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4 Tin News-Review, Roieburg, Of . Thur., July 14, 1949 Published Dilly Except Sunday by the Newt-Review Company, Inc. Enlinl ir.nd elan mallar Majr 1, IMS. at aba Mil itflea Kaaabarg, Oracaa. aaatr ifll f March t, 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON ,5 EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor aaaPn Manager Member of the Aeeoolated Preae, Oregon Newspaper Publlthtrt Astoolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Circulations BapruantaS br WEST-HOLLIDAY' CO., INC., .lllcea I; Naw tark, Chlcaia. as Vranolaoa, Lai Antalaa, Saallla, Patlland. St. Lanla. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IB Oraran r Mall Par Taar al aMlkl 14. St. Ihraa month. IS. 10. Br Clljr Carrier Par rear I10.M In dnea), lai i than ana Taar, par manth 11.00. oulilda Oracan Br Mall Par jaar l00. ais monlha SOS. Uiraa rnanlha It.lft. ' The World of Tomorrow WHY MOLASSES? By CHARLES V. STANTON Discussing forest utilization problems in this column, we have frequently mentioned new and so far unused chemical processes. It is our opinion that the field of chemical utiliza tion offers the best opportunity to dispose of our wood waste through conversion into useful products because we would thereby avoid competition in existing markets. If we concen trate, on specialized manufacture as now practiced we add to the possibility of overstocking outlets. But the chemical field remains wide open. And in the chemical field we lean toward the molasses process rather than the related alcohol from-wood-waste project. One reason the Springfield alcohol plant has not fared well at the hands of Congress is found in resistance from agricul ture. the petroleum industry and distillers, who want no additional competition. Wheat producers fear that alcohol from wood waste, obtainable at less cost than from grain, would cut off one of their important outlets. Distillers, hav ing invested large sums of money in plants and equipment, obviously do not look with favor upon a plant capable of operating at less cost and thus able to undersell them on a competitive market. Alcohol from wood waste could be used as a fuel extender and thus reduce gasoline consumption. Because of the competitive position of alcohol from wood waste, political pressure has been brought upon Congress, influencing congressional resistance to completion and operation of the Springfield plant, constructed as a war emergency project. Facilities to convert wood into molasses, however, can be constructed at much less cost than alcohol plants. Further more, the product could be utilized exclusively in the Pacific Northwest. We wotild be manufacturing, from material now going up in smoke, a product we could feed to our livestock and poultry, thus adding dollars to both timber and agricul tural incomes without subtracting one whit from the natural resource. The molasses process is less apt to arouse resistance from the strongly entrenched industrial East than any other chemical utilization plan. People may wonder why private industry is not more interested in chemical utilization. The reasons are many. Chemical utilization is a new and largely unproven field. Relatively few men are sufficiently familiar with processes to install and manage plants. A con siderable amount of experimentation would be necessary. Our state and national tax structures, present wage levels, restrictions on profits, etc., do not encourage investment of risk capital in industrial pioneering. Some of the big companies are working toward full utiliza tion. Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell and others, with ample assets to support large scale experimentation, are constantly bring ing out new processes. But the smaller operator lacks capital and know-how to promote utilization methods. Experimental laboratories throughout the country have long lists of proven processes but private capital is not available for' actual pioneering. The foregoing reasons why private capital cannot be ex pected to sponsor utilization explain why we have urged federal participation. We do not want nationalization or so cialization of our timber industry. We do not want utilization plants as a part of a welfare state. But we feel that when one half of our timber is in the public domain, and, when ap proximately 75 percent of a resource belonging to the people is being wasted, it is the responsibility of Congress to more dutifully exercise its responsibility of stewardship by at least furnishing the processes through which waste can be partial ly halted. , . We would propose that the federal government furnish the Madison, Wisconsin, Forest Laboratories and Experiment Station with a revolving fund to be used in pioneering chemi cal utilization of wood waste through construction and operation