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i'o I ' EDITORIAL PAGE 'I La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY EVENING, JUNK 14, 1945 Puffe Four. French Novel of Mystery and Intrigue MS NN' jT - X VI;W EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,(M)0 Eitend the city limits. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Let those who always loved now love the more. Thomas Panicll. Old Fears and the New Peace It is easy to grouse at the Russian Rovernment for its adamant stand for a veto power in the United Nations or ganization that would permit the big: five to squelch action, investigation and oven discussion of international dis putes. It is easy to foresee that, under such an arrangement, the oriranization would be powerless even to iioirln do ins the job envisioned for it. It is easy to say that the new league would not even be what the old leajrue of nations became, a "debating society." I!ut it extremely difficult to find reason for Russia's determined stand which, if persisted in, might wreck the organiza tion before it is formed. Hy all the rules of reason, Russia needs peace and a breathing spell mole than any other of the United Nations. Her people have paid a heavy price for victory in lives and incapacity and ex haustion. Fierce fighting, the scorched earth policy of defense and German re taliation have done great damage to her most populous and industrially de veloped regions. If any country needs friendship, help and a quiet atmosphere for economic convalescence, it is Russia. Yet, by her government's stubborn defense of a de structive proposal, she is alienating many would-be friends and causing a split among the Hig Five. Why? The most plausible conjecture is that the Russian position reflects an old, deep-sealed fear fear of . Winston Churchill; frank opponent of the philo sophy of communism; fear of the United States, which belatedly recog nized the Soviet Union under an ad ministration now passed into history: fear of other powers which kicked Russia around in the old league when her government was suspect, unstable and unpopular. All these are political, bnlance-of-power fears which seem to fall within the sphere of temporary advantage. They ignore the original purpose of the San Francisco conference, which was to draft at least the first form of a last ing charter to guarantee a peace that should endure beyond the life span of Mr. Stalin, Mr. Churchill, and other present heads of government. World peace is too heavy a respon sibility to assign to the mortal, fallible men who happen to be the chiefs of the world's five great states. Leaders die and governments change and power shifts from one nation to another. What is wanted from San Francisco is a char ter which will come nearest to guaran teeing the peace under good world gov ernments and bad, a charter based on justice, not power. What is wanted is a peace mechan ism to work for the lnefit of the an onymous millions who fight, suffer and die in the world's wars, and who pay for them. These are the people for whom the world peace plan was de signed. And these are the people who seem to be remembered less and less in the diplomatic vacuum bv the Golden Cate. Funny Business 0 SO THEY SAY 1 In-Hove there are wars wn should nut have had to fight if vi- hail ht-i-n properly prepared in time, if wo had shown the ag gressors what might wc wore equipped to wield. Joseph C. Grow, acting secre tary of state. If we could give millions fur iclief of the Tokyo earthquake, we ought to be ready to help w ith many more millions the people that have been fighting hy out side. Ken. Millard E. Tydings, Mary land, in plea for Philippines. I didn't say a damned thing ahout the Russians. I leave them to the state department. Sen. Allien V. Hawkes. New Jersev. (V) :Ls:JH LlLvi 'MiiMwu.-' "Perfumed flags ! on((g a lovf- mesiago to hit girl friend In the WAVESI" Loans alone can't cure the world's diseases. Each country must work out its own salvation politically, financially and moral ly. All American can do is help. W. Randolph Burgess, presi dent American Bankets association. Washington Merry-Go-Round . Br-JREW PEAH80N Side Glances ' WASHINGTON The state department isn't announcing it, but Italian ambassador Tarchiani has made an unusual move by proposing that Italy declare war against Ja pan and help supply troops for the Pacific war. The state department took the matter un der advisement, and after some deliberation with the British, both governments agreed to approve an Italian declaration of war against Mussolini's old Axis partner, Japan. Howvor, here is the catch. Both the Brit ish and .American governments refuse to make any commitments to supply shipping or to permit Italian troops to participate in" the fighting. '- I What the Italian government will decide to do under the circumstances remains to be seen. Maritime Scandals . Senator George Aiken, liberal Vermont Republican, is preparing a hot blast against one of the weak spots in the old Roosevelt administration the maritime commission. The blast isn't going to help Chairman Em ory Land's ambition to be a full admiral. Senator Aiken will point out that four sep arate reports by Comptroller-General Lind say Warren, describing maritime commis sion's misuse of public funds, have been nonchalantly pigeon-holed in the senate commerce committee. Sanctimonious Senator Josiah Bailey of that committee was named chairman of a special committee to investigate the mari time commission as long ago as lll.'IB. He has now spent 17,000 of the $20,000 allowed for expenses, but has reported exactly noth ing to congress. Senator Aiken will point out that since January of this year, some but not all maritime commission contracts have carried these two amazing provisions, certainly not aimed to save money for the taxpayer: "The contractor shall have no obligation to make ariy statements or returns of costs to the commission or to make available to. the commission any of its-books records or