EDITORIAL PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1945
'It Was a Carrier, So Big, Called the V. S. S. Franklin!'-
EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Valley irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10,001)
Extend the city limits.
TODAY'S TEXT
Behold, I send you forth hh ssheep in
the midst of the wolves: he ye therefore
wise us Hcrpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:16.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
In Faith and Hope the world
will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is
charily. Pope.
Cancer Control Fund
Needs Assistance
Underway in Union county at the
present time, in conjunction with a na
tional campaign, is a drive to raise $575
to be used in the rij-rli t against cancel-.
Eric Johnston, president of the United
States chamher of commerce, who heads
up the national drive, has compiled a
number of statistics which show with
out room for doubt that cancer is one of
the greatest threats to American wel
fare and happiness, lie said:
"During the first three years of the
war, with axis armies, navies and air
forces turning upon our fighting men
the full force of all the weapons of mod
ern warfare, the total Americans killed
or to die of wounds did not eipial the
number of Americans killed by cancer
in any one of the three vears from De
cember 7, 1911, to December 7, 1911.
"It shocked me to learn that an estim
ated (i(H),(MHI Americans rinht now are
suffering from cancer; that the annual
cancer death rate in this country is
10"i, ODD; that one in every eight Amer
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icans dies of cancer; that if this ratio
continues, 17,000,000 of today's living
Americans will die of cancer."
Think of that.
He continues: "And that means
Americans of all ages. For babies are
born with cancer; last year 18,000 childr
ren under 14 died of cancer; cancer is
the No. 1 killer of women in the 35 to
C.5 age group, the No. 1 killer of Ameri
can men, and is surpassed only by heart
disease in total deaths for all ages.
"The medical authorities of the
American Cancer Society tell me that
without the discovery of a single now
cancel- fact, 30 to 50 per cent of poten
tial cancer victims can be saved.
"This means that thru an adequate
educational program, adequate detec
tion clinics, equipment and training, and
periodical medical examinations, 4,000,
000 to (5,500,000 of the 17,000,000 Amer
icans now doomed to die of cancer can
lie spared the ravages of this disease.
With a full-sciUe integrated research
program also in operation, cancer can
be made a minor cause of death."
These are the facts, Union county
residents are asked to contribute only
$575 to the national total of $5,000,000.
Already more than 50 per cent of our
local quota has been raised, but it has
been gathered very slowly.
The local committee, headed by Har
vey Carter,' Central school principal is
putting boxes in stores of the area, to
assist in gathering smaller contribu
tions. Those who wish to make larger con
tributions can do so by contacting Car
ter, Mrs. Anton Freisingcr or at the
chamber of commerce offices.
Let's put the cancer drive over quick
ly. It will be a step toward the welfare
and happiness of a large part of our
own citizens in our own area. Accord
ing to national figures, nearly 13 per
cent of our community population will
suffer or die from cancer.
It must be prevented.
o SO THEY SAY
Wo need to think in terms of
cncoui anuu nd rewarding the
tremendous production, hard
work and skill of the American
farmer rather than paying him
to suppress his ability and his
skill.
(.iov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York.
The archaic and obsolete treaty
making machinery of the senate
is a menace to the peace and se
curity of America.
Sin. Claude Pepper, Florida.
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t'nlcfs tNt airplane cen pick up
its passenrrs nd cargo from
points cloy. to their itfigin, and
deliver I Inn) close to their final
destination, uir transport canOiA
perfm'm its gtoiUcst sOi'vicClo the
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Br DREW FEAASON
WASHINGTON Senator Langer of North
Dakota has written a .scorching letter to Sec
retary of War Stimson criticizing tin army's
secrecy in connection with Jap balloons in
the west and asking whether innocent per
sons have been killed, and if so, whether
this was what finally caused the war depart
ment to lift its censorship ban.