of producing plants. The act should provide, we believe, that as a plant was built by this federal agency an accurate cost inventory be maintained and private industry would have the right at any time to step in and take over the facilities or the operation by paying the sum of money invested by the federal govern ment. The purchasing company, however, should be required to show financial responsibility and a plan to continue opera tion a protection which could be obtained by including a recovery clause in the act, making it possible for the federal government to take back the plant should the purchaser, within a specified number of years, cease operation. Recov ery should be optional but would be a device to prevent tak ing a utilization plant out of operation because of its com petitive position If we can once get national leadership to realize that the public domain should bo managed as a PARTNERSHIP with industry, rather than toyed with as a political football, it will be possible to create thousands upon thousands of new jobs, millions of dollars of new income, fuller utilization of natural resources, and stabilization of an industry which now has a history of economic highs and lows unequalled by almost any other industrial operation. m" m aaaaaaa TSSaaSjSSj SsfS " : By Vialmett S. Martins There were so many things to do that morning. But the rest of the day would go better for a half hour taken in clearing away some mental cobwebs acquired during a sleepless night. What I needed vould be there at the top of the upward way, as I call the trail climbing steeply to the west line. Oh the times I wished, In city-life days, that I might walk In the woods. Sometimes the "round trip" seems too much; then a walk along the lower level by the creek must do. But It is a Joy to go up while the mist still li rising, and look across the can yon it does something for one! Then to follow the zigzag path, cleared for me by KJ and a vis iting young sailor last year, down to the lower trail and back to the kitchen tasks again with a fresh ened outlook upon things. (Last year a handsome black and white setter accompanied me for several months on those walks. Even today I see him In memory, bounding lightly along, pausing at the turnoffs until I would point up, or down, and then tearing off again In another burst of speed, repeating the run two or three times as if a steep hill meant nothing to him! It was a joy to watch ' Victory's beautiful flowing leaps.) I had no idea on this particular morning that treasure would be there on the trail, something I had wished so many times I might see! On a brittle, broken branch was fastened a tiny "cup" fashioned of moss, flaked with lichen, lined with a white cottony lining that was perhaps milk weed? You would have known instantly, as I did, that It was the nest made by those precious "winged jewels'." with their long bills hummingbirds! Oh, If only they finished with the nest before the twig fell! It was an exquisite bit of work. I shall be so glad to share It with the school chil dren this fall! It seemed no time after that before I stood at the top of the trail . . . and in a half hour I was back In the kitchen, accom plishing the day's task with a happy heart, the richer for the Investment of time In the woods at the beginning of the day. Congress Sidelights By Harris Ellsworth Congressman, 4th District of Oregon Gift Parcel Racket- Is Discovered In Germany FRANKFURT, Germany. July 14 P American officials re ported Tuesday they have un covered a gift parcel racket In volving the shipment of huge quantities of goods from the United States to phony charitable groups In Germany. The United State army, three military government agencies and German customs officials have launched a drive to crack the racket. U. S. customs officials said coffee, clgarets, cocoa, choco late, nylons, drugs and cloth are being shipped to the U. S. occupa tion zone s gift parcels and then resold on the black market. Regu lations permit charitable groups to import bulk shipments duty free. No more than two weeks should be needed to complete the major items of legislative work neces sary before adjournment. The senate should act on the Atlan tic treaty, Congress should fin ish the appropriation bills, sev eral of which have not yet had senate action, and then we should adjourn. I suppose, however, the Ad ministration and administration leaders in Congress will insist on keeping the session going several weeks more hoping that some thing might be done to prop up the sad record of this Slst Con gress. If thev do It will be a fu tile and costly effort. In its first six months this Congress has passed only two laws which could be considered of outstanding importance. One was the bill to give the President powers for reorganization of the Executive departments. The other was