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: .V, Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Prank Schiro, Publisher FRIDAY EVENING. JUNK 22, 19-15 Page Four Val id y Is the Spica of Lif e and Conferences AFTER A &AO DIET OF THIS OH,WHAT RELIEF 6& B6 3 C0NFEPEMCE TASLe EVENINfi OliSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. I.A GRANDE A city of 10,001) Extend the city limits. The Big Three's New Member A few months ago millions of Ameri cans wore smlTing at the prospect of Thomas 10. Dewey silting down at the same conference bible with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Cartoon ists drew the New York governor in knickerbockers and Eton collar a little hoy seeking a place among the seats of the mighty. At that lime there were no cartoons of Marry S. Truman at the conference lahle. No one even speculated on how he might look or conduct himself in the presence of the renowned leaders of our two great allies. In the hot parti sanship of the moment, he was ignored or forgotten. Ignored or forgotten, too, was the inexorable mortality which has ele vated Harry S. Truman to the presi dency and lii-ought him the opportunity for personal greatness inherent in that great office. I!ut now he is about, to take the center of the world's stage at thai very conference table in one of contemporary history's most fateful and diamatic roles. We believe that Mr. Truman will do well. And wo also believe that that con fidence is shared by most of the people of this country, lie will not be an other lloosevelt, hut that is no dispar agement. For, if he presents himself to Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin as he has to the American people in his few weeks as president, Mr. Tru man will make no personal attempt to be anything more than himself a man who, in looks and speech and back ground, resembles millions of his fel low countrymen, a man who probably represents what we mean by "typically American" better than anyone who has sal in the While House in the last half century. Milt it may safely le assumed that Mr. Truman's preparation for this mo mentous conference goes far beyond the typical and average. In the midst ef his other heavy duties ho has worked assiduously to acquaint himself with the details of Mr. lioosevelt's association with the liussian and I'.ritish leaders on which so much of our foreign policy is based. He has sought advice from the like liest sources. And, by a wise choice of emissaries and a perceptive timing of his decisions, he has ridden out what might have been a 'major diplomatic crisis. As a result, he approaches the coming meeting with a much happier prospect of fruitful results than seemed possible even a fortnight ago. It is important that Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin like Mr. Truman, and we rather believe they will. Wo believe that they will find in him the cordiality, patience, directness of approach and amenability to suggestion that most of us flatteringly consider characteristic of the American spirit. They will also find that Mr. Truman is as truly a member of the "Mig Three" as Mr. Uoosevelt was, for ho will be representing the United States and speaking for its people. Judging from his performance to date, we think that he will speak intelligently and courage ously for them, for freedom, and for peace. Funny liusiness mm w i " :?. ) 3B 1-:- ' tfT , t o SO THEY SAY It was evident Unit ninny gov ernments woi-e controlling the press politically under the guise if war security. Report ef American society "t newspaper editors on foreign investigation of their group. We should always he in a con slant state (if preparedness, fin" we have ncwr found n way to stop war, although I hope we do. Gen. George S. Patten. "HV 4tMUI boJrowing ionic money from fou bays? I'm bank-ruptl" It's like trying to eliminate cockroaches from a stubborn closvt uo haw regained only seven per cent of the terriloty the Japs took. If the war should stop now, the Japs would lie the winners. Capt. Robert C. Silel, Cinrin nati, Ohio. I cannot see how, when they tthc JapoiiM) arc so tonacums . individually, we can expect their . mass mc-nle to crack. Gen. JcK'ph W. Silwcll. Br DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Plenty of publicity was given to the faot that the Russians had barred the allies from entering the city of Vienna, but it was kept very hush-hush when an Anglo-American-French mission finally did enter Vienna on June 3. Under the Yalta agreement, the United States and Britain were supposed to send military missions into Vienna, but duiing the height of the Polish trouble, when US USSR relations were strained, the Russians had takcrt all the Viennese airports and wouldn't let us land. When the western allies finally arrived in -Vienna on June 3, things didn't go too well. There were some unpleasant differ ences with the Soviet commander as to whether they could inspect all the city. He contended that the Yalta agreement permit ted the western allies access only to the city of Vienna, which includes one aiiport. The western allies, on the other hand, con tended that Yalta permitted them access to "Vienna Grau" or greater Vienna including the region around the city proper and all airports. In the end, the Russians yielded, permit ting the western allies to inspect everything. The French-British-American military found that the Russians were acting 'reasonably in Austria, and it has now been agreed that the Anglo-American occupation will extend to the west bank of the Danube, while the Russian occupation will control the east bank. ' The western allies' representatives left Vi enna June U to report to SHAEF. It looks as if another hurdle in relations with Rus sia had been ironed out. A bad situation is still boiling in Bulgaria, however. Baseball and United Nations In San Francisco, a delegation of Philadcl phians called on Australia's external affairs minister Herbert Evatl to ask that the City of Brotherly Love founded by William Penn become