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; . EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher TUKSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1945 Unfiling, Unhonored, Unwept EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT And the pots, and the shovels,-and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels V brass .;whorewith they?; ministered, look thoy away. II Kings' 25 :M. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Fathoii no prophet's laws 1 seek, Thy laws in Nature's works appear; I own myself corrupt and weak, Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear. I'.yron V-E Day A Rededication As we stand on the dawn of n l'uropean peace a j.eaee Lrln.'.ing to a close six years of horrible war we have no cause to rejoice at the lifting of our burdens or the completion of n't enforced task. The burdens are not lifted, and for the people of this nation, the task is not done. Kven in Europe the problems are not solved and the cost is not yet fully paid. We have left on the battlefields of Kurope, according to the most re cent count, H!:l,28l of our dead. Wounded, mangled and ill have to taled 131, M55. Over (57,(1(10 have been reported lost and we hope to bring back home a total of 52. !)!)() prisoners. Unless we now re-examine the European conflict ii the terms of fun damental human truths, this payment of human lives will have been in vain, merely a down payment to (lie jugger naut, the beast of war. We must then, now, rededicate ourselves to the cause of peace, to the suppression of tyrants, to the annihilation of false ideologies ideologies which are not dead in Europe, which may today be extant in our own land. Funny Business l4i-i'iv ' vv a' COMPAWV K BARRACKS O c pill? jjj ! -SS f- ? W1 1M1 IT NIA IHVK1 IHt T. M AT. W, I nhedVrur'ilrnutio"n-.euTing- ihfcfrirfniy.- ot..Wnvitv.MnMlC...U Ished. Wdiyhe i ub.sc.(c broughl tl,c coul-ch territory page Four We must rededicate ourselves to con tinued . alertness the price of human liberty is still eternal vigilance, We have won u'war, but for us war is not over. ' , , , On the, vast reaches of the Pacific, American fighting: men still die. .' There a foul philosophy, predicated. by. people drunk with arroganccV still' holds' sway. For us this maj' be . a greater var. .. We niny pay still more heavily with ", the lives of the lyputli ojj-thiji .nation; ..t-vwith their, vveli-bqinjf ,and hiippinesijr ''.'? J'ahtf with. oursC Aihless "we jiut.'.wilii'b'Ht'' hesitation, every thilig. we po'sseds into' , the Pacific war; ', .. 4v.'. .''.' There must be no lot-up,, no relaxa tion, no putting off. In the words of President Truman:' " "Much remains to be done. The vic tory won in the west must now be won in the east. The whole world must bo cleansed of the evil from which half of the world has been freed ... I call upon the people of the United States, what ever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that he will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace. "We must work to finish the war. Our victory is but half won The, west is free, but the east is still Jn bondage to the treacherous tyranny of. the Jap anese. When the last Japanese division lias surrendered unconditionally; then only will our fighting job be done." At home we have a tremendous prob lem of li'construction. The war in Europe alone has cost us more than 1S5 billion dollars and the total price has not been tallied; its limits may never be reached. The war in the Paci fic may mount to greater cost. This debt must be paid by the sweat of our brows. In addition, we face the fact that a large portion of the cost of European reconstruction must be borne by this nation. V-K day in Kurope is only a milepost, early in the path of total victory against the agents and forces of war. It is an opportunity for rededication to the principles of justice and the wel fare of humanity and to the completion of the greater tasks which lie ahead. Q SO THEY SAY To (hi' enemy: We has1 forti fied this islam! for n your, but we cannot win this war with Just the Yamato spirit. We cannot mulch your quantity. There is mi editor road for us to follow but to die. Jar note found in hvo Jinta cave. There has befh a certain amount ,o murder . , . and a good deal of high-class 'looting. This has been hard on the people liv ing along the way. but after all, the Germans brought these people iylio their country, so they can take the unsequencos for a fciv days. '- '-' Maj. -Gen. W. I'. Tempter, 21st Army Group AMU director, on liberated slave labor. The killing rlnrted aain out side the gates. 