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i r EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 5. J9J.1 Page Two "There's No Shortare of White Crosses, Mister!" EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA" GRANDE A city of 10,0011 Extend the city -limitH. G TODAY'S TEXT Son of man, tlioii dwcllest in tho midst of a rebellion!) house, which have eyes to sue, anil .see not ; they have cars to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. K.ekiel 12:2. Off -Key Censorship A heavy fojj of censorship soenis to have closed in on Kuropo in the wake of the war clouds. Russia's I'ijfiil policy of press control has been extended west ward to the Kibe. A partial news black out in Italy is apparent in the incom plete story of the llrilish arrest of So cialist I'ietro Noniii for speakin;;' to an audience of workers. 11 is ; ratifying indeed to see that SIIKAK has removed all censorship re strictions in the European theater ex cept those concerned with actu.d mili tary movements. It was a most dis turbing lliine; to have the United Slates army contribute to that fojj of censor ship, which it, seemed to do, according to complaints of various American cor respondents in Germany. There was, of course, no earthly ex cuse for that sort of censorship. The enemy in Europe is defeated and large ly demobilized. The allies are in con trol. Yet one eorresondent said that Amor en n writers wore denied access to any liazi papers and documents. Another told of photoK'raphi is beinjt liarrod from ISerchtes'aden after an Ameiic.'iii general had been pictured cou ersin;; Funny Business with nazi Field Marshal Kesselrintt over a bot tle of wine. A third complained that correspond ents had to present questions to Julius Streicher, the Jew-baiter, tltroiijrli an American officer, and that they were expressly forbidden to question Strei cher on Hie persecution of Jews. Still another slated that they had not been allowed to interview prominent political refugees suclr as Kurt Scliuschnig'K of Austria. This was censorship for reasons of .policy, not security. One purpose would seem to be a display of officer person nel in the most favorable liuht. Other purposes were entirely unclear, though it may be that the military's necessary wartime business of ordering people about and telling them what to do be comes a habit, reasonably pleasant and hard to break. The result of such censorship, how ever, is clear even, if its motives are not. It tends to put army policy and practices beyond the range of public responsibility. And since the army in Germany is now chiefly concerned with civil administration, it should be as ac countable as any other civil administra tion operating with public funds. lint it is not accountable because it makes its own rules. And some of those rules, right and proper in time of war, should have been altered to meet changed conditions. One was the rule hat representatives of public informa tion outlets can remain and operate in army - occupied territory only on the condition that they write what the army says they may write, men though the subjects may have nothing to do with the army per se. This soi l of censorship is a despised practice of the dictator governments which the army itself, with such strength and courage and suffering, has only just overthrown. COMPANV K MESS "a",'"P p.. iVi.ti tOvi,i ik: u'llo v I f C" A Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The inpide story of how the army and navy are burning up Japan's main cities, block by block, may now be re vealed at least in port. The, two greatest contributions to the burn ing ot Japan are the B-29 and a new, still, somewhat mysterious fire-bomb known as the "goop bomb." Just how the "goop bomb" got its name isn't known. However, it's the most terrible fire spreader in the world. Part of its secret is an oily mush developed by petroleum chemists. This makes the eon tents of the bombs stick in gluelike gobs to anything it hits, making it almost impossible for Japanese firefighters to scrape it loose. However, what really made the bomb the most terrible in the world was experiments carried out by some of Henry Kaiser's west coast scientists. They found Kaiser had a surplus of fast burning, white-hot magnes ium production on his hands, and they also knew one of the greatest difficulties in mak ing magnesium is it3 high explosive con tent. So they experimented with mixing magnesium dust in the oil of the bomb. This manesium dust lights uo in a searing blaze as soon as it comes in contact with air. Result is the hottest fro