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o tiie oi mho. i . In repieretitalive ous types of soil. I EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Scblro, Publisher TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1945 And Where It Stops Nobody Knows kvkmm; omskkyuk'x progress program IRRIGATION Complete the (irmidi Hondo Valley irriftatinn project I A GRANDE A city uf 10,0011 Extend the city limit TODAY'S TEXT lii'cncli for breach,' eye for eye, tooth for tooth: its lie hath canned a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him f.jrain. licviticus 21 :20. THOUGHT KOR TODAY Those who plot the destruction of other often fall themselves. Pliaedrus. Accused and On Trial Once ujinin a series of discussions vital to the lives and welfare of all peo ple has been carried on in secret. Hut fortunately the doors of Ijincasler House in London, where the Council of Korean Ministers has been meeting', are not leakproof. So this conference, like so many others, has been reported by means of rumors, whispers and con fidences. What the world, and particularly this country, has heard throunh these "leaks" has not been cncotli'iiuinn'. Vet eran anil usually imperturbable report els have written darkly pessimistic stories. Hay after day they have told of nn-jry words and widening rifts. About the most cheerful thiny. Ibov could sa was that the difficulties are perhaps not insoluble. What has happened in Loudon is. i:i a way. mere significant than the his toric proceedings in San Francisco. 'I here ihe discussions covered onlv the J'.eiii la nurture of a world peace oi- :anrat ion. 'illiculties were expected. thoui'h when th ippeared they were Funny business A A "Ho still ein'l gel iho navy out ol hi ayataml" au-.ir on van- Page of such proportions as to threaten a blow-up of the whole conference for a few anxious days. Now the foreign ministers of the United States, ilritain, France, Russia i.nd China have had to tackle the job of translating the high principles of the Atlantic charter and San Francisco into concrete terms. They have had to make a start at settling- problems of the re cent war and drawing up peace treaties ' for their recent enemies. Reports from tendon indicate that they not only have failed to lay the groundwork for peace treaties, but have actually started to split Europe into the inimical eastern and western blocs which Hitler hoped for but couldn't achieve. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov is said to have remarked angrily during one meeting: "You would think I was accused and on trial." In a manner of speaking, he is. So is Hritish Foreign Secretary Kevin. So, perhaps, is Sec retary of State Byrnes though his role of conciliator seems to be impos sibly difficult. If the pessimistic reports are accur ate, Mr. Molotov and Mr. Kevin certain ly stand accused of starting to re-establish hostile spheres of influence which, as they well know, are breeders of war. I hoy stand accused of forgetting the principles of world security to which their governments are committed, and ol being jealously and fearfully nation alistic, and stubbornly power-minded. Ihey stand accused of insincerity in their claims of "independence" and "full representation" in present Baltic gov ernments. They are on trial for betray ing the prayerful wishes of the ordinary people who fight and suffer and die iii wars by pursuing a course which could render the United Nations organization impotent even before its first meeting Naturally no country, including any l Ihe great powers, wishes or is able I" light a war now. But unless these bvign ministers and their chiefs of stale take a different tack, the pros pect ol lasting peace is bleak indeed O SO THEY SAY Kor the next two years, mo.it lubber produced will be synthet ic since it is conservatively esti mated it will take that lung be fore shipments of natural rubber from lilierulcd areas will radical ly alter synthetic output. -E. A. Ilolslein, Detroit rubber company executive. Piesident Truman is no mir.n-li- man. But, for a plodding soil ot fellow he scorns to be getting diplomatic thmy: field. done in t li e Washington. D. C, News. The Hitlerite rriminali must cany full rpu,unibility for their monitrous utroeillei and Ger many inujl romDcnsale for th damage (Ru.ia. done to our cniintt-v Pravda, Moscow. Training and education are two ways to reduce the number of iuifii.pl, lycd. -.Helena. Mont., Record. Independent- Washington Merry-Go-Round Py CREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Democrat