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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY, ''Everyone"iirsouthern Oregon Reads TheMllTrlbune ! Published Daily except Saturday by MEDKOHD PRINTING CO 33 North Kir J'-. Ph.J72-6l4l : ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREV AdvertUlnl Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. MaT. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mns Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor . HARRY CHII'MAN Teleg tdltor RICHARD JKWF.TT. Sport; Ed or ; OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor DALE ER1CKS0N. Circulation Mgr . ' AnIndcpendenV Newspaper . Entered aa second class matter Mcdlord. Orenon. under Act of March 3. 1 8117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .,. rtcilu Snnrinvl year $18.00 nilv and Sunday 8 mos 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 500 c.n0l. rnnv (Mailed! 30c By Carnei And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday I year WJ-JJ Daily and Sunday I mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. soc Carriei andVendon -opy 10c Offlclari'aper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturee "MEMBElCOF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising: Representative: NELSON- ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offtcea In New York. Chl r.io Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASCSbCfrATIO'N Tsr,. y w i AT knuilAJiU'lUJ NEWSPAPE ISHER.S CIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . . Nov. 20, 1952 (Wednesday) The 1053 Greater Medford Chest drive, now in its sev enth week, received a big . boost today when it received a check for nearly $4,000 from a local lumber company. Twenty cases of tuberculo sis were uncovered by last January's mass chest x-ray survey in Jackson county. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1942 (Thursday) Medford Red Cross officials request aid of local women in preparing surgical dressings for use by armed forces. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "I e c iormcd on mud puddles this morning, and the shin-bones of the stockinglcss members of tile fair sex turned as blue as Crater lake." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1932 (Saturday) Sir Harry Lauder, famed Scottish entertainer, makes Medford appearance. Medford chapter of Daugh ters of American Revolution schedules pageant in honor of bicentennial anniversary of birth of George Washington. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1922 (Sunday) New type quartz mill, man ufactured in Medford by Ed ward G. Trowbridge and Har ry D. Mills, called "sensation of mining world" in United Slates and Alaska. Ashland High school prin cipal writes to University of California Coach Andy Smith seeking information on "un biased, disinterested officials," to referee high school foot ball game between Medford and Ashland: Medford Coach Kddie Durnn and Ash land coach unable to agree on offi cials from University of Ore gon or Oregon Agricultural college. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 20. 1912 (Tuesday) Neil creek rancher dedi cates b'40 acres to state for use as game bird preserve. Josephine county court or der legalizes sale of liquor in precincts which voted "wet" in recent election. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct Is superior: seven or eight is eacellent; five 01 lis is good. . I IT IS our initial conclusion, subject to later i who was vice President modification resulting from further stiulv, that during Washington's second y th(, .;,, ()f ,ilH.mm,nt wnjc, wjU RjVe the 1 iiow much is 2x2x2x2x2? I tte the flexibility, the power, and the frame 3. Name the seventh day of , work necessary to move ahead. "VS the Chief Justice of I . )'0StS .'"'j1' lH,Wl'1' IVtofol C ill, the the supreme court vote only j legislature, in the governor, and in the judiciary, iii cum-of a tie? I It retains, however, the ultimate authority to 5. Under which President th() p,,,, an, wnj , cxtoluljnir the power's of was the Tennessee River Mus- .. ' , . , V . 1 i . cie shoais project begun' j'!10 branches of government, it also to a substan h Did seott, Tennyson, ortial decree increases tlie potency of the checks iiawthorne write "iva,ih..e ? I.,,,, balances which one branch -an wield with 7. How manv square feet. . , are there in a square yard.' l'OSpect til another. r who invented the pen- This is not a radical Constitution, except in the d",1,1""'.', . . ., , I sense that some of its provisions are new to Ore- !) What is the name for , . , '. , . ., ... male swan- ; Jion, for most of what is best in the present t on- lo. is vaniiia bean the fr'uit istitution is retained or strentrthenod. of a species of orchid? Answers: 1. John Adams. 2. Thirty-two. 3. Saturday. 4 . No, on all matters. 5. Wood row Wilson. 6. Scoll. 7. Nine. 8. Caiilcp. 9. Cob. 10. Yes. NOVEMBER 20. 