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EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher FRIDAY EVKNING, JUNK 29, 1915 David and EVEN INK OUSERVEK'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Rnndc Valley irrigation project. I,A GRANDE A city of 10.0110 Extend the city limits. THOUGHT FOR TODAY I think, am sure, a brother's love ex ceeds nil the world's love in its unworld liness. Robert Ill-owning4. Is Thin One on Us? It costs money to be n congressman. 01' course, the job pays pretty well, too. I ul by the time the legislator lias paid the overhead, his $ 10,0110 a year, while htili not hay, has shrunk considerably. There's the mailer of housing, for one thing. Kven when he finds a place to live in Washington he has to pay for it. And he has to keep a residence in his home fit y for return visits and for the dark day when the fickle electorate may vote him out of a job. He has to dress up in si irc-houghl clothes, and do a good liil of entertain ing. Frequently he needs more secre tarial help than his clerical allowance will buy. And then there are telephone and telegraph charges and many other incidentals of that sort. lint probably the biggest item on the congressman's budget is the business of trying to get re-elected. This re quires fiottient .shuttling between Washington and home, besides the many ordinary campaign expenses. It's particularly tough on members of the house, who must go through this every two years as long as they seek to hold office. It isn't hard to believe, then, that ex penses take a healthy bite out of that ten grand per annum that the congress man receives. And it isn't particularly Fiinnu H ii sin ess W 1 UMfllV-Vl'lMil I'll UW l J .7 .tv:------ "The builer always changes him to full dress ior 1: ' " s&K -v ------v-v i -' -. - Pago Four- Goliath surprising that the beys and girls of the house should have voted themselves an extra $gfoo a year b.v way of r.jicn.se money. We need able men for the important-, job that congress has to do. 'Wo' may not get them if they must bear a fill; encial loss to perform this service. And we certainly shan't get a representative group if congress attracts only those with ample outside incomes. The law on expense accounts says reimbursements from employers (in the representatives' case, the United States government) must be entered as part of income. Later the actual expenses paid through these reimbursements may bo delineated in arriving at what all read ers of Form 1010 will fondly remember as "adjusted gross income." Exploded Fables Comes now the disillusioning report from a Holland-born professor at the University of Minnesota that the story of the brave little Dutch boy who plug-. ged the leak in the dyke with his finger is a story unknown in the land where' it is supposed to have happened. Now we know how those na.i war prisoners must have felt when they got over here and discovered that Ameri cans bad never heard that fine old fable about the luftwaffe bombing New York to rubble. Unpaid Halanee We were delighted to read that Hit ler, at the time of his departure to parts unknown (in this world or the next), owed his thousand-year reich 100,000 marks in back taxes. Sone-bow the news served to empha size how much better Americans are handling murderous gangsters now than it: the days when we couldn't hang any thing on them except a rap for evasion ol income taxes. SO THEY SAY 1 never rate political candidates like horses, oven though I think some (if tliem ought to be M-roU-lH-d. -M.iyur K. II. Idliii.iriliii of Now York City. He (t lit- good public official! ni-t-'l niil In- timid or obsequious, hut unles.-. In- really serves, he is not .i good servant. Hyron Price, national director of censorship. i'.uMiiess failure whirls stood al l!2.!Hi'l in I!l2'i and 1.1.619 in It'll, fi ll to a mere 1222 In 1944 and today are running al a rate of less than 10U0 per your. - Id-port hy house banking and cm n-m-.v i-iiinmittee. We are giiing to make the Hit man people ivalie that they hrnucht this suffeiing on thorn solves and the world by their own actions. I.I -Cion. Lucius D. Gray, dep uty U. S. military governor in i-icrmany. eveningl" . '3 v Washington Merry-Go-Round Br DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON When assistant secretary of state Will Clayton startled a senate com mittee by telling how German companies were still operating in South America, one of the most sensational parts of the story was omitted. - This was the fact that certain American business groups have been angling with German companies to cooperate with them again even despite the 'D'.lier experiences of the recent war. u What some U. S. companies don't seem to realize is that with the war still on, all cables and letters are subject to censorship. Therefore, U. S. officials know almost every move they have made to get together with German agents. For instance, certain U. S. wood-pulp in terests have been under the impression that they have been extremely clover in staging meetings with the Germans. But their movements are known. Also certain U. S. rayon r.nd steel groups have been sending agents to meet with the Germans in Spam and Argentina. The other day a representative of the Ger man Schering corporation, biggest drug company in Germany, brazenly walked into the American embassy in Madrid with a proposition that the Spanish subsidiary of Schering merge with the American Schering corporation of Bloomficld, N. J. In this- case the proposition was turned down. The minutes of the Dupont company's ex ecutive committee for Feb. 0, HMO (after the war had broken out in Germany), con tained this notation: "The Dupont company informed I. GM (I. G. Farbcnindustric, the great German cartel) that they intended to use their good offices after the war to have the I. G. par ticipation restored." There is no indication that Dupont has taken any step to carry out this goal since the war with Germany ended. But the above illustrates a point of view which pre vailed among seven business groups before the war and apparently has still nol