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J 4 A "Iveryone1irSouthern Oregon Rearll The Mail Tribune" published Dully except Saturday by " ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY AriverUiinff Manasw GERALD 1 LATHAM Bui. Mir ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. CUV Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telog. Editor oiruAnn iPU'ETT Soorti Editor 1-11 ivc- c r Rf 'H v.R Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSONirculation MT. An Independent Newipaper Entered i second dm matter at Aieatnra. ureion, uiiujr w March 3. 1897 HMsmiPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10o Daily and Sunday 1 year 15.00 Daily and Sunday moi. 00 Da.lv end Sunday a moi. 4.38 Sunday Only One year 1430 a., r.rriar In Advance Medford. Ai.hlt.nd. Central Point, Eafle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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Medford suffers from 104 degree temperatures for sec ond consecutve day. 20 YEARS AGO July 9, 1942 (Thursday) Friday declared "Rubber Day" and citizens asked to make final Inventory of non essential rubber and turn It over to oil companies con ducting the nationwide drive for scrap rubber. Packing plants of the val ley are now making repairs to machinery and generally get ting ready for the packing season; season expected to start between Aug. 10 and 15. SO YEARS AGO July 9. 1932 (Saturday) 1 Several local men organize Crater Flying club and make arrangements for buying a new Waco training ship. Dr. W. W. Howard appoint ed terminology chairman of the American Osteopathic so ciety of ophtamology and oto larynology. 40 YEARS AGO July 9. 1922 (Sunday) From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "All the close fitting dancers were out Saturday night twisting , the fantastic hip and should ers." Biggest season in history of tourist travel to Crater Lake national park Is predicted for this summer. SO YEARS AGO July 9, 1912 (Tuesday) Man jailed for stealing $3 from wife, who had earned the money by taking In wash ing, and then coming down, town and spending it for liq uor. Nine lives were snuffed out at the Jackson st. crossing at an early hour, making the fifth accident to occur at the spot. A southbound engine ran over somebody s pet house cat, and all nine lives went at once. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior seven or eight Is eicellent; five ei sii Is food. 1. Who said. "Sir. 1 would rather be right than Presi dent"? 2. Are bats more clo-elv re lated to blackbirds, whales or flvlnc lizards' 3. Do the Philippine Islands lie closest to Australia, Bor neo, or Hawaii? 4. Did John L. Lewis ever work In the coal mines? 5. Who is the Director of the United States Information Service? 8 Which i fermented In processing -green tea or black tea? 7. What is a Louisville Shi user? 8. In what year did Charles Lindbergh fly the Atlantic to Paris. France? H. Does the metal lithium weigh more, or less, than al uminum? 10. O n the Fahrenheit scale, what is the melting polnl of ice? Answers: 1, Henry Clay. 2. Whilst (both ara mam mals), mk!. 3. Borneo. 4. Yet. 8. Edward R. Murrow. (. Black. 1. A baseball bit. t. 1927. 9. Lett. 10. S2 degree plus. MONDAY, JULY 9. 1962 Freedom and Responsibility Justice Hucro L. Black was honored by fellow members of the United States Supreme Court the other dav on comDletion of 25 vears of service. It was a notable occasion for a number of reasons. Black has served and controversially. His the longest on record, but The observance was ing down of the school-prayer been so widely discussed, so massively misunderstood e e IT ALSO came soon after a talk given by Justice Black which has raised many a legal eyebrow, and caused great discussion, although not as much as the school-prayer decision. In that talk he proposed that the First Amend ment to the Constitution that, specifically, its ban freedom or the press mean just what it says, 1 1 - , 1M rendering laws against, stitutional. Justice Black is in a ing this view, even amone the more liberatarian thinkers of today. But he has a point in declaring that the First Amendment makes no exceptions to its guarantee of free IN OUR view, the protection offered free speech and free press in the Oregon Constitution is superior in wording, and rust Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The federal Constitution simply says: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or the press . . ." The Oregon Constitution says : "No law shall be passed restraining the free ex pression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right." The last phrase is the Constitutional justifi cation for libel and slander laws, a justification lacking in the Federal Constitution. I IBEL and slander laws grew up to pre dividuals from damage caused by irn ble or malicious and untrue statements spoken or written by others. We think that protection is important and should be preserved. