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I EDITORIAL PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
VKI)NKSI)AY KVKMNC., MAY 10, 194 5
I'age Two
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EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Valley irrigation project.
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He sho E5ctend the city ,ilnit8-
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Pcat 'lllOUGHT FOR TODAY
rnna A" 1")W01' is n truist : that we are ac
'the Countable for its exercise; that from the
"l,er people and for the people all springs,
sir and all must exist. lienjaniin Disraeli.
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The Columbia River
Highway
We note with pleasure the concur
rence yesterday of the Portland Orojton
ian with our recent editorial pointing
out the importance of a progressive at
titude on the modernization and relo
cation of the Columbia River highway
from Portland to The Dalles and on the
Oregon Trail section to the Idaho bor
der. .
The Oregonian's editorial indicates
that the importance of the highway to
the entile state is as evident to the
western portion of the state as it is to
us here in eastern Oregon.
l'elieving that Ihis matter should be
emphasized as much as possible we re
print, in portion, the editorial comment
of the Portland newspaper:
"On this project. $1.2(10,000 has al
ready been spent and the new money, it
i.s expected, will complete the section
between Troutdale and Dotlson the
latter a point about a mile east of Horse
tail falls. Through and heavy traffic
will thus be able to by-pass Crown
Point, the Figure Fight and other es
thetic features for which the present
highway is noted, but which will be pre
served for use of lovers of scenery and
sudden vistas. .
"Yet when this section has been com
pleted only a relatively small part of
construction on the new locution will
have been finished. It will cost $11,
000,000 to complete the remaining
forty-four miles of the new highway to
The Dalles, and in that remaining part
are many features of the present high
way that delight the esthetic, but ag
gravate the multitude of private and
commercial vehicles that are going to
and from eastern Oregon on business.
"At the present rate of allotment of
highway funds it will require about
fifteen years to complete the whola pro
ject. And that is far too long to wait
for an improvement for which there is
such strong commercial demand.
"It is repetitious, but pertinent, to re
call that the Columbia River highway
was built in a day when motoring was
mainly pleasure driving. The motorist
was presumed to take delight, and prob
ably did, in sinuous roads and expansive
points of view. Some, who have the
time for it, still do, but even their phns
ure is now disturbed by competition for
road space by ponderous busses and
slow-moving trucks and private cars in
a great hurry. The Columbia River
highway has become a major artery of
business traffic, for which it was not
designed."
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1 have complete confidence in
the stupidity of the Japanese.
-'--Brie,, lien. Frederic Smith.
rnminandcr, fifth air force,
Pacific.
1 hope to lie able to accept the
invitation of 1'iesidcnt Osmona
to visit Manila at the inaugura
tion of the Philippine republic.
President TruVnnn.
Wo must strip Germany of her
army, navy, and nil of her heavy
Industries. She must be close
ly supervised. And let's leave
her devastated cities unrepaired.
They would be a fine momu
ment to nil whom the Germans
have numlerd in Hiich6l)cald
and itteOvvhoro.
-Hep. Marion T. Belmetl, Mis
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Side Glances
By DREW PEARSON
"I'm' gelling tired of towing by handl"
The kind of effect . K, lil.c , is
nn'.ethiiiK Kind of halll r.y.v',ut
convincing.
Houlvn Mamoulian, stage and
movie director.
WASHINGTON Jonathan Daniels, retir
ing White House press chief, was offered by
Truman the job of rural electrification ad
ministrator. He turned it down to go with
the MacMillan publishing company .... If
General William O'Dwyer doesn't run for
mayor of New York, Warner1 Brothers have
offered him a top spot In their company.
. . .Liberty Correspondent Burnet Hershey,
returning from the wnr zone, reports that
various allied groups already have begun
& rabbing for the huge German gold cache
'. S. troops, found in a salt mine. The gold
bars are not stamped with the name of any
country, ond Holland has pointed out that
part of her gold reserve was snitched by the
Nazis.
A lot of people are not at all happy about
having French Collaborationist Premier La
yal brought to trial. He has a strongbox In
a Madrid bank containing correspondence
with various people, including the British,
which won't look good if made public in
court . . . Marshal Petain is in the same
boat. He even has a signed treaty with
Churchill. . . . Some day the real reason
why Musoslinl was shot instead of being
brought to trial will leak out. He also had
some papers. ... If Hermann Goering really
goes to trial, the true story of the mysterious
Rudolph Hess flight to Scotland finally will
be told. Some peope are not too anxious to
have Goering stand trial publicly.
Porney Baruch's Dream
Barney. Baruch has laid bofro President
Truman an up-in-the-clouds proposal to re
duce the cabinet to the state, war, navy and
treasury departments, plus three other posts
not now of cabinet status office of war mo
bilizer, foreign economic administrator and
Barney Barueh, himself. Barney is a little
vague about what his job should he but he is
not vague about wanting a job in the cabinet
, . . President Truman listened to Baruch
with outward cordiality,- and pretended he
would think it over.
