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4 Gazette Leader Post Medina. 0.. June ItM From Where We Stand Editorial Views Harsh Words! Ohio State Finance Director Richard L. Krabach may hit on the cause for an increasing number of failures of school levies and bond in Ohio. There has been an alarming increase over the past five years in rejection by the voters of local school money questions on the ballot.

Addressing a meeting of school superintendents in Sandusky last week, Krabach said educators not getting across to the people the things that we know are Educators too much time talking to ourselves and not with the he declared. "Higher education people feel their ideas are good, even if the people are too stupid to understand Harsh words, indeed! Perhaps too harsh to sit well with school officials throughout the state. We suspect Mr. Krabach meant them to be harsh enough to stir educators to take a second and closer look at their approach to the general public. Just recently The Gazette questioned the wisdom of a promise by the newly-appointed state superintendent to make Ohio one" in education.

That approach was completely unrealistic in view of that fact that only a year ago educators, seeking to win support for the controversial sales tax increase to upgrade education, had made much of low ranking among the 50 states in educational matters. If Mr. words were a little harsh on the school officials in attendance, perhaps that is what is needed. We applaud his un-varnished approach. Tit For Tat We blame Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, for feeling a bit toward King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

His Majesty, taking the liberty permitted of a ruling monarch, had made some public utterances which set well with large segment of voters in New York City. In fact the King had made it explicit that Jews are sworn enemies of the Arab Kingdom. The deliberate snub by Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller may be justified on a personal basis, and perhaps even on a sound political basis. But their act was hardly one to be condoned in the national interest. King Faisal may have been guilty of intemperate words, but his position is certainly no surprise to anyone who follows international events.

If it was stupid of King Faisal to brazen'y make comments that would result in open antagonism and we believe it was sheer stupidity it was also childishly immature for Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller to retaliate. It Took Hard Work A determined campaign to make the public aware of the constant need for blood donations paid dividends last Friday in Medina. The turnout of 153 pints of blood donated, and 36 additional donors given temporary deferrals, is indeed a mark of which all concerned can be proud. The effort took a lot of hard work on the part of Red Cross officials and industrial leaders, and even more long, difficult hours by the volunteers, nurses and doctors who manned the Bloodmobile. It is customary, after such a successful campaign, to extend thanks to all those who volunteered their blood that others might live.

We also feel, in view of the extremely hot weather, and the new and unfamiliar procedures involved in Bloodmobile visit, that those volunteers who gave of their time to handle the operation deserve an extra special commendation. Their sacrifice was considerable. MEDINA COUNTY GAZETTE LEADER POST Published daily except Sundays and holidays by Medina County Publications, Inc. Punlic Square, Medina, Ohio, 44256 Second Class Mail privilege authorized at Medina, 0. Rates single copy 7c.

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Cowden General Manager Stuart A. Borden Attracting Kitty's Attention Foreign Comment, Phil Newsom Chou Finds New Causes For China's Unhappiness For Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai, the long trip to Bucharest had been a waste of time. The Romanians had refused to budge from their position of neutrality between the Soviet Union and Red China and furthermore had denied him any opportunity to denounce the Soviet Union from Romanian soil, presumably the main purpose of his trip. There were other reasons for dissatisfaction. Informed Bucharest sources said that among them were support of the nuclear test ban and its increasingly dose trade ties with the West, including the United These sources said China oppoaad any easing of tensions in Europe which might enable Russia or the United States to shift forces to the Far East.

Assumes Interest The mention of Russia in this context assumes special interest in the light of other recent developments in Sino-Soviet relations in Asia. Among them has been the increasingly vituperative nature of Red Chinese protests against In Washington, Ralph deToledano Communists Promise "A Big Splash rt After years of hiding under a cabbage leaf, the Communist Party U.S.A. has partly emerged from its self-imposed obscur- rity. Looking about it at the in popular attitudes or at least the admission by the Liberal Establishment that it had no real hard feelings, the CPUSA has dipped its big toe in political waters, with the promise of a big splash to follow. To be specific about it, the party held its first slightly open convention in many years.

