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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
THURSDAY KVKNING, MAY 31, 1945
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EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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fellow. England's Turn at Politics
Most Americans, viewing the forth
coming Ih'ilish elections, probably find
themselves in the frame of mind of the
average Knglishman during our presi
dential campaign last fall.
At that time many of the millions
who voted for Governor Dewey were
irked by what they considered Hritish
attempts to influence the election by
expressing opinions on matters that
didn't concern them. They resented
the fact that the Knglish looked at
American campaign issues only in the
light of America's foreign policy and
conduct -of the war, when as a mutter
of fact domestic post-war economy was
Hie chief controversial issue involved.
Now most of us can understahd how
the Knglish fell. Americans know
Churchill mainly as l'.iilain'.s wartime
lender. The majority of them undoubt
edly consider him a courageous, inspir
ing, able and eloquent leader whose vir
tues for outweigh his shortcomings.
They don't like the idea of his strong
guidin"- hand being lemoved at a time
when the Mrilish Kmpire still has a war
to finish, and when post-war Kurope's
political turbulence urgently iviiuircK
Hritish solidarity anil strength.
Hut let us maintain the sane, dis
passionate attitude that many Ameri
cans asked for their Knglish iioiehlinrs
last autumn. And lei us also ho e that
tin- Knglish may learn something from
Funny Business
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us and our recent experience in domes
tic politics.
We should try to remember that Eng
land's present political differences, like
ours, are primarily of a domestic nature.
Churchill's foreign policy is aimed at
preserving the empire in status quo
ante bellum, With this the Knglish.
public seems generally to agree. "
But there is clearly a large segment
of the Knglish public whose views are
reflected in the labor party's program
of partial nationalization of industry,
tighter control of banking and mono
polies, and ,a more socialistic, state
controlled economy such as Sir William
r.everidge has proposed.
The clash between incomputable
foreign and domestic policies in Eng
land has been a long time brewing. Now
that it's here, American purveyors of
public and private opinion might re
member that the Knglish know the pros
and cons of the situation better than
we, and that it is their own particular
business to settle it.
As for those lessons we could teach
the Knglish. they might take note that
we indulged in name-calling, even as
the English have already started to do.
And they might accept our assurance
that, as usual, the practice was unjust,
unbecoming and inflammatory, and that
in the end they could not refute a fact
proved repeatedly on the battlefield and
in Washington and throughout Ihe land
that no party has a monopoly on pat
riotism. They might also note that we re
mained united in our effort to win the
war through all the rancors of cam
paigning. England needs to do the
same, perhaps even more than we did.
For there is no strong force pushing for
solution of Kurope's current political
problems such as the military momen
tum that rolled us to victory in Ger
many, even with the loss of thei commander-in-chief
less than a month be
fore V-E dav.
o SO THEY SAY
We cannot support the thesis
that because German leaders
acted illegally, therefore they
should be Heated illegally.
President Robert M. Hutchins,
Unive.s'.';' of Chicago.
Get me mime to Michigan or
I'll go crazy.
Air force sergeant, among first
to he returned to U. 3., on land
ing at Bradley field. Conn.
Just as the United States hits
been the largest producer of the
United Nations in wartime, so
will it naturally tf looked to as
the principal sourire of civilian
supplies for thcuo countries.
Judge Samuel I. Rosenmnn.
special isiiistant to President
Truman.
The country (Franc-) seems to
be in a slate of wearyn nonuha
llint and lazy convalescence which
O is hum,vptitle to all sorts of germ.
Ia'oh Blum, former premier of
Franfe,) (
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
W ASHINGTON The Fiench-Syrian prob
lem has been like a shower of cold water on
diplomats engaged in hammering out the
United Nations peace machinery especially
when it comes to the veto power.
Suddenly they have come smack up face-to-face
with the fact that under the Yalta
veto formula, their new peace machinery (1)
could not prevent the French from shooting
Arabs; (2) could not investigate the quarrel
between the French and the Arabs; and (3)
could not effectively tell the Fiench to stop
shooting Arabs unless the Fiench wanted
to be prevented, wanted to be investigated,
or wanted to be scolded.
Being a member of the big five, the
French could exercise their right of veto and
stop any real outside Interference.
- The absurd paradox in the whole situation
is that the U. S. state department has been
sending notes and oral protests to the French
urging them to stop. But once the San Fran
cisco peace machinery is set up, the state de
partment will have little right or power to
lodge these protests.
All his has been the subject of the stiff
cst secret debates in San Francisco. They
were held behind closed doors, where the
protests of little nations nearly blew the roof
off. s.
What especially burned up the delegates
was the contention that any of the big five
could even veto discussions and verbal pro
posals for settling a dispute.
"We don't mind a veto on a shooting
match, because the big five have to carry
the burden on shooting," summed up Aus
tralia's External Minister Evatt. "What we
do object to is a veto on a talking match."
All the small nations looked to France to
carry the ball for them. ..But the French
delegation ducked. The Syrian-Lebanon
dispute was too hot and they wanted the
right to veto any interference in it.
