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By DREW PEAHSON
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Frank Schiro, Publiaher
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNK 20, 1915
Pnjre 1'our-
My, My! What Beautiful Teeth It Has!
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EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Valley imitation project.
LA GRANbV' A city of 10,000
Extend the city limits.
TODAY'S TEXT
And whoso I'nlleth not (loVifl, and wor
shippclh shall the same hour he cast
into the midst of n nurnintr fiery fur
nace. Daniel 15 :G.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
There's no art to find the mind's con
st ruction in the face. Shakespeare.
Come For Hi
Union county war finance committee
niemhcrs, appraising the bond purchas
ing situation, are convinced that unless
Union county K limitl buyers, largo and
small, put forth an unusual effort al.
cooperation the seventh war loan quota
will not be reached.
This is the first lime in the entire
history of the six previous war loan
campaigns thai, the situation has ap
peared s jienl. In advertising and
publicity the eommillee is frankly slal
inir its position anil appealing to the
citizens of this rtiunty for help.
That help must be forthcoming from
'di I d buyers, large and small; those
who have purchased bonds up to their
quota and particularly those who have
not yet taken act ion.
However, l.'i I buyers must come forth
who will buy al least one if I. lit Ml K bond
al a issue price of $7;'ii.
Funny Husinvss
l'robably everyone of these buyers
will have already purchased bonds to
what they consider their limit. This is
a critical time, however, a time for re
appraisement of the situation. At least
13-1 such persons must come forth to
buy that additional bond they felt they
couldn't buy.
There is one surety in the situation.
This county, which has .won, praise, inv
campaign" after campaign for splendid
effort must not fail now. If it does, the
responsibility will fall on its citizens and
it will be they who will bear the stigma
of failure. In every campaign, citizens
have been .exhorted not to let down
boys in military service.
Such an appeal may not carry the
weight it once did. Wo shall hale, how
ever, to have to explain to 'the boys
mopping up on Okinawa and gathering
in the Paeil'ie for the final push that
when ihe big test came, Union county
couldn't meet it.
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Vote For School llotuls
Northeast Oregon is reminded that
the proposition to be balloted on this
coming I'Viday, June 22, is an important
one.
To vote $10,111 in.iioi) of surplus income
lax monies already in hand for Ihe con
struction of necessary college buildings
and state institution buildings vote
Vi:.S on lidOX.
If this money is not now expended
for this highly necessary purpose, it
may be dissipated for less necessary
purposes. Vole Friday and Vide YES
on :5i MIX.
The future of Eastern Oregon college
depends on it.
o SO THEY SAY
If you're n hay fever victim
don't io;i m about looking for a
haven, tveausc ttirre is no such
place as long as you are allergic.
Dr. Honavcntiira Jiminr., Uni
versity of Michigan.
Tlic average American knows
that peacetime conscript ion can
only mean preparation for win
with Hus'sia.
1. 1. Col. Hoseoe S. Gonkliu,
New- York City.
lion i.n.. !M,jXfy- m ..1 oil -
"I dunnol Ho plunked
room
himself dc5?0 an' 3y. 3(tvr, I bet riff)
rci)on(0,P'UQ?"iJ'"
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If the win- keeps lining in our
favor Hie army .should be utile to
return 10 to 12 billion dollars to
the treasury next year.
Hep. J. Huell Snyder, Pcunsyl-
vaniaQ
It is I nt easy for anyone to get
into Stalin's mind, yo as far as
.ii 'ii.' can make out, Stalin
thinks that the QDnc minister
(Winston Churchill) is n broth of
a boy. Stalin doesn't like (S)m;m
who lives (in, nuts and soda wa
WASHINGTON President Truman got
some unexpected but welcome words from
nn old political enemy when GOP congress
man Everett Dirksen of Illinois dropped in
to sec him following Dirksen's recent inspec
tion trip around the world. ;
The big Illinois congressmaa himself a
candidate for the Republican nomination,
had received several thousand dollars of
campaign contributions from hil home con
stituents which he proposed returning to
them. But they proposed that he use it to
study U. S. foreign relations abroad.
Returning from that trip Dirksen conclud
ed that the biggest problem wc face is win
ning the peace after the war and hiring the
right kind of diplomats (with mough pay)
to do it. Dropping in to sec President Tru
man, Dirksen said:
"You were a wagon soldier in the last war,
Mr. President. So was I. (Bath were in
horse-drawn field artillery). We don't have
much conception of how modern wart'aie
operates. But wc do know something of
what our boys have gone through, and we've
got to make sure that these who have taken
it on the chiri.havc not done it in vain."
"You speak my language," replied Tru
man, listening intently.
