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Washington Merry-Go-Rotirid
EDITORIAL PAGE
Br DREW PEAItBON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schlro, TuMUIier
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PRlMiKRSM I'KOUKAM
IHHIOATION mplr(e (lie CiniiiIo
Rttnria Wf liTtgndim project.
,K (iHANl)R A flty nf 10,000
Rt(nd Ik city limit.
tihhujiit itm today
(lie writ, while there In lifo thorp
la Itope, Cicero.
(irA, Market KxiHimts
The Witch market Ik olnlminn another
victim, Moiia, which i,moho(I for a lonit
time, now are f illtnr mnlor tho rack
eteer', away, Tho only protein daM
at ill iVaaimnWy five from Mich Illegal
Influence acom to lv fish, and le
votoinir market conditions may soon
ivmovo thitt lono. exception.
I'nit were flow (o attract the price-0.-ONHVIV
attention hoenuso up to re
cently (boy woiv vovy plentiful. Hut
now they atv tinhlonlns' up ami tho
ehisolers are muscling- in. At least 2.N
Now York wholesaler have irotio out
of laisinixs Ivcausc they say they can't
trot ana.
Insider say that other wholesaler
are considering whether to shut (town,
try to keep gYmig on legitimate supplies,
or capitulate to the Wack market.
Not lonn ago cg-gii wot so abundant
that Mh trade and g-overtiment agvn
eio said thoy wow ono protein -ott
could depend upon. In fact, the ptv
wt that WKA wxMt-ied eniMtgh to ask
for a Id per cent cut in output so that
the administration would not haw to
tutu a few million ,Wens into fertiliser
again this year.
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Hut (ho moat ahnrlitpc cnilsod a poul
Iry ahorlao. ltlaoU inarkotora ahovod
the ivlall price up lo aa much aa 75
coula a pound for chicken. Poult rymon
hcnan ahiftliiH' fnm white louhorns,
which lay a lot of on hut woluh little,
to hivoda that lay loaa hut weiirh more
Uhodo Island New Hampshire Keda,
riyinouth and Hatwd UiK'ka.
Mianwhllo incuhator opcratora mail
ed to market lo vt ejiira for hatching
and I'nclo Sjim, who luul been ahippintf
to our men overseas the nutritiona but
not very palatahle powdered oruh, dla
eovered a way to ship erta In aholla,
and honan huyin' in larjrer (luantitiea.
'HikiuK one consideration with an
other, the cRU'-eater'a life ia Rvttmu tin
happier every day.
Fish, too, seeinoil fairly plentiful, and
the hlack marketers pretty much
iimotvd it. t!ut fish also ia tittltteninR
tip.
The army has asked for 2o v01'
of the twvston catch of haddm'k, ptil
lack, cil, and sow! toward an overall
order for million ptMtnds of fivien
filets. The navy wants 10 per cent of
(he Uoston catch. l!oth requisitions aiv
cvpvtM to ho eviended awn to Glou
cester, New UiMfowl, and Wrtland.
Since Boston supplies alvMtt 6!S Kr
cent of the nation's fish at this sea
son. and the other thive jvrla add from
l.N to 0 p-r cent - totaling about So
jvr cent flvm the four it is o-hvioua
that fish filets are not jromjr to Iv so
plentiful for a while.
This is exactly the sort of situation
that preceded hlack marketing in moat,
then poultry, r.ow cfp.
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KAN niANCKiCO Now that th Ku
ropewi war It ovri", irKjt Important problem
facing Proldont Trumun and the big thrcu
l( Rufmlan cwpnatlon in the war ngainnt
Japan. Hvgarding thin there 1 a atrnnne
nbout-fuca.
Two year ago, membtra of thn new prcl
dvnt'a own "Truman committee," together
with membora of tha tenuto military affaira
comrnltUai, vlalted Australia and came back
with a atatemont from CJonnral MacArthur
that thouaunda of Amorlcfln Uvea were be
ing loat bernuae ftuaala did not give us Siber
ian bnaea ngninal Japan.
