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4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ora-Frl., Jon. 25. 1952 Publlikiat Dally liceat Sunday by Hi News-Review Company, Inc. lataraal ai aao.aa claaa aaallar Mar t. I. at Iba afflaa al Iihhii Or.c.a. aalar aat af March t. 1111 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L KNAP Editor Maaaiaf Mtmbar or tha Aiaaclattt) rauKOra(aa Ntwiaapar ublitkan Aaiociarion, tha Audir Buraon of Circylotlani a.raaaalal f ttmrHULLlDAt CO. INC., alflcaa la N.ar lark, Cklaaia, Baa Praaalaca, Laa Anfalaa. Saaltlt. Partlaal, aura aa ta'tnd Claaa alalia! Mar t. lata, al tka Paal Olllaa al a.aatiari. Or.iaa. Uaa.r Aat a( Mireb t, UJa. IDBICCIPTIOIJ RATES la Orafaa B; Mall Par Taar, lll.Mi ill B.alka, II Ml aar.a anaotha. II.H. Br Nawa'SavLw Carrlar Par Vaar, tll.M lira al amort, laaa Ibaa aaa raar, par maalh, II.M. Oalalda Oraiaa By Mall Par Taar. Ill.oai all aiaalka, II.MI Ikraa aiaalka. Ilia STATE'S CLAIM INVALID ' By CHARLES V. STANTON We have previously referred In this column to the several controversies surrounding 0 & C grant lands and related con troverted lands. One of the principal current issues is a demand that 0 & C lands be surrendered to the State of Oregon. We use the term "surrendered." Advocates of this plan use the term "restored." Among one of the strong proponents of the demand that the lands be given to the state is The Oregon Journal, which recently devoted considerable space in its editorial column to an argument favoring aggressive action to gain possession of the grant lands. While recognizing that the program has a strong public appeal, we cannot agree with The Journal's position nor with the policies it advocates. The plan to gain possession of 0 & C lands was strengthened-by a joint memorial adopted at the last session of the Oregon legislature. Since that time, considerable controversy has raged whether the state has a legal claim to title. . Possession Never Relinquished - The Journal holds that because the lands were granted to the railroad company to be sold to settlers that they actu ally passed into private ownership and that, therefore, the state has a legal claim to sovereignty; that the land was "held In trust by the 0 & C railroad for development of the state." We find, however, in a report by the Senate Committee on Public Lands, made to Congress May 18, 1916, a quota tion from a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that "The railroad company was chosen as the agent ol Congress to effect the settlement of the grant lands." If we are to accept the interpretation of the court, the federal government did not relinquish title to the lands, but only assigned them to an "agent" to be used for the purpose of drawing settlers to the state. When the "agent" failed to discharge his assignments in conformance with instructions, the lands were taken from his charge and were revested with . the federal government. . . If the interpretation thus given by the courts is correct, the unsold lands were never "state lands" ; were never with in the sovereignty of the state, even though state taxes were paid by the railroad company. The Journal says "The very fact that Congress ordered the land 'revested' in the government indicated that it had actually been vested in private ownership for 37 years. ; ihis argument isuntenable (f the "agency" status oi tne rauroaa company is correct. ' Ownership Would Create Problems It is our opinion, open of course to criticism,' that 0 & C lands are better off in federal control, at least for the pres ent Until the State of Oregon shows more interest and knowledge in resource management, we cannot be safely en trusted with this valuable timber asset. There is no question of our ability to provide excellent forest management. ' Our State Department of Forestry has proven itself efficient and progressive. It could handle the technical aspects of the job. The department, however, still has far to .go in adjusting practices and laws to protect watersheds, limit erosion, siltation, logging through streams, preserving water supply and scenic and recreational re sources. In other words, although we have forestry laws considered among the best in the nation, those laws apply only to forests and are not coordinated with other conserve' tion needs. This, however, is a minor fault, and one equally charge able to the federal government, when compared with the lack of conservation knowledge and interest by the Legislature, various state departments and agencies and by the people of Oregon. We are willing to sacrifice our resources for immerlinte dollar benefits, as shown by pressures for the Rogue River irrigation ana power development scheme, Pclton dam, some of the Willamette Valley projects, Columbia dnms and others. We have permitted water withdrawals from streams to total more than minimum flows. We have surrendered some of our best agricultural land for high dnms. when low diver. sion dams with canals and penstocks would have been as serviceable. If the 0 & C lands were surrendered to state sover. cignly, while we still are so little conscious of resource val ues, we fear that pressures from selfish but powerful inter ests soon wouui in-enK down the protective structure now es tabllshed to preserve the O & C forest resource in perpetuity. Tail Gun PS In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS (Continued from Page 1) ' ar I PI J,w If ENDING BASKET Maybe the reason the Bitwuns keep on celebrating wedding anni versary Is mat they are so op posite in everything. Algernon likes to got rid of everything "we can always buy nioro if wo need It" he says as ho tosses out whatever-it-is Uiat thrifty Matilda wants to save. My gracious, Matilda says sho doesn't even dare mention scrap wood around tlioir house right now. You see she wanted to save all the odds and ends of wood left over from their house because sooner or later she was going to nave smoke coming out of a chim ney, instead of just watching her nei .noors' smoke watting upward, and wishing she had something to burn wood in. Well, sooner or later Algernon weakened and put a wood-heater in for a rubbish burner and so on. How did Matilda reward him? "If