been abandoned by all of them. King Leopold Wants Lift Allied diplomats aren't talking about it, but King Leopold of the Belgians has been angling desperately for British and Ameri can help in returning from Salzburg, Aus tria, to Brussels. He has'' especially asked that one of the allies furnish him an airplane. This put the British in a hot position. Once before they did not hesitate about interfer WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The wife of 'a-soldier, sweating jt out in Europe while he waited for passage home, was plenty burned up over a recent news paper picture showing 02 British brides and their 19 young children arriving in New York with a shipload of GI's. With shipping space to the United States at a premium she couldn't help but see that every one of those British brides was dis placing some American soldier waiting to go home, and keeping some American wo man from seeing her husband as soon as she might. Furthermore, she thought, "Most of those British wives have probably seen their hus bands much more recently than we Ameri can wives who have been sitting here alone for two or three years." You can't really blame her for feeling Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correipondenl WASHINGTON Soon to be released possibly as a presidential report to Con gress is a document which will give the low-down on U. S. plans to "delouse" Ger many. Delouse, of course, means "denazify." Tentatively known as "ten sixty seven slash six," meaning that it is the sixth draft of memorandum 1007, this document con sists of the detailed orders given to General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander in chief of the U. S. army of oc cupation in Germany. General Eisenhower has been carrying tiles? top secret orders "in his hip pocket" for some weeks. They were prepared in Washington under the direction of an outfit known as "IPCOG" the interdepartmental policy committee of Germany whose top men are Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenlhau, and as sistant secretaries, Will Clayton of slate, John J. MeCley of war, Ralph Bard of navy. Hard, resigning, w ill presumably he replaced by Artemus L. Gates. If there is any doubt about how lough the U. S. military government in Germany is going to be. as compared with how tough tho Kussian Government is going to be, it is expected lo be removed when IPC'OG's first orders can bv released. Their publication has been held up pending clearance by the Auierican-Hritish-Hrench-Hussian European advisory commission on which ambassador to London, John G. Winanl, sits as U. S. member. A number of Washington officials arc anxious to have ll'COG-ONE made pub lic as soon as possible; however, to slop criticism of U. S. military government poli cies in Germany already beguiling. Speefically. it has been charged that in some instances the anti-Na.is have not been given their proper place, that known Nazis have been put back in office to re-establish local government, that German industries have been turned hack to old Hitlerite masters. In many ways, these are familiar com plaints. They were heard and in general disproved after U. S. forces moved suc cessively Into North Aftfica, Italy and ' France. In North Africa, the criticism was making a 'deal" with Dalian; in Italy, ,t ing in Belgian politics, oven surrounded the Belgan parliament with tank in order to influence an important vole. But this time, faced with the threat of a general strike if Leopold returns, the British passed the buck. They told the king of the Belgians that all airplanes are under SHAEF- (supreme headquarters, allied expeditionary force) which of course is commanded by General Eisenhower. However, the BHtish and American commanders under Eisenhower (he has been in the U. S. A.) then got to gether backstage and worked out a joint plan - r.amely to give Leopold transportation only to the Belgian border. From the Belgian border to Brussels, he will have to take a Belgian plane, train or thumb his way. Note Maj. Gen. George W. E. J. Erskine, British commander in Brussels, has informed Belgian officials that SHAEF would not take sides in any demonstrations, street battles or brawls precipitated by Leopold's return, but would confine itself to protecting allied in stallations. A debate has been raging Inside the gov ernment over the price of coffee, which this time may be boosted. Chief problem is that Brazil, our biggest coffee shipper and our best friend in Latin America, is finding it so uneconomical to grow, coffee that she is turning to cotton. In that case she would be our chief competi tor instead of our chief customer; - 1 Labor costs in Brazil have risen to such an extent that Brazilian coffee growers can't produce at the OPA ceiling price which av erages around 13 cents a pound. They want the price boosted to an average of 18 cents a pound. This would increase the cost of a cup of coffee one-eighth of a cent. The state department favors such a price rise. The OPA, anxious to hold the line, is opposed. Merry-go-round Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico has been sitting on the anti-poll tax bill until the San Francisco United Nations charter is out of the way. He does not want a poll tax filibuster to upset ratification of the charter . . . Forthright Fred Vinson, the war mobilizer, is going to be put on the spot soon by the surplus war property board. It is about to hatch a ruling whereby $11,00, 000,000 of government-owned war plants and machinery would be sold merely on the basis of price, not on the basis of where they could stimulate business and competiton. that way. Shoulclh't 'we get our men home to their wives before we start bringing for eign wives over to this country? American wives have in the majority of cases been pretty good sports during the war. They have uncomplainingly put up with loneliness, lived with fear, tried their best to be both mother and father to their children. But they shouldn't have their good nature imposed upon. They should not have to see foreign brides being shipped to this country, while