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EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher .WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1945 Page Two Memorial Day 1945 ; C&jSJ '"' "jTwa'l. MAC. " These Honored Dead In the world's greatest wnr of civili zation's jrreatest stake, this country has already paid the greatest price in her history. Today we myst qgunt that ' price as ;we pnuao-in the' midst of war to honor those w ho have paid it to bring victory near, the more than 300,000 dead and missing of our million casual ties. How best can we honor them? That question was given an incomparable answer by a president of the United Stales and commander-in-chief of the army and navy who paused, nearly 82 years ago, in the midst of another war to pay honor to those who had fallen in battle: !'lt is rather for us to be here dedi cated to the great task remaining be fore us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the lust full measure of devotion, that we hero highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ." Lai in American liusiness Our Central and South American neighbors are estimated to have some two billions of dollar credits in this country available to pay for American goods when reconversion makes them obtainable. Itig manufacturers, like General' Motors and General Klectric and U. S. Steel, may be assumed to be eyeing this large sum and laying plans to cut in on it. To the extent that they do, em ployment will be made for American workers. Hut Latin American post-war needs and desires are not confined to auto mobiles, electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios, structural steel, and other products of big business. The people south of the liio Grande want clothing, household furnishings, hard ware, jewelry, accessories, toys and a wide variety of items made by little business. And little business isn't really so small. It has units with annual sales in the tens of millions. It has -industries that, in the aggregate, though each in dividual factory is small, employ scores or hundreds of thousands of men and women. If jobs are to be provided after the war for all who need them, it is not enough that big business , shall thrive. But only very large concerns can af ford to maintain their own sales organ izations throughout the world. In the past, smaller manufacturers have had to work through a cumbersome, ineffi cient and generally ineffective broker age setup. They can not hope to win from Latin America the business neces sary to make full employment unless some improvement is provided in sell ing methods. An interesting experiment along this line, now being established with an eye to the time when we shall have con sumer goods to sell, is the foreign trades bureau headed by a New Yorker named liudd IJoth, which already has sixteen showrooms in fifteen Central and South American republics. The showrooms in all instances are staffed by natives of the countries con cerned, who know the temperamental idiosyncrasies of their fellow-countrymen as few North American salesmen ever get to know them. They will sell on commission, as a spur to initiative and aggressivness. They will act as direct representatives of the American manufacturers who patronize the bu reau. The project may prove important for the goods it sells itself. It is more im portant, before the first sale is made, as evidence of a new spirit in which Ameri can little business is approaching the difficult but potentially profitable field of Latin American export business. Funny II u sin ess : I Mr I !' il l I r l 1TS4J V OAKVV? 5-3 o SO THEY SAY We ttvrc amazed to find out tint no government agency knows wh.it to do on the score of unemployment. R. J. Thomas, United Automo bile Workers union. You cannot kill off 80.000,000 Germans. We Nazis will con tinue. You don't know who most of them are. Dr. Robert Ley, former Ger man labor front leader. "I'd like lo report kdky boatl" Appreciation of the people of Hritaiti for the sympathy and sup purl they have received from Anierlea is unbounded. flark II. Minor, president, British war relief society. O Regarding the question of the reconstruction of the Polish gov ernment, it can be carried out onjyl in accordance with the Cri meT)(tf)eision, for 'no retreat ftom these decisions may be per mitted. rrcfWr Stalin of Russia. Washington Merry-Go-RoUhd Side Glances By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Back In 1927, this coun try reached its lowest ebb in relations with Latin America. W? had rushed troops into Nicaragua to protect U. S. Puppet President Adolfo Diez, former agent for an American lumber company. Wa were writing scorch ing notes to Mexico because of the seizure of certain oil lands and big ranches. We also had troops in Haiti. The South American reaction was terrific. The Latinos just didn't like us. However, this was our sphere of Influence and the State department was determined that we should not budge an inch. The man who was sending many of these stiff notes was Undersecretary of State Jo seph C. Grew, the same man who, now back in the same job nearly 20 years later, is still adopting the same note-writing tactics on Tito and Stalin. In the middle of that crisis, the British suddenly sent a cruiser into Nicaraguan wa ters. This writer was present when the news of this British impertinence was given to Acting Secretary of State Grew. His face fell. "This was our "sphere of influence." Nicaragua was our problem. Yet the British had the audacity to stick their nose into our business. The state department let them know what it thought of the matter. Russians Haven't Learned In the 18 intervening years, our