'EDITORIAL- PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schlro, Publisher
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1945
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IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
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LA GRANDE A city of 10,000
Extend the city limits.'
TODAY'S TEXT
. Tlio sun shall be turned Into dni'k
liess, and the moon into blood, before
the great and the terrible day of the
Ixrd come. Joel 3:31.
Postwar Air Preparedness
A committee of the National Plan
ning association has issued a clear and
thoughtful interim report on recom
mended national policies for the recon
version and post-war development of
the aircraft industry policies which,
it might be added, are conspicuously
lacking: at present.
'Pile report expresses concern over
this lack, and recommends that legisla
tion be enacted to enable this country
(u maintain an alert, modern and adc
q u n t e post-war defense. As things
stand now, military aircraft production
will end with the end of hostilities, ac
cording to provisions of the war mobil
ization and reconversion act.
"On V-day", says the report, "we un
doubtedly shall have the world's biggest
and most modern air force, but it will be
largely obsolete with respect not only
to the most recent developments in con
ventional aircraft types, but also to de
velopments in jet propulsion and other
radical changes.
"The temptation to rely oi the size
and quality of our existng air forces,
neglecting the means by which they
were produced and by which alone their
continued development can be assured,
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will be great in the inevitable period of
let-down following the end of hostili
ties." Speaking of the aircraft program now
scheduled to end with V-J Day, the
report states: "If this continues. to be
our national policy, there will be com
plete interruption 'of ' military 'procure
ment for an unpredictable length of
time. The effect of this policy on air
craft manufacturing companies will be
that few, if any, could keep their vital
research, engineering, labor and man
agement skills together."
The committee, of course, leaves de
termination of the size of our post-war
air force to congress, whose decisions
. w ill in turn rest on the success and re
quirements of the world security organ
ization. Hut, insisting that wc shall
need an air force, it suggests that a
useful life of military aircraft be estim
ated at four years, and that there be
nn annual 25 per cent replacement with
new, superior planes in an sir force of
constant size.
It rocommends further that the re
search program not be confined to the
building of a few prototypes, but that it
bo combined with industrial activity,
including exhaustive tests and the solu
tion of production problems.
The report warns that there might
not be another chance to get a "running .
start" on production by filling foreign
orders, as happened in this war. It
urges that we maintain an industrial
nucleus capable of rapid expansion.
All this is sound thinking, not. sword
rattling. We shall certainly need nn air '
force in the new league to keep the
peace. We should have the best. So
far congress has done nothing about
bringing that into being. We cannot
afford to let our military aircraft pro
duction halt and die, as it did after 1918,
and still contribute adequately to na
tional and world defense, ,
o SO THEY SAY
All of us want n charter and
a world organisation upon which
we can build for the future.
Dr. Herbert Vcre Evatt, for
eign minister of Australia, at
the San Francisco wmid con
ference. We have enough bread (in
France) for immediate notdt. but
the situation as affecting othvr
foods is likely to grow worse.
Leon Jouhaux, general secre
tory of the French confedera
tion of labor, whik- In the U. S.
We must find coal supplies, and
get tliem moving before the end
of September or the (fuel) siti(
(ion in Europe will be appalling;
this winter.
Official of European coal or
ganisation. O
It took only 12 weeks to make
me n combat soldier. Why make
it year (of training) if you can
do the job in 12 weeks?
Private Seymour Weinberg,
Hrooklyn, in opposing compul
soiv military training in peacetime.
Washington Merry-GoRdund
BfDHEW PEARSON r V
WASIHMTON Among the most import
ant naji ftjfe In Europe today are those of
I. G. Farbemhdustrle, the giant German car
tel which produced synthetic gasoline, syn
thetic rubber, plus other secret war materi
als, and "Wfbjch ' cooperated with various
American firms, such as Standard Oil of
New Jersey and the Aluminum Corporation
of America before PearPHarbor.
These files may reveal secret German
patents which would help American indus
try; also .reveal Jhe extent to which certain
American firms collaborated; also prove the
war guilt ol German industrial leaders.
