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4 A - KlDrORIi,.TEIBUNI 'Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North firjl-. Ph. 772-6141. " ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Adverllslnn Maner GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mr ERIC AI.LEN JR . Mir! Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIHMAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Spurt! Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Woo.cn i Edltoi DALE ERICKSON, Circulation MK An Independent Newspapei Entered ai tecond clan matter at Medford Oreaon under Act of March 3. IUD7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moi 5 0U Sunday Oniy One year $5 00 Single Copy (Mailed! aoc By Camel And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 2I 00 Paily and Sunda 1 mo 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo 5 Carrlol and Vendon Copy 10c Official Paper of Cltv of Medford Official laperol Jackson County United Press International full Leased Wire 0. p lTclepholo Ncwhplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Or UPltt-liLAiiurta TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1963 MEDFOKU .MAIL TRIBUNE. MEUKORD. OREGON Advertising ""nrcsentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS t ASSOC1. ATES Ot'lrca in New York. Ch. cao Detroit. Sr.n Francisco. Loi Ance!- Seattle. Portland Dcn'-er Ignorance and Fear V25j pu,l,HE(J VS'a'SSOCIAtION NATIONAL EDITOR.'Al 3 Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jjckwn County History from tne files of Tho Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1II53 ( Thursiliiy ) Eight witnesses were prant ed this morning in the fedct.il court trial of the United States vs. Walter H. Leverettc, Med- for businessman, being heard here. Medford chapter of Oregon State Society of Ceritficd Pub lic Accountants received its charter and conducted election of officers at a meeting held here Tuesday. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 8. 1943 (Friday) War blamed as Craler Lake tourist count drops to 27,656 for season. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "Scarcity . of ammunition for bird shooting has caused a decline in the use of No Hunting signs as targets. Farmers can stoop over in their barnyards with impunity." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1933 (Sunday) Oregon liquor sales to be through state stores. Medford brewery to start first batch of beer next week. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1923 (Monday) Hawlcy paper mill at Oregon City destroyed by fire. Wave of petty stealing sweeps over county. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1913 (Wednesday) Damage suit of R. II. Alex antler against Copco for injuries starts. M. Purdh installed as Med ford mayor, succeeding W. W. Eifert, deceased. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or fen correct Is superior; leven or eight is excellent; live or sis is good. 1. Is pure lead a relatively hard, or soft, metal? 2. Does the month or Febru ary ever have five Sundays? 3. Does tactile sense refer to the sense of taste, sight, touch, hearing, or smell? 4. Correct the following: "If he would have come earlier, he would have been on time." 5. What does the name Nova Scotia mean? 6. Who said, "There never was good war or a bad peace"? 7. In describing members of the seal family, what are a male, a female, and a baby called respectively? 8. Is rice principally protein, fat, or carbohydrate? 9. What have the following in common: John Singlelon Copley, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stew art? 10. What is the name for a field in which rice is grown? Answers: I. Soft. 2. Yes. 3. Touch. 4. "If he had enme. . . " 5. New Scotland. 8. Ilcnjnitiln Franklin. 7. Bull, cow and pup. 8. Carbohydrate. 9. American painters. 10. Paddy. Ignorance and fear are a deadly combination. One begets the other, and vice versa. The result is often a striking-out at that which is strange, or not understood, or vaguely threatening. It is this combination, we are convinced, which gives the right-wing extremists their col oration. Sen. Kenneth Keating, R-N.Y., has been keep ing a tally-sheet of the "individuals, ideas and in stitutions" which the right-wingers tag with the "subversive" label the most recent of which, believe it or not, is folk singers. CENATOR Keating recently mentioned this odd bit of warped thinking on the floor of the . Senate, and in the course of his remarks he also ! gave his current list of the ultras objects of fear or derision. It included: "The United Nations, the income lax, the chief justice, the Girl Scouts, fluoridation, the last four presidents, beat niks, Harvard, civil rights demonstrations, expenditures for mental health, the arms control and disarmament agency, coffee houses, every secretary of state since William Jen nings Bryan, professors of anthropology, Dack-door spend ing, metro government, Jews, Time magazine, the Council on Foreign Relations, firearms registration, the Protestant