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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FallJ, Or.
Thursday, February 14, MM
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Both: "Having a Little Trouble?"
ndecision Toppled
Canadian Leaders
Having raised somewhat timidly a ques
tion regarding the validity of the thinking
of the New Frontier fiscal policy-makers,
we were encouraged by these paragraphs from
The Wall Street Journal. The editors of that
eminent journalistic enterprise know wherefor
i they speak in the field of finances and deficit
" spending. Here are a few of the thoughts ex
pressed in an editorial in the Journal:
"It was not long ago, as time runs in
history, that physicians recommended curing
every human ill from gout to pernicious anem
ia by bleeding the patient. The few who ques
tioned the practice of leeching met the crush
ing retort that they were challenging the
main stream of informed medical opinion.
And so they were.
,.' "Today the same retort is often hurled
at anyone who questions the current doctrine
that chronic Government deficits are good
nay, even miraculous economic hygiene.
Recently Dr. Waller Heller, chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers, used it quite
effectively in response to some criticisms of
(be Administration's budget, tax and mone
tary policies.
i " T think what you are challenging,' said
Dr. Hdllcr to his critic, 'is really the main
stream of economics. I don't think you are
challenging merely the policy of one Adminis
tration.' "If by the phrase 'main stream' Dr. Hel
Our Lagging Crime Defense
An old axiom of warfare has it that soon
er or later the defense always catches up
with the offense. One could wish it were ap
plicable to the victims of criminals.
Not the least disturbing aspect in to
day's large and rising volume of robberies, as
saults and burglaries is the uncvenness of the
"match" between criminals and victims.
And with shopping centers, branch banks,
gasoline stajons and homes springing up in
growing numbers, criminals' opportunities to
get at money ami goods arc vastly multiplied
Ycl we live in a society which seems in
capable of thinking up new defenses against
their marauding assaults. Now and then a com
munity grudgingly increases its police force,
voles money for high speed radio contact,
-and the like.
But even an enlarged police force cannot
be everywhere in towns and cities with so
much wealth steadily and invitingly exposed.
As aggressors, especially if armed, crim
nals on the streets or breaking into buildings
naturally stir fear. But they themselves are
not immune to fear. Why can't we play upon
it in more effective ways?
Thieves fear identification. Well, then,
let some inventive outfit switch from making
guns for indiscriminate sale to making good,
cheap cameras w hich would photograph every
imlividual who presents himself at shop coun
ters, hotel desks, gasoline stations, etc.
Some banks do this now, and some super
markets televise the whole market area In de
tect shoplifters. This is a mere start.
McNamara
nv AHTIIt It KltOCK
(In The New York Times I
There is no question thai in
many respects the magiclanlcin
show produced yesterday under
thr direction of Secretary of De
lens MrNamnra wan the greatest
ever. Never hefore has govetn
mcnt excised to in people, and
simultaneously to its friends and
enemies abroad and those who
are sitting on the fence, solid evi
dence of how ill gathering of
essential defense information is
conducted, and llieir results in de
tail Moreover, never before was a
scrap of Mich evidence made pub
lic in a continuing situation he
c.iuse even a scrap reduces the
ellcclivencss of the gathering of
such inlormation thereafter.
When a government, specilical
ly a democratic government, re
sorts to (he extreme tlie Kennedy
Administration did in McN'ama
ra's (devised and illustrated news
conference j esterday, it requires
neither a gift for analysis nor
extrasensory perception to locate
(he causes. One. very clearly, was
political: to discredit the Republi
cans who have disputed (be Ad
ministration' public evaluation of
(he Cuban military threat, with
growing intensity, and on claims
cither that their source of infor
mation were superior, or that the
Administration, led by the Presi
dent, was deliberately coniraling
from (he people (lie true facts nl
(he situation.
Favorable Public Response
In (he last few- day a. this Repub
lican activity has taken over
front-page headlines and prime
TV and radio broadcast lime. In
letters, telegrams and discussion
Leeches To Cure
Bandits are also alarmed and unnerved
by sudden, loud noises and big bursts of
bright light. Some stores and homes use such
devices now, but their total number is small.
To be effective, such defensive measures
must be altered jn pattern from time to time
(maybe bells for a while, then a frantic klax
on). If they become wholly predictable, ad
vantage may be lost.
