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a I ' EBITORlM PAGE' . La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher FKIIMY KVHINU, MAY 11, 19ir Hitler's Bequest lo His Moved People One Bed K. EVENING OBSERVER'S IfttlGATION Complete (he Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT . , And lie brought mo lo the, door of the court: and when 1 looked, behold n hole in the wnll. Kzekiel 8:7. . TtlT Voice of Germany s Wc arc too close to Adlf Hitler's tempestuous career, and we lack too , many essential data, to attempt any ' objective and final appraisal of what made the funny little paporhaniu'i' hito the most hated figure in world history. One possible explanation comes to mind, as we think back over the past 15 years. And to the extent that wo accept this explanation, it may help us lo deal wisely with the reich so as to avert a world war HI. loot's urant that Hitler had much more intelligence or cunning than we used to suppose. Py all means, we can concede his inordinate talent for de magoguery and we do proclaim the pro fundity of his-depravity. With all these, no man could have led an unwill ing people into some of the excesses in to which the German followed or ac companied their fuehrer. This suggests that Hitler never was, in fact, the leader of Germany so much as he was the highly articulate voice for the basest instincts of a nation that was. on the whole, willing and anxious t" be led into war, atrocities, racial pog Funny Business mm mm - "My neiglitSor chickens get kind of ill . i'uge Two roms, anti-religion. In this theory Hitler could be com pared to n firebrand in a mob. Every member is anxious to commit nn illegal, immoral act, but for the moment they are restrained by some vestiges of .superficial decency, or perhaps by vague fear of the consequences, or even by the mild inertia of habitual docility. The firebrand climbs onto a convenient tree stump, and scarifies the mob's pas sions until decency, caution and inertia vanish. The mob does what it wants to do. No Hitler could have led or forced Americans, in the mass, to do what the Germans as a people have done with little protest. It does not seem prob able that any Hitler could have induced the Germans to do such things if they had possessed any deep-peated toler ance, any genuine love of peace and good will. Hitler, Himmler, Gooring and Goeb bels can be taken as symbols of what we know as mrzism. Rut just as in the beginning they were the tools of ostenr sibly respectable Junkers and indus trialists, so in the end they were the personification of the immorality of a nations that, even now, thinks the worst thing it has done is lose the war. When we are deciding how to deal with millions of Germans too unimport ant and numerous to be tried as war criminals with millions of Germans who now claim they didn't know what was going on across the road in horror camps let's remember that Adolf Hit ler at his worst probably was only the vile voice of a very dangerous Hople. o SO THEY SAY V have added enormously to our productive capacity and, un like many of our allies, our fac tories have escaped entirely the destruction of war. But in peace time we cannot reach this high level of production unless we find markets abroad as wit as at home for our investment and our Roods and services. Secretary of Slate Stettinius. We must yt forget that the Germans already have their plans laid for the next war, and that their next move will be an undergrouift campaign to influ ence American scntOicnt through activities in the United States and South America. Study made by seven psychiat ric organizations at Columbia l Eveiy problem which faced us during the depression will again be on our doorstep. Today wc are ignoring these problems. Thui man Arnold, associate jus tictf.ll. S. court of appeals. Dis trict of Columbia. noteyl" 3 II - Hi' Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON SAN FRANCISCO Secretary of Slato Stettinius has received an interesting docu ment from his undersecretary, Joe Grew, listing a variegated group of organizations trying lo undermine the San Francisco con. ference, Brettun Woods and other steps to wurd international cooperation. Tho report was prepared by Louis M. Birkenhead of tho friends of dumoncracy, who spent two houi'3 with Grew, giving him a bill of particulars regarding the anti-peace agitators whom ho described as having all the strength of the pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists with no Peail Harbor ahead to