Kx'Heniitor Cabot Lodgo aired thla atato
mnt to aenntorlut collcnguca and it created
a bad reaction agalnat Huaala even though
CJnneral Marahall told acnutora that wo
would not bo able to hold Siberian buses If
Ruaala gavo them to ua.
Today, however, aomo of the people who
two yoara ago were yelling loudent (or Rua
ala to come into tha war ugalniit Japan are
now arguing exactly the rovcrau.
Thla la not true of Chief of Stuff Marahalt
who bellovea that any move which will
ahorton the war and auve Uvea should bo
taken. But It la true of many high-ranking
army-navy lenders who frankly admit In pri
vate that they don't want Ruaaia in tlio war
agalnat Japun.
Thla la eapnclnlly true of the navy. It will
be recalled that commandor-ot-thc-flect Ad
miral iCrimat King opponcd Britain's sending
a fleet to help ua In tha Pacific becausu ha
felt wo eould do tho job ourselves and that
Britain battleships wcron't geared lo our
apeed. But Roosevelt overruled him. Ad
miral King likewise belongs to the school
that bellevoi', Russia. should not come into
tho Japanese war.
Chief argumonl ugalnut Russia's entrance
Is that alio wilt want Korea and Manchuria,
and will stir up tho northern Chinese Mi mic
to fight against Chiang Kal-shck in the
south, This Is probably true. Unquestion
ably political complications will result from
Russia's coming Into the Pacific; unquestion
ably Russia will want a hand In the far cast
peace.
However, against this la the question of
wasting a lot more American Uvea in a
longer war. And there la no doubt how tha
buys who have to do tha fighting and the
dying (eel about It. Also there Is probably
no doubt what President Truman, whose
final decision It Is, will decide about It.
The Rusalana can back tho Chinese north
ern armies against Chiang Kai-shek anyway
If they want to whether they come into the
Jap war or not.
WE, THE WOMEN
Br RUTH MILLETT
OPA is having a tough time trying to
break the black market in meat because of
the difficulty of getting housewives to testify
against their butchers.
In New York, for Instance, 95 per cent of
tho cases against retailers that OPA have
brought lo war emergency court have been
hacked up Ivy testimony from paid inspec
tor. Obviously, paid inspectors can't begin to
get the goods on all the black marketers. 1:
doesn't matter how many complaints OPA
gets about a dealer's selling above ccilins
price. Nothing can be done unless the cus
tomer who have been overcharged will
testify in court, or an OPA inspector can
manage to make a purchase at an above ceil-
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON. La Grand Eraning Obseirer Washington Correspondent
Woodivw Wilson dsM with the conviction
it was right for the United States to stay out
of the old league of nations, and the day bo
fore his death he prophesied tins country
wvuld join now league of nations and that
it would succeed, his daughter Eleanor Wil
son McAdoa has just revealed, breaking a
fsnuty secret closely held for 21 years. Mr-",
McAdoo is in Sn Francisco in connection
w ith her war Kind work and as a radio cor
respondent covering the Vnited Nations
conference.
This story of her father's death, making
an important new footnote to history sn.i
today's big war news, has never been told
before. V.leanor Wilson consents to its be
ing told today because this seems the right
moment to bridge the gse between the en.is
of World Wars One and Two. betwwn the
old league of nations hich hor f :hc
heljvd create and the n. United Nations
organisation beint create.-: t San Francisco.
Had W'oodrew Wilson died as Franklin IVl
ano Roosevelt did, at the h-cight of his ic
t.vies. the end ot the league of nation
might hsw boon different.
The rfay N-fore W.vvirw Wilson clio.i
Friv ,V lf.1. he a on his hod in the house
or. Washington's ' B" street, where the fiir.-:-i'0
hae! moved after th.-y left the Wh..:c
K.nisc .n Vaivh. lfill.
In the room m uh htm. itohrng hi- was
his da,jgv?er Vargaret. V eanor WVisor.'s sis
ter. Th-e e v."r.resi.ent 's eyes wore closed He
srvWe ov.irtly
"It wxs right that the Vnited States cod
not Join tv league of nuions
Sui-lled. Margaret w.lson caught her
hre:. crr to h.s be&o.ie.
