directed at the pub lic's views on the matter. It seems Mayor Steinmetz can not stand opposition to his ideas. ' I have always felt a public official should promote the will of the people not enforce his will on the people. , Virgil M. Ladd Route 1, Box 265 . Gold Hill, Ore. , Thank You To the Editor: . Jackson County Council of the Blind is so very grateful to all the merchants of Medford, Cen tral Point and Jacksonville for their very generous con tributions to our recent "New and Used" sale. , Our sale was a real success because of those contributions and we say "Thank You" to everyone, the contributors and. the purchasers also. Then, we thank the.' radio stations, KBES-TV, and the Medford Mall Tribune for time and space given us. Again we say, "many, many thanks." ' Mrs. John Bagsdale, Chairman, "New and Used" Sale, Jackson ' Council of the. Blind, Medford. Where Are They Today? To the Editor: For a long time I have wondered what became of my copy of "Gul liver's Travels" and "Baron Munchausen," a book I won as an award for being the champion speller down in the old log school house in' Mis souri. Ask Grady Conner. Books were scarce, but we had McGuffey's Readers, Swintona U. S. History, Har vey's Grammar, Ray's Arith metic and kindred texts. There were few telephones, no TV's, no" radios, no autos. Phonographs were new. We were busy about six months with "Readln", 'rltln', rithmatlc," etc. Once a weeit in winter we had lyceum where affairs of state were settled in debate and litera ture budded - and some times blossomed. That period produced Long' fellow, James Russell Lowell, Eugene Field, Nels Scurlock, Glenn Frank, Judge Ltndsey, W. J. Bryan, and others of like ability. (Where are our poets, orators and writers today? Mr. Jenney, you tell us.) We have had a long period of growth and progress. Glad to have lived in . it and though it, and now can live it only in retrospect, and hope and pray that wa won't "in vent" and "progress" , to world destruction. J. W. Shirley 247 South 2nd st. Central Point, Ore. Ballad To the Editor: An unusual Menace a. r r a news Item in ' the paper prompted the beginning of what may. become a nev western, ballad: ' ' The Iron Horse Cowboy of Canbys Corner The TV Western, it Is plain, Must drive our errants doty. Why else would someone ' halt a train, '. And emulate Quixote? - H. W. Robertson 103 North Central ave. Medford. Coverage Appreciated To the Editor: In behalf of the Juvenile Court, its citi zens adviiory Council and the Juvenile Department, ,1 wish to express our heartfelt appreciation- for the exception ally fine coverage and pre sentation of the Juvenile De partment's work as. prepared by John "Stafford of your staff. The Court's task of acting in loco parentis for the com munity's children is always one which attracts more con troversy than objective evalu ation, as you are well aware, and Mr. Stafford is to be com mended for factual reporting in a feature story as well as Today & Tomorrow , By Walter Lippmann ,(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate POST-MORTEM ON CUBA President Kennedy is in grave trouble. If,, after the appalling mistake of judg ment In the Cuban ven t u r e, he al lows himself to be sucked into the quick sands of Laos, he will have c ompromised, perhaps irre vocably, his K Lippmann influence on event. For the more h en. gages himself directly while me soviet Union and China keep a free hand, the more he will weaken his influence. The disaster in Cuba has opened the way to Chinese diplomatic intervention in the Laotian negotiations. An American military entangle ment in Laos would not only open the way to Chinese mili tary intervention but would greatly aggravate the pressure on Iran, on Quemoy and Matsu, and on our other ex posed and vulnerable out- posts, including probably West Berlin. The United States would have committed the cardinal strategic error of dispersing its forces at places where there can be no decision while its adversary kept his forces concentrated and intact. THOUGH It is late, It is, let us hope, not too late to find our way back to the highway from which we have strayed. , To do this there will have to be a certain inquiry, which only the President can con duct, followed by a frank and convincing explanation of how so colossal a mistake was made. The question is how the President decided to approve this venture which was, as the event has shown, so great ly misconceived. As I under stand it, and contrary to the general impression, there was no acrtous expectation that the landing of the exiles would be followed immediate ly by a political uprising against Castro. The object of the landing was to establish a beachhead for a civil war against Castro, and no plans seemed to have been made, no thought seems to have been given, to what he would do then, what the rest of MEDFORH MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Castro Uses May Day to Kill Last Hope Of Survival of Democratic Freedom By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Aptly enough, it was on May Day that Fidel Castro chose to wipe out whatever !53 hope remain ed for the sur vival of demo c r a 1 1 c free doms in Cuba. Basking in An 7T , jm l n e pleasing IY I B'ow of Mos- he proclaimed Pi.ha tho first r . . . : Newsom socialist (Communist) state in the West ern Hemisphere. Elections, the instrument by which a free people freely choose their leaders, will not be held in Cuba henceforth, he said. This was the same Castro who from his rebel hideout in the Sierra Maestre of Ori ente Province three years ago demanded that Fulgencio Ba tista permit free elections un- for his faithful protection of confidential case material made available to him. Jack son County Juvenile Court and Department are most for tunate in the matter of press coverage and are envied by many departments both with in "Oregon and outside its borders. . Our policy, we hope, has been one of slow, steady but consistent growth of the de partment's services to the community. We have tried to avoid the spectacular experi ments; we are fortunate in having Interested and con scientious Judges, intelligent citizen counsel and in avoid ing turnover in personnel of the entire department. 'As usual we have some long range projects under consid eration which we hope to de velop gradually as need, con ditions and community appro val permit. As these matters progress we hope that we may have the support and under standing of the Medford Mail Tribune. (Mrs.) Kay Crowell, ' Director Juvenile Department .'. 'Jackson County, Oregon Latin America would do then, what the Soviet Union would do, 'while the' civil war was being fought. ' Bad as have heen the jnn. sequences of the failure, they are probably less bad than would have heen the Inde cisive partial success which was tne best that could con ceivably have been achieved. For in order to support the rebellion In Cuba we would have had to continue to vio late not only our treaties with the other American states but also our own laws which prohibit the perpara tion of foreign 'military ex peditions in the United states. MY OWN inquiries as to how t h e misluHomAnt ... a . made lead me to believe that the . President was not pro tected by the New Hands Bundy, Rostow, Schlesinger, and Rusk against the bad advice of the Old Hands, Bis sell and Dulles of the C.I.A., Lemnitzer and Burke of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Berle of the State Depart ment. There is no doubt that the plans had been drawn up and the preparations made during the preceding Admin istration. There is no doubt that the President insisted upon modifying these plans to avoid, as he thought and hoped, any appearance of di rect involvement of the Unit ed States Armed Forces. Though much has been said that this proviso ruined the plan, there is no doubt also that the Chiefs of Staff and the C. I. A. advised the Pres ident to proceed nevertheless. I believe an Inquiry will show that the Secretary of State, -although he had his misgivings, approved the plan. Contrary to much that has been said, I believe it to be true that Stevenson and Bowles were excluded from the deliberations which pre ceded the' fatal decision. Furthermore, the record will show, I believe, that the one man who participated in the deliberations and pleaded with the President not to ap prove the plan was Senator Fulbright. He foresaw what would happen, he warned the President that the right pol icy was not to attempt to oust Castro but to contain him while he worked cin der supervision of the Organ ization of American States. And it was the same Castro who on April 17, 1039. told the American Society of News paper Editors in Washington: "I have said very clearly that we are not Communists." Strictly Personal ly Sidney J. Harris (e) Guntral Features Corp. PERSONAL PREJUDICES It is equally nonsensical to say "that government is best which governs least" or "that - ' government is fy ! best .which governs most" - for the slm- pie truth is tnat govern ment is best which governs best." The senti mentalist thinks a man Harris shows his real character by what he cries at, but the realist knows that a man shows his real character by what he laughs at. Science is devoid of moral values, but scientists are not; and the scientist who does his research in a moral 'vacuum soon finds himself the tool of immoral men. A great work of art always has three elements: surprise, recognition, and mystery. It surprises us by working its effect before we are aware of its presence; it permits us to identify with it by recogniz ing in it certain secret thoughts and desires of our own; and i tmakes us wonder how all this was done so easi ly. J e Many problems that vex the rich are