European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Russel Baker May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 new York not republicans Are becoming very a used Republican with 24 Yean of Wear on the treads of his fiscal integrity recently went for a record Nice at auction in Brand new republicans Are harder to find than truffles and Are instantly mapped up by greek shipping to decorate their private Aegean not surprisingly in this Sellers republicans Are jittery about reports that president Carter is turning into a Republic if people started turning into republicans whenever they Felt like the Supply would be so glutted that vendors would sen them on Street Comers and everybody in Brooklyn would have a framed Republican mounted Over the reports that the president is undergoing of party come mostly from Dis 1 grunted democrats they Are heavily Putnum As William Jennings Bryan told lord there is no Point in being a Democrat if in any Sahf democrats want Carter to submit to a Republican Detector test to determine whether his baying at a balanced budget when the Moon is full re sults from somebody monkeying around with Republican glands in the White the president is republicans say he knows an investigation will prove he is still a Democrat and destroy his value to Arab Oil since democrats Are a dime a a More the president is simply squeamish about facing the Republican de this instrument was invented by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for use on other Republican an operator grips it like a Jackhammer and slowly runs it with a vacuum cleaner movement Over the Republican to be if it picks up any variation from senator Thurmond View of it instantly sucks the false Republican into a bag of lint where he is held incommunicado while his seniority privileges Are stripped from his it was Thurmond Republican Detector that recently exposed an in Republican tendency in Charlesma Thias of even though Mathias kept his shameful 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Gerald and they would rather have had for the better part of a year they tried to get rid of Are More like summer colds than an they were unable to shed him until Jimmy Carter came to their help and brought them when they first heard Carter making typically Republican they were one Day they were All sitting around the club cheering about being a precious few and Blac Balling new next Day they were singing the president Carter was talking about a balanced the Day after that he threatened to hold Down and the Day after that he Arthur the grand old Man in to Burns brought cot and set it up in the Oval then the president said welfare Reform was imperative but would have to wait four then be said something absolutely had to be done about medical care and he would get around to it one of these when the unions asked him to make he said he surely but not until he had whipped republicans went from depression to i thought wed gotten rid of Jerry Ford in the White said a vet eran Republican who had struggled for years to help the party Wither to a Mere band of they sent a Young re publican to he was hijacked by an International gang of Republican thieves who sold him to a collector in a second scout was sent in democratic Dis a double knit Blazer tailored from a billion spending he talks like the scout reported but he is surrounded by hundreds of congressmen cheering and none of them is in Carter he had obviously seen a demo cratic for democratic presi dents Are always recognizable by their huge disgruntled congressional he talks like a he acts like a the scout but none of his entourage shows the slightest interest in throwing him out of the the republicans were Al though he might not be a he was obviously not a the precious Ness of the few was assured for at least four More kids live it up on bogus Bills Detroit up an abandoned East Side building turned into a Gold mine for area children for a while until authorities discovered the newly found Bills the youths were spending we rent Worth a it began when firemen were leveling a Shack which had been the site of several nuisance fires in the past few As they were knocking Down the firefighters began seeing Bills floating through the they gathered of them and took them to a few of the Bills apparently got area businessmen soon reported to police that children were spending Money like it was water in the stores right after the police said they have no idea How the All got in the the building had been abandoned since 1963 police estimated that in counter Feit Money was hidden in the the recovered counterfeit which police said was of Good has been turned Over to the Treasury letters to the Edi postal inspectors on a i would like to reply to your recent Arti Cle on the report of the House personnel and modernization i was personally involved with the april 7 to 18 visit by Charles and other subcommittee because of my position it would not be possible to reply through official on behalf of All the dedicated and hard working men and women connected with the military postal it would be remiss to permit certain accusations to stand without the facts being the article quoted Wilson As this Lastell inspection trip closely exam ined other aspects of the military mail the fact is that the Congress men and their wives began their trip by flying to where they never visited one military installation or postal from London they flew to