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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNK 14, 1945
Puffe Four.
French Novel of Mystery and Intrigue
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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