Democratic Chairman Henncgan has de
cided not to go to the Philippines on the
junket with Senator Tydings. (There aren't
any votes in the Philippines.) . . .Filipino
leaders complain that when they go to see
Tydings, chairman of the insular affairs
committee, he snaps at them: "Talk fast,
talk fast." . . . Far-sighted General Fred Os
born, chief of the army's special services di
vision, is completing airangenients for open
ing a university in Paris where American
soldiers can study until they are shpped
home. . . . Although Portugal broke off re
lations with Germany just before V-E day,
she refused to co-operate with the allies on
the day following her break when the U. S.
state department asked Portugal to "block
all German and other enemy accounts and
safe deposit boxes." The Portuguese re
fused, declaring such action would mean war
with Germany.
Vandenberg' "Cht.nman"
Senator Arthur Vandenberg Is working
sincerely and energetically at being a states
man, and bring good will to the allies. But
he's not doing so well with the Chinese. The
other day, Vandenberg was asked some
questions by news men about proposed
amendments to the United Nations charter.
"They don't have a Chinaman's chance,"
was his reply. Four Chinese news men pres
ent were furious, said nothing.
The late Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox get into the same kind of trouble right
after Pearl Harbor when the Chinese am
bassador called to express China's sorrow
at Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
"We'll fix those yellow-bellied so and
so's," exploded Knox in reply.
Did You Know That
The 30-caliber bullet used by the U. S.
army will penetrate a 10-inch tree at 203
yards and kill a man behind It. , :
More water-borne cargoes clear through
the Port of Chicago each year than through
the Panama Canal.
Last year approximately half the canned
vegetables and two-thirds of the canned
fruit used by civilians was home canned.
More than' 50,000,000 pest-destroying in
sects are shipped annually from California
insectaries by air express to widely scat
tered destinations. The department of agri
culture recently shipped 2,000 parasitized
coddling moths to Lima, Peru. One airline
delivers insects to 18 different countries.
In the past five years the passenger reve
nue mileage flown in the United States in
creased over 200 per cent, totaling some 1,
i 500,00,000 miles, or more than 10 miles per
capita. Air express revenue mileage in
creased more than BOO per cent, totaling
some 30,000,000,000 miles.
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
Even to those who sit at home and wait
war is a terribly personal thing.
You sensed that in the reactions of men
and women on V-E day. The war was over
in Europe, and for that the man next door,
the woman down the street, the clerk in the
drug'storo' we're 'thankful;
But the personal weight of the war
couldn't be lifted even momentarily by a
half victory.
The man next door doesn't dare hope his
son in Germany will be through with fight
ing because the European war is won.
The woman down the street knows how
little the end of the European war means
to her husband, already two years in the
Pacific. She can't forget that it won't make
any sudden difference in the pattern of her
lonely days.
The man In the drugstore says, "But there
is still so much fighting ahead, so many lives
yet to be lost. And then there are all those
boys who never are coming back boys for
whose families V-E day came too late."
So thugh it was a day of victory for the
world to individuals it was not exactly .a
happy day.
For almost everyone there were sobering,
quieting consider atins.
It was V-E day but it didn't bring Joe
home. And for those who sit and wait, lis
well as for Joe, the day of real rejoicing Is
still in the future. That day is the da that
Joe comes home for good. And if he never
oomcs home, for those who love him there
will never be a real day of victory..
For those who sit and wait, as well as for
those who fight, war is a terribly personal
thing.
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, Lb Grands Evening Observer Washington Correspondent
Full import of the Soviet government's ac
tion in holding under arrest 15 Polish politi
cal leaders and one military leader can bo
understood only after examining the person
al records of these key men in the under
ground movement. What this magnificent
ly conceived and beautifully executed dou
ble cross amounts to is the capture of four
cabinet members and the leaders of five
major political parties Peasant, Socialist,
Christian Labor, Nationalist and Democratic
which functioned as a coalution council of
national unity, or underground parliament,
all through the war.
However else the pre-war Polish govern
ment may be criticized, it cannot be said
that it developed any Quislings. Credit for
this belongs largely to the underground par
liament which, though it could not itself
function as ft government, at least saw to it
that there was no Polish collaboration with
the Germans.
At the' head of this underground move
ment in Poland was a chief delegate who
also ranked as vice-premier of the London
Polish government in ex'le. This was Jan
Jankuwski who, next to the military leader
and the only non-political leader, General
Leopold Okulicki, was perhaps the biggest
catch in the Russian 16-man bag.
Jankowski was a labor leader, a lifelong
member of the Christian Labor party. After
the Pilsudski coup in 102(5. Jankowski withdrew-
from politics and devoted all his ef
forts to labor union organization. During
the Warsaw uprising last fall Jankowski was
awarded the highest Polish military decora
tion for conspicuous gallantry, though he
was not a soldier. To charge a man with
such a record as being pro-German seems
fantastic.
This is equally true of Eazinierz Purak,
perhaps the most important personality de
tained by the Russians. Puznk's record shows
that In 1W5 hi( )vas arrested and sentenced
to death for leading u:rf)infis against the
Tsar. His .sentence was conimuntel to im
C isonment but he was hlvrated only by the
'ttolsheviki revolution in HU7. He returned
to P(tfti!d. entered politics, became secre
tary general of the Socialist party, was a
founder of the underground and escaped
detection all through the war.
