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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
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TODAY'S TEXT
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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.
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"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
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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
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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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