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OPINION 4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015 Time to right an old wrong Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager HEATHER RAMSDELL, Circulation Manager Water under the bridge Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2005 Astoria business owner Sam Buck must change the name of the downtown coffee shop she dubbed after herself, a federal district judge ruled Tuesday. She also must pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover the legal fees incurred by Starbucks Coffee follow- ing a legal battle that lasted 3 1/2 years. Buck doesn’t know the details of the opinion laid out by Judge Ancer Haggerty of the U.S. District Court of Oregon, be- cause she just heard the news Tuesday night, but “The judge said I willfully in- Daily Astorian/File Photo fringed on (Starbucks’) trademark, that I Sambuck’s owner Sam Buck diluted their trademark.” strikes a playful but forceful “It never ceases to amaze me pose, readying herself for how you people come out in this Round 2 in a battle against Starbucks over her busi- weather.” The conditions were again au- ness’ name in May 2002. thentic for Friday’s commemora- tion of Lewis and Clark’s arrival at Fort Clatsop, recreated by the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles, M o., including “Meriwether Lewis,” aka Bryant Boswell, who expressed his appreciation for the crowd’s perseverance in the face of the intermittent rain. “I really believe that we can have a rideable, beautiful, world-class skate- park here in Seaside, Oregon, in August,” said Sunset Parks Director Mary Blake, part of a diverse group of people who have worked on the skatepark project. Since arson shut down the temporary skatepark Sept. 19, Blake, Angela Fairless and children on the skatepark committee have raise money to repair LW7KHUDPSKDVEHHQUHVXUIDFHGZLWKQRQÀDPPDEOHSODVWLFVKHHWLQJDQG has been open at Broadway Park for about four weeks. “It’s a lot better,” said skater Chris Senick, 16. “It’s a lot smoother. 50 years ago — 1965 Hundreds of residents of the lower Columbia lined the streets of Astoria Saturday afternoon, to see the merry Christmas pa- rade of children marking the yuletide opening of business estab- lishments, to greet Santa Claus and cheer Heck Harper, parade marshal, astride his horse, Jody. Some say it was a smaller parade than in other years, some say it seemed longer, but costumes of the small marchers and dec- orations of bicycles and miniature À oats were carried out with more careful attention to detail and theme, judges said. “Almost as many spectators as the Regatta parade,” several merchants stated. Nineteen-year-old Peter H. Roscoe, 946 Sixteenth, continued a fami- ly tradition Thursday afternoon when he was sworn into the U.S. Navy by his father, retired Rear Admiral D.L. Roscoe Jr., in ceremonies at the post of¿ ce. Roscoe follows in the footsteps of his father, who was in com- mand of the naval station at Astoria before his retirement in 1959. 75 years ago —1940 “Operator, give me the police department.” “Police department.” “This is Mrs. John Doe. I just saw a man entering the house across the street. He crawled through the window. My address is 1111 Bond.” “All right Mrs. Doe, we’ll be right over.” And here’s where Astoria’s new two-way police radio goes into action. The operator steps into the radio room and takes a hand microphone from a hook on the wall. The machine is in operation night and day so there is no waiting for it to warm up. “Calling car 2, calling car 2. Go to 1111 Bond. Man reported entering house across the street through window, 1111 Bond. Astoria police KQKX 10:58. That is all.” Now the patrol car reports back to the station. The car is equipped with a sender and microphone over which the patrolman can talk to headquarters. “Car 2 calling station, car 2 calling station. Investigated case at 1111 Bond. Man had forgotten house key and had to get into house through win- dow. That is all.” Local citizens will be able to pick up calls from the station to the cars but will not be able to pick up calls from cars to station on household radios. The Christmas season will be of¿ cially opened tonight at p.m., when local merchants unveil their windows to present to Astorians the latest styles in hundreds of objects suitable for Christmas gifts. In the windows of 66 stores will be one item that doesn’t re- ally belong there. These 66 stores are the ones participating in the Christmas wrong item window contest, which is open to the public with three cash prizes for the three top contestants. 7KRXJKKHGLGQ¶WSXWLWLQVRPDQ\ZRUGVWKH¿UVWRI¿FHURIWKH%ULWLVK ship Carlton Hall assured Astoria people today that Britain will eventually triumph over the German air forces and army. Quietly, and without any ves- WLJHRID³ZKLVWOLQJLQWKHGDUN´DWWLWXGHWKHVKLS¶VRI¿FHUVDLGWKDWWKH(Q glish are steadily making progress in their preparations for the showdown. The Carlton Hall is lying at the port docks today discharging ballast af- WHUDQXQHYHQWIXOYR\DJHIURP(QJODQGWRWKH&ROXPELDULYHU7KHVKLSLV XQORDGLQJWRQVRIVKDOHDQGVFUDSFRDOIURPWKHFRDO¿HOGVRIQRUWK HDVWHUQ(QJODQG7KHEDOODVWZLOOEHGXPSHGLQWRWKHULYHUDURXQGWKHSLOLQJ supporting pier three in an attempt to stop the eroding effect of the tides ZKLFKDUHFDUU\LQJDZD\WKHULYHUÀRRU Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe deserves federal recognition persistence, have made ment-to-government re- their case and