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Newspaper Page TextPACE I HERALD A.VD NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Tuesday, May 14. 1063 THE GLOBAL VIEW In Kremlin Underway :;. Intolerable The lives of many individual servicemen not to mention the security of the country may depend on the soundness with which mis siles, planes, submarines and other defense devices are put together. Wouldn't you imagine, therefore, that workmen and firms who turn these things out would apply themselves to their tasks with extreme care and high dedication? Large numbers plainly do just that. But, as we are learning from the inquiry into the tragic case of the submarine Thresher, some do not. If ever a matter called for full congres sional investigation, this would seem to. Indeed, enough evidence of poor per formance exists to suggest that we ought to have a revival of the militant spirit which characterized the Senate Preparedness sub committee in wartime. v And any probe should concern itself not simply with what happened to the Thresher ili . the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but with wjiat happens to other submarines and many types of naval craft when they are being built, overhauled or repaired. : ; Some reports filtering out of these places are pretty frightening. From one yard, a sub marine commander examining repairs to his ship's hull said: (Register Guard, Eugene) Thirty-six slates and nearly 2,000 cities have retail sales taxes. These taxes, furth ermore, are growing popular as governments tecognize the relative case with which they jre paid. So says a special survey in the New Yprk Times. In the last year and a half, four states have increased their sales taxes. So have a number of cities. The latest state to go to a sales tax is West Virginia, a state generally re garded as "depressed." One wonders what the West Virginia legislators would say to Oregon legislators who oppose a sales tax be cause It allegedly hits the less fortunate. :-; These other states, unlike Oregon, have 1-ealized that certain state obligations must be met. They can be mot only if the money is 'raised. And it can be raised only if everybody It's Your Money They're Using! By Congressman John It. Pillion New York There are literally thousands o areas of federal activity whore shocking and massive wastages repeatedly take place. The General Account ing Oflicc CiAO is an indeendcnt, non political, and reliable source of information on the fiscal and management operations of federal agencies. The GAO is directed by tjfrc Comptroller General of tlie tjnited States: he and his staff arc performing a most valuable public service in finding and dis closing the inelficiencies. the mal administration and the misman agement that exist throughout Uie huge federal bureaucracy. GAO reports are based upon Investigations, examinations, and audits of federal agencies. It is sues hundreds of reports annu ally to the Congress, the President, and various executive agencies. These reports reveal a unilurm attern of gross maladministra tion and mismanagement that permeate our federal operations. Following aro fivo briefs ex tiactcd from the Comptroller Gen eral reports issued between Feb. 26 and Feb. 2(1, I9ta: :in mil, U.S. military installa tions in Japan were stalled by alHiul 1.8ul Japanese nationals in excess of accepted manning guides, at an annual wasted cost of fc.70P.oim. Despite this overstalling. many facilities had not been adequate If maintained and large backlogs of work had accumulated. Part of this backlog, which should bae been performed by station forces, was performed un der contract in fiscal year 11 at an additional cost of about J4M.0O0. IThe Comptroller General s Of fice reported that the Army. Navy, and Air Force had failed to develop complete and valid manning guides to maintain facil ities ami oerate utilities in Ja pan. The GAO cited inadequate nun agement controls, inefficient use o( personnel, lack of adequate work standards and failure of management personnel to proper ly perform their duties, as con tributing factors to this deplor able situation. yn I960, the U.S. Army incurred .m unnecessary cost of K mil lion to rebuild rubber tracks lor tiilikj Uiat were allowed to de teriorate. file deteriorations were caused by tlie failure of Ui U.S. Army to: Example Of Others (a) issue and use the oldest tracks first; b furnish unused tracks to manufacturers of new tanks; (c protect the tracks by inside storage. The General Accounting Oldco report states: "The management weaknesses disclosed in this re port on rubber tracks are the type that could pertain to all of tlie Army's replacement parts which are subject to deteriora tion." From April 1W0 to April l2, 103 10-lon crane shovels purchased by the U.S. Army