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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Rouncl Br DREW PEARSON EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher JUKSJMY KVJvMNi,, Jl.'NK 2, 1J1.', I'tige Two AnlmpoHhib le Equation EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city or 10,000 Expend the city limitH. TODAY'S TEXT What is my slrcnirtli Unit 1 should hope? mid what is mint- end, that I should prolong life? Job (i:ll. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. Tac itus. e 77m? Full-Emploumenl Hill A bill of excellent intent, popularly known as the full-employment bill, has come before conic'ess with the blessing of war mobilizer Vinson and, apparent ly, of President Truman. Its purpose is' the just and necessary one of xunr aiiteeiiiK a job to everyone with the ability and desire to work. It would achieve this purpose by having the president submit to congress an annual production and employment budget, containing a statement of the nation's job needs in the coming year and an estimate of private and public investment and expenditure to provide these jobs. If investment and expenditure didn't promise to (ill the job quota, the presi dent could recommend a program to stimulate private investment. If that failed, he could then recommend a pub lie spending program. We doubt that the bill as it stands would fulfill its intentions. One reason is that it apparently is based on the necessity of (iO.nou.OUO jobs. And no body yet, so far as we know, lias proved that to be anything more than an arbit rary figure. In the boom year of 19 K), 51. 5 million civilians had jobs. Some put in over time equal to the labor of another 5 million workers on a pre-war work week basis. That makes of!. f millions. Subtract the 5.8 million housewives, over-age and under-age workers holding jobs, and you gel 50.7 million. To increase this force to 00 million would mean employing almost every person in the armed forces. That takes no account of the many young service men and women who want to finish their education, those who will remain in an undoubtedly expanded peacetime army and navy, the young women in the civilian labor force who might want to quit work and get married, and the civilian workers of both sexes whose schooling is not completed. The bill doesn't seem to couple any goal of national income with this full employment. It sets up public works machinery before making a move to ease wartime restrict ions on private business and thus encourage invest ment and expansion. It is certainly government's duty to create an atmosphere in which full em ployment can flourish, to provide work at limes when private business is un able to, and to guide the national econ omy away from the dangers of depres sion, inflation, and unfair business prac tices. I'.ut to achieve prosperity it is neces sary to do more than set a goal of i(, (Hlll.noi) jobs. It is necessary to ask what kind of jobs they are going to be, and 'how likely they are to last. It is necessary to admit that, under our sys tem, there have to be employers as well as jobs, and to recogni.e that without a good many sound, solvent and reason ably unrestricted employers, the jobs won't be very good. Vu n n xi 11 u sin ess mm?. "Ciin a guy win a Purpla Hotirl for whfll I'm about to got'."' SO THEY SAY C'eim (Hilly) is a tough hitler. He mir.ht lid a decision with Joe Louis Hut he couldn't knock him out. Jack John.Min. former heavy weight champion. 1 declare it to you from the bottom of my heart that no So cialist syst.'m can bo established without a political police .... some sort of gcslapo. Itnlij.li Pi ime Ministar Win ston t'hurchill. Wi h all its anoyance und its open contempt for diplomatic prorciluic, Kussia is carrying through an unti fascist policy . . . The fact is, Kussi.Vs own na tional interests demand the ex termination of the whole fascist setup. Louis Fischer, wiring editor of The Nation. The cnmcior iV 'iesciMs God in Ja'V'ii. lie should pay for imper sonating (ind. ; i -.Winl. William V, Hi.lJi-y. WASHINGTON The state department is now going to the extreme length of arrest ing newspapermen who expose the back otage bungling of our diplomats. Woodrow Wilson, who championed open covenants openly arrived at, once said: "Wc do not need less critici.-;m, but more. It is hoped that criticism will be construc tive, but better unfair criticism than 'auto cratic repression. Honesty and competency require no shield of secrecy. " This columnist, who believes that the peo ple who foufjht this war have a right to know what our government is doing to pre 1 vent another war, will continue to turn the spotlight on the mistakes and the successes, the connivings and the conniptions of Amer ican diplomacy despite state department threats of jail. And because it was the most important diplomatic conversation since President Tru man took office, in fact one of the most im portant of the year, this column publishes today a factual summary of the talks be tween President Truman, Foreign Minister Molotov, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Secretary of State Stettinius when thd Soviet envoy arrived in, this country en route to San Francisco. Their talks, though in no way sensation al, are important to the American public's understanding of our complicated relations with Russia. And if this be something for which the state department wants to impose a jail sentence, this columnist is ready to test the case in any court. Truman Was Brief President Truman opened his first talk with Molotov on Sunday, April 22, at Blair House by telling the Russian foreign minis ter that the United States government was much disturbed at the way in which the So viet union was handling the Polish issue, and he