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fASAOENA INDEPtNDSNT Monday, Fib. 1, 1760 OPINION 'Maybe We Ought lo Include Your As I See It- We Will Be Blamed No Matter What Happens Forbearance, at least for the present, is to be the United States' policy toward Fidel Castro's Cuba, on the principle a reprisals of any i against Castro's attacks upon us would only harm the unoffending Cuban people. Ever since World War II, it has been the practice to draw a distinction between the leaders of an enemy, or inimical, nation and its people. This principle disregards the fact that leaders are maintained in power by the sufferance of.their peoples. Jt is possible a hardships directly traceable to the acts of those leaders i more quickly i the people to realize I heir shortcomings, and unhorse them.

Passive acceptance nf the kind of insults Caslro has been offering to the United States may also encourage a delusion among the Cubans a we arc i i i a or overawed by him. is growing more evident a if Caslro himself is not a Communist sympathizer, he is under the sway of Com- munists. His anti-American utterances do not have a peculiarly Cuban flavor, but bear the hallmarks of propaganda a is made in Moscow and Peiping. Some observers have speculated that Cuba is ripe for a counter-revolution. If it occurs, and Castro is dethroned, he and his followers arc certain to blame the United Stales, no matter what we do or refrain from doing.

We could easily put a sharp economic squeeze on Cuba by withdrawing sugar subsidies, but we are not going to do so. While Castro raves on, we can take comfort at least in being good Christians and turning the other check. The opinion of the rest of Latin America toward the United Stales, which has not been i cordial of late, also figures in our handling of i situation. It may be just as well to allow any decision about reprisals to be initialed in the Organization of American Slates. We Knew What It Meant The word "recrudescence" popped up in a news story the other day, set- i us off on a trail of musing and reminiscence.

"Recrudescence" is one of three offbeat words we a a i a committed to memory one day years ago upon seeing them cited in an article as examples of an intellectual's vocabulary. Trouble is, if you're not an i a ou don't have much use for his vocabulary. "Recrudescence," we may loftily explain for the benefit of those whose ken the word has not happened to swim into, has nothing to do i cruel, appearances lo Ihe contrary. It means simply a recurrence. We have noticed there are fashions in words.

"Recrudescence" JOSEPH ALSOP has been out of vogue for some lime. Now, perhaps, it is recrudescing. The other two words we acquired with "recrudescence" were "glabrous" and "adumbrate." In (he a i we'd forgotten a "glabrous" means! a we recalled a at one time it was favored by strcam-of-con- sciousncss writers. Looking it up, we found it means "smooth, or hairless." Poets used to apply it to the moon. "Adumbrate" mean "foreshadow," and of course "umbra" is a giveaway here.

Well, all these years we've carried those words around like so much lumber in the head, never daring to use them. But perseverance is paying off, at least "Recrudescence" turned up again and we knew a it a Header's itvccss- Happy Disposition Great Value The Missile Gap: Evaluation Tlir following article tlir 1 a srrif'x of 1 A deeply i i i nf I high- cM i i a i i on problem i literally involves survival of Ihe rnilcci Stales, was unobtrusively revealed Jasl week. The of the missile Rap was painted in the rosiest, most reassuring colors in congressional testimony by the able new Secretary of Defense, Thomas Gates, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining. Gen.

Twining even suggested that it was downright unpatriotic to rega-, the missile gap as i i a problem. Almost simultaneously, the same problem was pairtpd in the most somber and alarm- colors by the Strategic Air Commander, Gen Thomas Power. Virtually no attention was giver, to the extraordinary speech, before the New York Economic Club, by the man who has more responsibility than anyone else for bridging the missile gap. Yet the message of SAC's brilliant leader was as grave as possible, as can be seen from the following excerpts: "If (the-Soviets! could effectively a i frem position of surh i i a superi- urity a we would unable to defend i orr a a i i i lo resist reduced, if r.ol i i i i i i i a superiority would a i i accumulation of i ballistic missiles tu destroy our retaliatory forces before they could be launched. Surprisingly, i would not take very a missiles under present The total number of installations and facilities from which we can launch nuclear-armed aircraft or missiles at this moment is only about 300.

All oJ these facilities present 'soft targets'-that is. they could crippling damage even (from) a near miss. It would take an average of three niisE'les, in i stage of develop- to give an Aggressor a a a i a probability of f)j per eenl a i he can de- slroy one given soft target, from 5.000 miles This means a i only some ballistic missiles, the Soviets could i a wipe out our i nuclear strike a a i i i a span of 30 minutes. To heighten this threat, only about a these missiles would have to be ICBJIs. The rest be tho smaller intermediate range ballistic missiles." These words, so terrible in their implications will be seen, were in the hands of the Pentagon censorship for no less than weeks.