"Why don't yu get a $100,uM,U00 appro
priation fog;ll(c slate department," Dirksen
continued, ,!and build up a system of Ameri
can diplomacy strong enough to represent
this country? That's the first step in win
ning the peace after the war. We've got to
hire good diplomats and give them the
means of support.
"I am for economy," Dirksen vent on. "In
fact, I have opposed a lot of spending on the
part of the Roosevelt administration. But 1
consider a strong stale department to lie
one of the best investments this nation can
make."
President Truman replied that there was
a great deal in what the Illinois congress
man said. Foreign affairs, he continued, was
one thing he was working on hardest; and
he hinted, without exactly saying so, that
he was giving stale department reorganiza
tion a lot of consideration. I
Canol Pipe Line
One thing Senator Horner Ferguson of
Michigan likes to remind certain army offi
cers about is Canol the fabulously expen
sive oil and refinery project the army put
up in Canada but never operated. This was
the pel project of Gen. Brehon Somervell,
head of army service forccj.
Just before he left for Europe last month.
Senator Ferguson bumped into General
Somervell In Washington. The senator
winced a bit from the general's handshake,
and Somervell began to kid him about not
being tough enough to stand the various
shots in the arm which alii travelers bound
for Europe or the Pacific must take.
"How much blood did yob lose, senator?"
Somervell asked. ,
"Hardly any," Ferguson replied. "And
those shots really don't bother md too much.
You sec, they didn't give me very large
shots. They just put into my arm all the
oil the army's been able to get from Canol."
The general changed the subject." .
OWI Sabotage
While Republican dichards in congress are
doing their best to axe funds for the office
of war information, Gen, Robert McClurc of
the psychological warfare board was as
signed OWI additional work in the post-war
setup for Germany. A recent cable from
General McClurc reads:
"OWI will be expected to continue to
furnish the following:
"1. Special newsreel compilations and
documentary films, including weekly news
reels or newsreel material.
"2. Magazines and booklet.! especially pre
pared for distribution in Germany as ap
proved by U. S. or requested by U. S. (the
atrocities pamphlets is an example.)
"3. Radio programs from the Voice of
America and from such large continental
transmitters outside of Germany which come
under U. S. control. The stations in the U.
S. zone will carry these as relays.
"4. To make available world news for the
newspapers which arc published in Germany
by us. Sometime later, when German pa
pers arc licensed, a source of world news
will be needed until a German news agency
is organized to service them.
"5. Photagraphic exhibits and such other
services as may be needed.
"The information control section, U.' S.
group control council, the PWB SHAEF arc
depending on OWI for these IT. S. services,
and hope that OWI will be able to continue
to supply them."
Despite all this, GOP dichards are deter
mined to cut the heart out of OWI.
Capitol Chaff
Senator Tydings' friends say he has vari
ous explanations for his unexpected quick
return from the Philippines after he expect
ed to stay five weeks. Only trouble is the
explanations conflict. One explanation is
I hat Tydings had to bring back a peace offer
from the Japs. Another is that he was act
ing as special emissary to Washington from
MacArthur. Another is that he had immed
iate work to do in Washington on the ques
tion of Philippine independence .... Dip
lomats lifted their eyebrows when U. S. Am
bassador Adolf Berle flew up from his post
in Brazil at the exact time Secretary Stet
tinius was in San Francisco.
Most diplomats report when the secretary
of state is present, not absent. However,
Berle has never forgiven Stcttinius for fir
ing him as assistant secretary when he was
in the middle of the Chicago aviation con
ference .
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
The soldier from Kentucky was home on
leave. A neighbor with no men in her fam
ily in service, realizing how much the use
of a car would mean to him, turned her car
over to him for Ihe length of his leave, while
she did her marketing and errands on foot.
That is Ihb kind of real neighborliness and
friendliness that the men from Europe
spending leaves in this country before going
on to the Pacific, are bound to appreciate.
It is more to the point than pretty speeches
or rvenings of being lionized by local citi
zens. It is better than giving parties for service
men or asking them to speak at' luncheons.
The use of a car is, of course, just one of
the many ways in which outsiders could
help to make the servicemen's leaves in this
country more pleasant.
Tlic wife or mother cooking for a serv
iceman who has dreamed of home-cooked
meals harried by a lack of, red points
would certainly appreciate the gift of points
for a pound of bacon or a roast from some
family without a returned serviceman to
cook for.
The serviceman with a baby or several
small children at home would certainly en
joy his leave more if his wife were'nt com
pletely lied down. Offering to keep the
kids, while the husband and wife go out at
night or have a day away from home, would
be about the most thoughtful way of making
a young father welcome home.
There are lots of ways the neighbors could
help the returning servicemen have happier
leaves it they really put their minds lo it.
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evoning ObnerTer Waihlngton Correipondenl
ord Bi(erbrook's London
Daily Express. -. - v
WASHINGTON Secretary of War Henry
b. Stimsnn said that his weekly press con
ference ivvicw was exceedingly dull but he
might as well go through with it. It was
and he did.
