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No Commissars Needed
By Charles V-Stanton
:The Columbia Valley administration issue is again at
tracting much attention. Fear is expressed that emergency
powers granted the President may permit creation of valley
authorities without congressional action. At the same time,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Gerard Davidson, valley
authority "evangelist," has again started "revival" meetings
through which he hopes to make "converts", for the cause.
We anticipate the administration will lose no oppor
tunity to make political hay, given the slightest excuse.
If the door is opened whereby CVA can be set up under
the guise of military necessity, we will not'be surprised
if and when the attempt is made.
If the Pacific Northwest
of a three-man dictatorship, which will destroy state bound'
arics, supersede state and county governments and bend
political subdivisions to its will through powers of financial
control, we win need eternal vigilance and determination.
Once a CVA is established, with the unlimited nowers nro-
posed for it, and with the offset benefits clause enabling
it to aid its friends financially and punish its enemies,
any opposition win nave tough sledding.
Self-Government Imperiled
In this connection we were greatly impressed by a
warning by Robert Ormand Case, writing in the first issue
of the new Oregon magazine Republican Statesman.
After recounting abandonment of constitutional nrin-
ciples of government and the safeguards of checks and
balances, Case points out that the fundamental theory of
the American system of government is that an enlightened
electorate is capable of passing judgment, either directly
or through its elected representatives, upon every question
relating to the public interest.
; Then. he adds . - ?
Vex popull, vox Dol "The vole of lh people It the voice
of God." Thlt truism meant that tho majority will of an en
.lightened citiitnry, expressed without ear in a secret ballot,
must always ba th final yardstick in the measurement of "the
public interest," just at the Anglo-Saxon jury system the con
sidered verdict of "twelve good men and true" represents
mankind's closest approximation of abstract justice.'
Th fundamental theory means, simply, that the people
must never relinquish their control of government, either di
rect or through their elected representatives; and no plea of
expediency In "th public interest" short of war Itself must
ba permitted to obscure or abridge that fundamental right of
control.
More specifically, th authority to nuke laws and Issu
directives must never be delegated to individuals or-commit-
tiont (as In the federal corporation or "valley authority" pat
tarn) unless direct control it retained by representatives of
th people.
Regardless of how it mey be camouflaged or rettoneliied, '
the moment authority to.' make lawt It delegated, at that mo
ment th vary batit of self-government It imperiled. To the -extent
that the Individual empowered to make lawt It ap
pointed by and responsible lo the President rather than the
representatives of the people, to that extent the constitution
has been bypassed end a fundemental right of th people
bridged or destroyed.
Must Protect Freedoms
No emergency ever-can exist that will justify the sur
render of American principles of free enterprise, personal
liberty, state rights and self-government. Yet, while we
fight dictatorship and authoritarianism abroad, we are apt,
if we are not careful, to sanction the imposition of those
vnrv controls unon ourselves.
In the midst of 'war we
over our own freedoms. We might easily be persuaded that
the1 war effort requires a coordination of activities obtain
able only by regional authority. Keened to sacrifice, we
might not realize the danger involved.
Did any section of the country surpass the Pacific
Northwest' in contributions to production efforts in the
last war? .Were the resources of any area more advan
tageously used than our own under our free enterprise
system? Were the human resources of the Pacific North
west less effective than in other parts of the country? Did
our industrial record suffer by comparison with any other
industrial center?
'Honest answers will reveal that the Pacific Northwest
was in the forefront of the last war. Its 41st division was
one of history's finest combat organizations. Our percentage
of volunteers was the highest in the nation. We bought
a hisrln"' 'nTnt",e of 'ir bonds. We produced goods,
ships, planes, lumber and industrial materials on as high
a level as iuunu anywhere.
We need, no political commissars to guide our production
if we must again mobilize for war.
In The Day's News
By FRANK
(Continued trum pace One)
ourselves and our dependents. IT
IS A LUSCIOUS AND LIVELY
LIFE from the slnnrlnnint p' ,h
congressman, the senators and the
bureaucrats.
They want lo slay there.
To stay there, they have to get
re-elected.
You've probably watched an old
buck out in the hills. He's wily.
