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La Grande Evening Observer
Prank Schiro,
MONDAY KYKNINU, OCTOBKR 1, 19-15
They Thrive On
EVENING OBSKRVKR'S
PROORK.SH PROGRAM
MtRKiATION Complete the (Jrunilc
Konde Valley irrigation project.
t.A GRANDE A city of 10.000
. Extend the city limits.
TODAY'S TEXT
And behold joy and nljnini?ss, Hlaying
oxen, and killing sheep, catinir fle.sh,
and drinking wine; let ns eat and drink:
for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13
THOUGHT KOI I TODAY
Where there arc laws, he who has not
broken lliein need not tremble. Alfieri.
Freedom of the I'ress
On this, the I'irst day of National
Newspaper week, we may have more
than usual excuse for pointing out to
the citizens of our area the importance
of a free and unliammeled press.
A free press is important not to
the press itself, primarily but to the
citizenry as a whole whose poltical and
social welfare lies in its free, ready and
complete access-to all of the facts guv
eiuin,: that welfare.
We have learned to regard the citi
zens of axis nations as uniformed and
propagandized masses, .subject to the
will id' their masters, political and so
cial, and trained by carefully based
psychological presentations to think and
respond to the proper stimuli.
Such persons can lie moved like pup
pels. The ideas which are implanted in
their minds become fixations, because
they are cleverly tied to basic emotions
and they can be roused to emotional
heights ,-it will.
Tlie lose their claim to heing self
willed .-mil can lie induced load toward
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specific objectives though their actions
may he diametrically opposed to their
own best interests.
This result does not take centuries to
accomplish. Hitler and Goebbels were
able to accomplish if with a people (feu
dally 1-enarded as intelligent in less
than 1" years.
The axis example- is; 'of' course, lin
extreme one. We of the United States
cannot conceive a similar situation a r i : . -iiiK
in our nation.
It may not be too much to say, how
ever, that a similar situation can obtain
at any lime in the United States dif
ferent only in (li'K'ree if the full facts
of any national matter can be distorted,
withheld or otherwise controlled.
During' the war. the American press
operated under what was nominally a
"voluntary" censorship. It was volun
tary in the sense that no mandatory
law set up and that no federal lepre
senlalive was present in every news
paper office to see that the news and
information received was "slanted" to
create certain cm-options and celiac
(iient reactions.
However, censorship in the name
of national security was handled at
the source of the news so that complete
ness of acconnl was controlled and the
lime of announcement was controlled.
II is not for us here to cpiarrel with
that censorship. II is sufficient to slate
thai in that censorship lay the seeds of
political and social domination of the
people. It is significant that one of the
first acts of President Truman after the
surrender of Japan was to declare all
censorship dead.
The press of this nation has alwayn
been acutely conscious of its preroga
tives and jealous for their maintenance.
I hiring the political anil social unr-sl
which we will undergo during the next
decade, the press will more than before
need public realization of the necessity
and importance of ,-t five press in pro
tecting the liberties of the people.
SO THEY SAY
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rotninn t hi onmimui problem of
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li thev (the .l.ti ;ne h;intilet!
to,, gently, 'hev m.iy forget too
soon th.it they loM a nmjor war,
;iiul tn.iy lv tii willing to begin
pie;.d .itions for .(nether,
Toledo. O.. Tunes.
We (the HutisM are the poor
est nation of any of the victors
in tins war We must see that
"M i M i s h made" means more
ahio.id than il ever has in the
pnt
- Sir (fTanville Gibson.
We ean't and mustn't try to
tinaiue eveiy nation in the world
b.iek onto its piewar feet. After
all, theie is a bottom to the Amer
lean flour barrel, whether Brit
ain Hunks so or not.
Bartlesville, OkU., Enterprise.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Br DREW PEAHSGN
WASHINGTON Last week this column
revealed two military intelligence colonels
in Washington warned their superiors the
Germans were about to launch the disas
trous Belgian Bulge attack in December
11)44, and urged that General Eisenhower
be put on guard. It was also revealed how
this advice had been ignored with the re
sult American forces in Ihe Ardennes for
est were caught offguard and their thin line
of defense wiped out, resulting in 60,000
casualties and weeks of further warfare.
An additional chapter to this tragic blun
der can now be told.
On Dee. 10, 1944, six days before the Ger
man surprise attack, Col. B. Albert Dickson,
chief of intelligence of the second army,
wrote a strong report to his superiors warn
ing a German offensive was coming. His
report, labeled "No. 37," is in the files of the
war department and is available to any sen
ale committee wanting to get the real truth
regarding this blunder which cost so many
American lives.
Colonel Dickson reported he was convinc
ed they were planning a big attack. He re
ported a new spirit of jubilant enthusiasm
on the part of the Germans he interviewed,
a new determination to escape and go back
to fight in the offensive. He even reported
the Germans were training men to infil
trate behind American lines as American
soldiers.