During this interminable "processing," Gen. Power's speech was extensively pruned and toned down. If Gen. Power's facts could have been attacked, the censors would surely have pruned them too. Bernard J.

Ridder, Publisher Gustaf A. Nordin, General Manager F.lwnoil WIIILiml I.tt It a Kdlloi i Hayw.iM UMIllnm n. A i a i Kxmitlvt Kdlloi rrl'k raU1r.rk A i Miin.iKCI i i i i i i i i I a i A I'ltff, A 1 i i i i A i i i i i i lIMrl'r i AncMn Sft'i i Ktw YolK, uilt.iK", i St. I'nnl, Hence Ihe foregoing must bo accepted as first a i a i a from a source a i absolute belief, of missile capability Soviets now need lo bring i country lo i knees. As might have been expected, Gen.

Power did not overtly challenge the views expressed by Secretary Gales and Gen. Twin- mg. But the challenge is plain cnougbt and terrible enough, if you place Gen. Power's statement of facts against its background of theory. The theory of deterrence, which gives the key to Gen Power's speech, is not merely accepted by Gen.

Power and Secretary Gates and Gen. Twining. It is aho accepted by i i a S. Khrushchev, as he disclosed in the most significant passage of bis recent speech to the Supreme Soviet. In brief, true deterrence depends on careful calculations ol "first strike capability" and "counter-strike capability." The United States today, for instance, has enough nuclear striking power to destroy the Soviet Union ten times over.

But the Soviet Union today also has formidable nuclear striking power. Tho United Stales therefore has no "first strike capability," if our first strike cannot a out all i i targets presented by the Soviet nr.nnply of nuclear power. have all lo destroy this power bi-Tove i gets ground. I we cannot do this, first i will merely trigger the -Soviet "counter-strike capability." I we arc faced with the prospect of national destruction by the enemy's counter-strike, we are effectively "deterred." Just this is our present situation, according to Khrushchev. Furthermore, as Gen.

Power admitted, America's nuclear striking power, 'though vast, is also very vulnerable to missile attack. This is because our power, mainly SAC. is concentrated in a few targets, lacks effective warning, and so on. For these reasons, a small number of Soviet missiles-Gen. Power says 300--will be enough to wipe out i a all our nuclear power before it can gel off the ground.

i thesr missiles in i heir armory, the Soviets i not need to fear our counter-strike; and our deterrent i cease to deter. This was of course Ihe exact i a i a Gen. Power grimly described. I could be. be implied, American situation before very long.

description was so grim for two reasons: bis a admission of our deterrent's extreme vulnerability; and his startlinsly low estimate of number of missiles the Soviets would need to destroy our deterrent. There is only one way to reconcile Gen. Power's a of the facts i the interpretation of the facts offered to Congress by Secretary Gates and Gen. Twining. Gen Power obviously suspects that the Soviets may soon have the smaller number of operational missiles required to destroy our deterrent.

But Secretary Gates and Gen. Twining nre convinced, as they have testified, that it is absolutely impossible for the Soviets lo have this number of missiles within the period of our deterrent's vulnerability. Gen. Twining and Secretary Gates have derived i i conviction, as they have also testified, from the National I licence Estimates. Thus two questions immediately present themselves.

Are the National Kstimates correct? And even if Ihe estimates lire correct, is it permissible In gamble Ihe whole a i a on mere estimates? These questions will be examined In the next article of this scries, MEDLEY TOR MONDAY--This is a little experiment. I've often wanted to finger a typewriter console and let every a seemingly comes out of my fingertips be set in bold print. 'Maybe the themes, ideas and notions may be unrelated as they claim in TV, 'this piece has been done live with no rehearsing. Why is it that a person's own reputation is often the last i be is truly aware of? yr PEOPLE WANT to DC liked, not impressed. I knew a dull fellow in high school that I always envied.

He was trusted and followed much more confidently than the fellows on the honor roll. His mental shortcomings were forgotten because he had a full heart and a warmth of feeling. Today, Hearing ,10. he's liked everywhere he goes- even by strangers. His i is priceless.

