Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 6

Tune In on KRBC THE AI3ILENE REPORTER-NEWS Friday Morning September 14 IMf PAGE SIX WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND- No Wonder the Old Lady Is Flabbergasted! Qfc Sfoilm Reporter to as nnrvB Senator Conna I ly Refuses Sell Land Avoids Criticism Hllkti Tvlr Dili Olft Mllir kf Ik tf rottlk PVBLIiBIMa CO Martli Second and Cypr Abilna Till Thought For Today I will beiir the indignation of the Lord because I base sinned against him until he plead my cause and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness Micah 7:9 Just are the ways of God And justifiable to men Milton YCLtPDOKII DIAL 1MI Entered aa Second CUua Matter Oct A laos at the poatofflre AbtUn Teae under tlie Act Mareh I lira TJG Subecriptian By Carrier lora-Ine and Stand or Bvanlai and Sundav SOe a week arc a mo Mamins and Etenins and Sunder SS a week Sl-dO month By Mail in Weat Taaaa Mornlns an9 Suntlar or Bvanins and Sunday as a irorth Other rate on raqueM those who have earned dia- charge 3 They still have to be sold on the idea of a peacetime draft when they thought they were fighting a war to end military systems 4 They must find there are' jobs for them when they return home and that the various benefits and loans supposed to be available are actually to be had without going through months of government red tape 9 They must be shown that the ao-called preference they they supposed to have in the purchase of aurplua material from the Army and the Navy actually works Thus far it Meat Srr 1 Acild fun Any enroneou reflaction upon th rhararter atandins or repuUtaon any pararai firm or corporation which may occur tn tha column at THE BEPOHTEH-NEWS will be ear reeled upon hems broushl to tha at-tention of tha manasement The publnhei are not raapanaible fr copy emuaiona typocraphical ermra or any unintentional error Mat ma occur other than to eorroct tn amt tmua altar it I hraushl to their attenuan All adverttains order an aeeeptad aa tha bail only NEWS BEHIND THE A Saying Goes Blooey Major James Devereux who commanded the gallant marine battalion which stood off the Japs at Wake Island for more than two weeks has been found in fair health in a Jap prison grayer and thinnpr like all his compatriots held by the Japs but still full of spirit One of his first remarks was to denounce a radiogram supposed to have been sent by the marines on Wake to Honolulu saying: "Send us more Japs" No such message was ever sent he said the boys on Wake had all the Japs they wanted He did have to tell his mpn to cease firing three times before they obeyed he admitted A recently rescued officer who had had charge of ail communications on Wake also denied that any such message as "send us more Japs" was ever sent This spoils a pretty story one that did much to enhance marine prestige in the early days of the war but it must haw been a press agent's dream The marines have won enough glory for themselves down through the years not to need the help of a resounding phrase that sounded after all like something spawned in Hollywood Like many another famous saying it simply never was at least not by the marines on Wake who were seeing their comrades die in a valiant but hopeless fight against overwhelming odds The unknown author of "send us more Japs" probably was cosily ensconced five thousand miles from Wake Like Parson Weems who thought up George Washington's "I cannot tell a lie I did it with my little hatchet" this particular phrase-maker did it with the best intentions Unhappily for him the marines take unearned credit They don't need it Shorter Work Week Move Begins Bv DREW PEARSON MASHINGTON This column has not alwayi agreed with good old Senator Tom Connally of Texas but here's something on the other side of More than a year ago the navy the ledger decided to erect a naval hospital in C'onnally's home town of Marlin Texas noted for its curative springs Residents of Marlin were ready to purchase whatever site the navy thought best for the hospital and give it lo the navy Best site in town is a 180-acre plot belonging to Ben Con-nally the senator's son who gave up his Houston law practice to enter the army where he still is Marlin residents were certain this site is what the naw would want since it waa ihe only high land overlooking the town yet near the town Another site leas desirable and farther from town was selected as an alternative But for nearly a year ConnaV ly has refused to agree to let his son's land be purchased insisting that it would anpear that he had used his political position to turn a profitable real estate deal for the family Aa a result the rumor sprang up that ConnaHv was holding up the hospital until the navy assured bin it would take hia son's land Investigation convineea this columnist that the opposite is tbe case Onlv recently after re ira led Pleadings from Renre-ai-iitative of Marlin Con-nallv grudgingly has consented to let the town condemn the Ben Tonnally property and then let the navy take its choice of the two sites a SERVICE NOTES Attention Surgeon General Norman Kirk Armv: Mhy is it that at Billings General hospital you have doctors with over 140 points 37 months overseas I'omhat service sitting