Side Glances
Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
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Frank Schiro, Publisher
tyJONDAY KVKNIN(i, MARCH 1 01 n
Monarch of A
EVENING OHSEKVEH'S
PKOGRESS PROGHAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Viilley irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10,000
Extend the city limiU.
TODAY'S .TEXT . i ':
, If ye tlu'll lie not able to do tlul tiling
which is least, whv take ve thought for
the rest? 1-tiVe 12:26. . .
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THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
Our greatest (food, and what we
least fan spare,
Ls hope: Iho'ltwt of all our evils, fear.
John Armstrong
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Two Freedoms
However lough" the problems that
the San rraneisco conference will have
to wrestle with, the American pulilic
is at least assured that its own. dele
gates will he free to speak their minds,
and (hat its press will he free to reMr(:
what (joes on. That is an assurance
thai makes the problems seem some
what less frightening.
These freedoms of speech and pres,
vital to democracy hut new to world
conferences, were promised the Ameri
can delegation by President Koosevell.
They reflect his apparent desire for a
sort of new international deal for this
country which isn't the same as an in
ternational new deal - that' is nilmiraljji?
'rWl oneotiragiug'.
One JikWy result of this Cfrecdotel -i
speech and action would lo to leP Sen
ator Vunilonlioi'g', a delegate, press his
plan for a cheek
and review by thecvon-
ference of the decisions reach
Ihimtmrl'oh Oaks and Yalta,. 11
ficult. to sec anything but merit
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plan, though it. probably will opposed
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lie shouldn't find much ifppositii'fi
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- Funny business
1 "He'i the tugar and butter refcroo!"
MHKppMWM MvlJ MADGE'S -' i
f'ujfc Two
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among his American colleagues, since .
his plan is a blow at the "perfectionism"
that Mr. Roosevelt and administration
congressmen have decried.
It would subject ' the steps alreudy
taken to general, democratic examina
tion. It would recognize, the inescap
able fact that any plans will have to be
amended before they work smoothly.
It would help to make perfection the
. eventual goal rather than n preliminary . ,
requirement, to the world's efforts to
fi'ganize for freedom, security and
peace.
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The Strona and the Weak
"We may deplore, if we choose," said
Prime Minister Churchill to the house
of commons, "thai there is a difference
between the great and small, between
the strong and weak in the world. There
is undoubtedly such a difference."
Mr. Churchill was speaking in defense
of the voting procedure agreed to at
Yalta. And he was referring, of course,
to great and small nations. " No. one will
deny his broad and obvious statement,
but it could do with some expansion and
clarification.
Poes Mr. Churchill grant tlmt great
'iioss and strength carry responsibility
as well as power? Does he feel that a
monopily of greatness and strength im
plies a monopoly of wisdom? lines he
beliovo, that smallnesa and weakness
iiave no right to equal .iustice, dignity
and consideration with the great and
.. o o o o o
strong .' o o
We. trust thht the answer is yes, to
thefirst question, nirtl no to the others.
We trust that President Roosevelt and
Marshal Stalin feel the same way. Snd
' we tjfiall look forward to sefinS their
sonjjmenls proved iifVtion at. rt,ho "5'un
Francisco conference. 0 O
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SO THEY SAY
Home Qnliance
from this. Must
may devtolop
of the doners
Kills aiiil,
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many ,-- niarine,
pm-keting I',ct, t:iu after a trims
fusion, luis ivtnarkeil, "t nm si,n
nji that balie when 1 get
t.:wy
IMitirniaeTStxJMiitefc; r.itwat'il
II. ti.Miilui't of Shephl'filshmn,
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G'OiivlMe
with tW aftny is
tvti? arm
laWoiVel
that too many SuiMiay-fii'iVers fin
to sleep lit the wheel. 1 don't
sco what they've got to worry
about, just ruling across the
bridgi-. They ought to stand out
here nil morning.
Cn. Thomas Kretchmor
Sioux Cit la., diriH'titiR
Ke-
m.'icon fVfif traffic.
Forecasts an- not mathemati
cal certainties, but there is Rood
evidence for behcvini; that by
two years after the defeat of Ja
pan," civil aviation can furnish
employment of 130.000 persons.
.-Commerce Secretary Henry A.
Wallace.
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WASHINGTON Maj: Gnn. Norman T.
