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Washington M er ry- Go- Round EDITORIAL PAGE Br DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher . FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1945 Page Two It Taken but One A rm to Hold a Hoop EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. Seventh War Loan Although the seventh in Iho series of special war loan campaigns has been launched by the treasury after victory in Europe, the need for it has never been more urgent. The need arises from the scarcity of consumer goods in relation to enormous latent public purchasing power. The bulk of our pro ductive resources must still be devoted to war. A considerable task remains before us in Kurope. A major conflict must yet bo won in the Orient. And if victory is to breed security and order and peace, some portion of our civilian supply, food and clothing in particular, must lie shared with the people wo have liberated. If inflation at homo is to be averted, the temptation to start spend ing money freely, which will come -as a natural consequence ot victory in Eu rope, must be sternly resisted. Peace time goods are likely to be in extremely short supply for a long while to come. Only two special war loan drives arc planned for this years as compared with three in the course of 1!U. For the seventh campaign, the treasury has set an over-all goal of M billion dollars. Half of this amount, the more import ant half, is to l)e raised by the sale of bonds to individuals. And the most important portion of this half, four bil lion dollars, is to come through sub scriptions to E bonds. These are the bonds designed for people of compara tively modest means. The buying of them represents a deferment of cur lent spending which is iiuintessential to the anti-inflation program. This is the really dangerous money, the money which the government must mop up and take out of circulation if prices are to be kept stable. The success of the seventh war loan drive can best be gauged by its success in meeting, the E bond quota. It was n recognition of this fact, no doubt, which led the treasury to under take an advance drive, inaugurated Monday, for subscriptions to E bonds through payroll savings. The men and women on American production lines have become ardent, regular buyers of E bonds. Some 27 million of them now purchase an aggregate of more than 500 million dollars' worth of these bonds each month through deductions from their weekly or monthly pay en velopes. They have also provided the best market for the sale of E bonds in past special campaigns. In the current drive the treasury looks to them to take . up '2 billion of the 1 billion E bond quota, more than in any previous single drive. This is why it has extended the time during which deductions from the pay of workers can be credited to the drive; the policy makes it possible to take into account varying payroll per iods. Money deducted from pay 'envelopes' is money which goes directly to the ' treasury and thereby has its inflation ary fangs removed. It is money set aside for the future, earmarked to make future purchases of civilian goods when these goods arc once more plentiful. . Thus prudence as well as patriotism die-' tates a response to the treasury's ap peal. The rest of the American public will have its chance to match the re ' spouse of the payroll employes during the seventh war loan drive. The drive ran succeed only if all Americans are willing to postpone the buying of things they want but do not actually need. Washington Post. Funny B u sin ess .- Eft s ,i t - '": r i: wnv;-pasty o SO THEY SAY Dm ins those years ot battle our two peoples have forced a new friendship. ... I trust our wartime comradeship will be fol lowed by ever eloser understand ing and co-operation. Kill); Gov.rge's message to Pres ident Truman. ll is our intention to stretch our frontiers out to the limits established by the Versailles treaty which created our repub lic. Jan M.isaryk, CVeeh minister of foroiyn affairs. WASHINGTON The state department has one bucking-bronco ambassador on its hands and it doesn't quite know what to do with him. He is ebullient, energetic Patrick J. Hurley, ex-sccretary of war, ox-major general, now U S. ambassador to China. Hurley holds the No. 2 ambassadorial job in the world. No. 1 is Moscow. Both China and Russia these days are more important ' than London, where relations are happy and serene. But in Chungking,, the United State's has'', been laboring .to get both Chinese factions to fight Japan Instead of fighting each other. If they don't get together, we face