EDITORIAL PAGE
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Side Glances
By DREW PEARSON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
THURSDAY ICVKiMXC, Al'lUI, lit, lilir.
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Messed Eventing
EVENING OnSKKVEK'S
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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
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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."
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hope th&"r!h keopjQoving.