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EDITORIAL PAGE Washington Merry-Go-Round Side Glances By DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY ICVKiMXC, Al'lUI, lit, lilir. Page Four- Messed Eventing EVENING OnSKKVEK'S PKOKKKSS I'KOtiKAM IRRIGATION Complete the (Jrnmte Monde Valley irriijiition project. t,A GRANDE A city of 10.00(1 -Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT They hnvo corrupted themselves, their spot is not t ho spot of his child ren: they arc a perversa and crooked generation. Deuteronomy :(2:.r. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave oh! leave the light of Hope behind! Campbell e The World May lie Sure "The world may be sure that wo will prosecute the war . . . with all the vigor we possess to a .successful conclusion." In his first public statement after taking office, President Harry S. Tru man gave to the world of friend and foe alike an assurance of courageous leader ship and national unity that is pro foundly true. The world may indeed Ik" sure tiint under the stunning impact of the loss of a great leader, this country will not falter or turn aside from the goals of victory and peace toward which it is advancing. It will not turn aside if only because the momentum of our national strength and national will makes it impossible. Our power of arms is not. impaired, nor is the world's effort toward lasting peace essentially weakened, even though one of the most powerful and persua sive voices which spoke and planned for peace is now silent. lint while our momentum carries us forward, we must redouble our effort in preparation for that time when the momentum is spent and present plans have been completed. The first and most obvious contributions must be a loyal and united support of- the new president by the people, and active and immediate help from official and un . official government leaders. Much of President Roosevelt's most important work was of a personal and secret nature. Probably only a very " few men, most of them unofficial ad visers, shared fully with him all the momentous plans of war and peace. It is most unlikely that Mr. Truman, in the comparatvely obscure role of vice president, could have been adequately informed. It therefore becomes the urgent pat riotic duty of the late president's intim ates to give Mr. Truman their complete anil hearty co-operation. It goes without saying that President Truman's task, with the best possible assistance, will still be a grievously dif ficult one. It would be difficult for any one. The new president has inherited not only the leadership of the United States iii the midst of its greatest war, and on the threshold of epic peril and peril ous national and international adjust ments to peace, lie has also inherited the structure of the country's longest adniinisl ration ami all the volatile per sonal differences it contains. Succeeeding an already historic fig ure in the biggest job in the world, he deserves and needs the wholehearted support, the patient and sympathetic understanding of the people whose gov ernment he now heads. We intend to fellow our system of democ racy, capitalism ;i ml individual enterprise. VtV shall leave it up to each country to de cide what it wants. We shall make it clear that we will not countenance any other gov ernment undermining us. Commander llaiold K. Stasscn, united nations conference delegate. Funny Husiness i;3 In & ' i l'-"- ,o O, -6 ' ' ' S i -', o oM PT- w 'Il'O'ur ralioMokon ottering bowo'ro hav.'fii dinner guoslsl" rs o SO THEY SAY One of the must interesting manifestations of their (German civilians) sentiments is the way tlu-y laugh at us and make the equivalent of American wise cracks about what they eoiidcr our ridiculous lack of military pomp and fanfare. I.t. Gordon W. Seims tit Chi- cnge, at llamhorn, Germany. It should he obvious to the German people Uiat their only choice is between unconditional suirirlHler now or unconditional surrender a little later after much of the llcieh has been des troyed, city by city. o Secretary of War Henry L. O Stimson. O O We shall have our differences (tjli each other (at tWn r'rancis coi, lint we shall hold these in replace itSivGgmembcr that in n l..i gc and complicated partnership like ours no single partner is go ins always to have his own way about everything. British Am bassador Lord Halifax. WASHINGTON Here is one tip-off as lo how Harry Truman will operate as president of the United States namely how he han dled his old Truman committee. A lot of myths have grown up about that committee, chiefly that it was run by Hugh Fulton, its counsel. Fulton