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'Mr. Bohfen, Please Come Down to the t EDITORIAL PAGE LA' GRANDE OBSERVER Friday, October 9, 1959 "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher Grady Panncll, managing editor George Challis, advertising dir.ector Tom Humes, circulation manager What's Become Of Satire Newspapers, particularly on what passed for their editorial pnges fifty or so years aro, were noted for the satire Iwhich appeared in their columns. News paper satire, and that of majr;izin'R, was responsible for the fall of the in famous Tweed rinsr in New York City. It was a real part of the life of the day. For some reason or another, satire has largely disappeared from newspaper columns. The Webster in our office gives as one definition of satire: "Trenchant wit, irony or sarcasm, used for the purpose of exposing and discredit ing vice or folly." To a great extent this has disappeared from newspaper editorial pages. One departure from this general rule might have been a recent piece in this space suggesting the possibility of a strange alliance between Senator Morse and Governor Hatfield. Hut the best piece of this type writ ing1 we have seen in recent months came from the facile typewriter of Jim Welch of the Salem Capital-Journal Here it is: Call A Baby Sitter We view the latest request of the U. S. Forest Service with reservations. The federal foresters have asked Ore Charles Bohlen President Eisenhower has always had confidence in Charles. (Chip) Huhlcn, a career diplomat who has specialized in Russia. So when he was elected presi dent he nominated Bohlen for ambassa dor to Moscow. This was fine, except for one thing. Hohlen had been to the Yalta conference with FDH. In the opinion of many, including Sec. Dulles and Sen. Taft, that's where all of our post war troubles began. Hohlen's appointment was barely approved by the Senate and 'Of Shoes And Even before the cigarettes bacco get on the market, comes announce ment that coffee made without coffee will be available within a year or so. The former were hailed as-the ultimate test of whether the smoking habit is based on a yen for nicotine or just a desire to blow smoke and have something at hand to fiddle with. Hut don't let Time Of Year For Heart Thli Is the time of year when county health group the U.S. over point up the need of physical checks on your heart. The ticker may have been act ing up some, but the hustle and bustle of summer, vacation, back to school effort, etc., didn't How the time for what hould be periodic heart examination. In 1957, lt I pointed out, rheu Chart room ' N V - ' NEA Service, k gon deer hunters who take to the hillsides to kill more than deer. Kill porcupines, too. For the walking wire brushes con tinue to multiply despite all normal con trols pluls trapping. And they're making a mess of young trees in the pine country . by eating the bark off their trunks. This poses one problem: how to dis tinguish a porcupine. A deer, as every hunter knows, is about the size of a small cow or a big man hunched over. A deer also is about the size of a pony, or two small men bending over each other. So you shoot something I about that size. But a porcupine Is tiny, like a dog, a baby pig, a torn cat. When it's unexcited, it bristles no more than a wire-haired terrier. Porcupine hunters doubtless will shoot something about dog (pig or cat) size. Which isn't too bad. But small children are close to the same size, too. And since the Great American Hunter gets a bad case of glaucoma the moment he grabs his 30-30 , this can be pretty rough on next year's kindergarten class. Don't shoot until you ran feet the temperature of Its nose. If it's cold, it isn't little Alfie. Then move your hand back. If it needs a shave, shoot it. We're for more of this sort o thing, Keep it up, Welch. Returned From later Dulles moved him into "exile" in the Philippines. Now he's being brought back to the State Department to help again in our dealings with Russia. This time there'll be no yapping about Yalta. He's done penance for that. His knowledge of Russia and Russians is expected to lie invaluable to Eisenhower in his fu ture dealings with the Soviet Union at a summit conference or short of one. Ships And Sealing Wax'... without to matic heart disease took ahnnt 20.000 lives in this country. Even of more importance is the larger number of people disabled by rheu matic heart disease. This disease li one of the three most common couses of heart Ills. It is chiefly t disease of the young and Is preceded by fever which, in turn, is preceded by "strep" infection. "Exile" anyone tell us the ersatz coffee will determine whether the Coffee break has its roots in a yearning for caffein or merely a desire to get away from the office and visit. The mountain of evi dence on that subject includes milk cartons, soda pop Iwttles, fruit juice fans and other containers of liquids not having their origins in Hrazil. Checkup Symptoms of rheumatic fever may be joim 01 muscie pains. fever, fatigue, ahdnmlnal pains or rasn. nnrumauc lever may Involve any part of the body but not seriously- When it attacks the heart, however, it may dam age the valve or muscle and leave a Dermanem scar. Only doctor can diagnose this ailment nd It I not always easy. DREW PEARSON SAYS; Labor Had Reason To Reject Industry On Steel Wage Plan wamii.