Last January the North Dakota senator
addressed a letter to Stimson calling his at
' tention to the arrival of Japanese balloons
in the northwest, and asking Stimson that
the American public be notified in order to
be on the alert regarding them.
"Long experience," Langer told the secre
tary of war, "has shown that the people,
when 'aware of any danger, arc the first to
help the armed services guard against it." ,
. However, Stimson sent an officer to see
Langer and pleaded with him not to say any
thing about the balloons. Langer finally
yielded. : .
Langer now takes the view that the war
department's policy of secrecy is mere face
saving, and the public should have been
warned long ago to look out for these bal
loons. . t !
'There is naffieed to tell the enemy the
exact location where these balloons drop so
they can measure the drift of air currents,"
Langer told Stimson five months ago. "That
can easily be :Jtept quiet. But it is import
ant that thepinblic be warned to look out
for the balloons and report them to the prpj
per authorities."
Meanwhile. aU sort of weird reports have'
spread through. the west as a result of these
balloons; andairone time the schools in one
big city were nearly disrupted by exagge
rated rumors. ,
Actually, there Is nothing very mysterious
about the balloons'. They are believed pri
marily aimed to set fire to western forests.
Several months ago when they first started
coming over, if was rainy, and the rainy sea
son has continued all winter. With ap
proaching summer, however, large areas in
the west are bone dry and there is more dan
ger. ' It is believed that the balloons are not
launched from submarines, but from Japan
proper and float all the way across the Pa
cific, carried by the regular trade winds
which blow from west to east as a result of
.the earth's turning on its axis.
. Had the allies needed to use them, similar
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
The serviceman, many months overseas,
listed some of the typically American things
he was getting "good and' homesick for:
The corner drugstore. ' !
Magazine advertisements that can be read
at a glance, instead of having to be labori
ously translated.
A nice thick steak, smothered in onions.
Breakfasts of bacon and FRESH eggs.
Thick American newspapers.
Why disillusion him by writing that a lot
of those good old American institutions
aren't what they used to be? That the cor
ner drugstore is now just the place where you
can't buy cigarets.
That the magazine advertisements still
look good but the fine print usually says
something like: "You'll have to wait until
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON. La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO With from four to
five times as many ships now operating in
the Pacific ocean than before the war, one
of the big riddles to west coast shipping men
is how much traffic there will be to carry
after the defeat of Japan.
The first few carloads of hemp from the
Philippines came into San Francisco recent
ly, to mark the beginning of restored U. S.
trade in the Pacific but this was only a tok
en. Most freighters hauling war supplies to
the orient still come back light because there
is nothing to carry. Foreign economic ad
ministration has several missions in the Pa
cific making preliminary studies, but thus far
no reports have been made public.
First difficulty is that none of the big raw
materials producing areas of the Pacific has
as yet been liberated. And how much of a
scorched earth policy flie Japs will carry out
as they retreat can't be measured.
There is an American demand for what
the Pacific can produce which may take
several years to fill. Tin from the Nether
lands East Indies and Malaya. Rubber from
the same areas. Vegetable oils, palm and
cocoanut. It may take several years to get
the world properly soaped up. Spices. Su
gar. Quinine. Hemp and jute and silk.
Australian wool. Copra.
War-time America has been able to get by
without the usual supplies of all these things
which the Pacific used to furnish. Ration
ing plus synthetics did the. trick but the
mere development of these substitutes may
mean a revolution for Pacific shipping when
the war is over.
What, fur instance, is itoing to happwn to
the one profitable silk trade with Japan?
Wll Chin or the Philippines get it? Or
will the development of nylon and rayon put
them all and the silk worm completely
out vf businc.-a?
And how successfully wilt synthetic rub
ber be able to cimipcJc with thv natural rub
ber formerly imported trom Indonesia by the
rtiliiion tons?
