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Twitoy, Nwtmtar 24, im Cfbanon attg HENRY L. WILDER, Publisher, 1949-1962 i in Published Daily Except Sundays By LEBANON NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY 8th Poplar Lebanon, Pa. 17042 (717) 272-5611 Ralph de Toledano Brown Puts Ford Regime On The Spot ARBELYN WILDER President SANSONE JOSEPH SANSONE twc Ct-WWlrttr ADAM S. WILDER Mitwilni Editor, Co-Publtetacr JACK SCHROPP General MARY JANE WILDER Secretary ROSEMARY L. SCHROPP Tretsurer SAMUEL D.

EVANS Advertiiini Director Second Class Postage Paid at Lebanon, Pa. ISc copy; 90c weekly; M6.80 annually UKITEO PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Do You Really Mean It, Governor? THE RACIAL SLURS made by Gen. George Israel. Evans and Novak, of course, dis- Brown chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, associate themselves from the cruder anti- have placed the Ford administration squarely Semitic message, but with that disclaimer, they on the horns of a dilemma. If endorse Brown's misguided strictures against Brown is allowed to remain such aid.

as the nation's top military The problem is complicated by the fact that officer, the administration Brown was the organizer of the highly effective will open itself to charges airlift to Israel which saved that country during that it condones anti-Semi- ijfyf the perilous days of the YomKippurWar.lt was tism. If Brown is removed, it lllf; Brown's farsightedness that helped save will give those who have already rallied to him the opportunity to argue for his assertion that the Congress, the press, and the banks of this country are in the pocket of American Jews and the Israeli government. Already columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, under a joint byline, have their well-known antagonism to Israel by stating in the Washington Post ironically a Jewish-owned newspaper and elsewhere that Brown's remarks represent the "sober, well-justified concern" of the Pentagon over the "drain" of American military aid to in Cryptoquote How It: is AXYDLBAAXR LONGFELLOW One letter simply stands for another. In this sample A is used for the three L's, for the two O's, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints.

Each day the code letters are different. CRYPTOQUOTE VZSGAUFELEGF: EV EU VZSGA- EGF FNB MNO XSQZ GXH BSR CR JELEGF EV VN VZX HEJMXOt, WXVXOUNG Yesterday's Cryptoquote: THERE'S SOMEBODY AT EVERY DINNER PARTY WHO EATS ALL THE KIN HUBBARD Gen. Brown No one can deprive him of credit for this, or for the military astuteness which guided his actions. It is not, however, the caliber of Brown's abilities which is at issue. Of greater concern to Americans should be his intervention in matters of civilian policy.

Elements in the military have, of course, been notoriously obtuse about the Middle East. When the state of Israel was coming into being, President Harry Truman was confronted by the view of Gen. George C. Marshall that, since there were "700,000 Jews and 700 million Arabs," the United States should side with the Arabs. Harry Truman and the presidents who followed him supported hrael and gave it military sinews to defend itself because this was to America's interest They did so despite the powerful lobbying jettison Israel in order to placate the Arabs.

The importance of an ally in the eastern Mediterranean what with the disarray of our relations with Turkey and Greece is even greater today if we are not going to let that strategic waterway become a Soviet lake. Gen. Brown's sin has been to thrust stra- doctrinaire dementi within the Coojresi elsewhere Jncluding the media to further cart-ate America's defenses. The greatest damage to America's defense theNavyandihe Strategic Air Command an area Iby the 3 we have given Israel. In point of fact, oreover Middle East has been an for certain American sys tems which could not be properly How President Ford will temwiate an tegic and political policy into the quagmire of a episode which is both unfortunate and sordid and stupid debate.

His words recall those terrible times before Pearl Harbor when efforts to block the Nazi drive for global domination were branded as a plot by the same "Jewish" banks and "Jewish" media that Brown now evokes. It is tragic that the Brown controversy will be used by shortsighted and dangerously rassing to his administration is anybody's guess. But it is irresponsible and malicious to attempt to embroil the entire Pentagon. The military has enough problems without having to cope with the sorry arguments of those who would defend and justify Gen. Brown's comments.

