Side Glances
Washington Merry-Go-Round
EDITORIAL. PAGE
Br DREW PEARSON
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1945
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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?
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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.
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dreadful cold once changing climates, so do tell him to be care full"
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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.
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