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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE o By DREW PEARSON JO i nn 777. ' i i33i i I'm wse? I O La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2!), 19-17, O" Pajte Four- o "What're Y' Tryin' T'Do, Wgrk Yourself Out of a Job?" EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT ' And they were offended in him, Hut Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own house. Matthew 13:57. Employment, Full and Secure A! g-unniiiteerl annual wane for indus trial workers is one of the most valu able and desirable forms of social secur ity. Without it fear of periodic unem ployment remains constantly with the worker, lie finds it difficult, if not im possible, to budget his earnings, main tain a stable standard of living, or plan for the future. Yet millions of workers anil their families are without this security, as their-fathers and n'randfathers . were. Their demands for a giuu'iinlccd wane have been growing-, however, and have now reached the point of government action. At the president's suKKestion, the advisory committee of the office of war mobilization and reconversion has apH)inted a suln'ommil tee from indus try, labor, agriculture and government to investigate the subject. It is a difficult and complicated sub ject, and nobody should expect the sub committee to turn up shortly with the blueprint of a national program that Will satisfy everybody. I'.ut at least its members can acquaint the government and the public with the history of guar anteed wage plans to date, and can straighten out some misconceptions. The war labor board estimates that there are i0 or GO such plans now in successful operation, mostly in the con sumers' goods field. Many other indus tries have tried similar plans, and fail ed. It will bo valuable to have a de tailed evaluation of these successes and failures, and learn the extent to which they were affected by the nature of an industry's product and market, the operation by both management and labor. It is improbable that an assured an nual income for workers is possible in every industry. Hut such a guarantee should be made wherever possible. And the idea shouldn't be hard to sell, since the resulting increase in prosperity and purchasing power is as important to in dustry as it is to the worker. Hut the technique of putting the idea to work promises to be a harder nut to crack. For, as has already been point ed out, compulsory legislation which in cluded subsidies to cover any losses might put government in partnership wilh industry on a large scale. This could seriously hamper freedom of col lective bargaining: and other labor rights, as well as free enterprise. However, the difficulty of avoiding such a pitfall should not be insurmount able. And the possibility of encounter ing it should not discourage the first step toward an important objective of our ultimate postwar goal an econ omy not only of full employment, but. of steady and secure employment, with wages adequate to support what we like to call "the American way of life." Funny liusiness Tl 1 iVv. i i i V -, i r I lit ! CAMB tcuJMi ,f HIaiTiTOIb i. A Cm. v. I w. en ; .', '! "PrivaJo Smllh. you will tcporl lo the met Icnll" 0 SO THEY SAY Mothers of infants up lo aye 3 should ho burred from factory work. Mothers of the pre-school child .shuuUt tic allowed employ ment only (luring the period in which a nursery school properly inspected, takes over. O O .Dr. David M. Levy, American 01 thopsvehialry association of fieial. Q I'nlcss lhci-is sonic unforc Mill change m the war ncctls,, the men-hunt shipbuilding pro gram will be about complete by the end of this year. Vice Adml. Howard I.. VWV- crv. ehairmau maritime foul- mission, ; -- We came so last they didn I have a chance to destroy their (Qpuhlic utilities. Even their pa pels of the dav before our ar rival said we had bgen pushed back across the Uoer. What fools. Lieut. Robert G. Packer of Brooklyn, N. Y., In the Kcma ten sector, i WASHINGTON President Roosevelt's meeting with Arab ruler Ibn Saud was the topic of vigorous discussion at a meeting of 1,000 Jewish leaders at the Hotel Astor in New York recently. It may have interesting repercussions. Considerable criticism was directed at Roosevelt for his remark that he had learned more about the Moslems and the Jews in five minutes with Ibn Saud than he could have learned In (i dozen let ters. Congressman Emanuel Culler, New York denfiicrat and staunch Roosevelt supporter, vfbs one of the most vehement critics of the president at the New York meeting. "There were one million Jews in and around my district in New York who voted for Roosevelt unanimously," Congressman Celler said. "Their vote made the difference between his victory or defeat. "The Jews," he continued, "do not propose to stand for this sort of thing. Roosevelt is going to have to learn that he can't fool all of the Jews all of the time." Senator Ed Johnson, Colorado democrat, but usually a Roosevelt hater, was also a speaker at the meeting and gleefully joined in the criticism. Referring to the statement that Roosevelt had learned so much about the Palestinian question from the king of Saudi Arabia in five minutes, Senator John son said: I "It is very strange how the president could have learned anything about the Jewish question from Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud had never beforo been outside his own kingdom, and there is not a single Jew inside his king dom." Arms for Arabs? Senator Brewster, Maine republican, an other speaker, criticized the present Churchill-Roosevelt policy which prevents fur ther migration of Jews to Palestine. "It is extraordinary," he said, "that you have a Jewish national home to which the Jews cannot go." Then Brewster dropped a bombshell. He reported a Washington rumor that Ibn Saud had asked for