1 saw SO men beat en to the ground ar.d pounded until dead. Liln-rated French prisoner, on r. tirr mtirh from NorhertwiiM ;m 9.1 Washington Merry-Go-Round Br DREW PEARSON SAN FRANCISCO By all odds the most skillful diplomacy game at this conference has been played by dapper, Signified An thony Eden of Great Britain, He has man aged to come put as the friend of all sides, and most important of all, the mediator be tween Russia and the United States. In other words, Eden has completely re versed the previous role of President Roose velt, who up until his death had acted as the mediator between Churchill and Stalin. The Churchill-Stalin rivalry was not mere ly personal. It was historic. It was based not only on the fact that Churchill just after the last war, urged the sending of allied troops Into Russia to help the White Russian generals overthrow the embryo Bolshevik regime, but that he flirted with the Cliveden set which in 1939 advocated war between Russia and Germany while England sat on the side lines. This was the basis for the personal sus picion between him and Stalin. But histor ically, Churchill was carrying out a century old British policy of isolating Russia. For 100 years, the country with the greatest land mass in the world, Russia, had been kept without a warm-water seaport by Britain, the country with the greatest navy in the world. That rivalry was the reason for the Anglo Japanese alliance, whereby the British, working through Japan, helped to stop Rus sia from getting Manchuria and a warm water port on the Pacific. That rivalry was behind Britain's sphere of influence in Persia (now Iran) to prevent Russian use of the gulf of Persia. That rival ry was also the cause of the Crimean war in which the British fleet and British troops actually landed on the same spot where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt later held their Yata conference and waged a bloody battle to prevent the czar from coming down to the Dardanalles and getting an outlet through the Mediterranean Finally this. 100-year-old Russo-British riv alry was behind Britain's taking Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland away from Russia after the last war to block her outlet to the Baltic sea. That rivalry continued during the Toher amYalta conferences, with Stalin and Chur chill both trading against each other and Franklin Roosevlt sitting in the middle. At Teheran the argument was over a sec ond front through the Balkans which Chur WE, THE WOMEN . ',' Br RUTH MILLET!!. . . , ., The Hollywood designer, Irene, who can dream up suits and dr"sscs for stars that make women in movie audiences sigh with envy has dreamed up a new post-war prob lem for women. She says, "We must be t'Mcful not to shock the boys coining buck with garish clothes." Before the girls start' throwing away their outlandish hats and violent ensembles they had better remember that the men will piob ably come back ready to accept any kind of clothes. Some of them are used to Paris fashions which arc pretty daring themselves. Some are used to the native costumes of the Pa cific. Some are used to the get-ups of the Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO One thing different about this United Nations Charter being written at San Francisco is that no one Thomas Jefferson or James Madison is going to be able to take all the bows when the muses of history put in a call for "Author: Author!" Instead, every one of the 250 deli gates and lot. of their 1,100-odd advisors and technical experts may be able to go home and tell the family in all honesty, "This deathless prose sentence was written by papa!" Or "Observe the noble comma which I insisted be placed bet'wen the clauses of this most important sub -paragraph." First week of the conference, as you may have noted with some boredom, was given over to oratory in which heads of the 40 nations" delegations got keynote speeches o'f their chests. All were no doubt important, but pretty middling dull by the time they go; through second or third translation. There was applause from time to time as some na tional spellbinder restated a somewhat ob vious platitude on the glories of peace or the horrors of war, but no ovations and no on got lifted out of his plush seat in wild acclaim over the inspiring thoughts or beau tiful phrases of any speaker. Oratory at thi:". clam-bake is pretty dead, which is probably just as well, for it's tlv substance and no: the flourishes that will be most enduring and now the more than W00 unknown Jo Doukes authors have, to start producing. Dumbarton Oaks deadline for delegates to submit their ideas for amending the Dum barton Oaks document is Friday. In other words, too noble sentiments oppressed ty the orators will have !,i be re iueed to writ ing and submitted (oithe general secretary of the conference, young Mr. Alr'tiis. The compile file of