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Side dunces Washington Merry-Go-RQUnd an m ijt mm EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schlro, Publisher MONDAY EVENING, .ILLY 23, 1945 German THOUGHT FOR TODAY If I can't pray, 1 will not make be lieve ! Iiongfcllow. 'Chosen Instrument' or Competition Prenidimt Truman says that it will be all right for three American air lines to operate over international routes for the next seven years. But Senator Put McCarran, of ' Nevada, says it ain't necessarily so. The senator is a champion of the "chosen instrument" as opposed to "controlled competition" in our interna tional commercial flying, lie has writ ten a bill to create a single "All-American Flag Line" which ho is expected to bring to the senate floor shortly, after months of committee hearings that wound up in a tic vote. Nothing beyond confusion can be pre dicted if congress should vote to create this one-company air line. The presi dent was signed the civil aeronautics board certification which would permit Pan American, TWA and American Ex port to fly as far as Moscow, Jiombay and Calculto. And there seems to be considerable doubt that the McCarran bill, if passed, could be retroactive in the face of the Truman-signed certi fication. Nevertheless, Senator McCarran und others are continuing their campaign for the "chosen instrument." They argue that the United States can com pete with other countries' governmenl subsidi.ed aviation monopolies only by creating a one-company line of its own. It is true that our international avia Funny Business lit C fcP.Y&X (T AU.K&m I Jg" J $AMfrW3 It NAZI'S (AU&Kl JfTZ ( 5ATUATI0M BOABWGS, J ITO; 16 BE FSLLCWED WW I If I 1 it- "V know it l.ii'i don yet, but our Ua taiitd Page Two Measles tion was in the hands of one company until the war, in spite of the CAA act of 1938 which permitted regulated com petition to the extent of serving domes tic and international commerce, the pos tal system, 'and national defense. The McCarran bill apparently would recreate and perpetuate the monopoly. It would permit domestic carriers to ac quire interest in the single overseas line, if they desired, in proportion to their individual share of the total gross reve nue of all commercial air lines. But it is foreseeable that several domestic competitors' attempt to run a harmoni ous business might result in confusion and eventual operation by one company. Champions of the "chosen instru ment" have failed to prove that elim ination of competition in international flying would reduce the single com pany's costs, increase its efficiency, or lessen the need of government subsidy. The history of our industrial progress suggests that competition has pro moted, rather than retarded, low costs and high efficiency, and that it has stimulated research, production and em ployment. On the other hand, the his tory of "chosen instruments" shows that government regulation of a single company usually winds up in govern ment control of it. It seems safe to say that the United Slates government and most of its citi zens don't want monopoly or subsidized control. The state, war, navy, justice and commerce departments are on rec ord in favor of "controlled competition" in aviation. The president's signing of the CAI! certification indicates that he is of the same mind. a SO THEY SAY We whni have reached the point I he issue no longer is in any doubt, und the hinder we pour it on (the Jiips) now, the sooner we'll nil go home. Cien. Joseph W. Stilwell. Annoying experiences with bare .shelves in groceries and meat markets, and "outrageous pint's" for much that is avail able, are tinning the minds of many i vy woihcrs toward "a plaee in Hie country. " Klkhart, Ind., Truth. Hiv the head and bones of a fish or even leaves of withered vegetables and make them into powder (and) wc will have won derful (oikI. --Tokyo radio broadcast. N.nv thai what passes for n set tlement of the Polish question has been effected, Russia's de mands on Turkey for concessions in the Dardanelles will be a new 1. 'ii to plpguc t!ir iiacuc. - b n!iamton. N. Y.. I'tcm. ye.itiJay;" By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Congressmen who have sat in the cJ6sed.