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1 1 i! Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE Br CHEW PEARSON 31" !'! Pi ti 1 . F.I 31 ; : ' i,'1 I 1 IS1 ill ' La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1945 All That Remains of the EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Runde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Do not nbhor us, for thy name's sake, Io not diHRi'ace the throne of thy jrlory; remember, break not thy covenant with lis. Jeremiah 11:21. The War Phase Two Wo have just received a copy of a report prepared by the office of war information under the direction of Fred Vinson, director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion, and transmitted to the president on May 10. We believe the list of 10 basic points outlined in this report are the best source of answers to many of the ques tions in the minds of all of us. The following1 are 'ten controllinir statements of principles and facts" as jliven in the report, and for the present need no further comment: 1. War against Japan probably will prow in severity over a prolonged per iod, linconditional surrender of Japan, as of Germany, is our goal, and its hardly likely that Japan will yield her home islands to occupation by our for ces short of successful and complete in vasion. Kxpericurc has shown that, any effort to predict definitely the duration of war usually fails. All' our effort to ward war, ami toward production, will be needed no to Hie hist instant. 'Z. Hcmobilization of such men as the army can spare will lienin promptly, liecause of shipping- limitations, it will take nliout a year to complete the re lease of men eligible for discharge. 'I'll navy does not plan to demobilize until Funny Business "lie myi lis hopes ynu dnn'l mi id M whiling 0 q untiVbji turn tintiwl q .-wmi? l'age Two Rome - Berlin - Tokyo Axis Japan has been defeated. 3. As a result of lessening pressure on the European war front, cuts in war production began some time ago. Dur ing the next six months, war produc tion cuts will be of the order of 10 to 15 per cent of the current rate. The navy's small production cuts have already been scheduled. Greater cuts nmy be expected during the first six months of 1946, after the long pipe lines to supply the war in the far east have been filled. Even then, munitions production in the first six months of 194G will maintain a level not far from two-thirds of that previously required by the two front war. In addition to our own needs, we must continue to send lend lease war essentials to our allies who are fighting with us asrainst Japan. 'I. High production still .required for the Japanese war will require that a part of those now employed in war pro duction stay on the job. The total num ber of persons unemployed, many of whom will bo only temporarily out of work between jobs, probably should not exceed more than 2 to 2i3 million per sons at the end of the next 12 months, as compared with a present total of about one million. There will be severe local unemployment problems, side by side with actual manpower shortages in areas where war production remains at a high peak. Strict manpower controls will continue to be necessary, especially in such areas. Nationally the situation should not be acute. B. Subject to the over-riding priority of war production, some reconversion will take place immediately. The pace will te accelerated as the requirements of war permit. Reconversion planning must proceed vigorously, but we can not have complete reconversion until final victory. (i. Military requirements for food will not decrease, and relief needs will be greater. Domestic demand for food See EDITORIAL . . . Page 4 o SO THEY SAY It is perfectly clear to mc that we cannot hope for a restoration of peacetime business at high lewis without a revision of the tax laws. ' Sen. Wilier F. George, Georgia. t uii a p' ic'i:cer, not u politi cian. l.l. Gen William S. Knudsen, former General Motors presi dent, wlwn questioned rcgard 1115 running fur mayor of De troit. Gei many is a sick nian. Right now ho can have only what the doctors presenile. Later on lie will have a. moire ample diet. Elmer Davis rwad of OWt. , It's like heaven here at homo, tx.it I want to get hack irt" the oM svinj; as fast as I Wibly can. I waul to help produce tlt thmijs we nced,o whip those louy Japs. Sgt. Frank Kastelllc, Cleve land. O. released under de mobilisation plan. away Iho time STN. Again Soviet transgressions which have marred our present Russian