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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 21, 1953 (Friday)
A total of 90 Mexican na
tionals have arrived in Jack
son county to take part in
harvesting the valley pear
crop, estimated at 9,000,000
boxes
Judge orders action on
Gold Hill pollution , halted;
will review records.
20 YEARS AGO
Atiauat 21. 1043 (Saturday)
Bears at Crater Lake park
airl feeling food rationing.
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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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