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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1946)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, February 21, 1945 N ews [USHiinglinx MERRFIilHIOUND SERVICE BUREAU /•./>//OK'5 SO'I'H: I his neu*puper9 thrtniuh special arrangement uith the Ihi'hi/iiilofi llureuu of If extern < v /Htper I num tit 1616 ti\e Street, Si. II II 'ashington, II. C., i* uhle to bring read er* this weekly column on problem» of the veteran ami serviceman ami hi» fam ily. Questions may he addressed to the abot e Ilin can ami they u ill be answered in a subsequent column. So replies can be made direct by mail, hut only m the column uhich will appear in this news- paper regularly Guard Against Rackets Veterans’ administration officials are urging discharged veterans io “stop, look and listen" before they engage in business There are scores of rackets being worked against veterans who get out of the army or navy with cash in their pockets and with the privilege of borrowing money under the G I bill for purchase of a farm, a home or a business. “We won't tell to do," says N. rector of contact service for “but we will advise him to the of our ability. “The best advice we can give him is.'Use your head. Don't rush into an investment. Seek good advice, Investigate until you are satisfied yourself It is better to be sure than sorry.' ” In the meantime the veterans’ con tact service refers veterans to banks, or to the Better Business bu reau in the city or town where ne plans to invest his .toney They give him the address of the legal aid bureau where legal assistance Is free to veterans, if they cannot afford to hire a lawyer Contact ad vice always urges veterans to con | vert their national service life in 1 surance. The VA does not tell the I veteran where to invest or in what There are to invest his money. ! too many variable factors, so their i only counsel is extreme caution. Questions and Answers Q. My brother is 21 and has been in the merchant marine since De- «•ember 4, 1914. when can he o-'it th«* merchant marines and not hi* drafted in the army?—Reader. Elk mont, Ala. A Your brother has been de ferred from the draft by reason of his service in the merchant marine and he will lie eligible to be drafted until he is 26 unless he 11) has been in the merchant marines for not less than 32 months on or after Mav I. 1940; 12) at least 75 pei cent of his time has been in active service; and i3) he has applied for and re ceived from the War Stopping ad ministration a certificate certifying he has completed his wartime serv ice and is eligible to tie relieved from further consideration as a draftee under the selective service system. Q. I am the widow nt a World War I veteran and haven't been re ceiving a dime of pension since his d<*ath, seven years ago. I've tried getting a pension at that tii.se, hot was lolil that we, in Wlsa'onsin, did not get any. Is this true? If I am entitled to a pension what must I do to get II?—8. W.. Ellsworth WIs. A If you are the If g al widow of a veteran of World War I. you are «•ntitied to a pension wherever you live Take your husband's record, his discharge < papers and all avail* able • information you have and tile a claim with the nearest office of the Veterans' administration. Your local Red Crc is chapter could help you file this claim Q. I would like to know if a hoy Is eligible for draft deferment w ho Is the main tractor and truck man on a hundred-acre farm?—J. N.. Fairhope, Pa. A That would be a question to be determine«! by the local selective service board If the board defer mined that the boy was ex ential in raising food for the community or for the armed rvlces, he could be given an agricultural deferment, as being of greater use on the farm than in the armed services. Q- My husband enlisted in the Seabecs and our son was horn two I months after he went overseas, I «lid not receive any allotment on our son until he was six months old. Mr husband is home and has his discharge now. Is there any way I could get the allotment now? —Wile, Glenwood Springs, Colo. A. The navy says the tr Mt com- mon reason for failure to receive allotments is that the serviceman failed to apply for an allotment when he became eligible for one Yes. allotments are retroactive and may be obtained after discharge Suggest you write to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Allotment Division. Navy Department, Cleve land, Ohio. Q Is It true that a serviceman can take a trip around the world or across the ocean free and only par half fare for his family?—M B„ Supei rior, WIs. A The war department has no know . ledge of any such plan Mv brother was discharged Q from the army November 9. 1943. Will he be eligible for pensions or anything under the O.l. Rill of Rights?