was a good fact finder, but it's sheer baloney that he ran the committee. Real fact is that it was a good committee and had some A-l members. They all ran it. Truman believed in teamwork. He didn't move without keeping his committee in formed and having its support. He worked also with the republicans of the committee Brewster of Maine, Burton of Ohio, Ball of Minnesota and Ferguson of Michigan and they reciprocated. A lot of people around Washington think it may be a good idea to have more of this kind of teamwork. During many years un der a spectacular president, government offi cials had drifted into the habit of letting things slip because they know "the boss would take care of it." Now Truman is like ly to adopt the policy of letting every man handle his own business, and if things slip, getting a new man. Morge.ilhau Resigns After the funeral services at the White House, Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau called on President Truman nnd brought with him a letter of resignation. Truman read it over and said: "But I want you to stay on with me." Both Morgcnthau and Truman were still grlcf-strickcn by the sudden death of their mutual friend. "Now you know how I feel, Mr. Presi dent," replied Morgcnthau. "Roosevelt told me many times, 'Henry, you and I came down here together from Dutchess county (where- both Morgcnthau and Roosevelt have estates) and we will go back together.' Now he's going back and I feel I ought to go." "But," maintained the new president, "you have a lot of work to do here and I want you to stay." "Mr. President, I am glad to serve in lime of war and I will do anything I can to back you up," replied Morgcnthau, "hut you arc entitled to a free hand and to choose your own men. I have one boy with the Third army in Germany and another of my sons is fighting off Okinawa right now. But 1 will carry on under two conditions: If you think I am the best man foiMho job, and if you will back me up 100 per cent. That's the way it was with Roosevelt and that's the only way I will slay." "Well, that's the way it will be, Henry." replied the new president. "I will back you up 100 per cent if you will stay." In the end, Morgcnthau agreed. Note Though Harry Hopkins had the reputation of being Roosevelt's closest friend, actually just before the late presi dent left for the Crimea conference, he told h)3 last cabinet meeting: "Now if anything should happen to us while we are gone, it's up to Henry Morgcnthau to call the cabi net together." Truman Highlights Should there be a vacancy on the supremo court, President Truman's first choice prob ably would be his old friend, Sen. Carl Hatch of New Mexico, author of the Hatch act .... It seems odd for a democratic president to be taking advice from hard boiled republicans. But when the new pres ident met with senatorial friends on his first day in the White House, he proposed ad dressing congress for only five minutes. Because of Roosevelt's death, he felt his message should be very brief. Republican Senator Vandenberg, however, urged a long er message, and other senators agreed. Tru man accepted their suggestion. Biggest political problem faced by Harry Truman is to keep the support rf the huge' segment of liberals which, rain i thine, for better or for worse, always followed Frank lin Roosevelt, FDR knew they could never leave him. During the first eight years of his adminis tration, he was their idol. And during the last four years, when he swung to the right, the liberals had no place else to go. Roose velt knew it and sometimes treated them like step-children. But they had to take it. Since Roosevelt's death last week, how ever, some of his old liberal friends, among them labor leaders controlling huge blocs of votes, have been putting their heads to gether. Some have decided that if Truman swings to the right, they will bolt. They figure that they have much greater political bargaining power if they are inde pendent. " In the old days the republican party was often more progressive than the democrats. Today Stasscn of Minnesota, Warren of California and Dewey of New York are putting through some distinctly liberal measures. Therefore, if the Truman administration swings over to the conserva tive southern wing of the democratic party, the liberals figure they can do business with the republicans. Already they have held one meeting and have even gone so far as to start a skeleton ized organization. So holding both wings of the democratic party together may be Harry Truman's toughest job. COn. IMitYHtAKIIVICMHC. T. M. 0. U. . PAT. Off. ' ' H'iO "I can't imagine what they see in her unless