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h It n hi ; IF' Side Glances EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher ' THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 19(3 Page Four- Still in the Driver's Seat, but i EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete Hie Grande ' Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. How Long Will the War Last? . , .... The most inipoi'tnnl quest ion before the American public today is "How lonjr will the war last?" It has been our privilege and trond fortune to hear a number of highly competent speakers discuss the ques tion at the recent convention of the Orciroii newspaper publishers associa tion held in Eugene The answer to the question is one year to two years! Each speaker stressed the point that this is the best estimate, assuming that the American public puts everything it lias into the battle with Japan and does not. let down in any one of the myriad ways in which the total war effort can lie affected. Commander Paul Smith who handles public relations for the United States navy, ami who, as a line officer, parti cipated in the invasion and occupation of Okinawa, tuld the assembled pub lishers that the prospect that Japan will quit, as many persons including those who can be assumed to know, are predicting', can have i.o basis in factors active at this tiin.'. Japan cannot afford to quit, he said, and probably will not until she is beaten to her knees. To quit Japan will have to withdraw from all occupied territory including China. .Manchuria, the areas by-passed by the advancing' American units, the islands still held in the south seas. She will have to disarm ami de militarize millions of men in all the oc cupied areas and withdraw them to the Japanese mainland. She will have to chaniie overnight her entire internal economy and her people und leaders their entire concept of Japan's place in the international picture. ' Japan will not quit until she is forced to do so by complete defeat, lie said. It will take years for this nation to put itself in a position to defeat Japan because of the military problems in volved. To mount a full offensive on Japan from - Okinawa with big bombers will require six or seven airfields on that is land. The last field cannot be completed for many months, probably five or six. The problem of transportation still involves a haul of eight thousand miles before the men. and munitions can be used to hit their objective. The Japs are good fighters and bat tling desperately, he said. The Ameri can forces paid dearly for Okinawa and the Japanese defense of ' that IsIhihI from a military point o'f view was stra tegically and tactically brilliant. The American people and their mili tary forces face a terrible, ordeal before Japan is defeated. The severity of this ordeal can be lessened only if all of the population realizes the true picture, ap preciates the enormity of the job which still faces us and puts everything the nation has to offer in production and manpower to thorough prosecution of the war. The chief Cost the cost in Ameri can lives will be tremendous, lie be lieves, if anything less than full effort is put forth. Hefore the defeat of Ornmuv we were fighting her with one fist and holding off Japan with the other. Since Germany's defeat has released our right hand, shall we start waving it in the air and continue to fight Japan itb our left, or shall we bring around our right for a full scale two-fisted at tack ? The answer which the American peo ple .give to that question contains the answer to "how long will the war last?" So believes Commander Paul Smith. Funny liusiness "7 ( 1' '" car '':H$ .r-i?'?rV , manup. ;turing se-.v fp u.Bxf? .saga o SO THEY SAY 'I'lic Detroit area does not need workers from other places. Kdwaid I.. Cushman, Michigan state WMC director. Discussions and questions are naturally squelched. Our teach ing is a deliberate process of dis couraging independent thinking as much as possible. Teacher at Marburg, Germany. The American merchant mar ine which look more than 70 per cent of our troops (overseas), will brine them back in the man ner and style to which they nre entitled. Frank J. Taylor, president American Merchant Marine "institute. " "Now If I can combine the two gracefully we'll have iwell lines for a new carl" There are many pitfalls ahead of us, but if we fail we are not likely to get another chance to fulfill the purpose for which we have fought, the assurance of a secure peace and a decent life for all Americans. Secretary of Slate Edward R. Slettinius, jr. Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Harry Hopkins won't go to Berlin for the Big Three meeting. Chief reason: health. Whenever Harry goes away on trips, he forgets to take his pills and has, a setback . . . another reason may be that Hopkins and Byrnes don't get along. It was Hopkins who last December persuaded FDR to appoint Slettinius rather than Byrnes as secretary of state . . . Truman, incidentally is strong for Hopkins, urged him to be U. S. ambassador to Moscow. Again health inter vened . . . It's interesting to sec how pub lic opinion has changed regarding Hopkins, now that he is advising Truman instead of FDR. Everybody cussed him before; now they praise him for straightening out Po land. Part of the old enmity against Hop kins was the natural jealousy toward any one close to the throne. With Truman, peo ple know he is welcome but not close The old hullabaloo of artillery .sticns no! reaching the western front is now- being sotted once and for all by the Mead com mittee. Careful Senator Kilgorc of West Virginia intcrvrcwed high-ranking generals at the front who swore there was no shell shortage . . . General Somervell and Under Secretary of War Patterson had screamed that the home front had fallen down. Even Jimmy Byrnes fell for this one . . . Though Truman has brought a lot of westerners into the cabinet, actually three New Yorkers re main. They arc: Stimson (war), Forrestal (navy), Morgenlhau (treasury). The fourth New Yorker, Miss Perkins, stepped down . . . Here is the geographical layout of the rest of the cabinet: Texas (Clark attorney general); Illinois (Ickes interior); Iowa (Wallace commerce); New Mexico (An derson agriculture; Washington (Schwel lcnbach labor); South Carolina (Byrnes state); Missouri (Hannegan post office) . . .Then, of course, Harry Truman himself, also from Missouri. So it looks as if the west was pretty well represented. Chalk up a belated victory to the little group of senators who opposed the Stettin ius state department team. President Tru man has now pretty much recognized the validity of their opposition. The senators who rebelled against the Stettinius team wore: Florida's Pepper, Pennsylvania's Guf fey, Montana's Murray, Kentucky's Chand ler, Wisconsin's LaFollelte, North Dakota's Langcr and Vermont's Aiken . . . Langer was the only senator who had the courage to get up and make a speech against Stet tinius. He pointed out he had nothing per sonal against him, but that Stettinius just hadn't the proper background for secretary of state. Truman has now agreed with Langer . . . Leo Pasvolsky, gnome-like for mer White Russian master-mind of the San Francisco charter, probably will accompany Ed Stettinius as adviser to the United Na tions . . . William Paley, former head of Co lumbia Broadcasting, now deputy head of army's psychological warfare, has submit ted a secret memo to OWI urging a German radio network. Funny thing is, that Paley wants it operated by Germans. Inside reason why the London Poles die such a slow death: There's a stake of $60, 000,000 in gold in London which the London Poles control as long as they have a govern ment . . . International Harvester, Standard Oil, General Motors and International Tel. and Tel. have been trying to find out what happened to their investments in Hungary and Rumania. So far, the Russians won't let 'em send a single man inside those two countries ... A group of Belgian political leaders visited King Leopold in Austria to get his ideas on the future of their country. His answers were so out of step with new Europe that even the Catholic leaders, hith erto favoring the king's return, seriously considered revising their position. Truman has offered Ickes' job to three old friends, but all three turned it down with the advice that the best man for the job was already holding it . . . Governor Mon Wall gren of Washington with whom Truman talked several weeks ago, replied: "What's the matter with the man you've got as sec retary of the interior? You can't improve on him" . . . Before Congressman Clinton Anderson was offered the department of agriculture, Truman talked to him about be ing secretary of the interior. Anderson praised Ickes and declined . . . Third po tantial candidate was Judge Sherman Min ion, former senator from Indiana. He also replied the best man is already in the job . . . When Bob Hannegan was sworn in as postmaster general, he paid sincere tribute to retiring Postmaster Frank Walker . . . "Frank was the first man to suggest that I become chairman of the national commit tee," Hannegan said, "and he was the first man to suggest that I should fill his shoes as postmaster general" . . . Hannegan voiced what many feel about Frank Walker one of the most unselfish, lovable persons ever to hold high office . . . When Senator