La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 19, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text1 I ;tpiTORIAL MGE l Sijc 0 One, Half Dozen of the Other A Peace. . EVENING OUSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT This is my conwmndment, That ye love one Another, 11s 1 have loved you. John 15:12. THOUGHT FOR TODAY , Men have less lively perception of good thnn of evil. Livy. Wrong Actor ' Senator Rny Willis of Indiana was ' quoted the other day as saying that the OPA, instead of "holding the price line," is "shrinking the waistline." That isn't n bad summing up of the congressional case against the price ' ngency. In fact, it's a pretty neat ex ample of the senatorial epigram, which occasionally is on the ponderous side. There's only one trouble, as we see it. Senator Willis wasn't the right man to utter It. The gentleman from Indiana is a poor advertisement of OPA's villainous in eptitude, lie has one of the least shrunk-loohing waistlines in the hciihUv. And while his accusation may be true, we fear that his solid presence robs it of some persuasiveness. So we hope the next lime Mr. Willis conceives a similar sally, ho will seek out some senatorial Cassius with a loan and hungry look to deliver it. Mr. Cap per of Kansas, for instance, could talk convincingly of shrinking waistlines. So could Mr. Ball of Minnesota. But Mr. Willis may have defeated his purpose by his performance. The script was good, but the casting was all wrong. v Policing Lend-Lease On the day that the foreign economic administration announced a sharp cur tailment in the lend-lease program to France, the army newspaper Stars and Stripes reported that French flyers in American lend-leased bombers had caiv ried out obliterating raids on Arab vil lages in Algerin. Apparently there was no connection between the two announcements. Never theless, it is good to know that usage of lend-lease materials is now being scrutinized closely. With Germany beaten, lend-lease comes under the head ing of expedient altruism. It is right that this country should know Its ulti mate use. France's disheartening use of arms contributed to the common defense should servo to sharpen the vigilance of ' lend-lease authorities. But No Nylons A recent Soviet development, while scarcely in the Marx-Lenin tradition, will, we predict, advance the popularity muT enhance the attractiveness of com munism in the eyes of Americans par ticularly American women. A Moscow factory has started manu facturing women's high-grade Bilk stockings. Funny Business tjtl C-" .?2---"ii,?-'-k.. ship Wastfmgt!on Mry-Gto-llbund Side Glances La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher ; . . ... Page Two o SO THEY SAY I understand that In another two or three weeks you might us we II slay home unless you hold ii No. 2 airplane priority. Transportation Director J. Mon roe Johnson. My experience as chkf Execu tive of governmental offices has taught me that there Is no limit to the amount of money that pub lie officials arc capable of spend ing. Gov. Frank Launch?, Ohio. "Ha didn't finish lho chapter quick enough. irl" It would be futile for lit to neck repayment for the total cost of our war cftoti. Ambassador Sdtt'in. W. Pauley, President Truman's personal representative 6n allied repara tions committee. We must never forget for an instant that we're still at war with J.ipan and must beat her. That done, I sec no problems that (he American people cannot lick. U.-Grn. William S. Knudson. after return to Chilian fife. i WAfimifUiun nar ry , rruman nas now :-..Pn. J?reipd!nt . pf.the ynited States for a little ove'riwo months two of the most his toric months in the nation's history, .These . two months are sufficient to get a fairly accurate gauge of how the new president Is going to "function for. the rest of his term. On the surface there is a hew atmosphere in,the Whlte House when you walk into it these days."" If, for instance, you drop in on White House Secretary Charlie Ross, he Is cordial, courteous, but Tsrlef, There Is ho in- -.vAWAOU own tod gbSsIp....Tnls' biisl-, neJsltke -atmosphere prevails throughout the I entire Whhje House staff. If jyou go on' in to see R6sss boss, you get in on time. There are few waits. And the little man on the other side of the big broad shiny desk listens intently. He wants to .hear what his visitors have to say. There are two definite innovations. , Gone are the days when big shots call- . ing on