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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. MEDFORDvt&.TBlBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by McurutiJ r-ruw unu tu. S3 North TirK Ph.77a-H1 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager (iLKALU 1 LA1HAH, BUS. IV gr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor KAHL H ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKS0N, Circulation Mgr An tndeoendant NewaoaDer Entered aa second claaa matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 189T SUBSCRIPTION RATES IV Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year $11 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa. 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. S.OO Sunday Only One year $3.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 30c By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally nd Sunday 1 year 131.00 Dally ind Sunday 1 mo. 1-73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 30c Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c Tffflclal Paper of City of Mtdlord Official Paper of Jickion County United Preii International Full Leaied Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplctures MEMUtn ur auuii ounfinu Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS tt ASSOCI ATES. Offices In New York, Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver. 0 NEWSPAMI Vmfgft rUtllSHiiS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL tOITOHIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho flloi ot Tha Mall Tribune, 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sspi. 13, 1952 (Monday) Flr.i riav attendance at Mud inrA uioh school 1 reported as 750 tudent; 7S students fewer than on tne nrsi aay 01 school last year. Rural home destroyed by f lamps' blaze visible from many parts of the valley, 20 YEARS AGO 1 fi.nr 11 1012 (Tuaadavi Forest fire near Brookings TipIIpvpH started bv fire bomb dropped by small airplane launched from Japanese sub marine. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smiidae Pot" column: "Geolo gists figure the Cascades are hlfilno at the rate of an inch per year towards the Pacific and will eventually reacn their destination. People in the line of march seem to be In no hurry to get out of. the load." 30 YEARS AGO Sect. 13. 1932 (Thursday) Large crowd of Medford people attend last boat regat ta of year held at Savage Rapids dam. Group of Medford PTA members can 80 quarts of to matoes for soup kitchens in various city schools. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1922 (Friday) "Great success" reported In drive by local authorities to suppress the liquor traffic in Medford and nearby areas. Heavy guard posted at Jack son county fairgrounds to pro tect funds taken in by fair. SO YEARS AGO ' Sept. 13, 1912 (Sunday) Local residents donate use of 30 automobiles to take group of visiting scientists to Crater lake; urgent call goes out for more automobiles to be used In showing 100 visit ing travel agents around the city. Special railroad sleeping cars being arranged for Med ford residents desiring to at tend Pendleton roundup. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er Ian correct le superior; eoven or eight le excellent; five ot six It good. 1. Who signed his corres pondence and paintings with a small drawing of a butter fly? 2. The eruption of what vol ano destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum? 3. How many states of the South seceded from the Union In 1861? 4. With what city do you associate the family of Capu lets? 3. When a U.S. Senator dies Is his successor appointed to fill out his term or to fill out the period until the next gen eral election? fl. During World War II, what was the most serious dis ease among U.S. troops? 7. Why didn't Jonah take any cheese on the Ark for the mice? 8. Who was the first Emper or of Rome? 9. Are your auricular ap pendages your hands, feet, ears, or eyes? 10. What is the antlthisls of the color black? Anewem 1. James Whist ler. 2. Ml. Vesuvius. 3. Elev en. 4. Verona, I. Until next general election. I. Malaria. 7. Jonah wasn't en tho Arki li was Noah. I. Augustus Caesar, t. Ears. 10. While. 4 A I rS2 SEPTEMBER 13. 1M2 Candidates Here is the fifth in candidates lor me state legislature, offered in response to an editorial invitation to submit their views on the financial and educational problems lacing tne state during This one is by John can member or tne nouse of representatives seek' ing reelection. To the Editor: The questions raised in your recent editorial and addressed to candidates for the legislature are fundamental and will call for some of the hardest and best thinking that our legislators can product dur ing the 1963 session of the Oregon Legislature. Certainly each candidate for the legislature should declare what basic principles he will apply In deciding on issues arising before the legislature. But no candi date should give a "yes" or "no" answer on crucial issues before he knows all the facts on those issues. It seems to me that your questions are particularly unfair so far as those candidates are concerned who have had no legislative experience. I served last session on the House Education Committee and have since then served on the Interim Education Committee, As a re sult I have a background of knowledge in the field of education which it is not fair to expect any of the other five candidates for the House to have. And yet at this time I would consider it a disservice to