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t I EDITORIAL -PAGE , I i I I i i i V' Side Glances La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1945 It Was Never But a Feeble Flame, Anyway EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Honde Valley Irrigation project. LA GRANDE. A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old trnnnent: clHe the new piece that filled it up takoth away from the old, and the rent is made worse. Mark 2:21. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care la to seem everything but what they are. Goldsmith. Two Budgets You never saw seven-and-a-half bil lion dollars. Neither did anybody else, includinir Treasury Secretary Morjren. than and mint director Nellie Tayloo Uoss. There isn't any such thing. Sums like that arc just, figments of fevered imaginations, reduced to figures in gov ernment ledgujs. When President Tninian sliced seven-and-a-half billion dollars off the 10-15-l(i war budget, he eliminated something so impersonal and so inconceivable that it doesn't sijem to have anything to do with you or'iiB. Hut it does. That re duction, a drop in the bucket, means $!:U7 oil' the 19bi expenses of every individual in the United States $21-1.28 off the hudgot of every family of four. We won't pay any less next year be cause of this reduction. We have been going into debt so deeply every year since 19:1 that a reduction as small as seven-and-a-half billions can't begin to catch us up. We shall have to pay just as much next year, but each one of us wiil be $53.57 less in debt, a year from June 80, because the president used an axe on the war budget. We should be grateful to the fighting men who, by beating Germany, enabled the president to cut back war estimates for the coming year. We should be grateful to the president for the promptness and firmness with which he grasped the opportunity. It is not belittling what has been done to point out, however, that this cut was in the almost 80-billion-dollar war bud get inherited by President Truman. It has no effect upon the more than 13-billion-dollar non-war budget. It is inevitable that a great war like this should bo run at a deficit. Not even this nation can pny such expenses out of current income. The war budget will come down, from now on, until Japan is defeated, at which time much . of it will disappear. The peacetime non-war budget is the ' one to Tear. It is the one with which we must live, and try to keep on speak- ' ing terms, after our war-inflatod 160 " billion-dollar national income subsides to normality. The non-wnr or adminis- ' trativo budget alone calls for $100 next year from every man, woman and child in the country. President Truman has been in the White House too short a time and un der too extraordinary circumstances for us to expect him to have done anything concrete about the administrative bud get. We hope and expect that he will give attention to that as soon as he can. It is not enough to have a security organization. We have to have the means for doing away with the condi tions that make it easy for wars to ctart. Clemeant Attlee, Hritish deputy prime minister and San Francisco delegate. Washington Merry-Go-Round Page Two Br DREW PEAMOH : - : WASHINGTON By the thread of one affected nations. Prime ministers and poten affeoted nations. Prime ministers an dpoten tates, once close to Franklin Roosevelt, now must learn how to get along with an un known gentleman in the White House. Cer tain army-navy officials, who always knew how Roosevelt would react on this and that, now must do- business with a man they once criticized. ' To Illustrate how the pendulum of fate has swung, here are some of those wno will miss Franklin Roosevelt most: WINSTON CHURCHILL was able to call the late president on the telephone at any time night or day. Their relationship was more intimate than with most members of their own cabinets. When Churchill couldn't get Roosevelt, he talked to Harry Hopkins. Their friendship was equally close. Hopkins and Churchill used to stay up late at night sipping brandy long after FDR had gone to bed, and it was those late-hour talks that sometimes worried U.S. army-navy men. For vital policy sometimes was moulded after midnight. Churchill had planned to hold national elections, probably in June, and Roosevelt's friendship woud have been one of his great campaign assets. That asset is now out the window. Instead he must do business with a man he doesn't know and who chairmanned a committee whose members were quite criti cal of certain British lend-lease and interna