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in Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE Br DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY HVENINC. MAY 10. 1915 Page Four- 'Veil, Coot Luck, Chum!' 6 - 7VJ " EVENING OlfcSERVER'S t'ROCKKSS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the (Jrande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Also I said, it is no simxl that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God U-cause of the reproach of the heathen our enemies".' Neheminh 5:9. Conference Jitters The first days of the San I'lancisco conference were marked lv a good deal of factional bickering. The struggle ltetween the Loudon and Lublin Poles formed a major center of dispute, and there was a stormy press conference sideshow- put on by Tito and Mikhailo vitch champions of a Yugoslavian rep resentation. These and other flare-ups were prob ably unavoidable. There has beer, a lot of smoldering feeling which was IhuiihI to burn briskly once a rostrum was available from which the aggrieved parties could speak their pieces. And almost all of this feeling has involved Kussia or communism or Ix'th. Hence it would seem, from sub-surface rumbling:, traceable to the ('.olden Gate area, that distrust and dislike of Russia are present where all should be sweetness a'yi light. For this Russia is as much to blame ; s the opponents of all things communistic, or so it ap pears from a distance. The Russians at San Francisco have Iven by turns aggies,-ive. adamant and inscrutable. I!ut through all this it may ! hoped that the' delegates and their goern ments will bear two thi.-g.-. in mind. One is Russia's present position; the other is the consequence of Russopho bia, as evidenced in F.uroK? today. To take the second point first, it .should be remembered that fear and hatred of communism gave the world Adolf Hitler and Henito Mussolini. Whatevor grandiose devilment they may have dreamed up later, it was their premise of salvation from Uilshevism which was largely responsible for their original toehold. And that promised salvation served as a cloak for their tyrannies and atrocities to the very end. In fact. Hitler's anti-communism was almost more ingrained and violent than his anti-semitism. As for Russia herself, it is unthink able that she wants' anything but peace. Her land is devastated, her resources depleted, her people near exhaustion. Russia has done a magnificent job, but she could not have won the war single handed, and she knows it. It is ridicu lous to believe, as some people appar ently do, that Russia would want to go to war over anything now. let alone embark un an armed contUost of L'.urope. Russia, a kicked-around stepchild after the last war, is insisting today upon her place as a great power and a major contributor to victory. Russian diplomacy is occasionally baffling and generally unpredictable. Americans government, press and public have sometimes Ihvii abashed by its devious realism, and their diffidence has sc.ni od like weakness and retreat. Rut there has U-eu a different atti tude at San Francsco. America has been realistic, too. Frankness and plain talk seem now to K the keynote. That's not going to create the atmosphere of a Wednesday evening prayer meeting at San Francisco, but it hniks like the right prescription for settling not in soluble differences. Funny liusiness o SO THEY SAY Thoy il" S. Uoopsi removed the n-vs an.i b.i:tenes and then du:r.j.x1 'ho jetps- into the sea. On another oeeasioru United St.H.-s s-urplus stores were burnt .U .Vt.irv when Atist! alums sorv i nevdvd lhe:n. GxJ knows why tni was done, but the povorn rrent mul answer for :t. Aus'rah.tn Parliament Rep Jo- eph AbS-tV C) I J.'r.'l see any possibility of ar.y t.,x reductions except of the imst nvnor nature as long as the war v-.th Japan continues. Sen. !Wrl A."