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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1963)
PACE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, May 19, ttfil NOTHING SPECIAL Q dikfixaL (paqsL Nagging Questions About Cuba Wailing Wall I IW. B. S.I The Senate Preparedness Committee re port that Soviet offensive missiles might be in Cuban caves nearly ready for use deserves a little exploration. Actually, the committee's observation on this point does not differ in most respects from one made months ago by President Kennedy. There is no reason any difference should exist, since in both instances our in telligence experts are the source of this ad mission. In the present state of things, we cannot prove such missiles are hidden in caves, nor can we demonstrate they are not. The committee, led by Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi, does go beyond anything we have had from the President or other adminis tration sources on one big point. It says that "assuming maximum readi ness at preselected sites, the Soviet mobile medium range (1100 miles) missiles could be made operational in a matter of hours." . This calls for frank comment from the President, Defense Secretary McNamara or a top military official. Kennedy indicated months ago that while missiles might conceivably be stored in Cu ban caves, this nation's regular surveillance of the island was such that we would know quickly if they were brought to the surface and made ready for use. He implied that the Russians and Cu bans would have to repeat the process of erect ing suitable bases, which we forced them to halt last October. The Stennis group seems to suggest that Cuba under Soviet control could prepare sites and locate vital auxiliary equipment without our detection. Only thus, obviously, could mis siles hauled out of caves be set to fire with in hours. Yet this conjecture leaves unanswered the question just how these extensive Soviet Cuban preparations could be managed with out giving us a clue. We are entitled to know on what infor mation and reasoning the committee bases this most crucial guesswork. And, as sug gested we are also entitled to hear what the government says about this. , The security of free mankind is at stake in this matter of who has what missiles where. There is no place today for idle speculations that cannot be given some foundation in fact and good sense. The Six Per Cent Routine . (Register Guard, Eugene) For many Oregon voters, the first Mon day in May is a day of understandable con fusion. Some don't even try to take part in the annual budget elections held by most local school districts on that day. They don't because they really don't understand one of the principal reasons why such . elections must be held. They don't understand why it is that, year after year, school districts must ask for approval of whopping property tax levies "in excess of the constitutional 6 per cent limitation." Perhaps the following schematic expla nation will help those who want to vote, and vote intelligently, in school elections. H Is an overly simplified explanation, but it serves to convey the essential facts Involved. It also dispels what might he mis takenly assumed even by the most conscien tious voters if they had nothing but the ballot titles to judge by. If voters of School District "A" are asked to approve a tax 1 e v y of $300, 000 outside the 6 per cent limitation, that does not automatically mean they are being asked to increase the district budget by that amount. If they want to know how the proposed budg . ct for 1963-64 compares with that the district : has had this year, they should check news paper articles appearing in advance of the election or call their school district adminis trators. In all probability, a good part of the re quested levy outside the limitation per haps all of it was sanctioned by the dis trict's voters last May to support the 1962-63 budget. And, 12 months prior to that, most of it was approved in connection with the district's 1961-62 budget plans. The point is that for most Oregon school districts, tax increases allowable within the 6 per cent limitation and without special voter approval have been insufficient each year since World War II. But the districts have not been allowed to use levies outside the Iirrti itation except as they have been annually ap proved and annually re-approved and, in most instances, annually increased to match mounting school enrollment totals and the effects of continued inflation of instruction costs. In brief, there is no appreciable "car ryover" effect from one annual school budget election to the next. That's why proposed levies outside the 6 per cent limitation loom so large. In some cases these levies represent as much as 90 per cent of all local taxes need ed by the school districts