: EDITORIAL' PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
SATURDAY KVKNIMi. MAY 5, 1915
I'age Two
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EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Konde Valley irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10,000
- Extend the city limits.
TODAY'S TEXT
For to him that is joined to all the
living1 there is hope: for n living dojr is
better than a dead lion. Kcclesiastes
9:4.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Everything that thou reprovest in
another, thou must most carefully avoid
in thyself. Cicero.
Plain Speaking
' Reports from Washington say that
President Truman talked right "on the
line" to soviet foreign minister Molotov,
who "appeared to appreciate" the vigor
and positiveness with which the presi
dent expounded the American view
point on the Polish situation.
This is in line with reorts from
Moscow that Mr. Molotov's superior.
Premier Stalin, enjoved the bluntness
of the late Wendell Willkie and of lVesi
dent Eric Johnston of the U. S. cham
ber of commerce when those gentlemen
visited his capital.
And these reports might le an object
lesson to a perhaps small but very vie!
.segment of our public, which appears
to feel that Marshal Stalin is so sen
sitive, or petty, that he can not endure
frankness or friendly disagreement on
any point.
Certain publicists seek to create an
impression that the United States and
Great Britain have only two opti :is-.-.
cither to "yes" Moscow sl.ivi.-My on
everything, however violently it may
offend anainst every democratic in
stinct, or to fight the soviet. Coopera
tion with Russia, these soft-soapers
feel, can be had only at the price of
letting the Kremlin run the show.
That, in our opinion, is poppycock.
Neither Stalin nor his associates are
tha't petty. They are, properly, doing
their best to advance what they con
sider Russia's long-term interests just
as Churchifl is Britain's and we', trust ;
Truman will this country's.
Hut Stalin is a prime realist. He
knows that his Russian interests and
our American interests do not always
coincide. He will press his full claims
as far as he can hope to make them
stick. Rut he, no more than we, wants
to go to war over anything short of the
unavoidable. And, if it is his friendship
and admiration we seek, we will get
them more quickly by standing up for
our own interests and principles than
by standing up for our own interests
and principles than by cheap boot-licking.
The communist regime has felt, un
derstandably, that every man's hand
was against it. Moscow was courteously
sold down the river long enough so that
we can not expect to kid Stalin by pull
ing our punches.
What Moscow wants, Stalin demands.
What Moscow dislikes, wholly-controlled
soviet journals condemn bitterly and
sometimes violently. Stalin does not
assume that the price of cooperation
must be his plaving Casper Milquetoast.
Why should we?
At the Sim Francisco conference cer
tain decisions must be made that in
volve disagreements between Russia
and the Anglo-American democracies.
Are those decisions to Im; made by con
ciliation and cooperation or by unilater
al action of Moscow, accepted, sulkily
but docilely, by us'.'
President Truman's positive, vigor
ous conversations with Mr. Molotov set
tone that is distinctly encourogaing.
Funny llusiness
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c SO THEY SAY
(itTtr.an war prisoners should
N timounhly indoctrinated into
liw uvikms vt democracy. Al
though forcible indoctrination is
ptuhitnud by the Geneva cpn
vt'iition, force should be used, if
necessaty. because the United
States is the only country to ob
rcive the convention.
Wp. Richard Y. Harless lD) of
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Washingtpn Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
SAN FRANCISCO There is an important
parallel to be drawn between San Francisco
and Versailles. ,11 may have repercussions
that will effect the future peace of the world,
t At the Versailles -peace conference, Wood
row. Wilson lost out to the other members
of the Big Four on point after point. He had
to compromise on Jugoslavia, on Italy, on
various boundary questins. Most of all he
had to sign a treaty of alliance with France
and England in order to get his league of
nations accepted. .' '.
The American public felt Wilson had
yielded too much. At that time we were
just feeling our oats internationally. We felt
that the American army had really won the
war though some of our allies disagreed.
The great middle west was convinced that
if Europe didn't want to play ball with us,
we could thumb our noses at Europe and get
along perfectly well in our own.