Rhei main and permitted military postal officers Only two hours for briefings and Orienta they performed a Wal through of the Rhei main one of our better facile and proceeded to the Frankfurt Aerial mail from Frankfurt they flew to Berlin and received a Standard briefing from the com Mand there but did not visit any military postal from Berlin they flew to Brussels and did visit the Fine Apo which is located in the american from Brussels they to Madrid where they spent four less than half of one Day was passed actually with Torre Jon a postal it can be stated without fear of Contra diction that the subcommittee did not spend More than four or five hours out of the 11 Days in Europe actually reviewing military postal after this scant review of very few facilities it is hard to imagine How Wilson could state it was very disheartening to witness firsthand the Ineffie unresponsive military mail system in or to be Able to say with com plete the members of our sub committee would never have believed How poorly the military mail system is being if they had not seen for themselves while i agree with Wilsons comments regarding some outmoded equipment in Apos housed in rundown this in formation was provided to him and his sub committee in a briefing by the army and air Force at it was the people in the military postal system themselves who were trying to bring these conditions to their attention since they the Congress control the purse strings which would ultimately enable us to upgrade our equip ment and they didst uncover we wanted them to know when i see men and women of All the services doing the backbreaking and tedi Ous work connected with providing postal service to their i am very disheartened to read such comments from a member of the its plainly a slap in their faces and makes these dedicated people the scapegoats on an apparent fabricated justification for another congressional As a final May i add that although the headline in your article inefficiencies in Europe Apo mail the comments by the chairman of the sube committee made reference Only to the Mil itary postal the difference being that the maps entails All facets of the postal operation including the postal serv ices mail handling facilities in the conus and commercial and military transportation organizations As Well As the Dod policy makers in withheld Abeln Maina editors note when contacted la Washington by the Stan and Wilson issued the following statement your correspondent is Utah Corse and apparently be or she Doest have All the we worked every Day except one in our Europe i dont need any abuse from Ajay who Doest sign his name to a this was no a junket is not travelling to four countries in 11 i could have made More political Points by staying at judging from the the Anonymous writer apparently did not understand the purpose of the we went to Europe to ask questions about the problems and find out what we could do about i happen to be a member of the armed services and toe military installations and facilities and so there were other areas of interest in addition to postal for while the main purpose of the trip was an investigation of the postal system there other matters of interest to my sub committee members and two members of my subcommittee also serve on education and and had an interest in learning about those they had talks with Dod commissary and pm our criticism was not intended for the hardworking and dedicated soldiers who Are doing a very Good Job in processing military they Are to be commended for working with outmoded equipment and other restrictions being placed on the criticism was intended for the management who tolerate the poor conditions and the slow mall delivery service for the i have pledged to do every thing possible to remedy the problems be setting the military mail a detailed report on our trip and findings in Europe will be released later this this is something other subcommittees dont normally do after a Field in Early we will bold Public Bear Ings with those agencies that serve the Mil itary mail system called to i must say that the military postal system is not one of the High priorities of congressional committee i personally believe that timely and efficient mail service is very important to the maintenance of High morale of the men and women in the armed misleading be the article on the military postal with Many take exception to the article and the misleading references to As a new Apo chief Here at Hahn a with less than one year on the Job and no prior postal i wish to express my appreciation for the outstanding assist Ance and support i have received from the Host base Wing and base commander and the support this Apo is in my opinion one of the most Beautiful Post offices in the Host base civil engineers personnel have outdone themselves in upgrading this Post office to provide Good work areas for postal personnel and convenient facilities to the base patrons we the base information office has printed numerous articles so that patrons were kept informed on postal changes and other information relative to the mail received and processed Here at thanks to the hard work of the 10 postal clerks Here at Hahn 1 have had Many patrons express their appreciation for the service they i know that without the help from my postal clerks and the assistance from the base my Job As an Apo chief would not be the rewarding one it is proving to Joan Dalcourt Hahn Germany