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
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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
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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-
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"Just think if I had a portable radar set aow I could pick out
one with lots of money in hii pockets!"
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
OVERBIDDING COSTLY
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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
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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.
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