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PAGE C-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fallj. Ore. Thursday, May 13. i EDSON IN WASHINGTON Cloak-Dagger Tricks Finally Revealed Backdoor Spending Must Go As everyone but a hermit in the hills must know, the proposed federal budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 will approach the $100 billion mark. A vast deficit is a cer tainty varying, according to assorted esti mates, from $8 billion to as much as $20 bil lion. And the national debt will soar past $300 billion. These are figures which are totally in comprehensible to the average human mind. Yet as a feature article by Charles Stev enson in the May issue of the Reader's Di gest makes clear even they don't tell the whole story. For the budget for all of its ' 1600 pages of complex words and figures ' does not include all of the federal spending. As for President Kennedy's budget, Stev enson writes, "No- other President in history has dared to propose such spending, even in war, and consternation has been spreading ever since he tossed this program to Con gress." And no less a figure than Representa tive Cannon, Democratic House Appropria tions Committee chairman, was shocked, say ing, "I've never seen a budget like this in all my 40 years in Congress, nor has anyone else! Incredible. Inviting disaster. Staggering!" It is a sobering fact that the interest alone on the national debt is the largest single item of government expenditure except for de fense. It comes to $10 billion a year which is the equivalent of all the income taxes paid by the 41 million taxpayers with incomes run ning up to the $6,000 level. ' The fact that the budget, incredible as it is, does not accurately reflect the scope of federal spending, is not due to any illegal IN WASHINGTON fly RALPH dr TOLEDANO In the long, agonizing, and sometimes self-defeating debate on Cuba, President Kennedy and the Administration have pounded away on one point: Tlie opposition has come up with no alternatives to our current drlft-and-seo pol icy. This has not lieen quito ac- ' curate, for many Republicans and Democrats have offered sugges tions which to dote have been Ig nored. The "all right, what would you do?" riposte to criticism has paid off handsomely. The average Washington correspondent, in re porting it. does not quote what Senator X or Representative Y has said and since the President can make Page One just by scratching himself tins has been sufficient to convince many that the opposition is empty of ideas. A prime example of this proc ess may be found in a upeech delivered by Sen. Wallace Bennett of Utah to a Chamber of Com merce group in Jnplin. Mo. As an analysis of the Cuban situation, it was cogent enough to warrant space in our great dailies. Hie program of action which it pro posed certainly merited the se rious consideration of the na tion's editorial writers. It got neither. Senator Bennett is one of the sturdier and more thoughtful members of the world's most ex clusive club. He Is not given to rlietorical hyperbole, and among his colleagues his judgements are respected. The silence of the press, both printed and elec tronic, is therefore puzzling. What Is far more pertinent than a dls- BERRY'S WORLD City 1 that tfalH, ton but it w$ m FUN ilrSffl chicanery. It is due in large part to what is known as backdoor spending that is, spend ing which, by reason of one law or another is not reflected either in whole or in part in the budget figures. For example, the De partment of Agriculture is spending more this year than last, while the budget shows it spending substantially less. The reason for this is that the department ". . . hopes to off set the increases by selling off vast amounts of its surplus cotton." Such hopes, obviously, are just that and nothing more few will be surprised if they are not realized. Stevenson lists numbers of other ex amples of backdoor spending of one kind or another. They include, according to him, the Export-Import Bank; the Rural Electrification Administration; the Housing and Home Fi nance Agency; and the Commodity Credit Cor poration. He then says that such agencies as these ". . . will lay out nearly S23.5 billion in the course of their next fiscal year's oper ations. But thanks to the bookkeeping prac tices cited here, the juggling and the consign ment of huge losses to limbo, the S23.5 bil lion gross outflow is made to appear in the administrative budget only as a net $3.5 bil lion expenditure." The solution, as Stevenson