Side Glances
Washington Merry-Go-Round '
EDITORIAL PAGE
By DREW PEARSON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
.FKJUAY KVHNINfJ, ArKII, 13, 191T,
i'aKe Two
And Now the Limb!
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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
Day unto day uUereth speech, and
niht unto night slieweth knowledge.
Psalm 19:2.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The United States and the world
stand today bewildered liy the loss of
one of the ureal men of all history.
His death at this time may augur
ill for the great plans of humanity for
the future for he epitomized the grave
and determined will of the people of
the United States that the forces of
democracy shall rule the earth and he
symbolized, for all the people of the
world, this nation to which they have
looked for succor and relief, help and
understanding.
His personality and achievements
were a triumph of the individual will
over the handicaps of disease and ill
ness. Despite his physical limitations
he towered over all in genius, in un
derstanding of humanity, in his know
l"dl!e of the psychology of the common
miui.
During ;i period of great world cris
is, the most chaotic in ' history, the
president maintained a determined
course, brushing aid those who con
tributed to chaos, winding up the loose
etui of the longings and desires of
the ivoplf of this nation and of the
free world into an intelligible, workable
Funny Ihtsiruss
pattern.
Many did not agree with him or his
thinking, for he was a man of action,
who moved quickly in crisis and his
temperament was such that he brooked
no precedent, taking often the radical
course toward success.
His failures were many. Not always
did his genius direct him on the right
path, vet bis insatiable desire for action
and In's illimitable energy drove him to
constant effort, making a higher aver
age of success than could have come to
a lesser man.
He was often accused of pettiness
and the frailties of human nature, yet
it sometimes seemed, even to those
who opposed him, that the minor chinks
in his armour served to delineate the
vastness of his depth and the strength
of his character.
In political matters his sincerity was
often questioned and bis integrity chal
lenged, yet the fierceness of his desire
to b'tter this nation and the world
stood unassailed during the most bit
ter political battle and shone more
brightly in times of extreme national,
and international crisis.
This nation has suffered an irrepar
able loss.
Despite the critical times, however,
we must not despair for the force and
the inttlligence that produced Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was the foi-co and
intelligence of the people of the United
States.
In our memorium to this great, now
departed, president who has left a
legacy of important history, let us min
gle our prayers for his successor, who
takes the reins of government sudden
ly, in the climax of historic events.
Let us pray that he w ill have the for
titude, the genius, the intelligence, the
ihaiacter and the ordinary human un
derstanding which marked the man
whoso place in the course of history he
must now assume.
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SO THEY SAY
Resignations in high places
will set a b:ul example for
thouamis of war workers who
also would like to prepare for
peacetime living.
Hep. Kail Lewis iR) o' Ohio.
Thcr
will be more (postwar!
wo; k in ll'.e t'nited Stales than
thee will be hands with which
to do it
Bernard Bamcli. presidential
adviser.
W.hen you bark a command or
threaten punishment they ;Gor
man civilians) fold up like yel
low rats, click thv:r hivls and
meekly obey. The only language
thev unde island is the language
ot force.
l.t. Gordon W. Semis of Chi
cago, at W'jmbovn. Germany.
"He lays simply having it straight isn't sporting!"
New v i-'ro in a position to work
over the Ap (.vices at our leisure
at the least po.-.:b'ie cost to our
selves. It will l:o a pleasure.
Marine Mai. -Gen. Koy S
Gcise: at Okinawa.
WASHINGTON It happened behind
closed doors, but a lot of housewives would
have relished being present when Congress
man Clinton Anderson's sperial food com
mittee quizzed an array of Washington big
wigs. A lot of star witnesses were present, but
the army, represented by Maj. Gen. Carl
Hardigg of the Quartermaster corps, chiefly
took it on the thin.
War food chief Marvin Jones started the
ball rolling when ho produced figures
showing that lust year, when meat was
plentiful, the army gummed up the works
by failing to take anywhere near the
quantity allocated to it. In the fourth quar
ter of 11144, the army had asked for one
and a quarter billion pounds of meat. Ac
tually, the army took half a billion pounds
less.
That, according to the closed-door testi
mony, was the chief reason why ration
points on meat were dropped last year and
the housewives got a windfall. The pub
lic then got back to the habit of eating meat.
But today, with meat far less plentiful, the
army has ordered even mole than allocated
to it last year.
General Hardigg was unable to satisfy the
congressmen as to why the army failed to
take up its meat last year, or at least failed
to put it in cold storage for later use. Had
this been done, army demands would now
be much smaller. General Hardigg was
asked to report back to congress on meat
consumption per soldier in the British army,
also in the Russian army. Congressmen also
asked Hardigg to report on how much meat
was consumed by U. S. troops overseas, as
compared with that consumed by troops in.
the United States.
Relaxed Meat Inspection
One proposal to ease the meat shr.ita;;e
is to abolish federal inspection in small local
slaughter houses. These slaughterers have
to pass state inspection anyway, and most of
them are thoroughly reputable. But to sell
inter-state they must pass federal inspec
tion, so many now sell only within stale
limits.
