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Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE By DREW PEARSON 5 La Grande Evening Observer , Frank Schiro, Publisher FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1945 Page Two That Proves It i NEWS, HO4. SIR. A . , - AMERICA CONSIDER F4R T Mtt SUPERIOR. Tb MAGlFICIENT GEKMANVv f TVn WPf IS TO UNLEASH MUCH ( ' ttfeffi-T if GREATeK iEEIAL BOMBING UFtoM C-rfMlJ : NIPPON THAN WAS SHOWEPEP i ffi'rV 3 M EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The foundations of justice arc that no one shall miffer wrong; then, that ..the public good bo promoted, Cicero. New Words Chinese is reputed to be a cumber some, difficult language. As spoken, it depends in many instances on inflec tion rather than sound, with a rising or falling of the voice giving different meaning to what we should call the same word, In its written form, how ever, it is considerably less flexible. The Chinese, of course, do not have an alphabet, Kach written character in this language represents a whole word, and Chinese scholarship is measured to n considerable extent by the number of characters that a person knows. Chinese scholarship therefore be comes quite a job. And in consequence, Chinese has never been one of the world languages like French or Knglish or German. Few citizens have bothered to learn it unless they meant to live in China. Chinese had never been a diplomatic language, either, until a few weeks ago, when it was made one of the official I'NCIO languages at San Francisco. This presented the Chinese delegation Willi new problems and, it .seems to us, an enviable opportunity. For centuries China's millions found that their language served their pur poses even though it did not contain the professional vocabulary of intcrna tion diplomacy. When such a vocabu lary was needed to conduct Cliinn's busi ness, her statesmen expressed them selves in a foreign tongue. Hut now China's delegates have found it necessary to create a thousand new words so that the UNCIO docu ments may bo printed in Chinese. They have had to devise new word characters and cast new type for them. Thus something tangibly new has come into the world to express for the Chinese the new efforts being made in San Francisco. To them these thousand characters will henceforth be associated with the troubled but courageous begin nings of an international force to insure peace on earth. It seems a pity that the rest of the United Nations could not have been so fortunate as to enrich their everyday speech with a thousand bright symbols of pence, each carrying a clear mean ing never before expressed. Instead they have had to translate common general ideas into 10 or more languages. And that has been the root of trouble and misunderstanding, as it was at Yalta. So the other nations will probably continue to haggle over the conflicting connotations of one translation against another. Meanwhile the Chinese will have erected to the epochal work at San Francisco the living and enduring monument of new words. Funny liusiness :x(d..u r-r 1 r' I M Col fi' I fnl JTv ifl TnC I M IIP II I T Off o SO THEY SAY It (United Nations charter) opens the door to the promise I land. Whether or not mankind wishes to '"iter the door and turn his back on a third world war de pends not upon the charter, but upon the pcop'.t-. Clark M. F.iiholbc "gor, ditvctoiY American association for Unit ed Nations. Since 'he tragedy of Hainan and Coire'iiito.', oui armies have never suffeivd a serious defeat. Gen. George C. Marshall. "I got tired of dogs trying la bilo ma all tha limel" The highest amplvbious open t'(0is of the war are yvt to come. Whenever wo undertake them, i.i whatever .iircciion we go, we can cxirtyt Ihe bitterest of oppositio-i. - Wn. AfiJaiuler A Vandcgiif. commandant, L'. S. marine ;. r 3 Ho -iumld be encouraged 'o get as much education as possi ble before thev go into baseball. Baseball Commissioner A. U. tll.ippy) Chandler. WASHINGTON When Tom Clark was called to the White House and told by presi dent Truman that he was to be the next at torney general, he was so surprised that he started to walk out one of the big French windows In the executive office. "I guess you're a little flustered," laughed Truman. "The door's over there." Only 48 years old, Clark had been plan ning to step out of the justice department for more than a year and go back to Dallas, his . homo town, to. practice law. His elder bro ther'was killed in an airplane crush and the family wanted Tom to come home to carry on the law firm. But through some whim of