education and to my constituents to make final decisions in the . areas covered by your questions before I have had a chance to hear and to weigh carefully the balance of the arguments pro and con which will be made on -these questions. If I am re-elected I Intend to apply the following principles to the issues touched on In your questions when those issues come before the next session of the Oregon Legislature. I intend: To keep In mind the necessity for our state govern ment to face with imaginative leadership those areas where we need and want the services of government. Education is definitely one of these areas. To keep In mind the fact that every dollar spent on government services must .first be taken from us as individuals through taxation. Each area of responsi bility which we shift from our shoulders to our govern ment implies a decision that in that area government can serve us better than we can serve ourselves. To reserve final judgment whenever possible on issues coming before the legislative until I have all the available facts on those issues. To give high priority to the problems of basic school support from the state and the lowering of real property taxes. The voters should know that at present the only effective way to make any material reduction In local real property taxes lies in an in crease In basic school support from the state. I feel that the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the legislature should consider early in the coming session the matter of basic school support In the hopes that this can be in creased.' Some years ago the Oregon Legislature set a goal for the state to carry about SO per cent of the cost of elementary and secondary education, with the local communities to carry the other 80 per cent. To date the levels at which basic school support from the state nave Been established have meant that the state carries something less than 38 per cent of such costs with the remaining 62 per cent plus being carried by the local communities. I led a move on the floor of the House last session to secure an increase In basic school support from the state in an attempt to benefit educa tion and to lower real property taxes, but this move was defeated. If I am re-elected, I intend to renew the fight next session. To do what I can to sec that the Ways and Means Committee next considers the needs of higher educa tion. There is no doubt that there will be requests be fore the legislature for additional appropriations In this vital field, both in operating expenses and for construction of buildings. I have to date heard only wildly varying rumors as to what the amount of these requested Increases will be. Those who understand the legislative process realize that it will be up to the Ways and Means Committee members to do the prelim inary screening of requests tot such increases. I will support them In this careful screening and then sup port the appropriation of sufficient monies to enable higher education to meet the increased demands upon it. (Since this was written, the state board of higher education has approved a total budget request of $108, 026,842 for the biennium. The state's share would be $173,878,788, an increase of some $17 milllon.-Ed.) To examine carefully the final estimates of state revenues for the coming biennium, noting carefully what additional revenues will be received by the state because of the new Industries which have been estab lished in recent years and because of Oregon's steadily increased population. Against these Increased revenues must be balanced other requests for government serv ices, and every demand In these areas should take Into account the possibility of an accompanying Increase in taxes. It is at this level of balancing of need that I would place the probable request for increase approp riations for community colleges. During the last session of the legislature I strongly supported the implementation of the community col lege program on the basis of testimony given to the House Education Committee of particular need for such community colleges in the Astoria, Coos Bay and Bend areas. Since that time we have In the Interim Education Committee heard testimony as to the plans the State Department of Education to help create com munity colleges In some eight or so additional areas. We were Informed that such a program would call for total appropriations in the next four sessions of about $32,000,000. It is my opinion that we have real need for community colleges at this time in at least the three areas mentioned above. Before expanding Into additional arcHs, however, we must face squarely the question of whether the possible advantages which would follow from additional community colleges are of greater priority than other needs In other fields. a e It seems to me, that your "plain-as-a-plkcstaff state ment that the State has two alternatives" Involves an Incomplete analysis of this situation. First every rea sonable attempt should be made to keep the level of spending for desired state services at a level which can be met from estimated revenues under present taxes. If there prove to be additional services which the gov ernment should supply and which our citizens are will ing to pay for, there are at least four alternatives for obtaining the additional funds: 1) An increase In the receipts to be derived from the state Income tax; 2) Acceptance of some new type of tax; 3) Securing additional funds from the Federal gov ernment; 4) Bonding of certain capital expenditures