The press was invited to one session and the Invited were not given the X-ray treatment to determine whether or net they carried miniature tape recorders, button-hole cameras, and itching powder. That convention is already serving a useful purpose. One of the delegates was Betti a Aptheker. She was one of the leaders of the rioting and planned academic chaos at the University of California in Berkeley, but those who noted that her father was the Communist Party theoretician, Herbert Aptheker, were charged with guilt by chromosome. Such hardy souls as called her a member found themselves at the receiving end of ancient eggs and the McCarthyism charge.

WITH THE PARTY at least admitting that Communists really exist, it has cleared the air for some but made life exceedingly difficult for others who insist that it is all the figment of diseased political imaginations. In the future, it will be possible to call Miss Aptheker a Communist when she again leads the storm troops of juvenile Marxism-Leninism into battle. I have never feared a a who says, am a Communist and this is what I He has labeled himself and what he says or does has a reasonable chance of being assessed properly. I do feel concern over the man who, just having paid his party dues, draws himself up indignantly to deny membership, lectures with outraged piety those who have called him to order and then proceeds to say and do all the things that the avowed Communist has already said and done. An open Communist convention also serves as a fever chart for that curious illness of youth and the intellectuals.

At a time when the United States is at de- facto war with the North Vietnamese and the Chinese Reds, the number of Communists in this country is increasing. I single out those two groups because party membership was never cherished by the so-called working class in America. major hold has been among college youth and the catch-all word which has come to include actors and entertainers. THAT GROWTH has been noted by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, but It is automatic in the Liberal Establishment to hoot at everything he says.

The party now claims 12,000 dues-paying increase of 2,000 in the past year. That may seem small until we recall what the researchers of scholars and security agencies have conclusively shown that for every organizationally integrated Communist Party member there are at least ten others whose affiliation is carried only in the records scrupulously maintained in Moscow. To this figure of about 130,000, can be added those who with reasonable determination follow the something that no one has mentioned in a decade. There were 1,000 delegates at the convention, which makes the 12,000 dues-paying figure seem very small to experienced observers. But even the figure should give Americans able pause.

Far fewer Communists took over the Soviet Union in 1918-1919. They did it against the aroused opposition of democratic Russians and the military onslaught of anti-Communist armies varying ideologies. The mission of the CPUSA is far less ambiti- that. THE KREMLIN is not out for the overthrow of our government yet. And any steps in that direction are carried out by the underground Communist Party of which the nominal chief, Gus Hall, knows very little indeed.

The American party is expected to proliferate indoctrinate the young with a suspicion of their society, stir up the kind of trouble we are now experiencing over Viet Nam, and set up policy-destructive cadres in and around sensitive agencies. With the party tentatively moving into the open, it may be possible to distinguish the sheep from the matter how often the goats says baa-baa. It may be, that is, if th informed and responsible anticommunists are allowed to cry havoc without being dismissed by the mass media as John Birchers, conspiracy theorists, and general all around lice. News Focus, Charles Bartlett Road To Peace May Start In Europe WASHINGTON A theory of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's that it might be possible to trade concessions in Europe for peace in South Viet Nam is being quietly explored in Washington and other capitals. The idea is that the Soviet Union, concerned above all with problems of European security, may be willing to choke off her support of the guerilla war in Asia in exchange for concessions aimed at stabilizing Europe.

West long overdue acknowledgement of the Oder- Neisse boundary might be one concession. Abandonm of contemplations of an Atlantic Nuclear Force might be another. If the idea reached a negotiating stage, the larger question of German re-unificat i could be discussed. The cautious, unimaginative nature of the present leadership in the Kremlin discourages top officials in Washington from holding high hopes for the Wilson theory. This is the kind of transaction which might have appealed to Nikita Khrushchev but it may well lie outside the less venturesome pattern of the Brezhnev Kosygin approach to foreign policy.

