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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
FRIDAY KVKNINC, JUNK 15, 191"
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As for mo, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: 1 -shall he satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
COUNT YOUR TRICKS
AFTER THEY'RE WON
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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?"
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flying at high altitudes caused by
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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
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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.
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