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EDITORIAL PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Prank Schiro, Publisher
FRIDAY EVENING. JUNK 22, 19-15
Page Four
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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