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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
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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.
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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
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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. -.
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"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
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
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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
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He ruffed the opening heart
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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
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"Book of Kings," written by the
medieval poet Firdausi, Iran's
Shakespeare. ,
Q What is our life expectancy
age?
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41 in 1840. ..
Q Are there any male nurses?
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in 1940.
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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.
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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;
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