asked that Molotov discuss it in de tail with Stettinius and Eden. Molotov, in reply, expressed surprise. Truman went on to say that the Polish issue had created a bad impression in the United States and that he would like to talk it over further with Molotov after Molotov's talks with Stettinius and Eden. This ended the Truman phase of the inter view. Molotov then went across the street to the state department where he sat down with Secretary Stettinius and Foreign Secre tary Eden. The former began by stating that he was grieved and that Eden shared his reaction over the fact that Russia had suddenly signed a mutual assistance pact with the Lublin government just at a time when the future status and recognition of the Lublin government was up for discus sion between the Big Three. To this, Molotov replied that the pact with the Lublin Poles was no different from that signed with Yukoslavia and Czechoslovakia. He further said that the pact was essential to the security of the Soviet union. Molotov also explained that the Lublin government was constantly being broadened, that it was still a weak regime and needed bolstering. Molotov Run-Around Stettinius and Eden then emphasized the point that the Yalta pact had not been car ried out regarding Poland, and that more Poles from the London government should be brought into the Lublin government. Molotov said his government had ap proved the inclusion of certain London Poles in the Lublin government, but that the Lon don Poles were not agreeable. He referred to Stalin's note of April 7, in which the Rus sians said they would welcome ex-Premier Mikolajczyk and others. Eden protested that he didn't like the uni lateral way the Russians had been operating in regard to Poland. (At Yalta it was agreed that the future of Poland was to be decided by U. S. Ambassador Harriman and British Ambassador Clark Kerr, acting with Molo tov, instead of Moscow's writing, notes on its own to the Poles.) To this Molotov replied: "You must not forget that the security of Russia in the fu ture is involved, in this matter. And we can't take a casual attitude." Molotov Gels Tired At this point Molotov said he was tired from his long airplane trip, needed a re3t and time to think things over. Next day, Secretary Stettinius opened the discussion again by repeating that it was urgent that agreement on Poland be reached by the Big Three. Molotov shot back that agreement would be simple if the Yalta formula were fol lowed. All the allies would have to do, he said, was to accept the Lublin government as a nucleus for the government of Poland, as agreed to at Yalta by Churchill and Roosevelt. Foreign Minister Eden immediately ques tioned this interpretation as what was agreed to at Yalta. Stettinius, however, said noth ing. Molotov stood firm, saying that he was at Yalta, as wer? the other two, and this was his interpretation of the Polish agreement. At this point, the conferees gave the Po lish question up as a bad job. They then turned to preliminary San Francisco problems. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Seniors at Oklahoma college for women left enough money in war bonds for a grad lia'e modelled after the bobby sox co-cd of 1IHS sloppy Joe sweater, saddle oxfords, and all. Just in case future co-eds look askance at tile 11)45 campus costume, perhaps there should be an inscription at the base of the statuette explaining the how and why of the get-up. Something along this line, perhaps. "We happened to like saddle oxfords, but that wasn't the only reason for their popularity. They wore well in a day of shoe rationing, and walked well in a lime when even jalo pies were scare on college campuses. "The bobby sox looked lots better, believe it or not, than the droopy rayons older women wore at the time. "The sweater and skirts were comfort able, (inexpensive and nqt much trouble during a time when fancy clothes cost a lot and the family were all buying war bonds. Reason Enough "We liked the long glamor bob because we could take care of it ourselves and didin't have to spend our time and money in crowded beauty parlors. "As for our 'sloppy look' why not? There weren't many boys to dale, few big'partics, and the usual Friday night was just going to a movie with the girls and having a coke afterward." But in a year or two they may have to add this post script: "P. S. When the boys came back we went out and bought the prettiest dresses we could find, shoes with the highest heels, the sheerest stockings. We're sure co-eds of any generation will understand why the sudden change." Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Biggest sight-seeing attraction for delegates and technical assistants at the United Na tions conference has been the California redwood trees. When the visiting diplomats want to get away from voting formulas and trusteeships tor n week end, they come up here by ihe carload and husfull to gaze in revcivncc and. awe on the oldest living thing in the park, a giant sequoia which is esti mated to be ;)8iH) years old. The current gag is that this tree was plant ed in l'.WO B. C, on the day the San Fran cisco conference was convened. Of course tlte conference has been going only s.'voti weeks, hut to many of the dele gates it doesn't seem a day less than MOO years. In fact, some of the wags say that you measure the age of a delegate and the length of time he has been in San Francisco in exactly the same way you measure the age of one of the big trees by counting the rings. T'.iere's a circle and a wrinkle in the has under the eyes for every week spent in San Francisco. Still another idea is that conference time should be told in the same way they meas ure the age of Ml. Shasta which wus once an active volcano erupting molten lava all