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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1963)
EDSON IN WASHINGTON PAGE t A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, July 25, 1963 Red Spies Combing U.S. For Secrets "A Penny for Your Thoughts" The nation's doctors have adopted a new universal medical symbol which will be of vital help to persons who need special medi cal handling in an emergency an auto acci dent, a seizure or other mishaps. The symbol may be displayed on a wristlet, an anklet or on a medallion around the neck. If the afflict ed person is unconscious or unable to com "municate, the emblem alerts those who come to his aid to look for essential medical facts on a card in his wallet. : Perhaps the wearer is an epileptic or a '-. diabetic, unable to convey his need for special (The Oregonian) ''. The CAB's "use it or lose it" policy to 5lvard communities served by federally-subsi-",' dized airlines, discussed by A. Robert Smith In the adjoining column, on the surface ap pears to be a contradiction of the theory : which led to the original development of these -short-haul, local service carriers. But when : one considers fully the great changes which ' have occurred in the field of passenger and freight transportation in the past two decades, it can be seen the policy, though harsh, is soundly based. The air transport situation was much dif- ferent when the local service airlines (West Coast was the nation's first) appeared at the ': end of World War H. In those days the DC-3 ' aircraft was cheap to buy and fly, and compar . able in speed and comfort to the most modern planes used by the long-haul air carriers. High : ways generally were narrow, crooked and slow 'I by today's standards. For trips of more than 100 miles, the commercial airliner was an at tractive proposition for travelers of the late ; 40s and early 50s. The small airlines obviously -were filling a public need, and the federal subsidies were regarded as a temporary, read - ily-justifiable measure. But times have changed. With the com : ing of modern, highspeed highways, the air . liner has lost much of its time advantage for short trips. Many original stops on the Schedule of West Coast and other U.S. local service airlines already have been abandoned, l4nd it appears more abandonment will follow. HOLMES Reds !;". By HOLMES ALEXANDER X WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Jan. ;-I6, 1958, when Director J. Edgar 1 -Hoover was asking the House J Appropriations subcommittee (or Turulc In run ihp. FRI riiirinu lha ; next fiscal year, he said: : "The Negro situation Is also ; being exploited fully and contin : ously by Communists on a na ; 'tional scale. Current programs ; linclude intensified attempts to in filtrate Negro mass organiza- lions. Tile party's objectives are ;' Jiot t6 aid the Negroes but are - designed to take advantage of all controversial issues on the v.racc question so as to create un .".rest, dissension and confusion in v-Uie minds of the American peo ple" Mass demonstrations by Ne ' groes in the North and South, to . he culminated with a huge march on Washington next month, were not in the news, as they are now, , when Director Hoover gave this dispassionate, succinct and in I formed statement of Communist intentions. 1-ast week Southern Governors Barnctt (Miss.) and "V. Wallace (Ala.) flapped the Red flag in words much like Hoover's. - But the Barnelt Wallace tcstimo ny before the Commerce Commit- tee's civil rights hearings was too self-interested to be effective. Any-Other red object the Red Herring '-Of McCarthyisrn came scurrying ; - Into the Caucus Room where Mc ; Carthy once performed. The sub ject of Communist complicity soon got lost amid pious horror of "smearing" the Negro race and ils leaders. Somebody suggested that J. Edgar Hoover be sum moned as a star witness on the . subject, but Chairman Magnuson ,';as against it. . Fortunately, it is hardly ncccs l;iary to call Hoover. A little page '. leafing through House Appropri- -ations hearings show s that the ; - FBI director has several times ; - asked Congress (or money (or ' the very purpose of investigating ' Communist incilatinn of the Ne- - grnes. :; On March 3, 1961. Hoover told the House money-raisers: "The sit-in demonstrations in I lie South w ere a madc-to-ordcr v Issue which the party fully ex ploited to further its ends." Sign Of Life Here Today . It is argued that with better equipment and more convenient scheduling, the local airlines could retain or increase their patron age in communities now regarded as marginal by the CAB. That is true in many instances. But more frequent service in newer aircraft means bigger operating expenses, and the CAB wants to reduce or abandon subsidies, not