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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
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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.
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