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o o o o Si4e Glamces Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE By DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1945 Page Two Read It and Weep! EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Rut the stranger that dwclleth viu you ahull bo unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for yo were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:31. THOUGHT FOR TODAY For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt wntttrl be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. F. W. Faber. Culinary Crisis Uccent reimrla from San Francisco bring the comforting assurance that the persons responsible for that city's fam ous cuisine are taking their assignment in the coming world conference with the seriousness that it merits. Only those of completely insensitive pa lat i' will discount the magnitude of the task which San Francisco's restaur ateurs and chefs are facing. They have the power to make or break the diges tion of the world delegates during the deliberation. And anyone who has noted the infliieneuiof digestion upon intellec tual processes and emotional stability must admit that these men can possib ly alter thei'oiuse of history. Shall the delegates be fed a diet of lationed food, no better or worse than what other American restaurant diners are gelling? Shall Hie menus reflect the gravity of the delegates' duties with offerings of austere simplicity? Or shall the restaurateurs brave the heckling of sleak-huhgary compatriots by procuring the finest food obtainable by hook or crook, and instructing their chefs to lavish upon the basic ingredi ents the full virtuosity of their art? Will a few weeks in a gastronomic Utopia exert the deciding influence in creating an Utopian future? Or will they engender a false atmosphere of amiable world brotherhood that will vanish on impact with coarser home fare? These are questions that deserve the careful consideration they seem to be getting. We are willing, of course, to let the presiding geniuses of the kitchen make the final decision. But if any body wants our opinion, we are all-out for a policy' of culinary appeasement. Reflect, for example, upon the matter of mealtime beverages. Americans are coffee drinkers. The lirilish and Rus sians prefer lea. And it is upon the representatives of these three peoples that the fate of the Golden Gate confer ence will largely depend. Now suppose that the British and Russians, to start their day, are given the American hotel or restaurant con ception of tea not carefully brew.'d and piping hot, but consisting of a cup of tepid water plus a pinch of leaves in a revolting little cloth sack with a string on it. Would this dank potation endear the lirilish and Russians to their alley? Would they feel amiable and concilia tory toward each other, or even at peace with themselves? There is only one answer. We can only hope and pray thai a benevolent fate will hover over the skil lels and guide the hands of San Fran cisco's chefs as they broil and baste in Funny Business w o SO THEY SAY Tin1 Million must be willing to pay a sizable insurance pre mium to maintain a sta'.o of tech nological preparedness. In addi tion wo must be willing to pay to kerp industry ready and able to shift rapidly to war production. Miij.-Gon. Levin H. Campbell, Jr., Chief of Ordnance. Kducation is wry much more than n fovmal or Institutional matter. It includes the whole noxuf of influences home and faintly, work and play, church anil state which help to shape the individual. O Dr. Everett Case, president Colgate, U. : "Since I have to ipaik Junior anyway, why not make u oi the energy?" If thes,t Iver was a Km up de- servfn). B serf iceman's sympathy, it's thesii poor suffering cVi! ni ters ivViose live N have fvn suddenly uprooted, -who have been forced (to imi1(c one of the most dnunuiTT readjustments of the decade. Sgt. Charles Avedon, editor Army newspaper Midpaeitican, on the curfew. Without much publicity the house food study committee headed by Representative Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico has been holding closed door sessions with the men responsible for food production. Last week the committee quizzed War Food Chief Marvin Jones, OPA Head Ches ter Bowles, FEA Head Leo Crowley, UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman, OWM Administrator Fred Vinson and representa tives of the army and the navy. This is the first time in months that all these key offi cials have been together to try to work out a solution to the food problems. Some time this week two matters dis cussed backstage are due to be announced. Perhaps the more important is that Chester Bowles will raise the support price for live hogs, now $12.50 to $13, with;the ceiling re maining at the present figure Bowles will assure the nation's farmers that this price structure will hold through September of 1946. Last year the War Food administration cut the support price for hogs to $12.50 and asked farmers to taper oft their record 1943 hog crop of 120 million to about 103 mil lion. This was a serious blunder and was vigorously opposed by Economic Stabilizer Vinson. Result was that the farmers, afraid they would be loft" out on a limb at the end of the war with millions of unwanted hogs, cut down thejr.run to only about 87 million. The OPA assurance should mean an in creased hog. crop this year and next. In addition.. war food administration will announce certain relaxations in slaughtering", regulations to.' permit more authority for . state inspectors and less for fcdertil in spectors. One 'quick result, 'of this move should be the channeling of more meat into interstate trades Coddling Nazi Prisoners Several members of the house military af fairs committee are up in aims over what they feel was a whitewash given the army on its treatment of German prisoners at Papago Park camp, near Phoenix, Ariz. A