La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 11, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWashington Merry-Go-Round EDITORIAL PAGE Br OHW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 11,. 1945 Page Two Mother Hubbard , . r ; l EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley Irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. ; TODAY'S TEXT ' - lr. Seek ' ye me, and ye shall live. Amos 5:4. THOUGHT FOR TODAY The trouble is small, the fun is great. --Goethe. Answer To a 'Peace Offer' Sen. Homer E. Capohart of Indiana was quoted the other day as saying he hud been "reliably informed" that Jap an has niade peace offers "which would be acceptable to me personally." Re marking he was not at liberty to dis close reported terms, ho asked, "If the Japanese promised to give up all ter ritory they have conquered, including Jiiinchui-ia, wouldn't that be all right?" , ' Well, would it? In considering such a question, it surely can be assumed the senator chose his words unfortunately when ho said, "If the Japanese promised." Ho knows, of course, that nothing is more worthless than a Japanese promise, lie meant, probably, that the Japs actually woidd give up all conquered territory. Hut another presumption must be that, under such a peace, tho Japanese main land would escape American and allied occupation. If these presumptions arc correct, what about peace with Japan? True enough, any sort of peace has strong appeal. Certainly it would save many lives if we do no lk beyond the immediate future. But is it conceivable that criminals responsible for such horrors as Bataan, Corregidor, the March of Death, Man- . ila, Shanghai the list is endless should be allowed to escape punishment V for their crimes ?, Even if the desire for "revenge " could be forgotten, iBn't it necessary to make sure the criminals are taught that crime does not pay? ' Would it be other than stupid to ignore that Japan's manpower losses have been negligible; despite bombing, ' still is huge? Could any poace be ac ceptable which would leave the enemy with a gigantic industry and the man power to operate and expand it? Could anyone be so foolish as to believe that (he Japs, given peace and the oppor tunity, would waste even a day in start ing preparations for another war at the earliest possible date? Aro the Nipponese militarists to bo allowed to "save face" before their own people? Is it thinkable that they, like, the German warlords in 1918, might be in position to dictate, either directly or indirectly, the postwar policies of Japan? With total victory and com plete security in our grasp at the price of comparatively a few more lives, could we consent to a peace which might mean death or enslavement for the un told millions among our coming genera tions? So we got back to the senator's ques tion. Wouldn't a peace such as ho out lined be all right? K a c h individual is privileged to answer the question according to his own view. I'or our part, we are inclined to ask: "Are you kidding, senator?" Fun nu Business SO THEY SAY American world policy can no longer he one- of aloofness. Commander Harold E. Stasscn. The western problem is not re conversion, but conwrainn to something new in the field of basic or secondary industry, if that region is tu maintain full employment for its swollen popu lation. Gov. Karl Warren of California. "Thi yar 1 got ona t tan turn into meal il ntctuaryi" Wo imi.il stand by America, blip ha.', given us van) aid. and I am not one who thinks the whole thing is m-ey because the Pacific is chiefly an American Uieatcr. Prime Minister Wi niton Churchill. The essence of the democratic faith is the equal claim of every man to pursue his facilities to the humanly fullest for his sake, but no less for the sake of swiety. $ittprt!:c court Justice l'c!u Frankfurter. WASHINGTON The District of Columbia looks more like a, peacetime capital this sum mer than in many years .... For the first time since the war, the house is now plan ning a long recess .... This reflects in creased congressional confidence in the new White House setup, also the fact many a legislator yearns for home .... The dollar-a-year men and brass hats who planned to check out after Germany's defeat haven't started their exodus. Instead they've been joined by hundreds of business men who've movd in to get their reconversion headaches unsnarled .... Thousands of returning offi cers and enlisted men from Europe have added to the housing and feeding problem. Parking spaces along the Potomac are crowd ed on hot nights with G. I. Joes and G. I. Janes and government workers searching for a cool breeze. Washington is more peaceful, but still jammed. Adding to the crush are the Truman boys who have descended on. Washington ... . They fall Into three categories: (1) the. Mis souri boys, friends of Truman and Bob Han negan looking for jobs, patronage, and juicy political plums .... (2) the Pauley boys from southern California friends of former democrat treasurer Ed Pauley who've rushed into town to climb on the gravy train. They're brash and crude for the most part, have little respect for the taxpayers' money, and already have their eyes on the gilded dome of the capitol. Third group are the "battery K" men. These aro the World War I vets who saw service with Harry Truman In 1917-18. Most are satisfied with a brief "hello" and a handshake from their hero. Others cling to the wrought iron gates of the White House, think that their comradeship with the new chief executive is a guarantcee of a soft government job. Truman Heyday Truman's own aids in the White House are still impressed by their now surround ings .... Some feel Truman's rise gives them a blank check to use his power for their own ends .... One youthful aide has been bragging about having Truman's po litical enemies shadowed, their wires tapped .... Truman, a sworn enemy of wire-tapping when in the senate, will probably clip their wings soon .... Most powerful man in the Truman entourage is chubby, cigar smoking Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughan, one