The idea bolds special attractions for Wilson, who has never liked the Atlantic Nuclear Force and is anxious, since his Labor Party is exceed i 1 wary of the Germans, to resolve the German problems before he presses for acceptance by the European Common Market. The inducements of sions from West Germany will also be attractive to the East European satellites. Their slender resources are being taxed to sustain the war in Viet Nam and their future interests lie in a Europe in which the ideological barriers are down. Some of their impatience with the Asian hostilities erupted last week to mar the harmony of Chou visit to Rumania. THE WEST is convinced that the Soviets can do much more than they have to bring the war to an end.

They are supplying a lion's share of the resources which sustain the fighting. The North Vietnamese have been obliged to move closer to them in order to keep Peking at a respectful distance. A special opportunity has been provided by the sudden appearance of a paralyzing disarray within Red China. Something big, larger than a political power struggle and less controlled than previous purges, is in progress. The alignment of personalities and issues is not yet known but the conflict clearly concerns the basic policies which have steered the government into salemate.

It is logical to assume that the Mao government is being challenged for its courtship of simultaneous hostilities with the two strongest nations. But neither the Soviet Union or the United States has been mentioned in connection with -conflict. Indeed the government is making a strenuous effort to keep Red eign relations divorced from its internal dissidence. THE UNCERTAINTIES 1 China added to the pounding by the American military must be assumed to have cooled North Viet arder for the war. But while intelligence sources can report that Ho Chi Minh has switched at 75 to Salem cigarettes, almost nothing is known of the state of morale within the politboro in Hanoi.

The war is perpetuated by the same conflict of Communist dogmas which has tangled ail the efforts at settlement. The Red Chinese need a victorious conclusion to establish the efficacy of doctrines. It is their only chance to justify their policies. The Soviets need to protect their leadership Now You Know (From Unitad Press International) About 750,000 of the 40 million Americans who paid taxes in 1965 received rebates from the federal government. The last person to be publicly guillotined in France was the murderer Eugene Weidmann, who was executed at Versalles on June 17.

1939. the imposed on a weak imperial China by the powers of Europe during the opium wars of 1841-42 and 1857-58. On May 28, 1858, China ceded to Russia a part of the Amur River district linking Siberia with Vladivostok. Altogether, these "unjust treaties" cost pre-revolutionary China nearly one million square miles of territory. In April of this year, the Chinese en 1 imposed sweeping new controls on Amur River traffic to national sovereignty.

Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi followed this with an interview granted to Scandinavian journalists in which he recalled past aggression against China by Czarist Russia and accused the Soviets of going beyond the treaties to what they call line formed by Soviet maps show the Amur and its tributary, the Argun, to be the firm border line between Red China and Siberia. Chinese maps show the border to be undefined. Leaders Restate Claims Out of this in late May and early June came trips by two of top leaders to the Soviet Far East to restate their claims. Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgomy warned in the industrial city of Khabarovsk on the Amur that the Soviets would protect their Far Eastern territories against any invader.

Party leader Leonid Brezhnev delivered a similar warning in Vladivostok. As relations between Red China and the Soviets have worsened border incidents have increased and there have been reports of an extensive buildup of Soviet forces in the Far East. Incidents have been frequent also along th Soviet tense frontier with Red Sinkiang Province. Approximately one-third of the Red Chinese army has been reported deployed along the Soviet frontier. Historically, the Chinese never have recognized loss of territory.

But to all Chinese approaches, the Soviets have replied that as far as they are concerned the issue is not negotiable. The Editor's Mailbox 'Handicapped' Unit Explains Purpose To The Editor: In the June 23rd issue of your paper a letter written by Mrs. Nancy Kissick appeared in your Letters to the Editor column. It had to do with the Society for Handicapped Children of Medina County and the name and function of this organization. It has occurred to me that there may possibly be others of your readers who share the misconception expressed by Mrs.