Engineers were released for disposition. These shovels had ail acquisition cost of more than $2 million. Twenty five crane shovels were sold for C07.830, which cost (he U.S. Army Engineers $341,300. Eight crano shovels sold for $".ooo, although their cost to the U S. Government was $173,000. A large portion of the shovels were completely new, unused shovels. During Uie same period, t h e U.S. Army Engineers sold $!.'i0. (100 worth of repair parts for its crane shovels. While these new and service able shovels and parts were be ing given away or sold lor bar gain prices, the U S. Army En gineers had full knowledge of their future needs for these shov eis. A study by the U.S. Army Engineers, dated April la. llHv!. recommended the purchase of several hundred similar shovels lor tlie period 1W5 to l7, at a cost of $12 million There have been no technological improve ments in these crane shovels and none were expected in the near future. The comptroller's report de scribes these transactions in tlie following language: "Improvident disposals," "undoubtedly result in substantial waste." "inconsisten cy indicates a lack of coordina tion and control within the Corps of Engineers." In 1959. the U.S. Aimy En gineers had l.tno 2.Vhorscpowrr outboard motors on hand. These wore completely new and unused motors. At tlie same time in 1939, tlie U S. Army Engineers unnecessa rily purcliasod 925 25-horscpower motors, at a cost of iiTS.ouo They also planned to purchase 5.V1 new 23-horscpowor motors to replace new or slightly used mo tors. There was no indication of tech ncompetence "That weld will never hold under pres sure." You might as well send a plane up with a gaping hole in the wing as take a subma rine down with a weak spot in its hull. Testimony already taken with respect to the Thresher offers a considerable catalogue of deficiencies, on the part of both naval yard workmen and outside, private suppliers of components. Of the vessel's extensive system of hy draulic valves, one in every five was original ly installed backwards. The same thing hap pened to the periscope mechanism. The rud der complex, the air system and other ele ments were defective at the outset. Some of the proud working folk at Ports mouth yard do not like to hear such criti cisms. One called them "lumps. in the mashed potatoes." But when lives and the nation's safe tyare involved, this is no time to invoke the great alibi of the mid-20th century: "Only a minority were responsible." A minority of one can send a submarine to the bottom. What goes on in naval construction is only part of what may be a very large and unhappy commentary on certain elements in American labor and management. The Thresher disaster suggests, however, that this is the place to begin digging. in the state pays his fair share. They know, as Oregon legislators apparently do not, that in any state there are only so many rich peo ple. They can be soaked just about so far, and then they, too, dry up without adding enough to the state treasury. Furthermore, confiscatory taxation directed at the well-off tends to isolate those people, and they are the ones a state needs to keep its head above water. There is just a chance, thanks to the Sen ate, that Oregon voters may express them selves on a sales tax a year from next fall for the first time in 20 years. As they con template, they should ask themselves why Oregon must slip into second rate position be cause of legislative superstition about a sales tax. Why, indeed, are the progressive states, which are meeting their problems, "out of step" with Oregon? nical obsolescence of the 1,400 new motors on hand. The comptroller's report refers to these transactions as: "Un necessarily bought." "We recom mend no further disposal of IV horscpowcr motors for which there is a foreseeable need." From July 1939 to September 1980, the U.S. Army Engineers sold .116 30-kilowalt generators in excellent or in good condition at an average price of $150 a genera tor. At the same time, it purchased a larger number of 45-kiloalt generators at a replacement cost of $4,879 each. Tlie 30 kilowatt generators were, at the period, classilied by the U S. Army Engineers as ac ceptable substitutes for the 45 kilowatt generators. The cost of the new 45-kilowatt generators lor which the U.S. Army Engineers had acceptable substitute 30-kilowatt generators was $1,300,000. In lotio, the Navy was dispos ing of lo-kilowatt generators as excess. At the same time, the U S. Army Engineers were pur chasing new generators at a cost of $1,300 each. Tlie Comptroller General's Office found that the capacity and specifications of the Navy generators being sold were the same as those that the U.S. Army Engineers were purchasing Appropriations and taxins power is vested in Congress by our