1S62 A Revised The Oregon legislature will soon convene, and among the many things which will demand its attention will be a proposed new state Consti tution. The draft has been months by a blue-ribbon commission of 17 men, which includes lawyers, legislators, judges, two former governors, and various representatives of the public interest. It is a spare document, less than half as long as the present Constitution, which in the 1U5 years since it was written has been cluttered up with a great body of material which really does not belong in a basic charter 01 government. "THE proposal is controversial, and it will main so. It leaves much of our state govi mental structure intact, but the changes which it does propose are significant ones. It gives more nower to all three branches ot government tne legislative, executive and judicial but it also provides some checks and ing. Law Professor Hans Linde of the University of Oregon, a member of the Commission and chairman of its drafting sub-committee, called it a "neutral document" when he spoke here last Saturday, pointing out that it is non-partisan in character, and deprives no interests of any rights or privileges now enjoyed. It is simply a streamlined, brand-new and basic charter of state government, without frills or special-interest legislation, and with a slightly differing concept of how governmental power should be wielded. LJIS principal point and it is one that all mem bers of the legislature and the voting public should take seriously Constitution should be judged as a whole, and not on the basis of specific provisions. The question, he intimated, should not be "Does this document contain proposals with which we disagree?" The question should be, "Is it a better Consti tution than the existing one?" He, together with most members of the com mission, feel that the second question can be answered affirmatively, adopted, not face-lifted recognition. IN READING the draft of the proposed docu- ment, the first thing that strikes one is the clarity of meaning provided by the drafting com mittee. Gone are the intricate legalisms and semantic monstrosities which bog down so many legal documents, including Constitutions. This docu ment is a model of understandability, and pend ing a court test of meanings, we would be of the opinion that there are few if any ambivalent sections. 1 Even in the fairly complicated provisions for apportionment of the legislature, the language is clear and precise. Any junior high school student should have little difficulty in understanding it. "NE of the great steps forward, as mentioned, was the elimination of much statutory type legislation from the Constitution, and its place ment, instead, in the Oregon Revised Statutes. Another was a rearrangement, elimination or clarification of some absurdities in the present Constitution such as those, for instance, where both liquor by the drink and capital punishment appear as part of the Bill of Rights. Another feature of the proposed document is its retention of some provisions which the peo ple of Oregon, in the past, have shown they want in the Constitution. One of those was the ear marking of gasoline tax revenues for highway construction; another was the retention of the state emergency board, which is empowered to make emergency appropriations when the legis lature is not in session. X SHALL, in the future, discuss from time to time various aspects of the proposed Con stitution. But we strongly interested in what our basic charter of state gov ernment is ami should be obtain a copy for their own study. Generally, in addition to observations above, we find the new Constitution to be permissive rather than restrictive. That is, it trusts the peo ple and the legislature to enact laws in very broad areas. The principal restrictions on legislation ap pear in the defense of civil rights, and in a few rather special areas, such as, for instance, the prohibition of lotteries. And we are inclineil to agree with i rotessor Linde and other members of the Revision Com mission that the proposed Constitution should stand or fall on its merits as a whole, and not be allowed to be nit-picked to death. MA. , Constitution prepared over the past 16 govern' balances not now exist was that the proposed and if so, it should be or patchworked out of recommend that those MEDFORD "Thank., i4 nfc MA4tVtTT4 rVr ... Communications ... Letters io the Editor musl bear the nima and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ne or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letteri with a view to clarification and condensation. Letteri submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact the contrary is often the case. Learning Process To the Editor: According to a news broadcast from KMED-TV, Channel 10 in Medford, the findings of a group from Klamath Falls was that the major cause of juvenile delinquency was the underachievement in school work. This broadcast was made on the 6 p.m. news Nov. 16. In Life Magazine Sept. 28, 1962, is an article, "Is the Stu dent a Vessel or a Lamp to Light?" In