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f 1 O 0 ! O j j : 0 Side Glances I; Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE By DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Pablisher TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1945 There' 8 But One Answer . I'age Twt ) IttAVEN'T ) --Jlte -) FAILEP you M . . PJZT : yet, have v .lOilr-v Political Weather Prediction What this world needs today, it seems to us, is more people like Dr. Charles O. Abbot or at least more people with Abbot's confident spirit. Dr. Abbot is a 73-year-old astrophy sicist who for many years has been observing tlt'o 'sun's variations of tem perature and the earth's variations of weather, and noting what ho claims is ft cause-and-effect relationship between the two. As a result, he says that weather can be forecast far in advance, and that we can be a lot safer, richer, and happier by taking' that into account. For example he predicts severe droughts in the northwest United States m 1975 nnd 2020. He says we'll havo some funny weather this year (as if we hadn't already), and he sees no reason why people shouldn't pick a sun-'-ny day for weddings or picnics months in advance. "I am a hold man to try to change the fashion in thinking about the weath er," Dr. Abbot admits. "Itul some day my theories will be accepted, and then farmers won't have their crops ruined and people will enjoy life more." A group of the world's citizens will bo meeting shortly in San Francisco in an endeavor to match in the world of politics what Dr. Abbot has attempted in the world of nature. It will not be their purpose to deny the capricious climatology of individual and national emotions, but to try to foresee their changes and, by wise preparation, ren der them harmless. Through most of history men have deplored the evils of war without deny ing war's inevitability. Twenty - five years ago most of the world's nations banded together and, like King Canute, forlvide the tide of war to advance. Yet ss they did so they sat like Canute and stared in impotent fascination as the rising waters lapped about their feet. Perhaps when the nations meet again they might be wise to adopt Dr. Abbot's attitude, rather than King Canute's. The world does not expect the nations' delegates to deny that storms will ever rise again in the breasts of peoples and of governments. It does expect them to evolve a way of foreseeing them in time to prevent another tempest such as that which spreads death and de struction throughout the world today. The men and women of the San Fran Cisco conference will have to match Dr. Abbot's boldness in trying to change the fashion in thinking about war. But if they can match Dr. Abbot's promise for the future of their theories, they will have done well indeed. Mankind would certainly welcome a political climate in which "farmers won't have their crops ruined and peo ple will enjoy life more." End of a Legend In a burst of academic humor, the dean of lialliol college, Oxford, invited a distinguished visitor from Hollywood to address the student body. The visitor was Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, in lOngland on a lend-lease mission. Mr. Goldwyn has long been famous as the implacable foe of the King's (and Oxford's) Knglish. Hut he plaved his assignment at Oxford straight. Not only did he avoid all Coldwynisms, but he look the pledge. "For years 1 have been known for saying 'include me out'," Mr. Goldwyn confessed, "but today I am giving it up forever." This is heavy news. We have long suspected that Gkildwvnisms were the creation of press agents and Ilollvwood columnists. Hut these noval miscon structions of well-worn phrases were richly amusing, e ven though the alleged creator was innocent. Now Mr. Goldwyn, bv his renuncia tion, has destroyed the Goldwvn legend Not only that, he has cut himself off from reams of five publicity, all for the sake of dignity. In Hollywood, that would be considered treason or .madness. H .lust goes to show you what the at mosphere of Oxford can do to a man. Funny ftusineas V v :tiiSf fc$ v v Ac . .... ;,, vK, - CO IV'tlTNUWIHQ IMC 1 M tH) M rT QM ?Vlf f V'" . Q SO THEY SAY 1 have mi doubt that powerful forces in Germany ami Japan are prcp.ii mg even now for their next attempt to ronmirr us. Wc will try to keep them Itnpotenl, hut only a permanent nrmy of eorupainn would he nhle to keep them from rearming eventually. Harry I,. Hopkins, presidential adviser. Now Unit the air has intro duced a now factor in naval strategy, it is still more impossi ble for any one power to main tain control of the seas a wo o'.ko did Ik'ilisu Foreign Secretary An- tuvnv r.dcn. , , ' .) WASHINGTON For months the Al banian radio" has been broadcasting