The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-08

H. O'Konski, on the payrol
 OKonSki immediately toie his hair, called this columnist liar and told his constituents that his wife had been paced on the pay roll only temporarily because he was shorthanded.
 We now wish Co apologize tO Congressman O'KOnski. This cOlumnist'S 1943 report failed to do him justice. However, fight ing William T. Evjue, publisher of the Madison, Wise, Capital Times, has done the Congress man real justice. He has ex- posed the fact that not only did hts wife receive $l,955 in l044, plus Sl,O24 in 1043, but O'KOn. ski even put on the payroll four employees of Che newspaper which he publishes.
 After OKonSki bought the Montreal Miner, a local newspa- per, from Martin VlckerS. he placed Vickers on the Congress Sional payroll for two years at a total of $2,749. Another employc of the newspaper. Francis A. Se- cor, received $3,5O9 during l9i3 and l944; a third employe. Vir- ginia Reifenstuhl, received SHEA in l943 and a fourth cmploye on O'Konski's newspaper, Frieda Mo- richetti, received $500 at the tax payers expense.
 This adds up to grand total of $ll ,492 of the taxpayers money which Congressman OKonskt dolcd out to his wife and four of his newspaper employees during his first two years in Congress. Yet, when OKoaski first ran for Congress he was elected partly on the charge that his opponent, Barney Ghermann, had paced Mrs. Ghermann on the Congress sional payroll. Yet the Congress man had the nerve to call this columnist a liar when on March 4. 1943, the column exposed o. KOnsIxi's first act of ncpOtism.
 NOTE: Congressman O'Konski is the gentleman whom the Ger man radio has quoted so effcc- lively because of O'Konskis at- tackS on the Yalta Conference and its Polish settlement.
 G. !. JOE AT PEACE-TABLE
 The State of South Carolina has been the first to come out for a fortnight 100 per cent demand that members of the armed forces be represented at the peace table. The $. c. House of Representa- lives adopted unanimous reso- lution that goes even further than this columnisL's proposal to have one representative of the armed forces at the peace table, by proposing three.
 South Carolina. which at one time had more men per capita in the Army Navy than any other state in the Union and has led the Nation in lot of things, pro- poses that:
 "Whereas the American sOl- diers have fought with un- equaled courage, valOr and bray cry, moving always forward from victory to victory, spilling their very llfebloOd that our cherished American ideals might not perish ...
 "TherefOre be 1t resolved that the 100000 men of the armed forces be represented at the peace conference, that there he selected one member from the personnel Of the enlisted men of the Army, one from the Navy, and one from the Air Force. to have their part in the de- liberation for the peace of the world"
 Hard-working Senator O'in D. Johnston, twice Governor of South Carolina and himself sergeant in the 42nd Division overseas in the last war. placed the resOlu- ton before the United States Sem ate last week.
 NOTE: Several Senators have come out for the idea of q G. l. Joe at the peace table. including Pepper of Florida. Chandler of Kentucky, and Magnus0n of