the Housing bill. The previous (80th) Congress did an ama.Ing amount of good and constructive work. 1 said so In these letters at the time. I said It every lime I could during the campaign Inst fall. Unfortu nately louder and more impor tant voices than mine were ma ligning the NOth Congress. Now we have a chance, on the factual recort, to compare the job we did in the first six months with what our detainers have dime in the samp period. The New York Times, In an editorial printed July 6th. gives the best summary I havp seen, as follows: "That (eightieth. In fact, now looks like something of a cham pion. By this time in Ml, and at the end of Its own first 6 months of work. It had adopted the Greek-Turkish aid program; ratified peace treaties with Italy and the Axis satelltes; approved a constitutional amendment limit ing the ITesidencv to two terms; created the Hoover Commission on reorganization of the Govern ment; passed the Taft-Hartley Act and the portal-to portal pay law: and enacted i new tax law. Yes, this was a Republican Con gress, facing the difficulty of co operating successfully with a Democratic President." The good old days when West ern members of I he House of Representatives could make prompt reply by telegraph to ur gent inquiries or requests from constituents ended July 1 unless we pay most of the telegraph bill out of our own pockets. Form erly all telegrams sent by Mem bers on official business were paid for out of the legislative ap propriation. There was no limit except that messages be confined to official business. It seemed like a reasonable arrangement to me. We always had to pay for our own telephone calls and that was fair enough since with mail ing and telegraphing furnished we should tie able to pay for our own official phone conversations. What happened was that a bill was brought to the floor and passed one dull afternoon when most members were In commit tee or attending to office work. This bill provided for long dis tance telephone calls as well as telegrams but limited the total amount to $!S00 per vear. The result, so far as Pacific Coast members are concerned, was to limit our telegrams to three or tour I'KK WKfcK - and that s all! Our telegrams, due to the dis tance, average about $3 each. The government will save no money by this arrangement. Few Kastern members were using $500 worth of telegrams per year but having the privilege of tele phoning now, they will certainly use the full amount. The scheme was merely a redistribution of the communications cost with near by members gaining and members from a distance taking It on the chin. The Irony of the whole thing reached a climax when Time Magazine with Its us ual sarcasm toward Congress re ported that the House of Repre sentatlvrs had with "open handed generosltv" voted Itself an AD DITIONAL, SoOO for telephone cans: Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press FLYING DISCS EXPLAINED (Medford Mail Tribune) A keen-eyed ex-navy lieutenant commander and some 150 towns people of Longview, Wash., are ready to take oath they saw three flying discs swish across the skies there last Sunday morning. Moulton Taylor, he of the keen eyes, estimated height of the discs at 30,000 feet and their speed at 300 miles an hour. They had metal surfaces that gave off a reflection as they oscil lated, he claimed. According to news dispatches from Longview those who saw the flying objects were sure that they were not meteorological bal loons, stars or planes. And that caused us to - dig up a memorandum recently re ceived from "Borderland Sci ences Research Associates," of San Diego, Calif., which makes the whole flying disc problem as clear as a mud puddle in the Big Sticky. Cont rary to popular belief, con tends the B. S. R. A. memo, the flying objects are of very great importance; data in regard there to would already fill a fair-sized volume. No official or scientific explanation worth attention has so far been offered, and since misunderstanding of them may have serious consequences, the memo is submitted in the pub lic interest, say its authors. First off the B. S. R. A. sets our minds at rest as to where the discs do not come from. "They do not come from worlds Inhabited by 'dead' humans; they do not come from any level of the astral plane. But the region they come from is open tfor many persons) to astral obser vation. 