tional air policies abroad. MAYOR FIORELLO LA GUARDIA Now will not run for a fourth term. The fiery mayor of New York could have been elect ed again only with Roosevelt's support, and now he will have Dcm-B.oss Bob Hannegan's vigorous opposition. Hannegan plans to run Brig. Gen. Bill O'Dwyer, famous Brooklyn prosecutor, oh the democratic ticket for mayor. O'Dwyer will win. ADMIRAL ERNEST KING The comman der of the fleet and chief of naval opera tions redlly ran the navy under Roosevelt, and he ran it with a high hand. He ignored the late Secretary Frank Knox whenever he felt like it, lowing he would get a sympa thetic ear C,ie White House. He even over ruled Kndx''tJh such a trivial matter as a gray-blue 'sffltimer uniform for the navy, though KncrtMad decided it would cut too heavily into tie consumption of textiles. Knox's suefcssor, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal has pleyed in with King. He had to. If Kingdidn't agree with him, the ad miral came'oiit bluntly in press conference and said s2' But now fhpe is a new man in the White House who wrote a caustic report bitterly critical of the'way the admirals slowed up the war by failure to build adequate land ing boats. The new president also did not hesitate to throw his hooks into the navy whenever the brass hats got inefficient, es pecially on their inexcusable procrastination , in building destroyer-escort vesseles. So fellow-admirals are watching to see Just where King now sits. GENERAL B. B. SOMERVELL No army officer clashed with the Truman committee more frequently and more, head-on than the tough-talking chief supply officer of the army! Somervell differed with Truman on all sorts of things, and the Truman com mittee reports are studded with criticism of the army's supply job. Truman is not a man to nurse personal grudges and won't demote or transfer Som ervell. General Marshall always maintained that despite mistakes he was the best man they had. But Somervell will never become chief of staff, or rise any higher in the army. t, BERNARD BARUCH The man who talks with presidents, no longer has the key to the White House. During the bitter battles be tween the war production board civilian group and General Somervell's military clique, Baruch always backed up Somervell. In fact, he was one of Somervell's most vig orous supporters. . . Truman, on the other hand, fought in the WPB civilian corner. Also Bernie was for Byrnes not Truman at the Chicago conven tion. So he may not be such a close friend to presidents any more. GENERAL "WILD BILL" DONOVAN of the office of startegic services, sometimes called the "Cloak and Dagger Club" or "Oh so Social," will miss Roosevelt terribly. Don ovan ran the giant espionage outfit which tried to find out what was going on behind enemy lines, and he had accumulated the most bizarre assortment of female spies, so cial register bluebloods and anti-Roosevelt haters ever seen in Washington. As an old personal friend, Roosevelt gave him free rein, including grandiose plans for a postwar es pionage service. Truman does not like peace time espionage and will not be so lenient. HARRY HOPKINS Of all those around Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins will miss him most. Their's was a very close personal re lationship. Although Harry has been criti cized vitriolically, sometimes even by other presidential intimates, FDR never wavered in his devotion. In a way,,Harry took the place of Roosevelt's elder son, Jimmie, whom he once hoped would be his secretary. So Harry will miss his old friend terribly. The critics will say that Hopkins will miss him because of the glamour, the power and the prestige. But actually there was a love and devotion between the two men which few realized and even fewer understood. M. REQ. II . MT. Off. J nm. tMifff MCA 6CBV1C1, 1WC. T. ; "I'll be catcher because I've got io watch my little brother he can sit behind home -plate and learn a lot about basebal watching mel" ' ; ; O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Aulhcijy,, A SINGLETON CALLS FOR ENTRY SIGNAL (This is the fourth of six art icles discussing the suit direct ing convention.) The suit directing play is a most modern and effective means of defense, but once again let me warn you: while it can be a very valuable asset to your game, if you attempt to use it on every A J 7 4 V8532 6 J1043 K95 V AK K J 10752 86 ft W E 8 Dealer AQS632 V J 10 9 6 4 A8 2 A 10 - - VQ7 5 Q943 AKQ975 Bridge E.