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4 A WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1963 '. "Everyone in Southern Oracoa" Reads Ttla Mall Tribune" Publlsh-id Dally except Saturday by HKDFURD HBIWTIHU Ul ' 23 Nurtn fir St, Ph. ITa-aiel ROBERT W RTlHL. Editor HERB CltEV Advertliln Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mir ERIC AIXEN JR, Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor unnni v. m .,...,, - - - RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE OTAR1.HEH WOmens fcaiun DALE ER1CK8QN. Circulation Mar An tndeoandant Newspapei Entered at aecond elaia matter M Medford. Oregon under Act of March J, 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (tv MbII In Advanea Dally and Sunday 1 year 1 00 ' Daily and Sunday mot 10 00 Dalit and Sunday 3 moa 5 00 Sunday Only One year S 00 Simla Copy (Mailed) aoe Sto rut-nat And Motor Route, Daily and Sunday 1 year Ml 00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.78 Sunday Only I mo. soo Carrier and Vendor! Copy loo Official Paper of City of Medford Official raper oi jacaiun United Press International Jull Leaaed Wire 0. 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From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The belliserent attempt to an an cient motor vehicle to lick its weight in locomotives at a crossing was thwarted by Providence yesterday. 30 YEARS AGO August 21. 1933 (Monday) v aiiey uhiimiv hmh wow mated at 3,000 to 4,000 tons. ' Bartlett picking and pack ing put 1,800 on payrolls. 40 YEARS AGO August 21. 1923 (Tuesday) Eks club eats salmon caught and prepared by P. C. Bigham. Ashland to give financial aid to Trigonia oil well. SO YEARS AGO August 21, 1913 (Thursday) Adolph Miller, assistant secretary of the interior, and wife visit Crater lake, accom paniel by County Judge F. L. TouVelle, Park Superintend ent Steele, George Putnam and R. J. Brevard. Matches in a suit being cleaned cause $900 fire at Panatorium Dye Works. What's Your I.Q.? Nine r correct is superior; men er aiaM h excellent: tlve er six is 1. Did Christopher Colum hii ever set foot on the main. land of the continent of North or South America? 2. Would you properly ad dress a Warrant Officer in the Army as "Officer" "Mis ter", or "Lieutenant"? ; a What is the Roman Nu meral for SOOT ' 4. Th record book kept at police stations is known as what? ; S. In shingling a root, should one start putting on the shingles from the ridge, pole or the eaves? 6. Air in sunlight is of a higher temperature than air in the shaae; true or raise? 1 U7 n C.nnf eta A ft i n ' actor, anthropologist, or aviator? ' 8. George Washington, did, i or did not, have a middle j. name? 9. The famous paintings on ; the ceiling of the Sistine Cha ' pel in the Vatican were exe- cuted by whom? 10. Correct the followine: ' By the time I leave he will call me. Answarst 1. No. 2. Miliar. 1. D. 4. Blotter. S. From the up. . Fall. 7. Actor, t. Did not. I. Mlchilangelo. .10. "... ha will ha called The Mess In Viet Nam The hours of frustration Henry Cabot Lodge has known on the political hustings and in the chambers and corridors of the United Nations will serve him well as Washington's Ambassador to South Viet Nam. It is not enough that has lost 25 men in combat in Viet Nam since the first of this year, nor that the United States is pourinc more than $1 million a day into a war with the Communist Viet Cong and committing 12,000 troops to training ments. On top of this footless, slogging task, U.S. personnel had appeared just about successful in their efforts to make the Viet Namese soldiers want to fight when the almost literally, setting IT STARTED May 8, when, Buddhists and other eye witnesses charge, government troops fired on a crowd in the central demonstrating on a ban Buddhist religious flag. Nine demonstrators Then on June 11 came the death by fire the Buddhists do not sanction the word suicide of the aged monk, Thich Quang Due, at a main intersection in Saigon. Three other monks, or bonzes, have taken the DUDDHISTS account for 70 per cent of the population. Their charges of religious dis crimination are denied by the- Diem government, and there is considerable reason to believe that the allegations are at least exaggerated. Catholic Diem has a a third are his co-religionists. "Time" magazine eports that the heavy in the civil service and the 123-seat National As sembly is largely the result of a superior and far reaching Catholic school system." Three Catholic priests have been jailed or forced to leave the country for criticizing the government. Two Catholics involved in a 1960 rebellion were, sen tenced to long jail terms. HTHE retiring U.S. Ambassador, Frederick E. Nolting, Jr., said in July that in more than two years in Viet Nam he had never seen evidence of religious persecution. Marguerite Higgins of the N.Y. Herald Tribune on August 14 reported: "Nowhere in the