this article a fact is given that Russian children learn to read sooner than American: also that by the fourth grade they have been exposed to a vocabulary of 10,000 words whereas most of our fourth grade has been exposed to only 1,500 words. Of 51 nations surveyed by UNESCO including practi cally all Europe r e q u i r e longer hours than we do. American students, by and large, are unemployed. In the official journal of Air Force, "The Airman," Oc tober 1902 issue, is an article "Now Learning Can Be Easy". It illustrates and explains how the Air Force is using teaching machines as proces ses of learning. Teaching machines can never completely replace or substitute for the teacher but it is our firm belief they can be a great asset and invalu able supplementary aid to teacher, student and the coun try in general if they can help students achieve required standards in school. Addie Mae Hopkins 2824 Favill rd. Grants Pass, Ore. Whoops. M'dear To the Editor: You wield terrific power whether you know it or not, and I believe you do know it. Please don t misuse it. You can be wrong in your attitudes and beliefs in this instance as you have so often the past. If my memory serves me right you nave a score ot less than 50 per cent on your advocacies. As of Sunday we have to look at an editorial where you quote ethics, obligations, po litical spoils, civil service, training, ability, technical as pects and Bob Duncan. Whoops, m'dear, that was quite a mouthful, wasn't it? So let's1 see what the facts are: You called Marvin Mad den Friday and asked - "Arc you a candidate for the posl mnster's job?" Marvin an swered - "I have not applied for the job or sought it." Fair enough so far isn't it? Then you bluntly ask a "trap" question - "if it was offered to von would vou be interested?" And the answer returned - "Yes I would, con- sidering the increase in salary and security." BANG went the phone without any more ado. Of course you said - "Thank you." llells Bells and Catfish, who wouldn't consider a position that would better himself 100 per cent financially in salary and 1000 per cent in perform-1 ancc and security, ami enable him to get away from the copious carpiugs of the public and editorial writers and Ihe nerve wracking experience of four year elections? I would - ami so would Madden. Would ' n't oven you be interested? : As to ethics - Madden has not renrced on his oath or Job and a lorthright statement was made to you when he said "Yes. 1 would consider the i job." but that statement save I no announcement of renewing As to obligations no one can be blamed tor thinking i of the future - his family I is own lite and Its betterment. and Marvin Madden will nev- er desert the Democratic par-j ty or cease to be a Democrat nor leave the partv in the lurch. As to political spoil5, - we MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Boys" all know you advocate "non partisan government, but to eliminate the mild variety of patronage now in existence would doom the two party sys tem. As to civil service - did you know that the examination takes into consideration, edu cation, character, administra tive experience, ability, tech nical training, and service in the armed forces? What per son in this county can you name that has anywhere near the answers that would be given for Marvin Madden? K. C. (Swede) Wernmark 232 West Fifth St. Medford. Pet Abuse To tlie Editor: Now that we have all or most of the dogs nicely tied up in the city and country alter the leash dog law passed, so that all the dogs cannot annoy humans, let us hope that we can reverse it a bit and somehow have some laws so that dogs and other animals can be protected from the neglect of their owners. Otherwise, we have not pro gressed much from the Dark Ages of long ago. There are flagrant cases of "personal property" dogs in this town of Medford being abandoned, forsaken, neglect ed, abused, as they are left tied on short goat chains or ropes hours and hours on end without shelter, food, often no water to drink on very warm or even cold days (unless some rainwater), no shade on hot days and no place to lie down on wet days but in the mud and ground, and become filthy. There are other animals forced into cages too small lor them. Their owners have little thought whether their "pets" suffer from neglect or lack of care. Yet I am told that there are not laws to cover these matters. Please write your Congressman and let's please try to have some laws that deal with the abuses that the leash dog-law has brought upon us and our dog friends. There are really not many harmfully vicious nor bad dogs anyway. Most of them do have the annoying habits of sometimes barking in the night at possible prowlers or intruders ot bad intent, an il o y i n g especially to the prowlers, that is. Very often the dogs arc being loyal to their owners in guardine. their homes and perhaps small chil dren within the home. Some times dogs will even bark from pure neglect if they have any spirit left to