'They are not the invention or property of any foreign pow er, nor of the United States. They do not come from any oth er planet and there Is no evi dence that the sky visitors have any hostile intent." Having reassured us to that extent, Borderland Sciences Re search Associates gets down to the real business of explaining the flying saucers with the blunt revelation that they come from "Etheria." Etheria, it is explained, is a place, a world, a material world, with objects and people and a great civilization and it lies all about us, though invisible and untouchable. . There is a spectrum of color, from red to violet, which might be called visible color, and, it Is pointed out, "there is also the infrared and the ultra-violet, which we do not normally see and which might be called in visible colors. If any object has Invisible colors we cannot see it. Then there Is the spectrum of sound a range of air vibra tions which we can hear, and then other vibrations far above and below these, which are not audible at all." By analogy, reasoning along this same line, there should be a soectrum of touch, also of tan gibility, says the memorandum. This, it is admitted, is harder to understand. "We do not detect the presence of air or gases by touch, though they consist of material particles. Also, they pass through many forms of dense matter, Just as do rays and radi ations and lines of ' force." All of these diffused forms of matter Illustrate, it is contended, how a material world can lie "above" the spectrum of touch, and that being agreed, the ques tion Is asked: "Can we infer that there is dense matter 'below' the spectrum also?" Etheria. concludes B. S. R. A., Is another world, all about us which we cannot normally see. hear or touch. Yet a material world, Inhabitated bv people with material bodies who resem- 1 Senate Committee Okayes Appropriations For Record Program Of Reclamation ' WASHINGTON. July 14 -1JP) The biggest reclamation pro gram yet has been approved by the Senate Appropriations Com mittee for the year which started July 1. But the committee which re ported a $590,685,911 Interior De partment money bill to the senate announced that it prun ed several controversial public power projects from the Reclama tion bureau plans. Gone from the bill as it was passed by the house were funds for the Central Valley "west side" transmission lines and steam plant, the Kerr-Anaconda Power Line in Montana, two power lines on the Colorado-Big Thompson project In Colorado, a power line and switchyards on the Ander son ranch dam project in Idaho, and several proposals of the Southwest Power Administration. Cutting deep into the power program advanced by the Inter ior Department through several of its agencies, the Committee indicated that, If private utilities will promise to do the job of delivering government power to preferred customers of the gov ernment, it is willing to give them the chance. In each instance, the Commit tee directed the Interior Depart ment to report to the House and Senate by Jan. 1, 1950, on pro gress made on negotiating con tracts with the private utilities for "wheeling" government pow er. Most of the interior department-marketed public power is produced at reclamation dams. But for reclamation generally, the committee was liberal in its recommendations. In the Day's Hews (Continued From Page One) world's troubles will keep on mul tiplying instead of diminishing. It voted to raise project con struction funds to . $331,734,739 from the $296,530,537 voted by the House. Following are the amounts vot ed by the committee for Pacific Northwest reclamation projects. House figures are shown in parenthesis. Columbia Basin. Wash., $70,- 034,390 ($59,075,000); Anderson ranch, Idaho, 51,300,014 ( 51,642,- 200); Boise Payette division, Ida ho, 52,725,000 (52.316,250) ; Lewis ton Orchards. Idaho, $270,000 ($229.5001; Minidoka project, surveys for preconstruction, $725,- 000 (samel; Palisades, Idaho, $205,000 ($174,250); Deschutes, Ore., $176,700 ($153,000); Des chutes Arnold Irrigation district, Ore., $38,000 ($32,300; Deschutes Ochoco dam. Ore., $1,150,000 ($977,500); Deschutes Grants Pass, $100,000 (House allowed nothing; Klamath, Ore.-Calif., $803,460 ($850,000) ; Yakima, Roza division, Wash., $413,205 ($382,462). Disapproved by the committee were $350,000 for the proposed extension of power lines to Orcas Island in Washington, and a re quest for funds to construct the Canby substation in Oregon. The committee said it had not approved $297,000 in cash and $85,000 in contract authority for the Ice Harbor power works pro vided in the house bill. SCREENS Screen Doors Screen Wire Window Screens PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 Bid On Federal Timber Exceeds Appraised Value SALEM, July 14 (.n urai uMAintr nn a tract of Federal Land Bureau timber in Benton . County resulted Monday in a price 40 per cent higher than the agency's appraisal. Rex Clemens. Philomath lum ber operator, bid $85,190 on the 5,420,000 feet offered. A. P. Col. lins. district forester, said the appraised value was $60,808. The oral sale here was a de parture from the previous sales conducted by bureau officials. The onlv other bidder on the tract was the Yew Creek Logging Co.. Corvallis. The two firms upped their offers 17 times be fore Clemens' final bid. His