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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Rouhd -.-'ii EDITORIAL PAGE By DREW PEARSON ' I- mm Br i IP .msjmr ... La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 194") Page Two The Path of Glory . f iwi ""'op4 fcnAVi"- rrrjAoui". M i ri I 1 1 Bl . .-. . . V II , t I ITM I IkW ..Ml ' ' IB I . . II I I I II 1 nwa I T -m i - Ul I luiixy . - I a 1 I ""Jpninni. I 1 EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA RANDB -i A;city of 1Q.0O0. ' Eitend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT , Out of the spoils won in battle did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord. I Chronicles 26:27. ' ' THOUGHT VOtt TODAY Vengeance ' conies not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, plac ing its foot on the bad. Euripides. End of the Line Italian reaction to the death of 15c nito Mussolini confirmed an old suspi cion of ourhat II Duco's fellow coun trymen were never much impressed by his one accomplishment that seemed to impress Americans. "Mussolini made the trains run on time," Americans used to say in the early days of fascism. And so, perhaps, he did. 1 It may have been a boon to the im patient Yankee tourist who wanted his visit to Italy's ageless wonders run off with American efficiency and punc tuality. 11c may have said farewell to the beauties of Florence or Venice as reluctantly as the man in the movie travelog. Hut when it came time to go he wanted the 1 o'clock train to leave at -I, and not at ll:2(i. We would imagine that all this was somewhat less important to the Italians, whose tempo is slower than ours. Train liding isn't a major activity of most Italians' lives or of most Americans', for that matter. And when improved train schedules were part of a regime that also specialized in murder, beat ings forced dosage of castor oil, terror ism and suppression of hard-won free doms, it is easy to see that the Italians might have concluded that the whole thing wasn't worth it. So we don't think that the American admirers of Mussolini's accurate time- ! tables understood the Italians very well. In fact, we don't think Mussolini un derstood them very well, either. In what seems to have been his last coher ent statement before a craven departure from this life, Mussolini shouted: "Let me save my life ind I will give you an empire." It should have been obvious that if there was anything that Italy didn't want at the moment, it was the promise of another empire. Mussolini promised an empire once before, spent young and reluctant lives trying to achieve it and, failing ignominiously, fastened cn his people a brutal, degrading vassalage to a nation with a temporarily stronger dictator. Then Hitler made the same promise, and failed. That was all he or Musso lini could offer a promise of empire at the price of blood and fortune. Vio lence was as natural to them as peace, progress and prosperity were foreign. They could not thrive in an atmosphere of calm a-id sanity, for both were mad. And since it was a self-obsessed kind of madness, they could not realize that their grandiose promises might eventu ally become unapjtcaling. Anyway, Mussolini got no takers for his offer of another empire. Instead, he got what he deserved. His people sent him back to the city where he started, back to ihe gutter he came from. They kicked him around in death as he kicked them around in life. The Italians do such things rather we I. Maybe they don't have the best railroads in the world, but they cer tainly can dispose of tyrants with" swift .justice and an elegant, operatic flour- Funnij liusitiess O SO THEY SAY Hunger, poverty, disease and ignorance arc conditions that give aggressors their chance. We shall not be able to achieve a Listing peace unless the nations of the world collaborate success fully to reduce and eventually remove the economic and social causes of wur. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius jr. The bare truth is that for a Ui'ti part of the Dutch people the question is no longer how they will survive the terrible or dial Impowl upon them, but whether they will survive. Henry J. Kaiser, national chair man United National clothing collection. Thin Utif. inHirai a lonq lite. nd ihesp calluses how thai your " - I 1.. . n...rf" To decree a national employ ment goal of 60,(A)0,000 or any other number of jobs and malJW tain that level by government 'in vestmenfif necessary is not the mad to peacetime prosperity. M nth! y Review, lluaruiily 'I "i i Pi of Nrw York. SAN FRANCISCO On October 9, 1934, a bomb thrown in .the streets of Marseilles killed King Alexander of .. Jugoslavia and changed the fate of the world. The