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Br DREW PEARSON
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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;
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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42 W E VK98
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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.
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