relations, must be chalked up a list of petty mistakes and needling of which U. S. officials have been guilty. None of these is basically important in American eyes, but to the orientally minded Russians, always suspicious and made more so by long years of diplomatic snubbing, they are ex aggerated out of proportion and become very serious. Before the San Francisco conference open ed, for instance, Foreign Minister Molotov took up in Washington the question of ro tating the chairmanship among the big four inviting countries. Lord Halifax at that time proposed a compromise and it was pre sumed this would bp adopted. Other delegates were amazed, therefore when Secretary Stettinlus permitted the Mexican foreign minister to propose Stettin Ais' name as full-time chaiman of the confer ence instead of rotating the chairmanship. Molotov, not understanding English, did not realize what was happening and Stettinius was virtually elected when Molotov rose to reiterate his point made earlier in Washing ton. Later, Senator Vandenberg let out to newsmen what happened at the secret ses sion, giving a. distorted version to the effect that Molotov was trying to sabotage the con ference. The Russians get awfully stubborn when they think you are trying to doublecross them, even on little things. And if our hand some young secretary of state had put the quietus on his own vanity and graciously of fered at the start to share the dull routine job of wielding the gavel before the dele gates (and news photographers) there is no telling what headaches it might have saved us In other places. Instead, the Russians got the idea that we were out to put their man on the sidelines at the very start, and this impression contin ued especially when Stettinius refused to permit even a four-day delay on the admis sion of Argentina. At the Bretton Woods conference, where the Russians finally agreed 100 per cent, they asked for various delays of three and four days to consult Moscow. But after these delays, they always came through in the end. WASHINGTON. Against the unfortunate WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MILLETT "Because he will not have his wife made an 'unpaid domestic drudge,' the Rev. Ar thur Snell is moving out of his 20-room rec tory into a cottage which used to' be rented at three schillings (87 cents) a week." So says a recent news item from Chillesford, Suffolk England. There's the direct approach: While most husbands feel that saying "I hate to see you work so hard, Honey" eases the housewife's burden here is a man who just up and puts a stop to a lot of his wife's domestic drudg ery. If their husbands insisted on, even co operated most women who now have to do all of their own work could cut down on it considerably. But, of course, if you are go ing to cut down on the work around a huse you have to cut down on your "stylo of liv ing." You have to simplify it in every detail. Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON, La Grand Erenlng Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO Real story behind Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius's announcement supporting the inclusion in the United Nations charter of four amend ments for the protection of human rights is that these provisions were insisted upon by a group of over 100 unofficial U. S. "Xon sulants" representing 42 national religious, patriotic farm, labor, business, educational and peace organizations. Among the lead ers in the movement to put a commission on human rights in the social and economic council of the United Nations organization were Dr. O. Frederick Nolde of the federal council of churches of Christ in America and Judge Joscphy M. Proskauer of the American Jewish committee. Work of this consultants' group has been pretty much behind '.he scenes at San Fran cisco, but its effectiveness is best shown by its victory on the human rights issue which had been previously considered and then dropped by the slate department, as some thing too difficult to attain. None of the consultants' meetings have been open to the public or the press, but behind closed doors they have had a number of spirited sessions. Included in their group are such diverce elements as A. F. of L. and C. 1. O., Nation al association of manufacturers, American Legion, Rotary tnd Kiwanis Protestant. Jewish and Catholic societies, parent-lcach-crs, league of women voters. While it was generally feared they would lie in continual strife, they have fooled cveryliody. worked in harmony and may really contribute