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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE Br DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher TUKSDAY KVHNINtJ. MAY 29, Page Four The Inevitable After Every Big Party T r n rmiMn in r" TTftT" i-mtrjr 11 BIG THREE CONFERENCE TABLE KVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Rnnde Valley irrigation project.. LA GRANDE A city of lb.0 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Men do therefore fear him: he rc .speclelh not any that are wise of heart. .fob ,'i7:2l. THOUGHT Volt TODAY Knch one to his own trade; then would the cows lie well cared for. Florian. Second (iucssiny Now I hat Germany has capitulated, the military experts are revising the second gucssinjr 1 1 in t- began liiiii;- ago, and are revamping their lists of the errors liy which the nn.is lieat them selves. Most such lists continue to in clude at, least two fatal mistakes - one, Hitler's failure to invade llrilain in l!)l(l; another, his treacherous attack on Russia. Monday - ninriiiii;'. quartorliarkiiij; is (flcn justly derided. II is much easier to decide correctly alter a decision has heen tested liy an event. And Hanson ll.-ililw in, the New York Times' capable Hiililary writer, points out that, wars never do go according to plan, notwith standing claims made in official com muniipies. The hesl ( generals make' mistakes. " The importance of eiirrent second guessing on German errors in World War II is that everyliodv agrees that. except for them, Germany would have won the war. llrilain could have been defeated before American weight could be made, fully effective. By this time an axis "new order" would have ruled .the world. .;'.-' Put it 'another Way. - Germahy- and .lapan were strong enough, in the opin ion of informed critics, to have con quered the remainder, of the world. They failed only because of a series of errors. It seems far from impossible that they could have won in spite of several of their mistakes, but they could not overcome all of them. If they had invaded England in 1910 they would have found less than one fully equipped division available for defense. If they had not turned on Russia they could iiavc devoted to west ern enemies lhe entire strength that almost, conquered the continent. If they had not forced the United States into premature belligeii ncy they might still have won. The more those ifs are emphasized, the belter. We can not remind our selves loo often of the narrow escape we had. We must realize and never for get, that the nazis are beaten today and the Japs will be beaten eventually by their own mistakes not by our fore sigliledness. Twice, now each time by a narrow margin - we have retrieved victory from defeat. A third time, led by a military technician more competent than Corporal Hitler, Germany prob ably would conquer us before wc could lake two or three years to build and equip an army and navy. WASHINGTON The gentleman isn't shouting about it, but among the four mem bers of the slate appropriations committee who voted against the $2,500 extra expense allowance for senators and congressmen was Tennessee's venerable Senator Kenneth Mc Kcllar, now president of the senate. ' McKellar's negative vote came after he had won the appropriations committee's okay on a $15,000 office expense allotment for himself, making him the highest paid member of the senate. As senate president, the Tennessee solon receives vice-presidential payof $15,000 instead of senatorial pay of $10,000; also has the use of the vice-president's big limousine plus chauffeur; and ac cording to the new legislative appropriation, bill, can now hire additional clerks up to $15,000. This is in addition to the allowan; for help he gets ns senator from Tonnrssc". The subcommittee vhieh worked on tht appropriatidn bill didn't know what to do with the customary provision of $15,000 to . hire office help for the vice-president, since there is no vice-president. So it was decid ed to leave the matter open, offering Mc Kollar a chance to voiunleer to cut out the allowance from tlie bill.. McKcllar has his regular senatorial staff and it was not be lieved he would require the additional $15, 000. Wlicn subcommittee Chairman Overton of Louisiana read the bill before the full ap propriations committee, he paused meaning fully when he came to the $15,000 item, wait ing for McKcllar to speak. McKcllar didn't hesitate. "I think you'd better leave in that allow ance," he