They must he placed where thieves can
not destroy them. Clerks, shopkeepers and
others should he able to operate them from
several widely spaced foot treadles, so touch
ing them off will not alert the thieves in ad
vance. The treadles which trip these mechan
isms should also send a signal direct to the
nearest police station, activating a flag which
indicates instantly the pin-pointed spot being
robbed. Fire departments have such devices.
Quick contact with a roving squad should put
police swiftly on the scene.
All this would be immensely costly, slow
in installation. So is the mountainous toll in
stolen money and property and the in
surance premiums which rise as the risk in
creases. The notions here are merely suggestive.
Properly, we in this country worry about as
suring the rights of the accused. Isn't it time
wo did a little more than talk about protect
ing the innocent victims of crime? Surely we
can think of something.
Show Adds Distrust
groups the American people were
reading more and more fa.
vniahly to this Republican agita
tion, partly because it recalled
some, at least suier(icially dubi
ous, explanations made bv Mr.
Kennedy of why official intelli
gence did not establish much ear
lier that Cuba had Ivecome a So
viet Russian fortress.
So obviously it wa.s determined
within the Administration that I he
issue had become so hot again the
President would require more
moans to cool it down at his next
news conferem-e; and that this
necessity would endure over Hie
netvssarily limited enod in
which he could prudently jiovt
pone that established medium of
meeting with the remitters. There
fore, and this corro.spondcnt has
been given to understand as a
feat which could be entrusted with
the greatest confidence to the dar
ing young man on the highest
Pentagon tiapcc, the great mag
ic lantern show was decider! on
and assembled, with the h.itte re
quired if it was In shrink the loom
ing dimensions of the subject of
Cuban armament at the Presi
dent s next news conference.
I'nquostionahly, yesterday's er
formance tinder the auspices of
Secretary MrN'aniaia. extraordi
nary in any case but made much
mote so by the advent ot world
wide television, removed any
doubt that t'nilcd Stales air sur
veillance of Cuba has lioen incred
ibly revealing since the intra -Ad.
ministration nppnnenls of low alii .
lude inspection lost the suppuit of
the President, lint this does not
make weightless the criticism, not
only from Republican sources, thai
Anemia
ler means the economic views which dominate
our times, then Dr. Heller is right. At least
the voices heard most loudly, in the academy
or in public life, are those of economists who
tell us we need never worry about big Gov
ernment deficits.
"But is it true? '
"Is it true that chronic deficits are harm
less? Or that the cure for years of deficits
is the greatest peacetime deficit ever planned?
Does a nation burdened with an imbalance of
international payments, a steady loss of its
gold reserve, a heavy burden of defense costs,
a public debt larger than the worjd has ever
seen docs it solve all these problems by
printing more money to spend abroad as well
as at borne, making its public debt even larg
er and giving our creditors more reason to
trust the value of our gold than the value of
our dollars?
"Is it true that the United Stales has
somehow found the magic way to avoid for
ever the day of retribution which has come
at last to every nation before us that has
followed such a policy?
"Now perhaps all of these things are
true, as Dr. Heller and many others tell us.
But the point of the public discussion is the
question of their truth or falsity, not how
many men preach them. Bad medicine re
mains bad medicine though leeches be pre
scribed by every doctor in the land."
'A Mr. Kennedy deferred (his
siipKiit for a considerable time
after it should have been given:
and that iH the late Scptcnilier
early October hurricane weather is
not a complete explanation.
Some Things In Ponder
Also, the illustrated. McNamara
interview creates other considcra
turns for the American people to
ponder. The Secretary, at several
points in the reportortal qui thai
lollowed the television show, evad
ed responsixe answers to ques
tions which seemed to some of the
hest-informed and responsible re
porters present not to impinge on
national security.
There are several additional as
vcts of this disclosure of exhib
its long classified, usually per
manently, as top secret that the
American eople would do well to
think over. The first is that the
press for weeks and months has
sought in vain (or publication
privileges of even the less reveal
ing graphs shown yesterday of
our intelligence activities in Cuba
The ses-ond is that, not until the
political danger from this conceal
ment was plain did the Adminis.