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch comments: "It Is true that the nation is unlikely to give up Its libel and slander laws, nor do we think It should, in a day of growing power of mass communications media, the individual needs protection against libel and slander as he needs protection for his freedom of speech. The problem is how to make the two rights compatible." We believe the Oregon Constitution solved this apparent incompatibility, and solved it well. IT SAYS, in effect, that you are free, but that your freedom to swing your fist ends where someone else s nose begins. Freedom true freedom also implies the necessity for responsibility. In a day when a malicious word can damage a reputation to a point or a career ruined, the force this responsibility The fact that this responsibility is taken seri ously can be seen in the award of $3,500,000 in jury to a broadcaster who had been falsely ac cused of having Communist tendencies. JUSTICE Black's theory that the First Amend monl i ii An I f V a iirls ra Rill if t? IrrVi o 1111,111 IllVlt. 1,1,1 lllt. UIIUIU Utll V i. iviiito means exactly what it says, with no ifs, ands, or buts, is provocative. And this topic is immensely much of the trend is away from individual lib erty in favor of governmental authority. But we cannot agree license; that freedom abuse another. If there is any incompatibility here it can only be resolved bv the means gon Constitution employed, by putting no limit on freedom, but making a man responsible for exercising his freedom so that others will not be damaged. h.A. Recognizing Reality One of the groat human problems perhaps the greatest of all is how to recognize "reality. What is "reality"? Among other definitions, Webster gives the philosophical one : "That which has an objective existence, and is not merely an idea; that which is absolute or self-existent, as opposed to what is derivative or dependent; that which is ultimate. Do radio waves, for instance, have "an ob jective existence"? We can't hear or see or touch them. Yet we know thev are there, for without them our radio sets wouldn't work. ine same applies to not observe throuirh our yet the towering mushroom clouds give evidence that they exist, and that some men have a limit ed understanding of how to manipulate them e fN A mine mundane plane, we tent! to the be lief that some things idea also nave an obiective existence. It is certainly true that men enced in their actions almost as much by ideas as bv their objective physical environments. To some the concept of God is an unassail able reality, in others it is "merely an idea. It follows that one man's reality is anothei man's fantasy; that one man's truth is anothei man's fairy story. And this is one reason why men have always had such difficulty in agreeing on both ultimate and secondary truths lone and honorably- term of service is not it is indeed a long one. the same day as the nana ruling, which has so poony reported, and means just what it says: against laws prohibiting and rreedom or speech even to the extent of - . I 1 -1 1 HDei ana sianaer uncon small minority in hold speech and press in intent, to that of the otect in- damage caused by irresponsi where a job can be lost power of the law to en is still needed. recent record-breaking damages granted by a his outspokenness on valuable today, when so that liberty equates with includes the freedom to the writers of the Ore the atom, which we can own unaided senses. And which are "merely an have always been influ or what is "real." E.A. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writor, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or In'tial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oeper; In fact the contrary is often the case. He Tells Why To the Editor: I had begun to despair of reading any thing of a serious nature in the letters to the editor, when all at once a whole flock of letters containing serious thought arrived. It was the July 1 issue of M.T. that contained the de luge: "One Nation Under God," by Bruce Kleinsmid: 'Rightists in History," by Mrs. 'Earnest Santo; "Unleav ened Lump," by Arnold Eu gene Jenny. Then the prize winner, "Going to Seed," by Ralph McKinnls. Here we have a thematic essay on our national dilemma that tells everything. Here Is a modern literary masterpiece. We are not compelled to agree with the author, but we certainly cannot argue with him. His picture of American culture is sketched with a vividness that leaves no doubt as to his meaning, or validity of his thesis. His literary style has the tempting odor of restrain ed hyperbole that gives the accepted commonplace a spi cy flavor. We all realize that there is something wrong, but he tells why. Incldently the se cret of good writing is to know your subject matter and tell It in a manner that com pels consideration and thought and yet has a pleas ant flavor and taste. Walter Reece 77 Manzanita st. Ashland, Ore. God Not Banished To the Editor: Regarding John C. Stille's letter of July The first amendment of our Constitution concerning reli gion