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I EDITORIAL PAGE j La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENINCJ. OCTOIJEK 10. 19-15 'Ammunition, Ammunition, Please!' The Aftermath of London The '""' finsco of the council of foreign ministers in London hits pre sented two facts wln'cli are clearly vis ilile even at u ureal distance and llirouuli a veil of secrecy; there must he a new attempt to reach agreement on peace terms; and l.eforu that at tempt can even approach success, tin: differences that split the lxmdon meel injf must lie resolved. Whether the next attempt is another foreign ministers' conference, a Tru-mnti-Stnlin-Attlce meetinir. or a full dress conference of the United Nations depends on the liijr three. Hut the form is less, important than the need for u basic hit; three agreement. Much has been made of the fact that Secretary Hymen came to the recent unsuccessful meetinjv as an unprepared "amateur." Hut it is doubtful thai an American delegation armed with the most meticulously prepared protoci I would have fared much better. I'm- Mr. Mololov presented a hard-headed pro gram based on a political and diplomatic philosophy that is diametrically ni posed to must Aniilo-Aiiicrican beliefs. It is clear that the Soviet 1'iiion does Mil Ix'lievo in eipial so creiiintv : (he hie. three won the world war and so must dictate the world peace, without allow ing the small nations a voice in their own destiny. The llussian lroverninent i respon sible to no one but itself. It is not elec ted, and it dins nut countenance riou. ileniestic criticism of its Hilieie,-. Thi it obvinusly believes to b, a 'jn,i l'rethml. hence its insistence on a wall i.i" h'unini Husiness :--.;.!'. : if '.:-; i!.,'; ft: "Now thai we no longer need to conserve iron, you thifet no l.ivn Hjtiinl" Huge Two secrecy around the fateful liitf three dis cussions. The Russian interpretatiim of "demo cracy" is (piite different from the An-jiio-American conception. The first test of the new "democratic" governments o! European countries within the Rus sian orbit has been their acceptability tn Russia, not to their own people. Major opposition there hiis been lumped together as "fascist" and bloodlessly purged. Talk of "free elections' has re mained talk. All this does not necessarily menu that Russia is traveling a cynical road toward world domination, Quite pos sibly the Russian government, in its own eyes, is acting fairly, justly and democratically. The trouble is simply that Russia's whole course of action b repugnant to the western democracies. And those democracies, whatever their faults, have had a longer, more peaceful and more successful experience in gov 1 1 niiient of, by and for the people. And so there must inevitably be a showdown. I'erhaps the United States needs better preparation before the next peace meeting. Rut certainly this government will need to exercise its strength and world prestige more vigor ously. We have three strong weapons in dol lars, a great productive capacity and an ati niic bomb. Russia wants some of the lb st. needs the help of the second and lespeels the third. Racked by these weapons. American statesmen should he able to effect the compromise necessary to turn world events from their present dangerous course and toward recovery and peace. SO THEY SAY 1 urn as fumly convinced as evi r lll.lt the t'i'w industrial cn iw.ty of the west coast makes i e'Unviy pia.'tical to piiKluce it 'niel'ilrs in th.it area. J.'.-jH'h W. Ktaer. automobile r..:v.if.iL-turer. .Vthouch hostilities have cvas e i. our count: v's military respon sibilities are still huge .inci their in: :( n sh.niLl net be saddled m vieiir.iK A or. sokiieis and sailors who already have jiven some of tile lost yr.us u( their Hie to the 'A it'.nir.tl e; l:ie w.ir. - -K.il.iir.a -iv, Mich . G.uette. latin Aiiiei.ea.l labor wants a imui:aneoi,.s hii',iking of diplo matic and tvonomu' relations wilh ioth th.- Franco iSp.mtsn and Prion lArni nl ma ' regimes. Viiuvntc l.oinUndo Toiedano, Mexican laoor leader. America w ants to help the wor'eJ get on its ieet but the el ("it will tad il, in making it. America (alls down herself. Wilmington. Dvi Journal. ran put lour Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The nation's giant, bumptious CIO United Auto Workers' union, is now split wide open over its post-war strike policy. At opposite ends of the conflict are R. J. Thomas, known as labor's undiplomatic dip lomat, and two-fisted, brainy Walter Reu ther, vice president of the union and pre tender to Thomas's throne. Reuther is eager to snatch Thomas's pres idency away from him at the next auto workers' union convention, is trying hard to become the union's No. I figuro even if it means strikes which blacken labor's name. However, since Reuther heads the powerful General Motors' section of the union, he may have his way and pu)l a first-class strike that' will damage labor even more. It was kept very hush-hush, but at the recent meeting of the auto workers' union 22-man board in Flint, Mich., Reuther call ed in eight trusted board members to ex plore his future. Every man present prom ised to keep the proceedings secret. Reuther asked his fellow board members how many of them would support him for the union's presidency. Five, although friends of Reuther. turned thumbs down. Two agreed to back his candidacy, and one stood on the fence. As a result, Reuther has de cided he needs a farther build-up. Since then, Reuther and Thomas have been badly split on union policies, wilh the public and the auto workers sometimes caught in the middle. Reuther knows that Thomas is the heir-apparent to Phil Murray, president of the CIO, and is trying to knock Thomas out of that spot. Fundamental difference inside the auto union is over strategy. Thomas is