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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
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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.
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- girls at this resort who are craiy about him!"
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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority
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to be in my office when I was
writing today's hand looked it
over and said, "There is nothing
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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!
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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. ":' ',