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Newspaper Page Text4 A TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1962 UtDrORDj&TMBlJNS ""Evr.iyou in SouthenTbregon""' Ked Th Mall Tribune1; PuC'l.ht I Oiliy txcept Saturday by MEUKORO PRINTING CO. S3 onh fir-. PhiTTa-14t ROBERT W. RUHL. Idltor HERB CREY Advertiilnf Manaaar GKRALD T LATHAM. Bue. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EAHI, H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Taltl Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE oTARCHER Women'e Editor DALE ElUCKSONClrcuUUon Mgr AnIndcptndent Nawapaper Entered aa second class matter at Mcdford, Orepan. under Act of March 3. 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mill In Advance. Dally nd Sunday 1 yeerlUOO Duly and Sunday 8 moa. 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy (Malledl 10c By Carriei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 131.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-75 Gunriiu flnlv 1 ma. 50c Carrier andVendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Press International Full Leaaed Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplclurea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Xdvertiilng Representative: NELSON ROBERTS U ASSOC!. ATES. Officea In New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Franciaco, Loa Angeles. Seattle, Portland, Denver. Nf WSPAPIK PUIUSHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fOITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford tnd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1952 (Friday) r.mrge Baker Dunkin pleads guilty to second de gree murder oi state ijuii.; officer; sentenced to life lm . nrlsonment. Ashland centennial fete concluded with dedication of new civic service building, football game, historical pag eant, and whisker - growing contest. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1942 (Saturday) City of Mcdford donates World War I caiinon from old city park to scrap metal drive; Mayor H. S. Deuel pro claims Scrap for Liberty day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudec Pot" . column: "The weather can't make up its mind whether to he late sum mer or early fall." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1932 (Monday) Survey of Little Butte route for secondary highway started by Jackson county en gineer's office. Two Oregon State college coeds Injured when two bug gies collide after state board of higher education forbids use of automobiles by stu dents. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1922 (Tuesday) California Oregon Power company announces "world's longest power line," centered In Medford, is ncarlng com pletion. First rain falls In Medford area since June 10; city po lice report many horses fell on slippery pavement. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1912 (Thursday) Assessed valuation of Jack son county, exclusive of all corporations, listed at $32, 114,635; Mcdford valuation given as $5,760,900. Plans announced for exten sion of light and power lines to Applcgate valley tajr way of Jacksonville and Rch. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten coir act Is superlerf even er eight is excellent) five sii Is good. 1. Under which federal de partment is the U. S. Commis sioner of Education? 2. Who baptized Saul? 3. Most roses now have grafted roots; true or false? 4. The law which limits po liticHl activities of Federal employees is known as what? 5. Harriet Lane ws the niece of a President and served as mistress of the White House; name the president. 6. What is the name of province in Ireland that is also the name of a type of over coat? 7. Which large cast coast American city is built prin cipally on three islands? 8. What common job was held by C h a rl e a Evans Hughes, Grover Cleveland DcWItt Clinton, and Herbert H. Lehman? 9. What color are the lines of a blueprint? 10. Duet the word bible mean book or books? Answers: 1. Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. 2. Ananias. 3, True. 4. Hatch Act. 3. Jamas Buchan an. S. Ulster. 7. New York City. B. Governor of New York. 9. White. 10. Books. Roots of Vandalism Vandalism, the deliberate and senseless de struction or spoliation of other people's property, has always been a mystery to us. It appears that "the experts" are equally baffled that law enforcement officers, psy chologists, educators, sociologists, and the ju diciary don't have the answer either. . An exceedingly interesting stoiy in the Mail Tribune a week ago recounted a discussion about vandalism in which experts such as described above confessed an inability to assess the motives of those who get pleasure from vandalism; THERE were some explanations attempted. ' Most juvenile vandals are boys. But there seems to be no correlation between a youngster's background or his intelligence and his urge to destroy. Another view is that all vandalism is pur poseful, and perhaps is a