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In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.

Somehow our contemporary Moloch must be induced to see reason.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

To hang 50 Governors might be preferable except that they are not directly related to the highways ; ;

so, all things considered, the highway commissioners would seem to be elected.

As the new clouds of radioactive fallout spread silently and invisibly around the earth, the Soviet Union stands guilty of a monstrous crime against the human race.

But the guilt is shared by the United States, Britain and France, the other members of the atomic club.

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

As it descends, the concentration of radioactivity builds up in the human body ; ;

for a dose of radiation is not like a flu virus which causes temporary discomfort and then dies.

The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.

So, while we properly inveigh against the new poisoning, history is not likely to justify the pose of righteousness which some in the West were so quick to assume when Mr. Khrushchev made his cynical and irresponsible threat.

Shock, dismay and foreboding for future generations were legitimate reactions ; ;

a holier-than-thou sermon was not.