EDITORIAL 'PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro, Publisher
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1945
Page Two
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EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Valley irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10,000
Extend tbe city limits.
THOUGHT 1-X)R TODAY
lie thai will learn to pray, let
?o to sea. Herbert.
A viation Anniversary
Those who have come to accept trans
continental air travel in a completely
matter-of-fact manner are likely to find
it difficult to realize that this particu
lar phase of transportation is just now
rounding out 25 years of operation.
Although it seems incredible that
such advances could have been made
within a quarter century, it is a fact
that Sept. 8 marks the 2.rth anniver
sary of the first scheduled air opera
tion between the Atlantic and Pacific.
It was at G:M a.m. on Sept. 8, 1920,
that the first such plane -a Hellavi
land with '100 horsepower motors and
currying 100 pounds of mail took off
from Mineola, N. V., on the first leg
of the first such transcontinental jour
ney. Planes carried the mail cargo by
day, and trains by night. More than
three days later, at 2:2" p.m. on Sept.
11, the mail plane landed at San r'nin
cisco. Less than six mouths later, on
Feb. 22, 1921, the first demonstration
of day and night flying of the transcon
tinental mail was made. A flight from
San Francisco to New York was com
pleted in hours, 21 minutes.
Those achievements properly excited
world-wide wonder at the time. Yet
Low puny they now seem compared
with routine, present-day schedules.
Dozens of giant planes operate on
daily transcontinental, schedules with
clock-like regularity in all except the
most forbidding weather. The first
transcontinental flight speed average
of approximately 90 miles per hour has
been boosted to around 200 mph. The
aggregate mail loads of a single day
often exceed the poundage of the first
entire year. The operation has become
one of the most exact of sciences. And,
of course, transcontinental air passen
ger travel has become entirely routine.
Nor do any of these represent the
rltimate in achievements.
On the contrary, the day may not be
far distant when everyone will recog
nize that commercial aviation of today
still was in its infancy. Immediately
ahead is the promise of scheduled cross
continent flying in nine to 10 hours.
And those who are considered conser
vatives they are not classed as vision
aries predict that the time is not far
distant when that time will be reduced
very substantially. When one 'hears
discussions of rocket-plane speeds of
1000, lr.oo and 2000 miles per hour,
no one knows what the future may
hold.
Thus, Sept. 8 represents an important
anniversary in the history of the na
tion's and the world's transportation.
I'ronj that date, it might properly be
said, aviation definitely began to prove
itself the sure and swift messenger and
servant of mankind.
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Kancisco's shakeup of his cabi
net will not fool Uncle Sam.
Undo knows him for what he is
and repentance comes too late.
Macon. Ga., News.
Radar played a greater part in
the whole war than the atomic
bomb. It contributed to the win
ning of the war more than any
other single factor.
Sir Stafford Cripps. chairman.
British Iladio Board.
Newr in t he world's history
has organized Christianity faced
a task comparable to that of bind
ing up the wounds of the world.
The hv. Dr. Lester H. Clee.
Second Presbyterian church,
Newark, N. J.
"0n of my customers always insists on eating breakfast in bedl"
What rebuilding is done in
Get many vill be done with ma
terials from inside Germany and
by Germans.
Clifford S. Strike, chier of Ger
man building industries in the
United States group control
commission. 0
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Side Glances
By DREW FEABBON
(Editor's Note While Drew Pearson is
on vacation, Senator A. B. Chandler of
Kentucky, new czar , of American base
bull, contributes a guest column.)
By A. B. "HAPPY" CHANDLER
WASHINGTON Drew Pearson has taken
me for quite a few rides on his merry-go-round.
Right now, it's my turn to take him
for a ride. However, the spirit of victory
and the warm summer sunshine has warm
ed the acid in my heart. The spirit of char
ity is in me and so I will devote this guest
column, not to doing a job on Drew Pear
son, but instead to telling his readers some
thing about Washington and baseball.
However, before I leuve the subject of
Drew Pearson, let me tell this to his readers.
To know him casually is not to suspect him,
but to know him well is to understand that
he is one fellow whose bite is a lot worse
than his bark.
I have seen senators react more strongly
to Drew Pearson than Brooklyn baseball
fans to a miscalled play. I "have even heard
the Brooklyn chant, "thrown the bum out,"
used by my senatorial colleagues against
the author of t h e Washington Merry-go-Round.
But, as I said, I feel a little touch of char
ity in my soul so we'll talk about baseball.
I made another big sacrifice when I took
the job. I used to be a rabid rooter; but
now that I am commissioner, I've got to
slund around and just watch the gamc3;
and I am not allowed to cheer because I am
impartial. But I can think of nothing more
delightful than getting paid to go to the
games, so I think I will be very happy with
my new job. I've got a lot of plans for
baseball.