increase or perpetuate them. To make their modern, faster aircraft profitable, West Coast and its compatriots want to carry more people more miles with fewer stops. In a sense they are moving into the field formerly occupied by the long haul carriers. But these face a similar problem with their big, swift jetliners. It is not incon ceivable that in the years to come Portland and Seattle will be the only Pacific Northwest cities served by major airlines, and that all other Oregon and Washington cities will be left to the local service carriers. Does this mean smaller cities such as Burns, Baker, Ontario and Lakeview will lose air service forever? Not necessarily. We have by no means yet reached the pinnacle of aero nautical design, and the next few years may see the debut of vertical takeoff and land ing (VTOL) aircraft which could make com mercial, subsidy-free airline service practical even for communities too small to afford mu nicipal airports. So the civic leaders in cities losing scheduled service should not lose heart. The science of aeronautics marches on, and the progress which brought air service to them in the 40s almost surely will bring it back by the 70s. ALEXANDER Solicit Negroes By now the director was giv ing names, places and dates. He mentioned James E. Jackson and Joseph North, "national Commu nist party functionaries," who came around (or the demonstra tions at Richmond, Va., in Feb ruary, I960. He quoted the Negro Communist, Ben Davis, "the par ty's national secretary," as stat ing in March, I960, that Negro demonstrations are the next best thing to "proletarian revolution." Again, on Jan. 24, 1962, Hoover came to the House Appropriations Committee for funds, and one of his arguments was: "Since Its inception the Com munist Party, U.S.A., has been alert to capitalize on every pos sible issue or event which could be used to exploit the American Negro in furtherance of party aims. In its efforts In influence the American Negro, the party at tempts to Infiltrate the legitimate Negro organizations for the pur pose of stirring up racial preju BERRY'S WORLD , "J don't care how jovial he teemt. At trill, kttp your back, to the walll" care. Possibly he is allergic to antibiotics, such as penicillin. The emblem will warn 'his rescuers and the card will give the medical details. As adopted by the American Medical Association, the new symbol contains a six point "sign of life" figure. Super-imposed on it is the symbol of the medical profession, a staff with a snake twined about it. In many cases, those who need special treatment may face needless suffering or even death if their problem is not known. For them, this emblem will indeed be a "sign of life." . . dice and hatred. In this way, the party strikes a blow at our demo cratic form of government by at tempting to Influence public opin ion throughout the world against the United Stales." Well, nothing could be clearer than that. I have names for fu ture columns showing proved Communists ferrying between Ha vana and the demonstration sites in American cities, and showing known Communists at the dirty work of teaching Negroes, and whites to hate one another. Hut the point which Warren Magnuson's Commerce Committee ought to be honest enough to dis cover is already laid hare, and this is it: The unhappy American Negro, generally immune to Communist blandishments and greatly prefer ring the American way, is now be ing solicited and tempted, organ ized and incited as never before, by the worst enemy our coun try ever had. IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLEDANO When I was new to the writing business, 1 had an editor who said: "Put it in terms of money and people will get the point." Well, will they? Going over the great mass of material that pass es over this desk, I keep running into interesting little statistics on how the Treasury spends its money. Representative Earl Wilson (R. Ind.) has spent years digging up hanky-panky in Federal military procurement and shown how bil lions could be saved without af fecting the efficiency of the serv ices. Very few pay attention. The Area Redevelopment Ad ministration was given a four- By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The ability to go fast creates a kind of dishonesty, like that of the normally law-abiding motorist who, in speeding along the high way, tries to deceive and outwit the police; it is perhaps no acci dent that the classical god Mer cury, who flew with wings at his heels, was at once the god of speed and the god of thieves. Those who praise "action" too often have a contempt for thought: this is why the "man o.' action" eventually runs the risk of becoming the man of violence, which is action (or its own sake, with no rational end or