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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Pabiisher
SATURDAY KVKMNG. JULY 21.
l'age Two
Patience, Perseverance, Perspicacity, Perspiration Does It
Civilian Soldiers
When the war is over and the (lust
Sind debris huve cleared, many in the
armed services will emerge from the
conflict with honor and medals, earned
with sweat and Moot! and honestly de
served. N'ot all people who deserve decora
tions will get them, however, and we
have in mind many civilians who have
contributed much to the war effort,
most with sweat and even some with
blood, to keep the wheels of the nation
turning.
We are thinking of the formerly re
tired farmers of Union county and the
formerly retired businessmen. We are
thinking of the housewives with busi
ness skills or training, who, though they
did not need the work and had plenty to
do elsewhere, returned to their form.r
or other jobs "just to help out." We
are thinking of men who have accepted
the added burdens of wartime work
without flinching carrying through.
Many a business has been enabled to
continue np-iating by such persons,
whose patriotism and desiiv to help
society is as deep as that of any in th2
armed service. Such tasks have been
more difficult to perform and with less
-fanfare ami other inspiration have l-en
a chore, day in and day out, but many
have stuck with their work.
Farmers, who, say ten years ago, had
thought their .lavs of lalmr had ended
again have proved their mettle, going
back to produce more than their famis
l.ave ever produced in history.
In view of the criticism heaped on a
certain section of the population which
has considered the war a field day and
an excuse to pander to their own selfish
ness, it brightens up our outlook on
humanity to consider the "civilian sol
diers." It may be that some day a
medal will be cast for this group for
presentation by some civic or public
body.
Another Bottleneck
Since reconversion has been under
. discussion it has been assumed that the
.steel industry, at least, could switch
from military to civilian production.
with ho trouble or delay. But now the
industry being able to raise the money
that the country's steelmakers have
$"200,000,000 worth of work to do when
their military contracts are finished.
For one thing, say Steel Facts, wide
sheet mills will have to be shifted back
to peacetime ways. A lot of repairing,
and so on.
Nobody is worrying about the steel
iddustry being able to raise the money
for this job. Hut a ?2o0,0imj,0X) recon
version job will take time. And that de
lay will be reflected and magnified in
ether industries whose products the
public1 is eagerly awaiting.
All of which is just another reminder
not to get too hopeful of a lot of needed
civilian goods appearing quickly. As
Mayor UiCIuardia tells his radio lis
teners each week: "Patience and fortitude."
Funny Husinefu
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You . ,n't t. !l by looking at
ar.ytvH..iy :h-se :iays whether you
ouht :jkc up a collection fur
'r hii:1. far a loan.
Muneiv. I mi , Evening Post.
1 waikv.t with a cane off the
':.o.-p:'.al snip wr.en I came back
fiu.-i, Kr.tljn.i 1 swore I wouldn't
' -ft unltss I w alked, and I did
it.
n.ci.t OJf.cer M. W. Doyle,
Ki'AK boii.l,i: pilot.
Uu.y line thing is required of
t.V.- Jai aiit'-se people, namely, to
have ui,i.bie the perseverance of
tie tiHiny and, in the end. we
iiii t..n:l victorious.
A Kichisaburo Nomura,
f rt: i i Japanese envoy to U. S.
"i think the camouflager sold me advertising spacer
Wt- fought a Revolutionary war
oyer manipulation of tuxes to
ivk .'i.t i.t u people. Ever since
thj'. twr.e we have had to heat
b.H it attempts to misuse this
powerful instrument.
Dubuque. Ia, Telegraph-Herald.
WASHINGTON It's being kept very
hush-huso, but something important is brew
ing behind the scenvs regarding peace with
.Japan. Highest officials won't say a word
about it, not even to some of their cabinet
colleagues.
However, peace feelers which have come
from the Japs tave been much more than
feelers despite Secretary Grew's denials.
One of them was debated by the combined
chiefs of staff for more than a week. It pro
posed the Japs withdraw from Korea and
Manchuria and all China if (1) they could
kep the emperor, and (2) they would not
be invaded.
