Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28

There are. Of course, many
kinds of fear. But they all
add up to one thing, defeat!
Is this the heritage for
which the peoples Of the
world have struggled through
the centuries and which we
wish to beQueath to our chill
dren and grandchildren?
Think and act.
Z. r. Ballinger.
There may be many names
given to the act Russia COM
mitted when she exploded her
big bomb on October "a, but
clear away the names and
the act was simple one:
Russia has made war on the
children Of the world. Plain
and simple that's it; she has
sent to them the gifts of leu
kemia. bone cancer. deformed
minds and bodies, heredi-
tary legacy of horror and
death.
HoW's it feel, Americans. to
have a nation of defective
children? For by next spring
as life renews itself upon the
earth. life will also be re
newing" itself upon our chill
dren in a new and grim as
pect.
I look at my two little ones
and l am filled with despair.
For what did we do to pre-
vent it? Nothing. We have
been so engrossed in obtain
ing a good opinion from the
soc a lled neutral nations
that we've not dared to point
out a few basic facts OF life
TO them. How can you be
neutral about manned chill
dren? Yet not one neutral"
nation has dared to raise
strong protest against the
Soviet Union. Why? Because
they're not neutral at all:
they're already in her camp.
There's no solution to this:
the damage has been done.
A nation with sick and dying
people shouldn't be too hard
to conquer. Parents lament
ing over their children aren't
so apt TO care much what
kind Of government they're
dying under.
Too bad some brave men
can't get hold Of a couple of
UPS and drop a few germs
or the equivalent over Russia.
If they were weak and sick
maybe their appetite for
world consumption wouldn't
be so hearty.
NJ. c. Trainer
Now they suggest we're
less likely to be killed by the
bomb than by that nice fell
low who lives across the
street. just as he is more
likely to be slain by us.
Respected persons. includ-
ing at least one member
of the clergy, have assured
us in print that our first re-
Sponsibilities are to our fam
lilies, Therefore. they say. a
family with a bomb shelter
suited only to its own needs
has the right - indeed. the
duty - to repel with force
such shelterleSs neighbors as
would share its safety. Some
have recommended that. in
addition to food and water,
a rifle should be stored in
our cave.
A person who does not own
a bomb shelter must logical
ly have similar familiar re-
sponsibility. Is it, therefore,
not manifestly his duty to
slaughter the occupants of a
suitable shelter so that his
family may replace them?
This process could be repeat
ed indefinitely.
Should such a philosophy
be generally accepted. the &C
tual dropping of a multi
megaton bomb will harm no
one. 1t will merely cremate
the thousands of bullet-rid-
died bodies lying outside the
shelter entrances.
Perhaps we have forgotten
those old admonitions to love
our neighbors as ourselves,
and to treat them as we
would have them treat us. If
so, we may have earned the
bomb.
Robert L. Eichberg.
I have a suggestion to make
which will test once and for
all the credibility of Civil
Defense bomb shelters and
will have the added advan-
tage af reaping some good
from the next in the Soviet's
murderous series of bomb
tests.
Let those high Government
officials who advocate that
we all build shelters build