Result was that Australia's Evatt, who has
turned out to be the most effective small na
tions operator at San Francisco, picked up
the ball, gave the big five a real run for
their money. Evatt, a devoted disciple of
President Roosevelt, told friends he was con-'
vinced the late president would have agreed
with him if alive. Evatt rallied a number
of smaller nations, started things off quiet
ly at one of the commiltee meetings at which
he had asked that British under secretary of
foreign affairs Alexander Cadogan be pres
ent to explain the Yalta voting formula.
WE, THE WOMEN
Br RUTH MILLETT
A group of soldiers in Europe got together
and drew, up their own G. I. bill of rights
which. they figured would make married life
entirely different from the army where "we
can't go to town without a pass, can't re
fuse to work, can't quit our job, have to
stand in line for chow," etc.
Their bill of rights printed in "Yank"
listed such things as "No standing in line
for anything. To invite the boys over at
least once a week, if so desired. Nothing
to do with the kitchen. To wear the pants
in the family."
If the war wife made .qui her own bill of
rights, it voud probably go something" like
this:
1. Never to put the car in the garage at
night.
2. To have her cigarets lighted for her
occasionally. ' "
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO California Democrats
now think they have a formula which the
rest of the country can follow to achieve po
litical unity within the party.
As conceived by Slate Attorney General
Robert W. Kenny, it consists primarily of
correctly identifying what he calls the "pro
fessional" and the "crisis" politicians, giving
each its proper role on the political stage
and then making sure that neither one steals
or spoils the act of Ihe other.
The professional politician, obviously, is
the part regular who works at politics all
the time, is an office holder or party official
who keeps the machine running.
Crisis politicians on the other hand are the
people who step out in politics only when
there is a campaign or an election going un,
gets all het up over issues or personalities,
puts on the drives, collects and pays the
campaign expenses, gets out the vote. In
the crisis politician class would be such or
ganizations as the PAC, the Ham and Kgg
ers, the Ciiusaders.
Both elements are considered necessary
and when they work together they achieve
political victory. But when professional and
crisis politicians work at cross purposes to
achieve pet isms and ends, then things go
haywire and thr party meets defeat.
Thij California system was conceived
when the Democrats were out of office.
When u party is out of office, says Kenny,
it can experiment a little while licking its
wounds and trying to figure what hit is.
American political history In every state
of the union has shown that professional
politicians get defeated when they have been
toe long in office, when they become com
placent, then got fat :ind corrupt. If. how,
ever, the professional politicians can Keep
the liberal and moral ngiitness which they
develop when out o) office, and if they can
keep their politic) crisis cohorts in line,
then their machine should have a btf
o.htince of survival. O U
qU (jEji ,ln the building if just such a , politi
cal machine asfhjs thru ttf.oC'alifornift Demo
crats are now iit work. The man who is
Lord Cadogan came.
First shot out of the box, New Zealand's
able. Prime Minister Fraser stood up, poured
a lot of tart questions on Cadogan.
"Now," concluded Fraser, "we want spe
cific answers to our specific questions."
Cadogan hemmed and hawed, finally gave
some answers.
"Would you publish those answers so that
we can all examine them closely?" Fraser
asked.
Cadogan finally agreed.
Then up sprang Evatt again and in blis
tering language tore into the big powers'
righe to veto even discussion of an incident.
Lord Cadogan squirmed. Evatt was sup
ported by The Netherlands, opposed by the
Czechoslovaks.
Next day Evatt did some quiet lobbying,
came to the evening session with new sup
port. For the first time one of the Latin
Americans sided with the Australian-New
Zealand-Netherlands group. Stately Chilean
Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez arose
and said:
"Doctor Evatt's attitude as to the veto is
magnificent. All I can do is say that Chile
agrees 100 per cent. Anything I could add
would only confuse tha ivsue."
But the interpreter vatered down tin
Chilean's words. Provoked, Fernandez re
fused the translation, wrote out his speech
for the record in English.
Soviet Ambassador Gromyko then rose to
.say the smaller nations would have to trust
the big five.
"If the big five can't work together," ar
gued Gromyko, "there will be no peace any
way." Despite this, the opposition slowly gath
ered steam. Canada, Belgium, Peru, Mexico,
Cuba, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Greece and Norway swung behind the rep
resentatives of Australia and New Zealand.
Only South Africa supported the big five
along with the Czechs, Yugoslavs and the
two Russian republics.
Lord Codogan followed Gromyko's words
with an appeal for faith and hope. He was
seconded by Senator "Long Tom" Connally
of Texas.
In the end, Australia's Evatt proposed that
the smaller nations have the right to sub
mit their objections and questions to a con
ference subcommittee composed of four big
powers and five small powers.
3. To go out to dinner (where there is
dancing) at least once a week.
4. Never to have anything to do with the
car except to drive it. i
5. To give her husband full responsibility
for keeping the lawn mowed, putting on
storm windows, dealing with the plumber,
electrician, and collector of internal revenue.
6. Never to set a mouse trap.
7. Never to mix drinks for guests.
8. Never to lock up the house at night, or
get up when a storm breaks to close win
dows. 9. Never to make her own train reserva
tions. 10. Never to shove around any piece of
furniture heavier than a footstool.