daily appeals to the, outside world for food, cloth ing and metlid supplies. But although UNRRA is strflposed to cre for the war torn countries end although Albania has suffered morethan most, UNRRA still has been unable fjj enter Albania. Backstage jfeayon, according to UNRRA officials, is;hpt ths British want to send 1,W9 British ;Wmy .officers into Albania to supervise reif for UNRRA. This, in turn, horrifies the Albanians. A total of 1,200 British ojiicers in tiny Al bania could mean a throttle-hold on the country, if they 'Wanted to exercise it. And ' knowing all too-' vividly what happened when Great Britain went into neighboring ' Greece, the Albanians refuse to admit the British military. Faced with starvation or military domina tion, they have chosen starvation. The British proposal to send 1,200 officers into Albania is based upon an agreement that whenever a country is liberated, relief supplies must be the responsibility of the Allied military for the first six months and UNRRA must work under the military. However, Albania was never occupied by any Allied army. Neither British nor U. 8. troops entered it. But now that the Nazis has been completely chased out, the British want to go in under the excuse of admin istrating UNRRA relief. The Albanians sec no excuse for trading one set of foreign troops for another. Note The British also demanded of Tito that they send more than 1,000 British officers to handle UNRRA relief inside Jugoslavia, but Tito refused. Finally Rus sia backed him up and Tito got his UNRRA belief without British troops . only 40 UNRRA workers and CO British workers. UNRRA officials are hoping the British will make some similar compromise in regard to Albania. . j Byrnes and Battleships Secretary of the Navy Forrestal was irked when War Mobilizer Byrnes chopped 11 warships off the navy's program, but the admirals were not merely irked. They were fighting mad especially Admiral Ernest King. Byrnes had found out that the navy was planning these' ships for post-war, not this war. He knew their construction would take away valuable steel from the army and other strategic uses. For instance, the tractor and farm-machinery program is scheduled for a cut of about 40 per cent because the army claims it is already short of steeW Tlvs, despite the desperate need of producing more food. So Byrnes figured the post-war ships could wait until after the war, since they won't be finished for two years or so anyway. Al so he figured that it was perhaps the job of congress not the admirals to decide how big the post-war navy should be. All of which nearly broke the heart of Admiral King. He had been .talhmg for months of starting qow'tb build a post-war navy; also had been indiscreet regarding the country now n allyV-against which those ships might be used. Maybe this also got back to Byrnes. ,'. ' '. .'. ' " . Circus Goes to Jail The circus stopped in Washington to water the animal the other day on its regu lar trip north. It stopped a little sorrow fully. There was none of the blare and fanfare and braggadocio of the old days. It was going north to open a new. season and try to pay several million dollars to the victims of the Hartford fire, after which its vice-president, its manager, its canvas man, its seatman, and several others will surrender in Hartford to go to jail. These top executives looked visibly dif ferent this year. Jim Haley, vice-president and director, is a long slab-sided chap from Alabama, who is called "Slim" and is thin anyway. But now he has lost 30 pounds and is literally wasting away. Twenty years ago he came down to Sara sota, Florida, from the Alabama sandhills without a nibkel in his pocket, educated himself, and slaved his way up until he was appointed general manager of the Ringling estate. It was his careful handling which reduced the estate's debt to the gov ernment from $4,000,000 to around $850,000. He even took over the Red Cross chair manship, pulled the chapter out of debt, and made it one of the first counties in the United States to triple its quota for three straight years. Slim Haley went into the circus as finan cial manager at the request of the several factions of the Ringling family, whose descendants have been fighting each other. He never pretended to be a circus man. He was a fiscal agent. But he was in Hartford on the day of the fatal fire, was arrested, and sentenced to a maximum of five years in jail. The seatman on the fatal day had set up the seats exactly as he had before, day-in-and-day-out, for years. Also the canvas man. Then came the fire, the tragic stam pede, and scores of children crushed. See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT A group of New York chorus girls, out of a job