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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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