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4 A- - ISDTORlwCilkTBIBUNI "Ivaryona la Southern Oregon r..k. Tha MU Tribune" fubltihed Daily except Saturday b n worth fit at., Ph, gpa-in " ROBERT w RUHL. Editor HFRB GW!V. Advertising Mannar GERALD T LATHAM. Bum. Mir. ERIC W AIXIN JR.. Mng. Editor KARL H ADAMS, atj Editor uarrv chipman. Telee. Editor Z. ........ n ivmrTCi C ......a VHItn OLIVE STARCHXR. Woman'! Editor DALE Ernunauri, ureuwww An Indanandant NewlDaper Entered at aecond elaia matter at Medford. Oregon, under aci oi March J, 1897 tmRrnrprmN RATES ; F" Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 1S 00 Dally and Sunday moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mol. 4.M C.tnHnu Antv Ctnm VBBF 14.20 a. r.-mi-- Ti Advanre Medford Aihland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jackawivllle, Gold Hill, Phoenla, Shady Cove, Ror.ua Rlv Taiant anil an motor routes, Dally and Sunday 1 vear lis 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 AO Carrier and Dealera copy loo Au Terms i;asn in Aovanca "SffleUl Paper ( City of Medlar? Official Paper of Jackson County '. United Press International , Full Leased Wire XSP.l. Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER 6r AUDIT BUREAU OT CIRCULATIONS Xdvertiiinf RenreMntatlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. IMC. Of flcas In New York. Chicago, Da. trolt. San Prancisco. Loe Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Louli. At- I lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWS pAMft PUtllf HERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tht filet of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 end 50 years ego. 20 YEARS AGO One of the last official acts of the late county school su perintendent C. R. Bowman was to outline new and itlff- er procedure for dealing with truancy in county ichoola, and his successor Alt Mekvold hai said he will carry on the pro gram. Southern Oregon bee keep ers will meet tonight in the courthouse to have new state laws pertaining to bees ex plained to them. 10 YEARS AGO May 1, 1141 (Friday) Jackson county's two draft boards together have received a May quota of 12 new in ductees. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smude Pot" column: As usual, the first straw hats of the season show up the noodles of citizens financially able to stay in the shade until snow flies." f SO YEARS AGO May 1, 1131 (Saturday) The state of California has announced plans to build a 80 mile highway link between Weed and the "state line south of Klamath Falls. Only 11 couples remain In the walkathon championships t the Medford Natatorlum. 40 YEARS AGO May 10. 1.21 (Monday) More Indictments have been returned by the grand Jury in the bank of Jacksonville fail ure scandal. More than $7,000 worth of Crater Lake National park company stock nai been pur chased locally. 50 YEARS AGO May II, till (Tuesday) Because of the increase In business, the local telephone system will be expanded with four more sections of switch board being added. ' A supreme court decision breaking up the Standard Oil company trust has caused i flurry of excitement through out the business world. Wfcil's Yesr I.Q.? Nine er fee term! It Sevan er etflrr la excellent) five er Ml It tM, 1. Which country In Cen tral America la largest 1 n area? 2. Was Roger Bacon a Monk, chemist, or an author ity on optics? t. What legislative body ex ercises exclusive Jurldlctlon over the District of Colum bia? 4. What Federal agency en forces requirements as to properly labeling wool prod ucts? (. Does wombat most re semble a snake, a bear, an al batross, or a whale? 4. Is an Invidious remark most likely to provoke laugh ter, Ill-will, or good-will? 7. "Colonel Pyncheon" Is a character In which Nathaniel Hawthorne novel? 8. In which European country did Wilhelm, former Emporer of Germany, die? 0. Norway Is a republic; true or false? 10. The Inhabitants of Mad agascar art known as M g--ans? 1. Nicaragua, t. AU three. 9. Centre. 4. Federal Trade Commitaioa. I. Bear. i. Ill will. 7. "The Haute of Seven Gables." I. The Netherlands. . False Constitutional Monarchy)- Melafaslana. A TUESDAY. MAY II. IM1 A Valid Question Oregon higher education has suffered three major losses in recent months. First it was the departure of Dr. O. Meredith Wilson from the presidency of the University of Oregon. Next it was the announcement of the pending retirement of Dr. A. L. Strand as president of Oregon State college (university). And now it is the resignation of Dr. John R. Richards as chancellor of the state system of higher education. a a a IT IS probably coincidental that the state's three top educators all are leaving within a few months of each other. Dr. Wilson left to become president of the University of Minnesota; Dr. Richards will as sume the new post of director of the California Coordinating Council on Higher Education, and Dr. Strand will tro into semi-retirement, to per form some as-yet unspecified duties