solved for the rest of us by lack of money. Only truly religious and spiritual values can restrain political positions from slid ing into excess: the radical without religion becomes a monster of tyranny under the name of "humanity," and the conservative without religion becomes a monster of greed under the name of "freedom." (And "liberals" are so often illiberal In , their views be cause they value some future abstract Man more than they value the present concrete men.) v Life has not changed in the century since Robert Louis Stevenson observed, "T h e obscurest epoch is today." - a A gambler is not merely someone who likes to bet, any structively in Latin America. Senator Fulbright was the only wise man in the lot. WHEN there is a disaster of " this kind aa fnr a-.. pie the British disaster at Suez the mistake can be purged and confidence can be restored only by the resigna tion of the key figures who had the primary responsibil ity and by candid .talk which offers the promise that the mistake will not be repeated. In the immediate wake of the disaster the President took the position that he would accept all the blame and that nobody else was to be held responsible. This was generous. It was brave, and in the sense that the Chief Executive must stand by those under him, it was right. But it is not the whole story. Under our system of govern ment, unlike the British sys tem, the Chief Executive who makes a great mistake does not and cannot resign. There fore, if there is to be account ability in our government, the President must hold re sponsible those whose consti tutional or statutory duty it is to advise him. All this is a painful busi ness, even for a hardened newspaper writer. But the stakes are very high and the national interest is that the truth be found and that jus tice be done. For there is at stake the confidence of our own people and of our friends throughout the world. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE SCREEN WRITERS GUILD puts on an annual show that is one of the highlight of the Hollywood season. This year's effort featured a "cannibal" blackout that went something like this: PRODUCER: Seymour, this is the best script you've ever done. WRITER: Thanks, J. B. It wasn't easy, you know. PRODUCER: I realize that, sweetie baby. You had to be careful not to offend the most delicate sensibilities. But you're come up with a sincere, heartwarming script on cannibalism. I love it. WRITER: You're very kind, J. B. PRODUCER: There' just on little thing, Seymour sweet heart: Weren't there TWO writer assigned to this script? Cuba has no intention of abrogating the agreement un der which the United States maintains a naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba will not confiscate foreign private Industry. Now the promise of free more than an alcoholic is someone who likes to drink; the essence of the true gam bler is that he is interested in betting larger stakes than he can afford, just as the alco holic takes in more liquor than he can handle. Those who do not feel pain seldom think it is felt; and, likewise, those who do not feel a painting, a symphony or a great novel think that those who thrill to it are deluding themselves or trying to fool others. It is a natural reflex to deny the existence of what is invisible to us. My definition of most round tables is "a form of verbal ac tivity in which the discussions are circular and the discus sants are square." Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald - Joseph Alsop is on a brief vacation. During his ab sence his brother Stewart will write the Alsop col umn. By STEWART ALSOP THIS GUERRILLA . BUSINESS Washington What has been happening in Laos, and what threatens soon to happen in Vietnam, repeats a grim pattern. The pattern can be reduced into a simple form ula. With C o m m u nLst support, a guerrilla movement grows until it becomes Akae stronger than the regular mil itary forces of 'he country. The Communists then take control, confronting this coun try with the choice between intervening militarily in a sit uation where all the odds fav or the Communists, or aban doning another nation to Com munism. Since the last war, this se quence of events has occurred in north Indo-Chlna, in Cuba, and In China Itself, with Laos and Vietnam next on the Com munists' list. Even where a Communist-supported guerril la movement has failed, as in Greece, Burma, Malaya, and the Philippines, a very high price has been exacted. In Malaya, to cite one example, a guerrilla force which never numbered , more than a few thousand tied down 30,000 British troops for ten years. e e THIS is enough to suggest why President Kennedy has asked Gen. Maxwell Tay lor to re-examine the theory and practice of guerrilla war fare. The re-examlnatlon is long overdue. No sensible man doubts that sending American forces into Cuba or Laos