Indianutc for bagging is aOither big pf
r import with an un'ciitam fflvre HttoCW
the development of nuide-in-America sub
stitutes of cotton anpaper for bagging and
burlap.
balloons could have been floated from Scot
land to Germany. The winds blow from -the
Britsh isles across the channel to the conti
Dent. ' '. ' .,'
Connelly and Red . .!'. ','
Texas' Senator Tom Connally ..recently ,
held an important off-the-record ' meeting
with the various advisers to the American
delegation to discuss two important points
at the San Prancisco conference! (1) the veto
power; and (2). the world .court : , k'
Only organization which Wanted tp retain
the old world court were the National asso
ciation of manufacturers and the Ameriqan
bar association. Other organizations repre- '
senting labor, farmers, religious, racial and
women's organizations favored the new sys
tem of regional courts, similar to our circuit '
court of appeals. ' ' .
The manufacturers association find the bar .
association also took a stand against the veto
power given to the big powers of the secur
ity council.
"It seems to us," said the national. manu
facturers' spokesman, "that the veto gives
great power to Russia."
"Of course," he quickly added, "1 don't
want it understood that we're unfriendly to
Russia. As a matter of fact, we've been do
ing a lot of business with them."
To which Tom Connally shot back with a
quizzical inflection: ' '
"And profitably." ,
Other observers roared. ' ," '
The Chase' bank is extending a brand new
loan of $10,000,000 to the Soviet government.
Backstage fact about the Joe Davics' pil
grimage to London is that originally he was
picked to go to Moscow for an intimate talk
with Stalin, but his doctor forbade it.,
. Davies was slated for the Moscow trip be
cause he is the only U. S. ambassador since
the United States recognized Russia who
has been welcome at the Kremlin. This was
primarily due to Joe's book, "Mission to
Moscow" and the film by the same name,
which gave a sympathetic portrayel of So-'
viet progress, .Therefore, it was planned to
have him impress on Stalin that recent dip
lomatic snarls had alienated American pub
lic opinion.
. When Davies was unable to go to Mos
cow, it was decided that Harry Hopkins
should do the job instead; while Davies
would go to London and urge Churchill to
stop needling Russia.
after the war to buy our product." Or,
"Don't become discouraged if you can't al
ways find so-and-so on your dealer's
shelves." : ' " ' " :"' '
As for a nice, thick steak. Well, that is just
a pleasant dream of the past even in this
country. ' '
Hens are still laying eggs but try to get
the bacon tq go with them, unless you are
a personal, .under-the-counter friend of the
butchers.
But we still have American newspares, of
pre-war standard, unrationed, not hidden for
favorite customers, even delivered, and with
the comic strip characters getting in and out
of as many jams as ever.
That's one "American institution" rn his
list that the homesick serviceman wouldn't
find disappointing.
Will the resumed import of vegetable oils
formerly produced in the Pacific put a stop
to war-increased U. S. production of pea
nuts and soybeans on American farms?
There are a couple of revolutions in that.
Or who gets the trade in cheap cotton tex
tiles which Japan formerly peddled through
out the Pacific islands to keep the populace
in sarongs?
The whole pattern of Pacific trade is in
for a major reshifting in just such fashion as
this.
Not only that, but what happens at the
San Francisco conference and at the peace
conference afterward, with regard to dis
position of Pacific islands formerly man
dated to Japan, may have important bearing
on post-war trade routes.
Germany made a good thing out of those
islands when they belonged to her. Japan
didn't allow their resources to deteriorate,
though no one really knows what the com
mercial resources of those islands may add
up to. Some have rich phosphate beds
which will increase the Pacific supply of
fertilizer. - Saipan had big sugar plantations.
But will Hawaii and the Philippines stand
for their development as competitors on the
U. S. market? And hnw will Louisiana and
the beet sugar areas of the west like that?
All these challenges offer an exciting
though uncertain future to west coast ship
ping interests who arc meeting tliem with
characteristic emrgy nd initiative.