General Hardigg, however, sat on the idea
of relaxing federal inspection. He argued
that federal inspection must continue. War
food chif Jones and war muhilizer Vinson
were not impressed with Hardigg's argu
ment. "I never tasted federally inspected meat
until I was in my twenties," scoffed Texas-
bred Jor.es. '
"Out in Kentucky we did all right without
federally inspected meat," Vinson agreed. "I
never had it until I was out of my 'teens'."
Rcpresentaative Anderson of Albuquer
que, New Mex., chairman of the committee,
then look General Hardigg to task for the
army's system of poultry buying.
"Out my way, where we've got plenty of
meat," Anderson said, "the army isn't in
terested in buying poultry. Here in the
east, where meat is scarce, you're taking all
the poultry. Wliy not spread your poultry
buying so that in areas where the public
has a hard time getting meat it can at least
get a little poultry."
He pointed out that the army is taking
100 per cent of the poultry in Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia.
Vinson supported Anderson telling Har
digg: "Try to work that out with the war
food administration, General."
Yalta-hating GOP Representative Alvin
O'Konski of Wisconsin, who has kept his
wife and four employees of his weekly
newspaper on the congressional payroll, re
cently engaged in a radio debate with
Representative Jessie Sumner of Illinois, al
so Republican, and Representative George
Outland and Helen Gahagan Douglas, both
California Democrats, on the wisdom of the
Polish settlement.
O'Konski has been so critical of the Polish
settlement and of Russia that the Berlin
radio has been quoting his speeches; and
during the radio debate, he even tried to
detract from the military prowess of the Red
army, something even those who feel cold
est toward Russia seldom question.
At this point, Outland of California re
marked: "I have here, Mr. O'Konski, an
interview with you which appeared in the
Wisconsin State Journal of February 14,
lMI!."
Outland then read, while O'Konski pro
tested in the background, this quotation
from O'Konski: "I am a freshmen here in
Congress, but sometimes in these first days,
I have sat here and listened, I have been
a little ashamed, (sic) We spend so much
time in witch-hunting and red-bailing. I
don't think we should do it. Russia is our
Ally in this war. How can we convince
Russia that she is ours if our congress con
tinuously hammers and pecks at Russia and
Stalin and anybody over here who might
ever have said a decent word about either."
See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
Congressmen in Washington arc being
flooded with letters from wives and mothers
of servicemen in Europe v.bo think thoir
men have "done their part" and shouldn't '
have to go on to fight in the Pacific when
the war in Europe is finished.
Naturally, these women now being told
that their men, if they get home at all after
V-E Day, will be home on furlough and
then must leave to fight a second war hate
to face such news.
It their men come through one war alive,
women dread the thought of starting all
over again to wonder and worry and wait.
But women will just have lo show the same
courage in seeing their men go to war a
second time that they showed when they
first left for overseas. It will be harder the
second time.
Now they know what waiting and worry
ing mean. They know how long and how
lonesome a day can be. They know what
it is to have, as. sole, consolation the thought,.
"He is safe-l-so far."
But thousands of women are going to have
to face the worry and the waiting a second
time. Their men are going to be needed
again. And women's protests can't alter
that fact.
It may seem that a man has done his
part but it isn't enough so long as his
country is sflil at war and still needs his
help.
Women will only make it harder for
themselves and for their men if they set
their minds against their men goil-3 from
Europe to the Pacific.
The men will have to go and the women
will have to wait. Making a fuss about it
won't help or change the facts.
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON The Business Advisory
Committee of the Department of Commerce
is planning a testimonial dinner, but not for
Henry Wallace. The guest of honor will be
Jesse Jones.
Secretary ot Commerce and Mrs. Wallace
sent out Easter greetings to their many
friends and followers in Washington. They
took the form of little boxes about two by
two by three inches, and in each box was
perhaps 50 grains of corn. The accompany
ing card wished the recipient a Happy
Easter and said that the corn was Hybrid
Golden Bantam. The card didn't say
whether it came from Wallace's hybrid seed
corn establishment in Iowa.
Freshman Senator Wayne Morse of Ore
gon and family have finally found a house,
which is news. They've been looking ever
sine the new Congress convened last Janu
ary. Washington hou;ng situation- is !h..t
tight.
The veiy deep dish Senate Commerce
Committee healings on the McCarran chos
en instrument mlci natioiml aviation bill
were under way when liuee -curious Gl's
wandered in. All the visitors' chairs were
taken, so the soldiers s'.m.I around listening
to the testimony, imlil the Chairman. Sena
tor Josiah W. Bailey .( North Carolina
stooped pi ocecdings. ! sie we have mem
bers of the armed foivt s as guests," he said,
and it isn't right that tiey should stand.
We would be glad lo have them sit with
the committee." So the tilree soldiers got
big padded (hairs at the long green table
and had to sit there for two hours, not be
' ing able to set cut.
