Milford chronicle., 1951-07-13
Maybe This Is The Best WAY
TO Confuse The Enemy

To Confuse The Enemy
Photographs of Of an atomic
blast both black-and-white an,
colcY, have been sent to a numbe
Of y. S. newspapers and maya
zines by the Atomic Energy Com
mission. There was no story at
iaehed, merely the caption for til,
picture which read Atomic ex
plOsiOn, Frenchman's Flat, Ne
vada, u S. A. E. G. test program
January-F february, 1851"
And now, as the first intefpreta.
tions Of what the picture might
mean are beginning to appear, We
are beginning to think that per.
haps there are some smart people
in Washington after all. We can
visualize newspaper editors, mag
azine editors, and still other edi-
tors, tossing these photos on the
desks of sweating miniOns and de-
manding See what you can make
out Of this.
As q result, some think the burst
is going up, some think it's COM
ing down Some say it's vertical,
some that it's inclined a degree or
two this way or that which proves
etc. ETC. Others believed it to
have been an underground exblO-
sion, or maybe a guided missile
with an atomic Warhead that fell
neatly where it was supposed to,
right in front OF the camera!
At any rate,athe American press
is giving Joe Stalin's avid search
ers (whO are said to read every
y. S. publication from seed cata-
logues to Sears, Roebuck, and from
comic books to the Pharmac0paeia)
some fun!
Unless they have some more
pictures made on the spot by their
own boys.
A Press Agent By Any Other Name
Smells SWeeter In Washington
There was a law passed against
it in 1913, but there are currently
reported to be 4,199 publicity men
in government bureaus at a cost of
more than a hundred million dol
lars a year. Senator Byrd fDem.) /
Of Virginia, the nations number
one champion Of federal economy, /
thinks we could get along without /
quite so many.
So does Editor K =. SheimO Of /
Preston Times at Nake Preston, S.
d., who states editorially: IAN ed
itor Of a weekly paper becomes
more and more beWildered day af-
ter day. with the continued in
crease of releases sent BY the
increasing bureaus and agencies
Of the federal government, each
Of whom has its story to tell, it's
phase Of activity, its orientation or
indOctrinatiOn Of its philosophy for
the readers.
Each week the Times receives
from Is to 20 more. Each
source seems to forget that the
usual weekly is about eight pages.
Two, three, four or more pages
of single-spaced material make up
these releases. They are too long ,
to be used. There is not time to ,
reWrite or edit them. So they are
merely tossed aside-Wasted eff
fort, wasted paper and wasted pos
tai service"
And your correspondent agrees
with these gentlemen too. What is
the Government trying to do? Run
a taxpayer out of business and then
spend somebody else's tax money
feeding him?
Let's Not Confuse Truce With
Peace Or Victory!
A cease-fire is not a victory. 1T
is not peace. Not in Korea, or
else. The shooting stops.
The belligerents lick their wounds,
get shave and a bath and stand
BY to go at it again If peace talks
fail to jell.
Whether Russia and the Chi
nese Reds really want to end the
Korean slaughter, no one can tell
at this writing. Obviously they
have much to gain by merely sug-
costing the idea and putting the
date for the cease-fire parley DAYS
ahead. This is especially true
when neither we nor the u, N. are
able to know what goes on in the
staging areas during
this interim. Morale Of troops can
be expected to take a nOse-dive
when truce-talk is uppermost in
mind.
Traditionally, the American PeO-
pie have hated war, been eager at
he close of every conflict to dis
irm and forget. Sensitive to this.
he Congress may be tempted to
clamp down on foreign aid and
iefense appropriations. And at the
moment both the Military and the
Administration are warning the
Of the deadly peril of
our determination to get
trOng-fast.
Assuming all goes well, incred-
bly, well, peace talks will be leng-
ny and aggFaVating to western
MINDS. The troops will stay on, no
ne can guess how long. And il
the view of many experts that
peace talks should fail, the Kor-
an war win not be resumed, but
pen shooting war with Russia may
tart
But to continue our optimism
uppose a peace Is achieved with
cceptable guarantees, shall we
ave won or lost? We talk Of how
ostly the fighting has been to the
ed Chinese. IT has been costly to
8, too. And it has been mighty
heap for Stain! The time to cheer
not yet.
JHst In Time To Save The
sJOhn Hancock
For $50 years, according to the
lbrary Of Congress, a method has
zen sought to preserve Americas
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