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The march of crime
It's a sticky question, but someone should ask it: Isn't
it strange that the growth and power of the FBI and
organized crime are so closely parallel?
Both were hatched at about the same time and both
have grown in size and influence during the past half
century. Since the main purpose of the FBI is to root out
icrime on the national level, why the tremendous success of
the Mafia?
Could it be that while the Mafia warlords were keeping
.their eyes on the main objective, J. Edgar Hoover was
::engaged in a demented pursuit of personal hobgoblins?
i While Hoover was looking for a Red under every bed,
there was a hoodlum in every closet.
While he was providing Lyndon Johnson with bedtime
reading detailing the sexual escapades of celebrities,
nationwide prostitution rings were pouring money into
Mafia coffers.
: While he used his troops to harass minor political
parties, organized crime was muscling into labor unions and
:legitimate business.
: While he worked on a plan to badger Martin Luther
!King, Jr., into committing suicide, underworld killers were
i efficiently eradicating human beings on a regular basis.
: While he ordered illegal burglaries and wiretaps,
'organized crime leaders were doing the same.
While he used agents to investigate the personal lives of
journalists whom he disliked, agents of the crime syndicates
:were murdering newsmen who were investigating them.
While he put so many paid informants in the Black
:Panthers that they virtually ran the organization, La Cosa
Nostra operated with no such hindrance. Recently released
FBI documents reveal, in fact, that in an attempt to silence
comedian Dick Gregory, Hoover ordered the bureau's
Chicago office to feed La Cosa N ostra information that
Gregory had made verbal attacks on the crime syndicate.
In a confidential memorandum dated May 15, 1968,
Hoover wrote Marlin W. Johnson, then special agent in
charge of the Chicago FBI office, that Gregory had been
quoted the previous month as saying, "Syndicate hoods are
living all over. They are the filthiest snakes that exist on
this earth." "Consider the use of this statement in
developing a counterintelligence operation to alert La Cosa
Nostra to Gregory's attack on LCN," Hoover instructed
Johnson.
With this action, Hoover put the FBI, which was
chartered to prevent crime, into the business of using
criminals to eradicate a private citizen who had committed
no crime.
This partnership of government and organized crime
.was sO S¢ct bY the CIA When,it rect'uited Mafia hit men
i:' .or s,tx asaion attempts'0n Fidel Castro. ......
Is it too late for the FBI to catch up? It may be.
While Hoover built a large and powerful organization to
be used as an instrument for personal vendettas, organized
crime created what may be an invincible empire.
In addition to its underworld enterprises, it now
controls many businesses, industries, labor unions, courts,
politic..', offices and law enforcement agencies.
And it may be that the FBI will not catch up with
organized crime because, although he is now in his grave. J.
Edgar Hoover's philosophy has endured at the bureau.
Last year's FBI budget alotted $7.4 million for
domestic intelligence informers - more than double the
amount spent on informers reporting on organized crime.
The crime lords should be laughing all the way to the
bank - which they now probably own.
Messages
for morons
By DAVE AVERILL
You may find the items on this page a bit simple-minded;
if so, you wouldn't be the first.
But now take a look at our advertisements.
If you spend any of your time watching television or
listening to the radio, something about our ads is going to
grab your attention.
They assume that you're not a moron. They take it for
granted that you have a certain amount of good sense, and
that you know how to read and write.
Compare them, if you will, to just about anything you
hear on the radio. Compare them to the
hundred-thousand-dollar commercials on your TV set. You
will find that nobody here is assuming you quit school
midway through the fifth grade.
Why the difference?
Take a look, and you will notice immediately that the
advertising on our pages is generally purchased and paid for
by local merchants. The only time an ad agency sends us an
insertion iswhen the media man has been sniffing cocaine.
The local merchant is neither as glib nor as polished as
the agency guy, but he has one big advantage.
He knows his customers. He deals with them every day.
He has a lot of chances to observe that most of them are
sensible, rational people who are more interested in good
value than in gimmicks.
Do you think that merchant is going to spend his
advertising dollar on messages that assume, as a lot of TV
commercials assume, that the customer is running short on
brain cells? Not a chance.
If we were running one of these advertising agencies, the
first thing we'd do is to go out and get acquainted with some
of the merchants who sell the products. For that matter, we
might even run down a few of the customers themselves, and
give them IQ tests. Bainbridge Review
Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, October
Streamlining the system
By LAURENCE J. PETER
Sid Taylor is a short man with a towering idea. His idea is
called System Simplication (SYSIM). What kind of man
would attempt to simplify systems in a world bent on making
things more complex? I was astonished to find that for 20
years he had been a systems expert for the Pentagon, that
bastion of meaningless paperwork. Taylor is a dynamic man
who contends, "The Devil hides ira detail." He learned this,
he says, in aircraft, missile and computer network testing.
Since retiring from the air force, he has become research
director for the National Taxpayers Union (NTU). In this
role, he has led a crusade against federal waste and deficit
spending. In World War II, he was a bomber command officer
-- and classmate of Clark Gable. He is a prolific letter writer
who now bombards the White House and Congress on behalf
of the American taxpayer. In his spare time, he lectures on
SYSIM as an antidote to government red tape. I interviewed
him ira his office-apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He prefers
to work ira this quiet environment rather than in the NTU
offices on Capitol Hill, which he considers a kind of political
"wind tunnel."