with the state system. All three are ton men, acknowledged nation ally and even internationally as able, astute, scholarly administrators. rNLY in the case of been any hint at reasons other than the nor mal attrition of age, or tion, in the actions. Dr. Richards emphasized that his resignation could in no way be construed as a protest to trends in education in uregon. cut ne aiso saia that he has long looked with concern on a trend in many states (including Oregon) for the leg islative and executive departments of the' state to dictate how the academic community should do its lob. He declared that the cil in California represents a chance to reverse that trend, and to nut scholars and academic ad ministrators in charge of are responsible. a a THERE are two schools of thought here. One is that the legislature is responsible for raising state tax money, and for the efficient spending of it, along with the governor, and therefore the legislative and executive branches are duty-bound to oversee the minutiae of educa tion as well as to make the appropriations. The other, opposing view, is that the state board of higher education, its administrators and its teachers, have spent ing in education, are professionally qualified tor the ob, and can do it Better witnout amateurs in a, . a . a education looKing over tneir snoumers. , "THERE is merit in both arguments. And as a result, state-supported higher edu cation has long lived in compromise between the monev raisers should dictate policy, or that the professionals should do It is of significance should be to an entirely new position in Calif ornia, where the legislature has gone along with a series of reorganizations which add up to great er control of educational plans and policies by professional educators. ; v Dr. Richards chose to postpone announce ment of his decision until after the legislature ad journed. This was gracious of him, and avoided an implied protest against DUT there is little doubt that he feels the ex D periment in California offers a new chal lenge to work out a modus operandi whereby the academic community will do its job with a mini mum of interference from the political arena. It will be interesting to watch how the new co ordinating council works, and what effect it will have on the largest state system of higher educa tion in the nation, and on private institutions too. It might be worth while for some basic think ing on the problems involved to be done in Ore gon, in academic as well as political circles. Who is to set educational policies? Politicians harried by a hundred distractions? Or academi cians and administrators who have spent their lives equipping themselves to do so I It s a valid question. E. A. 1 4 p.m. In recent months, the to announcing many of Friday afternoon. There are those who are in clined to believe that is a petty way of protesting the Mail Tribune's constant search for news. Whether that's true marked, after the appointment of Thad Hatten as assessor was announced last Friday, "I'll bet that if Judge Miller ever nounced at 4 p.m. on a iriday." Hi. A. Tribute to Gary Cooper may not greatest actor. But judging by the evidence avail- aDie, ne was one or the world s nicest guys. In contrast to many Hollywood personalities, he was a man of personal integrity and honor. and these showed through in the many roles he played in his long career. The general mourning among his colleagues is a tribute to "Coop", not so much as an actor (al though he always was honest and straight-forward in his acting) as much as it was as a man a decent, moral man who proved to the world that Hollywood is not, really, all publicity, adul tery and f lashy nothingness. E. A. ' Dr. Richards has there normal academic ambi new coordinating coun the worK lor wnicn tney most of their lives wont the atmosphere of uneasy two positions that tne so. that Dr. Richards' move tne uregon siiuauun. v Friday' county court has taken its major decisions on a or not, one observer re resigns, it will be an "Coop have been the world's Dennis tha Menace I . e m Put on vouf? HOW YA SfflMETHIN OUT Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial for publication (s permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tha 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 tha paper; In fact tha contrary Is often the case. Gentian To the Editor Blue gen tians always have ranked high In the esteem of flower lovers. They are characteris tic of high mountain, mead ows, as when climbing Switz erland's Jungfrau or Matter horn. One enjoys them hiking the Dolomltenstrasse on the Austrian-Italian border. One notices them- all along our own Sierras. They are in the Rockies, whether your Na tional Park is in Colorado or in Canada. They also contrast with the gold of "Iceland" poppies on tundras north of the Arctic Circle. There is another gentian that Is not quite so wide spread over the Northern Hemisphere. Its color is pink. Its botanical name is Eryth- raea. It is