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Jin. IS, 1953 (Tuesday)
A dinner and meeting to re
view progress toward the
erection of a Jackson county
auditorium will be held next
week, according to Fred Rob
inson, president of the Jack
son County Memorial assocla-
ti0Keys to the big new gro
cery warehouse constructed
north of Medford last year by
the Mason Ehrman company
were turned over to company
officials at ceremonies here
over the week end.
20 YEAR8 AGO
Jan. IS, 1943 (Sunday)
Robert Duff, Medford city
water superintendent, warns
local residents to take Immed
iate steps to prevent water
from freezing in their pipes
during "bitter cold" weather.
A-.U.... TJorrv'e "Ye
rrom mtum
Smudge Pot" column: "The
prediction mere wuuiu u -short
session of the legislature
cheered the people almost as
much as if there had been a
prediction there would be
none at all."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1933 (Tuesday)
Heaviest snowfall In four
years blankets Rogue valley;
total of 4Vi inches reported
on ground.
Jackson county court re
quests a new survey for the
projected rerouting 01 uie r
cific highway between Talent
and Ashland.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1923 (Wednesday)
American Light Opera com-
pany, with Ed Andrews, Med-
ford, playing lead part, gives
performance in Page theater
: hero.
'I Annual financial report of
city of Medford shows some
' $117,577 balance In city
treasury.
You Can Have It
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. IS. 1913 (Friday)
Oliia Stccb, "the world's
greatest woman pianist,"
s c h e dulcs performance in
Medford.
Editorial In the Mail Trib
une points out need for pass
able road between East Main
st. and the new Sacred Heart
hospital,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight Is eacellent; five or
1. Arc horses Classed as bo-
vines, ovlncs, or equities?
2. When Christ sent his
Apostles to preach, did he be
stow on them the power of
doing miracles?
3. Was President William
McKinley born In New York
Pennsylvania or Ohio?
4. Name t h c pioneer in
women's suffrage and advo
cate of world peace.
S. With what Congo prov
ince do you associate the name
Molsc Tshombe?
6. How many inches In a
meter?
7. Correct the sentence, "He
played a few bars of the peace
on the organ.
6. Bermuda is a crown col'
ony ot which foreign govern-ment?
9. Did Henry of Navarre
rule France before or after
the French Revolution?
10. Hollywood, Calif., is
part of which large city?
Answers! , Equines. 2. Yes,
3. Ohio. 4, Carrie Chapman
Call. S. Katanga. (. 39.37. 7.
". . . of the niece . . ." I. Great
Britain. 9. Before. 10. Los I
Angeles.
Put yourself in this position: ,
You are one of 90 persons responsible for
shaping the laws which will reach into the lives
of 1.8 million persons over the next two years
and thereafter, including matters of ;life and
death. Your decisions will influence the quality
of education for over 600,000 children, the scale
of living for people so poor that they cannot sur
vive without help, the length of time that mental
patients must wait for recovery or whether they
will ever recover, the amount of wealth which
each Oregonian must part with for the good of
the commonwealth, and myriad other aspects of
the daily lives of all the people in the state.
You believe that state government should do
for the people only that which they cannot do for
themselves either as individuals or through small
er political subdivisions such as school districts,
counties, cities, or special districts. Yet you know
there are many things, and there are getting to
be more things all the time, which people can
not do for themselves in this way; and you know
that even the state cannot do some of these things
and that they must be done through nationwide
programs.
VOU must decide which programs the state
absolutely must undertake to do, and just how
it must do them. Yet you will be assailed by your
own doubts, by groups and individuals with spe
cial interests and weapons of persuasion and force
to achieve them, by conflicting opinions among
the electorate which sent you to Salem to repre
sent its best interest, by conflicts between what is
best for all the people of the state and what i3
best for your constituents, and by differing opin
ions among your fellow legislators and among
the other branches of government with power to
frustrate your goals.
You have reasonable intelligence, enough ex
perience in some areas to have first-hand knowl
edge of value to you, and confidence enough in
some persons to be able to depend upon their
recommendations in some areas you're not knowl
edgeable in. But you don't have enough time to
apply your intelligence and experience to all mat
ters, and there are many areas in which neither
you nor people you trust have clear-cut answers.