purpose. Most of the disappointments of later life could be lightened Immeasurably if we could but learn (and truly believe) early in life that what we confusedly call "happiness" is a direction and not a ploce. The one says, "You must change man in order to change society"; the other says, "You must change society in order to change man"; and neither can see that each has hold of only one-hnl.' of the truth, that the two seeming oppositions are reci procal, and we can never achieve the one without working on the otber. The most foolish philosophers are thasc who hold the doctrine that most people arc fools; when people seem to be stupid it is because tliey arc preoccupied, be cause their minds arc closed by fears or anxieties; but it is a very great mistake to think that a closed mind is an empty one consider, for instance, children w ho seem "stupid" in school be cause their interest hasn't been awakened, but who arc skillful and lively in the games that do interest them. "Our souls are not much hid den," wrote Charles II, Coolry, In a passage I often return to. "Nothing Is truer to experience or rryre wholesome to recognise than that the Impression we make comes from what we are, It's Only Money year appropriation but after less than two years with $264 million still in the kitty it asked (or $455 million more, and got it from the Senate. In one Pennsylvania coun ty, $48,650 was spent by ARA on an electronics course for "instruc tion and equipment." No equip ment was available for recourse. But the tab noted $38,682 for the non-existent equipment. Representative William Brock (R.) of Tennessee informs his con stituents that though their individ ual share of the national debt and the current budget (to date) is $6,933, the Federal government is spending $17,500 on studies in "Modification of Alcohol Prefer- STRICTLY PERSONAL in Inmost desire and habit, and not from what we may try to seem to !e." We know that lovers come to resemble each other; what we fail to see is that enemies, after a while, also come to resemble each other, but on the lowest plane, not on the highest; read the war between Athens and Spar ta and it will be hard to tell the "democracy" from the "dicta torship." Most of us would agree that it is unnatural and unwholesome to live in solitude; yet those who live only in the present, who draw no nourishment or feeling of con tinuity from history, are alienated from the past, and live in a kind of temporal solitude. Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday. July 25, (lie 206th day of 1963 with 159 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those born today include Amer ican playwright and producer Da vid Belasco, in 1854. On this day in history: In 1866, Ulysses Grant became the first officer to be given the rank of general of the United Slates Army. In 1909, French aviator Louis Rlcriot flew from Calais to Dover, the first visitor to England who did not go by water. In 1943, Italy's King Victor Emanuel dismissed Benito Mus solini as head of the Italian gov ernment. In 1956. two liners the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm, collided near Nantucket. Fiftv persons died. A thought for the day Russian novelist Ivan Turgeniev said: "I agree with no man's opinions. 1 h.ive some of mv own." Yours ence in Rats"; $65,400 on deter mining the "Behavior and Ecol ogy of the Wandering Albatros," and $36,800 on being hip to the "Social Behavior of Ants." The Republican Congressional Committee notes that disarma ment is becoming a big business. The Institute of Defense Analysis, a Pentagon "boondoggle," happily pays its president twice what a Congressman makes. It receives $8 million from your Uncle and mine and has 234 employes. A gag gle of companies have contracts which cost the taxpayer anywhere from $10,000 to $500,000 each. In Los Angeles, Serendipity, Inc., has been awarded a $23,326 contract to find out if each unit in the armed forces should have a "wit" or funny man. If the report from Serendipity, Inc. is positive, each unit will begin to clamor for its own comic. And can you imagine what put ting Shelley Berman and Jona than Winters on the Pentagon pay roll will cost? The Kennedys, through Brother Jack, have asked Congress to in crease the White House helicopter fleet (all 10-passenger jobs) from eight to 10. The two new whirly birds will cost the Treasury $1.2 million each. The President's re quest went by almot unnoticed though bitter Republicans, watch ing the take-offs and landings on the White House lawn, complain that President Eisenhower's occa sional jaunts to Burning Tree once made front page news. Foreign aid proponents argue that most of the money is spent in the United Stales, so it isn't real ly hurting. But the Citizens For