Latin American relations have improved and ma tured. In that area, at least, we have grown up. But in Europe a government in Moscow has not yet learned the seme lesson regard ing Poland that we learned regarding Nica ragua and Mexico. That is the crux of the Polish problem. In many respects, the Polish problem is identical. We don't want other nations meddling in countries near us in the west ern hemisphere. And before we learned our lesson we sent troops indiscriminately into most of these countries, even as far south as Paraguay. ' We put puppet presidents in power and we ousted them from power even as late as 1933, the first year of the new deal. Probably the chief difference between1 our general policy in the Caribbean and Soviet policy toward Poland is that Russia has been Invaded twice through Poland In 23 years and we have never been Invaded through Latin America. However, just as the Monroe doctrine has Srotected. us since the early history of the nited States, Russian policy toward Poland has not varied with the Empress Catherine -or Peter the Great or Joe Stalin. Russian policy on Poland was fixed 200 years before . Drake whipped the Spanish armada. Even , then it was determined that Russia could not hope for peace unless the Poles were so placed that they could not be an invasion -avenue for Prussia to use. , Prussians vs. Russian ' It must be remembered that the Prussian, militarist, living on the other side of Poland, is not pure German. He is alsp a Russian- ,' Polish Slav. He has dominated the German army for years, just as his vast landed' estates have dominated the economics 'of Prussia and Poland. He is equally prosper ous on either side of the line. Prince Hohen lohc, a Pole, who married the stepdaughter of Tony Biddle, ex-ambassador to Poland, is also related to the Prussian nobility. The vest Polish acres of Count Jerzy Fotocki, former Polish ambassador in Washington, . did not suffer when Hitler occupied Poland, because his brother became a gauleiter un der the Germans. He was perfectly at home among the Prussians. ' The Prussians and the Polish nobility un derstand each other, and are interchange able. This is why Stalin began two or three months after Pearl Harbor to make his views on Poland absolutely clear. Russia's 'Friendly' Neighbors . But a year ago when Churchill flew to Moscow for conferences with Stalin, once again it was made clear that what Russia wanted was a series of friendly govern ments, especially Poland, along her border. This is the general background of the Po:. lish controversy. This background does no necessarily condone the arrest of the 18 Poles, the Red army's dog-irt-the-manger policy in Berlin, or various other Soviet mistakes. But it does show how strongly the Russians feel just as strongly as -we did when Wilson sent General Pershing into Mexico to arrest and kill a lot more than 16 followers of General Pancho Villa. I ' ' C6WI 1W V 1 tOYlCE. IWa T. M- RCO. U. S. PAT. . , 1 "Ye, I've baked six' pies, apple, peach, apricot, lemon, $wtitt and banana he'll be pleased when he comes home, torn oU and ... finds I haven't forgotten his favorite kinds!"?. ? tw. . O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Z :t ... Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority., , ,, , '-; HERE YOU CAN GO 2 SET OR MAKE FIVE (This is one of a series of hands from the recent world's championship masters' individ ual tournament.) I selected today's hand from the masters' individual because n some cases the experts went down as much as two tricks, while as many as five odd were made. The most difficult opening was the heart, which declarer must WE; THE WOMEN Br RUTH MILLETT i" "Those men- just want to come back to what they left. They'll want their wives and mothers to act exactly as they acted be fore they wept overseas. The things they hope for most is that nottiing will be dif ferent." The Red Cross worker who returned after three months overseas to offer war wives that advice probably only meant to be reas suring. But her assumption that if they don't make any special effort to be different, serv ice wives will "act exactly as they acted be fore their husbands went overseas" shows that while she may know what has been happening to servicemen, she doesn't know what has been happening to their wives back home. Some of the clinging vines, sweet and ap pealing when they had a man to lean on and make their decisions for them, went to pieces when they . found themselves com pletely on their own. And some of the others became so well adjusted when forced to get along without their husbands, they have be come quite self-reliant and wouldn't for, any thing go back to being a Clinging 'vine. j.; ' Women whose husbands never... wanted'' . them to work, have often found real satis-',' faction in the right' . jbb'.':'..t'!,.,l': , ".. Many others, used to 'spending' their lei sure with their husband's business associates and their wives, have made an entirely new circle of friends for themselves. ' ' And many a war wife, once docile about having to ask her husband for money every morning, has handled all of the family's fi nances alone and done a good job of it. Women who have changed in those ways, and hundreds more, aren't going to act ex actly as they did before their husbands went overseas. .' ' ', ' '. ""i The war has changed them, because" thefr ,' way of living has been changedV And"yo"u ' just can't tell them to relax and act as they did three or four years ago, any more than you can tell a man to forget his, wot cxpqr iences and be the very same person He' Was1 when he put aside his civilian clothes for a uniform. A J V875 A 10 8 2 AJ954 A A K 10 0 , 5 J 10 9 8 QJ KQ3 N Dealer A 8743 J32 6543 82 Q62 VAKQ4 K87 410 7 8 DUDlicate E.