On these, you have to vote and hope you re doing
the right thing.
You are an Oregon state legislator, and you
are not to be envied for the decisions you must
make many of them based upon snap judgments
during the upcoming session. Good luck.
Capital rress, balem.
The Rise of Secularism
Historically, the United States has been a
Protestant nation. Now it has entered a "plura
listic" religious phase, according to theologians
of Stanford University. In this new era, the pop
ulation is divided among the three traditional
faiths Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and
Judaism with a fourth which is growing faster
than any of the other three : Secularism.
The rapid growth of secularism may explain
the other new fact of religious life in this coun
try, the fact that church attendance is leveling
off at the same time that church membership is
falling behind population growth for the first
lime in nearly a nunaiea years.
Four surveys taken at intervals last year re
vealed that church attendance on a given Sunday
was 49.5 million, one million below the peak of
50.5 million shown in 1958. That is to say that
about 4 in 10 of those who are enrolled in any
church attend church regularly. It also compares
with a population growth of a million a year
among adults, who are the churchgoers of the
Protestant and Jewish laiths.
i .
THE 1963 Yearbook of American Churches
1 shows a total membership of 116,109,929, an
increase of 1,660,712, or 1.4 per cent, against a
population rise of 1.6 per cent. Protestants num
ber 64,434,966, a gain of 766,131, or 1.2 per cent
and Catholics 42,876,665, a gain of 771,765, or
1.9 per cent.
That left 70 million, more than any one faith,
unaffiliated, from whom the new secularism
draws its adherents.
The rise in secularism may be just another
way of expressing dissatisfaction with the estab
lished churches. This is not to be confused with
dissatifaction with the established religions.
IT MIGHT be caused by the way religion is
presented in many of our churches; maybe
unhappiness with the extra-curricular activities
which make up church life in some groups; many
people may resent the forced beliefs demanded in
some churches.
Mavbe it is none of these things. Maybe there
really isn't a rise in secularism but only apathy.
Or perhaps millions of modern Americans,
with their new found wealth and desire for action,
arc taking the only free day many of them have
to participate in the recreational activities which
are now available and made more accesible by
the automobile. Corvallis Gazette-Times,
"It's Not the Enigmatic Smile
It', the Shifty Eye!"
j
Communications
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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 for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
Which Type?
To the Editor: In regard to
the letter of Mr. Dyke's of
Jan. 9: Since "The Daughters
of Men" are such a flop it is
sad to think that God bothered
to give us a soul! Mr. Dykes
is so efficient at the types of
women, I wonder if he'd tell
us the different types of men?
Would be very interesting if
he would do so and also into
what type he falls.
(Name on file)
Butte Falls, Ore.
Nasty Things
To the Editor: I read with
sickening disgust the plea for
saving the life of that nasty
thing that's supposed to die
for throwing those children
over the canyon wall. There's
nothing, Mister, nothing that
should save that thing's life,
and their mother (and I use
that word lightly) should be
right with that creepy thing.
Can you imagine trying to
reform varmints like those
two? Turning them out after
a year or two to start on
other paths as repulsive, or
taxing us for their care for
the rest of the years they will
live.
There's no reason to look
back on a childhood trail and
try to blame the way "I was
abused and bruised" for kill
ing and torturing. If we are
humans we will use it to help
all children and grownups to
make life what God intended
it to be, just wonderful.
Oh! for the governor's pow
er to wipe those nasty things
out of llie world. It will make
all people know that children
are individuals who need
firm, . loving guidance, and
above all the knowledge of
security and safety to grow
up normally, if we don't let
nasty people "get by" with
any cruelty. There are mil
lions of words to use to plead
for better protection for chil
dren but "prevention," either
through fear or a higher prin
ciple of living, answers all
questions.
Thank you If you print
this.
1375 South Columbus avc.
Harriette Gibbs
Medford.
Press service report from Oxford says that
more than 400 students staged a rowdy demon
stration against student James Meredith, some
screaming "Go home, you nigger." One can have
real sympathy for Meredith suffering such abuse ;
but one has mostly pity for the students who show
such poor breeding. We doubt not they are the
children of the elite of Mississippi, and are mere
ly venting the prejudice they inherited and grew
up with. Oregon Statesman, Salem.
