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Jan Shell

Ontario

Slumdog demonstrates

exploiting of children

Editor,

The movie Slumdog is now ending, and we make our exit through the doors.

We all make our remarks.

“Did you enjoy the movie?” “Oh yes, that was great.” “Very entertaining.” They do exploit children, you know. It shows the world how they live and what they do to the little children.

How dare we? How dare we cast the first stone? We rip the little children from our very bodies and throw them in the garbage.

We do not give God the opportunity to take these precious little ones and place them in our hands to nourish, feel, love and cherish.

We do not allow the little children to grow, know love and serve God, their creator. May God have mercy on us all and what we do to the little children.

Marilyn Jo Buzzard Corr

Payette

Learn to decorate Easter eggs

Editor,

Last year there was a wonderful full-page article in the Argus Observer titled “Dyeing to Celebrate,” March 16. The layout was great! The daffodils and the beautifully decorated eggs added so much to the article. The article went into great detail about using the wax resist method of decorating Easter eggs. But, the article stated the eggs that were photographed were painted. The author took a little flier that gave history and detailed information about pysanka. But I don’t think she understood that the pysanky were dyed!

Cheryl Cruson at Oregon Trail Hobbies and Gifts is allowing me a golden opportunity from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday to demonstrate how to decorate Easter eggs using the wax resist method to get such detailed eggs. All are welcome to see how it is done.

Gail Leonard

Midvale

Failure to recognize Washington, Lincoln is

unacceptable

Editor,

Who is responsible for these boondoggles — taking birthday celebrations away from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, our two greatest presidents? President’s Day doesn’t make it. In a few years someone will ad a name or two and these great men will be lost in the shuffle.

Declaring February as Black History Month is a slap in the face to these men.

In January 1983, the U.S. Congress established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a federal holiday. That was OK.

And in January, the United States inaugurated the first black president. This is OK too.

Now, doesn’t it make sense to declare January as Black History Month instead? As President Obama always says, “America wants change.”

Well I do too. So be it.

Marjorie Miller

Tillamook

Federal Reserve system is a Ponzi scheme that must end

Editor,

We are all being robbed by the Federal Reserve System Ponzi scheme created in 1913. They print fiat money (Federal Reserve Notes) literally out of thin air with no gold or silver backing, making all money decrease in purchasing power. They are responsible for all inflation, which by definition is an increase in the money supply, resulting in rising prices.

In 1920, John Maynard Keynes said that inflation steals the wealth of citizens. It is confiscated secretly and unobserved.

From 1959 to 2006 the Fed increased the money supply by 3,000 percent, which has led to an 89 percent loss in purchasing power. Also, we pay $430 billion on our national debt. Most of this is paid to private international Federal Reserve Banks.

Our constitution prohibits the issuance of paper (fiat) money by either the federal government or the states. The Founding Fathers warned about worthless paper money.

With the $850 billion bailout and the additional stimulus money, the money supply will increase dramatically, leading to much higher inflation. This could lead to totalitarian, socialist controls.

To restore sound money backed with gold or silver, Congress should pass legislation such as H.R. 2756 to repeal our nation’s legal tender laws and phasing out the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Note as in H.R. 2755.

Read, “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” by G. Edward Griffin to understand how the Fed was created to rob from the poor and middle-class while expanding the wealth and power of global elitists.

Adrian L. Arp, PhD.

Twin Falls

Ontario’s Game Stop

employees recover lost wallet

Editor,

On Super Bowl Sunday, I and a friend went to Vale to take care of some errands and to stop at the Vale self-serve car wash. I proceeded to wash some of the mud off my truck and found that I needed more quarters to finish the job. I took out my wallet and removed a $5 bill I exchanged for quarters. I did not know it at the time, but I also dropped my wallet on the ground. This occurred sometime between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

During the first quarter of the Super Bowl, I went out to the truck to get my camera. On the way out I reached for my wallet and found it missing. I made a hasty search and could not find it. I went back into the house and gave the people the bad news. We made another search and found nothing.

 I even took an ATV ride along the road where we had run the bird dogs after washing the truck. No wallet. A friend went into town and looked around the car wash but could find no sign of it.

I called the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office and reported the wallet missing. I did manage to watch the last few minutes of the game but was very upset about the money and everything that was lost. I drove back into town to check the car wash myself, and the sheriff was also there looking.

Bird hunting ended the next day, so I packed up and headed home. I had to borrow money from a friend to drive the 450 miles back to Washington. I also stopped at the sheriff’s office to see if they would give me something to show that I had reported my wallet missing. I needed something to show if I got stopped on the trip back. They gave me a copy of the report.

I left Vale around 11 a.m. I did not know that, by this time, my wallet had been found in Ontario. Around 8 a.m. that same day it was turned into The Game Stop located near Home Depot, about 20 miles from where I lost it. A very honest young man went through my wallet to see if he could find a phone number to call. The only number in the wallet was for the OnStar in my truck. Well as easy as this sounds, it did not turn out this way. My truck was still at home, 450 miles away. I had the wrong truck. OnStar, not getting a response from the truck, called home several hours after leaving the message on my truck phone.

Now to my trip back home.

I had been on the road several hours when my cell phone rang. It was my wife saying my wallet had been found in Ontario. She gave me the number of Game Stop and I called them. I spoke with the manager of the store, and he said the wallet was safe. While the employee was searching the wallet for a phone number, he found $420 that was still in place. The only thing that was missing was $80 that was easily seen when opening the wallet.

I’m thankful to Game Stop for having two very honest people employed there. Neither one would take a reward as they said their job was to find the owner. As to the people who found the wallet, I hope you enjoyed the $80 you took. I’m thankful you left it where it could be found.

George Clark

Longview, Wash.