-(j1U. inough the steel industry's latest proposal to labor has been kept a strict se cret, it was telephoned from Pittsburgh to the White House over the weekend to indicate that industry was trying to cooperate with President Eisenhower in his demand for a settlement. The proposal was described to the White House by an industry spokesman as a 15-cent an hour package increase over a period of two years. But when White House experts an dthe Labor De partment finished analyzing it, one of Ike's aides remarked: "It's a lie." The proposal has been describ ed as the best kept secret of the year, but what it boils down to, briefly, is 2 per cent increase to labor for reach of the next two years. During the first year this 2 per cent increase would only apply to pensions' and insurance. During the second year it would apply to wages also. The administration's labor ex perts figured it might conceiv ably cost industry 15 cents over two years because of increased Social Security payments, etc. But analysis of the figures show ed that during the first year, steelworkers would actually re ceive three cents an hour less in wages than they are getting now. . The second year they would re ceive about seven cents more per hour in wages. Reason for the three-cent cut in wages during the first year is that pensions and insurance are paid on a 50 50 basis by both in dustry and the union. Therefore, if these are increased by 2 per cent, labor would have to con tribute its share of the increase E - - 1 '.4-i i ' EXPERT COUNSELING Lt. Oakley Summers of the La Grande Salvation Army talks to an unwed mother in an effort to help her solve some of her problems. Help ing unwed mothers is only part of the service rendered by the Salvation Army with the aid they receive from the United Fund. (Observer Photo) REMEMBER WHEN . . . 23 years ago. Four II Club Union County members picked up many ribbons at the state fair held at Salem. They included Clyde Kiddle, Jr., La Grande: June Conrad, Imblcr; and Eleanor Richards, Union. Jake Rostock was named deputy grand master for Union County by the Odd Fellows Lodve. His jurisdiction included La (irauie. Cove. Summerville, Elgin. Wallowa and Enterprise. Eastern Oregon Normal school registration was set at 2."4. a jump from the year before, according to II. K. lnlow. president. The U.S. Wheat crop was expect ed to hit 496.892.000 bushels Drought conditions were termed harmful. . . 15 years ago, Nazis told to surrender or die at Aachen as World War II progressed in taor of the Allies. I'nion was the first community in county to go over top in the War" Chest drive, with $1 ,t;.M ns quota subscribed. R. E. Richards. superintendent of the Agricultural Station at Union, chairniancd the drive. Major R. R. Carey, manager o( Bunting Tractor Company here, was promoted to the rank of lieu tenant colonel with the Army I'nci neers. his wife, Julie, learned. T-Sgt. Tim Melcalf. of la Grande. Oregon Nation. d Guard member, addressed the Lams luncheon meeting, describing Ins experiences in Australia He had served for four years in the Pa cific war theater. August Shiftless Month WASHINGTON 'UPP - More working time was lost from strikes in August than in any month since June. 1H."2 The Labor IVpartmcnt said Thursday the steel strike account ed for 80 per cent of the 13 mil lion man-days of idleness recorded in August. About 425 walkouts in volving 170.000 workers began in '.he month. or three cents an hour, were de These benefit funds pleted during the 1958 recession, so extra payments will be neces sary to bring them back into balance. Feether-Beddino Most important from the Vn ion's viewpoint, however, Is that in return for this somewhat com plicated wage hike, industry de manded an end to all local prac tices regarding coffee breaks, wash-up periods, and spell-shifts, which the industry lumps to gether under the label feather bedding. I'nion spokesmen point out that i he present contract gives the industry the right to do away with any job replaced by auto mation, but that the practice of ci ffee breaks, 10 minutes to take a shower before going home, etc., t.us grown up in each company over a long period of time and the men consider them more im portant than a wage increase. White House sentiment, hither to considered pro-industry, ap pears to have swung somewhat more over to labor in the past week. This may have been part ly because only four steel pres idents out of 12 answered Ike's invitation to come to Washing ton. Eight did not come. The change may also have been a po litical reaction to criticism that the President was favoring his eld friends, ex-Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, now head of National Steel, and George Allen and James Black of Republic Steel. At any rate, when conferring separately with steel and labor executives last week, the Presi dent seemed a little tougher with industry than with labor. Salvation Army In United Fund ( Editor's note The Observer, in Hie public Interest, is run ning a series of articles on the various local organizations which participate In the United Fund. Today's agency is the Salvation Army.) OBITS United Press International PARIS (UPD Harold Cal ender, 67, European economic correspondent for the New York Times, died Thursday of cancer in a Paris clinic. MONTCLAin. N.J. (LTD Richard De Lane Hudson, 60, a building expert who had served as a housing adviser in Chile with the International Cooperation Ad ministration, died Thursday. WILMINGTON, Del. (UPI) The Rev. Frederick T. Ashton. 