Hqwever, here Is the inside story of what
Is happening to these files. They were first
' stored by U. S. army in a German warehouse
in. Frankfurt. . Then the army needed space,
. and moved a large group of displaced per
sonsRussians, Poles, Fronch into the
warehouse. The DPS immediately began
tearing open the files to see if there was
anything valuable in them.
Then the U. S. army needed even more
space, and moved the files outside behind
the warehouse. There they kicked around in
the wind and the rain.
Finally someone high in the army realized
-the importance of the I. G. Farben files and
moved them back into the warehouse..
Whether it is too late to make real use of
them remains to be seen. Tons and tons of
paper are scattered in every direction. .
, . Exit Mist Perkins
Next to Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
the Roosevelt cabinet member who has held
office longst stepped out of the cabinet this
weekend. Several days before she stepped
' out, Miss Perkins called up her friend Attor
ney General Biddle, who left the cabinet
simultaneously.
"How do' you feel?" she asked.
"Fine," Wplied Biddle.
"Well," said the lady who has been secre
tary of labor for 12 long and tumultous
years, "Let's' go out and celebrate."
This column has sometimes been critical
of Miss Perkins during her long tenure of
office. But as we look back over the years,
something should be said to balance the
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
"Lieutenant keeps Dignity, Loses Wife,"
said the headline over a brief news item. It
seems that, in Detroit a wife divorced her
husband, a second lieutenant, because he re
fused to carry groceries for her saying it
was unbecoming his military rank.
It seems a pity she didn't put off divorce
proceedings, long enough to let her husband
get used to the novelty of boing an officer
even perhaps long enough to allow .him to
get a promotion or two1. By'thcn He most like- '
ly wouldn't hnvo worried about carrying a
bundle.
Most women have unlimited patience in
handling their kids. They have been told
over and over by the experts not to get ex
cited over behavior problems, that all chil
dren go through phases when they are re
bellious, when they like to assert their au
Behind Scenes
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By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Oburrer Washington Cerrwponoant
WASHINGTON You know, some of the
things they do in congress make sense at
that.
After spending four years and billions of
dollars for war, talking interminably about
such incomprehensible issues as reciprocal
trade agreements, contract terminations, car
tels, Brctton Woods, cutbacks, carryovers,
surplus property disposal, reconversion,
UNRRA and such things, why a few sena
tors have finally got around to talking about
something that everybody can understand
. toothache.
This is getting right down to the decayed
root of atV evils lumbago, loss of sleep, dis
temper, bacl grades, indebtedness, absentee
ism, poor eyesight, wife-beating, alcoholism
and an inability to chaw utility grade beef.
If congress could just pass a law making it
illegal for anyone to have a toothache, even
with a black market in screaming molars,
things ought to start getting better right
away, whether the senate confirms the San
Francisco Pearly Gate charter or no.
The three stalwart statesmen who have
been bolcffcnough to fill in the cavity, bridge
the gap, touch the nerve center and get their
teeth into this bleeding gum of a situation
are James E. Murray of Montana, Claude
Pepper of Florida, and George T. Aiken of
Vermont. This gives the cause a strictly
non-partisan, 50-50 backing two Democrats
to one Republican.
Senator Murray's proposal is to spend a
million bucks to establish a national insti
tute of dental research and they appropriate
another 1730.000 ( year to keep it going.
This would be chrip. -Many's the man who
ha said, "I'd give 1 1.730.000 to be rid of this
blankcty blank blank, blankety bicuspid."
Well, here's a law which would do the trick.
Dental research, of course, is what the tooth
carpenter does when he starts pokin' around.
The Murray bill would simply put this
pvkm,' on a mine scientific bsi. to gi t at
the c busts, of toothauhes, then extiact the
cauae.
