EDSON IN WASHINGTON
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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.