sees it, is to eliminate backdoor spending, to include bills before Congress in packages rather than offering them on a piecemeal basis, to require the President'to estimate the ultimate costs of all of his proposals, and to have Congress limit by law the amounts that can be spent annually. Legislation to these ends has been introduced. What will happen to it is what re mains to be seen. Some Answers cussinn of this silence Is the pro gram of action proposed by tiie senator from Utah. He offers to the bewitched, bothered, and bewildered Admin istration non-policy makers an antidote to what he calls their "International oncdownmanship" a very apt phrase. Let me pass them on. Your own congress man may find them useful: I. A blockade which would de prive Cuba of the sinews of war and the blood of economic exis tence. "We are told that this would he an act of war," Senator Bennett said. "We were not told that by tho President on Oct. 22" when he imposed his temporary blockade. "Tlio Soviet Union is in no position Ingistically or oth erwise to effectively resist an American blockade. In point of lad, legality is on our side. Un der the various international agreements ... to which the U.S. is a party, the overriding principle o( self-defense is recog nized as acceptable, and clearly the security of this hemisphere is in jeopardy." 3. Senator Bennett, like others in and out of Congress, feels that a free Cuban governmeut should be formed. With the recognition and support of the United Stales and the other American republics, it could "equip forces for action against Castro's island strong hold." 3. "The United States could sus pend negotiations with all Com munist powers on all diplomatic questions . . , until it is satislied that the Soviet military presence in Cuba Is terminated." To mam', this point will seem petty But ,.. you'r In jail , , riot . . .?" On Cuba "negotiation" of an kind Is con sidered vital by the Kremlin in maintaining its propaganda pose to the world. 4. A word of warning, not ut tered to date, to the Soviet Un ion: "Tlie President could state unequivocally that the use of So viet troops against Cuban nation als would immediately trigger . . . U.S. armed Intervention." The ef fect of this declaration would be electric in Cuba, doing more to encourage and stimulate anti-Castro guerrilla action than anything short of an actual U.S. invasion in force. 5. "I believe," Senator BenneU added, "that we could go fur ther and add an ultimatum date for the withdrawal from Cuba of all Communist military forces." 6. Perhaps Mr. Bennett's most important point: "We could beam a steady stream of broadcasts in Russian to Soviet troops in Cuba uffering tliem asylum in the Unit ed States. Just as during the Ko rean War we offered large re wards to Communist pilots flee ing with their M1U jets, so we could make a similar offer again." A few defections to tlie U.S. would strike terror in the Kremlin, if only because propa gandistirally the effect would he devastating. It shook! be noted that Sena tor Bennett stops short at any suggestion of invasion, tien. Al bert Wedemcycr. one of Ameri ca's great strategists, argues that invasion now would be the chvut esl and easiest solution to the Cuban problem. But the Bennett proposals, and he has others to add. would go a long way toward proving that Cuba can be rcwon without war. Certainly it is worth a li v Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, May 23. the lliid day of hhm with 2i! to follow. The moon is approaching its fust quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Tltose born today are under the sign of Gemini. tin this day in hisloiv In I9UJ, Wisconsin became the first state In adopt a direct pn maty lor paity elections hi tlie U S. submarine Sqoalus sank oif Portsmouth. N H . in 240 feet of water. Thirty three of the 59 men aboard were rescued by a diving bell. In 1W5, Hcinruh Himmlcr, the sinister chief of the Nazi secret police, committed suicide at Lune burg. Germany, three days alter his capture by Bntish troops. A Direct Hit S9- Purely Personal Prejudices: Much jewelry on a woman al ways seems to exaggerate what she has or hasn't, or what she is or isn't: it makes a thin woman look thinner, a fat woman look fatter, a young one look patheti cally vulnerable, and an old one look grotesquely ancient. A good many doctors, t sus pect, "cure' more patients by the size of the bill than by the course of the treatment. Male hypocrisy In the realm of sexual relations was pungent Jy put by Dcsnoycrs when