idle for three month despite the shortage of civilian doctors? Also why is it necessary to compel arm surgeon to spend aix davx learning the nomenclature of the Ml rifle a mechane gnn a carbine and the wnrkinp mechanism of a hand grenade now that the war is over? M'hy is it nerossarv to compel 120 surgeons after a tour of 21 months ovrrscas to appear on a rifle range and practice slow and rapid firing while other aur-ceons are forced to sit in the target pits raising and lowering the Attention Colonel Othrl Deering Buckingham Army Air Field Fort Mvers Fla: Many men in vour outfit ranging from 80 points to 1M comnlain that they are kept polishing airnlanes and picking up cigarette butts when all are entitled to discharge They point to the order of Major Gen (i Henry assistant chirf of staff that "effective immediately all enlisted men with a Tnint score of 8S and over will be sent to separations centers for immediate separation" Aitention Col John Kane Cowan Field Boise Idaho: Is it neressary lo continue flight training of men some of them cntitlrd to discharge in surh a way that 18 men were killed in a crash after day? i GRIPE Politicians consider the servicemen's overwhelming vote fur Roosevelt one nf the most imperalnt factors in defeating Iiewev But today the Truman administration seems to be losing ground daily with war veterans Here arc some of the complaints servicemen arc registering They are more than grilles Thev are things the men feel deeplv 1 Servicemen must be convinced of the Armv's need for keeping 2000000 mmi and the naw SOOOOfl men despite the atomic bomb when our peacetime forres were only 120000 and 80000 respectively 2 Thev must be convinced that the Armv and Naw are earnestly trying to speed the exit of speak but it is to our self-interest to recognize and act upon a mutuality of interest and an interdependence in peace and war that should lead us to do everything within our power and within reason to keep the British on their feet Britain needs help in a financial way and she has turned to U3 for it there being nowhere else to turn British spokesmen assert this help in the form of credits another name for is absolutely necessary to keep her going Part of this help would be a cost-free grant which we understand to be a euphemism for outright donation and part would be a straight loan bearing interest If there is anybody in the world we are beholden to it is Britain If we have money to feed hungry Germans and Japs and Italians surely we can afford to dig up money and food to feed our allies If there is money for Latin American countries few of which contributed any blood or money to help us save democracy there must be some for Britain They held the fort Surely we won't desert them now To republican charges that Britain seeks American funds for the purpose of socializing the country's industry and finance President Truman returned a tart comment: "Perfectly silly" One sure way to fix socialism upon Britain and pave the wav for a lapse into communism jr nazism is to deny her financial help at this stage ard cut her adrift upon chaotic seas of experimentation and improvisation Wartime Repealer Without a dissenting voice the house of representatives adopted a joint resolution to go back to "God's time" on Sunday September 30 and with expected senate concurrence a pretty period will be put to a wartime device that give rise to as many disgusted comments as any other single emergency measure In general wartime was suitable and acceptable to industrial centers and unsuitable and unacceptable to rural areas and smaller cities Its ostensible purpose was to save electric power as represented in lamp bulbs The argument was that people would finish work earlier in the afternoon before it got dark and thereby save electricity Actually what was saved in the afternoon was used up by the necessity of getting up in the slap-dab dark of mornings and since most war industries ran on a continuous schedule it is difficult to see where any power saving was effected In reality the extra hour of daylight could not affect more than one shift of workers and even this was more apparent than real Down on the farm the cows the pigs and the chickens cheerfully disregarded the artificial timing and went right along observing sun time The farm family anxious to gpt to town for a movie was forerd to stick around an extra hour until it got dark enough to shut up the chickens The turn-back will take place at 2 a the last day of this month With alarm clock fanciers it will be simple: just turn 'er into reverse one full hour But owners of old-fashioned wall clocks will find a little extra work imposed on them: these can't be reversed so Pawr will have to run 'er forward eleven hours to make it come out even Congress was responsible for wartime and its repealer won't even require the signature of President Truman although it's possible that that farm-raised he plowed the straightest furrow in Jackson county suh would find pleasure in signing wartime's death warrant NEWS- is national wealth and well being Now- inject into ihe system a reduction oi the work week Cut it trom 48 to 40 then 30 perhaps 20 10 or 1 and you rut the heart muscles of your system Somewhere along