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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Scblro, Publisher
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1945
And Where It Stops Nobody Knows
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IRRIGATION Complete the (irmidi
Hondo Valley irriftatinn project
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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
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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.
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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,
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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''
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"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!"
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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.
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ANSWER: Impudence, Missouri.
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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.
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