More on "Aginners"
To the Editor: I Just finish
ed reading Arnold Eugene
Jcnney's letter in M-T 1-13
from which I quote, "My
original proposition was that,
'many habitual "aginners" re
flect the same spectrum of
phobias' (nudism, chlo ring
1 1 o n, fluoridation, smoking,
integration. Catholics, t h e
UN, UN1CEF and UNESCO),
and I wondered (in print) if
some psychologist or social
scientist perhaps could ex
plain this phenomenon."
I suggest that A.E.J, consult
a psychologist. I think a com
petent one could help him
relieve his mind from won
dering and worrying about
those 'aginners' who do not
go along him and his ideas.
There always have been,
there are now, and there al
ways will be people on this
earth who will stand for truth
and righteousness, fight for it
and die for it, because they
love the Author of truth and
righteousness who Is Jehovah
God, and calling them agin
ners, rightists, mental cases.
Bible thumpers, etc.. Is not
going lo stop them. They
know about that Indi
vidual who lived upon this
earth 1962 years ago who also
stood for truth and righteous
ness, fought for It and died
for it and they know the
names which the emissaries of
Satan heaped upon Him
which in today's parlance
would be liar, drunkard,
blasphemer and even Beclie
bub (Satan). Today, as of then,
darkness hales the light and
when and whore light (truth)
appears, darkness disappears
and the emissaries of darkness
resort to name calling.
Regarding the scripture
references in A.E.J.'s letter -love
for others including our
enemies does not mean that
we should love or encourage
their wickedness. I Tim. 5:20
says that we should rebuke
them that sin, and Eph. 5:11
says that we should have no
fellowship with the unfruit
ful works of darkness but
rather reprove them.
Jesus, during His 3'4 years
of ministry upon this earth,
continually rebuked the
scribes and Pharisees. In Jno.
8:44 He told them, ye are of
your father the devil and the
lusts of your father ye will
do. Five days before He was
crucified He made a scourge
of small cords and drove the
money changers out of the
temple because they had
made God's house a house of
merchandise.
Mrs. Alice I. Black
812 Newtown st.
Medford.
Hardly Started
To the Editor: The morning
news: "India's dilemma in ap
peasement proves failure."
Now that am t nuttin , we
are 19 failures ahead of them
Indians and we ain't even got
started yet.
; Everett Acklin , '
Ashland, Ore.
Visitation
To the Editor: Not long ago
on one fine sun -shiny day
(typical Medford weather) a
space craft landed in my back
yard, from which a door open
ed and a red plushy carpet,
which must have been Jet
propelled, rolled up to my
back door. Next came a tall
and handsome young man
dressed in flowing black vel
vet robes. He twisted up the
carpet to a Mars'y beat and
knocked on my door. He in
troduced himself as Al-lan
and asked what my name was.
I told him and asked him
what his business was. He
said he was looking for a new
formula for glass for his
Royal families' dinners, as the
glass in Mars was so ter
rible, terrible tasteless. He
had tasted some of Earth's in
different ones' homes and
found the flavor sublime. He
asked if I had any old gob
lets or dishes he could sam
ple. I saw him eyeing my col
lection of bottles and decided
my friend best be on his way.
I told him I was sorry I had
no old rare bits of glass and
I was also fresh out of edible
dishes, since he preferred
glass to plastic. With that he
made his way back into his
craft with the gait of the
funeral march.
The red carpet rolled back,
(he door closed and with a
thump and a blow, our
strange guest and plane dis
appeared Into the heavens.
Mrs. Otto Wirlh,
893 Shafcr Lane,
Medford.
Russian, Red China Quarrel May Be
More Than Ideology, Newsom Writes
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The growing dispute be
tween Moscow and Peking
gives rise to another line of
s p e c u lation
perhaps not
as wild as it
might appear.
A couple of
years ago
when the
i : i
LV quarter 1 1 1 a i
Lj'l I was coming
XalLJ into the open,
warnings
were sounded
that this might not be a quar
rel at all, but rather an elab
orately contrived Communist
trap designed to lull the West
ern World in preparation for
another major move by world
Communism.
That theory now generally
has been dropped and the dis
p u t e accepted as a major
struggle for leadership be
tween Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev and Red Chinese
leader Mao Tse-tung who have
discovered there can be no
such thing as co-equal dictators.