Peter: How does it feel to be the voice of simplidty in
Washington?
Taylor: I feel like the world is a tuxedo and I'm a pair
of brown shoes.
Peter: I have'a spahreason for inteewing ouat this
C_.apitolCDome:
A new look
et old subject
By ROBERTC. CUMMINGS It is also a fact that
A new effort to enact state Mardesich's departure will
regulation and registration of strengthen the position of
pleasure boats is brewing in the Gordon Waigren (D., Bremerton),
legislature again - this time in the senate majority leader.
the senate. And it is equally tree that
This proposal has been in there will be more liberals in the
every legislative session since next senate than there have been
1963. It had the support of for the past thirty-four years.
former Governor Dan Evans, A couple are unopposed in
who had it introduced a couple the general election, and one is a
of times as an exectltive request holdover. The rest of them piled
measure, up large enough pluralities in the
And it passed the house primaries to virtually assure
twice, only to be killed in the victories in November.
senate. They will have more strength
But now the Senate Parks than the so-calhd "solid six"
and Recreation Committee, which was effective on a couple
headed by Peter vonReichbauer of minor issues after Mardesich
(D., Burton), has scheduled a overthrew former Senator R. R.
hearing on the measure for 1:30 Greive as majority leader back in
p.m. October 12 in the Seattle 1973.
Port Commission chambers at Coming Up Short
theBell Street Terminal.
But the "solid six" was
No Metamorphis helpless in the all-important
Those who expect the senate organization of the senate. It was
to suddenly turn liberal in the effective only on a couple of
next legislative session asaresult issues which also were
of August P. Mardesich's defeat objectional to the Republican
c o u ! d b e i n for a minority.
disappointment. And the new liberal bloc
It is true the conservative won't have more than ten
Everett Democrat was "one of a members at most.
kind;" without a doubt the most That would be giving the
powerful lawmaker since the late benefit of the doubt on a couple
Mark Reed and Ed Sims reigned of senators who are more likely
supreme in the legislature during, to vote with the moderates on
and prior to, the early twenties, organization.
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12, 1978
time. President Carter has promised to reduce the amount of
bureaucratic paperwork. What success do you really expect
he will have?
Taylor: President Carter is an admirer of efficiency.
However, he faces an almost impossible job. Our income tax
system, for example, with a 6,000-page tax code, is a
Catch-22 red-tape nightmare. Welfare and food-stamp
systems leak billions of tax dollars each year to the wrong
people; we're supporting both the needy and the greedy. Our
federal housing program has misspent billions to make Uncle
Sam the nation's biggest slumlord. Our mass transit program
has spent a billion dollars reinventing the electric trolley car.
To avoid embarrassment, the bureaucrats now call it a
"people mover." Our Social Security System has become a
$4 trillion actuarial deficit. The U.S. Postal Service requires a
$1 billion-a-year taxpayer subsidy. The federal government.
now operates more than 90 systems in the billion-dollar
taxpayer-cost category. The president's success in reducing
costs and paperwork will depend primarily on improving
some of our massive federal systems and programs.
Peter: How can he achieve this?
Taylor: Through System Simplification.
Peter: But isn't government bureaucracy highly resistant
to improvement?
Taylor: Yes. How do you get the watchdog to bite itsel
Peter: What's Taylor's Tax Truism?
Taylor" THERE'S NO' SUCH TH'I:iqG"AS
GOVERNMENT MONEY - THERE'S ONLY TAXPAYER
MONEY.
Peter" Haven't you also formulated a law about
simplicity?
Taylor: THE LAW OF SIMPLICITY: FAT SYSTEMS
DIE YOUNG. Systems are subject to the Law of Simplicity -
a cradle-to-grave cycle of growth-to-decay. A new system is
born as a relatively simple, inexpensive and effective solution.
It often replaces an older, more complex, costly and
time-consuming way of doing the job. However, as the new
system ages or expands, it begins to deteriorate in three
stages: (1) red tape (delay): (2) red lights (defects); (3) red
ink (deficits).
Peter: Why does it deteriorate?
Taylor: The system tends to become the victim of its
own overhead, paperwork, rules enlargement, program
changes, malfunctions, overorganization. When it reaches
stage 3, it begins to collapse under its own delays, defects and
deficits. At this point, it is usually replaced by a newer and
simpler idea.
Peter: But aren't there exceptions?
Taylor: Yes, the government has many systems that are
supported for years regardless of the costs. Government
subsidizes waste, incompetence and inefficiency in many
forms - foreign aid, corporate loans, bond guarantees,
revenue sharing, price supports and so forth.
Peter: What can be done to prevent system deterioration
and bureaucratic expansion?
Taylor: First, we must understand what is happening to
the system. Thetrick is to recognize the difference between
red tape and meaningful records and to see the red lights
before the system, business or product approaches stage 3
(red ink).
