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; era r ; EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Scbiro, Publisher FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1945 You Haven't Quite Got the Idea Yet, Nip! EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE. A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do thorn; Then I will (,'ive you ruin in due Beaaon, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. lAwiticus 26:3 i, THOUGHT FOR TODAY A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that 1 am acquainted with. Kich ter. Coast Guard Now 155 Years Old The nation's oldest fio;htinir sea ser vice and one of the most diversified fleets in the world, the V. S. coast irimrd, observes its l.MUh anniversary. August I. The country joins in this observance to honor some 172,00(1 coast jfliaidsiiu'ii at buttle stations through out the world. Created Auk. I, 17110, when Presi dent lieoiHe Washington approved a congressional act establishing the reve nue marine, the service's first function was suppression of .sntugnlinjr on the Atlantic seaboard. The coast guard Funny Business O i "It's that now rope-trick player !hy imported Page Two came by its present name in 1915 when the revenue cutter service was merged with the life saving service. In observing its birthday this year, it looks back on a history fraught with tradition. From such tradition stem med its motto, Semper Paratus . . . Always Ready, and its unofficial slo gan, "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back." It has an outstanding record of action in every conflict in which this country has engaged, beginning during trouble with France in 1799, when eight cutters served with the newly organized navy. Of 22 prizes captured, 18 were seized by the cutters. During World War 1 it fought conspicuously as part of the navy, suffering the greatest propor tionate loss of life of any of the armed forces. The present war has expanded its fighting duties many fold. Its men have been in every major invasion of World War II, have transported thousands of troops to the battle zones, and carried on intensive anti-submarine warfare in both the Atlantic and Pacific. In addi tion the service's famed peacetime func tions have been continued. We j iin in congratulating the coast puard . . . its men at their battle sta tions, and its 10,000 KPAUs, women re servists, who are serving in shore jobs in the United States, Alaska and Hawaii. We add a hope that it will be its last wartime anniversary. In I lie five western states, 70,000 persons are employed in u. lumber industry as for est and sawmill workers. SO THEY SAY If Ihe citizens of producing na tions coul, I see tile plight of . . . KaMein Kuiope. they would not lest until th.-v had sivmvd . . . curtailments of their own con sumption so fewer people would starve in Europe this winter. Michael Sei urieliic, Russian head of '.he I'NKKA Mission to Yugoslavia. And why must Americans bear so much of this (relief) burden? The answer is. because we have most of the means of supply and restoration, and "of him to whom much is given, much shall be ro quued." Elgin, til.. Courier-News. Tile sooner the Poll's fun ah'ood return, tile sooner we shall hold elect ions. Premier Osubkn-Moniwski of Poland. Every American knows he is the nation. Alexandria, La.. Town Talk. from India!" Washington Merry-Go-R6urid; By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Former Vice President Henry Wallace has teen keeping mighty quiet since he took over Jesse Jones' job as secretary of commerce last March. Many people wondered whether Wallace would wield a swift broom and houseclcan Ihe dusty, sleepy commerce agency. . Several weeks have passed and the im pression has got around that Wallace has done little to revitalize the department. In stead of indulging in wholesale firings, how ever, Wallace proceeded on the premise that there might te a lot of good, suppressed talent inside the agency. He began a care ful manhunt to see what physical resources he inherited from Jesse Jones. Wht Wallace found was amazing. He dis covered that beneath the top crust of weary, over-aged personnel was a group of cour ageous, energetic, young men, who had never had a chance to show their stuff dur ing Jones's administration. Wallace promot ed them, and is now beginning to surround himself with some firsUclass people. One sample is the civil aeronautics admin istration, which Wallace has completely re vamped and turned into a live-wire public service outfit, geared for expanding post war aviation. Wallace is doing the same thing through out the department. A dozen experts have been at work foi more than two months on a compldte reorganization of the agency which he will submit to congress after the recesB. Wallace sees he is in for tough sled ding with the Truman administration and with congress, but he is plugging ahead. Inside fact is, that if Wallace doesn't get the support he has been promised by Tru man, he will join the ranks of the former Roosevelt cabinet members by becoming a former Truman cabinet member in a hurry. . , San Francisco: Dream City A lot of people crowding the hotels of San Francisco during the united nations confer ence wondered why Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin picked that city for the parley. So did a lot of people in San Francisco. Here is the reason why. It was the result of superstition plus a dream. In the late summer of 1943, Ed Stettinius happened to be in San Flrancisco when Cordell Hull phoned to say that he had been WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT CLEVELAND has a landlord who not only welcomes families with children in his sev eral apartment