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i i EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1945 Page Two I'm Not Disturbing You, Am I, Sport?". - EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land : for God hath given it unto your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. Judges 18:10. Notes on New Cabinet Appointments Postage Due The search for "trends" in the Tru man administration was speeded up by the president's new cabinet appoint ments. Of the two New York news papers which consistently and unques tioningly supported the late President Uoosevoll, the'Tosl found the appoint ments indicating that Mr. Truman was abiding by Miv Uoosevell's "left of center" policy, . while I'M discovered through them that Mr. Truman was sticking to the "middle of the road." The truth may well be that the ap pointments mark no trend whatsoever. Mr. Truman seems to have been intent on filling the posts with sound, unspec tacular men who were not so promin ent or so long in government as to have incurred those ideological enmities which long official residence in Wash ington so often engenders. This reasoning doesn't apply to Mr. Truman's dispatch ,yif Harry Hopkins on a mission to Moscow. Mr. Hopkins is long prominent and the object of in tense feelings pro and con. Ihtt here again it seems that the president lias picked the best man for the job in this case, a very difficult job which Mr. Hopkins can perform perhaps better than any man alive. At the time of Mr. Roosevelt's death, his cabinet .was. .made HI of fixe, New, Yorkers, tw,o men from 'Pennsylvania-,-'-' and one each from Indiana, Illinois and , Iowa. Now, for the first time in our history, half the cabinet members hail from west of the Mississippi. They are Commerce Secretary Wallace of Iowa, Postmaster General Hannegan of Mis souri, and the three newcomers, Attor ney General Clark of Texas, Agriculture Secretary Anderson of New Mexico, and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach of Washington. When talk of Frances Perkins' re signation was revived a few months ago. it was said that she probably would stay on because Mr. Roosevelt could not find a replacement acceptable to the two big labor organizations. Mr. Truman apparently got around that difficulty simply by selecting a man with a good labor record. At least, the CIO and AFl, wern't heard from in . public statement or speculation until after Mr. Schwellenbach 's appointment, when both organizations informed the president that the new labor secretary was acceptable. President Truman, who won national attention as head of a senate investigat ing committee, put another investigator in the limelight when he named the new secretary of agriculture. Mr. Anderson, who came to congress in 1910, wasn't even on the house agriculture commit tee. Hut he headed a special house com mittee looking into the food shortage, and apparently did a good fact-finding job. It may be typial of Mr. Truman's methods that Air. Anderson, like Mr. Shwellenbach, was not ah outside or ganization's choice. Though a farmer, be doesn't belong to any national farm er's association. fes-tr ff! Funny business iflEWi iff, .. M.ii.;nt ,- .: :.gy, .:. .Lf Q 'Tot liouvonj take, slop passing meal murkcui" o SO THEY SAY Nations which net as enemies in the marketplace cannot long be friends .it the council table. Assistant Secretary of State William U Clayton. If we do net ivcigniirc that man is a spiritual self within a body, regardless of color, it will be the M.ixi.ts and materials who will he tilling the soil wc should be tillinu. - -Rep. Charles M. I.oFolctte, Indiana. It would be an even greater disaster for the United States af ter ttuf tti.'i- to commit its mili tary ferees to the preservation of an intej -national if-kr in Which ! had abdicated its 1oinl lead itnaiip. Hp. Samuel, A Weiss, Pcnn svlvahid.i o u , oo r , . r, . Tliey (thu0Ja;M) ' Voiigh C fii'hleis l''l ia.v jiist A toiigli mi (Ui- lielnan.s. - O ,-0 ' (J-Wen. Courtney (8. JJodK- V. S. T'lml ui:nVun return to U. S. Washington Merry-Go-RouriH i By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON It has now been a little over one month since the American Ninth army paused on the outskirts of Berlin to .let the Red army hammer its way into Hit ler's capital. Since then, no allied mission has gone Into Berlin, despite the Yalta agree ment providing for a token force of Ameri can troops in Berlin and the governing of Germany by an allied mission of British, American, Russian and, later, French gen erals. ' ,' 'l ' V Failure