fate, he stayed on in the justice department. However, he was planning to retire this summer, had even picker a new law associate to handle a branch office in Washington, when suddenly ho got the surprise call from the White House. Of the four cabinet appointments Truman has made, public attention unquestionably has focused more on this than any other. The new attorney general happens to come from a long line of lawyers beginning with his great-grandfather, William H. Clark, so licitor of the British government of Ireland, who came to, this country in 1737. The next William H. Clark was chancery judge in iackson, Miss., and a Confederate general, killed in the battle of Altoona, Ga. His son. another William H. Clark, was treasurer of Mississippi for 40 years. Politicians Lick Chops Unquestionably, Clark's appoinlment is the most important shift in the Truman cabinet. The attorney general of any admin istration can make or break it as Harry Daughcrty once demonstrated. Anti-trust cases, affecting the dividends of great cor porations and the prosperity of little busi ness, can either bo started or smothered in the justice department. Income tax coses, affecting the powerful city machines of Chicago, New York, Bos ton, Jersey City the machines which nomi nated Truman at Chicago can be prosecut ed or protected in justice. Along with the Interior department (in charge of public lands and old), it is the greatest potential boodle-bag in the government. However, on May 30, seven days after Tom Clark's appointment as attorney general, the lax-troubled gentlemen moved to continue their trial beyond June, and in so doing made this extraordinary statement indicat ing the politicians' faith in Tom Clark. Boodle Hopes Hang High They said?' '"Defendants further feel that with a new administration coming Into that high office, there is now a reasonable expec tancy that during the next several months a reinvestigation by the justice department of the whole Burton affair can be applied for and obtained." In other words, the boys at the teed trough expect a lot from Tom Cldrk. East-West Steal War - The giant U. S. Steel corporation is cer tainly keeping a jealous eye on Henry Kais er's infant steel industry at Fontana, Califor nia. , . . ' Significant was what happened after all" members of the California congressional delegation both Republicans and Democrats met under the sponsorship of Congress man Harry Sheppard of San Bernardino td urge that the Fontana steel plant be kept In operatioh. The California congressman drafted a letter to the defense plants cor poration urging that Fontana continue arid pointing out in some detail its place in the economic future of the Pacific coast. This letter to the defense plants corpora tion was put on the United Press wire at 10:39 a. m. At 10:45 a. m., "Mr. Smith" of U. S. Steel called up the UP to ask for the text of the congressional letter. Ten minutes later, another gentleman, who Identified himself as Gene Conway, also of U. S. Steel, telephoned the UP. In each case they were told that if they wanted the let ter they should call Congressman Sheppard. In other wprds, U. S. Steel is following Pacific coast competition so carefully that six minutes after the UP put its story on the wire, U. S. Steel representatives were hot on the trail to find out all the details of what had happened. The battle between the east and west over steel promises to be one of the most import ant in recent economic history. . Diplomatic Chaff The Arab delegation to San Frahcisco which didn't expect the conference to last so long, has already overdrawn more than it planned from the cash it receives from Standard Oil to defray expenses , . . This is no gift, but payment by the oil company for leases in the Middle East ... Los Angeles is still irked because it did not get the Unit ed Nations conference ... As a result con struction .work is already under way in L. A. on a beautiful, expanded civic center which can house any future world conclave. Correspondents refer to Secretary of State Stettinius as "Junior" . . . Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's foreign minister, has been the most effective go-between in conciliating Russian-western differences. . Side Glances iU- , I f'frW : "I was going to be married last week, but tl, I . run across this nice bachelor apartnen I happened to r "" O McKENNEY ON BRIDfo Br WM. E, McKENNEY, Amarlca'i CarLrEj ' Id Authorllr, ding that g"f , , CLUB DIDN'T BRING HEART) BID LOST Here's another hand takert from the final round of the Van derbilt tournament In which Hel en Sobel end B. Jay Becker got a good scj-e. Becker won the opening lead with the ace of diamonds and re turned the ten of diamonds which was won by South with WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT ' i' i:r. A '.))'