Scuitois PtPiicr and Aiken, jointly, have
(S siitrlemcntly lull which would apuroprt
(gtie (clial toioaey ttyt -g ant in-ai to state).
ai)) l'l (6'Ve oweola; so tbey' iOH eslali-,
lish (gpd ti(H)inlain "adrqua'e mt)urc f,ir
the prevention treatment Qid control of
such (dental) diseases, inciting dc-Qta)l-care
programs tor children, tho training of pcr
St&nnel for state and local dental health wotk,
and the development arh maintenance
effective1 means for theSf-ducation of thf
public concerning denial diseases." There's
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criticism. In the lirst place, no i?er iod tfl the.,
entire history of the nation has been, more
difficult from the point of view, of .-labor.
Labor was in the throes of growing pains. It
was an era which Perkins Inherited, not one "
which she personally brought about.
Sick Man of Europa , ;.. -
There have been two important back-stage
developments in the dynamite-laden row be
tween Turkey and Russia a row.which may
test out the united nations ability to prevent
war almost before the ink is dry on , the
charter. ' . '
Development No. i: Ed Stettiriius, shortly
before resigning as secretary of state, sent a
strong note to the Russians in which he up
ported the1 Turks. He reminded the Russians
that at Yalta, Stalin had gone along with the
other big three in "assuring Turkey regard
ing the views of himself, Roosevelt 'and
Churchill" as to "the continuation of Turk
ish independence and integrity," .
Development No. 2: Foreign". Commissar
Molotov has had another session with the
Turkish ambassador in Moscow in which the
Russians pulled In their horns somewhat
though they are still sticking a long way out.
According to uncensored diplomatic dis
patches, Molotov told the Turkish ambassa
dor during this session Russia would ' re
quire bases in the Dardcnelles "only in case
of war, not in peace." Previously, the Rus
sians had demanded the right t otake over
this vital strip of waterway over which arm-r
les have fought for years and which the
czars of Russia have coveted ever since there
was a Russia.
Molotov also said Russia wished to talk
to Turkey about various questions concern
ing the Balkan states. This was considered
an indirect way of saying. Russia wants
European Turkey ceded to Bulgaria.
However, Molotov added if. the above
propositions arc agreed, Russia would be
glad to sign a treaty of alliance with Turkey,
which would go further than , a treaty of
friendship.
These ideas, though more conciliatory than
previous Russian proposals, got nowhere
with the Turkish ambassador.
thority, when they like to say naughty
words, etc. And so mothers are, on the
whole, pretty good about letting their kids
"grow up."
But nobody has ever told them they ought
to be just as patient with a husband who still
has a little growing up to do before he is
completely adult in all of his reactions.
A very young man with very new gold
bars might put a little too much stress on
'his dignity. But chances are he -would get:!
over it in time.
Many a young father who at first thought
it was beneath his dignity to diaper a baby
changed his mind after he got really used
to the new member of the family.
So women who are quick to claim they
grow up faster than do men ought to bo pa
tient until their men catch up with them.
in Washington
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a mouthful for you, to try your new store
teeth on.
Hearings on both these bills were held
before the senate committee on education
and labor last wok. What there is education
al about a toothache is hard to figure, but
you've got to admit it's labor.
A whole flock of witnesses from the Ameer
lean dental association was on hand to lobby
for the bill and without the use of novacaine
or gas, the statistics they drilled into the com
mittee on the great American toothache were
positively frightening.
Did you realize there are only 70,000 den
tists in the United States and that a third
of them were in the army and navy? Did
you know that some countries don't have
any dentists at nil? Did you appreciate that
88 out of every 1,000 draftees were turned
down because they didn't have the necessary
12 of the 32 teeth they were supposed to
have? Con you comprehend that in this
United States 238,500,000 teeth need to be
pulled while 632,000,000 fillings are needed?
The Murray and Poppcr-Aiken bills would
do something about these.
Surgeon General Thomas W. Parran of
the U. S. public health service estimates that
the cost of the Pcpper-Aiken bill would be
only about $6,000,000, the second year and
maybe $10,000,000 a year thereafter. That's
about what is spent now on T. B. and ve
nereal disease control. .
