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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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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