MOST OF US are vain, lo a certain Hundreds of i Pasadena and San Marino women use shopping as a daily for their a i and i a i in life. Hence so many ret of merchandise to swanky salons Could the average American household exist without eggs "Facts" are not the Almighty Arbiter that many of us believe to be. Facts lifted out of context can be as vicious as the sting of a wasp. OF THE endless virtues of my wonderful mother, none stand oul more a her happy disposition. The individual with genuine cheerfulness is a gem to nil society.

Wouldn't it be the i of a i i to. once, all the telephone booths at the theater, hotel lobby or the busy airport vacant? The celebrity seems to be the key to the caste system now in vogue in the U.S. NATURAL TALENT for doing the right thing at the right time is a rare trait. Queen Marie of Romania, referring to the rules of gracious living, once "Etiquette is for people i breeding, just as fashion is people i U'ste." a mos i v.viiors. endless ideas i i i i mot freeways'.

On a six-hour-spin to Las Vegas have jotted (or good wife has) more a JOO ideas. HAVE YOU ever watched men and wo- DEWS SMITH W. men go through the supermarket check- stand'- Playhouse people, especially those sharing an apartment, often go strong on breakfast items: juices, rolls, easy to eat fruit. Whenever I sec a happy soul with his baske- filled with baked beans, pickles, beer, pretzels, cheese, bread and apples I suspect a bachelor is at hand. ALL ENGLISH holidays official come on a Monday (except Christmas).

Why could not America mark or celebrate all holidays on Monday. Each would afford half a dozen three-day-holidays at decent intervals. Before end this career of arranging dols and dashes between names, I'd like to hear of a Pasadena person who purchased a perfect old master of a painting in Padova and came home to find it utterly worthless. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW was one-: a dramatic critic and in Ihe later years of his long life clashed i those who would evaluate the bearded wit. Half a century ago said ol critics: "Now critics, like den- lists, arc a cood deal occupied in hurting sensitive people in sensitive places; and as they have to do it in an entertaining manner, which no doubt gives them an air of enjoying it, they produce an impression of sadism." GBS rightly defended critics from the charge of sadism.

Back When 1940 FEB. 1--School officials have decided to instruct the city's junior college and junior high school students in the gentle art of golf ball whacking. It will be one more educational frill for the taxpayers to underwrite. The national golf foundation, largely financed by makers of golf goods, lawnmowers and golf course equipment, is whole heartedly behind the move. 1950 FEB.

1--A strike of 00,000 telephone workers has been called for this week. The strike cou'd crinpic service across the a i Union leaders indicated a a 220.000 i i a phone workers may be affected by strike and would observe picket lines. Southland telephone officials said they knew of no official action a would put local workers on strike basis. The Father IN THE VIEW of Dr. Dorothy Cato who needless lo say is a woman as well as a psychinlrist.

a common emotional disorder of "modern man" causes him to he a poor a At tin; fool of the disorder is his dis- i i i i lo sit hard on Ihe female. His lo set i i provokes the woman lo ever-increasing despotism as she tries unconsciously to force him to be a man." And su he becomes "an absent father" which means that emotionally he is "hermetically a is emotionally and spirit- a absent from his family" even if he is around a great deal. In the family this man is "seldom more a an animated suit of dollies." "lie is seen in all socio-economic levels, in business or the professions," continued Dr. Cato. "His endeavors are socially laudable.

His behavior is ostensibly normal. He does not appear to be emolionally maladjusted. As a paternal figure, however, the substance of this man is, indeed, shadowy." He becomes this shadow to his kids because "he makes no effort to protect himself or his children from an unreasonable and demanding mother." This is bad for his sons who are forced lo "pattern a an inadequate male image." AS THE RESULT they may develop emo- i a disorders and when such a son marries, he force his i i a i i role so a by contrast, he can seem a a He may bully his i as his mother bullied his a and thereby convince himself lhal, he is a bolter man limn his father," Daughters arc less affected because "it appears that the 'absent father' is able to establish a limited relationship with a daughter, a relationship that is impossible for him i a son. Perhaps it is because these fathers are comfortable only i i i a females, since their marital lives show an inability to relate to adult women." Dr. Cato is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas' postgraduate school of medicine in Houston.

She was speaking in an interview in a technical quarterly with which the school keeps general medical practitioners abreast of psychiatric developments. "The dominant mother" and "the absent father" have become common because "as man's inventions have increased, his individual importance lo Ihe world has been reduced," Dr. Calo said. "It is necessary to create, but each new implement, system theory, or machine diminishes his own function, but significantly not that of women. "The important item is this: a woman can drive a tractor, fly an airplane, perform i i calculations--and still bear children.

