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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON EDITORIAL : PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher 'J'IIUK.SI)AY KVUNINU, JUNE 7, 1945 Page Four What a Little Ra w Meat Will Do IJ EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM I It K 1 G AT ION Com pie te the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. I -A GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT And Josutih said unto the people, KnnetiTy yourselves: for tomorrow the . Lord will' do wonders among- you. Joshua 3:.r. I'sychobureaucracy Judge Jerome Frank of the federal hunch thinks he has a remedy for most of the ills that bureaucratic flesh is heir to. lie siiKH'ests "not jocularly," he assures us that the cure for Toto inac fever, swelling of the ego, red tape liefore the eyes, and such, lies in psy chiatry. . "Why should not those holding' major administrative posts in government lie required periodically to consult jfovern psychiatrists?" he asks. "The best of men at times become creatures of in ner drives and obsessions of which they have no awareness. An occasional chat by an overworked official with a gov ernment psychiatrist would make gov ernment run more smoothly." At the risk of being called reaction ary, we'd like to raise a couple of doubts. In the first place, we think that Judge Frank's insistence on "government" psychiatrists is wrong. When you put these specialists in the subconscious on the government payroll, their intrinsic ally intimate business would become the Funny Hit sin ess laxpaying public's business. A mnrassed cabinet member couldn't sneak off to his own private adviser. No, he'd have to make his appointment with the government's cerebral saw bones in n government building on the government's time, and probably face !r l)ittti!r.V of the press as tie emerged. "What's the verdict, Mr. Secretary?" we can imagine a brash young reporter asking. "Did that dream you had about muddy water mean you've a frustrated desire to support a new power and ir rigation project, or was the doctor's in terpretation more fcudian and sinister?" And think of the opportunity for scandal. Let us suppose that Senator Blooper is having n fight with Qiair miin Doakes of the OPX. "My neighbor's oldest son goes with the receptionist who works for Doakes's psychiatrist," the senator is telling a friend, "so I know what I'm talking about. Hoy, what a case history that Doakes has got. Talk about psychoses! For instance, listen to this . . ." Furthermore, Judge Frank admits that psychiatry is an art rather than an exact science. Thus practitioners are bound to disagree. And it's highly pos sible that government psychiatrists, lined up as advisers on opposite sides of an interagency feud, might start n learned professional quarrel of their own over the proper way to exorcise a bureaucratic neurosis. No, we can't agree with Judge Frank thai a regiment of psychiatrists would flood Washington with sweetness, light and soothing syrup. Kather there lurks in our mind the suspicion that some of the bureaucrats might drive the psychi atrists themselves a little screw' v. Pla H j SO THEY SAY The Soviet union is a groat, democratic power capable of as suring the security not only of its own runt lers, hut also of tit-' peoples of l'.urope, aiui the soon, or ttiis is tvconniod the hotter it will hi' :ir humanity. Pravda, Moscow conununril party new sp; per. I think the Philippines are a great traile outpost anil 1 think what w.' Ii ive done in the Phil ippines has earneil us good-Will not only lyre (Manila), hut in ither parts o Asia. Sen. Millard KJ'vdings, Maryland. He (Hoy Weatherly) was a funny little guy and I thought we werv improving t..i e;ub when we let hi.n go. Hut that was thieii j years ago and we still haveii'lhjsee.i his equal in center "He goo in for iporisl field. O. land Indians. WASHINGTON President Truman had a significant talk recently with labor's undip lomatic diplomat, R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO auto workers union, during which the latter opened up on Truman's appoint ment of Judge Lewi3 Sehwcllenbach as sec retary of labor. "I'm worried about that, Mr. President,-' Thomas said. "I understand Sehwcllenbach is Dave Beck's man." (Beck is head of the teamsters union in Seattle and a powerful AFL leader.) "Don't you worry about Sctiwcllcnbach's representing; anybody but me," shot back the president. --'.'Anyone who's in my cabinet speaks for 'me. If he doesn't, he'll go out on his car."' 01 ( "Well," replied Thomas, "I just wanted to make sure that the A.F. of L. isn't running the country." , "No one from either the A. F. of L. or the CIO or the National association of manufact urers or even the auto 'workers union is going to tell me how to run the country," was. Truman's quick rejoinder. Reconversion Mess Thomas then made an impassioned appeal to the president for swift action on the re conversion front. He pointed out that tens of thoqsandsof auto and aircraft workers are being fired daily. "My boys aren't going to stand for much of that, Mr, President," said Thomas. "They're goihg to blame you and the admin istration unless something's done in a hurry." "I realize that," Truman replied. "Bui you've got to remember that no man ever came to the White House at a more unfor tunate time than I did. I've got a million things to do and I'm trying to get to them just as fast as I can." Finally Truman asked iThotaus to write him a detailed recommendation fur recon version. "Will you read it if I se nd it in," Thomas asked, "or will it just go to some clerk?" The president promised to look it over carefully himself. Just as Thomas was about to leave the president's office, he