countryside, which is con stantly being circled by State Department re porters ... is there religious persecution." Miss Higgins quoted a Buddhist as saying his leaders were keeping trouble alive "so that Amer ican opinion will stay there is much evidence as much political as religious, aimed surely at toppling the unpopular FVEM is not being helped, at least in Western eyes, by the fiery, savage witticisms of his sister-in-Jaw, Mme. Ngo said that the Buddhists own monks, whom they intoxicated" using "im ported gasoline." In a letter to the N.Y. Times, Mme. Nhu cheerfully accepted authorship of such senti ments as, "I would beat such provocateurs ten times more if they wore monks' robes," and "I would clap hands at seeing another monk barbe cue show, for one cannot madness of othei"S." Indeed, it now appears ments to an accommodation between Diem and the Buddhists are the intransigence of the latter and Diem's apparent inability to shut up his sister-in-law. E.R.R. Yugoslavian Yugoslavia's tight-rope act is billed as "posi tive neutralism" but to looked suspiciously like an attraction straight from the Moscow State Circus. This impression is bound to be fortified with Soviet Premier Khrushchev's arrival in Yugoslavia for a "holi day." Moscow and Belgrade acknowledge an "iden tity or proximity of views" on questions of world policy like Berlin, Cuba, the Common Market, test bans, etc. They see eye-to-eye also on the current Russian-Chinese squabble. Khrushchev's visit is seen as a calculated move to demonstrate the Kremlin's contempt for Peking. MEANWHILE, back in the States, the Ken 1T1nedy administration is asking Congress to repeal its vote of last year which cancelled the most-favored-nation treatment of Yugoslavian exports. This was a key point in talks between Tito and Secretary of State Rusk in Belgrade three months ago, with both leadens agreeing the 1962 congressional action would hurt U.S.-Yugo-slavian relations if allowed to stand. In an appar ent effort to demonstrate for Rusk the nation's independent role in world affairs, Tito ordered a huge American flag flown from a pole atop his Federal Executive Council Building. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ten tatively has made the m-f-n repealer a part of the Foreign Aid bill it will report to the Senate. But the real stumbling block is in the House, where the Ways and Means Committee has claimed jurisdiction over that question. Now the idea seems to be to get the repealer through the Senate and then slip it into the final Foreign Aid bill coming out or a House-Senate conference committee. In that event, the House could express its opposition only by sending the final version back to conference. E.R.R. r the United States Army and "advisory assign civilian population began, off human fireworks. city of Hue which was against displaying the were killed. same route. cabinet of 17 : fewer than percentage of Catholics aroused. And indeed, that the disturbances are Diem regime. Dmh Nhu. It is she who "barbecued one of then be responsible for the that the chief impedi Holiday some skeptics it has vim "I boppad him not bacausa he told on of those integra tion Jokes, but because it was a bad Joke it's a mailer of humorl" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name 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 riant to edft 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 tr paper, in fact the contrary it often Tax Program To the Editor: Am I going to support the referendum to repeal the tax program of the 1963 Oregon Legislature? No! I do not believe a majority of the people of the state will support it, in which case we will have put the state to considerable expense for noth ing. If the people do support it our state officials will be compelled to cut all public services to the danger point or the Governor will have to call a special session of the legislature, consisting of the same men, with the same prejudices and differences of opinion, faced with the same necessity to compromise on a tax program which, in all probability, will be no better or worse than the original one. To call this a "patch and scratch" program is a rather transparent attempt to foster the idea that a general sales tax would solve all problems for years ahead. In fact, in the state of Washington where they have a sales tax and no income tax, the tax bill of the average citizen is about 30 per cent higher than in Ore. gon. That our property tax is keeping industry out is belied by Governor Hatfield's state ment, at the Bully creek dam dedication, that the influx of industry into Oregon in 1962 was greater than that of Wash ington, Montana or Idaho. Every session of every state legislature faces two paramount problems. How many services shall we or must we give the people of the state? And how in h 1 are we going to get the money to pay for them? These are prob lems we