the scat of the United Nations in the future. Dr. Evalt listened carefully. Then he re plied: "I can't vote for Philadelphia until the Phillies gel out of the cellar. I'm afraid it would give the United Nations a defeatist attitude if both Philadelphia baseball teams were at the bottom of their leagues." Capital Chaff Henry Kaiser, the big boat-builder, is get ting together with Colorado Iron and Fuel to take over the government-owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah. U. S. Steel and Wall , Street have discouraged the project, con tending steel can't be made economically on the west coast. However, Kaiser is deter mined to try, believes the west is poten tially one of the great markets of the world and can supply its own goods .... New Hampshire's one-time isolationist Senator Tobey has got religion. He is so anxious to avoid another war that he has become one of the most ardent advocates of international cooperation. Tobey even blasted (indirect ly) his old friend and colleague, ex-Senator Danahcr of Connecticut, who, while an ex ecutive of the Republican national commit tee, used his position as ex-senator to go on the senate floor and lobby against the recip rocal trade agreements act .... a strong move is underway to make ex-Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, retiring head of the surplus war property board, the new undersecretary of state. Gillette has his ear close to the ground of American public opinion, espe cially midwest opinion, which the state de partment sometimes ignores . President Truman's Pledges President Truman apparently is adopting the unique policy of not forgetting campaign pledges. The other day he stuck his neck out regarding the fair employment practices act (despite its unpopularity in the south) by urging the rules committee to report the bill out and let congress vole on it. Following this, he had an interesting con versation with Generoso Pope, Italian-American publisher in New York. Pope had come to ask that American policy in Italy give more encouragement to democratic ideas, and not let the Italian people be subject to the British policy of restoring the monarchy ' or the Russian policy of communism. Pope pointed out that one of the best ways of pre venting these political extremes was to help the Italian people out in their desperate plight, and to let them have some of the food and supplies originally imported for the U. S. and allied armies, but now surplus. After listening carefully, President Tru man told Pope: "I made a speech about that in the last campaign. I'll do my best to carry those ideas out." WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MILLETT "Women Buying S9 Per Cent of Nation's Civilian Cigarets," says a headline. And lest men who are quick to blame all of the world's ills on women quickly assume that women are smoking more than their 1 share of the cbtantry's cigarots, we had bet ter point out that: Many a sweet old lady who never bought cigarets before in her life is standing in cig aret ' lines today to buy a pack for a son or favorite nephew. And many a working girl chases around on her lunch hour trying to find cigarets for a husband Whose job isn't quite so handy to drug stoics. Then there are the housewives with a good standing at, their favorite grocery store who have better luck getting an under-the-counter pack of cigarets with each grocery order than their husbands have at their fa- Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON, Lb Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON If he doesn't get a cou ple of days off pretty soon, says General of the Armies Dwight D. Ksenhowor, there's going to he a rebellion. If anybody deserves a vacation it is Gen eral Ike. But when it is over and he goes back to Germany he faces another tough job in putting that ex-Nazi country in its proper place and making sure it will stay there. About that job the general talked turkey at a press conference during his day in Washington. General Kex-nhower admits at the outset that he doesn't know the German people well, though he has studied and used every facility he could to know them better. . This ill itself is a hopeful sign, for when a man admits he doesn't know all the answers he is making an intelligent approach to his job and not one dictated by emotional and blind prejudices. If any man is entitled to hate the Germans and want to sec them crushed ruthlessly, it is Eisenhower. For the memoirs of the lIMh S. S. Korps, who killed captured American prisoners oi cold blood during the battle ef the Bulge, !ie will show- no mercy. He regards every Na.i storm trooper a po tential war criminal at least putting the burden of proof of innoevnee on the accused. He would utterly destroy the German gen eral staff. How, he is not sure. But he mentions the possibility of rounding up e. ery German officer with general staff train ing, segregating the whole lot of them, des troying all the archives. He is convinced the Germans deliberately starved American prisoners. The first German murder factory lie saw made him madder than he has ever been in his life. And yet he says simply, "vacc can't be built on hate." He divides the German problem into two phases. First is the emergency problem. The cities of Germany are destroyed beyond cvery Uiing he has ever seen. Berlin is Lotuum multiplied inn times. Transportation is dis located. The Germans face actual starva tion. The job is to gel the German local com munities started again. To screen the people. To prepare a case history on every one. To find the anti-Nazis or the neutrals and make them responsible for policing the country and getting labor started on the farms. The problem of getting displaced persons back to their homelands is well along. Al ready two million French and Russian slave laborers have been liberated and 200,001) British and Americans held as prisoners ef war have been freed. This highly necessary screening of every individual is the reason behind General Eisenhower's order that