for purposes other than debt retirement and interest. Usually, of course, they are not quite so all-inclusive of districts' lax needs, but the fact remains that most of these levies outside the limita tion have been building for 10 years and more. Yet they must be resubmitted to the voters, with whatever additions school budg et committees have deemed necessary, year, after year, after year. IN WASHINGTON Soviet Fleet Overrated . By RALPH At TOt.EDANO . For some lime, viewers - with alarm have stridently warned of a Soviet ubmarine fleet num bering between 400 and SO0 ves sels. These cry-wolf accounts have pointed our top Navy of ficials land, indeed, all of our military) as shortsighted and complacent men unable to per ceive the dangers and blindrd by a dangerous disdain for Soviet undersea power. The precise opposite Is true. The U.S. Navy, which has never looked lightly on Communist threats, has carefully examined every scrap of evidence avail able to the viewers - with-alarm land much lh?y have never seen! in order not to he caught unaware. Our Intelligence officials know that the Soviets have these 00 to Son submarines. But they also know tlie capabilities of these German model. World War II style U-boats. All but 12 of these underwater craft are useless in an aw of atomic weapons. And those Soviet submarines that are armed with missiles the 12 have a maximum speed of 18 knots, which makes them easy prey for our modern hunter-killer submarines. The missiles they carry have a range of 200 to .100 nautical miles, but these could he launched against the United States coast only if our Navy had specific orders not to sink them before they were properly posi tioned. There have, however, been stor ies In the newspapers about a "fleet" of Soviet atomic subma rines. On the basis of my own experience with Communist prop aganda claims, my brief look at the Soyet'i visible naval pow er, and the detailed accounts of its "reviews" of Leningrad, it (las been obvious to me that this scare talk was based on nothing but a few hints dropped to the right reporter at an impression able moment. The Communists are adroit at this. American Intelligence cannot rely on this kind of Information. It derives r conclusions from A dull and painstaking process the kind of brilliantly routine work which in World War II enabled us to break the Japa nese code and clobber the Kin peror's navy. In Intelligence, the Mate Maris and the flamboyant spies are few and far between. The most successful kind of es pionage consists of putting to. gether hundreds of thousands of tiny scraps of information until the jigsaw has been completed. On this basis, small contradic tions assume great importance. So too dues the even smaller giveaway which is why all combat soldiers are told never to try to fool tlie enemy If cap tured simply to give their name, rank, and serial number. A he is frequently more revealing than the truth. As a result of this kind of work, it can he slated that the Soviets do have an atomic sub marine iust one atomic sub marine. We know what it looks like, how- it is constructed, and how it is operated We know its speed and its performance. Com pan-d lo ours, it is a primitive model. We know It has made at least two trips under tlie Polar rap. We know without any doubt that It is incapable of any voyage around tlie work! without surlac ing. i The Soviets revealed this It is possibli that oilier atomic submarines are under construc tion, but this is the kind nf as sumption made about an enemy service for safety's sake. Perhaps the most interesting piece of Intelligence concerns the 400 to 500 conventional (and oh soletei submarines in the Soviet fleet. Why, when the rest of the world was looking ahead lo more modern weapons, did the Kremlin choose a vast fleet of eralt which would not compare with what was on Western drawing hoards? The answer, simply, is that the Kremlin has always operated this way. When jets were lirst com ing in, the Soviet Union quickly developed one design and tlicn mass-produced it. Today Ihese tun-engine Tt' HHs fill Russian airfields. Tlie planes are lumber ing and inadequate, hot Com rade Khrushchev sure as blacs has a lot of tliem. The same has been true of other weapons. The Soviets always seem to h.ne one aim to achieve numerical superiority. They tan then boaM ol so many of this and that bill while they boast, the United Mates and Groat Britain are de veloping new and more ellective nuxlcls. If the Soviets go true lo form. Iheir scientists and engineers wit! work on new plans wailing lor Ihe flow ol stolen U S. and Bill ish blueprints. Then tlie Kremlin will divide on a new model for lis submarine Heel. The West changes and adapts with each new elfort. The Communists will mass-produce. Then they will an nounce that they hae X num. her of atomic Mihmarincv