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r " i EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher I Monday evening, aphil so, mr, Monument EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. Polish Iioundary A Rrent many wcll-mc-anintr Ameri cans, onjicr to avoid t-vcn jrood-tompci'-ed arjuinicnts amontr the international big three, now contend that the Polish boundary settlement isn't worth worry ing abont. Says the well-informed, usually thoughtful New York Times, for ex ample: "In our judgment the settle niGnt of the Polish border problem made at the Crimea conference was neither unfair nor unreasonable . . . With the accession of some new territory in the west and north the settlement provided ample space in which a sturdy Poland can live and prosper." Perhaps it is the stability of national boundaries in North America, and this country's massive impregnability and our generally fine relations with both Canada and Mexico, that caused the Times (and others wno anreewith it) to overlook a forensic parallel. Suppose, in the In'.eiest of justice, that the United Slates had been over run by a military alliance of which Mex ico was a member, and had been liber ated by Great Britain and Canada. And suppose then that Canada cast sheep's eyes at a strip aloud the northern boun dary of the I'nited States a strip that took in lloslon. New Yolk, Phila delphia, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Huffalo, the Twin Cities, Portland, Seattle and way points. Suppose, since we were defenseless and owed our liberation to Canada ami Great Britain, that they met in Mont real and decided to jive this strip to Funny Husiness II ! 1 '. si Q.T " J.1 .- . , r 1 . . - a denibt'i than cvciy lime ho .lU ill tl dttaopear. - Page Two to Stupidity Canada, but to "compensate" by pcr mittinir us to take over an equivalent urea of enemy Mexican territory. We should then be as big as ever. We should have plenty of room. We could move the population from our lost northern area into our new acreage south of the Rio Grande, and build us up a new United States. - You say that couldn't happen? Triie enough. Yet that Is exactly what is about to happen to Poland, and some Americans can't, see anything wrong with it. A nation isn't just so many square miles of land, to be jockeyed geograph ically at the whim of stronger powers or is it? This war is in defense of demo cratic self-determination, and the right of small nations to live their own lives without fear of aggression from bullies or is it? We are no more eager than the Times to pick a quarrel with Russia over Po land or over anything else. Perhaps we have no option but to permit Russia to do as she pleases with Poland. Hut we do have the right to disapprove, and to argue don't we? Sick Europe Incomplete information from Hurope, analyzed by Metropolitan Life Insur ance company experts, indicates that among that continent's worst post-war problems will lie the rehabilitation of public health. Tuberculosis is rampant. In Germany it is up at least a third, in Paris and Brussels about a half, in the Nether lands oven more, and in Rome tubercu losis deaths last year were over twice those of 1910. The disease is epidemic in Greece. Typhus, cerebro-spinal meniningitis and scarlet fever are high in Germany; perhaps 7(1 per cent of the Greeks have malaria; diphtheria in Germany is up about oO pe l-cont and throughout west ern Kimipe it is at peak levels. Q SO THEY SAY Flourishing towns and villages throughout Europe have been ti'i.nstorined into fields of craters. The most outstanding civiliza tion the work! has ever seen is crumbling into ruins. Goebbcls. The plan for world .co-operation is not a revolutionary pro cess of thought for us in this country. The general pattern drafted at Dumbarton Oaks is something we have known in smaller lots of organized socie ty for many years. Ruth Hytiti Owen Rib,le, United N.ittons conference staff membci-s and fot nier minister to Donii'iir).. J he civilian must no lunger have the choice whether wishes to accept the responsibil ity of becoming a fianc-tiivur or not. We must put a rifle in his hands and if he refuses to shoot he must be shot down like the dog he is. liu luothdjn - S-hvai.i Ken:.. N'ai S3 , pub- licit itJO) Wasiiington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON : SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco down by the watAfront where ships sail in from the Pacific'a long line of hospital trains wait in th railroad yards. Large red crosses are painted ' on the side of each car. Uni formed nurses arc inside. Silently, care fully, the iafs are shunted alongside in coming shipsj