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i Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIM PAGE Br DREW PEARSON ife M IE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THl'KSDAV KVKNI.Nd'. MAY .1. liU'i The Fly in th EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. I. A GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT And they brought forth the imajios out of the house of Baal, and burned them. II Kinps li::2b THOl'(iHT FOR TODAY It is never too late to turn front the emir of our ways : lie who roTnts of his sins is almost innocent. St-neca. Indoctrination Tlie war department has pivvided discussion leaders in army camns with "Three Ways to SKt 1". S. Fascists." It says that a fi-son who does any of these things is in "a mental state that lends itself to the acceptance of fascit aims": 1. Ilelieves in a master race: is an tagonistic towani any particular race or reliirion: toward lair the foivkn rn. 2. Is intolerant of .!.- t...'.. rh..t of man"; ;ss international co-ojvr- ation: spreads pro;vi'.a!:da against the I'ritish, Soie:. Ktench or I'nited Na tions. :t. Indiscnmi-ately apphos the la!-l "red" to persons and ideas h ihslikvs. Any person jivn t.. uc!i practices is. of coure. i::-.oi u-.t. :c: uis. a:it'.-o-cial. aiUi-deTtuvr.'.tx. a !:;. ice to the national and m:'f:i:tr,i cormnutvtiev Hut is he a fasci-t. ;,ctu.il or potential A fascist i at- ioVhi-i t to tne ph:i. sipliv of the f,i.i :, a una of thus Funny Iitnines$ "No power! Who foxso! tc Ml tht gu uik o ..... -iA. . . Jill; Page Four e Loving Cup organized by one Benito Mussolini (re member him?) for the ostensible pur ixise of rescuing Italy from communism but for the actual purpose of serving the ambitions of Mussolini and his as-. sixiatcs. ' . So far we remember' the fascist! -never -argued- the theory sf a master race, or raised a religious iesue, or ' r secuted Jews or Negroes as such. Fr.i" from being anti-labor as we use that term in the United States, their pro gram contained a liberal dash of syn dicalism, which aims, by strikes and violence, at giving workers' organiza tions con t ml over production. It was Hitler and his nazis w ho. ex I oundixi the master race thesis, and blamed Jewry for all the world's ills and persecuted Jews with a sadism that has horrified every civilized person. We have two schools of argument. One tags anyixxly and anything it dis likes as "red." The other dubs what ever it hates "fascist." rth are lazy, ignorant and dangerous. We hate communism. We hate fas cism. e hate nr.zism. We hate Japan ism and all totalitarianism. Neverthe less, we claim the right of any man. woman or child who disagrees with us to accept and propagandize his fallacies to his heart's content, so long as he does it peaceably and out of conviction, and not at the Miest or for the benefit of any alien government. The army I v trays ignorance of what fa.-cism is. Hut even if it had correctly spotlighted fa.-cism it would sill be wrong. It is the duty of the army to defeat our enemies which it is doing to perfection and not to use its vast authority to hint that certain beliefs. d testable as they are. come w ithin the purview of our armed forces. I the way. does the Orientation fact i'.ect contain also three easy ways t" s;vt 1'. S. communists? SO THEY SAY It :r.v firm conviction that in r;.ict:c.t iv every field Ihis coun t:ys manufacturers and workers --v o f3.- ahead tn efficiency of tr-o in any other rrt of the that even a 50 per denl N.r.-r -a ace cvst here can have : " t ::-vt - n o.ir tver-all pnxiuc- irt S-crvtary it. M. Clayton. of State . i I - .;: area the Gcrr.ans are iry h.-.tile. Cler to the rsv r r.i before we crosoi the Krs;::.- teir attituae as differ er.t. Put here they look a, us a :h actual hatrvxi in their yes. - ; p t. Dor ,i Dn o v an. arniy n:i:v at ParnuUJt. o Tr'.e ruiM:r industry is thr r U;on"$ number Vrie field for -t ar en-.ploymentf retum :s service men andfor re-em -pi o y rr. c r. t of the v ai t n um be r n. w in war industnci. Waller R. MacCormack. vQ president American Inst.