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Medford and Jackson County
History from lh (lies of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 31, 1952 (Friday)
Only three contested elec
tions will appear on the city
of Medford ballot Tuesday:
the mayor, and council posts
from wards one and three.
Four governmental units
concerned with water supplies
went on record last week in
opposition to the proposed
measure to prohibit weather
control experimentation.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 31, 1942 (Saturday)
County officials predict
turnout of between 35 and 40
per cent of voters at polls No
vember 3.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In Sis
kiyou county a candidate vig
orously denies the rumor he is
a rich man and asks the vot
ers not to hold that against
him."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 31, 1932 (Monday)
Fullback Clyde Fichtnor
stars in Medford High school's
football victory over Klamath
Falls.
Charles Champlln, Medford,
on publicity committee for
Southern Oregon Normal
school homecoming celubni
tion. 40 YEARS AGO
Ocl. 31, 1922 (Tuesday)
"Worst fire in history of
McdfUrd" guts Mason Ehrman
warehouse building; damages
estimated at $230,000.
District Attorney Rawlcc
Moore demands IliHt local at
torney cease "meddling" with
business conducted by his of
fice. 50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 31. 1912 (Thursday)
Ethel Davison, 15, saves
father from drowning in river
near home on upper Rogue.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
ii Is good.
KW
1. Is tile alcoholic content
of beverages greater when ex
pressed by weight or by vol
ume? 2. By what action did the
U. S. Increase the area of Its
territory nearly 100 per cent?
3. Does the Lincoln Mem
orial in Washington contain
the tomb of Lincoln?
4. Who composed "The
Moonlight Sonata?"
5. What Is the capital of
Virginia?
8. Do deisel engines have
spark plugs?
7. Di dthe League of Nations
ever expel the Soviet Union?
8. Do horses pull most with
their front or their hind legs?
9. Ice melts hecnuse It ab
sorbs heat; true or false?
10. Name the Ihree Islands
closely associated with the hie
of Napoleon.
Answarsi 1. Volume. 2. Lou
isiana Purchase. 3. No, 4. Bee
thoven, 5. Richmond. 8. No.
7. Yes: (1939 tor Finland in
vasion). 8. Hind. 9. Truo. 10.
Corsica (born), Elba (exiled)
and Helena (exiled and died.)
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OCTOBER 31, 18B2
UNICEF
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
The welfare of the children of the world has our
deep concern. It gives me great pleasure to congratu
late UNICEF for its excellent work and determination
to provide a future for millions of children who might
have had none.
I want to thank all the young people of our own
country who have added a note of responsibility and
compassion to our traditional Halloween by collecting
for UNICEF.
Even a small contribution to the United Nations
Children's Fund will bring immediate and tangible
benefits In medical care and disease prevention.
I urge all of my fellow citizens, young and old, to
support UNICEF generously again this year.
John F. Kennedy
MOT much needs to be
reproduced above,
many Medford youngsters tonignt win De coi
lecting small change for UNICEF, either in ad
dition to or instead of the traditional candy, pop
corn or cum.
The receipts, which have grown each year as
word of the benefits provided by UNICEF has
become better known, have saved the lives of
countless thousands of small children around tne
world, without regard to nationality, race, creed
or color onlv with recrard to need.
It is a worthy gesture, a virtually painless
gesture, and one in which we can all participate
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witn pnae ana manKiiunis. m.i.
Five Bells and the U.N.
All last week the Teletype machines, which
usually clatter along peacefully, were subject to
occasional spells of
sound, for five bells on
means a "Bulletin," and
e-oino- last week, a bulletin could have meant al
most anything, including
the way.
The machines are quieter this week, for which
we are duly grateful. Tensions are eased; there
is more hope that armed conflict can be avoided;
there is both relief and a certain pride that the
United States said "Stop!" in no uncertain terms
when the point was reached it had to be said.
But let no one think rosily that tension,
threats, and brinks-of-war are over. There is no
promise, yet, of "peace in our time."
IF THE crisis has proven
The United Nations
vital instrument in saving
As the San Francisco
day:
"Again, the United Nations has proved Its In
dlspensability as a sounding board, an intermediary,
an avenue for face-saving retreat for nations that have
been painted Into the kind of corner out of which there
used to be no egress short of war.