suggested cha(le) may fill gmore than 1.000 pages. All these piVtK'sed amendments weiVt)lv) e.'titUSored by the full conteiem-,0 There will be a lot of duplication. FiiVob of the secretary general will be to take the several hunAgy.t proposed amendments and classify them according to four main divisions of sub ject matter. ceo m!,5;!..fc'ir,6 wj'li the general :". chill favored, or through France, which Sta lin favored. Curchill wanted the allied armies , to get into the Balkans Russia's sphere of influence and thereby keep the Russians out. He didn't want allied armies ruining factories and alienating the population of western Europe which was to be Britain'! sphere of, influence. In the end Roosevelt tipped the scales In favor of Stalin toward a second front through France. Once at Teheran, Churchill trying to poke a little fun at Stalin, said: "Marshal, I have noticed that whenever anyone comes into contact with you they become slightly pink." To which Stalin replied: "And Mr. Prime Minister, any good doctor will tell you that pink is the healthiest of all colors." And Roosevelt, wanting to pour oil on the troubled waters, said: "Gentlemen, let me remind you that there is nothing more beau tiful than all the colors of the rainbow." . But at the end, as Churchill bade farewell to Stalin, there was still tension between them. "Well, good-bye, Marshal," said the prime minister, "I'll see you :n Berlin." "Yes," shot back Stalin, "I in a tank and you in a Pullman car." Roosevelt was shrewd enough to continue as middle man even at Yalta, despite the fact that he was slipping physically. He kept both Russia and Great Britain in the position of playing up to the United States. The loss of that startegic bargaining power is the most important development of this conference. Stcttinius has lost what Roose velt had and Anthony Eden has cleverly stepped into his place. The United States has now slipped into the position of being the chief rival and potential opponent of Rus sia, while Eden has maneuvered so that Eng land sits in the middle, able to throw its weight to one side or the other. It is not healthy for any nation to get out on a limb as the chief opponent of another. And real statesmanship in the stat3 depart ment should have steered away from these rocks during the advance conference con versations. The error can be patched up. Public opinion in the United States is too sane to let the unfortunate USA vs. USRR clash poison our relations. The goals of peace are too important. But mistakes like this are expensive and we can't afford to make any more. Pee WASHINGTON . . . Page 6 I.. Indian women, etc. After seeing and accepting all of these for eign fashions and many more it isn't likely the men are going to be upset by even a shocking pink suit worn with a purple top per. In fact American women are probably go oing to look so good to most of the returning men that they won't quibble over whether or not an evening dress is to extreme, or a hat causes others to turn around and stare. If the girls just keep their figures the pin up conscious service men aren't likely to care what kind of clothes they go in for. It really looks as though this is one post war problem the women needn't get worked up over. poses, membership and general secretariat. Second, those dealing with the general as sembly its structure and its political, eco nomic and trusteeship functions. Third, those dialing with the economic council its structure and its functions in making peace ful settlements, enforcing decisions and handling regional sccu.ity arrangements. Fourth, those dealing with the judicial or ganization the world court and internation al law. The full San Francisco conference has been split up into four commissions, each of which will be responsible for the drafting of one of the four main parts of the charter, as out lined above. All the proposed amendments will therefore be referred by the secretary general to th appropriate commission. The commissions w ill meet in open session. But the four commissions, in turn, are divided into 12 technical committees, two for the first and fourth commissions, four for the second and third commissions. Each oi the four commissions will therefore take all the proposed amendments referred to it by the secretary general and sub-divide them by technical committee. Every nation gels to name, its own members on any commis sion or committee. Actual work of drafting the United Nations Charter, section by scc ti.m. will be done in secret meetings of these 12 technical committees. As each com mittee polishes off its section combining, incorporating or throwing out the pvopused amendments referred to it and grafting them on the matching Duir.'