-tute of Architects. ciin?" SAN FRANCISCO On April 25 and 26 this column revealed that one day after President Roosevelt was buried, a mreting was held in the state department at which his previous policy of a hard peace for Ger many was reversed. State department aprtcasers proposed a new line favoring a soft peace. On April 27, one day following aforesaid publication. President Truman called an im portant meeting in the White House. Attend ing it were Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau, Under-Secretary of State Joe Grew, Undersecretary of the Navy Bard, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. and Leo Crowley, federal ecortonic administrator. At the meeting Trumtn laid down a f'.at rule that Roosevt It's previous hard peace policy was not to be changed. This hard peace policy is basically that laid down by Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau last autumn, following Roosevelt's discovery' 'hat the army and state depart ment had been planning appeasement. The Morgenthau plan calls for the wiping out of all German industry' which could contribute to war, the taking over of the nazi educa tional system, the banishment of nazi school books, and a long occupation. The White House has had indications that the Russians also will go for a hard peace. Big remaining question mark is the British Many of their banks and business firms col laborated closely with the nazis before the war, and after this war they will control the most highly industrial sections of Germany. What they w ill do with these areas remains to be seen. At San Francisco, Vandenberg, also has been grabbing the ball and running with it. By all odds he has been the dominating member of the American delegation. Stet tinius has sat somewhat in his shadow. Van denberg is the man most sought out by news men. He is also the delegate who had ad vised other American delegates that their strategy should be to put out one good story to the newsmen every day. Meanwhile, Senator Tom Connally has said little, sawed wood. But the other day when news reached the delegation from Washing ton that Himmler had approached Churchill regarding a surrender, it was too much for Long Tom He got even for all the news tips WE, THE WOMEN Bf RUTH MILLETT A newspaper story, complete with dazzling pictures, gave the lowdown on the problems of that glamorous small grcup of working women. New York's top models. It pointed out that the girls who smile at us from the pages of newspapers and beckon to us from billboards are hard-working womn with tiring jobs, who haven't time for much else in life except to keep them selves in dazzling form. But it didn't say whether or not the girls who made a 24-hour-a-J ay career of beauty ever feci a moment's pity for the poor house wife they've put so neatly on the spot. The gal who tries her best to look like them, to copy their hair-styles and keep up with their chic, while doing a full-time job of keeping a husband h ippy, a home clean, and her children well fed and h3ppy. is really on a spot. Don't the models, who set the pace for her in looks, ever worrv about her for a mo Behind Scenes, in Washington Br PETER EDSON. L Graade Erening Obserrer Washington Correspondent SAX FRANCISCO When U S Secretary of State Edward rt. Stc'tinius. Jr . pics? up the gavel to preside ovvr a plenary s.-kt. of the United Nations conference, it is a tribute to the fact that he has now become a polished statesman. This doesn't mean he has been polishcd-nff by the British, the Russians, his tailor or his barber, either In three international conf renecs and a Iitt'e less than a year, the protocol boys in the state department have whipped him into shape, taught him all the tricks of the dip lomatic trade, learned him when to say yes, nor or maybe when sonic Latin or old world baby poses a hypothe'.ic.il question demand ing a firm, unequivocal tvasion. Stcf.imus proved what a skilled diplomat he has become when a icporter asked h .-r if it would be safe to u.kc the week-end off and. go fishing. Now this was a loaning question which mii;ht have cvmpromis,-1 the United States with every one of the powers having an interest in the Pacific '.. ,an. in which it ;s assumed the the rcporte: wished to fish, T.---trustceship issue on all the islands in Pacific bcin paittcularly touchy at t-,:.. time, such a question w ,s obviously fi:ui;"i' with utmost significance. The situation o mandod careful anaiy.- and consultation N fore the vsition of th govt nir.ent fiil be stat ? by any ofiic-O spokesroa" W.i. the Netherlands consul:,- ;; Had security io n considered What .did Truman think In this ticklish siUo.t: n. likely to Ka.i I ' a diplomatic incident w.ih far-rcachi: con sequences, Stettin;-; showed his skill at who the foreign coi res: opdents hcri' Up:: ia:v refer to as "the diplomatic gaw.e." "Fox" Stet:ir.u(sy,ey ca '. him now. It is 9.MK permitted to quote the ..1iQ.ii S'hed sec-ctary's rvc y dircct'y as thltO might crnharass ths v Q'rnnirM at some 0atcr period But on hiicnit auth(rliv of informed sources, it can bestatOh.Jr thoO reply to tlQ dirvvt question. "May we go f -slung over the wx-ek-enc1?" was to the ef fect ef. Do you mean fishing for fish? A less skilled diplomat might have muffed tht o.