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I EDITORIAL PAGE' La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY ICVICNlNtt, JUNE 21, 1945 Page I'our- What Maketh the Borneo Wild Man Wild? EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande ' Ronde Valley irrigation project. (.A GRANDE A city of 10,000 . . , . Extend the city limits. Music for the Soldier The, art of music has always meant much to the soldier. For centuries it has urged him into huttlo with fife and pipe and drum, and its less martial strains have offered him a brief escape from the bleakness and irrimness of war. The soldier in this war has been no different. Music has been important in keeping up morale. The first parachute of supplies dropped on Attu in the Aleu tions carried, besides food and other absolute necessities, a phonograph and a set of records. Musical equipment lias accompanied the American soldiers and sailor into every theater of operations. And al most any serviceman will tell you that it has helped to make life a little more livable. Much of this equipment has been is sued by the services themselves. Hut a great deal of it has been contributed by the National Federation of Music clubs in the course of a modestly unpublicized program now four years old. The National Federation of Music clubs is made up of hundreds of corn unity groups, the harmony clubs and matinee nuisicales and such that . are found in almost every town in the coun try. In the summer of 19ll they began sending instruments' and entertainers to army camps and navy bases 'here at home,-sometimes flying small pianos. by cargo planes to the more remote instal lations. ... ' . , ' ' ' ' '" With the start of the war, the feder ation gave to each out-going transport a portable phonograph and a consign ment of records. Often these gave the men the only music they had to relieve the monotony and anxiety of a black out voyage on which even radio listen ing was prohibited. Later the federation equipped outgo ing battalions with enough instruments to make up hillbilly bands, since cargo limitations at that time did not permit the shipping of larger instruments. And as casualties began coming home in in creasing numbers, these musical dona tions were broadened. Today each hospital ship receives from the federation a kit of instruments and song books, four phonographs, 100 popular records, and sets of classical and religious records. All told, the clubs of the federation have. raised $80,0(10 for their work and sent a million and a quarter articles of musical equipment to the fighting for ces at home and abroad. And though they have donated plenty of drums and bugles, the clubs have been too busy to play many fanfares and flourishes on their own behalf. So a little belated recognition of their generosity seems entirely in order. Funny Business tattooing U DOME U&! a .T- - ...... i. I ' -con H nia iiivicf'iMC T M us 6 r,.ai I , ft " "A destroyer, air to II will be a full battleship whhi 1 Brow upi (0) w 0 SO THEY SAY Unless wo maintain what Lord Mouton called "obedience to tin' unenforceable," our free society wil I suffer the increasing en croachment of statutory legisla tion and governmental regulation until wo are as rigidly regiment cd as till' dictatorships which wo havo defeated. IV. Hulph W. Sockntan. chap lain. New York university. Germany really felt this war. 1 saw all of the Huhr and most uf it was destroyed. In one town I saw there was nothing lift standing more tllm wtiist-high for HI miles around. Hep. l.yle Uoivn, Oklahoma. So far as wo have influence in all these (Balkan) lands it will he to do idl we can to allow the people of a country to choose the government and administration they want. Uritish Foreign Secretary An thony Kden. Our colored troops were among our most valuable assets. Gen. Mark Clark. Washington Merry-Go-Round By 9HEW PEARSON Side Glances WASHINGTON In picking Tom Clark us his new attorney general, President Truman followed his old yen for exposing war frauds. Clark, astute,; crusading former head of the justice department's war frauds unit, hsa a notable record, had prosecuted some of the cases which the Truman committee first ex posed .... Also he originated many cases of his own. Clark has served as assistant attorney gen eral in charge of anti-trust, succeeding trust huRling Thruinpn Arnold, and later as assist ant attorney general in charge of the crim ' inal division . If the big city bosses who put Truman across at Chicago are looking for somone to pull their chestnuts out of the fire in the justice department, they may have a hard time with young Clark. Clark faces. some interesting and import ant city boss cases almost immediately. One is the case of Mayor Kelly's friend Bill John son, the big gambling boss of Chicago, who has been convicted but is still out on appeal. Another is whether to prosecute further ex Governor Leche of Louisiana, who faces pa role soon but has three other indictments standing against him .... Another is the case of Freeman Burford from Clarks' home town of Dallas, still facing a criminal indict ment in connection with hot oil and brib ing Governor Leche of Louisiana .... Clark was "sold" to Truman chiefly by Bob Hanne gan and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, both his very close friends. New Agricultural Secretary New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, new secretary of agriculture, is one of the newest members of congress and one who has made a notable record in a very short time .... Anderson is an Albuquerque insurance man who voted against the insurance companies consistently with legislation aimed to ex empt insurance companies from the Sher man unti-trust laws was before congress . . . He is one of the toughest, most liberal mem bers of congress, has an A-l standing with his colleagues, and was given the two im portant