an American military mission to train an Arab army and that the president had agreed to send fifty to sixty American officers to Arabia as a military mission. Note Not all Jews favor the policy of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The presi dent's chief motive in conferring with Ibn Saud is understood to have been Arabian oil, for which American firms have important concessions. Also the president may have wanted to counterbalance Russian influence in the Moslem world. Germany .Crumbles Authentic reports from inside Germany tell a terrible story of German disintegra tion as a result of mbined allied air and ground blows. Travelers in Germany during the last month say that huge crowds mill around railroad stations night and day waiting for trains which appear infrequently. Police who try to disperse mobs are becoming more and more ineffectual. Many local police have joined the horde of refugees, until it is al most impossible for Hitler to control the country without using troops. Even Gestapo men are deserting They arc trying desperately to mtKc deals with the allies through neutral border towns. Army desertions have increased by leaps and bounds. One new and perhaps most significant de velopment is that most German farmers now flatly refuse to ship food to the cities. Thi3 is particularly reminiscent of what happened in the fall of 1918. Farmers have no faith in the German money, give up what goods they ' arc forced to only at the point of a gun. Neutral travelers do not believe Hitler will surrender. They still look. for a last ditch nazi stand in the Bavarian mountains. Inside Germany Hitler's own newspaper, Voelkischcr Bco bachter, last week carried a significant ar ticle by Dr. Michael Baumel telling how the allied offensive is affecting the German people. It says: "Who would deny that this war is tormenting us more and more? Who would be so audacious as to assert that he is not tortured by hours of grave anxiety? Who has not felt himself near death and, in the face of the destruction of his own pos sessions, has not thanked fate for the gift of bare existence beneath the smoking ruins? The look on the faces of men and women who surge up from the cellars says more than any words. Their eyes are the eyes of tormented people." Despite all this, Hitler is still urging the German people to carry on. Furloughs for Soldiers Chief of Staff General Marshall told the senate military affairs committee during a closed-door session last week that he has re sisted heavy pressure from his own staff and other administration leaders to expand the size of the army beyond the 7,700,000 now authorized by law. The pressure was espec ially strong, he said, during the German See WASHINGTON . . . Page 5 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT A Washington dispatch says American ci vilians may be asked lo cat less. - No'w that will be a real break for house wives. Rationing hasn't given them any breaks at all. It just made the job of feeding their families and friends tougher. For they were expected to put as much food on the table as ever and manage it by juggling points, devising all sort of tricks to make a casserole dish taste almost as good as a roast of beef, and performing all kind of culinary magic to give tile impression that food was just as plentiful as ever. But this "eat less" campaign if it gets under way is going to simplify life consid erably, for it can be used as an airtight alibi. Mom can say airily to the bridge club. "I'm not serving anything because of the 'cat less' campaign, you know." When she comes home five minutes ahead of her family and hasn't time to cook a real meal she can stare down Dad's and Junior's antagonistic air toward sandwiches with: "But we're supposed to cat less, you know." The woman who wants to reduce needn't let anybody in on the secret that she is put ting on pounds and has decided to go on a strict diet. She can just look smug and say when her friends are enjoying dessert, "I've given up desserts since we were asked to eat less." If tile government asks us lo eat less there is one group who should be right behind the policy, and that is the housewives of Amer ica. For them it offers all sorts of possibili ties for spending less time in the kitchen. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C. Liberation of Guam and capture of Saipan and the oilier Marianas islands has givrn U. S. Pacific for ces not only good B-2II bases for bombing Japan, but also good bases for bombarding the Japanese people with Japanese language radio broadcasts and plane-dropped leaflets and newspapers telling them the real facts of life denied them by their war lords. Radio Saipan. known to the Japs as "Voice of America," is now making direct broad casts to the Jap people eight hours a day, but the schedule will be around the clock in the near future. Operated jointly by office of war information, army and navy psycho logical warfare divisions, this Japanese-language voice of America is one of the really unique sidelines of the w ar. There have been short wave broadcasts lo Japan from San Francisco lineo the early days of the war. Later a relay station was established at Honolulu for re-broadcast, but the audience of these two stations has been restricted since short wave receivers are closely licensed by the Jap government. ' At best the short wave programs probably . got no further than a few desks in the Jap anese war, navy and foieign offices, but they were known to be-monitored, as Jap propa gandists sometimes replied to them. Establishment (of fntdio Sjipan. however, gives the psychological warfare units a chance to go on the air with medium wave broadcasts capable of reaching the five mil lion sets known to be,. in existence on the Japanese islands, and( tat-;s an audience worth cultivating. That broadcasts' tfet tlrrvugli is