-d.oor sessions of the ways and means committee listening to testimony regarding Elliott Roosevelt now have count ed up a total of approximately $850,000 which he borrowed over a period of about eight years.. Most of this he did not pay back. ' '- . : During one of these closed sesisons, con gressmen thought they ran across the clue as to why Jesse Jones was always so con fident he would not be fired by Franklin Roosevelt. In his battle with Henry Wallace over the board of economic warfare, and during the, anti-Roosevelt operations of his nephew in Texas, Jesse always seemed cock sure that his political future was absolutely safe. . , What the committee heard was the testi mony of deputy internal revenue commis sioner Norman Cann to the effect that Jesse Jones apparently had never collected from Elliott Roosevelt for the $4,0Q0 paid to settle the $200,000 loan from John Hartford, head of the A and P chain stores. Cann testified that internal revenue agents who interview ed Jesse Jones understood that Jesse had paid the $4,000 out of his own pocket. At this point in the testimony, one mem ber of the committee remarked: "Good for Elliott! That'-the first time. I ever heard of Jesse getting trimmed." Ariay-Navy Wast The army-navy procurement policy of continued buying for a two-front war when we are only fighting on one front is being subjected to some quiet and elective scrut iny on capitot hill. Senators fear his polio may throw our entire economy out of whack: in case of sudden peace with Japan. What senators have found is that after V-E day, the army refused' to make more than a 20 percent cut in military purchases, though 50 percent of the war was over. Re tiring war mabilizer Fred Vinson tried to curtail purchases but was only able to force an additional 13 percent cutback by Decem WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MfLLETT "What's the Matter Witji the Family?" asks Margaret Mead, the noted anthropolo-. gist, in a recent article in Harper's maga zine. She answers the question by saying: "The family, American style, 1945, lacks the old familiar props and properties upon which we have all been depending. Those who live within it are suddenly faced with no design for living." . j. r And she suggests that young folks will be better able to work out all (he new adjust ments they face if the symqol makers help them if novels and moviei, radio broad casts, magazine stories and comic strips il luminate it for them. ; But, perhaps, there isn't tocj much to worry about after all. Perhaps, npw that young folks can no longer follow the family pat terns set up by their own mdthers and fath ers (and they can't in wartime) they will work out, by trial and error,j far better pat terns for marriage in these .times than the old ones they have had to discard. True, they don't have the safe, steady place in society and the pressure of local customs to make their marriages follow a set form. But because they don't they may very well work out a way of living and a form Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 23 Principal argu ment being used by the water lobby in Washington is to build up a lease that TVA, the Tennessee valley authority, is not the promised land and the beautiful success it is usually portrayed. In trying to tear down TVA, the water lobby has a job on its hand. ', Anyone daring to criticize TVA profanes bacred dogma, according to popular notion. Yet, F. O. Hagie of the National Reclamation association went thrugh the Tennessee valley recently and came back to report there are plenty of peo ple in the valley who don't like the TVA way of life. And-Will H. Webb, executive vice president of tha. National Rivers and Harbors congress, who xomcs from Tennessee him self, accuses TVA of all sorts of dreadful things, including even the opening up of the TVA power dams In flood time, to drown poor people down stream. Hagie and Webb are two of the prime movers on the fire-member coordinating committee which manages the campaign of the 31 organizations making up the water lobby. If the lobby can convince enough con gressmen TVA isn't the unmitigated good it is supposed to be, then there Is a good chance of stopping extension of the ''authority" idea to the Missouri, Columbia (ind other river basins where such planning goes on. Basis for the water lobby case against TVA is complex. The point that, ."TVA rep resents a change in the American form of government" has been mentioned previously in these dispatches. Hagie maintains that the thtce-man TVA board has nver used all the political iind economic powor granted in Un original legislation creating a government corporation to develp resources of the re gion. Il igie savs these powers might easily he abused, and points to thlsi danger. Judge Clifford II. Stone of Denver, n Na tional Reclamation association, director says TVA has beeituf ranted many powers which were never surrendered to the fedral gov ernment by the sovereign states. He