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i : EDITORIAL PAGE ' - o Washington oMerryoGo? Round Glances DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher MONDAY HVKNINi.', AI'KII, 2, Ml.'. . ' . . . i'litfe Two How to Cure an A p petite for Rich Fare . v EVKNING OUSHKVKK'S I'ROGKKSS l'KOGHAM IKIUGATION Complete the Grande Itonde Valley irrigation project. LA U HAN UK A city of 10,000 lOxtoud the city limits. TODAY'S TKXT Aiul I wji.h with you in woiiknosn, mid in four, and in much Ircmlilinc,'. Corin thians 2:3. THOUGHT I'OK TODAY ('ensure is the tax a man pays In the pulilio, for being' eminent. Swift. Debt to Society The well-worn phrase about "paying H debt to .society" takes on new mean ing' in the case of the several hundred inmates of three prisons who have vol unteered as "H'llinea pigs" in testing new ilru;;s to combat malaria. Their volunle.T duty will extend be yond that of the soldiers who bared their arms to tin anopheles mosquito in Walter Keed's search for t lit malaria carrier. For these men will not only contract the disease, but will submit to experiments with potential remedies whose properties and correct dosage are as yet imperfectly known. If the tests are successful, malaria sufferers have promise not of the relief and control thai quinine and atabrine lil'injr, but of complete cure of this re currine; disease. Most important, suc cess will provide a remedy for thousands of soldiers who have contracted this painful, exhausting m.d si nictimcs fatal disease. It is significant that these prisoners are promised nothing- beyond the best of care. They take full responsibility for all consequences. They are offered no special privileges, commutation of sent ence, or other reward. They are simply, in the best anil truest sense, paying their debt to society. .1 iiiu Job When William M. Jeffers Mopped down as rubber director, it was with the assuianco that the rubber problem had been licked. Japan's greatest tri umph, the conquest of virtually all our sources of natural rubber, had finally been neutralized by our swift develop ment of a synthetic industry. Thai was oncouraginir, and true as far as it went. I!ut today, thotig-h Hie rubber problem is licked, the tire short iigo is more acute than ever. Scarcity of cotton and rayon cord, carbon black, ralurnl rubber and manpower, together with constantly increasing military de mands, has made the situation more ritical than ever. Into this spot steps John I.. C'ollyer, president of the II. V. Goodrich Co., as special director of rubber programs. And with all respect to Mr. Jeffers and his successor. Colonel Dewey, it is com- fortinsr to know that an experienced executive from the rubber industry is now in charge. .Mr. t'ollyer has been in the industry for ' years. He was one of the leaders in the pre-war movement for a govcrn nient - sponsored synthetic rubber pro cram. He has served as adviser to the state department in international rub ber conferences in the past two years. It is a tremendously important job that Mr. Collyer has to do, and it must be clone ipiickly. lint wo think the job is in eood hands, and we wish hiin luck. Funny linsincss - -gr - " 4rr ' " ' m 14 --(f) o li rje1 W I ll o'feu oi o jmmm I r'-;- " cV .....- c,,M.,c,!T:,,i (-JVASHING16N Army air forces insid ers; are literally tearing 'their, hair pjer Army plans which after the war contem plate a big ground force and a relatively small air corps. It looks, as if the mistake of the early part of this war, when ljutii Jap and Gorman planes roinijnC'all over the Allies, might be repeated. It is being kept a top-drawer .secret, but Army planners already have mapped out the relative size of the air force after the war. And it is to go back i'j about the same strength as the air curps in PIUiI about 18.U00 men. Simultaneously, ground force army men ure proinotinU the idea of a huge land army, and are pushing the idea of peace time conscription. Undersecretary of War . Patterson is one of those who favor putting through a conscription bill now, apparent ly with the idea that the bill would not pass after the war. Air experts meanwhile point out private ly that if we are to prevent war under the United Nations security plan, we will need not a big land army, but a fast, powerful air force which can get to any trouble spot in a hurry. Also, if this nation should be attacked, the first line of defense, they say, is' tho air, then the navy both of which would give time to mobilize a land army. ' Finally the air experts point out that