.wrton Oaks sugges U. mis that (eetion will be reppitc.l back to the commission. Each of the cM!imi;!S:onS' may approve the drafts of,itn tecfihtal M1V , miCovs or send t'ltem oaf for Wlfjilinifi Wfion e:ich of the four coiitnylssions has com- O pleted t,he) drafting of its part o the charter, r. that part will' be repoftod ,uPto the-(Suit U conference, which will nieJ in open plenkrVQ session to consider it. Any section, sub-sec- C lion, aiticle. sentence, clause, phrasV word or punctuation mark m.iy(ft? fought over and changed in plenary session. But when the conference finally agrees on a draft of the charter that will be it and" rfe1i.V,t'i; S.S'a.il tn hack where thev cam- Side Glances II ,J f I Ell con 1 hi tf NtA it Hvice. mt. t. w. o. u. . ttr. pit. S' 9 "I'm sure I didn't offend' your parents, dear, iwith my little ex planation of the purpose of social security they look prepated to stay with us all aummerl" , O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY; America's Card Authority . SUIT DIRECTING ALSO DEMANDS RESTRAINT (This is the third of six art icles discussing the suit direct ing convention.) While the suit directing conven tion has a lot of possibilities, do not think that you can use it on every hand or you will spoil your game. But there are many sound convention. He played the king of hearts on South s ace. t, Now, when the declarer took the club finesse, East did not have to guess as to whether to lead a diamond or a spade. His partner had told him with the play of the king of hearts that he must lead the higher of the two suits in question, which in this case would be diamonds and spades. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago, May B Mrs. Frank Rechlin returned fiom a week's visit in Pendle ton, where she attended a dancing party given by Mrs. F. L. Judd, Mrs. Sam Thompson and Mrs. G. W. Phelps. She was accompanied to La Grande by her niece, Mar garet Phelps, student at Pendle ton high school, who is over for ,tha track meet .in, this cUy.tH ,'v " Mrs. Elizabeth Donnelly enter tained the Pinochle club at her home or. First street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bay received high score. 762 9852 AQ542 4A97 I N 1 8654 3 KQ84 W STVJ10 5 J63 R 1074 "'3 DelerJK6 A Q J 10 2 V A 93 AKQ 1085 Bridge E.-W. vul. South West North ' East 1 A Pass 2 Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3N.T Pass Opening V 4. 9 j ways in which the convention can be employed. The declarer was quite wise in allowing East to hold the first'two tricks with the ten and jack of hearts. When the five of hearts' was returned, he had to win with the ace. Now ,of course, East knew his partner held both the king and queen of hearts, so at this point West employed the suit directing Questions & Answer 8 Q How many casualties has China suffered since war with Japan broke out in 1937? A Gen. Chen Cheng, war minister, says 3,100,000. IS Years Ago, May 8 With orchards throughout the valley heavy with blossoms, fruit growers had a narrow escape from serious damage when the mercury dropped to 34 degrees in La Grande and to the freezing point in some soctions of the val ley. Cloudy weather prevented any loss, however. Events of music week attract ed considerable attention shown and large crowds attended the programs. Music hours, were Held at the Grande Ronde hospital and musical programs featured the meetings of various civic clubs. Q What decs the Nci:e Valhalla mean? A Hall of the Slain. 10 Years Ago, May 8 , Miss Blanche Clark, Miss Edith Darby, Miss Eva Wear and Mrs. i'o'iert Eakin, Miss Imogen Rus Miss Margaret Notson, Mrs. Helen Druley and Miss Marie Tig glebcck were among the Univer sity women who went to Wallo wa Iike for the weekend follow ing llu district AAUW meeting at Enterprise. , . . Clark Webb, employe in the local Montgomery Ward store, w as appointed to the state depart ment of agriculture in the mar k e t enforcement division o f weight and measures, replacing Charles B. Orai, who was with the division for 18 years. Q What is noteworl' the Jap city of Karuiza A It is Tokyo's sumn Population 5000 in sr in winter. It is abou' northwest of Tokyo. bout sort. -00 miles Q What is Army's "-Treatment? A Famine treatmen : pre-di-gested food glucose, protein, and vitamin solutions admin istered to starvation victims too weak to eat. This Curious World ONLV ABOUr 45V-3l!ASf LORD NORTHCLIFFE OFFERED A PBlZE OP TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO COULD R.V A PLANE BETWEEN Aff PotNT IN GREAT BRITAIN OR. IRE LAND, AND ANY ADINT IN) CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND OR TUB UNITED STATES, IN EITHER CNRECrtOM, , WU KV A NE eup tji mull's. O RED PWESAJK THE CAAOT BECAUSE It LIVES ON DECAYING VEGETABLE. MATTER 5'9L r:ei