Meanwhile, Joe Grew and the arv and
navy have prepared a directive outlining
the minimum terms we would accept. This
is one of the most highly guarded documents
in the government. However, it can be stat
ed on high authority the Grew peace plan
would permit the Japs to retain Emperor
Hirohito.
It can alio be s-ated there is considerable
difference of opinion inside the administra
tion regarding the Grew memorandum, and
some of his colleagues inside the state de
partment, including assistant Secretary Will
Clayton and assistant Secretary Dean Ache
son, are vigorously opposed.
Mrs. Truman's Troubles
Some people were of the opinion Mrs.
Roosevelt was unique in her tendency to
get involved in Negro controversies. How
ever, rMs. Truman already has experienced
an off-tbe-record embarrassment.
Toe doors of the summer White House at
Independence, Mo., have not been opened
to a single rtpiesentative of press or radio
since Mrs- Truman and her daughter arrived
early in June.
But not long ago, Mrs. Truman graciously
made an appointment with representatives
of the All-American Newsreel company of
Chicago, a Negro organization, to enter the
summer White House and take pictures of
Vietta Garr, the colored cook. Thev -
ed shots of her w orking in the summer While)
House kitchen.
When this leaked to local newsmen, how
ever, they put up such a wail that Fred Can
fiL U. S. marshal, appeared at the summer
White House at 9 o'clock on trie morning
the pictures were to be taken, and had a talk
with the first lady.
In addition tp being the chief federal offi
cial in those parts, Fred was President Tru
man's sergeant in the last war, and a friend
of the family. Just what the U. S. marshal
told Mrs. Truman is not known, but later
that day the colored newsreel men returned
to Chicago without their pictures.
What Germany Pays
Completely obscured by the Big Three
conference are the reparations talks now
taking place in Moscow. Upon their out
come will partially depend whether Ger
many will be permitted to rise to power
again.
Already the cards have been laid down
as to what we want Germany to pay. Here
is the inside story of the proposed terms:
The Soviet delegation proposed (1) that
Germany pay $20,000,000,000; 12) that this
be paid off in a five-year period; (2) that it
be paid in the form of labor, goods and fac
tories the factories to be exported from
Germany to other countries, not left in Ger
many. Toe Russians also proposed that this $20.
000.000,000 be divided as follows: $10,000,
000.000 to the Soviet; $4,000,000,000 to the
V. S. A.; H. 000,000,000 to Britain; and $2,
000,000,000 to be divided among the other
European war victims.
The American delegation headed by
handsome Ed Pauley, the big oil and rye
operator, proposed somewhat similar terms,
except that the U. S. A. would receive a
larger share of nazi reparations.
Note-The British delegation, when called
upon to give its proposals, replied that it
would like to have permission to fly back
and forth to London each week to consult,
since it did not trust its communication
lines in Moscow.
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com iw r p sctyici. mc t. h tq u. . t. orr. '
"I don't think il will be plundering after all, we have to feed the
liberated pooplefl"
O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Auihorify
WE, THE WOMEN
By BOTH MTT.I FTT
DOUBLE OR PASS
THAT IS QUESTION
It looks as if I stirred up a hor
net's nest with the hand I gave
you recently, the one about
whether you should bid one club
or one spade. Now along comes
this hand. The question is, what
should you do over East's bid of
two hearts? Now please don't
bid two no trump, even though
the opponents are vulnerable. If
you can take eight tricks at no
trump with this hand, you cer
tainly are going to beat them
"from now on Tm illiterate," said the
corporal who came back to this country to
remarry his wife after their marriage had
broken up due to V-mail arguments.
Explained the corporal who has lost faith
in the written word: ""One word led to an
other and the first thing we knew we were
quarreling by V-mail and the next thing I
knew I was in the process of becoming a
giais widower ty consent."
The corporal didn't say what subject led
to the quarrels but it is safe to bet that
either he or his wife let one of these forbid
den topics sneak into a letter and then the
fireworks:
Mention of an attractive member of the
opposiie sex.
An account of the wonderful time one or
the other had at a dance.
Bringing up an old argument or mention
ing a subject that has proved dangerous
in the past.
Making a nasty crack about in-laws.