their con- lationship, then Congress gressional representative, could restore the relation- Suzanne Bonamici, has ship by legislation. introduced HR 3736 that From 1978 to the embodies their effort and present, using Professor By ELIZABETH FURSE aims. Wilkinson’s restoration For The Daily Astorian The Clatsop/Nehalem theory, Congress restored Confederated Tribes have six terminated Oregon In 1953, Congress devised a plan tribes. Oregon’s congres- worked with their sur- to discontinue promised services to sional delegation under- Former U.S. Rep. rounding communities American Indian tribes, gain control stood that termination was Elizabeth Furse for many decades, and over vast natural resources and pro- a disaster and acted. because of that coopera- vide a windfall to the timber indus- From 1982 until 1988 while em- tion and community spirit they have try. House concurrent resolution 108 ployed by the Native American Pro- received enthusiastic support for declared it to be the sense of Con- gram of Oregon Legal Services , I as- their restoration from local commu- gress that it should be the policy of sisted in the coordination needed to nities, governments, and organiza- the United States to abolish federal get Acts of Congress introduced in tions. Like many terminated tribes, supervision over Indian tribes and both the House and Senate to restore the goal of restoration is to have subject tribal members to the same Oregon’s terminated tribes, but it the ability to protect their culture laws as all other citizens. was the tribal leadership who did the and their burial sites . Many laws In essence, termination acts ad- heavy lifting, who organized local passed since termination have rec- opted under HCR 108 ended the support, who traveled on their own ognized the need for tribes to be the government-to-gov- funds, and who never cultural protectors. Once restored ernment relationship gave up the dream of these tribes will be recognized for between the named Passage of once again being part their history and on going practices. tribe and the feder- the family of Tribal HR 3736 will once again give tribal HR 3736 of Nations. al government es- Their strug- members access to educational and tablished by treaties gle to right a grievous medical services eliminated by ter- will right signed during the wrong had gone on for mination. HR 3736 does not allow for gam- a wrong previous century that over 30 years. promised services There is another LQJRUKXQWLQJDQG¿VKLQJULJKWVDQG and protections in committed path to federal recog- HR 3736 does not interfere with any exchange for tribal that had been other tribes’ rights or privileges. by the U.S. nition While termination is a tragic lands. Unfortunately taken from a tribe by for many of Oregon’s over a half- various actions or in- period of federal tribal history, res- coastal tribes, these actions of the federal toration is a glowing light at the century signed treaties were government. The Fed- end of a tunnel of despair. Passage QRWUDWL¿HGE\WKH86 eral Acknowledgment of HR 3736, the Clatsop/Nehalem ago. Senate. However the Program established Restoration Act, will not only right tribes in question ful- by Congress is a bu- a wrong committed by the United ¿OOHGWKHLUSDUWRIWKHEDUJDLQJLYLQJ reaucratic process administered by States over a half-century ago, it will up vast acres of timber lands to pri- the Department of Interior. Howev- DOVR EHQH¿W 1RUWK &RDVW FRPPXQL vate investors. er it expressly bars terminated tribes ties by recognizing and maintaining A total of 62 tribes and bands in from applying for acknowledgment, the cultural and economic contribu- Oregon were named in yhe Western making congressional legislation tions of a local native tribe whose Oregon Indian Termination Act. Ter- their only practical means of obtain- history includes welcoming the mination resulted in chaos for many ing recognition as a federally recog- /HZLVDQG&ODUN([SHGLWLRQWRWKHLU 3DFL¿F2FHDQYLOODJHV named tribes. They had transferred nized tribe. Passage of the legislation will much of their land base by treaty but (YHU\ WHUPLQDWHG WULEH KDV WKH now received none of the assistance right to petition Congress to intro- also open the doors to federal sup- promised by the United States. duce a bill restoring its recognition port secured by the treaty that was For many years no relief for the by the federal government and, if intended as payment for land made tribes seemed available until Charles they meet the criteria set by Con- available for non-Indian settlement. Elizabeth Furse represented the Wilkinson, University of Oregon law gress, they may succeed. professor, theorized that if Congress The Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe, 1st Congressional District in the could terminate a tribe’s govern- through careful documentation and U.S. House from 1993 to 1999. Alexander Hamilton’s green solution H¿W IURP <RX¶UH DVNLQJ 3 percent of world gross richer countries that are domestic product. This is facing severe economic a big, gradual problem, but not the sort of cata- ’ve been confused about this strain to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in “rep- clysmic immediate threat Paris climate conference and that’s likely to lead people arations” to India and such how the world should move places that can go on and to suspend their immediate forward to ameliorate climate burn mountains of coal and self-interest. Well, I ventured, if change, so I