makes a strong "suites' right mgiment" against the TVA idea. JudtCe Stone also ol jvets to tht-tost of ber 1. Meanwhile some experts believe we can safely cut back. 80 percent on army-navy buying right now, and by using existing stockpiles and surpluses still provide the Pacific war with every single need. Inside reason for the terrific stockpiles, vast purchases and tremendous installations, according to senate probers, is that both the army and navy are afraid congress won't give them anything after the war, so they are heaping up a huge post-war program ' now. ; - .. Although our fleet is now more than 14 times the size of the Japanese fleet at the start of the war and more than 40 times the size of the Jap fleet today, the navy is still building ships which will not be com 'pleted before 1947 and 1948. ., Also the navy's plane program next year calls for an even larger number of aircraft than the army has ordered. Both have well over 100,000 first-line planes now and they are still buying more, although no one can figure out how more than 30,000 first-line planes can be used in the final sta(.va of the war with Japan. Meanwhile, both the army and the navy have so many pilots, they don't know what to do with them. The army is, keeping up a 2,000,000-man air corps at a time when man- . power is still short on the home front. Be sides wasting bililons of the,, taxpayers' money, the army-navy purchasing program is paralyzing all efforts to set the army-navy purchasing program is paralyzing all efforts to set up an orderly reconversion program and so prevent a sudden, brutal depresison three months after lV-J day. Truman Gets Sore Shortly before he left for Europe, Pres ident Truman was informed of what the army-navy were doing and became so in censed that he slipped three of his friend3 into key spots in the war department. They have orders to watch for any waste in pro curement or graft, and report directly to the White House. . . , for marriage that is more nearly what they want and need, and therefore actually stronger, than if they had been able to fol low a form set'for them by past generations. Joe and Helen (and there are thousands like them) didn't start out with a house in their home town, a steady job with a chance at advancement for Joe, an established plec in their community because theip parents ' were, so-and-so. ".O'i ?.?; They started; out their married life by making a home wherever they were sent, by making friends of whatever crowd they were thrown with, by realizing that both had to cooperate and make sacrifices if they were to have any marriage at all. And then came separation, when they both had a chance to evaluate tehir life together and to give some thought to where they wanted to go. Sure, they made mistakes. But they learn ed a lot, too. And it isn't too much to ex pect that they who have made their mar riages stick in war time can make them slick in peace time conditions they may have to face. Perhpps, instead of the symbol-nia'kers teaching them new patterns, they are teach ing and will teach the symbol makers; TVA. He mentions $800,000,000 expenditures over the past 12 years and declares another $200,000,000 have to be spent to complete the project. None of this has been returned to the federal treasury. ' ' . -, It is the contention of the water lobby that while this billion dollars is being spent, pro viding jobs for 20,000 or more people, every one in the valley is naturally happy. When this flow of funds stops, it is predicted TVA won't be so popular. , Over half of HVA's expenditures have been for the development of public power projects. The water lobby claims" this is nothing but a government subsidy enabling TVA to sell electricity at rates far below what private power producers would have to charge. - I Cheap power has of course been one of TVA's great talking points. The TVA ex periment was intended to provide a yard stick for measuring rates in other parts of the country. But the water lobby claims i' is a rubber yardstick riot applicable to other parts of the country. The Tennessee river Is 700 miles long against the Missouri's 2,500. The Tennessee valley covers less than 3 per cent of the U. S. while the Missouri valley covrs 18 prcent, While TVA may be easy to administer because it is small, adminis tration of the Missouri basin by a single au thority would not be feasible: TVA's flood control has been critcized as worthless to the lower Ohio and Mississippi by Rep. Will Whittingtn, of Mississippi, who is also a director of the National Rivers anl Harbors congress, ppsing the MVA