Kirk, efficient surgeon general. of Ihe army,
whoso mcdut'nl corps has done sie h a mira
culous job of 'saving the wounded, has just
come back Cum the Pacific theatre, boiling
mad. '
General Kirk was on an Inspection trip of
hospitals and army medical units to make
sure they were on their toes, talk with per
sonnel, sue what else they needed to give
the wounded. -the best possible treatment.
But wheh'lte'an lved at I.eyle in the south-'
erti Philippines, Genera) MacArtliur refused
to 'permit General Kirk to come to Manila,
The army's most important medical work
fey that lime hud passed from Leyte and the
sofith WMa'pjtlu, but diispitc the fact Mac
Arhur flatly 'refused S) let the army's high
est ranking" firclor and chief, of the medical
corps inspect, the hospitals in Manila or set
foot there. ) i I q .'
MucArthur ';k this flat stand despite the
fact that his own wife and son were in M:yi
ila, so obviously it could ni$ have been con
sidered too dangerous.
Furthermore, General Muflxrlhur lias, re
fused to permit Brig. Gen. Guy H. Denit, the
commanding officer of the medical corps in
the Pacific, to remain in MB'ntia. Mac-Arthur
has permlttecl General Denit Ho visit Manila
several times',', but requires that he go buck
tojeyle fori.permanent heaxluuai leu.
Top medical corps officers are burnt up
ovpr IhiS, and say th at MacAvthur's adamant
stand is 'seriously; interfcrin gwith' their op-,
erutions. Some of them even go so f6r as to
say that it is costing "lives. While .the com
manding officer in any theatre has a right
to choose army personnel in that area, they
claim that MucArthur is going loo far when
he prevents the chief of the medical corps
from visiting Manila on an inspection trrp..
They also say that the .wife of the com
manding general is supposed to set an- ex
ample tb othev B'ives who also would like
to be wilh their husbands, and are critical
of the fact that MaoArthur flew his family
back to Manila when there wasn't a chance
in the world of any other officer's wife join
ing her husband.
The entire matter is being taken up witli
Secretary of War Slimaun.
Note Army wives are still smarting over
the fact that .MacArthur took a Chines?
nurse and a lot of wicker furniture out of
Manila in 1942, using valuable space on his
small escape ship instead of rescuing Gen
eral Wainwiifiht or some of the other high
ranking officers who were left behind.
WE, THE WOMEN
Bf RUTH MILLETT
...The army .has at, last .made up its mind
''that a ' wife's first 'responsibility is to her
marriage even if the wife has gone into
uniform for the duration.
The war department has announced that
any woman serving in the army overseas
may i-ccpiest rind obtain duty in the United
Stales if her husband is returned home from
permanent overseas assignment, whether for
reassignment, hospitaliation or honorable
discharge.
Hold Back" '
It is too bad that women were hut prom
ised that much consideration early in the
War. For if they, had been, many a young
war wife might have been interested in (Jet
ting into uniform and helping to fill the quo
tas of women needed overseas as WACS,
army nurses, dieticians and physical therapy
aides.
Behind Scenes in Washington
FETER XDSON,, I,a Gvundt Evrtiing-Obamvfrr Washington CarfBapamlan)
o WASHINGTON, D. C:, March 26 Every
tradt hai'uib; tricks, and in gaining suprem
acy over the iruu'h vaunted German Luft
Wafe, U. S. npmy air oforce pilots have
thought up nqmrous shifts and razzle-daz
zle formations; which me iiow in u;1 east of
the Rhine. A few offlhese tactics on whjch
arniyoccnsoiiowill iy3 permit (ibwlosufe, are
llft-se: S o o " ' o c
Kiq0'.tly, Germans aAot hold "of a Flying
Fortress which landed .safely it) their terri
tory witftnuk Rilot or s,;n of life. Tho plane,
yn,s however, loitoVd with bombs ;ut ex
plosives. Hy some im9aeKPit had not 'own
itself up on hittingQilu' ground as was in
tended. That crash laiVling lined tho veilO
el' si'Qecy on one of the most novel employ
ments of "w-ar weary" plan yet rj" be
devised. Iivstead of being scrlfgiped, these
veterans of many raids are tilled with explo
sives, taken W?ofl q- their civws, who set
llie autiiTiuitic pilots to fly the planes against
German target's, and then iQl out.