Of the nearly 150 members cf the present
C?r..r-s w ho are eu ::.s of worla wars..t
sui pris.r.g number hel .iecot;ops for bat
tle, lienors. J. LcRoy Johnson of California
won tr.e S.,er Star as aviator. K.ioi.ard
V. I.-ac of-Califorr.va holds the Meci.il if
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Senator 0. Waylan.i Hiook of lllinou
served in the Sixth Marines and holds D. S. i
C , Navy Cross and Croix do Guerre. Forest ,,
A. Harness of Indiana was awarded the Pur
ple Heart. Errett P. Schivner of Kansas
has Purple Heart and Silver Star. Senator
Millard E. Tydings has D. S. C. and D. S. M.
Robert W. Kean of New Jersey holds Silver
Star and D. S. C.
Joseph Clark Baldwin of New York won
Legion of Honor. Pat Kearney of New
York has Legion of Honor and Croix de
Guerre. Walter G. Andrews of New York
has D. S. C. B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee
has D. S. C, D. S. M., Purple Heart, Croix
de Guerre with palm and five citations.
What to do with the 2000 Japanese prison
ers ef war now held in the United States
may prove one of the more puzzling jobs
after the war is over. They can't stay in
the United States. But at home, because
they have been captured, they have been
tiicl..:ed dead ana their funeral services
hav e been held by their families.
Army Provost Marshal General's office
tries to run down most of the gossip stories
about how German prisoners of war are
molly -coddTed in this country, and its file of
debunked rumors is a dandy.
A story that had Philadelphia on its ear
was a radiomonger's report that 200,000 pans
of pajamas had been ordered by the Quar
to: master depot for German PM's. Only
thing wrong with the story was that the
pa.or.ias were ordered for American prison
ers held captive in Germany.
Another ruaior had it that German prison
ers were allowed lo eat their lunches on
the pores of the Arizona Bdtmore Hotel,
outside Phoenix. The-whole story Is that
the hotel was then closed and t! prisoners
were af.signed as ' contract labor on the
grounds.
Report thai, Army was buying $60 hearing
aids for deaf German prisoners grew out ot
a st. -r.v that international Red Cross had
a fund to ouy such dev;c.,n, artificial limbs
and eyes for prisoners in any country. Hi
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'Can I borrow half a dollar, please? We're orga.iiiing another
major league and all we need is a ball!"
o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
THE SMOTHER PLAY
WINS SMALL SLAM
(This is the last of six arti
cles on the smother play, the
most difficult play in bridge
to recognize.)
Here is one of the most com
plicated hands of -the smother
play. I suggest that if you wont
to really enjoy tis hand, you lay
the cards out.
West, of course, was quite wise
in not doubling to give away his
king of hearts, but it did not
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make any difference.
The opening lead was won
with the ace of clubs, the queen
of trump played, and West re
fused to cover. Now the deuce
of trump was led and dummy's
eight spot finessed. The king of
spades was cashed and then a
low spade to declarer's ace. The
losing club was ruffed in dum
my, thereby setting up West's
king, as West had it protected,
Questions & Answers
Q Is alcoholism an inherited
characteristic?
A No, according to studies
made in Yale's laboratory of ap
plied psychology.
while dummy's ace was a single
ton. The diamond ace and king
were cashed and now a low dia
mond ruffed by the declarer. A
small spade was led to dummy's
oueen and the last diamond re
turned. Fast won this with the jack
and the declarer discarded his
losing spade.
At this point, the declarer had
the jack and ten of trump. Dum
my had the ace of trump and a
spade. East had to return a club
and this made it impossible for
West to make the heart tricky
o IN FORMER
YEARS
30 Years Ago '
What is said to be the first
modern milking machine in the
country has just been installed
on the Wallace Cass dairy. The
machine will milk 16 -cows an
hour. Dairymen are .Watching
the success of the automatic
milker venture and it is believed
others will soon install similiar
contrivances. ; '
The Ladies improvement club
at Cove gave a reception at the
new Cove library building to
. celebrate, the opening ,61 the institution.
Q-
A-
-How old is the Suez canal?
-76 years.
Q What is a psychodrama?
A A stage presentation in
which none of the actors learns
parts, but make them up spon
taneously. Army rehabilitation
centers use psychodrama as a
therapeutic.
15 Years Ago
A Durham cow from the herd
of the A. J. Stange ranch near
Island City was the high cow in
the Union County dairy heard
improvement association, having
produced 2,040 pounds of milk
and 93.8 pounds of butterfat.
Seven hundred and forty-three
cows were tested.
Hie state theater had its open
ing with the new sound produc
ing devices. The opening show
was "Hit the Deck". George Roy
is owner of the theater.
The La Grande high school
band was one of the 17 at Oregon
state college competing for hon
ors in the seventh annual state
conference sponsored by Kappa
Kappa Psi fraternity.
Q How many makes of auto
mobiles have been manufactured
in the United States?
A About 2200, 80 of them
steamers.
10 Years Ago
The first thunder storm of the
season brought .10 of an inch of
rain to this city, but in spite of
that, the mercury moved up to
71 degrees, the highest mark
reached since fall.
La Grande high school band,
directed by Andrew Loney Jr.,
was awarded first place in the
state class "B" contest.
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"O ' avr Pelts were folding money.
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