members of the house ways and means committee last week saw President Truman, for the first time since he became president, hopping mad at congress. They received a call Wednesday afternoon from Chairman "Mu ley Bob" Doughton asking all democrats to be at the White House at 10 the next morn ing. Having just agreed to shelve the unem- ployment compensation bill, they had a clear idea of what was coming. Little time was wasted, in pleasantries. The president had only a curt nod or "hello" tor the members as they came in, then plunged at once into his subject. The unem ployment compensation features provided in his message must be enacted, he said, be fore he could feel congress has done the job the people expect. For 45 minutes, the president sat and discussed the bill with the congressmen, and not a single smile crack ed his face. Closest he came to a smile was when he said: "Piesident Roosevelt always used to rely upon the house to help him out against the senate. I thought J could rely upon the sen ate. "But," the former senator from Mis souri added, "it looks like I'm having a lit 'le trouble there now." Kc referred to the senate's pruning of the original unemployment compensation bill of fered by Senator Harley Kilgore of West Virginia. Early in the conference, Representatives Dingcll of Michigan, Ebcrharter of Pennsyl vania and Forand of Rhode Island told the president thut they agreed with his program and would like to se e the house vote the $25 and 26-week provisions the senate had knocked out. Chairman Doughton, h a 1 f hearted author of a bill including these pro visions but not the full Kilgore bill, glared fiercely, while Forand reminded the pres ident he had himself introuced a bill calling for everything in the Kilgore bill. Two WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Every time you pick up a woman's mag azine these days it seems you find an ar ticle about the lelurning serviceman which dishes out advice to the little woman back home. The gist of them all is that the girl who has waited out the war patiently must prac tice even more patience and understanding when her man comes home. An article in the current issue of a na tional woman's magazine is fairly typical. Written by a returned serviceman it warns wives that their returned serviceman who found it almost intolerable to live apart from his wife may find it difficult to readjust himself to living with her agan. "Patience and understanding" arc suggested as the antdote. According to this magazine version, the returned veteran may prove short-tempered and may have a tendency to say things he doesn't mean. He has been accustomed to little female society and may feel at first according to the article that there can be such thing as too much such association. He may have built up a sort of goddess-like ideal during his absence which the little woman back home may find it extremely Behind Scenes in Washing-ton By PETER EPSON. La Grand Erenlng Obaerver Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON A suggestion that the labor-management conference convening in Washington Nov. 5 be continued indefinite ly as a policy making advisory group to con gress and the executive branches of the government is regeiviig cifisidoi u'ble at tention. The idea is attributed to President Truman himself. The president will prob ably address the representatives from in dustry and union groups at their initial session. Under the continuing conference plan now being discussed an executive committee of labor and industry heads would meet reg ularly in Washington to consider the current labor situation. It would consist of only fo-ir or five members from the pot industrial and union groups. The full membership of the conference would then meet only on emer gency call, or regularly every two or three months, for major decisions on labor policy. A list of participants in the coming con ference will be announced during the first week in October. It will consist of 18 rep resentatives from labor. One from manage ment, three or four from government sec retary of labor Schwellcnbaeh, secretary of commerce Wallace, a big name chairman and a secretary. The conference hs been kept small so that it will be a real working body. The con fercors will be invited to participate by Ihe president. A number of gate crashers from both employers and independent unions have already exerted considerable pressure to get invitations so that they may present their pet theories on labor relations. They prob ably won't be admitted, even as