American soldiers must not be permitted to fraternize with the German people. It must continue in force, he says, until every last element of Nazism is eliminated. How long this will require he cannot estimate. But he is determined to find every war criminal and not let a single one escape. "This is the only way." he says, "to show the German people that crime docs not pay." The second phase of General Eisenhower's new job is the long-range problem of Ger many's future. This is the political problem while policy is determined by statesmen and where men like Eisenhower become the mere executors of their governments. This is the period where the mistakes can be made. General Eisenhower will probably have more free advice on this phase of his job than he had from all the arm chair strategists w ho tried to tell him how to win the fighting war. But he won the fighting war in spite of all the long-range experting from the amateurs at home. Acting as he talked in Washing tent, he can be trusted with full authority on tho post-war job in Germany if his hands are not tied and his style is not cramped b the politicians. How.iong his new job will last, how long an American army of occupation must re main in Germany, he docs not know. ' si comrm sywr'rtviee. titer t: m. uronr. T. m:k "These old letters sure are hot stuff when Pop was courting Mon) : he wasn't making as much money as I am mowing lawnsl" McKENNEY ON BRIDGE ' Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority - HAZEN DEFENDS HIS OPENING TWO BID I was talking to Lee Hazen the other day about the weak open ing two bid. Ha has used it for a long time, but claims its only advantage is its deception. In other words, as soon as good op ponents get used to competing against the weak two bid, there is not much of a problem. How- voritc hang-outs. And there arc the hostesses who shop around for cigarets before a party because it is so pleasant to hear guests exclaim, "You don't mean you're passing cigarets around!" There arc also the . mothers, wives, and sweethearts who buy cigarets to stick in overseas packages, along with candy and cookies. Not that women aren't smoking their share of the scarce and precious article. Plenty of them are standing in line for them selves, of course. But women don't smoke all the cigarets they buy today any more than they cat al! the meat they wheedle out of their butchers. They arc just more resigned to shopping around than arc men. Fact is, they get a kick out of buying scarce articles whether for their own use or for someone else's gratitude. A 94 VQJ 10B53 J 10 8 2 2 J65 N A83 TK9S yy A4 K96 q A 75 KQ73 Dealerl109 4t AKQ1072 72 Q43 65 Duplicate E.-W vul. South Wrst North East 2 A Pass Pass 3 3 4 A Pass 5 Opening A K. 23 ever, he gave me this interestmf hand which came up at the New York bridge whist club. In spite of the weak two bid, East and West had no trouble 'getting to'tivc clubs',' WVt eduld have been defeated had South just made a simple play. Here is the point. South cashed the king of spades and then came the Questions & Answers Q What does CAVU mean in aviation parlance? A Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Q Which nation was the 511th to be given a seat in the United Nations conference in San Fran cisco? A Denmark, freed from tin German yoke, w'as unaniniou-v voted a member. Q How is paper Ire; writing purposes? A It is sized with ani:: to provide'a non-fuzzy facilitate smooth imov the pen and withslam i' -;ioe r . -c hi M.l ,lf ;ui.'S. Q What clouds are -.lelinus called "marc's tails"? A The cirrus clouds, i, -c-.irring at an altitude of 30,000 or mo:e feet queen of spades. Nowuwhat should he play? He knows that North and East are both out of spades. Well, if he leads any thing but that queen of spades, East is going to make the con tract. You will find when you run out all the clubs that South cannot hold his three diamonds to th-e queen and the queen of Spades, while North will get squeezed with hearts. and dia monds. We gave the hand to scvcrul expcits, just showing them Hie South hand and the dummy and it was surprising the number that did not lead the third spade. LN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago ' Prof. F. L. Griffcn of O. A. C. was in the city to spend a week and conducting canning demon strations with County Farm Ex pert Claude C. Catc. Olaf Groupe, an O-W office em: ploye, spent the day in Portland visiting friends. . A. S. Geddcs was in the city visiting former,' ncighborsjinHc reported the beet business pros perous in and about Burleigh, Idaho, the city to- which the La Grande sugar beet factory was moved. IS Years Ago Stale Sen. Colon R. Ebcrhard was the speaker al the Lions club luncheon, explaining certain ways and means of selecting a repub lican nominee for governor to succeed the late Senator George W. Joseph. Among other huge picnics of the season was that of the Red and White stores in celebration of the first year in this district. More than :100 owners, employes and their wives attended. 10 Years Ago . ' Mis. M. M. Christensen and her daughter, Billic, went to Idaho and I tah to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Peterson and their children, Maxinc and Billy, lelurned from a trip to Portland and Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kiddle and their son, Clyde jr., returned from a two-week vacation trip to San Diego, Calif. They also visited thoir daughter, Miss Maravcne Kiddle, in Portland. This Curious World r3S ARE ACTUALLY ' K ct.ouosfours. ) W ( THE TRUNK-LIKE I Jr ) PROJECTION IS A ( JW WHIRLIN& ). if I ' ( CLOUO COLCMS,' ) THE SAME AS IN jjU TORNADOES. I... - , r,., 0 COrn. 1 MS Br NtA SERVICE. IMC u. s- pat. orr. I MS IF TCUR FRUIT TREE OVERHANGS The NEIGHBOR'S YACD, ARE YOU ENTITLED TO THE THE FRLKT THAT MANc4 CUT SIDE YOUR, BOUNDARY LINE P IM Ml 171 Onli-MICM A -. I vaLlC OFFICIAL INCt; I ALL CHICKSNS KILLED ANO '! ANSWER: Yes. you have the right to reach over and take the frvlt ;'o , NEXT: How often does your heart beat in a year?
