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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
WEDNKSDAY BVKNINU. JUNK 13, l!r
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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.
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"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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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