Ho's smart. He's full to strata
gems. Why?
BECAUSE
STAY ALIVE
HE WANTS TO
Your congressman and your
senators arc the same way. They
want to stay elected. They want
lo stay elected as much as the
old buck wants to stay alive. The
way to stay elected is lo gel voles.
Your congressman and your sen
ators soon become as sensitive tn
votes as the old buck is to dnTr.
They smell -
old buck smells DANGERS up
wind. ;
When congressmen and sciwlors
begin to get letters from their
constituents calllnp for laws in
FREEZE PRICES, you can bet
your bottom dollars they'll wl
not on price control and rationing.
Ore. Mon, Aug. 21, 150
rr year sio.twi 'in aavanr',
Uraraa B Hall Par tame t.oo.
is to be spared establishment
are prone to relax vigilance
JENKINS.
Anyway, a flood of letters from
the folks bark home seems lo ex
plain the sudden popularity of
price control ond rationing back
in Washington.
Bl'T
And don't forget this
Your congrcssmn.. and your sen
ators are as sensitive to things
they think you MlCiHT NOT LIKE
as thrv are to things THEY
THINK YOU 00 LIKE, ""hey know
you didn't like rationing before,
after you'd hod lime lo give it
a good try, and they're afraid
you may not like it again. That
thought worries them.
The little man from Missouri,
who is a first class politician and
therefore as sensitive to political
dangers as a (ieiger counter is to
radioactivity, knows prohnblv bet
ter than anybody else that there
is DANGER in this prire control
business. That is why he is so
cagey about it. Bring cagey, he
has maneuvered congress (which
doesn't seem to he loo smart) into
the position of having FORCED
WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS
AND RATIONING onto the Presi
dent. So, when price controls and ra
tioning BACKFIRE, as they prob
ably wilK the President ill he
able tn say: "Don't blame ME,
congress MADE me do It."
The Jolly Game
7feARS
, AGO
mm
By Vw
Last night the amoke lay low
and flattened below a thin sliver
of the new moon. But this morning
hopes for rain were dashed by
the sight of the usual coppery
cables spun confidently in the dry
air as wise little engineers spun
their webs. I can see one cable
near the window, from tree
branch to bush, that is all of
twenty feet long. Wonderful little
creatures, spiders! 1 used tn tench
our children that they were busy
workers not liking interference:
"If you don't hate them, and don't
interfere with them, they'll never
bother you." This idea "paid off"
in two instances where poisonous
spiders were concerned. One of
my earliest memories is ah Eng
lish garden with high brick walls,
and a dear dad squatting on his
heels to be at my level of vision,
"explaining" the wonders of na
ture. .
Inever feel I have really seen
a flower, or tiny living things
around, until I have looked at it
through a reading glass. But now
adays as I look, sometimes two
small heads bob below my eyes
and I am seeing two small boys
all agog with the wonders to be
viewed for free. : . How grateful
wa may be for memories! The
kindergarten teacher welcomed
many of the boys' discoveries
which went lo school in pickle
jars or in boxes.
Have you ever watched a spider
truss up a fly and stow it away
for future use? Have you ever
really watched an ant drag a bit
of plunder off to its treasure
house, and noted the extraordin
ary methods the tiny thing uses
to accomplish its obective? If
you ever tuned an ant by figuring
the number offeet it covers in a
minute, its speed will amaze you,
as it did me. I still remember
T
King Salmon Set New
Record In Long Swim
JUNEAU, Alaska -4JP) Two
king salmon tagged by the Alaska
fisheries department finned tn a
new world record when they swam
1,100 miles in 37 days from Cape
Spencer near here lo St. Helens,
Ore.
Department records showed the
salmon were taken in a gillnet
Aug. 3 by E. L. Browning. The
salmon grew three inches during
the long swim.
The salmon were tagged by Ko-
Dcrt rt. Parker, who also num
bered the previous litleholder,
which swam 1.000 miles from
northwest Washington and up the
Sacramento river.
July Home Building Best
Month In U.S. History
WASHINGTON - P) -The
government reported today that
July was the best home building'
month In history.