Roosevelt would fret and fume dur ing an hour's wait, then, after spending half an hour with him, go out and brag that they had spent an hour and a half "at. the White House." With Truman you are allotted a cer tain number of minutes, and he holds to , that schedule. ' Moreover, you can make the most of your 'allotted . time. Truman is anxious to listen. Roosevelt on the other hand, did most of the talkin himself. Visitors had to Inter rupt forcefully to put across their ideas. Qood Domaittc Admlnlitrator Truman gives the Impression of having a firm grasp jon all domestic problems. He knows them thoroughly undoubtedly bet- , terthan. Franklin Roosevelt during his lat ter yinra, When he was devoting all his time .. to the warA' . , ' .', ,. bhe of Truman's frequent replies to' call ers when they urge sanction on some special Idea is: .. . "I realize that. But it takes time to. do all these things, and seldom have so many important things confronted us all at 'one time. I'll ;get around to that just as soon as I can."y , , One thing that worries him most is our foreign affairs. The new president frankly realizes it 4s his main Weakness. He docs not have Roosevelt's international back ground, therefore has to rely almost wholly on his diplomats. TrUman's method of running the govern . mcnt is that of picking good men and glv ' ing them free rein. This 'Is a good system, and we coUld have had more of it in tire past. But it breaks down when the presi dent is not sure he can rely on the men picked to perform the most important job we now face building up the peace after the war . Truman told "Stottlrilus, ' for in stance, that he was to be hlp.owji boss "at San Francisco. But he fpundjth,arstjttin jus called him on the phone once oir twice a day to get His approval of, jalnios every decision. . . .' U . 1 ''" 'Firts His Fritnda'' vv-( Unlike Roosevelt, Truman ;dqes not&e'sl . tate to fire a man who doesn't produce.;;; He. let Leonard Reinsch go back to his radio job hi, Atlanta the day after he handled himself badly" In a press conference. He transferred-1 "Ed ward R. 'McKim, his .administrative .' aj- -SistEUit, after it .became kntwj.that the gen,., '.m anil likeable MaKiml seemed too' en grossed in Mrs. "Hoj& Diamond" McLean's dinner parties and the 'social whirl of Wash ington. ' , .. . ,-; Politicbs on Capitol, Hill credit , Truman with one political error 'so iar-7-hls letter to the house rules committee asking it to vote , out the fair employment practices bf 11, bit terly opposed by southern legislators. Writ ing a letter of this kind .to a congressional committee went further than most Roose velt 'attempts to influence congress, .and members of the rules committee resented it. However, if Truman' erred politically,; he did not err when it came to carrying 'out party pledges. He put himself squarely be hind a promise he made during the cam paign, vhile' Republican congressional' lead er's, having made a similar pledge, welched. :if Final Impression you. get of Truman dur ing this trial heat is that he has been work ing under tremendous pressure, is tired and heeds the rest me will now enjoy with his 61 friend, Governor Mon Wallgren,' in Olym pia, Wash. All of which makes it even more miraculous that Franklin Roosevelt held but physically as ipng'ahd as well as he did. ( . .. Senators Rulad Norway . Less than three weeks ago, young Senator Hugh Mitchell of Washington had the unique distinction bf being the highest civil author ity in Norway. "Opposition leader" of Nor way was Micigan's Republican Senator Ho mer Ferguson. , . ' The two senators, arriving in Norway to investigate surplus property for the. head committee, drove from their dock to Oslo's famed Hotel Bristol. All along the way they were astonished to see fully armed Nazi sol diers strolling about freely. Several hun dred thousand armed Nazis they discovered, were still in Norway with no one to accept their surrender. The Norwegian government was due to return shortly, and until their arrival, Sen ator Mitchell as a Democratic senator of a government to which Germany had surren dered was the highest civil official there. Since Norwegian party lines are not yet fully redrawn, Ferguson, a Republican, was en titled to be called the "opposition leader." WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MJLLETT There may be a tip in this little story for you, Mrs. America. When asked If she would go back to work for the Trumans at their summer White House in Missouri, the Negro cook who had worked for them for 18 years, thinks they arc fihe, people and Is mighty proud of them, answered, "I don't know . 