It will be remembered nazi troops were
found dressed in American uniforms.
Colonel Dickson even prepared a map
showing vilfcigjL-s where German reserves
were billeted in preparation for the Belgian
Bulge altack. And he urged that they be
bombed out immediately. This recommenda
tion was never followed. If it had been, the
story of tragic American losses would have
been different.
Instead, the 12th army group wrote a re
port on Dec. 12, refuting Colonel Dickson's
report of Dec. 10. It replied such an attack
could not happen.
Later, on Dec. 1G, SHAEF, headquarters
of General Eisenhower, wrote a G-2 "ap
preciation," staling a German surprise at
tack could not happen. However, Dec. 10,
the date of this report, was the actual day
it did happen.
So, later in the day, SHEAF hastily with
drew this "appreciation" and substituted
three other pages in its report. The original
report, therefore, may not be available to
a congressional committee. However, if the
senate will find that it contains in black
and white the story of how the army was
warned the attack was coming, and was
even urged to bomb German reserves, "but
completely ignored warning.
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
Parents are being urged to keep their
children homo from school at the first
sign of sneezes or sniffles. This they
are told would cut down immeasurably on
the spread of colds and other contagious dis
eases that in the early stages seem to be
only colds.
If parents would really do that there also
would be a future benefit to society. At last
we might bring up a generation in which
these types of pets wouldn't be quite so
common:
The woman w h o conies sneezing and
coughing into a bridge parly saying brightly,
"I really should have stayed in bed bill I
just couldn't miss your party."
Tin.- man who sits beside you in a movie,
coughing his way through a double feature.
The office worker who hasn't missed a day
from work in so-many-yi-ars, even though
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON. La Grande ETonlng Obs.rrer Washington Coireipondeni
WASHINGTON The labor management
governmenl conference opening here Nov. 5
has a ttm-o-lo-one chance of success, says
Eric A. Johnston, president of the U. S.
chamber of conunere. Johnston's appraisal
is important because tie has put in a tot of
time during the war years, trying to brin
labor and management discord into closer
harmony. On his last effort,', to write a
charter for labor and management, he took
a heating.
Predictions have been freely made that
the forthcoming conference, called by Pres
ident T r u m a n and Secretary of Labor
Si'hwollcnhach. ;,t the seuggostion of Sena
tor Arthur 11. Vandenbeig. would end in a
brawl. Since all past conferences have end
ed that way, it is easy to make such cheap
predictions. Some people apparently don't
want the conference lo succeed and there
fore give it a black eye.
Pail of the pessimism comes from those
who expect the conference to do more than
there is any reason to believe it can do. says
Johnston.
To expect that this conference or any
conference will is ridiculous on its face. To
expect that this conference will end the
present wave of strikes, or to anticipate that
the conference will come up with any pro
gram of recommended legislation that will
automatically end all strikes is equally silly.
The belief held in some quarters on Capitol
hill that if Ibis conference doesn't produce
a solution to all post-war labor troubles, con
gress will have to pass something like the
Ball-Hatch bill, is dangerous and it gets the
conference off to a Kid start.
All the mistakes of past labor-management
peace conferences President Wilson confer
ence of U'lM, President Roosevelt's confer
ence of 1IM2, the U. S. chamber of commerce-CIO-AFL
charter proposal of last March-
Note U. S. casualties in the Bulge were
60,000 compared fewer than 3,000 at Pearl
Harbor.
Truman Deserts FDR
How drastically Harry Truman and At
torney General Tom Clark arc deserting one
of Franklin Roosevelt's principles was in
dicated by a recent incident which few peo
ple noticed.
One of the great battles Roosevelt fought
was against the big utility companies. But
the other day, a judge appointed by Truman
to one of the most important courts in the
country handled a case, even after his con
firmation, on behalf of one of the big pow
er companies. He is Judge Wilbur Miller, re
cently, appointed to the U. S. court of ap
peals for the District of Columbia, which
handles more important test cases than any
other appeals court in the nation.
However, even after Miller was confirm
ed by the senate, he appeared last week be
fore the federal power commission on behalf
of the Kentucky Natural Gas company.
This makes it unanimous. For both of the
other two judges Truman appointd to this
important appeals court, ex-Senator Bennett
Clark of Missouri and Barrett Prcttyman,
also have been attorneys for the big power
companies or have been anti-public power.
Note Bennett Clark was defeated for the
senate by the people of Missouri last year
after many bitter years of isolationist oppo
sition to Roosevelt's foreign policies. How
ever, he worked valiantly for Truman's'
nomination at Chicago.