he said: "We censure tlie inconstancy of women when we are the vic tims: we find it charming when we are tlie objects." It is tlie magnitude of a fatal catastrophe that shocks and im presses us, so that our sympathy becomes statistical, and in the end it is only the "really big" hurricane or plane crash that moves us: but mortality is not cumulative, and the death rate is the same everywhere one to a person. The worst "love triangles" are not those among three per sons, but between two as when, for Instance, both the woman and the man are In love with him. Those who eagerly join mohs must leel like absolutely nothing by themselves. When you keep someone wail Bird Watching ACROSS 1 North American thruih B Bird of prey 1 1 Kipunged IS Severe trial 14 Cylindrical It Kllrhfl furtively l Kternily 17 In three wavl Icomb. torml 19 Fuddled (ScoU W KeiRn Z4 r ixed observer J7 Unata It Sea akelelcn J2 Rinsed mountain creit W Keminine name 54 Sinmn voicsi Is Henta anew i: Blanket W Mends to IVt.oit DOWN rifiui Mountain (comb. form. Kind of owl Suit u Sfine Si bird Print drink simf nti Brtdv of water OthrmiM Reilrmn American Right ab) i 2 3 ITT I p 7 13 lio" n irn FT" U 15 re SZilS17"' is 125 p H27 :b 129 30 53 - Ta -r Utt 1 53 39 IT IT 4Tr I L ' ' M.HM'APi:lt STRICTLY-PERSONAL ing, remember that you are giv ing him time to enumerate your faults and deficiencies, as com pared with his own glowing vir tues, among the first of which is promptness. More criminals are apprehend ed because of other criminals Uian because of the police: for when a man determines to lead an anti-social life, the tortured logic of his position forces him to become eventually anti-social toward his own confederates and associates. A journalist is that odd sort nf writer who begins to write badly as soon as he is given time to write well. The things we say bear little resemblance to what is on our minds; fur instance, the import ant questions we ask usually con ceal some other question we are too ashamed lor too unaware I to formulate in words; and this is why the answers we get rare ly satisfy us because they do not answer the hidden qucsUon, only the verbal one. Many more people would com mit suicide if they weren't afraid of what the neighbors might say: what inhibits them is fear of scandal more than fear nf death. Those who cannot stand to be alone are diximed never to know intimacy: for love, as Ortega re minds us. "consists of two soli tudes that touch and cross one another." Answer to Prtjvieut Pimlt Trll Tulifr Challenger Cicatrix 3tt Ttirf frtoed -WHeraldic bind 41 run uuc 42 IV It 44 Harem room. Muaival quality Seed cosenng Capital of Nart PaMaia prminct, Ecuador Atwne Withered t.anlm too! 4t Small aperture 4ft Crafts 48 Number 4y Knlonwlofif an) Si Hare count circuit Mm- .1 nf art fcXTt'RriUt ASV 1 B-LAktS ,hr(,u,n ,, UjBjXfl j.kSai Sal'ndiilurbed RA'YKiBy&8H'AO' MHoalinl laiy1 MNunancea K-K-AAaPHx-i.1. 21 LETTERS TO THE ' EDITOR . Reunion Ex-mcmbers Rith Depot Repair Squadron. Kelly Field. Texas; Kofigia, Italy. Contact Ray Hoormann, 1209 Redman Ave., St. Louis 38, Mo tor details 1965 reunion. A. E. Shaffer. Schools Much has been said about the disadvantages of the proposed consolidation of our four school districts into a single county unit district, and very little has been said about the many advantages. In speaking for the County School Board, Dr. Cliff Robinson has very ably presented t h e board's reasons for opposing this consolidation. The primary argu ments against it are those of tax ation and administration. The high pitch of emotional feeling generated in tlie rural area re - garding taxes has stretched the first argument out of all propor tion. Factually, if we use this year's operating budgets for estimates, the rural taxes outside the KL'IIS District, would increase almost five mills. If, however, e also include the county building serial levy land we most certainly musti, then the picture looks brighter. Using a levy of JV50.000. and spreading it over the en tire county.' the rural taxes in crease by less than three mills. This is because the tax levy is distributed over both city and county property. The administrative problems would be very much the same as they are today in the county school system only the degree would vary due to the increased student population under one ad ministration. Even so, many good tliinss can be done that are not practical under our present com plicated school district bounda ries. In tlie face of such opposition, there are still many people in