"The world may now await the next episode of the
cold war with its throat muscles somewhat Jess taut,
trusting in the U. N. and hoping for the best."
Khrushchev backed down. But if he hadn't
had the United Nations to back down into, he
would have been in an impossible position, with
what results no one knows.
HTIIE jingoes who want to kick the United Na-
tions out of the U.S., or withdraw the U.S.
from the United Nations, so long as there are
Communist members, are actually proposing that
we abandon the one avenue where a crisis can
be channeled long enough for the steam to dis
sipate.
rower plays and international power pon
tics are still with us necessarily so, as long
as our adversaries are equipped and willing to
play those dangerous games.
But they have taken
the "safety valve" of the
able, embodying as it does the "decent respect
to the opinions of mankind."
A LESSON might be learned from the juxta
" position of the Cuban crisis with the Sino
Indian border conflict, which shows signs of be
coming more than a border conflict.
Bed China is not a member of the United
Nations, thus cannot be brought before the bar
of world opinion. It might be that this would
make no difference, granted the fantastic and
apparently obdurate attitudes of Mao and his
minions.
But then again, it might. We are not suggest
ing that Bed China be invited into the U.N'., but
we are suggesting that if we continue to be wholly
anil uncompromisingly opposed to this, under any
circumstances, we may be doing ourselves, ami
the hope for eventual peace, a disservice.
THE Cuban crisis is not, and cannot be, con
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cannot be, confined to Berlin; the Sino-Indian
conflict inevitably has worldwide repercussions;
and the same applies everywhere in the world
where war or the threat of war occurs.
If we fail to recognize this, we are failing to
face the reality of a world where a missile can
speed nuclear destruction from one side of the
earth to the other in minutes, and where the lives
of billions not thousands or millions of hu
man beings are at stake.
The United Nations today may be merely a
safety valve. But it IS that much, and it is to our
own self interest to see that it is retained and
strengthened into something more. E.A.
Pre-election thought: Where do the candi
dates for public office get the energy they need
to put on their exhausting campaigns? We have
vet to see a successful politician who couldn't go
like sixty from dawn to dark, a ml come up fresh
as a daisy. E.A.
added to the message
except to point out that
bell-ringing. This is a nervous
the teletype macnine
the way things were
a report of missiles on
one thing, it is this:
has once again been a
the peace.
Chronicle put it yester
on a new aspect, vim
United Nations avail
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contrary is often the case.
It Will Mean Service
To the Editor: Ballot meas
ure No. 9 has been opposed on
the presumptions that it de
fies the principle: one person,
one vote.
I call to your attention the
fact a State Representative is
elected for a two year term.
This will include one session
of the legislature of approxi
mately four months. The bal
ance of a legislature s term Js
spent in his home district.
Serving the people of my
district in matters pertaining
to state government will re
quire from three to eight days
a month. It will require hun
dreds of miles of travel and
numerous long distance tele
phone calls. The same is true
for citizens in my district con
tacting me on problems deal
ing with state government.
Ballot measure No. 9 will
assure citizens in less populat
ed areas the service of an
elected official in dealing with
the complex problems of gov
ernment.
Don McKlnnis
State Representative
24th District, (Union and
Wallowa Counties)
Suinmerville, Ore.
To Continue Policy
To the Editor: Oregon,
through the establishment of
the Governor's Advisory
Board on Police Standards
and Training, has taken great
forward steps to insure the re
cruitment of the best type of
men for the police services
and for the professional train
ing of these men.
In some areas of our coun
try the practice of appointing
as deputy sheriffs men whose
only qualifications are the ef
forts they displayed in getting
their man elected is still em
ployed. By contrast, for the past
several years, candidates for
appointment to the Jackson
County Sheriff's office have
been selected through compe
titive examination based on
personal qualifications and
subject to the approval of a
three man Interview board.
Their continued employment
has been consistent with abil
ity and performance of duty.