Tins will exceed the number under commission in the U S. Navy, but in an era of last-moving technology, there will be no com parison between ours and theirs. Grand Strategy Of Freedom By SAMUEL B. PKTTKNGIU, Former Congressman, Indiana Socialism's secret weapon is money. Governments formerly Rained power by the sword and swelled their coffers by conquest and tri bute. That method is still used, but chiefly against foreigners. Modem gover nments obtain pow er over their own people in a more subtle fashion. They tax away the earnings of their people, and then dole some nf it back to them in subsidies, gilts, grants-in-aid. and the award of huge govern ment contracts. By this process they become the masters of men, and cease to he their servants. The historic rela tionship is reversed. Instead of government coming lo the people for its support, the people come to the government for their sup port. Hitler put all groups in Ger many in pawn to him via the money route. In the face of the granting or withholding of public money, opposition died away. People began to keep their mouths shut business men first but. fin ally, editors, educators and minis ters. Me thus united Ixith con servatives and radicals behind him. This is a very important point. In this country, governors of stales, mayors of cities and mem bers of business organisations chambers of commerce including those most oposed tn Socialism in the abstract, become beggars at Washington for a return of some of the money collected from them in their own communities less the political brokerage. As heccars. they fawn and smtrk. Big government breeds little men. Tlie great "power of the purse." with which Ihe representa tives of the taxpayers once held the executive branch in check, is rapidly passing into the hands of a political Santa Claus. Not one of the extensions of So cialism could be put into effect without money. Cut off the money supply and the power to borrow and you stop them in their tracks. As Jefferson said, "We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Harry Hopkins gave the formula for Socialism tax, spend ami elect. Yet because they fail to grasp tlie grand strategy of free dom, various groups exhaust themselves on scattered tactical skirmishes good in themselves, but largely futile in the face of this overpowering flood of money. Justice Holmes used to say, "We must strike for the jugular and let the rest go." I would urge no one to abandon the fight for his own program or group, but the number one plank in all plat forms must be the exact reverse of the Hopkins formula "Reduce taxes and spending, especially at the federal level. Keep govern ment poor and remain free." Make that the number one plank in all platforms for free dom. The doctors can then fight socialized medicine; owners of real estate can fight public hous ing; others can fight federal con trol of education; business can fight government competition: oth ers can fight to relieve privately created wealth of some of the tax hurden. With reduced Federal spending and sharply reduced taxes as the number one plank of all groups, they can then fight with some chance of success. As it is, with each group fight ing some single phase nf Socialism Yemen Antwtr to Prviou Punl ACROSS 1 It on of Yemen i major pom t nn of its trchielojfic! 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The Socialist planners lull the unthinking with the trick ques tion, "What freedom have you lost?" That's easy tn answer. It is my freedom to keep what I earn and spend it as I please. That's the vital distinction be tween European Socialism and American individualism. "To have and to hold," written into mil lions of title deeds, tells the story ) the individual incentives and rewards that have produced Amer ica's magnificent achievement. A grand strategy fur freedom is imperative. We must unite on one point, easily understood, which touches the pockethook nerve of millions of voters. Intellectual ar guments are not enough. You must appeal to the legitimate self interest of millions. We must find Ihe common denominator of mass resistance to Socialism. The com mon denominator is the pocket book. On that concept and that alone can you mobilize an army sufficient in numbers to wage suc cessful war. We must show millions of voters how they are being hurt how their security for old age is melt ing away. The present "run" on our gold by foreign creditors is a storm flag which only fools will disregard. There are millions of life in surance policy-holders. As money becomes cheap, their security shrinks and in time vanishes A policy paid up in I!W0 has lost more than half its value in terms nf what it will buy today. A life insurance president has just told lis of the disastrous ef fect of the cheap money policies nf the past 20 years on life in surance