largely to the succesv of the conference. Consultants' scheduled meetings have btvn Monday,. Wednesday and Friday at 5 p, m. and Tuesday and Thursday at 9M a. m. Most of U'.cir sessions have been in a reserved lobby at 'lie opArjl house where ! plenary .sessions are' liclrl-j though a lew; nuttings ljTr. been at the Fairmont hotel, Hhich is U. S. delcgition headquarters. At morning sessions the consultants have been threshing out things among themselves. Dr. James T. Shotwell of the Ccmegie endow mint tor tnliriutional ptaee presiding. M Petty Needling Personal pettiness has featured much of our recent relationship with Russia. The Russians, for instance have never quite for gotten Chief of Staff Marshall's press con ference when he predicted the fall of Mos cow in six weeks. General Marshall was only taking the word of his military intelli gence, and is not anti-Russian, But Red army generals never forgot it. Later the war department made the mis take of yanking Gen. Philip Faymonville, the only U. S. military man whom the Rus sians liked and who spoke' 'the language, out of Moscow, replacing him with an anti-Russian friend of General Marshall's, Gen. John R. Ceane. Russian officials considered espe cially significant the fact, that General Fay monville their friend, was reduced in rank to colonel. Somewhat more serious has been the petty needling of state department officials. In the first place, the top adviser to Stettinius is Leo Pasvolsky, last secretary to the Rus sian embassy in Washington before the bol shevik revolution, later editor of two White Russian newspapers in New York. Various delegates at San Francisco were amazed at the way Stettinius called on Pasvolsky lor advice at almost every turn. , More than any other man, this White Russian seemed to be the backstage manager of the American delegation. Another right hand adviser to Stettinius is charming Jimmy Dunn, chief state depart ment champion of Franeo and the man who consistently oppoed the republican govern ment of Spain because he feared it was too much like the,-Soviet. Naturally it is hard for the Russians to forget that Franco came into power through Hitler and Mussolini plus the hands-off embargo policy of Jimmy Dunn; and that Franco promised to send 1,000 000 members of his blue division, to fight the Russians when they had their backs to the wall at Stalingrad. Now they see Jimmy Dunn sitting at Stettinius' right hand. Then there is Nelson Rockefeller, whose family owns many of the big oil companies which prosper under certain Latin Ameri can dictatorships. No matter what his fine personal qualities, Rockefeller Is bound to arouse Soviet suspicions. So the majority of women who have fceen getting along without help in the war years have been .pretty much tied to their houses. They have turned themselves into "unpaid -domestic drudges" so that their families could go on living just as always and so that the windows could gleam as brightly as in the days of cleaning women, and so that they could continue to keep up their end of the social round. But maybe it isn't entirely because their husbands don't decide "My wife isn't going to be a domestic drudge" that most women have failed to cut down noticeably on their daily chores. The wife has to be willing to give up some things, too mainly her desire to keep up with the Joneses. . , And it isn't every woman who would give up living in an impressively big house to move into a cottage even if the big house did force her into domestic slavery. afternoon sessions representatives of the Amreican delegation have been appearing in turn to keep the consultants informed as to w hat went on and get their reactions. It was at these afternoon sessions that the consultants first emphasized their views on having greater protection for human rights written into the charter. Dcaji Virginia Gildersleevc got this reaction at first, then John Foster Dulles. But the delegates were not impressed and decided not to make a fight for these principles. At a subsequent meeting of the consult ants Secretary Stettinius appeared. Dr. Nolde, an eloquent preacher, led off with a demand for better safeguards to human lights. He was followed by Judge Pros kauer who made a profound legal presenta tion of the case. Others among the consult ants voiced their approval in no uncertain terms. Their position was that while they did not expect the American delegates to win every point they did expect their dele gates to get in there and fight for what they considered right. Secretary