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Fs : , Ik y4 111 I' c P ""IpITOMAL PAGE' La Grande Evening Observer ' Frank Schlro, Publisher i WEDNKSDAV.KVKNINC, JUNK 27. 1915 Page Two That Should Keep Him Happy for a While EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Konde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,001) Eitend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT If a man say, I love God, and hnteth his brother, he is a liar: Tor ho that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love tiod whom he hull) not seen? John '1:20. THOUGHT FOR TODAY I worked with patience which means almost power. 10. 1!. lirowniiiK. Another Job for Eisenhower There will probably be little swivel chair relaxation for General Kisenhower when lie returns to Germany. Kor pres ent reports from there suggest that a trouble-shooliiiK job is to bo done, and done quickly. Correspondents have sent back stories from various German communities in the American zone of occupation which indicate at least isolated instances of poor administration by military govern inent. Confusion and mistakes arc in evitable, of course, and the task of find injr non-Nazis to help handle Gorman rehabilitation must be enormous. And yet one reads that in one town the Americans have continued the nazi food distribution system and are still feeding the surviving .lews on half ra tions, and that in another the city coun cil, after a month of fruitless com plaints, has had to petition the Ameri can military governor to remove a nazi-eoddling, ex-nazi mayor. And one wonders how many mol e similar stories are to be told. If they are true and so far they are not denied it would seem that General Kisenhower's announced program for Germany isn't going forward smoothly, h'or he told a Washington press confer ence that a prime objective was to get local communities functioning again, to collect case histories on all inhabitants, to screen them, and then to give the anti-nazis and neutrals responsibility authority. That will require a military govern ment functioning' as efficiently as a fighting force, all down the line, if vic tory is to be secured and the unpleasant job of rehtimanizing the thinking of a lot of unpleasant people is to be done as well as possible. As it is, (air occupying forces in some areas would seen) to be disillusioning the wrong people. Instead of making the nazis definite outcasts as far as the victors are concerned, and ignoring even the nazi sympathizers in restoring a measure of self-regulation, they may be persuading the non-uazis and repentant former sympathizers that the Ameri cans, having fought and died to destroy nazism, now consider the whole job done or else don't really care too much. This is obviously untrue. Hut word of a few mistakes in a few towns can spread quickly. And that can make the long, hard job of expunging nazism from German thought and life infinitely longer and harder. What Germany must gel from Amer ica is a new deal not one in capital letters, but a complete change from tlu' politics and economics and philosophy of the last 2 years. Such enlightened Germans as there are expect it. The rest deserve it not for their own sake, but for America's and the world's. The deal seems to have been handled somewhat awkwardley so far. Hut we are confident that General Kisenhower, once he is back in Germany, will give the fresh pack a thorough shuffling. Funny Husiness J.-V II 1 I "Can I help it if I lost the keys to my handcuffs?" ft SO THEY SAY Our security and peace depend upon what th.1 people ef the world know about us and what we know aboat ;hom. Dean Carl V. Ai-kerman, Co lumbia univo.r.-itv. It is clear to nio that whatever tlv terms of peace, the funda mental basts of our defense must be universal military training No other practical solution has been offered. den. George C. Marshall, chief of staff. V. S army. I'm overjoyed that some efforts are briny made to break; th. po litical deadlock fin India) which, if allowed to continue much long er, would undoubtedly bring about a thud world war. Sirdar J. I.. Singh, president, I'. S Indiiir. Icaftue. I'nttl domestic service is treat ed like a skilled trad.', there won't be anv domestic service. - Mrs. Ethel M Wood, Uiitish woruanpow or expert. Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ' Side Glances WASHINGTON Radio, telephone and tele graph experts who have spent' millions on tricky new gadgets for military communi cations are soon going to face a most embar rassing admission, namely,' that- carrier pigeons have done a better job per unit .of tost than all their high-powered new radio and electronic devices. .. Less than 1. per cent of the entire signal corps budget has gone into its carrier-pigeon, program, but inside fact is that pigeons have come through many times when radio and wires have failed. ; '. r . : So far, the story of the pigeons has not been told. Despite all the stories about secret trans mitters for all European underground, the fact is that the most reliable means of get ting messages out of Europe during the Nazi occupation was via carrier pigeon. Some of the birds were shot down by. the enemy, but United States airmen were constantly drop ping them to United Slates agents behind the lines and most of the pigeons got' through with their messages. In Burma several months ao, nine groups of parachute troops were dropped behind the Jap lines with the very latest and best radio equipment. Only two of these crews were ever heard from via radio, but contact was maintained with the other seven by carrier pigeon. " i One factor in the success of the carrier pigeon program has been the development of a new-type parachute for the pigeons, which drops their cage gontly to the ground without breaking. Previously birds were sometimes killed when droppud with old style parachutes. ' ,:' Sugar From Japs Representative Clinton P. Anderson (the new war food administator and secretary of agricultur