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4 Th News-Review, Roteburg, Ore. Sot., Auf. 17, 1949 Published 0 illy Exocpt Sunday ry the Nwt-Kvi Compony, Inc. laterae aa htiiI alaaa nattar Mar I. lite, at tha aatt aftlaa SI taaaaara. Oragaa, aaaf aal af March t. MIS CHARLES V. STANTON p- IOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Mimbtr of the Aeeoclated Preee, Oregon Newepaper Publisher Aseoeletion, tht Audit Bureau ef Clroulatlone Saaraaastaa a araT-HOLI.in.v CO., IMC. erfiraa la Maw rare. Chleafa. taa Iraaaiaaa Laa Aasalaa. taallla. rarllaaa. it. Leala. taai KIPTION SArrSla Uiaiaa Mall Par at Mae. all naalki M M k ... ib. . m r-. . .... tia aa Ha a4aarai. Ifeaa aa raai, aar aaaala II aa Oaluae Oraaae ? Mall Pa raar (a a. Hi aaalaa II l IHraa naalka 11.71 WE DON'T NEED IT By CHARLES V. STANTON Hydroelectric power is advantageous as compared with atomic energy because of the fact the atom plants use up raw materials that are in limited supply and are irreplace able, while water may be used over and over again without diminishing the flow or reducing supply of any material resources. Such is the argument used by the East Oregonian, Pendle ton, In support of the proposed Columbia Valley authority. The East Oregonian is one of the few newspapers in Oregon supporting the CVA proposal. We can agree fully with the East Ortgonian's conclusion that hydroelectric power is preferable to other forms of energy requiring utilization of exhaustible resource More electrical energy is being produced through use of oil and coal than t.nrough water power in the United States, despite the fact that both oil and coal are becoming limited in supply. Why, therefore, should we not harness rivers and save the previous resources so vital to our economy but ' now being so recklessly expended? But, by way of disgression, we are not in accord with extremists In the hydroelectric field, who would harness all waters without thought of either fish and recreational re- sources. It is jusi. as impractical to waste recreational resources as to waste coal and oil. Nor can we agree with the East Oregonian' assumption that the only way to obtain development of the Columbia river's power potential is to surrender state rights and set up a communist-type political cell answerable only to itself and with unlimited power over the area and its people. If we adopted recommendations from the Hoover commis sion for consolidating and coordinating activities of federal agencies, while providing, at the same time, a method for cooperation from affected states, we could develop water resources without nn executive dictatorship over the nation's potentially richest empire. Says the East Oregonian: Tht prebltm la hew te maka uta ef what wa have and the aueetaa ef the TVA makae It logical to apply the aame a method to facilitate reaouroee development In thlo region. There le opposition but there alwaye la. The Hudion'a Bay company objeeted to the eettlement of the Oregon country and to the formation of a government. The company had so many hireling! that when the eettlera took their famoue vote at Champoeg those favoring American sovereignty won out by a margin of only one vote. The East Oregonian It would seem to us has its analogy in reverse. Just as the Hudson's Bay company virtually ruled Oregon and had its own way until a government was established, the executive branch of government is striving to set up a similar political corporation which would wipe out the government established at Champoeg and place the entire Pacific Northwest under dictatorial rule by a three-man commission, pledged to conform to the President's wishes, and with no control from congress. As to the matter of "hirelings," we are being flooded with them. Interior department officials are stumping the coun try arguing for CVA. Cabinet members have apparently been forced to give reluctant testimony favoring the pro posal. One prominent official, speaking at a Democratic convention In Portland, after having told his personal dis approval of CVA, pulled out a speech, evidently prepared for him, in which he spoke vigorously in favor of the project. ' High officials heve spoken against permitting the people of the affected area the right to vote on the issue, but "hearings," where testimony may be directed and controlled, are suggested. Suppressive activities by CVA proponents should be enough to convince any neutral ohserver that the proposal is not entirely on "the up-and-up." - CVA supporters make much use of arguments in which TVA is presented as a bright and shining example. TVA was imposed upon a section of the country in which living standards were extremely low and where land productivity had been exhausted by one-crop farming. Conditions couldn't have been made worse. Almost any change had to be in the nature of improvement. But here in the Pacific Northwest we have standards of living comparable with the best in the country. Wages are higher than in any other section of comparable siie. The rate of population growth is highest in the nation. Industrial and business expansion is unequalled elsewhere. We seem to be doing quite well without placing our Em pire under the control of an absolute dictatorship. The Awkward Squad BKSIORAISTO JJSZ LINE iANP KEEP Zjl y mtmm American Legion Forecasts Its Record "Show" PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 271.11 Delegates to the 31st national American