future development of the rocket bomb will be such that land armies may not be Important in the initial stages of a war. It will be the nation which has rockets and planes niost efficiently mobilized at the start of a war which probably can win. They say the time will not be far off when rocket bombs will be able to cro.ss tho ocean, and that what the nation needs is not con scription, but experimental laboratories both for air and rockets. Note In the army budget of 1940, one year before Pearl Harbor, General Stanley Kmbick, deputy chief of staff and a very competent coast artilleryman, dictated an appropriation for only six long-range army bombers until the officers and world events forced a revision upwards. This indicates the type of thinking of ground officers. Airmen are now afraid of a repetition of this after the war. Frankfurler Picks 'Em It looks as if Justice Felix Frankfurter is going to pick the next solicitor general The man who presents the government's cases before1 the supreme court. There has been a long backstage con- troversy over this important pos0 DenlO crat Chairman Bob Hannegan wanted Democratic Vice-Chairman Oscar Ewing to get it, and at firsRoosevelt backed him up. However, Attorney General Biddle stuck to his ground that the lawyer for to Aluminum Corporation of America should not be solicitor general of the United States. Roosevelt in the end agreed. After thfl, Justice Frankfurter tele- . phones the president, putting in u plug for Dean Acheson, assistant secretary of state. Achison, one of the best lawyers in Wash ington, never has been too happy in the slate department, undoubtedly would make an A-l solicitor general. '.He is not the man proposed by Biddle, who wants able. Hugh Cox, how assistant solicitor general. However, it looks as if Frankfurter will win out. General Clay Bows Out Not many people realized it, but while the President and War Mobilizer Byrnes were at Malta, the chief backstage dictator of the U. S. A. was Maj. Gen. Lucius Clay, deputy war mobilizer, the man who has a great deal to say about curfews, manpower, baseball, horse racing, conversion of factor ies, and whose civilian powers are tremend ous. General Clay is the man now selected by President Roosevelt to be U. S. "dictator" of Germany after the armistice. General Clay is bowing out of Washington after a tough showdown fight with the war mobili zation board, a committee representing business, labor, farmers and the public. This board was created by congress to counter-balance the tremendous powers given Justice Byrnes and his office. But, as frcqently happens, Byrnes, and especial ly General Clay, got into the habit of ignoring their civilian advisers. Things got so sharp that the board barred General Clay from its meetings, also passed a resolution demanding a showdown with Byrnes and warning him that they were not a rubber-stamp agency. The board was not consulted on the curfew, on horse racing, or on various other moves. Despite Byimes's defense of Clay, in siders say that his roughshod tactics re garding civilian economy made his exit im perative. Therefore, the president decided that he was just the man to place over the government of occupied Germany. Pat Hurley's Blues When handsome ex-secretary of war Am bassador Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley went See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Class of '35, Vasar, postponed what would have been its tcnth'reuni'anlind substituted for the clan's gathering a questionnaire sent to all members with such to - the - point queries as "Weight?" "Color of hair?" "Wrinkles?" That's a patriotic solution in these times when the girls shouldn't be encouraged to take train trips, buy a lot of new clothes to impress each other, and shoot the works at beauty salons gelling themselves in shape for a sharp inspection by their old class mates. And it ought to be jut as satisfactory as a real reunion. For the reason women really g:i to them is to look each other over, and then go home feeling satisfied because they haven't let themselves go "like Ethel", or "become dull like Mabel," or "crisply effi cient like Doris," who has a high-powered career. They can do just as much comparing by sitting down and studying the answers to the questionnaire. Of course they'll discount some of the answers with "If Susie doesn't have a single gray hair, I'll bet she is having it touched up." Or, "Liz puts on a good front, but I'll bet she isn't as happy as she lets on married to that Jim Smith who always had a ruving eye." But then they would do that if they saw each other in person. Of c.iurse it should have been compc.lsory for a recent snapshot to have been attached to the questionnaire not a studio potrait but an honest snapshot. Just to keep the girls honest. And to give each of them the right to feel the years had been kinder to them then to some of the others. Then the questionnaire solution would have been fully as satisfactory as a reunion. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent SO THEY SAY The way has boon hard and the hardest pan of the march is yet lo be made. Ill view of the bit terness of opposition to date, this is a grnu outlook for the future. Hut it i'. a i enlist k- one. We have milium; to nam by doling 0111 selves. - -Mai mo Coinmandant I.t -to'ii. Alexander A. Vandergnti, . If wo are punc. lo have a great , ly ex;i.'dod l.orvlcn trade we've ft r Mo 'ovs or' Tariffs and other lr;;de ban itin all uer the w orld. Li-AssistaiU Soeiotary of Clate Archibald Maol.ch: " " Those people siiXfeiod 1 it t l.t ) full of coal Mid the Gorman poo- ' :(') t pie well fed. ( ) WASHINGTON Translations of office of war information's Japanese language loaf lots dropped over Japanese lines in south east Asia and on Japan proper by army air force bombers and carrier-borne naval air craft give a good idea of the psychological waifaro now being waged against tho Jap anese. First approach is through a newspaper, or rather a news sheet, a single, magazine-sized page giving all tho hot war news denied the Japanese people by their own government's censorship. Typical 01' the stories played up are these: Japs attacked in rear on Philippines. With iv.aps to slunv whore Jap convoys have been sunk and what tho losses wore. Si's raid Manchuria. Willi quotations from Tok o radio to lend credibility to the claims ol damage intlicted. Hundred thousand tons of bombs dropped on Germany. Pointing out that 50.000 air nun took part in around-the-clock raids on "Japan's last ally" and letting the idea sink in ih.it Mich things might bo in store for Japan. "Surrender passes" printed in three gaudy colon; have I eon dropped over the Jap linos in quantry in the China and lUumo theater. They h.iM ti'.e word "S,ii renJ.tr'' printed in big type in Knghshv Chinese and Japanejo, With iiisi:uct:on Jo) Chinese ami iinetican itibp thai ihe t'mferuf'the pass is suVWruV eriiR"., (ho.il't h? -troaied coui-teinusiy,' and tliktfii to :u adquarters. ,.- N , The sin lender passes SVent befilj v-l')" no htimllcap being that tho alitrd v Held don't seem to like the Jap soiaars well enough to lot t'xn ne cap tin yd mm -T-'T COPH. 134! DV KEn'StBtflCr. TtTcZt'M. REG. 11. S. PAT.'Of "Wilbur is so moody lately, since he wrote all those letters, to the editor explaining Pacific strategy and General MacArthur crosd him up!" ' vuis o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E, McKENNEY, America's Card Authority' "SYLVIA" SHOWS UP THE OFFENSE AGAIN The open pair championship in the recent eastern states tourna ment was won by Jerry Fried lander and Ned Drucker. During the final session, one of the great est hands I have ever seen came up. It seems to be ideally suited to Sylvia, the girl who does the wrong thing that somehow al ways turns out right. The ordinary play is for the de clarer to play low on the opening spade lead, West lo win with the king and now to return a club. The declarer wins this, cashes three spades and the ace of clubs and East is hopelessly squeezed. Is there a defense to beat the contract? Well, try this. Suppose AQ1076 Q73 A 52 4953 AK 9 8 4 2 108 Q 1086 2 N W E s Dealer A3 V J 1086 2 J974 J 74 I ? A A J 5 , , VAK&4- KQ63" AK Duplicate Both vul. South West North East I 1 A INT Pass 6 N T Pass Pass Pass OpeningA 3. 3 squeeze West and still t him make his contract. '. Remember, however, is "a double dummy play. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago "'"' J. J. Carr returned from a trip to Salt Lake, San Francisco and western Oregon points! Mrs. Carr remained with friends in Tillamook. : ' Charles Williams, of the'silver thorn Family Drug store, jvent to Enterprise to spend Easter with his family. ' Several property owners in La Grande have offered their vacant lots to persons wishing to raise gardens. "So he can keep viewing a big juicy tcak he saved ration points two months lo gtl ill" '"."y-l.t. Holv-rt C, Packer of Hrook i n. N. Y . in Kennigon scir.