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ill 7.Q'f"j--:: .-v.i -V f' ."7. . ! '' ' :! 1 - v ' :.f:;t ; i EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1915 Every Big Spree i EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grand.. Runde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 ' Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT .''', :V- Behold, I send nn Anjrul before thee, to keep thee in the way; and to briii"; ,.' thee into the place which i have pro ' pared. Exodus 23:20. THOUGHT FOR TODAY That which makes the vanltv of ; othei'H unbearable to us is that which "wounds our own. La Rochefoucauld. fl ' .' Syria and San Francisco The deplorable Syrian "incident" of fered an object lesson to the UNCIO delegates trying to solve the eqiuilly de plorable veto dileninin at San I'Yaneisco. Here was a made-to-order illustration of how the United Nations organization , would liave met a crisis under the Dum barton Oaks proposals and the subse quent Yalta agreement on the veto. Under the proposed charier, France could have fought on in the Middle East until every Syrian and Lebanese was killed, if the French government so de sired. For France would have been able to forestall any interference by the organization through her veto power as one of the big five. The entrance of British troops into the Levant states, which halted the fighting, would have been impossible. Such an independent act would have been branded by France as an act of aggression. Britain then would have vetoed any forcible action against her self in the unlikely event that it was Funny Business sum""5 "He wants a railing, sir! i "KMo..-i-it a -ii irf v minim 1 w. l'age Tw6 Has Its Hangover threatened, The inescapable result would be that either the United Nations organization would lapse into a state of impotence, as the League of Nations did after the Manchurian and Ethiopian invasions, or that it would disintegrate completely. And the stage would be set for world war III. ' ' ' It is unhappily evident that the, pres ent solution of this , Middle Eastern crisis, though achieved by old, unsatis factory and potentially (jangerous means, Is infinitely better than would have been possible under the charter with its big five veto power. ' The only hope for success for the United Nations' organization, as pres ently constituted, rests upon the re sponsibility as well as the strength of the big five. Yet Franco has shown herself neither right nor responsible in this instance. The United Stales and Great Britain have rebuked France sharply. . But, at 1 the same time, they have presented a common front with France, Russia and China in support of a veto proposal which would permit any one of the five to conduct similar acts of aggression without fear of retaliation. The great weakness of the Soviet sponsored veto system is that it con fuses a monopoly of power with a mon opoly of wisdom and virtue. It argues that the big five are the only countries strong enough to safeguard world peace, without admitting the obvious corollary that they are the only ones strong enough to start a world war. It may be that the San Francisco conference must accept the charter with . this veto proposal in order to get any-' thing. But the small powers should in sist, and the big powers should recog nize, that the only hope of real success lies in an untrammeled opportunity for the charter's further revision oii the basis of sovereign equality of the United Nations. SO THEY SAY Manufacture i.f o e-f;.lricatod houses is only one tiling. Kaiser I Hi-my .1.1 has a whole slew of items in mind. H. J. Thomas, president. United Automobile Workers, comment ing on reconversion. 1 wouldn't lie surprised it we smg.'d the eiupiror's hair n little. - I'vt. Hilly Spencer, Gladewator, Texas, 'a. I gunner on Tokyo- bomltinj B-M. Mutu.ilitv and cooperation must replace egoism if we nre to build a new kiivl of community. Dr. Charles T. Uomlan, Univer sity o( Chicago. 1-essons of (Ik1 war did not change some politicians to the new course in the leorganbation (":of free Kurope. lint have given them nrw d-.'sircs for their old plans of Hnlkaniutg Kurnpe. Konstantin Hoffman, Hod Star ( ' (Itussia) columnist. Washington Merry-Go-Round Br DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Some time ago. this col umn told how the Nazis had sent out a prop aganda broadcast to the European war the ater claiming that Colonel John Hay "Jock" Whitney, husband of the ex-Mrs. Jimmy Roosevelt and a close friend of Harry Hop kins, had been critical of President Roosevelt while in a German prison camp. The Nazi radio told how Jock Whitney first refused to talk, later was placed with a German posing ns a British officer, at which time he loosened up and, according to the Nazis, was critical of the president. The Nazis used this to try to show how politics permeated the U. S. army. Colonel Whitney managed to escape from the German prison camp, when the box car in which he was riding was bombed and wrecked. He has since written this colum nist a letter denying that he ever criticized the president, and has also set forth the in teresting circumstances surrounding his cap ture. In fairness to Colonel Whitney, whom this columnist holds in the highest esteem, the pertinent portions of his very interesting let ter are published below, together with a transcript of the Nazi broadcast. Whitney Kept Name Secret Colonel Whitney writes: . "I have your reference of March 4th to the effect that I fed anti-Roosevelt propaganda to the Nazi machine while I was their pris oner. You gof the wrong dope from some where and rjl 'jell you why. i'l. Since.my one chance of escape de pended on the, enemy's not knowing that I was of any value to them, I remained anony mous, even td my fellow prisoners. I wa3 very careful not to talk familiarly about my name in order to avoid the slightest associa tion with importance. "2. Even if I had shot my mouth off to them, my conversation could not have been recorded since wc were never in a prepared camp, but always on