the way your product ion declines and your nation declines and falls Specific experience we saw of this also in the war French politicians got their work week down to 3) hours heiore the war This was not sufficient to sustain the country much less provide the armaments unh which to f'ght a foe producing the utmost of its deficient man-pi veer energy and using its facilities to ihe fullrst France was a pushover he-ciii-c she could not make the guns planes and ships to meet the ctlnrt of her adversary although her available manpowrr was greater in numbers and she had access to raw materials he-yord tne dream of the Germans If we arc now again going to take up the wrong end of the economic telescope and look toward negation of production nonuse of manpower "spread-the-work'" etc we will not measure up to Russia which worships the goal of production: indeed eventually we could not match infantile Janan That workweek is best for this ration which produces the host nation not the most case and least work M'hat this nation desperately needs in the continuing world crisis is a workweek which is just and sound for the workers and people and yet will do the joh of work and production which must be done M'uh all the work erving to be dune in this country the pliiro for surplus government employes is to do some of it They should be put at useful production The declining work-week with its waste of manpnwc-r serves every base economic and political cause and theref'iro is destructive of the cause of humanity It Says Here By BOB HOPE For instance thousands of veterans are now trying to purchase jeeps trucks and other aurnlus items But they find their applications frequently so delayed that eventually they go out and buy from dealers at higher prices Servicemen are puzzled about President Truman because they thought that a a result off his experiences in the last war and his chairmanshm of the Truman committee he would be able to stand up against Army-Navv brass hats But they are getting disillusioned Simultaneously Republicans! are licking their chops with joy Here is some of the pro pa-da nda which General MacArthur let the Japs broadcast without! benefit of censor while newsmen were censored: total of 4097 Japanese schools were destroyed or damaged by air raids including 20 universities and 80 colleges" is the leader of than temperance has been especially advocated among the housewives of America The mother wives and sweethearts at home would he happy to know that their loved ones in a foreign country are protected against the e-ils of drinking" Except from letter by the national temperance league of Janan tn Mae Arthur urging that American troops not drink in Tokyo) Jap diet member Kiyose urged that punishment of war criminals include those using the atomic bomb According to a Jan broadcast of Kivose's ineech: "Those who used that atomic bomb are the war rrimina'-Such a great case of the violation of international law and the disregarding of the law of humanity was never seen heretofore" "The Allies will never institute a m'liirv administration in (This prom-' ise according to an uncensoi-ed Domei news broadcast was made bv General Marnbur to Foreign Minister Shiegemitau) Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith of Maine ha added her voice to Senator to get a change in the Naw enlisted uniform and with some sucees An parent1" Forpeslat i interested Tip-off on Rritish labor1-foreign policy: Signs Incmasd that it will iust as reaction-ar as Churrhill's For intare Prime Mincer Attlee firt ef-fered the Vash'reton ambassadorship Sir Jnbo Andnrsnn forme" Lord present of thr council and one of the wnr-t' anneasers in Britain It was St John who shortlv hefnre te war nnnnsed constructin' raid shelter fog civilians M'hno Anderson d-ciined (he amhass-dorship Halifax resnnnipi ed Gen Dan Stilton i Wc from Olios to promote a b'g credit for 'he Chinese government tt will run inio real mnogv if the Trwm" goes for th" idea of making China an American colonv It was a secret during the war hut can now he revealed that several Navv snd Coast Gua-d shins were turned over to Russia (I Cold Rsv Al'sla 1118 bv the Bell Syndicate Inc vide with Poland that England France and the Ended States will get the rest and take care ol 13 or 14 other nations When Pauley relumed lo M'ashinglon the other day several who attended hi press conference complained that he didn throw much light on the subject After talking with Pauley I'm convinced Ihal if the complaint was a peisunal one it wasn't justified There just isn't much more tn tell Like Ihe Ended Nations organization with us charter th Big Three (nr Four) ha its eight points and the I'm via tn agreements Whether they esn be msdc to work will depend on how the Reparations rounnl vet to he established doe us joh Faulev sav he considers his joh 90 per rent finished Mheih-er thousand of minor war criminals are tn he sentenced in hard lahnr inside nr outside Germany and lfiOl other explosive problem will have in he "neutraliz ed later a In anv consideration of reparation it well to rememher one thing Pauley said "It ian'l always easy fnr ti rememher that those ration over there aren't like the Ended Slate They have need great needs