over northern California, or of El Cupilan, Half Dome, or Cloud Hot, the mile-hiiih piomontoi ies of granite which were carved out by the gl.icicis heip in the Yosemite back in the jcr ngf sonic D.UuU.OtKl years 110. The eruptions of oratory, the mountains of uc nihn that hove u nited and poured out over this landscape in tne past seven weeks have nialc .t seem longer than the seven days of creation. When thti present period of iIh! is proixM'ty ticketed, it will probably l,v. known as the ' Conference Geo logic Air." The human rights provisions are definite ly neanderthal in their concept of culture and education. The ideas on trusteeship, independence and self-government were carved whole out of the pleiocene. The small nations have a feeling they have been push ed back into the Miocene under the Russian foieign policy which is unquestionably gla cial large masses of ice moving down from the polar cap to shift land masses and boun daries about like so many terminal moraines. As a matter of fact it may take a geologist to pry some of the secrets out of the silent rock strata into which the committees and commissions of this conference have been divided. No wonder the delegates flock 0 the Yosemite to get new perspectives. Try ing to reconstruct the body and breathe the breath of life into the fossilized hahdouts of progress in drafting the United Nations charter is just too much. Though it was announced at the outset that the writing of this charter might take two months or more, only half that time had passed before the conference news was off the fust page of the newspapers, driven back inside by news of new wars and ru mors of wars still to come. Today the con ference is rating only a third or half a col umn in most papers, nothing at all in others. The sad truth is that nobody scorns to give a damn about peace. Too dull, no sex appeal. No gags. Phony. Phooey. May be what the conference needs is a good press agent. The show is dead. Some body will have to pass a miracle. President Truman's scheduled appearance for the final curtain ir.uy do a lot to save the perform ance, but the play needs something more than that new stars, new lines, better lut ing, fewer blackouts of secrecy, less action behind the scene, more action on stage if it is to be a popular hit. copr.'wi avue service, inc. T. m. arc, u. a. pat, off. "Sometimes I think gas rationing isn't so bad we don't buy any more antiques we can't carry home!" 1 O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority BIDDER SET ONE SHOULD BE SIXI I am hoping after the war we will see more of Sid Fink and El mer Babin of Cleveland, Ohio, in bridge tournaments. Not only are they two fine players, but they are two great sportsmen and have 98 7 6 VKQJ9 87 None Q85 Fink AKQJ4 VA532 JO AK7 WN E 8 Dealer a 1053 V None 10432 J 10963 Babln A 2 V 10 6 4 AKQ98 7 5 442 Duplicate Neither vul. South West North East 3 3 V Double Pass Pass Redouble Pass 4 6 Pass Pass Double Pass Opening K. 13 a sense of humor that makes them exceptionally popular in tournament play. Here is one of their famous hands that still brings hours of argument every time I mention it. Babin was South and Fink was North. Of course, you can see that if Fink had bid six no trump, it would make, because East did not have any hearts to lead. However, Babin claims the logi cal spot to play the hand is six diamonds, which would go down one. Of course, we have to dis cuss the hand as it acutally cams Questions & Answers Q How many bond issues has Australia called for to finance its part in the war? A It recently issued its third, calling for 100,000,000 pounds. It was oversubscribed by 6,750,000 pounds. up. Against four clubs doubled, what should Babin open? Babin said he opened a diamond to take a look, which was the last one he got for a long time. It is true that he did manage to set the de clarer one trick, but you' can see what would happen had he open ed a trump, which Fink still ar gues as the correct opening. Fink would have cashed the ace and king of clubs and led the seven of clubs. Now, all the declarer can do is to make three trump tricks and the ace of spades down six. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago - Will Hamilton, a graduate of O. A. C, arrived home to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. John Girdler and little son left for Chicago where Girdler was to attend the uni versity during the summer months. They planned to return to La Grande in August. Mrs. J. E. Woods and Miss Pearl' Woods left for San Francisco. 15 Years Ago . Evening Observer carrier boys, some 25 strong, were guests of the newspaper last night at a swimming and weiner party at Cove. Sidney L. Thompson went to Ontario on business. Miss Jane Stange and Miss Hes ter Hopkins were expected home from Eugene where they have attendoed th University of Ore gon, both as freshmen. Miss Stange was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and Miss Hop kins of Pi Beta Phi. Q On what ship did Jack Lon don get the color for his book, "The Mutiny of the Elsinore?" A The Dirigo, the first all steel sailing ship, designed and fabricated in Britain, but built in Maine. He served as third mate. Q What is the meaning of the name Alexander? A It is from the Greek, and means "helper of men." 10 Years Ago Miss Amanda Zabel, head of the English department at East ern Oregon Normal school, re turned to La Grande from a year's sabbatical leave,': . during which she made a tour around the world. She spent ,consider able time in London and Paris and on her return she spent a few months in New York, and visited Washington, D. C. and Boston. Mrs. Frances Horstman- went to California to remain for a month or six weeks. 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