EDITORIAL PAGE
La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schlro, Publisher
SATURDAY KVENING, OCTOBER 6, 19-15
Just to Keep the
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PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete the Grande
Ronde Valley Irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10.00(1 -Extend
the city limit.
TODAY'S TEXT
And if lie (thy brother) trespttMS
ngum.st theo seven times in a day, and
Devon times in a da.v turn Hffuin to tliee,
savinir, 1 lopent; thou shall forgive him.
Luke 17:4.
THOUGHT VOH TODAY
What ardently we wish, we aoon be
lieve. YouriK.
Good News From China
Tho Moscow report that the Kuomin
lanjf and the Chinese communists have
reached an agreement is, if true, about
the most encourauini-v iiowh thai could
bo hoped for in the world today.
The differences between Generalis
simo Chiantr Kai-shek and the commun
ists were bitter and of long standing.
Their views and aims were radically op
posed. Both sought control of all China.
Both had legitimate claims of one sort
or another lo back them up.
Their combined efforts against the
Japanese had the earmarks of an armed
truce which seemed destined to end
when the invader was expelled. In
formed students of modern China fear
ed a tragic civil war which might draw
in Russia and force the reluctant inter
vention of the United States.
If the Generalissimo and Mao Tsc
tung, the communist leader, have reach
ed a compromise, it is a feat of diplo
macy for which the whole world owes
them thanks. And if the report of an
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agreement to reform the national gov
ernment is good news, the forecast of
general elections at an early date is even
better.
Wo Americans sometimes forget that
free, honest, general election are a bless
iug and accorded the people of every
nation. We often go off the beam on
the emotional binge that precedes our
elections. - But, .with -rare exceptions,
the vote itself is an uninfluenced, un
hampered and satisfactory solution of
our major political problems.
Free general elections probably could
settle the majority of the world's poli
tical problems today with equal satis
faction. But they are a device that fills
some heads of state with fear, and
others with a sincere, convinced dis
taste. Naturally, a government which hold?
office by force of arjns fears the popu
lar will. But there are also political
philosophies which hold that a narrow
ly representative government is prefer
ublc to one chosen democmticaly. It
. premiar Stalin, for example, were to be
a candidate for the office he now holds
in a general American-type election, he
probably would win hands down. But
it isn't likely that the victory would
change the present Kussian govern
ment's attitude toward a wide open poli
tical field.
So if Generalissimo Chiang and Mr.
Mao have decided to reshape China's
government according to the popular
w ill, it is a great and historic decision.
A free election there would do much to
give new meaning to the word demo
cracy, which was twisted into a variety
of amazing shapes to fit a variety of
purposes during the years of military
alliance against the axis.
SO THEY SAY
The atomic bomb is to human
ity v h a t DIVI' is to fleas and
mosquitoes. It has telescoped time
and questions that might Iihvc
called for answers in a decade or
so before atomic energy became
available are now in a nimmcdi
ale "do or die" category.
- Or. Harry D. Gidconsc. presi
dent, Brooklyn College.
Waste can never lead to pros
perity, no mailer what sophistry
is used to m.ikc it appear othor-
ise.
Yakima. Wash.. Herald.
Wp must leeoncile ourselves to
the I act that loom for tan reduc
tions at this time : limited. A
total war cannot be liquidated
overnight.
President Harry S. Truman.
Now- w e hope that after the ces
sation of monstrous killing and
Ma-sacre that hatred will cease
together W ith ambition for dom
ination and oppression of the
veak)
Pope Tius XII.
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so 1 muy a
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Br DREW PEJUtgCH
WASHINGTON There is a lot more than
meets the eye behind the ouster of pistol
packing, Gen. George S. Pa,tton, jr. as gover
nor of tiavaria. Actually, members of Gen.
oral Eisenhower's staff knew for weeks that
he was disregarding orders, but winked at
it until Ray Danicll of the New York Times
exposed Patton's flagrant cooperation with
top nazis and his keeping of V- S. troops in
tents while U. S. officers were entertained
In luxurious nazi homes. For instance, at
a meeting of allied military governors call
ed by Generals Eisenhower and Clay at
supreme headquarters from Aug. 27 to 29,
Patton vigorously and openly objected lo
Clay's orders on dc-nazification. Clay had
demanded that no nazis be used under
American occupation forces.