houses he gives a war bond to every baby born under one of his roofs. How coir)?,?,, j- Wcll, it seems that years, ago when Henry Solomon moved to Cleveland with his wife and baby daughter door after door was slam med in his face by landlords who disapprov ed of children. Then and there he made up his mind that if he ever owned rental prop erty he would welcome kids. The remarkable thing about the story is that he remembered his vow. Most people don't. The hnrd-hearted landlords who think of children only in terms of finger marks on the wall and peace disturbers usually are Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Grand Evening Observer Washington Correspondent (Description of what happens in a huge war plant community when cut backs start is used today in place of the usual dispatch from Peter Edson in Washington). By S. BURTON HEATH DETROIT (NEA) To determine what will happen to the labor market when cutbacks in war production close down many plants, Uncle Sam has conducted an exhaustive study at Willow run. Encouraging results indicate Niat a large percentage of war workers will return to the home towns they left when war jobs beckoned. Labor department experts sought the an swers to these puzzling questions: What are hundreds of thousands of workers who mov ed scores of thousands of miles from home to take war jobs, going to do when those jobs evaporate from now on? Will they stay around, spend their savings and war bonds, and then go onto relief rolls? Will they re turn to their old homes? Will they seek some entirely new community in which to settle down and establish new home roots? One of the first large-scale attempts to answer such questions out of experience, is that made by the U. S. Employment Service among the more than 20,000 who lost jobs when Henry Ford's mammoth Willow run plant rolled the last Liberator off its produc tion lines June 30. Final results are not yet available. Even when they .are, they will not be complete and bullet -proof. They rest upon what the ex-Willow run employes say they are going to do. And one can only guess whether Wil low runners are typical. Tipi For Boom Towns But it it he assumed that American war workers in the mass are much alike from Portland. Me., through Ypsilanti to San Di ego, then cwn the preliminary data avail able here should be of interest and value to other war boom communities. At :he height of its employment Willow lun hud more than -15.000 on its rolls. At the peak of production that number was down under 25.000. March 15 it wttf 22.500. April 15 the first notice of coming shutdown was given. By June 30 there were only about 2.000 on the job. and 21.83;! had been let out. t! Ford has said that lie, at least, has no Idea of converting Willow run to civilian produc tion. So this is not temporary reconversion picked to take Sumner Welles's place as undersecretary of state. So San Francisco, to Stettinius, has always been lucky .Wt '. Then one night during the Yalta confer ence, Stettinius had a dream ' tibout :the' San" Francisco phone call from Hull.' Before go-'-ing to bed Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin had been talking about the meeting place for the United Nations conference. When Stettinius woke up next morning, he thought' again of San Francisco, At breakfast, he suggested the idea to Roosevelt, who agreed that San Francisco was a natural, Later Churchill agreed., So did Stalin. And that was why the people, of San Francisco had to be subjected to having several thousand extra persons jam med into their already crowded city. Note Rival Los Angeles claimed: "No body ever heard of Yalta either, until they held a conference there." ., Capital Chaff . A lot of senators are now talking about the importance of scientific research for war preparedness, but it took Wisconsin's far sighted senator Alexander Wiley to empha size this back even before Pearl .Harbor. Speaking in Milwaukee on June 9, 1941, Wiley said: "We need a great defense labor atory Involving the navy, the war depart ment, and the state department. It isn't enough for this administration to write our defense plans in the shifting sands of day-to-day expediency . . . "Nazi inventions of rockets, long-range artillery, and electric mines certainly bore him out . . . Gen. B. F. Giles and Lieut. Col. John Breckenridgo are given credit, for arranging the airplane joy-rides of tobacco heiress Doris Duke around the Mediterranean. She was suppos ed to be a hostess in a maritime recreation center, but got bored and flew to Italy . . . Vermont's hard-working senator Aiken is reintroducing his St. Lawrence waterway bill. This was one of FDR's pet projects. Truman voted for it while in the senate, though it's not known how much steam he'll put behind it now. Many commerce eco nomic experts feel that the St. Lawrence waterway project would benefit the coun try as much or more than the Missouri val ley authority, TV A, Boulder dam or Grand Coulee. . bringing up or have brought up children of their own. Their insistent stand is, "I like children but . . ." They', meaii: "But. not enough to be interested gn whether they, have a place to live, if the place' is mine." " Mad Cler.Throughl.V.7 ii,.iV) . Thousands of young couples today, espe-. dally servicemen and1 their wives, are mad clear through at the hard time they have had finding a place to live, simply because they have a child or two. They think it is a shame and a disgrace for landlords to have a "no children" rule. But will they remember when they are a little older and renting property to others? Or will they be like today's landlords who say, "I have three children myself and I like children but . . ." idleness. It's a matter of get