(ration provide Ihe people with in
formation no k'ss legitimate when
sought by Ihe ress than it was
yesterday. The Ihud is that the
Montoe Doctrine's total hemis
pheric exclusion of foreign sys
tems is a dead letter.
The fourth, am) most worth
pondering, is the presidential
IKiwei whuh can command al
most two hours of free prime TV
and radio time in contrast with
the impotence of any request by
Ihe opposition party tor even re
motely matching facilities.
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IN WASHINGTON
Ry RALPH de TOf.KDANO
Until the federal Communica
tions Commission began pushing
for UHK ultra high frequency
television Channel 37 was no
problem. Radio astronomers used
it for mapping outer space. Com
mercial TV stuck to VHr , giving
Ihe scientisls a clear field. Chan
nel .17 was important to American
radio astonomers in one other
way. It's the band used in Europe
and Asia by the scientilic com
munity. This meant that the range
Irom 608 lo 614 megacycles was,
to all intents and purposes, re
served for world-wide experimen
tal science.
The FCC, hoping lo broaden
Ihe scope of television but held
hack by Ihe channel limilations
of VHr', recommended legislation
that would compel U.S. TV manu
facturers to include UHF in all
new sets. This, it was believed,
would increase competition by
allowing a greater number of TV
stations in each locality.
Passage by Congress of the
UHK law lasl year stirred up in
terest in the new channels sud
denly opened up to commercial
television. Economically, Ihe ul
tra high frequency bands ceased
to be a vast waslciand and
wculd-be station owners began
grabbing.
One of the channels they want
In grab is .17 and Ihe radio as
tronomers are up in arms. They
claim, and no one has challenged
them on Ibis, that (heir research
es into the nature o.' outer space
will be dead as a dodo if the
are driven off Channel .17. They
want a uniform channel across
the country so thai signals will
not lie drowned out by nearby
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commercial stations. They argue
that the National Aslronaulical
Observatory in West Virginia and
other research stations will be
forced to shut up shop if com
mercial TV takes their channel.
(A radio telescope is a sensi
tive instrument. It must be del
icately turned to pick up stellar
radiation. If it is crowded by
nearby stations on the same band,
Ihe scientists will pick up more
of the hossa nova than of the
music of the spheres.)
Commercial television has a
spectrum ranging tiom Channel
2 to Channel 82. which should he
enough. Rut according lo KCC
chairman Newton Minow, four
companies in New Jersey alone
covet Channel .17. That there are
no olher channels open for our
scientists does not impress (hose
w ho now pound at the FCC's door.
The radio astronomers seem In
have both logic and right on
their side. The exploration of
space is a national enterprise,
and the air waves ate Ihe prop
erty of the public, licensed lo pri
vate companies that must make
use of them subject lo specific
regulations.
The country, moreover, will
iose little if it is deprived of one
more mouth-and-eyepiece for in
sipid horse operas, d?lective thrill
ers that have lost their point, ag
ing comedians with aged material,
and mighty little that is either en
tertaining or informatiw. Even
the news commentators grow stal
er with each passing day.
It can be reported that in this
controversy, Mr. Minow is on the
side of the angels. Oddly enough,
he is supxirted by the conserva
tive members of the House Inter
Aotwer to Prsvioui Punt
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state Commerce Commitlee. which
has jurisdiction over Ihe FCC. I
say "oddly" because these mem
bers and Mr. Minow have not
exactly seen eye to eye in the
past.
But there is a real possibility
that the angels will lose. Some
mighty arm-twisting is taking
place at 12th and Pennsylvania
where the FCC hangs out. A
"compromise" is being worked
mil that will relegate the radio
astonomers to remote mountain
areas where no one wants a TV
station anyway leaving the rest
of Channel 37 to Ihe commercial
broadcasters. If this happens, the
$750,000 radio telescope construct
ed by the University of Illinois
will have to be junked but no
matter.
What puzzles me is Ihe silence
from the White House. President
Kennedy tells us now we must
sacrifice for the national good.
He stresses the need for an ex
panding scientific vision in Amer
ica. He wants to subsidize our
colleges so that there will be a
steady stream ot young scientists.
But he does not seem ready to
give up one UHF channel. Cain't
have none o' them empty saddles
on the New Frontier. .
