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ft 2!i II i J. 111 '(I EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher SATUKIMY KVKNIXC. APRIL 7, 1915 Page Two "d'Did lie Dot Our Cool Fuehrer Vas Misinformed?" J:;-, i : 1 I EVENING OBSERVERS PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Compli'le the Grand Hondo Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10.000 Extend the city limiU. TODAY'S TEXT Thou shult furnmh him liU'inlly out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winoprex.s: of that where with tlie I-ord thy God hath blessed the1 thou shall jrive unto him. Deuter onomy 1":II. THOt'Girr HHt TOIIAV tie that will not stoop for a will never Ih.' worth a Miund. IVpv.o. Sa;i Versus German When thin war litrnn the German xple doubtless liolievod that Hitler was sending them into Untie to win land, power and uloiy for themselves. It may be thai even Hitler deluded him twlf with the same notion at first. Hut the fietion has lone; since been dispelled. To any (Ionium with aeeess to even a smattering of truthful news it must iave been clear for some time that the war was heimr fought for the iiuzi.i, not the Germans, 'today that fact is abun dantly evident to all. Since the allied breakthrough from the Rhine, the German civilian has been tmiiipliiitr the fate of the people pf oc cupied Kurope during their temporary compicst. l iianued citizens have len machine gunned when they tried to sur- render. Guns lit their liiu'ks have for ced the untrained ajted and children to face the allied lV.ms More tltem. Probably the lutzis defend their in humanity on the grounds that it is a German's "riutv" to defend his fatlier- and airainst the "hated invaders," the "terror bombers," the "bolsheviks", or whatever. Theoretically, that might be so. I!ut actually it is obvious that the heilintr throngs of yesterday are by now heartily sick of the nazis and their Wat': Kill the nazis are nut so busy with efforts to save their own skins that they neglect to punish civilians even in ter ritory that has fallen to the invader. Kor example, they could spare thrizo men to return to Aachen and assassin ate Krunz Oppenhof, the allied-appointed mayor of that city. The nazis may call Oppenhof a "col luliorator." Hut even they must realize that the term has a different meaning here. Aachen's fall ushered in l.o alleged "new order." It was the beginning of the last act in the terrible drama of tia.i ambition. That's all that it was. Hut life slill had to be lived. Ami it was Oppenhof's job to help restore n semblance of orderly life, and to help dispense a stein but reasonable justice. Kor that Oppenhof was murdered. The nazis had threatened to kill those who aided the allies. Now that threat was carried out. It can scarcely be the last of such murders. Oppenhof's fute will Ivcome known. His story will be whispered in the conquered portions of Germany ami proclaimed where the nazis still stand. Thus any non-nazi asked by the allies to serve in civil government will fear for his life. And so long as any ardent nazis remain at large there will he rea son to fear. A desire to end the hope less struggle and aid in a restoration of peaceful livimr will U overshadowed by the constant dread of the nazi assas sin's bullet. Thus the inevitable may be defied a little longer. It cannot avert the nazis' defeat. Hui it can and may complicate the conqueror's task and prolong to some extent the fighting ami the occupation. .w?;"-. us. Funny liuninens 1; t.' v --7 :, ' ' ' ' y -7:- jV.."' Vi O SO THEY SAY We caiinst deny Uie American ci niman.t the ability to make use of the overwhelming malt-rial' at their disposal. The targets and energy with which these were followed up remind us of Gorman methods in the fr.st years of the -war. l.t.-lten. Kurt Dittmar. German militaiy analyst. IV'.'iv'.'v''----' ai.ft.. . -. v.. Tars. lij-yi. 1 n 'l"i' )'f,' V' m "Do you luppote we'd better go around it or try it again?" War preparedness in the fu ture w ill not tx- a matter of stor inc up vast stocks of war sup plies. To bo properly prepared we will have to maintain a b:h stage of development in the de sign of all types of war material. Ma). -Gen. Levin ft. Campbell. jr., chief cf ordnance. When the definitive history of tlmi'Var comes to lie-iiwtttcn, it will t-e seen th.it men and women of all races and religions have contributed in siiS'ificant meas ure to the final triumph over the monster fascism. I.t.-Gen. Robert C. Richardson. Kaciltc ocean ui'ea commander. Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of an open letter to Josef Stalin on the vital question of permanent peace.) Dear Marshal Stalin: I am taking the unusual step of writing you in this way because I am not sure that you realize what is happening in the United States. I am sure 'you must have reports from your embassy. But almost no embassy, sitting ahiof in Washington, can accurately gauge the American people. Perhaps your embassy has reported that in tie lust two years, much of the old anti Soviet suspicion has vanished and that the great bulk of the American people are anxious to cooperate with Russia for future peace us they have for winning the war. In the lust two weeks, however, this friendly feeling has received a jolt. I don't know whether your embassy has reported it, but it is true. It has received a jolt because of the gen eral impression that the Yalta promises are not being kept and that the rights of little nutions are being trampled on. To put it bluntly the American people are beginning to wonder whether Russia is really sincere about keeping the peace after the war, un less thut peuce is one which she dominutes. Never having visited the United States and we hope you will some day you prob ably have no conception of the overwhelm ing hope of the American people that the ideals of this war shall be achieved and that their sons will not have to go out and fight another war. This is not merely a hope, it. is a passion. It is the American people's one great goal. The other duy I attended a small dinner where a coal mine operator from West Vir ginia awarded prizes to the high school chil dren of his city for the best essays on how to erect a permanent peace machinery. R. M. Davis, the man who gave the prizes, has even written a constitution for the United Nations and a pretty good one at that, with one vote for every nation and he has cir culated thousands of copies throughout the country. Davis is a former street-car conductor and nine-mule driver. He is just one of mil lions of Americans who are thinking about this problem of permanent peace. He repre sents America. And the kids who received the prizes, were sons of Hungarian immi grants, and daughters of German, Dutch, French parents. They represent America too all thinking about the same thing. Shortly after the armistice in the last war, I was stationed in one of the war-torn valleys of Serbia in command of 100 Bulgar prisoners and a mule transport team of 100 Albanians. And in the evenings, the Bulgar prisoners, with their Serbian guards and the Albanians (who didn't lbRsh being con scripted into the Serbian army) would sit around the eampfire and talk of peace. The war was over and they were awaiting the results of the Paris peace conference be fore they could go home. There was no animosity between the Bulgar prisoners and their Serbian guaids or the Albainian con scripts. Their animosity was toward the rulers who made them fight. And their great hope was in Wpodrow Wilson. They knew his 14 points by heart. . They put special faith in his guarantees for small nations. So they talked about Wood row Wilson and their hopes for permanent peace until long into the night. I saw some of these people after the Paris peace conference, after the United States had withdrawn from the League, after it became evident that Europe was drifting toward unother catastrophe. They were bit ter and disillusioned. They felt we had let them down. And they were right. The American peo ple were suspicious of Europe then. We had our isolationists. And we pulled out of the peace machinery of the world. But we won't do It again. The R. M. Davises and the school children of the country and the mothers of the sons who have fought in this war and the sons who ure coming buck from the war will never permit another letdown unless they figure that the major powers of Europe are letting them down first. This time, it is not us but Russia which is suspicious und has it isolationists. This is only natural and partly our fault. For the state department and the chanceries of Europe kept Russia isolated for years. Naturally that kind of atmosphere breeds isolationists. But this time you can't afford to make the same mistake we did before. Since Yalta we have learned that the So viet is concerned over the votes of small nations in the United Nations meetings; is worried that they may gang up on her; and believes that the 20 Pan-American republics will all follow the United States as a bloc. But I remember the day after we landed marines in Nicaragua and sent troops to the See WASHINGTON . . . Page 6 WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MILLETT "That's Very nice," the mother of a hero son said when she was told her boy had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 1 "That's nice," she said afcain when she was given an account of her son's bravery and daring. But when she was told he was coming home on leave she really got ex cited. That was big news to her important news. Her son was coming home tor his first leave after two years of fighting. "He's coming home," is always the big r.cws for women who have waited and wor ried while their men faced the dangers and hardships of war. Women are interested in the experiences of their men, and are proud i! they distinguish themselves by bravery. They thinks it is fine when they hear that their son or husband has been decorated. But when is he coming home? That is the only really important news for a woman while her son or husband is in uniform. All the rest is relatively unimportant, compared with that. And there is probably not a woman in the country who loves a man as his wife or mother loves him who wouldn't have re acted as did the mother of the heto who said, 'That nice," to the news that her son had won the Congressional Medal of Honor but subbed with happiness when she was told. "He's coming home." It's nice that a man's a hero, but it's won derful to know that the waiting and wor rying are over and that at last he is com ing home. That is a woman's honest reaction to war. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EPSON. La Grudt Erasing Oburvar Wuhingion Corraspondani WASHINGTON Revolt of the congres sionally created Advisory Coard of the Of fice of War Mobilization and Reconversion focuses attention on the entire advisory committee system that has grown up in Washington during the war years. There are now nearly 800 of these semi-official committees functioning. Over 12,500 citizens serve on them, with out pay and almost entirely without travel expenses which must be borne by the companies or organ izations which the indivndual members rep resent. This li one part of government which doesn't cost the taxpayers anything directly, at any rate. The idea back of all this advising is to bring the. government 'closer to the people . and vice-versa. But. w hat all these com mittees do, what advice they give, where they'ro going and whether the system should be extended to give congress a lot more free advice than 'it already gets, are sub jects of intriguing speculation for ahyono interested in his government. In the case of the OW.MR Advisory Board of 12 members headed by Gov. O. Max Gardner of North Carolina and made up of the usual front men for the big labor organizations, farm organizations and the V. S. Chamber of Commerce, its ivvolt was brought on because it didn't have anything to do. Nobody was asking it for any ad vice. The president promptly took care of that by handing the Boord the hottest potato Gookin' on his stove What should we do about paying guaranteed aunual wages? A study on "Industry-Government Co operation" made by Carl Henry Monsees of the WPB shows that there BP.' some 750 In dustry Advisory Committees set up in WPB. OPA, WFA. OFT. and Ordnance Branch of War Department. WMC g.ws a little fur ther by having Management-Labor Advisor "'Co.unmiccs. WPB also has Ijiibor Advisory representatives but keeps ' 'them separate from the Industry Advisory Committees. Whatever the set-up. the purposes are broadly the same to give government war agencies the best technical advice possible on production, distribution and pricing policies so as to make government regulations workable. There has been con siderable screaming that the government doesn't listen to the advice which the in dustry representatives give, but that ex poses the principal danger of this advisory system, which is that private interests are taken into the confidence of the government, thereby have an open door to give advice that is contrary to the best interests of the general public. Labor representatives also yell that their spokesmen should be permitted to sit with industry representatives on all advisory committees so that management doesn't gain an unfair advantage over the working peo ple. As mentioned above, this is the sys tem of the Manpower Commission Advisory committees. But industry and trade association peo ple charge there is just as much danger in letting labor representatives have too much of a voice. What this proves, if anything, is that government representatives have to make the final decision in the interests of the people, so what they should do is listen to the advice of interested parties