plan. Whittngtn further charges that reservoirs behind dams in the Tennessee valley now cover permanently six-sevenths of the bot I'Un lands that used to be covered with a ter only In flood times and prdurrd crops the rest of the lime. Now, he says, they don't produce anything. Finally, the water lobby claims that TVA is merely a duplication of bureaucracy. For the corps of engineers or the bureau of recla mation could better plan the dams, and the dtpartmeut.ot agriculture .ha; In FU!1 the-. . penmcntsrvn TirtilnAr ni Mi 'SrWhr' Lwt iwitiw ttuvict. we. t. m. tq o. t. f at. err. "I didn't dream you'd miss a fw dollars for facials and a perman ent. Dad you're always harping how you want me to look neat!' o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. B. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority BRIDGE, MATHEMATICS MIX FOR EXPERTS While in Washington recently I had the pleasure of having din ner with Major Russell Baldwin, the former national tournament manager of the American Bridge league. This mathematical gen ius is now employing his skill in the ballistic deaprtment of our government Everything, of course, is percentage of possibil ity with Baldwin. Here's an interesting percent age hand he gave me. West was probably correct in opening the heart suit rather than spades even though his A74 V AQ AK94 4 108 6 33 486 V J 1098 N A A K J 9 5 532 10 J972 W E 78 Q763 . S Dealer 4 Baldwin A Q 10 3 2 VK4 , . . 4W8S2 .. AKQ Duplicate Both vul. South West North East 1 Pass 2 2 A 2N.T. Pass 3N.T. Pass Pass Pass Opening V J. t4 partner had bid them. Baldwin won the trick with dummy's ace and led a club. West showed out on the second round. The ace of diamonds was then cashed, East dropping the ten. Now Baldwin had a count on the East hand; he knows that East must hold five spades to make a vulnerable overcall. He has shown up with four clubs, therefore he held cith er three hearts with a singleton diamond, or two hearts and two diamonds. So now Baldwin came over to his hand with the ace of clubs and led the jack of dia- Questions & Answers Q How much meat did Can ada produce last year? A Total production during 1944 reached the record figure of 2,737,000,000 pounds. The 1945 total is expected to be smaller. Q How many states have only one1- representative in the lower house of congress? A Four: Delaware, Nevada, Vermont and Wyoming. This Curious World .COPS, mS BV MCA SERVICE. INC AAILKIMG A COW THREE TIMES DAILY, INSTEAD OF TWOi INCREASES HER MUX production rmewrr TO ... r. m. Mo. u. i mt. on. 7-1 ANSWER: In Rome. NEXT: A plant that eat meat. nAuTTHE' r ' ) l rAWS ( - t i ' ( OF THE EARTH COULD BE ( JbmmTk LEVELED TO ONE HEI6HT, &m& ' '" ) WE WOULD ALL LIVE AT ) ) AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT ) ' I r-xt monds. When West failed to cov er, he took the finesse. The bal. ance of the diamonds were cashed and East was allowed to make the club jack, but now all he could do was to cash the ace and king of spades. The major thus made four odd. O IN FORMER , YEARS 30 Years Ago Miss Mary Fitzgerald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Fitzgerald, has gone to Elgin to visit with friends for a few days. Ray Couch returned last night from Eugene, where he has been attending the university. J. A. Russell, president of the city of La Grande, went to Port land last night on business matters. IS Years Ago Numerous inquiries about farms in the Grande Ronde val ley are being received 'at the chamber of commerce, the secre tary announced today. Most of these come from the middle west and several are received each week. J. J. Handsaker, associate sec retary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, left last night after spending several days in La Grande during which he spoke at the Eastern Oregon Normal school and at several of the churches, explaining the work of the organization in its efforts for world peace. 10 Years Ago Saturday, with a temperature of 89 above, was the first day in nine that saw the high in La Grande less than 90 degrees but no one could figure from that that any appreciable break in the current heat wave had resulted. Sunday the mercury didn't quit climbing until it reached 91 and today another 90-above or more was indicated. The sky remained clear. The highest temperature recorded during this period is 108 degrees. Farms of Union county cur rently are valued at $12,183,345, according to the final report on the farm census recently taken in Oregon. The average acrage is 347 acres. Wiallowa county shows an average acreage of 549, with a total value of $8,001,465.
