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Side Glancea Washington Merry-Go-Round 7 lSf-?t3& , $L,d By DREW PEARSON : ' editoriai . page I II 1 II IK I La Grande Evenin Frank Schiro, Pobl e Obse rtaher' ' ' rver SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1945 Page Two The Teething Period 558sb EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. Endflf the Honeymoon? There is some reason to few Hint our ideological honeymoon with Russia may be 'over, now that the war in Europe is won. And the reason for that fenr comes not directly from Moscow, but from a one-sided literary spat between Jacques Duclos, editor of the French magazine Galilei's du Conimunisnie, and Karl lirowder, head of the American Communist Political association and editor of the Daily Worker. M. Duclos recently wrote a lengthy at tack on Mr. Ii'owder's policy of co operation with this government, his wartime toleration of private enterprise, his condemnation of wartime strikes, espousal of national unity, and other lmckslidings from Marxism which the Duclos article labeled "false concepts" and "erroneous conclusions." The Daily Worker printed the Duclos text, together with an introduction by Mr. Browder. H was this introduction that was dis turbing. Mr. Browder didn't even put on the gloves, let alone fight back. Kather he was meek as Moses. He said the article demands "our re spectful consideration. lie spoke of formulating "a clear perspective for the coming period of new storms" along lines Inid down by M. Duclos. He stated, "It has been clear at all time that the end of the war in Europe would require a fundamental review of all problems of American Marxists." ' - All of which seems rather ominous. It wouldn't seem so if this were just a dispute between two non-Russian com munist leaders. But if past history is n criterion, M. Duclos'g attack and Mr. Browder's swift retreat are part of A policy originating in Moscow. We devoutly hope that this assump tion is wrong. American-Soviet friend ship is indispensable to world peace. And that friendship has been subjected to enough' strain in the last month with out the American communists opening a real, breach with a return to the revo lutionary and obstructionist ,- tactics whjch they used before Germany's at tack. It seems indisputable "that the Mos cow government has more to win by maintaining friendship with this coun try on a political live-and-let-livo basis than it has in permitting Mr. Browder to resume the program which, before the war, was clearly Moscow-inspired and which was the chief reason for Rus sia's unpopularity with the American people. The majority of Americans want to understand Russia and be friends with her. But we think that the majority of Americans are also coming to feel that a little more show of understand ing and friendliness on Moscow's part would lie welcome and exceedingly helpful. Funny Ilusinesa TTT O SO THEY SAY My greatest aim is to inculcate a new Christian spirit in our youth. Dr. Finns Fuchs, Oberprcsidcnt of Rhine province military district. There )usl is not enough food in the whole world to give these people (Europeans) enough to eat. Maj.-Gen. Warren Draper, dep. uty U. S. surgeon general. I know of no secret weapon whose overall effectiveness can approach that of the humble Lib erty ship. , Commodore Frederick G. Rein ecke. port director, Third na val district. "He didn't quit niaka It and was loojileepy lo try again!" I think I can pitch winning baseball for the next three years, and I don't want to haw lo go through a money wrangle every spring Morton Cooper, St. I.ouis Car dinal pitcher, sold to Boston Uuvcb. WASHINGTON Major job facing Con gressman Clinton Anderson of New Mexico as he takes over the war food administration (he will also be secretary of agriculture) is to weed out the key men who kept food pro duction down to minimum levels. Some of these men wanted to aid the big food firms Others couldn't forget the days when federal policy was to kill off little pigs. Last year, for Instance, war food adminis tration concentrated on trying to clear off all surplus fats even permitting the use of edible fat for soap and paint. This year there is a shortage. Last year WFA held out to the bitter end against bringing all meats back under rationing; it actually discouraged hog production and permitted meat canning facilities to work at less than capacity. Everyone knows the result thfe year. ' ' Last year, when the war production board proposed facilities to provide an additional 300,00-400,000 tons of cattle feed from the mash left over from distilleries, WTA killed the project and permitted thousands of tons of potential feed to go to waste. Only last month WFA reversed itself and okayed the program. . Last year Tom Stitts and Dewey Termoh len, heads of the dairy and poultry branch of WFA, were worried about too many chickens and eggs. Termohlen wanted the national goal for 1945 set 25 per cent below 1944'; but the figure was finally set at 16 per cent less later raised lo only 8 per cent less. Early In April, the masterminds suddenly awakened to the fact that the country faced a serious shortage of eggs and poultry. Sud denly they urged farmers to increase their flocks by 20 per cent too late to do much good before midsummer. Poultry Stamps Termohlen's prize scheme last year was for a poultry subsidy program awarding one dollar per hen if 70 million hens were mar keted at once. At that time, of course, eggs were plentiful and poultry was not. Fortun ' ately, the plan was never adopted. WFA never enthused over OPA efforts to crack down on the poultry black market. Today, with the army unable to lay up any stockpile of poultry despite a complete set aside in four major poultry areas, the black market is such a sizeable racket