demonstrated bv Jap efforts to York, Washington, San Francisco or Hono lulu, translated into Jepenese, then put on platters for shiptnen to Saipan. Nisei voices are used for many recordings, but their sec ond generation accents aren't too well thought of in Japan, so native-bom Japan ese who have become Americanized arc pre ferred. The first big objective has been lo build up the credibility of Voice of America. Straight news and a little commentary has proved to be the best vehicle. Giving the Japanese people the news .which they have good reason to know about or siwpoct, but which has been withheld from them or dis torted by the Jap government has proved pretty effective. That helps build up the reputation of radio Saipan, and when the Japs hear it on the Voice of America pro grams, they can know it's so. There is no direct attack on the Japanese emperor as an individual. All the blame for what is happening to the Japanese people is heaped on the Jap -war lords i who have si grossly deceived and misled the Jap peo ple into a losing war. The thought is put over that the Jap people shouldn't continue to he suckers for this hctraWi) hy their) own rulers. T'.ie, contrast bctwccnSvhat '.he, war lords said they were going to do Urol what they have failed to do 'js emphasized wher ever possible. O (Jap propagandists nave tried tcfjiivke something ouf of) the unconditional surren der demand .,y "playing up the idea that all Americans are beasts, and thaL-uncondition- al surrender means only that (aD1 Jap males Jaw the wave. Whenever that hajipoij, S3 will be mutilated while all .'(4$) women will ri;,. Kuhv.n im,e.i:iteR. cliiftu t ;,,Wtl,.,,. 1 1 1 ,. .- dio Saipan immediately shifts to aitr-thi- frequency and keeps going. It's a great game. Put atmosph -i ic conditions are such that the radio Suipu&'signal is stronger than the Japanese home stations, and therefore hard toSSiSW. Voice of America as broadcast from Sai pan is entirely a transcription program from records whose scripts are written in New be raped. Jaiwniliun ists hsvc hammered this idea into v& heads of their troops, too, and this fear of mutilation is the real rea son Jap soldiers won't surrender. It is be ing countered with broadcasts and leaflets building up the idea that surrender isn't dis graceful and proving it by accounts of good treatment of Jap soldiers and civilians who have surrendcied on the liberated islands. "The boss has been very dignified for two days, calling everybody Miss or Mister, and for the life of us we can't find out what mis take he made he's trying to cover up!" McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, Amorica's Card Authority TRUMP-PROTECTING LEAD SCORES GAME I had the pleasure the other night of being the guest of the 12th regiment, New York state guard. After the review and drill I played bridge with some of the boys. Lt. Harry Jacobs was not afraid to bid today's A872 KS2 R653 K3 KI6 N 04 3 AQ10 8vV E 7 c J 10 2 KQJS V4 74 A 109752 Rubber E.-W. vul. South West North 1 2 V 2 A 3 3 4 A Opening K. East Pass Pass 30 hand but his play warranted his optimism. He ruffed the third diamond with the five of spades and even though West had bid hearts, he did not make the mistake of lead ing the four of hearts. Questions & Answers Q What is the non-stop glid er tow record? A 1320 miles, Karachi to Cal cutta, India, last Christmas eve a Santa Clous hop. If he had, West would have won and returned another dia mond and now he could not make the contract. So instead, Lieu tenant Jacobs led toward the king of clubs, came back to his hand with the ace of clubs, and now led the third club. He de cided that if West showed up with the queen of clubs, he would then ruff high in dummy and hope for a three-two break in spades. But when West show ed out, lie trumped low, .picked up the trump and, of course,, his club suit was established. o TN FORMER YEARS . 30 Years Ago ... Edmund Holmes, Eugene Fyke, Randall Savage and Grant Gcd des were elected to captain four divisions of the junior "A" at the YMCA. La Grande's baseball club in the Eastern Oregon league beat the Elgin club 12 to 4. " Miss Florence Happersctt, as sistant librarian at the city li brary, went to Portland and Eu gene to visit friends and relatives. Q Have the Polish oil fields been put to work for our side? A They're at GO per cent of prewar production. Q What is the AAF's API? A Air position indicator: gives continuous latitude and longitude readings, air miles flown; an instrument about the size of a quart milk bottle. IS Years Ago Virgil Choate, senior' in the Smith-Hughes department of the Imbler high school, was awarded the U. P. scholarship of $100 by the county committee. Union and Imbler schools conitested. Roy Conklin, sophomore of the Union high school, was awarded second place, Exford Smith of Imbler, third, and Dale Baxter of Union, fourth place. The scholarship was for the freshman year at Oregon state college. It was announced that $847,000 would be spent in improving the La Grande-Kantela section of the Old Oregon Trail highway. Q How much has Gei vision strength fallen rl war? A From the origin: of Hi, 000 men lo a rep' lllll 10. n di- the idard allOO- Cl In what sport d" a loam-of-four play? A Contract bridge. : ut there are actuJly five playc since tournaments often run i:ito sev eral sessions and an extra play er is allowed to make up for absentees. 10 Yean Ago Merlin Batlcy was . elected ; .esident of the La Grande Rot ary club for the coming year. J. Donald Meyers was elected vlcc jiresideni and Clarence Kopp the secretary. treasurer. Ruth Murchison and Margaret Cunliff, who have been away al- tending school, . were in La Grande for a short visit with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Cramer started on tile first lap or their trip to Australia. 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