?;t iR of Ohio, Finance Committee member. o What worries m mcil is. i( wt'ri captured we'll likely end up in 4 museum!" ....From here on out we've pot to f't up pn'duvtion in textiles, lumber, forest poKljets and sim ilar (in)-f V'.I very important to -ur . -i'aceiTitu eeonom0 VlS Chairman Julius A. His'-ifi wO ( I V.avc yet to meet any one Tfi G i man- w ho was rpomablc for ati thing. - A V S. Army lieutenant al Wur it a. Germany, SAN FRANCISCO The play-by-play ac count of what went on behind the scen"s after tho United Nations conference reluc tantly voted to admit Argentina can now be revealed. After Stettinius forced a public vote on th'j Argentine issue despite Russian requests for delay, he suddenly found himself catching criticism from the press and the public. Greatly upset, he hastily called a meeting of the American delegation. The air was charged with tension. Young Rockefeller broke the ice by laun ching into a eulogy of the way Stettinius had handled himself. "This country is fortunate to have its af fairs in his hands," praised Rockefeller. Another Argentine rooter, Assistant Sec retary Jimmy Dunn, started to chime in but was interrupted by shrewd Hamilton Fish Armstrong, key U. S. adviser. "I'm very disturbed by all this," said Arm strong. "1 think we ought to call the press in and explain the American position. Tho press is calling us fascists and Stettinius is being put in a reactionary position." But Minnesota's quick - thinking Harold Stassen, who had been cool to Argentina's admission interrupted: "Oh yeah, what are you going to tell the press when you it', them in?" John Foster Dulles, who once reprcscntel Dictator Franco, observed that he loo was worried about the public reaction. "It's very important," Dulles said, "that the public doesn't get the feeling that our delegation is reactionary." Again ex -Governor Statsen interrupted to say: "I don't understand why we have n be so apologetic about something that was discussed fully in here und was then voted upon and passed. The important thing is that we work, together. It's impossible to avoid all differences between nations and people." Stassen went on to point out that there was considerable justification for the Amer ican view, even if he didn't agree with i. entirely himself. He said that if there were no arguments, there was no use holding a conference. Stettinius then said he thought Stasscn's statement of the situation was so good he ought to present it publicly. Dunn next protested that the Russian-, were holding up the conference by refusing to permit Argentina to take the chairman ship of a conference sub-committee. Rockefeller endorsed Dunn's idea about giving Argentina place on a conference com mittee. "It's terribly important that we treat Argentina as well as anyone else," he said. "I agree with Dunn and Rockefeller, chimed in Michigan's Senator Vandcnberg. "Now that we've invited them we've got to treat them right." But Stassen said he couldn't go along with Dunn, Rockefeller or Vandcnberg. "It's bad enough," said Stassen, "that we let them in without giving them any honors." "Well." was V'andcnberg's Tetort, "any thing that Rockefeller wants is o.k." Dunn suggested that the U. S. delegation should slip Argentina into the first commit tee vacancy they found, rt Stettinius de murred. ' "I've gotten into trouble encugh over Argentina already," observed t.' c harassed secretary of state. Note Senator Vantlonberg has consist cntly advocated a strong bloc of American republic which are anti-Soviet, even though pro-fascist. Argentina observed H i 1 1 e r 's racial laws and put hundreds in jail for poli tical reasons. Fleeting Flashes Joshua Powers, publisher-expert on Latin America, estimates that the per capita wealth of Washington, Oregon and Californri is $1,500. Also hq estimates that the wealth of the 11 million people living in these three western states is a billion dollars more than the wealth of all the 133 million people in the 20 other American republics. That gives you some idea of'our western economic strength compared with Latin America 11 million people wealthier than 133 million. The Los Angeles transit lines and motor coach lines are installing radio telephone for emergency use. This is what airplanes began using long ago to regulate traffic between planes in the air and airports. The railroads are now gradually coming round to it. Here is how one of the leading Latin American delegates sizes up the other dele gates at San Francisco: Anthony Eden "the smartest diploma, here, he dominates the conference. By ad roitly pulling wires behind the scenes he has had his way more tan any other dele gate." Molotov 'Shrewd and able but leaves a sour taste on public opinion." Stettinius 'The United States could have its shirt stolen and Stettinius wouldn't know it." See WASHINGTON . . . Page 6 WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The efforts of factories to set "no acci dent" records by eliminating all possible causes for accidents, and impressing on em ployes the importance of certain safety measurcs ought to be carried into the Amer ican homo. For