Baseball's Future
About 300,000 fine American boys will
never come back. One hundred seventy
thousand others have suffered wounds that
will leave them permanently broken. Three
billion dollars of our people's resources have
been poured into the holocaust of war. We
have paid a dreadful price for victory. The
people of America have learned again free
dom is one of God's greatest blessings which
must be won and secured with tears and
sacrifice.
As a part of their training for the Amer
ican way of life, we have always encour
aged fair sportsmanship in our children. A
great contribution' to our success in arms
can be contributed to the lessons learned
by our people in American sports. Young
sters who have been taught to throw a base
ball have proved just as efficient in throw
ing a hand grenade.
A great sport era lies ahead. Veterans of
Sicily and Guadalcanal, Aachen and Oki
nawa, will soon be home to enjoy a game
they love. I predict baseball is going to prove
itself worthy of the affection of these men.
I think, however, the ball club owners of
the nation feel an obligation to these boys.
They feel an obligation to the American
people. They will use some of the profits
they make out of the loyalty of the Amer
ican people to help the kids that make
baseball possible. They are using the profits
to help more kids participate in competitive
sports. I'm going to try to get every bit of
surplus sports equipment held by the army
and navy after this war and distribute it to
youngsters in schools, neighborhoods, and
charitable institutions.
Clean American Sport
There has never been a record of a crook
ed umpire in baseball. Baseball has been an
honest game, teaching sportsmanship and
clean play for many years. It is my ambition
to make it grow and keep it clean.
It was my good luck as a member of the
senate to make a CO, 000-mile trip around the
world. I saw our boys in action in every
part of the globe. It was a sight I'll never
forget. I'll never forget those boys with a
1,000-foot stare in a ten-foot room looking
straight through you and not seeing you.
Boys too tired to go to the front again, but
who begged themselves out of a foxhole and
marched out to make a sacrifice for their
country. I felt humble in their presence.
Those boys deserve everything we can
give them. They learned clean play on the
baseball diamonds of America. They saw
the enemy at close hand overseas. They
fought cleanly, skillfully and honorably
even when the enemy didn't. They will come
back hard-hitting, loyal, patriotic Americans.
We owe them everything we can give them.
As baseball commissioner, I can guarantee
them that America's favorite sport will be
clean and growing when they return I can
guarantee them every opportunity to play
and watch organized baseball. It's still a
great game. It will be a greater gme.
Play ball.
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
Before the rules against fraternizing were
somewhat relaxed in Germany, the army
newspaper Stars and Stripes was filled with
letters from servicemen griping about the
ruling. They hollered loud and long, and
now they have the right to appear in pub
lic with German girls on their arms.
So what naturally follows? Well, a WAC
stationed in Germany writes in to Stars and
Stripes to ask if it is okay for WACs to do
a little fraternizing with German men.
It isn't all right with American soldiers.
Since the WACs letter appeared in print,
a blizzard of bitter letters from G. Is has hit
the army newspaper.
The men, who thought fraternization was
"natural and right" so long as it meant an
American man could date a German girl,
resent an American girl's "natural and right"
desire to date German men.
It's just more of the same story we should
be used to by now. All through the war we
have heard how it is just "natural" for Amer
ican servicemen to need feminine compan
ionship. But when dating war wives have been
brought into the conversation, they have
been labelled heels and condemned for not
being willing to sit at home waiting patient
ly for their husbands' return.
Nobody has done any talking about it
being only natural for the little woman back
home to need masculine companionship.
Without a hearing the dating war wives
have been regarded as two-timers.
So the WAC shouldn't be surprised at the
condemnation that has come her way.
It's 1945 but the time still hasn't come"
when men consider what is "right and na
tural" for them acceptable behavior for
women.
Behind Scenes in Washington
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 A new organ
ization of liberal-minded businessmen is
making its bow. Name chosen for the out
fit is the New Council of American Busi
ness. First president is Clarence Avildsen
of Chicago, chairman of the board and 70
percent owner of t h e Republic Drill and
Tool corporation, a three-billion dollur con
cern. Why another organization of business
men?
President Avildsen, in unveiling the N. C.
A. B. the other day declared flatly "the
United States Chamber of Commerce and
National Association of Manufacturers are
not as liberal and progressive as they should
be."
U. S. C. C. and the N. A. M. have, of
course, been called worse things than that.
But tn have a group of businessmen break
away from their traditional leadership and
go in for some plain and fancy free think
ing is something different. Avildsen's state
ment strikes the keynote for the new or
ganization, however, putting it on the level
of the American Lawyers' guild which broke
off from the conservation American Bar
association.