our school systems and among tlie public, who feel that the edu cation of our children must come first when considering this' ques tion. I'ntortunatelv. many of tlifsc people have been muuled by unorthodox pressures, and they must doend on individuals such as myself to plead their cause fur our educational system. I certainly am no espert on edu cational problems, hut I am one that can freely express t h e thoughts of those that are. I believe that, when ail the facts are considered and under stood, reorganization into a sinde county unit deserves your sup port. A special election i? to be held on June 10. which will de cide tlie luture of education in Klamath County Read your news paper and attend tlie meetings where this imxrtanl problem is hcint! discusMsd. Ai our present school situation demands decisions maie by infoimed. thinking peo p. even one should make it his persona! gial to study a!l aspevis of this issue before "t inc. Everett Metier PS Contrary to ail rumors I have heard. I have never been a mem ber of the KUmalh County Tax pavers league and I have rw intent ion o( hecomtru a member of this oramat.on By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON iNEAi - With everything from Cuba to Laos and back again so badly loused up, iimybe they should bring Stanley p Lovcll back to Washington again. After all, he's only 72 now. Lovell, in case you have forgot ten, was World War II director of research and development for the Office of Strategic Services. Gen William J. (Wild Bill I Donovan, who headed OSS, swore Lovell to secrecy for 20 years on all the devious tricks they played in this cloak-and-dagger outiit. But now that the 20 years are up, Stanley Lovell has written a book, "Of Spies and Strategems," (Prentice-Hall $3.95.) U reveals at least some of the inside stories. If it isn't re quired reading in the more cir c u m s p e c t Central Intelligence Agency, housed in its multimil lion dollar palace up the Potomac from Washington, as successor to the screwball OSS. it should be. Lovell was and still is a manu facturing chemist. He holds some 70 patents in his own name. He was recruited for OSS by Dr. Karl T. Compton of MIT and put to work by Vannevar Bush of the Carnegie Institution men who knew good brains when they found them and knew what to do with them. Maybe that's what's needed now more and better brains with a sense of humor thrown in for good measure. One of Lovcll's first jobs was to hire good paper and ink chemists and put the Bureau of Engraving nnd Printing to work manufactur ing genuine imitation Nazi pass ports. Also on the OSS staff was America's most notorious forger, known only as Jim the Penman, who signed Hitler's and Musso lini's names to all kinds of offi cial documents they never wrote. Lovcll's next job was to make counterfeit Japaness curren cy used in the Philippine Islands occupation. A plane load of it put a severe strain on Japan's cconn-. my, but the Japs never caught on. One Lovcll invention was a harmless firecracker called a "Hedy Lamarr." When you pulled a small wire loop, it simu lated the screech of a falling Nazi bomb. It was used to cre ate panics in enemy territory. By FULTON LEWIS JR. "Never in the history of tlie world has espionage been empha sized as it is today by the Com munist nations. "In addition to the use of offi cial representatives for intelli gence purposes. Communist-bloc powers are training professional undercover spies men like Ru dolf Ivanovich Abel to carry on clandestine operations. Likewise. Communist officials are constant ly socking contact with Amer icans, contacts they can exploit." The words, uttered last Decem ber, are tliose of J. Edgar Hoo ver, unquestionably the country's best expert on Soviet subversion. And a federal trial now under way in New York's Foley Square Courthouse demonstrates once assain the truth of Hoover's re jwrt. On trial is Nelson Cnrnclious Driiminiuid. a veteran of 18 years in Uncle Sam's Navy, who has pleaded n'it guilty to espionage charges. ln;serious tinaneial trou ble, according to tlie f ederal Bu reau l Invpstigatii.n. Drummond was a tempting target tor Soviet aprnls. who made contact wilh him and last year came to an "understandini;." On several occasions, it is charged. Drummond traveled from Newport, wiiere hjc was sta tioned, to New York, reluming with large sums of money. Little more than a year aao. he bought two W.W-model automo biles and purchased a bar and grill, claiming that he had ob tained SS.imo from relatives and . ofhcials at a local