Milford chronicle., 1956-05-11
Washington
Letter
Bigger Is Not Better

Bigger Is Not Better
We ought to quit trying to make
bigger hydrogen bombs, Atomic En-
eFgy Commissioner Thomas e. Muir
ray told Senate Disarmament sub
comittee, and we ought TO quit right
now-without waiting for interna-
tional agreements. Further, he
thought we ought to quit testing
the big hydrogen weapons.
1t doesn't make sense to the
Commissioner to keep making them
bigger and bigger while insisting
we're not going to use them. Under
stress of a threat to its survival
nation will use any weapon it
has In hand, however recklessly.
II there is any seeming advantage
In its use"
All of which reminds us of
President Eisenhower's recent press
conference comment on the possi-
bility of "billion-ton INT nuclear
bomb" Having achieved a bomb
of maximum tactical size, he said
Il would think you would go no
farther"
But have we satisfied the curl
osity of the nuclear scientists?
Watch That Fall-0uts
We learn from the erudite and
unimpeachable Whaley-raton Ser
vice that the Soviet Unions 1956-60
Five Year Plan contemplates the
construction of an atomic ice
breaker. Reports give its displace-
ment as $4,000 tons, speed 45 kilo-
meters per hour (nearly 30mpn)
and state 1t will be powered by
10000 kilowatt reactor. 1t is ex-
pected to burn up about 172 pounds
of uranium a year in making steam
for the turbo-electric power plant
and for squirting out ahead to melt
the ice.
This reminds us OF that other
Soviet ice-breaker now in oper-
alton. the denunaation of the great
god Stain and of the "cult of the
individuaTr, (which is TO break
through the frigid barriers of the
free world, and with its jets of
steam to warm up the worlds
socialists TO acceptance of the
idea that after all they and the
Commies are biological brothers.
Wonderful they don't blow
up.
New Approach
AS Washington's Police Chief
Robert V. Murray ordered a crack
down on teen-age gangs menacing
the National Capital, New York's
Governor Averell Hartman signed
a bill by which parents may take
the rap--fines up to $3.50 and Jail
up to 80 days-for failure to con-
troll deliquent acts by their off
spring.
The Governor expressed doubts
about the effectiveness of the new
law, but doesn't think it will do any
harm. We agree with the latter
view, and believe it will be helpful
But we think this law should go
a little farther and make parents
financially liable for the depre-
dations and vadalism of their ne
elected children
Yet it's real progress when the
law recognizes parental delin-
quency.
Time For A Red China Plank
Since the majority of UN member
nations is willing, the General As
sembly of that body will not con-
vene until after the Presidential
election is safely out of the way
The original meeting date of
September 18th was postponed to
November 18th. News dispatches
from that New York City No-Man's
Land naively state that the United
States favored the postponement
1t is just possible that the fur
ther fact that admission of Red /
China is item one on the Assembly
agenda had something to do with
the change OF dates. But. whatever
is back of this gentlenaniy inter-
national concern for the serenity
of our election campaign. IL can
not be denied that Americans face
no graver issue than that of
whether the ruthless Chou en-Lai
and his murderous regime are to
be whitewashed by the Assembly.
and our ally, Nationalist China,
thrown out to make room for these
Asiatic Reds.
II the Administration is in any
doubt as to the attitude of the
American people on this momen-
tcus question. a mandate can ba
had before November 18th. The
Republican convention needs only
20 include a Red China plank in
its forthcoming platform In fact.
Il Is the duty of both parties to
declare themselves clearly and un-
mistakably on this point before
asking for nublic support
To dnck the question Is To sug-
Rest that u Is none of our business.
or to admit upcertaintv---or arouse
the uglv suspicion that we have al
ready been committed.
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