Constitution and the executive de vilment is charged with the re sponsibility lor the elficient ad ministration anil management of public funds. I emphasue that Irresponsible dissipation of I a x funds has existed and grown over many past administrations. But. today's rampant administrative fiscal abuses and mismanage ments are the prime responsibil ity of today's executive depart ment and its administrative nlli cials. Rased upon tlie reports of (he Comptroller General of the United Males, 1 am convinced (ha( the wastages and squandering of pub lic funds in the executive depart ment exceed $5 billion annually. This enormous saving could lie realued without in any way re ducing our military power, or sac rificing any present public serv ice This sorely needed liscal relief (or our economy and our taxpay ers cannot be gained without a clear, immediate public demand and Hie coordinated efforts ol the Congress ami tlie executive department. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS A young woman of my acquain tance who is learning English dur ing her first year in this country asked me the other day, "If 'was' is a singular verb, and 'were' is a plural verb, why do we say 'you were' when talking about only one person? Shouldn't it be 'you was.'?" This is one of the troubles in learning so flexible, so sprawling and so illogical a language as English. "You was" is today con sidered the depth of ignorance and illiteracy, nn outrageous breach of grammar. And it would surprise most people to learn it w-as not always so. "You were" is a matter of cus tom, not of grammar at all. The locution "you was" may be found in many of the best I8th Century writers. Fielding's classic "Tom Jones" has all its characters lords, lawyers, preachers and teachers saying "you was." None of them ever says "you were." Cowper. 1763, begins one of his letters, "I am exceedingly obliged to you for the letter with which you was so kind (0 favor me." And Byron, as late as the coniHisiton ol "Don Juan," used the line: "You was not last year at the fair of Lugo." Most of the "purest" writers of the 18th Century followed this practice Addison. Pope. Swift and Horace Walpulc. What hap iened. however, was that in sub sequent editions tlie editors al tered "you was" to "vou were" Actress ACROSS Actrfii. Reynold! Sh la t - 49 German title o( courtesy V) Unclose (poet.) 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When the pronoun "thou" be gan to be abandoned in favor of "you." the word "you" was con sidered as singular where only one persons was concerned Hol lowing "thou wast"). "Was you" referred to one person; "were you" to two or more. Before the 17th Century, "thou" was the singular pronoun, and "you" was the plural only. When the former was dropped, "you" came to have too much work to do. and thus was weakened by overwork. The Southern expres sion "you-all" sounds ridiculous and affected in the North, but it is psychologically understand able as a means of distinguishing between the singular and the plural "you." If English grammar were logi cal, for instance, singular verbs would not end in "s" ("he looks"!, while the plural would not he without the "s" C'they look"), language will never be amenable to logic because, as someone has said, people began talking before lliey began thinking. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How close to the United Rtatrs does Cuba lie? A Some 90 miles soulhuest of Key West. Fla. SI itch Drops of ty fluid Command Fanon Helntr (ab ) Solitary EnthuiiaitiG ardor Prov Eieht (comb. Halt Solar disk 44 Meaiurt of land 45 Black: bird 4A Ocn 47 movement 48 Roof fintal Irnlonfmni ot 49 Mindanao 50 Of nomination Craft. Within (comb, form .t tumor Mn prh incl forml Rind C.atltr Knulish lttr National Academv IAnawtr to Previous Putil 42 : LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Cat Problem I have read several articles about someone's pet cat getting killed and just left lying there. How do people know that it's a pet or a stray? This last week end my little granddaughter went out to play and a cat bit her. Is there a cat owner that would ad mit that it might be their cat? No! But if I would destroy that cat someone would scream. This child suffers from shots given to her because of this bite. She can hardly walk and the shots have made her cross. She sulfers because it seems that pets are more important than children. I've been told nothing can be done about this, unless a human life has been taken. It's too late then; the cat owners don't suffer from this, someone else docs. I asked several neighbors why this hasn't been reported before now. Tlie answers I got were. What's the use? They won't do anything about it. That I have found out. When pets get to be more important than children, I say let the pets mn the town and the people move out. If you cat owners think you get hurt when your pet gets killed, just watch a child cry when it tries to walk from shots it had to take because of a cat bite. This town is being overrun by eats and it's said. "There's noth ing you can do." 1 assume we are supposed to keep our children in the house and let the cats have the run of the neighborhood. The cat owners love their cats but they sure don't love tlie responsi bility that tliey cause other peo ple. People just aren't that "big." If you kill one of their cats then they will show you how big they are. I might be walking on someone's Iocs but mine have al ready been walked on. Wanda Barnelt, 415 Upham. Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, May 14. the 134th day of 19R.1 with Jit to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, .lupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1804. explorers Lewis and Clark set out on their expedition to the Pacific Coast. In IMS. Filipinos ratified the constitution of the Philippines Re public in a special election. In 1948. the state of Israel was officially born as Britain ended her 31-year rule in Palestine 'Tie date is April 29 under the Hebrew calendar. In 12, Moslem gunmen killed IT Europeans as renewed fighting broke out between Algerian Na tionalists and French forces A thought for the day-Bnlih statesman Arthur James Balfour said: "Biography should be writ len by an acute enemv." By LEON DENNEN NEW YORK i.NEA) With Nikita Khrushchev in his Tilth year, the struggle for succession in the Kremlin is well under way. The Russians even have a short hand expression for the struggle. "Kto Kovo." Literally, who gets whom: figuratively, who will out wit or destroy his rival in the ruling Communist Party. This contest has been a grim reality in Soviet politics ever since Lenin created the Red dic tatorship in 1917. Khrushchev, a tough conspirator trained in Sta lin's harsh school, was never spared the intrigues that periodi cally have rocked the Kremlin. .Nevertheless, specialists on Rus sia see tricky Kikita's own fine hand behind the new rash of ru mors that he will announce his retirement as premier and secre tary of the Russian Communist Party at tlie Central Committee meeting scheduled for May 28. There is no doubt that many top ranking bureaucrats in the party and in the Red army find little that pleases them in the balance sheet of Khrushchev's 10-year rule. Russia has made spectacular advances in the conquest of space and in the development of nu clear weapons, but the econom ic and agricultural results of Khrushchev's stewardship have been conspicuous failures. More important, his personal leud with Red China's Mao Tse tung has caused havoc in t h e ranks of international Commu nism which threatens to destroy the Red monolith. But while Khrushchev may be in trouble, he is not yet on the way out. A shrewd and tricky politician, he knows how to make his enemies pay for his mistakes. The Soviet pre mier's legs may be short but they are sturdy and firmly plant ed on the slippery floor of the Kremlin. He has outwitted and outmaneuvered his rivals in the past and there is little likelihood that he will relinquish power with out a fight. What, then, is behind Khru shchev's broad hints that he is "old, mortal" and ready to lay down his burden? He is obvious ly aware that any suggestion of his retirement or even partial withdrawal from the conduct of By FI LTOX LEWIS JR. The return to Cuba of three sab oteurs and one killer could not persuade Fidel Castro to (rce Ra fael del Pino, an American citi zen who rots today in a Cuban prison. Twenty s i x Americans were freed in the latest "deal" ncgo gotiatcd by New York lawyer James Donovan. Despite the fact that Castro got hack his four "political prisoners," he would not free Del Pino. W hy, no one is sure. Del Pino is an old acquaintance of Cas tro's who was his sidekick in the bloody Bogota riots in 1S48. At that time an attempt was made to take the life of the U.S. Secretary of State, George Mar shall. Del Pino later broke with Cas tro and became an American citizen. A pilot, he flew on nu merous occasions into Cuba smug gling weapons to anti - Castro forces there. On one such flight, his small, one-engine plane was shot down and he was captured. Only last month Castro refused to let him return to the United States. Del Pino is not. however, the only American to remain in Cuba. An untold number n Yankees now call Havana their home, many of them working for the Castro regime. Tlie latest American to re nounce his homeland (or Cuba is Georce Eisen. a physician whose defection was announced Feb. 18 by Radio Havana. The de fection came as nn surprise to security officials of the U.S. Gov ernment, for Eisen