La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 20, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextSide Glances iff, Fa Washington Merry-Go-Round Br DREW PEAMOH EDITORIAL PAGE T and kii id I, 1UO the i to ft ' thl mo dot j pl j lni i In osi WE ' irr ' ' no , ; ;i i Hi V I Pi .VI ! ,n :, I :( 1 I ( I 1 ! n 'i La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher FRIDAY EVENING, JL'LY 20, 1943 Page Two You Ain't See n Nothin' Yet! There Is An Almost Universal Language About every so often some one comes up with the brilliant suKRcstion that everyone ', ought to learn a universal lanjfiiiifre.' Sometimes Esperanto is sug gested; now, recently, it has been some manufactured thing called Olingo. (The name is enough to prejudice a discern ing mind.) Esperanto, while it is a clever and undoubtedly effective lan guage, has one thing against it which is sufficient to insure it will never be adopted as a universal languge and the same thing goes for Olingo (pfcugh!) and 'all the other made languages: The juice of life is riot in them. They are dead dead as Sanskrit or I'ictish or ancient Mayan. There is, however, one language which meets all the requirements of a univer sal language. It is richest in idiom, vocabulary, expression and shading; it is flexible, takes on new words con stantly, discards old and worn out words and yet is constant enough so that words now mean, in the great majority of cases, what they meant 30 j cars ago and what they will mean in another 300 years, probably. Despite the sneers of its detractors, it is prob ably as simple as any other language and far simpler than most. In its basic form it can be learned, including the 1,000 words of necessary vocabulary, by a person of intelligence, in a few weeks, lis sentence .structure is simple and logical; its adjectives stand next the words they modify; its verbs are de scriptive and compact; it is not confused with inflections; and it is supremely ex pressive. That language, of course, is English. English, though it differs enough to be strongly distinctive in various parts of the world, is spoken by' more than three times as many persons now as any other two or three major languages put together. It is in use as a first tongue by Americans, Canadians, British, South Africans, , Australians and New Zealanders. It is taught in almost all the countries of Europe as the second language and nearly all continental Eu ropeans are becoming familiar with it. It is the second language in Latin America; even in the far east and in darkest Asia and Africa it is heard more frequently than any other tongue except the native dialect; it is the basis for the lingua franca of the entire Paci fic war zone the "pidgin English." What other language has so many who use it, daily, either as first or sec ond choice? What other language is so constantly growing? Although it has not the lilting, liquid beauty of Spanish, nor the suavity of French, nor the rug ged thunder of German under the pens '. of its masters it lakes on many of these qualities. And it is spreading, day by day. Those who insist on a universal language need only be patient. In just a few more years there'll be a universal languge. It may not be exuetly the one we are ac customed to hearing every day of our lives but it will be English, understand able, simple, expressive, malleable, and live English. Funny Business o SO THEY SAY Thi" war In the Pacific vastly increases (waste) paper needs. W. T Hi.vi. WPB salva'. c.iicf. il s (.'.ill the New Deal we have to heat in I (MB. Ilrihcrt riirwnell, national re publican ciiaiiman. One winter without coal you can Ret away with. But sec ond you can't. If people don't pet cn.il yi m can count on chaos or rrvnltitin. --Unidentified French official. The excess profit tax should he repealed after V-J Pay. --Fred M. Vinson, new secretary of the treasury. "11 litlp Hit lldvur ttlibii w i(.iv iniUdlioii iulftt.i" I don't think It would he ex pedient for mc to go over Tokyo until the ji'b there is done, t shout! not like to fall into Jap anese hands l.t.'Ccn, Jarfios H. Doollttlo, commander ct the Gth U. S. air fore'v. WASHINGTON Despite Wendell Will kle's book "One World," there have seldom been two Worlds So diametrically opposite as those represented by Stalin and Church ill as they sit at either side of President Tru man at Potsdam. Probably not since the Mohammedans pushed the Christians across the Balkans to the gates of Vienna have two great governing segments of the world been so far apart.- .. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the Balkans, a subject high on the agenda of the Big Three. A few' Seeks before Berlin, Stalin sent telegrams, to both Truman and Churchill proposing that the allies recognize the new Soviet-dominated governments of Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, despite the fact that they were Hitler satellites which declared war on the U. S. A. and Britain. Truman' replied that, while the United States might be ready to recognize Finland, he thought the whole question should be left to the coming conference. Churchill replied ' likewise .regarding all the ex-Hitler satel lites (now Soviet satellites). This problem now before the Big Three might not appear difficult on the surface. However; it was only a few short weeks ago that Genr Cortland Van Rensselaer Schuy ler, head qf the U. S. military mission in Ru mania, called at the White House with such a discouraging picture of Russian abuses in Rumania that President Truman remarked: "It would be better for us to pull out rath er than re kicked around." U. S. -Russian Tension General Schuyler had reported to Truman that the Russians, disregarding the "high principles of Yalta, have ruthlessly imposed a minority government in Rumania," ignor ing the protests of U. S. representatives. Simultaneously, Prime Minister Churchill received a report from his Balkan represent atives that "present position is highly un