it's because she gig gles at all their jokes I" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE - By WM. E. McKENNEY. America'! Card Authority A PROBLEM ARISING IN PENALTY CARD Hero is one of the most inter esting problems of rules that I have seen, from a player's stand point. The declarer won the opening heart lead in the dummy with the king, led a small club from dummy, finessed the queen and it held. The queen of dia monds was then cashed and West showed out. At this point, the declarer led the queen of spades, West played small, and a small WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT fc A 8 2 V K 6 A K J 7 4 2 63 N W E 3 Dealer AQJ73 VQ4Z Q6 AQ74 Rubber Both vul. South Wct North East Pass Pass 1 Pass 1 A Pass 2 Pass 2 N. T Pass 3N.T. Pass Opening V J 20 "Seeing that the women have their hair clean and waved and polish or, their nails is one of the most necessary parts of mental treatment," says an army colonel. The offi cer is setting up a mental hospital for WAVE, WAC and women Marine patients, in which there is to be a fully equipped beauty salon. Women have become so dependent on beauty parlors for building up their egoes and lifting their spirits, you sometimes won der what women did to meet the small crises of life before every town had its share of beauty parlors. For the modern woman rushes to a beau ty salon to talk hair rye or gel a facial or a new hair-do the minute she recognizes the unflattering truth her mirror reflects. It is to the beauty parlor she turns when her husband becomes interested in a pretty girl, or tinges his compliments with sarcasm. She goes to a beauty parlor before she has the courage to apply for a job or ask for a raise. And she wouldn't think of entering a hos pital as a patient without first making cer tain she looks as well as possible no mat ter how awful she feels. So, no wonder a beauty parlor is import ant equipment in a hospital for women men tal patients. If perfectly normal women find beauty care so necessary in helping them to face life's problems, women with mental ills are bound to need it even more. one was played from dummy. East played the jack of clubs. West then said, "No snades, part ner?" Whereupon East said, "Oh, I am sorry." Now, of course. East is subject to a penalty and this is what hap pens. The declarer can either treat the jack of clubs as a pen alty card (in other words, this jack of clubs must be placed face up on the table and played at first opportunity), or he can let East pick up the jack of clubs and it will not be subject to call. Declarer can then call for East's highest of lowest spade. The point is, which should he do? Remember, he has made one heart trick. He can make four diamond tricks and two clubs that is seven. Now he has to make the' ace of spades and an other spado. Well,' I presume you made the same. mistake most of us did, You said to- let East pick up the Jatk of clubs and force him to ploy his lowest spade. Unfortunately, East's lowest spade is the king so he wins the trick and leads through the queen of hearts. If he had treated the jack of clubs as an exposed card, East would have won the trick with the king of spades but would have been forced to return a club and South could have made the contract. T FORMF" YEARS 30 Years Ago Jake Bicver, who had never been recognized as exoert fish erman before, had Adolf Ncwlin, Bert Hughes and the rest of the professionals looking to their lau rels. He hooked a 26 "t inch trout near Hilgard where most of the fishermen believed big fish did not exist. . . The maximum temperature -of 88 degrees at noon, was the high est for the date in 15 years. In HtlO, April 1!) showed a record of 80 degrees, and the average was In the 70's. Behind Scenes in Washington Question & a,. 15 Years Ago Unless a 100 percent count for La Grande can be secured by the census enumerators, indications are that the 1930 population will go on the government records as between 8,000 and il.OOO. C. A. Bingaman of La Grande bought the greater part of the real estate of the Wallowa Lake Wonderland. Ray Chenault, son of I. E. Chc nault, left for Russia. He is with a construction company which constructs steel buildings for a f:s.hing concern. By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent Buried in the confidential transcript of senate foix'ign relations committee execu tive session hearings of the past two months is the record of a mix-up with the depart ment of state over postwar international civil aviation treaties and executive agree ments drafted at the 54-nation conference in Chicago last fall. Bringing the whole thing out in