75, rector of Christ Protestant Epis copal Church, Greenville, from 1919 to 1942. died Thursday. Soviets Do It Again MOSCOW I UPD Soviet sci entists have developed a glass microcrystalline material harder that steel, lighter than aluminum and capable of withstanding 1.000 degree ic 1.832 degree F.i tem peratures, the Tass news agency reported today. Tass said the new substance named "sitall" has "high mechan ical, thermal and electrical prop erties." It said it will be used for bnll-bearing manufacture, friction al components and fireproof walls. DOORS Fir, Mahogany and Birch AIX, SIZES LN STOCK cv. MILLER CABINET SHOP Greenwood and Jefferson Ex-President Cause U.S. EDITOR'S NOTE: In h fol lowing dispatch written for United Pr.it International, for mer President Herbert Hoover speaks out en the problem of juvenile delinquency. He recom mends, as one means of com batting It, formation of youth organizations, such at the Boys' Clubs of America, with which he has been associated more QUOTES FROM THE NEWS I'NITED NATIONS-Soviet Dep uty Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsoy criticizing doubts cast on the feasibil ty of Khrushchev s general and complete disarma ment plan: "We recall the old Russian pro verb: 'The mother-in-law remem bers her younger days and would not believe her daughter-in-law'." PITTSBURGH Steelworkers Union President David J. Mc Donald on the deadlocked steel negotiations: "The industry's position is not flexible. They remain adamant." PORTLAND. Ore. A hospital spokesman after the successful separation of Siamese twins: "They are breathing well, their color is good, and their general condition is stable." DENVER, Colo. Rajendra Singh, a member of India's par liament, on why alcoholism is not a great problem in India: "In India, a man who drinks is looked down on as being of an unsound mind." Participates Drive Here The problems of the unwed mother-to-be arc as old as the be ginning of time. Yet the problem is becoming more acute with eac passing year. She is faced with a multitude of questions such as, "Where shall I go.' Who can 1 talk to about my problem? What if I don't have enough money?" Practical help for these girls is given by The Salvation Army in Union County and around the world. The Salvation Army, an agency in the United Fund, has eight homes and hospitals located in the western states to serve the unmarried, expectant mother. Any girl, regardless of race, creed, or financial condition, receives ex pert counseling and care from the moment she comes to The Salva tion Army with her problem. The unwed mother is but one of thousands of individuals helped each year by the widespread pro gram of The Salvation Army. Lo cal and transient individuals are supplied with meals, lodging and clothing. Another service of The Salvation Army is emergency dis aster relief, as demonstrated by the local Corps this spring dur ing the two major fires which hit l.a Grande. The youth work o. The Salvation Army is very ac tive in La Grande with recrea tional and character building pro grains available to any young per son. THE DANMOORE HOTEL All Transient Guest. All those who come, return. Rates not high, trot low. Free Garage, TV' nd Ra dios'? We have a reputation for cleanliness. Children unde seven no charge 1217 SW Morrison Portland, Ore. Says Same Old Ills Juvenile Delinquency than IS ye.rt. By HERBERT HOOVER NEW YORK lTPI Twenty :une years ago, when assembling a White House conference on health ano problems of children and youth, I said: If we could have but one generation of properly born, tra ned. educated and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would a'lish. That was an ideal a long way from realization. But it was a great ideal. That conference re- matter of FACT When Samuel PepyJ (1633 1703) wrote his six-volume "Diary" he took no chance on its being lost He bad it care fully bound and willed it to Magdalene College, Cam bridge, England. Written be tween 1660 and 1669, the diary is now a valuable source for the history of the period.