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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!'
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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
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V A K
K 10 8
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lQJ42 W E 742
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A
10987 53
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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
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:) . 0'HJ.rn ifjcvmj aQhhJtncy
themselves and their caisys more harm
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