that trucks are being hi-jacked in the midwest ust as in prohibition days. Present plan is to order a set-aside for the army of all poultry in the entire midwest including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Iowa, Indi ana, Illinois and Ohio. In addition OPA may soon announce a system for licensing all poultry handlers. On the bright side is the fact that farm ers responded so well to the April call for increased poultry production that hatchery production in the latter part of April was greater than in any corresponding period in the past. McXallar Tactics Freshmen senators Wayne Morse of Ore gon and Forrest Donnell' of Missouri, bdth Republicans, had senate president Kenneth McKellar pf Tennessee spluttering the'other day when they forced him to call a meeting of his post office committee to consider the nomination of Joseph J. Lawlor as third as sistant postmaster general. They had noth ing against Lawlor, whose confirmation sub sequently went unopposed, but they were opposed to McKellar's reporting the nomina tion to the senate wUhout a meeting of the committee. Earlier in the month, Republicans had tried to force a post office committee meet ing when Democratic chief Bob Hannegan' was named postmaster general. But they lost out In a fairly close vote on the senate floor. ' The venerable McKellar (he once threw a reporter out of his office because the re porter asked him his age) let loose a flood of oratory which finally ended in a vote per mitting the committee to report Hannegan's nomination favorably without a meeting. In stead; a committee clerk brought a sheet around with the nomination and had com mittee members sign it. Later McKellar sent the same clerk out with the nomination of Joe Lawlor as third assistant postmaster. But' this time, Sena tors Donnell and Morse told him to keep his clerks out of their offices and call a post office committee meeting instead. They ' threatened to go to the senate floor again. Finally McKellar yielded, called the meet ing. Pennsylvania Senators Joe Guffoy and Francis Myers appeared for Lawlor, who was quite acceptable to all. ' At the conclusion of the meeting, McKel lar couldn't resist smirking at Morse and Donnell. He reminded them that the sen ate had, on the Hannegan nomination, ap proved his practice of circulating nomina tion sheets for the approval of individual members instead of calling a meeting. "The senate wouldn't have approved the practice," shot back Oregon's Morse, "if all the Democrats who stopped me in the halls or called me up to say they thought I wa3 perfectly right had had the guts to vote the way they believed on the floor." McKellar replied heatedly but so heat edly that no one could quite tell what he was saying. , . , Note while Donnell had opposed the Hannegan nomination because of art old Mis souri feud, Morse formerly of the war la bor board had not objected to it, and sub sequently voted for Hannegan's confirmation, WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MUXETT She added up her soldier husband's points, found he had enough to bring him home, and Immediately started on a reducing diet. Men meet the big moments of life without a lot of preparation, fuss or bother. But women pitch in and work to make "everything perfect." So while the men soon to be released from the army are awaiting their orders and pas sage home, their wives are probably work ing like mad. ' They reduce if they are overweight, get appointcmnts for permanent waves, and run around town trying to find clothes that do the most for them. ' , And after they get themselves fixed up, there'll be the houses lo set in order. They buy new curtains for the living room, give the kitchen table and chairs a fresh coat of paint, clean the basement and garage, and plan the kind of meals they'll feed their men. They'll probably be tired out when their men finally arrive but that won't stop them from all their elaborate preparations. 1 hrow ing themselves into on orgy of hard work is the way women meet the big moments of life. They lose part of the thrill of big moments if they don't have time to worry and fuss about them in advance, and get their stage settings exactly right for the role they are about to play. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grand Evanlng Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO The barrage of pub licity, the almost daily press conferences and the trick questions on the subject of Pales tine at this United Nations conference have been so completely bewildering that a little attempted clarification may be in order. To the casual observer, it would appear that the ranks of the Jews are hopelessly di vided on what should be done about Jew ish war refugees and Palestine. Actually the trouble seems to stem from a minority of influential individuals in half a dozen small groups. There arc approximately 5.000.000 Jews in the United States. About 2,000,000 arc adults and of these over 1,500,000 arc mem bers of some 60 Jew'sh religious and fra ternal societies banded in an organization known as the American Jewish conference This conference was first convened in New York in August 1043. for the express pur pose of uniting all Jewish elements fh the United Slates, presenting a united front with a single spokesman tn stop bickering and working at cross purposes. It speaks in the name of a vast majority of American Jews. It favors an international bill of rights in the charter, to give dssuraneo that Jewish people may have peace ami security in what ever country they reside. Also H supports legal and orderly roconstilulion of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish common wealth, as originally established in the league of nations British mandate fur Pales tine. A handful of diMir.ited grRaniziJtJons