because their night club has be come a restaurant answered, "Don't be sil ly," to the query if they would go into war work or other essential jobs. They have much more important plans for themselves than that. They are going to try for Hollywood careers,, take dramatic lessons, go into modelling. One summed up their attitude with "Us . chorus girls are unsuited for war work." It looks as though their experience in a chorus line would be fairly good training for work on an assembly line. They have to stand on their feet in a chorus and they would haye to stand on their feet in a war plant. Their chorus girl hours should have prepared them for work ing nights and sleeping days as the girls do on the swing shift. The keen competi tion they have known among themselves could be put to use in outshining other workers at turning out war material. And as for handling the wolves around a war plant, it ought to be easy to put a fresh foreman in his place, when a girl has had to know how to outwit society's play boys. Besides, very few girls now working in war plants were "suited for that kini of work." They just went ahead and leerncd it the way a chorus girl learns a new dance routine. And many of them are just as young and just as pretty as the av.-ragc chorus girl. So it looks as though in shrugging off the suggestion that they might perhaps get into essential work for the duration the chorus girls are out of step out of step with the times. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent ( ) l. If our'nv-n doi1 kill right away, on the fust evening, they don't kift Vd O Mow. for ex. ample, how. I felt when 1 fnW touched GWWnan soil. I had seen Mu.cn suununR ami i ww w"WrtHteral paternalism, .; I found that a woman is a wo- WASHINGTON Movements to introduce in state legislatures full employment bills patterned closely on the national full em ployment hili introduced in Congress by Senators Murray of Montana, Wagner of New York. Thomas of Utah and O'Mahoney of Wyoming, are being watched in Washing- k ton witli closest interest. California is leading off this procession, with a state full employment bill sponsored by the ;tti Uqanocralic members of the state legislature. ' Accompanying the California hill is a ri4lution memorializing congress to puss a i&tljtn:il full employment bill . a necessary companion piece of legislation to the proposed state law A similar bill is expected to tie introduced in the New York State legislature in the near fulure, Vid from advices and inquiries received in,tfratsliington from various state capitals, thet may he oilier state law-making todies dpnsiduring such measures hi; year, when -fl of the 4S arc in session. The California bill follows closely on the pattern of the parent full employment bill introduced fn the U. S. Senate, with the one important exception that it makes the primary responsUiIity. for supporting maxi mum employment a function of the state government, and call? on the federal gov ernment to supplement t.e state aid only to lite extent that the Male government is not able to meet its unemployment prvblcia ) ttlpparUng public for its own l ituens. . 4 By incorporating this provision in the ' California bill, one of the major criticisms . of the federal bill has been removed. When C?J that it by passed local government. By hav ing a state government assume the primary responsibility, the federal government's load would he materially lightened and the move to put more of the functions of govern ment hack on the state level should be con siderably furthered. 'SenatoioMuuiJV transmrted tftjthe senate WiUiout recommendation the lust draft of a full eO'Pli'yment bill, jje in 1M44, one of the cries raised againXSit was that it was more more making the na tional government responsible for the wel- "11s wand, lo gel u.td lu tlccpi.i under gualirc, kit ! man and a c country A Kul Jd is a child in any army officer. fare of all the citizens without effort on their part. Ola of the lW Ui'ka aahtct W'l'A w.is Aside from this one change, the Cali fornia hill picks up much of the language if the revised Murray - Wagner - Thomas - O'Mahoney bill as introduced in the U. S. senate in January. The governor would be required to sub mil to the slate legislature an annual budget estimate on the total state economy, public (as well as private, for the following year. ( Included in the budget would be an estimate of the labor force, and the number of job opportunities. On that basis, the state legis lature would lit' called upon to develop new industries, develop state resources and en courage through state action public works ami. non-governmental expenditures whicn would take up the slack in employment. Finally there would bo a presentation of. the relationship between the state and fed eral programs. The California proposal is not interpreted as being a "job guarantee" program, and it is no sense a statu WTA program which would merely transfer the tax burden for works from federal 'o state so'.'ei nnients. But tor the state to assume larger burdfcDs of government is in direct line with recent votes in -congress, wta&'h handed back to the states gicater re sponsibility for ninn.itsv.''