While the new council is not a political
organization, its formation really began a
year ago. when the presidential campaign
was at its height. At that time, a Business
men for Roosevelt, and several other quickie
political organizations were dreamed up by
the campaign managers. Idea was to give
democratic businessmen something to belong
to and offset republican charges that Roose
velt's fourth-term drive w a entirely the
work of :he C. I. O. political action com
mittee. Alter the election, some of the moving
spmts of the several organization of dem
ocrat businessmen found another chore to
"o in whipping up support for Henry' Wal
lace as secretary of coiaitjeroe. That was
dune through a National Bii5ine.(neo's com
mittee (or Wallace. When Wallace was put
over, ringleaders decided thy had other
NEA Washington Correspondent
Master minds of the new organization of
liberal businessmen bear three names well
known nationally: Morris S. Rosenthal, ex
ecutive vice-president of Stein Hall, New
York importers. Resenthal was formerly a
director of the old board of economic war
fare under Miio Perkins and Henry Wallace.
He is to be executive vice-president of
N. C. A. B.
Truman Arnold, former trust-busting as
sistant attorney general, recently resigned
as associate justice on the District of Co
lumbia court of appeals, is to be N. C. A. B.
general counsel.
Howard J. McMurray; former represent
ative from Milwaukee, and before that, pro
fessor of political science at' University of
Wisconsin, is N. C. A. B. executive director
and head of its Washington office.
N. C. A. B. today make no boasts about
its membership, friends, influence or fi
nances. Its Washington office is a mere two
rooms, located a block and a half from the lush
four-story limestone palace which is head
quarters of the U. S. chamber of commerce
just across Jackson square from the White
House.
But the new council docs stand for some
thing and its importance today is in the
ideas it represents. And if you want to know
what a liberal-minded businessman is sup
posed to think or be thinking about in these
touchy times, here are some of the specific
proposals which N. C. A. B. leaders are
discussing for inclusion in their platform and
"economic bill of rights of the 20th century."
Full employment is sound business, so
pass the Murray full employment bill. Keep
taxes high to protect war bond holders, but
eliminate exceai profits and coniumer'
taxes. Enforce the anti-truat bwa and
stietigtheo small cuaines. Reform ihc pat
ent system. Expand the TVA idea 1o ether
river valley. Provide federal scholarships
for student aid. Provide -adequate housing
tor,. !atniiie ,yith income under $1.5)0 a
a yar. Set up a permanent; fair eniploybienl
pract.cs !erif)imiltee Pass the ntfva Wagner
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bridge players as Life Master No.
34, returned to New York with
the Fourth Division. He was wear
ing the Infantry combat badge,
which means that he had little
time for bridge over in Germany.
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division for the south Pacfic, Al
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Cavendish club with Harry Fish
bein as his partner. With all the
cards in view, the hand may not
appear too interesting, but the
battle of wits between the ex
perts at the table was interesting
indeed.
West won the opening lead with
the king of clubs, but did not re
turn a club as he immediately
Questions & Answers
Q In what year was Spencer
Tracy awarded the "Oscar" for
his role in "Boys Town"?
A In 1938.
read that Roth (North) had a con
cealed club suit. With a club re
turn Roth could easily have es
tablished his ninth trick. Instead
West led back the heart jack.
Roth won in dummy, returned to
his hand with the ten of diamonds
and led the king of spades. East
won and had to decide whether
to simply hold the hand to three
no trump and cash his ace-queen
of clubs, or try to set the con
tract. He knew that his spade
jack was going to fall, which
might establish the whole spade
suit for Roth. However, he re
turned a heart, Roth then cashed
the diamonds and led a spade.
He went up with the queen, drop
ping East's jack, and now the ten
of spades was good for the ninth
trick.
O IN FORMER
YEARS
Thirty Years Ago
But little relief confronts the
forest fire situation "lh-eastern
Oregon. ' The blaze at Howard
Meadows which burned over
about 80 acres is reporter out;
the situation at Hilgard the most
serious of any is somewhat
doubtful depending entirely on
the caprices of the wind as to be
ing under control or otherwise.
In Wallowa a n d at down-river
points the situationss are unknown.
Q What was the name of the
dentist who assassinated Sen.
Huey Long of Alabama?
A Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, who
was shot to death by Long's
guards.
Fifteen Years Ago
In checking over the Oregon
election lows, the city officials
have discovered that section 3934,
as amended by section 1, chapter
107, laws of 1929, section 4101,
provides that nominating peti
tions for candidates for city com
missioner must be filed with the
county clerk between Sept. 20
and Sept. 24.
Q In what year was New
York's Brooklyn bridge built?
A In 1883.
Q What is the weight of wa
ter? A According to the Smithson
ian institution, one cubic' inch
weighs .03617 pound.
Ten Years Ago
The annual (fwo-day, 36-hole
tournament for the Sacajawea
cup will be held at the La Grande
country club Sept. 1 and 2, with
18 holes to be played each day.
The Boy Scout delegation which
left some time ago for a tour of
the east is expected to arrive
home tomorrow. La Grande rep
resentatives in this delegation are
Bill Warner, Dick Stoddard, John
Ralston, and Bob Dow.
This Curious World
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