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Right
When government dictates In
man how and when he shall eon
duct his business that is dictator
ship. When man so desires lo do
business on Sunday he is within
his constitutional righls. guaran
teed by our consti.ution.
Government dictatorship has no
place in Ihe field ol free enter
prise. What is free enterprise, ask
yourself, is it a thing of Ihe
past?
Give it some serious thought.
True, these are only words, but
you are capable of enforcing
them. Let's do it.
People in Oregon cannot be
forced into religion. This is their
(iod given right of choice.
George E. LaSalle.
won Ukeshore Drive.
Succinct
A letter to Ihe editor printed
Feb B. 1003. staled- "Private en
terprise has made this entire
country what il is today."
My understanding of American
history is limited, but it does
seem In me thai private enter
prise should not bear all of th;
blame.
Wavne H Blair.
PI) Box toil.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q When did India become
srll govfrning member of the Brit
ish Commonwealth?
A-On Jan. 2fi, 19V).
Is K possible (or Ihe Su
preme Conrt ta alter Ihe Consti
tution A No. only to interpret it.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)-It may
quiet down a little later on, but
right now Uncle Sam is expected
to become a No. 1 whipping boy
in the Canadian political campaign
leading up to the April 8 elec
tions. This is one result of Con
servative Prime Minister John
Dieienbaker's ouster on a no
confidence vote, following his re
fusal to arm Canadian Bomarc
Missiles with U.S. nuclear war
heads. Many responsible Canadians,
however, recognizing the bad af
tereffects of an "anti-U.S." cam
paign at this time, are cautioning
against this as international po
litical nonsense.
While U.S. State Department
and Pentagon officials still try
ing lo manage the news instead of
just giving it out are reluctant to
talk about this for fear of stirring
up more charges of interfering in
Canadian politics, Canadian offi
cials in Washington are perfectly
frank in saying that relations be
tween all ranks of the two coun
tries' armed forces couldn't be
better.
As a matter of fact, Ihe Per
manent Joint Board on Defense.
Canada-United States PFBD
was meeting in San Diego, of all
places, and not on the unarmed,
4.000 - mile border between the
two countries, when the hot politi
cal exchange between Ottawa and
Washington took place. The mili
tary couldn't have been caught
farther off base or more unpre
pared for a build-up of tensions.
PFBD was established more
than 20 years ago by the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the late Prime Minister Wil
liam Lyon Mackenzie King. It
functioned effectively all through
World War II.
After the war, cooperation was
carried further with Ihe building
of three radar defense lines
against possible Russian surprise
attack across the Arctic.
There has been the closest
Army, Navy and Air Force co
operation between the two coun
tries. Generals and admirals know
each other's plans and there arc
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Commies Organize
In Complex Fashion
By FULTON LEWIS .III.
Fidel Castro, who couldn't hit
a curve, gave up baseball for
the revolution.
Melitta del Villar. who couldn't
hit a high C, gave up singing
for the same cause.
A striking brunette. Mrs. del
Villar last year dropped a so-so
career in show business In devote 9
full lime to Castro Cuba. She
"and a few friends" formed the
Medical Aid to Cuba Committee
(MACO and collected $30,000 for
U. S. drugs. How much more
they raised for Castro and Com
pany is not known.
The House UnAmerican Activi
ties Committee, in hearings last
fall, disclosed thai Castro ordered
Ihe labels on American medicine
altered so the drugs would appear
lo come from East Germany. The
hearings demonstrated that
MACC was controlled by Mrs. del
Villar. a Castro buff, and two
men with records of past activi
ty in Communist groups.
Mrs. del Villar has no! been
identified as a Communist. She
maintained in committee testi
mony that she was motivated by
humanitarian desires in setting up
MACC. She did admit, however,
that she is a member of the
. Fair Play for Cuba Committee,
cited as a Communist operation,
and has addressed meetings of the
group
Two other individuals hae
held leadership positions in MACC
since lasl February. One is Ihe
medical director. Dr. Louis I. Mil
ler. The other was its treasurer,
Sidney Cluck
A committee subpoena was is
sued for Miller, hut he could not
be found for testimony. Commit
tee records showed that during
Ihe 30s Miller was chairman of
Ihe Medical Bureau of tlie Amer
ican Friends of Spanish Democ
racy, a cited Communist front.
