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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
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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.
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can sit behind home -plate and learn a lot about basebal watching
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Aulhcijy,,
A SINGLETON CALLS
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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
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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.
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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.
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of the weaving. '-.
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