Legion convention be gan streaming into Philadelphia today with many apparently in tent oh naming a world war two veteran aa their new command er. As the city gradually took on a holiday atmosphere, two veterans ol the last war plunged into the business of meeting delegates and lining up support. They are George N. Craig, Brazil, Ind., attorney, and Earl Cooke. farmer and railroad man, ol Dawson, Ga. A third candidate Is expected to establish campaign headquar ters by tonight James F. Green, Omaha, Neb., attorney. Election of one of those three would mark the first time top control of the Legion nassed out of the hands of World War One veterans. Legion spokesmen have Indi cated they believe the race will narrow down to a three-way scrap between Craig, Cocke and Green. But while the $15,00O-a-year Job is of Intense interest to every legionnaire the big show, as far as the public is concerned, will be Tuesday'! parade of 18,000 marchers. Legion officials say It will be the biggest and showiest ever nut on. One official said cos tumes, musical instruments and equipment for the 15-hour parade are valued at $5,000,000. He add ed that the national champion ship hand from Joliet. 111., is bringing uniforms and instru ments worth about $65,000 alone. M$$M Rv Viahnett S. Martin Jfj In the Day's News (Continued From r'age One) I should have known better. That particular Scrap, a tribute to ex-President Hoover for Aug. 10, was In a stamped addressed envelope. But did I mall It? No! I'd be passing right by well, within two or three blocks, any way, of The News-Review: "I'll be only a minute," I assured EJ, who views with frank sus picion any minute concerned with a newspaper plant or a library, and in I went. Oh-oh! The very air was charged with urgency, that at mosphere which comes each day at a certain hour, If it be a daily, and each week, If It be a weekly, in a newspaper office. The desk of the one to whom I gave the envelope, was neatly covered with "takes" (half sheets of newsprint, typed, with wide margins; they let me use a whole ' sheet and never said a word, I audibly, If I crowd the margins) j somewhat the way a quilter might spread out her cut squares to get the effect. It was no time ! to breeze In there! But I was received graciously ' with a smile, a friendly hand clasp, and a wave towards the I desk: He was very busy, he was sorry, he hoped I'd have a pleas ant trip. ... It seemed a good Idea to get on with the trip at the earliest moment possible. So I stood not on the order of my going I Just went, thereby as. tolshlng EJ, who hadn't expected to see me "for another half-hour at least. I know what your 'min utes' are!" When August tenth came I was a hit surprised to find that In stead of a tribute to Mr. Hoover's great work In the Hoover com mission and so on, there was a Scrap all about sliding down hill on a piece of waxed linoleum, as per Snnset magazine suggestion. There was nothing about Mr. Hoover the next day, either . . . but I should like to repeat a sug gestion In that lost Scrap. In addition to all the wordage bestowed upon Mr. Hoover, let'i bestow something concrete upon him: Namely, let's ask our con gressmen and senators and any body else (no matter which party we happen to favor) to RE STORE to a pic of concrete out In the desert its original name: Not "Boulder Dam" but HOOVER DAM. Why not? Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Truman May Stump For Demo Candidates In 1950 WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-(.P President Truman said Thursday he may stump for Democratic candidates next year. At the same time he acknowl edged with a smile that he had Intentionally Implied earlier in the day that he would not seek reelection In 1952. The President was asked at a news conference about a shoi I speech In which ho said he could not promise any apoolritments five veara from now. Talking to a group of teen age girls who called at the White House, Mr. Truman said the rev ton was "because that is a year or two beyond the time when my term wlll'expire." At the conference a reporter observed that Implied Mr. Tru man would not be a candidate in 1952. Smiling, the President said that was the Implication Intended. However, he refused to sav flatly that he would not seek re election. He did say that next year he may make a personal campaign In behalf of I he Democratic can didates for Congress, That's a possibility, he told the correspondents. TUNA PRICE UPPEO NEWPORT, tire., Aug. 27.-.P The price of tuna was up to JVW0 a tun here today, but etches were slim with the fleet scatter ed from California to Washington. Silver salmon price were down to 15 cents a pound with catrhee also light. Landings were averaging 100 pounds a boat. NO SHOTGUN IN THIS PLAN (The Bend Bulletin) A friend wrote us recently say ing. "1 know of no other broad current subject being discussed by so many people with such lim ited knowledge of the essential and basic facts as are currently discussing the CVA Issue!" We are in hearty agreement with our friend's thinking and so must all he who have been In touch trom the beginning with the develop ment of western water resource planning and the promotion of the authority idea. It Is this limited knowledge and the quite free expressiun of Ideas and argument based on it that make discussion of the CVA is sue difficult. One first faces the necessity of setting out the facts so that ihere may he a firm foun