accounts pertaining to the performance of work under the vessels contracts. "The contractor shall have no , further or other obligations under the ''.vessels contract or on account of the performance of work thereunder, including any obligation to re pair, remedy, replace or make good any de fects, breakdown or doterioratiohipecurring in any vessel delivered under" the; vessels contract." ' ' V- In addition, Aiken will point out thatXthe, commission has insured hundreds of vessels for many times their actual value. Triel-Ne-braskan, for-instance, was built in lBlZ.ilt.." a cost of $713,000, and was estimated five ; years ago by Admiral Lund to beworth $110,190. On its owners' books it is listed as worth $5,276, but the maritime' commis sion has Insured it for the amazing total of $1,019,320. The Nevadan, built in 1912 fdr $1110,000 and listed by its owners at $3,457, has been insured for $806,800. . ' ... : Ex-Governor of Vermont When President Truman first came into office, he promised Republicans he would appoint men of their selection as minority members of government commissions. This week, he is carrying out that promise by appointing ex-Governor William H. . Willis of Vermont as a minority member of the federal communications commission, replac ing ex-Governor Norman Case ' of Rhode Island, also a Republican. ; Case, an old friend of FDR when both were governors of their respective states, held office largely on the basis of Roosevelt friendship, not because of support from the Republican party. , . Each commission provides for a certain number of Democrats and Republicans. So GOP leaders want their own men in these key jobs, rather than Republican friends of the White House. , WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT One thing that is already known about servicemen is that many pf them do not want or expect to go back to their old jobs when they return to civilian life or even, perhaps, to go on living in the old homo town. That is easily understandable. They have seen many places now and Podunk may not seem to be the center of the universe as it did before they had seed a great deal more of the world. . , . ... As for the old job, the hoy Who worked in a filling station or was -never very suc ' cessfuT'as a salesman SVid whose .'job. in "the . war was flying a bomber or, working as a member of a ground crew very likely has -decided the old job back home isn't challeng ing enough to hold his interest or to make the best use of his newly discovered capa bilities. And men who have learned that they can handle other men and assume the kind ol responsibility that calls for quick thinking and fast decisions aren't likely to want to go back and sit at a desk doing a routine job that gives them no chalice to use their own initiative. Natural as this sitnution is, it can be hard on wives if they are bound and determined to go on living in the same house in the same town, or if they are impatient for their hus bands to take the first job offered them be cause it looip like security for the family. Dr. Wilbur M. Miller, head of psychiatry Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Since Soviet Russia Won't permit American newspapermen to go into Poland, the only two sources of infor mation from, lhat blaeked-out spot on the map are first, what news the London-Warsaw government underground is able to smuggle out of the country, and second, what the Moscow-Lublin government chooses to pass out. The critical and cynical U. S. newspaper reader, who has a pretty good batting aver age in judging the curves on all such pitches will be pardoned if he uses his fishy eye and lets most of .these offerings go by as high, wide and outside. But every once in a while, the propaganda pitchers accidentally deliver a fast one right over the plate and you can swing at it. Definitely in thi: groove is a piece called "Resurgent." Occupying half of the latest issue of the "Information Bulletin of the Embassy of USSR," this handy eight-page pamphlet conies out three times a week un der the imprint of Russia's Washington em bassy and is. therefore, the official last word on what Moscow thinks you should know and wants yu t believe abut its affairs. The piece in question, by one K. Rudnit sky, leads off with the assertion that "the world is following with intense interest the processes taking place ill liberated Poland." Ski-plies may say this is' something of an understatement, but let Rudnitsky tell you: "Boldly laying new paths for its develop ment on lines of broad, political and eco nomic democracy." he says, "the country is winning the sympathy of all progiessive sec tions of freedom -loving nations." Sympathy is right, "No observer who is at all impartial," Rudnitsky continues, "can fail to bo amazed at the speed and efficiency with which the newly resurrected Poliih state la handling the exceedingly difficuL problems," He itemizes, "an overwhelming majority of the industrial plants have been rvopuuuU- Today, industry is employing over 60, per cent of the pre-war number of workers. Im mense work has been done to rehabilitate the railways." and so on, and on. Then come the fast ones: "The government, as we know," writes Rudnitsky, "look over large scale industry, but rt was obliged to extend its administra tion to a vast number of medium and small enterprises, owing to the absence of their owners." Where these owners are the author doesn't say. but he does explain the philosophy of this expropriations in most revealing terms: "From the very first," he says, "the pro visional government has declared that priv ate initiative and private capital would be allowed and encouraged in medium and smalt industry. These medium and small plants are now being turned over to their lawful owners, or if the latter are not available, to the producers' cooperative societies, or else leased to private individuals." This being so satisfactorily explained. Rudnitsky next takes up agrarian reform. "Literally, on the day following the ejec tion