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:
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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-
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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.
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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.
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