another row identical with that in Poland. The state department is worried that Stalin will rec ognize the riorthern Chinese communists as he did the Lublin government of Poland, leaving us -burdened with the Chiang Kai shek government which has dwindling sup port among the Chinese people. To sit in this tough trouble-spot, Roosevelt sent handjsome, colorful ex-Oklahoma oil man and Choctaw Indian attorney, Pat Hur ley. It was Pat's job to try to bring the two Chinese factions together. Oh his way back to Chungking from Washington last month, Hurley stopped in Moscow where he called on Stalin. It was a very important interview . for the purpose of keeping JStalin in line regarding China, preventing mm from bolting the traces, re nounpng cjhwig Kai-shek1 and coming out 100 per cent for the northern Chinese. U. S. Ambassador Avercil Harriman went with Hurley to make the call. Hurley's Platitudes At the Kremlin, Hurley said something to the effect "that he hoped Stalin believed China must not be split up; to which Stalin, of course, agreed. Then he asked In effect: "You are for a unified China, aren't you, Marshal?" Again Stalin, of course, agreed. There followed some other questions on Innocuous points, and the interview was over. Ambassador Harriman left by plane immediately for Washington, very much an noyed that Hurley had failed to lake up any real issues with Stalin. Stalin had agreed only to obvious and general platitudes about China. . . ;' But when Karrimun i) rived in Washing ton, he found Hurley had already cabled the state department that Stalin had endorsed his program for China. Harriman promptly advised the state department that this was not the case. However, Hurley's telegram somehow or "other found its way to the Chinese embassy in ..Washington, which cabled It to Chung king,rhere the Chiang Kai-shek ' govern ment, gleefully spread the Word that Stalin haa ' agreed to its program. Naturally, Chiang's program calls for a minimum' of cooperation with the northern Chinese-ln fact less than none. .. .', So now Chiang Kai-shek is much less compromising and the problem of getting the two factions together is right back where it was when Gen. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell de manded that the generalissimo cooperate and was fired for his pains. . Meanwhile, Stalin may come out, with full recognition of the northern Chinese any minute. The state department Is also upset over the fact that Mrs. Hurley has accepted a bracelet said to be worth . around $30,000 from the Chinese ambassador in Washing ton. Naturally, this is interpreted in Chinese circles as putting him squarely in the Chiang Kai-shek camp and diminishes his useful ness as an impartial negotiator. Justice Jackson Qeti Mid Justice Bob Jackson is all steamed up over his job of war criminals prosecutor, has tak en a six months' leave from the supreme court and is ready to retire from the court if his blackrobed colleagues don't like his taking lime off to prosecute the nazis .... Believe it or not, but Radio City music hall in New York refused to play the newsreel of nazi prisoner atrocities. "Too gruesome," was the complaint. The Hays office also withheld its approval on a documentary film of atrocities because "it repeated too many gruesome scenes" .... The Hays of fice prefers jazz .... Incidentally Will Hays will be out of his job in the autumn, when Eric Johnston of the U. S. chamber of com merce takes over. WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MTLLETT War wife's wisdom: A woman's real friends arc those who don't regard her as a social liability as soon as she becomes a lone woman, instead of half, of a couple. ' The meat shortage hasn't made meal plan ning half as unsatisfying a chore as not be ing able to cook favorite dishes for the men "of the house. '' It is easier to go through a child's illness alone than not to be able to share with his father the child's "firsts" first steps, first sentence or Jirst real fight. Days unbroken by a husband's evening homecoming have twice as many hours as "normal" days. ' Thq telephone loses all power of suspense, once THE man in a woman's life is restricted to letter writing as his only means of com munication. But the mailman takes on a new glamor. Letter days and days without letters have as different a feeling as rainy days and sun shiny ones. It's strange how much time and effort a woman spends doing the Odd jobs of S-man who "never did 6 thing around the house." All war wives grow either younger or older in their husband's absence. . None stays exactly the same. Many a husband and wife have gained a truer understanding of each other through a year or two of separation than during five or ten years of living together., Explaining the "facts of life" to a kid will be a cinch after trying to explain why "some kids still have their daddies at home." Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON, Li Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent "Built i oec in 1 to Junior can sil in odd portions when he phones hit gull'' New- K.nJ'aiulcrs are by nature conservative. We don't wear our hearts upon our sleeves and we are aware there is still much hv bo done. I Van Edwin J. Van Kttcn, St. Paul's I'athedralPBoston. O O Wo must plunge ourselves into the work of carrying out tlio Greater East Asia war to a SUCQ cessful conclusion and renew our determination to carry on, even if it muiii 10.UU0.000 lives. SAN FRANCISCO After nearly three weeks of labor, this United Nations confer ence hasn't done anything more about writ ing a world,. charter which is what it came out here fotJthan to agreo on some more principles. ! . That isn't'lilte fair, either. The conferees have also Isolated a few principles on which they havc.pjjjced they can't yet agree. Ponderous 49-mcn committees, wicstling with hundred of amendments, have actually spent days trying to draft single sentences and all the real news about the charter thus far developed at San Francisco could there fore be put in one eye without causing a squint. There have, of course, been some nice fights about Poland and the Argentine and lot of smoke has come out of the pots on freedom for Korea, Yugoslavia, India, Spain, and waypoints. But these side issues don't help the charter get written. This being the situation, a good third of the working press corp3 originally assigned to cover this historic occasion has gone home, along with Molotov, Eden and Spaak, and there are great open spaces in the press headquarters at the Palace hotel where once all was merry din and shop talk. This doesn't mean that the conference has bogged down and will fail. The doldrums of actual composition were predicted way in advance and here they are. For another week or so, the actual news coming out of San Francisco will bo unbroadcastable and unprintable because nobody can be expected to work up any enthusiasm over proposed 90-word amendments to chapter XII, section. C, reading: ' "But no enforcement action should be tak en under regional arrangement or by re gional agencies without tin; authorization of the security council with the exception ot measure against enemy states ift. this war provided for pursuant to chapter XII, pars graph 2, or0in regional arrangements direct ed against renewal of agrcssiA policy on the part of such states, until u.:h time as the or ganization may, by ronsvnt of the govern ments concerned, be charged w;(jj the re sponsibility for prevoptjing further aggres sion by a state now at war with the United Nations." Just try to write an inspiring piece for the papers on that. If the whole United Na tions charter is goi:ig to read like that it won't prevent wars, it will start them, pro viding a new era ot prospcutv for only thox: 5 international lawyers who get admitted to the bar of the world court. There is no denying that the job of com position on the United Nations conference is tough, but with all the talent there is as sembled in San Francisco, this document should be written so it, can be understood by even the poor dcvils'whd have to fight wars and get killed to make peace. To the people at home whose role is mere ly to pray for peace and to the outsiders artd observers here at Saii Francisco, it may well seem that the business of writing this char ter has been made unnecessarily complicat ed. When it was found that the executive committee, the steering committee, the four principal commissions and their 12-sub-com-mittces trying to write the charter in sec tons were not making much progress, some thing new was added a coordinating com mittee. This 19th committee like the 19th hole is now something to watch. Committees of 49 members being too unwieldy to get any tiling done with dispatch or finality, the size of the coordinating committee has been kept at 14 members and it is made up of the depu ties to the 14 members of the executive com mittee. As secretary of state, Edward R. Stettin ius is U. S. member of the executive commit tee, his deputy, Leo Pasvolsky of the state department, is U. S. member and chairman of the coordinating committee. Similarly, the number two man, from each of the 14 delegations on the executive .committee, it the technical expert who ic