This last-named creative ability is the source of a a jealousy netween the sexes. "Woman's involvement in Ihe actual life process is much more bnsle a man's, Men, in general, have become aware of this a a I but have not yet discovered practical ways lo rc-creato i own imporlancc. Perhaps i is one reason why, in they want lo gel to the moon." Pity the Poor Porcupine -Ituss Lcadabrand A NORTH WOODSMAN in the office protested to me this week about a story on the wire concerning the Forest Service and State Division of 'Forestry declaring war on the porcupine. In the North Woods, reports my colleague, the porcupine is protected by legend if not by law. The reason is simple.

A man in trouble in the woods, without a gun, can use a club to kill the docile porcupine. Porcupine meat, while not the finest in the world, is slightly similar to pork and is eatable. It is fine for keeping a starving, cold, lost woodsman alive. Because the porcupines are eating the tops out of small trees in California and killing them, the foresters are unhappy. This has become such a problem that several California agencies met this year lo map war against the quilly folk.

They decided that hunting and poisoning the porcupine is the best method of control. It seems a pity. It might not be entirely practical, but I'd rather see them trap and move to more mature forest areas these pesky porcupines. Porcupines are not overly plentiful in California even though they pose a forestry problem. Eradication seems less a the most a answer.

NORTH OF HERE the military service have taken over huge tracts of land for research programs. Camp Irwin, a sprawling preserve in San Bernardino County, is one of these tracts It is enormously larger than the demands on it Another such military range is the China Lake Naval bastion. Still the military wants more. The Navy has its eyes on the Saline Valley area north of the China Lake tract. Indeed if rumors seeping south out of the wild country 'are any indication, the Navy already has Saline Valley in their pocket.

A primitive road into the region 's paved. Residents point a finger at the Navy for the reasons behind this action. And now comes word that the Air Force covets a slice of land to the west of Camp Irwin known as the Cuddeback Lake area The piece of land in question is 7,545 acres of public domain lying, east of the little mining community of Atolia. The Air Force says it wants the land lor air- to-ground rocketry and bombing practice. In view of all the public land a have been made in the west for such use I think the military has enough land already.

And if each individual service does not have enough real estate, what is to prevent the Air Force from using the Navy range? Surely both services do not rocket and bomb test every day. Anyone who feels the same way can communicate then- opinions with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. 215 W. 7th Street.

Los Angeles All TIME IS RUNNING out if you plan to renew SAYS YOU Letters Column Bible Stonland Russ Leadabrand put himself among the too echelon with Ins column concerning the ridiculous commerdaltm of the proposed Bibleland Park Commercialism W1 7 td the ba ho look around a little for some of today's creative geniuses that could real duce some of terrific promo.ional projects at thr- same lime be kept in good taste Tnere is a lit lie ray of hope in i Ml OP10 llilve -ven he, 1 of he Hanging Gardens of Babylon or Noah's A will be enlightened. Maybe the concession operators who hand out dolls and stuffed elephants will give Holy Bibles for prizes. It's a thought! Perhaps it isn lost yet! Duarte EDIE Ear Ringer This nation should be thankful, at least, for the fad hat the recent flu epidemic didn't reach the astronomic proportions it did at the conclusion of World (about 23,000 died in that one). Col. Worlhley may have a good prcscription-for certain people who are not affected with the side effects sometimes present i the quinine tablets.

I know Iliov caused quite, a ringing in the ears of many servicemen during World War II who had malaria. Also, the aspirin is merely a too convenient ticpres'-r a never really gets to the root of Ihe trouble-it merely bypasses Ihe main trouble till the system automatical!" repairs itself. The best remedy is two quarts of water daily-- a'ld hike warm (on-- in the morning and one in the evenim-f beats all Ihe so-called remedies cxlant--and with NO side offeels! C. L. SKELLEY Pasadena Tug at the Heart Once again we' have the bleeding-heart views on vivisection.

If these easily emotionalized people really want to see something to stimulate their sympathetic organs, they might spend some time in the L.A Countv Hospital. It might also lug at tlieir hearts to know that our great county allows our Rood citizens, who IhroiiRli no faul- of i own arc unable lo sustain themselves I ho very generous amount of per week for food. Americans should be proud of this accoiiinlish- menl. The made "research on animals has never healed mankind" is loo ridiculous to warrant comment. Pasadena.