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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON D La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher MONDAY KVKNJNU, JUNK IS, 1915 I'age Two Another Clean-U p Job Completed - fes Xi EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 , (Extcnd the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Son of man, behold, I luko away from tlico the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither slmlt thou mourn nor weep, neither ,shnll thy tears run clown. Ksiekiel 21 : l(. THOUGHT I'OIi TODAY "All thinu'.s are to be hoped by a man as lonir as he is alive. Seneca. News by 'Leaks' The alleged acts of the navy, officer, two state department employes and three writers arrested on espionage charges may be indefensible, but they scarcely can be called unusual. Dissemmination of news through "leaks" is a standard Washington prac tice. Probably there isn't a recognized correspondent of a reputable publica tion in the nation's capital who has not had access to some sort of restricted or secret information at some time since the war began. : This does not mean that there is al ways an actual transfer of documents, as it is charged took place in (lie state department case. Hut it is quite usual for Washington reporters to be told confidential, off-the- record news or be shown documents that cannot be pub lished. There are two basic, reasons for this practice. In the military field, it ia be cause correspondents and their publish ers have earned and maintained a repu tation for trustworthiness. Since censorship is sometimes overly cautious, military and. other depart mental officers often indulge in private and entirely discreet confidences which add to a writer's background knowledge and help him to evaluate the news re leased for publication. Until now, there have been no governmental charges that these confidences have been abused. There is nothing either secret or con fidential in the new that personal and political differences exist among mem bers of various departments of govern ment. And in those differences is found the other source of "leaks." These are passed along by officials seeking to expose or discredit a colleague or a policy, either through malice or a sense of duty. In some instances these "leaks" have performed a distinct public service. As for the case in question, it is not clear that any military security was in volved. The New York Times story of (lie investigation leading up to the ar rests makes this interesting observa tion. "It was learned that had not the text of a secret document been printed ver batim, the six arrested persons might have escaped detection ... If the word ing had been changed, it might have been impossible to say whether an ille gal disclosure had been committed." Kvidently it was the carelessness of the accused, and not the information they disclosed, that got them into trouble. Funny Business y,:'.". "'.l ' ;,; " n.. . ... rfi O ' ' 1 1 c o SO THEY SAY Wo rnn think, but wo em't t;ilk. I'm afro id we're vory dull. Duko of Windsor, in comment ing on English election. "Our new boomerang model whtB you throw II al catt it comc back to youl" Some of these very Waders who See the wisdom u aiding Russia an.1 lh inii und South America in developing their resources cry to high Iwaven iihont projects or proposals that use American dol lars Tor the regional development of the resources of Ametican val leys I).. vul E. Lihcnthal, chairman, TVA, One p( the most certain was of bringing about international disagreement and ultimate war is to constant talk nlwut war n inevitable and &Hvu!att as to when and how war is to come, i Sen. Walter F. Oeorjto, tfrorgia. I i Xpert to he cnmniteaioner for life. That will set it rqst talk of any stovrssor for me. " A. I). (Happy) Chandler! base balls high commissioner. WASHINGTON Only top insiders w.io watched the close-up of our diplomatic dis cussions with Russia realize how great was Harry Hopkins' achievement in Moscow. VUS-USSR relations were nt a most serious impasse.'., Not only was American public opinion aroused over the whole Polish ques tion,, but Russian generals were becoming high-handed and almost ready to . throw aside allieci pooperation. . ' (, This.coiuinn carried a series of articles describing, our relations with Russia at the time, emphasizing the dangerous deadlock and' attributing it partly to red-baiting by anti-Russian diplomats, plus Churchill's pol icy of keeping the United States and the So viet at sword's points, plus the state depart ment's old-fushioned policy of note-writing instead of talking things out face-to-face..-. : ;, Writing notes was the worn out method Joe Grew used when he got into hot water with Mexico and Nicaragua when he was under secretary of state in the Coolidge ad ministration. However, as with Mexico and Nicaragua, hurling written notes at Moscow only got Stalin's back up. ,. ' Stalin Writes Truman For instance, here is one reply which Stal in threw back at President Truman regard ing Poland just a little over a month ago, at the time Grew and Stcttinius were drafting notes for Truman to send Stalin: . -' "' "I am ready to fulfill your request to reach a harmonious solution, but you demand too much of me. In other words, you demand that I renounce the interests of security of the Soviet Union. However, I cannot turn against my own country. 