said. "Of course, I won't use it unless I have to, but it's just as well to have it in." His slightly embarrassed colleagues coin plied. , This made a total for the senator from Tennessee of . $5,00 pay increase, $15,000 for office help, plus the vice-presidential limou sine and chauffeur, plus $7,000 paid to his brother, Hugh C. McKvdlur, as postmaster at Memphis, plus $4,500 paid to another bro ther, Don McKcllar, as his secretary, plus $2,000 paid to Mrs. Don McKcllar as clerk on McKellar's post office committee. Total net lake of the McKcllar famiy, $44,300 not counting chauffeur and limousine. In spite of winch, McKcllar turned around and voted against citing his colleagues have $2,500 extra expense allowance. Probable reason: Tennessee's boss, Ed Crump, has come out against hc $2,500 increase. New Secretary of Agriculture Tall, curly-headed Clint Anderson, newly appointed secretary of agriculture, nearly left Washington for good last year. Deter mined not to spend more than two terms in congress, Anderson sold his Washington home, shipped his saddle horses back to his New Mexico ranch and told friend he would not run again for congress. It was when he returned to New Mexico a few weeks later that he was finally con vinced he would stick it put for one more term. Anderson was the most popular Democrat in the slate, and there was grave concern that Republican money pouring into 1 New Mexico might turn it against Roosevelt. This argument was a potent one, for An derson has long been a devoted admirer of the late president. Even before coming to congress, he spent his spare time collect ing all sort of literature about Roosevelt. In his office today arc two large book shelves containing books and articles on FDR. His collection of Roosevelt documents at home is one of the most complete in any private library. "I never went in for special printings and private editions," says the new secretary of agriculture. "What motivated me in the case of Roosevelt is that 50 years from now he will be as important in our history as Lin coln or our other great leaders possibly more so. I simply felt that a library of what is written about Roosevelt by his contempo raries will be of great value a generation hence. Just think how interesting such a library on Lincoln would be today." Book collecting is not new to Anderson. Ten years ago, when nc was traveling New Mexico as assistant WPA administrator, he began to haunt bookstores, browsing through old volumes on cattle-raising, banditry in the wild west, gold strikes, etc. As a result, the new secretary of agriculture now has a library of over 3,000 volumes, generally con sidered one of the finest private collections on the history of the west. S WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT A IB-year-old co-ed was talking about the way she and her friends had missed much of "the fun of dating and falling in love" be cause there just haven't' been any boys around since they reached the dating age. .is-She said, ."Everybody feels. sorry for the ' wives whose husbands arc bnc 'and for the girls engaged to men overseas. But nobody thinks about girls our age, who haven't even a chance to fall in love." There is something sad about seeing these young girls, going to movies together, hav ing cokes together, when in peace time they would be dating and having the fun girls their age should have. But they might not feci quite so woe-bc-gonc, quite so much like the over-looked generation if they would keep this thought in mind: Their young men, their future husbands are also overseas. And even though they don't yet know the name of the man they are waiting for, they are only waiting just like the war wives and the girls engaged to servicemen. If they look at it that way, the picture is a little brighter. For they can, think, like the girls who are already, engaged or, mar ried to servicemen, of the things they can do to m:kc themselves into the kind of young women the men will want for wives when they get home. The single young men overseas are think ing a lot about these "typical American girls" who speak their language. They arc anxious to gel home and look them over and find the right one. So life isn't actually passing these girls by, because of the war. It is just making them go through a period of waiting. And waiting is what most wom en have to do in war time even the ones that the teen-age girls regard as lucky, be cause Ihey have already found their men. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent Funny Business X s .71- j wyy:ny o SO THEY SAY tiihhrnt cop via a scoundrel. - li(Mrh.;,nnt :;li;it Hermann CIoci -ini!. Thru- w -I 1m tunc cnmiM l;t ci; lo nvisnlcr the ItfiifX-riinc pruhlein of the t-'Reneration nf lhe Cterm;in. Our stay in Ger many is likely to he long. l.t.-Grn. Lucius D. Clay, depu ty iniln ii y governor in Amcri can-oci "j pied part of Germany. T tjuit hrforc Japan is utter ly crushed may get our yniw back sooner, hut as sure as fair our grandsons will fight and bleed and die, iu.d as our sons ore doing lodny, if we slop hwi't of com plete victorv. -Admnnl William F. Halsey. jr. '5pJttW tpptd mju bust tgiSil sir); O o o Th.-re is net one single instance so far a I know where Jap mditaiy unit squad, ,nir-Ciw, Harrison or blip's crew-i-has cer surrendered,1 I.V-Col. Selby Calkin,, .'Amer ican air force, tyclroit. SAN KUANCISCO One of the most pathetic aspects of this United Nations con ference has come from a lot of half-lost lit tle people, who, not belonging to any organ isation and not representing anyone but themselves, have nevertheless come here be-' cause they want so very desperately to help make the peace. How they get here, where they stay, who pays their bills, nobody knows. But some how they think that their lone voices crying in the wilderness of international sin en the Barbary coast, will start something. And they arc living proof to lhe delegations from -lit oilier nations here gathered that in a de nmcraey where freedom of speech is a gos pel, every man is indeed a king even when he's a crackpot. In the kaleidoseope of San Fiaiu-iseo memories there will always linger the imag" of a lean faced ascetic passing mil little slips of paper on which was printed the breath taking news that A. L S. Haymond of Orange, N. J., had come to San Francisco for just one purpose to put GOD into lhe Unit ed Nations eharter. "Al liaymond will be alone al the S.ui Francisco conference ior t ho liberty of man. woman and child." said the printed slip and towards the end there was the telling con fession that, "I am a free moral agent, ;ls W t, . Daniel in the lions' deu." Another memorable rh.uaetor was an on suspicious looking iriiiale who walked the sidewalks in the vicinity of the delegates' hot.ds, waiting till .someone came alor.g wearing a conference button. Then from her handbag she would pioilucc a four page leaflet advocatng amendments to the I'miri Nations charter to provide for "t'SAA." This, it was explained, stood for rensti'ii tional social security nmendmrnts. The gen. oral Idea was to confiscate all wealth ant all income fiom labor, then divide it up ant pass it out as unif'i.'m social sccuuty bene fits all ever the world. ' 1 'The pri.ie halid.mv of all, however, was the work, ot Wic C. Towiueiid Tucker of Los Angulcs, Wlf-stylcd "Koiuntr, organizer and 1 aiit'ior ot The EVglV'.ion i'f Civilization.' a COP. IMS BY WE ttWKI. INC. t. M, fttO'.U 6. PAT.' Off. ' S'3Q "The roof leaks, the floors are all scratched and the outside ii crying for paint how do you think my husband will like this, after living in ruins in Europe for two years?" .', o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America'! Card Authority (This is one of a series of hands from the recent world's championship masters' individ ual tournament.) Julius C. Bank of Chicago said the nicest hand he saw in the masters' individual was the one Bank Q 1082 V Q 1098 AK952 A None . K3 VJ763 QJ8 AJ97 N W E s A .1 9 VAK432 10 7 6 Q53 Dealer East Mrs. Sobcl OA 7 6 5 4 V None 43 K 10 8 6 1 2 Duplicate N -S vul East South West North IV I 2 4 S V 5 Double Pass Opening V 5. 50 revealor of truth and one endowed with understanding." A cnart. big as a tabloid newspaper page, showed his scheme. On it were a hundred stare and a lot of connect ing lines, one cross, three ships, the statue of liberty, nine assorted sheds and outhouses, a eurvo labeled "love," a diagonal labeled "(Jiaee" and a horizontal line near the top indicating there was a 4, 000-year plan to work all this out. Most ambitious undertaking of the lot was an attempt to put over a "Provisional World Council of Dominated Nations." It sounded tremendous, but the first San Fran cise meeting of the organization, held in the basement of a liberal church, shed a slrange light on the half-dozen founding fathers. The president, Hamkrishna S. Modak, turned out to bo a Burma Christian who had mar ried an American missionary, come to the United