hank. According lo tlie FBI. Drum mond made a typical trip to Nevv York last Aug. 1.1. There he vis ited an apartment at 400 Central Park West, the residence of Ev Sni M. Proknorov and Ivan Y. Vvrodov. second ar.d third secre taries of tlie Soviet Mission to tlie Lnited Nations. On Aug. 17. he had in his possession AS S10 bills His gross salary at the time was &US.10 a month. FBI agents moved in Sept. St. r.iMiing Drummmd in a parked car at n:ht m Larchmond. a sub urb of New York City With h.m a! the time was Eviem Prodhor- Lovell threw one into a waste basket to show the Joint Chiefs of Staff how it worked. They never came back. Lovcll went on from there to de velop a magnetic bomb which, at tached to railroad cars, would blow up only when the train was in a tunnel, thus wrecking the tunnel. Next was a silent and (lashless pistol for use by under ground fighters and saboteurs. Donovan demonstrated one nf these guns to President Roosevelt in his White House office one day, firing six silent but deadly shots' into a sandbag. After he recov ered from surprise and shock, FDR said "Bill, you're the only Republican I'll ever allow in my office with a weapon like "this." Lovell's greatest achievement in espionage was performed right here in Washington.. A message came in one day from Allen Dulles then Agent 110 in Switzerland, lat er plant in Norway to Pecne Agency. He reported that a Frenchman escaping to Switzer land had said he was a guard for water shipments from a big pow er plant In Norway to Pcnne mundc, on the Baltic coast. Lovell had been briefed on the U.S. Manhattan Engineer project and knew that heavy water was used in atomic energy research. He also knew that aerial recon naissance had revealed some "0 muGlnrimic clfi clirloc nn the, Ratlin coast, all aimed at Britain. Lovell reasoned that t h e Nazis were developing rockets that would carry atomic bombs, so he persuaded Donovan to alert the Ruyal Air. Force. The RAF raid on Peenemunde in August 1943 set the German V-2 program back a year, thus saving the Nor mandy invasion. Actually the ' heavy water wasn't shipped to Peenemunde but to Wolgast. where the Ger mans were working on atomic sub marines. But they never got them built in time. Lovell's greatest achievement In counter-intelligence came after President Roosevelt told Donovan one day, "Bill, you must treat the Russians as you treat the Brit ish. They're killing Germans every day, you know." Shortly thereafter a team of Russians appeared at OSS head quarters to inspect Lovell's bag of tricks. He made sure that his silent, (lashless gun went off with a blinding bang and that his booby trails didn't work. WASHINGTON REPORT . . Long-Time Navy Man Gives Reds Papers In his car, FBI agents discov ered six classified Naval docu ments and a tiny Minox camera that had been purchased by the Russians in February, 1962. He was charged with conspir acy to "communicate, deliver and transmit" classified military in formation to the Soviet Union. If convicted, he faces (lie death -nalty. ' . Testimony at tlie Drummond tri al once again points to the mag nificent work of Mr. Hoover's men. Agents say they hooked up a closed-circuit TV system to watch Drummond take documents. An other agent was hidden in Drum mond's office while the Navy vet eran was allegedly secreting docu ments for his Soviet benefactors. Note: In addition to tlie Drum mond case, ti.e FBI last year broke up a ring of Castro-trained saboteurs operating in New York; obtained evidence to con vict Mark Znorowskt on perjury charges arising from his denial that he knew self-admitted Soviet spy Jack Soblc; and disseminat ed intelligence information which resulted in persona non grata dec larations and r c I a te d action against several official represent atives of Communist-bioe nations. In his year-end report last De Cvmlier. Director Hoover called attention to the prosecutive action instituted by tlie Justice Depart ment against Die Communist Par ty and its leaders. He said: "Rased upon witnesses and in humation located by the FBI, the Communist Party, as an organi zation, uas convicted on Dec 17 and lined 120.000 for failure to roister wilh the Attorney Gener al under Ihe Internal Security ct o run. ' In addition. Archie Brown. Sari Francisco area member of the In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was con victed under the provision of the I-ahor-Manaucmenl Reporting and Disclosure Act which prohibit! tommunuts or persons wi-o have leen Party members within, a pe riod of five years from holding