'lln'my opinion there is one way out of this situation: adopt the Jugoslav example as a pattern for Poland. I believe that this would allow us to come to a harmonious solution." ' This was very strong diplomatic language. When the head of a nation says he will not turn against his own country it means that ho won't budge another inch. Also, the Jug oslav pattern was not much of a compromise, since the state department had already com plained to Stalin about this situation and al leged Russian failure to carry out the Yalta agreement in Jugoslavia. It was at this tightly deadlocked moment that Harry Hopkins finally advised Truman that the thing to do was stop writing notes and have someone put his feet under the same table with Stalin and talk things out instead. ; Chief trouble with our older diplomats, and with Ed Stettinius, who takes his cues from them; is that they don't realize this is the day of airplanes,' not sailing ships. Diplo matic note-writing dales from the horse-and-buggy days of diplomacy when it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic and we could not send ambassadors speedily to talk things out face-to-face. Now we can get an am bassador to Moscow in one day. Soviet policy is seldom uniform, and while Polish relations are much improved, a very serious situation confronts US-USSR rela tions in Bulgaria. McKellar's Revenge Although Sen. Kenneth MeKcllar's 23 years in the senate made ; him automatic choice as president of that body, it still isn't enough to give him everything he wants. In fact, he's having considerable difficulty get ting a full-scale investiation of the purchase of the Nashville Tennessean, even though it is being pushed by McKellar's great pal, Nevada's Pat McCarran, chairman' of the senate judiciary committee. ' The Nashville Tennessean has been a leader in the fight against the Tennessee poll tax and the powrful political machine headed by McKellar's political sponsor, Boss Ed Crump. So McKellar Is out to persecute the paper by investigating its original pur chase. -. : 1 The investigation, of course, is supposed to be made by the "very impartial" senate judiciary committee. But Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois had some idea of who was master minding the project, and, as chairman of the audit and control committee, he refused to grant the $5,000 requested for the investiga tion. ' Instead, he allowed only $3,000. Mc Carran has now returned to Washington af ter his long absence in the west and col leagues are wondering what his next move will be in this back-scratching job for bro ther McKellar. Some of Luca's colleagues are wondering why he OK'd even this much money, and why the senate should infringe on the free dom of the press by an investigation of this kind. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Servicemen, looking on their old lives from a greatdistanee and in the light of new experiences, have had on opportunity to do some evaluating. And some of them have entirely new ideas about how they want to live and what they want out of life. They may be very new ideas, too. But the wife who hus sat at home telling herself that some day '.'everything will be exactly as it was" may resent any changes her husband wants to make in their way of living. "Many of the men in service huve had a chance to develop their whole personalities, whilu the women who have sat at homo waiting for them have not," is the way Dr. Wilbur R. .Miller, one of the middle west's best known psychiatrists, sums up this prob lem, i , However, he points out that it need not bo a problem at all if the wife reacts to the situation in the right way. If she, because her husband has developed more in the war years than she has, becomes jealous and resentful then she will hold out against any new ideas he may bring home with him about how their lives should, be lived. ' - i But if she takes the attitude that "He's got something that he can teach me and that will help us both to have richer, fuller lives" and accepts rather than rejects his ideas the marriage won't suffer. One thing she must understand is her hus band's new-found need for the companion ship of other men. In the army he has made closer friendships with men than lie, per haps, ever had before. Friendship witli men, of necessity, had to take the place of family life. Consequently he may need masculine companionship for quite a while after he comes home. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Obieryer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The big argument over whether, the United States should be repre sented in post-war International aviation by one big joint "chosen instrument" company or a number of competing companies oper ating under principles of "freedom of the air" has been lost sight of for a couple of months, but behind the scenes there has been a good bit of intricate maneuvering. Newest chapter in the state department senate foreign relations committee impasse over international air policy has just been introduced by Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, of all peoplo. Bilbo isn't a member of the foreign relations committee, but he is a member of the commerce committee which also has a fist in this stew. Bilbo's action in making public a letter from acting Secre tary of State Joseph Glow, defending the state department's right to take the United States into international aviation agreements through executive order, without senate rati fication, may again bring to a boil this dish which has been simmering on the back of the stove foV so long a time. While tcJienate has been unable to maki up its mind and determine a policy, the state department's "freedom of the air" program mopped ut the Chicago international civil aviation conference last f .til huj been mov ing right ahead. Thirty nations four mote than the necessary 26 have already rati fied the Chicago agreement and Canad k preparing to issue invitations for a first meeting of the provisional organization which wilt regulate international air cont meive until a permanent organization can take over within the next three years. Invi tations will probably he for alt August meet ing in Montreal, that apparently being the only city with enough vacant office space to h'.e an organization of this size. In the meantime. thi I'S riVil aeronautics board, meeting with President Truman, is suppOM d to have l;iid on his dvsk