eign Aid Committee points out that mighty little of our foreign aid expenditures come back to the United States. In 1959, it was 14 per cent; in 1960, 12 per cent; in 1961, 10.5 per cent; in 1962, 10 per cent, and in 1963, an estimated 17.7 per cent. When a foreign aid appropriation or auth orization reaches the Hill, how ever, the figure most often used to lull the legislators is 90 per cent. Congress is hoping to cut bil lions from the Federal budget. Be cause sums of this magnitude mean little. Representative Thom as Pelly offered some statistics. He points out that if a man be gan spending one dollar a min ute at the time of Christ's birth, he would just about be running through his first billion dollars. A billion dollars would buy enough autos to jam them bumper lo bumper from Cleveland to Salt Lake City. But if money speaks, it must have laryngitis these days. Every body talks economy. The Admin istration complains that it has cut the budget to the bone and is holding down on new expendi tures. Commerce Secretary Luth. er Hodges tells Congress that his department could be cut down 25 per cent, then adds 10 per cent to the payroll. Does anybody care? Or are those who clamor (or fiscal san ity and a dollar's worth of Fed eral activity for a dollar of (ax money simply out of step with the Umes? Obviously the Admin istration believes that the public doesn't really mind just so long as there is enough serendipity to go around. Remember serendip ity? It means, (according to Web ster) an aptitude for having nice things happen to you. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-All the sweetness and ever-loving coex istence coming out of the Mos cow nuclear test ban conference preliminaries is in marked con trast to the growing record of Russian espionage now being dis closed in major western capitals. There's a belief that the Soviet spy network has been vastly ex panded since the end of World War II. This is verified by the number of Russian diplomatic personnel assigned to the United States, nearly doubled in the last 10 years. In May 1954 there were 212 Russian officials assigned to the United States. Five years later, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover put the number at 313 an increase of almost 50 per cent. As of May 1, 1963, however, there were 415 Russians in the United States, assigned to Wash ington and the United Nations headquarters in New York. More over, there were 317 diplomats from the seven Communist satel lites in the U.S. The 19 Cuban officials assigned to the United Nations in New York brings the total to 751. They had 1,118 dependents in this country. This aggregate, fur thermore, docs not include an unknown number of American Communists who may be report ing to Red master spies. Since it has been estimated that 70 to 80 , per cent of the Communist-country officials as signed to this country are in in telligence work, the spy potential is about 500 to 600 operatives. Three years ago the U.S. State Department estimated that Rus sian and Chinese bloc countries had some 300,000 trained spies serving throughout the world. The number is greater now. This year's spy mania opened with the Soviet's public trial and execution of its own Col. Oleg Penkovsky. He had been charged with betraying Russian secrets to the western powers. The case was used to frighten the Russian peo ple and to tighten the Soviet's own security network. Hard on the heels of these dis closures last May came the Brit WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. There occurred in Philadelphia, Penn., on June 21, 1783, an event that would profoundly affect the creation of a Federal City in the District of Columbia. It is an event worth recalling as upwards of 100,000 angry citi zens prepare to march on Wash ington late next month. The yellowed pages o( the North American Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Packet, both Phila delphia newspapers tell the story well. On Thursday, June 19. 1783, a group of 80 mutinous soldiers of the Continental Army marched on Philadelphia. They came to demonstrate at the Continental Congress for the right to choose their own officers, for higher pay and better working conditions. Two days later, on Saturday, June 21. the soldiers stormed the Continental Congress. An eye-witness Intelligencer account reads: "To the astonishment of the city, and the public dishonor, these troops, with fixed bayonets and drums beating, marched into tile State House, the scat of Con gress and the Supreme Execu tive Council. "Having placed guards at the different doors, and set off de tachments to those places where they supposed arms and ammuni tion were deposited, they set up a written paper to the President and council desiring that they