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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.
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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"
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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
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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.
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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.