dation for discussion. And It seems to us that few, if any. of CVA'e proponents are Interested In getting the facts. There Is. for Instance, the fre quently repeated assertion that Portland Interests, the chamber of commerce ..nd the power com panies, opposed the Bonneville development. Nothing could rve further from the fact but the charge is made and then conclu sions regarding CVA opposition drawn from the false assumption. There are assertions regarding the reKinsihiiity to congress of the CVA hoard under the terms of the pending, hills. The makers, ouile obviously, have failed to study the hills with care and many words are necessary to point out the error and the actual meaning of what the bills pro pose. One such evidence of misinfor mation and misunderstanding frequently observed in pro-CVA argument Is the assertion that the Pick Sloan plan was devised to defeat a proposed Missouri val ley authority. There happens to be an engineer corps reclamation burea.i or Pick-Straus plan tor the Columbia. It is likened to Pick-Sloan and said to have been developed as a mean of defeat ing a CVA tust as. it is mis takenly charged. Pick-Sloan w put together to defeat an MVA. It Is not the fact as recently as serted by one of our editor!! friends, that Pick Sioan was "laid before Congress to head off a Missouri Valley authority. Here are the facts. Back in 19-14 the bureau and the corps, each operating unoer a different law, for different pur poses and wilh virtually no sta'e participating in the planning of either agency, were studying the uses and the management of the waters of the Missouri. Conflict ing reports were made to the con gress, there were exhaustive hearings and finally the two agencies had their reports re turned with a request that their lield representatives (Pick and Sloan! revise and coordinate their pinposals Into an overall valley-wide development plan. This was done. The revised plan, with a few exceptions, was lav orahly rejKirted to the congress, approved by II. signed by the President and thus became the authorized plan lor the develop ment of the Missouri basin. Out of this object lesson grew the promotion of the O Mahonev Millican amendments to the 1941 flood control hill and their adop tion as what has been railed the "water bill of rights." These pro vided, among other things, that thereafter when a federal agen cy undertook the .studv of a stream basin it should cooperate with other agencies having inter ests in the basin and. as well, with the governors of the inter ested states. Next came the creation of th federal interagency committee In Washington and like commit tivs for the Missouri and the Columbia. State representatives are invited to serve on the latter and In the Missouri basin the plan has worked well. If it has been less successful on the Co lumbia the non-ctK(Hrative atti tude of tiovernor Wallgren of Washington and the Bonneville di-sue to dominate the river have the bureau studies of the Colum bia and those made bv the engi neers, the latter at the direction of the congress, have been com pleted, examined by the state au thorities and are now coordinat ed in the Pick-Straus agreement. CHARGE to keep the public from abusing the free-for-all medical scheme." a a a TURNING the chip over, we find this bug under it: Britain is in a bad way finan cially. She has been spending far more than she can afford. So have we, for that matter, but our resources are greater and we can go on LONGER mortgaging the house to pay the grocery bill. All the signs Indicate that a show down on Britain's finances may be approaching. 1 Among other things, the price of British bonds has been falling.) Add this fact: Some tw o weeks hence, the big shots of the British government will come to Washington to see If they can't wangle some more dol lars from us to keep their econ omy going. a e HERE Is what COL'LD be in the wind: The present British government ("administration" It our term most nearly correspending to It) may realize that trouble Is ap proaching on horeback. It may have a premonition that Wash ington might balk at putting up enough more dollars to keep the British system going Indefi nitely. In such an event, the card house of British finance would come tumbling down and when drastic, terrible things like that happen THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENS Is likely to be I the throw ing out of the existing government and the putting In of a new government. In this case, that would amount to throwing out the Labor party and putting in the Conservative party at the British election which must occur In about a year. ro- I J The present British govern i ment may have In mind a very old and usually quite effective po litical dodge. It may be planning to say to the British voters: "Our troubles are due entirely to the wicked and parsimonious United States, which will no longer put up the money to keep us solvent. Because of this miserly policy on the part of the U. S. you may have to give up your free medical services (including monocles and toupees for those who want such things.) "We, your loyal and devoted servant;., have done and are doing our best to prevent such a calam ity, but we are helptess In the face of the American skinflints who will no longer come to our aid." a a a THAT, you see. could turn the wrath of the British people AWAY from whatever shortcom ings there may have been In the present British government and toward the Americans, who are no longer willing to shower dow n. It would make the present Brit ish government the under-dog In a contest with powerful America. Theie has been no CVA shotgun in the picture. The Pick-Sloan plan was not worked out as a means of defeat ing an MVA proposal. Th Pick Straus plan has not been devel oped because of any CVA threat. Roseburg Auto Dealer Fined, Given Probation TACOMA. Aug. 27.