striking out against something that only he understands. A young vandal somehow has developed different values from the rest of society. And, with these general, and rather obvi ous, observations, the agreements of the experts taper off into guesses. ()NE of the panel appealed for a program of research to attempt to ascertain motivations in cases of vandalism. Undoubtedly such studies would prove fruitful in the future to modify such behavior. But until the problem is more fully under stood, we must concentrate on (1) law enforce ment and (2) rehabilitation, It might also be helpful to distinguish be tween the kind of vandalism that is motivated by sheer high spirits and high jinks (like the out house on top of the courthouse at Halloween), and that which is a senseless and malicious de struction of property. AS IN SO many other aspects of juvenile delin- quency, it seems to us, the problem of youth ful vandalism goes back to the home. A wealthy home is not necessarily a happy, well-adjusted one. Prominent parents do not nec essarily make the best parents. And high intelli gence in a youngster is no automatic guarantee that he has no destructive instincts. - It is our conclusion that parents, and parents alone, are the key to whether a youngster is going to be social or anti-social; whether he is going to become a constructive, or destructive, member of society. It is not only in overt training, but, perhaps equally important, by example. If parents are bad citizens, how are we to expect their offspring to become good ones? E.A. Vets' Loan Successes i The Veterans' farm gram, it appears, is one of the most efficiently managed in the entire state government. The annual report for the year ending June 30 is at nana, and it includes these highlights: During the year the program carried the largest number of loans, 4,584, and the largest amount of money, $47,811,100, of any fiscal year in tne department, s nistory. It had the lowest repayment delinquency in its history, only 39100 of 1 per cent. An increase in net earnings of nearly $100,000. Five fewer employees than at the end of the previous year. Progress in the department s work sim plification program. THE program has, on first when the farm and home loans were author ized, and since then when increases in the bond ing authority were allowed. 1 he confidence of been well placed, and many. It has allowed many young men to acquire farms and homes who otherwise might have had difficulty doing so, thus adding to the economic stability and health of the state. It has been a program which has paid in inenmp-anil.nnlrn Vint nf vnnnn. m u,l , ...v.. ....... citizens and taxpayers. Director Hub Saalfcld and his people have . . . . ... - 4 . 1 . every right to be proud done. E.A. Cave dogs. And if you have both- , , 'ered to look, you have seen The good people of neighboring Cave June-' the expression of uncompre tion will have a chance toote again this No-1 ncn2lnB miscry and pleading vember on whether their little city' will continue I Tne'nnd to be Cave Junction, or shall become Cave City. !ciespair-and finally to a We do not, of course, have a vote in the frenzied .natter, but if we did, we'd vote for the name,,, expended0''!" Change. : healthful exercise and romp- Cave City was the original name for the citv I lnK ,ind no ""ni outlet, plat, and was changed to Cave Junction later, j Z'Si apparently by mistake. ! animal, the typical chained Furthermore, the word "junction" implies a d,,1! certain sort of insignificance and happenstance in .n'er" the name of a community. And Cave Junction, borhood. as the ranidlv growing center of the rapidly Tno "'m.y dog house usual growing Illinois valley, deserves the dignity of rP7,Mt "SrSS'ta a more distinguished name. F-.A. temperature at night or the designing programs for and home loan pro several occasions, re- the voters seems to have the benefits have been its own way, not only in occictinrr thmiemnria i C, ...J.-iUU utiuniv . v i-j 'I-. i loi u iu of the job they have City "Isn't He The Fellow That'. Always Complaining To The Club Committee?" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the rume and address of the writer, 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 a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor 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. Red Hat Days To the Editor, and dear readers: Again oh perish forbid from October through November, red hats, purple adjectives and roaring rifles burst forth and are waved with enthusiastic vi gor. Bless our menfolk our larder-fillers who suffer through these harrowing days. And upon me once more fall tile ceaseless tasks of preparation for the boys. Small, unimportant ones, true, like cleaning the house trailer, roasting turkey and amassing incidental necessi ties; cookies, candy bars and martini olives, etc. I cherish these spurious, rabid, red-hatted ruffians, be lieve me. But there comes a time there ALWAYS comes a