have always had and will have as long as we have self government. These prob lems are then complicated by the lobbying of big business firms and organizations bent on pushing the greater burden of taxation down on industrial labor and the grass roots farm ers, people who are, by their lack ot finances, unable to have paid lobbyists at the leg islative session. Big business lobbying paid off for Oregon's big timber interests in the 1961 session. While some people shed crocodile tears for big prop erty owners who claim to fear confiscatory taxes, let us not forget that we have many more people whose income af fords only a minimum scale of subsistence now. If these people are compelled to pay a sales tax their living stand ards will be forced below that minimum subsistence level. Which comes first, property rights, or the welfare of peo ple? To promise a reduction of property taxes with a sales tax is pure political ballyhoo. No state with a sales tax has made any appreciable reduc tion in property tax rates, but in every state with a general sales tax the rate of sales tax has increased with the years. D. Ivan Fritts 974 Fortner Lane . Ontario, Ore. Mind the Source To the Editor: Referring to the last paragraph of the let ter written by F. E. Beverly, which was published on Aug. 9, if what he said was true I would possess a soul that suf fered years of destructive ness since I was a child. It is absurd. I can't be worried when I know how the idea of a "soul" originated and that actually it has no exist ence. The belief in a "soul" and a future life as it exists today can be traced step by step to the original "psychological blunder" made by primitive and uninstructed humanity. Such a belief is not the prod uct of knowledge, but of man's ignorance concerning the na ture of his own mental states and their causation. If it hadn't been for dreams, our savage ancestors who did not understand natural phenom ena, would never have in-J MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON the case. vented the "immortal soul" false concept. Many things be lieved yesterday to be super natural are today known to be natural. Mrs. Annie Besant, former international president of the Theosophical Society, said: "The universe is fundamental ly spiritual and matter is only an expression of spirit." What is the reason that so-called spirit cannot express itself without matter? If it must have matter through which to express itself, then a spirit world without matter is im possible. Matter can and does get along without "spirit." The physical laws of nature are always in operation. They do not step aside even for a moment to permit supposed spirit to rule. The mind is the source and last resting place of "spirits" and the "immortal soul." They exist nowhere else. Lydia Burnham 814 Warne st. Prescott, Ariz. Right To Volt To the Editor: At the Jack son county Republican party picnic Saturday, Gov. Hatfield in his address referred to the tax referendum movement saying, "The legislature could not work out a good tax pro gram in 140 days and we can't afford to bring them back into special session to try again." He did not tell us why he did not veto this atrocious bill. No. 1846, and that be cause of this fact it auto matically became a law which adds $60 million more to the already overburdened taxpay ers of Oregon dating from Jan. 1, 1963 to Jan. 1, 1964, unless sufficient names are obtained on the referendum petitions that are now in cir culation to put it on the bal lot. The legislature anticipated that the people would want to vote on the law so they set a date for the election (Oct. 15) and appropriated 'money for the election. They also threw all of the delaying stumbling blocks possible in the path of anyone who would try to refer the law to a vote of the people and thereby made a successful referendum next to impossible. In view of the fact tnal every legislature passes many bills for salary increases ine more substantial ones going to those already in the high er salary brackets, and in view of the fact that the ballot title does not specify what the extra $60 million is to be used for, the people will assume that the bulk of it will be used to pay for increased salaries. Mr. taxpayer, do you want a chance to vote on this is sue? If so, get your name on one of the referendum peti tions which are now in circu lation and do it before Aug. 27. If you neglect to do so and the sufficient number of names are not received to give you a vote on the issue, when you receive your next Increased tax statement don't, please don't sit and howl be cause George didn't do it all. Remember, George tried. Millions of people in the world today would give their eye teeth for the right to vote that you now have. Use it, you may not have it long. Alice I. Black 812 Newtown st. Medford. Highland Dr. Paving Starts by Lininger Work has started on the Highland dr. paving