-P Roy F. Smith, Roseburg. Ore., auto mobile dealer, was fined $750 and placed on probation for two years here today when he pleaded guilty to using forged War Assets administration certificates. Smith's defense counsel said the dealer had obtained the cer tificates from "a dishonest em ployee of the WAA for $50." Child' Trapped Arm Is Unscrewed From Pipe rum V n Alio 27.- -m, . .,lnil VaII nlam went round and round last night be fore Fargo firemen got hit arm free from a fuel oil Intake pipe. The child was playing outside his parents' home when he stuck the arm Into the hole, right up lo the elbow. To avoid injuring Neil, the firemen five of them picked the boy up and varefully circulat ed him while the pipe threads un- screwed. Then he was taken to a hospital where, with the aid of plenty of grease, the pipe was removed. Neil? Unharmed. The firemen? Just tweaty. Red Cross Aids At Fairgrounds During the Douglas county fair, a uniformed Red Cross volunteer will be on duty at the Veterans Administration booth. Mrs. T. W. Suckling, Red Cross production chairman and staff aide, was on duty the opening day. A first aid booth, manned by experienced Red Cross volunteers, is being maintained by the local chapter at the south end of the grandstand during the ten-day racing program. Dirt and sawdust has been re moved from the eyes of several persons, and numerous cuts, sprains and bruises have been cared for by the volunteer work ers on duty. John Zenor, Red Cross first aid chairman, reports that in addition to himself, the following qualified men have been on duty: Bob Harvie, Clarence Rand, Clair Pettit, Earl Henbest, J. A. Stras burg and Rav Hampton. Dr. B. R. Shoemaker, track physician, provides the necessary medical supervision. Couple Found Slain; Child Sits On Mother's Body INDEPENDENCE. Ore., Aug. 27 1 Police found a two-year-old girl titling on her slain moth er'! body In a wood3hed Friday. j Nearby wat her father't body, sprawled near a .410 gauge shot gun. Police Chief Ray Howard said the couple were Cpl. and Mrs. J. D. Hildreth. Hildreth. who re cently re-enlittcd In the army, had just returned from hit sta tion at Camp Hood, Texas. Howard said that earlv Friday afternoon Ellis Stone, 12-ye.ir-oid brother of Mrs. Hildreth, phoned and said the corporal had "point ed a gun" at him. Howard said he drove Imme diately to the John Penrose home, where Mrs. Hildreth wat living while her husband wat in Texas, and found the little girl and the bodies of her parents. He said it appeared to be a mur der and a suicide. No motive wat immediately apparent, he added. The city of Babylon possibly at early as 3,000 B. C. wat a market place to which metals, wool and giain were brought. Texas leads the nation In pro ducing spinach for fresh-market sale. American steel mills produced .500.000 tons of ingot tteel In 19-18. The figure on finished tteel was almost 66,000.000 tons. Phone 100 If you de net receive yeur News-Review by 6:1S P.M. call Harold Mobley befere 7 P.M. Phone 100 and the British have the same In stinctive sympathy for the under dog that we have. In a campaign revolving around such Issues, it would not be Improbable that the present government would win a vote of confidence from the Brit ish people. I'm not asserting that this IS the situation, because I don't know. But It could be. At any rate, It will be worth watching. I Bank With . A Douglas County Institution Home Owned Home Operated a Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Douglas County State Bank . ' Se - . ' 5 S f'J x- i W, " i " .' ,'f ' m i i t. .'' ' Pottery in the modern mood The present ever-increoting hunger for simple, pleasing shapes has led pottery designers into a search for utility, the golden standard. Modernistic pottery is designed for informal living ond entertaining. Like nothing else it can lend coiorful informality to an outdoor patio dinner and to indoor winter entertaining os well. The "Bantu" pottery designed by Esther Warner, authoress of Literary Guild book "New Song in A Strange Land" is a fine example of this utili tarian approach to dinnerware. Every shape has a component example in nature. The lustre os well as the shope is soft ond pleasing to the eye. The colors ore like all outdoors in "Thatch," "Guinea Gold" and "Cola Brown." The best feature of this pottery however, is its usefulness. The cups fit smoothly ond naturally to the hand. The coffee server lid cannot come off while pouring. Salt cellars need not be turned upside down and shaken to produce salt. Every piece has been carefully designed to grow in your esteem with use. Shown in the photo above is "Bantu" pattern in Denwor Ceramics in the three colors. Cost is 4 50 per 5 piece place set. Also shown is the "Empress" pattern in dirilyte (12 20 per place setting) ond Imperial's "Con tinentol" gloss pattern (13 20 doien). Knudtson's are so proud of this new pottery they want everyone to come in ond see it. Accept our invitation, won't you? Across from Douglas County State Bank JEWELER QtfwS