to be paid for In future years. In my opinion none of these alternatives is desi rable, and it is my earnest hope that we can make It unnecessary to follow any of them. Even If one or more of them should ever prove necessary, no deci sion as to which should be followed should be made without a thorough and careful hearing and analysis of all the pros and cons of each alternative and a careful weighing of which would be most equitable. I feel that the issues upon which your questions touch are too complex to make any final answers at this time sound or wise. If you disagree, I would be pleased to read in some future editorial your own answers to the questions which you posed to us. John R. Dellenback State Representative Medford. Statement the series of statements by the next biennium. R. Dellenback, Republi "Outrageous And Thank Goodness It Didn't Happen To Be One Of Ours" mm rsi HI dpS? TiKWr ' COMMUNICATIONS tetters to the Editor must beer the although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with 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 fact the contrary is often the case. To All Who Help To the Editor: Several months ago you printed the ac count of my husband's logging accident, which left him para lyzed and able to speak only a whisper. Several years ago while nursing in a county hospital In California I answered question thus: "I'm only nurse's aide." An R.N. stand ing nearby overheard and broke into the conversation quickly. "Don't ever say 'only an aide'," she said, and went on to state the importance of all from administrator to maintenance man, ambulance driver to lab technician. Now I see! For four months and two days, Herman Simp son made Rogue Valley hos pital his home - or was it "they" who made it home? That may be most proper for they all certainly did their share, and then some, to make It home while he had to be there and often went "beyond the call of duty." Our doctors, we were told, are "the best in the West," and we certainly believe it. Now we are telling others! A week ago Sunday Her man got his voice back, and after his second surgery, be gan walking with physical therapist's help. All the genu ine interest and encourage ment from doctors, personnel, friends and relatives alike have been a great boost. We have had full faith In God from the beginning and still believe and trust that He knows best. He alone knows the end from the beginning. Our wonderful church family have been a very great help too. This letter is meant to, somehow, humbly and sin cerely express our apprecia tion, first to God and His lov ing goodness to us - secondly, to His helpers from ambulance drivers to doctors, nurses and all hospital personnel, to friends, relatives and defi nitely to the many interested folk on Linn s Line, and the Medford Lions club. Herman Is looking forward to being home soon. Monday he was transferred to Haw thorne Convalescent and Re habilitation Center . . . Anoth er step toward home, where the welcome mat is always out. THANK YOU EVERY BODY! Marie Simpson Route 4, Box 349-D Medford. The Reason To the Editor: To friends and patrons of Phoenix Pub lic Library: I will not be returning to serve you at the request ol one person in Phoenix. I was under the Impression, while I was working at the library, that I was there to serve the people of Phoenix and to encourage people to read and to create an interest In books. 1 felt that the young minds of Phoenix were very important and that It takes a lot of friendliness and a per sonal Interest in each patron to build the circulation up to where I had It when I left on leave of absence. I found out, after I return ed, that I was supposed to be pleasing this one person, not you, my public. I don't want the position back under these circum stances, but t do want my friends and patrons to know the truth, why I wasn't re turning to the library. Charlotte Seaman Former Phoenix Public Librarian 142 Glenwood rd. Medford. MEDFORD MAIL name and address of the writer, What Can They Do? To the Ed'tor: We were very pleased when your paper started the jobs for youth ad vertisements this spring. We parents are more con science of juvenile problems' each day, the newspaper, radio, and T.V. After th? fir ing a number of high school students recently from one of the orchards, one wonders if there won't be more. Firmly believing this is partially due to idleness, we would like to see more of our young people find employment. One young man walked or hitch hiked from quite a dis tance, two others rode bikes to and from work. These fel lows were steady workers as they had been at the same orchard the whole thinning season and very anxious to pick pears until school start ed. They spend their money here In our valley, or the older ones start in our Ore gon schools, and the money is still In Oregon, while the Mexican sends a good part of his cash home by registered mail. Since the season was later this year, one young fellow said, "Mom, I want to work as long as I did last year, but I will help till Saturday be fore starting to school on Monday, since they are so short of help, and from the news in the paper the fruit growers won't have the Mexi cans to help him this year, so I'll do all I can." And then after hitch hiking, pedalling a bike, they work seven days, the morning of the eighth were told they had been replaced by Salvation Army transients. What can our boys do to earn the cloth ing and books they need to start to school, or to make them good honest citizens that we can be proud of? Marjorle Cowan, 723 Marshall ave., Medford. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The host who greets me with the hearty phrase "Wel c o m e aboard!" makes me want to disembark before the evening has got udner way. Cashiers at parking lots always act defensively ag grenlve, as if they know that their rales are unlustl fiably high and their service appallingly slow. The enthusiastic crowds that are drawn to "daredevil" stunts and similar inanities, merely confirm Boileau's re mark that: "A fool always finds someone still more fool ish to admire him." If you have to tell a se cret to someone, tell II to a Finni it has been my expe rience that they are the most close-mouthed people in the Western world. Why is it that most women who wear dresses with plung ing necklines have so little that's worth plunging for? Speaking ot women, I never understood why women dislike heving a shiny nosei to most men, a shiny nose looks prettier on a woman than a nose that is streaked or caked with powder. The least satisfying bever age ever concocted by man is the alleged "lemonade'' sold in theater lobbies, which is made by squeezing together TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Problems Countries Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Moscow, an angry parent leaps to bis feet and demands to know why his son Is being t s u g ht Ser in a n instead of E n g 1 i sh The teacher replies that assignments to language stud ies were made by s 1 ph abet instead of by pupils' choice LfepJ Mawaom and she will try to find out why. The incident was reported in a recently dispatch from Moscow and the author noted that, i as an American and a parent, he saw certain simi larities to parent - teacher meetings he had attended in Connecticut. Today & Tomorrow y Walter (el New York Herald NAYSAYINS AND THE OLD ADAM Both in Europe and Ameri ca this has been a quarrel some and fruitless summer,- and hop es that were high in April are dimmed in S e p t e mber. The Western c o m m u n ity was moving f o r ward to- Llppmann wards a clos er unity and an expanding prosperity. That movement has become stalled. In Europe the foundations of NATO are disturbed by the dispute over the American control of nuclear weapons, and the prospect of forming an enlarged Common Market is entangled with a conflict over the political leadership of Western Europe. In the United States the promise to overcome the sluggishness of the economy has had to be put aside, and fiscal leader ship has become mangled in a conflict between Congress ana the President. And so there is much disar ray in the Atlantic commu nity. First things are put aside; secondary and petty things dominate the govern ments of the West as they are called upon to cope once more with Berlin and Germany as well as with mounting disor der in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. While the West still holds the best cards, the West is playing them bad ly. 1UT FOR our own weakness es PS And fnllips w wniilrl be proceeding impressively to wards a great and beneficent political and economic unity. The Common Market would be enlarged by the admission of Great Britain and of Scan- danavia, and then widened by various kinds of partnership and association with the Americas, with Africa, with the Commonwealth, and with Japan. Were this great proj ect flourishing, Western prop aganda would really have something to talk about, and there would be no question about the power and Influ ence of the Western society. Growing unity and rising af fluence in the West would compare brilliantly with the J. Harris two used lemon tips on the in side of a coal miner's glove. I don't know what the statistics show, but it has been my observation ae a newspaperman that the most vicious criminals have pale-gray eyes, closely set ears (shade of Lomrosol), and soft voices - and a name something like Floyd. The most nostalgic of popu lar songs for a man growing slightly gray at the temples is "Dancing in the Dark" from that fine old show, "The Bandwagon"; no other song has that Senior Prom aura for my generation. Successful people tend to forget how great a part luck has played In their lives, which makes them smug; while unsuccessful people tend to over-estimate the importance of luck, which makes them envious. No violation of prose style is more irritating (or more the sign of the amateur) than the sloppy habit of breaking up sentences and phrases by three little dots . . . like this. I have never been able to agree with those who pro fess to view suicide as a courageous act: It seems to me that Napoleon was right when he observed that "It requires more courage lo lulfer than to die." of Education in Iron Bring Headaches to Just as in the United States, this is the start of a new school season for millions of children behind the Iron Cur tain. Radio Free Europe, which beams news of the free world to Communist satellite nations and also conducts continu ing study of events behind the curtain, has just released a sur vey of Communist educational methods and some of the headaches encountered by the planners Strong points seem to be seven to nine years of free, compulsory education, .not only in the Soviet Union, but in all the East European sat ellites, with heavy emphasis on language as well as techni cal studies. . The survey notes: "Com munist leaders learned a long while ago that to maintain a Llppmann ' Tribune Syndicate deep conflict between China and Russia, with the failure of Communist