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SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1945
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The Teething Period
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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
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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.
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"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
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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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