project, Vernon Thorpe, city engineer, reported yesterday. M. C. Lininger and Sons have the contract for the proj ect, which amounts to $15, 090.50. The paving, curbs and gutters will extend 1.100 feet between Greenwood dr. and Barnctt rd. Haitian Rebel Leader Fighting Rugged Mountains Forming Island Border By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst High, razor-back mountain ridges cut the border between Haiti and the Dominican Re public which together share the island of H i s paniola. The ridges are not high enough to be snow - cover ed but high enough to dis courage the palm. And in densely pop- " ulated Haiti, even the tops of these inhos pitable ridges are inhabited by peasant families, eking out a bare existence on tiny plots handed down from father to son for the better part of 200 years. Their telegraph line is the torn torn. From these rugged moun tains, Haitian rebel leader Gen. Leon Cantave, fighting in the manner of Castro against Batista in the early days of the Cuban revolt, hopes to bring down the dictatorship of President Francois Duva lier who likes to be known as "Papa Doc." So far it has been a war of conflicting claims, charges and denials. Charges Bosch Aid In the excitement of Can tave's first strike on Aug. 5, rebel sources jubilantly fix ed his strength at 500 men. That number finally dwin dled to 100 or perhaps as few as 15 or 20. In the Organization of In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Question: What does one do on the days when there isn't any thing very thrilling in the news? The answer: One makes do with what ever there is in the news. There is always something in teresting on the world-ranging news wires. riOR example: A ' The stately white oak that inspired Joyce Kilmer to write his world-famous poem Trees is dying of old age and will soon be cut down. It stands on the campus of Rutgers University at New Bruinswick, N.J. It is believed to be nearly 300 years old. If so, it sprouted from an acorn somewhere in the mid-1500's say about 1550, something like a half century after Co lumbus discovered America. It was a half century old when the Plymouth colony was founded. PRETTY old? Well, yes-as oak trees go. But it is a mcie sprout in comparsion with the hoary sequoias in the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park in California, many of which are SEVERAL THOUSAND years old. It is now against the law to cut any of these fabulous giants dowr, but one of the largest and oldest of them which was cut down before the law was passed dated back to 1305 B.C. Its age was estab lished by counting the rings In its trunk. It is believed that the Gen eral Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park may be 3,000 to 4,000 years old. If so, it was a husky tree when the Pyra mids were built. BUT let's get back to the Joyce Kilmer oak. Legend has it that as a boy in New Bruniwick and later as a stu dent at Rutgers in 1905-06, Kilmer used to sit under it. It is believed that it was from the old oak on the Rutgers campus that he got his in spiration for his world-famous poem, which reads: 1 think thai I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in sum mer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree. 1VHAT of Joyce Kilmer " He was a soldier in World His best war poem. The i icemakcr. was written at 1 the front. Not too long after I writing it, he was killed in ' action while as a sergeant of infantry he was on a recon naissance mission. His wife Aline, daughter of the poet Ada Foster Mur ray, is remembered as the au- thor of several volumes of nity must come from the ap verse. Her best poem is per- j plication of law. order and haps Candles that Burn. reason to the disputed issues. American States, the Duva lier government charged that Cantave's invasion had been aided and abetted by the neighboring Dominican gov ernment of President Juan Bosch who last May threat ened to carry out an invasion of his own against Haiti. The Dominicans denied the charge. For the United States, the situation was an embarrass ment. It has no love for Du valicr but on the other hand does not want Bosch accused of intervention. In the total breakdown of Haitian cammunications there also was concern for the safe ty of scattered American fam ilies, wives and families of some of whom had been per mitted to return to Haiti only days before. Today and Tomorrow By Walter lippmann cl 1963. The Washington Post COMPULSORY ARBITRATION The railroad dispute has been going on for four years because in an essential indus try the exist ing machinery of labor rela tions can no longer be made to work. The theory of free collective bargaining has been that the railroads and the unions Lippmann would bargain until they agreed, the unions deriving their bargaining power from their willingness to strike and the railroads from their abil ity to outlast the unions when the trains stopped