Hut I hen he iiitrndurcd his guest star.
General George S. Pattnn liiutsvlf and things
picked up.
The general had sal all through Ihe read
ing of Ihe war review with the corners of
his mouth turned way down, staring sourly
over his four stars and five rows of ribbons.
Hut when he look the chair, up went the
corners of his mouth, magnificent crowfoot
wrinkles dittoed the big grin, and his brown
berry eyes sparkled in the middle of his pink
face and white-fringed balding head. He
wore three rings, tw-o on his left hand, one
on his riiiht. His voice was surprisingly
Soft. He started lo talk about tanks;
Tanks, he said, were nothing but armored
anil armed infantry. In the infantry von
had the sipiad and jn the tanks you had Ihe
crew. Tlic tanks enabled Die soldiers to ar
rive at the scene of battle less fatigued, and
they enabled the soldiers to carry tw o blank
els instead of one. Also, if the soldier got his
feet wet. he could dry his shoes over the
exhaust pipe.
q tbK KVitcfal said he tlntfjtt there was(a
sorVof fitv-e instinct that made people aTraid
of tanks. They used to be afraid of sabre
toothed tiller) and dinosaurs and things like
tl. and so now when they saw a tank com
ii(f)thcy thought, "my gowints), hc.'cVotucs
a(Sibre-toothed tiger," and they ran lut)i$5)
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Birf tanks, (h)'nid. enabled armies lo break
thnxigh cnw.uy. 'fines to si an advantage
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"I'm making money but I feel like a war profiteer I tell 'em if
they hire me to wash their windows those service stars will show
up better!"
o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
DUMMY GETS NAME
FROM OUR SYLVIA
Have you met Sylvia in ir.v
column? You know, Sylvia is
the girl who always makes the
wrong pliy according lo rule,
but it always works out best for
her.
The bidding was a little opti
mistic on today's hand, but
South figured he needed a slam
to break even for the rubber.
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Well, l won Mje.wejihg club
caa with" the-, ace, took two
rounds of diamonds which picked
up the trump and then cashed
his ace of spades. The four of
spades was next led and, of
course, the natural thing to do
is for West to split the. honors.
Otherwise, the declarer will fi
nesse the ten spot and discard Ihe
losing five of clubs on the good
king of spades. But not Sylvia.
She plays low. The ten spot was
finessed, the king of spades then
led an dthe club discarded. But
how was the declarer going to get
rid of her two hearts? If Sylvia
had split her honors, the declar
er would have won with the
king, led te ten of spades and
simply discarded the losing five
of clubs. Now he had two good
spades in dummy on which to
discard the two losing hearts
IN FORMER
YEARS
15 Years Ago
Summer school activities at
Eastern Oregon college got under
way, with the enrollment in the
summer session already exceeding
the total for- the first. .S weeks
of the 1920 summer session.
Rain, falling in La Grande Id
the, extent of .4 inch during tho
night brought mingled comments
jKrftfb valley residents. Farmers
-"with hay cut were ' displeased,
while grain men and others with
growing crops beginning to suf
fer from a lack of moisture wel
comed the downpour.
W)
and. keep-the enemy Qiining. If you're a
prizefighter as he and General Surlcs once
were bowing to the war department's di
rector of public relations you know that
when you get a man on his heels you can
lick him. Jf he can get back on his toes, or
if he can put lemon juice in his mouth and
ice on his head between rounds, it's a lot
harder. But if you keep him on his heels
he just naturally keeps on going over back
ward further and further until you bury him.
Secretary Stimson had introduced Patton as
a cavalryman. The general said if he had
a little cavalry in Tunisia and Italy, the bag
of prisoners would have been a lot bigger.
He figured it like this: If a man can go N
number of miles an hour on foot, he can go
N plus one miles if he's retreating. But if
you go after him at N plus three miles an
hour on horseback, you just naturally over
take a lot more.
Patlon said he did have a little cavahy
in Africa at that. Nine hundred men mount
ed on jackasses and bulls and burros and
such things. But what amazed the general
was how ignorant most Americans are about
animals. They can all drive an automobile
but they can't saddle a horse lo save their
lives.
Under Stimson's prodding. Patton told
about his Rhine crossings. The Rhine was
supposed to be a bogeyman, Patton said, and
tho Germans sang songs about it to give it
a build-up. Hut one of his divisions crossed
at the Lorelei rocks to capture the Rhine
gcW. and another built a bridge across the
Kliine in a day less time than Llabiniu had
done it for Caesar's tenth legion, while two
eth)r div.lsJOns had got across on barges so
quietly that one major said the only thing
he missed on the moonlight ride was a pretty
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