one of our disap pearing California wlldflow ers. Were It not for State Parks and National Parks, many of such species already would be extinct. In writer's boyhood, he en joyed miles of these pink gen tians where now are stretches of bungalows. The last good masses of this lovely flower he observed was some years ago at the old Ghost Town of Timbuctu. Legend says it was named for a Negro. He want ed to mine. The white miners thought it a big joke to send htm to barren ground. To their chagrin, he struck it rich, When writer last visited the old diggin's, they were colorful with these pink gen tians. The Mexican California knew Erythraea's medicinal value. In their adobes under their tiled roofs one saw bun dles of this "canchaluga" sub terfuge drying. It also was an excuse for "bitters" when one felt the need of an alcoholic stimulant under such a sub terfuge. C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea St., . Sacramento 16, Calif. Cat Care Aims To the Editor: To correct rumors being circulated, the Cat Care Society wishes to make these facts clear: 1. The Cat Care Society has NOT asked the county court for funds for their society and wlll'never do so. We feel that private agencies should not expect taxpayers to fi nance their programs. 2. The Cat Care Society has no quarrel With the Southern Oregon Humane Society. .Evi dence of this is the fnct that In the fall ot 1960, because the Humane Society had leas ed out Kelt facilities original ly built for the caro of home less cats and dog.-i, to a com mercial business (or $200 a month, ami did not have any facilities at their present site for cats, thu Cat Care Society offered to furnish building material tor a small cat shel ter and th.u o'fored to pay gasoline costs if th-y would help with the cat pick-ups and problems in the valley. These offers were not accept ed. Our society respected their right, as a private corpora tion, to conduct their business as they saw fit, but finding it impossible for a small group ot volunteers to cope with the county wide prob lem, we circulated petitions requesting county participa tion. 3. These petitions were pre sented to the county court. The court appointed a fact finding committee to Investi gate and show proof ot the need tor county participation and to make recommenda tions. The need was estab lished and recommendations submitted that the control program be carried out under the direct supervision of the county, using their already existing facilities and work ers, which could be done at glasses ! i wanna THE WINDOW J a minimum cost. 4. At the hearing where these, recommendations were submitted, the Southern Ore gon Humane Society present ed a minority report stating, and 1 quote from their re port, "that if funds are allo cated by Jackson county court for a control program then such funds be allocated to the Southern Oregon Humane Society." . 5. The Cat Care Society does not agree with this rec ommendation and is taking the issue to the people: We believe that if any allocation is necessary it should be kept under the direct supervision of the people through their county court, where public control of funds used will keep the program economical. We do not believe that an al location should be made to any private agency to be dis bursed at the discretion of the agency with no direct super vision or public control pos sible. This is not what-the petitioners requested. Rita B. Shogren, President Cat Care Society, Inc. 170S South Columbus ave. Medford. Interpretation, Please! To the Editor: Many years ago while reading my Bible I came upon two verses there in which seemed to be pecu liarly applicable to me. They were Proverbs 31, Verses 6 and 7 and I quote them below: "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts." "Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Then and there I firmly re solved that I would make every possible effort to com ply with these teachings at least, even though I did not do too well with many others. However, as the years ad vance upon mc, I now find it increasingly difficult to give my best effort's, as is directed, due to the strain it places on my financial and . physical well being, and possibly brings about other complica tions as well. I very well know, from con stant perusal of your Com munications column, that many of your readers have more than a casual familiari ty with the Book and it is to them that I ask for their in terpretation of these verses, as I am beginning to believe that I have been accepting them too literally. William A. Allen U.S.V. Domiciliary White City, Ore. Try and By BENNETT CERF- THOSE TWO MARTIANS are back In town again! Thia time their attention was attracted to a snazzy white motor scooter at a Third Avenue curb. "Isn't the a honey?" enthused one. "I think I'll take her back to Mars with us." "Careful, boy," warned the other. "She may be under age." a a Dr. Seusa, creator of the all-conquering "The Cat In the Hat." explains, "A kid Is a guy I never writ down to. Ha ia the last possessor of a pure sense of humor, which become tainted as h grows older. Then he becomns an adult and an adult Is an obsolete child!" a a "What floor diya want?" scowled the busy operator of an elevator in a Madieon Avenue skyscraper. The sole passenger squeaked, "Tha eighth floor if It Isn't out ot your way." . O WM. x Benntt Off. &uiuted Klaf Featurae lyaaia . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREOON Faith of Southeast Asia in U.S., SEATO, Said Shaken by Presumed Losses in Laos By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Mews Anayst It seems a more than safe assumption 'that leaders of Southeast Asia were unani- mmia In Hpliv '"'fSi erlng to Vice . j-r-reiiueiu I T n n n T3 J XJ J A V U Johnson a sin- gle warning message. That would be: There can be . . i sJftijJ treats such as ajewaom itflB uwuucu in Laos if the United States wants to retain its friends in that area of the world, or, what is worse, save them from being swallowed up quickly by the Communists. The Laos debacle has shak en badly Southeast Asia's faith in the United States and in SEATO, the organization that was founded specifically Washington Report By William S. Whit (ci United Feature Syndicate TAUT ROPE Washington Richard M. Nixon is walking a taut rope in trying to prepare the R e p u b ucan Party for the 1062 Congres s i o n a 1 cam p a 1 g n, on whose : out come he be lieves will hinge all the G.O.P.'s hopes and his wwte own tor tne presidency in 1964. The area of permissable at tack for the Republicans has been sharply limited, not in principle against Mr. N'xo-'s will, but certainly to a de gree he himself would haru ly have contemplated. This has been done by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the symbolic and unfading leader from a Republican past who still has a greater actual au thority with the rank and file than does the party leader of the present and probable fu ture, Mr. Nixon himself. l?OR eight years as vice- j. president, Nixon remained always under the amiable sha dow of General Eisenhower. And now, even though he led the Republican ticket last fall and lost the presidency in on ly the narrowest way, he is still plainly the second man to a majority of G. O. P. vot ers. "What Ike says" still means more than "what Dick says," even though it is Dick and not "Ike" who must do the job of directing the party in the wars of 1962. General Elsenhower's re cent meeting at Gettysburg with the old associates ot his administration has put the party on notice that he means for it to "be completely bi partisan" on foreign affairs. In this field, he says, it must 'stand behind" President Ken nedy. To be sure, Mr. Nixon hlra self had shown no wish to tear the Kennedy Administra' tion apart. But the general order now issued from Get tysburg calls for a most un qualified restraint, indeed. It means that no Republican will have Eisenhower support in the 1962 Congressional campaign for an sharp attack in the one area in which Mr. Kennedy is politically weak the state of this world. This means, in turn, that the Republicans must hit the Democrats where they are strongest on domestic is sues. The Democratic Con gressional domestic record plainly will be a pretty solid one by 1962. This the senior Republicans do not in private deny. , llfOREOVER, the one point 111 of potential domestic dan- Stop Me &a to save nations from the fate which now appears about to overtake Laos, The experience was all the more a shaking one, coming as it did Immediately after Secretary of State Dean Rusk's promise that the Unit ed States would not permit the sacrifice of Laos. Southeast Asia nations feel that sacrifice already has been made, regardless of what may occur at Geneva. Japanese government lead' era have been quoted as be lieving that the whole of Southeast Asia wlU slip be hind the Iron Curtain within 24 months if Laos Is written off. Both the Philippines and Thailand have made no secret of their disappointment at SEATO's failure to take strong action against the Communists in Laos, and Thailand even has hinted it ger to the Democrats, the business slump, may well have wholly disappeared by then. The economy for weeks has been obviously on the rise. And now there are solid reports of the first really Im portant job increases since last fall. There is no purpose In this column to criticize general Eisenhower's unusual generos ity in putting foreign policy partisanship, out of bounds, Far from it For his action is not only right; there is also a special justice in it. He him self as president was protect ed by his Democratic opposi tion in world affairs. He is now properly repaying a pro per debt, aside from the far bigger thing of serving the country's highest interests. Still, these facts do remain: It is Mr. Eisenhower and not Mr. Nixon who is making the real command decisions, as to the nature of the 1962 Repub lican campaign effort. But it is Mr. Nixon who must car ry