Automobiles, machinery, manufactured
goods of ell kinds ait; not expected to build
up ny great volume of freight for some time
to come, due to U. 3. shortages.
Passenger traffic offers onthir with
a more immediate future. Though alljthj
fighting men in the Pacific want most des
perately to come iime, many of the people
Who have h.i to stay !M:ie throughout the
war want to ginptoces. Hen the greatest i(S
ponderable of iliem all how many passen-g.-rs
will want to go by air and how much
of a competitor to the slower ocean-gW.ng
ships is tho airplane going to be?
Anyone who can ansuer all these riddles
tas a steady job waiting for him in the ttW?
fic departments of west coast shippers.
, Side Glances ' 0!)Q :;
COm. IMS BY WEA SEftVICE. INC. T. M. REG. D. 8. PAT. OFF; ' S-9
"I've been driving this bus for over a year but my husband' still
doesn't trust me to back our car out of the garage!" .
o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
SQUEEZE PLAY WINS
THREE OVERTRICKS
(This is one of a series of
hands from the recent world's
championship masters' individ
ual tournament.)
Losing a world's championship
title by one-half point after five
sessions of play is indeed very
heartbreaking. However, Al
Weiss of Chicago, who finished
second to Charles Goren in the
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individual, proved a real sports
man and was immensely popular
among eastern players. He is a
great player and a fine partner.
While his contract was only
three no trump, he squeezed out
Questions & Answers
Q In addition to being Italy's
greatest p;rttwhat other distinc
tion dots '.;.e city of Genoa havo?
A Its Bank of St. George,
founded in 1407, is believed to
have been the first corporation
of stockholders established in
Europe after the "fall of-the Ro
man empire. ' , sr .
Q What is -the-area protected
and managed by the .U. S. forest
service?
A Around 200,000 000 acres,
many of which are patroled by
planes which are important aids
in controlling fires.
Q Who was the first woman
registered air pilot?
A Baronne Raymondc de la
Roche, who received pilot certif
icate No. 36 from the Federation
Aeronautique Internationale on
March 8, 1910...
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six odd. North won the opening
spade lead with the ace and re
turned a spade which Weiss won
with the king. He then cashed
dummy's king of diamond's. He
returned to his hand with the
heart ten and cashed the ace and
queen of diamonds.
Now dummy's long heart suit
was run. North could not. pro
tect the jack of diamonds and the
queen of clubs. At the same time
South found it impossible to hold
Xhs queen of spades and protect
the king of clubs.
In duplicate bridge, match
points are won by making those
over-tricks.
e IN FORMER
YEARS ;:
30 Years Ago ,:
Schools in La Grande1 closed
for thj summer vacation."1''
Pat Foley went to Elgin to try
to add another bear to his collec-
Mrs. R' R Sehilkp and' tipr"
daughter, Fredericka, went to
Portland. Aside from ...visiting
with her daughter, she y,ill at
tend the national club.'.council
convention. .
15 Years Ago
Cecil Posey, Wallowa, athlete,
was elected president of the East
ern Oregon normal school student
u"uJ m vntr luuutvuig jwi. wiu
er officers elected were: Lowell.
Fuller of Imbler, vice-president;
Juanita Crawford, Athena, secretary-treasurer;
Rulon Elvanson,
Union, and Grace Herr of Free-,
water, memoers of senior'council. .'
Miss Amaryllis Knight, was
elected assistant Mimir editor at .
c aiuui--iii uuuy election; .rjv '
f , 10 Years Ago' -V j
Word was receivedi-'b -.J. H.
Blunt, high school instructor in
La Grande, that four of his stu-.
dents in the high school received '
a grade of "A" in the competitive
examination on the leagu&.of na"
tions. The Oregon rommitea'q!
the League f Nations,; IncC
awarded Betty , Bohrlekamp,
fourth Dlaco in thn'sbltri-l:1;':
Miss Enid HappersetvaeStf on a
trip which will include iiMSils ni '-
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