jobs .of. investigating food and also probing campaign expendtiures last year . . . In the latter-job he did his best to expose wealthy flag-waving groups which tried to get around Income taxes by making political contributions in the guise of educational gifts -. . . . Anderson's appointment will be a blow to New Mexico's Governor Jack Dempsey, whose place in congress he took when Dempsey became un'deisecretary of the interior, f he two have long been ardent political enemies. On the other hand, An derson is close to New Mexico's idealistic Senator Carl Hatch .... Anderson is a crack horseman, likes to relax on his ranch near Albuquerque. ' Though a successful businessman, Ander son has been a consistent battler for labor .. . . One remarkable speech got absolutely no publicity shortly after Pearl Harbor when he accused big business of a carefully planned conspiracy to crack down on labor to divert public attention from huge war profiteering, refusal by business to convert to war production and the operations of dol-lar-u-yoar men in the war production bard .... Anderson especially blasted Arthur Bunker of Lehman brothers for operating inside the WPB to hold up a government magnesium plant because it would compete with the Dow chemical company. New Labor Secretary New Labor Secretary Lew Sehwellenbach was one of the so-called young Turks dur ing the early days of the Roosevelt adminis tration. Along with Senator Sherman Min ton of Indiana there was almost no job too liberal or too politically dangerous for Sehwellenbach to tackle. He was especially vigorous in supporting Roosevelt in his su preme court battle at which time he also had the support of Senator Truman ..... The Washington senator also served with Senator Hugo Black (now Justice Black) in his lobbying investigation. Schwellenbach's appointment to the cabi net will bring no joy to Seattle collector of customs Saul Haas, formerly Schwellen bach's campaign manager, who turned against him. It was partly because Haas vowed to defeat Sehwellenbach for re-election, and because the Democratic party in Washington state would have been split wide open that Lew retired from the sen ate to the federal bench. Sehwellenbach Is most notable ; senate achievement was breaking a filibuster by the late Huey Long. In those days almost no one dared brave the Kingfish's vitrolie tongue. He had veteran senate leadsr com pletely cowed by threatening to enter their stales to defeat them. Once when Long was staging one of. his filibusters and other sen ate leaders had thrown up their hands in despair, Sehwellenbach took command of the fight, forced Huey to stay on his feet for 14 hours and finally drove him from the floor . . . .Sehwellenbach was proposed for the labor post by Dave Beck of the teamster's union. Originally, the AFL . wanted Dan Tobin to get the job, but the CIO was op posed. Therefore, the AFL, fearing a CIO candidate might be appointed, withdrew To bin's name, and got behind Sehwellenbach. WE, THE WOMEN By HWTH MILLETT "' A soldier,' dismayed by Hits' fact that h'e sneezed every time he kissed his girl, was found by army doctors to be allergic to the girl's face powder. So she changed her brand. Let's hope that doesn't giv-Q men the idea that they could work a racket with this al lergy business. I Think what they could doj with it. The man who didn't like his wife's, red nail polish could fake an allergy for it. I The husband who didn't wpnt to buy his wife a fur coat could develop a sudden al lergy to fur especially to the high-priced brands. Husbands who dislike evenings devoted to bridge could plead an allergy to smoke-filled looms though how they would gel out to poker games after claiming such symptoms Would be another problem for them. ' A man could even sneeze instead of laugh when his wife brings home a little bit of feathers to wear on her head with an $13.00 price lag attached.' If he could convince the little woman he was just plain allergic to dust, a man wouldn't have to clean the basement or the garage and he might slide out from under his obligation to the garden. And a man could easily develop an allergy for any dish he didn't particularly like or that appeared on the table often because it was easy for his wife to whip up after an afternoon with the girls. Because It's so much easier for a man to sneeze than to put his foot down, we may have an "epidemic" of allergies among the men. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grands- Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Now is the time when too many American civilians want to quit playing war and the net effect can bo pio perly psychoanalyzed and reduced to a few terse sentences, it would seem to be: "We're tired of being patriotic and good. The annoyance of OPA rationing, price con trol and thtQIjttlc steel formula are more than we earo'to be bothered with longer. So let's scrap 'em. And if we have a little in flation as a result, what of it'.' Before any citizen writes his own dis charge papers from the home front army in this manner he ought to add up his points. Not red and blue ones to see whether he has enough to brjfc a steak or a pound of butter, but white one's of the kind a soldier in the fighting army adds up to see if he is on titled to discharge. For civilians, a white point system might he devised something like this: . For ten per cent payroll deduction to l.uy war bonds, credit ton points for each full year's participation. For extu bonds bought in any of the seven drives, add one point for each such purchase. For each deviation to the blood bank, two points. For each star in the family flag, add ten points and for each gold star an extra hun dred. For each month's service in a war plant or essential war industry, give yourself a point. If you havo religiously saved fats, waste paper, planted a victory garden, collevU-d scrap, done