During the recent election campaign Pennsylvania, Governor Shapp sounded off on the smoking of marijuana. "speaking to a group of Temple University students, Shapp is quoted as saying that smoking the we ed was the type of activity that should be up to the individual involved, not the concern of the government. "There are laws on the books that shouldn't be there, that deal really with victimless crimes. Marijuana is one of these." he said. If Governor Shapp thinks that smoking; marijuana is a victimless crime; we suggest he take a little trip to the Hershey Medical Center.

There he wfll find Annville Patrolman Alex Croce Jr. The Governor will discover that Alex is paralyzed from the chest down. Alex, you see, was injured when his patrol car was struck in the rear by an automobile being driven by a youth under the influence of marijuana. We hope the Governor was not serious when he made his remarks, but was merely engaged in the usual politician's habit of telling a particular audience what it wanted to hear. But if he still thinks pot is to be condoned, we again recommend that trip to Hershey.

A Misunderstanding? It must be a misunderstanding. Reports that the lame-duck session of Congress will consider proposals to raise the pay of its members by $15.000 annually and to give similar increases to other federal officials just don't jibe with the campaign rhetoric of recent weeks. It is time, we've been told to get a grip on spending, to prune the budget, to reverse the inflationary spiral that has its roots in federal deficits spanning several years. In the wake of the election results, which some congressional leaders have called a "mandate" to put a lid on living costs, the hinted attempt to raise salaries merits the description applied by retiring Rep. H.

R. Gross. It is. the Iowa Republican said, "an almost incredible, unconscionable move at this moment." The current $42,500 salary of representatives and senators is augmented by generous expense allowances and numerous "fringe benefits," ranging from cut-rate haircuts to free tax assistance. Each representative entitled to 16 employes on his personal staff at salaries up to $37.000 a year.

Many senators have between 40 and 50 staff members. The cost of'operating Congress has jumped from $42 million 20 years ago to $328 million this year. The operations budget has grown 15 times as fast as the population Congress serves. Some nervous capital observers suggest that unless the lawmakers take a severe look at their own practices, the United States Congress will require more than SI billion to function in 1984. Almost certainly, the congressional leadership will tell the American people it's all a mistake and that Congress is, after all.

going to endure the same sacrifices and economies it expects from the inflation-pinched public. DON FRANKENSTEIN ALWAYS COMES Jeffrey Hart The Plus And Minus Of Reagan-Wallace RECENTLY I noted a good deal of enthusi- Taming the runaway Federal budget asm among experienced conservative activists means eliminating Federal, programs and agen- for a Ronald Reagan-George Wallace Presiden- cies. It people. That, in turn tor a nonaiu vrcv means collisions with Congress, where special interest groups have enormous leverage. It means constant guerrilla warfare with the media, with armies of bureaucrats, with social workers, and their clients.

A serious effort at REAGAN WALLACE- Paul Scott Castro Remains A Menace Castro WASHINGTON -Opponents of lifting the economic-political sanctions against Cuba received some unexpected help from Fidel Castro's Communist regime at the recent Organization of American States (OAS) meeting at Quito, Ecuador. Backers of the Castro government had the necessary fourteen votes to lift the ten year old embargo until Armando Hart Devalos. a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist party and confidante of Castro, let the cat out of the bag. In a little noted speech to a Havana rally on October 21; just two weeks before the OAS convened. Hart revealed that Castro had no intentions of ending his efforts to overthrow anticommunist government on the continent, stating: "The Cuban Communist party is at the disposal of the Marxist-Leninists and all the anti- imperialist leftists of the continent to draw up and apply, together, a long-term revolutionary SINGLING OUT the government of Chile as the first target of the new strategy and for the use of violence to implement it.

Hart proposed: "This international solidarity of the Latin American revolutionary movement must first be used in favor of Chile. In the face of reactionary violence and from the anti-Democratic groups, let us use the revolutionary violence of the working masses." Opponents of lifting the embargo against Cuba obtained copies of Hart's speeches and circulated it to all members of the OAS. pointing out that it clearly indicated that Cuba was not only planning to continue its efforts to subvert other Latin American governments, but was planning to step up its activities. Representatives of the Governments of Chile and Uruguay, who led the fight against lifting the embargo against Cuba, stressed that the Hart pronouncement was in effect a declaration of covert war against their several other members of the OAS. If the OAS lifted the against Castro, these anti-Communist representatives charged in private talks, that the action would in effect be an endorsement of Hart's speech and could lead to the break up of the OAS.