—Worried sister. Gunters- vllle, Ala. A. Ye», if he received an honor able discharge he Is eligible for al) benefits under the G I btli. BEHIND--, AMERICA'S OIL TWINS WASHINGTON — Many senators believe that the confirmation row 1 over charming Ed Pauley as under I secretary of the navy has taken on | new significance now that Sec. j Harold Ickes has offered Ralph Da- vies the job at under secretary of the interior. It happens that Davies and Ed Pauley are bosom friends. Both are oil men. Both have followed the policy of 'scratch - my - back - I'll • scratch-yours." This is important. Recently. Secretary Ickes, who has a crusading record for guarding the nation's resources, recommend ed to President Truman that naval oil reserves be transferred from the navy to the interior department. It was just such a transfer by Al bert K. Fall in the Harding admin istration that resulted in the teapot dome oil scandal. No motive is attributed to the Ickes proposal except that of safeguarding oil. In fact, some people consider it significant that his proposal happened to coincide, by luck or otherwise, with the nomination of Oil Man Pauley to be under secretary of the navy. But what senators consider impor tant is that, with Pauley’s friend I Ralph Davies offered the job of under secretary of the interior, the navy's oil lands, no matter where they are located — in interior or navy—will be partially under Pauley or a friend of his. MEXICAN OIL DEAL Relationship between Davies and Pauley has been extremely close. Davies was executive vice president of Standard Oil of California. Pauley sold him his own independent oil company. Later Pauley brought Davies to Washington, introduced him to Ickes, following which Davies became Ickes' deputy oil administrator. He did a good job. However, state department offi cials say he continued to look out for *Ed Pauley. When Pauley was trying to lobby his high-octane Mexican gasoline plant through the government, it had to pass the hurdle of Secretary petroleum administration, Ickes' Davies okayed it — not only okayed At it, but pushed it vigorously. first Ickes also gave it his blessing. The state department, however, was vigorously opposed. Showdown came in a secret ses- sion between Ickes. Davies, a Da- vies aid, and the Assistant Secre tary of State Dean Acheson. The full story of this session was never really told at the senate hearing. Acheson opened by giving Ickes a very careful diagnosis of why the Mexican high-octane gasoline plant should not be built by Pauley. He took up point after point, his main argument being that the Mexican government would have to pay such a high price to Pauley that it would sour U. S.-Mexican relations. After Acheson had finished, Ickes turned to Pauley’s friend, Ralph Davies, and asked: “Why didn't you tell me these things?” “I didn't know them either,’' replied the rcd-faccd Davies. Then, turning to his aid. he alibied: “Why didn't you tell me these things?" Ickes immediately reversed him self, threw his weight against Paul ey. That is the real inside of how the Pauley octane plant for Mexico was »topped. Davies, of course, is an able, intelligent operator, too in- telligent not to have known the main points of the Pauley plan, Pauley is equally able. He would be a good executive almost anywhere. But some senators want to think twice before putting these oil twins near the head of two departments controlling the oil reserves of the nation. PRESIDENTIAL III MOR President Truman has been tak ing recent criticism in excellent hu mor. Th«- other day he was talk ing with a group of friends and said: “Apparently, no matter what I do I'm always in the middle. I say something about Palestine, and the Jews and the Arabs holler. Labor and capital get in a fight, and I am in the middle. The Russians and the British have an argument, and I am in the middle." Suddenly die President paused, walked over to the door of his office, which connects with that of his sec retary, Matthew Connelly, and called out: “Iley, Matt, where «an I buy a copy of Dale Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People?" CAPITAL CHAFF Assistant Sec. of State Spruille Braden is being muzzled by the cau tious pink-tea diplomats regarding some sensational documents seized in Germany showing how certain Latin-American diplomats aided the Nazis during the war. . . . Forty- five small steel companies have now increased steel wages, thus sending more than 50.000 steel workers back to work. . . . Southern senators seem to like the filibuster method Last week Senator Bilbo serv«*d notice he intends to use It against the British loan the 'N ews ! By P aul M allon Released by Western Newspaper Union. ••IKE'S” BROTHER MAY HEAD AGRICULTURAL WINTER IN FLORIDA OR NEW HAMPSHIRE . , . Regardless of the weather, the younger generation finds plenty of amusement and body-building activities. At North Conway, N. H., the Eastern Slope Ski school, give more than 21,000 ski lessons annually to youngsters who contribute $2 annually and write a school compo sition on skiing. At a cabana club pool in Miami, Mary Jane Coucci, New York, goes overboard, while Kent Merkle, Washington, and Mary Jane's sister Shirley watch in their “doughnuts.” . Look out PARIS . your window in a mod- ern Paris hotel and this is what you will see. Houses of crazy architecture and mul titudinous chimney pots. George Alexan der. Los Angeles, was so much in love with Paris that he repro duced it and brought it home in miniature, Entire streets and blocks of the pic- turesque quarters of the French capital are included in his collec tion. lie fled Paris in 19.16 without his “baby” which, by underground routes, finally caught up with him in Los An geles. DI PARTM1 NT WASHINGTON—All signs from within point to the