and then do as they please or at least do what they think is best. In setting up all the wartime advisory committees, the government has made ef forts to guard against these dangers. Mem bership of each committee is chosen to get a fair cross section of the industry, geo graphically as well as by size of company, so that big business doesn't freeze out small business. Trade association lobbyist are shunned like . the plague and that annoys them no end. The committees are ..Tented and permitted to function with the consent of the Anti Trust division of the D'partment of JusK tice. TAt'e are canful, tales of procedure, worked out by John Lord O'Bnan. former WPB counsel. They have admittedly doucj an extremely useAB job in wartime. They will continue to have a job to do in the period of reconversion. After that, no telling. Side Glances ' ""cT" i s ; t y - mm - - v i i' ... , 4 tJ.CXtf - COWL 1046 IT MCA HHVICC, IMC. T. M. HtC U. a. PAT. Of T. 1-1 "Do you know whe.i the war's going to end, Mrs. Jones? Mama ' says you know lots of things that never evo.i get into tho.paperl" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority THE SMOTHER PLAY. HARDEST IN BRIDGE (This is the first of six arti cles on the smother play, the most difficult play in bridge to recognize.) I ran this series several years ago and do not believe I have seen more than two smother plays since. It was first brought to my attention years ago by the late Phil E. Leon of Cleveland and it was named by Sam Nai- AQJ10 QJ1043 10934 AKSM1 I rTlAA7S KH VV E s a 4 K" Daaler I "J AQ J lit VKI7I AKT 171 Duplicate Both vul. South Wcti North Em Pan Pass Pass 1 9 Pan 1 A Pass 2 A Pus 3 V Pass 4 V Opening K. f man, one of the national tourna ment directors of the American contract bridge league. Some times it's called the trump coup. , This is the original hand giv en to me by Mr. Leon. It looks as if the king of hearts, which is trump, is impossible to cap ture. The ace and king of dia monds were cashed arid the third diamond ruffed by East. The queen of hearts was led and nat- Question8 & Answer 8 Q What is the legend of Hon nef, Germany, across the Rhine from Remagen? A Near Honnef is Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock), 1065- feet high, with a cave said to be the one in which Siegfried slew the dragon. urally South did not cover, nor did he cover the jack. Declarer then cashed three ' rounds of clubs then eamc the ace, king and a low spade. North was in and must now lead either his queen of diamonds or the ten of trumps, which East trumps with the nine spot. Now South is literally smoth ered out of his king of hearts. If he over trumps, the declarer , will o er trump in dummy with , the ace; if he puts on the eight of trump, East's nine holds the trick and the last trick goes to . the ace of hearts O IN FORMEP YEARS 30 Years Ago, April 7 Wheat by the carload lot, broken up into 50-pound pack ages, was being shipped by par cel post to Burns. The Sawyer Clark company is the shipper and the grain was loaded at Island City's postoffice. The order was placed on condition that the wheat was to be sent by parcel post. L. Melgarde, a masseur at Hot Lake, returned fronrlO months in Tronjem' and other Norway points. He was accompanied here by his brother, Gus Melgarde. Karl J. Stackland, Cove or chardist, returned from the east where he visited fruit centers. 15 Yaira f.jo The highest temperature ever recorded in La Grande in the first Week of April was the 78 degree maximum April 6. In ' 1925 the temperature reached 78 on April 9, and on the following day it was 80. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knautz of the Iowa district had as their guests Sunday at their country home, Mr. and Mrs. John Ham ann, Mr. and Mrs. Johm Speck hart, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ham ann and Charles Hamann. Q How do Marines on Iwo protect themselves from the swirling volcanic dust? A They wear gauze surgical masks. Q Where does the name Pomerania, German province in vaded by the Russians, come ' from? A An ancient tribe called Po more, or Pommern ("on the sea"), which lived there in Charle magne's time. 10 Years Ago, April 7 A building permit was issued to the Masonic building associa tion and $1,000 alterations and re pairs on the tw o-story brick struc ture on Adams avenue, which was to be occupied by the Sprouse Reitz company as soon as the al terations were completed. It was reported the average citizen of Oregon paid $14.81 per yeai in taxes to maintain his city government. 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