Milford chronicle., 1960-07-15
K. ON CO-EXISTENCE

X. ON CO-EXISTENCE
Among the many reasons advanced for
the behavior of Premier KhruShchev in
Paris that May was that of heavy pressure
exerted by Peiping. The Red Chinese, so
the argument went, thought KhrIShchev
un-Communist in his determination with
Western statesmen and wanted stop put
to it. Peiping would go even further, press
ing for an immediate insensifcation of the
Cold War. This all seemed reasonable and
in keeping with international Communist
objectives.
Khrushchev's recent speech in Sofia,
Bulgaria, therefore, came as quite shock
to the proponents of this theory. In this
address he reiterated his belief in peaceful
co-existence (his BRANDY. He limited that
Mao Tse-tung and his cohorts were living in
the dead past, that the teachings of Marx
and Lenin should be reinterpreted in this,
the present.
shudder must have run through the
doctrinaire Red Chinese to hear this heresy.
Were Khrushchev to pursue this notion,
repercussions might equal those at the time
of his renunciation of Stain. To some OBJ
servers it looks as though the Soviet Prem
ier is looking for justification of his cO-ex-
istence policy and is courting a split with
Peiping. Whether this will come about soon
is most doubtful, but it may happen eventu-
ally.
We may here see the tentative begin
nings of an assertion on Russia's part that
it is European and not Asia. De Gaulle has
long expected such a move and has said so
repeatedly. The Kremlin, though it will not
jettison the Chinese partnership, may have
made up its mind that. PeipingS policy of
the external crises could lead to disaster.
1t will be most interesting to see whether
Khrushchev pursueS this matter further.
Ss~C%
THE LIGHTNING SEASON
The National Safety Council recently
warned that hardly anyone is concerned
over the danger from lightning any longer.
The fact that four people are killed each
week by lightning, and more than this in
the summer (the average is about four per
week for the year,, and some thirty injured
each week in the United States alone, shows
we should take proper precautions and have
greater respect for the power of lightning
One statistician recently figured out that
during the April-October lightning season,
the average person could expect forty to
eighty lightning bolts to strike within half
a mile of his house. The same statistician
claims that more than one-third of all fires
in rural areas are caused by electrical dis
charges such as lightning.
In general, there is one simple rule to
avoid the primary danger of being struck by
lightning. Never let yourself become the
high OBJECT In the area, or be caught on the
highest object in the area, as a thunder
storm approaches
The safest places to be, in lightning
Storm are in protected homes, steelframed
buildings, or in an automobile with the win
dows closed. If you are out in the open,
get into low place, such as ravine, under
a cliff, or maybe in ditch or cave. If you
cannot do that, lie fiat on the ground
And, as a final note, remember that tele-
do ,0k
Actually, these antennas are often an open
invitation to lightning, and many sets are
struck each year and persons by them are
sometimes killed or injured
N&S%0@&
POLIO TIME
The polio season is upon us, or almost
here, and we remind our readers that al
though we have a vaccine-or several vac
cines-polio is still taking heavy toll of
American lives