lurned to Truman and said: ' "I'm no communist, Mr. President, but I don't like the mess Stettiuius has got us into. Roosevelt always was ablotb.keep a good balance between Russia. Britain and our selves. But now this bird has got us into the position where we're a kite on the tail of the British lion." "You can't blame Stettinius for that," re plied. Truman. "The situation after the pres ident's death was so con'.used that we had to get straightened out in a hurry. I don't like it any more than you do. There wasn't enough preparation for the- conlerence. But you and your boys can be sure I am going to get it straightened out." Wallace Swings Right Big business representatives, once worried over Henry Wallace, are smiling, broadly about his new committee to study patents. They have managed to put one of the ablest defenders of the old patent system in thv position of writing the vitally important pat ent report for Wallace. ' He is Houston Kenyon, attorney for Stan dard Oil of New Jersey, which withheld syn thetic rubber patents from the American public before the war, and which is now engaged in a lawsuit with the IT. S. govern ment to recover 2,000 alleged Nazi patents seized from Standard by the alien, property custodian. The special committee ,vas set up by Sec retary Wallace at the suggestion of President Truman, who strongly criticized monopolis tic patents and the "misuse" of patents, and cited the need for revising the whole patent system. Following this, Wallace appointed two old-line, patent defenders, Charles F. Kettering of General Motors and Dr. Vanne var Bush, to sit-on the patent committee. This was interesting enough, but, on lop of it all, Houston Kenyon, defender of the Standard Oil-I. G. Farben cartel' patents, is actually writing the first draft of the report for the Wallace committee and doing the main spade-work for its members. Sugar Regulations The war food administration is preparing a new. allocation of sugar which will pare down army requirements. Also it will re duce the foreign economic administration's shipments to Europe. Europe was originally supposed to get about 1,100,000 tons this year; hut the rate has been tut to 1)40,01)0 tons and war food is now preparing to trim it further to little more than 700,000 tons. Overdrawing by the army will ulso be ruled out. First and second quarter allot ments for the army were 100,500 tons, but the army actually took 120,000 tons the first quarter and 134,000 tons in the second. Offi cials say this is a tyoical army practice failing to stockpile when food is plentiful, and demanding more than its allocation when food is scarce. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The going from now on in will be a little lonelier, a little harder for the wife of. the man still fighting the war. When other husbands were leaving all the time or expecting to be railed up, the war wife had plenty of company. But it is bound to make her lonelier than ever to see other husbands coming home, to see' ohct war wife after another desert the ranks when her husband comes back to her. And the men being drafted these days are mostly young boys, not married men with families. Their position is pretty secure. Furthermore, the war has gone on so long now that the. war wife's story is an old one. She's no longer a sort of heroine to her friends just a lone woman who is awkward to entertain when a hostess is having cou ples in for an evening. Even the start of reconversion, the grant ing of more gasoline to car owners, etc., will make the war wife feel more set apart. For the less people have to saeiifice the less war minded they feel And for every family who gets its last man home, the war in a sense is over. They are free to start living again, instead of just planning what they wiH do "when the war is over." But the wife of the man still overseas' is still living largely on plans, still writing V mails and watching or the postman. Yes. it's going to be harder and lonelie. for the war wife from now on until the Pa cific war is ended. And her friends shouldn't forget that. For she needs their interest and help as much now as she did in th-j early days, when the talk was all of other men who were leav ing instead of other men who are coming home on points. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correipondeni hLiui Hourtreau, manager. Clcv SAN FRANCISCO If a reasonable fac simile of world order is going to come out of the madhouse mob scenes that go for press conferences around these United Na tions conference diggins, maybe the 11175 gentlemen and ladies of the press and radio here gathered should .iel together and form themselves a United Nations organization. Almost any correspondent in his cups and right mind could sit himself down at one of the fumed oak tables in the press headquar ters Palace hotel bar, and draw up a set o (limed oaks proposals or a United Nations News Organization to Maintain. the Pieces. The preamble would say that since the press, radio, news photo and newsreel seem here to slay, something ought to he done about them. The stated purposes of the organizatioi could he to do something about them. There would be provisions or a news as sembly. This assembly would take the place of what they now laughingly refer to as press conference. There is now too much accent on the press. In trying to get 400 or 5d0 alleged reporters in on one interview, some of the delegates not only get pressed for answers to impossible questions. Inn some of the eorresp'Mul'nts get pressed against the' wall. Others are merely tram pled underfoot. There should, of course be a proposal on rules of procedure. Admission to an assem bly by card only. No shouting ir the assem bly clubhouse. There would be n security