running. This theory of ' labor rela tions was applied in the long New York newspaper strike, though the real and intangible costs were heavy. But the theory can no longer be ap plied in the great utilities and industries on which the eco nomic life of the community depends. THE theory of free collective bargaining in key indus tries has broken down because neither party to a dispute can any longer use its bargaining power. The sanctions behind the bargaining power - the strike and the lockout - can no longer be tolerated by the national government. They are in fact outlawed. A na tional stoppage is intolerable, and, in one way or another, a nation-wide strike or a lock out will be broken. Thus, the innerspring of free collective bargaining is, as regards key industries, dismantled. The country has outgrown the existing machinery for dealing with big labor dis putes. But the country has not yet grown up to a consensus on the machinery to replace it. When a new system of in dustrial relations is establish ed, it is bound to consist of some form of judicial inquiry and judgment. In cold blood, labor lead ers, employers and politicians are in theory against the prin ciple of compulsory arbitra tion. But in hot blood, when there is a crisis in a key in dustry, the theoretical horrors arbitration are seen to be much hoTrMe ,han ,he practical horrors of a national stoppage. PRESUMABLY, a rail road stoppage will be averted by a voluntary agreement to accept some kind of compul sory arbitration. But if this does not happen, if a stoppage is not averted, Congress will be bound to improvise an in voluntary agreement for com pulsory arbitration. We may say then the old system of labor relations with strikes and lockouts is obso lete for the key industries and that eventually it is going to be replaced by a system of compulsory arbitration. That this is not an impossibly diffi cult thing to do has been proved in Australia, as free and turouieni a country as , . ..... our own, wncre a system oi compulsory arbitration has been operating since 1896. It has worked so well that it is accepted and supported by the unions and the employers alike. It is said that compulsory arbitration in the key indus- tries would amount to the ing of prices and wages by the federal government. The real-' istic thing to say about this is li id l, in me n.Ky iiiuubiiiuj, M is no longer possible to have wages and prices fixed by strikes and that, in the great confrontations of big unions and big business, there is no longer any such thing as indi vidual freedom to fix wages or prices. The widest possible freedom for labor, for man agement and for the commu- 1 For both Duvalier and his enemy, Cantave, there were frustrations. If Cantave had expected Haiti's beaten - down peas antry to flock to his colors, he was disappointed for the Haitian peasantry will go only with a sure winner. Popular With Army But Cantave, a professional soldier who fought the dic tatorial ambitions of both Du valier and his predecessor Paul E. Magloire, is popular with the Haitian army, a fact which made the army less than reliable for Duvalier. Further, if rebel claims to have shot down a Haitian air force plane are true, then Du valier has lost exactly half of his air force. Duvalier himself showed Strictly Personal By Sydney fci Field Enterprises inr. AN INBUILT BIAS "Crops are grown in the country," said an ancient Ro man writer, "and words in the c i t y." Lan guage does not spring from the soil, but from the stones of ur ban communi ties; and most languages have an in built bias Him. a g a inst the rustic. Consider the word "villain." Today it means sim ply an evil man, a wrong doer. But originally a villain was a serf or peasant, who was attached to the "villa," or farm. Because the arbiters of lan guage in those days regarded the farmer as churlish, rude, and bestial, the word "villain" came to be applied to anyone sharing these characteristics. "Boor" has the same snob bish history. At first it meant any cultivator of the soil; sub sequently it came to mean any person who was coarse and unmannerly. The same is exactly true for "churlish." Ancient monasteries, as well as schools, ware re sponsible for the class-consciousness of language. It is not widely known, for in stance, that "pagan" was first a villager, as opposed to a townsman. It was not thought that the villagers could be good Christians, and only late in its life did the word come to mean a heathen. "Clown" is also a word originally designated tor a rural person. A "knave" was once simply a servant The Path To Peace: jj Mutual Distrust By Arthur Hoppe flVi Comrade Editor: As a patriotic member of the Sons of the Russian Revo lution, the Communist Anti Christian Crusade and the Ivan Borsch Society, I write to question this nuclear test ban treaty. Can we, I ask, trust the American imperial ists? Do shrimps, I answer, whistle? Does any red-blooded Rus sian patriot think for one mo ment that the masterminds in the White House have abandoned their blueprint for world conquest through creep ing Capitalism? Bah! Will they regard this so called treaty as anything more than a scrap of paper? Double bah! History proves the contrary. (Attached please find a list of treaties broken by the Western imperialists beginning with Caesar's sneak attack on Gaul in 58 B.C.) Yes, I know the argument being advanced by our fuzzy. n, r. intnlliu.lnal. h, ,Kn ."