That view eventually was reflected in the
senate's rejection of Woodrow Wilson's treaty
and another war became inevitable.
Today, Soviet Russia occupies very much
the: same spot as the United States in 1919
and 1920.
The Soviet today has the greatest resources
in the world. It is more self-sufficient than
any other - nation. It feels that its armies
bore the major burden of this war though
some ol their allies disagree. The leaders
cu Russia, especially the generals, are report
ed believing that the Soviet can get along
on its own without the rest of the world,
if the outside world doesn't want to play
ball.-.. r-- .
.Meanwhile, their Woodrow Wilson of San
Francisco Foreign Minister Molotov has
been, turned down on points. Same of his
points have: seemed poorly conceived and
out of place and he has not always handled
himself diplomatically. But the effect of
Russian public opinion is the main thing that
counts, the effect which is registered on the
potential isolationists of this new peace era.
And that effect obviously must be bad.
Just as the American public in 1919 saw their
representative rebuffed at Versailles, so the
Russians see their man . rebuffed at San
Francisco. They don't remember the Molotov.
victories, only the rebuffs. And that is why
when the final history of this peace era is
written, the vote against Molotov on Argen
tina may be the straw that broke the back
of Russian world cooperation. Molotov only
asked for four days to think over the ques
tion of Argentine admission. His pleas prob
ably would have the support of two great
figures, one dead, one ill Franklin Roosevelt
and Cordell Hull both virorously opposed
to fascist Argentina.
Four days to consider the Argentine ques
tion was not much to ask, and yet Secretary
of State Stettinius missed the pue'to make
a gesture toward Russia. Molotov made his
plea for a delay on Argentina in the best
democratic tradition. In open plenary ses
sion, in the rough and tumble of American
democratic debate. In the end, Argentina
. would have been admitted anyway, but the
delay would have helped Russian opinion at
home. This small point may turn out one
of the most Important at the conference.
For, if the Russians find themselves outvoted-
too frequently and too overwhelm
ingly, they may do what the U.S. senate did
to Woodrow Wilson. And a peace organiza
tion without Russia, like a league of nations
without the United States, would mean an
other world war unquestionably.
The San Francisco debates over Poland,
Argentina and the framework for prevent
ing future war are all-important. But while
these talks are progressing, bickering con
tinues backstage over the very tangible prob
lems effecting diapers, shirts and cotton
dresses. In the end, these may tinge inter
national friendships almost as much as de
bates over Poland.
At present a controversy is raging over
cotton shipments to France. The row is with
French textile manufacturers who won't pro
duce cotton duck for U.S. army tents and
other military purposes, even though we
send them the raw cotton via lend-lease. We
are 'trying to produce more military duck
in France in order, to use textile mills in
this, country for women's dresses, diapers,
children's clothes and overalls.
- And. under the lend-lease agreement,
France is supposed to use all the raw cot
ton we send her exclusively for military
purposes.
However, Col. Robert Stevens of the U.S.
quartermaster corps, former president of the
large New York textile firm of J. P. Stevens,
has just come back from France with a re
port that not one yard of badly needed duck
has been woven by French manufacturers.
As a result the army wants to cut off fur
ther lend-lease cotton shipments to France.
French textile mill operators claim they
have five years of last production to make
up, and are determined to concentrate on
turning out fine goods for civilian use. They
claim also they are weaving quantities of
See WASHINGTON . . . Page 6
WE; THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT ' '
If we really wanted to get some feeling
into our speech today, we'd discard some of
our old comparisons for new ones.
We'd say, for instance, "He hasn't a red
ration point to his name."
Or, "He'd give his last cigaret."
And how about, "As welcome as a V-let-ter."
Or, "About as dependable as a tire run
ning on its third re-tread."
Or even, "She's the kind of woman who
feeds her kids oleo and serves butter to her
important guests." ,
Or, "As long as a cigaret line."
Or, "An under-the-counter customer."
You'd get the idea just as quickly if some
one said, "You're as welcome as a T-bone
steak."
Or, "As cautious as though she were spend
ing her last shoe stamp."
