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Side Glances Washington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL. PAGE Br DREW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1945 Page Two Tut. Tut. Mister. You Aren't Out of the Woods, Yet . ' i IPI M 4KB NOTHING I 1 VWiVtt Pf 1 EVENING OBSERVER'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 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. .Tames: 5:11. The Next War Predicting; the shape of the next war is a pastinio lontf dear to the Jules Verne type of writer. Some have been far off the beam, hut the better ones . have only had to wait for lime to catch , up with them and prove at least the substantial truth of their fancies. , - One of the more successful of these oracles is the Swedish engineer, Sven Liiulcquisl, who foresaw substratos phere bombiiiK' more than 20 years uro and, being- a practical sort of proRnos ticator, designed one of the first hijrh altitudo airplane engines. , The other day Lindeimist ventured the prediction that guns would be obso lete in the next war. Their place would be taken by jet or rocket-propelled, radio-controlled bombs weighing up to 10 tons and capable of landing with pre cise accuracy from a distance of hun dreds of milles. These would be made in underground factories, Mr. Lindeijiiist said, and fired from a camouflaged opening to the front lines. There they would be load ed with explosives and sent on their way. Kantaslic? Well, one might have thought so except that next day the papers carried a report from the U. S. army ordnance department which gave sober credence to the Swedish en gineer's prophecy. ' The report, based on statements of captured nazi scientists and on our own forces' observation, informed Ameri cans that New York and other east coast cities had missed being targets of the German V-bombs by only six months. -: But for the crippling RAF raid on the V-bomb plant at Peenemu ende in 1943, which killed hundreds of technicians and destroyed much experi mental equipment, this country could not have escaped before allied armies had smashed the nazis. As it is, the nazis claimed that pin point bombing at 3000 miles would have been possible by November. Our in telligence officers have not denied the claim, nor do they seem to see anything outlandish in the na.i boast that V bombing at a range of 15,000 miles was possible and imminent. So there is the next war. It will bo gin with a salvo of precision rocket bombs, sent from hundreds or thou sands of miles at tremendous speed, striking without sound or warning, wip ing out a whole city, perhaps, and most of its inhabitants. Then will come retaliation. City after city will be leveled, more thoroughly than in this war. The surviving civil ians will be in constant flight from the unseen the explosives and, maybe next time, the gas and bacteria bombs. They will live underground in caves and shelters. Poos anyone think it impossible? Does anyone still want to talk about "inevitable" war with anybody? Does anyone think that all of us should not use what brain and persuasive strength we have to work for enduring peace? Funny Business : isg-y XT mmatf dps, rijzc ' O SO THEY SAY Proparednitss does not incite wnr any more than insurance in vito fire. lirig.-Gt'n. John W. Marian. V-E Day didn't mean much to the boys in Italy. First ot all, the war's not over and, secondly, the Germans gave up in Haly a few days before the rest of them, so it didn't stir us up much. I.ieut. John W. Buzick, Mn- nette, Ark. To no one man do the United States owe a greater debt than to Marshal (Uregor I.) Zhukov. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Oeorge always, .carries ' placard when he goes shopping willi ml" Sugar shortages will last for one or two more years. Col. J. J. l.lcwellin. Britain's minister of food. Though governments may change and parties may quarrel, yet on sonic of the essentials of foreign afWdrs we stand together, that is, doing no disadvantage to the political party opposite. Prime Minister Winston Churchill. WASHINGTON Tall, stately Senator Jim Murray of Montana is 89 years old, but dur ing a closed-door session of his small busi ness committee he nearly got into a fist-fight with 54-year-old Senator Allen Ellender oi Louisiana. Fortunately for both, Senator Tom Stewart of Tennessee jumped up and spoiled the bout. Senatorial dignity was saved. It all happened when the senate small business committee held its first closed ses sion this year. Hitherto, the committee's work has been done in open sub-committees which have stepped on the toes of several . big business groups and battled hard for little business. Some senators haven't liked this. Also, they haven't liked the fact that Chairman Jim Murray delegated the committee's work to its counsel, Dewey Anderson. Most com mittee members, busy with other commit tee assignments, have been contnt to let An derson have free rein with the exception of Ellender of Louisiana and Admiral Tom my Hart. Hart, the new Republican senator from Connecticut, had never attended a full committee meeting. Finally, after pressure from Ellender and Hart, Senator Murray called one. Immedi ately the sparks began to fly. Ellender be gan interrupting the chairman, and the chairman asked that there be no more inter ruptions until he finished making announce ments. , "But you don't know what's going on in this committee," burst out Ellender. "Why, you've got a wild man here running things for you!" He referred to committee counsel, Dewey Anderson, former California legislator who hopes to run for the U. S. senate next year. Anderson and Ellender have never liked each other. " "If the Democrats run Anderson for office next year, they'll be giving the Republicans a chance to save campaign expenses," con tinued the gentleman from Louisiana. Fighting Names Murray ignored the outburst, but Ellen der, one of the better Louisiana politicians, elevated to the senate by his old friend Huey Long, kept grumbling. Finally, when he made some inaudible comment under his breath, Murray called him a liar. Ellender retorted with a more descriptive name and then started to jump on Murray. Senator Stewart of Tennessee finally pulled him back into his seat. Ellender continued his complaints, with out benefit of fist-waving. He complained about a lot of things Anderson had done, in cluding a newsletter to businessmen Ander son started to publish twice a month. El lender had refused to approve this publica tion, although Murray okayed it via long distance telephone and, according to Ander son, a majority of the committee later gave their okay. 