ever known. Most important effect of the "goop bomb" is that no known irefighting equipment can douse its flames. Water only adds to the' blaze; as do any of the other specialized fire-fighting chemicals.' All the Japs do now against the "goop bomb" is to try to confine the area in which it burns, not put it out. This is one reason for increasing optimism about an early end of the Jap war. No Suez Land-Lease British insistence that the United States pay tolls on troops and war supplies shipped through the Suez canal continues to rankle in high circles. London's explanation is that Suez is not British-government-owned, but controlled by an international company. (The British own about 44 Vcr cent of the stock, the French 52 per cent and the Dutch the bal ance.) However, U. S, officials don't accept the idea that the British stock is privately controlled. Actually, Britain's share of the stock is tightly controlled by the British gov ernment, and one of the famous events in the reign of Queen Victoria was Disraeli's bold stroke in borrowing 4,000,000 pounds sterling in the name ot the British cabinet to secure a large block of canal slock for the government. . , . However, in order to get around the Brit ish excuse regarding international ownership of Suez, Washington proposed to London that we be given reverse lend-lease on Suez tolls equivalent to tiw ownership of British stock. In other words, if the British own 44 per cent of Suez stock, they would reduce canal tolls to Americun warships and troop ships by 44 per cent. ' We also made the same proposal to the French, namely that Suez tolls be given us on reverse lend-lease equal to ownership of French slock, or about 52 per cent. Both refused. Now that we are shipping troops and sup plies from Europe through Suez to the Pa cific war, canal tolls run into millions. Brit ish war supplies going through the Panama canal get free tolls under lerid-lease. America's No. One Heel Former OPA Administrator Leon Hender son is a sad man these days. Every time-he picks up the newspapers, he reads story after story telling how Washington has given some manufacturer permission to produce again. Henderson recalls how he gained the repu tation of being "America's number one heel," by cutting down the American civil ian consumption to almost zero. "If I could only change all that," moans Henderson. "If the president would only give me a job for one week just one short week in which I could give the people back some of the things I took away from them. Then folks wouldn't think I'm such a bad guy after all." Capital Chaff It hasn't been publicized, but in addition to voting an additional $2,500 for each sena tor, the senate appropriations committee also increased the senatorial stationery allowance from $200 to $400 per sonator, and voted that each senator be allowed 20 free long distance telephone calls per month while in Washington and $300 worth of calls per year while outside of Washington. Last year, for the first time, a provision was made for ten free long distance calls per month per sena tor all calls to originate in Washington. This year the number is raised to 26, either originating in or terminating in Washington. There was never any provsion before for calls in which neither party is in Washing ton, but now $300 worth of such calls are allowed. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT A woman civil engineer interested in "the most fundamental o nil our American small businesses, the home" has some sound ideas for making the relationship between house keepers and the people they employ to help hem do their work more businesslike. One of Elsie Eave's ideas is that there is no reason why domestic service should con tinue to be considered menial. That, for ex ample, the wash woman could be taught about textiles and proper treatment of them and become a "textile renovator." And other household workers coutd also become "experts" in their fields and be sent out from a community service center, with a good personnel, manager at its head, to houses needing an expert's help. If men were running the country's homos, such a scheme would be entirely practical, perhaps. But not while women are running the homes. Housewives just don't want "experts" doing their washing and ironing and cooking for them, for the very simple reason that housewives are jealous of their position of being the only "expert" in their households. The average housewife can't even turn a woman loose to scrub tne kitchen floor with out giving her directions as to how "I like to have things done," and then checking up on her afterward to make sure she got into the corners. Every housewife has her own way of "do ing things" and everyone is sure there s no other way quite as good not even the way her best friends do their cooking and cleaning. Furthermore, the housewife's ego is part ly dependent on her right to "direct" the cleaning woman and to confide to her own friends all of that poor soul's faults, frail ties, and strange ways. Not until women have enough outlet for their energy, ambition, and egoes will they be anxious to have "experts" in their homes who admittedly know more about their par ticular jobs than even the housewives themselves. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, Ls Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent "Ho tay he's conserving his energy for nuircliingl" 0 SO THEY SAY No one knows better than the ;.nny ti":'s :iiul marines on Oki nawa how touch is the Japanese defense and how stubborn is their roMMani-e born of despera tion. - I'n leisccn l.ii y of War Hobeil Patl. rs.m. A stoekp.hng program for an other. Inline war, would be par- 1 ient.ii 1- ense!e.s. - V d,".s,v:via!.v of War Hubert PalUMsoil. It is ai'.-ndous. It is colossal. It is hewn i any oih.T country. Col K s. Hmimatsinhki. mili t.uy ad1. :s, r to adiit.mt gener al of liid .i. toiii in;; Detroit's in dustti.d :ooa. What a cieat ai cumenl it will cie potitioiH is before the war L.ior Iv.ud that collijivss itself l...s 1 rvkc-n tl. l.ittlc Steel Form ula' S, n.itor Moms of Oii'(.on, coin uuntii;,: on lax-five si nale t x-pen.-e accounts. SAN FRANCISCO War relocation au thority, the war-timo guardian of over 100, 000 alien and native-born Japanese-Americans, is planning to go out of business not later than Jan. 2, l!Mti, says W. R. Cozzens, WRA's deputy director iiv charge of its west ern operations. There will be some 20,000 alien and un desirable "detainees" and "excludees" left in the big relocation center at Tule Lake, Calif., on the Oregon line, but by the end of the year they will all be turned over to the department of justice for detention un til such time as they can be shipped back to Japan where, for some strange reason, they have expressed a desiie to so. By and large these "deportees" arc the older Japs and their wives plus their oldest children and families who own or will inherit property in Japan. Of the American citizens of Japanese an cestry who are electing to remain in the United States, nearly 45.000 have already been cleared from llic ei;ht western camps or assembly centers, a.' they are now called. They have been leaving the cumps at the rate of over 100 a week, hut with the elos he an augmented evacuation, permitting ins of the camp schools this month there will WUA to go out of business by the end of the year. If the pattern set thus f-.r holds good, less than 50 per cent of the Japanese-Americans will return to the west coast areas where they lived before the wu. Half of those cleau-d from the WUA centers up to June I have sought to make new homes in other parts of the country. They have settled in every state in the union. South Carolina be ing the last one to re viv a WKA evacuee. While they have scattered widely, biggest concentrations are in Denver. St. Louis,' Mil waukee, St. Paul. Chicago. Cleveland and New York. Many of those going to. ihe Man hattan area are California farmers who ex pect to hoc out new existences on the many truck farms supplying the metropolis. Before clearing any of its charges, war relocation authority has tried to do a job of giving information as to what conditions will be in every part of the, country, says Cozzens. Then it is up to the individual to decide where he wants to go to make his new home. WRA provides railroad transportation to destination, plus a 3 a day allowance for meats en route and a stake of $25 for each individual up to a maximum of $100 for each family on which to begin the new life. Many of the Japanese-Americans have some money of their own. Purchases in re location center cooperative stores showed that, because average individual spending was usually 50 per cent greater than camp earnings during the period of detention. Some 8,000 Japanese families owned prop erty farms, stores, homes, barber shops, machinery or house Turnishings which were kept in storage by WRA. This property was largely held in California and the owners have had a natural dojire to come back and claim it after their clearance from the camps, if only to dispose of it before moving on to new locations. But to many who were born in California and have