- 0 V- What thV-alhod forces have ac complished during lt'44 will stanWor generations as a warn ing C dictators to 'A'ware the fin y of a patient man." -- AAF Gen. Homy H. Arnold. ;.c need for :atm J Jap pi'isoner .'g. and Ino nei'd forvhietijiing i idea that to surrender Ts dis Kt;i linpoit.int. (o) idea is enrourag 'd ly dropping ol- ;,liv. Hat foil (ie-ii ' li th.' ,i .avelul This latu leal'lels w lia :i show pictures of Japallesi dieis who have sui lvnueied. enjoying life as prisoners ot war. Their eyes are niaskid in the photagraphs for the protection of their families. But, says a translation of the mess age printed on the reverse side of the leaflet, "Look at their peaceful faces . . . Their breasts are filled with the glorious hope of becoming pillars of the Japan of tomorrow, freed from the grasp of the militarists." Surrendering Japs are offered plentiful food, clothing, sweets and cigarets with full protection of their identity. To build up the good-treatment idea, one leaflet shows a sketch of a smiling army medical officer, a captain. lelow which is a sketch of a Jap soldier, his wounds bandaged, sitting on a bod and w riting a letter. The caption of the loallet is. "My new feeling towards Ameri cans," with the explanation that these are the wouls written by one of "your" (Jap anese) comrades, now recuperating in an al lied hospital. "Until the recent disgraceful event (of my capture)," reads the soldier's letter, "I had been taught to picture Americans as devils wearing masks of gold. Since then, how ever. I have had to drive that feeling about Americans out of my heart ... It was meet ing Captain Paul XXX, the American army doctor who looks after our ward, that made nie change my feeling ... Hi' treats us with a humanity .which transcends all barriers of nat'on.i.'iiy or race. He is a man close to a god." (-' Another effort to break down the "hate feIiug,;v which is a major obstoole to the aOci'itamte of all American) ideas, wns put into a .New ears gicetiug cid, with a pic Hire of a Jap maiden in native dres. The J caption sa.v shif is embarrassed a", wearing O, growrt-vf .styV?1 of hair diess) fo the first (J (tvnc'. 'p, - n QO '-''The fightinj; spiiit ;(ou have shwli dur- uik, irj en' mi was bjiiiiv ui Japanese v neu'ts aisiiius wiiii our respect, siivs ,.ne . v we had Sylvia in the West? Syl via would play low on the first spade. No.w the declarer would lead the ace of spades and then lead the third spade. Again, Sylvia would play low. Now the dcclar- er cannot lead the fourth spade; otherwise Sylvia will cash two spade tricks and without the fourth spade .lead, East is not squeezed. If you w ant to stay up all night, I am going to tell you that, double dummy, the declarer can make a plav that will now Questions & A nswers Q What is army's new T-26? A A tank with a 91D-mm. gun and wider tracks for greater ma neuverability. Frontline observ ers say it still doesn't match the Germans' Royal Tiger. IS Years Ago Pete Larson and Foster Sims had a remarkable April Fool's day. About the time the sun came over the mountain, they started calling 40 of their friends. To, fach person, jvlip 5insvered they stated that Horace Knapp, the water master, was calling and that tho water would be shut off all day, so every one should draw a day's supply quickly. Victims of their humor were filling pots, pans and everything not suspect ed of leaking. As the morning wore on the various persons who had been called began to wonder about the situation and made in quiries. Some 40 persons are trying to figure out ways to geT even with the pair. -What is a velo-taxi? -A bicycle barouche in Par 10 Years Ago Rev. C. O. Heath and Mrs. Heath arrived in La Grande from Payette, Idaho, Rev. Heath to as sume the pastorate of the First Methodist church. County Clerk C. K.McCormick reported 21 marriage "licenses were issued during the first three months of the year and $n'y s'x divorces were granted. .' Mother Nature had hS- April Fool joke on the Grande Ronde valley in a blanket of new snow, but to most it was a staJe joke because the same thing1 happened the previous morningi l kept up that tradition thai March goes out like a lion when it conies in like a lamb. v' las won our respect." sifvs 'She New Yoar-sJopancse pin-up girl type of gieet- "WoV.p i- , 1 This Curious World : 5 ff 1 ( v fjlr ( ALREADY HAS C3Sr J fcSP' 1 UflAj f-4 A LCNDON Tn u se FITTED S.CCSSF.:iir With a can call each other friendtriX . Since (") f ' W.not extend personal greetings, we take i- 'Vf" ER: 1,1 Mexico, abri 150 miles west of Mexico Citv inis nu .iiK t, ,m. v-j , v..,,- v i.., J i' NEXT: The firs. oman lo wear silk stockings. 0