to set up this allied mission inside Berlin generally has been blamed on the Russians. , Though Stalin did object lo American troops entering Berlin ahead of the Red army (Russian capture of Berlin was agreed on at Yalta), actually U. S. officials have been largely responsible for the delay in sending a subsequent token force into Ber lin and setting up allied headquarters to govern Germany. If you ask the war department about this, you will get evasive, sawdust-in-thc-cye answers. But actually three reasons have developed for U. S. hesitation over entering Berlin. They are: 1. If an allied commission is set up in Berlin, it would be necessary to abolish SHAEF (supreme headquarters, allied expe ditionary force) and General Eisenhower would step down from being commander over the French and British. Instead, the French and British would be equal in com mand with Eisenhower in any four-cornered allied commission in Berlin. So would the Russians. ,- 2. With all four nations working in Ber lin, it is feared that cooperation with the Russians might be more difficult. At pres ent, Russia gbverns its part of eastern Ger many, while; the western alies govern their part of western Germany. There is a strict line runningi between them and no inter communication to speak of. This is not the plan originally arranged at Yalta. However, there has been so much friction during the closing days of the war, that U. S. command ers figure they may be better off remain ing where tiiey are instead of going into Berlin. 3. The British don't want to change the present setup where in they are a part of SHAEF under General Eisenhower. As SHAEF now; operates, the British are able to get a good part of their supplies from the United States to handle their part of occu pied Germany. If SHAEF is disbanded, this supply arrangement stops. Under the combined shipping board, most of the supplies for the British and American armies are even hauled in American ships. And if this stops, the British have the hard- . est part of .Germany -en their hands to feed. "for he 'British-occupied Ruhr and the in- ' dustrial west are heavily populated with little farmland, formerly importing food from eastern Germany and Prussia. But with these eastern aroas Hussian-occupied, the British know they can't get any food from them. So the British don't want SHAEF "and the present U. S. supply arrangement disbanded. Finally, some U. S. officials fear, that co operation with the French might become difficult if SHAEF were abolished. At pres ent the French have to take orders -from Eisenhower. But once an allied commis sion is set up irl Berlin, the French would be equal partners, and their ideas on the fu ture governing of Germany might be just as independent as the Russians. Obviously the present make-shift s'ituation cannot continue indefinitely. And there is a lot of debate inside the government on both sides, some say we had better go ahead and try out international cooperation over Germany right away and do our best. Oth ers say we had best avoid headaches by keeping out of Berlin and sitting tight. The final answer probably will be made by Pres ident Truman himself. Capital Chaff Jim Farley, now a soft-drink mogul, was walking down a San Francisco street the other day when he suddenly excused himself from a companion, tapped a postman on the shoulder and said: "Hello there, I'm Jim Farley. I used to be in your business my self" .... After chatting with the ogle-eyed postman for a moment, Farleji returned to his companion, explaining: "I fiever piirffsfl postman without greeting h)m-. J alsp,,trj to stop off and visit the postmaster in every town I go into." , . Under the Dome Congressman Clinton Anderson (the sec retary of agriculture-to-be) has asked army's quartermaster corps for an official explana tion why huge quantities of meat, butter, cigarettes, candy are sold through the post exchange in Ft. Belvoir, Va., to army desk officers living just outside Washington ..... An explanation also has been asked regard ing army wives' alleged practice of buying meat for civilian neighbors at army post ex changes .... Absentee senators probably will prevent any action on mustering but army oldsters (over 35 or 38). Too many senators have gone junketing to Europe. There are hardly enough around to do any real business .... Yet congress wants a sal ary raise .... Norman Case, former Repub lican governor of Rhode Island, will not be reappointed to the federal communications commission. His appointment had chiefly rested on personal friendship with FDR. .... The