"Hell's bells," exploded Patton, "when a
fellow goes into a town without a burgo
meister, who is invariably a nazi, he will
be up -the creek without a paddle."
' General Clay bristled and replied, "we're
not hero to run Germany efficiently. We're
here to get the nazis out."
Despite this, however, Patton went his
own sweet way, ignoring orders. It should
be said for him, however, that others did
the same. There are four reasons for the
flagrant disregard of Eisenhower's orders
by his officers. Many of .tihem don't believe
in a tough peace for Germany. Some want
to build up Germany as a bulwark against
Russia. Some arc production men by trade
and are therefore anxious to see Germany
produce. Some were actively engaged in do
ing business with Germany before the war,
so believe in rebuilding Germany as a good
customer,
A sample of the typo of men in top con
trol of Germany is Brig. Gen. William H.
Draper, head of Dillon, Read St Co., which
did considerable business with the nazis be
fore the war. Draper Is in charge of over
all economic policies End constantly pursues
a plan of rebuilding Germany.
Col. James Boyd, an industrialist, sees
things the same way as Draper.
Boyd's deputy is Ellis S. Hoagland, who
Was General Motors' representative in Ger
many and on good terms with German in
dustrial magnates before Pearl Harbor.
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
It has finally been revealed that husbands
of bridge-playing women were rejected for
work on the atomic bomb.
Why? Because, according to Dr. Joseph
C. Morris of Tulanc university, who aided
in the recruiting of workers, it was feared
"Ihc bridge-playing wife would worm the
secret of her husband's job from him and
then Inadvertently let that secret slip out
over the bridge table."
They were wise men who foresaw that
potential threat lo military secrecy.
For if private matters that should remain
private ever come out anywhere it is over
the bridge table when a bunch of women
start trying to out-do each other in proving
how much I hey know that the others don't
know.
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON. La Grand Erening Oblerrer Washington CorrtipondenJ
WASHINGTON Ex Secretary of Wat
Henry L. Stimson will not be named pre
siding officer of the forthcoming labor
management conference after all. His health
will not permit him to (Ac the arduous
assignment. No announcement! was made of
it at the time, but the venerable statesman
sustained a heart attack at the White House
on his 78th birthday. This was the day he
left Washington. He recovered remarkably
and was able to leave on his own feet,
though the attack did delay his takeoff from
Washington airport by nearly an hour.
The 5.000 Japanese prisoners of war now
held in the United States will be shipped
back where they came from soon. General
MacArthur has advised Washington the
I'OWs can be absorbed without difficulty
and Maj. Gen. Arecher L. Lerch, the provost
marshal general, has flown to Japan to
complete arrangements for the transfer.
Most of the Jap prisoners in the U. S. were
captured in early Pacific campaigns and
they remained obstinately irreconcilable up
to the day the emperor threw in the sponge,
towel, glove and works. A few- days before
that, a small group at Camp McCoy, Wis.,
did send in a petition signed in blood, swear
ing that on return to Japan they would
work for democracy. Jap POW were held
mainly in camps near Sparta, Wis., Clarinda,
In., and Kennedy. Tex. They were employ
ed principally on army post work, in laun
dry work, repairing gas masks, quarrying
rock and so on. They wove kept on a Jap
anese diet, largely rice and fish. The rule
was that no food should bo wasted and the
Japs even ate the fish heads and liked 'em.