Q The big Fortresses, like work horses head
ed Mr tlu barn, do the rest themselves, guid-
ed only bv the robot brain hi-jhe automatic
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O O J"51 Like Sitting Ducks
One of the tactical trick used by U. S.
air f'''ees m knocking out t ie Gein)in Luft
waffe has loen achieved through sending
along more "fgliters than are actually needed
to protect bombing missions. If 5(planes
are nec.g.1 lo protect the bombers. tiOO are
sent. The extra 100 stay upstairs or lag be
hind until the German interceptor planes 0
make their rnws jit lli.i h.-'iihers Then llio
of
ex'.ra 100 follow the Germans back to their
home bases, catch them :is they slowly land,
or while they are on tho ground being re
fueled, and destroy them by the thousand.
In tii'.hter plane raid- en railroads and
highways, similar mass destruction tactics
are employed. Instead of concentrating on
strafing individual trucks and locomotives,
allied fighters hold their fue till they create
blocks. Knocking out a tiuck at a culvert
Can Congressmen Read?
Government agencies have just received
an order to cut down the size of type used
in official publications, in order to conserve
paper. There are two exceptions to the rule:
Agencies printing material for school chil
dren or illiterate immigrants are permitted
to use ordinary typewriter-size type. There
is also no limit on the size of type whicn
agencies can use in making reports to con
gress. Puy-off came last week when OPA, per
haps thinking congressmen can't read as
well as school children or illiterate immi
grants, sent two thick volumes printed in
very large type i each congressman.
A New Jim Farley
Usually a big national election is followed
by a lethargic vacuum. Democrats and re-
. publicans both want to forget politics. But
this time, leaders of both political parties are
alread ytalking about the congressional elec
tions svo years hence.
So far as meets the eye, however, Demo
cratic Chairman Bob Hannegan is wy out
ahead of the republicans' when it comes to
translating words into deeds. Hannegan has
'become just as active as Jim Farley at the
peak of his political power, is working at his
job 18 hours a day and is determined tlmt
Roosevelt roll up a stronger democratic ma
jority in 'the congressional elections two
years hence'.'.
''Shortly after Roosevelt returned from
Yalta, Hannegan called on him, outlined de
tailed plans for keeping fha democrats in
power Hannegan complained, however, that
' he wasn't getting much help from some cab
inet members, pointing out that few cabinet
me.mbers pitched in to help the party.
The president then suggested that Hanne
gan call together all the, cabinet members
except for the secretaries of war and navy,
and lay down the law to them. So a few
days later, Hannegan threw a small lunch
eon for the cabinet at which he put his cards
on the table. Even the stiff, usually un
bending state department, which tries to
walk the political tightrope' and has more
republicans than democrats in its lush jobs,
was represented by Assistant Secretary
Dean Acheson.
Other cabinet members present were Post
master General Walker, Secretary of Labor
Perkins, Secretary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard, Under Secretary of Interior Abe
Folios and Secietary of the Treasury Mor
genthau. (Continued on Page 6)
But tuany of them were heUl back by the
thought, "I might find myself stuck in a
foreign assignment while my husband was
back in the United States."
Nobody can blame a woman for letting
such a possibility deter her from serving her
country because women have always put
their marriages first and have been taught
it is their duty to do so. '
Women are needed in modern war and
they can perform valuable services. But
they can't be treated exactly as men are
treated. r Not unless they are educated to
think as men think that in wartime duty
to one's country must be put above even
marriage responsibilities.
But the present generation of young wo
men have had no such training nor do their
men feel that they should put any obligation
above their duty to their husbands.
cftuses tl$V next truck to slow up fof deduc
ing, fde'jing tbot one and tlfe next one
creates a traffic jam, and after tifl.it every
0 truck that citjiu along can be picked off.
Goittg af'(.'r li'iilroads, fighter-bom bers drop o
bombs every half mije lortg 00-iliile
stretches of track. That cre'ates real -trap-fii.to-ups
which caS easily be knocked out.
When work crefis come out to repair the
mamliift'S, the fighters strttfe the work
"crews. They cause n lot of absenteeism that
way. PnlyDGcrnuin defense for such tactics
is to movj' up all suppliSi at night. To date, '
-no effective .mearwi of ni;iit low-altituds
r .milling and strafing has bpeti worked iut.
0 Tanks, Planes Co-operate (
Close ccf-operation between air forces and
Srmy ground forces inlurofie, for securing
close flir support on the battlefield, has been
achieved by creatiri); "fighter-tank teanfs."
The co:nanding officer of the fighter
planes, instead of riding high in a fast pur-
suit ship, rides in a t.-yik along with the
armored forces Commander. The command
Vuin ln Iiml communication wun nis
(J l'hmes, andlls in his fly boys to drop out
of t(ii) sky and attack where it will do the
most good.