report ,4jy committee counsel Ralph Burton was mildly critical of the army's handling of prisoners. But several members refused to sign because they felt it was a "whitewash." The report was issued without signature and no member of congress participated in the investigation. One investigator was sent to Arizona last month, but his report failed to touch upon some of the most serious charges made against the army. For some time Florida's Representative Bab Sikes has been planning a special study of German prisoners as a result of another military affairs committee report four months ago which he felt was a whitewash. Last week when the new Papago report came to him, Sikes not only refused to sign, but insisted that the wording be changed to make it plain that committee members had not written the report or investigated the situation. Sikes will now demand a thor ough investigation by memberes of con gress. ; . ' : The investigator's report did not even comment upon the charges by Representa tive Harless of Phoenix that the army' has made no attempt to separate Nazi and non Nazi prisoners; that only fanatical Nazis have been given authority among the pris oners, and that the actual leader among them has been Gustav Ender one of the few old-time Nazis who is a member of the Order of the Blood. To join the order, one must have participated in the Munich beer hall putsch of 1923. The report also did not mention that Enuer and his henchmen have hanged or executed prisoners for anti-Nazi statements, or for failing to pass on to the Nazis U. S. military information which they might learn working as office clerks. The Hale-Boys The first serious attempt to put the so called "hate-boys" of the House of Repre sentatives in their place occurred recently. Both Clare Hoffman of Michigan and John Rankin of Mississippi were told off in no uncertain terms by colleagues. , Representative Matt Neely of West Vir ginia, venerable ex-Senator and ex-Governor, raked Hoffman for an anti-Semitic speech against Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter; while Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Negro minister from New York, slapped back at Rankin's attack on Governor Dewey for signing a state law against race discrimination. Hoffman did not let Neely's speech go unanswered. He arose at once to deny the charges in a long speech which was more vitriolic. But this in turn did not go un challenged. Representatives MacCormick of Massachusetts, Marcantonio of New York, and Sabath of Illinois all challenged Hoff man. Although the Congressional Record shows a vicious speech by Hoffman, it does not See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The man who retired after running an elevator in Britain's House of Commons for 45 years, but failed to get a pension because for all those years he ranked as a "tempor ary employee," was the victim of the kind of attitude a lot of people take toward their jobs. Instead of admitting! to themselves that they will be working at their same kind of job for years to come and so had better try to do a job as well as they can, they let the months and the years slip by while they work haphazardly and think of themselves as merely marking time, "until something better cornea along." In this group are the women who will probably never marry, yet always think in the back of their minds that their real job will some dji-y be running a home. And so, though they may have the brains and ability to make a good thing of their jobs or to carve out a real career for them selves, they never get around to it. They go right on for years working on a tem porary basis. There is no percentage in either men or women looking on a job as temporary, un less at the same time they arc laying plans and working toward the achievement of some permanent career. If they aren't making plans, they most likely will become a fixture on the tempor ary job or- just trade it for another tempo rary" one. f- And they stand to lose more' than ths ele vator man who lost his chance at a pension because he was a "temporary" employee for 45 years. They stand to lose their chance at success, and the satisfaction of creating a plan for a career and carrying it through to completion. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Space in Washington is now so tight ,lhat even Jesse Jones, who as Secretary i5f ffconimcrcc and Federal Loan AdministratilftSvhad two big offices and used to pass out millions here and more millions there, couldn't find desk room for personal use when he got bounced out of the govern ment to make way for Henry Wallace. Jones finally gut an office suite in the Statler which the hotel management is letting him use, and he carries on his private business from there. Says he still has some, too. When Eric Johnston of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Phil Murray of CIO and Bill Green of AKL finally came to agreement on their "New Charter for Labor and Manage ment," their first idea was to take it across Lafayette Square to the White House and let the president announce it. Then it was pointed viut to them that this was a state ment to show how capital and labor could fiet along without government interference and it would be silly to let the president et any of the civdit for it. 