might be authorized to choose their own officers and demanding an answer in 20 minutes, or an enraged sol diery would be let in upon them. "No address was made to Con gress, w hich was asscmhled upon special business: but not choosing to deliberate under the bayonets of an armed mob, tbcv retired without any other insult offered to them, collectively or individually. "In the meantime the soldierv grew very clamorous, complain ing of the detention of their pav ol the non-settlement of their ac counts, intermixed with general reproaches on public authority of very kind, and threats of vio lence if their complaints ere not instantly attended to." The "written paper" was im. -lialcly taken under consider.. by a special Committee of the longress and the sergeants who led the mob were aWe" t kP peace and order for a while, sent 1 mc'1n"me- Ihe Consress 'nt an urgent messace to the ish War Minister John Profumo Christine Keeler scandals which also involved Russian Navy Capt. Y. M. Ivanov. Other European capitals rocked with Russian spy disclosures in rapid succession. In Stockholm Col. Slig Wenner strom, a disarmament specialist, was exposed as having given Swe den's secrets to the Russians for 15 years. Bonn put on trial three of its top intelligence agency operatives Heinz Felfe, Hans Clements and Erwin Tiebel for betraying Wfct German secrets to Russia.' A ease with a different ending involues Dr. Guiseppe Martclli, an Italian atomic scientist just cleared by a British jury on charges of passing secrets to the Russians. Now undergoing his second trial in New York is U.S. Navy Yoe man Nelson C. Drummond, ac cused of the sale of confidential defense information to the Soviet Union. The prize boo-boo in the In ternational espionage game in the case of Soviet master spy, Anotoly Dolnytsin, still not fully disclosed. A year and a haif ago he surrendered to American agents in West Berlin, who kept his defection secret. . When he went to London to help the British clean up their shat tered intelligence service, h i s name was foolishly made public. Moscow claims he is still in Rus sia. But other reports have Rus sian counterspies on his trail to kill him if they can catch him. The one new spy plot is the case of the Russian couple real names unknown caught by the FBI in Washington. They had as sumed the identities of two inno cent and unsuspecting American citizens, the Rev. Robert K. Baltch, an Amsterdam, N.Y., priest and a Norwalk, Conn.! housewife whose maiden name was Joy Ann Garber. The phony "Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Baltch" were caught red-handed passing U.S. military informa tion to Ivan Egorov, a Russian United Nations official in New York, and his wife. All four have now been arraigned for trial. " But this case of stolen identi ties is one that not even the mys tery fiction writers had dreamed up. , . REPORT . . Maintaining Orderly Government Process Supreme Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania, asking that effective measures be taken to safeguard the public from a "dis orderly and menacing body o( armed soldiers." Pennsylvania officials shot back an answer, saying their militia was "disinclined to act upon the present occasion." Congress reacted immediately, by adjourning until June 26 at Prineceton. New Jersey. An edi torial in the Pennsylvania Packet suggested a solution to the whole mess: "Ought not the Representatives of the Congress be securely and commodiously placed that the business of the Continent may not, by any local or accidental cir cumstances, be interrupted?" Subsequently a Constitutional Convention was called for the pur pose of framing a Constitution for the United States. Article 1, Section 8, of that Con stitution states that: "Congress shall have the power ... to exercise exclusive legisla tion in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding 10 miles square) as may, by Ces sion of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Scat of Government of the United States." Members of Congress from Vir ginia and Maryland, who had been present at Philadelphia, con vinced their Governors to each cede a small tract of land to the Central Government and the Dis trict of Columbia was created. The reason for all this was ex plained by James Madison in the Federalist Papers: "Without com plete authority at the seat of gov ernment . . . the public authority might be insulted and its pro ceedings interrupted with impu nitv." THEY SAY... Nationality and religion arc separate and distinct. Our nation ality is American, our religion is Judaism, our homeland is the Uni ted States of America. We reject any concept liuit all Jews outside of Israel are in "exile." Clarence L, Coleman !'' president of American Council for Judaism.