agriculture, and with the Chinese economic disaster. As it is, the vetoes and ab stentions ol Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer are deflat ing, and it may be destroying, the brightest prospects of the West. The great project can not be stopped by Mr. Khrush chev and it is already evident that he knows he may have to try to come to terms with it. If the great project fails, it will not be because of the power of our adversary. It will be solely because of the separatism, the small ambi tions, and the little suspicions of our allies and our friends and ourselves. e TT IS, TO put it mildly, a -- bad coincidence that just when Western Europe is near ing the climax of the Brussels negotiations, Congress and the President should relax into one of those deadlocks which are a critical weakness of our political system. I am not talk ing about the deadlock over the reform and welfare meas ures - over medical care, edu cation, urban renewal, farm surpluses, and tax loopholes. However desirable they are, these are fringe measures. The central and crucial issues are in defense, foreign policy, do mestic and foreign finance. Except in the field of fiscal policy, the President and Con gress have worked together well on the vital issues. But in fiscal policy the coalition has blocked the President from taking the initiative and has postponed indefinitely a serious effort to stimulate and expand the economy, and to act to prevent a recession. We are weakened by our own in hibitions. It is a serious setback to have the American economy throttled down at a time when the Western world has lost Its forward political momentum, and is showing signs that worldwide deflationary forces are accumulating. T IS EASIER to diagnose the trouble than to cure it. The trouble is that, with great achievements in sight, the Western governments have let themselves down from the plane of high action to the more normal, selfish, and pa rochial ways of the Old Adam. We are flinching in front of the extra effrrt needed to bring Britain into Europe and Europe into a wide Western partnership. And here at home we are shrinking from the extra effort needed to overcome tne enronic Slug gishness of our economy. Why this loss of will? Ap parently it is because the Western democratic peoples are satisfied with the medi ocre successes which nave been achieved. We have estab lished a balance of power which, though it does not give us a dependable peace, does make big war unlikely. This is not very good. But it is just good enough to make It seem safe not to be too noble about doing anything more. More over, the West enjoys a very considerable prosperity, not enough to support the good life but enough to provide much comfort and many con veniences. We are not hungry and we are not immediately threat ened. We are doing well enough to feel little compul sion to do more and to do better. The banks are not closed, the unemployed are being fed, the Russians are not about to blow us to smither eens. So we can break train ing and go on a binge. We can turn away from heroics and greatness and the Old Adam can go back to the familiar pleasures of playing his little games. We can, moreover, do mis with a good conscience. We can call the rr'spse Into pet tiness an ascent to grandeur, and we can declare that the stoppage of progress is the rescue of freedom. position of authority In a sub jugated society It is necessary to pay special attention to ed ucation of the young. "That is why today in the Soviet Union and the captive countries of Eastern Europe, the role of education occupies a position of importance sec ond only to party ideology. "The Importance of educa tion is twofold: The rising generation must be indoctrin ated to fulfill Its role in a Communist society, and it must provide the necessary number of technically skilled workers to try to match the progress of a free society." That also means that at every opportunity the Marxist-Leninist theme of supposed superiority over the free soci eties is hammered home in the classroom. Matter of Fact le) New York Htrald Tribun Syndicate THE PRESSURE ON KHRUSHCHEV Berlin Frm this vantage point, Nlkita S. Khrushchev looks unpleasantly like a lead 1 er who has be gun to leel an acute need for a big success somewhere, in order to com pensate for ex isting difficul ties and fail ures. If this ap pearance is Alsnp not misleading, Berlin is pret ty certainly the place where Khrushchev will try for this success. Hence the deteriora tion in Khrushchev's own sit uation must also be regarded as another major change in the Berlin situation. Khrushchev s situation as leader of the world Commu nist bloc has certainly deter iorated, and In a really som ber manner, in the close-to- four years since he started the second Berlin crisis in Novem ber, 1958. In those days he was still proclaiming, with evident con fidence, that communism "would bury" capitalism with out a world war, by the sheer force-of its growing produc tivity and economic power. No doubt there was an ele ment of rodomontade in these brave forecasts. Yet it is pretty clear that Khrushchev believed most of what he then said. Consider, then, what has happened in the interval. lROM one end of the Com- munist bloc to the other, there are troubles that were certainly wholly unforeseen in 1958. China, of course, is the place where the trouble is deepest, most somber, and most dangerous. It is growing still deeper, too, since it is now known that this year's harvest was only marainallv better than