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Side Glances , . ;. yJM ; , i , jVmtn l FlDITORIAL PAGE Washington Merry-Go-Roiihd By DREW PEARSON o L II ' La Grande Evening Observer , . Frank Schiro, Publisher ' BftftNDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1915 . Page Two Sez He! .Vli CITAPElTX '$f Htleu' .....;' - ... a line -y00m ''mi ( IMBRC6NABLE J if If AtL! -j h--v ; 7ssBae,. ft -. l .'Y ifeX x-T", . i. . 'A WASHINGTON Believe it or not, but Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has been carefully studying the work of Secre tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and has paid private tribute to him. One of Hoover's closest advisers, when he was secretary of commerce was Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau of for eign and domestic commerce, later assistant secretary of commerce. Twice, Wallace has called Klein in to ask his advice on the reorganization of the new commerce department. Wallace also dropped a significant remark to business callers the other day about Hoover. He said that Herbert Hoover un questionably was the best organizer and had the greatest vision of any secretary of com merce in recent history. , It is predicted by some of those around Wulace that he will go back to a lot of Hoover's ideas about running the commerce department.' This probably will mean a clash with the state department on the im portant point of foreign trade. Hoover had his own experts stationed abroad to report on foreign trade. But Harry Hopkins let this be taken over by the state department. Many businessmen have urged that it be transferred back. Ex-Senator Gillette Testifies One of the most tiresome things about congressional hearings are the monotonous statements mudc by witnesses. Pages long, they are usually less illuminating than ten hot questions. Chairman Guy Gillette, of the surplus property board, for 12 years a senator, knows this, but when called to testify be fore the senate small business committee, he found himself with a very long statement on his hands. Senator Wherry, of Nebraska, who was acting chairman of the hearing, asked Gil lette if he had a prepared statement. "I have a prepared statement," replied Gillette, "but I believe it might be well to leave it with you without reading it unless you insist on it. I haven't read all of it myself." "You think you'll agree with it?" asked Wheery joshingly. "Yes, I do," seplied Gillette flashing a broad smile, then proceeded to answer the committee's questions. FDR His Own Secretary of State Just after the new millionaire team of state department executives was. appointed last December, Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned her husband, then at Warm Springs, ex pressing her strong disapproval. She felt they did not reperesent her husband's philosophy on foreign affairs. FDR's reply, briefly put, was; "If they,,don't behave I'll fire 'em." The president also reminded Mrs. Roose-"" velt that he .was running, foreign 'it fairs himself. , There is no question but that the presi dent is anxious above 'all else to .avoid the failure of his old chief, Woodrow Wilson, and has set as his most cherished goal the wining of the peace after the war. But today, with many other problems to watch, the president cannot devote all his time to foreign affairs. In addition, his periods of rest and relaxation necessarily have become longer, so that he is not it Washington as much as formerly. , . Since the November elections, actually the president has spent not much more than two months in the White House. He went to Warm Springs shortly after elections, then to Hyde Park for Christmas, then to Yalta two days after his inauguration, then im mediately after his return ho went to Hyde Park, and now is away at an undisclosed place again. During one important part of his time, the trip to Yalta, the president was giving his time exclusively to foreign affairs. And also he keeps in touch with things by courier and cable. However, it is impossible for him to watch everything, and the snubbed invitation to General De Gaulle, is a case in point. Stale department career diplomats, by in ference blame the president for this serious blunder in our vitally important relations with France. They infer that they were merely carrying out orders from FDR to invite De Gaulle to come to Algiers French territory which was like De Gaulle inviting Roosevelt to be De Gaulle's guest in Puerto Rico. Secrecy At Yalta But a strong state department would have saved the president from this, error. Sumner