volunteer work in OCD, nurses' aid, AWVS. Red Cross or similar campaign activities, he generous and give yourself what you think you're worth. So much for the positive side of this point system. Now see what your debits are. For each day's absenteeism from your war job, subtract one point. ,r'yi' each unnecessary trdiv, bus or plane trip you took, subtract one p died miles of travel. point per hun- For every gallon of gas burned in unessen tial driving one point off. For every purchase you made above estab lished ceiling prices, one point off. For every black market deal you made well, how about it, conscience? How much should he taken off? For every war bond turned in, one point off. For every fib or faked figure turned in above or on any government return or ap plication for ration blanks multiply the fig ure by two and subtract the product as points. Any one who delights in digging up de ductions for himself at income tay. time can add to his or her own list of deductions, but this much should be enough to convince any civilian that no matter how high the plus score, to minus scone will leave him without enough points for discharge. So the home front war must go on. This is a highly unpopular bill of goods to sell, particularly in hot weather. Three and a half years of just trying to be good are more than most people can stand. But anyone who faces the truth should see that the hardest part of this war is still to come not in the defeat of Japan but in what comes after. " The dangers of post-war inflation makes the dangers of wartime inflation now passed with reasonable success seem trivial, ' in flation doesn't scare people any more, if it over did. So how can the idea be sold? The hurts of cut-backs, layoffs, finding new jobs for war workers, rebuilding the V. S. economy and just trying to lend a hand to the rest of the war-torn woiQhave not yet begun to be felt. Evon if Japan folds tomorrow, the problems of this future v.ar call for greater exerciser good citizenship than did tho home front (Jjfort in the stat ing war, but how can that fact be drama tired? o In many ways this country todajJ) seems a lot less prepared forearl Harbofr That's why this is no time torsive up. miwfiAi.im.T.iLaM.aa..o. jrix "All this junk in the pockets of your suit I'm sending io the clean ers you wouldn't feel the heat so much if you'd carry it in a purse the way I dol" : ' O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE in By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority COHAN GETS SLAM WITH SQUEEZE PLAY The Ohio state tournament es tablished new attendance records in practically all events. There was one hundred and two pairs n"red in the open pair event. I have a trophy in competition which goes to the winners of the mixed pair .championship. This year it was won by Joseph Co han of Wooster, Mass., and Mrs. time getting into a shimf How ever, you will note that he has only 11 tricks. He had, to devel op a squeeze play in 'order to make his contract. " He won the first heart -with the queen, led a small diamond to. dummy and then played:'a club, and won with the jack! i Now, he played a small club and East won with the ace. East returned the kin gof hearts, which Joe won with the ace. Now he,, cashed his king of clubs and proceeded ' to run oft the diamonds',' discard ing two spades from-' his . own hand. East could not ' protect spades and hearts. That.jSix of heatts certainly became an im-. portant card after West opened with the seven spot. , :: ,-; . o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago .,, To step on an eight-rattled rattler, without the protection of high shoes and escape witout be--ing bitten, was the experience yesterday of L. M. Hoyt, presi? ; dent of the Wing Fin. 'alitf. Fleefo club. Hoyt and a party had gone to the Wallowa river Jq fish. To begin with Hoyt slipped off- a rock and went into deep water, icy cold. He was still shivering from the effects of the plunge when he discovered his foot wns firmly planted on a ,r,attler, the sole of the shoe pinning tHe rep tile to the ground a few inches behind its head. He killed the reptile with a rock. y. 15 Years Ago -. Union county's population, dur ing the last 10 years, increased 836 persons, or approximately 5 per cent. La Grande's, figure was 8,043 - compared with,. 6,913 in 1920, and the county 'outside of La Grande showed a loss of 194. Mrs. W. G. Sawyer returned from Portland where she attend ed the Rose festival and visited her listers. ' Cohan A K 8 6 3 AQ6 K42 K JB 4Q 1052 N B7 VKJ 853 W E V742 5 o 8 7 63 A73 Dealer 10 6 5 2 Mrs. Greenebaum 4k A J 4 10 9 AQJ109 Q94 Duplicate N.-S. vul. South West North East 1 1 3 N. T. Pass 4 N. T Pass 6N. T Pass Opening 7. 22 L. Grecnebaum of Milwaukee, Wis. I can just sec that big Irish smile of Joe's when West over called with one heart and he bid three no trump. Of course, when his partner went to four no trump, Joe would not lose any Questions & Answers Q How does an aviator be come an "ace"? . A By scoring five or more vic tories over enemy aircraft. Q What is the navy's answer to Japan's new super-speed air craft recently reported outni.v neuvering our pilots and nlnnc"? A The Grumman Ti :erca. (F7F, a fighter-bomber rated in the 425-miles-an-hour i Isr ;. It climbs a mile a minute. 10 Years Ago s did have, Q How many mo i Roosevelt and Churc:. :i and what were they? A Seven the Allan ic char ter in mid-ocean and one in Washington in 1941; Ca ablanca, Quebec, Cairo and Teh Tan in 1943, and at Crimea in February of this year. . Miss Etta Belle Kilchen of Portland is spending her- wacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kitchen. The swim week at Crystal Plunge opened last night with an encouraging enrollment. Begin ners in technique and junior or senior lifesaving courses are be ing taught. 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