- """""" ""- "f" -" - treaty because it is to their advantage to do so. Perhaps they are even right. Perhaps I the Western Bloc IS weak- j ened by its dialectical split with that dedicated arch - Cap - italist. de Gaulle. Perhaps the arms race IS hurting their fix-.economy. Perhaps even t h e Wall Street tycoons ARE wor- nod about fallout. But, 1 ask you. if this so-called trcaty is i - o- a ...w. , ! tal enemies, is It not then to ; j our disadvantage. Hah! : I say there are some serious ! questions to be answered here. ' advantage, but they know We are told that the treaty is . they can trust us implicitly "a first step." A first step to as we arc a people who be what? To recognition of the I lleve In trust. But to those of oppressive West German re- us who ay we can trust them gimc? v hat secret protocols did our negotiators attach? Have they been duped again by those wily Western diplo. mats? "The sly goose," as our n I From little disposition to take on Cantave in the northeastern mountains from which the rebels appeared to be operat ing. Instead, it appeared to be Duvalier's hope that he can sit tight in Port au Prince un til his government "specula tors" can bring in an expected $20 million from the coffee crop in October. This is sup posed to be a good coffee year in Haiti where the cofee bean grows wild. In the meantime, he will demand that the OAS take action to protect him through the same democratic processes he himself has destroyed. As for Cantave's chances, said a Washington acquaint ance: "If any Haitian can do the job, it is Cantave." i. Hai'rit - then it came to mean any rascal who could not be trusted. And when we say that a person is "uncivil." we are really saying that he is not city-bred, that he lacks the cultivated man ners of an urban dweller. It is one of the ironies of modern society - at least, since the Industrial Revolu tion - that the village has been growing more manner ly, and the city more un civil. As the city increased in size, it reached and passed its optimum point of "civility." Shakespeare, in his "A Mid summer Night's Dream," re fers to the "rude mechanics" - the rural weaver, the tinker, the joiner, and so on. Yet the really rude mechanics today are found in the jungle of the city, and the more polite and friendly and neighborly ways seem to have persisted only in the village atmosphere. The long-standing hostility of the countryman to the city dweller is simply a reaction to the city dwellers' sense of superiority over the cen turies, which is deeply and unconsciously imbedded in his language - we still speak of "hicks" with a deprecatory air, even though the modern farm is a sophisticated enter prise. Technology in the 20th cen tury has made the people more homogeneous than ever before; they read the same papers and magazines, see the same television shows, hava access to much the same fashions, and share a common viewpoint. The real hicks to day are those who mistakenly believe that the differences between town and country are still substantial. people say, "eats the stupid cabbage." And you know which we are. But above all, what about national security? As we all know, our glorious Red Army now enjoys a nuclear supe riority of 232 to 1 over the backward Western imperial ists. And it is only this fact that has prevented them from attacking us. Yes, our sacri fices in building bombs have kept the peace. And, as peace- I loving people, should we not I "1en build more and better bombs to keep the peace bel ter? And how can we build better bombs without nuclear tests? Furthermore, if neither side conducts nuclear tests, will not the backward Western im perialists catch up with us? For, as our great scientist, Edvard Tellcrhoff, says. i nobody conducts nuclear tests, the enemy will overtake us in nuclear weaponry." Which proves that the way to build better bombs is to stop nu- . clear testing. And this just snows what mysterious forces we arc dcaiinK with . . . ' Lct us Comrade Editor I then (acc realil sauarclw T ' ; sum up w y. ,. hI 1 tnm e hat ; trcaty and whpn h does ! we M 1)C ,orry For by , ping mn u,ss' we w:,. j i our mi(.t,Hr aUperiority causc )c cn . ' his , , . ' tremcn (icU5 HuVHIlCCS Qh , can soc ,hc , er Americans would sign this treaty. Not onlv i if in th,.ir to act to their own advantage, I y It la a sly cabbage who uistriisu a shrimp s whistle. Dislrustfully Yours. A Patriot I