W.wire Wiljoa orv-nd his eves and
S-miloA Agm(j)- spoWr
You Ihm I'm raving, .ior.1 you I rr
"Put borTi thir.l,ir.g about this for a
long time "
fier f:er had ha iruch time lo think,
says Etfatvv V-.lswr t.vtn In Fans he had
oont; acted flu Athrn vui, dcxT'owd f""r
tht and ::h cilrm b-.-4.it jJi-if. T.hi
Linqulit Vnndenborg
Michigan's energetic Senator Vandcnbcrg,
who at the start of this conference slipped
anti-Russian stories out to certain newsmen,
ia now getting along much better with Molo
tov. In (act they seem to be excellent friends.
' When the question of recognizing Russia
came up In the senate ten years ago, Van
dcnbcrg voted against It, never has been
Invited to the Russiun embassy, and always
carried an untl-Russinn chip on his shoulder.
However, ho has now learned two words la
Russian, while Molotov has learned two
words of English.
Molotov's two worda arc "ok" and "all
rlghty," which he pronounces with an "E-E"
on the end. Vandcnbcrg always enjoys a
chuckle and sometimes slapped Molotov on
tho back when the Russian vice-commissar
came out with these words.
The Michigan senator, in turn, has learned
to say "Amerikansky delegatsia," which
means "American delegation," ond he also
knows tho Russian word for "good," which
ia "khoroshaw." Molotov always chuckles
when Von drops these hurd-won nuggets
from his Russian vocabulary.
But when they get into deeper waters, the
two men need un interpreter. Once, when
talking privately, Vandcnbcrg is reported by
friends to have told Molotov: "If friendly
relatione could bo established between the
United States and Russia, I would be one
of the happiest men in tho world."
To which Molotov, perhaps remembering
Vundenberg's vote against recognizing Rus
sia, is reported to have replied: "And if I
could believe that, I would be one of the
happiest men in the world."
Philadelphia! United Nations Capital
One thing every successful international
conference needs is a symbol, something 1
which the public can understand and visual
ize, Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of state
in 1H21, was a master at this when he staged
the Washington arms conference.
However, the San Francisco conference,
though far more important, fur more vital to
the hopes and fears of future mankind, has
been deficient in appropriate symbolism. For
this reason the proposal of the Philadelphia
Record that the future headquarters of the
United Nations be grouped around Inde
pendence hall In Philaclphia is worth careful
study. '
Philadelphia and Independence hall were
the scene of almost the same kind of debate
now progressing at San Francisco the de
bate of the continental congress to draw up
See WASHINGTON . . . Page 6
Ing price, so that he can testify himself. '
OPA gets plenty of postcards from women
complaining of a store that is selling at
above coiling prices, but usually the tip-off
doesn't result in a conviction because of the
postscript: "1 don't want to testify in court."
No, it isn't pleasant for women to have to
testify in court to help clean up black mar-,
koting. Appearing in court takes time; it
will probably make an encmyj it may mean
some publicity.
Rut if housewives aren't willing to pet in
and fight to put down the black market in
me;:, they realty shouldn't complain of deal-ci-s'
profiteering.
As long as all they are willing to do is pass
the buck, then they shouldn't expect protec
tion against the black market.
ability to sleep, to relax completely for five
minutes or an hour, had been one of Wbod
row Wilson's greatest sources of strength.
From a nap or a full night's sleep he could
wske refreshed and able to cope with any
new task. But now, with one arm paraly-ed
and one foot dragging when he could walk,
in the long days and the longer nights of
v .ikcr.ilness, Woodrow Wilson had done
much thinking.
There was nothing the matter with his
brain. Eleanor Wilson declares, and he was
anything but the broken-hearted man he has
N--en so commonly and so wrongly portray
ed. But he had been thinking about his
battle for a league of nations for a lone
time and now he was telling his thoughts
to his daughter Margaret:
' ".f u-e had joined the league w hen I asked
for it," he said, "it would have been a great
personal victory. But it would not have
worked because oloep down in Uieir hearts
the American people didn't really believe in
u "'
Margaret Wilson rose then and bent over
her father's bed. His eyes were clear, she
told her sister Eleanor afterward, and they
shore ith a hgfct as :f he were happier in
:t;c .vssursnec of what he had just said and
what he was to say new
'The nr.v will come when this eoun.ry
.l". Mn s.i.-h a league because it w ill kn.w
..-it .t has to be. And then and then or.h.'
