EDITORIAL PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
.WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1945
Page Two
Memorial Day 1945
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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. The job should be dona now because warm
weather is here.
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