He was also, said committee
counsel Albert Nittle. "one of the
principal New York contacts"
during Ihe I'.MOs lor .Soviet es
pionage agent Arthur Alexandro
vich Adams.
Nittle went on to say that Iniis
Budcn. a former member of the
Communist party's National Com
mittee, testified hefore the com
mittee in executive session in If'.l
that he had met Dr. Miller at en
larged meetings of the National
Committee.
Sidney Cluck. MACC tic.viu
er, was remiitcj hv Miller. In his
subpoenaed appearance, Gluck re
" lused lo deny past or present
membership in the Communist
party. He would not discios his
party or front activities, citing
tlie Fifth Amendment.
exchanges of personnel running
into the hundreds, of all ranks.
If Canada tried to make every
thing for its own military forces,
it couldn't produce in quantity
sufficient to cut costs, so Canada
buys much of its military equip
ment from the United States. In
turn. Canadian manufacturers bid
on many U.S. defense contracts
to supply both countries or as sub
contractors. This is made easier
by the fact that many U.S. manu
facturers have Canadian affili
ates. Canada spent about $250 million
for U.S. defense supplies last year
and the United Slates spent about
$125 million in Canada. If U.S.
uranium ore purchases in Can
ada are included in mutual de
fense operations, however, the
exchange is roughly in balance.
U.S.-Canadian cooperation on
nuclear development also began ,
during World War II with the first
contracts for uranium ores. These
contracts began to phase out in
1963 as U.S. domestic and other
free world supplies were discov
ered. Canadian nuclear science de
veloped right along with U.S.
know-how. But Canada early de
cided against trying In make its
own nuclear weapons as too cost-
ly-
Instead, the Canadian Defense
Ministry adopted the U.S. Bomarc
as its defense missile and built
two bases, one north of Ottawa,
the other near North Bay. It was
understood all along that these
missiles would have nuclear war
heads furnished by the United
States and there was no fuss
about it.
But about this time the "ban-the-bomb"
movement gathered
strength in Canada. Foreign Min
ister Howard Green opposed nu
clear armaments on the ground
that it gave Canada greater in
ternational stature to be able to
build its own bombs.
For over a year Diefcnhaker
has held up the decision to arm
Canada with nuclear warheads
although this did not make
sense to his own military leaders.
This is what really brought on the
present crisis in the Canadian
government.
Mrs. Mildred Blauvell. an un
dercover informant within the
Communist party for the N e w
York City Police Department, tes
tified before the House Commit
tee in May, 1955, identifying
Gluck as a member of the Com
munist Party's Flatbush Club. In
November of 1944, she said, he
was credited with signing up 54
new party members.
Commitlee investigators discov
ered that several officers of the
m Angeles MACC had appeared
hefore the committee in past
years.
Helen Travis, the group's sec
retary, invoked the Fifth Amend
ment when questioned in August,
1930.
The committee had interrogated
Mrs. Travis, a former Daily
Worker employe, regarding evi
dence that she had transferred
$3.7(10 to a "Money Drop" in
Mexico City in an effort lo fi
nance Ihe release of a Stalinist
agent imprisoned for murdering
lx-on Trotsky.
Simon Lazarus, treasurer of the
lis Angeles committee, had re
fused to answer committee ques
tions on March 2fi. 1953. regard
ing his role as financier of a
motion picture produced by the
Communist-infiltrated Mne, Mill
and Smelter Workers Union
Almanac
By t'nited Press International
Today is Thursday. Feb 14. the
451 h day of 19K3 with 320 lo fol
low Today is St. Valentine's Day.
The moon is approaching its last
quarter.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars,
Saturn and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In lliftn, the West Coast citrus
industry uas born as the first
trainload of oranges lelt ls An
geles for Western markets.
In 1901. President Theodore
Roosevelt signed into law an act
creating Ihe Department of Com
merce and I-abor.
In li.n. fifty million dollars wan
rushed lo Detroit to bolster bank
ing assets as Michigan's governor
declared an eighl-dav bank holi
day. In INS, thousands of Allied
planes staged a devastating air
raid on Dresden, Germany.
A thought for the day Then,
riore Roosevelt said "Tlie first
rejjiiite ol a good citi?en in thu
republic of ours is that he shall
tie able and willing to pull his own
weight."