See ANGLES Fue 18 Aid For Britain Most thoughtful Americans have come to believe more than ever in the general preposition that this future safety ard wellbeing depend upon a continuance of Anglo-American friendship and cooperation Thos Dewey in particular advocated an outright military alliance between the two countries Many Americans who curse Britain in peacetime are only too glad to find the British on our side when the shooting starts Britain was bled white by this war which came before she had reco ered from the last While we are hastening to restore nylon stockings and longer shirt tails the British people after six years of living only this month found their clothing allowance reduced by 25 percent We have a housing problem but ours is trivial compared with Britain's where millions of homes were destroyed None of ours were they merely went unbuilt We don't have to neck the British so to military switchboard' Corporal Koval is feeling quite happy as she just improved her station by marrying a sergeant Mr couldn't get bidets in any of the military hotels hero (there air so many in town thry'vr siar'rl investigating each oilier) bill Lieutenant M'ii-tor Mood of ('liefer I'a man-aped to pull a few large ropes and gel us into tbe Hotel Clar-idge a civilian place I won't say it's expensive but they don't boiber charging you The mgiris just run tile vacuum cleaner through all your pockets every morning and then the manager empties out the hag and decides lief her to cict you Another Broadway character who made good over here is Earl Kreithard Mike Jambs' former publicity agent who now sports two bars and is in charge See H'fFK By Lichty rAfilS M'hat a town this Is for parades: The French army will hold a full-dress parade at the drop of an anniversary In frii-t the gendarmes come out every day at 11:00 and rope off ten blocks on each do of the Arc d' Triomphc just on speculation They send nut two regiments every tune De-' Gaulle wants a cup of coflee Later a smad ilialtiiiiiiii goes BOB IfOFE 'I for the second cup And if you promenade on the I humps El-src out ol cadence everyone sneers at jou and veils tour-i-f' Made a phono call tixs inie n-i: and had quite a ihal with MA Cnrpni'nl Mary Koval of Louis who is on tie I'ars GRIN AND BEAR IT Bv PAI MAIIDN (Distributed by Kmi Features Syndicate reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited) WASHINGTON Sept 13 The foolishness is starting up againNevadas Senator Mci ar-ran has introduced a bill and California's Downey is promoting it In reduce the federal payroll sitters work-week to 30 5 hours a day 6 days a week a sort of MPA uiliunit shovels Mr Truman reduced it from 48 to 40 hours at the1 war's end and now Ihe Ncwcleil in i senators are trying to drop it to 30 with the usual hour or so for lunch no doubt and 3') days vacation with pay and 30 days sick leave usable fur headaches or whims This would make a federal job so nice volt would hardly have to go to work at all The payroll sillers naturally look kindly upon Senators MiCarran a Downey and say: "They are great humanitarians they have the interest of the common people at anti the objects of this adulation naturally are swelling their enr-rs at the pool work tnrv arc doing re dicing how superior are their emotions toward the common man Thus the rackctis starling all over again a Humanitarians eh? listen: OVERMANNED PAYROLL Behind this proposal is the overmanned comMion of the federal payroll In war anyone could gel a jolt doing ar thing or nothing here -and did S'enogs who did not knowhow to put paper in a typewriter drew their salaries and got away with it through lu-ip of associates who did know howto work Why maids and domestics left the kiUhcps in droves to become typists al-I'l'vuh they could not vr'e: "Now is the time to come lo tur a-d of the party" There was plenty to do thin Now tlmre i little to do vet no one wants to give up the soil jobs tiry want to keep Cc war rmployes on the payroll and -hire tiie work by ici'ucira the work week all at ihe expense of the uoikirg man in this country who p-: tavs to support ntoie people than arc no-ilcd to run the government Thai is the i proposition here Huininiiarims eh? Ik 1 rovers would be a ai curate term as I tiii I can clearly pm It is plainly cvidenl and by all ivilion would he at it Ijc-t for ail tin: people if every linn was employed in full production nf ps cmwgv and lalcifs In this witI-I of li-naiicial only prnduciion is leal vi-iith Me siw ims so clearly in the wr Mr won lc-riu-i' we inai slialcd our pio-duciitily he ind that of any oiher nation and fully supplied the in lory of every Allied nation 1 hey could nut do Ihe job Tler prudiirtiviiy as insufficient to meet tip- task Wick then i wealth To ihe individual hi- product i wtv is Ins -idy real sminiy Mi'h pr ecs money lederal drills and aii iii nri-il faelni's running to- wiHd inflalion Ihe ability of an in 'm dual to produce is the 0 on guarantee of a safe place lum Feom-mic-illy also Ins wmk geiu-ia'i-s more wink fur nvui' pi'npii- ON EACH 011IIlt le I'lodilies 'ill aiilu per haps llnl men helli get 1 ir mg li 'Mu llnl auto dealer silt "'Hi ineehaiue shipping iVik rail i'mi'I gasoline fillii-L pii'pnelur Hr If lie did