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v ;EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher FRIDAY KVKNINC, JUNK 15, 191" The Seventh Cross : i : ; EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley Irrigation project. LA GRANTS A city of 10,000 - -4- ktn the city limits. ' TODAY'S TEXT As for mo, I will behold thy face in righteousness: 1 -shall he satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Psalms 17:15. , Sea-and-Air Dilemma A good many people seem to lie in dulging in the pleasant, post-war dream of a combined sea and airborne vaca tion a leisurely cruise with all the pleasures of shipboard life, and then several extra days in Havana or Hono lulu or wherever, because they're go ing to wind up the vacation with a swift flight back home all that would be mighty nice, and quite possible. l'rcsuniably it wouldn't make any dif ference to the. post-war vacationer whether the same company operated both ship and plane, beyond the conven ience of buying all the tickets in one office. Hut lit makes a considerable difference to eight American steamship lines who have sought permission of the civil aeronautics board to use airplanes over their pre-war routes. The CAI. Apparently hasn't warmed up to the subject. Its objection seems to lie that it might be inviting a mono poly to grant the request, and that the ship linos might conspire to stifle the newer, faster, means of travel. The steamship companies, while con tending that .there is no law which for bids them to use steam and air or steam and sa'il, if they want to con cede that there isn't much tliev can do Funny Business i.-r::.i trs r- "--4: rv -'- I Jt LJL. BT- '., k v - JW "Your chickewdo their scratching in my qnrd tn, to I havo the egg. tool" 1'nge Two if the CAI1 turns them down. The companies' side of the case was recently presented by Almon K. Roth, president of the National Federation of American Shipping. Mr. Roth says the eight lines don't ask to buy out existing i iglits in their present areas. Uo says they would purchase their own equipment and gladly enter into competition with foreign and domestic companies over their old routes. Mr. Iioth also points out that foreign competitors, such as Hrilnin and Swe den, are planning combined ship unci air operations. And he quotes the I.ti tish While Paper on post-war aviation to show that that government considers its ship lines' foreign connections, or ganization and good will as assets in the development of British air trade. Most important, perhaps, is Mr. lioth's statement that American pas senger lines will be at a considerable disadvantage in Immediate post-war operations. This, he says, is because most of their liners were converted more drastically for war use than were their competitors', and that reconver sion will be a long and expensive pro cess. We shall come out of the war, Mr. Roth says, with "a surplus of 25 million Ions of tile wrong kind of shipping" meaning the slow Liberty ship. So perhaps the situation needs some good hard thinking by the GAP. before the final yes or no. Ships to Russia Word iias come from London that Great Britain has transferred some ships of the Royal navy to Russia. Wo don't know where or how Russia will use (hose ships, nor do we think it necessary to speculate. The speculation doubtless can safely be left with the Japanese government. o SO THEY SAY Please beys, I'm not going into the movies. Cii'll. Carl A Spaatz to photog raphers on arrival in New York from Kurope. Carinthia is ours and we will fight for it. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. It (Sportsman's park, St. bonis) is tiio wotvt excuse for a major league fieUt 1 ever saw. - Wcintiauh, NVw York Giants outfielder. Next to ,1 speedy and complete virion- over Japan, a steaily, ell-paid job afler the war is first in the minds and hearts of most Atllcnealis. Fred M Vinson, war mobih.-a-tmri director. S - v Military service has not sub merged th.- ,-tignity of the indi vidu.il Instead he has been trained to apply initiative and imagination, the gicatcst pair of weapons he c.urvd into battle. tion. Omar N. Bradley. miy as well i ' .i r jswiO I ..- Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON There is a lot more thnn meets the eye behind the arrest of two state department officials and one naval officer on a charge of passing out secret documents to magazine writers. ' ' Chief factor behind it is the Intense, cut throat rivalry between two Chinese factions Chiang Kai-shek's war lords in the south of China and the so-called Chinese commun ists (actually an agrarian party) in the north. Mixed up in all this is the action of the Chinese secret service operating undercover in the USA against anyone opposed to Chiang Kai-shek. Also involved is the prima donna temperament of a very temperament al U. S. ambassador; and1 finally the issue of whether the United States will get itself caught between Chinese political factions the same way it has between Polish factions. It so happens that all three of the young Far Eastern experts arrested in the navy and state department believe ardently that the USA is backing the wrong horse in China. They feel that the northern Chinese gov ernment is much more representative of the Chinese people, has done more fighting against Japan, and that Chiang Kai-shek is chiefly an Impotent prisoner of his own southern war lords. Moreover, these three are not alone in this belief. General Stilwell emphatically be lieved it and. was ousted frorh China as a result. ' John R. Davies,' secretary of the" American embassy, also believed it and was ousted by Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley after a bitter verbal battle." Also, John Service, another secretary of embassy, be lieved it, was fired out of China by Hurley, and has now been arrested by the state de partment.' ' " V "' Finally, U. S. military men, solely con-. ccrned with winning' the war quickly, feel that the northern Chinese can be a vitally important factor in defeaitng Japan oh the vast mainland in China. Cowboy vs. Farmer It was this question which led to one of the most spectacular feuds in the recent an nuls of American diplomacy between hand some Ambassador Hurley, the ex:Oklahoma oil man and cowpuncher, and hard-hitting Gen. Al Wedemeyer, former Nebraska farm boy, now U. S. commander in Chungking. Nothing much like it could happen any place but in China unless it be in Washington. When General Wedemeyer first arrived in Chungking, he and Hurley appeared to be excellent friends. They took adjoining rooms in a big Chinese mansion, with a con necting bathroom. Three times a day they ale together. Wedemeyer ' told Hurley he would show him all his dispatches to Wash WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Many a serviceman will return from war a stranger to his own child or children. That is a heart-breaking fact. In her eagerness to have the children ac cept "Daddy," war wives should be careful not to push or hurry the children. "Give the kids time," says Dr. Wilbur R. Miller, well-known psychiatrist. "Trying to push them into a close relationship before they come to feel close to a returned father will only result in confusing the children and making the father feel like an outsider." Children, in the absence of a father, come to accept the mother as the answer to all of their needs and the sole dispenser of authority. They become used to turning to her alone when they are in trouble, or need help, or want grown up approval of their accomplishments. That becomes natural behavior to the child and the mother shouldn't try to undo it all at once. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. Lb Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The Honorable, the su preme court of the United States needs re visiting every so, often, if for no other rea son than that it's comfortably cool inside. The court is running over-time this year be cause of a heavy docket and consequently the justices won't get their customary four months' vacation. But they earn it. Trying to decide right from wrong is touchy enough in itself, but the work of the court is so serious that what it really needs is one of those old-time puri tan church wardens with a long pole to keep the justices and the customers awake. It you remember your school books, there was a hard knob at one end to conk the boys with and a feather at the other end to tickle the girls with. When the sermons got too dull and the congregation showed any in clination to go lo sleep on a too long-winded preacher, the warden would swing into ac tion. People actually do done off at supreme court sessions and it's no wonder for the arguments are pretty hard to follow. When a spectator decides to take 40 winks, he or she usually wrinkles up the brow and slow ly closes the eyes to give an impression ot deep meditation. But that doesn't lust long. Pretty soon, bang go their heads forward on their chests and they like to break their necks. The jerk wakes them up. and they look around slyly to see if anyone was watching. It you catch their