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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
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Extend the city limits.
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the court: and when 1 looked, behold
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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
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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.
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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. "
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"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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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