Since deputies have not been
hired for political cause, they
have not feared dismissal for
political purposes. It would be
regrettable, and certainly a
backward step, to see the re
turn of political appointees re
placing trained qualified offi
cers, many with as much as 15
years devoted to public ser
vice. I submit, as my personal
recommendation, the candi
dacy of "De" Leigh as insur
ing the continued policy of
selecting and retaining as dep
uties men whose single pur
pose is public service as law
enforcement officers.
"De" Leigh has, In addition
the temperament and ability
developed by background and
experience to serve this coun
ty well as its sheriff.
Joseph D. Walsh
Former Sheriff. Jackson
County
Former vice chairman,
Governor's Advisory
Board on Police
Standards and Training
MS West lillh st.
Medford
Pamphlet Misleads
To the Editor: The Slate o
Oregon "Voters' Pamphlet,"
an official document bearing
the seal of the slate, is partil
ly paid for by all taxpayers.
As a public document. It
should have responsibility for
avoiding falsehoods in argu
ments for and a,iinst public
measures described therein.
Attention is called to two
statements in the current edi
tion's review of the pros and
cons of Ballot Measure num
ber SI, Oregon He-apportion-
j ment. The statements appear
! on page 40.
I First Is the sentence that "If
jwe do not adopt this reason
'able and fair representation
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD,
kmi
plan, the Federal Courts will
dictate a plan for the people
of Oregon." .This is patently
false. The Federal Courts will
not throw out the fairest rep
resentation system in the
whole United States, which is
what Oregon now has. Meas
ure 9 would permit greater
discrepancies among the vot
ing districts than now exist.
It is Measure 9 that is clearly
more vulnerable to federal ac
tion than is the present sys
tem, and lawyers in Portland
have testified to this already.
Second, there is the slogan
"Vote Yes, More Nearly As
sure One Man-One Vote."
This is, again, false. The pro
posed amendment would per
mit some legislative districts
to have four times as many
people per representative as
other districts. In other words,
it would permit some Oregon
ians to have votes counting
four times as much as the
votes of other Oregonians. Un
der the present system, on the
other hand, the greatest dif
ference is about two to one.
Measure 9 will not "more
nearly assure One Man-One
Vote." It will do the opposite.
I appeal to the Secretary
of State who publishes the
pamphlet and to the support
ers of measure 9 to stand
with the facts. Argument in
politics is one thing, and it is
healthy. But statements which
clearly and grossly mislead
are something else again.
They do not benefit us citi
zens and they undermine the
democratic process.
Richard T. Frost
Professor of Political
Science
6721 S.E. 34th ave.
Portland, Ore.
Protests Statements
To the Editor: As a member
of the Jackson County Board
of Equalization, I take excep
tion to some unkind remarks
made by Mrs. R. A. Pfiefer of
Shady Cove in a letter pub
lished in your paper Oct. 29.
She stated they had appear
ed before our Board repeated
ly and that we laughed in
their faces and urged them to
move out if they didn't like
it here. It was also stated that
we did not pretend to allow
any depreciation on a home,
and a worthless piece of
ground or rock pile is our
"gravy" - whatever that
means.
The function of our Board
is to equalize taxes through
out the county by seeing that
all classes of property are
equally appraised and to hear
and act upon the petitions of
taxpayers who are not satis
fied with the appraisals made
by the assessor.
I have served on this Board
for the past two years with
Chester Wendt and Arnold
Hobnert. No one who has ap
peared before us can truth
fully say they were not receiv
ed in a cordial and sympathe
tic manner. Although we can
not always make adjustments
as requested, we do thorough
ly investigate each case, even
to hiring an outside appraiser
where we are In doubt. Many
times we do find a need for
adjustments, and we direct
that they be made.
As a taxpayer, I do not
f : blame this lady for protesting
nign taxes, out 1 do object to
the false and unkind state
ments Included in her protest
when they are not based upon
facts.
C W. Abbott
Old Stage Rd.
Central Point, Ore,
Bankruptcy
To the Editor: Just a year
ag,i, with a great deal of pub
.icity. President Kennedv said
he would balance the federal j
nungei cuirmg tne year lrj
in fact he said at the end of
the year there would be a
budget surplus of $500 mil
lion. Now that the year is
OREGON
Americas
Cuba Incident; But What Happens Now?
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Nows Analyst
Dramatic as has been the So
viet rollback In Cuba, there
still remains another Impor
tant question.