or some other "peripher al country" is, to put it mild ly. Intensely undesirable. But does this mean that all the "peripheral countries" are to be conquered by indirection, until there is nothing left but an enfeebled Western Europe and a beleaguered North America? The eventual answer to that question would appear to be "yes" so long as we accept what this reporter's brother, writing from Vietnam, rec ently called "the double standard." Under the double standard the Communists are at liberty to arm, supply, and support by all means short of actual invasion any Com munist guerrilla movement on non-Commuist territory. But Stop Mo elections has gone the way of other Castro promises. His government has seized more than $1.5 billion worth of U.S.-owned property. And he has announced that Cuba will retake Guantanamo, legally. " Appropriately, too, it was on May Day, adopted by Com munism as its official holiday,' that Castro chose to intensify' his war against the Roman Catholic Church. Foreign priests will be' barred from the island and' Catholic schools will be na tionalized. Only one more tep was needed; it seemed,., to inaugurate the Communist system of state priests where by the Communists have' sought to stifle the church behind the Iron Curtain. For Castro, winner of the" Lenin Peace Prize, it was a. moment of special triumph. For the United States, it" was a bitter reminder of an' attempt that failed and of the necessity now of making new" plans to carry out Its pledge' that Communism will not be tolerated in this hemisphere. With U.S. armed interven tion ruled out, diplomacy re mained. A small hope, with many "ifs", rested with the Organ ization of American States. Sy Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate any attempt by our side to. support a resistance move ment in Communist territory is an act of war, and must be ruled out. Surely .it Is clear that we cannot possibly win the game under such rules, and indeed that we must lose the game in the end. Must we play un der such rules? e e rpHE answer depends in part ' - on the peculiar nature of guerrilla warfare. This re porter had a brief experience in the French Maquis (where he carefully followed Mao Tse-tung's rule that "guerril las should be as cautious as virgins") and has been fasci nated with the subject of guerrilla warfare ever since. A good deal of thought and study suggests that three re quirements must be met if a guerrilla movement is to be effective. First, it must have popular support. In his brilliant trea-' tise on guerrilla warfare (which President Kennedy re-enMv errf n-nA . wrote: "Guerrillas are like fish, and the people are the water in which the fish swim. If the temperature of the wa ter is right, the fish multiply and flourish." The temperature of the wa ter Is in part controlled by the second and third require ments. The second require ment Is that guerrillas must have support from without, if necessary overt and mas slve, as in the Soviet airlift to Laos. The third is that the guerrillas, and finally the great majority of the people, must be convinced that the guerrillas will win. The available evidence clearly suggests that there are many places' within the Com munlst empire where the "temperature of , the " water" could be "right." And it is not true that guerrillas can not operate against a totali tarian state Hitler's secret police did not go in for slaps on the wrist, nor for that matter did Batista's. The real ly difficult requirements for an open society to meet are the second and third. ; e . WHERE 'he Press is free " and the opposition vocal, it is a very tricky business to support a resistance move ment in a foreign country. And It Is above all difficult for a democratic government to provide a foreign resistance movement with that certainty of victory which finally de termines the "temperature of the water." For our side, the only sub stitute for the Communists' "doctrine of historical, inevita bility" is precisely the oppo site of the course we chose in Cuba. It I a firm and be lievable pledge that the whole power of the United' States will be used it necessary to prevent the destruction of an American-supported resistance movement. As this suggests, we ought to recognize that this guer rilla business is not a gim mick, or a cheap substitute for national power. If Presi dent Kennedy, decides to change the rules of the game, a most violent reaction can be expected, for on this sub ject the nerves of the Com munist leaders have always been raw. "We must dread these guerrilla tendencies." Lenin shouted in 1919 when there were guerrilla uprisings in the Ukraine. "We must dread them like fire or they will leap to our destruction." But while recognizing the dangers of changing the rules of the game, we ought also to recognize that. If the rules are not changed, we shall lose the game in the end. .