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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.
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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.
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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
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won by West with the aee. As
the heart finesse was good, Goren
made his contract.
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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.'
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