is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer cise thereof." Clearly a prayer, composed by the state, for recitation by the people, violates this amendment. It was- an at tempt, Intentional or other wise, to break down the "wall between church and state" made by the writers of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the wrong feelings entirely are being at tached to the Supreme Court decision. It is not a ruling against God. It it a ruling against the slate having any thing to do with God. I think that a very good analysis was made by the recent issue of Newsweek magazine from which 1 have taken the fol lowing quotation: "What many observers saw last week as an erosion nf dee p-seated religious tradi tions are actually another sign of America's continuing tran sition from a primarily Prot estant country to an essential ly pluralistic one. "To cooler heads, It seemed unalarmingly clear that the Court was not banishing God from the U S A In reading Mr. Stille's lei tr-r I noticed a reference to Communism, tie said. In ef feet, that the Communists' sole purpose was to rid the world of God It is not. Com munism Is first, an economic system; rcond, a political svs tern, and never a religious or der. The revolution of 1917 was made with these first two purposes In mind. When the Communists did abolish God, thev disallowed him in homes and churches, as well as In the school, so. as far as I can see. there Is no comparison to this decision and Communism I would also like to point out that w h e t h e r or not a prayer Is said in sihool has little to do with children feel ing that religion Is "evil and unnecessary." In Medford Huh. where 1 attend school, there Is no MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON Bible reading, no prayer said before classes start, yet there are many students who feel God Is a very necessary part of their lives. Why? Because they worship God at church and at home, where God should be worshipped. Dale Hockersmith 3022 Madrona Lane Medford Thanks Extended To the Editor: On behalf of my company, Wilding In corporated, and our client, the Chrysler Corporation, I would like to take advantage of this column to give my personal thanks and appreciation to all of the many, many residents of Medford and the Rogue valley for helping us and working with us in the pro duction of our motion picture during the week of June 24. In addition to "Digger" Carl son himself and his associates at the Dick Knight Company, we found everyone else we talked to not only willing but anxious to do everything they could to help make the pic ture a success. In this confusing and really not-so-glamorous picture busi ness, we're apt to have many strange problems and many strange requests-a n d every thing seems to be needed "yes terday" as practically any one at any of the counters of your airport terminal will probably testfy. (When the last piece of equipment and the last man of our crew was finally airborne on his way out of Medford, I'll bet there was a sigh of relief that could be heard from one end of the terminal to another!) Everyone wanted to help. and everyone seemed very in terested in what we were do ing. When all the pictures are put together into a movie, we'll certainly make sure that the people of Medford get a chance to see it. Again, many thanks to ev eryone. Speaking for our en tire crew, we d all like to re turn to Medford and uieet you folks again perhaps not in the "line-of-duty" next time, but merely to enjoy what Is certainly some of the finest country in these United States. W. Gerald "Jerry" McCray 4925 Cadieux rd. Detroit 24, Mich. Fast Draw To the Editor: Certain per sons have recently criticized the sport of Fast Draw, and questioned whether anyone who practices such a sport is in full possession of his senses. The bulk of such criticism is based on an Ignorance of the facts. Recently someone on local television Implied that any one who practiced Fast Draw was an "Idiot." If this Impli cation is true, then let us look at some of the more promin ent "Idiots": Robert Six. presi dent of Continental Airlines: Donald Douglas Jr.. president of Douglas Aircraft Co ; Fred Rnff. president of Colt s Tat ent Firearms Mfg. Co.; the late Rex Pell, lieutenant gov ernor of Nevada; Sammy Da vis Jr : Dean Martin; and Jerry LewL. Just to name few. Fast Draw Is a sport, and we in Fast Draw find It a very satisfying and exciting one As with nearly every sport. It requires a great deal of skill. coordination and training Drawing and firing in less than a fifth of a second looks 'easy, and it is. If one has spent several thousand hours prac ticing Organised Fast Draw is afr as any sport For the most part, none of us in Fast Draw use live ammunition. Granted, there are still a few who use live ammunition in conlunction uh a fast draw. Foreign News: Agreement on Laos Seen; French Will Support By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from foreign news ca bles: Agreement on Laos UPI Correspondent Karol Thaler In Geneva says the signs are