their husbands wait impati ently for a sight of home. As far as they are concerned, American soldiers should have the first sight of Amer ica. Their wives have a right to expect them to be shipped home before any for eign wives take up shipping space. was for a deal with the king and Badoglio. In France the criticism took the reverse line of failure to cooperate properly with De Gaulle. Now, the stories are beginning to appear that deliberately or inadvertently, U. S. military government is compromising with old order Germans, paving the way for rebirth of Nazism. In Washington, all such charges are emphatically denied by Major General John H. Hilldring, command ing the civil affairs division of the war de partment general staff. If it is happening at all, says General Hilldring, such appease ment is not in compliance with orders which are to completely delouse Nazi Germany so that it will never become a threat to the peace of the world, disbanding all German armed forces, breaking up the general staff, eliminating all industry that might be used for military production, bringing all war criminals lo trial, w iping out the Nazi party and all its influence. Ten thousand trained military government officers and enlisted men have now taken over this job in the American zone of south ern Germany. They work in teams, with city manager and director of public utilities, health, public safety and other departments trying to get local government back on its feet. Nearly ail these officers ;:nd men have had experience in previous U. S. zones of occupation. They did a tremendous job in France, for which they never got credit be cause they functioned smoothly and without incidents which might have called attention to what they were doing. Now. moving in on Germany, they may make individual, in itial mistakes in the period of adjustment, because il would be impossible to get per fection in local government in any compar able area in the world. In Italy, there was some latitude in select ing personnel for local government because of military expediency. If a known Facisl was best man for the job, he got it until a successor could be trained. In Germany, that latitude does not exist. The orders arc clear to w ipe out every vestige of Nazism. This will be shown when IPCOG-ONE can be put on the record. Side Glances COM. 1MI SV NEA 8IHVKI, INC. T. M. MO. U. 8. PAT. Off. ' "But why can't I use rouge, lipstick and powder. Mom? How old do I have io be before I can go around like a genuine' human being?" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY. America's Card Authority DEUCEDLY CLEVER, THESE BRIDGE ACES I doubt if we have ever had a closer match than the recent eastern states mixed team-of-four championship event. I told you two teams were tied for first place with 34 Vi matches, and one-half point behind were two other tying teams. One of the latter teams consisted of Charles H. Goren, Mrs. Peggy Colder, Charles Solomon and Helen So bcl. The other team was Ruth A 10 6 A72 72 109 6 5 3 2 Went-1 ortlv,, ,Kat ) 2 Pass 3 ' Pass 4 Pass Pass South Pass Pass Pass Opening K. 30 Sherman, Ambrose Casner, Edith Seligman and Harry Fishbcin. Harry Fishbcin pointed out two good points in today's hands. On North's opening lead of the dia mond king, South played the deuce and North shifted to the king of spades. West won with the ace, and led a small diamond to dummy's ten. North won with the ace and continued a diamond, which South won with the ace of trumps. Now here is the feature of the hand: South was quite correct to play the diamond deuce first and then the seven spot. If he played the seven first, and then the Questions & Answers Q How many ai?c(- ft were produced in the Unit i Mates last year and how doep 1 v: num ber compare with prcwa - i reduc tion? A According to th? -!vil aero nautics authority, !)6."' '! aircraft were produced in l!li tampar ing with 9947 in 1940. This Curious World T. M REG. U. t-'PAT. I AKQ84 86 A K 8 5 3 74 4t A . IN I A J 9 7 5 3 VKQ105 w P 2 4 3 s VJ9 QJ04 n.Il.r l06 A Q I Dealer I j, k .t r WHERE DO WE 6tr THE EPRESSI "CrHOSUE OF ALL EYSS IN TWB NEW PN6LANO CFI939, SALT SPffAY PI?OM THE OCOAN PA VtAfiO TI?EEJ ANSWER: Originally Minor, containing the poll their eyes. the constellation Cynosure or Ursa j star toward which all mariners turned NEXT: How many species of elephants are there? deuce, he would have informed West that he was out of diamonds .and wanted to ruff. By playing the deuce and seven, ho could have trapped a careless declarer into allowing the diamond to ride around to his jack. Howcvpr, the correct play was to trump in dummy and. while South would overtrump with the ace so as to t be able to lead a spade, it did not work, as West had only one spade. In discussing the hand, Fishbcin said it did not always pay to play down and out With only two. e IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago The month's rainfall was un usually light, being only a little more than one fourth the amount for the previous June. The great est amount . falling in 24 hours ,was ,.21 inch. -The greatest ( pre cipitation recorded a year earlier was .80 inch. For the entire month of June, 1915, precipita tion totalled .46 inch, as com pared to 1.65 for June, 1914. : J. A. Russell, president of the city commission, was a business visitor in Elgin. 15 Years Ago Fourteen boys registered lo at tend thf Boy Scout camp at An thony lake. Mis. Harry Turner and daugh ter, Harriet, visited friends and relatives in Portland. Mis. C. S. Moore returned from Portland where she visited sev eral days. Mrs. Frances Mengcr, clerk at the O-W offices, was on a two week vacation trip to Seattle. 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nibler and Mrs. Howard Skeen returned re cently from Seattle, accompanied by Alice True, Mrs. Nibler's daughter, who will spend two w oeks here visiting relatives and friends. Miss Alice Inlow left for- a Camp Fire Girls' camp on Mt. Hood where she gave swimming and dramatic instruction. . 53 Goddess oi discord ' M He commands rr.L FT "Mr. 398470 10 youl"