time when a point is reached; an unsurmountable peak of tension when I just wish to heck they'd hurry up and get out of here. Hence the following if you'll bear with me and the only possible solution yet dis covered which allows me full vent to my emotions; the ex punging of my unforgivable, mean little frustration. THE MENACE ON VENISON I salute you modern pioneers who face the wilderness un known, To stalk the wily, mule-tail deer, Undaunted, strong, alone! Your sinews flexing, staunch and bold, Checks chiseled with dispair, Atop the frozen ridges cold, In thermal treated under wear! From dawn's first meagre biting fangs, You trek in hunter's bands, 'Til forced by gnawing hun ger pangs, To seek the nearest hot-dog stands. Persistent still to prove your might, Against all elements you strive, Push on red-blooded men and fight. From the cab of your four-wheel-drive! Oh you who challenge na ture's tide, And woes, should you dis please her. Must stalwartly decide, Which deer fits in YOUR freezer! Gig Farfan 723 South Newtown st. Medford Chained Dogs To the Editor; Wherever there are people, you will find dogs, born with the urge to run and leap and frolic, who are srjpndinff their Hvps Sat the end of six feet of ! chain. Technically, of course, this jg , compliance with the "icash law in our commu- 1 mty' whlch riKMfl,11-v decrcps 1 Hint ft rlnO mnv tint run at that a dog may not run at large. Morally, It Is a viola tion of the basic law of hu manity and compassion which ought to apply in all our rela tionships with sub humans. You have seen many such MEDFORD MAIL merciless heat of the summer sun. Flies torment the crea ture. In rainy or stormy weather the animal huddles wretchedly In Its "shelter," often shivering with chill. A chained animal cannot be termed a "pet." It cannot ever fulfill Its job as a watch dog. For a dog to meet Its end under the wheels of a car is a cruel fate, but to live at the end of a chain is crueler by far. If you have a pet it de serves the security of a fenced yard, or daily exercise at the end of a leash, and human companionship. If you cannot provide these, you really don't need a dog. Unfortunately, anyone can own a dog. It requires a larger sympathy, imagina tion and sensitivity to own a "pet." Courtesy of your Humane Society. Verne E. Beebe, Pres. 2902 Table Rock rd. Medford. No Equality To the Editor: In regard to your editorial on emanci pation. There can be no equal rights and privileges for Americans regardless of col or of skin. There are plenty of educational Institutions in America that would be glad to educate Negroes with whites. Why force the color Issue in states where it is known there will be trouble? There is plenty of trouble in the world already. There can be absolutely no equality In education. There is no equality from one classroom to another. Right in Medford many pupils are being deprived of their right and privilege of better edu cation because they cannot have the better teacher that is in the next room. We can not make things equal. We don't want things or people equal. We need some people that excel. We don't want them all cut off the same length like sausages. Equality Is a debunked theory. There are no two blades of grass alike. There are no two pear trees alike. No two animals alike and no two people are alike. You cannot find two people alike, either In body or mind or personality or morality. This is an admitted fact. How then can we expect to find two teachers of , equal ability? Hence, if my reasoning is cor rect, if everyone were to have equal opportunity in education we could only have one school (the best) and one teacher (the best). That ev ery person can expect to have the same rights and privileges as every other per- i son is a false premise. You better take a survey of your reasoning, Mr. Editor. The races of the world are different. I do net hold that they are better, one than the other, but they are different. I am not against Integration if it Li voluntary. 1 do be lieve It Is wrong if it is co erced or compulsory. This forceful integration of the schools of America Is just plain foolishness. It will set tle no problems. It will stir up hatreds and strifes that will outlast the bitterness and hntreds that is still evident these many years after the war between the states. There is a way that secm eth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death. Carroll Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore. Worthy Cause To the Editor: As a student of Medford Senior High school, I must come to Its defense. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Nkrumah's Decrees Limiting Freedoms In Ghana, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana has a number of distinctions, including at least one bestowed upon himself. It is the name "Osagyefo" by which he likes to be known and which SblM means "t h e e d eemer." But that there are at least Mewioni some who dis agree with this benevolent ti tle for the first Negro prime Washington Report By William fc United fcatur Syndicate WHAT QUID PRO QUO? Washington Congress has acted responsibly in the Cu ban affair. Thanks largely to a Repub lican leader s h 1 p unwill ing to fish for votes in these darkly trou bled waters, Xjs? Congress has massively pro claimed b 1 partisan back ing to the Pres- trnit. ident in what ever he may think need be done - not excluding invasion as a last resort - to prevent the Soviet lodgment in Castro Cuba from becoming a direct military threat to this coun try and hemisphere. Two things of capital im portance now remain to be seen. How will President Kennedy repay ' the self-restraint of those Republican leaders, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, both of whom are up for re-election this fall? And what course will the hulking and sinister third force in this matter, the Soviet Union, now take to seek maximum embarrass ment of the United States in this, a Congressional election year? MANIFESTLY, whatever course Nikita Khru shchev may take will sweat the Democrats politically more than the Republicans, since the Democrats bear the onus for dealing with Castro Cuba. This, however, Is rela tively a trifling thing, assum ing that most of us put coun try well above party. The real concern here among the top people in both parties is something else altogether. It is the danger that Khrushchev may over estimate the significance in foreign policy terms . of our division on this question of which party shall control congress. If he does so over estimate, he well may take further provocative action in Cuba on the assumption that he can get away with it amid our political distractions or simply that he can create fur ther confusion here. It is likely that he does not understand as many Ameri cans in fact seem not to understand the limited In view of Mr. Gent's letter which appeared in last Thurs day's "Communications" col umn, I only have to say that this man did not read the school paper issued his daugh ter very carefully, or his daughter misunderstood her teacher. The paper did not compell his daughters to buy these books, and certainly not at the student store. He states, "Or is it because someone Is being able to make a 'middle-man profit' on these books that are required to be purchased and read by the students?" May 1 bring it to Mr. Gent's attention that the school makes no profit from this book sale. The middle-man is a student who will receive a scholarship from the profits made by the student store. I did not like giving up two dollars when I could have gone bowling, shopping or any number of things, but I did, and when I bought them, I got them at the student store, because I eliminated the 'mid dle-man' which In this case was the downtown merchant. This scholarship was a wor thy cause, and I am glad to have been part of it. MHS Sophomore iN'ame on file) Medford Don Quixote To the Editor: I just re ceived an anonymous phone call chewing me out for dar ing to criticize the city po lice department. O.K., so I am a rotten low- life and a louse - but before anyone else gets in attack of high blood pressure let me say that the chief of police and I talked it or. After all, we have known each other most of our lives and we were both raised here, so he knows that my criticism was for construc tive purposes and he accept ed it as such, so if there are As Incidents More Frequent minister of a British colony and first president of the first colonial territory in tropical Africa to achieve independ ence. This disagreement has become increasingly evident in recent days. Over the week end in Ac cra, Ghana's capital, Nkru mah's government proclaim ed a state of emergency which just about ended what priva cy Ghanaians had left in Nkrumah's drive to establish himself as an absolute ruler. The proclamation permit ting search of private homes "in the public Interest," offi cially was attributed to a S. White meaning as to foreign policy of this or any other congres sional election. Harry Tru man undertook fateful deci sions in American foreign policy at a time when he had an opposition congress, and congress in these matters never said him nay. Dwight Eisenhower did, too, KHRUSHCHEV cannot real ly paralyze ou- foreign policy by intervening. But the vital thing is to try to make him realize he cannot. It is for this reason that the nonpartisanship in this area of the Republican congressional leaders is so important. They merit a generous reciprocity from the President going far beyond mere pedestrian poli tical traditions. Professionally partisan Democrats may argue that the Republicans could not have done anything else. They could however, have done something else altogether; they could have demanded what many people not all of them either fools or flag wavers would really prefer: A flat-out showdown right now with Castro Cuba. Had they demanded this, with the President already committed against a showdown now in