new chairman of the national la bor relations board will be Paul Herzdg, a ' friend-of Senator Wagner. --Wagner was1, the father of the national labor relations act. ' WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT ."The job future for1 demobilized service women depends in a large degree on public sanction of a woman's right to work regard less of sex and marital status." So said Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, WAC di rector, during a meeting of Business and Professional Women's clubs to discuss the problem. Colonel Hobby is right, of course, and the "back to the home" clamor that is growing louder day by day poses a big question as to whether or not the public will sanction a woman's right to work regardless of sex and marital status if jobs arc scarce in the post war world. i But whatever the attitude is toward other women, however prejudiced it may become when the fight for jobs is on, the women who wore their country's uniform when it needed them should be a special group. Discharged servicemen should have the first chance at jobs, of course. Nobody has given or risked as much during the war as they. But scrvicewomen should be right behind them. And no man who didn't get into uniform should be put ahead of service women when it comes to getting jobs in the postwar world. If we are going to say that servicemen have a right to be put first on an employer's list, then scrvicewomen have a right to be put second. For when their country called them, they answered, going wherever they were sent and doing whatever they were told to do. They had to give up their jobs to do it and when they want their jobs back, they ought not to stand behind anybody but a man who was also in uniform. Behind Scenes in Washington' By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Obierver Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO When the San Fran cisco conference is all washed up and the United Nations charter is written, the key question will become, "What is to be the fu ture position of the United States in world affairs?" Without prejudice and without conviction as to their lightness or wrongncss, some of the possibilities of this situation are worth a closer look. It cannot be denied that many of the smaller nations will go home from San Fran cisco disappointed in the stand which the V'. S. delegation has taken .on many of the more important issues which have arisen at the conference voting, trusteeships, region al security. The feeling that "The United States does not know its own strength" is alLtoo preva lent among delegate (torn the smaller na tions. Their reliance oil Roosevelt which at one time amounted to near worship, is now just a memory. In its place is a much more substantial respect for the United States as a country. This has jeen augmented by the trip to San Francisco which revealed the sire and the resources and the unbelievably high standard of living which the American peo ple enjoy. Now, more than ever, these dclc gnus from the smaller countries would like to see the United Stales step out to assume wo:!d leadership, , The loyonsibilitics which ,thc t'mtcd States would assume by such action w.iuld ubviouslj he, ti-c-.ncnd.it.s It would. put a buldenVor military,, tfuaiuUVianlip n tht: (.vuntry at a $irit whfej the Aiterivajh jieoitfc (are gtK,ana tuea(ui. Wiir and all it concooi itants. O . O n J It is doubtful il.iuerican public epioolt would for long support a foreign policy call ing for United States interference in the af fairs of other nations, even as a protector of the oppressed against exploitation. Ameri can foreign policy never being able to run much ahead of what American public opin ion will support, the idea that the Truman, or any other administration could step out too far in front as a world savior, imposing democracy even where it is wanted, of pro tecting anybody, any place, any time, is preposterous. In spite of this obvious conclusion there is a decided feeling that the policy of the U. S. delegation at the conference has been governed too much by two motives: Fir.st the desire to produce a charter which will be politically and praclk-ally acceptable to the United States senate when the work at San Francisco comes up for ratification. Second the desire to make a document which will be acceptable to Great Britain and Russia, regardless of how it appeals to the rest of the world. This is prediatcd on a be lief that unless the Big Three can agree in principle, world peace of any kind will be impossible. It is entirely conceivable that both of t.'icse premises arc way behind and way be low a foreign policy which a majority of the people of the I'nited States are willing to suppor t. Only dae time, the cU4 mouth ed iild hussv. will tell. (J The tci;ir,g will bc.oone when the United Nations orjrAnialion is actually 4iablijhed WiU'at !!. and the UnlVftf State mrriiber ' Q of 'that aug(tt bod.y taies' his. seat in the eer;!l)assemll)N. dwtend. an .extend, the principles on whrch this country .was found- 3 ed and built. Side Glances . .' 