La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 13, 1945, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextSide Glanc8 Washington Merry-GjD-Round EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher WEDNKSDAY BVKNINU. JUNK 13, l!r Patre Pour- He Just Doesn't Kn ow His Own Strength OF WRALIM" WW ( I f ' V "V EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Rnnde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10.00(1 Extend the city limits. THOUGHT KOR TODAY The mind has a thousand eyes, mid tin; heart Mil one. V. V. Uoui dillon. Mapping Germany's Future The question of a hard or soft peace for Germany is already njritatiti". (lie Hritish puhlic, according to reports from 1ondon, just as it will eventually engage the serious alien (ion of (he American people. H is a question which niiisl lie decided on the basis of whether I ho Germans, given a had deal in the last peace, turn ed to a leader who eventually victimized them, or whether Miller simply epitom ized a bigotry, brutality and insuffer able racial egoism which has character ised the German national temperament for generations, if not for centuries. The outcome of that decision will have incalculable results, anil it is un forluiuile that the decision must be t leached by nebulous routes. Hut there is nothing to go on except an interpre tation of past history and a prediction of Germany's political, economic and ethical influence in the future, offered by the proponents of hard or soft peace on (he basis of ideology ami purely per sonal bias. One thing, however, would probably be admitted by both camps: A hard peace would raise more difficulties than one of milder terms. It would moan long occupation and constant vigilance. It would mean readjusting Europe l" n new economic scheme in Which Ger many, once the continent's industrial: and scientific leader, would be a minor, decentralized country. It would be easier to urgo that there could be no prosperous Kurope without a prosperous Germany, to maintain that allied bombs and shells had re moved the threat of a German menace, to blame all Germany's sins on her de parted nir.i leaders, and to help Ger many to regain her former dominant position. This, it seems to us, would be not only an easier, but an infinitely more dangerous course, tut. the decision is not ours or any newspaper's or citi zen's. It is necessarily a decision for the heads of the occupying govern ments, which ought to be settled at an early meeting. The policy of German peace terms, like the policy of the United Nations organization, rests on agreement of the big powers. This must come through argument and compromise, and it would be well if those processes were started soon. The formal peace conference may be lung delayed. Meanwhile Kurope seethes with trouble and confusion. It might ease the situation if Messrs. Truman, Churchill, Stalin and De Gaulle could decide down w hich road Germany's way I'es, and start her traveling it. Funnii Ilusincss v.; V-:1' V V X i ml, r- i Moeut- i ii . i v. I pr J ill jSrpiJ ..... - v Kc " t.'r ' 1 "You'll havo lo admii Uio acl's difforonl!" SO THEY SAY When they (Itussia) baiiR on She tali!.- and say they've Rot to have something, the thing for us to do is hang right back mid sec if we can't work out a trade with them. - Sen. Kdwin C. Johnson, Colo rado. U.issian industry now is being switched over to nw produc tion and. in many respects, the capacity already lias surpassed that of the last few years before the w ar. Martin Anderson Nexoc, Dan ish communist writer. I'll still try lo make civilization accessilile lo people who live on the .same planet with mc. - Frances Perkins, retiring sec retary of labor. The only opinion I ever formed of the Japanese Is that I would not trust them anywhere. G on. Omar Nelson Bradley. Br DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The black market in eggs and poultry is so bud that the war food ad ministration is seriously considering the' freezing of all eggs in storage. Meanwhile J.',' probing the poultry black market in the Dela probin the poultry black market in the Delaware-Maryland area with start ling results. Their findings.will reach high into Delaware state politics.jifnd perhaps into the Washing tori headquarters of the war food administra tion and OP A.'j .... ' Already Clifford Shedd, Delaware WFA official, has lost the aulhoi lly.fo release poul try for civilian con'surhption from the army's se't-e(sidai but'hlsjchief ii Washington, Gor don