if such watchfulness and fore-thought can cut down on industrial accidents they could also greatly reduce home aeidents. The parents in every home by using a little imagination about possible dangers in tho home itself and in household work could eliminate a great many causes of acci dents. Just such simple precautions as never leaving a small child in a house alone, turn ing handles of cocking utensils away from the front of a stove, repairing faulty steps and making throw rugs secure, can proven, many home accidents. To ignore them is a real crime. And instead of being careless about their family's safety, parents could learn to take real pride in their own family's "no acci dent" records. There is no question but that imagination in the prevention of accidents is needed as much in the home as in the factory'. It seems every newspaper you pick up carries some tragic story of a home accident that need never have happened. Such stor ies as a family of small children burning to death while their mother is at a neighbor's or a child's getting hold of lye, or a farm house burning to the ground because some one used kerosene to start a fire in the kit ehen range, are common. Families should feel proud of their "no accident" records, but by the same token should feci foolish and guilty over small ac cidents that could have been prevented by siime simple precaution. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Obierrer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO No coverage of this United Nations conference would be com plete without some mention of what might be called -The Unofficial Bleeding Hera.! Delegations." The professional lookers-after-other-people's-interests and the amateur suf ferers-from-othcr - peoples' injuries are al most as numerous as del.-iMtes and consult ants and sometimes they set a bit out of hand and un.ier fxt. So far ne official worrier uver the fate of free Ireland has stuck his head up. but ev ery other brand of long-oh.-tancc oppressed patriot is here with bells on, jingling and jangling continuously. When there is only one (action, it isn't so bad. But when two faction.- of free Koreans, free Poles, free Slavs or free Indians get to popping off at each o'h".-. the din gets real mtny Mostly this happens at press cor. fcrenecs where the representatives of the-super-e.itriot house orcms t"v to raise cm- Kirr.issirg truest! ns h:c. supixirt for then pet ca.r- effort, are flop. It is of course noble to f:ght for a cuise jnd isn't p. i;te to scoff a', another man's be liefs. Furtheimoro, those eails from l:.e mourners' tvnch can't be ipnored. Spokesmen for almost eery dcle-:o. here have emphasized that the San rane-is-ce cenfervr.ev has nothing to efo w ith sol -ing fpoc:f:c world problems f.s job is mere ly to create a I'nite'd Nations o'$ mu.'lion widen w-J! deal w ith th -o problems W the ,11 brine Mostiv futov tlev j-tn m'e: In purely d ncstu- fight within the border of one countrv the United Nations o.-.in :fa will roe elig.(g( '.o(k.Vp it hands ef?Q- '' he'aru today, however, mercjnn AT 'he 1. ud and disco-. dant nope1 in SXnjFrancisc. dicatc what touiorruw's trouble spots go.r.g toN? and what problem they will prcM!nt(j the United organisation to solve, once that organization gets goin. By far the loudest vlle:s at San Francis- wrvr.g tunes. co are the patriots for Palestine. You can't blame them. The Jews have taken an aw ful beating in this war and there ought to be some place they could go to got away from it all. Yet the places this Palestine question has been raised in San Francisco acr utterly fantastic. Stettinius has been bothered with it. and Bidault and even T. V. Siong though it is strictly none of the busi ness of the governments ef the United States. France or China and none of tho business of this conference. But just try to sot any Palestinian to understand. Next to Palestine, the question that comeo up oftenest is the well known Polish dis pute. As if the Big Four weren't having enough trouble settling this one, a couple of rival factions of Polish Ame-ricans are on hand to aid in the gumming up. Rival Brit ish and Nationalist India delegations tang'..-' whenever they get a chance and so do the S.r.cman Rhc and Kttseo Hahn arc here prv-Mshailovieh and pro-Tito Bor; Serbs. Dr. Singiuan Rhee and K:lsoo Fahn arc here at t'::e heads of rival Korean groups, A madc-in-America "Stop Franco" move ment heavii-d by William L. Shire: and Freda Kiirhiaajr is lobbying all ccr the lot In make sure Fascist Spam doesn't sr.eak in the tw.