The bureau of labor statistics
said tentative figures show 144,000
new non-farm dwelling units were
started in July to bring the total
for the first seven months of the
year to almost 803,000.
By the end of July, the agency
reported, new housing activity was
M per cent above the volume from
January through July last year.
GIs' Japanese Families
Given U.S. Entry Right
WASHINGTON (.P) Pres
ident Truman has signed into law
a bill to permit 760 Japanese wives
and children of American service
men lo enter this country from
Japan.
The measure would permit the
entry only of alien wives of Amer
ican citizens, otherwise barred by
rare barriers, to enter this cotintrv
if they were married 90 days be-1
fore Congress passed the bill. 1
J Wit.
-low ' "N . Vf y
wtCoovfl&H we abb f JsC
Bewa imficppaTeo b g J
I The Reps .'Quick! Give 3 Zs
' IWeEKND OF AWEARY- I yf g-"
Of Smoking Out The
lite A-'ffSffi", isJ&
l.roW
linen s.-Martini
watching7 an ant with
broken cherrypit on a
a bit of
hot dry
station platform.
Incidentally 1 happened to be
feeling burdened with a personal
problem, heavy of heart. But
watching that valiant ant achieve
its mission, surmounting the
mountains in its path without de
lay, without any lack of confi
dence, and apparently wasting no
time in self-pity, shamed me into
thinking my own problem was a
small matter indeed. I had more
to help me than that ant had, and
certainly I also possessed the qual
ities the ant had been demon
strating. All I had to do was USE
them I
New York Will Continue
Its Rainntaking Business
NEW YORK () New York
City is going to stay in the rain
making business for another six
months.
The board of estimate has ex
tended the contract of Dr. Wal
lace E. Howell, the Harvard me
teorologist it hired to "milk the
clouds" last spring when a
drought imperilled the city water
supply.
Water department officials re
ported rainfall has been six per
cent above normal in the Catskill
mountains watershed area where
Howell has been trying to make
rain-clouds turn into rain by treat
ing them with chemicals from
above and below.
Howell gets J100 for every day
he works.
Store Supervisor Aide
Named By Liquor Board
Appointment of Elmer H. Pauly
as assistant store supervisor in
charge of southwestern Oregon li
quor stores and agencies was an
nounced this week by William H.
Hammond, administrator of t h e
Oregon Liquor Control commis
sion. Pauly's territory includes Rose
burg, Albany, Coos Bay, North
Bend. Grants Pass, Springfield,
Eugene and all agencies In south
western Oregon.
Employed by the commission
since August. 1941, Pauly has been
Eugene store manager and was
appointed to his new position fol
lowing competitive examination.
He succeeds John Walker of Eu
gene, who resigned this month
after a 14-year association with
the commission.
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Communists
Battle Against
T-H Law Kept Up
By Printers Union
WASHINGTON IIP) The
AFL Printers union today declared
a continuing all-out fight against
the Taft-Hartley labor law ana its
chief enforcing officer, Robert N.
Denham.
Woodruff Randolph, president of
the International Typographical
union, outlined the no-retreat pol
icy for the opening session of the
ITU s 92nd annual convention.
President Truman, unable to
attend in person, sent a message
to delegates pledging anew his
aim of seeking Taft-Hartley law
repeal.
The ITU was the first big union
to run afoul of the labor law u
1947. Its leaders have been feud
ing ever since with Denram, who
is general counsel of the National
Labor Relations board.
' In general, the trouble stems
from ITU efforts to cling to the
union's traditional closed shop in
commercial print shops and news
paper composing rooms. The Taft
Hartley law barred the closed shop
an arrangement under which
only union members may be hired.
But the union has made con
tracts even under the act in effect
retaining an all-union hiring ar
rangement. Randolph said in a statement
prepared for the convention open
ing that a "shameless and brazen
combination continues, with its ac
tivity unabated." between Denham
and employer associations.
Randolph said ."The constant
harping of the American News
paper Publichers association ap
pears to have induced the NLRB
itself to give Denham a new op
portunity to wage his destructive
war against the union.