you hadn't Da id those bovs half oay s wood. the point Vhere It seems a Rood idea not to mention the wood Al gie didn't save! Then there's the unfinished at tic. What a wonderful place to store perfectly good this-and-thats! But Algie won't have any. What, difference does it make to him? He doesn't go up there, now he has built stairs for Mrs. Bilwuns to navigate the ascent safely. Hand rail and all. But bless you, Alger non just has to know every thing that goes up in that attic and make a speech about ill Of course. for the sake of ocace. . . Matilda lets him throw It out. She notices where he throws it however. What brouiiht all this no? Whv. the Bitwuns had ftin reading "Your Wife Is Like That" in the January 12 Satevepost. Corey Ford tells all the tilings wives save but he docs admit husbands save a few things too. The reason he can be simple process of saying to every body who does any spending: "You can spend ONLY SO MUCH. There isn't going to be any more, for we aren't going to appropriate it Ferod. Class dis missed." , That would do the trick If con gress stayed with it. For years those of us who be lieve that national bankruptcy is the last, final, WORST calamity that can befall a nation and that national bankruptcy follows inevit ably in the wake of too much gov ernment spending have been yell ing bloody murder about the ex travagance of the two Presidents we have had in the past 20 years. We have been right, of course, about the extravagant habits of these two Presidents. But we have been wrong Dead wrong In our approach to the problem of over-spending. In all these years, it has been CONGRESS not the President that has been responsible for the fact that we have spent too much money. The President can't appropriate. He can only spend. If it isn't appro priated, he can't spend it. If there is ever again to be wise and reasonable economy in the Cnndupr nf mir fpripra anvapnmant it must come about by the pro cess of electing a congress that will force economy by refusing 10 appropriate too much money. " ' That is the onlv wav it can he done. , One word here about President Truman's 85 billion dollar budget: It amounts to $550 for each man, woman and child in the country or $2250 for each family of four persons. What about President Truman? Personally, I don't think we can afford him. He isn't i good enough manager. But if we're going to get economy back into our gov ernmental processes, the initiative will have to be taken by congress. We're doing a lot of talking about whom we're going to have for our next President. We'd better be do ing a lot of talking AND THINK ING about whom we're going to elect to the next congress. Fulton Lewis Jr. OOP!? SAN FRANCISCO California Democrats are in the midst of their regular four-year war over who is going to boss convention delegates for the presidential nomination in July. This year, however, the in-fighting is the roughest it has ever been. President Truman's failure to declare his Intentions, and a des perate determination on the part of Northern California Democrats to dump National Committeeman James Roosevelt, arc the two un derlying reasons why the political conflict is so hot this year. Jimmy Roosevelt represents a polyglot collection of California Democrats, Including most of the limp left-wingers left over from his father New Deal. All of them are eager for the renomination of President Truman or at least, so they say publicly. In faet, they want to send their men to the national convention pledged to sup port Mr. Truman and all he stands for. The opposing faction of Demo crats, led by National Committee woman Elinor Heller and San Francisco County Chairman Wil liam Malone, want to go to Chi cago in July unencumbered by a pro-Truman label. Since this group represents the majority of heavy contributors to the party It is more likely its views will meet with more favor in at least some tiarts of Washington. In an election year me cnairman ot tne Democratic National Committee never lets principle stand in the way of cash. Jimmy Roosevelt for years has striven to extend his political do main outside the Los Angeles area. He made his biggest bid In the 19M race against Governor Earl Warren, in which he took a fright ful licking. Party wheel horses now look upon him in much the same fash ion as Midwest Republicans view so brave about telling all ha k time to burn up all that 'on the aubect is that, according ." Well, It has now reached 1 to the editor, author Ford doesn't have a wlfel But anyway he cer tainly does hit a few nails on the head. Wives reading it will sav, "Isn't thai just like a husband!" and husbands will say, "That's a woman for youl" And laughl the continuing political ambitions of Gov .Thomas E. Dewey, of New York. In both instances it is felt that nothing could be gained by again exposing the populace to their electioneering charm. What the Democrats really fear in California is the open public disgust over the conduct of the Korean war. Both pro and anti Truman Democrats share the nightmares over this issue. The futility of current events in Korea is on almost every tongue in the siate, ana most ot Uie comment is not conducive to political comfort Republicans, of course, are ex ploiting the Korean issue for all it is worth, and get few answers from official Democratic party spokesmen. In fact, in Los An geles County, the Democratic or ganization refused to vote its ap proval of a resolution commending i-rcsiaent iruman and tne united Nations for their action in Korea. This, in spite of the fact that Pres ident Truman is the avowed can didate of this particular organization. California, of course, is not the only place In the country where the Korean fumbling has put the Democrats on the defensive. On the basis of White House and De fense Department announcements, hopes were high that American troops would not have to spend an other winter in Korea. They are doing exactly that now, however, and the administration is getting the blame. Democrats will admit it privately and say they are send ing to Washington a continuous stream of demands for an explan ation of the truce delay. They are not getting any answer. California Republicans have tak en advantage of the