These officials noted that Hart, one of the founders of the 26th July Movement, is one of Castro's top policy-makers and was speaking for the Cuban government. These arguments helped convince the leaders of several of the OAS members, including Haiti and Nicaragua, that the lifting of the economicaliplomatic blockade could make their countries easier targets for Castro's subversion. THE FELLOW TRAVELERS Significantly, Hart in his Havana speech singled out for praise the governments of Peru and Panama, two of the sponsors of the unsuccessful proposal to lift the embargo against Cuba. Hart boasted that the "new strategy" is now feasible because of what he termed new revolutionary regimes in Peru and Panama and "revolutionary nationalistic" sentiment in Argentina and Venezuela. The governments of both Peru and Panama, in presenting their pro-Castro case to the other OAS delegates, had taken the position that there was no evidence that Cuba was trying to export revolution.

pronouncement showed that just.the opposite was true. His statement linking Peru and Panama to the "new strategy" turned out to be highly embarassing to their government's representatives at the OAS. The Hart speech also forced Assistant Secretary of State William Rogers, the U.S. representative at the OAS conference, to admit privately to OAS members that there was no evidence that Castro had abandoned his efforts to subvert other Latin American governments. Rogers, who personally favored the lifting of the embargo, took the position that legislation passed by Congress during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

barred him from voting in favor of the resolution. In orders from the White House. Rogers abstained from voting at the conference. In private conversations with OAS members favoring the lifting of the embargo, Rogers reported that he expected the House to follow the recent action of the Senate and approve a resolution urging "friendship" between U.S. and Cuba.

Once such a resolution is approved by both Houses of Congress. Rogers stressed, he believes President Ford will change U.S. policy toward Cuba and then support the lifting of the political-economic embargo. Rogers also indicated that the majority vote within the OAS for lifting the embargo (two- thirds vote was needed) would have an influence on Ford. He reported that Secretary of State Kissinger favors the lifting of the embargo but wants Congress to take the lead.

Whether the House will take that lead is now questionable because Hart's statement clearly: indicates that Castro plans to continue his efforts to overthrow other Latin American governments. Note. The latest pro-Castro propaganda release, in the U.S. is a report issued by a Commission on Latin America headed by Sol Linowite, a former State Department official tial ticket in 1976. Let us now turn to some of the pints, both plus and minus, that are being raised in such conservative discussions.

1) REAGAN. Given the present economic squeeze on the middle class, it would be a grtbt advantage to Reagan that he was the first major national figure to make ever- rising taxes and ever-expanding welfare his key issues. Last year, Reagan championed and almost got through his legislature a revolutionary amendment to the California constitution. It would have established a legal ceiling on taxation, based on a fixed percentage of the income of Californians. Stressing the fact that government at all levels now spends 45 cents out of every dollar, Reagan argued that the line had to be drawn somewhere, and by 1976 a large majority of Americans would probably agree with him.

Reagan also introduced welfare reforms in California that no exaggeration brought state-back from the fiscal abyss it faced in 1967. Several major states have now modeled their own reforms on those pioneered by Reagan. REAGAN'S ASSETS as a campaigner and as a well-known national figure remain obvious enough, but he has potential liabilities as well. I tend to dismiss the objection to his age. In 1976 he will be a superbly healthy 65; physically and mentally he might as well be 50.

Reagan, however, has had little foreign policy experience, and is not really identified with any of the major foreign policy questions, though in a general way he gives the impression of soundness. We clearly are entering a period of global instability and transition, in which voters are likely to perceive foreign policy matters in a direct and practical way e.g., the price of gas or sugar. Reagan's potential deficiency in the foreign policy area might be remedied after he leaves Sacramento, but, as of now, it would be a disadvantage in a race against, say, Henry Jackson though not against someone like Lloyd Bentsen, Dale Bumpers, or Walter Mondale. We come now to what these days seems to be called the bottom line, and the nagging question being asked had best be put bluntly. Is Reagan tough enough? reform in behalf of the middle class would mean for the White House incumbent four years of grinding confrontation.