-W vut. Sooth West North 1 Pass 1 3 Pass S Opening 2. , East Pass Pass 10 WE", THE WOMEN Br RUTH MH-LETT That business of President Truman's put ting in a long distance call to Miss Tillie, his high school English teacher, to tell her that he had made another of her former students his press secretary, ought to give school teachers all over the country a lift. Not just because the president of tho United States remembered a teacher witn enough affection to want to let her in on a piece of news he knew would interest her, But because if suggests a game that teachers can play to relieve the monotony of teaching the same subject over and over, year after year. The game is, of course, laying private bets on which students are likely to become im portant citizens in another thirty or -forty years; which ones will remember old school friends When they do reach positions of im portance; and which ones will remember their teachers with affection. A game like that ought to make school teaching infinitely more fun. In a democracy wo realize that any mother's son has a chance to become president. But a high school Or grade school teacher with all the hundreds of students she helps to educate has An even better chance of haying brie .M ."her boys" become famous. And the ones who make the grade aren't always the ones a teacher would expect to go far. That is what ought to 1nake the game more exciting than betting on a horse race. ..hand ,it .will definitely interfere with good play.' Use it only when it is obvious. East's opening lead was easily read as a singleton by both the declarer and west, so when the declarer played the queen of clubs from dummy, West played the jack of clubs. Why? Be cause he wanted to tell his part ner, "If, by any chance, you can get in and want a ruff, you can put me in by returning a spade." Questions & Answers QWho was Anna Jarvis? A Founder of Mother's day in 1908. If West did not have the ace of hearts or the ace. o.' spades, he would simply have played his four of clubs. . ,;o If he had put the three of clubs on the queen, he would be saying to partner, "The best chance of getting me in will be by leading a heart." Now in this hand, when East won the diamond trick with the ace, he could safely lead'a spade and now get a club ruff, defeat ing the contract. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago N. K. West returned from Sa lem where he attended ameeting of the state fair board. : H. H. Weathcrspoon Of Elgin spent Sunday in La Grande on business. He says the apple crop urnc in onnH shnniv ;.-i. Elmer Hanson, 801 X avenue, couldn't find his trousers when he awoke. They wereifound lat er in the yard with money; trink- : ets and: a plug;:uf..tobaccD.Jruss-fj :-i Behind Scenes in Washington . Q How many babies born in the U. S. have at least one foreign-born parent? A One in 10. A quarter-century ago, more than half had at least ortc foreign-born parent. By PETER EDSON, Le. Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent Funny Business ' ' toK'iM!Trr-T'-T'V''T "li V I f " " 1 o SO THEY SAY People on the west bank of the Hhino are more chastened than those on tho east. This is due to the fart that there is much more rtamaise on tho west bank. Cities like Cologne are flattened. OWI Director Elmer Davis. These child-soldiers gone wild is certainly one of the mast dreadful things the history of war has seen. Stockholm newspaper, on Ber lin battle. Our view is that one thing that Ird to the present war was the gu at depression. f we here the nations will get together so that never again will we see food dc :,troyed in one country while peo ple st at vf in another Clement .Vice I'utish Deputy rnme Minister and Sin Fran- cisco dulcgjte "He's Impatient Iniiili on counting our Muff on the runl" Why do they call it blue? It's no bluer than the Hudson! . . Pvt. Philip Perumutter. Brooklyn. N. Y., on the Danuba. SAN FRANCISCO To Ahmet Emin Yal man, press representative of the Turkish del egation to the United Nations conference, has come one of the strangest and pleasantest experiences of the whole San Francisco meet ing, marking the end of another, smaller search for peace that began back in 1939. Or maybe it began a couple of hundred years before that. Anyway . . . In 1939 Mr. Yalman was a Turkish com missioner to the Century of Progress expo sition in New York. In June of that year there came to the Turkish embassy in Washington a delegation of Molokans from California. They wanted to migrate to Turkey and the case came to the attention of Commissioner Yalman in New York "because it was in the nature of "new business." Now the Molokans arc a lovely people, n clean and humble people something