shuck us into unity. The people who are now screaming, "poor Poland," and "poor Rumania," the report warns, are the same ones who once insisted that Poland, Czechoslovakia and the rights of small nations were none of our business. When the Atlantic charier was first pro claimed Ihey called it a fraud, but today they shed tears over its "demise." Here are the chief agitators against the San Francisco conference and B r e 1 1 o n Woods, according to 'the Birkenhead report: Gerald L. K. Smith, one-time Huey Long lieutenant, leader of the America First party just arrived in San Francisco only to be barred by most hotels. Elizabeth Dilling, long under indictment for sedition and an active isolationist. Ex-Senator Bob Reynolds of North Caro lina, son-in-law of Mrs. Evalyn "Hope Dia mond" McLean, and who once edited a week ly magazine with reputed fascist leanings. Also Senator "Pass - tho - Biscuits Pappy" O'Duniel of Texas; ex-Congressman Sam Pct lengill, newspaper columnist; Charles Hud son, Court Asher, John B. Trevor of tho American coalition; Walter Steele, editor of the National Republic, the Brooklyn Tablet, Newd York Gaelic American, San Francisco Leader, and the Meriden, Conn., Malist. Samples of the propaganda Ex-Senator Reynolds: "Bretton Woods Is an insane plot for world government" sponsored by "inter notional bankers." Mrs. Lyrl Van Hyning of "We, The Mothers, Mobilize for America," says of the San Francisco conference: "Your son is ito be a policeman. If you want to see your boy again, then speak out now or forever hold your peace." Tho New York News: "San Francisco is as phony as a seven-dollar bill. It has no con cern with establishing a peace of justice." "Arab Glamour" Saudi Arabia, which supplies the chief glamour for San Francisco, has sent five of WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT . When Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Nev; York aftor.finishing the difficult, heart-rending job of breaking up housekeeping, she said only four words to reporters, "The story is over." And so it must have seemed to her. But the story can't be over for a woman with the courage, the energy, the enthu siasm for living that made Mrs. Roosevelt as famous as her husuand. Whether you have be?n an admirer of Mrs. Roosevelt or a critic you must admit that her attitude toward life was a chal lenging one for the women of the country. She didn't believe that women should take a back seat, simply because they were women, or play a subordinate role in life, simply because by doing so they might make some men feel more important. Behind Scenes in Washington ' By PETER ED30N. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO The lid on social doin's at this United Nations conference will be officially lifted come Sunday mid-night, but in spite of the ban on big parties during the month of mourning over the death of President Roosevelt, there has been a consid erable amount of w hoopee going on in a nice refined sort of way. The social arbiters de creed that if less than 20 people were there it wasn't a party and therefore wouldn't vio late the protocols of mourning. So all over the bay area they have let the joy be con fined to those limits and it has all been or ganized with the efficiency of military gen eral staff planning at its best. Never has any city strewn rose petals and welcome mats around with such profusion. Every hostess in the whole Bay area wanted to get in on the entertaining, but the FBI and the state department's protocol boys told the hospitality committees that they would be held strictly accountable for the welfare of their visiting delegate guests and would therefore have to make sure they didn't get mixed up with anything but the right people. The more masculine torms of entertain ment like deep-sea fishing, tennis, golf, yachting and other sports were taken over by the men's clubs wljile the good ladies of the state American Women's Voluntary Services took over the strictly social ends. As a kind of social game wardens' protective association, a coujmittee of nine matrons, headed by Mrs. Jerd Sullivan, was found to sieve the hostesses and steer the delegates through the rip tides of Bay area high sas siety. A master file was set up in Barracks 7, a temporary structure down in the civic cen ter area where conference sessions are held. Then- a form was made out for every ambi tious hostess. Name. Town house or coui(i) try house. Daughters if anv and age of each'. Swimming pool, hosses iP other social as