A third leading figure among the Russian
captives is Wincenty Witwos, for the last 35
years head of the Peasant party and three
times premier of the old Polish government.
The other 12 political captives, as far as
general American knowledge is concerned
are unknown, largely unpronounceable and
frequently unspcllable names, except to
readers of the Polish-American press. Yet
because they may become symbols of Polish
persecution in a celebrated incident that
may well spread dissentlon among the Big
Three powers, they should be better known.
Included are National party leaders Ta
deuscz Kobylanski, publisher, and senator;
Zbigniew Stypulkowski, lawyer, and stu
dent leader; Stanislaw Jasiukowicz, cabinet
member and doctor of economic science.
Christian Labor party leaders Jozef Cha
cinski, party chairman; and Franciszek Ur
banski. secretary general of the farm labor
ers' union.
Peasant party leaders Kazimierz Baginski,
imprisoned for radical left wing activities;
Stanislaw Mierzwa, leader, of the radical
Peasant Youth association, and Judge Adam
Bien, a cabinet member.
Democratic party members A. Czernik
and Michalowski.
Socialist 'Antoni Pajdag, former deputy
mayor of Crakow.
When on March 30, three days after their
disappearance, a full report of the incident
was sent to Washington and London, few
people believed it. The treachery of forc
ibly detaining plenipotentiaries for whom
safe conduct to London had been arranged
was so great that only the Poles gave it
credence till it was confirmed by Foreign
CotjimissaroM- V. Moltov in n Francisco
a few days ago.
Thritigh four years of war against Ger
many thee underground political kadcrs
had kept their guard up and had avoided de
tection. It was only when the Germans had
been driven out of the country and the Po
lish patriots let their guard down to the Rus
sians that they came to grief.
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"I told our Cub Scout pack you marched all over France in 1918,
Dad, so they elected you to take us on a 12-mile hike Sunday!"
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
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BY SUIT PIRECTING
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from a chap in the Royal Nor
wegian uir force. His regiment
al number is 501. He asked me
not to use his name as he is
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afraid of reprisals against his
family, still in Norway, but he
did send this hand. We will just
call him "501."
He and his partner certainly
used the suit directing play to
great advantage in this hand. He
cashed the king and then the ace
of hearts and his partner gave
Questions & Answers
Q What is ' the population of
Vienna, Austrian capital now in
Russian hands?
A Nearly 2,000,000 before the
war.
him the deuce and five spot.
So at this point he shifted to
the three of clubs. Remember
that North had bid clubs and it
was supported by South so it was
riot unreasonable to believe that
East would be out of clubs. . i
East trumped and, recbgnizing
the fact that his partner1,1 by play
ing the three of clubs, 'had asked
for the return of the lowest suit
not trump, returned a' diamond
which "501" trumped, thus being
able to give East another club
ruff, setting the contratt three
tricks. '
O IN FORMER
YEARS
30 Years Ago ,n
F. J. Holmes went to Elgin to
attend the telephone stockholders
meeting. ' .
Misses Lucile Switzer and Ruth
Ghormley entertained informally
at cards in honor of C. G. DeVore.
Mrs. George Waite entertained
the Nineteen Fifteen embroidery
club at her home on Washington
avenue. "
Q Of what is the housing of
our newest armor-piercing shell
made?
A Tungsten carbide, the
world's hardest metal. The shell's
muzzle velocity is 3400 feet a
second; its steel counterpart trav
els only 2800 feet a second, muz
zle velocity.
" ;'! Years AW? '
Mrs. Parley Hutchinson went
to Portland to be present for the
graduation of her sister, Marga
ret Ireton, from the Good Samar
itan hospital school of nursing.
Mrs. Hutchinson wds accompan
ied by - her mother, Mrs. ' Ireton
of Payette, Fred Ireton .of Jack
son Hole, and Mrs. H. W. Moss
man of Meridian. .
E. E. Beatty drove to Baker to
attend the Scottish Rite. reunion.
Mrs. P. J. Lilly went to West
Virginia for a month's '.visit wth
her mother.
Q What percentage of Ire
land is Eire?
A Twenty-six counties form
Eire; remainder constitute North
Ireland. : . ,
Q What percentage of chil
dren attending school also hold
jobs?
A 20 per cent. In 1940, less
than 2 per cent.
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10 Years Ago
K. G. LaViolette, principal in
the Cove school for four, years,
resigned to become assistant
principal at Pendleton high
school. .' .
Rev. and Mrs. H. I. Hansen and
daughters, Ethel and Mrs. G. J.
Mehl and daughter Margaret,
went to Canyon City to visit
relatives. , ,
Miss LIU Hofmann was re
elected to teach at Moss Chapel
during 1935-36. The 1935 activi
ties closed with a picnic, at the
Cove swimming pool.
This Curious World
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in sae museum exhibits.
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