-.c. l.he first '.est of a statesman Vandenberg had been feeding out by handing newsmen the story. One little-noticed difference between the U.S. and Great Britain on one hand, and Russia on the other hand, at San Francisco is the western allies attitude toward punish ing w ar criminals. It may get squeezed out in the discussions between Stettinius, Eden and Molotov, but the Russians took an alarmist view of the way in which the state department squeezed out Pell as head of the American delegation to the war crimes commission in London. This commission is charged with working up dossiers against axis war criminals and see ing that they are brought to trial instead of organizing World War III. During the past year, sincere, graying Herbert Pell maneuv ered himself into a position where he was scheduled to be head of the whole allied war crimes commission. Instead he was thrown out. At one of his last commission meetings in London. Pell proposed that every German holding nazi party membership cards from number 1 to 100,000 (the men who originally founded the nazi movement) be put to death without trial. This proposal so infuriated appeasement minded British members of the commission that they tipped off state department pals in Washington, who went to work on Pell and caused his early removal. Although several months have passed since Pell's ouster, nothing has been dr.ne to give America leal representation on the war crimes commission, despite the recent hide ous nazi atrocities. Here is trie general conversation whicn took place between President Truman, one time Missouri farm boy accidentally hurtled into the presidency, and Foreign Minister Molotov, who before 1940 had never been ou!ide his own country. The first 15 minutes of their 40-minute conversation dealt with regrets over Presi dent Roosevelt's death and Truman's delight that Molotov had come to the United Na tions conference. Then the conversation turned to Poland, and Truman reminded Molotov of the Yalta pledge that some of the London Poles would be brought into the Lublin cabinet in order to make it a fee WASHINGTON . . . Page 6 ment? Especially when they are posing in a fluffy house dress in a dream of a kitchen, playing at washing an already gleaming sink, or whipping up a pic without a bit of mess or trouble? Don't they ever feel a' moment's guilt at pretending to be the typical "little woman" when they spend most cf the day keeping pretty enough to make the busy housewife wir.ee when she compares her looks with theirs? Doesn't it ever bother tl-cm that the chil dren they lead by the hand in ads are always w'cll-scrubbed. happy cherubs? If this never bothers them, then they've no understanding at all of the tired house wife who sees a picture of a beautiful blonde turning out a washing with a happy smile and every hair in place, ind says to herself. "I've simply got to do something about my hair but when?" is that he never be caught off guard, behind '.he ciRht ball, dead on his feet and with his striped pants down or out to the cleaners. Without delimiting the issue to its proper concept, the secretary might have been tricked into giving the correspondents ap proval to go fishing for blonds, seal, crabs, abaiane or hidden information. It might even have been interpreted as tacit consent for any of the reporters interested in clams to take advantage of the precedent set in the celebrated case of Mary Ann McCarthy who. :t is now being recalled here, went out to gather clams and dug up -all the mud there was in San Francisco bay. But no. This government renounced ail such claims and the Kremlin and Downing .-treet ,-hould take note of this highest-level poiicy decision. When the secretary was as suied that the correspondents meant they ' ished to fish for fish, he gave the idea his i -licit sanction. It may be assumed this had t.-.e backing ef the White House, though Senator Vandenberg could not be reached i Tiediately for comment. This chess-master connuct of foreign re!a t "ns is difficult, but it can be learned. The traditional school af dip'acy demands that :no: national ar'fa. rs be k pt as complicated P-ws'.ble so thatTver-Ndy iil hr h.i to :.vause nob-xiy v. ill kn - w -.ore he i. Tate S:-'tt:n:Lis position m the g-eat ccv.rcvers over who should preside at this cce.fcrence To have o.