Stettinius was impressed and said so. Leaving the meeting of the consult ants, he went directly to a meeting with the other American dclcr,vs and their official, technical advisors, who were considering other amendments. Stettinius immediately made the proposal that the question of amendments incorporating the principles of Frcsident Roosevelt's four freedoms and the protection of human rights for all people, regardless of race,, language, religion or sex, be reconsidered. This a.'ljon was taken ;ti1 the American d( legation, went on record in support of four human rights amendment a state ment of principle in the preamble, giving the jtVncral assciublyie powciCJo assist in attainti)cnt(pl these trefcfcnrVl.nd 'be crea tion f a commbKibn jtc) protnnte tjir world wide acceptance. q OO Securing the approval of the other major powers to these amendments was a relative ly tasy matter. COPmtlWHtAMHVlCC. IMC. T. W. f O. 0. . PAT. OfF. "Even with the manpower shortage,. Marge never, has to change her typewriter ribbon I suppose they figure we've go brains enough lq change our own!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority A SHREWD END-PLAY WINS PART-SCORE - (This is one of a series of hands from the recent world's championship master's indi vidual tournament.) Al Weiss of Chicago, life mas ter No. 31 has long been recog nized as one of the outstanding players of the west. He finished second in this year's world cham- A 10 7 4 VK964 A862 65 AQJ I N1I9652 832 w E J75 K974 . QJ103 AK1 1 Dealer 7' - Weiss K83 VAQ10 5 QJ9842 , , Duplicate Neither vul. South West North -East Pass 1 Pass 1 Pass 1 N. T. Pass Pass 2 tl Pass Pass Pass -, Opening 4. 22 pionship masters' individual, and after five sessions of play, was only one-half point out of first place. Some of us are not inclined to place much importance on a part score hand, but Weiss certainly handled the play of this hand well to get his eight tricks in. Questions & Answers Q What distinction did the wife of Soviet Foreign Commis sar Molotov hold? A Mrs Molotov was once known as the best-dressed wom an in Russia. At present she co ordinates the work of several war plants; before that she was vice commissar of food in charge of fisheries. Q What was the largest me teor to fall on earth of which the date of fall is known? A That which crashed about 14 miles southwest of Paragould, Ark., Feb., 1930. Main fragment weighed K20 pounds. Q When is the next total eclipse of the sun? . A July D. This sunrise eclipse will be, best seen from parts of Idaho and Montana. This Curious World r HORSESHOES THAT BROUGHT GOOD LUCK I DIAMOND EVER ffsw ' " ' " '''-'', CCrH. 3Y KIA SERVICE. INC IN BPAZIL, HUMMIN&SISPS ARE CALLED 8EIJAFLORES... 'VEAMINti T.H.MQ.U.LMT nff C14 W ANSWER: Greenwich, a borough of London, Efigljid. NEXT: Ar flaminjoea native to th Unitd SiaUi? He won the opening lead in dummy with the ace and imme diately ruffed the deuce of dia monds. Now he took three rounds of hearts and ruffed the third diamond. , . A club was led which West won with the ten spot, .West at this point made a nice play. .He cashed the king and ace of clubs and exited with the king of dia monds. . Weiss ruffed this with his. last club and now led a small spade towards the ten. West was forced to win and concede South a spade trick, which gave him his eighth trick. ;M o IN FORMER YEARS ; 30 Years Ago, May 21 Ralph Huron left for Indlan apois to visit friends and rela tives. Walter M. Pierce went to On tario to deliver the corrlmence ment address lo trie "students!';' ' Prof.. Bailey, formerly of Elgin, was in charge of the1!; Ontario schools, . ! Mrs. A. E. IvanhoA county school superintendent, elJivefed the commencement adosSess to , the graduating classes at Sum mcrville and Enterprise. 15 Years Ago, May .31 , Mrs. Emma Harding (trove to Portland accompanying Jfjev. and Mrs. Marcus Godwin. Soc went to attend the Rcbekph "Conven tion. Miss Blanche Clark, Miss Hilda Anthony and Mjss Ida McMeekin enjoyed a drive to Wallowa lake. Another group driving to Wal lowa lake included Mrs. A.- T. Trollinger and daughter, Hazel lean, Mrs. Jack Hiatt and son Dick Mrs. Mae Blime and Misses Gertrude Tichenor and Ethel Broyles. 10 Years Ago. May 21 Miss Nora Clausen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Clausen, returned to her home here after teaching the school year at Myrtle creek. ' Miss Madeline Snyder, social service director in Union county, went to Truman, Minn., for a visit with her parents. She was accompanied by Cornelia 'Hansen. W 1 K 1