Jugoslavs blamed the French for not protecting their king, and swerved away from their tradi tional alliance with France into the German orbit. , .jThe bomb was throwp by a Croatian fana tic, carefully grained in. a special German sabotage school.. Its repercussions started a new European alignment and helped the be ginning of another -war. ' Today, -fn 'San Francisco, security precau tions are so shockingly loose that the same thing might easily happen. Foreign delegates have complained about them, but nothing has been done. Meanwhile the ease with which an outsider can get into the conference unidentified Would be laughable if it weren't potentlally'yagic. On one day while 46 top delegates, includ ing the foremost foreign ministers of the world, were sitting in secret session at the veterans'' building, two newspapermen plus two University of Southern California co-eds made a test-of getting into the building with out credentials, carrying four typewriters. The four typewriters could have contained 50 pound'pf'TNT each, totaling 200 pounds. The twpraen and two girls drove in a taxi, not a conference car, through police lines without beiftg stopped, and walked into the veterans' building without showing creden tials. They walked the entire length of the building, through the hall alongside of which the 46 delegates were sitting, and then left still carryihg' their typewriters. Twenty minutes later they returned. The taxi stopped at the police lines, but both the military police and the San Francisco police waved to them to go inside. No credentials were shown. They also entered the veterans' building without credentials, walked through the building with their typewriters and de parted. Later as the foreign ministers were about to end their session, the four returned again, carrying typewriters. Again they were not required to show credentials. This time the military police were even removed from the conference doors. This time, if the typewriter cases had carried TNT, the four people mak ing three trips to the conference hall, could have totaled 600 pounds of TNT. Or on the last trip they might have carried Tommy guns to meet the delegates as they came out the door. . Neither the military police nor the local police would have known the difference. . At the opera house, where plenary sessions of the conference are held, security ;is bet ter. But the secret meetings of the .46 top delegates and foreign ministrs at the less guarded veterans' building are much more important. Should a Hitler agent, wanting last-minute vengeance for Berlin and the end of nazidom, execute a plot against these 46 key men of . the world, civilization would be set back for years. And every other nation would blame the United States for what happened. Some people have joked about Molotov's bodyguards and the Russian complaints about security. But the real fact is that oh this point the Russians are the only realistic people at the conference. - Note Yesterday while guards checked passes at one door of the conference, an MP left another door unguarded. So about 20 people turned down at one door, streamed into the unguarded entrance. . By all odds the two most dominating fig ures at this conference are Anthony Eden and V. M. Molotov. They put all. others, in cluding the U.S. delegates, in the shade. Crowds swarm the St. Francis hotel, where the Russians live, hoping to catch a glimpse of Molotov. Crowds crape' their necks as the dapper British foreign minister enters the conference hall. The two men are direct opposites, yet their lives have been closely interwoven. One was born of wealthy British aristocracy, can trace his family back to the first Eden baronetcy created by Charles II in 1672. . . . The other comes from a worker-revolutionist family whom nobody ever heard of . . . Eden is known as the heir-apparent of Churchill . . . Molotov is known as the heir of Stalin . . . Eden can and does cross swords with Chur chill, but Molotov is never known to have rowed with Stalin. . . . Molotov was in power when Russia made its famous exit from the league of nations. See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH M1LLETT It is a fault of most women's clubs that they dote -on studying problems far from home and' totally unrelated to the lives and problems of their members, instead of get ting down to earth and digging into matters that really concern the members as women and homemakers. One such 1 down-to-earth, problem they might tackle right now is the matter of social security for domestic employes. That is a problem housewives ought to be interest ed in. They know that the domestic workers they have lost to industry are now enjoying the benefits of