eye they smile back coyly to hide their guilt and then scowl all the harder in mock concentration to fol low what's being said. The supreme court chamber seats around 500 but people flock in by the thousand, par ticularly on Mondays when decisions arc handed down. An hour before the noon opening there's a line forming to get in and it winds through those spotless white mar ington if Hurley would do the same. Hurley promised, and complete coperation seemed assured. "I don't know anything about the fine points of diplomacy," General Wedemeyer said, "but I dp know q square-shooter wtjen I see one and I am sure we can work to gether." Some time thereafter, Wedemeyer was in specting the Chinese front at Kunming when he got an urgent message from his chief of staff asking him to return to Chunking. He advised Wedemeyer that a hot cable await ed him from Chief of Staff Marshall in Washinton "for Wedemeyer's eyes only." " White House Heat Wedemeyer raced back to Chungking, was flabbergasted to read a blistering cable from General Marshall bawling him out for let ting members of his sta" sabotage the am bassador's important diplomatic mission in China. Marshall also enclosed a copy of a cable the ambassador had sent the White House accusing Wedemeyer's officers of double crossing him. Wedemeyer immediately went to Hurley and demanded an explanation. He wanted to know what the ambassador meant and why he hdn't carried out his promise to show him all telegrams and cooperate completely. Hurley turned his back. ' "I am the ambassador here," he replied and walked away. 'General Wedemeyer then discovered that General William Donovan, head of strategic services, was due in China and his represent atives had been anxious to determine the possibilities of working with the northern Chinese against Japan. Therefore, Wede meyer's chief of staff, Gen. Robert B. Mc Clure, had agreed to send two U. S. officers to north China to examine north Chinese cooperation. While they were away, Foreign Minister T. V.' Soong complained to Hurley about their trip. He said this was upsetting Chung king's relation with the north Chinese. Whereupon Hurley sent a stinging cable to President Roosevelt accusing Wedemeyer's officers of under-cutting him. This was what caused Wedemeyer to get the rebuke from General Marshall. However, Wedemeyer replied to Marshall explaining the whole situation and stating that Hurley knew in advance about the northern trip of the two U. S. officers. Mar shall took the cable to the White House. Roosevelt read it, sighed wearily. "Pat is Pat," he said, "and there's nothing you can do about him." Dr. Miller points out that given a little time children will naturally turn to their father and include him in all of their plans and enthusiasms, as they see their mother turning to him, instead of managing every thing alone as she did while he was away. He has a word of advice, loo, for the re turning fathers. He thinks that they should realize that in their absence and in order to keep the memory of them vivid in the child's mind, mothers have built up the fathers as heroes. Because of that, he thinks it is important that the fathers "go on be ing heroes" to their small sons and daugh ters when they come home, even though they are not inclined to want to be heroes to the outside world. The small boy who has been told what an important part his dad is playing in winning the war w.ill feel terribly let down if his father, because he is a modest man, shrugs off the whole busi ness. ble corridors during almost the entire ses sion. Sight-seers can take only so much of this, and then leave. It is pretty inspiring and impressive at that, even if you don't understand all that goes on. The big, high ceilinged court cham ber, the thick red carpet with its subversive pattern of fascist emblems, the 24 massive marble columns behind w-hich hang the thick, plum-colored drapes that just miss be ing purple, the heavy grills, the high bas relief sculpturing of nearly a hundred bigger than life-size fillies of big-winged angels and big-chested men and naked little boys doing goodness only knows what. It's all as sim ple and as intricate as the law itself. Then up front is the high polished bench which isn't a bench because there are chairs behind it a crazy pattern of incongruous chairbacks padded to fit the individual jus tices and isn't a bar, either, because it's too high for anybody's elbows. At either end the two lower desks at which sit the four clerks two in swallow tail coaU and one in an open gate collar to