'That is the sort of thing the committee should decide upon only after discussion," Ellender insisted. He and Senator Wherry also complained about the size of the committee staff and the fact that some staff members were bor rowed from agencies of the executive de partmnt a common practice in the senate. "This man Anderson won't even tell me who the staff members are," stormed Ellen der. "I've been after a list of them for three weeks, but he keeps pushing me off." In the end, the committee overruled Ellen der on the method of holding sub-committee hearings. It also supported Chairman Murray in borrowing personnel from gov ernment agencies. And as the meeting end ed, he and Ellender even shook hands. Is MacArthur Hospitable? Handsome Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland got slightly exercised on the sen ate floor this week about this column's spec ulation as to why he left Manila after five days, when he had expected to remain five weeks. Actually, the senator should not have been too upset over the implication that General MacArthur didn't want him wandering around the Philippines investigating things. Because just as good men as Millard (some say even better) have been barred from Luzon by MacArthur. They include: Four generals, all treasury department officials, and all officers work ing for Gen. William Donovan's office of strategic services. The treasury department had to protest to the White House direct before MacArthur would permit its officials to enter the Phil ippines. They have finally been admitted. But the surgeon general of the army, Maj. Gen. Norman Kirk, never did get into Lu zon; nor did Lieut. Gen. Edmund Gregory, the quartermaster general of the army; nor Brig. Gen. James Simmons, of the surgeon general's office; nor Brig. Gen. John F. Da vis, of the supply forces. MacArthur barred them all. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Maybe there is hope for women eventual ly doing something about the world's prob lems after all. The mail that has come in to refute an article I wrote a while back saying that women wouldn't really like to have trained experts doing their housework is a good sign. If intelligent women really would get the job of running a home as well organized as men have their office, then they could have time for helping to run their com munities. No man could be a big executive with out turning over his routine office work to persons trained to handle it. If a man had to type his own letters and answer his own telephones and talk with ever caller who came to his office, he wouldn't have time to do anything else. Successful men know this and so relieve themselves of the respon sibility for handling any part of their job they can get someone else to do. So if women really want to be able to hire "experts" to come into their homes for a few hours a day to do their routine jobs for them and wouldn't as many of them claim have to over-see and direct the worker, the successful wife and mother may eventually be able to use some o' her abil ity and common sense outside her home. Having experts do part of her work is the only way the intelligent woman with a husband and , family will ever have time enough to work seriously at making her home town, her state, and her country a belter place. If the intelligent women of the country really mean what some of them say, maybe in another fifty years the running of houses will be worked out as systematically as the running of offices, and women will share equally with men the job of running the country. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Polishing off the Unit ed Nations charter at San Francisco in a little over eight weeks constitutes an all time record for speed the way these things are measured. The impatient tendency has been to pooh-pooh the conference and all its works for dragging along since April 25 but, after all, great proxies. move slowly Rome wasn't built in a day, and it's a good thing glaciers don't fly as the tortoise didn't remark while sliding home past the hare. There's a moral for congress in the San Francisco speed, however, when you consid er how long it takes to get anything done on capitol hill. On the same day San Fran cisco conference opened, War Mobilization director Fred M. Vinson appeared before a house committee and asked for action now on renewal of. the reciprocal trade agree ments act. the Brotton Woods international monetary fund, and bank extension of the export import bank legislation, and icpoil of the Johnson act prohibiting loans to de faulting foreign governments. Just for the fun of it, take a look at what has happened to those four measures on which Judge Vinson wanted so much action In such a hurry. The trade agreements act ' was passed by te house on May 26, reported out in the senate June 9, has been debated off and on since then. As they go into the stretch there is every probability that the San Francisco charter will be drafted before the trade agreements act becomes a law. The Bretton Woods measure passed the house on June 9. but is now tied up tn senate committee hearings without an