Sprague, says ho is taking full authority for anything that might be found wrong with Shedd's Administration. Sprague has taken' over direct charge of all poultry re leases, but claims that ho knows of no irreg ular action by Shedd. Meanwhile, black market operations along both the west and east coast arc so serious that legitimate poultry and egg dealers are being forced out of business. The situation in New England, New Jersey and North Carolina is especially bad. To Boost Ceilings Last week Tim Stilts of the war food ad ministration told Congressman Anderson's food committee that OPA should suspend all price ceilings on eggs inian effort to chan nel eggs back into the legitimate market. This immediately caused dealers to hold on to their eggs for a price rise. But what they did not know is that Stilts has not requested OPA to suspend or ever, raise the price ceiling on eggs. OPA, under the price control act, cannot raise these ceil ings without formal request from the war food administration, and this request has never been made. Finally, the WFA may be forced to freeze all eggs in storage, permitting the army to take what it wants and release the rest lor the civilian market. Hundreds of thousands of cases are in private storage while their owners play for an eventual price rise. The black market on those eggs which do not go into storage is so bad that while creameries in Minnesota 'cannot get eggs, eggs from Minnesota farms are going into illegal chan nels as far as New York city. Oh So Sectet Arrest of two state department and one navy official for allegedly giving out secret documents has brought to a head long smouldering backstage discussion regarding the question, "When is a document secret?" The commerce department and the for eign economic admnistration long have dis liked the state department's policy of mark ing everything "secret." Even enemy radio broadcasts, which can be picked up by any radio station, are stamped "secret." Com mon wisecrack is that one diplomat even stamped his interoffice telephone directory "confidential." Just as bad as the stale department is the office of strategic services, nicknamed the "Oh so secret." The young military men working in Europe and Asia for the OSS have done one of the truly great jobs of the war and some day their whole story can be written. No praise is too great for them. But seated in Washingjon swivel chairs or balancing teacups in capital drawing . rooms are a group of ex-diplomats and Wall street brokers who get a great kick out of playing amateur detective. The efficient FBI could have done their job with half their operators. These Hairbreadth Harrys delight in send ing telegrams at the taxpayers' expense fre quently about nothing more important than hotel reservations and dinner parties all marked"secret ." For instance, hero is a telegram, frum one of the OSS amateur dicks at the San Francisco conference, relating whom he dined with, what his travel reser vations were and how he hoped to get the files of a retired Spanish-American war vet eran, General Ralph Van Dccman; yet the telegram, sent lo a member of the OSS here, has "secret" stamped all over it. Capital Chaff After Ambassador Pat Hurley had a swank Cadillac car dismantled and flown in two planes from India to Chungking, he isn't using it. At first an army sergeant drove it. That was all right. But later, when a Chinese chauffeur took over, some- . thing went wrbng and Hurley recently wired the state department that he has no trans portation . . . Previous ambassadors have used a Ford or a ricksha . . . Directors of the Associated Press were invited to dine with the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick in honor of AP chief Kent Coop er. When they arrived at the dinner they were startled to find that' the isolationist publisher had also invited a prize array of fellow isolationist guests, including: Charles A. Lindbergh, cx-congrcssman Hamilton Fish, Eddie Riekenbackcr and Frank Gan nett. Continued Censorship Not only arc newspapers barred from even speulating regarding certain international phases of the Pacific war, but the navy for some weird reason hushed up the bombing of the airplane carrier Franklin from Apiil 26, when she got to New York, to May 17, when the disaster finally was announced. There were obvious reasons for keeping the news quiet while the ship was en route through the Panama canal. But once it passed the canal and was safely tied up in New York, all danger was past, however, the