of the invaders," he writes, "when the sound of guns had not yet ceased, the pro visional government proceeded to carry out the primary point of its program. Namely, the abolition of the landed estates and the apportionment of the land to the peasants the reform, embracing the whole of Poland from one end to the other, is now in the main completed. Individual peasant hold ings have been demarcated and deeds con ferring private ownership of the land is sued . . . some 4.300,000 hectares (over 10, 000,000 acres) were confiscateted from the big landowners . . ." Well, that's how Moscow wants you to be lieve tilings are in Poland.. There's a lot more to the article, but these pertinent para graphs will give you the idea. While it last ed, it was just a nice, quiet, well-managed HUle. rv.iaiiution -tlwy must have had. - - - , - f .1 nil ' 5 -SSKr j:,':'' . QOftt IW rt MCA MWVICt. Wtt T. M. MO. 1). t. MT. OPT . "No, I'm not going to fish. Doc, I just came along to relaxWe ran . . out of red points and had fish four nights this week!!'; o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America'! Card Authority THIS HAND HELPED WIN OHIO TOURNEY . One of the largest and most successful tournaments is the an nual Ohio state event held in Cleveland. Whil- this tourna ment attracts players from a great many different cities, it has always been most difficult to win any of the events from Cleve land players. However, this year, most of the major events went 10 in the department of medicine at the Uni versity of Iowa and a director of the state's psychopathic hospital believes that the service wife's reaction to this problem is extremely important. He points out that the wife who was a "good sport" during the emergency of war and who from necessity put security out of her mind while she trailed her husband from one army camp to another may feel that when her man is finally home the most important thing in the world is for him to get a job in a hurry and settle down to get ting ahead and making up fd'lost'tlriie.'-' "V In this attitude she is likely to be mistak enly backed up by her parents who may see a threat to her security in her husband's not being able to make up his mind right away just what he wants to do, or in his wanting to pull up stakes and try something entire ly new. Dr. Miller's advice to the war wife whose husband comes home at the end of the war in that frame of mind is to asknowledge to herself that while for others the emergency of war is over, it isn't, over for her. And . that she must be as willing to go along with her husband's new plans and ambitions as she was to follow him from army camp to army camp. If she insists on his going back to the old job she may w-in her point. But she is like ly to discover in time that her husband is resentful, frustrated, and unhappy. AQJ 8 6 4 3 VA109 1072. Miss Stratford A9 Smith I Tu 1 4K7S2 8604 .". J 3 2 964 W E K Q ' AKQ854 S AA963 Dealer A 10 KQ7 AJ850 J102 Duplicate N.-S. vul. South West North East 1 IN T 3 A Pass Pass Pass 1 A f Pass 2s, Pass 4 A Vt: Double Opening K. 15 out-of-towners. or . wlere shared with them. . First and second place in the open pair event were shared by Clevelanders and Pittsburghers. First place was shared by Flor- Questions & Answers Q How have appropriations for the U. S. army air forces in creased since 1808? A In 1898, $50,000 was allot ted for "aeronautic investigation and inquiry.'.' In 1944 the army was given ' $23,855,088,000 ' for military aviation. Q What practical purpose docs the paratroopers' war cry, "Geronimo," serve? A Yelling relieves pressure on the oars and nervous tension in jumping. This yell origin::', d at f ort Benning, Ga. Q What is a joto he:. Jap navy? A A warrant officer. in the Q How are names . -ked for U. S. aircraft carriers? A They are select I from names of islands, bays an I sounds of the United States, as well as battles of World War II in which the navy has served. ence Stratford of Cleveland and Clare "Corky" Smith -of. Pitts-, ' burgh; second place ment to Mrs. Marquita Fullerton ofifleveland ; and Jack Abbott of Pittsburgh. Here is one of the hands that helped Miss Stratford and Smith win the championship. The opening lead was won in dummy with the ace, The ace of trump . was cashed followed by the ten spot which Smith, in the East, won with the king. On the sec ond spade, Miss Stratford din carded the eight of clubs so now Smith cashed his queen of dia monds and under led his ace of clubs, which Miss Stratford won with the queen. She led back the nine of diamonds, and Smith was able to get in a ruff, thus de feating the contract for a top score. O IN FORMED YEARS 30 Years Ago.''.": Abe Harris returned from Port land where he.attenddd'the rose show,1 '"",' " '! 'a:'"',' Mr. and Mrs. Walter' Rcuter . were Sunday visitors in Union. J Willard Carpy, a student at the University of Oregon, , arrived . J home to spend the summer with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Epling re- -turned from Portland where they attended the rose show. 15 Years Ago Gifford Seitz, son of Mr, and Mrs. Clyde Seitz of this City, re turned from Portland where he was a junior in the University of Oregon medical school. . George Anderson, jr. returned from Eugene, where he was n junior at the University of Ore gon. He left later for Vancou ver, Wash., to attend the reserve officer's training camp for six weeks. 10 Years Ago Roy L. Skcen, of the depart ment of psychology and educa tion at the Eastern Oregon Nor mal school, received notice of his appointment as a member of the Oregon state textbook commis sion. Mis Dorothy Lee Reynolds and Miss Mildred Green, students at St. Paul's school for girls in Walla Walla, returned to La Grande to spend the summer with their parents. This Curious World . j ) come f COPS. 195 BV NCA SrRVICE. INC. i.m. HIG. U. S. PAT. OFF. HEAVV CREAW IS LIHTE: THAN Llfi-HT CEAM," StaS JOSSPHH. NETTLETON, I, irifh MOtT aTClCNTlSrS SAY A PERSON'S CANNOT BE RAISED. IS NEXT; . How do plagis climb?