. VP AKQ742 V A J 10 7 4 3 Q7 Mrs. Sobel AOS VQ8 J9852 K104 W E 8 Dealer B. Jay Becker A J 10 3 V 9632 A 10 6 A02 A8S KS KQ74 J9833 , Duplicate Both vul. South West North East Pass Pass 1 A . Pass 1 N. T Pass - 2 Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3 V Pass .qN.T JPass Pass " 6penirig-Vft -B ne ace oi c.urlth could Wot hoId ,w 1? V Ts 80 she 1'ald down with the fubs and dtihtinued winning with I. o c)ubs,'. Becker Now of coulthe ace7. this point th.Jrs0i you' Ca'n- see at can take th2 ft Nol.th and South. and the queelalanc0 of jHb trjck3 t0,JrP ' utJi of hearts is going with the doucBeckeri e back cr, of course rfa of ciubs. , Declai-- ' er the qf fiid not kr,o j)wheth-'. ' drop, so at tli of wouW m V ' Pint.'l elected. ; Mrs. Sobel wcflub finessCi which' defeating the'n with th4;ten t e IN F YEAfiRMER 30 Years At Mis. America is probably tickled pink to hear that the prc-fnbricatcd houses of the post-war world can be added on to a room at a time, in much the same manner that a bride adds pieces of sterling to what she was able to rake in for wedding gifts. That is sure to appeal to women, for they usually have better luck talking their hus bands into spending n little money over a long period of time than in talking them into plunking down a big sum all at once. Look how women worked the installment racket to fill their houses with all sorts of electrical gadgets and fancy furniture. George just couldn't hold out against hU wife's argument that little monthly pay ments wouldn't even be missed. And women will work the house racket in the same way. They'll sell George on the idea of n four or five room house, and poor George will think blissfully that that will end the housing problem. And then there will always be a reason why they need just one more room. Mother's coming in for the winter. Or Susie and Jane aren't happy sharing a room. Or an old school mate is coming to visit, and the house is so much smaller than hers the little woman is ashamed to have to ask her friend to sleep on the studio couch l;l the living room. So bit by bit, Mama will add on to the house and a man will never know where it is going to end. But he'll be stuck. He could put his foot down on a deal like trad ing a five room house in on a ten room one. But he'll never hold the line when Mama has a chance to add on to the five rooms, one room at a time. That's a system women know how to work for all it is worth. the king. Declarer led the eight of spades. Mrs. Sobel played low and dummy won the trick with the uucon. A small heart came back and was won with the king. Ano'ner spade was played. Mrs. Sobel jumped in with the ace and now she knew from the bid- Question8& Answers Q Who was the first Ameri can president to set foot on for eign soil W:iile in office? A William Howard Taft, who crossed the border into Mexico at Juarez in 1909 to confer with Mexican Piesident Forfirio Diaz. Miss Mary Frawley, , of Mr. and Mrs, John ughter went to Portland to spenu ,y summer with relatives. " . Miss Ruth Hart, a student at O. A. C, returned homd. SI : H. C: Lang, chief blCTk5 in the ' roadmaster's office, took leave of "absence to visit his home in Min s neapolis. ' " Miss Elma Bay and Miss Frank ie Crawford went to Portland to spend a few days visiting friends and relatives. ' ' ' Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande E Yen Ing Observer Washington Correspondent Q What is a statachute? . A Same as a parachute, only it is used to drop supplies and designed to drop faster, giving more precision in delivering emergency food and medicine by air. of SAN FRANCISCO Five years of collec tive action by employers to meet the chal lenge of collective bargaining by labor un ions have proved so successful in the San Francisco area that today Herbert G. Stori';, vice president and executive director of the San Francisco employers' council says it doesn't make any difference wlu'thcr Hany Bridges or any other labor leader stays or goes back where he came from. Hy this statement it is not meant to imply that all labor troubles in San Francisco are ended forever. There will always be juris dictional disputes between rival building trades' unions, there will always be new contracts to 'negotiate and sign, new griev ances and some strikes to settle, some diffi cult labor lenders lik? the beads of the ma chinists local union No. 