The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-05

United States set an example,
others took the opposite course.
The results? In 1871, there was
Pearl Harbor. In 1850, there was
Korea, where our boys were sent
to face death armed at first with
wooden, make-believe guns. Dis
armament, in the light of expert
ence, each time has proved to be
gigantic hoax so far as America
was concerned-costly in money
and lives. Now Russia has a lead
in nuclear rocketry, and suggests
the end to nuclear tests. We do
not want a disarmament agreement
which can only result in disadvan-
tage to the United States
Let us beware of a possible trap!
The bait: Peace" 1t has come
out that long ago the Communists
laid their plans to conquer America
by first, infiltrating Communist
theology into American thinking by
various means, and then, when the
right time came, to start spec
tacular movement for peace" and
disarmament" through idealistic
Americans who would cooperate
in their own destruction"
To Communist, every act which
contributes to the Communist con-
quest is a peaceful" act. If they
take a gun, they take peaceful"
gun, containing peaceful bull
let, and kill you peacefully"
When the Chinese Communists
murder millions, it is an act of
peace. When the Russians tanks
rolled into Budapest to butcher
and destroy, it was glorious peace.
And, so, we have to be leery of
the word peace" as used by the
SovietS and by those well-meaning
Americans who unwittingly are CO.
operating lin their own deStruc-
ton" Disarmament? Fine! WHEN
we can be sure it isn't another hoax!
Let us hope that at the Summit
Conference we do not give away
more than we get-for the sake of
our survival.
Federal Activities In Maryland
The Department of the Army is
soliciting bids for the construction
of an Army Reserve Center in
Westminster, Maryland. The De-
partment of Health, Education,
and Welfare, in its program for
Federal assistance for schools in
federally-affected areas, has certi-
fled for immediate payment to the
Frederick County Board of Edu-
cation the amount of SHAPES, and
to the Cecil County Board of Edu-
cation the amount of S150,385 and
has reserved the amount of S407.-
445 for St. Mary's County Board of
Education for a new Junior High
school. The Urban Renewal Ad-
ministration has granted $4,000 to
the Maryland State Planning De-
partment for the preparation of a
plan for Frederick's
growth and development the U.
S. Air Force has made a new grant
of S104000 to the University of
Maryland to enable the Institute
of Fluid Dynamics and Applied
Mathematics to continue its investi-
CATION of gas properties as high
temperatures and effects produced
by atomic and molecular collisions.
The Post Office Department has
announced new Post Offices, for
MiddletOWn, where the cOnStruc-
ton contract has been made, and
Brandywine, where bids to build
have been invited
Russia Is Far Behind-Premier
Khrushchev has painted Russia as
the worlds greatest power and the
land of plenty and prosperity.
Facts, coming to light, are taking
the wind out of Khrushchev's
boasts. When we take a second
look at the Soviet achievements
that have impressed the world,
they don't seem SO impressive. The
Russian people are complaining
about the poor quality of goods
sold them, about faulty construc-
ton, about breakdoWns in ecOnom-
ic planning, about the skinny
yield Of foodstuffs from the state
run farms. Drabness and poverty
are being revealed as the true Rus
sian picture. There is evidence
that the living standard in Russia
is primitive by American stand
ards; the average Russian receives
about one-fourth as much in con-
sumner goods as does the average
American
Even in space, where Russia got a