observers Invited conferees will be permitted to have advisers and consultants, but the total num ber the conference room in the department of labor may not exceed 100. All sessions ot the conference ill be closed. to picking the delegates, only the top men 4h real policy makers of both labor and management arc being sought. For labor this means Wiiham Green, John L. Lewi. PhiJ Murray, Sidney llil'.irun and other leaders from the maor onion inovifinonts. Fur industry it means E. ic A, Johnston of Hie U. S. cholnOol of ciViunere, Ira Moaner Strike Action Coming One argument Truman didn't answer in advance was that offered by Represent ative Sid Camp of Georgia. Camp agreed with several oher members Mills of Ar kansas, West of Texas and Gregory of Ken tucky that $2! per week was a high fig ure for compensation payments. "In my state, my folks wouldn't feel any too good about that," Camp told his col leagues. "Hardly any of them would be able to collect $25 a week because they'd have had to be earning twice that much while they were working in order to be eligible for the $25. And $50 a week is an awful high figure for Georgia." Truman made it clear among other things he was absolutely opposed to Illinois Sen ator Lucas' bill returning the U. S. employ ment service to the states. They must be operated by the federal government, Tru man maintained, at least for a year. Although he didn't say a single word which, on paper, would look harsh, the pres ident was really sore, the members agreed. If they had met with him the previous af ternoon at the time he had issued the in vitationsthey figured they would have re ceived a real dressing-down. Note Only democrat on the committee who seemed irrevocably opposed to report ing out the $25-a-weck Kilgore bill so the house could vote on it was West of Texas, a Jack Garner democrat. Congresswoman in a Harem The fabulous Ibn Saud, absolute ruler over millions of Arabs, broke the precedent, of centuries by greeting a lady outside a hurem. She is white-haired Mrs. Frances Bolton, republican representative from Cleveland. Ibn Saud refused to sit down at dinner with Mrs. Bolton, however, and she had her winner in Ibn Saud's harem, while six male representatives ate camel meat and various See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4 difficult to live up to. Well, if the writer is putting down facts what does that make the returning serv iceman? A guy who comes home so filled with his part in the war he doesn't even see what his wife has had to put up with during the long, lonely years. A man who, though he 'expected his wife to be faithful might be comparing her to "those other women he has known." A man who, finding his adjustment to civilian life hard, will take it out on you and will be short-tempered and say things he doesn't mean. A man who will be so immature as to ex pect you to measure up to a goddess image which he has built up in his own mind. Probably the article is exaggerated and if so, it has no business being printed in a woman's magazine where it can scare a bunch of women who have already been scared enough during the war years. If it isn't exaggerated, then it doesn't look as though you ought to go all out for pa licnce and understanding. It looks as though you ought to tell that returning serviceman to be his age and iuit being a returned Hero. And the sooner the better for you both. of the Na'ional Association of Manufactur ers, and the chairman of the boards of some of the major employers corporations of the country. Corporation presidents, operating managers of labor-relations directors aren't wanted. The purpose of this is to get the real directing heads who can make policy de cisions that will stick and will not have to be referred back to higher authority for ap proval. U is almost inevitable that there will be some disputes in any such assembly. Among the labor leaders arc some men with bitter personal experiences in years of labor war. They will support their convictions that all management is made up of exploiters. In management are some occupants of walnut panneled towers who believe that all labor organizers are rogues and radicals who should he dealt with only at the end of a club. Th.'ie are bitter rivalries even within the separate labor and management groups. The big corporations compete for commercial ad vantage. It is worse than the Cabots and Lowells. A. F. of L. Green must get pe .von irom Ills executive committee beforo ne can sit clown with C. I. O. Mur n;iy. and men u can Oe oone only with the govern ment present as chaperon. Murray doesn't pe,iK io i.e is ana Lewis speaks onlv himself. to Just petting all these arXngonistic ele ments together in the same conference room will be something of an achievement, but it is obviously necessary if any kind of na tional labor policy formula is to be written. A suggestion has been made that the chief iiwueiees sa alternately at the table 1 abor, ,......,lf,. ,i-,:i, ijuoi, management anj ''ic iuo.1 is :nal tins u ..... .