In Shakespeare's great political play "Richard II," the corrupt monarch Richard has just been overthrown by the Duke of Lancaster, Henry, Bolingbroke. Just before the new king ascends the throne, the Bishop of Carlisle, still loyal to the former king, delivers a passionate speech in which he offers in Richard's behalf all the arguments about legitimacy and divine right. We are moved. Then the steel-tough Duke of Northumberland gives his answer: "Well you have argued, sir; and for your capital treason we arrest you here." As Shakespeare knew, serious political change can be very rough. The question about Ronald Reagan is whether he is simply too nice a guy.

2) WALLACE. Many conservative activists, usually life-long Republicans, gag at the thought of George Wallace Nevertheless, Wallace has come a long way in the last ten years. In Alabama, he has buried the hatchet with local blacks and is happily including them in on state contracts, etc. Both his wife, Cornelia, and his fight for physical recovery have helped him in different ways. Though George Wallace is not about to be elected president of the NAACP, I do not see him as a racist.

Indeed, Republican fastidiousness about as I see it, middle class fastidiousness about the lower middle class is probably one reason why Republicanism has declined so dramatically. The presence of Wallace on a national ticket would be, moreover, a kind of symbolic guarantee of its seriousness. Wallace has been through the fire. Despised, calumniated, spat upon, and finally shot, he has stuck by his populist positions. "I am the man," he could well say with Walt Whitman, "I suffered.

I was there." Wallace possesses an authenticity probably unmatched in American politics today. Despite disclaimers, however, his health is precarious. He looks frail, he perspires easily, and he tires very quickly. His aides give the impression of handling him with enormous care, of treating him like the patient he remains. Those bullets, in other words, eliminated Wallace as a presidential candidate, but he would nevertheless be an enormous asset to a national ticket dedicated to real reform in the interest of the majority of Americans.

Public Forum Devoted Musicians Editor, Dafly NEWS: I would like to take this oroortunitv to congratulate newspaper, the Lebanon Daily News, on the great sports coverage of the area's high school sporting events despite a letter written to you and printed in the Thursday edition of the Lebanon Dafly News. In mis letter this person showed her outright stupidity by overlooking the fact that the Lebanon City area is of great concern to you since it is the location of your plant and office and the area you serve directly. Also in the letter this person downgraded the great Lebanon High School Marching Band which proved that it was truly great and a credit to this community. This band took first place over every field band in Central Pennsylvania and then a second place in the Mid-Atlantic Class Cavalcade of Bands. These devoted musicians deserved all the write ups and pictures provided in the Lebanon Daily News, but this is not to say that the others don't but in an fairness a champion deserves more.

I hereby cite the Lebanon Daily News as a newspaper that serves its community well. STUDENT Lebanon Great Grid Game hundreds of emotionally "keyed-up" teenagers showed remarkable self-control and self- respect. The excitement lasted throughout the entire game and as the final seconds ran off the clock the sound filling the stadium was "We It was thrilling; I loved every minute of it, I Editor.DaUyNEWS: I've been out of school more years than I care to remember but I have always remained a Kennedy Administration. It called game last week, the years just melted away. I for an end to our trade embargo against Cuba was engulfed by school pride and spirit.

Down- and urging that the U.S. "take the initiative in hearted Beaver fans need only to read the seeking a more normal relationship with game's total statistics ptbliAed in the Daily Castro." News to realize how well our team played. The Lebanon Turning Back The Pages 26 YEARS AGO November 28,1954 Palmyra High, county league basketball champs seven of the last nine years, had a "lanky" based around a six-feet tall center and. five-feet, 10-inches tall guard- forward. Thomas W.

Weible, a Lebanon student at Lebanon Valley College, had a poem accepted for an anthology by the National Poetry Association. Two million persons watched the 145-piece Lebanon High band and the Annville Union Hose Fire Co. darktown comedy group in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. 40 YEARS AGO November 2C.1S34 David Smith, a 14-year-old Lebanon youth, suffered a sprained ankle playing football. The A.

S. Kreider Shoe Annville, specializing in making children's shoes, was preparing to move to a new plant. Miss Marguerite Botx, a Lebanon school teacher, died suddenly in the Good Samaritan.