offer was based on $17.50 per thou sand feet for Douglas fir and $5.35 for hemlock. Drops Dead On Wishing He Would "If Guilty" NUERNBERG, Germany, July 14 (Jp) Frledrich Geyer, charg ed with being a major Nazi of fender, said in his appeal before the denazification court Monday: "May I drop dead if that charge is true." A few minutes later he fell dead in the courtroom. Doctors said he died of a stroke. The News-Review classified a bring best results. Phone 100. Phone 100 If you do not receive your News-Review by 6:15 P.M. oall Harold Mobley before 7 P.M. Phone TOO More freshness and flavor THE Philippines, Soutn Korea and what Is left of Nationalist China are proposing a i-acmc front against Communism to be brought about by means of a political and economic (but NOT military) alliance of the anti- Communist countries. Let's put it this way: Snnnose Chiane (who undoubt edly has great ability) could hold the island of Formosa and a part of the mainland of South China. Suppose he made this area an island of freedom and individual ODDortunitv In Asia. In the course of ume, word , of what was happening would seep out. It would be a powerful psychological influence. People all ! over Asia would say: "That must j be a good place to live. I want to go there." . . i THE trouble with Nationalist j China seems to be that there j has been too little of that sort of thing. Over the years, the com-: mon Chinaman (In Nationalist China) got the idea that he might be better off under Communism. than under government as pro vided by the Nationalist Kuomin tang party. That, more than anything else, explains the collapse of the Na tionalist government and the successes of the Chinese Comniu nists. ' OVER here, by way of fixing things up so that everything will be hotsy-totsy and nobody will ever have any more prob lems, we're talking about a new farm program under which con sumers will get lower prices and farmers will get more money. j The program, a Washington ; dispatch explains, "proposes that j many crops sell at what the mar ket will pay and then payments ! (to the farmer) would be made! In cash FROM THE TREASURY amounting to the difference be tween the average market price I of a crop and the government's established support price." j In other words, let the farmer sell for what he can get and let the government make up the dif- ference between that and what j he OUGHT TO GET. I BOY, how I'd like to run a ham burger stand on that basis! I'd sell hamburgers so cheap that everybody would buy from me, and all I'd have to do would be to send Uncle Sam a bill cover ing my losses and my expected profits. , . Buy it, try it tomorrow! Don't Mis the Savings On Chrome Dinette Sets 5-Piece Set "-Piece Set 5-Piece Set 3988 4988 5988 AND MANY OTHER , FREE DELIVERY -EASY TERMS 222 W. Oak Phone 348 ble ourselves In many wavs, and are in many ways our superiors. The Etherians have learned how to Increase the density of etheric matter so that the patterns mav be thought of as being filled in by atoms of our plane. Practically all the discs and Other nrafr caan In . . . -1 - mm ,,, mil aixit-s air experimental variants made by in.? cuimc people, wno are nev er tired of trvino nut nou, IHAD. or Improving the old ones. YOT , o. o. n. a. monesny disclaims thp AillHtV tn hmt'A an.. nr I.. .- ran. vi na contentions concerning the phe- uuiiit-iiu ur win u give any information thereon. ThOS U'hn flnrl tVia IT, V. explanation unacceptable are no Worsp nff than Knfnt-A onA i U ...... who do accept It, If any, at least nni- ptiinruung jnieresiing 10 think about. NEW METHOD OF KILLING Wild Blackberries Roses Poison Oak, etc. These weed nuisances are now, past. We are power equipped to eradicate these pests. CONSULT US AND PUT THAT USELESS LAND INTO PRODUCTION. July, August, and first port of September is the time for the killing. lack May Landscaping Co. 1350 Harrison St. Phone 4S2-J From where I sit ... 6y Joe MarsK Windy Sure ''Stopped The Show"! The other night a bunch of at were over at Judge Cunningham's watching a swell TandeTill pro gram on hit nw teltrisron set. It tame in fine, bat just once, the screen got a little ttreakj. Before the Judge' could touch the knob to bring it into focus, old Windy Taylor itarU fooling around with the antenna connection- "I can fix that!" he says. Windy tied it all riht Be "stopped the show" for as, and Ban Ellis had to come orer and do IM repair Job. I anderstand Windy feels so bad, that he's pay ing the bill and has apologised to the Judre for acting m smart. From where I sit, it pays practice a little restraint when erer we get the urge to meddle. Whether it's telerision or a per son's right to enjoy a temperate glass of sparkling beer now an then let's get a good clear "pic). ture" of the real situation beforle we cause more harm than good. Copyrifht, 1949. VnUei Ste$