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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1945)
I EDITORIAL - PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher WRDNKSDAY UVKN1NCJ, AUGUST 1, 1915 1'uge Two lis Cup Runneth Over Living War Memorials On pnu 1 of the Evening' Observer today is printed a letter an answer to the request made several days hko for expressions from the public as to the proper typo of "living war memor ial" for this area. We agree, thoroughly with the last paragraph of the letter, but believe that the last paragraph, certainly the most importanat, is inconsistent with the first two paragraphs. , There are two questions in the letter: First, "where is the money coming from?" . Second, "Will the money bo raised by subscription or taxation?" : It can be. taken for granted that the men in service will want no memorial as such. It is for this reason, that the living war m e m o rial project was started. " Those who remembered the memor ials following the last war the can nons in parks, the lows of trees planted, the now obscure plaques in isolated places, the useless statuary decided this type of memorial must be avoided. The following requirements dictated the consideration of living war memor ials: it must be a project already neces sary in the -community; it must be of permanent use to the community; and it must provide labor for the returning veterans and assist in assuring that un employment and apple selling will not recur after this war. These are all worthy considerations. Where is the money coming from? Either from public subscription or taxation, whichever is the most feasible and whichever the majority of the pub lic desires. That is one of the questions which the public is asked to answer. Let: this bo taken into consideration, however. Unless work is made for the population now at work and for the 13 million who will return home to swell the ranks of workers, there will be no money. There will be depression and unemployment. :lt will be easy in La Qiande to pay taxes or to subscribe heavily to a note worthy project if the area is pros perous.'. Prosperity is created by work the application of labor for the crea tion of new wealth. 1)6 the veterans want a memorial? As such, certainly not. Will any veter an object to being memorialized how over, with let's say, a swimming pool which will be used by the youth and people of this community? We think not. Here is a fact not known by many in reference to a swimming pool. Union county boy scouts rise rapidly through ull their tests and ratings until they are about to become first class scouts. Then they abruptly slop. Why? One of the requirements for a first class scout is being able to swim 100 yards. Most boys and girls in the county cannot swim at nil. We believe that the way to have prosperity and jobs and to pay taxes and to enjoy the possession of commun ity projects is to work and to create them. We can not afford not to have a community living war memorial. Funny Business ai- a 0 - yf MJMW-5 CrJi;- :--': "K carries spares his trunks rg always coming off 1" ' SO THEY SAY 1 strongly suspect that the (Brit isli) government was not ready for peace in Europe. Lord Davidson, president, Brit ish Engineering Industries Association. If we could stop the remarks which lead lo panic buying and hoarding, we w o u 1 d have no shortage of soap. --11 e part m o n t of Agriculture spokesman. We can't repay the men who return from battle lame, halt or blind. But we can help give them what they now hope for most: a chance to live normal lives, to be come useful members of their communities- a chance to work. Ulna, 0-, New s. A e.ood columnist is one who Keep-. Hie iaigesl number ot read ers completely mystified as to just where lie does stand. Marlins FeriyUcllaire, Ohio. Times-Leader. Washington Merry-Go-Round Side Glances' t i r By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Britain's labor party, which swept ''Churchill out of office, is a strange mixture and resembles the liberal brance of the Democrat party more than any socialist movement, it has its liberal and its conservative wings, has had no labor troubles similar to ours during the past decade. Clement Attlee, Britain's new prime min ister is a poor man ... he was little known among the fashionable people of England . until P136 when his salary- was raised to 2.0UU pounds a year . . . after getting this pay boost, Mrs. Attlee was able lo venture into society for the first time, was able to start playing golf, hire enough help to keep' her home going . . . Attlee likes to puller in his garden, do odd jobs around the house, constantly puffs a pipe) is a sharp contrast to fiery.charming Hamscy MacDonald, Eng land's lust labor prima minister . . . Attlee is no forthright leader, is considered more of an impartial middle man, will have all he can do to keep peace within his own widely split party. Attlee's greatest rivals fpr power inside the party are paunchy, jovial Herbert Mor rison and hard-headed, deep-voiced, testy Ernest Bevin . . . Morrison lost his right eye when he was three days old, has had a "leftisn" outlook ever since . . . Morrison has played runner-up to Attlee in many elections, carries on constant behind-the-scenes war fae with Bevin . . . Bevin had the same war job which Sidney Hillman took over in tho OPM after Pearl Harbor handling labor relations. However, Bevin made a tetter go of it, fought grimly and successfully for bet ter rations for workers . . . Morrison is n cocky, has a spry sense of humor, likes to dance, is head of the labor party in political ly potent London. He. is also a man of dar ing, had the ancient, tradition-encrusted Waterloo bridge torn down because he found it unserviceable, afterward had traffic roll ing more smoothly through the center of London . . . Morrison is a hard ruler, loves efficiency, is known as a practical reformer.1 a powerful party man. Ernie Bevin is a hard-headed union boss ... he hates dictatorships but is a dictator in