1 . They've got an old fashioned Ice box and I don't sup pose they'll ever got an electric refrigerator." So, if even the distinction of working for the president's family Isn't enough to make a cook willing to put up with a piece of kit chen equipment she doesn't like the rest of us had' better do most of our post-war planning around the kitchen instead of the living room. What djjes it matter to a maid how import ant a family Is socially if their kitchen lsh't an easy place to work in? And what difference does It make that the living room is a modern decorator's dream if the kitchen hasn't , been renovated in 20 years? What does the cook care about the big car the family drive, if she has to walk her legs off getting a meal on the table? There is one fact, though, that makes it seem that women in the future will pay move attention to the convenience of their kit chens than they did in the. days when house hold help was plentiful. Most housewives have become well ac quainted with their own kitchens during the war years. They know now all the . little inconveniences and how annoying they can be. So they'll be likely to do something about them as soon as they can. Behind Scenes in Washington ByETER ED80N, La Grand Ertntag Obtarvar Washington Correspondent T-! WASHINGTON Biggest difference be tween Truman and Roosevelt, say some of the recent official business callers at the White House, is that Truman doesn't do all the talking, listens to what his visitors have to say. Another marked difference is that officials who used to pass the buck on their hottest problems, laying them on Roosevelt's desk for settlement, are now told in effect that Ihey were hired as cooks, not as waiters, so they should start doing their own cooking. World war I general of the armies, John J. Pershing, was invited to the White House ceremonies in honor of world war II general of the armies, Dwight D. Eisenhower, but had to decline. His health is considered good for his age he will be 85 In Septem ber but he is not considered strong enough to undergo public functions. Even General George S. Palton did not see, Pershing when "Old Blood and Guts" went to visit the wounded at Walter Reed hospital, where "Black Jack" now lives simply in small quarters. In the last war, Eisenhower and Pattnn were just a couple of other majois in the infant tank corps. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes held hearings the Other day on establishment of the Parker River national wildlife refuge in Massachusetts, and quite a delegation of Now England blue ribbons came down to protest. One claimed his ancestors had hunted the land for 200 years and another said his ancestor had hunted it for 300 years. Finally one witness declared he waai opposed to the whole game sanctuary idea because his forefather had been on this land for 1,000 years. That stopped Ickes cold. "You don't understand. Sir," the witness uxptoined, "I'm an Indian." Ickes snorted. "If your ancestors were able t keep the ancestors of those other persons prcient from taking the land away all this time, you certainly deserve special consider ation." Ickes is head bf the office of indian af fairs, as well as the fish and wildlife ser vice. . General Omar N. Bradley got lost in the ' veterans building maze the other day, and so got a, foretaste of what's in store for him when he returns to Washington to take over as veterans administrator. Just after he got his apointmcnt, Bradley said he wanted to walk through the veterans' building alone, to size things up. But when he had been, gone an hour, friends phoned the build ing and started guards on a search. Twenty minutes later they found him wandering in a distant corridor, apparently too embar rassed to ask his way out. General Bradley is understood to have accepted the veterans' job only oh condition that it would be a temporary assignment. 