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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.
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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
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Washington Merry-Go-RouriH
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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.
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"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."
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South West North East
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Pass
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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. ,,
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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.
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