-.:l :t work."
Ke laughed a little.
Kc was rea'.b.- a gA jinii." Kicanor Wil
son recalls today. To us he was never the
.-.i.-. austere proiessor s- many people have
iticd lo mkWc him. Arr!i he was never an
egotist O
Hr was sin.-o-e. and he was. a nhil.wo
nhcT. ni he was nwn-ni at U tunes Bui
he ha; the g-aniesl sense of humor, and that
revealed itself m his last hours and his last
words w-.th Margaret on the league of na-
'Voi; knov " he j
kr.ou Kt:i; this 1.'
com. ip4i av mta se-vicg. ihc. t. m. Rtc u. s. pat, orr.
"My son had 24 bombing missions in the Pacific without half as
much trouble as I've had with this bike!" -
McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM. C. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
ESTABLISH SAFEST
SUIT IN NO THUMP
When playing a contract at no
trump and holding two different
five-card suits opposite two 'three
card suits, people often say to
me, "Which suit do you set out
to establish?"
Well, this question is often an-
going to lose three diamond
tricks.
Now the question is, should we
start the club or the spade suit?
Well, can't you see that if you
load the spade and it loses, now
the opponents will cash their
three diamonds, the one spade
and will lay down the ace of
clubs and defeat 'our contract?
But if you establish the club
suit, true they get in with the
ace and cash three diamond
tricks, but now you have four
club "tricks, a diamond is five,
three hearts is eight and two
spade tricks are ten, one more
than you can actually cash, is
the opponents will take four
tricks.
o IN FORMER
YEARS
30 Years Ago
J. F. Corbett, chief dispatcher,
who has been in Portland attend
ing to business matters, returned
home. . , ,
County Judge Frcnk Phy w'ent
to Portland on business.
Pat Foley, proprietor of the Fo
ley hotel, went to Walla Walla.
The senior class of Cove high
school gave their class play, "A
Scrap of Paper." Participating
were Henry Maxfield, Louin
Lantz, Vernon Layne, Guy Bark
er, Philip Conklin, Herman Lund,
Vera Pease, Cassie Kelly, Jean
Holmes, June Chadwick Char
lotte Ramsdalc and Mabel Gibson.
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swered by simple arithmetic.
Count your tricks.
Today's hand, for example.
The lead of tho deuce of dia
monds tells us that we are only
Questions & Answers
Q How much foreign trade
will be required to reach that
much-discussed "maximum em
ployment"? A $10,000,000,000 a year, says
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau.
Q How many piers are there
at New York, our grcatest'port?
A 722.
15 Years Ago
Alice K. Gates spent the week
end in Elgin visitingJVIr. and Mrs.
Charley Beam.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Greu
lich left for Spokane to attend
the Rotary district convention.
A miscellaneous shower honor
ing Miss Lucille Black, whose
marriage to Ed Fitzgerald was
set for June 1, was held in the
home of Mrs. Doyle Zimmerman
with Mrs. Zimmerman and Miss
Winona Lyman, hostesses.
Q What industry uses the
term "high iron"?
A Railroading. High iron re
fers to rails.
Q What is pogony?
A Epaulettes, in the Russian
army. All officer ranks are des
ignated by them.
Q What are passierschcinc?
A Safe conduct passes for
German prisoners moving to the
rear.
10 Years Ago
Work was progressing on the
new club house for the Northside
Improvement club.
Among the Masons attending
an Eastern Oregon meeting here
was Frank Peters, circuit judge
of Hillsboro. and senior grand
warden of the Masonic grand
lodge of Oregon.
Q What is the capacity of the
na.-.i party stadium at Nuern
berg? A 150,000.
Buildings weighing 4000 tons
and having five stories have been
moved successfully.
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