séanced up my hero take away U.S. jobs. And you’re skeptical about our you’re asking for all this Alexander Hamilton to see what own policies, Mr. Found- top-down coercion to last David he thought. ing Father, what would a century, without any en- Brooks I was sad to be reminded that he forcement mechanism. Are \RXGR" Look at what you’re already do- doesn’t actually talk in hip-hop, but the Chinese really going to police a ing, he countered. The United States ORFDOFRDOSODQWHI¿ FLHQWO\" he still had some interesting things has the fastest rate of reduction of This is perfectly designed to en- to say. sure cheating. Already, the Chinese CO2 emissions of any major nation First, he was struck by the fact that government made a grandiose cli- on earth, back to pre-1996 levels. That’s in part because of fracking. on this issue the GOP has come to re- mate change announcement but then semble a Soviet dictatorship — a vast was forced to admit that its country Natural gas is replacing coal, and nat- majority of Republican politicians was burning 17 percent more coal ural gas emits about half as much car- can’t publicly say what they know than it had previously disclosed. The bon dioxide. The larger lesson is that innova- about the truth of climate change cheating will create a cycle of resent- because they’re afraid ment that will dissolve tion is the key. Green energy will beat the thought police will any sense of common dirty energy only when it makes tech- nical and economic sense. knock on their door Sometimes, purpose. Hamilton reminded me that he and drag them off to I countered by an AM radio interro- pointing out that pol- often used government money to like your gation. icymakers have come stoke innovation. Manzi and Wehner country, This week’s Par- up with some clever suggest that one of our great national is conference, I ob- to make carbon science labs could work on geoen- you got to ways served, seems like a reductions more ef- gineering problems to remove CO2 giant Weight Watchers FLHQW OLNH FDS DQG from the atmosphere. Another could be young, ¿ trade, meeting. A bunch of permit trading investigate cogeneration and small- scale energy reduction systems. We national leaders get to- and carbon taxing. scrappy gether and make some The former Trea- could increase funding on battery and resolutions to cut their and hungry. sury secretary pointed smart-grid research. If we move to carbon emissions over out that these ideas are mainly solar power, we’ll need much the next few decades. You hope some good in theory but haven’t worked in PRUH HI¿FLHQW QDWLRQDO WUDQVPLVVLRQ sort of peer pressure will kick in and reality. Cap and trade has not worked methods. Maybe there’s a partial an- they will actually follow through. RXW VR ZHOO LQ (XURSH 2YHUDOO WKH swer in increased vegetation. Hamilton pointed out that when I’m afraid Hamilton snorted. (XURSHDQVKDYHVSHQWELOOLRQRQ The co-author of the Federalist climate change with very little mea- America was just a bunch of scraggly papers is the opposite of naive about surable impact on global tempera- colonies, he was already envisioning human nature. He said the conference tures. And as for carbon taxes, even it as a great world power. He used is nothing like a Weight Watchers if the U.S. imposed one on itself, it government to incite, arouse, ener- meeting. Unlike weight loss, the pain would have virtually no effect on the gize and stir up great enterprise. The global warming problem can be ad- in reducing carbon emissions is indi- global climate. vidual but the good is only achieved Hamilton steered me to an article dressed, ineffectively, by global com- collectively. by James Manzi and Peter Wehner muniqués. Or, with the right govern- You’re asking people to impose in his favorite magazine, National ment boost, it presents an opportunity costs on themselves today for some Affairs. The authors point out that to arouse and incite entrepreneurs, IXWXUH EHQH¿W WKH\ ZLOO QHYHU VHH according to the United Nations In- innovators and investors and foment You’re asking developing countries tergovernmental Panel on Climate a new technological revolution. Sometimes, like your country, you to forswear growth now to compen- Change, the expected economic costs sate for a legacy of pollution from of unaddressed global warming over got to be young, scrappy and hungry richer countries that they didn’t ben- the next century are likely to be about and not throw away your shot. By DAVID BROOKS New York Times News Service I Where to write • U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D): 2338 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C., 20515. Phone: 202- 225-0855. )D[ 'LVWULFW RI¿FH 12725 SW Millikan Way, Suite 220, Beaverton, OR 97005. Phone: 503- 469-6010. Fax 503-326-5066. Web: bonamici.house. gov/ • U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D): 313 +DUW 6HQDWH 2I¿FH %XLOGLQJ :DVK ington, D.C. 20510. Phone: 202-224- 3753. Web: www.merkley.senate.gov • U.S. Sen. Ron :yden (D) 'LUNVHQ 6HQDWH 2I¿FH %XLOGLQJ Washington, D.C., 20510. Phone: 202- 224-5244. Web: www.wyden.senate. gov • State Rep. Brad Witt (D): State &DSLWRO&RXUW6WUHHW1(+ Salem, OR 97301. Phone: 503-986- 1431. Web: www.leg.state.or.us/witt/ (PDLOUHSEUDGZLWW#VWDWHRUXV • State Rep. Deborah Boone (D): &RXUW 6W 1( + 6DOHP OR 97301. Phone: 503-986-1432. (PDLOUHSGHERUDKERRQH#VWDWHRUXV 'LVWULFW RI¿FH 32 %R[ &DQ non Beach, OR 97110. Phone: 503- 986-1432. Web: www.leg.state.or.us/ boone/