Union Policy Unchanged
Randolph recalled the board has
directed Denham to seek a court
order to enforce a board decision
requiring the ITU to drop any
efforts to obtain a closed shop
agreement.
"That means Denham will try
to get court approval and enforce
ment of his phony interpretations
of the law instead of the board's
decision." Randolph said.
Randolph said he saw no reason
for changing the union's policy,
adopted in 1947, not to use the
Taft-Hartley law. That includes re
fusal lo file non-Communist affi
davits which are required of union
officers as a condition to a union's
using facilities of the NLRB.
"The ITU neither needs nor
wants any part of the Taft-Hartley
law." Randolph said. "Such por
tions of the law as affect us have
been complied with in every de
tail. We have not changed any
union law (by-law) which has been
Transportation
Agricuftura
Country's Industrial Picture
Clouded By Current Strikes,
Threats Of Additional Ones
BT TH ASSOCIATED MISS
The nation's labor unrest appeared growing today. Disputes in
railroad, steel and other key industries threatened to curtail the
country's defense program. Wages were the major issue in the disputes.
The labor picture, at a glance, showed industrial strife in:
RAILROADS Planned five-day
token" strikes against two short
lines and three key terminals were
scheduled to start next Monday
and Tuesday. Some 50.000 rail
workers will be made idle, a union
spokesman said. The rail workers
want a 40-hour work week at 48
hours pay.
STEEL The country's biggest
single strike hit steel and coal
production and made idle some
25,000 workers in Birmingham, Ab.
The city's two largest steel mills
were shut down. There was some
violence in the walkout by 4,000
iron ore miners. The 17,000 steel
workers refused to cross picket
lines. Four thousand coal miners
also were on strike.
The crucible steel company's
Sanderson-Halcomb plant in Syra
cuse. N.Y.. was closed, by a walk
out of 2.000 of the plant's 2,500
workers, tn r noenixvine. Pa., 800
CIO workers at the Phoenix Iron
and Steel Co. remained on strike.
AUTOMOTIVE The strike of
000 CIO United Auto Workers
against Packard Motor company in
Detroit was in its fourth day.
peace laiKS connnuen
FARM EQUIPMENT 27,000
members of the United Farm
Equipment workers division-UE
threatened a strike in a wage dis
pute at 11 International Harves
ter company plants in eight cities.
ELECTRICAL A strike vote
was to be taken today by the
some 8,000 workers at the big Gen
eral Electric company plant i n
Syracuse, N.Y. GE has no contract
with the International Union of El
ectrical Workers.
Rail Strike May Sproad
The rail strike threat was byj
tne Brotnernood ot Kailroad Train
men and the Order of Railway
Conductors.
A trainmen's union official, com
menting on the long wage-hour dis
pute with the carriers, told news
men in Washington that "unrest
is spreading over the country
among tne unions 200,000 mem
bers.
"It has reached a very acute
stage and it is difficult to say
what may happen," said President
W. P. Kennedy of the trainmen's
union. ,
But, President Truman told his
news conference yesterday he re
mains hopeful a settlement can
be reached that will head off
nationwide rail walkout.
A total strike by the 300,000 mem
bers of the two unions would para
lyze the nation's major lines. But
labor experts in Washington said
tne canine ot only snort "token'
strikes at strategic points was ob
viously a tactic designed to avoid
a national emergency. Such a n
emergency would undoubtedly
bring a court injunction.
Union officials were expected to
meet wun uonn K. steeiman, pres.
idential aasistant, today. Manage
ment representatives met with him
yesterday but made no comment.
The work stoppage was ordered
after President Truman rejected
made inoperative by the Taft
Hartley law because our book of
laws covers Canada, whier there
is no such - law and because we
hope for repeal of the Taft-Hartley
laws covers Canada, where there
pealed before now."
President Truman's message to
the convention said:
"The administration will never
relax its efforts to obtain needed
labor legislation that is fair to all
and consistent with the demo
cratic ideals of our people.
"This means, for one thing, the
repeal of the Taft-Hartley law."
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seizure oi the carriers, ine iram
men called the walkout of 3.000
yard workers at key terminals in
Louisville, St. Paul and Cleveland,
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