But think what a post-war employment
project this dental care business might be
come. Think of all those idle machine tools
at Willow Run that could be moved right
into dentist's offices. Better still, why not
eonvfrti Willow Run into the institute of
dental research? Instead of making Libera
tors to kill people with, the big Ford plant
could b used to liberate mankind from all
that suffering. Dental work on the assem
bly line. Oh boy a new set of uppers and
lowers every six seconds.
Think, too, of all the individual WPA pro
ject that could be financed by those grant
in aid. A San Franciwo bay bridge (n
every. nKii. A u: for all that gid bur
ied in Kentucky. Jobs for the millions of
displaced bnilermakrrs and riveters in ship
yard and airplane plants. Careers (or ex
machine gunners. RFC loans In ry peor)
pie for goin to the dentist. Gum erosion
control, pyori'Wa krakift4 and -buck tooth
grade crossing elimination for all.
Wire your congressman now to get behini-)
these bills and bear down outch! But not
too hard! (g)
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By WM. E. McXENNEY, America's Cud Authority
GREAT OLD-TIMER
WAS DEFENSE ACE
In bridge, as in all sports, there
is always an argument about who
are the outstanding players of
the country, and whether they
are. better than the old-timers.
If you were to ask any player in
Chicago who was the best tourn
ament bridge player in the last
20 years, he would tell you Max
M. Cohen was one of the greatest
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Well, I played with and against
Max, and I have him down in my
book as one of the greatest. A
revoke that he made in playing
off a tie for a national champion
ship cost him the title and, I be
lieve, hastened his death, as he
died a few weeks after the match.
Here is one of Max's famous
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Q What is the largest Ameri-
Q What is the largest Ameri
can transport ship in service?
A The West Point, a ship that
has circled the globe 14 times. It
measures 723 feet overall, and
can carry 8500 passengers and
crew.
Q What is the production of
margarine in the United States?
A Estimates for 1945 put fig
ure at 625,000,000 pounds, as
compared with 320,402,381 pounds
in 1940. ,
Q What is tho combat
strength of the Japanese in the
South Pacific?
A President Truman indicates
that the enemy has 4,000,000
men, including 100 combat divis
ions, under arms, and several
more millions which can be call
ed up.
This Curious World
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defensive plays. Suit '.directing
plays were unknown then, so
Max overtook his partner's open
ing lead with the diamond ace
and led back the four of clubs,
even though it was right into
dummy's ace, queen, jack. When
a trump was led, he jumped in
with the ace, led a small diamond
and got a club ruff, defeating the
contract.
O IN FORMER
YEARS
33 Years Ago
June was a stellar months in
Dan Cupid. In Union f ounty he
hit the bull's eye 29 times and set
a record over past months by a
wide margin.
. Mrs. S. H. Bergold and children
of Imbler were in La Grande en
route to their old home, in -Indiana,
for an extended visit.
IS Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Foley of this
..cityj.aad . Mr... and, Mrs... Eat -Foley
of The Dalles returned from a -. '
trip through Yellowstone na- r
tional park.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hamilton 1
and two children, and W. H.
Hamilton and Miss Lena Loock,
left for San Francisco. They
made the trip down through Kla
math Falls, and Crater lake.
10 Years Ago
A number of La Grande and
Eastern Oregon students' were in
the list of successful applicants
for limited scholarships to attend
institutions of higher, 'education.
The list included: University of
Oregon Wallace Kaapcke, La
Grande; Oregon State college
Howard Lyman and John K. Fish
er, La Grande; Eastern Oregon
normal school Madelyn Bates,
Prairie City, Helen Fedler, Rit
ter, Phil PeUand, Hot Lake, Ed
ward Piper, Haines, Jean Louise
Taylor, Richland, Marvin Wig
gans, Lostine, and Verneta Del
Monta Wood, Sweet Home.
In spite of the damp' weather
a large crowd turned out to wit
ness the dedication of" the monu
ment and flagpole at the IOOF
cemetery, conducted by the Wo
men's Relief corps in honor of
the Oliver P. Morton post of the
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