sets. Kind of guests preferred. Foreign languages spoken t-y family. Maximum guest capacity and when and how often will ing to entertain. To simplify operations. its top-drawer princes to represent the Arabs of South Arabia all sons of Ibn Saud, the man from whom Roosevelt said he had learn ed more about (the Jewish problem In five minutes than in weeks of correspondence. Riding through San Francisco in limou sines, and striding through hotel lobbies -dressed in long-flowing burnooses, they ore the chief visual attraction of the conference. The other day as the five Arab princes walk ed past, a near-by lady remarked: "Oh, they're so fierce, so romantic." In perfectly good English, one of the princes, scarcely turning his head, replied: "Tsk, tsk, you should see us on horses, my dear." "Broadway and royalty." " Discrimination at San Francisco" While San Francisco delegates, attempted to build a framework to carry out the four freedoms of the Atlantic charter, the minions of music dictator James C. Petrillo were denying the right of one of America's fore-, most Negro singers to make music recordings if accompanied by a white pianist or any other white musicians. The Negro, Huddy Ledhctter, better known as "Lead Belly" is probably the nations most outstanding folk singer, has made hundreds of recordings for the library of congress. But in San Francisco, Petrillo's musician's local union 6 denied him the right to make record ings with three white musicians Ellis Home, Squire Girsbach and Paul Lingle. Ed Moore, vice president of local 6 and Secretary Jack Haywood, telephoned Petrillo in Chicago to ask whether Ledbatter could play with the three white musicians and got the word "no." . There has been a long standing rule in tho San Francisco Bay area that Negro musi cians cannot play in public with whites. But local 6 once before stretched .this rule to dis criminate against Negroes even on private recordings where the public -has no idea who the musicians are, and whether they are white or black. The other notable case was that of 64-year-old Willie "Bunk" Johnson, legendary trum pet genius supposed to have been dead but discovered working in a cotton field. He was one of the inventors of jazz in New Orleans at the turn of the century, and the teacher of Louis Armstrong. Time magazine devoted a whole music section to him, but when brought to San Francisco by the Museum of Art, Bunk Johnson was forced rto return east after local 6 ruled its own interpretation of the four freedoms. She proved that a woman could build a new life for herself, a life full of new in terests even after she had becomefa grand mother. ' And now she has a chance to prove some thing else to thousands of lone and war-widowed- women that a woman can and MUST go on building a satisfactory life for herself. There is no doubt in anyone's mind but that Mrs. Roosevelt will become an inspiring example to the lone women of the country. For she has the courage, the independence, the wide interests that will serve her well in making a new and worthwhile life for herself. No, Mrs. Roosevelt. For you the story isn't over. It can't be for you or any other woman left to face life. alone. . types of entertaining were limited to five; luncheons, teas, cocktails, dinners and week ends. When the committee got through making the master file, they found they had 400 good bets. So, if San Francisco never had a 400 before, it has one now. They are not all social register and the native ten yardstick was not used, either. You know, the one about: "The miners came in '49; the gals in '51. And when they got together they pro duced the Native Son.") Just good families fit for the delegates to know socially. To make the necessary Introductions, the state department assigned a protocol smoothie to each delegation to act as liaison officer between the guests and Mrs. Sulli van's committee. Two women from this committee were assigned to each of the prin cipal hotels where delegates were quartered Fairmont, Mark Hopkins. St. Francis and Sir Francis Drake to do the actual book ing and dating. These ladies were all born and finished and came out here, and have lived here all their lives. With the help of the liaison offi cers they were therefore in good position to . know who's who in the Bay area and could protect the delegates from hostesses known to have a two round limit, or vice versa in case any of the guests might develop unsus pected wolfish proclivities. The whole thinj, you see, had to be conducted on a high