bark. Miss Margaret Osenbrugge P.O. Box 1381 Medford. A Tribute I To the Editor: There would I be something amiss if in some ! small way further tribute was J not paid to the Rev. D. D. ; Randall, retired Sunday school missionary whose death oc- curred last week, j Tile formal statement of the obituary notice said he had j established 80 Sundav schools, How could the casual reader possibly know of literally a lifetime of devotion and pray er to God given by this man on behalf of some of those j associated with the early Sun i day schools of 35 years ago? j Most of those Sunday schools I have long since been absorbed by community churches. Long ago with tears in his ' eyes this man of God said he had "broken through to the , other side" in prayer for one I who did not believe. About a ear ago he held a funeral service for one who had serv ed in a little Sunday school of the 20s. Mr. Randall was I retired, but he said he was present in the passing of this person when he said Jesus eame to claim one of his own. Through years of illness of that one, this minister paid OREGON Major Powers Reassessing Positions; No New Drastic Action Indicated Soon By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As the first dramatic impact of the U.S. challenge to Nikita Khrushchev recedes, the pros pect increases that all sides now will spend consid erable time re assessing their positions. That would seem to mean that no new drastic action can be Kewiom expected i m -mediately. The United States won one round in a continuing power struggle when it forced removal of Soviet missiles from their Cuban bases. Its failure since then to push overly hard for the on-site inspection first demanded by President Kennedy and its reluctance to claim any great victory would seem to demon strate a desire now not to push the Soviet premier too far. Soviet First Deputy Pre- frequent visits to offer prayer and encouragement. Many were the long night drives he made to hold eve ning services in the little coun try schoolhouscs, where some times only a half dozen or so would be gathered. In the 1930s his sunrise Easter serv ices at McKoe Park and later at the Grange hall were an annual event. The service and breakfast following brought a large attendance. Mrs. Randall often accompanied him, and their singing of gospel songs is long remembered. Carroll Powell told of his death in a Sunday morning broadcast. He said he was vis iting with him as he sat in his chair when the call came to this man, and that Mr. Powell knew the presence of God in the room then. Is each one of us prepared to meet God whenever the time might be? Salvation is for all, but it must be accepted, as Mr. Randall taught from Scrip ture. (Name on File) Jacksonville, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about dia-monds-this thought being sug gested by the sale in New York the other day of a fabu lous jewel known as the Idol's Eye. The dispatches describe it as "egg-sizc"-lhe kind of egg not being stated. If a hum ming bird's egg was meant, it wouldn't be such a much If the ccmparisin was with an ostrich egg, it would be fraud ulent. Thci-3 is nj such dia mond. rpilE Cullman, the largest di - amond ever discovered, weighed 3.108 carats, or about 1 13 pounds. It was found in 1905 in the Premier mine in South Africa. It was purchas ed by the Transvaal govern ment and was presented to King Edward VII. the last of England's magnificent mon archs and next to the last of tlie long line of Edwards. (Ed ward VIII abdicated the throne "for the woman I love" -Wallace Warfield Simpson.) The Cullinan diamond was too big to be either perfect or practical. So Amsterdam jew elers cut it into nine large stones and 98 smaller ones. The largest of these is the big gest cut diamond in the world. 1JUT let's get back to the Idol's Eye, which was sold at auction in New York for the rather tidy sum of $375. 000. It was purchased by a Chicago jeweler, who prompt ly strung it on a necklace and gave it to his wife. Newspa pers carried a wire photo of her. and she was obviously flabbergasted. As well she might be. Gifts like that don't come along ev ery day. Especially to what aristocratic Europeans down through the centuries have called "commoners" -meaning people without titles or blue blood. Jewels of that magni tude have historically been re served for royalty. rpiIAT brings us to some- thing else. The reference books don't mention the Idol's Eye among the famous diamonds of the world. HIS point, we will have ! to i do some guessing. The Orloff diamond is one of tlie inagnificent gems of history. It was bought back in the 1700 s by Trince Orloff. a Russian nobleman, for 90.000 British pounds (about 5437. 