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EDITORIAL PAGE
By DREW PEARSON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Pablisher
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1945
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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"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
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the jack of hearts and ct eai I
win it with the queen ' and eat
was forced to return a heart inrVV V
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority1 .'
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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
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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.
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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.
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