Welles, as under-sccretary, never hesitated to stand up for what he thought was the right policy. If he saw the presi dent getting off on a tangent he battled it See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limit. Help TIIOT FOR DAY Then gently scim your brother mnn, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gnng a konnin' wrung, To step aside is human. Burns For Holland To most Americans the Dutch have always seemed a quaint people with their windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, Btorks, .wide starched caps and wider breeches. We've chuckled nt them and their queer clacking language, but we have also admired them for their in dustry and neatness, their apple-cheeked health, and their resourceful battle against the encroaching sea. Perhaps the average American's pic ture of the Netherlands has been a little distorted. The Dutch have known bitterness and unrest and bleak pov erty. Yet in the main our impression of it healthy, happy people has prob ably Ik'oii accurate. At least it was until May ID, HMO. On that day, nearly five years ago, Commenced what is doubtless the most tragic chapter of Dutch history. The Germans invaded the low countries to "protect" them from the allies. Kotiv days later, after tho Dutch armies had capitulated, the luftwaffo flew over the great city of Kolterdimi tinopiHised, and bombed it to rubble. From then on the night of terror grew blacker. . Tin' nir.is, early con vinced that their brutality was not for gotten or forgiven by 'their l'ulch neigh-' bol's, resorted to cruelty. The stout hearted J lutcli fought bad; as best they - Funny liusincxn could with 'sabotage, passive resistance, disobedience and ridicule. Ifist fall release seemed imminent. Allied armies drove up from Belgium to free the southern Netherlands prov inces. Then the Germans held. And for the greater part of the country still in nazi hands, the worst was only begin ning. The Germans opened dikes and dams and poured the bitter brine of sea water over land made sweet and fertile by the toil of generations. The important source of food thus lost cannot be re claimed, it is thought, for at least ten years. Starvation thus was added to indignity and fear. In the ruins of tho once proud city of Rotterdam, and in the streets of Am sterdam and the Hague, Hollanders dropped and died of starvation each day. There was food only for the German conquerors. And their cruel fury appar ently increased as defeat loomed nearer. Now at bust the day of liberation is at hand not only for the Dutch but also for the Fnglisli, as the Germans are driven from their V-bomb installa tions on the Netherlands coast. And there is nothing in all the present tide of allied victory that brings greater cause for solemn rejoicing. Relief organizations apparently are prepared to move in quickly once the nazis are driven out. And there is ur gent need for haste. The little coun try whose markets once abounded in golden butter ami cheese, rich cream and other enticing food is now without even sufficient bread for most of its people. Kaeh day's delay in bringing foixl to them will mean the death of hundreds more. It is, in part, for such people as the Dutch that the president has asked us 1o tighten our belts. As we think of them we might reflect on the m eager ness of-the sacrifice we are asked to make. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT -v "He scattered thumbtack's- -itiutsid- my bedroom door so that I would step on them in the morning," a Chicago woman recently told the Judge' who was hearing her divorce testimony. Sounds cruel but maybe at that, the mental thurijotocks somfc wives scatter around in the1 morning probably do about as much to ruln;a day. Like the wife who never gets up to cook her husband' breakfast, but lets him cook and eat a solitary meal and start off to the office to earn the money to support her without a pleasant or encouraging word. Or the wife who does get up and cook the breakfast, but doesn't trouble to put on any make-up or comb her hair, or slip into something fresh and attractive. Or like the one who picks up last night's argument; "right -where' 'It letl 'off, and get's1' in a few nasty cracks to rankle in her hus band's mind all day and make his co workers wonder' what has happened to his disposition. . . Or the wife who gives her husband numerous errands to run on his lunch hour and on his way home, with the reminder after each one, "Now be sure you don't forget that, George." Or the wife who starts worrying ou,t loud as soon as she is awake about her day, and all she has to do. Or the one who starts the day off by giv ing a detailed account of how bad she feels. Certainly those are mental thur.it tacks any man has a right to resent being scat tered in his path when he is trying to get ready to face a new day of work. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grende Evening Observer Wuhingtoa Correspondent UE- "" .'.' :-" , '.: h'nuM The gun icr in.l.ti on making it mule ol pouunil li jilt!" WASHINGTON Average citizens prob ably know little about the workings of the approximately 800 Industry Advisory Com mittees and Labor-Management Advisory Committees functioning in Washington to day, but they're here nevertheless and go ing nobody knows for sure just where. The idea of calling in a batch of citizens having highly specialized knowledge of one kind or another and asking tliem to tell their government how things should be done goes back to 18li3 when the National Academy of Sciences was given a federal charter in which it was stipulated they should give advice whenever needed. Tin- four-dollar, polysyllabic political sci ence nainc"ft this sort of thing, is '."func tional. grniio'ritpresonUitiun." It was rather slow to catch on but from a number" of o,uar tcrs is is advocated there should be more functional group representation to. correct what's wrong with your government. Labor organizations keep needling for more of it and so do the business and fanu pressure groups'. , ; The Joint Committee to Study Reorgan ization of ColigreSs, headed by Senator Bob La Follvtto and CongrceSman Hike .Akin ronVy, may even hear proposal tli'at Con gress should have some of thisi? advisory committers hanging amund to give free ad vice when called on. The theory bihind this u that whil, congressmen come from all over and give the country good goo graphic representation, thcrorjue too many lawyer; id Congress and th.s is supposed '.o k lo Hit detriment of ll'Shdoctors. mer chant and chief,)as well as to the bnlQlK, bakers and landlestickmakers. In a perfect state, .4 is argued, these ai( all should be repirsenval proportionately ill government. European countries have (S)'ei iciicrd with this tvne of tliinu in various ways. France. ,;; s,, 'Cj"t! !S """(ol Czechoslovakia and even Germany under I he nttVssary(J.,ol sup ... ,. .. . , ,.,, . Slrtn., , Italy it was highly developed unoer tho corporative state. Grow th of the idea from 1863 on has been slow but steady. Up' to W:ir I only 00 such .tdvi.-orj' tump., had Ken trt .Atd. fccrnarii SO THEY SAY Pen't lie a gadabout. The girl wlM.'I'lits.from ioh to job doesn't avoid lianl work or menial tasks hut she 'probably will avoid suc cess. -''Kttool Your Thinking," labor department women's bureau pamphlet. Tho tower our tfixes arc more pitrch'ismg power wi the be left at home in the hands of people motuiy 'hat can be spent by llr in lor the thingf they want buy or thai can i'o saved and uivj-sted in wlta,! ever ( planner thoy choose. q iteanlsley Kuml, pav-as-vou- Olo tax plan originator. u v 0 o ' Ji'V O canQo anywIfCvo Cfti the world and take its simply base right along. Tin limited. Tl So- and repair ooiliticigyon '.intly will be Wvithin feady range. Commodore Wotrall R. Carter of Norfolk, V.I.. Service Squad ron 111 iollllu.lli.ln-. Baruch is the real daddy of the modern In dustry Adivsory Committee. ' He created some 400 of them when he was" Chairman of ":c War Industries Board in 1017 and '18. They passed out of the picture, after -the Armistice,' though many people thought, they should, have been maintained. - They were revived as code authorities in the blue eagle'NRA days.' passed out again when the National Industrial Recovery Act was de ' clared unconstitutional. But in 1933 a Business. Advisory Council nf businessmen was organized for the De partment of Commerce. It is still functioning.- It was responsible for the creation of the Committee for Economic Development, admittedly the best of the postwar planning agoneics. Just after he was named Secre tary of Commerce, 'Henry Wallace put the Council to work -on the prohlems of small business. Foreign Economic, Administration has a Trade Relations Staff. which has done much, to keep America's exporters and importers alive during the war years. . . , Surplus War Administration is geared to use m'any of the V& Industry Advisory Committees. ' ' ' . Hoard of War Communications is made up of representative from telephone, telegraph, cable an radii tympanies, to co-ordinate war rommunicatiniis pioblj'ms- for the gov ernment military services. 