that Russia wants to reach an agreement with the West on Laos, des pite Commun ist bickering at the 14-na-1 1 o n Geneva c o n f e rence. The Russians are giving the appearance in r 1 IfLJ tlowseea private negotiations that they mean business. The Laos issue is not too important from the Soviet viewpoint, but appar ently they want to use it as proof of their co-existence pol icy. Thaler says it looks in creasingly as if Russia wants to use the Geneva stage as an occasion for ministerial con tacts on Berlin soon. Algeria The French government can be expected to throw Its full support behind Algerian pro visional Premier Ben Yous sef Ben Khedda in his efforts to assert his government's au thority over rebellious Vice Premier Mohammed Ben Bel la. The French believe Ben Khedda is willing to carry out the Evian peace settlement. They regard Ben Bella as a north African Fidel Castro. The French are worried that new violence in Algeria may touch off a new flight of frightened Europeans to France. About 350,000 have fled already and 150,000 of them still are in Marseilles where they have long outstay ed their welcome and become a major housing and employ ment headache. European Unit, Talks aimed at achieving European political unity have been at a standstill for near ly three months. Efforts to get them going again may be expected now as a sequel to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Paris. The effort would be made by France, West Ger many and Italy. Viet Nam Frictions Friction is building up be tween the United States and South Viet Nam. The U.S. is injecting massive aid (more than $307 million this year) to help the Saigon regime stop the Communist guerrillas. But in doing so the U.S. requires the South Vietnamese to "buy American." It also is turning down a request for an extra cash grant. At the same time it is spending money fast for anti-guerrilla programs such Kennedy Mas Brief Visit With Father Washington - ffJM - Presi dent Kennedy returned to his White House tasks today aft er a week end reunion with his convalescing father. The President's jet plane landed at nearby Andrews Air Force Base after a one-hour flight from Hyannis Port, Mass., where he spent his first Cape Cod week end of the summer. Before taking off the Pres ident visited for 30 minutes with his father, former am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy who was discharged from a New York hospital Saturday. CROWNS OLD HAT Sarasota, Fla.-IUPtl - Dark haired Gloria Brody won the Miss Florida title, but cop ping crowns is old hat to her. The 18-year-old Jacksonville miss previously won such des ignations as Miss Nose, Miss Face, Mi.s Legs, Miss Life saver, Miss Blaze and Miss Watch Charm. but those people are scarce. We can demonstrate anything with blank or wax loads that can be done with live ammu nition, as it pertains to Fast Draw as a sport. Since we in Fast Draw are most aware that it i a sport, and that the tools we use can be dangerous, we have devel oped many rigid safety rules. To the best of my knowledge, no one has been Injured in organired Fast Draw In the last two years. Of course, there are always those Irre sponsible persons who refuse to use common sense In hand ling a gun. but usually, these people will not join an organ iration which provides train ing in safe gun handling. They are the real "id'ots." Anyone wishing further in formation on this subject may contact either George T. Flan agan or James A. Martolln Our respective telephone numbers are. 772-7227 and 77.-7JR4 James A Mtrtolin. Sec. Georte T Flanagan. Gunsmith. Gunfithters. Inc. Medford as the construction of self-tie- fended strategic villages. All these Saigon must help pay for. It is hard both on South Washington Report ly William (el United feature Syndicate UNNECESSARY ISSUE Washington An Immense, shadowy and unnecessarily di- visive Issue has been added to this congressional election year and to the 1964 presiden tial campaign year by the supreme court's de cision ban ning any o r g a n I z -e d prayer in the public schools, even If nondenom- it. inational and voluntary. The court has thrown a treat rock Into the national pond. This has been proved in half a dozen ways since us extraordinary ruling. But how deen the riDDles run is shown most strikingly in the demand of the governors of the SO American states - with onlv Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York demurring and abstaining from voting - lor constitutional amendment to "make clear and beyond challenge" these fundamental points; That this nation and its peo pie shall continue to acknow ledge "their faith in God and permit the free and voluntary participation In prayer in our public schools." THIS unexampled and bipar tisan action by the gover nors conference may or may not be a direct expression of a massive public anxiety, on ethical and constitutional grounds, at the course taken by the court. This columnist believes it to be just that. But even if this proposition be re jected as unproved, certain other things