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Side Glances Washington Merry-GoRound Bj DREW PEARSON EDITORIAL PAGE ', i La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher THURSDAY KVKMNd, JULY 12, 19-13 Page Four Another Marker Along the Road p EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. I, A GRANDE A citv of 10.000 Extend the city limits. Menace of the Filibuster In considering tin; list of initstiinding people who have join c d ir. urging speedy . riilil'iciilioii by the United States senate of the United Nations charter, it becomes difficult to imagine the possibility of the rejection of, or the failure to approve, the document drafted at San l'Yancisco. The charier has the endorsement of practically all, if not all, of the more prominent figures in the democratic party. Of greater significance, it is endorsed by such men as (Jov. Thomas V.. Dewey of New York, Senator Van denbertr of Michigan and former Gov ernor Stassen of Minnesota among re publicans who, as the minority croup, would normally be expected to furnish any opposition Hint might exist or de velop. Likewise, speedy ratification has breu urged by the governors' confer ence which met recently. As a matter of fact, if there is any considerable or important opposition to approval of the charter, if has not yet made itself heard. In view of such support, every pres ent indication does seem to point to speedy ratified ion of the document. Prospects, as they appear now, prob ably are brighter for favorable action I ban ever has been true of any legisla tion of comparable importance pending before the upper house. Funny llusinvs? If there is any danker at all that rati fication may be refused or blocked, it appears now to lie in the possibility of a .senatorial filibuster. There have been no surface indications as yet of such a maneuver, but part of the strategy of a filibuster sometimes is surprise. Most people understand the meaning of the term, 'filibuster," as applied to the senate. It is a device employed by a minority hopelessly beaten to defeat the will of the majority. Filibusters arc made possible under a rule of procedure which allows unlimited senate discus sion and debate on any pending matter except when a "cloture" rule is adopted and cloture roles arc extremely diffi cult of adoption. Without such a rule, any senator who might so desire would be permitted to speak as long as he had strength to talk. This does not suggest that any such thing will happen in connection with the charter. Probably it won't happen. Hut it could happen, just as it has happened in the past. A small handful of .sen ators could block literally talk to death such a measure even though all their v colleagues and Hie vast majority of the people might be demanding il. So, w hile the senate and the nation are thinking of the charter, isn't it time to give thought also to remerying con ditions under which filibusters not merely are possible, but are of relative ly frequent occurrence? liven if the charter is approved, is it to the national interest to retain conditions under which it. as in the case of all legislation hi future, might be blocked by a vocal .Hid long-winded minority? " ... - i. ri". V" .'..i "v.'OT'-,. "v... : " SO THEY SAY If I wore president, I would want whomever is running the veterans m fire sit lint; at the cub oid lalil.'. - Hug.. Ccn. Frank T. Mines, re tiring vdermis administrator. We came home on prayer and h'ipe. I.I C K. Miller, pilot of Amer ican Privateer plane Hint re lumed to Okinawa with belly ripped onl aflor attacking ill TMi' hina straits. I fervently hope thai III? cynics who speak disparagingly of the united nations prove to bo as wrong as the evnies were at Hu me i;t colonies began their 'etil venture. C'omdr. Harold E. Stassen. time "Saves vehicles they used to be a vaudeville tumbling act!" We a iv going to do tilings not for. but wilti, thr. (.urvivors of the greatest tragedy III Jewish his tory. Kahbi Stephen S. Wise, presi dent, American Jewish congress. WASHINGTON One of the worst wastes of food in months occurred recently in Nor folk, Va. It involved potatoes for Belgium. Several weeks ago the army promised throe shiploads of potatoes to Belgium, to re place potatoes which our troops had used in that country. Spuds are precious in Bel gium, so the Belgians wanted them back. The war food administration agreed to pro ide the potatoes, and the war shipping ad ministration was to provide the shipping. Everything was set. War food, however, was aoie to get a suf ficient quantity of spuds only by accepting turc content. These spoil more easily than potatoes of good quality but of high mois those with lower moisture. The war ship ping administration was warned of this difficulty, and told good refrigeration was essential. Liberty ships with modern re frigeration were to be provided. Instead of the Liberty ships, however, war shipping sent three old British boats to Nor folk with completely inadequate refrigera tion units. The spuds were supposed to be loaded quickly and put under refrigeration at once, but the ship's master refused to permit the loading of more than 34 to 40 carloads per day. In this he was correct, for too speedy loading would have overtaxed the capacity of his inadequate refrigeration unit. More than 350 carloads had been loaded on the first of the three boats when sudden ly it was discovered' that the ship was list ing so badly that the refrigeration unit sim ply was not functioning. Finally it was de cided to pull the potatoes off this boat, but not until so many had gone bad that, as one shipping man put it, "they had to be pumped off." In the end, the entire consignment of spuds was turned over for sale to civilians. But by this time so many had gone bad that only about half were eventually brought to the civilian market. The Belgians arc still wait ing. Coal Prices Going Up? It isn't being advertised, but data to justify a raise in the price