Or. "She treats her husband as though she
expected him to give notice."
Or, "Careful as a woman putting on her
last pair of nylons." .-
Or, "As unpredictable as the army."
Just as graphic would be "Short as a
leave."
Or, "A dress that should have been given
to the United Nations relief drive."
Or maybe, "Scarce as a furnished apart
ment." And certainly, "I'd rather face the ration
board."
Behind Scenes in Washingtpn
By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Obserrer Washington Correspondent
Inmost task of San Fran
cisco is n,it negotiation, not char
ter drafting. It is to create an
o! K.inw.ition which will be im
bued with a righteous spirit, an
: ctive principle.
John Foster Dulles of New
Yoik. aoviscr to L'. S. delegation.
"Frankly, I think Surge is going io, frown cn that sort ol thing!"
The cvcat cause of peace and
rood-will on earth is very much
,rc the hands of the press, perhaps
now the most potent force m the
st;, its and in large parts of the
Civilurd world.
-Field Marsh.O Jan
Smuts, premier of the L'nioffcJoo
Scnith Africa.
CitristirA
SAN FRANCISCO Neatest trick, which
the Soviet Russian delegation has pulled at
this United Nations conference is at the St.
Francis hotel, where they got possession of
a private kitchen and dining room up on the
12th floor, which is French headquarters,
together with a private elevator connecting
it with the 10th floor, which is Russian
headquarters. Funniest angle on the whole
business is that the French didn't know any
thing about it although the Provisional Gov
ernment of France now looks on Soviet Rus
sia as its strongest ally and closest friend.
But that's how things are at San Francisco,
and it's typical, for the close-mouthed Rus
sians have become the big mystery operators
of the conference.
The little matter of the Russian kitchen
corridor into French territory at the St. Fran
cis came about through the Soviet delega
tion's desire to have a private dining room
for Foreign Commisar V. M. Molotov. There
wasn't anything available on the 10th floor,
to which the Russians had been assigned, but
up on the 12th was a beautifully panneled
suite in which the late Mi's. George Post,
widow of a fabulously wealthy west coast
lumber king, had lived for some years in
lavish surroundings.
Mrs. Post died a few months ago. Most
of her antiques and art treasures had been
disposed of by her estate and there had
been no takers for her humble abode, though
the housing shortage here is pretty acute.
The Soviet advance men looked over this
private suite P In its pristine ekgaao and
being a practical people able to gt slang
with the bre essentials of lift, tacid4 it
would do.
The question was how to get from their
offices and bi rooms on the 10th floor up
to the 12ai floor. There are several connect
jVi; stairways aixi public elevators, but they
wouldn't do. It just happened tbat ta join
ing Mrs. Post's suite was a he'tel sewce ele
vavr. It was turned over to the Russians,
ecft-pitt They put in their eW pper.Uof ..j
WJien on trie snail iroin;(u)n w ,
V.cT" vfilh s.'uie P, installed trWir" own chef
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"I guess that looks showy enough I want something pretty snap
py though rhalU'roaich up to my eon's uniform so he'll be proud
of me when he comes home!"
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; By TO E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
BEGINNING: SERIES
ON SUIT DIRECTING
(This is the first of six arti
cles discussing the suit direct
ing convention.)
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vention in use today is the suit
directing play, so in order to
again familiarize my readers with
this convention, I am going to
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give you a series of six articles
explaining the convention.
In this convention, the play of
an unnecessarily high card may
be asking partner not to continue
that suit but to shift to the high-
Questions & A nswers
Q What is the world's largest
island, not counting Australia and
Greenland?
A Borneo, 300,000 square miles
nearly as large as Texas and
Louisiana.
er of the two suits not trump.
Before playing to the first
trick,- west had to stop and count .
his defensive tricks. The bidding
practically marked north with
five hearts. That meant that
east had only two hearts.
Therefore west played the ;
queen of diamonds, asking his '
partner to shift to a heart. West
won the heart trick with the ace
and returned a heart.