navy still invoked censorship. COPB, mi IV MA MKHCI. C T. M. MO. U. . MT. ft. "It's a good thing you married me before you ever iook me on one of those shopping lours otherwise I'd be hard to coavince women can be differentl" "i O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE V By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's ' Card Authority , NORWEGIAN'S HAND GOOD FOR 7 HEARTS Remember, I gave you a cou ple of hands played by "501"? Now that V-E day is past, we can 'identify "501" as Arnfinn Brodcr scn of Norway. Ha wrote his ex periences for a California paper under the pen name of Fritjof Jensen. He is with the Active WE, THE WOMEN A 1064 3 VQJ876 None AKQJ A AKQ9 B7S2 V43 0 84 6 N W E 8 Dealer A J VK95 J6532 9 8 7 5 Brodersen A None VA102 A KQ 10 9 7 A 10 4 3 2 -Duplicate E.-W. vul.v South 1 2 V 4 V 4N. T. 5N.T. PUSS 7 West 1 A 2 A 4 A . Pass Pass Pass Pass North 2 A 3 V Pass 5 6 . 6 V Pass Opening A A. East Pass Pass Pass Pass Double Pass Pass 14 By RUTH MILLETT The average wife has been given so much conflicting and frightening advice on how to handle her man when he comes home from war that she has begun to feel that it isn't Joe who is coming back where he belongs, but some erratic stranger. But she can lake the word of a leading psychiatrist, Dr. Wilbur R. Miller, that she can relax it really will he Joe. Dr. Miller, head of the department of psychiatry in the college of medicine at the University of Iowa, asys: "Wives should realize that the men who made a good ad justment to army life and managed to be come good soldiers are pliable enough in their personalities to adjust theinselves withoul too much difficulty to the demands of civilian life here at home." As for the men coming back fundament ally changed, he thinks their number will be comparatively few, since the personality even of an 18-year-old is a "pretty rugged set of responses." He does point out that one type of "nor mal" individual will find the adjustment to civilian life no easy matter. He is the one who led an ordered, routine cxiste nco before he entered the service, and reacted to every exerience in life according to a set group of responses. Army life was in the beginning hard on such a man. But once he adjusted himself to its demands and routine, he traded his old set of re sponses for a new set which he has prob ably come lo lean on heavily and to depend on. His very dependence on such an or dered existence will make it extremely hard for him to start making decisions and to as sume the responsibility for making his way in competitive civilian life. But since he did manage one satisfactory adjustment the one from civilian lo army life given time, he will be able to make I he adjustment in reverse. Service canteen in Toronto, and I like today's hand, even though he did make a very peculiar bid in bidding and rebidding hearts on a three-card suit. However, I like the way he made his con tract and the way he expressed Questions & Answers Q -Who is known as the "Fath er of contract bridge"? A Harold Sterling Vandcrbilt, eastern financier and yachtman, who is generally credited with starling the contract cra.e. Q What is the world record for muskellunge caught lv rod and reel? A A fi2 lb. -8 oz. fish c: ' I by Percy Haver in Lake M. ( lair, near Detroit, June 20, 1M '. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent ! labor needs. The first Chinese a man and his wife came into California less than UHI years ago, Then ship captains brought ineriasing numbers lo supply demand for cheap labor and to build the first transcon tinental railroad. When they became too numerous the ex clusion act was passed in 1S82. For 25 years after that came the Japanese to supply farm labor. World war I brought a wave of Mex icans and Filipinos, again to meet a labor shortage. World war II has brought the Negroes perhaps 150,000 of the m as against the 130,000 Japanese who were moved out. Negroes like it there. They arc no Jim Crow laws. They want to stay. But that gives California a new racial problem which broad guage people hope can be solved without any of the lynchings and riots that characterized reactions against successive waves of Chinese, Japanese, Mex icans and Filipinos when they became social and economic competition. In recent months there have been several movements to meet this new crisis before it happens. San Francisco civic groups have begun educational campaigns the Commonwealth club, a new formed council for civic unity, a mayor's committer. Back of them all is the realization that better housing for min only si imps is essential and that segrega tion in Chinatown or similar racial cuncen ti aliens where th.