-.,,.,., me ei nevirg opposing s1(les at ioe conierence labor on one sid' management on the other. Another suggestion has been io have the lep conferees meet informally s, v:ally. as it w.re Io get acquainted befolV they' ,rt down formally to deliberate on a few sim ple principals by which industruj strife and strum eun be m.ninuzed even Just ilUk. for l.lelr own and tne nation's greater good'' o o Side Glajices COW, 1M8 BY NtA KRV1C. INC. T. !. HID. U. 9. FAT. QFf. "I thought I'd be relieved when ho got out of the parachute troops, ut in this game when he comes down all those players pile on top of him!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WILLIAM E. McKENNEV America's Card Authority BRIDGE END-PLAY SCORES TOUCHDOWN There is an interesting end play in today's hand, played by 8 V 10 7 5 2 AJ 108532 6 1 10752 V AQ Q 7 6 J 10 9 8 N 9 V J8843 94 75432 W E S Dealer Roth A AKQJ643 VK9 K AKQ Rubber Neither vul. South West North East 2 A Pass 3 Pass 3 A Pass 4 Pass 5 Pass 5 Pass 8 Pass Pass Pass Opening J 3 Cpl. A 1 v i n Roth in a rubber bridge g,a m e at She Maylrfir Bridge club in New York. When Roth saw the freak dis- O BARBS This is tiie season when cold germs don't seem to care any thing about how important you are. A check seems like a pretty good time to prune the national budget by pulling off a few plums. People who live on second, third and fourth floors probably don't blame the cliff dwellers for becoming extinct. Wc can be thankful money does not talk as much as some of the people who have it. The a r m y is releasing more than 23,000,000 rounds of shotgun ammunition for hunters. Head for the house, folks, and bar the win dows! The corn crop looks pretty good this year especially to the corn borer. The best waitresses in the sum mer resort hotels were the inn cxperienccd. Most people who take things as they come don't know what to do with them. 7iw Curious World eao4 Yava. 1 MT 0F ANSWER: Impudence, Missouri. ( F?CMED WHEN BOULDER DAM ( S J JtT -) SACKED UP THE CPLOgam Pivcp " f 'iWf f-J IS THE VVOBLD'J LARSESr MAN- ) ., fj J -WADE BOOV OF WATER, WITH A t&iSEY Cj f'' i Shoreline o more than ( y ' ' '' if i 'c7j X NEXT; Can a pigeon outspced an express train? tribution in dummy, as well as in his own hand, he decided to pro vide against freak distribution in the opponents' hands. Ha won the first club trick, and immediately cashed the king of diamonds. He entered dummy by ruffing the king of clubs, played the ace ot diamonds, discarded t h e heart nine. His next play was the jack of diamonds, and he made up his mind that, regardless of East's play, he was going to discard the king of hearts. This play cannot lose, as the queen of diamonds is the only card of that suit out standing. East ruffed with the nine of spades, a nice play. If Roth over-ruffed with the jack, he still would lose a spade and a heart; but by discarding the king of hearts, Roth could ruff low any return made by East, pick up the outstanding trumps and make his contract. IN FORMER YEARS Thirty Years Ago ., ' "" Looking forward to eventual construction of their o w n ex change building, the Home Inde pendent Telephone company has purchased the W. S. Allinson cor ner at Depot and Washington. This week the resignation of General Manager G. E. Dunklee of the Central Railroad of Oregon goes into effect and the new man ager, Mr. Evanson. takes charge. Fifteen Years Ago With 12 extra men put to work this morning, the crew of the Natui a! Gas company was in creased to 50 today With more men expected to be put on to morrow. Vitally interested in the com pletion of the Enterprise-Lewis-ton interstate highway, a large group of La Grande men are ex pecting to join a caravan from Enterprise Oct. 4 with Clarkslon, Wash., as their objective. Ten Years Ago The third year of La Grande's a cappella choir opened at 8 p. m. tonight in the music room at La Grande high school building when the first rehearsal of the 1!W5 sea son was held. A new course, that of trade re lationship, was added to the L. H. S. cuiriculum last night by the school board. I J