the open may be an effective way to clear it up. Root of the controversy has been stated by Sen. Arthur II. Vandenberg of Michigan as a need to decide which is more import ant for the senate to give away America's future in the air, or to embarrass the presi dent and the state department by requiring them to rescind three executive agreements on international civil aviation already de clared in effect and binding on this govern ment. These executive agreements would com mit the United States to a "freedom of the aii" policy in international commercial avi ation after the war. What irks a number of the senators is that they have not approved, tlvis action as government policy in treaty form, and they think the president doesn't have the legal power, to put it into effect ' by exei-utivc agreement. Twice the senate formally asked the White ltousi; in delay action till the senate could determine policy. But through fumbles and mtMindcrstandings, Assistant Secretary of State Dvnn Acheson, in charge of congres sional relations, thought he got approval lu go ahead with0the executive agreements from Sen. Tom Connaijy of Texas, chairiuni ;f the foren relation, comiriftcfj and wii Josiah W. Bailey of North Catohna. itmi- that in conversation with Secretary Acheson on the subject of the executive agreements, "I talked agreeably about it and I did agree, I am willing to admit." Connally thought Bailey had approved the executive agieemcnts and Bailey thought Connally and the foreign relations commit tee had approved them ami in this misunder standing they both apparently in effect told Acheson to go ahead. Actually neither com mittee approved and the ticklish situation they are now confronted with is how to cov er up their own tracks and still save the president's and the state department's faces by not making them suck back the executive agreements. In this, predicament, Sen. Wallace While of Maine has offered a resolution asking the foreign relations committee to delay ac tion on the permanent civil aviation conven tion which would set up a postw-ar inter national organization to regulate' air com merce. Effect of the White resolution, if passed, would be to ask the state depart ment to rescind U. S. adherence to the ex ecutive agreements which define the five freedoms of-the air and set up interim con trol over international flying until tin' per mancnt organization can be established. Assistant Secretary Acheson has cipros ed himself as exceedingly unwilling to with draw It. S. approvol of the executive ajirec mciHs, since it would put this government in a bad light. But the senators themselves arc in such n twd position that they cannot force a show iltjwn, mid in this mutual ii;irrassmcnt no vote has been t.ifecn, ori th,e, White resu tmi! In.tb ai, ' Majoritvo Le.tder Allien W. Q What size runwavj v needed for heavy comirr haulers in the near pr ture? A 7000 by 200 feet, ! try men believe. I be I air fu- ndus- Q Who was the I Euro pean sovereign to relur: to a na tive land invaded by 1 ) rating Allied troops? A Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. 10 Yean Ago Representatives of towns cn-ti-'-ing baseball teams in the Blue Mountain league, moved the schedule for 1935 ahead by two weeks. The schedule will pro vide 10 games from each team. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Damerell celebrated their silver wedding anniversary with a buffet dinner for 16 guests. Guests were ap prised of the betrothal of Atha Damerell. daughter of the host and hostess, to Ellis Taylen. This Curious World LAE&EB THAN ALL OF THE GAr for 7&5rHAZ, ONCE COVERED WHAT IS NOW THE FLAT AND FERTILE WHEAT-SROWIN& KE&OH OF AANITOBA, NORTH DAKOTA, AND MINNESOTA. i llfclW 'i mm m i JgNP US AN STL TP PU4?Tg. man of the commerce committee and a .!,- - ' ) ' , gate to the Chicago confe,ve. The !,!, c ",,. ,a nQ..t J ' ' "?0 bio stems from that. ,0 O kaQ. wh& Hou Senator Connally- has frankly afflrtjlted to so .e twii?ciii i6ti.iii (fiiijiiOsu.d.-nd- r.;s committee, "I probably got the comnut- I am tee into a jackpot. for this situation." Senator Bailey so e fc.siwfPcWoh' (fiiiji-Qu.Q-i iy soi un- mumm- vu w iwg-air Mniie inirhiasteMiiinds trv .,...,.1.. ... iiJQ . r w. .. . piooaoi. iu ....(j-j raimi- mr. -vyj.e place iuj- it lo land. 0 Hai ttf) ound on nil tms confu:.i.n wi ill 1h ArxT Pni nKi Tue uiatca WASON RE BETTER C?F,"S0- THL'CLOW D. LUNS, f 1 Vsro. ia'a. f. H. u. 5, pat. Off, I , V I 1 W - I, I ' " i ' , s W fo) r-. .W.. ROMANS n -SELlVEO that pbaolc O1-- wfae sot.0ftma n COfKT Of CVi has likewise c.uifessed given in this span-tomorrow hope th&"r!h keopjQoving.