Kissick about this group. To clarify any such misunderstanding in the minds of any of your readers I am enclosing a copy of a letter written to Mrs. Kissick concering this matter and asking you to use it in one of your Letters to the Editors columns of your paper. Ann Tubbs, Secretary in the communist world against the Chinese allegation that they have lost their revolution a spirit. The nub upon which theor may stumble is the sharpening bitterness of this ideological debate.

The recent World Peace Council at Geneva produced new evidence of determination to make it awkward for the Soviets to conciliate are an accomplice of U. S. imperialism," the Chinese delegate kept shouting at the Soviets. This tactic has deterred the Kremlin from any significant reach for settlement. Meanwhile President Johnson is taking fresh pains to display the determination to prosecute the war which may prove in the end to be the surest road to peace.

The American held its first convention on Nov. 8, 1919. Approximately 100,000 Europeans live on boats and barges, according to the National Geographic. Dear Mrs. Kissick: Your letter to the Editor which appeared in the June 23rd.

issue of the Gazette Leader-Post has come to my attention. In your letter you suggest that the Society for Handicapped Children of Medina County should: 1 Change their name. 2 Come to grips with their problem. 3. Expand their servic and efforts.

May I comment on these suggestions and explain to you why we chose the name we have and something of the function of our organization? According to Webster, the word handicap means, en- cumberance or disadvantage which makes success With this definition as the basis for our thinking in determining (he work we to do in the years ahead, we drew up on April 20, 1953 the following resolution: hereby move to form an organization to be known as The Society for Handicapped Children of Medina County, to assist and work with the necessary city, county, and or state officials to provide special schooling and equipment for the education and training of handicapped children in Medina We recognized then as we still do today, the fact that there are many forms of handicaps: mental handicaps, physical handicaps, emotional handicaps, neurological handicaps, etc. Service to all persons with handicaps, was the reason' for our organization. It has been our guiding principal for over 13 years and it remains the reason for our existence today. The name or type of handicap has not been our primary concern. The person who has the handicap is our concern and it is the individual we try to help.

We have not always been able to provide facilities for every handicapped person who has asked for help. No one can be all things to all people. We have, however, to the best of our ability, either provided local service or referred requests to the nearest source of service. We are constantly seek i ways to improve and expand our facilities and services. This is not an easy thing to do under any circumstances.

The Society for Handicapped Children has no paid workers: all of our people work on a volunteer basis. We have no public funds for support; all of our money must come from contributions. know there is much yet to be done and we are facing our problems realistically and making every effort to reach that happy day when' a complete range of services for all persons with handicaps of any nature will be available. It is true that at the present time our program might seem to be most deeply involved with the mentally handicapped (retarded). This is so because at the time our group was organized this was the one area in the county in which no work at all had ever been done.

Since we had to start somewhere it seemed logical to start in the area where there was the greatest need. This is where we started; it is not where we plan to stop. The recreation and day camping facilities for which we are currently raising funds are to be followed by residential camping and eventually a home for the homeless handicapped of the county. All of these facilities will be available to all persons with a handicap who can possibly participate and benefit from them. Again, it is not the name or kind of handicap which concerns us the most, it is the person with the handicap whom we are trying to serve.

We are and always have been' concerned with all persons in our community who have encumberance or disadvantage which makes success We have done our best to do as much as possible to assist as many as possible. We have been able to work with the County Welfare the County Commissioners, and the State Dept, of Mental Hygiene as well as all of the public schools in the county to help prov i services for the mentally handicapped. For this privilege we are both proud and humbly gratefu 1. These people however, are not the only ones whom we are interested. We look forward to the day when we are able as the Society for Handicapped Children, to help bring to all people with a handicap, services and facilities which will enable them to become happy, useful, well adjusted members of our community.

I trust this letter will explain to you something of our work, our plans and hopes for the future, and the significance of our name, and that understanding all this we may on your support of the work we are trying to do for and with ail the handicapped of our county. Ann Tubbs, Secretary Society for Handicapped Children of Medina Countv..