security. The insurance companies are forced lo earn less on their investments. Therefore, they must charge higher premi ums for the same protection. Then when the policy is paid, the money received is taxed more, and buys less. To cover all these losses, a typical life insurance holder needs tn take out at least 90 per rent more Insurance tn provide the same purchasing power and pro tection as in 1929. Most of Ihe beneliciarirs ol life insurance are women. Tell them what taxes and debt and rotting money are doing to the security their husbands have worked so hard to provide. "Old age and want thou ill-matched pair " Then there are other millions who own government bonds. A bond bought ten years ago for S75 ran be cashed today for J100 But the 100 will h..v you less than the $75 did when you turned it over lo the government. So you have lost all your interest and part ol your principal. And you are ten years older. Then you have 50 to fin million people who have hern compelled tn buy what are called 'Social se curity" rards. Their hnped-lor so rurity melts away as dollars be come rheap To make up the loss, bills ar in Congress to pay them more of these rotting dol lars, adding tn the tax burden to be earned by all industry, forc ing prices still higher, and the music goes round and round. The guarantees of government are writ on water and carved in sand Something for nothing is the moral ranrer of a free soriefy Once begun, there is no stopping its deadly course except to find the lowest common denominator nf the mass resistance of millions of voters the pockettok and the fear of poerty in old age This is the grand strategy of freedom. No matter what side of the political fence one might be on, he or she can hardly feel that the community is anything less than highly- honored with tlie appear ance of Sen. Barry Goldwater from "Arizona, in a couple of func tions here this weekend. Sen. Goldwater is also a Ma jor General in the Air Force Reserve, and is one of the coun try's most able and qualified pilots. He is in the area to help Kingslry Field personnel wind up a most successful Armed Forces Week observance this evening. His appearance this ' afternoon at the dedication of the Presbyterian Intercommuni ty Hospital site is a bonus for the community. That Mr. Goldwater is a top ranking candidate for presidential nomination cannot be ignored to tally. However, I'm hopeful that all citizens will cast aside any thoughts of political connotations in his visits here today. The King sley Field people are most anx ious that the General's appear ance here be considered in the same light and with the same courtesy that would be extended to any other major staff officer of the Air Corps. The hospital board hopes that citizens will recognize that Sen. Goldwater is one of the nation's outstanding citizens, and a man who has contributed much to tlie welfare and progress of the nation. Sen. Goldwater Is as articu late as he Is brilliant. He has served the country well in a number of capacities. He is also a very busy man. The commu nity can take pride in that Mr. Goldwater has agreed to accept the Invitation to participate in the hospital dedication ceremo nies and to honor our Klngsley Field people Sunday night. 1 hope that Klamath Falls folks realize tlie important contribution not only to the nation's defense, but to our community of the peo ple at Kingsley. Not only are they the best pilots and backstop peo ple in the Air Force, they contrib ute much to Ihe welfare of the community. They take an active part in every project we ask help in.- In addition, they jump in and take hold of projects that are helpful to the community on their own initiative. One fellow describes Utopia as the good old days with all of the modern conveniences add ed. There's considerable fussing and fuming over the proposed agricul tural program. It would take a London lawyer to figure out just what the whole thing is about. . The other day, a piece of litera ture brought to my attention con tained some spoofing of the gov ernment farm program. Perhaps you've seen this lor one like it) in other publications. Here is an alleged letter to the Secretary of Agriculture: "Dere mr. sEktary: "my frend over in Hickry coun ty receive a thousun dollr check , frum the guvernment this yere for not raisin hogs. sO i am goin into the not-raisin-hog buz ness next yere. "What i want to kno is, in yer npinyun, what is the bes kin of farm not to raise hogs on and the bes kin of hogs not to raist? i wuld prefer not to raze razer backs, but, if that is not a good breed not to rais, i will jes as gladly not raise eny Bcrkshcers or Duroks, cause the hardes work in this is going tn be in kecpin a inventory of how many hogs i ain't razed. "my frend Zeke is very joyful bout the future of this business, he has been raisin hogs fur more than 20 yeres and the bes he ever made wuz $400 until this yere, when he got that thousun dollers fer not raisin eny. if i kin get $1,000 fer not raising 50 hogs, then i will get twicct as much fer not raisin 100. Right? 