Now to carry it forward an
other step and to speculate
that the quarrel' is more than
one of ideology and an inter
pretation of Marxism-Lenin-ism.
This one would consider the
possibility that there is in
Moscow a growing suspicion
that their Red Chinese allies
have territorial ambitions ex
tending beyond merely South
east Asia but also against vast
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises, Inc.
Mexico Bus Trip to
Begin in Portland
The Western Greyhound
Lines has announced an
cortcd lour to Old Mexico lo
originate In Portland on Fe'-.
20. The four weeks tour will
include sightseeing, shopping
and "exploring.
Company officials noted
that the tour includes extras
which are not usually includ
ed in the weekly tours which
leave from Los Angeles.
The trip will leave from
Portland and continue
through Sacramento, San Joa
quin valley to Phoenix, Ariz.,
El Paso, Tex., and Into Mexi
co. Areas lo be visited in Mex
ico include Mexico City where
the group will remain for five
days, Taxco, Aeipulco, Guada
lajara. Culican and llermosil
lo. prior to returning to Cali
fornia where .ops will be in
Los Angeles. San Francisco,
and Eureka.
Information may be ob
tained from the Greyhound
depot.
AMBIVALENCE
, A friend of mine who did
not succeed in getting a fa
mous actress to attend one of
her soirees
during the
holidays was
vastly disap
pointed. "I
to have my
friends , meet
her while in
tow n," she
said. I mur
mured some
Harris politely - eva
sive regret, but privately I
could sympathize with the
actress. She simply did hot
care to be used - as we ordin
airly and thoughtlessly use
such people - as a trophy or a
door prize to attract party
guests.
Some years ago, when he
was performing in New York,
Sir John Giclgud candidly
told a reporter, "It's alarming,
when you go at this rate, to
be invited out."
Asked why, he explained:
"People want you to scintil
late immediately and put on
another show, when what you
want is them to talk to you.
But they're too shy and you're
afraid of being indiscreet or
too colloquial or in some way
letting down the side."
Marie Tempest once re
marked thai "Actors should
be like dolls; they should
be put in tissue paper and a
cardboard box after a per
formance and not brought
out again until the follow
ing night, just before the
curtain goes up again."
Most performers are dis
appointing to met in per
son - not because they are
dull or stupid, but simply
because people expect so
much of them, and they
over - react, either by be
coming withdrawn and cold
or going to the other ex
treme and behaving in an
exhibitionislic fashion. Few
celebrities of any sort can
maintain a public equili
brium midway between the
chilly and the frantic.
Psychologically, the prob
lem is that the social lion
wants two opposite things
at the same time: he wants
to be recognised and re
spected for his talents, but
he also wants to bt treated
like an ordinary human be
ing and resents it when peo
ple who have not met him
come up with preconceived
notions of what he is "real
ly,, like.
This ambivalence on the
part of the celebrity accounts
I think, for the strained feel
ings at so many gatherings,
when guests have been sum
moned to strike a lion's mane
and examine his claws. And
when the lion is also expect
ed (as so often happens) to
jump through his hoops, then
he is likely to turn and snarl
on his audience.
"I want to be regarded as
a person. Just like anyone
else," says the actress - and
she does, and she doesn't. Un
til performers learn lo recon
cile their contrary desires.
ana until hosts and guests
learn to commingle deference
and casualncss. there will a!
' ways be a sticky time at those
soirees to meet this seasons
I Lady Macbeth.
reaches of Soviet territory as
wen.
These would be territories
once held by the Chinese but
lost over the years beginning
with the Opium War of 1840
when the European powers
began carving up imperial
China.
Such a theory Would place
in a new light the hundreds
of thousands of soldier-farm
ers Red China has been pour
ing into her wild western ter
ritories and Khrushchev's
haste in opening up the So
viet Union's virgin lands in
the East.
It would help explain Chi
nese determination to retain
its hold on Ladakh against
Indian claims and it would
mark as strictly temporary
Chinese border agreements
with Burma, Nepal, Pakistan
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather note as this is
written:
Every state in the entire
western half of the country
reported below zero temper
atures last night except Cali
fornia - and it was by no
means balmy there. It was 58
below at West Yellowstone,
Montana. Most of Western Eu
rope shivered this morning in
the grip of an arctic cold wave
that sent temperatures plung
ing to zero and beyond.