the move, and mostly always under fire. "3. The only British-uniformed soldier I saw was well known to me. . "4. I escaped without the Germans hav ing a clue os to my identity. "5. If I had talked about the president, which I didn't, it would have been only in terms of the highest admiration for himself and his leadership." Nazi Broadcast The Nazi broadcast, illustrating the ex tent to which the enemy went to try to con fuse American troops, follows: "Broadcast by DNB in German language, by wireless, to Europe on November 3, 1944, at 6:34 a. m., EWT, quoting I. I. B. (interna tional information bureau) under Berlin WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The height of the "anything to oblige a landlord" situation was leached the other day. A corporal, back from the battle front and looking for a place to live in Denver with his wife and small son, was told of a house whose owner wanted to rent it to a couple with two children. "Tell him we'll take it," said the corporal, and then added dutifully, "If he insists on two children we'll have another one." OPA has limited what landlords can ask in the way of rent. But not what they can demand in other ways. Eager to get a roof ove rtheir heads cou ples will promise just about anything. Some promise high-minded landlords not to have drinking parties. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco employers council, handling labor relations problems for 2,000 business firms in this area, now believes it has developed collec tive bargaining for management to the point where it takes most of the monkey business out of labor contract negotiations. This process is of interest to the whole country because any employer, any union representative, any working man or woman, any newspaper reader who follows the end less bickering which goes on when a labor dispute is in the air knows how these things upset a whole community. When a new labor contract comes up for negotiation in San Francisco today and the demands of the unions are presented to the employer, they are first tossed into the re search department of the employers council. Heiv a staff of experienced labor economists takes the demands and analyzes them. Argu ments are developed on each point its mer its and demerits and the case is prepared for management. The council does not attempt to dictate la bor policy for any employer-member, but it does advise the employer on what demands are fair and just, what may lead to trouble, what should be resisted even to the point of accepting a strike to force a settlement, what company labor practices should be changed to improve employee relations. When the demands have been analyzed in this manner, there is a meeting between negotiators for the union and the manage ment. This first meeting is pure window dressing The demands are formally pre sented and an equally formal reply is made for the management. This satisfies the un ion members that their demands have been given consideration. Then the business agent for the union and the negotiator for the employers council get down to brass tacks. -.- Negotiation for management is not carried dateline. "Berlin Statements made by Colonel John Hay Whitney, American banker, after he was taken prisoner throw an interesting light on the American conduct of the war in France. IIB has received the following extract from a report on the questioning of this American, Whitney, a prisoner-of-war, which took place on August 13. "Situation in northern France the colonel who throughout the questioning was very reticent, became later very talkative and jolly in the company of other captured off i cers. He played poker with them and talked, among other things, about military and political questions. The discussion then turned to the situation in northern France. This was the most remarkable of his utter ances: " 'On August 20, the U. S. First army,.qon centrated at Vernon as focal point, was sup posed to ford a crossing over the Seine. In view of the disorderdly condition in the Ger man rear, it was expected that a quick thrust would be possible, and at least nine German divisions would be cut off. According to American caluelations, resistance on the Ger man northern flank would then completely collapse, and the way would be open through Belgium into Holland.' "Changed orders Colonel Whitney em phasized that this plan was cancelled at the last minute on orders from the highest au thority (meaning President Roosevelt), and the focal point was shifted to the right flank so as to encircle Paris from the south. In his opinion, this was a complete mistake be cause a delay of at least ten days was un avoidable. "Political reasons He has the impression, which was shared by many high American officers, that, quite intentionally and for po pitical reasons, offensive operations were stopped. In the course of a later discussion, Whitney mentioned the name of General Patton who, if he likes to admit it, knows very well why the thrust at Vernon was not carried out." Lincoln-Roosevelt Birthdays The question of making Feb. 12, Lincoln's birthday, a national holiday has now been put up to the senate by North Dakota's Sen ator Langer in a manner difficult to dodge. Hitherto, southern legislators have opposed any national holiday for the Civil war presi dent, but when Senator Downey of Califor nia introduced a bill to make Jan. 30, Roose velt's birthday, a national holiday, Langer immediately introduced the Lincoln birthday bill and insisted that the judiciary commit-' tee could not report one out without the other. Both bills will probaly die in committee. Others promise to take care of a victory garden. Or to keep the landlord's dog dur ing their stay in his house. Or even to give up their own dog. Others hold out the lure of being "perma nent civilians." Others brag they have no children in a manner that conveys they wouldn't think of having any, if it made them less desirable as renters. Still others get references from former landlords to prove they don't break up furn iture, disturb the neighbors, and