and his wife. Ruth, have long histories of left wing activity. Early in 1959. the Eisens left for Europe, then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. They returned to the states, then lelt a year lat er for anolher trip to the work ers' paradise. Little was heard Irom them until they showed up in Cuba after leaving Czrchosliv vokia Warsaw - tvrn George Eisen rame to the United Mates in 1921 al age 7 and became a U S. citi zen in IMS. He graduated from tlie University of California med ical school in 19.1a. He met Ruth Masnes Popper. Ine years hu senior. In tiiove days Ruth was establishing a name for herself in tlie far left wing circles of San Francisco. Russia's affairs is bound to cause world-wide speculation about his successor among friend and foe alike. The Soviet premier, noted for his sense of humor, gave part of the answer when he recently told an East European diplomat: "It is good to keep our friends and enemies a little in suspense. I find it most interesting to read their speculations." But a weightier reason (or Khrushchev's hints of voluntary abdication, according to sicciai ists on Russia, is his aim to im press tlie Free World that he is the indispensable man of peace. It is another typical Khrushchev maneuver to gain easy conces sions from the West. The Soviet premier in effect warns the Free World: ".Make concessions now because my successor may not be as committed to peaceful co existence as I am." Is it, then, worth paying tlie price in concessions to keep Khru shchev, the "man of peace," in power in Russia? Such a policy has long been urged in the West by inliuential members of the British Labor Party, including Harold Wilson who is likely to be the prime minister after the next British general election. In the United States. Sen. .1. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested recently that the West should seek in every way to encourage Russia to per severe in the "more moderate" course of Premier Khrushchev. "Powerful forces for change are at work within the Soviet Union," Fulbright declared at Tufts Uni versity. He said Russian society and its economy are becoming too complex to be completely con trolled by a centralized dictator ship. This trend, together wiLh the West's growing strength, might provoke Soviet leaders into an act of desperation. Fulbright therefore warned strongly against those in the West who would proclaim "total vic tory" against communism as the Free World's aim. Perhaps the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee has never heard Premier Khrushchev's favorite proverb about the man who has "honor and neace on the ton of his tongue, and a knife under it." WASHINGTON REPORT . . , Americans Continue Ranting In Havana Early in the 1940s she registered as a Communist with the registrar of voters in San Francisco. To their credit, both Eisens served honorably in World War II, George in tlie Pacific theater, Ruth as a member of the W ACS. After the war. however, the pair resumed their flirtation with Marxism. They were seen at meetings of tlie East Bay Council of tlie Arts, Sciences and Profes sions, and George was chairman at some of those affairs. That group has been labeled a Com munist front by two separate com mittees of Congress. The Eisens were active in the Progressive Party, cited by a House committee as one of tlie "Largest and most successful lionts ever created by the Com munists." Their background is similar in many ways to that of two other Calilornians. David and Betty Mi chael, who delected to Cuba last year. The Michaels had been ac tive in San Francisco Commu nist fronts before they took their children to Cuba via Mexico. It is a motley collection of psy chopaths, criminals and starry eyed Marxists who make up most of Havana's American col ony. The leader of that group is Robert Williams, wanted on a kid napping charge in this country. He broadcasts tiradrs over Ra dio Havana against the "Fasci--' dogs" who run this government Jose Santiago, a New York dia mond cutter, left for Cuba when his wile was deported lor Com munist activities in 1939. An ad mitted Communist, he works on tlie eampaisn to "liberate Puerto Rico." The dauuhter of an American minister. Barbara Collins, defect ed to Cuba when Senate investi gators sought to question her about the pro-Communist Fair Play for Cuba Committee. She is known as "beardless Barbara" for her Tokyo Rose-style broad casts to this country. At least two defectors recently returned to the United States. Jn North, a top-ranking Communist, now speaks on Cuba before leit wing groups in this country. Joseph Morray. a professor who left the University of California lcvause ol "conscience." returned home from Cuba recently. He has been subpoenaed by the House UnAmencan Activities Committee.