ships from Okinawa, Saipan and Guam, fringing the wounded home. Almost every day they come in and are rolled out,, noiselessly, tenderly, boys who will never fight again, some boys who will never worH again, all boys who hope there will be no war again. A mile or so away from the waterfront, sit the representatives of 46 nations trying to make that' hope come true. It is a confer ence whiclt the world has awaited so eager ly; for which the state department has plan ned so carefully. Fifty officials have been here for a week oiling the diplomatic mach inery. An unlimited budget has been at their disposal. The city of San Francisco has thrown all its hospitable energy into rooting for the conference. Yet it got off to a discouraging start. There has been something lacking no spark, no contagious enthusiasm, no great personality to lift things out of the doldrums ' of diplomatic routine. - Perhaps it was the absence of that magic personality, which even in his old age and ill-health, could inspire an assemblage to the heights of achievement. Perhaps it was the lack.of great, dynamic leader. At any rate ;the early , sessions featured the same cut-nnd-dried formal futility as the frock coated diplomats who mourned the league of natipns to .death at Geneva. r, Rio Enthusiasm Three years ago at Rio de Janeiro, an other conference was held of American foreign ministers to solidify the new world against attack. There, nothing hinged on stiff-neckedi .'formality. Instead of three solemn speechs as in San Francisco dolefully opening the conference, any Rio delegate might take the floor and say what he thought. . Nobody oared about lunch. Nobody cared about the Rio reception scheduled for the late afternoon. Nobody cared about the heat. The' conference was carried away with its own enthusiasm; with its own an xiety to achieve. At San Francisco how different. No delegate had a chance to speak at the open ing session.' . He could not pour out to. his colleagues his hopes and dreams for future peace. He .could only sit and listen listen to the solernn, carefully modulated, voice WE', THE WOMEN :J C By'RUTH MILLETT ' 1 '" "The army is counting on a movie to tell the GIs who have finished with fighting in Europe why the battle isn't over and why many must still shoot it out with the Japa nese." So says a recent Washington story. From where I sit receiving, irate answers from wives of men in the European theater to a column I wrote telling them that set ting their minds against their men going to the Pacific would only make such a course harder for themselves and for their men I think the army had better prepare another movie explaining to tfie women why their men are still needed. Apparently many of them don't under stand. All they know is how they feel. That is that their men have had a rough time in Europe, and that once their job is finished there they should be returned home to be come husbands and fathers again. Or in the words of one particularly em phatic war wife, the mother- of three small Behind Sceridsan Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Obierver Washington Corraipondtni When all the arguments are reduced to simplest terms, the present state depart-mcnt-se:ia(v foreign relations committee mix-up over postwar international aviation rights bails' down to this: Will thc;U. S. civil aeronautics board con tinue to have control over foreign airlines coming intothe United States? Or w ill tho freedom of the air executive agreements, drafted at Chicago and now de clared binding on this government, reduce the civil aeronautics board to p mere rubber stamp, requiring it automatically to approve the application of any foreign airline want ing to fly to (lie United States? Sen. Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina, chairman of the senate commerce committer and a delegate to the Chicago civil aeronau tics conference last fall, is of the opinion that the ujcutive agreements would des troy the jurisdiction of the CAB and give that jurisdiction to the state department. What particularly bothers Senator Bailey is the so-called fifth freedom the right to pick up traffic along the route in a foreign state and carry it to another foreign state, t'nder this policy Senator Bailey believes U. S. foreign air commerce might be "shot all to pieces." so he considers it bad policy for the government to pursue. But llij objec tion to this fifth freedom is also based on his opinion that under existing U. S. law. the civil aeronautics act of lf;'8, this government docs n',t;have the power to make any suci agreements with foreign governments. Here the argument becomes something like that old iirtieeze