Peter: Then your SYSIM still relies on human judgment
or wisdom?
Taylor: Right! Efficiency :requires judgment as does the
selection of what we are trying to be efficient about. It is
better to be 10 percent efficient in achieving something
worthwhile than 100 percent efficient in accomplishing a
worthless goal.
Peter: Is there sufficient wisdom to meet today's needs?
Taylor: Maybe not. Wisdom is a fleeting phenomenon.
One of the tragedies of mankind is that wisdom is perishable.
Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a
corn, puter or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing
generation. For the most part, man does not learn from
history. H e repeats history often at great cost and bloodshed.
In the learning-curve of life, he is generally too busy coping
with present events to benefit from the past. Each new
generation generates its own mistakes and stupidity. From a
wisdom-based, decision-making viewpoint, civilization is only
about 70 years old. In terms of accumulated wisdom, it is no
older or wiser than the living senior citizens of the current
generation. Wisdom does not accumulate over the ages like
knowledge or technology. It is acquired briefly, in varying
degrees, and often too late by each current generation.
Peter: I would like to close this interview with
TAYLOR'S FISCAL AXIOM.
Taylor: DEFICIT SPENDING IS BANKRUPTCY
pENDING.
Laurence J. Peter is the author of the Peter Principle, the
peter Plan. the Peter Prescription and Competencies Jor
Teaching.
aReadefs'
Protest
Editor, The Journal:
The article in the September
28 Journal on Hood Canal smelt
caught my eye. Most of the
article dealt with comments by
irate landowners.
The fact that smelting along
the South Shore is trespassing in
most places brings into focus 1)
the disgraceful land use situation
on the canal and 2) the even
more disgraceful fact that the
tidelands are 'private property.'
Both situations arose long
ago and are not immediately
correctable. At the least,
however, people should be aware
of how this pattern developed
and what directions we could
take to correct it.
The state of Washington,
unlike California and Oregon,
saw fit to sell a good portion of
public tidelands to private
parties. Fortunately, the
legislature recently closed this
hole in the public trust. But not
before the damage was done.
Hood Canal was hardest hit by
these sales. Aside from Twanoh
State Park, it is well nigh
impossible to find a public beach
on the South Shore.
The result of private
ownership of land below high
tide is the current pattern of
Deaths not
rows of h0U2
bulkheads over
smelt
ironic that
sought after by
be effectively
bulkheading
shore. Then
shore lots
trespassers, and
oysters, craneS,
Other
the overdeve
South Shore
pollution and
many d
Union on a
congestion, and
of a rural
Bellevue to me).
Sadly
-continues.
and bulkheads
and built; read
in this paper.
of Mason
entire South
bulkheaded.
doesn't prevail,
• Su
of us: Protest e
bulkhead.
land use
about your
Editor, The Journal: the same. Death,
Before the residents of is destroyed,
Mason County vote on animal humane the
control, may I suggest that they believe me, aslee
carefully consider all that is Why nc
involved. When control is over-:
exercised, freedom is invariably roots? As
sacrificed. People who live in permit te
rural areas have usually chosen
to do so because of their desire produced
to own animals, and puppr
Responsible owners control families to
their pets; irresponsible ones do When the
not, and the animals, rather than death
the humans, pay the penalty, animals whoSe
First of all, the term "animal been
shelter" is a misnomer. Such a encoura
place might more honestly be support to
called a. slaughter house, offerin
Whatever shelter is provided 'is Is it
necessarily brief, tax pay ers'
A small percentage of destruction
animals accepted into a so-called fun d s m i g
shelter are placed in homes with spay-neuter
persons who may or may not If the
care properly for their pets and controlled it
who may or may not keep them for true at
under control. The remainder of maintain a
the creatures are killed, name of ,,shelter'
Let's not say "put to sleep."
No matter what euphemism is
mealy-mouthed, the end result is
Friendly natives
Editor, The Journal: out in the
In 1962 our'family had a tire those who
blow out while driving on the pull me out
Olympic Penimula. Everyone who turned
stopped. We were offered coffee, offer aid if
help, a better jack and people who
information on the best fishing way to tell
places, had ha
Yesterday l had my first county
accident in thirty years of were as
driving. I was in a ditch, alone, the tow
in the pouring rain. My seat belt ours was the
prevented any physical hurt, but removed fro
I was shaken by a close call. T h a n k
People went out of their way Peninsula
to be kind and helpful. From the as ever,
first to stop and go to call for
help, through the many who got
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Up at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio
Reck, they have an exchange student who
tribe. This student has been just expelled
professor.
(Joe Gudonis, quoted by Dick Bothwell in
Frank Forrester passes along a story about s
water department who asked, "Is waterworks
a hydrant in the middle?"
(Bill Gold in
Timmy Brown, former Pitt gridder, was on th
school team whose quarterback fumbled
quarterback loosening up behind the bench
Timmy heard a benchwarmer say, "Put him
(Joe Browne
Overheard: "Would you recommend him as
course, would i be going to him three times a
wasn't a good doctor?"
(James Dent in chariest#'
Sign in a bankruptcy court: "You finally at
Joneses!" (Joe Browne in