against strikes now. He wants to cooperate with the big auto companies on reconversion, then strike later if necessary. Thomas has been arguing privately it is unwise to strike un til the highly competitive big three Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors get their as sembly lines running next spring. Then the union could strike one at a time, force them to settle because of the fear the other two big manufacturers would steal the market during the shut-down. Right now, Thomas tells his board mem bers, the auto companies have made enough money this year to permit them to produce nothing, stage a sit-down strike against the union and form a united front which may wreck the CIO's most volatile and powerful organization. U. S. Propaganda Machine Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton, WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT The British government, head in hands over the problem of why Britons don't have more babies, has decided to call on 1,500,000 married women and ask them frankly why they aren't producing enough children to keep the birthrate from declining. It's a safe bet they will discover that wom en have been sold short on motherhood by the modern notion that all women must follow a set pattern; that the only worth while course for a woman in these times is to devote herself to being as glamorous as the next woman. Today it is assumed by both men and women because they have been carefully sold on the theory that if a woman doesn't keep her looks and her figure and find time to be a companion to her husband he has every right to ditch her for a new model. There are no credits chalked up to a wom an for staying at home to have babies. The mother of four or six is much more likely today to be pitied or looked on with con Behind Scenes in Washington Br PETER EDSON. La Grande Erentag Observer Washington Correspondent (This article describing future railroading is carried today in place of a dispitch by Peter Edson.) By ROSELLEN CALLAHAN NEW YORK (NEAl There's something new and novel coming up for vacationers next year. It's a two-weeks' cross country house party that has all the features of an oceanic cruise except the w,atej Taking a tip from the successful pre-war ship cruise, travel agencies are planning similar land cruises aboard a crack, stream lined train equipped with every conceiv able comfort and means of diversion. Just as with cruise ships, the train will be used as a hotel at each stop, while the 300 or more travelers make motor sightsee ing side trips. A special night club-recreation car has been designed to keep travel ers amused vnroute. Divided into two parts, the forward half is an ultra-modern club car during the day and a supper club at night. The rear half is a '.eunge by day and a movie theater by n;j:ht. Cruise directors will see to it that there is never a dull moment There'll be ama teur night entertainim nts. dances, informal travelogues about piaces t.i be visited and introductions all aroun.i. The cruise will start from Chicago and make stops at Colorado Springs, Colo., the Indian Pueblo district, Santa Fe. N- M., and the Grand Canyon. A: L.'s Angeles and San Francisco, where there ii iv longer layovers, tourists will stay at a hotel. Then they'll continue on to Seattle. Vancouver. Portland and through the Canadian Rockies back to Chicago. Trips Offered Now The exact cost can't be estimated yet, but agencies say it will be in the neighborhood of $0U (or the two iveek tour. Nor is the founding father of an advertising agency and guiding spirit of Encyclopedia Britan nica,. has just about finished his plan for the first peacetime propaganda agency to be operated by the U. S. government. Pro fessor Harold Lasswell, is working with Ben ton to polish the rough draft before it is presented to Secretary of State Byrnes. Benton, who early learned how to get around obstacles, will propose to Byrnes that in view of the expected congressional opposition to anything smacking of "prop aganda," Bernard Baruch or Owen D. Young or some other elder statesman should pre sent the plan to the public. Benton is recommending, too, that Ihenew propaganda agency be planned to get along at first with only about 1,000 employes and a budget of from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000, Earlier plans hadi called for a budget of $00, 000,000 to $75,000,000, but in view of the present economy spirit of congress, Benton obseives, "If we aim too high now and ask too much, the whole thing may be mur-. dered." Close contact with the Associated Press, the United Press and other news agencies will be maintained in order, so far as pos sible, to pacify them. The plan does call for transmission by the state department of news from all government agencies, how ever. The field representatives of the new agency will be attached to U. S. embassies and le gations all over the world, with the top men to be designated as "ministers in charge of public affairs." These ministers would have on their staffs a cultural attache, a news chief and a library director, each with staffs of three lo five persons. Apparently Benton has already been in contact with the Russia-haters of the state department, for he has named "Germany, Austria, Trieste, the whole of the Balkans and eastern Europe" as "emergency areas" for extensive U. S. propaganda work. In con trast, he lists "southeast Asia, Japan, coast of China, Korea, Spain and Portugal" as "non-emergency areas." Regarding movies, Benton has proposed that, the state department "tell Hollywood what must be done about documentaries and the content of feature films; and if Hol lywood won't do il the state department way, then the government will get busy in some other way." He also calls for the ap pointment of "film attaches" in major