about which comes first, the chickeir or the cfSj1 e civil aeronautics act of 1M8, which set up the civil aoronaut.ijS) board as the governing body over U. S civil aviation, hM) three sections which seem Icrtjear on this issue: . btction..4Jsys that the civil aeronautics he df the-far-distant president, . listen to the perfunctory speeches of welcome reeled off by. local officiajs. . .It had the atmosphere of an undertaker's parlor; or perhaps a U. S. steep corporation directors' meeting over which Ed Stettlnius once presided. Instead it ,was supposed to ' be a conference carrying with it the hopes, the ideals, the future of mankind. Meanwhilefrom incoming transports, cots laden with wounded men were loaded on hospital- trains to roll away quietly almost as if they did not wish' to disturb thd sblerfih serenity of the delegates by injecting' any unpleasantremjnder of war. From West to East The army is working today on a new film to accompany "Two Down and(, One toj Go," a movie, already prepared to' help explain to war-weary G. I.'s the reason they ' must pack up their kits in Europe and go on to fight another war in the Pacific. The two films are intended to bolster morale, now considered far more important than the actual physical problem of transfer to the Orient. , 1 "Greatest problem after the victory in in Europe," according to Colonel William Menningcr, world-famed, fhief. of the army psychiatrists, "will he that ' 6f .'persuading combat veterans wiio have completed one job to pack up and go on to another war in the Pacific." He anticipates a heavy rate of AWOL's. , '; ,f This is the major reason that members' 6f the senate militay affairs committee argued last month against giving GI's on their way , from Europe to the Pacific a 30-day leave at home. They are afraid civilian members ol the soldiers' family will encourage them i to defy orders to go on to the Pacific. Many men whose morale is impaired but who are not actual neurotics will be pushed over the borderline by the Pacific transfer, Colonel Menninger fears, although he be lieves most reasonably well-adjusted men v.ill be able to take the orders in their stride. Excessive celebration here of the V-E day announcement will make the Pacific assign ment a particularly hard thing for European battle vets to accept, hd warns. Note Colonel Menninger is also worried about the relatively small number of psy chiatrists now practicing only about 4,000 will be available for post-war work, he estimates. And he is certain that at least twice that number will be needed to take care of servicemen after the war. Only prac ticable solution, he faels, is for, medioal . . See. WASHINGTON . . .' Page 4 ..' children: "Our men have proven that they can take it, and we, their, wives, have proven that we can. Now let some of the men who have been sitting at home getting fat and sassy prove that they can too; and lef thei. wives who have had them at home all this time have a chance to prove their courage. Why should we and our husbands have to take it twice?" . Maybe the thousands of letters of protest going to congressmen from the wives and mothers tf men now in Europe will mai3 Uncle Sam understand that when he show: .the GI in Europe why the fight isn't over he has only done half of a morale-building job Through their , letters women strongly influ ence their men. And if Mrs. GI is bitter and feels imposed upon and cheated, her man in uniform is going to find it hard to be a good soldier in a second war. ' ' " " ' ' ' For his sake as well as her own she should be made to understand, too. board shall examine foreign airlines for fit ness as a carrier in the U. S. public interest. Section 802 says that the department, 6t state shall advise and consult with the civil aeronautics board on any negotiations with a foreign airline for establishment of a route to this country. "Advise and consult" aren't defined, so there is no clear-cut responsi bility. Section 1102 says that the civil aeronautics board, in exercising its powers, shall do so consistent with any obligation assumed by the United States in any treaty, convention or agreement. Apply those stipulations to the present mix-up and see where it leaves you: The White House and the department of state have put into effect an executive agreement granting the airlines of any for eign government which also approves this agreement, the right to opcratcin the Unit ed States. That is an obligation on the Unit ed States, and under section 1102. the CAB can't do anything inconsistent Vith that obligation. -t- . ' s Under this interpretation CAB.nilgfit bo. reduced to rubber-stamping any civil avia- tion deals made