council, whose unction would be to save the working re porters and photographers from being out-numlH-red by "special cm respondents" rem: the Plumbers. Shoe Finders and Ready Mixed Concrete Trade Journal as well a.f) from over-age girl reporters assigned lo San Francisco by the.fc'ssgiilar women's club year books , .M Membership in UNNO.MP gel it? Unit- . Y f- tW. IW 1 HtA lUMf. IWC T. M MO. U. 1 PAT. Off. "Just think if I had a portable radar set aow I could pick out one with lots of money in hii pockets!" o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority OVERBIDDING COSTLY IN FANTASTIC HAND Every major tournament al ways has one disastrous hand. This hand happened in the semi final round of the Vanderbilt tournament. Wt will simply la- KQJ95 V 83 KJ705 Q 6 VKQ7 5 4 2 A Q 3 2 83 R W E 8 Dealer A 10 8 4 2 V J 10 9 8 8 AK75 4k A 7 3 V A 10 9 4 J 10964 2 Duplicate Both vul. South West North East 1 1 4 2 3 Pass 4 5 Pass Pass Double Pass Puss Opening K. 8 bel it "the 2000 number." West can hardly be criticized for his sound double of five dia- ' 'Questions & Answers Q How effective were non rigid airships in protecting U. S. transports and supply ships dur ing World War II action in the Atlantic? A Navy report states that not one of the thousands escoited by navy non-rigid airships was lost by submarine attack. ed Nations News Organization to Maintain the Pieces, would be wide open. That is, it would be wide open to everybody except people who happened to be sitting in the hotel lobby wheneve,- a press confer par don, a news assembly was called. But scribblers, spielers and snappers from neu tral as well as United Nations could get in, and the welcome mat would be out for Po lish journalists of both the Warsaw-London and Moscow-Lublin factions, even though poles apart in their ideas A how could be made to the four free- doms freedom from bunk, freedom from press agents, .freedom from managing edi tors, freedom from expense account auditors. This in time would become the freedom of the pivss you hear talked about. If they want to put in an economic and social council that will be all rightv thougn any effort to make just another trade union out of this should ue resisted. Hours and working conditions are all right in their places, but U-N-N-O M P should be an organization concerned with principles and standards of craftsmanship, not bread and butler. As far as thy social part is con cerned, it would be considered social any time two members go', together to bend an elbow, but nix on any organized tea parties, as Mr. Molotov calls them. Seriously, now is the time. Here in San Francisco are writers and radio announce! ; and picture men from al! over the world, gathered to keep an eye op how their states men gel together. To whatever degree these reporters the real ones are opinion shap ers. they can exert ,1 wholesome influence on the San Fiancisco conference. O Rightly organized, if the United Nations conference on international organization should ail, U-N-N-O-M-P might become known as U-N-N-O-P UP-L'nited Nationi News Organization to Pick Up the Pieces and go on from there. Q What is the frequency of typhoons in the Philippine-Okinawa-Japan sector? A There are usually 20 severe typhoons along the 1000-mile eastern coast of the Philippines, sweeping through Formosa, Oki nawa and other Ryukyu islands, and passing northeastward alons the Jap mainland. Q Who. Syrian city is be lieved to be the oldest i.il. biled community in the worl .' A Damascus, "the pn .". uf the desert." Q What was the .'.i.iericas' first merchant ship? A The "Virginia." .1 took to the water in 1008 on tl-j banks of the Kennebec river. Used for trade between the colonies. monds. The play of the hand, however, was almost as fantas tic as the bidding. ' Remember, this is a total point match in which every point counts. The king and ace of clubs were cashed. On the second club, West discarded a small heart. East then shifted to a spade which was won in dummy with the ace. small diamond was played and declarer finessed the queen. Njw he went over to tire ace of hearts and led another dia mond. West covered with the jack. The ace won the trick. The declarer now played his king of hearts but West trumped and claimed the balance of tricks. Thus North, the declarer, took only four tricks, going down sev en vulneraole. ' . ' P IN FORMER YEARS . , 10 Years Ago,,, . Moving of the former O.-W. clubhouse, which is to be placed on the lot it N avenue and Sixtn street, and will serve as the Neighborhood clubhouse,' was be gun. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. (Bob) Quinn and their small son went to Port land and Eugene, where Quinn, who is coach at Eastern Oregon Normal scnool, was to start a summer course at the University of Oregon. 15 Years Ago Members of the American Le gion drum and bugle corps made a goodwill trip to Baker to at tend the June meeting of the Baker post. Approximately 15 carloads of legionnaires and wo men of the auxiliary made the trip. J. T. Longfellow has returned from a business trip to Portland. 30 Years Ago ... William Pearc, vice, president of the stace association o'optom etrists, went to Portland to pre side at a meeting of the associa tion. Governor James .'withycombe of Oregon consented to deliver the dedicatory address "fdr the Lit Grande Elks when their new home was formally thrown open June 16. This Curious World ( A AS AN DRAFTED FOR MILITARY t- M I SERVICE HAD THE LEGAL RIGHT C S if - CWR. IMS tl PICA StHVlCC. INC I 1 "WHEW YrtU nortSD A Ctca n ine - -wrt (-1 bfX nMKC AND TS RARE, ITS WELL DONE," IN LCJIJI CI AM A the legislature has voteo ; to change the muskraw name T TO MAKE THE I ANIMAL ACRE EDIBLE, g g NEXT: A bird on the way to extinction.