'After the bureau is modernized, Bradley wants to go back .to active service. He is now in Europe turning over his command, and won't return to Washington for another 60 days or so. Brigadier General B. M. Bryan, jr., assist ant to the provost marshal general in charge of German prisoners of war in the United States, tells how the first nazis arriving at a southern camp accused the guards of hav ing the same cars driven up and down the road just to impress the prisoners, with the fact that everyone in this country owned an automobile. The camp was near a war plant, and the PW's couldn't otherwise ex plain why there should be so many cars on the road at shift changing time. "With typical teutonic throughness," says General Bryan "they check the license plates, yilhen they did realize that all were different fin ally admitted everyone in this country did own a car an thkt vW wefe telling them the truth." I . i com. m stum Miwct wc: r m. mo. u. . at. oftj ' ' 6-io "Her face is so free from strain you'd never guess she Was keep ing a maidr -i.rsol. ;.t.v. O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE .!). By WM. B. McKENNEY, America'! Card Authority TRICK TO PLAYING NINE-TEN COMBO , Helen Kelly, who was one of the co-chairmen of our national tournament at Atlantic City last year, wrote me an interesting let ter telling me that her son, Jack Kelly III, who is only 16 years of age, came in second recently playing with James Reilley, jr., a man of 60. You know, the modern young ster is rather optimistic and I 63 VQ 10984 K52 K103 OQ75 4 2 I N I 10 98 VK53 W P J 6 J7 tt 108 64 Q85 . p..?!-. 3 762 AK J V A72 A Q 9 AJ94 Duplicate Neither vul. Soulh West North East 3 N T Pass 4 V Pass S Pass 5 NT Pass 6 N. T Pass Pass Pass Opening 4. 20 think you will have to grant that Kelly's opening bid of three no trump displayed a fair amount of optimism. However, I like the way he made the contract after he got into six no trump. He decided that he was going to play the queen over the jack, so he led a small club and finessed dummy's ten spot. When it held he came back with the queen of hearts. Now, this in the proper play of this combination of cards Questions &' Answers Q What Is so unusual about the flag of New York City? A Colors , are Dutch blue, white and orange in perpendicu lar bars, the same which floated over Manhattan more than 300 years ago. -, r- mrrr r" when holding the. tqn., nine. ,. ., Finesse of the queen lost to the king and West returned another spade. Young Kelly .won .this with the ace,, and .led .the jack of clubs. West covered.' with the queen and dummy's king won the trick. Now came ..the ten , of hearts. East's singleton jack covered. Declarer won with the ace and now, of course!. ad 'he balance of the tricks. O IN FORMER YEARS . . 30 Years Ago ' Joe, Wq Iters of Milwaukee, Wis., winner of the Phoenix motorcycle race, defeated Otto Walker, international"" long-dis-; tance motorcyclist of .Milwaukee, on the Mt, Glen ,sp,cpd.way. j.A ( large crowd bf Union county resi dents, and many . .visitors wit nessed the event. A team, belonging :to one of the local garbage collectors, be came frightened and ran down Spring street and around the cor-,..ncr-: qf .Sixth tp. penil;'. avenue jf where they ran into a telephone pole, throwing one .otiithe horses and demolishing the iwagon. 15 Years Agqi. . Dr. Ray F. Murphy" returned from Portland where "hC was rc elected, president idfi Jhe stale ' board of dental examiners. : Herbert Evans, prrridipal of the Riveria school, left .for Portland, to attend summrtr' school. Ho was accompanied by .jrs. Evans and their baby. . !'q(i ,' Mrs. Julius Rocsch., left with a motor caravan fqrI Pocatello, Idaho to attend a hotel conven tion. ':' vU.' Q How does Iran rank as an oil-producing nation? A In 1340 it ranked fourth. Its wells average 210,000 barrels a day. . . Q What is the origin of the . name Gordon? A From the Gaelic and Welsh, meaning a fine man or a strong man. 10 Years Agp.'1( . . Miss Grace . Scully Ow gnl to Olympia to take ..alwo-weck course of training .for.wimming instructors. " Mrs. Ed Jasper .and children, Don, Edna, Jean and jjVIary, re turned to their horne in the Valeria district after having lived in La Grande during ,t(ic school year. , 'c,'.r, . . Mr. and . Mrs. Miles-- Woodell have returned to thttfrihome in the Dry Crcek'heig'libl(ood'from, McMinnville where? tlcy repre sented the Pleasant urbve grange at the 1935 meeting of the state grange. This Curious World ARTHQUAS OCCUK SOMEWHERE AROUND THE GLOBE AT THE RATE OF ABOUT 8,000 1 dSB ?r. T. M. MO. U- . PAT. OFF, 9 lj A puototgr Octet it;)' ,." "NOrALL POPULAR SON&S ARE 1 I 1 I POPULAR," I Jc5s H I AtRS. DONIS DUNHAM, ! ) llUlUJ IP A MAN ANDAVffE HAD ix children they covlo give the earth ITS PRESENT POFjULATtON IN 9 GtMVATrOMf, WITH NO COUPLE HAVIN& AORE THAN NEXT: A jsw-brcaki.-vj sulfa drug.