Tom Connally spoke at the swearing-in ceremony of Attorney General Tom Clark, he began: "General Biddle, General Clark, and any other generals who may be here" . . .Homey Tom Clark didn't lose his sense of humor when he took the oath. After making an appropriate speech, he said: "Now I want you to meet the folks." First he introduced his 78-ycar-old mother, then his wife. WE, THE WOMEN By . RUTH MILLETT The girl making conversation with a navy officer just returned from the southwest Pa cific started to complain about the weather. Everyone at home agreed it had been a dismal spring and so she was totally unpre pared for the officer's reaction. He said, "Listen, this weather is wonder ful. If you were ever in the southwest Pa cific for even a month, you would be dream ing about this kind of weather." So complaining about the weather a favorite American pastime may be a lux ury we will have to give up, now that men arc beginning to come back from places that make even the worst weather America car, produce seem pleasant. And maybe it will be a good thing for us. at that. We look forward to summer so that we can complain to everyone we. meet, "This hot weather has me whipped." And then we look forward to the end of the heat so that we can begin to complain about te cold and the slush and the depress ing gray days, There aren't but a few days in each year when we aren't fussing about the weather. Just getting bored with the subject has nev er made us drop it. But maybe we'll stop if enough of us are told by the servicemen, who froze in Europe or sweltered in the tropics, that we don't know what bad weather is. And won't that be a real blessing? Espe cially if it stops the person who is fond of asking, "Well is it hot enough for you today?" Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Eyening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 5 Just like a re freshing breeze off snow-capped Ml. Rai nier, Judge Lewis I!. Sehwellcnliach swept into torrid Washington. Things began to hum. For the first time in years, the U. S. had a secretary of labor one who looked as though he could cany and throw his wight around with tough-skinned labor leaders or industrialists. Judge Schwcllenbaeh stands six feel two or better, and he weighs in now at 1!'0 which is 20 pounds lighter than hen he left Wash ington as senator in October liMO to take what he calls the best job in the world, a federal judgeship. Today, lie looks fit, he looks you in the eye, and when he doesn't know an answer, instead of showing off a lot of fancy footwork, he says "1 don't know." If you think thai isn't refreshingly different, you don't know Washington. He says he has no preconceived ideas and no pivudiees: He doesn't know what he will recommend on post-war wages and hours. For the per iod of war contract cutbacks and rcconvcr sion, he says everything points toward more labor troubles. He has no illusions about le ing able to stop strikes. But, he does con sider it his job to minimic labor controversy and labor disputes. Dr. John B. Steclman. former head of the U. S. conciliation service, has been brought back to Washington tem porarily. Schwcllenbaeh has talked lo Eric John ston, U. S. chamber of commerce president, who also comes from Spokane, jbout th labor charter which Johnston, CIO's Phil Murray and AF of L's Bill Green sponsored last March for voluntary scctletnont of labor disputes without government particioation. "Schwcllenbaeh thinks this idea may be ef fected, if it can be implemented. Asked about the Bui ton-Ball-Hatch labo. arbitration bill jma introduced in the sen ate. Schwcllenbaeh says he hasn't rcadcit. and doesn't intend to read It until he gets through with the rc-organi;ation of the ,k partment of labor, which he considers his first job. In addition to Steehnan, Schwcl lenbaeh has brought five other old friends into the department to serve as his eyes and ears, and act as his advisors on re-organizing the department and the score or more of independent labor agencies scattered around the town. Schwcllenbaeh has notified the heads of the railroad brotherhoods, the United Mine Workers, the AF of L, and the CIO, that he wants to consult them, and wants thorn fo designate men from their headquarters to come into the department of labor and work witli him tin its re-organization. Labor leaders have thus far been rather backward about expressing themselves on Schwcllen baeh's appoinlinnt, largely because they wito put out by President Truman's failure to consult them tin the appointment. When Schwcllenbaeh was asked if he would meet with these labor leaders jointly, he turned quickly and with a big smile said. "Sep arately." On the subject of greater unifica tion of the American labor movement to end jurisdictional war fare. Judge Schwcl lenbaeh tells a story about the first divorce ca.