indication of when It will be con sidered by the senate. Export-import bank legislation containing provision for full re peal of the Johnson act has just been intro duced in the house. The delay here has not been the fault of congress, but of the for eign economic administration which took two ninths to draft the bill it wanted con gress to consider. There is an even chance that nothing w ill be done about this legislation before the end of the present session when congress goes home for vacation, nor is it unusual that congress unfinished business is always tre mendous, only about 10 per cent of the bills introduced in congress get acted on at all. This isn't unmixed evil, for a lot of the bills don't deserve passing, but a good clean job of handling legislative buisness would at least call for outright killing of the bad bills, instead of the merely allowing them to wither on the vine. Alert and conscientious congressmen are aware of this tradition of slow motion as evi denced by the work of the Lafollette-Mon-roney joint committee to study reorganiza tion of congress. But even this committee, which has been holding hearings since last March 13, has made only one report. It is working on two other reports, but if it takes over three months to plan the reorganization of congress, think what speed is demonstrat ed by drafting, in a little over two months, a plan to reorganize the whole cockeyed world. The San Francisco speed is, in fact, almost equal to the best that congress has shown since the early days of the New Deal, the record is probably the passage of the original lend-lease bill in 1941. It became a law in just two months and a day after it was requested by President Roosevelt. Some of the War appropriation bills have been pushed through conjress in a little over a month, but these records have been made only after weeks of hearings by appropria tions sub committees which theoretically ex amine every item before approving. With this lack of speed the chronic condition in congress, it will be a great though pleasant surprise is the senate ratifies the United Na tions charter in anything leis than the two months required to draft that document in San Francisco. C0Pff.1WSBYWgA8tllVier.lHC:TrM.BE00. .PAT.Ofr. (-2G" "I suppose your son will be going to the Pacific now I caught a dreadful cold once changing climates, so do tell him to be care full" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Cord Authority BIDDING COURAGE WINS TOURNEY TIE The night before Pearl Harbor, the American contract bridge AK954 V A 10 8 6 3 7 Q74 A62 V54 J 1086 5 4 2 J3 N I A A 10 7 3 W E VK92 DeL8 6 5 ? Kreps AQJ8 VQJ7 AK93 A A 10 9 Duplicate E.-W vul. South West North East 1 N. T. Pass 2 Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3 Pass 3N.T. Pass Pass Pass Opening 6. 25 league, at it's annual meeting, voted to launch a fight against Questions & Answers Q What is the percentage of unknown dead among our armed forces in this war? A Graves registration service of the quartermaster corps esti mates only a little over 2 per cent of the dead in our 321 over seas cemeteries are unknown. O What is the oldest light house in continuous service in the United States? A The Boston Light, original ly huiit in 171fl. cancer in children. Even though it has adopted several war ac tivities since then, it still con tinues its fight against cancer. The eastern mixed team-of-four is one of the events that has been turned over to this cause, It is the outstanding mived team-of-four play of the year. For a great many years, New York teams have won this event, but this year a New Jersey team, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Stan ley Kreps, Miss Constance Litlle and Lee Sager, tied for first. Mr. Kreps is a past president of the New Jersey bridge league. He won this match for his team by going to 3 no trump. Most of the other teams, when North bid 3 diamonds, passed 'the hand and, of course, North was down one. However, Kreps made 3 no trump because East elected to es tablish the heart suit for his part ner rather than shift to clubs. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Attorney Colon R. Eberhard was elected to the board of edu cation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bingner returned from their wedding trip. Miss Harriet Young, who was in Berlin at the outbreak of war. sailed from Bergen, Norway, for her home, according .'o informa tion received by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Young of May Park. Q What nations arc known as "Middle America"? A Mexico, Guatemala, El Sal vador, Honduras, Nicarague, Cos ta Rica, Panama and the three Caribbean island republics Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican republic. Q What percentage of the world's silver is produced in Mexico? A Mexican mines produce nearly half the world's silver output. 15 Years Ago Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Cauthorn returned from a two-week auto trip to Vancouver. B. C. Owen Price, student at Eastern Oregon Normal school and a let terman in major sports both at the normal school and La Grande high, was appintod physical edu cati'..i director in the junior high school. Q How many Kentucky Der by winners has Jockey Eddie Ar coro ridden, and which were they? A Three Lawrin in 193.1, Whirlaway in 1041, and Hoop, jr. this year. 10 Years Ago Lynn Larson, secretary of the Commercial club, concluded the liberation of 5,000 parasitized ear wigs in La Grande. The parasites were released to exterminate the earwigs. Mrs. E. G. Kirby went to Port land to visit her son, Edwin, who was attending medical school there. This Curious World lil.l Ml i "' : 1 jgS 1- I ) EXTEND A DISTANCE ) -f r-', . .' BEATS APPROXIMATELY FORTY MILLION jg , TIMES ANNUALLY. Some yards are aore than THREE FEET," Say LAWRENCE RUSSEL, TO NEXT: The flowers thai bloom in the lummcr.