'So they -announced it themselves. Proposals to take 10.000 war planes up in the air and crash them .tie being seriously considered by the Aremaiitical Chamber of Commerce as one way to gel rid of some of the surplus aircraft that will be sitting around, useless, when the war is evfr. The idea is being studied by a technical com mittee, which sees m the opportunity to make a large number u scientifically eon trolled e.ttU tests a means of adding g: et ly to JeMit'Sf,'J' knowledge of siiuc'ural weaknesses. J ' ' -' 1 1 Over 50 possible test .vo ahea.ly Ken listed, which fuuld slml new li;iu on flut ter, and Vibration, limits of engine per formance , r,- full power, fire prevention, blind fjjir; and automatic pilot control. Only obsolete or war weary planes would be used. Pilots would of comse bail out aft er setting controls for the crashes which would be coveted by high spied cameras. Prisoner of War camp near Heppenheim, Germany, from which 250 half-starved and medically neglected American soldiers were rescued, had not even been reported to In ternational Red Cross authorities. Its exist ence was therefore not known to U. S. mili tary commanders advancing east of the Rhine. The entire case represents a flagrant violation of Geneva convention and is be lieved to be the worst maltreatment to which U. S. soldier prisoners had been sub jected on western front, Possibility that desperate and defeated German leaders may try to take U. S. and Allied hostages with them into their last stand retreat is a cause of some official con cern. It provides background for Depart ment of State's recent Announcement that Swiss government had been asked to make a cheek on present whereabouts of 27 U. S. citsens deported from liberated areas for merly occupied by the Germans. Donald M. Nelson is reported to have liter ary ambitions, wanting to write a book about his experiences as head of War Pro duction Board. "Washington comment is that if he told nil the knew about all the feuds there have been in WPB it would probably make interesting reading. Nelson has had little t.i do since his last return from Chins, and would like to get out of government set vice. Soviet Russia withdivw from Chicago con ference on international aviation last fall, giving the impression it had n interest in postwar air commerce. A hint on the size 'f f. S. S. R. air transport operations, how ex er. w as buried, in recent report by Foreign Kcor.o!n:e.a,,dmmistrator Leo Crowley. He revealed that Soviet transport planes car lied nearly half of the six million pounds of tm moved lift! of China in P.4;i, and carried 1 -'nearly twelve million pounds of wolfram ore from China to Russia in 1944. American Bankers' Association lobbyists a iv said, to be unable to see the Brettor. Woods for the Dumbarton Oaks. COPH. IMS BV Wr SERVICE. IWft. T. M. WEO, U. 3. PAT, OFf. 4"! "Every time it's the same they get my favorite hero r.i an awful mess, then sing about soapl Is it any wonder I get all my home-' work wrong?" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Aulhoriiy AVOID A "SMOTHER" BY PROVIDING EXIT (This is the fourth of six art icles on the smother Dlav. ,e most difficult play in bridge to recognize.) Today's hand is identical with the one given yesterday. I show ed you where the declarer made his contract in y,ing the smoth er play. However, I want to show you today how to defeat the contract. The second diamond was ruff- A 87 65 lfl 5 3 965 KQ7 A None N A K 4 3 2 V Q J 6 w c V974 KQJ7 e A 108 4 2 rjealer A102 A 9 6 54 I Uealer A AQ J 10 9 V AK82 4 3 A J 8 3 DuplicateBoth vul. South West North Kast 1 A Pass 2 A Pass 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening 4 K. 12 throws West in with the heart, West will be able to exit with the diamond and thus the king of spades is bound to make. ' o IN FORMEP YEARS 30 Years Ago John Girdler, city superintend ent of schools for the past two years, was re-elected to succeed himself for the next year. Imbler business houses closed, other private work halted and about 75 men went systematical ly to work, raking, burning and in other ways getting rid of the winter's accumulation of debris. At noon a halt was called and the laborers were served a chicken pie dinner. The dinner was such a success that the women invit ed the workers back at 5 o'clock for another meal. School class es were dismissed so the children could clean their five-acre playground. ed the same as yesterday and the jack of clubs led. Again East of course, refuses to win with the ace and waits for the second club. However, at this point, instead of returning a diamond, he re turns a heart. Now you Vill find that while the declarer can go over into dummy with the nuecn of clubs and take one finesse, when he Questions & Answers Q What will happen to the Sudetenland one of the causes of German-Czech friction that brought on the; war when peace comes? A Czech President Edward Bones says the Sudeten Germans must leave When Czechoslovakia is reconstituted. 15 Years Ago " President Hoover nominated Ralph R. Huron as postmaster of La Grande for a third term. His first appointment was during the Harding administration. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Wonderlick returned from a visit in Portland with friends and realtives. . Orland Anson purchased a 400 acre farm near the Grange Hall from Earl Rand. Q Are the French going to use Dakar after the war? A They plan to build a land-air-sea .base there. The U. S. uses Dakar now. Q By what name do we know Yunnan, or Yunnan-fu. China? A Kunming. 10 Years Ago George T. Cochran was elect ed grand master of the Grand Council of the Royal and Select Master Masons of Oregon at the session held in Portland. During the Masonic meetings in Port land, L. L. Snodgrass was elect ed grand junior warden of the Oregon Grand Commandcry of Knights Templar. One of the largest American Legion meetings of the year in La Grande was held at the Saca jawea inn, w ith an attendance of 125 members and representatives present from The Dalles, Her miston. Union and Baker. Harvey Carter was installed as president of the Mt. Emily Ski club at the annual banquet. Oth er officers were Ed McGregor, vice-president; Don Ostland, sec retary, and R. E. Gerards, treasurer. This Curious World ll- "'.'. JESS ISLAND OF S SSSJ'5S53sS, .ITS1 CCI 1WS B pi SlBviCC ISC. T. M BE& u 5 PT GIT. WHERE HU6E STONE CURRENCY" 15 USED,". THE f. -RAYAtENT of a . ; DEBT i INVOLVES MOKE THAN A MORAL OBLIGATION SEVERAL STWHa MEhi A(?E NEEDED TO TRANJHDKT THE LARtoER COINS. 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