lived here all their lives, the urge to come back and pick up whvre they left off is strong. The problems of war-lime living have been too much for some Getting gas ra tions, food ration books, overcoming the op position of other Americans who view all people of Jap extracion as enemies even though they are native born citizens, is more than they can cope with. They try to get back into the c;intps to be taken care of for the duration, but the WKA is having none of them. It impresses on every departing detainee the fact that once he leaves camp, he's on his own. WRA officials have of ?ourse taken a ter fific beating on the whole program, but it was admittedly c ni the toughest jobs of the home fronfwalheffort. Side Glances ' " ' Ml 'lj '1.1 cow. 4i by kca senvicE, wc. T m. ma 1). . wreff. ... 1 T 1. .t.ltn oUn'e ininn 4e env Ar were sne comes again ana i auvw wh -- cording to ihe arecent survey we ought to have plenty of pork chop and we must be hiding 'em I" J O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY. America'! Card Authority HEART FINESSE WINS CLUB TITLE The Vanderbilt cup committee once again gave the entire re ceipts of the national knock-out team of four championship tourn ament for ihe Vandcrbilt cup to charity. The funds this year went to the Travelers' Aid society for servicemen's lounges. Winning of the Vanderbilt tournament gave Charles Goren AK984 AQ K J 10 A732 A A Q 10 2 1 N I A None K5 W E 1632 A9863 e Q74 Dealer 9 8 65 Goren AJ7653 VJ9874 52 K Duplicate E.-W. vuL South West North East Pass 1 4 Double Pass 1 A Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3 V Pass 4 A Pass Pass Double Pass Pass Opening J. " 6 by doubling it. n, West got off to a tricky, open ing, but Goren won the trick with the king and led the. iive of spades. When West played low, Goren played the four from dum my. The five of diamonds was won by West with the aee. As the heart finesse was good, Goren made his contract. o IN FORME!! YEARS c 10 Years Ago Sixty-four seniors were gradu ated from Eastern Oregon Nor mal school. James MacDonald of Pondosa, was one of the members of the cavalry unit of Hill ' Military academy who won an award and a ribbon at the horse show and riding exhibition of the academy. The cadet winners were honored at a luncheon given in the school mess hall at Rocky Butte, by their instructor, Maor Rupert N. Hill, and B, W. Hill, headmaster. a flying start tor the McKenney trophy, which is awarded to the outstanding player each year. Helen Sobel has won it three times in the last four years, but winning the individuals just pre vious to the Vanderbilt gives Goren the edge just as West gave him the edge in this hand Questions & Answers Q What is the tuberculosis death rate for the United States? A About 40 in every 100,000 die from the disease, according to the U. S. bureau of census. Q How long should you wait after eating before going for a swim? A National safety council says two hours. 15 Years Ago The La Grande Rotary club voted to give the municipal band $200 to help defray the, expense of a trip ta Portland to enter the Northwest band contest. Andrew Loney, jr. was the director. It was announced by the state parent-teacher associations that the crap book entered by the Ri voria P-TA won the - highest award at the recent annual con vention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Den ver. Only eight books were ac cepted from the entire state and Oregon was signally . honored in that six received the highest rat ing, a gold star, and the other two received the next highest -"rating, a red star. Q What is the estimated cost of home accidents in 1944? A In wage loss, medical ex pense, and overhead cost of in surance, estimated cost is $550,-000,000. Q What was the U. S. army appropriation for aviation in 1044? A $23,055,988,000. 30 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Law of North Powder were in town. H. C. Oliver, freight agent for O.-W., accompanied by his wife, went to Enterprise. , Motorcycles to be used in the annual road race at Mt. den lat er in the month began arriving. Mose Thompson, resident of this city, while visiting his daugh ter at Chesnimnus, killed two huge grizzly bears, one of which weighed over 800 pounds.' This Curious World c fc. .'?S T. M. REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF. r & A FivE-CCieCSE (3AMQUET W4S sees ed at icw srn ccllec-i wirn Ati.-svraeAH poti)uKrs, INClUOtN 501-atJS COFFEE AN 3 "ICE CSEAW 6-6 WHEN VHI CTAV wrT-kJlla VrtiiS Sco&Er, too 60 wm-iour," Sys MILTCN KRATi, NEXT: Men without a country. Hi r 1 o