are beyond reas onable question. One is that the governors of this country are on the whole still closer to the people than any or all national function aries in Washington. The oth er is that the governors, more than any or all other sets of politicians, hold the decisive influence both in the national nominating conventions of both parties and in the practi cal campaigning which so helps to deter line which states go where in the presi dential elections. Two additional realities therefore follow. Matter of Fact (el New York Herald THE TIDES OF HISTORY Washington The govern ment experts who study such matters are beginning to say that this year's harvest in Communist China will be only margin ally different from the ca tastrophic har vests of the last three years. Put J" like that, the news sounds dry-as-dust. But if the experts' extremely ten tative forecasts are proved correct, this may be one of those moments when the strong tides of history quite suddenly begin to run in a quite new direction. The point is that another indifferent or bad harvest will certainly endanger, and may Just possibly destroy, the ex isting Communist government in China. Not long since, such a development appeared to be unthinkable. But It has to be thought about today, and it is being thought about, by the leaders of the Soviet Un ion and the other Commu nist states among others, If one may Judge by a striking change of tone t ITNTIL only a few months ago. Soviet and satellite diplomats and other represen tatives uniformly said In ef fect of their Chinese com rades, "They have some pret ty serious problems; but you'll see, they'll solve them." But now the standard comment on the Chinese situation Is In ef fect: "They are in a dreadful mess." The disappearance of any prediction of a happy out come is what Is striking. In the same fashion, the small minority in the U. S. government who have never ruled out an eventual convul sion in Communist China are now beginning to gain cer tain new recruits This mi nority has always had logic on Its side. And events In Chi na are making the logic of the situation more vivid and corvincins. Logically, there must be LVI Algerian Vietnamese sensibilities and on the regime's pocketbook. At the present rate of spend- ing South Vietnam will have a S. Whit ONE Is that by a sUggerlng majority the governors of this country are, to say the least, personally alarmed at the course taken by the court or believe their people to be so alarmed. The other is that every presidential hopeful in both parties will need to be aware of this alarm. For ev ery one will be beset from now on by demands to "declare himself" on this passionate question so needlessly flung into the arena of politics by the Supreme Court of the United States. Even those who think the court was right - In the melo dramatically excited and quite mistaken view that any other ruling would have somehow sanctioned some in termixture of "church and state" - cannot blink away these harsh facts of political life. To what was surely an ade quate list of ordinary issues - the condition of the econ omy, the conduct of foreign policy - something new and pointless has now been added. For the people of this coun try are being divided in a class struggle of an ugly kind which need not and should not ever have occurred. ON THE ONE side are all those who value tradition and the old and gentle prac tices - including those who may not themselves necessar ily be religious people. On the other side are two sets: all those who in their hearts glory in the destruction of all tradition, believing not some change but In total change total change for its own sake.- And all those who, while not consciously anti traditionalist, read the doc trine of separation of church and state so narrowly and so nervously that they see some clergyman, of whatever faith he may be, beneath every lit tle desk in every schoolhouse in the country. Let those who salute the court's decision now ponder what it has really done. Is the denial by that court of the right to say a small, nonsec tarian prayer in a schoolhouse worth what It will cost? Is the constitution "protected" by this amazing intrusion in to the Intimate private affairs of the people and into the due and established rights of the individual states? ly Joseph Alstvp Tribune Syndicate limits to the degree of hard ship even the sternest police state can inflict upon its peo ple without running into trou ble of some kind. The limits are not easy to define, since they depend upon a score of local factors. But their exist ence is very easy to prove simply by taking an extreme case. P3R example, there are few problems now confronting Mao Tse-tung and hit col leagues which could not be easily solved if China's popu lation were only reduced by 30 per cent. Suppose, then, that the order went out to march 30 per cent of the Chi nese people to the publie slaughter houses, would Mao's army, however well treated, then remain loyal? Would his police, however well disci pllned, continue to