of the "battery K" boys, who buzzes consider able advice into his chiefs ear, but now finds It being accepted with less frequency .. . . The hangers-on are still having a field day around the White House. Center of administration power has part ly shifted from the White House to the sec onnd floor of the Mayflower hotel, where Bob Hannegan holds forth in democratic headquarters .... Judge Welburn Mayock, the committee's new general councel, uses the office to lobby for California oil inter ests .... George Kllliom, the new treas urer of the national committee, who has been using a meat-ax to collect money for the committee from business men may find him self chopped down soon .... One ardent democratic supporter of many years' stand ing hearing about Killiom's tactics, said, "He'll collect so .much money we'll lose In '48. Everyone he taps for $5,000 will feel like contributing twice as much to the re publicans to boot the Pauley crowd out." Meanwhile little is happening to set the stage for democratic victories in the con gressional elections next year .... Hanne gan is already in hot water with labor, par ticularly the CIO, which he has been studi ously ignoring. Labor leaders, who poured out millions to help Roosevelt last year, claims they can't even get a glass of water from the democrats when it comes to buck ing oppressive legislation in congress, and are now making threats to move over to the GOP camp. Republicans: Harmonious Farther up Connecticut avenue at repub lican headquarters things arc harmonious .... The republicans are sitting back, aro quietly laying the groundwork for a high powered congressional race next November .... What they need most of all are some issues .... GOP'sters, including Chairman Herbert Brownell, are confident they'll find plenty in a few months, are hoping that Tru man stubs a few toes politically soon .... Republican Chairman Brownell has a mil lion dollars to spend on the elections, but he's holding on to it, timing his shots so they'll do the most good. WE, THE WOMEN Br RUTH MLLETT A six-year-old girl entering into a grown up discussion about jobs thoughtfully an nounced: "Mother, I'm going to college and make myself a school teacher. But you save me a man to marry." But unless we change things 'during the next fifteen years that little girl may find out the bitter truth that there are many places in this country where a woman can't be both a wife and a school teacher. In many of the small towns and cities where there has been a traditional ban against hiring married teachers and a policy of kicking women out of their jobs when they are human enough to take unto them selves husbands, boards of education have had to wink at the ban during these war years. They have either had to do that or close their schools, for so many of their footloose single teachers were lured away from their jobs by work that paid better, exacted Iqss from their personal lives, and gave them a better chance to hunt husbands. But many of the school boards that are letting married women teach, now that they can't fill teacher vacancies with single women, haven't voted to do away with the old "no married women teachers" rule. That is still on the books, and will be unless the citizens of such communities get riled up over the injustice and stupidity of that kind of senseless discrimination. Anybody would see exactly how ridicu lous such bans against married women teach ers really are if they had to explain to a little girl that in some places she couldn't be both a wife and a school teacher, but would have to choose between the two.' And they would undoubtedly find out how such a rule cuts down on the quality of teaching personnel if they cold hear a bright little girl of even six saying emphalically: "Then if I can't be both, I guess I'll just get married." Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening ObiarTar Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 11 Easiest way to get a line on this new united nations organ ization and charter which the U. S. senate will be arguing about for the next few weeks is to porsonulize it by seeing what Edward Stettinlus's new job will be as head man of the American delegation to UNO. The Stcttinius appointment is still sub ject to senate confirmation, so he isn't in yet. But, he has been designated by Presi dent Truman as U. S. representative on the intrim organization which will function till UNO gets going. After that, he has been designated as U. S. representative on tho top, 11-nation security council and as head of the five-man delegation which will rep resent this country in the 90-nation gen eral assembly. In all, there will probably be several hun dred members of the U. S. delegation at UNO headquarters if you count the depu ties, alternates, technical experts, translat ors, secretaries and military men. But there will be about ten top jobs one membcf of the security council, one or two members of the council's military staff committee, of generals and admirals, five members of the general sembly. probably one member of the economic and social council, on member of the trusteeship council, oie member of the international cutt t,f justice. These top mm will probably have the rank of ambassadors, or maybe Slottinius will rank as an ambassador and the others none of whom has yet been named will he ministers There is no protocol to decide what they will be railed -Mr. Aintassarinr. Mi. Minintcr. Mi . Couni illrr, Mr. Assembly man. Mi. Member or what. Their pay ha-, not been determined, either. Ambassadors now get J) 7,500 and ministers get $10,000 and $12,000 a year plus living allowances ovei-s.'as. Stettinius will officially be holding "two of these jobs as member of the security coun cil and head of the five-man delegation to the general assembly, though he'll get only one paycheck. . He U h.tvr plenty to do in the council job alont. Provision is made in the charter that he can turn his council seat over to somebody else say the president or the secretary of slat or some