clergy . . . and so on and so on." Now we can go along with the "fright ped dlers" (as Senator Keating called them) on a few of these (such as, for instance, anthropology pro fessors, firearms regulation, and lime maga zine). But most of them are simply part of Amen ca, and as such are merely to be tolerated, under stood, applauded, or ignored. "INE OF the oddest items on this list is "metro Vr government," This, of course, is the name applied to experiments and attempts to bring or der out of the conflicting, overlapping and often footless governments at the local level city, county, fire districts, water and sewage districts and all the others which make a contusing and frequently frustrating melange in urbia and sub urbia. Its symbol is an address in Chicago, which houses the offices of the American Municipal As sociation and other groups which function to serve local governments on a national basis. Somehow or other, these attempts at self help by local governments have come to be tagged as pinko, leftish, part of the "intenational conspir acy" by those who tend to suspect the worst of anything they don t understand. THIS phenomenon has puzzled many, among them Charles A. Sprague, former Oregon governor and editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman in Salem. He said recently, in regard to this odd twist: "Where and when this notion originated I do not know; hut It has been zealously propagated by persons and organ izations dedicated to fighting 'un-Americanism,' many of them without balance of judgment to distinguish between un-American' and simply being different. . . . "The fact is, that the movement for better organization of metropolitan areas is an attempt to arouse local citizens to solve their own problems, rather than to have the state or the federal government step in and do the job. Urban problems have grown acute because of the migration from the incorporated city to the suburbs. These people demand urban services. Unless their area is annextcd to the adja cent city they must cither form independent municipal dis tricts or depend on county government, which has been geartj to rural rather than urban conditions, or 'do without'." Carrying Goldwater On Both Shoulder! er 4-4eG El ji T'ffT" llllllli ii dll Red Chinese Statements Indicate That 'Changed Image7 About Warfare Sought By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Among those assigned to watch the twists and turns of Communist foreign policy there is at present a wonder whetlv er Red China is making some attempt to change her im a g e as the great advocate war. The c u I a tion arises from a 'ew,", statement last Sept. 18 by Liu Shao-chi, presi dent of Communist China and Mao Tse-tung's chosen succes sor. Visiting North Korea, he said: "It is impermissible for any socialist country to be the first to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances." The speculation received fur ther impetus from a speech delivered by Peking Mayor Peng Chen at a parade marking the 14th anniversary of the ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name tnd 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 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 tact the contrary is often the case. com- Alsnp FEAR compounds ignorance; ignorance tmimrla fruit (Our own antipathy for professors oi anthro pology, if the truth were known, is probably a measure of our anthropological ignorance. We object to firearms regulation on Constitutional grounds.) And it is so easy too easy when confront ed by something one does not like or does not un derstand, simply to categorize it as "pink" or "Commie." This doesn't solve anything, except in the mind which thus refuses to work when confronted . Rolen of """"v , . . ,i ,i rrf ...,( To the Editor: Women of his- with something new or different. I, ancicnt and mo(U,rn, have I had their place, an important I IT. IN some manner, it annears to uive con- ,,ne as wives, mothers, advisors fort to those riirht-WintlCl'S Who SO fiercely de-:, neip"rs io tneir nusDanas. u. . m,v( activities . . -. , ,, . . i ,,.t. io meir cniitiicu, to men u leima i we in vmiey in auiKiang nuuitcc nun iiim muiw; ihc,y iiiiniu.-'i, tun, . , ,n0 neighborhood circle, m province since Czarist times, read subversion into every attempt to use rational the church. itne area most consistency ir processes, rather than b ind fumbling, m solving; ? n,p" V'1' ;Pe i Between umna anc mis I . 