situation in two ways. First, they art accusing the administration ot complete Cowlitz Dam Permit Sticks Over Protest WASHINGTON The Power Commission Thursday refused to reopen a case in which it granted Tacoma. Wash., a license for a hydroelectric project on the Cow iitz Kiver. , A rehearing was requested by the Washington Stale Department of Fisheries and Game and the Washington State Sportsmen's Council, Inc. ' The Commission said their ex ceptions to the order it issued Nov. 28 "are found to be without merit when considered together with the evidence of record." A commission spokesman told a reporter the denial of the rehear ing closes the record so far as the commission is concerned He said opponents could go to the courts if they wish to continue their fight. The project calls for construc tion of two high dams which op ponents contended would ruin fish ing runs on the river. In authorizing the project, the commission directed the city to come back before it with complet ed plans for handling fish over and around the dams before installing any permanent fish handling fa cilities. The city estimates the project would coast 135 million dollars, ex clusive of fish handling facilities which it estimated would cost about seven million. Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C, 4th Oregon District Eric Johnston Given New Post failure In Korea. Kppnnrllv fall.,.. advantage of the interparty Demo cratic strife, they have organized an extensive campaign to register California voters and register mem nepuDiican. Tne state in re cent veara has hnrl Ihn hioaAet In flux of new residents in its history. iiiuusanos oi mem are trom tra ditionally Republican states and party leaders here are spending timA nnri mnnnu malrinr if c for them to continue their tradi tional political beliefs. Democrats, bogged down by the Anti . Rnncevnlt Kattln nnA' made much progress in nabbing the new voters who have arrived recently on the West Coast. This could be a fatal political error for arlmintctralinn hnn.. nf Lnani.. California safely in the Democra tic victory column in 1952. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P. M. The visit of Winston Churchill and his staff was not or the pur pose of asking us to furnish fi nancial aid directly til Great Brit. ain. It waslor two other purposes Dotn or wnicn couia involve neavy expenditures by us. (1) Churchill explained that Eng land's financial difficulties can be eased, it not actually solved, if she is relieved of some of her present commitments in the fight against communism. (2) The British government would like us to assume an equal share in keeping the Suez Canal open and protected, and to join in other undertakings in abort, "walk the same path." The British Prime Minister pro duced an Impressive bundle of facts to bolster his request that his country be relieved of some of the cold war and defense burden it has voluntarily carried. He pointed out, for example, that Britain'! participation in the European de fense system is now equal to two thirds as much as all of the rest of Europe combined. Certainly Churchill's approach to the prob lem of setting the financial af fairs of his country in better order makes a lot of sense. He says simply that the United Kingdom is spending more money than it has or can raise and that it cannot continue to do that. What a pity that we have not had that sort of simple logic used in the operation of our own government these last 1 four years. j As I listened to Mr. Churchill's speech, I wondered a few Umes if it would not be better for him to make his statement to the other European governments rather than ; to us. After all, we too have all but over-extended ourselves in this fight for freedom in the world. I was lately right close up to the situation in Europe and came away with the impression that the govern-1 ments in Western Europe are not i really going "all out" in this fight surely not to the extent that the United States and the United King dom are contributing. As for the British second objec tive, that of our closer unity with them in their world policies and endeavors, I have some grave mis. ! givings. We may be forced finally I to do exactly that but I am inclined i to think that to uo it voluntarily. and now, might foreclose the still living possibility of genuine co operation in all of the free world. In other words, I think it would be unwise to consolidate the English speaking areas into a tight and separate combination of power. This could have the effect of cre ating a third great division in the world which would then consist of 1.) the Communist-controlled coun tries: 22 the English speaking countries; and 3.) the remainder of the free world .It will be better, I think, to keep the present line upthe entire free world opposed to communist aggression. The House Committee on Bank ing and Currency has been directed by the House to investigate the insuring and guaranteeing of loans (by the U. S.) for private housing in order to determine the extent to which government agencies have facilitated or made possible the in suring or guaranteeing of loans for defective housing. Hun. Brent Spence, chairman of the committee, says the committee will welcome receiving any com plaints from home purchasers deal ing with defective construction, drainage or sanitary conditions. Such information, says Chairman Spence, will be most helpful in appraising the extent of defective private housing which is being con structed with the assistance of Government home loan financing. Such complaints, which should re cite specific facts, may either be sent to me for transmittal to the committee, or directly to the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, Washington, D C. WASHINGTON l President Truman Wednesday nominated Er ic A. Johnston, former stabilization chief, to be chairman ot the Inter national Development Advisory Board. The group supervises plan ning operations under the Point Four Program. An exchange of letters dis closed that Johnston accepted the chairmanship after consulUng with the Board of Directors of the Mo tion Picture Association of Ameri. ca or which be is president. 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