don't like the conference program or its methods and that's where the fAndtag be gins. Jewish opposition com principally from thnc sources. First, wealthy American JeWs who fam ilies have been in the United States for four or five generations and therefore have few direct ties with the millirns of JcwiA) war rcfugvin and victims In L'ulupe. Second, the extremely Sincere and devout Jews who do not want their religion con fused with political ambitions to establish a Jewish commonwealth. Third, the militant lews who favor direct action to force the creation of a strong Jew ish state." Organizationally, this opposition is said to be composed ol these principal elements: The American Jewish committee, headed by Joseph H. Proskaucr of New York, who is also a consultant at San Francisco. It is small 393 corporate members but power ful. It works with tha Jewish conference on everything except the establishment of a purely Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, at this time. Agudas Israel, a religious group of less than 30.000 members. American Consul for Judaism. 6,000 mem bers, headed by Rabbi Elmer Bergcr w ho is in San Francisco "to conduct research." Jewish labor committee of New York, the right wing, David Dubinsky branch of the garment workers' union. The New Zionist organization, a small di rect action group which agitates for restora tion of Trans-Jnrdania tn Palestine. Finally (he outfit which alter four changes of name is now known as the Flcbrrw com mittee of national liberation. It supports the self styled "Hebrew embassy" in Wash ington and doesnt represent anyone except a handful of young Jew born in Palestine, who came to the United States in 1941 ar.d have been operating high, wide and hand some ever since under the chairmanship of one Peter H. Horgson. This group has been exposed a nur.ibciinf times, but without effect. It is deeply re sented by regular American Jewish groups. It has collected scads of money, has taken out many pages of newspaper ads. has taken in countless suckers, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. flLt V m . I i Hal II I eowciw iy no avKg.ma,.T. itjwevajiCT.'.ts. "Screens?' Painting chairs? But, dear, with food so expensive, wouldn't it be more economical to try and hire that done while I catch tomojfish?" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE " By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority CAN'T RUFFLE MRS. SOBEL BY RUFFING The team of Helen Sobcl, B. Jay Becker of New York City, Charles Goren and Sidney Silo dor of Philadelphia successfully defended their national knock team of four title for the Van derbilt cup recently. They mot 2 V 104 AK J 107 . KJ 1093 Mrs. Sobel I ft I 109743 w c KQ8 853 c KQ Q32 i98 4 A8 Dealer AQ 7 5 4 2 4k AJ65 V AJ9762 85 6 Duplicate Both vul. South West North East 1 V Pass 2 Pass 2 V Pass 3 a Pass 3 Pass 4 V Pass Opening A. 4 the team of Waldemar von Zedt witz, Ted Lightner, Howard Schenken, Edwin Hymes and Sam Stayman in the final round. Mrs. 3obel's team was behind 60 points at the quarter, and 490 at the half. They took the lead in the third quarter and won the match by 1620 points. Here is an example of 'the type of bridge Mrs. Sobel played to win the championship. She opened the ace of clubs and continued with a small club. Schenken went up with the king and discarded a spade. He now led a spade and ruffed a spade. At this point he cashed the ace and king of diamonds and, on the second diamond play, Mrs. Sobel threw the queen. Schenk en now decided that Mrs. Sobel had no more diamonds but had another club so he led a small club and ruffed hoping to get in his hand to ruff another spade. Questions & Answers Q What South American wo man golfer is being hailed as the world's best? A Fay Crocker, of Montevi deo, Uruguay. Members of the Montevideo club are ready to wager $20,000 she can beat any woman in the world. Unfortunately he ruffed with the six spot, Mrs. Sobel ruffed with the eight, led a trump and the contract went down. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Union county stock show open ed today with good weather beaming on the splendid proces sion two miles long which opened the annual function. Genial Gov. James Withycombe, escorted by a dozen mounted girls, among them Ruth Russell of La Grande, headed the parade on his favorite charger, with the Cove band playing lively airs. Conservative estimates place the cash valua tion of the horses alone in the parade at $300,000. An added feature of the afternoon show was the appearance of Billie Clifford, a clever girl hippodrome rider. Umatilla Indians also took prom inent parts in the program. The stock show will continue through three days. IS Years Ago L. B. Ycntzer of Fruitdale "brought the first crate of Grande Ronde valhy strawberries into La Grande yesterday. He expects to have several more crates ready soon. Gene Faus and Virgil Conley are visiting this week in south ern Oregon. L. L. McXennon left for Port land accompanied by his daugh ter, Mrs. Charles Wright of Bak er, and Mrs. Will Lcdbetter of Aliccl. and his two grandchild drcn, Namoa and Patricia Wright. They will be in the coast city two or three weeks. 10 Years Ago Paul Finlay, brother of Harold M. Finlay, publisher of the Ob server, has arrived here to take a position with this newspaper. . Mrs. Edward Smith, Mrs. Har ley Smith, Miss Bernice McKin ney and Beryl Jones have start ed on an automobile trip to Colo rado and oilier points. Miss Dorothy Eberhard, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Colon R. Eberhard, returned home to spend the summer with her parents. Miss Ebcriiard is history teach er in the Klamath Union high school and has been re-elected for the coming school year. 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