0 Th' FcU'oiiim Industry War Council took in the whole oil: production. refining and jnaryting industries in a tight' little organ ization undi Petroleum Administrator for War Harold Ickcs. Such an organization would not be permitted ivr a minute in others gj peace times under the ami trust laws, bill here it is as a wat-timc phenomenon, func tional group representation in govVrni:(eit developcc'(3a)ils possibly highest dcgi. That raises the big controversial qurition on this whole issue Are government ad visory groups demciSntic? Do they bring government closer to. the. people and (?Jye vcrsa? Or do they1 fricrely give vcsteaH in terests legal standing by i):ing their lobbyists right into the council chambers of eioxirniiuiit" COPW. IMS BV WEA SEBVICr. INC. T. M. DEC, ll'. S. PAT. OFF. "I don't see why you have lo go fishing with the boss! 'If I were you I'd go fishing with tho War Labor Board they're the ones who give out the raises!" ,;,,. ' o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority "SMOTHERING" KING PROTECTED 3 TIMES (This is the second of six articles on the smother play, the most difficulty play in bridge to recognize.) This hand was originally play ed by John R. Crawford of Phila delphia, now in the army. John nie was the youngest man to be come a life master. Once again we find the king of trump well protected by East. East won the first two tricks Crawford A J 10 97 4 2 V 98 73 AK5 None I N I A K 8 5 3 VQ72 W E V AKJ 10 Q J 10 9 s 8 2 654 r,.l, 986 Q107 I Paa'sr AQ6 V 6 5 4 3 AK J432 I Duplicate E.-Wi.vul. -..i South fest North East 1 3 3 A Pass 4 A Pass Pass Double Pass Pass Pass Opening V K. 10 held the king and eight of trump. The ace and a small club were in dummy. ' Crawford trumped the dia mond with the ten of spades and East was helpless. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago, April 9 John Staub, dean of the college of liberal arts at the University of Oregon, was in the city. Homer A. Galloway and Dan iel M- Dozier of Wallowa county purchased 400 acres of the George Palmer Lumber com pany's cut-over lands on Cabin creek. , Frank H. Fagor of Cve purchased 80 acres of .the lum ber company's land on the Look ing Glass. ...... Mr. and Mrs. Ed Propeck pack ed their prairie schooner and started overland for their home stead in the Lookout mountain country. , .. They planned,-. o ,IW,H?,., their home there permanently.; , . with his king and ace of hearts and Crawford ruffed the third heart. The jack of trump was led. Naturally, East did not cover. When West showed out, an other round of trumps were tak en. , Then the ace and king of diamonds were cashed. Craw ford ruffed another heart. Now the two high clubs were cashed by Craword. A small cluh was played which West had lo win with the queen. - West had nothing to return but a diamond. Crawford held the ten-and nine nf trump while East Questions & Answers Q Where is the world's larg est airport? A Tinian Island in the Mari anas, with several 3000-foot run ways for Japan-bombing B-2!l's. Q How- fast docs a rocket go at moment of reloase from a plane? A 400 feet a second, about the plane's speed. Two seconds later, 1400 feet a second. 15 Years Ago, April 9. An increase of over 4000 vol umes in circulation has been rrade by the La Grande public library in the first three months of 1930, as compared with the first throe months of .1929. At the close of 1029 there were ap proximately 16,700 volumes in the library and 515 had been add ed in throe months ofll30. , Farmers in the LbweY Cove area were sowing alfalfa, barley, and spring wheat. Floyd McLin, teacht-at Wil low school attended ijfiie Inland Empire Educational association convention in Spokane. Also attending is Harold King, school instructor. They. there with Mr. and -Mrs. Towler. high' drove E. D. 10 Years Ago, April 9 Arrangements were being made for p a r t i c i pation of the La Grande high school barrt, in the siaie music contest at 4Jie Uni- V.r':ilv nf nroonn " - j v. .6..,. ;i : At a mretinff nf thtt J;.q Hranfln Neighborhood club, the president, u i-t a ' ';' . ... i mi a. o. v.t,. Avery, announqca mat the Union Pacific club house bllildinir w h .r h ,:,-'. Vop'onltv given to the club to be used ns a club' house would be moved to JN and Sixth streets. This Curious World ) HAS ENOUGH ) N J ' TO COVER THE ' "JTS R 7 ENTIRE EARTH $W titf ' jar HERePOCO BULLS (-0 F-"E g .So. OOO ECW AT T-. 4-W 1 7D.l ,;;5.',, ft in WHERE'S C1.AAER f ANSWER: In the Canary islands, near the northivst- coast of Afrira. i HLXr. Tin "audt tittle' hum Panama lo Cltanahdi.
