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Show Warren Denounces Cost-Pius Contracts Comptroller General Lindsay Warren denounces the cost-plus contracts of the war emergency days, saying that from where he sits it looked "everybody and his brother were out to get the government gov-ernment during the lush war years." The official is correct in saying say-ing that the cost-plus contract "in reality is a wide-open invitation invita-tion to spend the people's money a gate wide enough to drive a , team through." He also suggests more than a coincidence in the' way some Army officers have received high-paying jobs from companies with whom they were in touch as representatives of the Army. There is some excuse for the cost-plus contract in connection with rapid and necessary production pro-duction of war items but there is no reason in the world why Congress should not enact legislation legis-lation strong enough to prevent pre-vent the contractors from taking the government for a ride. One device, set-up for the purpose, was the renegotiation of contracts con-tracts and while this has accomplished accom-plished some savings it probably prob-ably only scratched the surface, insofar as recapturing exorbitant profits. 2.000 Enter U. S. Daily Some 2,000 aliens enter the United States illegally every day according to U. S. Attorney General Gen-eral Tom Clark who says that the southeast, with its long coastline coast-line and proximity to islands of the Caribbean, shows an 800 per cent increase in the number of aliens arrested in the last eight years. The Mexican border continues to hold first place in the number num-ber of arrests. Hundreds attempt to pass the line daily. Not all of them are apprehended but patrols, pa-trols, operating along the border and the coasts, covering 60,000 miles of frontier, catch thousands thous-ands of criminals, stowaways and smuggled aliens and the riffraff riff-raff of many nations. The immigration laws of the United States restrict the number num-ber of foreigners who can enter the country legally for the purpose pur-pose of becoming citizens. There is, of course, a yearning on the part of many others to make their home in the land of fabulous fabu-lous prosperity, and, consequently, consequent-ly, a considerable traffic in smuggling aliens into the United States. Congressmen Raise Pay; Increase Is Past Due The House of Representatives has passed a bill to increase the salaries of congressmen, to make them eligible for pensions and to modernize the machinery by which the Senate and the House handle legislation. The Senate earlier passed legislation leg-islation along the same lines. One difference between the measures is that the Senate increased in-creased the pay of members from $10,000 to $15,000, while the House limited the increase to $12,500. Under the House bill, however, members would receive a tax-free expense fund of $2,-500. $2,-500. We are thoroughly in favor of the effort to increase the pay of congressmen. In essence, there is nothing but a technicality differentiating dif-ferentiating the two bills. While the legislation will receive much adverse criticism, it is a sound measure in the interest of good government. We regret to note that the House refused to accept a Senate proposal to ,give each congressman congress-man an $8,000-a-year. administrative adminis-trative assistant. We think this provision was designed to afford competent help for congressmen in connection with the many errand-boy jobs that they have to do for their' constituents. After all, a congressman should have time to keep up with legislative matters and to study public issues. is-sues. Anything that promotes this objective will be in the public pub-lic interest. De Gaulle Suggests New Type Of "Balance General Charles De Gaulle, former president of France, and generally considered as a possible possi-ble future head of the French government, shows some anxiety about the relations between the United States and Russia. In a recent speech, he suggested suggest-ed that the Old World of Europe, meaning the nations between the North Sea and the Mediterranean, Mediterran-ean, should establish an entente to become a factor for world stability sta-bility by serving as a balance between the two worlds of the United States and Russia. This is an interesting appraisal apprais-al of the current international situation and seems to take for granted that a clash between the United States and Russia is some what inevitable. The 'problem of Russia, however, while it may concern the United States in the future, is a present and pressing issue for Europe and the probability prob-ability is that the western nations na-tions of Europe will be called upon to take a positive stand in their own interest long before be-fore there is any head-on collision col-lision between the United States and Russia. . , If our. outline is anywhere near correct, the entente that General De Gaulle calls for would serve, not as a balance between the United States and Russia, but as a coalition of the western nations to preserve themselves against the increased pressure of the Communist re-' gime.that dominates Russia. 1 |