Side Glances
Washington Merry-Go-Round
EDITORIAL PAGE
Br DREW PEARSON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
TUKSDAY KVHNINtJ. MAY 29,
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The Inevitable After Every Big Party
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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
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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
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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
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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
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