survofd to know the most about '.he Dumbarton 0i proposals as amended and is the man who will sit on the coordinating committee. In short, this conrdinatir-g committee is apparently going to do the etork at St Francisco the editing and the finaj draft ing to remove the bugs and inconsistencies and make the United Nations charter a pi;r ,tical documciO. Viirk of the coordinating will, of cou(j, be tubjeet to approval of the executive com mittcc aim the full conference in plent6 session. Work of the coordinating commit tee will also be subject to advice from a sub-committee of jutists. They're the boys to look out for. If they start cluttering up this noble document with a lot of sentences like that quoted above, Jhis thing may turn out to be a botched job. CPWL1I St im m tvicg. iwe. t. m. Rgq u. s. pat, orr. "I told our Cub Seoul pack you marched all over France In '1918, Dad, so they elected you to lake us on a 12-mile hike Suridayl" 6 McKENNEY ON BRIDGE "T Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America'! Card Authority' UNORTHODOX OPENING BEATS "SURE" GAME Well, here is Sylvia again. Everything looks normal, doesn't it? Now, I want you to look ut the opening lead Sylvia made against a simple cc.Urhct cf four spades. You can see that if the declar- AQ105 VKJ83 AK4 Q72 Kl I N , I J 63 A75 w P VQ942 J952 R 10 763 '09 6 5 Duller 84 4k A 9 7 4 2 V 10 6 Q8 . A K J 3 Duplicate N.-S. vul. South West North East 1 4 Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3 Pass ' 4 A Pass Opening V 5. 19 er goes up with the king of hearts, he can discard a losing heart on -the king of diamonds and all he has to lose is the king of spades and make six odd. Of course, our declarer looked at the opening lead and said to himself, "Sylvia cannot be un derleading the ace, so the proper Questions & A nswers Q What is a supernova? A A star which temporarily may become 100 million times as bright as the sun a rarity to astronomers. .!. i play is a small heart." . , The queen won and; back came a heart. Sylvia won with the ace and now ted another heart. Of course, on this good .hpal't the declarer could discard one of his aces and kings for all 'the good it did him. . . .j The declarer led a, s'njall dia mond and won with the' queen. Now declarer played a' small spade toward the queen. Certainly Sylvia sho'ilcl win with the king. But did 'she? No, she played the eight spot. There fore she could not havethe king, so the correct play ws..the ten spot from dummy. ; ", East won with the jack and re turned the deuce of hearts and Sylvia made her king! thus set ting the contract one trick. o IN FORMET? YEARS ir 30 Years Ago; Rev. C. A. Edwards Of Baker was called to the Methodist Epis "copaT pastorals here'on' June 1'.'" '' Grain and hay were -in fine condition m the valley' Recent rain was so heavy it 'was said that even should a protracted drought nsue, it wouljd" do hb serious damage. ' ; J Q How were advancing American armies in Germany supplied with gasoline? A Special engineering com panies laid five sW-inch pipes wf.iich poured 3,000,000 gallons daily up near the various fronts where trucks carried it to ad vance depots. 15 Years Ago Mrs. R. G. Burnett-entertained at pinochle at her home on- .W avenue. Mrs. J. C. McManus and Mrs Hon"v T-Tarmv ronnitrnrl ttifl .prizes. . in,.'; . Miss Caroline Baumann, teach-, cr of Spanish at the. high school, was chosen one of sev'eri. region al directors of Spanish teachers of the state to attend a meeting to form an Oregon chapter of the American association of1 'Spanish teachers. 1 Al Q What is the "new" type of influenza that has hit Germany? A "Russian flu," name given to regular type of influenza that hit German citizens due to ex posure caused by bombings of their cities. . Q What . is the meaning of three long blasts on a locomotive whistle? A A car has broken loose from the train. 10 Years Ago ",'' Mrs. Lillian Shafer of 'near Is land City, went to. Montrose, Colo., for an extended '.visit at the home of her son, Odes Shafer. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Childers and Mrs. Edna Hartley of. Cove were elected delegates to the ntiite rnn- vention of the Baptist church: in Pcndelton. . Lorna Leffel enttfrtaWod the members of the first grade at Ackorman school in cdlebration of her seventh birthday anniver sary, with a party jinthe city park. This Curious World I UGMTNIN& J jFyj J"" I SfA&KS- 1 I 'NWlVl -.1' W V I SET OFF WHEN V-- "If A 1 "v.T-1 1 clouds M 0 .DX rS BUMPED INTO fV-. j- j4DL " ' A IS KNOWN BY AVORE THAN com. tu tv net gtimct. ne ANSWER: Wtcuo. Ceiwn City it tha cepital of Nevada.