N THESE days the papers
-not to mention the ra
dios and the TV's - are full
of Mona Lisa. Wherever you
look (or wherever you listen)
it's Mona Lisa this and Mona
Lisa that.
So-
You may ask- '
Who was this Mona Lisa?
MfELL, historically she was
". the THIRD wife of a
Florentine nabob named Zan-
obl del Giocondo. One pre
sumes that Mona Lisa was her
maiden name, although the
books are not very communi
cative on that subject. Any
way, Leonardo da Vinci, per
haps the most fabulous char
acter of medieval times, paint
ed her portrait somewhere
along in the early 1500's. He
worked on it intermittently
for nearly four years - using
all the technical skill he pos
sessed to make it a master
piece. The Mona Lisa hangs nor
mally in the Louvre in Paris,
where at any hour of the day
or night when the Louvre is
open to the public you have
to push your way through a
crowd to get a look at it.
It is now on loan from the
French government to the
government of the United
States, and presumably hangs
in tne National Art Gallery in
Washington - where the
crowds are flocking in to get
a look at what is undoubted
ly the most famous painting
in the world.
IT IS known generally as the
Mnna T.icn ft ie Irnturn al.
among the French as La Belle
Joconde. Jaconde is a French
word meaning merry, gay,
cheerful, genial, SPORTIVE.
The lady seems to have all
these qualities - including the
last one. It is also called La
Gionconda, which is a femin
ine form of her Italian hus
band's last name.
The painting owes its great
fame, probably, to the lady's
unusual smile - about which
volumes have been written.
More or less everybody in the
world who uses a pen or a
pencil or a typewriter takes
a crack at Mrs. Giacondo's
smile - which has been called
mysterious, mocking, ques
tioning, ironical - and a great
many other things.
Cynics have been known to
remark that Da Vinci may
have caught her expression at
a moment when she was look
ing at her husband and say
ing to herself: "You don't
know as much about me as
you think you do." You have
to admit it could express that
secret thought.
A CCORD1NG to one school,
i the smile is a forced one,
concealing some terrible tor
ment. That interpretation is
a little hard to take. The lady
really looks anything but tor
mented. Her smile Is closer to
smugness than torment. She
seems quite pleased with her
self. There's no denying the fact,
however, that her smile has a
strangely fascinating quality.
It seems to follow you all over
the crowded room of the Lou
vre in which It normally
hangs.
It certainly isn't just a cas
ual smile expressing kindness
and good nature. Looking at
it, it is hard to escape the
feeling that the lady is sizing
you up - and that her size-up
isn't one that you would be
eager for everybody to know
about.
and Outer Mongolia.
These thoughts come into
being as result of perusing a
map published by the India
News, an organ of the Indian
government information services.
The map Is said to have
been published in a Chinese
textbook in 1954 at about
the same time that Indian
Premier Nehru was signing
with Red China his five prin
ciples of co-existence. It pre
sumably is one of the maps
which first aroused Indian sus
picion of Chinese designs
against their own borders.
Included in the areas claim
ed by Chiiia were huge seg
ments of the present-day So
viet republics of Kazakhastan,
Kirghizia and Tajikistan in
the West and in the East,
Vladivostok, Sakhalin Island
and all of Northern Siberia.
Also included were Outer
Mongolia, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhu
tan, the whole of Burma, the
whole of Malaya and Singa
pore, Thailand, North and
South Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia, Formosa and North
and South Korea.
Altogether the millions of
square miles encompassed
make paltry the thousands
thus far seized from India.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
HI-"- -"3"
St
Alsnp
THE VAST NEW FACTOR
Washington - "Heavy,
heavy, what hangs over?"
was the beginning of an old
children's game like Twenty
Questions. "Communist Chi
na" would be
the winning
answer, in the
case of the
new round of
Soviet - Amer
ican talks
about a nu
clear test ban,
which will
soon begin in
New York.
The thought of Communist
China naturally haunts the
Soviets. The flat Chinese re
fusal to abide by a test ban
was one of the two main fac
tors the other being So
viet military pressure to re
sume testing which caused
Khrushchev to torpedo the
Geneva negotiations in 1961,
when President Kennedy
went so far to secure an
agreement.