social security. And they can't help but see that they are going to be re luctant to give up those benefits to go back into domestic work, where they have no pro tection of any kind. If for nothing but the selfish desire to make housework compare favorably with SAN FRANCISCO Settlement of future threats to world peace, as being worked out at the United Nations conference, is going to be just like a game of parcheesi, also spelled pachisi. This important discovery is announced af ter study of an elaborate 24-pagc, four-color booklet just put out by the state department. Title of the booklet is "Proposals for a Gen eral International Organization as Developed at Dumbarton Oaks, 1944." To make it simple, 12 of the pages are given over to dia grams that resemble nothing so much as var iations of an old fashioned parcheesi board. There are brown, green and black arrows all over the pages to show you what to do next and the whole thing is so simple and complete in its explanations that the only thing lacking to make it a real parcheesi board is a pair of dice to shake or a spinner or wheel of fortune to show how many spaces you advance or retreat on each move. Turn, for instance, to page 16, which shows a parcheesi board pattern titled in small let ters, "Functions of the Security Council," and then In bigger type, "Peaceful Settle ment of Disputes." It may be a little difficult to explain this to you without having the chart right before your eyes, but if you'll follow directions closely you'll get the general drift. Honest, this explanation is a lot simpler than the diagram, which would only confuse you. Just take it as a game of parchqecsi. In stead of having a tiddlcdcwink which you call a "man" and move from one space to another on the diagram. jut take a button and call it a "dispute." The idea of the game is to take a dispute and play it through suc cessive stages of settlement moving it through spiicOs marked General Assembly, Regional, Security Agency, Secretariat, In ternational Court of Justice ami Security Council till you reach "home" which in this game is called "Peace." Of yrjtyrsc, Jtyt all disputes can be settled peacefully, lif that case, the displtW leads to war. Very bad. Go back and start over. Disputes, according to the directions on rage 16, start between two nations, which are indicated by two black squares on a blue globe the b"tlom of the board. Just in iMiHihit.,1. you can put your di.pute into play at several places Shake the dice or spin the wheel of fortune and see' what your first move will, be in. this game of 'Peaceful Settlement of Disputes." The dis pute may be started, towards settlement from spaces marked, Any State, Regional Security Agency, Secretariat 'of general .Assembly, All this .means is that 'rany of these four recognize and can call attention to the exist ence of a dispute. Spin the wheel and see what you do next. If you don't have a war and don't have to go back and start all over, you move your dispute along any of four brown lines to a space marked "One." This is a temporary safety zone in an area marked "Security Council." Move on to "Two." Your dispute is still in the Security Council but from here there arc four possible plays. Spin the wheel. The Security Council, according to the di rections printed along the black arrow line leading from space "Two," now "calls upon the disputants for direct peaceful settlement by 1. Negotiation 2. Mediation 3. Arbitration 4. Judicial Settlement. In other words, if you get any of these numbers on your next move you retch home on a short cut by achieving peaceful settle ment and the game's over. But if you don't win on this move, the directions say, "Par ties arc obligated to refer their dispute to Security Council." That means you have to follow the reverse black line arrow nd go back to "Two." Your next move is then to "Three." It's also in the Security Council safety zone. Spin the wheel and ve what you get, fol lowing the green lines this time. Again four possible plays, for the Security Council may either move your dispute along four green lines to cither a. Recommend pro cetiuJc for direct settlement between dis puting nations, b. Refer dispute fiV local settlement to Regional Security Agency, c. Refer baelJ iVUcncrnl Assembly for recom mendation or d. Refer to International Court of Justice for advice. What happens if none of these works, the directions don't say. But if along any of these lines your dispute reaches home and you achieve Settlement, that's parcheesi alio known a.