food shortage continuing another year—or more. The man who came into the Tru- m a n cabinet so clear - mindedly to cure shortages, Agriculture Secre tary Anderson, has run intq the usual Wa sh in g t on dead end for the ambi tious. Sec. Anderson And. then, when he came out for a new program to abandon the parity price concept and to accept the world price theory in some respects, the farm folks and their 1 lobbies here started letting him down. This is what is behind the rumors occasionally print ed of late in some of the columns that he has lost Mr. Tru man's confidence M. Eisenhower and may retire. Indeed some who have their noses to the White House pane, suspect the old gang is groom ing a successor, Milton Eisenhower, brother of the chief of staff. Eisen hower is more of a New Deal politico than the general. Certainly it is dif ficult to see how Anderson can sur- vive. His novel price theory is con- trary to what he does in his own milk producing business in Albu- querque. MINOR OFFICIALS SAID TO NOW RUN DEPARTMENT Sii There he sells what milk the mar ket will take at the highest possible price, and lets his surplus go for whatever it will bring. The idea of abandoning the parity notion made the farm bureau federation right mad. And the opposing crowd in the farmers union turned against him when he named Lassiter instead of Hudgins to farm security. Sic transit clear-minded new nffieials. When he was in con- gross, Mr. Anderson knew just what to do. The objectivity of his post then permitted hinxclar- ity of vision. But when he took tbe cabinet seat, to face the clique which ran his department las cliques of subordinates dom inate the top men of all these government departments), he immediately became involved, and each week plunged him into deeper involvement. Remember how Mr. Truman came in announcing how closely he would work with congress. Now before his first year is out. he is involved in such a desperate struggle with con gress. he is asking people to propa gandize against them. The loudest I cheer for his recent message came not from the chastised legislators, but from Sidney Hillman of CIO. The confidence of business which he en joyed at the outset slipped percepti bly also with the rejection of his wage compromise by both steel and motors. I have rarely seen this proc ess to fail. The human per sonality rarely is able to sur mount it. Outside of bureau cracy, men may see clearly and devise clear cut programs. As soon as they get in the scats of power, they fall under the spells of bureaucracy, adulation, and the politics of the self-perpetuat ing old gangs — or resisting, be come involved in self-thwarting struggles. HANDY WRENCH . . . Weighing '65 pounds, this wrench has been de clared surplus by the U. S. army at the Lordstown I Ohio) ordnance plant. Ed Dolan of Warren, stand ing by the wrench, is six feet tall. Civilians may purchase such gadgets as these—to fix their watches. IXFLUX’ VTIOX IL COLRT • • • ('•reen IL Hackwarth. $3, Chevy Chase, M<l . has been elected one of It world judges by VNO. A native of Prestonburg, Ky., Hackworth served at the Hague. MORE l’OWl R TO THE DR \GON . . . China is to pump new life into the old dragon by building the biggest concrete dam. irrigation project and power plant ever known. Yangtze gorge project, with co-operation of the U. S. bureau of reclamation, builder of Boulder and Grand Coulee dams, is drafting overall plans. The mechanical took facilities are shown above. They are capable of hoisting a loaded vessel of several thousand tons displacement capacity. John Lucian Savage is eonsulting engineer. HORSEBACK PICKET LINE . . . During the strike at the Los Angeles I nlon Stock yards, the pickets resorted to true Western style to picket the entrance to the yards. Mounted picket line, left to right: Margie Tavra. “Jug" Harrison. Tex Glover and Bessie Evans. This union was seeking a 25-ccnt-an-hour pay increase. Horsemen took turns at the en trance to stock yards. ABUNDANCE THEORY MEETS STRONG FARM OPPOSITION The secret of Mr. Anderson’s troubles, however. I suspect, are the same as the reasons why the food shortages will continue beyond an other crop. Hs conflicts with the clique and lobbies are superficial re flections of a deeper canse. name ly: farmers are afraid of abun dance. The farm leaders think they can easily produce too much for this country, know they cannot sell much abroad, and hence by nature resist any abundance theory. Winter wheat was hurt by weather and much of the seed- ing did not come up. Poultry supplies are being drained by the meat shortage. Eggs may be plentiful for a little while in the spring, but not for long. Vegetables fluctuate, but there should be enough if the weather is favorable. Our loan negotiator, Will Clayton, is a cotton minded man. The old cotton theory was the basic inspira tion of the Democratic tariff policy tsell Britain our cotton and provide free importations to enable her to pay for it), although our cotton price has long since gone too high to en able the low-economied British to use it as their base raw material. But Clayton is reported to have gone even beyond this basic theory in his visions of tariff destruction in the coming conference, and they say. he has taken State Secretary Byrnes along with him.