The one in
volved a head
on clash be
tween policies
of the United
States and the
Soviet Union,
and from it
the United
States emer-
Newsom ged with pres
tige enhanced throughout the
free world, including Latin
America.
The second Involves the
course now to be followed
toward the Communist Cuban
regime of Fidel Castro itself.
Discovery that the Soviet
Union was shipping offensive
weapons to Cuba brought the
American republics into unan
imous and unprecedented
drawing to a close we find a
deficit of from $6 to $8 billion.
The year before he showed a
deficit of $7 billion.
Under the New Frontier we
are headed straight into na
tional bankruptcy. Even for
eign governments are begin
ning to question the sound
ness of the American dollar.
If you are concerned about
this senseless spiral of an ever
increasing public debt there is
definitely something you can
do about it.
We must send men to Wash
ington who will vote for econ
omy in the federal govern
ment and take active efforts
to cut out unnecessary gov
ernment spending.
Both Carl Fisher and Sig
Unander are dedicated to sav
ing money for the taxpayer
without sacrificing efficiency
and progress. Let's send them
to Congress so they can help
establish effective economy
at the national level.
This reckless federal spend
ing is typical philosophy of
the liberal wing of the Demo
cratic party. Bob Duncan be
cause of his liberal views
would vote right down the
line for more and more un
necessary federal spending,
Wayne Morse, with extremely
few exceptions, has always
voted in favor of reckless fed
eral spending.
Wally Iverson
1316 Queen Anne ave.
Medford
Grangers Protest
To the Editor: If Elmer Me
Clure in his appearances over
the TV and working for
Wayne Morse is trying to
make the public believe that
the Grange organization is
working for Morse, he is de
ceiving the people.
The policy of the Grange is
not to sponsor or recommend
any candidate.
We, as members of the
Grange, protest the former
state Grange master's action.
Lawrence E. Schreiber
Master, McMinnville
Grange
Mable Tollver
Secretary, McMinnville
Grange No. 31
Route 3
McMinnville, Ore.
How He Decided
To the Editor: I'm voting
"Yes" on Measure 9.
It's called Legislative Ap
portionment Constitutional
Amendment.
Sounds complicated? It is!
Measure 9 is the most wide
ly discussed, least understood
and most flagrantly misrepre
sented proposition facing the
voter.
How does one decide? Ex
perience similar to mine can
be related for chairman in all
counties.
Oregon state senate presi
dent, Harry Boivin, a Demo
crat strongly supported by
Democrats and Republicans,
asked Al Flegel to get some
one for our county job. Flegel,
our Douglas county Demo
cratic state senator, asked me.
Flegel Is an unselfish, ener
getic people-lover. He is Rose
burg's 1961 Citizen of the
Year, strong for youth activi
ties. His late brother. Austin,
was Oregon's Democratic can
didate for governor in 1948.
We decide issues on our
own. I studied. I favored the
then proposed measure. Al
most 100 per cent. I wanted to
learn more and benefit from
opinions of others.
These are others who urged
me on Measure 0: Leiken and
Richmond. Douglas county
chairmen of the Democratic
and Republican parties. Lei
ken is also our Democratic
representative
to the state
legislature. Richmond is an
experienced student of gov
ernment and a fellow attor
ney. Geddes, our former Republi-
United In First Reaction To
agreement with the United
States.
Argentina dispatched two
destroyers to join U. S. units
enforcing the Cuban quaran
tine. Use of facilities was of
fered by Guatemala, Panama,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.
Chile, previously one of the
Latin American holdouts
against any puntive action
against any punitive action
plete switch and gave full sup
port to the U. S. action both in
the Organization of American
States and in the United Nations.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
LOUD AND CHEERFUL
Our text today, dear friends,
is taken from the Old Testa
ment, Proverbs 27:14 - "He
that biesseth
T-)SW'l his friend with
rising early in
the morning,
it shall be
counted a
curse to
him." I have
in mind a par
ticular woman
- though her
who strides
Harris
name is legion
can representative and Sena
tor. He was voted Oregon's
most outstanding representa
tive in the 1951 session.