1 i t r ,i i .. i an honor in each place filled, i sia. And hcv have sa d the So- the changes which force themselves upon us. 1 Somc have not been' Somc hav0 vicls .. "aande cs0 .Z. Change IS the order OI the day 111 tills -mn been so much less than a credit oral tens of thousands of Chinese . i i I . i. .1. th.,1 thnv u-rtfn a AfUil a riire :: ... iiiiti'ii.', inio going io tne soviei Stales Rights To the Editor: States Rights has been a controversial sub ject since the early days of our nation, and it now rears its ugly head again. The chief reason for creating the Constitution in its present form was to establish a stable central, a supreme head to the new nation which could not be changed to suit trivial, passing opinions of minor groups of peo ple or states. It provided the legislative (Congress), executive (President), and Legal (Su preme Court) as arbiter, such checks and balences as were ab sent in the Articles of Confeder ation, which the Constitution replaced. The first seven words of the preamble to the Constitution, "We. the people of the United States," preclude any contention that the Constitution was born by consent of the several states, but rather by the consent of the people as a whole. Amendments may become law by consent of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States. The above is the very fabric that binds the several states into a single nation for the pres ervation and mutual protection, giving full status to the United Stales. A careful perusal of the pre amble and the Constitution it self will readily reveal our na tional sovereignty. The doctrine of States Rights, if followed to the ultimate, could dissolve the nation into a group of un-united states, thus break ing down our national status. I am convinced that States Rights is the most dangerous threat we face today. It could be a con venient tool in hands of an en emy, a wide open avenue (or in filtration, and set up the old principle of conquer, divide and destroy. In the coming election there is one who embraces States Rights. 1 can not believe that such a person has the best inter ests of the nation in heart or that the office of President should be given into his hands. C. R. Burrill fCM'i Cherry st. Central Point, Ore. the head from Paul the apostle, shows her to have been a no toriously wicked woman who finally suffered death at the hands of Nero, her own nefar ious son. Byron's mother was an ex ceedingly proud and vain wom an, a veritable Jezebel. Her son, Lord Byron, though he became a literary genius, wasted his substance by the same riotous living in vanity and pride; and wrote at the end in his 36th year, "My days are in the yel iow leaf. The fruits and flowers of love are done; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone." Contrast John Wesley's words at the end in his 88th year as his compeers surrounded his death-bed, "The best of all is, God is with us." Yes, women had and have most vital and important places to fill in their appointed sphere, but how discordant and discon certing to note vain and un worthy votaries of pride and selfishness who disgrace grace their spheres! H. R. Bulman. Route 4, Box 316 A, Medford. not Perusasion by Threat To the Editor: The present campaign for a "YES" vote for the personal and corporation in-1 come tax bill at the special elec tion Oct. 15, has reached a bizarre stage. The "hint" of a governor of a state that a "NO" vote will close hospitals, a wel fare report that the allowance of d poor crippled individual will be cut, the president ot an institution of higher learning stating that failure of this meas ure to pass will reduce higher standards of the institution from superior to "mediocre", and finally an anonymous communi cation postmarked from the seat of an institution of higher learn ingnot dated and not signed. This postcard reads: "This postcard is to inform you of the probable consequences of a NO vote on Oct. 15. Local prop erty taxes would be increased markedly, and 3,000 students would not be allowed to enter next year. A YES vote will keep your property taxes where they are and help keep these students in school." Since the lawmakers in the fat years did not forsee the lean years, Oregon needs money. Ap parently the state cannot do as business docs, borrow to tide over the emergency. Persuasion through threat is a poor way to give the voters confidence in government. (Name on file) Medford founding of the Chinese Com-1 who would inherit the earth munist Republic. Since previous attempts over tie said worm war could be I the last 20 years to forecast prevented through united effort ana concerted struggle by the peoples of the world, in cluding those of the United States. Both statements seemed de signed to cast a different light on Chinese foreign policy which has held that force is the only means of settling differences with the Western world and that in the event of nuclear war it would be the Communists in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS day-to-day turns of Communist policy have been markedly un successful, it would be a mis take now to take statements by even two such high officials to mean that Red China is chang ing its coat. But as items of temporary expediency they may have some meaning. This stems from what is known as Red China's own in ternal situation. Red China's "great leap for ward" in 1958, with its empha sis on heavy industry was a Known failure. threat to world peace. In past years the Reds have not been backward about boasts of their advances in the fields of steel plating and factory construction. Lately the talk has been of steel tuhine for fertilizer nianlt. ! and