States and hadn't been back to Bur ma for seven years. The secondary general, Julio Pinto Ciandia of Puerto Rico, hadn't been home since l!KS7 and boasted thai from then to l!)4;i he had been in prison for advo cating overthrow of the government. Most intriguing character or the organization didn't show up. He was Major Honorc Jax "ii "t Portland. Me., self-styled leader of the Metis nation. Nobody present knew where the Me is nation was. There was a vague idea they lived some place in Canada, but no doubt at all they were dominated. Ot course all these people get a terrific run iimund. They write l.ttcis to the secretary of state, who writes them back thaokyous and refers them to the secretary (jeneral ot the conference, who writes them tn suggest that they tie on to one of the 42 duly accred ited oig.mi.ations having an official consult ;u t. These consultants can't be bothered by lore nlf cranks and pests. So they tnd up running around in a "little man what now" fog of futility, talking to , therrsclus. They'll probably go home fms truted and sore and forever after they'll be t. lling ai y mc who w ill listen, 'Now when ( l w hs in Son r"."anc.,so fvr the pence confer--, ' Hue. I ii'ied to warn everyhody about these situations, but they just wouldn't tisten. and s- what's happened as a.res.ilf.) ( ) Mrs., Sobql played wjjh him. Now ' if-ybu look1 at" the hand," you might say that it docs not look too difficult to make five odd, but if you play it out you will proli- Questions & A nswen Q Who origimilb ruled the Adriatic port of Trieste, now un der dispute between Italy, Aus tria and Yugoslavia? A Until iOlil, when it was given to Italy, Trieste fell under Austrian rule for MO years. Q What is the nearest uni verse to our own? A The Andromeda Nebula, in which over 2500 stars have been counted; Inousands more are loo faint to number. Q How has the time re ,vd for building a Liberty ship been reduced? A First Liberty ship died 244 days; by end of I'.i' iver age building lime was ' i e vs. ably only make four.1. When the eight spot was play ed on the opening heart lead and it forced East's king, Mrs. Sobel ruffed. She then took two rounds of diamonds and ruffed the third diamond. Now she played the ace and one spade. West was in and you can see that he was end-played. If he comes out a heart, dummy's nine will force East's ace, while if ho leads the ace of clubs, Mrs. Sobel's king will be good. . , - The play of this hand- can be explained in a few words; but Mrs. Sobcl took quite a, while lo study out .the play, which is one of the secrets of her success. o IN FORMER YEARS ' 30 Years Ago :'-1 V . A large number of merchants agreed to close their places .of business for the. afternoon, Mon day, May 31,. to participate - in Decoration day exerciscs'at. the Baptist church. u ,' Colon R. Eberhard , - jvas ap pointed district attorney for Un ion counly by Governor -James Wilhycombe. . i: '; ' IS Years Ago , , When commencement June 10 completes the first year of the Eastern Oregon Normal r school, the records will show, that a total of 457 students were -enrolled during tlje summer,- fall, winter and spring terms, according to a check just completed - nt the school. ' II. E. Brady will serve as pres ident of the La Grande Rotary club during the coming year. Francis Grculich will serve .'as secretary. I about ':e akan, "eeenlly Q What is so unn the oil from the fields t the island off Borne invaded by the allies? A The wells are a s i ice x raw petroleum so Tine (hi,: it cm ba piped from wells lo ship bun'.c ers without refining . 10 Years Ago Harvey Carter, teacher at Cen tral school, has been named di rector of the summer playground for this ycad. There will be two assistants chosen at a later date, one lo be al Greenwood and one at the high school stadium. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Strieff, who have been in Indiana and several eastern states, have returned to their home here. Mrs. Lee Bostwick of Portland is in La Grande to spend Memor ial day with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Stoddard.' This Curious World 7 Xl ft tf fvt ) 2 RTH TODAY, IF BBOU&Hr TO6ETMW, 1 1 7 vL W FA ( COULD STAND IN A SIN&LE FIELD "A MAM Mr BE TAMN ABACK VT MN ArrKONl, SSift V. C.DC5TY, O NEXT: ( ; Mi KUAILE ISLAWCBt ASE NAMED FOR THE RUSSIAN, "KURIT," WEANIM& '7X3 'y XVtOA ..CUE TO NL'MJSOU HOT SPRINGS, BOILIM6 LAKE AkO VO.CAMOES IN THE RE&ON. Where is the U. S. center af population? 0 o o - o .. & -