- It is also one of the (rankest and most amusing autobiographies in all literature. Q Encyclopedia Britannic NEWS CHUCKLES United Press International . HOT DEMONSTRATION FORT LAUDERDALE, , Fla. i UPI i S'gnals apparently got crossed Sunday when volunteer firemen gave a demonst-ation of how to fight fires. Twelve of them were overcome by the heat. FOOD FOR THOUGHT . ., FT. STEWART. Ga. UPI It's back to school for Army cooks here. Military mess stew ards are studying under chefs at Savannah in an eight-week train ing course "to improve the serv ice of food." NUDIST FILMS DULL LONDON (UPD High Anglican churchmen today urged a full in vestigation of horror movies, but suggested that a church warning was all that was needed on nudist films. Watching the nudist films "pro duces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible they can do harm," the clergymen said in the Anglican magazine Prism. WARDEN'S SUGGESTION? LONDON HPIi Prison offi cials said today they will put staff suggestion boxes in all of Britain s prisons. The suggestion boxes will be placed where pris oners can't get at them. WINNIE'S SHOP CONVERTED LONDON ilTD A British company announced today it plans to convert the London ci gar store which supplied Sir Win ston Churchill with his cigars in to a hamburger joint. TIMELY CHANGE FONTANA. Calif. (UPD City councilmen met Tuesday night to discuss off-street parking regula tions and to change the wording of a resolution which limited park ing to a period of "not longer than two years." THIS CHANGING WORLD LONDON UPI i Gilbert Bartholomew, managing director of a match firm, said Tuesday the swan trademark was being switch ed from the left to the right side of the label after 62 years. . "We felt it had become rather old-fashioned." he said LOVE LOSES OUT LONDON (UPI l - Stockbroker Ralph I.ayton has won a court order barring further telephone calls from a lovesick woman doc tor who called him 98 times dur ing the past year and sent Ijim expensive presents and countless cards. - . DIPLOMATIC DIPLOMAT - LONDON i UPI) Swiss am bassador Armin Dacniker was both diplomatic and honest Tues day when asked to comment on the forthcoming matches between Swiss and English football teams. "I don't know a great deal about football, hut I think the best teams will undoubtedly win." he said. "W hich a-e ti,e best teams?" lit. Emily Lumber Co. announces DIRECT HILL SALES of LOW GRADE 2x4's Minimum sales, 1500 ??2l. FORK LIFT LOADING " be picked up at La Grande, Oregon, or Joseph, Oregon, Plnrs. If interested, call La Crme, WO 3-3721. viewed the whole of the problems to be solved. It suggested reme dies for our ills. It issued a "chil dren's charter" which was circu lated to millions through the press and otherwise. $eme Problems Today Today another White House con ference is struggling with the same problems. The obstacles to the attainment of the ideals of 1930 are the same now as they were then. But the situtation has grown worse. In 1957 the number of teen-agers arrested for crime was 740.000. The causes are the same now as they were twenty-nine years ago; parental neglect: lack of re ligious training as the base of morals; and slum areas where the only outlets for kids are the pavements and where the grega rious instinct of youngsters leads to the forming of gangs which drift into crime. The basic solution twenty-nine years ago was, and is now, to organize prevention whatever the merits of punishment may be. The weeding out of the slums is helpful, but that does not cure the street problem. The creation, of playgrounds is also helpful, but playgrounds without organ-, ized sports and their systematic direction is not the whole answer. Despite these efforts teen-age crime is increasing. No Born Criminals Kids are not born criminals. But they are dynamos of energy, cu riosity and adventure. One aid to the solution of their problems, as I see it. is to create facilities by which their explosive energy has an alternative to the streets and pavements; a place where character building can overcome the failure of parents: where sportsmanship, second only to religious faith, is a teacher of morals and can be substituted for the gang. And don't blame par ents too much. They cannot keep the kids off the streets after school and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. There" are many character building institutions working in these fields. They have proved by innumerable statistics that they are an effective method of pre vention. But all of them lack suf ficient financial support. Cites Own Experiences I can cite some experiences in one of these organizations where I have taken a part for some twenty-five years. That is the Boys,' Clubs. These clubs, built in slum areas,' offer sports, games, recreation, fun and' comradeship; they give preliminary training in handi crafts, in the enjoyment of read ing and music and in methods of health all under skilled and sym pathetic guidance and direction. And these facilities are open that part of the day, every day. when the boys are out of school and until they should go to bed iu their own homes. , The astonishing growth of these clubs in the last quarter of a cen tury is proof that they are a con tribution to the solution of the problem. New Furniture FOR PRICES AS LOW AS YOU'LL PAY FOR Used Furniture! 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