Keisay, our other Democrat
ic state representative, a for
mer school teacher, union bus
iness agent and presently a
sawmill operator and em
ployer. Our Republican state repre
sentative candidates, Walton
and Serafin, support Measure
9.
For me there have been
months of work. I have learn
ed, as you too would. We
should all vote "Yes" on
Measure 9 because:
1. It is made neccessary by
last year's unfortunate Oregon
supreme court decision. It will
restore intent of Oregon's
original constitution and the
1952 amendment overwhelm
ingly approved by Oregon
voters.
2. It will eliminate gross
political gerrymandering pos
sible under the present setup.
3. Measure 9 assures major
ity rule in the house and the
senate based on population,
while guaranteeing a minority
voice to every part of Oregon,
George Luoma,
Douglas County Chairman
Citizens' Committee
for Representative
Government
P. O. Box 937
Roseburg, Ore.
For Fisher
To the Editor: Carl Fisher,
Republican candidate for Rep
resentative from the Fourth
Congressional District, is a
man who thinks straight,
talks facts and votes his hon
est convictions. His legislative
record proves this. He does
not becloud the issues with
fuzzy generalizations. As you
pointed out in your endorse
ment of Bob Duncan, issues
may change in the months
ahead, but the fact that Fisher
is willing to face them
squarely and take a positive
stand is indicative of the kind
of representation he will give
us in congress.
Carl Fisher is not looking
to any special-Interest group
for support in this campaign.
He is getting it from the peo
ple in all walks of life and in
all parts of the district where
he has been campaigning tire
lessly, "soakin' up" as he puts
it, the thinking of the people
and further familiarizing him
self with their problems and
needs. When he goes to Con
gress he will have no debts to
pay.
His opponent, on the other
hand, has a voting record in
the Oregon Legislature of bet
ter than 90 per cent agree
ment with special interest
groups which cause voters to
pause and ask themselves:
"Can this man be trusted to
represent all of the people in
this Congressional District?"
Claire M. Rickard,
901 Newtown st ,
Medford.
Halloween Past
To the Editor:
All the ghosts and goblins are
out tonight.
The kids are playing hob all
right.
If you have anything you
don't want tooken
You'd better get bivy and do
some cookin'.
They're not hard to please:
they like anything to eat.
Just be sure you head their
"iTick or treat."
Wish I were again a lively
young'un:
I'd get myself in on their
pranks and funnin'!
H. H-.impal
P. O. Box 21
Ea;le Point, Ore.
k3T A
Mexico also was showing a
marked change of sentiment.
Brazil endorsed the initial
U. S. action but served notice
it would not support "meas
ures implying an intervention
on Cuban territory."
It also was felt that the
past week had damaged Cas
tro's and Moscow's position in
Cuba as well as throughout
Latin America.
A common danger had
brought nations of the Amer
ican hemisphere together. But
as the immediate danger re
ceded, the durability of that
unity would be tested all over
again.
J. Harris
through our village on sum
mer mornings, dispensing
hearty good will to all the in
habitants. She is so resolute
ly cheerful that she makes the
birds seem glum and down
cast by contrast.
To me, there has always
been something hysterical in
the nature of such determined
cheerfulness; I find it quite as
offensive as the chronic grum
piness of the village malcon
tent. Clinically speaking, in
fact, the person who rises
with the dawn and sets
forth to inflict his high
spirits upon the multitude
is much more likely to
crack up than the old
grouch who asks merely to
be let alone in his encrusted
way of life.
There is a certain kind of
loud laughter that often
presages a plunge into deep
and permanent melancholy;
a certain kind of isn't-every-thing
- just- marvelous atti
tude that is perched precari
ously on the edge of mania.
It was no accident that
the most sturdily optomistic
writer of the 20th century -H.
G. Wells - turned into a
raving misanthrope some
lime before he died.' In
scores of books. Wells had
been a propagator of the
faith that man could rise by
his own powers, by reason,
by education, by political
action, by sharing the ideas
and principles of H. G.
Wells.
When, however, mankind
was plunged into the fierce
barbarity of Hitlerism and the
Second World War; when all
the bright and "rational" val
ues Wells had defended were
swept into the discard of civi
lization - then he simply col
lapsed, and wrote a final book
of such venom, such hate,
such disappointment, such
lunatic rage that no long
standing pessimist could ever
equal.