another job or what? The first 13,000 questioned showed a ra tio of 61 men to 39 women. About 15,000 had been questioned when the war man power commission's office here told me some preliminary findings. Of each 100 questioned, 30 said they in tended to move out of Michigan entirely and another 15 said they would leave the Willow run area, which, because of over crowding and for other reasons typical of most boom cities, they had not found pleasant. Out of about 5000 who have been living around Ypsilanti a few have found other jobs, but a large majority said they would return to the homes they left for war work. Back to Old Jobs A substantial proportion of those who arc leaving the Willow run area said they were returning to small business enterprises they had operated before the war boom some to farms, but more to filling stations, road side stands and restaurants, service estab lishments and add job operations of various sorts. Those from northern Michigan, in al most one instance out of every four, said they had left such enterprises in custody of relatives from whom they would now take over again. Manpower shortage, and high wages with much overtime at premium rates, brought into labor ranks several millions of margin al utility workers at a moment when 11,000, 000 of the best men were going away to war. As demobilization frees the best men they will replace marginal employes; because fac tory payrolls now are well in excess of the normal 13.500.000 to 14.000.000 to w hich all but super-optimists assume we shall return. How are those who will be retired by de mobilization and simultaneous cutbacks go ing to take enforced joblessness? The poll of Willow run discharges is encouraging. Many women and sonic men, who have been getting good wages for tiresome'repc tition of simple assembly line processes, ap pear to realize that they are not really train ed workers and that they have little to of fer in the suffer competition after the war. Seme women nav- had enough factory work. Others would b willing to continue at high war-time wage scales,. but say' they ' wouUTftot. think of it at, say, 50 or 60 cents ' an hour. .. , Side Glances H4 con. 1MI fly ma ftwici. ma t.U ifta. u. a mt. an. "This is the worst summer Junior has ever had there are three - girls at this resort who are craiy about him!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority TRUMP IN DUMMY'S HAND OFTEN HELPS A bridge player who happened to be in my office when I was writing today's hand looked it over and said, "There is nothing AK86 VKJ93 A853 452 J2 42 K1074 KQ984 A 1093 W E V A8765 S Dealer J96 J 10 AQ754 VQ10 . Q2 A763 Duplicate Both vul. South West North East ' I e Pass 2 Pass , 2 4 ' Pass 3 A Pass ! 4 Pass Pass Pass I Opening K. 4 to that hand you lose u club, a diamond and a heart." It U true that there is nothing to the hand, hut when I saw two outstanding O BARBS The Tokyo radio tells the Jap anese to eat acorns.' And how about nests in the hollow trees? Maybe clothes do not make a man, but many a man owes a lot to his tailor. Scientists say Vitamin A post pones the process of aging. But they fail to tell us how to apply it to shoes. Don't get stuck up over a little money. A nice round figure is very helpful in the bank. The English are reported to like our juke boxes. Now that there are no more buzz bombs they're probably lonesome for some kind of nuisance. ' He who laughs last is slow to catch on. An Ohio farmer was arrested charged with selling chickens for three times the selling price. The last word in fowl play! This Curious World ) THE PRINCIPAL USE ) 5k&v rJ&X? OF HOLLANDS" FAMOU5 ) 5Xv C jf&SyZ ( BUT FOR G7V7VS ) jgAfSk ( PUMP1N6 SUPERFLUOUS ( . ' 'J3f3S5S. ? WATER FROM THE (VLDERJ ( XSfaEil SWV DO TURTLES HAVE A'SHSLL. ON THEIR UNDER SIDE V i ; r saecf the i.4-esf ' <&&W!S' AM firVATID TO H4, 1 tgQutteD A DO.XY (CjpC SUOPLY C 4 . ANSWF.lii Yes. The upper shell is known as the carapace, and the loM-eifsne as the plastron , ; '" ' - . : NEXT: How to cur alcoholism. - S- 1 - tjt. m r; players handle it, , it was sadl" butchered. The opening club was won with the "ace and the queen of hearts returned, East refusing to win. The ten of hearts was won by East, the jack of clubs was cashed, and a heart led back. Declarer discarded ' a ' diamond, West ruffed with the? 'deuce of spades and returned the queen of clubs. Declarer ruffed with the spade six, East overruffed with the nine and led another heart. Declarer ruffed with the seven of spades, West overruffed with the jack. Another club came back, and, belive it or not, dclarer ruf-. fed with the eight-spot and East overruffed with the (ten. Thus East and West took six tricks. Of course, the hand can easily be made by cashing the king and ace of spades and then leading the heart. Leaving the third trump in dummy is the protection needed to make the hand. O IN FORMER YEARS Thirty Years Ago While the basement under the home of J. M. MCShain, 1705 Washington avenue, was being enlarged this morning the tem porary props supporting the house gave way and one corner of the building fell into the cel lar. No one was hurt. Haying in the Cove district is not finished on account of the recent rains. Several farmers are binding their grain. ' Fifteen Years' Ago The Joseph State bank 'was re lieved of $100 in cash by an un known man last night. ,". The new' concrete 'bridge be ing built at Hilgard is nearly completed. Ten Years Ago La Grande tennis team, unde feated in four matches, travels to Walla Walla tomorro.jy.to play the Walla Walla tennis team. Fifty-seven girls arc flow taking advantage of the "Camp Tuck way" playground camp situated immediately across the river from the Pine Cone-swimming pool. ":' ',