. thrir own unem ployment and social Ounty programs the reconversion period. Some students of govtWInent in Washing ton even go 50 far as to advocate the crea of a department which would be re sponsible for increasing Federal-State co operation, an almost entirely neglected field e-t publit a.liniiii.'.iatiun. 0 W.lafcVNEAHVICC.lHC. T.M.HEO.U.S. PAT. OFf. m " fT 1 "The mayor just got over that crick In his back from showln9 mow, and there he goes with a new garden spade-loplm W'ke another night call for me!" --'''V.m 1 -tt" Now, all he had to do was leal" . 1 the jack of hearts and ct eai I win it with the queen ' and eat was forced to return a heart inrVV V the major's ace-ten combination! 1 t 11 1 O McKENNEl ON BK1DUJS By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority1 .' STRIPPING DEFENSE TO MAKE SIX N. T. I just received a letter from an old friend who used to be associ ated with the Knickerbocker Whist club in New York, Maj. A. E. Dobcreiner. The major tells me he has been overseas five years with the Canadian staff in London and while he has ex perienced the battle of London and the V-l's, he hated to come back because he has four chil dren in the services. He said he was playing some bridge at Fort Frontenac the other night when this interesting hand came up. Commenting on A32 V Q A K AQ8G54- AQ95 N AJ864 V 98 43 VV PJ1075 Q5 e 9743 J 109 3 Dealer N'onc South 1 3 N. T 5 NT A K 107 V AK6 J 10 8 6 2 K7 West North Pass 3 Pass 4 N T. Pass 7 N. T. East Pass Pass Pass Opening V 3. IN FORMER YEARS 30 YeBrs Ago Earl Reynolds won the high school cross country run. He went the two miles and a half, in a sea of mud every step-of the way, in 14:28'-4. L. Larsen was second in 14:30 and Melvin Lar- sen third in 14:33. . - Miss Nora Arbuckle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Arbuckle, returned from Portland ' where she spent the winter attending a business school. A flue fire that threatened the Greenwood school building did no damage, but led spectators to believe that the roof was in flames. the bidding, the major said they simply used the "pole vault method." The opening diamond lead was won with dummy's jack. Five rounds of spades were cashed, on which east discarded the nine of hearts, showing that he held the heart suit. In the meantime, west discard ed the nine of clubs, so now the major cashed three more diamond tricks. Then, to strip cast's hand of clubs, he played the jack of clubs and went right up with the ace. Questions & A nswers Q What is musically note worthy about Krefeld, Germany, western front city? A Karl Wilhclm composed "Die Wacht Am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine") there in the middle l!!th century. rr is ymi go-," :.:z3saj The Christian Endeavor rally of the Christian church was held the Christian cnurcu was held here with about 00 young people 1 present from La Grande, Wal Iowa, Baker, Union and Elgin, guests of La Grande at dinner and a pep rally. Rev. C. E. Swan der state secretary of the Chris tian church from Portland, and the Rev. C. W. Mosely Sunday 1 school superintendent for the northwest district, were present. Observance of national boys' week, and a short talk by War ren Cornell, Union county game warden, featured the Lions club luncheon. Elmo Stevenson, scout executive, was present with four Boy Scouts, Rov and Gilbert Stein, Robert McMillan. and Glen Victor, who gave demonstrations. Q Are there many airports that can accommodate B-2S)sV A Only about 10 in the world. (There are 2200 airports in the U. S.) . 10 Years Ago Miss Helen Hertzog of La Grande, was elected to 'teach the school at North High valley for the following year. Miss Hert zog completed her work at the local normal school at the end of the winter term. Fred Bennion. of Helena! Mont., representative of Rotary International was a gtiest of the La Grande Rotary club. : W. H. Leisman announced that he had purchased the interest of Charles Graham in the L and L drug store. 7HEWC IS ENOU&H IN OUR LARGEST CARCO PLANES TO AAKE. ADO, OOO This Curious World 6 S Ai.r IS L'iED CN ICE TO FREEZE !C5lT!EA-W JVC OH SIOEWALKS T3 ,VELT ICE'iA-r "J (-"Iv-r.-v . Awn i," . '4: WAS THE FiCST WOWAN ( N ALL THE WORLD TO WEAS. 4-4 c;r. m rr nt staler . wcyrs , 0 NFTXT: Why moiquilocu do like llicy do.