satisfactory. Russians have refused to ad mit that Yalta declaration on liberated -areas pplies to Rumania and Bulgria, where they genuinely think we have no right to inter fere." Actually, the situation In Bulgaria was not merely "unsatisfactory." It approached a crisis. Soviet and Bulgarian troops actually surrounded the house of the American min ister, Maynard Barnes, and at one time threatened to batter down the doors, when a British official finally persuaded them to desist. .. What happened was that local Bulgarian communists, long suffering under the nazi heel, suddenly) went berserk, and. under Soviet protection, took over control of the nation, proceeding to execute a reported 30,000 quislings. Among these was the wife of the court chamberlain, who had fed, hid and helped rescue American fliers forced down in a Ploeste air raid. American efforts to save her were fruit less. The Bulgarian communists hauled sus pects before the firing squad wholesale. Even the queen mother asked the American Igation for asylum, but was refused on the ground that she was not in actual danger. Finally, however, at four o'clock on the morning of May 24, Dr, George E. Dirriitrov, former head of the agrarian or peasant party, sought and obtained refuge in the American legation. ' ' Soviet General Shot This caused the second most severe strain on American-Russian relations since the start of the war. (Most severe strain oc curred when American fliers mistakenly shot and killed a Russian lieutenant general as both the American and Russian armies were converging on Berlin. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MHXETT Nobody should be surprised least of all men that women have found a legal way to get around shoe rationing. Some of the fair sex have been buying unrationed shoes with plastic or composition soles, and have had them re-soled with honest-to-goodness leather. Isn't that the same brand of ingenuity wo men use with a man who isn't quite up to their standards of what a husband should be? By clever management they pass him off to their friends as a grade A husband. George is as dull as dishwater, but not after his little woman gets to work on a build-up. After she puta.her mind to mak ing him look good the adjectives her friends use to describe him are "steady" and "reli able" and "the quiet, thoughtful type." Bill is 'just another old man with money when a -young woman marries him. But pretty soon he is "sweet old Bill" and "the salt of the earth" or "that terribly success ful Mr. Jones" whose every opinion carries weight,- depending on which kind of a gen uine bargain his wife has. decided to make him look like. Joe might have been called "lazy and no- account" before some girl decided to take him on for life. But as long as she sticks to him, he will pass for a man who prefers the bohemian way of living and has nothing but contempt for the stuffed shirts who consid er money important. Frank may be down-right rude and un social, but a wife can make even him look good if she plays him up as a man too busy and with too many important things on his mind to find time for frivolity or the social graces. The men girls count on marrying some day and the men they finally bring to the altar are often as different in looks and qual ity as an ersatz article is different from the real thing. But Women are ingenious creatures, and if they can't have what they want, they can ; find ways of making the best of what they can get. It isn't women's nature to do without when they can't have just what they have already counted on having. They are too good at contriving, disguising, and making the best of things. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 20 Commercial water using interests from Maine to Califor nia and Florida to the northwest are repre sented in the 31-organization "Water Lob by" now organizing to fight the develop ment of more U. S. regional "authorities" like TVA. Their interests vary from irri gation in the desert to flood control in the low- lands, from the development of a U. S. ocean-going merchant marine to the pilot ing of some put-putting power boat on a fresh water lake far from the seaboard. Everybody is in this group, in fact, except the people who are interested in the devel opment of hydro-electric power, lots of it and cheap, from government-biult dams and generating stations. That stands out promi nently in checking over the list of trade as sociations in this newest of Washington pres sure groups. As now constituted the group consists of the three big national organizations dis cussed in he previous article of this series, plus 28 regional or special purpose associa tions. Five of the organizations have special in terests in the Mississippi valley, five in the Ohio valley, seven in the Gulf coast and southern states, five in the cast, two in the Missouri. valley, one in California and three auxiliary organizations promoting ocean shipping and pleasure boating. Some are old and well heeled, others newer but ambi tious. All seem to he motivated by the fact that they like the way things are being run now and don't want experimentation In new forms of government agencies like the Ten nessee valley authority. From the Mississippi river basin are the Mississippi Valley association, interested n liver navigation from the Alleghenirs to the Rockies; H;c Missi.wippi Valley Flood Con tro association, organized back in 1912. now made up of the Levy boards from six states; the Upper Mississippi Waterways associa tion, promoting navigation above St. Louis; the I'ppcr Mississippi and St. Corix River Improvement association, promoting navi gation above the Twin Cities; American Waterways, Inc., organized a year ago as a successor to the Mississippi River Carriers association of barge hue operators. In the Ohio valley region are the Pitts burgh Coal Exchange, barge line operators; Tri State auUn'iily Pennsylvania, wr. Viriiiu and Oh:?, promoting f!'J3 control navigation an