La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 13, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextI EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 13, 1945 , 1'uge 'Thanks, but What More Could You Offer Me?' tomb I. ' vr-'.V'f'ii warn EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Runde Valley irrigation project. LA. GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limits. TODAY'S TEXT Ho will keep the fuet of his saints, mid Hit; wicked shall be silent in (holi ness; for by strength shall no man pre vail. Samuel 2:9. How Well Will U Work? It may have sei'mcd odd to many Americans thai, the new British rov ornmont's proposed domestic reforms were announced by a man who is not even an official member of that gov ernment. I ii t as chairman of the Labor l'ai ty's national executive committee, Prof. Harold I.aslu'.s importance exceeds that of the national committee chairmen of American political parties. .He is not merely a boss of political campaigns. He is one of the new yDVernment's loading philosophers. Hence, when he outlined the plan to nationalize successively I h e lhitiU of KhhIuikI, the coal mines, inland trans portation and the iron and steel indus tries, one could be certain that he has had a major part in planning that pro gram, and that his counsel will be sought in carrying it out. Hut Professor l.aski is still not in the government. It will be up to the Members of that government to answer Funny Husiness : VOURS OF THE ' fik Jv;";'. " ;; J isTi-i received MALT! I ' CONTENTS NOTED halt! ) i -.-. .': I V filled WALT "I think it's going to take the farmer Mrgcent k few ' , back in the groovel" " Two to the British people for the work abil ity of their new program. They must prove not only that they are "prepared to give the little man . . . all the pro gressive chance that he requires." They must also prove that political monopoly ia better than private monopoly, and that public enterprise is more just, profitable and productive than private enterprise. And it will be up to the new govern ment to take responsibility for the tim ing and extent of the reforms. Howev er desirable these reforms may be and the majority of Britons obviously want them they must be done right. Like it or not, the source of much prewar British wealth and many pre war Brit ish jobs lay overseas. T h a t source has been dried up and replaced by overseas debts greater than the orig inal investments. As a result, the island heart and nerve center of the British Kmpiro is in a precarious financil po sition. Added problems, (if course, are the widespread destruction of industrial and business installations and private dwellings, burdensome taxes and. not least, an unfinished war. These must be wrestled with and solved without undue experimentation or intemperate public spending. The new Labor government has a great opportunity as well as a discour agingly difficult task. But its j;rcat challenge is the same one that the con servatives would have faced: not how good is your philosophy, but how well will it work? SO THEY SAY The .l.in.iru'sc uiirUmls meant il when they siiiil tliey were will uu; In Uiihl 1(10 year war if iiivess.ii y. They figured that we ut'uM it I sn sit-k of fighting that we would iipiv t,t a negotiate! I .SUV. - Vice Adml. Man- A. Mitscher. Tin- t'nil-.-d S'atrs must never again repeat the mistake of tliuuvinc awa its weapons while the world hiislles with threats et war. - - .!.u-ken. Miss.. News. '1' h e Siipit-n-.i' Court ilv'Olsion whuh freeil them (tiermau Ann : u-aii Hiindist.st from a mote m'imu (luiice tloes not provide Ko.ul rc.uon for rcstorauon ef cit i.vnsiiip to seen who have shown they i.re net Americans at heatt. I'eit lluioti, M'ti-hf. Times- 11. -i.il.l Cur em-mi nt e( the new.) that Hi! -lien. KM-.ott Heesevell want ed out ? the A'iniv can be con fined 1. t-A. uord-:'Vholoi'Ml'l? Sahna. Kan., Journal. duyi to, yol Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON President T r u m a n's friendB in Kansas City are hoping he gets all his work done before he comes out to Mis souri again because if he tries to work in his Kansas City office, it yill be hot. Truman's two-room suite on the sixth floor of the federal building in Kansas City hap pens to be one of two offices which can't be air-conditioned. The building's air condi tioning system can't be hooked up to these two offices. However, one other office attachment, hitherto lacking, has now been remedied a telephone. Throughout all his career as a senator, frugal Harry Truman never had a telephone in his office in the federal build ing. Instead, he stepped next door and used the phone of U. S. District Judge John Cas kie Collet. Although nothing can -be done about the air-cooling, a telephone has now been in stalled in the Kansas office of thopresident of the United States. Army. Hoards G.I.i Some of the reasons behind the war de- I parlmenl's insistence, on keeping a tremen dous two-front army to fight a one-front war, also behind the sudden scramble for conscription, have becomp clearer since Pots dam. Brass-hat insistence on keeping veterans busy picking up cigarette butts when they have ample points to obtain discharge, has been puzzling members of congress. Also it's not generally realized that the army and navy together plan to reduce their size by only 10 per cent during the coining year, despite the new atomic bomb, despite Ger many's collapse, and despite the fact that it is a physical impossibility to transport such a large army to the Pacific. The June strength of the army, immedi ately after V-E day, was 8,.'i00,0urmen. Be tween June 1!145 and June l'Mli, the army brass hats plan to discharge approximately 1,300,000 men. But, meanwhile, General Hershey has announced the army plans to continue drafting men at the rate of 100,000 a month, which, in 12 months, means an additional 1,200,000 men. This is something the army has not ex