-e he handled when he was a young law yer A professor at law school had im piossed upon him 'he duty of an attorney lo bring together the parties to any suit, so when an intelligent looking young woman retained him to get her a divorce, ho did ! y to effect a reconciliation. He thought he hail succeeded, but art as man and wiie ere about to kiss and make up. they found some new cause for argument nad both timed against him. "I lost tl.e case," Schwellcnhach confesses, "I lost the fee and 1 lost the client." He'll never make that mistake again He has set himself a goal of finding out within 30 days what goes on in the depart ment of labor and the 20-odd independent la uoi agencies. In the next 30 days, or by Sept. 1, he hopes to Work out a plan for re organizing the whole kit and kaboodle. He'll go on from there. nw.-; : a f -m COPB. IWi 8V HtA 8EBV1CC. IWO. T. M. RCO. U. 8. PAT. OFf . "We were born five years too late, Mortimer we are a generation of civilians too young for the war, doomed to a life without romance!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority YOU'VE GOT TO BID TO BEAT SID FINK I always said the western re serve team members were great card players. They have to be they love to bid. Elmer Babin in Cleveland just sent me this hand with which Sidney Fink arrived at seven no A K872 K KQJ 100 A43 J I NQt043 V J 6 3 2 W E V 9 8 7 4 6 5 4 2 c 483 10 8 2 Dealer J 9 6 Fink A A 0 6 5 VAQ105 A7 4K75 Rubber N.-S. vul. South West North East ' 1 A Pass 2 4 Pass 2 V Pass 2 A Pass 4 N T Pass 5 4 Pass 5 N T Pass 6 A Pass I ' N T Pass Pass Doubi. Pass Pass Puss Opening 2. J 6 clubs, as East had to protect the queen of spades and West had to try to protect the jack of hearts; thus the 13th trick was made with the three of clubs. e in formet: YEARS 30 Years Ago After a jaunt through Mon tana, British Columbia, Washing ton, all parts of Oregon, Califor nia and other states, Joe Long, old-time miner and traveler, and Mrs. Long are in La Grande, pre pared to take a long rest. They liked the cooling breezes that came down the canyons this afternoon. 'and without previous ly expecting to do so, have se lected La Grande as the place where they will make a pro h.nged stay. La GranriL- socialists Saturday evening banqueted Thomas Mills, the leading socialist, who spoke here last week. The gathering was held in the Christian church parlors and about 40 men gath ered to meet Mills. trump. The four and five were both Blackwood bids. The five diamonds showed one ace and the six spades shewed three kings. F'ni. won the opening diamond lead with the ace, cashed the king of spades and the king of hearts and then returned !o his hand with the spade ace. The ace and queen of hearts were cashed and now the diamonds were run. Dummy was left with three clubs, while Fink held two clubs and the ten of hearts. East and West both had to let go Questions & Answers Q What is the meaning of the name, Henry? A Home ruler; a brave, ow erful lord; ever wealthv. IS Years Ago Mrs. M. H. Becson, gold star mother of this city, left here this week for New York, where she will sail on July 8 on the pilgrim age to France. She will visit relatives in several eastern cit ies before her return to La Grande. She was accompanied by Mrs. Ann Nolan, also a gold star mother, of Lostine. Somewhat like a bit of old Scotland transplanted in Amer ica, the Scotch picnic held yes terday at Emigrant Springs found everyone from La Grande, Sum inervillc, Kamcla and Pendleton there. More than a hundred na; lives of Harry Lauder's own land were seated at long tables load e.! with Scotch delicacies. Q What is the airline a" stance from New York to 1 I urn.', Australia? A 10,541 miles. Q -Which nation r;; next to the United States in highway mileage? A Russia, with 1.B82. 01 miles compared with 3,005,000 in the U. S. 10 Years Ago Prof. Elmo Stevenson, Dr. C. 1.. Gilstrap, Cecil Ager, all of Lo Grande, G. W. Ager and Charles Niswanger of Bend will spend the remainder of this week fish in;! in the Eend district. The La Glanders will return Sunday. Dr. Lewa Wilkes Ager and daughter will accompany the men to Bend where she will visit relatives while they are angling. This Curious World I , JS 'iM&j3Bs&i& WIL0 ANIMAL SPECIES i n,-p-AijEN,Ei? CROSSING THE! JV'HJ urc os the Pirst time is v5? INITIATED INTO THE CCOWOF ViXAr KINS P PEC. U. S, PAT. OFF. rf . ' IM 1944 THE CHICAGO CUSS DID MOT WIN A BASEBALL 6AAE FRC.H THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS UNTIL SErMSZ 377. 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