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I’AfiK 2 —'Fhc Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, October 19, 1967 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolim SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months $1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN ‘‘Listen, mv children, ami you shall hear of the midnight role of Paul Revere," a.^ you will rememlic r something in s chool, as chi bin .■n. N o w 1 will tell you a story that goi’S ; back to the days when I had ret •ently ceased to be fed with a > poor), more of le; ss. In F. b rua ry INKS the 1 'niti d State-- b; attles hip Maine was sunk in Hava itia harbor. A court of inquiry declared that the ship was sunk by S| >a ui'h author.t u *1 i.ai n ow ning and con; rolling < ‘uba. The r lilted State> de< dared wa.- on I •q>am and sent a fleet to cruise a bo ut Cuba. Spa: n a 1'" sent a fb eel. In the course of time the Spanish fleet entered the bar- harbor ol r Santiago in the east ern part of < 'uba. William McKinley was Pres ident and Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of our Navy. Our people were somewhat uneasy because one of our mo.-t powerful battleships, the Ore gon, was m or nai San Fran cisco, on the Pacific coast of our country. Now here was the problem: our fleet was blocking the fleet of Spain in Santiago harbor and which impht steam out at full Speed and escape or do preat damape to our fleet. Youi 1 prandfather may recall that Lt. Richard Hobson of our Navy, a pallant son of Alaba ma. undertook a dannp effort by sailinp bis ship into Santiapo and sinking - it to block the fleet of S | [lain. Unfortunately t. h e turn of the tide caused bis ship to swirl a little, leaving room for the Spanish fleet to come ollt. We Were in R overwhelmingly superior to the Spaniards and we knew that a dozen heav_\ shells could do preat damapt to our ship-'. We m-.-ded more warships, but the battleship Orepon was more than ten thousand mile- a u ay. If the (Uepon could only pet thir<'! It would have to >aii all ar.mud ' eiitral and South America and then .-ai! north a'nout an eipaa.l distance m or der to join in r nupht to that of tin fleet She did SO, but t hat w as \ e; \ | . p. foils and ris ky, but In r a: rival seemed ti make ..re une e p"W er !ban t In Span : a i'd pad Look at you) map and ob- '-eiAi the I'outt of tin 1 Orepotl and ponder w hat In r arrival meant. Fuithermore to (trepon was ppobably our most power ful ship and if the Spaniards had overtaken or cut her off it would have been a disaster. What isthe difference today? The Battleship could come thru the Panama canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic. I have passed thru the Pan ama canal five times, coming from and pomp to Peru. ll there were no canal the trip would be from New York down to the tip of South America and then northward toPallao Most shippinp now comes and poes thru the canal. Americans built the canal and paid t vet y doPar of the cos! And thereby hang.- a taby as they used to say. North, Central and South America form a vast wall be tween the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Men had talk ed for years about slitting a canal thru the wall in order to shorten the distance from Fast to West and to facilitate trade. Our uneasiness during the voyage of the Oregon probably silenced opposition. Now where should the canal be cut? Several routes were studied. As you will observe the Isthmus of Panama is a long narrow arm in the Carib bean sea. While all this was under study and discussion the Pres ident of the I'nitet States was oud illustrious Rough Rider, Theodore Roosevelt, who ac cording to Mr. I) ooley, tlie humorist, led the American Army in Cuba and single hand ed drove the Spaniards out. 'That, of course, is a bit of exaggeration. The people of the Isthmus of Panama, probably strongly encouraged by Aemricans de clared their independence. Strangely enough Americans indicated that we would op pose any effort by the Republic of Colombia to (|uell the up rising. The strip of Panama hen made a treaty with theUnited States by which we were per mitted to cut the canal. I magine that! Panama owes her liberty, her independence, hep very exist ence to us, but we pay a heav_\ annual rental. Ponder this: all that region was a death hole of yellow fev er. We spent millions of dollars making Panama safe and sani tary and Panama calls for more and more rental money. Panama is a rich trading ter ritory today, drawing com merce from Furope and Asia, as well as America and South A merica. We are about to negotiate another treaty, in true Amer ican extravagance; will prob ably pay more to Panama or cut another canal at a cost of a hundred million dollars, prob ably repeating this same story with any country of South, Central op North America with which we deal. 1 n travelling from N. V to Callao, Peru, a- I dal a times, the time now is about nine days, instead of about ‘JO days if travelling around South Am erica anil then coming north to Callao. You may be sure, this coun try. as usual, will pay heavily exoi bit ant ly ext i a vagant ly. 1 recall the proposal that we pay for land occupied and re deemed in France, although we spent hundreds of millions of dollars to dpive the (iermans out. The Congress holds the purse —whatever the Congress or dains will be the law. However we’ve seen the Fxeeutive plunge us into a war in Asia which has cost up to now about 50 billion dollars, a hun dred thousand men, and for what ? When I read what some good men say, in defense of our for ay in Vietnam, I marvel at the vagaries of men and t h e idiosyncracies of some men of sound thinking; ordinapily. The difference of opinion may indicate vigorous men tality; or perhaps mentality sometimes run off the track. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE OTEPKA AND ROSTOW A brief just Filed before a - State Department hearing of ficer for Otto Otepka reveals that this career State Depart ment security officer first ran into trouble in 1960 when he expressed reservations about a proposed clearance for Walt Whitman Rostow. Twice before, under the Eis enhower Administration, Ros tow had been denied a State Department clearance to handle sensitive data, and Otepka in dicated to Dean Rusk and At torney General Designate Rob ert Kennedy that he would probably still evaluate Rostow’s file in the same manner. DIFFERENT EFFECTS This episode had a decidedly different effect on the careers of the two principals involved Rostow was given immediate clearance as a White House aide where the only security criter ion is the President’s say-so; he moved under this clearance to the State Department Policy Planning Council, and is now, ironically, Special Assistant to the President for National Se curity Affairs ; Otepka became the victim of a scheme which involved per jury, wire tapping, and charac ter assassination, in an effort to remove him from his important post. Security procedures spelled out in law and regulation vir tually collapsed, as “emergency clearances” and high-level say- so approvals superseded objec tive review. In the brief tiled before the hearing examiner, Otepka is lighting not only to get his job hack, hut also to keep American defense secrets from the enemy. There are those today who hold that the concept of security clearances is out of date. The necessity for rigidly adhering to security procedures should Ik? obvious, in view of the continu ing efforts by the Soviet Un ion to undermine the free world, and particularly in view of re cent disclosures. Even as Otto Otepka’s case comes to a head, Pritish newspapers have been Filled with accounts of the dam age suffered by both Britain and the United States from the work of just three British trait ors. Facts never made public before show that the Soviet Union had more access to our secrets in both World War II and the Korean War than pre- \ lously realized. As a rase in point I refer to the repeated effort to in- crea.-e our taxes. Doesn’t it impress you as conrinonsense that we should i ( trench, rather than add to our hurden? Have not we ]• eai be (1 a i 1 ime u iieli til e G ovcnmient 1 s g! OSS- ly nii'le ad i n. g tin peo| ile in e\- t r avagance 1 IVC. all what I’ve qu oted fr equent ly: S e n t ! i lo ( ‘o mun I ’ Fs e! mas ran i lie t Olios s. ■nt i [ill IS, 1 borrow that from the Span ish, so 111 translate it: ‘‘Com mon Sense! It is the rarest of till the senses." Yeti, verily; it certainly is not common, for only a few have it. It may be noted, in passing, that our splendid little State seems to have fallen into the hands of go-getters. Yes, and they tire about to get every thing. I’m reminded of the story of the promt, but humble father who said to a friend, “My boy has finished college.” And the friend, asked: “What did he take.” Everything I had,” said the proud, but impoverish ed daddy. A MASTER SPY It is now revealed that the Soviet master spy, Harold Phil- by easily inFiltrated the highest levels of British intelligence be fore he defected to the Soviet Union. A life-long, dedicated Communist, Philby posed as a British patriot to become the head of the Soviet bureau of the British intelligence office. In reality, Philby was spying for the Soviet Union. Later he became the trusted liaison between British intelli gence and the F.S. Central In telligence Agency—thus putting himself in a position to give the Communists knowledge about all the general operations of both major Western intelligence operations. Philby’s role was not revealed even when he tipped off Guy Burgess and Donald MaeLean, enabling them to flee to the Soviet Union. Later on he vol untarily left Britain and went to the Soviet Union himself. Al though officials here and abroad had passed off Macf^ean’s work as non-sensitive, the British newspapers now reveal that a secret 1956 State Department report made it clear that Mac- Lean was the primary channel for Soviet espionage during the Korean War. MAC LEAN AND KOREA MaeLean was first Secretary in the British Embassy in Wash ington, and later head of the American Department of the Foreign Office in London. Mac- Lean had full knowledge of the fateful American decision to confine the fighting to Korea itself, and to permit Red sanc tuaries above the Yalu River. General MacArthur complained bitterly that this hobbling de cision, and all his strategic troop movements, were known immediately by the enemy. Lax security by the British thus was one important factor that led to the indecisive stale mate in Korea. Moreover, our failure to win the war in Ko rea is the chief reason why we are being forced to fight the Communists again in Vietnam. The British experience illus trates that strict security prac tices must be kept up contin uously. It is not necessary to assume that a person denied a .security clearance is disloyal. As long as human beings handle sensitive secrets, the element of risk is always a factor. Nevertheless, that risk in creases in direct proportion as known elements of risk are ig nored. The granting of a secur ity clearance to anyone with out a full field investigation is contrary to sound and accepted practices and is a conscious flouting of the Nation’s security. Otto Otepka has laid his entire career on the block in a cour ageous effort to make America understand this danger. New rules for game hunting A revised system of regula tions for the game manage ment areas will allow some small game hunting on Hunt Units One and Two, the Wild life Resources Department has announced. Small game seasons in man agement areas of Unit-One- Uhester, Fairfield, Laurens, Newberry, Lancaster, Union, Kershaw, York and Spartan burg counties-will be the same as those for the counties, ex cept that there will be no small game hunting during the big game season. In Hunt Unit Two-parts of Edgefield, McCormick, Green wood and Abbeville counties- tho original game management areas of Forks-Key Bridge and Parsons Mountain will be clos ed to small game hunting until the big game season opens. After the big game season opens, the season on small game will lie open except during the big game hunts. “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phene 276-1422