lend a note of dignity. Behind them bustle the page boys in natty blue serge, almost the only sign of life in the place. But all eyes are on the chief justice and his nine associates the nine watch dogs of justice. Stone like a St. Bernard, Roberts like a mastiff, Black like a retriever, Reed like a French poodle, Frankfurter like a fox terrier, Douglas lie an Irish. Murphy like an Airedale, Jackson like a setter. Rutledge like a shepherd. They're up there to guard your liberties and your rights if you get pushed around. The strange thing is they fight among themselves as to what is right and what is wrong. They seldom hand down a unani mous decision. From one to four usually dissent. Yet the maority rules and the mi nority accepts the tdict. Side Glance$ cow. iwi by Ht sepvicr. inc. t. m. wro. u. s. pat, off. 6-6 "Oh, ii'i too late io plan for a June wedding now, evert if one of 'the four boys I've been writing lo did happen to get home this " " week!" ;-': O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority COUNT YOUR TRICKS AFTER THEY'RE WON I was kibitzing over at the Mayfair at a rubber game the other night and M. M. Oestreich- 3 V A 10 8 Q5 J86542 " M. Oestreichcr ' AAJ10 VQ43 KJ92 A97 Rubber Neither vul. South iWest (North, East 1 .-. Pass 1 . jZ 2N.T.I' PassU 3 QM n P ' r, j Opening 4, er got into three no trump with today's hand. When he made the play that gave him his contract, I made the remark that he cer- Questions & Answers Q What religious distinction has Lebanon, one, of the seven countries in the Arab league? A Although the smallest, it is the most densely populated of the seven and has such a preponder ance of Christians that it is some times called Asia's only Christian state. Q What is the meaning of the name Rebecca? A It's from the Hebrew, and means "a girl who ensnares men by her beauty." Q What is the number of ships built by the U. S. maritime commission since it embarked in a 10-year program in 1937? A Production includes 2600 Liberty ships; about 500 C-type cargo vessels; more t han 500 ocean-going tankers; 3G0 Victory ships, and a variety of military, coastal and smaller craft. Q What is "altitude teeth?" A Pain experienced by pilots flying at high altitudes caused by the effect of great heights on metal fillings in teeth. Pain dis appears on return to ground. Q 9 8 4 2 N AK76S V96 , W "E VKJ52 A 8 7 o 10 8 4 3 Q 103 Dealer K i i This Curious World IS NEARER GIASGOHC ) C J " " " tar.ANrTSs? tu,8 IN Wtta WAYS '' iVTWlNIN AWUNC SUFPCWTJ, BY TINV SUCTION CUPS, (y TENDRILS, 4(Bva.iN6iN3 RooTusrs, ANSWER: NEXT: A type of shell fish, or molktsk.:, Mountains you look down on. tainly had learned the lesson of counting his tricks. You can see that his only hope is to find the clubs divided so that he loses only one club trick, but even with five club tricks and two spades and a heart, that is only eight tricks. So as soon as he won the opening spade lead, without a moment's hesitation, he played a small diamond. Now, of course, if West had been smart and jumped up with the ace, he could have defeated the contract, but it is natural for second hand to play low, so the queen won the trick. Now the ace of clubs wa3 cashed, a small club played, and the contract made. IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago C. E. Hackman left for San Francisco to visit the fair. F. L. Lilly, a local hardware man, returned from a visit to Portland and Willamette valley points. 7 ....... .. . ,,, Postmaster E. E. Bragg planned to spend a month in Los Angeles and California points, expecting to bring. his family home with him. They spent the winter there. 15 Years Ago About 40 boys signed up for the Boy Scout summer camp at Anthony lake. Woodrbw Dam ercll and Claire Thomas of La Grande and Jack Lew of Baker were members of the junior staff to assist with the camp manage ment. Miss Etta Belle Kitchen, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kitchen, returned from the University of Oregon, where she will be a sen ior in the English department. 10 Years Ago Mrs. Leo F. Miller and daugh ter, Marcia, returned from Port land, where they spent a week with Mrs. Miller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lynch. Mrs. Lynn Wright and daugh ter, Gerry Lou, who had been visiting in Washington, returned home They were at Walla Walla to attend St. Paul's school class day. Mrs. Wright also visited relatives in Colfax and spent a few days in Spokane. i a " v A BIVALVE IS WHICH OP THE i-cLLowiN&r' II K'MO OP NVt TUBS I I A r?OA1ffOA . i A 7YP OTJHLL FSM