The thousands of cases of
acute depression, the suicides,
the fleers from life in one
form or another - these are
almost always those who
broke under the dreadful
burden of their perpetual
cheerfulness. For such high
spirits, with their desperate
need to rise early in the
morning and bless us with a
loud voice, conceal more than
they express.
What they conceal, of
course, is the normal anger,
the doubt, the fear, the ag
gression that is bottled up in
all of us, and that must be al
lowed to trickle out in a safe
and steady form. The woman
striding through the village
may cut her throat some fine
morning - or her husband's.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMAN dearly loves to be asked
-- how he became a musician. This always gives him the
opportunity to answer, "The Missouri River overflowed its
banks when I was a lad.
My mother and father
floated downstream atop
a dining room table
and I accompanied them
on the piano."
Herb Caen, In San Fran
cisco, is picking up a lot of
loot by betting friends that
they cannot draw an ordin
ary phone dial without
peeking. Do you know the
two letters that are omtt
ted? And did you ever no
tice that the letters atart
In the Number Two hole
and not the Number One?
It is averred that Aesop was strolling through the woods one
morning when a big bad wolf came up and took a big bite out
of him. "Okay now, Aesop," said the wolf with a leer, "go home
and write THAT up!"
DFFINTTIONS:
BACHELOR: A brilliant operator who carries off all his ro
mances without a rutch.
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To promise to pull back his
missiles meant a certain
amount of humiliation for
Khrushchev. But he still had
his Communist bridgehead in
the American hemisphere.
That is the question which
the United States and its fellow-members
of the OAS must
ponder now.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Last week end was an amaz.
ing one. On Saturday, it look
ed as if war with Russia over
Cuba might be unavoidable.
On Monday, it looked as if
Russia's M r . Khrushchev
might have pulled in his
horns.
SOMEWHERE around mid
day on Sunday, he an
nounced dramatically that he
had ordered Soviet officers in
Cuba to stop work on rocket
bases there and CRATE UP
THEIR MISSILES AND
SEND THEM HOME. All this
was in a letter to President
Kennedy, which was read
twice in its entirety by a
Moscow Radio announcer. It
was also announced that a
copy of the letter had been
sent (possibly as an evidence
of good faith) to U Thant, act
ing secretary-general of Unit
ed Nations.
President Kennedy prompt
ly announced that Khrush
chev's action was a STATES
MANLIKE contribution to
peace. His statement was im
mediately broadcast by Mos
cow Radio.
So ended an astonishing
week end.
WHAT shall we think?
It is too early as yet to
think at all.
But an incident of the
LONG AGO promptly occurs
to our minds.
OVER a quarrel whose be
ginnings are not worth go
ing into here, the Ancient
Greeks had long been besieg
ing Ancient Troy.
Then
Suddenly
They abandoned the siege
and pulled out, leaving behind
them as a gift an immense
wooden horse. The Trojans
took them at their word (that
the horse was a gift) and pull
ed it inside their gates. That
night, the Greeks who were
concealed inside the horsa
came out, opened the city's
gates and LET in the return
ing Greek forces.
That was the end of Troy,
WHAT shall we do now?
Let's go back into history
for an answer.
In a similarly puzzling situ
ation, Old Oliver Cromwell
gave this advice to his men:
"Put your trust in God, my
boys, and KEEP YOUR POW
DER DRY."
That's about as good advice
as any for us in meeting this
strange and startling develop
ment in the news.
The thing for us to do is to
hope for the best and prepare
for the worst.
S Americans, such a coursa
is against all our instincts.
But
This we must remember:
Russia's Mr. Khrushchev is
a COMMUNIST. As a practic
ing communist, he is guided
by Lenin's Ten Command
ments of Revolution.
Lenin's Commandment No.
6 goes: "Truth does not count
unless it serves an end." Len
in's Commandment No. 9
reads: "Promises are like pie
crusts; made to be broken."
Here is Commandment No.
10: "Scheme . . . zigzag . . .
retreat . . . anything to HAS
TEN THE COMING POWER
OF COMMUNISM."
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