danti-pollution in streams; Allegheny River association, recently re organized to promote shipping above Pitts burgh; the Ohio Valley Improvement asso ciation of Cincinnati, which has been boost ing river shipping from Pittsburgh to St. Louis for 30 years; and the Ohio Valley Con servation and Flood Control congress whose name speaks for itself. In the east are the Eastern States Conser vation conference of Boston, eight years old, closely tied in with the New England Coun cil through the existing state governments; the New York State Waterways association, of canal and river shippers; the Interstate Commission on the Delaware river, unique in that it functions through identical legis lation passed by the four state assemblies; the Upper Potomac River Board, interested in flood control; and the Atlantic Deeper Waterways association, an old and powerful organization of coastwise shipping interests frm Maine to Florida. In the south are the Florida Waterway Congress, promoting ship canals; the Louis iana Department of Public Works; Intra coastal association, and the Trinity River association, these last two covering all the water interests fo Texas. Operating in the west are the California Water Councl, formed a year and a half ago to orcprcscnt the interests of 47 irrigation districts in the Central Valley. And the 400 units in the National Reclamation associa tion itself arcs cattercd all through the west. In the Missouri valley proper are the Mis souri Valley Development association, less than a year old; and the Upper Missouri Val ley association, promoting navigation above Sioux City, la. Though both operate in the territory which an MVA would seek to de velop, they and the rest of the 31 oppose it. Then for good measure the lobby includes such apparently unrelated organizations as the American Power Boat association; the American Merchant Marine institute and the Propeller club of the United States. If the list makes tedious reading it is im portant in that it shows these are not mere paper organizations but going concerns which can make a big splash w hen they throw their weight around Washington in a concerted effort to stop the valley au. thorlty idea. . What's at stake In ibis figM v ic lc -tibjcej of the nc;l dispatch m thi, scriei.'' 3JRM. G. t.J!M'.o.'.k Bit, qffL .7-2C "I can't remember the name of the soap, but the announcer oi their radio program has false teeth!" ) McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority SPADE OR CLUB? TAKE YOUR CHOICE Arguments are a part of bridge, but a bridge argument should never amount to anything be cause, after all, it is only a mat ter of opinion. If you don't be lieve it Is a matter of opinion, take this lone hand and give it to 10 good players. One group will tell you that you should open with one spade and another will say that it should be opened with one club. The first one I asked was Har ry Fishbein. "Why," he said, "there isn't but one bid on the N W E 8 Dealer AQJ74 V5 72 KQ643 21 hand; one club." And then Jacoby dropped in and I asked him. "One spade," was his instant re sponse. Charles Solomon was the next one I. presented the hand to. "Everybody in Philadelphia will bid a club on this hand," was his comment. Therefore, I went to Charlie Goren of Philadelphia. "One spade," was Goren's reply. Now I suppose you would like to know what I would bid on it. Questions & Answers Q How many members of the cabinet appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt following his election as president in 1932 continue in office? A One, Harold L. Ickcs, sec retary of the interior. I have decided that it all depends upon my opponents and my part ner. With certain Ipartners I would open with one spade, arid then against different opponents and with a different partner I possibly would bid ac- lub. The nicest thing 'about it is that I can prove from the above that either bid is correct.! P IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Mrs. H. M. Bradshaw and little daughters, Olive , and Mildred, have returned from a three weeks' visit at Weiser and in Baker. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Kern have gone to Kansas and other middle western states. Kern' is a shop employee. Record heat for the year was attained today noon when the heat wave reached the oppressive point of 95 degrees. Coming, as the wave did, on the' heels of a prolonged ..siege of cool weather, tne v temperaturoi ' is working havoc with comfort today. The heat is hastening harvest every where and fields are rapidly reaching the cutting stage. 15 Years Ago Mrs. Ray A. Cook is expected to return from Portland soon. She has been visiting her son, Ray mond, at the C. M. T. C. camps over the weekend. Dr. A. N. Mayville, La Grande, was elected first vice-president of the Oregon Naturopathic associa tion at the meeting of their an nual convention in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roehm are leaving today for Seattle and Tacoma to attend the northwest furniture market. dchy- Q Are oranges being drated successfully? A They are. A 90-pound crate can be reduced to seven pounds of powder. Q What is the amount of grain shipped from Duluth and Super ior over the Great Lakes annu ally? A Around 55,000,000 bushels. Q What nationality settled Delaware? A The Swedes. 10 Year! Ago Two hundred and five young people, 12 of whom are from La Grande, are attending; the annual Epworth league being held at Wallowa lake. First new wheat to be harvest ed in Union county was brought to the La Grande elevator of the Pioneer Flouring mills today by Fred Zaugg of the Mt; Glen dis trict. He was the first to bring in new wheat last year, althougn it was on July 3, showing the 1!)J5 season to be at least 16 days later than the one in 1934. This Curious World FAWN'S t.OSS ive; soars wnen TEr Pur OS ThE' WINTK COATS iKi AUTUWN. THE PROJECTION ABOVS THE HOC rrrtoftr, KwiotAi oaiA ncc. ui it. ofr . . AN3WK!l:'l'e!Ut.' i ttltWkai ia triloba'?