plained. For, unless this policy is changed, the army by next June will be about the same size it is today. All this is why senators and congtessmen have been- blowing off steam in recent weeks. Even staunch Democrats are begin ning to admit privately perhaps Governor Dewey's campaign charges about keeping men in the army after the war were right. U. S. Army in Germany Meanwhile, one secret commitment made by President Roosevelt at Yalta has now WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT "Too much petticoat rule," said a proba tion officer who was diagnosing what was wrong with a 15-year-old who had gotten into some minor scrapes. That may be good diagnosis but what is the cure in these times when kids have to ' grow up entirely under "petticoat rule?" The majority of women who must bring up their children without a father's help try to do a good job. But a mother isn't naturally equipped to be both a mother and a father. For the most part, nobody has given war wives help in bringing up their kids. The men left in a community could have organ ized to help war wives with the problem of bringing up their sons but they haven't. It has been left entirely up to the women, and the average kid with a father overseas doesn't come under the influence of men at all. At home there is just a mother, and at Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON. La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON. Aug. Hi One of the first man-on-the-streel reactions to Russia's dec laration of war on Japan was "Yes, as soon as we've got the Japs licked with our atom bomb they decide to get in on the kill." Stories that the Russians knew nothing of the atomic bomb strengthened this idea. But, regardless of whether the Reds were in on the bomb secret, their declaration of war on Japan is the climax of a plan carefully worked out by the Big Three since the de feat of Germany, maybe longer. It com bined to deal one of the most crushing one two punches in the history of modern war faro. When it was decided Russia would fight Japan, U. S. officials agreed the Reds would need more fighting eiuipment; deploying it over the vast rugger teaches of Russia from the distant western fumt for use against the Japs would be a toug:i job. The quickest way would ho to ship it from the west coast of America directly across. This had its many complications too. but here's how it was ac complished. For months almost all available Russian ships have been arriving at Seattle and oth er coast ports. They've been loaded with all kinds of war material and then sailed in al most a straight line 4.200 miles to Vladivostok.- This port is the best place to unload for strategic distubution to equip and pie p.e.e Russian troops for the job ahead. The route the ships took is the amazing part ef t i whole plan; they boldly sailed between Hokkaido upper island of the, Jap home Coup, and Haiafuto. winch is the Jap con .lolled half of the S.ihkalin island; t!w.'. practically through the heart of Japan. Com ing from between these islands, they entered leaked out. This is one reason why the war department is so anxious to rush a peace time conscription act through congress even before the war is over. At Yalta, Roosevelt gave a promise that the United States would keep an army of 500,000 men in Germany for four to five years. Half a million men is a tremendous force to keep overseas in peacetime, espe cially when the executive power to. main tain such an army automatically ends short ly after hostilities cease. The selective service act expires May 15, 1046. That act permits the president to de ploy troops overseas without congressional authority until six months after the war. The first war powers act also expires six months after hostilities. So unless a con scription act is passed, or some new power given the White House, an American army of occupation in Germany would be illegal. President Truman, however, is known to have a lot of new ideas on this subject. At Potsdam, he arranged for the withdrawal of most of the American army from Italy. He also proposed that all allied troops get out of the occupied countries as soon as possi ble with the exception of Germany. This is one of the most important prob lems now facing Truman. Those who know him well think he will be against manpower hoarding by the brass hats and will favor the national guard-ROTC system of mili tary training. Under the Dome Working for the senate may mean more prestige than working for the house. But the pay-off on the house side is far better. During the session just ended, the congress men not only voted $2,400 annual expense money to themselves (which the senate re fused to do for itself) but also voted raises for employes. The house parliamentarian, who was on a salary of $8,500, compared with $6,500 for the senate parliamentarian, got a raise of $1,000 and an additional $500 so long as the present parliamentarian is in office. This brings his salary to $10,000 . . . the house chaplain receives $2,500 compared with only $1,680 for the senate chaplain; the house journal clerk receives $7,000 compared with $5,000 for the senate journal clerk; and the house postmaster receives $5,000 com pared with $3,600 for the senate postmaster. . . .Representative John Sparkman, Ala baman, believes in doing things in twos. He has the only set of twins working as secre taries in a congressional office, Anne and Alice Canterbury of Huntsville, Ala. And he's bursting with pride right now because two Huntsville boys Lieut. Cecil "Bushy" Bolton and SSgt. Paul Bolden will shortly be given the congressional medal of honor in a joint ceremony. school there are women teachers. Boys' organizations in most communities are suffering from a lack of men leaders. Yet, when the "petticoat rule" proves inef fectual or downrigh damaging women get the blame. It isn't blame they need. It is help. Bring ing up children without a man's example and