Before th wnate's eeai.ation and labor
tuhcommittrc organ hearing on Senator
Claud Popper's bill to itwrcas the minimum
me to ti.i cents an hour now and to 73
cents two years later. Lousioana Svntor
Allen J t'lk-nder sent v:i to labor lead
e;l backing the bill that he -afould have to ,
otpot it Isually KUenjer voles with the
Nc v Dealers. But on thus nieatare it was
exp'va.ned that KUender ,-ouldn't go along
.ty'cause the sugar producers, food Tocri)
sors atul lumbermen of his tate were ajMinst
it. A tho htvar.utgs, Eller..icr went into his
Another official supposed to de-nazify
Germany is Rufus J. Mysor, former head of
Republic Steel. He had considerable deal
ings with the Germans before the war and
is a good friend of all the heads of the Ger
man steel trusts.
"Must Use Nazis"
At one meeting in Frankfurt recently,
Colonel Boyd asked flatly, "how can I be
expected to get the industry of Germany
going if I can't use German and nazi car
tels?" At a similar meeting, Mysor said, "the
most important people in the steel industry
were close to the nazis. How can you run
industry if you get rid of the nazis?"
The head of the transportation section,
Gen. John A. Appleton, insists on using
Heir Dortenmuller, who had been in charge
of the railways for the nazis, after our oc
cupation. He only stopped using Dorten
muller when Dortonmuller died at the age
of 80.
When Brig. Gen. Frank Mead, who is in
charge of communications, was ordered to
de-nazify the communications industry, ho
refused and told one meeting he was "go
ing to shower requests for exceptions on the
control council" if not allowed to use nazis.
The man in charge of watching the de
nazification program for General Clay is
Bob Murphy of state department fame.
Murphy made a report to Clay and Eisen
hower in August, stating that the denazi
fication program had already been complet
ed. Actually it had not even been begun.
Only since a furore broke in the American
press and since General Patton frankly ad
mitted he wasn't obeying orders, have Eis
enhower and Clay started cleaning house.
Capitol Chaff
. William Benton, new assistant secretary
of slate in charge of press relations is one
of the first top state department officials
who has doffed the stuffed shirt, meets vis
itors with his sleeves rolled up . . . Joe
Bcrger of the democrat national committee
does his best work with his shoes and socks
off. Sometimes visitors catch him that way
. . . Jimmy Byrnes' office got another paint
ing while he attended the London conference.
Competition for center of the stage in a
strictly feminine gathering does something
to women that makes them tell things they
know they haven't any business telling.
And it isn't hard to imagine that the wife
of an atomic bomb worker forced to listen
during bridge game after bridge game to
other women bragging abut their hsubands
overseas might one day weaken and say def
initely, "Well, George :sn't in uniform but
. . ." And then go on to impress the other
women with the importance of George's
civilian job.
For women just can't be bested at bridge
table gossip and what a woman knows is
fully as important to the enjoyment of the
game as the cards she holds and how she
plays them.
act and argued fervently that with 65 cents
minimum wage, the country would be worse
off than with a 40 cent rate.
Eric A. Johnston, new head of the motiun
picture producers and successor to "Czar"
Will Hayes, recently installed a profit-sharing
plan for the employes in his electrical
concerns in the northwest. Briefly the plan
called for setting aside 25 per cent of the
net profits after taxes, for division among
employes on the basis of their seniority in
service and salary scales. After the plan was
put in effect, a group of the employes pro
tested. It wasn't fair, they said, to the sta
bility of the company or the stockholders.
To Johnston's surprise, what they proposed
was that six percent of the net profits be
set aside for the stockholders first, before
any allocation was made for profit-sharing
among the employes.
So many drafts of plans for the govern
ment of Germany have been made that it
is almost impossible to keep up with 'hem.
That fact led former Secretary of Treasury
Henry W. Morgenthau astray the other day
when he criticized the government because
it had not made public its plan known as
JC-1067 Joint Chiefs of Staff Memo No.
1067. Morgenthau made this criticism of his
former pals while pulling in a plug for his
own forthcoming book. "Germany Is Out
Problem." in which he finally reveals wall
President Roosevelt's deathbed permission
the famous Morgenthau plan of 1944 for gov
erning Germany. The joker is that Morgcn
thau's plan is now completely out of date.