a recom nViv.lalion that north Atlantic flying lights be,- t;iven to three e'ffiptling companies Pan American, Traiunvntitnotal, VeWi' and American export or its American air lines ccuttlolled successor. recommendations. But since they are be lieved to have been made with strong rep resentations as to urgency, approval by the White House would confront the supporters of the jointly-owned company idea princi pally Pan American and United Airlines with opposition as good as established. The only thing to stop such a development would be through prompt action in congress. The passage of new laws defining a different pol icy. With congress now ready to go home for the summer, any such achievement would.be difficult, to say the least. Background maneuvering which brought out the letter from Grew to Bilbo, is inter esting. About a month ago the executive council of the American Federation of La bor, stirred up by advocates of the one big airline policy, issued a statement that the executive agreements on international avi ation promulgated by President Roosevelt, were illegal, should be withdrawn and sub mitted to the senate for ratification. Using this as a springboard, Senator Bilbo was moved to take the AFL statement, send it to the stale department and ask in effect, "what's all this about!" This was just the opportunity the state de. partment had been waiting for. Its side of the argument was locked up in off-the-rcc-ord testimony before the senate foreign re lations committee, but the opposition was spreading disapproval of state 'department policy wherever possible. Crew's reply to the Bilbo inquiry is there fore a strong defense of state departments rigiit to make the executive agreements adopted to Chicago on interim organization and freedom of the air policies. The navy which is successfully fighting this war is a civilian navy Nacy Secretary James V. Forrwstal. to nnapolis graduating . class. The president m;,f turn down the CAB dox chuix-h. COPIt 194S BY gA SmVICi:. IMC. T. M. BtO. 0. 8. PAT. OTT. i-lf "Margie didn't read us this part of her fiance's letter 'J- 'your mother is as bossy as our top sergeant, but your dad told m how to handle her'!" , i : '.", O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE ' By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority TREAT CARDS MEAN AND YOU'LL RUE IT ' I shuddered the other day when I saw this hand messed up. You know, they often say that if you treat the cards mean, they will treat you mean. When I saw this hand played, the opening lead was won with the king of spades. You can now see that if the declarer can guess the diamond, he is going to be AQ73 V 7 52 K743 803 A J 10962 VQ103 Q652 Q N W E S . Dealer 854 VK984 8 KJ107 4 - AK V AJ8 A J 10 9 A952 Rubber Both vul. South West North East 2 N T. Pass 3 N. T. Pass Opening A J. 19 mond and the king of spades had him blocked out from 'making the queen. In other words, ' he had counted to nine, but Tailed to make sure he had cashed all nine tricks. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Close to half hundred' automo biles, a dozen of them gorgeously decorated, decorated side cars, ' motorcycle brigades and bicycle sections, the fire department, heavy trucks and other manner , of self-propelled vehicles passed through an avenue of automo biles closely parked fdr a dis tance of four blocks, and was wit- ' nessed by several thousand peo ple this morning. The parade is a new venture but the initial per formance was a credit to the city in connection with the motor cycle race to be held this after noon. . able to make.' three spades, a heart, four diamonds and the ' oce of clubs. So the declarer cashed his ace of diamonds and then led the jack of diamonds. West covered with the queen and declarer smiled because he had guessed the queen of diamonds. But he could not make his con tract. He had forgotten to cash his king of spades first. He was in dummy with the king of dia- Questiom & Answers Q Has India's trade with Aus tralia increased or decreased dur ing the war? A Increased in textiles, at least. India now is sending Aus tralia 40,000,000 yards of cotton textiles annually, compared with 1,000,000 before the war. 15 Years Ago ..: Mass Judy Moore, Miss Lula Grace Allen and Harold Herr drove to Wallowa Lakeland re turned Sunday afternoon. . . Mrs. Doyle Zimmerman, Mrs. J. R. Llewellyn and small son, Jack, drove home from Portland. Mrs. Zimmerman has been there for the past week visiting, friends. Edwin Kirby, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Kirby, has returned home from the University of Ore gon. Elmo Lindholm of' Silver ton, is visiting at the Kirby home and expects to spend the summer here. Both are members of Alpha Epsilon, national fraternity. ' Q What are the seven Near East countries making up the Arab league? A This regional bloc, recent ly in the news because of the Syrian-French violence, is composed of Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Yemen. 10 Years Ago " Miss Marjorie Condit, who now makes her home in San Fran cisco, arrived here last evening for a two weeks vacation. She will spend the fortnight as a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Condit. ' ' . Nylic Lewis of La Grande who taught one of the smaller schools in Baker county last ..year, has been elected to the, faculty of junior high school alt Baker .for . next year. He will teach mathe matics and direct some extra-curricular activities. .... This Curious World L 8 "iPrrd- S is A tvMorr, our J 1 I VU . MOUNTAIN SCAT IS fl J Mjy ( AN AArLOP, OUR ) I yL ( Buffalo is a ssow ) g 1 t l AND THE CARIBOU. I 31 A nut ion that believes in suicide bombs or hara-kiri cannot he considered pious or re ligious. Patriarch Alexi of Russian Ortho- ANSWER: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cheyenne, Wyoming, also, Is a higher-altitude capital than Denver. NEXT: Our jittery old globe. It J. J