-. Pi nee. Am it wondirful? ton. iM ev urA-itwIcTlHi:.' t. K tag ii. i. mt. err. "That girl's parents are not very thoughtful, letting a soldier catch cold standing outdoors kissing her good night!" ' - 6 McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY. America's Card Authority HIGH SIGNAL MEANS RETURN UPPER SUIT . . (This is tha second of six , articles discussing the suit di recting convention.) Before commenting on the play, I would like to state that the rea son East does not over-call the one no trump bid with two clubs is due to the vulnerability. Now, while in this case South might have made three no trump, you cannot blame him for prefer ring a suit contract, especially other jobs, so that they can again get maids at the end of the war, women should be in terested in social security for domestics. They should, since they are the employers of household help, feel some rsponsibility for seeing to it that the persons they employ have as much security as other workers. . Women have had a taste of what it is like to have to get along without help in cooking, cleaning, and caring for their children. And unless they want a bigger dose of it, they ought to see What can be done to make the job of working in somebody else's home as satisfactory as somebody else's store or fac tory. ' . Social security for domestic help is just one angle to the problem of making housework more appealing. But it is a. good angle for women to start on. And there is no better place for them to tackle the problem than in their clubs. ' . A J42 1 J96 Q105 A873 N 95 V 10 42 W EA73 97643 c KJ8 3 I Dealer 1AQ652 A AKQ106 VKQ85 A K109 Bridge E.-W. vul. South West North 1A Pass 1N.T. 3 V Pass 3 A 4 A Pass Pass ' Opening A 3. East Pass Pass Pass This says, "Partner, my re-entry is in the highest ranking suit not trump." If he holds the ace of diamonds and the king of hearts,, his proper return is the deuce of Clubs, thus stating, "Partner, my reentry is in the lower of the two suits." So with the aid of this conven tion West was able to get in two club ruffs and defeat the'eontract. IN FORMED YEARS : 30 Years Ago, May 7 United States Senator Borah, who has been attending the Celilo canal opening passed through the city on his way to Boise, Judge Robert Fakin, a mem ber of the supreme court, who with the balance of the court, has been holding the May term at Pendleton, arrived to spend the week-end with his san, Robert Eakin, Jr. - Glen Conkey of La Grande won the 100-yard dash in the-16th am nual intcrschplastic' i tck and field meet. AnTjrafortealwfcontesi. was held in conjunotion,-with the sports events. - '" Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent holding the singleton ace. East won the opening lead with the ace of clubs and naturally read this lead as a singleton. The trick is to give your part ner a ruff and at the same time tell him in which suit you have an immediate entry. You do that by returning the queen of clubs. Questions & Answers Q How fast do our teel grow? A A boy's double in size be tween 1 Vi and 18 years. Girls' feet are nearer maturity between these ages than boys' feet. 15 Years Ago. May 7 May weather was freakish in La Grande ranging from intervals of sunshine to light and damp snow that melted before touching the ground. Hail also fell. Daylight saving time was dis cussed at the chamber of com merce forum luncheon and at the conclusion of the meeting a mo tion was passed, with no dissent ing votes, that the chamber fa vor such a plan for La Grande from May 15 to September 15. . Q What is the average length of wohien's feet? ' " A 9.7 inches (men's, 10.3). .fc-i- : ,. Q How many doughnuts do j our doughboys cat? y. ,, A In 1944 the Red Cross dis tributed 84,130,960 less than a t'dqzen a year per man. Q In Holland, what is a plodcr? A An inundated area sur rounded by dikes, to be pumped dry and converted into farmland. 10 Years Ago, May 7 Carl Helm, Union county dis trict attorney, has been selected to give the commencement ad dress to the graduating class of Wallowa high school. ' With good weather and a fair attendance, a registered PITA trapshoot was held at the Lone Tree grounds of the La Grande Gun club with Lewiston, Hepp ner and La Grande nimrods shar ing in the top prizes. In the 16 yard singles, Nate Ztt'cifcl, La Grande and C. H. ' Lattourel, Hcppncr, tied with 95 scores, Zwcifel winning the- shootoff. George Walker and A. J. Gower, both La Grande, turned in 93s. This Curious World ( to Moscow, 1 fjuTH - IviT V , (. THAN TO nlrScTlA ?A I Vl ) Buenos Aifies, ) mHm - ajfVI ) ) CAPITALOFOUR ) 13 I i I HEMISPHERICAL. HL-tftT qfe-j I ( NSI&HBOR, '' in WfJl V ( ANTINA. ) 1 VffitfU. r-2 ' iff NATURAL GAS, 'UNLIKE MANUFACTURED AS, IS HARMLESS TO PtftrED PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS. S-B WHERE'S -ELMER p. 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