-.e chairman would have been too sin-pie. So what do they d- They have four rresiiicnts and they rrake Stettinius. who is r-". T.!y rcri Hirth ef a presi feat, chaim-n of the B-s'T-Hi.O."jrvs'.denU. T?tcy cIJ this to!" -routing the chai -niasship " Rcvolv ir(T m.ght be m re accurate. Round a d r- uni TM is also known as dipt-n) tie f ucr sa'-mt .,i-it if; jdji-.c with mirrors. S'ttnius is also cnairman of the Stcer g): con-.n-.if.ee of 46. and tk Exeifiitlvy com mittee of 14 as we0as chaTrrr.a-t-of tee U.S. acicjut.on of ehu So 0 wavWou look i'(5 it. Stettinius is top r(tju) Is do;n' ail right, has thc(g)ia:en well m nand. and more power mean A &m Prt" l kef, iw rvwt M-vxt. inc. T. M. -to. U-1. HT. Off, "You'd think after. Bill spent two rears in the fighting line he'd be bolder, but he's shyer than he was when he went away!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. E. McKENNEY. America's Card Authority riNESSES IN FOUR SUITS FOR A SLAM I received a letter recently (rom D. C. Gillette of Ulster, Pa., commenting on the lucky hand of Charley Sanders. He said it is hands like this that maintain interest in bridge. He further stated that all his bad luck was offset en today's hand when he and his partner made a small which dummy's seven won. The tcn of hearts picked up , the trump. The jack of diamonds was played from dummy, West cov ered and North won with tin ncp. At thifc noint hr roliirnivl a small club and finessed the jack. The king of diamonds was then cashed and now the ace of spades played and a diamond discarded. A spade was ruffed bv the de Gillette t V A Q 8 5 A743 AQ984 clarer and the last ( diamond ruffed in dummy .with tho last heart. At this point the declar er cashed ,the ace of clubs and East's king fell, so now he was able to lead a small club, finesse his nine spot and win the last trick with the queen of clubs. IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago, Mar 3 Much needed moisture came to Starkey in a 36-hour snow stnrm. Some stockmen were hard hit by the storm as they had sent lli'.'ir sheep, newiy sheared, into th'. mountains, and the animals wer.: dying of the cold.. ""' '"'" Mrs. Nellie Neil, one of the city's elementary grade teachers and Mrs. F. G. Schilkc, repre senting the Riveria district and Mrs. A. E. Ivanhoe, county school superintendent attended the na tional meeting of the congress of mothers in Portland. J 1053 N K942 42 W E VK98 Q98 1065 2 107 5 2 lD,!l.rlK6 AQ8? V J 10 7 3 K J AJ3 Rubber N.-S. South West North East 1 N T Pass 2 t Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 N T Pass 5 V Pass 5 N T Pass 6 A Pass 6 V Pass Pass Pass Opening 4k 2. 4 slam on a hand that ordinarily would not produce a game. He expected much more from his partner with the opening bid of one no tiump. When the dummy went down, he was ir.er. or less disappointed, I ut 1-r wont to work. He- fincsicd th? queen on the opening lead and it held. Now- he led the jack of hearts and East won with the king. East returned th" six nf heaits Questions & A nswers Q What docs radar mean? A Radio directioning and i.-nging. Q What was the original name of Vienna, Austrian capital now in Russian hands? A Vindebonr.a Vienna It -vis a Celtic settlement soon .f.cr the time of Christ. 15 Years Ago, May 3 - George Cherry of Enterprise, was elected president of associat ed students at University of Ore gon. Russell Nelson was elected president of the high school stu dent body for 1930-31. James Les lie was elected vice-president, and Jacqueline O'Brien, secretary-treasurer. 10 Years Ago, May 3 Mi.-. Alfred Cook returned af 'er a three weeks absence, which ...ho s ent with her sister in Cor-v.-illis and her parents in Oregon City. Jack McCIay was elected mas tor councillor of the DeMolay ihapter. Edwin Pratt was elected rcnior councillor and Everett Waitenbcrg. junior councillor. Fred N. Fox. long known in Union county tennis circles, was elected president of the La Grande tennis association. Q What is the Jap Kazic? , A The army suicid- Q What does i 'JtTKS in navy code? Bureau of yards ; I docks. Q Which is closer to I. e U. S.. Moscow or Buenos Aires? A Moscow, by I ooo miles. This Curious World ': . '- 4 vutk in Ths wold.' rr holds' Eiir ft .S. OA-NT. t-74S'V? E yl9 "i-at. on Twe --i AS VMtV R?S U1L9 8 W)CF T44&AOLO. NEXT: Is sui anil amide a new discorer