-rc arc property owner ship and residence restrictions, merely in eicase the problem. There is a lung process of education be (oie anything like racial tolerance can be achieved that probably goes for the United Nations organization, too. .Vistra .n the Q How much food d lia supply the allied fo Pacific in 1IM4? A More than 500,11 Shortly after Corregidor, lia supplied 05 per cent of the provisions. tons. V.i si ra it to mo in his letter. After trumping the "opening lead, he went over to the dummy with a club, and led the six of hearts, finessing the ten. Now, he knew that his only chance, he said, was to bluff East, so he trumped a small diamond in dummy and led the queen of hearts and East made the mis take of covering an honor with an honor. Broderson won the king with a singleton ace, and had clear sailing from then on. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago George R. Vchcrs is among ths many college students arriving home this week for the summer vacation. He is a student at Jef ferson medical college, Philadel phia and has had several high honors bestowed on him the past year. Homer Leffel and Henry Proc tor, students at Oregon univer sity, . returned . homefor...tb.cir summer vacation. 15 Years Ago Ken Sicgrisl and Larry Bay have returned homo from Eugene where they attended the Univer sity of Oregon the past'' year. They ore both members of the Phi Delta Theta, national frater nity, and arc prominent in cam pus activities. Bay has- been president of the freshman class during the past year. Mrs. Howard C. Glenn and son, Avery Lee, and her sister, Miss Ruth Harrison, arc at Seaside to spend several weeks there, while Mr. Glenn is at national guard camp. 10 Years Ago Eva Ledbetlcr, who has been t ;H'ing at Lewiston, Ida., and her sister, Marie, both daughters of W. R. Ledbetter of Aliccl, left by train for Bronxvillc, N. Y., where they will visit an aunt, Mrs. Sol Keltner. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hanks re turned from Salt Lake City where they attended the Univer sity of Utah graduation exer cises. Their son, Ilo, graduated, receiving his B. S. degree.. They also visited their old home at Paragonal, Utah. SAN FRANCISCO All the problems ol the United Nations conference, reduced to their simplest terms and to situations which anyone can understand, are lo be found in San Franci."co's Raphael Weill public school, giving primary education to children of its district. Here, under Principal Elbe Fifer. are pro geny from four of the five races. There are no American Indians. But silting side by side in the same class rooms are youngsters of everv complexion and many nationalities. Tow headed Nordic whites and swarthy Lat in whites. Mexicans, Phihpinos, Chinese There used to be Japanese, before they were all moved into relocation centers after Pearl Harbor. Americans from the siuit'n and southwest moved in where the Japs moved out, but soon some of Japanese fam ilies may be coming back. The question posed by llus minute et'o.v section of humanity is why the people of the world keeping their respectful dis taiwes from one another can't get along with or without trusteeship systems, man dates and voting formulas if the children of the Raphael Weill school can absorb their three K's in the same classroom. It is possible lo talk about the school and lis problems with considerable detachment tolerance and without upsi tting any in dividual's pel racial or religious prejudices because the situation is universal anil at the lime so representative of one of the things that aih the world today. It is typi cally a California problem child, though it has application in any number of other states where there has been heavy immi giation of minority groups to meet wa '-tinie Thin Curious World L I NATVE TO THE U.S. ARE f 1 f.--) MORE THAN WELCOME TO 'ij ) J l'J ) CME IN ON THEIR OWN ) J'teAV M Aiw 1 powes, but irj a&ainst WsSifl ) ( THE LAWFOR.Y00TOBRIN& ( iVOfl ( 0NIE ACR0SS THE SORDEI- c '-apsl J ' WHAT DO THE FOLLOW1N& FlfeuREst crxtssNi IN MK'WY'KAVY TIME V OOO, 094S, 7JO, Zi-OO COPrt. IMS by ME SEP.YICC. INC T. M. REG. U. 9. PAT. OFF. ' - ' . V.." fslORIAAAV IS ONLY 0NE-NINTIBTH Ai LARGS Ai AFRICA) BUT IT HAS TVP" 1!iSCS AS VUCM COASTLINE J6-I 1 a. in., i)Ai a. m.. 5:30 d. m.. 12 midnight ANSWER NEXT: Where does ivory come from?