firmness is something they don't bar gain for, whether the father is out of the picture because the home is broken perman ently or temporarily because of the war. One of the things that women regret most about having their husbands away at war is the responsibility it throws on them for being both mother and father to their chil dren. They know the kids suffer from having only a woman to guide and discipline them. And they are more anxious than anybody else for the "petticoat rule" to end as soon as possible. the sea of Japan and then Vladivostock. As much of the sea anywhere that can be said to be Jap controlledw, this route is through. But the Russians were neutral as far as the Japs were concerned, and went through un molested. The Japs may have guessed what the car go was, but if they did, they decided against risking immediate Russian entry into the war. It was a gamble they lost. ' Just how much war equipment got through is still a military secret, but the Big Three must think that the Russians are now to back up the threat of fighting, if necessary. To what extent the declaration was all a part of the first atomic bomb attack is a matter of specultion, but whether by chance or by plan, its effect couldn't have been better. When and if the Reds meet the Japs on the battlefield, it could be almost any place along the border. There is 85 miles of Soviet owned island of Sakhalin, and Japanese Karafuto. A vast expanse of Soviet land tenches Jap held Manchuria on the north and northeast, while a peninsula of Red ter ritory dips southward along the coast of the sea of Japan, touching an eight mile strip at the northeastern tip of Japanese Korea. The boundary in all is about 2000 miles lor.g. The Siberia-Manchuria boundary is mark ed for nearly all of its course by great riv ers. Vulnerably close to these rivers is the vital trans-Siberian railway, all important connecting link with Vladivostok. Kstimate of the number of Jap troop? w hich could be thrown . against the Russians ranges from l.'WO.OOl) to 5.000,000. It must be remembered that in this remote inner Asia region of deserts and nomads, the Rus eiRBi defeated the Japs in lSt.S! in an un declared bol der war. Side Glances COPy. 1W BY MTBrBVlCE, IKC. T. H. RtO. U, 8. PAT. Off. "You butchers will wish you had some friends after the war when we downtrodden common people arise!" o McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WILLIAM E, McKENNEY America's Card Authority ETERNAL FINESSE IS HAND'S BIG 'IF' The mail I receive from the boys overseas is a source of great pleasure. The letters have a little interesting story to tell. One came in recently from figt. Harland J. A 10 V AQ 10 8 6 A K 97 742 J8?05 43 V 93 892 9 N W E s Dealer A92 VKJ74 10 4 KJ 10 8 5 A KQ V52 Q J 6 3 AQG3 Duplicate East-West vuL South West North East 1 4 Pass 1 V Pass 2 N T Puss 6 Pass Opening 4b 9 14 Clark, who says that being over seas has not lessened his enthusi asm for a good bridge game, and he still follows our column in his home-town paper. ,; ' Sergeant Clark wrote about the ' hand shown today, which I ran O BARBS President Truman says the new atomic bomb means a rain of ruin for the Japs. The latest war cry is up an' atom! Uncle Sam tells us there will be plenty of radios for Christmas gifts. We doubt, however, that the music will have charms to soothe the savage appetite. If there were no old maids in the world, who would use the ex pression, "We girls?" The best tips in connection with vacation are those you save by not taking one. The leaves will soon begin to blush to think how green they've been all summer. Many of us were all washed up on butter long before some of it was sold to soap makers. Victorious Russian generals are living in rent free apartments in Moscow. Imagine even find ing an apartment! This Curious World OF THE HUDSON, COLUMNAR ROCK STBUCTURE? ALONG THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON RIVER, WERE Ff3t?AAPn av I V 7 ACT S T1ve SUKiEONJ ANSWER: Scotland. . NEXT: He carries e weight on his shoulders. 1 ! in rny column Jan. 4, asking mf readers to maneuver around and make six diamonds.' It happens that, with West holding the nine of hearts, six diamonds can be made by finessing the. ten of hearts, then cashing the heart ace and ruffing one of the high hearts which East is forced to cover. I am running the hand again today to show you Sergeant Clark's so lution, a very neat squeeze. South wins the opening lead with the club queen, cashes three rounds of diamonds and three rounds of spades. If East discards a heart, the finesse of the heart ten and the ruff of a heart will establish that suit. If he lets go a club, declarer, who has discard ed a club on a good spade, can ruff a club in dummy and estab lish a good club. O IN FORMER YEARS Thirty Years Ago. Aug. 13 : Company D, second Oregon volunteers,, celebrated the 17th anniversary of the fall of Ma nila. Members recalled the siege of the city and the landing at Cavite. (Most of the names of places were also easily recalled 30 years later). E. B. Morelock suffered a broken ankle at, Elgin when a rope with which his cow was J. tied got tangled around his feet. The cow ran away and threw him to the ground. Fifteen Years Ago, Aug. 13 The local post of the American legion left for Baxer for the state convention, with the drum and bugle corps to follow the next day and to stay for the full three days of the meeting. Stevenson A. Hall, one of the charter members of Rotary club at Seattle, was a guest of La Grande Rotarians at dinner. Ten Years Ago, Aug. 13 Contributions were continuing to the Amos L. Helms first aid car and had mounted to $1,055.85. The game commission an nounced there would be no open season on sage hens and the grouse season was set from Sept. 20 to Oct. 25. A hearing was set by the pub lic service commission on the Spruce street highway subway. j i n in ; n rm will if nil il'llJ T. M. PCC. 0. 8. PAT. CPT.