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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
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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.
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(-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
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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
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"Wilbur is so moody lately, since he wrote all those letters, to the
editor explaining Pacific strategy and General MacArthur crosd
him up!" ' vuis
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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
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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.-
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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
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foil (ie-ii '
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.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-
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can call each other friendtriX . Since (") f '
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