Movie Moguls
Last week a galaxy of the most powerful
moguls of the movie world paid a visit on At
torney General Tom Clark. Probably no
more high-priced men ever entered the at
torney general's office at one time before
in history. The group included:
Barney Balaban, head of Paramount; Al
bert Warner of Warner Brothers; Nick
Schenck of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Spyros
Skouras, head of the 20lh Century Fox, and
Peter Rathbone, head of RKO.
They entered Clark's office, laid a brief
on his desk and departed. The visit lasted
exactly six minutes.
Since the salaries of these movie moguls
average around $200,000 a year each with
out bonuses or stock dividends, and since
they were accompanied by a battery of le
gal counsel probably drawing from $50,000
to $100.0110 annually each, it was estimated
that this six-minute session, including travel
time from New York, cost $25,000.
The brief they handed Clark opposed the
government's anti-trust suit against the
movie industry.
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in that lime he has often exposed the en
lire office force to colds that never got him
down.
The neighbor who sends her small child
lo play with yours because, though he has a
cold, she just can't keep him in bed and he
is miserable without someone to play with.
The hostess who goes through with her
dinner invitation even though she confiders
she knows she is coming down with "a ter
rible cold."
We're afraid of colds. But seldom of our
own. The only ones that really frighten us
are the colds of other people.
So if children can be taught thai when
they have a cold they are a menace toothers,
we may yet have a generation of adults con
siderate enough lo worry as much about
exposing others to their ills as they worry
over being exposed.
are being avoided. The agenda for the forth
coming conference is being prepared with
considerable care and cooperation. What il
aims at is a short and simple declaration
of fundamental principles in labor-management
relations. That is all anyone has any
right to expect immediately.
No effort is being made to prepare a fin
ished collection of pious rc.-Urtions and
platitudes that can be handed to the con
ferees to mull over for a few days, shifting
commas about here and there before adopt
ing and going home. Instead, the six-man
advance planning sub committee headed by
Marine Mnj. Paul L. Douglas, representing
Labor Secretary Schwellcnbach, has mere
ly worked toward agreement on subjects
that can be taken up by the conference and
settled.
That recognition of the right of collective
bargaining will be included goes without
saying. But. balancing it off. it is hoped that
there wll he recognition of the right man
agement to manage There was a statement
to this effect in the Johnston-Murry labor
management charter which A. F. of L. and
the National Association of Manufacturers
walked out on. These two forces are in on
the play this time, so there is better chance
of success.
Extending the charter declaration on man
agement's right to manage at the forthcom
ing conference, the settlement of the place
of foreman and supervisory employes in in
dustry misht be achiived. If agreement can
be reached in this field, one of the most
troublesome of all presentday labor disputes
might be removed from the field of contro
versy. The right of management to earn a prof
it might also be carried forward from the
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Side Glances
cow, iw by he wavier twa. yitiii.pkrorK ; '
"I'm lired of this kitchen work I'd get married in a minute if I
knew a woman who could really cook bolter than I dol"
P McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority
TYPE OF YOUR HAND
DETERMINES DOUBLE
Harry J. Fishbein brings out a
good point in connection with to
day's hand. He says: "There are
certain types of hands on which
you cannot double, and this is
one of them." . .
East unquestionably can defeat
the three no - trump contract.
North at no time has indicated
he was interested in going any
where on the hand, but when
have the contract beaten, do not
double and then blame your part
ner if he makes the only opening
lead that will allow declarer to
make it.
o IN FORMER
YEARS
Thirty Years Ago
The state fair management at
Salem has announced Union
county has won the county
agricultural district exhibit in
district No. 3. Morrow county
was second, and Wallowa county
third.
Over 200 head of Malheur cat
tle have been purchased by Sam
Litch of Enterprise. Mr. Litch
was in the city this morning on
his way home and stated that
his new acquisition in th-3 cattle
line will be brought in shortly
and put on winter range in Wal
lowa county.
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Fifteen Years Ago
Construction work was started
today for the Natural Gas coropr
ation of Oregon with mains being
dug throughout the cily and the
beginning of the 185,000 feet of
pipe laid.
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SoUth persists in bidding two no
trump, North finally bids three.
Fishbein points out that, if East
doubles, West will open a heart,
as the double of a three no-trump
contract asks partner to lead the
first suit bid by dummy. In this
case, the heart suit might be the
only lead that would allow the
declarer to gain the timing on the
hand, and make the contract. East
wants- his partner to make his
natural opening, because East can
establish ihe suit for him on the
first round.
Therefore, when you know you
Ten Years Ago
The relief m:m nf ITninn
Wallowa c-nitnlieu mucin' hi, IT,,,
ley Richardson and on display in
the Commercial club windows for
many months, was back in La
Grande today after six weeks in
Portland.
Tho driest September in 15
years or more, and one of the
warmest Septembers in local his
tory came to a close at midnight
yesterday.
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