be relia ble? The answer is obvious. The undefined limits of harshness which Mao's gov ernment cannot safely go be yond are In turn beginning to be an interesting problem for the simplest possible rea ton. Communist China more and more appears to be caught in a remorselessly descend ing economic spiral. The downward spiral be gan with the fearful plunge Into misery experienced by the Chinese mattes In 1959, when the "great leap for ward" was attempted and the farm communes were inaugur ated. Since then the Chinese Communist leaders have changed their policies, revis ed their alms, and indulged in every sort of self-reversal and tergiversation, on both industrial and agricultural fronts Each year's remedies have been more radical than the previous year's. Each year has also been worse than the pre vious year. This year's reme dies can only be described as desperate. For example. 30 per cent of China's urban pop ulation has now been ordered to go back to the countryside, because food stocks are low in the cities, and because ur ban jobs are few with Indus try operating it only one- Premier budget deficit this year of J3S to $44 million. And the Viet namese view deficit spending as intolerable. Strictly Personal ly Sydney J. Harrft (c) Fitld Enterprises Inc. The things that ara most true art the things that ara the hardest to believe; we can learn them only from our- selvet, and not from oth ers - which is why the per sonal history HM o f mankind a keeps repeat- Itself sadly. I was think tlania - ing of thi while watching a group of young organization men at a luncheon recently. Most of, them were decent, clean-cut, eager chaps, ready to do of die for success, status and thai knowledge ot "having it made." The illusion V. ey suffer is that their material goals, if realized, will somehow bring them emotional and spiritual and social serenity. They deep ly and unquestionably believe that their present feelings ot insecurity or inadequacy will drop away as they ascend th ladder of success, to be re placed with self-assurance and a sense of tranquility, Nothing could be further from the truth. Beyond the years of childhood, what happens to us on the out aid hat little relation ie what happens to us on the intlde. There It not enough money, or success, or pow er. In the world to turn a person who feels emotional- ' ly under-privileged into . person who rests comfort ably and easily within him self. A week earlier. In fact, I attended another luncheon, -at which the main tpeake ' wat an affluent and enerm ' ously influential man In hit , early SOs, who had jutt re turned from a trip to Eu rope and Asia. This man "had It made" In Try ma- . ierial tent of the word but he didn't believe It. ; Hit name-dropplnj wa ' appallingly and embarrass ingly obvious. He gay lh Impression of a man who wat trying desperately to convince himself - by way -of others - that ho wat Im portant. And the mere ho ; talked, tho weaker he seem- ' ed; hit vanity and e-gocen-tricity simply revealed tho . unturo Httl boy Beneath the impressive facade. . And no amount of reassur ance from the outside wilt ever convince him, in the se cret places of his heart, that he IS a person of consequence. The child inside him keeps' crying "More, more!" and there will never be enough. Since money and power and fame are not infantile wishes (and only the realization of in fantile wishes can gratify us),, no matter how much of theso he gets, he will forever re main unsatisfied, unsure, and discontented. This is not to say that the material goals of life are bad or undesirable; but it is to warn against mistaking them for real emotional nourish ment. They can do no more for one's true sense of self esteem than a suit with heav ily padded shouloers can do for a man who feels a weak-' ling. Material padding neve fools anyone - including tho wearer. third of capacity. TUT the countryside has " been in the grip of creep ing starvation for three grim years on end. This spring, tha best Hong Kong statistics showed an average food In take of 1,300 to 1,600 calories per person per day, according to the individual's labor cate gory. And into this hunger wracked countryside, mil lions, literally many millions of ejected town and city dwel lers are being sent with no apparent provision of either work or rations. In Kwantung province, tha start of this process begot th recent assault on the Hong Kong border by a great flood of refugees. No one can say what the effects of this sam process will be in the rest of China; but it Is clear that tho , effects can hardly be socially healthy or politically stabili- -zing. In sum, it begins to look as if Communist China were ap- -proaching the safe limit of harshness. It begins to look, therefore, as though a titanie internal crisis may lie ahead ' in China. 1 If the experts are wrong, and the harvest is generous, ' there will be no crisis. But if the experts are right about the harvest, the question of American food for China can well become urgent. It will be examined In another re 1