Today, the simmering dis
cords of 1961 have boiled up
to the point where an open,
avowed, and final rupture be
tween Khrushchev and Mao
Tse-tung appears to be al
most unavoidable. And the
seemingly inevitable break
between Moscow and Peking
is in itself, a vast new factor
in the Soviet-American nego
tiations. This is true because of the
effect of a Sino-Soviet break
on the problem of cheating.
In 19G1, it was out of t h e
question for the U.S. to ac
cept a test ban without some
provision for inspecting in
side China, since the Chi
nese would then have aided
the Soviets to cheat despite
their many disagreements.
TF THERE is a final Sino-
Soviet break, however, a
test ban may seem a reason
able calculated risk despite
its rejection by China; since
the main danger of China
sheltered Soviet cheating will
then have disappeared. In
fact, China-sheltered Soviet
cheating is already almost
unimaginable, in the present
embittered slate of Sino-Soviet
relations, even though
the rupture is not formal and
avowed.
This very great change in
the contours of the test ban
problem has of course been
even more carefully weighed
by the American policymak
ers than by the Soviet policy
makers. The U.S., after all,
is the party to the bargain
that will have to accept the
calculated risk, if and when
a test ban agreement is
reached which is still high
ly doubtful.
But there is another, per
haps even more important
reason why the thought of
Communist China haunts the
American policy-makers quite
as powerfully as it haunts the
Soviets. The President and
those around him have alte
ly been hard at work cal
culating the future effect on
the general world balance of
power of a Communist China
divorced from Russia, on Its
feet again, and possessing
atomic weapons.
fPHERE are two reasons why
these fairly grircsoine cal
culations are now being mado
at the White House. On the
one hand, the time is at hand
which was long ago named
by the American forecasters
as the first moment when
Chinese Communists might
test their own atomic bomb.
After that lower limit has
been passed, there will be no
telling when the first Chi
nese test may occur.
To be sure, the immediate
effect of a Chinese test will
be purely psychological.
More time will be needed.
after a test, before the Chi
nese can be said to have an
atomic arsenal. But the Chi
nese problem, curiously
enough is rather simpler than
the trench problem.
The French nuclear pro
gram will only succeed il
France creates an effective
nuclear deterren vis-a-vis the
Soviets. The Chinese program
will be successful, at least
in part, if China merely has
enough atomic weapons to
overawe Southeast Asia. Few
er weapons!, and much less
sophisticated weapons, will
do for this purpose.
HPHIS is a real danger, if
you accept as valid th
other reason for the White
House calculations about Chi
na. In brief, the President and
a good many of those around
him incline to take quite lit
erally all that the Chinese
have said, in their war of
words with Moscow, about
the U.S. being a "paper ti
ger," about the Communist
duty to use military power
to bring about the Commu
nist millenium, and so nn
and on. i
If the Chinese really mean
all that they have said on
these topics, then the final
sino-Soviet rupture, if and
when it comes, will mean
that an aggressive China has
cast off the last shred of mod
erating influence. The possi
bility that a Sino-Soviet rup
ture will produce this kind
of after effect certainly needs
to be weighed. ,
1)UT there are other poinls
" to weigh as well. In the
first place, the Chinese have
been sounding very warlike,
but the only co.ntry they
have attacked is India, a self
announced paper tiger, and
they have left even Chiang
Kaishek's offshore island se
verely alone.
In the second place, the
picture of Communist China
on its feet again and armed
with atomic weapons is some
thing of a scarecrow if Com
munist China has little chance
of getting on its feet again.
The moderate improvement
in this year's harvest docs
not mean that Communist
China is again a healthy coun
try. The problem needs much
more careful investigation.
Yet this new White House
preoccupation, even if not en
tirely justified, is another
proof that the Sino-Soviet' row
is changing everything. .
(c) 1963 New Y rk
Herald Tribune Inc.
ANYWAY. If you're in Wash
" inglon while La Belle Ja
conda is there, you'd better
go around to the National Art
Gallery and give it a look.
"Cuba shewed nuclear war Is net unthinkable. At least
it's nice to know world leaders art not guilty of dog
matic thinking!"
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