000 at the then rate of ex- change of the British pound) i and hv him was given to the Russian Empress Catherine II. Where did he get if It is there that tlie IdTs mier Anastas Mikoyan's long stay in Cuba suggested that the Soviet Union also was re assessing its position there, perhaps beyond the single question of the removal of 'offensive" weapons. Stubborn Cuban resistance to playing a completely sub servient role to Moscow pro vides surface evidence that the Cubans also are reassess ing their role, or at least at- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. US" OR "THEM" At the recent annual con vention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in St. Louis. 1 two highly- A placed police officials n n a a J II... a g i c c u uiai i-1 1 ' there appears A to be less re 1 spect for po- ulc anu mute h o s tility to wardthem Harris than at a n y time in history." This was the view put forth by James J. Rowley, chief of the U. S. Secret Service, and George G. McClennan, deputy commis sioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Police of ficials, they told the conven tion, are facing a "discernible resistance" to authority and to restrictions of any kind. It seems to me that the chief reason for this hostility is the tremendous population pres sures tha't have been building up throughout the world, and especially in our corner of it. Today it is estimated that more than 65 per cent of the American population lives in a metropolitan com plex, which is steadily growing more dense. It was not long ago that more than half of all Americans lived in rural or semi-rural com munities. A rural commu nity is a personal one; a metropolitan area is an "anonymous" one. The police in an urban area represent a "faceless" authority: they are not per sons, they are uniforms, badges, nightsticks and guns. They are often a part of the poiitical machinery; they "belong" to the ward committeeman, or at least are identified with some power group in the com munity. Except in rare instances of corruption, the police man in small towns and rural areas is part of Us. not of Them. He is not viewed as a punitive figure, but as a peace-preserving one. He knows individuals, and is known as an individual; indeed, he depends upon their good will and respect for his continuation in au thority. The decreased respect for police in modern times is only partly due to the greater venality of the police force or the greater contempt for law on the part of the public; overshadowing both these causes is the loss of communi cation between the uniform and the citizen. The police in large cities are not felt to represent the public: their main duty is seen as making arrests, securing convictions, and acting in the interests of the dominant power group, whatever it may be in a given community. Of course, we need higher standards of character and in telligence for police appli cants: of course, we need high er wages and improved work ing conditions: but none of these will help much unless and until the policeman re gains his face and becomes more than a number. Eye comes in. Tlie huge Or loff diamond (weight 195 car ats) was stolen by a French soldier from the EYE OF AN IDOL in a Brahmin temple. A ship's captain stole it from the soldier and sold it to Prince Orloff. Empress Catherine II. to whom it was given by Or loff, placed it among the Rus sian crown jewels. I IOW did it get into the New York auction room, where it was bought by the Chicago jeweler? As to that, we'll have to do some more guessing. When the Bolsheviks liquidat ed the Russian Empire, they presumably liquidated the Russian crown jewels, includ ing the Orloff diamond which was siolcn from the eye of the Brahmin idol. Assuming, because of the name Idol s Eye. that this dia mond is the Orloff diamond, the pop-eyed lady had reason to be a little pop-eyed when the picture was taken. A lot of history is clustered around the big diamond in her new necklace. tempting to improve their bargaining position. The fact that Red China has summoned her Eastern am bassadors home for consulta tion indicates that stock also is being taking in Peking. The recall orders went out before the Cuban crisis but not before new evidence of the widening rift between Moscow and Pe king. Gen. Lucius Clay, hero of the Berlin blockade and more recently Kennedy's personal representative there, may have given voice to U.S. ad ministration thinking when he told a New York audience: "History has demonstrated that it is seldom wise to back a great power into a corner with no line of retreat." Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald 'BETRAYAL, HOAX, SURRENDER' Washington-In an extraor dinary measure, the Cuban affair has sharpened the un ending c o n flict between the Soviet leaders and their Chinese Commu n i s t "brothers." To be sure, the conflict had reached a n extremely ug ly stage be Alsnp fore the Cuban crisis boiled up. There was, for instance, the violent editorial of Oct. 13 in Zeri I Populit, the Al banian official paper in which the Chinese often make state ments they do not wish to publish over their own signa tures. This effusion was headed "A Great Betrayal of Marx-ism-Leninism"; and it left no doubt that the betrayer was nobody else but Nikita S. Khrushchev. Since the Cuban crisis, however, the language the Chinese formerly put into the mouths of the Albanians has been openly used by the highest personages in Peking. rFHE major attacks began with a leading article in the official Peking People's Daily, pointedly and unkindly quoting "imperialists" who had claimed a "major tri umph" for President Kennedy in Cuba. The same article in directly but sharply charac terized I h e Kennedy-Khru-shchev agreements as a "hoax." Since then, the Chinese ideological barrage has been almost continuous. "Modern revisionists" (meaning Khru shchev and his supporters) have been repeatedly accused of "betraying" the Commu nist cause. The 40th anniver sary of the October Revolu tion in Russia has been oddly celebrated in China by roars of praise for Fidel Castro, by loud warnings against "sur render" to the "imperialists," and by the conspicuous omis sion of a single complimen tary word for Khrushchev. Most recently, the official theoretical journal of the Chi nese Communist party has suggested that the wicked re visionists (always meaning Khrushchev) were "scared stiff" of the "U. S. policy of strength." And these vicious attacks have been coupled with rather open invitations to Castro, to cast off his So viet alliance and line up with the Chinese in the split among Communist parties. CUCH outbursts go far bc- yond any of the fraternal plain-speaking in the first two rounds of the Sino-Sovict row. They betoken the opening of a great gulf between Moscow and Peking, far different from the cracks that were plastered over in the past. How, then, will Khrushchev reply? Among the professional stu dents of Soviet and Chinese "Should we invade Cuba? Ihey have enough troubles already . . . .?" j wife Other indications s u g gest that the Cuban quarantine, al ready estimated to have cost the United States some $100 million, will be around for a long time to come. Despite apparent quick re. moval of the Soviet missiles, Khrushchev has not lived up entirely to his promises or to the conditions set by President Kennedy. To push Khrushchev Into a position of no-retreat clearly was inadvisable. To encourage his downfall seemed equally inadvis able since it almost certainly would be a victory for Soviet and Red China hard - liners opposed to co-existence, and thus increase the dangers of a general war. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate demonology, the suspicion is rising that the Bulgarian Par ty Congress was the first in stallment of Khrushchev's re ply to the Chinese. At Sofia, the Chinese delegate, Wu Hsiu-chuan, made one of the most vicious anti-Khrushchev speeches heard to date from any Chinese. But Wu Hsiu-chuan could not prevent the Khrushchev ite, Zhivkov, from taking com plete control of the Bulgarian party, after ruthlessly purg ing the "Stalinist," Yugov, and all other potential sym pathizers. The ejection of all possible friends of the Chi' nese is the point to note. qiHERE are some hints that a similar purge of the Czech oslovak Communist party will take place at the Czech Party Congress at the beginning of next month. The durable neo Stalinist first secretary, An tonin Novotny, may even bo in some danger. The other eastern European satellites-except for the odi ous Walther Ulbricht's East Germany-are already firmly in the hands of Khrushchev's supporters; and East Germany can be dismissed as under ef fective Russian military occu pation. If the Czech purge oc curs on schedule, in sum, Khrushchev's European rear will be fully secured. He csin then turn his full wrath against the Chinese without fear of having to fight his in-tra-party war on two fronts. How Khrushchev will vent his wrath is anyone's guess. For the first time, the clear possibility of an open, total Chinese-Soviet break, on the pattern of the break between Stalin and Tito, is admitted by the great majority of dem onologists. A few think a clean break is downright probable. THRUSHCHEV has other things he can do to the Chinese if he does not want to go so far as an open break. At least 35 per , cent of all pe troleum products consumed in China still come from Russia, for instance. Thus, if petrole um deliveries arc withheld, the Chinese Communist army will either be dangerously im mobilized at home or crippled in its Tibetan-Indian opera tional sphere. What is plain, in any case, is that Khrushchev can hardly avoid making some sort of riposte to the gross provoca tions he has received from Peking. Beyond much doubt, the right kind of riposte will be the topic of excited debate) at the crucial meeting of the Central Committee of the So viet Communist party, which is now opening in Moscow. The Chinese obviously hope that Khrushchev will run into very bad trouble inside the Soviet party, cither at this Central Committee meeting or later on. That can never ba absolutely ruled out. But if Khrushchev himself docs not run into trouble, worse trou ble between Russia and China may now be expected. . . . Good heavens, don t with the Russians there