11. Never to go to a "mixed" party alone.
. 12. Never, never to wear the pants in the
family. .
making a strong bid to become its presiding
genius is this same Bob Kenny, and there
are few piofessional politicians in the state
who are challenging his position. As. Demo
cratic attorney general under Republican
Governor Earl Warren, Kenny is in a some
what unusual position, but he is an unusual
character and all the drive in the effort to
take all the left and right wing factions of
the Democratic party, putting them togeth
er into a political machine that will fly, is
centered in his offices in the state building
in San Francisco and the capital in Sacra
mento. Kenny gets around. He is president of the
national lawyers' guild, the liberal branch of
the legal fraternity, as contrasted with the
older, conservative American Bar association.
He has been serving as a consultant at the
United Nations conference. He was head of
the California delegation at the Chicago con
vention last year and bore the brunt of the
New Deal and PAC effort to swing the gold
en state delegation to Wallace, for the vice
presidency. Kenny was for Truman, which -stands
him in good stead now.
He is acceptable to southern California
and Los Angeles because he was born there,
the native son of a native son. He is 44
years old. He was graduated from Stanford
at 1!), was a United Press correspondent,
studied law at Southern California, and at
2d was a judge.
Eight-years on the bench was all he could
Use so he resigned to run foi state senate
and beat the Ham and Eggs movement,
which he did in a campaign notable because
he spent no money and made no speeches.
Another of his pet causes was to serve as
president of the Crusaders. He still thinks
Roosevelt's support of tw wets was one of
the main reason.! for his popularity.
Ills: name has been bandied about as a
candidate for governor in 1940, or as Demo
cratic "candidate for Hii'am W. Johfton's seat
in the senate.
On the other hand, he is pretty happy
where he is. might be perfectly content to
build his party machine and then run the
darn thing.
Side Glances
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O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Auljijitv
MOST EXPERTS SET
ON THIS SLAM HAND
(This is one of a series of
hands from the recent world's
championship masters' individ
ual tournament.)
But if East fail! Ipjfo in. with
the queen of diamonds, you. can
see what happens;: J last is going
to be forced to malte a discard
on the fourth clubvtmd on the
third spade and will .not be able
to protect both the; j,ueen of dia-
Mrs. Hebn Sobel, the world's
outstanding woman bridge play
er, said she thought today's hand
was the most interesting of the
tournament, as it pruvided a very
unusual play. She said that while
most pairs that got to six no
trump went down, the hand could
monris and the hearts,!
O IN FORMER
YEARS
10 Years Ago! May 31
Seventy-one seniors of Eastern
Oregon Normal school lormally
ontered commencement' week to
day, with the first events of the
annnaj graduation program held.
Queen Evelyn Masten, of La
Grande was crowned tp reign
over Evensong at a coronation
ball, and an all-college picnic to
be held at Cove is planned, with
the freshmen as sponsors.
C. K. McCormick and his sister,
Mrs. Madeline Rueter motored to
Portland.
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15 Years Ago, May 31
Miss Eleanor Vernon, dean of
the girls apd Latin' teacher at the
high school, left last' night ?or
Seattle where she will spend the
summer. Miss Vernon will attend
the summer school at the Univer
sity of Washington.'
Mvs. Otis Palmer is visiting in
Portland with her parents. She
plans to be gone about three
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undoubtedly be made if, after
winning the opening spade lead
with the jack, the ace and king
of hearts were cashed.
This shows the bad heart break.
Now a small club should be led
to the dummy and at this point,
the six of diamonds played from
dummy.
It is doubtful that East would
jump in with the queen. Natur
ally, he would figure that for six
no trump. South should have the
king of diamonds.
Questions & Answers
Q What is the range of the
new army cargo plane, the C-82
"Packet"?
A Maximum range 4000 mil v
with 18,000 pounds of cargo, 500
miles.
Q What is absolute : r, ?
A The point at wh. h !hen
retically, all molecul." otion
ceases. It exists at 4f r. ..gives
below Fahrenheit zero
30 Years Ago, May 31 i
On a scale unequaied in years,
La Grande yesterdajp and today
paid homage for tHi'irl;country to
the memories of the soldiers who
fought and die.' ' Commencing
yesterday with memorial Sunday
services and open air mass, the
citizens have paid I dirout recog
nition to the memoir' of the sol
diers. Vesterday .morning one of
the largest Catholic congregations
assembled in months went to the
Catholic '' ccmetefryt fnd . there
lieai U mass said bv Father Dris-
coll. foldier
a led in due
al.ernoon a suitalil J program was
CMtriid out in the'Bap'list church.
This morning a record c.owd of
people filed out to the cemetery.
At the appointed houl' local busi-
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Q How do incnv: ed alti
tudes affect digestion?
AAmong the proven i ffects is
that digestive functions ; re slow
ed down as much as 33 per cent
at altitudes of 10,000 feet or over.
lief corps, children and spams"
American war veterans on their
way to the cemetery 'where flow
ers were taken for dead soldiers.
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