the distastrous harvest last year. Another poor harvest means that China remains condemned to creep ing starvation, and this creep ing starvation has already gone on so long that Com munist China's survival as an organized society is beginning io De in question. There is much evidence, by now, that the Kremlin genuinely fears the outcome in China. Yet Khrushchev must be even more troubled by his own Soviet society's sad fail ure to perform in the way he naa expected and predicted. Of course, there is no such danger as exists in China, but home troubles are the worst troubles for all politicians. A grave failure in agricul ture combined with a much smaller shortcoming on the in dustrial front are the roots of r m In the Day's News By FRANK The Soviet Union warns the United States that a nuclear war COULr start over Cuba. It says President Kennedy's call for standby authority to mobilize 150,000 reservists was "part of preparations for an aggressive act," and adds that an assault on Cuba "will be the beginning of the un leashing of war." This action follows by a few hours charges by Cuba's Castro that the United States is preparing to attack his country. At the same moment, Havana radio announces that two Cuban ships and one Brit ish freighter were attacked by "pirate craft" armed by "im perialist Americans." rpHEN- In the same statement Moscow makes an offer to delay talks on Berlin and Ger many until after the Novem ber elections in the United States! 'T'HE statement says Russia -a. rallot Ih. ITnit,j ci,. .-. ... ., ,,rS could not negotiate on the Berlin and German questions 1 SIONAL ELECTIONS IN NO-1 Curtain Planners Lenin was willing to sacri fice a generation in order to) fit the youth of Russia to the iron mold of his concept of the dictatorship ot the prole tariat - certainly a concept far less dramatic than man's attainment and stubborn hold upon his freedoms. But the Communists, too, have their difficulties. The more time spent on Marx and Lenin, the less time there is for science and lan guages. Parents complain of the work load on students who must spend one day a week In "practical work" in factory or field. Poland quietly has dropped compulsory Marxism - Lenin ism from secondary schools. Religion still may be taught in Czechoslovakian and Hun garian schools. By Joseph Alsop the trouble in the Soviet Union. These have already produced one of those debates about investment priorities which, the record shows, have) always tended to lead to crises in the Kremlin. AS MIGHT have been ex pected, military invest ments have been given first priority by the Kremlin de baters. But this means increas ing disappointment of the "ris ing expectations" Khrushchev had encouraged in Russia. This alone knocks into a cocked hat the strategy for burying capitalism that Khru shchev used to tout so loudly. And there are some reasons to believe that the investment debate has also quite marked ly increased the political self assertlveness of the Russian military leaders. It can be seen, then, why Khrushchev is under faf greater pressure to achieve a spectacular success than he was when he started the Ber lin crisis four years ago. When drunk, he once described him self as "the locomotive of history." History, as he con ceives it, needs a much hard er pull in the Coanmunlst di rection than it did in 1958, even If this means running risks that used to be consid ered unacceptable. On this subject of risks at Berlin, Khrushchev himself has told several foreign visit ors in the last few months that the Western allies "will never fight" when the choice faces them squarely. We may hopa mat the Soviet boss himself is not quite so convinced on this point as he has been pretend ing to be. But we most cer tainly cannot assume that the opposite conviction the con viction that the West will in deed fight for Berlin now grips the Soviet leadership. a ON THE contrary, the West's true intentions may be as sumed to be subject of a con tinuous and probably acrim onious Kremlin debate with some (probably the military chiefs who must see our Ber lin position as "abnormal." just as President Eisenhower did) swearing the West "will never fight," while others of a more prudent persuasion ans wer, "Have a care; they say they'll fight and they well may do what they say." Arguing about this matter unendingly, seeing the great prize within their grasp, hav ing so much to gain by a West ern surrender, the Kremlin leaders must feel an all but irresistible impulse to out th Western allies to the test. And it they are also ready to run greater risks than they form erly thought acceptable, tha test may begin soon. JENKINS VEMBER, and adds that tha Soviet government is ready to take this fact into account and put off further Berlin nego tiations until after the U. S. elections are out of the way. The statement concludes with these words: "The Soviet government has declared more than onca and declares now that we are stretching out a hand of friendship to the people and government of the United States." TF you can figure out what A all that means, you are good. Nobody else seems to be able to ma"ke any sense out of it. Presumably it is an effort to divide opinion in America, and thus hold off any decisive action on our cart toward CUBA. If so, it doesn't seem to oe accomplishing its pur pose. Republican National Chair man Miller says in Washine. ton the U.S. should impose a ..... iaii oiocKaae of Cuba. Sen. Thomas Dodd. Democrat, savs the United States should give We'll see what we ll see.