Now you can see what ' hap
pened. As soon as trump was
led from dummy, west jumped in
with the ace and led a1-third ;
heart, giving his partner a ruff to
defeat the contract.
o IN FORME??
YEARS
30 Years Ago, May S .
Avery Harrison, chief clerk in
the mechanical office of the La
Grande division of the O.-W.
railroad and Mrs. Harrison left for
an extended tour through the
east. They planned to visit
Wilkesbarre, Pa., New York, De
t r p i t , Buffalo, Chicago and
Omaha. " 1 J'i.
Col. -andV Mrs. ' . -SJ-'haaho.
were visiting in Pendleton.'
Entries for the Eastern Oregon
Interscholastic meet here mount
ed to almost 100. ' . 1
Q What is the average age of
persons receiving Ph. D. degrees?
A 26.
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they decide they want to go home.
Molotov doesn't spend much time at the
hotel and he has taken only a few meals in
suite P. Most of the time he's not at the con
ference is spent at the Soviet consulate. Some
of the correspondents taxied out to see what
went on. but Russian plainclothesmen didn't
let them get out of the cab.
When Molotov is at the St. Francis, where
he has plush office space, parlor, bedroom
and bath, an American MP is stationed at
the 10th floor public elevator exits and no
body gets off who hasn't business.
Molotov went to a movie Sunday night,
to see news reels of the conference opening.
Four rows of seats were reserved and he
entered surrounded by a flying wedge of
guards. When he sat down he was surround
ed. He stayed only about a quarter of an
hour.
Much has been made of the Russian com
munications ship anchored out in the bay.
Rumors have flown that Ukraine and White
Russian and even Lublin Polish delegations
are out there, waiting for the correct moment
to appear. But both the British and the Am
ericans had similar radio communication
ships at Yalta for the Crimean conference,
so it's nothing new.
How many Russians are at the consulate,
on the ship, or staying at the hotel, nobody
knows. St. Francis management has no idea
how many Russian guesis it has. It knows
definitely it has 23 out of the 46 delegations
and it knows the names and room numbers
of 47J delegates and advisor in 22 out of the
2j delegations, plus 26 liaison men from the
coordinator t office fir the 13 Latin-American
delegation. The St. Franevs is easily the
most eosmopoliisn center :n town, swarming
with mbbci-necker ami autograph ekers.
But on the t3rd delegation, th Sus;xi, the
, St. Franris rr.angen,ent Jun gave up. The
first 30 arrival lAciui ig 12 w lmtn secp.
tatifs. were du.y reg.sve'.ed. 8j1 wfen cteks
f Jwtd they uoi jdn t rd she Rust an Jifra
tures they Juit lei Vit tact mrrivj,move to
arad'taW ior ie wj(ole tisor, doing with) it
what they wft'.nO cy'u
Q What is the principal indus
try of Negros Island in the Phil
ippines? A Sugar; three-fourths of the
Philippines' annual crop comes
from there. Other Negros prod
ucts are copra, lumber, rice.
Q Who originated latitude and
longitude?
A The ancient Greeks.
IS Years Ago, May S
Roy Forrester won the third
and deciding leg on the Hot Lake
Sanatorium trophy at Lone Tree
yesterday in the final trapshootof
t h e Oregon - Idaho telegraphic
competition.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gralapp
were complimented at a surprise
wedding anniversary party at
their home. Three tables of bridge
were at play with Ira Woodie
winning first honors and Miss
Florence Williams receiving sec
ond award. Those in charge of
arrangements were Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Evans and Mr. and Mrs.
E. D. Towler.
Q Why do mechanics like the
jet propulsion engine of the P-59
Airacomet?
A There are only 11 bolts
holding it together, and a job that
takes five days on a conventional
engine can be done in one day
on the P-59.
10 Years Ago. May S "
Six permits were issued for al
terations and repairs to La
Grande houses owned by the
state involving expenditure of
$5549.12.
Dr. James J. D. Haun turned
in the best 18-hole score of the
La Grande Country club in the
year's opening event. He scored a
43 on his first round and 42 on
the second nine. -
This Curious World
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