ambassador or general or admiral whenever there is a particular subject to be discussed on which the other fellow is better qualified to speak. This council of 11 members will be "the most exclusive club in the world." Repre sentatives of the Big Five; United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia, France and China will sit in Jhe council as permanent members, the othor six to be chosen by the general assembly for two year terms with out the right to succeed themselves. The council will be organized to do business at all times, moving its meeting place around to wherever it has work to do and can do the most good at its principal job, which is to maintain world peace and security. Just how much authority council member Stcttinius will have in committing the Unit ed States to decisions of the security coun cil has not been determined and will bo settled only when congress passes enabling legislation, after the charter is ratified, au thorizing the United States to participate in UNO and providing money to pay the sal aries, travel expenses, and bills for paper clips, scratch pads and files. It is likely that all U. S. representatives to the united nations organization will be given pretty broad powers, though there is some cagey opposition to that. The idea isn't as dangerous as it sounds at first, be cause the trans-oceanic international tele phone, radio communication and airplane now seem here to slay, and it would be only a matter of minutes or hours before any rep resentative at UNO headquarters could find out how the home government fell about things and get his signals straight for the next play in any international game. In addition to which, any representative of any country who tried to commit his govern ment to a course of action which wouldn't have support at home, would be a bigger chump than has yet been born. Some, of the issues whiolf CmSv.iller-As-strrblyn-an Stc'timu r-.ey have to p,u on w.ll be looked over in the next issue. Icon. imviitmict.inc. T.n,ra.u,i.wT.pm "Your dad spent his vacation listening to the radio now I have to call him every day and tell him how Cowboy Zeke, Dr. Zump and Nellie the nurse are getting alongl" McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, Amerlca'a Card Authority BIDDING PLENTY HOT IN FRONT-LINE GAME I get many interesting letters from our members throughout the world. I just got one from Lou Fagon. Ho could not tell me where he was located, but he did say that they had no duplicate boards. Since the boys wanted to play duplicate, they made some out of corrugated paper. Most of the boys had never play ed duplicate before, and the me chanics of the game got them a little confused. He said he and his partner certainly got mixed up in the bidding of today's hand. Of course, his bid of five hearts was intended for blackwood, but 10652 VAQ84 S K J 10 7 A J984 VKJ76 K 10 A94 N W E 8 Dealer V 109 53 2 4 743 86 5 2 South 1 2 4 -A if OA 7 A A 3 7 3 V None AQJ 9862 Q3 Duplicate Both vuL West Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass North 1 N.T. 3 A 4 N.T. 6 V 7 V Double Pass Opening' 5. East Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass 12 small spade from dummy. The drop of the singleton king al lowed him to pick up the whole spade suit, and he ran the dia monds and discarded from dum my until it was own to the sin gleton king of hearts and the ace and nine of clubs. In his own hand he had the queen and three of clubs and the deuce of dia monds. When he led the last diamond, West had to let go of either the ace of hearts or the jack of clubs. o IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Norman Frees re turned home during the week from their wedding trip and are at home for the present on First street. On July 8, Lynne Bohnenkamp, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bohn enkamp, and Miss Nellie Pickens were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pickens. The ceremony was performed at 6 a. m. by the Rev. G. L. Clark of the First Presby terian church his partner forgot and, holding four hearts to the king, he im mediately bid six hearts. Now Fagon went to six spades, only to have his partner bid seven hearts. Well, he did not want to play a hand with a vacant suit, so he bid seven spades and West made the mistake of doubling. The opening lead was won with the ten of diamonds, and Fagon was careful to play a Questions & A nswers Q How did President Truman break precedent on his trip to the Pacific northwest? A His airplane flight was the first ever made by a president within the country. 15 Years Ago Mrs. George Gekeler and son, Mclvin, and daughter, Jean, ac companied by Donald Spencer, have returned from Walla Walla where they spent the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bingner are on a several weeks trip to Alasko. Miss Sadie Small and Miss Ruth Johnson have returned from a trip to Nampa. Q What percentage of Amer ican wounded in the European theater of war was saved? ' A 96.1. 10 Years Ago On the national holiday, mem bers of the Gekeler family gath ered at Pine Cone and spent the day together. A picnic lunch was enjoyed and then visiting and swimming filled the rest of the day. Attending the picnic were Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McCall and Ar thur, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest DcLong and Alma, Mr. and Mrs, Vernon DeLong and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Robinson and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Con ley, Mrs. Jabe Conlcy, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown and three daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spencer and Lec and Robert. This Curious World H' M A P ZERO OH A FAH(fENHEir THERMOMETER 1 .Vi i W I IT IS ALSO FORTY BELOW ON A 'Jf CENTIGRADE THERMOMETER. e COPR. IMS SY NU ftCRVICC INC. WHEN ITJTUESD4V EAST OF THE IIM I CX;NMMUN4L UAI t LINK, a what day is irji;srEsroF it r c p BftSTfiRS LEAGUE BALL GAME, BlN&HMTON BEATSCRANTON II TO r, YET GOT ONLY ANSWLK: Wednesday. NEXT: Bfr on th winj.