out these decisions. And so his own hopes must rise or fall on a campaign policy he will not really make. HISTORY is repeating Itself with oddly Insistent rhy thm. For the very same Nix on, not denying that he had reached his elevation precis ely because of Dwight Eisen hower, nevertheless was never entirely free in 1960 to run his own show. The Eisenhow er shadow was forever over his head; as a part of the Ei senhower Administration he had to defend it everywhere. Now that shadow is to per sist in 1962, the year in which Mr. Nixon has two great necessities: to show that he can lead the G. O. P. to at leats some relative Congress ional victory and thus to jus tify his own claims to the Presidential nomination in 1964. And to show, by what the 1962 returns may say, that the Republican party with himself at the top would have a genuine chance at the White House in 1964. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp. MAGIC IN MEDICINE ' We were trudging through the museum Saturday morn ing, when Barbara halted be fore a case of Indian models and a iked, "What's that man doing?" Without giv ing me a chance to re ply, Michael told her con t e mptuoualy, "Cm'tyou Rarrla see? They're a bunch of In- dians having a dance, and the one in front is a wish-doctor." "What's a wish-doctor?" she wanted to know. "You tell him your wishes, and he tries to make them come true," Mi chael explained loftily. l said nothing, because really a "wish-doctor" is much more to the point than a witch-doctor. Again, out of the mouths of babes and suck lings we are treated to an un conscious vision of the truth. For is this not what most people want - the so-called sophisticated as well as the primitive - a medicine man who will grant their wishes, a magician who simply by his presence, by the knowing eye and the cool touch of his hands, will make their illness es and Infirmities vanish into thin air? Medicine aims more and more at being a science, but at bottom it remains an rt, and a lark art at that Tor may have to re-examina its whole alienment with the SEATO forces. American diplomats in Thailand say the Thais al ready have had down-to-earth talks with the Russians, with a view toward improving re lations between the two countries. . There also is talk that Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, bul wark against communism in Thailand, might be permitted to resign so that a neutralist government could take over In the manner of Burma and Cambodia. Matter of Fact joePh ai,op (e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE BREAKDOWN of DISCIPLINE . Hong Kong-There is much meaning in the tale of the suspiciously fat cook who was Drougui m Hong Kong from Taiwan by a recently t r a n sf erred American dip lomat. Briefly, the American and h 1 s Chinese cook moved Alae into an apart ment on the very day air rnnrlltlonlns was to Be in stalled. The workmen sent by the contractor arrived as the AmM-iran left for tne omce. When he returned, his living room was Jn some disorder, since the workmen had been oicnickine there all day. Nothing whatever had been done about the air condition ing. The same thing happenea the second day. The cook, being a Shanghai Chinese by origin, could not talk 'with the Cantonese speaking workmen. But on the third day, he wrote them a letter of protest. All liter ate Chinese can communicate in writing. The leader of the work crew was literate. It then developed that the work men, all refugees from the mainland, had decided that the American was a Russian and his cook a Chinese Com munist, simply because the cook was fat. "VOU are a northerner, and -- many of the leading par ty cadres in the south are northerners," the leader of the work crew laboriously in formed the cook. "You have just come to Hong Kong yet you are very fat. No one on the mainland is fat who is not a Communist cadre. There fore we thought you must be a cadre and your master must be a Russian." The workmen ended their sitdown strike and finished the air conditioning job the same afternoon, in a comical round of apologies. But there is nothing comical, at least for the Communist masters of China, in this little incident's implications. It implies no less than a breakdown of the iron, super-spartan discipline which the Chinese Commun ists enforced with such as tonishing success during their first 12 years in power. This breakdown is the really novel and significant element in the grim situation In Communist China. When this reporter last did a similar series of articles here in Hong Kong,' back in 1959, it was easy enough to predict all the present situation's other ele- the personality of the doctor is often the imponderable ele ment making the difference between recovery and regres sion. Not long ago, In a lecture at the University of Chlcaoo. Dr. George Engel of the Roch ester School of Medicina made more said: the same point in a learned fashion. He "That the physician can ex ercise a healing effect with out the exhibition