08, who have caused the navy to take over and operate 101 manu facturing plants in this an a. nut it is claimed dial membership raid ing and, the Harry Brldg-s type of CIO vs AFL warfare which bad this port in con stant turmoil from 1934 to 1939 has definite ly been ended. Thc annual report of the employers council, just made public, showed only 12 strikes in San Francisco in 1944 and 8 in 1:143 as against "0 in 1941, 04 in 1940 and .W in 1939 n drop of over 80 percent while the national figures were rising 100 percent from 2500 in 1940 to 5000 in 1944. If any one thing can be given credit for tilts improved labor ret.ons picture in San Francisco, it this practice of collft tivc bar gaining Xor employers through the employ ers oinvcil. The plan was originally con ceived by Roger Lapham, chairman of tha Amorican-Hmvaiian steamship company, now mayor ot San Fr in-'sco. Before Ate council took over in 1939 a.; succvssoi vli a despised and mistrusted in dustrial association, the practise of the union business agents was to v. hipsaw employer.! into wage increases. First they would make demands on one group, say the wholesale grocers. When they had figned a new con tract, it would be ujed as a precedent for similar demands on wholesale druggists. Then dry goods wholesalers, steel ware houses, ship operators and so on till it was time to begin again with the grocers. To end this vicious circle, the employeis simply decided to swipe 3 leaf from the un ion book and do a little collective bargain ing of their own. Through the now-famous "Woohvorth hot car" incident in 1937, which was loaded by a superintendent and a fore man and moved from warehouse to ware house to force a strike and a showdown, the San Francisco district wholesalers' associa tion was able to ncgo'iato a master contract covering 4.000 employes if 182 firms. Whip sawing came to an end. In over-simplified form this is the formula the employers council has used in collective bargaining for master contracts. Bridges' waterfront war was ended when the AFL teamsters' union trucked workers through CIO picket lines. Then the teamsters' stranglehold on farm-marketing trucking was broken by collective action with the farmers. The San Francisco plan has also been cop ied in such cities as Denver, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, but it is not claimed to be the perfect solution for all labor tioubles. 1: might not work so well In one industry cen ters like Detroit, or m towns which have predominant ty) manufacturing Interests. San Francisco is a distribution center and the employs council idea w,:s planned lo meet conditions peculiar to this 'ideality. Once established and proved nris met the ac-. cepSanco of union leaders because it worlcs towards the organized labor objective ?! collective bargaining for wider agreement1! in master contracts. O What was the pvtnnt aerial bombardment damage to the Ruhr industrial area of Ger many during the war? A More than 50 per cent of all the buildings in the 14 principal cities were destroyed. 15 Years Ado"''' ' J. W. Farris, manager of Mont- gomery Ward and Co.; 'returned from a trip to Portland and Se attle. . Mrs. O. E. Cade was in Pendle ton visiting her. daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Awiwsmitli i and daughter, Caroline, of Port land, were visiting in ti'Grnnde ' with her parents, Mr. ajid Mi. Harlcy Smith. '! ? 10 Years Ago Captain Jesse V. Andrews an- -rounced the promotion; 'iff Grant Bean from first sergcantS'of Com pany E, 186th infantry! to second' lieutenant, and the promotion of Lt. Howard E. Glenn to first lieu tenant. " . ' Miss Anita Herrmanns'' daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Herr mann, arrived from Qiiihcy, 111., where she was graduated from a business college. Accompanying her was her mother's brother, Charles Schrocder, w:ho' planned to remain indefinitely. This Curious World HAS HAD MORE THA hi FORTY OlFFetSNr SPBLLfiGS... SOME OF WHKH ARE ! ACAMStS CAHCZ CAAZAS CANZS CHANZES ESCAVJAHUB KANSB KANCCS ttANSAVS KANSSX HAN Z AS KAUS KOHZAS OK ARIZS' UAOf f paa a siven PowroM the ejwth, I CONOM(sJEO ) MP 0 COPtt SV KE SES.lCE1 IS?." T. M. RIC. W. Pt. OFF. ft 1 mr&. r""r 'lF vr- fLUHiOAt DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON , A SPECIES OF SAA2 rv 1,4 FCOD.' NOW MAM IS DPAimiv.!:. rue'1 HABITAT CB Tmp ckjah ' I A.ND WITH THE SNAtL'5 '' uisAPPEARANCe. The.' iv 1 t, 100, WILL...i,u BECOME EXTINCT. 69 ANSWEH: You can travel east indefinitely, but you can'tf' north only until you reach the Pole. NEXT: Ho far back can you name your anccstbrsf '