of coal are now being prepared by solid fuels administrator Ickes in an effort to stimulate production of a commodity which is so short that adminis trate leaders are worried sick. Represent atives John Flannagan of Virginia and Andy May of Kentucky called on President Tru man last Friday to urge immediate action to increase the coal output. They proposed: (1) Immediate increase in ceiling prices on coal; (2) immediate steps to release from the army approximately 10, 000 coal miners who have piled up sufficient points to win their discharge; (3) a ban no further drafting of young miners; and (4) all possible speed in turning out badly-needed mining equipment. President Truman was highly sympathetic on all these points. There are about 137,000 coal miners now in the armed forces, As a result, the work force in the mines has been curtailed, and mines which a few years ago rarely took men over 25 for work in the pits are now employing men as old as 47 for these jobs. The older men have done mirailes, all things considered, and last year turned out more coal than ever before produced in a single year in this country. But even more is needed. Note Senator Kilgore of West Virginia has complained to the war department that whereas we have screened German miners from the German army in order to work in German coal mines, the war department has not been able to get any accurate list of coal minars in the U. S. army. WE, THE WOMEN Br HUTH MTLLETT The Georgia supreme court recently ruled that a wife must follow her husband even if he moves into a cabin. The decision was made in a case where a wife was suing for alimony after she refused to leave their five room house to move into a cabin that was nearer her husband's work. Without any court decision to teach them that lesson, thousands of war wives in the last few years have decided on their own that a wife's place is with her husband, wherever he may have to go. They have trailed their men over the country leaving friends and comfortable living quarters behind them to make homes for their men in any kind of room, apart ment, cabin, or shell of a house that they -could find. And with every change of orders for their men, they have cheerfully packed up their belongings and gone right along to the next post and, in most cases, the next set of in conveniences. They haven't kicked about it or complain ed because they instinctively knew, as the court decided, that "A wife's place is with her husband even if it means giving up a house to live in a cabin." They haven't any doubt about the wisdom of their decision to follow their men, for they have seen the loneliness of the hus bands and wives who have differed about where a wife's place is, the ones who think the right solution is for the wife to stay put in the family home and keeping the kids In the school they are used to. That solution may mean comfort for the wife and kids, but to the war wives who have followed iheir men it seems like too high a price for comfort. And now those same women who trailed their men around this country as long as they could and then had their men go off to Europe are already talking of joining their men in foreign countries now that the war department has announced that wives of men in the army of occupation will be al lowed to join their husbands as soon as pos sible. War has taught these women enough about separation so that no judge will ever have to tell them that a wife's place is where ever her husband's job takes him. All they ask is to be allowed to follow. Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON, Lb Grands Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 12 Ex-Secretary of State Edward It. Stctliiiius, jr., will be bus ier than a couple of bird dogs when he takes over his double-barreled job as mem ber of the security council and head of the five-man U. S. delegation in the general as sembly of the new united nations organiza tion. The business Council Member Slettinius will have to look out fur, as outlined in the charter now being considered for ratifica tion by the senate, would include: 1. Planning the establishment of a sys tem of armament limitation. Determining the existence of any threat to the peace of the world and deciding what should be done about it. 3. Telling the nations in any interna tional dispute to settle Iheir differences by negotiation, mediation, arbitration, ju dicial settlement or result to regional agencies like the Pan-American union, or any oilier peaceful means Ihey call figure out for themselves. 4. If these peaceful means don't work, the council may decide to cut off the dis puting countries' foreign trade or com munications. 5. If blockades or economic boycotts don't restore peace, the council may then order the use of armed forces. All of the united nations are obligated un der the charter to cany out the decisions of the council. The council lias as its strong right arm a general staff committee made up of the chiefs of staff of the Big Five pow ers. This general slaff committee would designate what countries would furnish what air, sea or land forces and direct their use in enforcing the peace. In pasisng on all these matters, council member Slettinius will have one vote to cast for the United Stales. On simple mat ters of procedure, questions wjjl be settled by a majority of seven out of Hie eleven council members. When it comes to the hig questions of en forcing peace, however, all of the Big Five plus at least two of the non-permanent members must vote for the action or it's no dice. Only exception lu. Unit unanimous Big Five rule w ill come w hen one of the council members is in a dispute, in which case it must abstain from voting. In addition to casting the U. S. vote, coun cil member Slettinius will cast the U. S.i veto. This veto power over which there has been so much controversy, is really a pro tection for the United States, as Senator Ar thur H. Vandenbcrg has pointed out. If the