his own union, the giant transport work- ers . . . Bevin runs his own union like John L, Lewis runs the mine workers . . . outside his union, however, Bevin's labor practices are more like those of Sidney Hillman and Phillip Murray ... he believes in negotia tion rather than strikes. Bevin took a bad trouncing from Winston Churchill in 1928, has never forgiven the former prime min ister. It was Bevin who called the 192(1 gen eral strike in England, a s I ri k e which Churchill dealt a shattering blow , . . Bevin is a furthright anti-fascist, was1 against Hit ler, Mussolini and the Cliveden set from their inception, was responsible for the tough-minded position his party took inter nationally from 1933 to the outbreak of war , . . as leader of the transport workers, Bevin controls considerable of the labor party, is rough on his enemies, gruff with his friends, loses his patience frequently. To get feminine support, the new labor government will lean heavily on a red-headed fiery labor M. P., Ellen Wilkinson . . . Miss Wilkinson is at home in a fight, knows the world, has contempt for Britain's colon ial'polieies, is a scrapper from the word go . . . She knows about riots and bloodshed first hand, was in the thick of the black and tan trouble in Ireland, even led hunger marches on London during the depression . . . Miss Wilkinson lives in the Bohemian Bloomsbury section of London surrounded by poets, painters, actors and writers; has persuaded many of them to pitch into labor's fight . . . Blunt and forthright, Miss Wilkin son was the first member of parliament to defend King Edward's marrying American- ' born Wallis Simpson ... In one speech she said, "we say that if a woman is good enough to be a man's wife, she is good enough to take her side by him as his equal in what ever rank of life intended." WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT There's a new course in store for Johnny when he goes back to school in St. Louis this fall if he happens to be in the seventh, or eighth, grade. He is going to find himself enrolled in a course in homemaking, where he will be taught how to prepare a meal that contains the proper vitamins, how to press his pants and darn his socks even how to scrub bathroom and kitchen floors and turn out a washing. The teachers who have planned the course hope it will make Johnny a more capable and cooperative member of the family circle and perhaps it will. But mothers may have , a few qualms. Suppose as anyone who has had boys that age around the house is sure to suppose Johnny just becomes an authority on how such things should be done, instead of becom ing the little helper who does them. Then life will really become more com plicated than ever around the house; "I sup pose you know that dinner we had tonight wasn't well-balanced," Johnny will say con descendingly, while he bolts it down. And "I wish you'd press my pants the way I showed you so the crease will stay in," he'll complain to an already harassed mother. And can't you hear him giving a lecture on how his sister should have scrubbed the bathroom floor. Of course, it may not turn out like that at all. And Johnny may put what he learns about homemaking to such good use he'll be a joy around the house. If that happens St. Louis mothers will be forever indebted to St. Louis teachers. But mothers have a right to be skeptical until Johnny has scrubbed the bathroom floor more than once. In the past the hardest men lo have around home have usually been the ones who thought they knew how things should bo done and were ready and willing to show a woman once. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 Do you have trouble answering your mail? Do you blush when you enter a drawing room to see standing there Miss Josephine De Oakes to whom you owe a thank you note for having invited you to cocktails on the 13th ult? Do you lie awake nights worrying about all thoso letters you have forgotten to write to your doctor, dentist, grocer, butcher and land lord, thanking them for their services and incidentally enclosing check? Ah. we thought so, you are just the per son to whom this is addressed. This will help you, but definitely. You will never forget the clay you read here how easy it is to get your mail answered within three days after receipt of same, banishing all your cares. In one easy lesson it tells here how the effic iency experts in the department of state fig ured out a system whereby the secretary of state could get his mail answered without forgetting. You, too, can be this kind of a success. You, too, can be pointed at by all your admiring friends who will whisper to each other beside their hands, "there goes a man or woman as the case may be who answers all his or her mail within three days after receiving same, just like the sec retary of state." It seems that some months ago the secre tary's office was having real trouble getting his mail answered. A letter would come in which the secretary himself couldn't reply to because he didn't know the answer, or he was over at the White House or something. So it would be sent to an assistant secre tary and the assistant secretary would send it to an administrator and the administra tor would send it to a section chief and the section chief would send it to the head of a desk, and Ihe poor guy on the desk would be so swamped the letter would get buried for weeks and by the time he got around to answering it - he war w ith Germany was over and the w hole thing was just silly. So the efficiency experts got together and devised a system to remedy all this, they issued an administration instruction, the ti tle of w hich w as "control of limited category of communications addressed to the secre tary of stale." First the memo stated the pur pose of the instruction and then it told who operated it and then it told how, in these exact words, honest: To all communications selected for con trol will be stapled four serially numbered control cards (yellow, blue, rrd and green) of which the original (white) is retained in the secretary's office and on tne stub of which appears the following: the secretary wishes an immediate acknowledgement made of this communication. if a reply cannot be sent within three days." Next comes instructions on "proceedure" that is, how to make this four card peek , system work: l "1 yellow card. Immediately on receipt of the communication in the division or office to which routed for action, the entry only on the yellow card (date received) will be completed, but firmly written So that carbon impression will be recorded on the under lying blue, red and green cards. Send the yellow card at once to the Secretary's office. "2 Blue card. If it is seen by the respon sive action officer that a reply cannot be sent in three days, he will prepare an ac knowledgement immediately and enter the date of the acknowledgment on the blue card (with carbon impression on the under lying red and green cards): detach and send the blue card at once to the secretary's of fice and the acknowledgment to CR." CR, in case you don't know, is Communi cations and Records Office. Isn't this fasci nating? More fun than Stud Poker or Au thors. Read on: "3, Red card, when the responsible action officer has prepared and appropriate reply to the communication he will complete the entries on the red card, (date answered . . .) and (reply routed through . . .): Detach the red cards and send it immediately to the secretary's office (Romm 284) and forward the reply with the original communication to which the green card is attached to the interested division or directly to CR as the case may be. 4. Green card, the division of coordina tion and review will detach the green card lo secretary's office, Room 284." (Signed) Raymond H. Geist, chief, division of central services. "Approved: Harry M. Kurth, Acting Di rector, Officer of Departmental Administra tion." See how easy it is to get your mail answer ed in three days? Just fill out four cards (but firmly) and attach to letter when re ceived. Send yellow card to gran-maws, blue card to the police station, red card to the fire department and the green card Oh! just drop the green card in the e,ar lvif.e pail for the waste paper drive and walk don't run. to the nearest psychiatric, ward. Yuu'l! probably tind the girl from 184 there, playing gin rummy with all those cards. She'll answer your letterOr cut your throat. mi tu sy m BDwci, me. t. ta y, s..ffl. off. , O .. "This it our scoutmaster. Mora I told him maybe you'd help us out on our camping trip with some of that canned shift 'we've got hidden ; in the cellar!" . " ' o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE ; By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority HEART AGREEMENT CALLS FOR 5 CLUBS This is the second of two-articles describing the variations of 04 763 J 10 9 8 64 96 ' ' 102 VQJ9 AKQ32 K52 W E S Dealer AK67 63 V 10 8 7 J743 oQJ5 VAK542 5 AQ108 Duplicate Neither vul. 8outh West North Esst 1 V Pass 3 Pass 4N.T. Pass 5 V Pass Opening 4 9. 2 4 V 6 Pass 2 Pass Pass Pass the Warren slam convention. This article is on a specialized bid used O BARBS War, pessimists must be begin ning to worry, about what they'll worry about when peace comes. ' Save fat, cries the government. And so many girls are trying to get rid of it. . when hearts is the agreed suit and, while a slam isp robable, there is still the possibility that two tricks may be lost. A four no trump response would get a re sponse of five spades, and in this case the hand would automatical ly be down one. To cover this situation, when hearts are the agreed suit, a five-club response is given with a count of less than five and the hand can then be played at five hearts. ' On the hand .shown, declarer lost two spade tricks and tied for top score. Of course, the players who tried for six were down one, and, while most stopped at game, there had been a chance to ex plore slam possibilities without risk, thl safe haven of five hearts being available, inasmuch as that was the agreed suit. O IN FORMER YEARS Thirty Years Ago J. H. Blumenstein brought a bucketful of luscious strawber rics to town today from his ranch , near Bear wallow. The species is the Hood River brand, but the : taste is more sweet and solid than the Hood River product. A new column should be added to the restaurant menus, titled, "Just Out Of." "Build your own home after the war," is the cry. Don't be satisfied with your lot unless there's a house on it. Keeping your ear to the ground is one way of getting it full of dirt. . Fire of an origin yet unlearned broke out late today in the base ment under the Moon bakery. The damage caused is undeter mined. Fifteen Years Ago During the month of July, there were only three slight showers in La Grande, each barely enough for the weather board to measure. Did you ask what's cooking? Take a peek at the thermometer it's you. Many of the growers in the 'Cove district are through picking, and the packing houses are now being operated with smaller forces. Everyone in the family knows exactly where father is going to drive except father. An Illinois night club charged 75, cents for a glass of milk. That ought to keep the cows contented. Women arc having sugar trou bles canning ' red cherries, red currants and red respberries. Top bad they can't can red tape. Ten Years Ago Nephi Combs, young La Grande business man, is in the Grande Ronde hospital today, resting well after an automobile accident in which he received three broken ribs. Donations continue to arrive at the city office and First National bank in the Amos L. Helm first aid car drive today. This Curious World - I ROUTE SHOWN ON THIS j ) J aj ( MERCATOR MAP IS I J i Cr ) sorm. than the C J v ! ) ) 5TRAISHT LINE OF TRUE V V SINGAPORE H f-1 i ' 1 Li I -t y?x. WHAT THREE ISLANDS WERE CLOSED' ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON ? AS0UT .465 PSI?SON$ IN ME UNIT1D STATES WCOMB ANSWER: He was burn on Corsica, imprisoned on EH a nd died on St. Helena, NEXT: The value of cu4 chewing.