(T)i prevent ground forces commanders
from asking supporting combat plaiies to
perform impossible tasks, air forces officers
have devised a little jingle as a guide to
target selection. Don't nsk us to go after
anything, say the air forces, unless it is
ci)
"fmdable, hittablcQVulnerable, flable.'
Whn H C fiuM.,,- arnim rnrms.Unc
When U. S. fighter group formations were
cut down from 18 to 12 planes, the air forces
found they achieved a number of highly de
sirable factors. Enemy fighters were divid
ed up. ln return, the bombers got more
firepower because there was less danger of
.-.hooting into each other and more open
space in which to shi(g) The smaller number
ofolanes in the group made a smaller target
for anti-aircrat fire and. conversely, they got
more targets with loss dispersion.
pon im tt nu evmcc. me. t. to. u... pat, err. 3-27.'. ci
"I thought at first I was going to like school, but it's getting pretty
dull I guais I'm more the outdoors typp of majil"
P McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM, E. McKERNEY, America's Card Aoiboriiy
PSYCHIC BIDS BUY
I HEflflT CONTRACT
In the early days of contract,
Dorothy Sims made o.uite a repu
tation for herself with psychic
bidding. Every once in n while
1 sec a good woman player pull
off a line psychic kid against ex
perts. Adelaide Neuwirth, in the re
cent eastern championships, made
today's physchic bid against two
of the country's outstanding life
masters.
I know that you are going to
say both East and West should
not resist the chance lo double
that. Now Mrs. Nuwirth quiet
ly bid tour hearts and bought
the contract. .' ; , i
You can see that there was, no
way to defeat four hearts, nor
was there any way to defeat
four spades. Even though you
cashed the ace and, queer! Of
clubs and tried to give your part
ner a ruff in clubs, dummy could '
ruff with the king of spades.
O IN FORME
YKARS
30 Years Ago
The D.-class of the junior sec
tion of the YMCA elected six
captains. These captains will
pick their teams, dividing the
membership of the class into as
many teams for a continual con
test in a variety of work. Elect
ed captains were Robert William
son. Waldo Stoddard, Frank
Tuckey, Philio Heideftrich, Irwin
Johnson and Frank Black.
If. H. Weatherspoon returned
from an extended trip into Kans
as where he marketed several
carloads of apples grown in
"Grande Ronde valley. ' 1 ' '
The 2ft0 acre form of William
Hill, 5 miles south of Elgin, was
sold to F. E. Smith.
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have bid spades hut they did not
or there would r.ct have been
a story about today's hand.
Now of course Mrs. Neuwirth
knew when West doubled a heart
that ih all probability he was
asking his partner to bid spades,
so she beat him to the gun. She
bid the spade. Well, East's dou
ble of one spade actually said,
"Partner, that is what I was go
in to bid tiad North passed."
However, her best bid came in
over West's two diamond calf.
She still had those six hearts but
she knew that she hail to keep
the opponents from bidding
spades; therefore, her second
spade bid. Of course East could
Questions & Answers
q What do RAF pilots Kill
the British jet plane Gloster Me
teor? A-aThe Squirt. 0
Q How limny elctrtc motors,,
go into a superfortress?
A About 150. o
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Q Where, ctjd the hot dog
originate? o 0 0
A-esJn the Rhinelandv
13 Yeart Ago .
Enrollment in Eastern Oregon
Normal school was 458.
About 50 members of the Odd
Fellows and Rebekah lodges of
La Grande attended the district
association meeting in Union,
with about 250 persons fiom
Summerville, Elgin, Cove, Union
and La Grande present.
Major R. R. Huron presented
the $10 prize to Sgt. Murray Jen
sen, the national- guaretsrjtan at
Union having the highest indi
vidual score in mnrksifjanship.
Jensen had an average .score ot
214 otit of a possible 230 rtoints;
If) Ya Ago
If. W. Guthrie drew every clufe
in 'the deck giving Wo) a double
royal plus both nine-spots, when
a group of friends were playing
pinochle. The perfect' hand brofce
otipithe gaJi. , o 0
At the 11th anniversary ot
Comply M, 186th oinfantry,' Itf.
Andrews was elected Captain bjr
0a unanim6us vote of 3he 53 en
KlPd men. The election Iras
conducted by-Col. Alvin g.JBak
er, rcginSenlal'comftiefnder.
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