the light of his estimate of the present state of our security, they could have presented him faint-hearted and un sure. THE trouble is that the rest of the world doesn't care much about who is a Demo crat and who a Republican, and so the world would only have seen this country itself as faint-hearted and unsure. This would have been the one most reliable possible way to embolden Khrushchev ' into pushing us too far. What, then specifically, should the president's reci procity to the Republican leaders be? Though political practice would hardly permit him to endorse them, he ought at minimum to put nothing In the way of their reelection. Neither personal nor ordinary political consid erations nor party labels are really relevant here. What Is relevant is not some domestic welfare program but rather the welfare of the United States of America. Strictly Personal By Sydney (O Field Enterprises, Inc. REHABILITATION One of the most heartening stories I have read In months was an item in Time Magazine not long ago, describing the "work release program" 1 n North Caro lina's prison system. More than 300 convicts are taking part in a reha- Rarvia ouiiauon pian "based on the idea that a prisoner with a steady outside job is of greater benefit to himself and the state." The men all Inmates with sentences of five year or less go to work each weekday morning as barbers, mechan ics, cooks, secretaries and farmers. At night they go "home"' and are locked in their prison cells. The pay they receive is divided among the state, their families and themselves. In the five years since ii began, the North Carolina plan has proved extremely successful: some of the men have been hired after parole; none has committed a known crime while at work; and the rate of escape Is etartingly low. This is the way a prison system should be admin istered is offer the men hope and a Job opportunity, and not merely punishment. any more Don Quixotes let me say that you will just be beating a dead horse. Leila A. Morrow 531 N. Bartlett St. Medford bomb explosion, of wnicn there have been several in recent weeks. One blast outside the gates of Nkrumah's official resi dence killed a child., On Aug. 1, a bomb explod ed close to Nkrumah's car while he was traveling through northern Ghana. Last week, two oomo ex plosions injured a number of persons on the eve of Nkru mah's 53rd birthday. As re sult, birthday celebrations were canceled. Nkrumah is a man who does not like to be criticized. The record is filled with deportation orders against his opponents, ranging from op position political leaders to tribal chieftains. Ghanaians may be impris oned for periods up to five years without trial if their actions are considered prej udicial to the defense of Gha na, to relations with other Matter of Fact By Joseph aisop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate MEMO FOP, OTTO PASSMAN Washington A couple of months earlier, that part of the province of Vinh Binh, in Soutn viet Nam, could not be safely entered by less than a company o f troops. Now the wiry little province chief Maj. Thao, had no more tVlinp than his two regular bodyguards on the back seat of the jeep. This part of Vinh Binh had been liberated from the Com munists, in the most literal sense, by the new system of "strategic hamlets," of which Maj. Thao was a passionate the Major chose to show, the elders had been warned. The hamlet militia - young men in loose black peasant clothes, two or three with ancient car bines, the rest armed with Jun gle knives-were drawn up in else had also turned out to greet the Major more inform ally, for he was an old friend. THE MILITIA captain proud ly described the previous night's patrol. For the first time in weeks, two Commu nist guerrillas had tried to come in among the houses, to extort money, to obtain In telligence, and to levy the Communist rice tax. The place where they had attempted to penetrate the hamlet's sur rounding barricade was shown. You could see where they had begun to push aside the rather flimsy, barrier, mainly constructed of thorny bamboo. Here the patrolling militia . had caught them and driven them away. "That's the way it works," said Maj. Thao. "In the ham lets, the people are protected from the Communists, and the Communists are barred off from the people. Once that happens over a considerable area, the Communist guerril las have to retreat from that J. Harris It is an accepted truism among penologists that most Jails deform men more than they reform them. There will always be a hard core of criminals who era intractable, who want no other way of life, who will go back to crime as soon as released. But the greater majority espec ially of first offenders have little choice when they leave prison: penniless, friendless, soured by con finement, and embittered by society's vast lack of inter est in them. Apart from the human factor, putting a man in prison is a vastly expensive operation, if he is not equip ped