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Frank Schiro, Publisher
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 194")
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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"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. ' .
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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).
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: ,. 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.
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