-fc J.ier .V.-ress the bay m Oa'ani Phil Muiray S:lr.ty Hii'.man of tc C I. O. are he ld-t'-.o-.r rtirrational lahor cer.vcrtim. is s i icg i aAl -a's to wn.p'a n U-at noncrfy is 0 irs -n' atti ptnin to the-n Some f are around is BU Green vf tho A. F of L. coru pia4:tg oo.auje jv.too,- w .ii itcn .to; him U'i.un a out (int t. l.-tv- (J: ins; 0 ' ' r-i All trVe seUiaMlolllUv) rjjrtvr v.U feWl a cuekct of prepAjjinda c 'tlt-fik prov-.O do than gol by showing off their wounds and bawling in the wrong pl and at the ' cob ia wf wt saver wc t. m. arc, u. T- 1L "Every lime I hint about how lovely the new spring outfits axe. Dad starts reading the war news out loud!" e McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Aulhotlfv , SUIT DIRECTING CUE TO ENTRY OR SAFETY (This is the fifth of six arti cles discussing the suit direct ing convention.) Suit directing is used not only to show an immediate entry card, but it is equally effective in disclosing which of two suits may be led safely by a partner. The declarer played low from dummy on the opening spado A Q865 V A K K 10 8 AK952 K AKJIOil lQJ42 W E 742 ( 6542 e 6 A 10987 53 A73 A 103 Bridge E.-W. vul. Soiifh West North IV Pass 2 NT. 3 Pass 4 Opening A 3. East Pass Pass 11 lead and won the trick in his own hand with the ace. Two tounds of trump were taken. On the second heart, Eaft dis carded the jack of spades. Now the discard of this high card, es pecially when the seven spot forced the ace, said to partner, "If you can get in. the diamond Questions & A nswers Q Where is Ratcatcher's Cicte? A At Haniclin, Germany. The Pied Piper city also has a Rat catcher's Fc.r-.aln and Ratcatch er's Inn. suit (the higher of the other two playing suits) will make the saf est lead." . . L Well, as it happens, West has two heart tricks and without the suit directing convention: might easily return a club, which wculd give the declarer his con tract. You can see that the dia mond return defeats the contract. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago A calf . with three legs was born on the S. A. Robertson ranch, R. F. D. No. 2. The hind Ie.s v i re perfect in shape, but tl.ere is only one front leg. To mak3 the freak all the more strange and feird, the animal had no semblance of a tail. . Alfred N. Christcnsen was elected president of tho Epworth league of th-a Methodist .church. Other officers were: Tressie Castle, first vice-president: Lou ise Benh'.nm, second vice-president- Viula-.Bonham. third. vice- vice; Paul Beck, secretary,, and Dorothy Haworth, treajuvoY. -- Q What is the present name of what used to be Holland's Zui der Zee? A IJssel Mrer UJsscl Lake), formed by an 18-tnilc dam. IS Years Ago I .. -Mrs. W. D. Warner and -daughter, Miss Doris Warneiv and Charles Spaeth returned from a motor trip to Portland where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bond. ... . Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Barron and her mother, Mis. Clark, went to California where Mrs. Clark was to remain for a while. Mr. and Mrs. Barron planned to re turn in about two weeks,. Misses Helen Schilling and Retha Hacker went to Portland to attend a play given by the Lutheran League. O. Has war raised or cur population? A Raised it: the 30 rise in birth rate with after Pearl Harbor far military losses. crcd Cent : year .'IgllS 1 San Q How did Nob Hi'! Fiancisco get its name'.' A Palatial homes of , l 1 rush millionaires used ' to orc oy the hill, and lesser folk called them nabobs, and for short, nols. Hence. Nob Hill. 10 Years Ago The children of the second and third grade rooms at Ccn-!-;.' school entertained the sec ond j,rade from Ackerman .train in school with a play entitled 'Chik rrn of Other Lands Visit K"lhi:d." In the cast were Da vid Nelson, Marjorie Chandler. Hugh McNaughton. ' Barbara Bran, Nina Kopp. Frederick Burgess. Pa'ricia Harland. El lory Heiron. Doris Burleigh, Donald tnberg. David McLain. Herald Sherw ood. Richard Kalm How oil. Barbara Hasse. Wesley Avars. Tick Murchison. Rita Odcrmat and Dale Anderson, '.he play. "sAvels a .-:"w fasten than SOUND This Curious World . 1 i "is "iNi.-'Nb-at.-it-L.-jra, :) . 0'HJ.rn ifjcvmj aQhhJtncy themselves and their caisys more harm 0 1 .IVPV s.- A C?TA,N MUSHBOOiVko J IT J NO THAT TV.W v r ' JS&US IS MirAkeHMC SCV.E tNSECTS TfiBtVS-7 C MUSMROOV.S DE.AOO' C-.SCHOjS TO HUMANS. leJ t. a w. or. -- . -?.EXX:Jt'J th? Piulippuiei erer pf t of Aiia'i mainland?