for small tractors and die- sel engines. . Bicycles have taken prece dence over manufacture of au tomobiles. Other reports have told of the manufacture of so-called luxury goods such as clocks, table ware and glassware. Indicating difficulties, there also have been reports of complaints stemming from shortage of rc- Official statements, reports ' placements for agricultural ma. in Chinese newspapers and the i chinery. In this column the other day, the proposal to sell our surplus wheat to Russia getting paid for it, presumably, with Rus sian gold was discussed at some length, and the opinion was expressed that it would be a good deal all the way around because the Russians need our wheat and we need the Rus sian gold. The mail a day or so later brought a clipping of the col umn with this question typed at the top of it: "Who will get the job of BIT ING THE GOLD BRICKS to see if they are genuine?" TT'S a good question It' accounts ot travellers coming out of Red China all indicate that the pres.nt darlings of the Chinese bosses are agriculture and light industry in that order. Since heavy industry is re cognized as the key to any na tion's ability to wage all-out war, this would mean that Red China is moving away from the possibility of any immediate None of this should be taken to mean that the Red Chinese are turning swords into plow shares. Nor does it minimize the Red Chinese capacity for creating difficulties in such areas as Korea, South Viet Nam and Laos. And certainly it docs not mark a change in Chinese long range ambitions. Strictly Personal By Sydney i. Kairis (cl Field Enterprises. Inc. s an especially good ques- COMMERC1ALIT1S On the chill and rainy days Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate B DETERRENCE OR WHAT? HONG KONG Everyone would now be waiting breath lessly for the worst sort of trou ble on the Chi nese - Russian border if this were still a nor mal world, or even if Commu nist China and the Soviet Un ion were nor mal modern states. The ac cumulated signs of trouble are decidedly impres sive. The Soviets have accused the Chinese of 5.000 border vio lations "systematically" com mitted since 11160; and they have also stated that the Chinese have been trying "in the most flagrant manner to appropriate individual sections of Soviet territory." The Chinese have accused the one from a Kazakh, then one from a Uighur, and son on. w IF YOU put all the assorted facts together in this manner, the pattern becomes pretty star tling. Furthermore, charges of border violations generally fall into a special class, even when used by Communist propagan dists. To be blunt about it. border violations are like adultery, in the sense that the injured par ties do not normally complain about their injury unless they mean to do something reason ably drastic about it. The ques tion is, then, what all this rum pus really does portend. There are three possible an swers, and you can take your choice among them. The first and least likely is that all these angry exchanges between Mos cow and Peking are mere "sound and fury," signifying nothing. The second answer, which is auite likely, is that the Soviets the area most consistency in 1 are threatening China's Sinkiang suspicion we instinctively feel regarding ANY proposal coming from the Soviet Union, which is a communist nation. As a communist nation, Rus sia's policies and procedures are presumably ruled by the teachings of Marx and Lenin. Marx, in his day, had preached th doctrines of communism. Lenin was the leader of the communist movement in Russia and the FOUNDER OF THE SOVIET UNION. tion because it brings out the ! this past summer in the coun try, I spent some time watch- inc Inlpvicinn in !Zr??' more sustained "l""". -5 seirments than I I had ever done 7 before, and to- dav I'd like to WL-V - i lioHi fit the moral and ,i i n I p 1 1 p rtual J ramifications of thic mnHinm Harr But first a word from my syndicate . . . Do you know that the Harris column is more widely syndicat ed and read than any other column written by a man named Harris? Young wives say, in interviews from coast to coast: "I prefer Harris because his verbs are so clean, his adjec tives glisten for hours with a lustrous sheen, and his con junctions fit so superbly and luxuriously." To get back . . . What most fascinated me about the med ium is its ritualistic attitude of imitation. There is not the slightest deviation from the ac cepted canons of each stereo typed program; all the parts seem interchangeable, includ ing the MCs, the panel contest ants, the family groups, the comedy routines, even the poignana dramas of . , , T ENIN explained communism to the perple and devoted his life to putting it into prac tice. He was the author ot the grim and cynical Ten Command ments of Communism, which have been frequently referred to in this space. Among his Ten Command ments are these: ' "There are no morals in poli tics; there is only expediency. "Truth does not count unless it serves an end. "Promises are like piecrusts; made to be broken." Q UESTION: How can a nation founded upon such cynical concepts of human behavior be trusted.' That, I take it is the question that was in the back of my an onymous correspondent's mind when he asked: "Who will get the job of biting the bricks?" IT IS obvious that a dedicated communist wouldn't hesitate to pay for American wheat with phony gold bricks if he thought he could get away with it. So- How will we know that the gold we get for our wheat (as suming that we make the deal) is REAL? 