-W oulh Weet IV ... t . 2 2 N. T. Pass 4 . 4 Opening B, ' Nlrfc" Pass Pass : 31 win with the queen. If you at tempt to ruff the spades, you can still make four if you are care ful. However, the players that made five did it by winning the first heart trick and then leading a small club. " ; If West did not splil.Tiic hon ors, the trick was. won, with the ( nine in dummy and the acg cash- i ed immediately. Now a1' spade ' was led, which West vori! West j could cash the king of 'cltiBs and 'j lead another trump. . ' . "" ' " i Due to the fact that the: queen jack of diamonds was 'blank, the I declarer picked up the tiimp and 1 dummy was good. ' "K ; O IN FORMER ! YEARS , 30 Years Ago' ' ' ' Miss Grace McMillaii'nleft for"' Omaha to spend . tlio summer Miss Flora Koch departed for Chicago and Prof. A. H. Prince for Denver. Miss Bessie Gilkinson of North Powder returned after a visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson. , n . . a s . ...Ca.X-- 10 Years Ago' rL . Many cars lined the Jghway . to watch the U. P. streamlined i train go through La Grande. j Stockmen of western and east ern Oregon gathered -in-Enter- prise to attend the annual cori- Dnntinn nf Omanr, knr nnf ...v.ui, iiuik nuu vow- tie growers association. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evoning Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO To say that Califor nia Democratic leaders are delighted with the way things are working out in Washing ton puts it mildly. President Truman's scheduled visit to San Francisco to close the United Nations con ference gives the wh'le west a chance for better acquaintance. Truman made a vice presidential campaign speech here last year but it attracted little attention and so did he. But as 'president, with both the war and peace efforts centered on the Pacific and with thr6e good westerners ust named to the cabinet the west is getting a politi cal lift such in it has not had in years. Already requests are being made to have President Truman put in a few political ap pearances on, , the side. The Hollywood Democratic committee, made up of promi nent movie people who never do things by halves, is now working out an anschluss with Jo Davidson's collection of geniuses who supported Rooscwlt in the last election. This new outfit suggested doing something big, such as a rally in the Hollywood bowl. Older heads in the Democratic organiza tion arc counseling against 30 much of a purely political party celebration. They realize that Truman is still in his political honeymoon and too much partisan whoopee might be a bad thing. An effort will be made to have Truman see many of the party stalwarts on his western trip, but do it in such a way that no appearance will be given that the president is playing politics. There will be plenty of time for that later on, when the honeymoon is over. tint there seems to he no Inclination to feel that the future of the Democratic parly died with Roosevelt. In fact, just the oppo site.' Whilejloosevclt kept a number of diverse west coast elements inside the Democratic party, there was always a lot of factional jealousy and it was not tit1 all uncommon to have various individuals going aroQid the state party leaders to take issues din to the White House. A choice bit of California Democratic po litical folklore to illustrate this practice is offered in connection with the preliminaries to the appointment of Bob Hannegan as col lector of internal revenue. California Demo crats thought they had it fixed for James C. Sheppard of Los Angeles to get this job early in 1944. It would have been a nice political asset in an election year. Helen Gahagan Douglas, however, is given credit for getting word to the White House that Jim Sheppard was not a true liberal. Be lieving that California Democrats could not agree on a man for the job, it went to Han negan of Missouri. And, say the western Democrats somewhat ruefully, look what happened to him. All this era fo short circuiting state polit ical machines by direct pipelines to 1600 Pennsylvania ave., now seems to be ended. The amateurs, the crackpots, the labor poli ticians now appear to be in the position of having to work through the party machine or pass out of existence. Henry Wallace and the extreme left wing ers are considered as good as dead by the regular Democrats. If this is true, only place the New Dealers can go is into' a third party ' for the regulars hope that th6 day is over when some irregular could lead the state Democrats into new and untried paths. In 1932 it was William G. McAdoo who did this, in 1936 it was Upton Sinclair. In 1938 it was Olson and it was 1942 before the regulars be gan to get things under control, even though Bi.'pul'iican Earl Warren was elected gover nor that year. Democrats' Auw count hqay ily on the tradiVjon that no Californiain has ever been3 elected for j second term, with the exception f Hi Johnson. 'o huve found a complete nnd utter iAfoiinistrative desert the corpse of a iu(t)on that has committed suicide. O Maj.-Gen. W. P. Templcr, AMG directors. 'Jlst Army Group. - ' New Lubrication is Required for Summer Driving This is ah important "Must" for all cars and trucks! Short drives and frequent use of choke in cold weather cause fuel dilution and condensation. This collects crankcase, together with sludge and grime which must be removed if your car is to serve you efficiently. Wintertime light lubricants need replacement with heavier summer lubricants. This is important because moving parts now have greater clearance due to longer service. 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