like the American Quakers. The word "Molokan" means "a drinker of milk." They cat no pork. Molokans are pacifists. Originally they came from what used to be southern Russia, tho'iqh their homelands are now in Turkey on the Russian border. Over the centuries they had built up thei: own customs and culture in which the de sire for peace was always a dominant in flenee. , When they grew tired of the continual warring and massacres on the Turkish-Hus-sian bolder some of the younger spirits had migrated to America to find peace and here they had prospered! There is a small f..'ny of them in San Framed, Urger communities of several thousand families in the Fresno and Los Angeles areas They made good citt ans.. They pay their taxej and they nevn caused any trouble. But in 1939 a group of these Molokanifrim the Los Angeles colony wanted to return to their homeland and they came to the Turkish embassy in Washington tj see what could be done about it. Their reason for wanting to leave America was this: One of the prophets of the Molokans had a dream. In this dream it was revealed to him that the whole world was going to be engulfed in a horrible war. The United States as going to be involved in this war, accord ing to the prophet, and the only country in the world that wouldn't be involved would be Turkey. So the Molokans wanted to go back where they came from to live In peace. Well, the Turkish embassy staff and Com missioner Ahmet min Yalman thought this was a very nice but a little bit crazy. No body believed in dreams of old men who might be homesick. Besides, if there was a war, they figured Turkey would be among the first countries to be involved and the United States would be the last. Why didn't the' Molokans realize that and stay where they were in peaceful America? So the Molokans came back to California and here they have stayed. But Ahmet Emin Yalman, now an editor of a newspaper in Turkey, never forgot the strange dream of the Molokan prophet, and when Editor Yal man arrived in San Francisco for the United Nations conference, one of his first requests was to visit the Molokans. They arranged a little meeting of the Mol okan Mothers club out at the neighborhood house in San Francisco's Potrero hill district. Editor Yalmjan went out with six other members of the Turkish -ielegation, and they had a wonderful time. There were several hundred of the old people there. Thy all talked Turkish and thy all wanted to s-k'ke hfltids with every one of the debates rhe younger MobkarjS) hve drifted iy from the old traditions somewhat and become Am encanired But the old f"lks wanted o hear how things werewith their rela'W-s and forebcarers back W the Turkish border. They were tolt) The Molokans desire to return home how ever, is all gone. It was just a Jriara. They've found paace here. Q What Weight projectile does a 16-inch naval rifle fire? A One ton. The shell travels half a mile and can be fired 20 miles. Q-What does COMINCH mean in navy code? A Commander-in-Chief, Unit ed States Fleet (Adml. Ernest J. King). 15 Years Ago . Although Portland's population as of April 2, 1930 had not been announced, most of .:the: other larger cities in Oregon,: -except The Dalles and Salem had been enumerated and the figures sent to Washington, D. C. La Grande's figure was 8,043, and on the basis of that population, this city now stands as the eighth largest city in Oregon, and the largest in eastern Oregon. Portland's fig ure was not expected to top 300; 000. Corwyn Beery, Dan Sullivan, Fred Nowland, Knapripd Wil liam Torrence, high school ath letes, left to participate tin tho state track meet at Cbrvajlis. vtf- - - 10 Years Ago The swim week at the Cove pool, sponsored by the"; Porpoise club of La Grande, waa- proving the largest ever staged hore, with a total of 72 enrolled. -. 1 With more than 30D.in,attcnd ance, representatives i-ofv Union, Milton-Freewater, The, Dalles, Hermiston, Elgin, Imbler, Wal lowa, Enterprise and Baker posts of the American Legion meeting held a district meeting here. This Curious World in. Vefcti APPEARANCE OF THE ) iMf j VvfTl , .( MONTH WAS RECKON ) - lm J0l iHLj lit FROMTHEBRsr.V A Ji I I 1 Ifj APPEARANCE OF THi'tiiil ZJPi ' I I i CRESCENT MOON, AN J J I I C'JIJ EVENT GREETED BY 1 I KortStSiL. APHIS LION INSKW l AY TH)S E665 AT THE N05 OF TAIL STALKS, TO PREVENT THE FIB5T-HATCHIN6 LARVAE FROVi EATIN6 THEIR BRCVHERS AND SISTERS. n 1 J HOPI INDIANS OO NOT WEAVE XUfcS Ao BLANKETS. ANSWER: Wrong, but unlike some other tribe., the men do most of the weaving. '-. NEXT: Light travels how much faster itn jounp