film market areas, their job being to push the Hollywood feature films in competition with those of other countries. descension than admired. "Poor thing," is the way the the mother of more than the conventional one or two children is generally regarded. And as long as that is the accepted atti tude most women are going to follow the herd. They have pretty unselfish-sounding rea sons for limiting their families to one or Iwo. But the real reason they do so is fear. Fear that they'll be tied down. Fear that they'll lose their husbands' interest. Fear that while they are having and caring for babies the world will pass them by. It just isn't glamorous to be the mother of a large family and the majority of the feminie population has been so sold on glam or they are afraid to risk losing it. What they don't realize is that the kind of glamor they have been sold on fades with age whether a woman has six children or none. starting date set. for transportation is still far from normal and all planned tours de pend upon how soon additional carriers will be available. For ihose who want to take a trip now, however, the American Express has bcgLii a weekly tour through Virginia. Starting by train from New York ,it takes you to Bal timore, where you board a steamer for a trip down Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk. Go ing by motor coach from that point, they take you on a five-day tour of Virginia Beach. Williamsburg. Richmond. Luray Cav erns and the Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park. Along the way there are stops to see the Natural Bridge cut through rock: Ashlawn. the home of James Monroe: Thomas Jeffer son's home at Monticello, Charlottesville. Jamestown, the first settlement in the Amer ican colonies: and Yorktown, famous for the surrender of Cornwallis. Cost of the trip is expected to be lesis than $100. In the hope that travel will be fairly nor mal this winter, tourist bureaus are going ahead arranging southern tours. Featured is a 10-day trip to the deep south for about $130. Going by train from Chicago or New York to Meridian, Miss., travelers switch to buses for a tour through Mobile. Bel lir.grath Gardens and the Gulf Coast resort of Edgewater Park in Mississippi, then on to New Orleans for two days of sightseeing. Baton Rouge. Natchez and Vicksburg are visited on the way back to Meridian to board the train home. GO South. Too There'll be several other southerrf tours also. One will take you on a motor trip up and down both roasts of Florida with a week at Miami Beach. Thw's a U-day tiij) plan See BEHIND SCENES . . . Pat 4 Side Glances eon. ims tn mu service, inc. t. m. m& u. s. mt. of?. "Yep, the old victory, garden where I broke my back and ruined my disposition next year you'll see me flitting around there playing tennis!" t : e McKENNEY ON BRIDGE " By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America's Card Authority HEART JACK KEYS SUCCESS OF HAND There is nothing unusual about the bidding of today's hand, and. the opening lead is normal. Rath er than study all four hands too hearts. If West goes up with the king and leads back the jack, de clarer will play low, hoping that East has five hearts. Then East and West can win only two heart tricks and the king of clubs. The correct play is for West lo put the jack of hearts on the first trick. While declarer could make the same play, he will - almost certainly win the jack and take the club finesse. West will win with the king, lay down the king of hearts, East overtakes with the ace and runs off four heart tricks. O IN FORMER YEARS Thirty Years Ago ' " Oregon's Sunday closing law, passed in the '60s, and recently revived by a decision of, the su preme court which held' the law constitutional, was put into op eration in Union county yesterday by District Attorney Colon R. Eberhard and Sheriff August Hug, jointly. So far as known the order was obeyed strictly, but during the day there .developed conside'rifbre" feeling over the law which permits drug stores to sell cigars nnd confections compe tition with the merchants who specifically are ruled out of bus iness on the Sabbath. Fifteen Years Ago ;4 Representatives of Jackson, Malhuer, Baker and Union coun ties returned lo their homes to day after appearing before the state board of horticulture to dis cuss the economic .aspects of maintaining the o.uarantrne now preventing transportation of al falfa, haymeal, and se'eld from those counties. J Phil Metschan, republican can didate for governor, arrived in La Grande today and tomorrow at noon will be the speaker at a luncheon at the Sacajawea inn. A Q VQ98 AQ 103 J 10 7 4 7 8 3 2 KJ K054 K82 N W E S Dealer A 1054 V A 1084 2 9872 45 AKJ98 753 J AQ903 Duplicate Both vul. South West North East Pass Pass 1 Pass 2 A Pass 2 N. T. Pass 3 N. T. Pass Pass. Pass Opening V 4. 11 closely, let us look at the West hand and the dummy. Should West play the king or jack lead? West can tell from the bidding that in all probability East has no entry in his hand other than o BARBS By HAL COCHRAN The stone age, as we know it today, is about 20. And the big ger the stone, the better she likes it. The moderr! girl is wise, says a professor. No wonder she pas ses an examination 'every time she meets a man. A Cleveland couple, held up in their truck, handed over a bottle of milk and got away with their money. The surprise move likely had the robbers cowed. Ten Years Ago The ban is on now on slot ma chines and punchboards in Union county. The county grand jury, which concluded its session late yesterday, called in city and state police and county officers and conducted a n investigation of gambling- devices, and ordered the officers to stop the opera tion of slot machines and punch-boards. U. S.. 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