always pay their rent on time. And in return, what do they demand to know of the personal life of the landlord? Nothing. Nothing at all. If he has a house or apartment to rent, he's the boss. At least for the duration. on by the employer but by one of a half dozen staff negotiators employed by the council. These negotiator are not lawyers because usually the unions don't trust law yers. Negotiators are just smart fellows with good personalities, having the hack of establishing confidence of the unions and conciliating differences .between employer and employee. So experienced have the San Francisco employers council negotiators become in the last five years that many times new on tracts have been agreed to at the second meeting. Sometimes negotiation is reduced to less delay than that. A union business agent in presenting new demands will say in effect, "On this sheet of paper is what we're asking for, but on this other sheet is what we'll take." If the "what we'll take" is satisfactory to management, the contract is signed then and there. No stenographic records arc kept on any meeting, but negotiators make full notes which are always referred to in determin ing intent whenever any controversy arises from a giie ance after the contract is signed. Servicing these contracts settling the dis putes that inevitably arise in all labor rela tions provides one of the most useful func tions the council performs. Of equal import ance is the job which the council does in representing employers before the war labor board, manpower ommission, national labor relations board, wage and salary stabiliza tion units, and state labor agencies. In all this collective action for employers there is no intent to break the unions. The San Francisco employers council got over that when it realized the Wagner act is here to stay. But in taking a lot of the grief of labor relations off the neck of individual management and reducing labor negotiation to sound busincw methods, collective bar gaining has teen dignified and it is now ac cepted by the unions. oiae uiuncts S" t il -' ' W: Iff I 111 Mp. m iv n nance, we. t. m. hzo. u. . wt. or r : - "George lays hell be the first one in town to bitf a television let he wants to see what sort of fumy looking people sing those soap commercials!" , o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE " By WM. E. McKENNEY. America'! Cart Authority REFUSAL TO OVER TRUMP WINS BID When Sgt. Phil Abramsohn, one of the country's outstanding life masters who is now stationed at Grenier Field, Manchester, N. H., teaching blind flying in the air transport command, was in town the other day, he said: "Now West could have beaten me A None V A J 84 J 10673 J962 A97652 V KQ97 3 Q2 A N W E S Dealer V 52 AK65 4 10 8 7 53 Abramsohn AAKQJ10 43 V 10 6 9 KQ4 Duplicate Both vul. South West North East 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening K. 11 on this hand." However, I think you will agree with me it is a beautiful play to make the hand as long as the defense slipped a little. - The opening lead- was won with the ace. Due to the fact that Abramsohn had a freak hand, lie expected freak distribu tions in the other hands. He realized that if he tried to get back to his hand, by leading a club, several accidents might Questions & Answers Q What is the oil production of the island of Tarakan, off the coast of Borneo, for which the Australians are fighting? A More than 10,000,000 bar rels annually. Q What is the longest air freight line in the world? A That maintained by the air service command between Pat terson field, Ohio, and India. It is 15,000 miles. Q What was the largest pas senger vessel ever built in the United States? A The SS America, put in service in July, 1940. It now is a navy transport, the USS West Point. This Curious World "HhlN TOOTH IS ROWING IN, ITS COAMVJ3 OUT, " S&tfS PUB.IU n. QHiVcLT , V N. ) COMPARATIVELY FEW t I bv l rr-i ' Cm NAME THEIR OWN ! ) L KCV 0y' A I ANCESTORS THR0U6H THE ( A liv V'V ib ywsvtrav, 2 i''PfS ( BUT THE PEDIGREES OF J ! THOROUGHBRED HORSES 4 I Xfln ) SOVETIAE5 bO BACK (Vl! IT NEXTi Whe.i is'our earliest sunrise? J happen; jnsted, he returned the four of heart. West won the trick with the queei and led back an other heart wich East trumped with the eight'pf spades. Now, here ft the nice play. Abramsohn reused to over trump, becauat if he did, he would lose tha contract ' -He dis carded a losei on a loser. He threw away his nine of diamonds. When East tried to cash the king of diamonds, he trumped it with a little spade, pfckcd up the trump and made his contract, even though West held five trump. If West had cashed his club ace and shifted to a diamond when he was in, he would have defeated the contract. ' 1 O IN FORMER YEARS 7 30 Years Ago, June 9 Claude C. Cato, county farm expert, was conducting examina tions for employees of ; cream eries, in compliance with the new creamery law. Each creamery was required to have at least one employe who could pass an ex, : amination for fitness to properly test for butter-fat. Lester Stoddard, who had been attending the Utah Agricultural college at Salt Lake, returned home. IS Years Ago, June 9 Elmer Moon left for Oakland, Calif., to visit relatives for about two weeks. Phiilip Walnum left for his home in Yakima after spending a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Walnum. Mi's. Harry Gibson returned from Pendleton where she spent a week visiting her daughter, Mrs. N. D. Johnson. 10 Years Ago, June 9 Two double decks of lambs were sold here to Couper Broth ers of Weiser, to ship to the Den ver market, bringing $7.30 a hun dred, live weight. This is the highest price received for lambs since June, 1934, when two cars were sold to the same company for $7.75. Crystal Plunge swimming pool opened with a larg-3 crowd pres ent. The pool was open Tues day's and Thursday's . without charge. CCPR. IMS BY NLA SERVICE. WC BV THE TI.WE 14, 800 A. D. AR:ves, The- stars wiu. haab. changed in a3sition AXO T.-E BRILLIANT VEGA Wl.L SH OUR. POLAISrAt, T. H. tla g. $. PAT. Off.