Over-doing the cheerful note, without bal
ancing it by an occasional mention of lone
liness so that the partner writing such let
ter seems to be a little too well-adjusted to
living alone and appears to be enjoying his
freedom.
Concern over how the other person is
spending his share of the government's
check.
Most of those topics are dangerous ones
when a ccuplt is living together. Eut for a
husband and wife living under the same roof
the quarrels likely to result from them
can usually be made up, if not- always for.
gof.en. ' ''"
But for a husband and wife separated by
thousands of miles, they are pure dynamhe.
For while it is easy to quarrel by V-mail,
making up by the same method is pretty un
satisfactory. The corporal is being a little drastic in
swearing off writing entirely. But any cou
ple separated by the war and water ought
to be as careful of what they say in a letter
as they used to be of what they said to each
other before the morning cup of coffee.
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badly. The question is:'' should,
you double or should you pass?
It is agreed by most of the ex-.
perti that in duplicate match
point scoring you should double,
but there is a question whether
you should double at rubber
bridge. Helen Sobel, Waldemar
von Zedtwitz and Lee Hazen all
agree that if you are playing with
a good partnre, you can safely
double even at rubber bridge, be
cause the partner will take the
double out if he has made a weak
one-spade response.
Hazen said he would be will
ing to wager four to one thati f
his partner passed the two-heart
double, he could set the hand.
However, von Zedtwitz was not
sure that it was a good double at
rubber bridge. If you double and
they make it, you have lost a ter
rific amount, while if you double
and your partner does take you
out in two spades, you probably
won'tm ake it. If you don't dou
ble, it may be very difficult for
East to place the cards correctly, ,
and thus you may defeat the con-'.
tract that could be made if dou
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YEARS
30 Years Ago
Mrs. O. L. Wall has gone to
Minnesota to visit relatives, ex
pecting to spend several weeks
at Mankato. She will be joined
by Mr. Wall later in September
and the family will return tp La
Grande together. ; . ;
Jack Kline of the city Water de
..partment Wa samong the '40 or
. so who left last evening frori La
Grande and nearby points for the
beach. " ' .
Behind Scenes in Washington Questions & Answer e
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By PETER ED SON. La Grand Ertning Observer Washington Cprrespoadeni
WASHINGTON", July 21 First objective
of the so-called "water lobby" in congress
is to fight the creation of a Missouri Valley
authority. A bill to set up an MVA is now
before congress. It was introduced by Sena
tor James E. Murray of Montana. Hearings
on the bill were held before a senate com
merce subcommittee last April and in May
a report was made opposing the project.
Score round one for the 31 organizations
making up the water lobby.
Murray's MVA bill has two more chances
in September. First before an irrigation
subcommif.ee. then before an agriculture
subcommittee. Battle lines are now being
drawn for these later fights.
It must of course be understood that thera
is a strong lobby supporting MVA, but it is
not as old and not as experienced and not
as well coordinated as the water users' lobby
in opposition. Includede in the pro-MVA
lobby are the National Farmers' union of
tenants and small landholders, the A. F. of
L., the C. I. O., the public pwoer advocate?,
the supporters of the Tennessee Valley au
thority who endlessly sing i'.s praises as "the
perfect state," and a number of new civic
organizations recently formed in St. Louis
and Missouri basin. In early July, they all
met at Omaha, formed the Missouri Valley
regional committee for MVA and started out
to ge'. a million signatures on a petition fo
congress to create an MVA.
MVA. hwtver. lar.'t :ne only target which
the 31 organizations in the water lobby are
tpouting at. There are four other bills to
create other authoriMs pending before con
gress. The water-lobby wants to drown
them ail till dead.
Most ambitious of the other authority pro
posals is Mississippi congressman. John
Rankin's bill to divide the whole United
Stales into n.ne areas and put an authority
oyer each one Atlantic Seaboard east of
the Aileghenies, Great Lakes and Ohio Val-1-
Missouri, Columbia, Arkansas and Colo
rado Valleys. Southwestern authority for thv
desert states and a California authority to
function wvs-. of the S.eiras. It is admitted
ly too far reaching to have- much of a chance.