e) is turning his house food study committee to the study of poultry and eggs. But meanwhile he is not through with the sugar situation. Ho has asked President Truman's help in getting the army, the navy, OPA, FEA and other agencies not to demand more sugar then they are entitled to; also has suggested that cither army or civilian ex perts be sent into the various sugar-producing islands in the Pacific which our troops have taken or will take from the Japs. Hun dreds of thousands of tons of sugar prob ably will be found on islands like Formosa, -Los Negros and others. Anderson is also urging the planting of an additional 10,000 acres' of sugar beets in California at once, in order to' increase our sugar supply for next year. Congressional Banter Isolationist Republican Harold Knutson of Minnesota was blasting the trade agreements bill before the. house ways and means com-1 mittee the other. day when dapper Joe Bald win of New York, also a Republican, coun tered by arguing that the superior, quality ot American goods was enough to insure that, they would be in demand throughout the world, even though they might cost more than native goods. "That may be true in the case of office machinery, automobiles and tools," chal lenged Knutson, "but when the gentleman stretches it to cover textiles, glassware, pot tery and the things that require a lot of hand labor, then I say he has been out in a rain storm without an umbrela." Other congressmen chuckled. Baldwin, who is constantly being kidded about his umbrella-carrying habit, shot back:' "I al-. ways carry an umbrella," . However, the New York congressman came back more sharply a moment later when Knutson ehurged that "if the gentle man had ever carried a dinner pail," he would feel that granting the slate depart ment the power to alter present tariffs by 50 per cent was dangerous, "I have carried a very heavy pack on my back for two years across most of Europe fighting a war," Baldwin shot back. "That is the reason I feel the way I do because I do not want to see it hunpen again." ' Attlee Washes Dishes The Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee, former lord president of the council and deputy prime minister of England, is now busy campaign ing against Winston Churchill. But not long ago, he did some heavy dish-washing. . Attlee was invited to dine with an old friend, San Francisco printer Joseph Collier, who, 30 years before, had been a member of the same labor party club in the outskirts of London. Mrs. Collier, however, didn't even have a maid to serve the number two man of England. Attlee, who didn't mind this a bit, ate a huge meal, and asked who was going to do the dishes. "Why, I'll do them later myself," Mrs. Collier replied. Attlee protested, went into the kitchen, put on an apron, and the Colliers watched the deputy prime minister of England wash the dishes. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT A New York newspaper recently devoted considerable space to an interview with a couple of parents who think "roaring chil dren should and can be fun." No wonder the paper thought their theory has news significance. Thut is an idea that is as rare today among the intelligent par ents who take their responsibilities seriously as bacon or nylon. Johnny to. many parents has become a case problem instead of a child to be loved, guided, occasionally spanked and enjoyed. His parents get in a dither over how to handle this small problem, dignify his bad ness with technical terms and all in all take him so seriously they don't have much fun bringing him up. They've been so badly scared by the child experts they are afraid to bring a child up on common sense but bring him up on rules and theories instead. And that's no fun, for either Johnny or his parents. His childhood really isn't much more than a prolonged headache. Maybe that is one reason why the birth rate among more highly educated persons is so shockingly low. They regard children as problems to be solved, instead of human beings whose com pany should be fun and who aren't too com plex to be well brought up on a fifty-fifty mixture of love and common sense. "I don't know what to do about Johnny" is the modern wail. And maybe the answer is as simple as this: "Have fun with him." . Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grande Erenlng Obierrer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON When the house of rep resentatives goes into one of its knockdown, dragout free for alls as it just did in its seven-hour non-stop fight over price control renewal there isn't a better show in Wash ington. More bedlam, more wild statements, and millions of words-that-should-be-eaten-with-or-without-ration-points spilled all over the floor. On nearly every question, the argument was split right down the middle aisle, the Republicans favoring amendment of OPA all over the lot, the Democrats favoring con tinuance of OPA as is for another full year. Less lhan a dozen members from either side broke over the party line on votes and for once it was almost possible to tell the differ ence between a Republican and a Democrat. That made poor old OPA a purely political football, and it got a terrible kicking around as a result. The Republican strategy wasn't to repeal OPA outright. Nothing like that. Nearly every Republican speaker stressed how he was all for price control but. The buts were that they wanted prices raised. They didn't say this tight out, but through a whole series of amendments intended to compel OPA to guarantee profits or costs of production on manufactured goods, on pro cessed foods, on perishable agricultural com modities in season and stuff like that. Lead ers in this amending business were Jesse V. Wolcott and Fred L. Crawford of Michi gan, Howard H. Buffet t of Nebraska, John C. Kunkel of Pennsylvania. Everett M. Dirksrn of Illinois said all the w isdom was on the Republican side and all the votes were on the Democratic side and the Democrats did