of any spe cific treatment ha known and exploited by phy sicians tnroughout the ages. Indeed, so striking are the effects of physician on patient that one might wonder how much this contributed to the survival of medicine as a pro fession, since what we know as scientific medicine is hard ly iuu years old and even now the number of specific curative remedies are few and far between "From time immomnrlai he went on,' "human beings " aougm, round and used healers, and it is this need of the suffering and ill which has kept medicine as a profes sion alive throuih Its mili.ni. of dark ages and Into its pres ent scientific infancy." incre is, I am sure, some p r o f o u nd psychobioloelcal process which works between doctor and patient, not on the level of potions and pills, but on the level of sympathy and understanding, c o n f 1 d e nee and good will. In some ob scure but very real ways, wishes ARE granted hv heal. ers. and Michael's verbal con- tusion was closer to the truth than he knew. ! It is no secret that Red China long has been prepar ing forces to Infiltrate That, land. It can be reported with au thority that influential per sons in the Philippine For eign Office feel if Laos falls, the Philippines should adopt a more "flexible" attitude to ward the Reds. It may be that the United States will get a second chance In Southeast Asia. But as of now it has a long way to go to recapture the former faith of Its allies. merits - the increasing horror of the creeping famine in the countryside, the more and more widespread Incidence of deficiency diseases, the more and more, numerous symp toms of a steep rise in the death rate. But a breakdown of discipline then seemed to be unthinkable. a A MONG the many scores of "refugees personally Inter rogated in 19.59, not one charged any dishonesty to the Communist cadres. Hie ca dres, then as now, were sup posed to live on the ration of a first class farm worker, which was already shocking, ly inadequate. Yet the 1959 refugees were downright as tonished by the suggestion that the cadres might use their authority to supplement their rations illegally. "They live as we lived," one of the shrewder farmer refugees then said. "They get their only reward by bullying the rest of us." This time, in sharp con trast, not a single refugee, whether from town or coun try, failed to charge the ca dres with habitual pilfering. The, bitter statement of the refugee workmen to the fat cook, that Communist cadres were the only fat Chinese nowadays, was spontaneously made at least twice to this re porter. And the same kind of evidence of a relaxation of the Communist party's for merly stern grip on" its own people has lately been ob tained In mass by others who take the trouble to secure eyewitness reports on the real situation in China. Universal food pilfering by officials may seem a petty thing; but it is not a petty' thing in a country like a war time prison camp; where mere nourishment is the be all and end-all. In particular, it is not a petty thing for a regime whose primary boast used to be that it had found the cure for the ancient, re curring tendency of Chinese officialdom to take "squeeze." 'THAT might not matter so much, if the story ended with this humanly under standable weakening of cadre discipline under pressure of the creeping famine. But the stpry does not end there. The public discipline, which has also been one of the most publicized achievements of the Chinese Communist reg ime, is also breaking down. Beggars, supposed to have been eliminated long since, have not merely reappeared in many Chinese cities. Ac cording to an eyewitness re port from two of the largest cities, the beggars are now so bold that they often enter the few permitted restaurants to bully the diners and even, sometimes, to snatch food from the tables. In the same fashion, Hong Kong Chinese going to the mainland to take food parcels to their relatives, as many still do, can no longer count on traveling in safety. The forcible snatching of food par cels is a common thing. It happens quite openly. Groups of intending parcel snatchers have even been known to as semble at the Canton station, to wait under the noses of the police for the incoming trains from Hong Kong, a a a TN ADDITION, small food 1 riots have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the care fully locked ud communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported bv refugees. At least two reports from Shanehai have even de scribed a sudden rash of hast ily scribbed wall slogans at tacking the government. In any other country, these new phenomena might be re garded as relatively Insignifi cant, But In Communist China a different standard was long established. The in fractions of discipline wnicn are now both general ana apparently accepted would formerly have been punisnea with five years In a work camp or even with death -which means that the break down of discipline is quite genuine and potentially quit serious. r