United States doesn't like any course of ac tion which the security council is taking, it may be killed by a veto vote from Mr. Stct liiiius. When council member Slettinius moves over to his other job and becumes general assemblyman Slettinius, he will be sitting in on a big debating society the new town meeting of the world where anything men tioned ill the charter may be discussed. It can talk about future disarmament, for instance, or any subject relating to world peace, and assemblyman Slettinius can take part in making recommendations for coun cillor Slettinius and his ten cohorts on the security council to do something about. Once the assembly Kcs a subject to the coun--eil, however, the assembly is supposed to keep hands off and mouth shut till the coun cil takes action. The assembly is also supposed lo pro mote international cooperation in the devel opment of international law, economic, cul tural, scial and health improvement. To this end it will receive reports from the se curity council, the social and economic council, the trusteeship council, council, the secretary general and all Ihc other organ izations UNO may set up. When you get right down to the bottom of it, this general a semlily w ill run the works. Important decisions in this G. A. will be made by two-thirds majority of those pres ent ami voting. The five-man, U. S. dele gation w ill get only one vote, and that's nil any nation will have. Questions requiring this two-thirds majority include election of new- members, election of non-permanent members of the security council, election of nations to be represented on the economic and social council, the trusteeship council, election of tile secretary general after nomi nation by the security council, fixing UNO's budget, kicking out undesirable members and suspending those that haven't paid Iheir dues. The general ascsnibly must meet once a year, but it isn't expected to be in session all th time, which is a break for assembly man Slettinius, as that will give him a chance to keep up with the work of coun cilor Slettinius. cops, mi av mia servici. iwc t. m. ago, o. s. pat, err. 7-i "Oh, so you're marines! Well, the invasion is early, boys - apples won't be ripe for another two weeks!" -the o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority EVEN UNUSAL PLAYS HAVE SET PURPOSE N. M. Clitrino and A. P. Wein berg of Wilkcs-Barre, Pa had quite a time for themselves at the northeastern Pennsylvania championship tournament at Scranton. They won the open pair championship and the fol lowing day won the team-of-four 542 A87 96 Q 10 8-7 6 Weinberg; A K 10 8 V 104 A 10 8 7 52 A2 N W E s Dealer Catrino AQ8 653 KQ K J954 . 3 AAJ973 VKQJ92 ' J43 ' None Duplicate E.-W. vul. . South West . North East 1 A 2 Pass 3 3 Pass 3 A Pass Pass ' Pass Opening A. 13 with Morris Lawrence and Mike Depeitro. I like the way both of them were on their toes in de feating today's contract. The opening club lead was ruffed by. declarer and he led a small dia mond. West correctly played low. Questions & Answer t Q How many Greeks are homeless as result of the invasion of their country by Germans and Italians? A More than 500,000 from 1400 villages burned by axis forces. Catrino relaized that declarer must have three diamonds, and was going to try to ruff one. He did not carelessly win the trick with the queen he put on the king and now returned the queen. West realized that this was an unusual play and knw that it was made for a definite purpose, so ho overtook the queen with the ace and led back another dia mond, which Catrino was able to ruff with the six of spades. Thus, the defenders were able to get three diamonds and two spades defeating the contract. IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Bound for New York via Seat tle, San Francisco and southern California, with Orange, Texas, as their' ultimate destination, a party of wealthy Texans passed through La Grande today noon, enroute north. They left Orange, their home, June 1, and have been traveling 18 days, resting the balance of the time. Two large Pierce Arrows convey the party and one of the cars has been used in a European tour, and is now being used in the complete circle of the United States. The larger car has GO horsepower and the smaller 48. Q What help docs England plan to give us in bombing Ja pan? A That nation expects to send over its newest and largost bomb ing aircraft, the Lincoln, which will carry the 11-ton earthquake bombs that did so much damage in Germany. 15 Years t.jo Miss Helen Melville and Miss Betty Bohnenkamp are driving to Baker tomorrow evening w here they will join the group of girls attending girl scout camp at Anthony lake. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rculcr are to return tonight from Wal lowa lake where they drove yes terday to visit their son, Bob, who is a guest there of Frederick Bingaman. Q What was the first lime in navy annals that the or: ' asked for help in crossing an ':iland river? A In crossing the ' dur ing the big push on ( ; ny. Q How strong arc lha treble strings of a piano? A They must have a Urcngth ot JIIO.UUU pounds per square inch more man eiglil times stiongih of ordinary steel. the 10 Years Ago The weather warmed up in cistern Oregon yesterday under the influcnc of a warm sun and nbsncc ot chilly breezes, which have been prevalent most of the time this summer. In La Grande the maximum temperature was 8!) above, within two degrees of the warmest recorded this year, end indications were today might foe a new 1935 record set. The minimum last night was 56 above and at 7 a. m. today the mercury had mounted to 71 above and was still advancing during the morning. This Curious World corn, ihs a, nca $e8vice. inc. CARRIED CUEL TANK'S FULL OP BEER TOTHIRSTYijRtXNDCREWS Building landins fields on dusty normandy beachheads. U- '3 NEXT: The chimpansee, light housekeejMr. 'FI6HTE5S INSIDE THE ROPES CAN SLU& ITOUT, 5dkr AIRS. HENEY AlATTFO .