have enough votes to kill off all these amendments until Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio came up with his broadside proposal to transfer all OPA functions ex cept rationing to the department of agricul ture. When the Republicans caught the Democratic leaders off guard and put that one over 145 to, 143, they cheered like wild men. If the Republicans can make this amend ment stick, they will put OPA out of busi ness, make life nice for Chester Bowles and hand to the new secretary of agriculture, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, the hot test potato in the United States today. About all Anderson could do in such a situation would be to take over OPA's price control machinery and run it with much the same personnel it has today. But the Republicans would consider even this a vic tory a great big added embarrassment to the Democratic administration. Just how good a long range political issue the Republicans have got hold of in their opposition to the OPA is hard to measure. What the Republicans have seized on is the current dissatisfaction of producers and dis tributors who aren't allowed to make more money of consumers who can't buy every thing they want. The Republican urge is to meet this dissatisfaction by easing up on OPA controls so that suppliers will have added money incentive to make more goods available to the demanders who have the money to spend. The political danger of this is that when you give on inch you have to let go a mile. If the Republicans should succeed in break ing price controls, there would be an immed iate loud demand that wages would have to go up to meet the higher prices to carry through and to make the most of their ini tial political victory, the Republicans would then have to lend their support to breaking the little steel formula. That might gain the Republicans some of the labor support they have lost in the last 12 years. On the other hand, broken price control plus broken wage control adds up to only one thing inflation. Most of the inflation in World War I came after Germany was defeated, not during the war. If history should now repeat and if price control should be permitted to get out of hand, there might be a terrific kickback. If the Republican party should become know n as the party that started the United States on the road to inflation, the GOP would be worse off than it has ever been and It wouldn't have a chance in 19-18. Viewed that way, the Republican strategy may be extremely short-sighted. con, wi v etwict, inc. T.HMt.t WT:OT, i-Z9 "No. I don't know her, but I utt smiled at her automatically, I ' guess (he has such a pleasant facel" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority MANY AN IF BETWEEN BID AND CONTRACT While the American contract bridge league has several differ ent charity activities, my favor ite is the children's unit in Me morial hospital. Now that re search work can go forward in greater strides, I am looking for some real developments in the fight against cancer in children. KJ 1042 V J984 Q J 5 6 Mrs. Jaeger i . . VAQ100 W E K73 5 2 8 410 4 3 6 Dealer QJ105 AK 9 8 4 ' ' 2 AAQ 7 6 3 ' V None AK 9 8 7 2 73 Duplicate Neither vul. South West North East 1 . 2 V 2 Pss 4 NT. 5 Pass Pass 5 A 3 Pass Pass Double Pass Pass Pass Opening Q. . 28 The proceeds of the eastern states mixed team-of-four champion ship event is given to the ACBL children's fund. Mrs. Lou Jaeger with Peter Leventritt, Mrs. R. C. (Sally) Young and Sam Katz were one , of the teams that tied for first place in this event this year. An interesting feature of to day's hand is that, when Mrs. Young and Sam Katz played this hand North and South, they bid and made six spades, and then Questions & Answers Q What was the area of Ger many in December, 1937, over which the allied control board in Berlin now rules? A About 182,000 square miles, a little more than the combined areas of Idaho and Wyoming. when Mrs. Jaeger and Peter Leventritt played the hand, Mrs. Jaeger bid the hand so boldly that South doubled her six clubs. Of course, this contract could have been defeated had South overtaken the diamond and cash ed the ace of spades, or if North, aftr winning the first diamond, had shifted to a spake. But, even though Mrs. Jaeger had gone down one at six clubs, she would have won the match. O IN FORMER YEARS ' 30 Years Ago Mrs. H. B. Clark and daughter, Dorothy, left for Omaha to visit friends. Fred B. Currey has returned from a trip to Union and Cove. Jack Oliver returned from a visit to Hermiston and Stanfield where he investigated the grow ing of grapes. u 15 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Joe Snodgrass re turned from Portland -where they 'visited three days with his aunt, Mrs. C. P. Wellman, who is a for mer resident of this city. Members of the state board of higher education arrived in La Grande this morning and spent the morning hours at the Eastern Oregon Normal school, on an in spection tour. The city commission, at its meeting last night held a discus sion that is expected to culminate in the granting of a franchise to the Natural Gas corporation of Oregon. Q What is the value of Swed en's newsprint exports? . A Before the war, newsprint represented almost one-third of the money value of Sweden's ex ports. That nation was produc ing about 3,000,000 tons of wood pulp a year. 10 Years Ago Mrs. Ethel Rynearson and three children were dinner guests at the George Fuller home beyond Rock Wall. Mrs. Joe Salkield was another guest and conclud ing a week's stay at the Fuller home, she returned to her home in La Grande with the Rynear sons. Dr. W. M. Peare was re-elected secretary of the Oregon state bord of optometry examiners at the annual election in Portland. Dr. Floyd B. Dayton of Portland was re-elected head of the board for the 17th consecutive year. This Curious World 4 ALAN CASTER V"-"-:-:0VQ. ' I SETA NEW SPEED (..-"-A Nf-".i vr XC'T- . 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