1 plan to operate on a small sclae at furst, holding myself down tn not rais in bout 4,000 hogs, which means i will have $8,000 comin. "now, another thing; these hogs i will not raise will not eat 100.000 bushels of corn, i unnerstan that you also pay farmers fer not raisin corn, so, how much will you pay me for not raisin 100,000 bushels of corn not to feed the hogs i am not raisin? "i want to git started right soon as this seems to be a good time of year for not raisin hogs. Now, one thing more, kin i raise me bout, oh, say a dozin hogs or mebbe even 10 while i am in the not-raisin-hog-business, jest enulf tn get a few sides of bacon fer hreakfust. yer frend. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Congressman Shows Political Courage By FIXTON LEWIS JR. It takes political guts for a freshman Congressman represent ing a marginal district tn vote "No" on pork barrel legislation. Particularly when that Con gressman is Ihe first Republican to represent his district in 42 years. Particularly when unemployment is high and passage of that hill would mean juhs building sewers and pumping stations and roads, 15 projects in all. But Bill Brock, a ,12-year-old businessman from Chattanooga, Tenn., did just that. Rejecting the advice of colleagues older and pre sumably wiser. Brork opposed the President's $450 million emergen cy public works bill earlier this session. He explains why: "For every dollar sent to Washington. Chattanooga residents would receive less than 75 cents hack in the form of short-term public works projects. 1 feel strongly that the same amount of money spent for new industry and more jobs could go a long way toward solving unemployment problems." Dark-haired Bill Brock, in Wash ington only three months, is deep ly distressed "I have been tre mendously disappointed," he told my associate. Bill Schulz. "in the number o( Congressmen whose only question about any legislation is 'How many votes will it gel me"' ' My criterion is different: Can we allord it? to we need it? Will tt promote individual freedom and responsibility?" Of the several score freshman Congressmen now learning the Washington ropes. Brork has im pressed leaders on both sides of the aisle as one of the most prom ising. He demonstrated why in a whirlwind campaign last year that frankly surprised GOP oilman who had written off Tennessee's Third liistnrt as lost Republicans had not bothered to run a randidaie in 19i. al though Ru-hard Nixon carried Ihe H. strict with something m spare. The evidence indicates a ' deal" had been ronsummated by local politicians, leaders of both par ties, to keep the seat Democratic. Privrrdmg as if there were no deal. Brork neisn to ork in No vember, lo. starting with cam paign nucleus nf .10 people, aiming Inward November, 19R2. There is no indication that he planned, at the time, to he tlie candidate. By early 1962, Brock had decid ed to nin. When a brash young liberal won the Democratic pri mary, defeating a middle-of-the-road incumbent, the scene was set (or a bitter fight. Well financed, Wilkes Trasher received ample Administration support in a campaign that served as a proving ground for the elec toral popularity of Medicare. Thrasher made medical care un der Social Security his key issue. Brock opposed it. The two were divided on almost every issue: deficit spending, aid lo Communist nations, federal aid to education. When the ballots were tallied Brock had won an amazing vic tory. In a district where only 15 per cent of the voters are thought lo be Republicans. Brock won 51.1 per cent of the vote. His volunteer organization, which at first numbered but 30 people, had grown by leaps and bounds. The Congressman elect wrote 4.500 thank you notes to workers who helped his campaign. Representing a marginal dis trict. Brock has kept his ear close to the grass roots. He sees his constituents as alarmed by "do nothmg foreign policies" of tha Administration. "They want lead ership." he says. "They want vic tory in the Cold War and they're not getting it." Six months alter his first race for public office. Brock is being urced to run for the l'.S. Senate. Tennessee voters must decide the fate of Albert Gore in 19M and of tMos Kcfauver two years lat er. Both are liberal Democrats and would get quite a race from licirecm alive Brin k. Young Republicans hope Brork runs lor the post of Young Re publican National Chairman at the federation upcoming convention. Active in YR alfairs for many years. Brmk favors Barry Gold water for President. "Tlx Republi can Party." he sas. "is the con serai;e party and Goldwater our leader."