't's a logical question. I'd like to interrupt to re mind you to watch for next week's columns, which will plumb the depths of the hu man mind, soar to unprece dented heights of speculation and offer a well-rounded, warm, human, gripping and yet funny overview of the cos mic situation today. ' Where was I? Oh, yes. It' seems clear to me that a quitrr new moral and intellectual frame of reference Is being" created by the medium, in terms of mass manipulation nf the basic emotional cliches.' I'd like to quote somc pertin ent studies made by Talcntt and Parsons, as well as ap most illuminating paper pre sented last year by Gordon, Allport at the International Psycho-Social Conference in Berne. But now ... ' All your friends are lalkin? about the new improved Harris column so refreshing, just mild enough, but full of flavor. Trs Harris for a week and see if your literary taste-buds don't perk up, if you don't experience) a new surge of pure joy, if you don't say to yourself, "Whci'n has this wonderful man been all my life?" Remember, Harrl uses only the most expensivn words, hand-picked, in a secret formula combination, MAGI WORD, that no other writer can duplicate. Try him today, won't you? In the Talcott and Parsons study, it was shown that tho age-level f'om 6 to 11 was tho most profoundly influenced by the emphasis on violence, anil by a wholly pragmatic and em pirical approach to ethical proR lems. Thus, the traditional values in the Western world; which have heretofore beeli transmitted institutionally, aro now undergoing a rapid trans formation in terms of . . . But my space is up. Remem ber, I'm followed on the next page by the Obituary Column Club, with new personalities each dav. Don't miss it! vyELL, if the deal goes " through, it will probably be handled by some big London banker, London being the big buyer of gold at the present time. Here's how it will work: The Russians will use their gold to buy American dollars, and with the (paper) dollars thus purchased they will pay for the wheat they have bought. That will be the equivalent, in practice, of actually exchanging their gold for our wheat. IT WILL amount to the same thing because when the Rus sians buy American paper dol lars (in London or elsewherel and use them to pay for wheat they have purchased from us it will mean that there will then border as a form of deterrence, be just that many FEWER dol- -.,(,. Io t tVi'nhtniic tl-m i.rnri. that they were a debit VUllllll.V. i-iuii mimi. io ..imi. . - ,, . ., have',- i. ,t.. .u. I. ,l.,..t,.,.., ,.,1.. llttl., ,n..an or a" PMCPS ,nc n.ae I tmon I tt III. 11 ll llil III. 11 Ulfll VJ,) 3 llll 11 iiiiii. words. And thus they rot use to accept the rea filled. Some, because of their j intelligent and Christian in- WOl'KIS. A1H1 IIUIS Uiey remse U) accept me tea- intelligent anti imiMian i-'rpilE Russians have boasted sons for the change - such as population growth, j S,lVr7 1 in rp'"' ,hat " in- The American government is apparently convinced that the Chinese are like old ladies who knit to no purpose, just to pass the time, but in the Chinese case the presumed meaningless pastime is preparing invasions. The Soviets are highly unlikely lars outstanding that we will eventually have to buy back WITH GOLD. Since we won't have to use our GOLD to buy back our dollars, we will have just that much more gold left. THE INCOME TAX MEASURE This is one of a series of brief presentations of some little-known aspects of the income tax measure on which Oregon voters will decide at a special election on Oct. 15. A "yes" vote approves the law; a "no" vote defeats it, leav ing insufficient revenue to cover this biennium's appropriations. QUESTION Why are we losing the federal tax deduction? ANSWER Eliminating the federal deduction allowed the Legislature to lower the rate structure from 3 to 9.5 per cent to 2 to 7.5 per cent, while bringing in more revenue. This accords with practice in 16 of the 31 income tax states which have no federal deduc tion, and of the sales tax states where your federal tax bill is of no help to you. Oregon has been embarrassed by its high stated rates which are published and compared nationwide This is one of the few provisions in the 1963 Tax Law which claimed and held broad support in both houses of the Legisla ture fr om the start of the session. QUESTION How will the loss of this deduction affect me' 1 ANSWER It is not wholly a lost deduction to you. since any increase in your state tax bill gives you a larger deduction on your federal return. This means that the federal government "contributes" at least 20 per cent of your state tax increase in this way. rapidly advancing technology, and new patterns 1R1.oa,cst m'on who have led the mpciiod b' shwr human; to take quite such a happy view tlio ..Ivmon iunlf u ith tlio wnrW nlnno lis meaniiicful ! lovln8 kindness to receive great of the long-completed Chinese attempts being made to cope with it s, Uod in- The challenges are vast and complex. And calling to mind but a few thev will not be met bv fixed ant feartu minds, of each, note the christian ex oo- 3 Yo rri ".. ...mi i. i i.. u.. , i, .... ,,...,?., ;a : noriencc ot Mare, the moiner litey Mii uc met. U1.1.V uj i. "";" . j of ollr i.01.d ns she exulted with and who dare to use their brains to find new tions to new problems. E.A. Where's That Slogan? olu- BHIIM.ES ACCTIONEI) CHICAGO (UPI) - The De fense Department was to auc tion off five bridges today. The bridges were among 2117 surplus items valued at $3. million that were placed on the selling block. The bridges of the bridge erection boat variety originally cost $14,036 each. With the John Birchers lined up with those who referred and will vote against the state in- two great men. John and Charles Wesley, who had their hands in the 'founding of that r,r,mn I,jv iu'll tfhifVi ii'm oiinctnrl hv niif nlnrtml 1 Christian movement which " V " , " V" "J , ,r 'brightened and shook the world. representatives w h a t e v e r happened to the JhI wn nls iondprsh,,,. and slogan, "This is a Republic, not a Democracy. Vharios with ins immortal Let's keep it that way"? U.A. ; hymns sung round tho world to 1 . ; this day. , . i Words are inadequate Io do What is a threat and what is a warning? A 'deserved honor to such women, threat is "the expression of an intention to inflict 'h" nn to do so have ., . 1 ., n . I graced history s brightest pages. evil or injury on another. A warning is "giving, ln ,.ontrast iol us ,wW bllt two notice of approaching danger or evil." In the heat non-Christian women. An au of an election campaign, they should not be '"-j''X'TiuuVguiir'an" fused. E.A. i cruel tvr.mt nhose ax severed numbers of pitiful refugees from the misery and terror now pre vailing on the Chinese side of the border. At intervals, the Soviets are also publishing hor ror stories about conditions in Elizabeth. John's mother, in ; Sinkiang which are purported these words, "My soul doth : ly written, and probably are magnify the Lord, and my spirit I really written, by members of hath rejoiced in God my 1 these refugee groups. Savior." ! Since a little after the mid- Susannah Wesley, a most il-! mth centurv. Russia has made lustrum woman, was mother ot preparations of a second inva sion of India. And if such an invasion is launched and goes unpunished, Soviet prestige in Asia will suffer only a little less than American prestige. 'O 'ou see The job of biting the gold bricks to see if they are genu ine will have to be done by the London bankers or the bank ers somewhere else. a renewed grab for this great Central Asian Chinese province of Sinkiang on the average of about once every 20 years. Some of the grabs have come very close to success, too, mainly be cause Sinkiang is largely popu lated by Kazakhs, Lighurs. Tad' may therefore be using the mcn- I ace of reallv bad trouble on IT IS striking, therefore, that china s Sinkiang frontier as a l the same Moscow statement i ruin.nr,,! oiHitirntl rintnr. 1 rent ot an Indian adventure : which it must certainly be. ' Finally, of course, the Soviets may actually be preparing to do j something drastic on the Sin- j kiang frontier. The out side! denouncing the 5.000 border vio lations also included the remark that the "Chinese leaders have developed some special aims and interests which the Social camp cannot support with its military' might. This open, i world would probably know no though partial, tearing up of the ; more of such preparations than much-frayed Sino-Soviet mutual : was known about the great So defense treaty was plainly point- viet-Japanese battle of Nomon ed towards the Indian problem, !nan in the earlv 1930s, news of zhiks. and other non-Chinese as Peking must have under-1 which only leaked out two years minority groups which are wide stood at once open to Russian subversion. Yet the Soviet leaders may Across the border, the Rus- well feel this first step is not sians now have an individual nearly strong enough, particu Soviet republic (or each of the larly since no practical prepara tive most important racial mi- tions whatever have been matlc norities in Sinkiang The horror , to force China to pay an appro stories seem to be chosen t priately high price (or another represent these groups ftrst invasion ol India. The Soviets later If this is really the Soviet purpose, the trouble ahead for the Peking leadership is impos sible to estimate too high. It just may be the Soviet purpose at that. But deterrence looks like a more prudent bet (or the present. n rv-il I - li-TlrLft 1 1 11 u J II Miff (5) "We'll show m we won't buv and exchange gifts at Christmas iime:" 4L