moral and ethical plane. When a party gets ckared through the master file in Barracks F without conflict Mrs. X having sufficient gasoline and red points or fish to entertain four South Afri cans, three frenchmen and couple of Boliv uins who have expressed uxire to be feted over the weeknd has invitations issued on cards bearing the crest of the hospitality committee so the guests will know they're not being asked to some clip joint. The hostess then calls up the state department protcol officer who worii uut the seating arrangement, and there youfCjiavc a party which doesn't break mourning rules. But wait ull the flags go full mast again. " ir i r ccm iwinnu itiwct. inc. t. m. ma u. t. mt. on. "I don't like to spank him for smoking my pipe the cigareli were there too, and he did show his morality by not touching lheml o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE ! By WM. E. McKENNEY,. Amerio's Curd Authority TIMELY RUFF BEATS "CINCH" 5 HEARTS (This is the last of six arti cles discussing the suit direct ing convention.) On the opening lead, North plt.yed the five spot from dummy and East refused lo go in with the king or even the eight spot. He put on the deuce. When the livd of diamonds held the trick, the six of hearts was -led from dummy and again Easf.,played a small card, the deuce of 'hearts. West won this trick 'with the ace and now there was not much doubt in his mind but" what his partner was asking hirrt to shift to a club. He did not' make the mistake of leading the king of clubs; however, he did protect the hand by leading the queen of clubs. East overtook this trick with the ace and returned a diamond, giving his partner a ruff and set ting the contract. O IN FORMER YEARS In today's hand, North and South could have defeated the four spade contract of East and West by one trick. But South was correct in as- 2 9876 107 6 5 J 10 9 8 J 10 7 6 5 V A4 3 KQ7 65 AQ984 V532 K82 A43 W E S Dealer A A K 3 VKQJ10 A Q J 9 4 2 Bridge N.-S. . vul. South 1 V 3 4 V 5 V Wnt 1 Pass 4 Pass North 2 V 3 V Pass Pass East 2 3 Pass Pass 12 30 Years Ago Miss Anna Alexander, deputy county clerk, returned from a trip to California. At Los Ange les she joined Miss Edith Ander son, formerly of La Grande, and they attended the San Diego and . San Francisco fairs. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Church re turned from Portland where they spent the winter. ; L. B. Payne, real estate man of Enterprise, was here on business. Harry Schaeffer is here from Wallowa and is at the Savoy. Opening 3. suming that it was better to try for the five heart contract. If he could make that he would get ' 650 points, against 100 points the other way. ' Questions & Answers Q What is the Jap field ration menu? A Rice, small biscuits, and oc casionally canned meat. Pack aged rations include various sta ples compressed into cakes. 15 Years Ago Major Ralph R. Huron, post mas'.er, was promoted to the grade of lieutenant colonel in the 186th infantry- He served in the Spanish American arid dhe World war and for a long period in the national guard. : . Miss Iris Hughes was elected president of the Associated girl students at the high schooL The Imbler high school basket ball .team won the championsip of Union county at Elgin, defeat ing the Elgin high school 23 to 1. Q Where is the sea passage called "Cat's Throat"? A Between Denmark and Sweden. We know it as the Kat tegat, or Cattegat. Q What is the significance of the Treaty of Portsmouth? A It ended the Russo-Japanese war. Q What food common among Eskimos is also eaten in the Do minion of South Africa? A Whale meat. 10 Years Ago Bob Dunn was elected presi dent of the La Grande high school student body. Vice presi dent was Bob ' Hogenson, secretary-treasurer, Lois , Robertson, and song queen, Winnifred Scott. Albert Hughes was chosen yell leader. Q What is our B-32? A The Dominator, a super bomber. Q What is the translation of the German term Anschluss? A Enforced Union. This Curious World HAVE NO LARGE NATIVE ANIMALS 9 SINCE THEy HAVE NEVER BEEN A PACT OF THE ASATC AlAAUAAD, AS HAVE SUMATRA, BORNEO AND JAVA, WHICH BECAME POPULATED WITH URGE MAINLAND MAAIMALS BEFORE BEING ISOLATED AS ISLANDS, VVMAT I A CAMOr, A 0 LTitf70 f s COPfl. IMS BY NCA atRvTCt. MCL OH THC VBflrV VSWM Of BXTl.tCTiCW ONLY AflPUT JHP mmv mm . Biuim.'BO TO B.iST TOa'. " , r.r, a, ANSWER A carroU a ve?e.able; carat, a ufiifof ieiht for pre cious stones; caret, a mark ud by writers and proiprcaders. NEXT: Garlic Is strong medicine. i 'u.o f .