Washington Si natm H,.gh B. Mitchell pro
poses a Columbia Valley authority .a C'VA
for the three northwe.-iern states and a bit
o( Caiiada,
Ohio Congressman Bob Bender proposes
an Ohio Valley authority; OVA would cover
most of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West
Virginia, with bites into west Pennsylvania,
north Tennessee, southeast Illinois.
South Carolina Congressman Butler B.
Hare proposes an SV, Savannah Valley au
thority, taking in narrow strips on the Carolina-Georgia
line.
But these five bills by no means represent
all the valley authority thinking and plan
ning being done in Washington.
Department of interior's bureau of recla
mation has studies under way to divide'the
entire west roughly everything west of
Kansas City into some 20 valley develop
ments: Rio Grande, Red, Arkansas, Colo
rado, Columbia, Central, Missouri, and so on.
In fact, Ickes has a Missouri Valley plan
of his ow n already worked out. And the 31
organizations making up the water lobby
have seized upon the bureau of reclamation
plan as the principal reason why no other
plan and no MVA is needed to replace it.
The water lobby argues that even if the
Murray bill is passed and a new MVA cre
ated, all it could do for two years would be
to study what has already been planned by
bureau of reclamation and war department's
corps of engineers.
Army engineers are in a similar fix. They
have traditionally supervised flood control
and navigable rivers. Under such an ex
panded valley authority program as is now
before congress, all this supervision over
navigable streams would be taken away
from the war department and given to the
authorities. Army engineers aren't inter
ested in hydto-electric power except inci
dentally. When they build a dam it's for
flood control, and the army engineers have
hosts of friends and supporters in the states
where there are recurrent floods.
The powerful water lobby, supporting
both engineers and buru of reclamation
as established old line agencies with whom
they are accustomed to do business, is jn
there fighting to preserve these older gov
ernment agencies and to skip all this fnncv
New Doalish valley authority stuff
The lobby's case Jga-mt the Tennessee
Valley authority will be presented in the
next iue.
y What was the U. S. con
sumption of raw materials used
in manufacture of steel from
Pearl Harbor to V-E day?
A Steel industry consomed
375.000,000 tons of iron ore, 187.
000,000 tons of coke, and 155,
000.000 tons of scrap.
" 15 Years Ago .
Bliss Leslie has returned from
a week trip to the Lake Basin
and Eagle Cap mountain in Wal
lowa county. He was accompan
ied on the trip by Harry Jack- .
son of Joseph. ., . '
Miss Edris Maguire , left for
Portland after spending a vaca
tion here with her mother, Mrs,
S. B Morgan. Yesterday Mr. and
Mrs. Morgan and Miss Maguire
drove to Wallowa lake for the
day and visited with friends in
Enterprise.
Q What is the speed of sound?
A Approximately 1266 feet
per second throughd ry atmos
phere at 100 degrees temperature.
Q How many overseas troops
are supplied by ships?
A More than 5,500,000. One
ton of supplies must be shipped
for each combatant every month.
10 Years Ago
Frieda Klopfenstein, accompan
ied by her sister. Marguerite
Klopfenstein, of La Grande visit
ed at Enterprise this week.
Frieda is now engaged in social
work at Decatur, 111., and drove
west with a friend on a vacation.
She will return to Illinois shortly
and expects to take up more col
lege studies before returning to
the west.
Miss Emma McAnish, who has
been spending the last few
months with relatives at King
man, Ariz., has returned to her
home in the Valeria district.
This Curious World
SiV ANIMAL KINGDOM
LKSskS&S I 0ht WIS EATH I
;Tni'2isCi7 ) pOS 1V1ORE THAN
AP&rl7 D USf&t&l ( A HUNDRED MILLION )
SSrWW WW' t YEARS W4S A v I
"'M-' .- ) SHELL -COVERED Y'
. - ) CRAB-LIKE SCAVENGER
. . k KNOWN AS A L
(''c eil 4 vnn.n. .. A
THE COEKECT TIME TWICE A DAV, '
St?S GESE A.BAIRD,
7-25
HAS SIX LESS MEN YTXIWl
BUT 3r LEGS AFTER IT
eecawES AN ADULT.
T. in u& u. & PU OTP. '
NEXTi If we leveled all the mountains.
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