imi produce llu'i auto Ihe inu v-eild suffer If 1 (II III men dill produce aid 11- lui'iui: would fail of iheir Ip et'hooil From'inicilly therefoie work is the stimulus of nation arJ CUNNINGHAM'S COMMENT- Picture-Painter In Chow Line WASHINGTON ANGLES- Question of Reparations Is Delicate One With Nations tle man gray haired nice looking hut his accent was strictly Rrifish 1 kept looking at that TS Mar Correspondent" and living hard hut it was no dice He kept talking rapidly enthusiastically and steadily about some sort of pirtures and was fishing from his several pockets what scorned to he hrorhurrs printed hrown type on a good stock of yellow paper These he pressed into my hands for one that had some notes scnbbrd on it From this flowery literature whsrh I still posses I was privileged to gather that this gent was an Fnglish artist a Mr Frank Brrcsford I nev er amrd to hear of him but that's possibly a confession of ignoiinee as I have smee heard that lies verv well known Hot from the evidence of this rrin'iig he evidently latched himself onto Ihe Eb Armv ir Forres stationrd in England and began painting what the fust pamphlet calls "The KTO I Armv Senes" Ills first masterpiece was entitled "Old Glory An Fmglish Countryside April This consists of a few trees what looks like an iron fence guarding a little hill and a (all white flag pole with the Stan and Stripes spanking a hreere that mows the flag hut not the trees Prints of th's masterpieee evidently were then offered for sale to the American military through their Pol Exchanges which etersborlv had to patron-tie The price was one pound or $4 BY BILL I uit sitting in ES Ambassador John Winanls while antechamber in London waiting for the gentleman to finish an unexpected rush of Saturday noon business in order that we might step over to his place for some luncheon Occasionally somebody came in and sat down or got up and went out It was something lkr a doctor's waiting room on a light day hut 1 didn't know anybody hut 1 knew when mv date was so 1 was decern a copy of "Yank'' and paying no attention when I heard a male voire say do you 1 riidn even look up Nobody figured to he speaking to me But again it rame more insistently 'How do you lo?" and since it came from right in front of me 1 did look up and the man was speaking tn me The first tiling I saw- was ihe I'S War uniform and markings and so I fig ured he must he one of ours and that I'd probably met him and so I hastened tn say Hello and tn apologize fur my previous day dream' ag But he said that was quite all right and then he began to explarn that he had just popped in tn gel the Ambassador to autograph a picture and then he hegan to rattle on about hi pii-riirt's nr somebody's pictures while I galloped blindly trying to ratih up MEET AN ABTIVT He seemed In take for granted that 1 knew him and all about his pirtures and I was trying to remember whether I was so obligated lie was an elderly lit BOOM AND RATIONS Now I quote from the circular: "In appreciation of the week he has done already with the ISAAF and in order tn facilitate further studies Mr Beres-fnrrf in July 1943 was granted credentials as an accredited M'ar Correspondent No 1242 to Ihe IS Army FTO" In other words he joined us for room and rations although we were the guests of his own home land There ere a lot more pirtures In fart there seem to be three or four series of them and at least a couple of si7es of lilhngraphx made front them Any or all were to he had bv stepping into your nearest PX and planking rioun four hrk per ropy Me had plenty of artists in this war aome of them topfi ll lube and hrush men mrlt as my fnend Paul Sample They vtnt out where danger wax for magH-7ines and painted for publia-(ton This "I'S Mar Corie-pi-od-cm'' from anything to lie ti-ad to the contrary from merely paintrd lea sure for himself and peddled through the I'S Armv EX' M'hal like to know i ji Who got lle dough If it was reresluril Ihe American Eagle was getting plucked lUstrihu'rd hv I mlcd Feature Syndicate Ine) 1 (fist Of Three Articles) Bv JACK STINNETT Reparations what Germany is going to pay for Ihe damage il did to the na-tun'- il have hardly nui'li- daily headlines The masons for this arc many The deliberations of I be Moscow lonlercnec at which Edwin Pauley headed our commission were secret until they reported their right points of pul u-y to Hie rntsdam meeting lYlieii these eighi points and further ults of hn-f e-trading bv the Rig Three at Potsdam In illy were made public they wcie almost immediately over-sliaduued bv the shattering news of the atomic bomb the collapse of Japan and the final surrender in Tokyo bay Thro too because the disastrous Versailles dollars and-rent vepaiiimns let tea were to he awuded there is no xardslirk ty which we can measure Me know dial Germany is In be stripped of tier war potential by having her war fartnries real and convertible laken away from her Me know that she will have to turn over a portion of wht in-riusiruri production is left for perhaps six vrars Me know that Russia ia tn ei approximately V) per cent tf all reparations and will di -I ii' rti if Mi're l-'i unenpUivuirnt pub'ci ci -oiU'cjut! I time nay mu uie hat at many rr'afirrs at hurt".