'V v i - COPB. 1MB BY WW 6CRV1CC, tWC. T. M. WO. 0. a. PAT. Otr! . ', "I'll be glad to get my job back, Gus, but you'll have -to watch me for awhile I'm used to cooking for 300 men I" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE , Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority DARING UNDER-LEAD SETS 'SURE' GAME (This is one of a series of hands from the recent world's championship masters' individ ual tournament.) When I went to Waldemar von Zedtwitz (who finished ninth in the tournament) for his best hand of the masters' individual, Charles Solomon, in eleventh pitace, spoke up with, "I will give you his best hand of the tournament." A J 10 S 2 J8543? None 973 KQS lA73 AK W c 96 J874 o KQ985 'Q6 5 2 D.l.rL Von Zedtwitz A964 VQ 10 7 A 10 AQJ84 Duplicate Both vul South West North East 1 4k ' Double.. !.. ... 7, . N T Pass 2 N. T Pass 3 1 Opening 4k 2 Here it is: Declarer won the opening lead in the dummy with the ace of spades and immediately played a small diamond off the dummy. Voh Zedtwitz played low and the declarer won the trick with the jack. North discarded the deuce of hearts. The declarer returned a dia mond which Von Zedtwitz won with the ace and again North discarded a sm;a!y heart. Von Zedtwitz now realized it was hopeless to return a heart. The fact that the declarer had won the opening spade lead in Questions & Answers Q Which is the largest of the three Scandinavian common wealths? A Sweden is larger than Nor way or Denmark. It is one-sixth larger than California. dummy with the ace 'told Von Zedtwitz that West sti)J iad the king of spades. . Not being con tent just to cash his ace, queen and jack of clubs, Von Zedtwitz at this point simply cashed the ace of clubs and then played the four of clubs. Well, you cannot blame West for playing low. North won the trick with the nine spot and returned a club. Thus North and South cashed six tricks, defeating an otherwise perfectly safe contract two tricks. O IN FORMER YEARS 10 Years Ago . ., L. O. Morehead, district forest warden, received word -that the U. S. army officers planned to be gin construction of.. -the CCC camp at Hilgard by the: middle of June. : v Warren Gilbert returned from Montrose, Colo., where he spent a week visiting his-moUwM1, Mrs. - Ejla K. Cjijert, Ue Sccpfflpa.rjisd his mother home after she had spent some time visiting him here. I i; F. B. Appleby, former, editor . and publisher of the . .Observer and now of OntarioCalif,, spent a few days in La Grande,, ivisiting friends. ,, h IS Years Ago Rainfall in La Grande, for two days stood at 1.1 inches. Francis Newlin of .' Portland was visiting his motheK Mrs. Chester Newlin. ' Miss Lawana Myers of Sum merville visited at the Home of MSss Margaret Dixon. ' Q What has "been the increase in the personnel of the Ameri can merchant marine? A In 1941, there were 55,000 in service; at end of 1944, 200,000 men were sailing our merchant ships. 30 Years Ago Fire of unknown origin de stroyed the Royal box factory of Cove, valued at $6,000. In surance covered $4,000 Of loss but as the factory was about to commence its box making run for the season the loss was mate rially heavier than the actual value of the plant. . BecauEO the railroads have an nounced that they would refuse shipments of livestock without inspection, Goverrior' Withy combe named a number of in spectors, including ' Henry Haas of Enterprise for Wallftw' coun ty and T. B. Johnson of Cove for Union county points. This Curious World IV lf C CONCEIVED HIS IDEA ( IWK lie ) OP THE J-AWS 0 L JcSTl 4 I 24 VEARS OLD' I 1,1 7 "Vjl f - 1 I A TERRIBLE PL4aue40 I kV J . J S 1 BROKEN OUT IN EN9LANO I I LfT lYff j ,11) ... SCHOOLt AWO UMlr 1 IfAj rff jJ JrA f VE"SITES wtn cicao V KssV X riS yyiSv f tKH time to twbk. ( ' WHAT iWEI!D!JS SSFAtATB ) I VhZ CJl THE EASTSEM AND iTWi V J f HfMltlMWS TH BatrH J J fy . If IS IN THE PRIVE OP 'y V A y . LIFE AT THE AGE OF . V K 1 ANSWER: Most hemispherical maps give the division. 4at the ( meridians 20 W. and 160 E. Some give 15 W. and 165 E. J NEXT: Th hummingbird, llyer extraordinary. 0