to hold down a Job when he comet out. What the nation's taxpayers are assessed for our penological system today Is largely a waste of hundreds of mil lions of dollars. There are as many differ ent kinds of "criminals as there are different kinds of people. This is a truth the average citizen does not want to face. But it is our job to help, and not just punish, those who are helpable; to give them the chance few of them had; and to prevent their fur ther corruption in prison so ciety. It is to our advantage as much as to theirs. More than 40 years ago, Bernard remarked that "Im prisonment, as it exists today is a worse crime than any of those committed by its vic tims." His remark remains substantially accurate today, except for such cases of in telligent reappraisal as the North Carolina system. m countries or to Ghana's se curity. Nkrumah spent 10 lean years in the United States from 1935 to 1945, during which he sold fish in Harlem, slept on Philadelphia park benches, but at the same time managed to get himself a master's degree at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Back at home on the Afri can Gold Coast he went to jail for stirring up independ ence riots, but stepped out of jail to become prime min ister. . He has declared himself a Marxist - Socialist but has warned against bracketing anti - colonialism with com munism. He virtually has eliminated political opposition by setting up one-party rule in a unique example of at least one form of African democracy. Mean while, the bombs seem to be giving him an increasing fondness for the indoors. area. But everything is lack ing everything from car bines for the hamlet militia to wood for the schoolhouses we need to build in each ham let. Otherwise we could do so much more." "We sure could," said Capt, Savage, the remarkable young American officer who had been working and fighting alongside of Maj. Thao for four months. "You wouldn't think that thing (pointing to the frail barricade) could work wonders. But it does work wonders; I know, be cause I've seen it. We've taken one-third of the province from the Communists in the last four months." SUCH was the news from Vinh Binh a few months ago, and very encouraging news it was. There is even bet ter news today, which comes irom riuius minis, a man who has credentials that com mand attention. Back in 1954, the late President Magsaysay's American friend and close ad viser, Col. Edward Lansdale, was transferred from Manila to Saigon, to join the anti Communist struggle in Viet Nam. Lansdale, who is one of the unsung heroes of the cold war, then called on a number of young combat - veterans from Korea to join him. Rufus Phillips was one of Larisdale's young recruits, who went out into the villages for months at a time. So he knows Viet Nam well. On behalf of the Foreien Aid Administration, Phillips has just returned to Viet Nam for a two-month, on-the-spot study of the way the new system of strategic hamlets has been working. In Vinh Binh, he found that the third of the province liberated from the Communists had grown to 90 per cent of the province. Every productive area in Vinh Binh is now denied to them: and the remaining Communist units are hungrily confined to the grim, rice-less mangrova swamps which form one cor ner of the province. When every province is like that," says Phillips, "the war in South Vietnam will be about won. And every prov ince can be like that, if we lust try hard enough." rOR THAT precise reason, A Phillips has reluctantly agreed to abandon an extreme ly prosperous family business; and to go out to Saigon with his wife and children; and to take charge of our foreign aid mission's support for the Viet namese in the strategic ham lets. Of the foreign aid money allocated to South Viet Nam, Phillips has been promised $40,000,000 for his work or about one-twelfth of the total amount the U.S. is now an nually spending on the war there. In this war, one must also remember, American soldiers are daily in active combat. And if Phillips' pro gram works, this war may pos sibly come to an end. Maybe Rep. Otto Passman and the other members of tho House, who have attacked the foreign aid program with a hatchet, ought to have remem bered those Americans risking their lives for their country in South Viet Nam. Maybe they ought to have found out a bit more about a few projects me me strategic hamlet pro- gram Maybe they oueht to have talked to people like Rufus Phillips. Maybe they might even have considered the point that the larger share of foreign aid now goes to Asia, where the cold war, at the mo ment, is In a state of knife edge balance. The foreign aid program ha. Its tauits, to be sure, and some j of these are very great faults But Passman s blind, angry use of the hatchet on an essen tial tool of the cold war is not just a fault. There are less palatable words for this kind of thing, which must please Nikita S. Khrushchev even more than it pleases Rep. Charles Halleck.