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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
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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.
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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."
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LETTERS
TO THE '
EDITOR .
Reunion
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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