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.
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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'
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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
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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
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WHAT THREE ISLANDS WERE
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LIFE OF NAPOLEON ?
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ANSWER: He was burn on Corsica, imprisoned on EH a nd
died on St. Helena,
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