It was succeeded by 10ti". and that was suc
ceeded by IPCOG-1 the Interdepartmental
Policy Commifee on Germany plan which
constituted Gen. Eisenhower's secret orders
for the initial period of occupation. This plan
w as taken to Potsdam by President Truman
where it was modified by Russia ar.4 Brit
ain to make' the Potsdam declaration. That
in turn was translated into the proclama
tions announced by the allied commanders
in Berlin in late September. Morscnthau's
criticism of the Truman administration for
not making public 1067 doesn't add up bt
cause he had' it in his hands when hp was
Secretary of the Treasury, he u .is asked
to m;-' it public,, and didn't. O
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Side Glances
,. 1U1 IV MIA KHVICf. IIIO. T. U Btfl. U. 8. PT.
"I wish you'd give up these bedtime snacks of yours, George I'm
putting on a lot of weight!"
O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority
IF FINESSE WORKS
BIG BRIDGE QUESTION
Today's hand is not difficult,
but it is interesting. Declarer has
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South West North East
Pass 1 Double Pass
Pass 1 Double Pass
2 Pass 4 V Pass
Opening A K. S
the fun of manipulating the cards
in dummy and his own hand in
Q BARBS
Top courtesy has returned to
the gas stations. Not only do you
get gasoline, but the old oil.
It is estimated that 8.000,0110
cleaners will be sold in the U. S.
in the next three years. Knock,
knock, knock guess who's at the
door!
This is the season for local
victory or community chest
drives. Those who contribute
have a right to throw out their
own chests.
When you leave fats in the
soup, you do the same to your
Uncle Sam. The war is over, but
fat saving isn't.
All the talk about tax cuts rais
es the question when will our
govcrnment be able to quit living
beyond our means?
Home-made girls are the ones
who seem to make the best
homes.
All during the cigaret shortage
it was the good old well-smoked
pipe that took the cake.
i his Curious World
J COPS. IMi BT NEA S8yic. ISC. "l
T. M. SEC. U S PAT. OFF.
VffU COMT NEED TO
l-KOM A SNAKE
THE FASTEST AWESiclN SPECIES CAN
TRAVEL ONLY 3 MILES PER HOUR..
'A TYPIST MAY MAV P A Denr-r.
TCVCH SVSTE W. YET NEVES? E-CXSfVw "
Sar (?. BILL WILL'AttSON,
MEXTi Square mal for
an Eds) mo.
order to make a lot of tricks.
When the opponents cash the
first two spade tricks and then
lead the jack of spades, South
ruffs, and can see Ihe possibility
of winning the balance of the
tricks by making four trumps in
his own hand, four in dummy, the
ace of clubs' and the ato-queen
of diamonds if the finesse works.
After ruffing the third spade
with the deuce of hearts, South
leads the seven of diamonds and
takes the finesse. When it holds,
he leads back the ace of diamonds
and then can cross-ruff the whole
hand out.
West could have held the hand
lo four-odd by leading a heart
after cashing the ace and king of
spades. As a matter of fact, he
might have defeated the contract
if he had shifted to a heart after
winning the first spade trick.
O IN FORMER
YEARS
Thirty Years Ago
Grover Grimmett. won ihc ID-..
mile automobile race at the coun
ty fair with a time of I0:27'4.
The engagement of Mrs. Nor
man Gait and President Wilson
was announced last night.
A petition circulated by a cit
izens' committee asking that the
charter of La Grande be submit
ted to an amendment election at
the regular election the second
Monday of December, Vvas put
before tho city commission last
night, and a resolution was adopt
ed by the city placing such an
amendment on the city ballot.
Fifteen Years Ago
La Grande received one of the
heaviest rainfalls of the year yes
terday and early today, with
nearly an inch and a half of rain
falling between 7 a. m. yesterday
and the same lime this morning.
The downpour is considered of
great worth to this section, as
clear weather a little later on is
expected to make conditions ideal
for fall plowing and seeding.
Ten Years Ago
Detroit Tigers won their first
world baseball championship to
day, beating tho Chicago Cubs 4
lo 3.
Necessity of a larger room
for school music classes is an
other reason why the proposed .
$72,727 addition to the La Grande
high school buildings is favored
by school authorities.
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