by the state department, the degree of whose consulting and advis ing with CAB isn't prescribed. But section 402 says CAB shall examine all these foreteti airlines in the public in terest. And if establishment of a British airline to Australia across the U. S. and by w ay "of B'.iwaii were found to bo against the public interest. CAB would be legally bound to repudiate the state department's agreeunt't. CAB would do this by recom (Binding to the president that he deny the permit to operate. The amazing thing about this whole mix up is that congress passed the law that wny,(': (t) it i; now fouled ud on the horns of one of its own bull dilemmas. -. Side Glahce8 u?r;r Hi J Jz COPB. IHI BY WE SIHVICE. IWC. T. M. HCO. U. 8. PAT. Off. "I was kind of hoping you'd stay home tonight. Bill, and help me with my geography you've flown over all the places I'm studying aboutl". . . .. . .... . .. ' ' O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority 3 LOSERS CUT TO 2 BY DISCARD ON RUFF I take time out each ' week now to go to the hospitals and do card tricks for our wounded soldiers. I thought the declarer in today's hand was somewhat of a magician. I think you will f.gree with me that there is no 4A63 ) None AK8543 A652 Rubber Neither vul. South West North Eait 1 34 . 4 Pass 1 V 3. Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass 4 4 Pass Pass Double Pass Opening t K. 1 ''question. 'but what -he has .two losing diamond tricks and he has a losing spade trick . Jfevertheless, this declarer, by magic or otherwise, lost only two ' tricks.. He ruffed the opening heart lead and cashed the ace of dia- Questions& Answers Q What is . Stalin's official title? : , A Chairman of the council of people's commissars. Q What was the origin of Leipzig, Germany? . ' A, It grew from the year 1015 on the site of a Slavonic castle named Libzi, from which the name Leipzig comes. The city's population was 701,600 before the war,. .- , ,., , .. ,'b. What is the Shahnama"?. . , A Iran's . national . epic, or "Book of Kings," written by the medieval poet Firdausi, Iran's Shakespeare. , Q What is our life expectancy age? A In 1930 it was 62; but only 41 in 1840. .. Q Are there any male nurses? A There .were 8169 registered in 1940. K752 7 4 3 2 762 K4 . AQJ104 I N 198 AKQJ W E W985 . toe o ecu 10 9 None Dealer J109 873 I Ptaier This Curious World I THAT ATE THE CROPS IN UTAH IN ( V-A. V"') JLf UNTIL THE 6ULLS ARRIVED ( 0 NvOSiffr (WERE iiCWG- -HOGMSO ) ( V Slltl' .''"1 ..i..V-.i.. CAN ARJW AfW rALS AFTER LOSIN THE ORI&IN4L APPENCi.se.... BUT THE NEW TAIL IS ALWAYS BONELESS. S-l an: AVER; In Minnesota, in Lake of the Wopds county. NEXT: How many words in your vocabulary? --II monds only to. learn hat East held four trump! A .small club was then led to the jdu(nmy and another heart trumped. "' Now the ace of clubs Was cash ad and a club ruffed, in, dummy. The third heart was trumped and another club ruffed in ummy. The ace of spades was cashed, followed by the king of spades. The seven of hearts was then led and when East trumped with the ten of diamonds, the , declarer gimply threw away his. three of spades. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago' , Miss Helen Currey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Cur rey, was chosen Gamma Phi Beta delegate to the national conven tion of women's sororities in San Francisco. Miss Currey's scho lastic standing was higher than that of any sophomore in her house. ' Mrs. J. F. Corbett and, Mrs,. J. C. ' Gardnej- twere; elected' deiev gates from the Centra school parent-teachers association to the national convention in Portland. '4 15 Years Ago - .. A $50,000 building was issued to the La Grande Masonic build ing association, which announced that it has signed a lease with the J. C. Penney company for a building to be erected between tho Masonic temple and the Gra nada theater. The now,(building Rave the association property a value well above $100,QOO. The use of smudge pots in or-' chards was being tried in this yi- . cinity. J. A. Chandler,. JTruitdale orchardist, purchased a, number of smudge pots for his, cherry or chard as protection from frost damage. ... . , , , 10 Years Ago ,; . A number of local-trapshooters attended a shoot hdldj in Pjull-r, man, with A. Lee" of'-Iia 'Grande ' winning first i in clasl G. ' Lee broke 94 out- of 100 'arid broke the second 50 of his stYnYg' Wltji- ' out a miss. ,., '''"0 '. ' '' The La Grande high school ' girls glee club, dircectecf-by An drew Loney jr., tied with Frank lin high of Portland at Forest Grove for first place m class A. Salem high was second and Jef ferson high of Portland,' third; V - 7U- . J. 11 Q
