thm OZSSOH frTATEZMAXt Cdru Oregon Tuftsdar Momiag. Jun it, IMS (i)resDttsi!tdtemaati "No Favor Swayt V$; No Fear Shall Awe" From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publJ cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Hold Hearings in NW Citizens of the Pacific Northwest, who have been carrying on a squabble, not exactly friend ly but at any rate a family squabble, for more than a decade over the public power issue, may find it a bit difficult to realize that congress, away back there in Washington, DC, may by a simple counting of noses congressmen's noses, not ours take the matter- entirely , out of our hands and settle it once and for all. For more than two years the advocates of a Columbia Power Authority have had bills cre ating such an agency before congress but for one reason or another they have lain dormant except that occasionally a new bill would super sede one previously introduced. But now the most up-to-date of these measures, known as the Bone-Smith bill and ostensibly differing from its predecessors chiefly in its provision for "revenue" bond issues, is the subject of an extended hearing before a joint committee. One might with slight mental exertion write a book exclusively devoted to sensible reasons why this measure should not be passed, and why it should not even be considered at this particular time. We are confident that a great many persons who are wholly "sold" on public power would gladly contribute chapters to such book. It is asserted for example that though the administrator of the proposed CPA would nominally be appointed by the president, a point which suggests this is a compromise bill drawn to placate two contending groups one of which wanted interior department control, the other an independent agency such as TV A, actually it places the whole program in the lap of Secretary Ickes and gives him more un bridled power than any of the earlier bills. It is a further interpretation of the text that the "revenue" bonds actually would be federally guaranteed, that congress is deprived of any power to limit their issue, that actually it would be possible for the money now being raised in the war bond campaign to be invested in these CPA bonds. Yes, one might write a book. But of course there is one outstanding objection to this bill and its predecessors, whether they proposed a TVA-like arrangement or Ickes control. The objection is that they would take power matters out of the hands of the various northwest com munities and place them either in the hands of the power-hungry secretary of the interior or, less objectionably only in degree, in the hands of a board over whose decisions the communi ties would obviously have no control. Already, you might say, this denial of home rule is in effect with the mere introduction of these bills. For behold, congress shall make the decision not we of the affected region. Now ' 11 : u : l .:,.-, n were are iwu yuinis wnu.u give use iu uccp concern. In the first place as has been well documented by the Gallup Institute and others, congress though reputed always to have its "ear to the ground" is currently rather deaf to the desires of its grass-roots constituency and disposed rather to listen to noisy, minority pres sure groups. And a pressure group is what the public power crowd is nothing else but. In the second place we recall better say confess having suggested here though the idea was not ours originally, that perhaps the TVA's existence was justified because the people of Tennessee and Alabama regions where it holds sway, were in the main backward, ignorant folk without resources which would enable them to finance power development even if they had the gumption. Here the disturbing question arises: Does congress in spite of the contrary evidence observable in the mien and deportment of Senator McNary and our other representatives, vision the Pacific Northwest as an equally backward region, populated by rude lumberjacks, fishermen and hillbillies? It seems quite possible that congress does see such a picture and just barely possible that it is a true picture. If we are ignorant hillbillies the proper thing is to let congress decide for us these difficult issues which we are unable to comprehend. At the minimum though, it would seem fair and just that we ask congress, through the joint committee, holding these hearings, to come out here and see for itself. Particularly in view of the fact that Bonneville funds and PUD funds have financed the appearance of CPA advocates before the committee, we modestly request that the hearings be brought to the region involved so that less fortunate interests have opportuni ty to be heard and that since congress is pro posing to deprive us of a voice in power de cisions in future, it give ear just now to the opinions here prevalent. Such opinions, for example, as were expressed in the three dis tricts in which PUD proposals were voted down only a month ago. to the gas-producer, to feed the stuff into the cylinders. Such is motoring in the land of the Anzaee. As we have hinted heretofore, we Americans don't yet know what "sacrifice" really means. Charcoal-Power Autos The invitation-command to "fill her up" isn't often heard around service stations even here in Oregon these days. Its substitute as a rule is a timid inquiry: "May I have a gallon or two?" But in Australia they still say nU her up" or the colloquial equivalent. However, what happens next you'd never in the world suspect. ! On most automobiles "down under" there has been superimposed at the rear a gadget looking something like a moonshine still, if your memory goes that far back. It's a charcoal gas-producer. For approximately a dollar the filling station man will chuck in 45 pounds of charcoal. Having previously put some paper and kindling in the bottom of the pot, you now ight the fire from below. The burning char coal produces carbon gas, which, uniting with air and with steam from a water tank under the top, makes carbon monoxide which is drawn into the cylinders, compressed and ignited by the spark. That 45-pound bag of charcoal will take you about 57 or 60 miles, provided there aren't -too many hills. The pickup quotient is' low. The gasoline ration runs from one to five gallons a month but most motorists buy and use whatever their allowance is, for it's needed In starting unless there Is a blower attacked They're talking about an army of eight million, possibly ten. When it comes to money the talk is in billions. But you can't talk that way about men. There still are not many more than two billion people in this world and less than half of them are males. , . :y&: . ... y Paul Mallon There was one good thing about the weath er we were having not so long ago. The Salem Senators could almost get along with two pitchers. One double header, then three days of rain and the same old reliable chuckers were ready to go again. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction la whole or In part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, June-15 Labor has a good chance during this war to learn how government ownership and operation work out Certain experiments In socialism have been thrust upon the government, some experience has been ac quired in the kind of "national ization" which the British la bor leftists strangely are com ing to advocate as a post-war system, and that some unthink ing liberals in this country lean toward also. The government took over and operated the Brewster Avi ation company, turning it back about three weeks ago to pri vate management Before gov ernment operation and after ward, the union in that -plant had a closed shop and a check-off. But while the government was in control it had nothing, not even the right to strike. When the government took over the plant labor be came the servant of the public and lost all its rights, which could be restored only when those workers became private employes again. Earlier, in the Kearny shipbuilding plant strik ing workers wanted a union of maintenance shop (practically the same as closed) and foolish union leaders urged the government to take over the plant when they could not get their desires by negotiation with the management The government accepted their invitation, to their regret. The navy ran the plant but without the union of maintenance or any other shop, and when the plant was turned back the union was still without its objective. It would have been against the law for the government to have done otherwise. The workers finally got their union shop through the war labor board, after private management was resumed. This is not a situation peculiar to war, but is the unbroken history of all government peace time operation or ownership. Take the cases of the TV A and the federal barge line. These government-owned business enter prises are typical peacetime experiments in the socialist theory. Both have unions of employes, but maintain an open shop, and the unions do not have the right to strike. TVA has about 37,000 employes and a majority are members of some trade union, the largest being the electrical workers. But these trade workers for the government do not enjoy the same privileges as private workers in the same trade employed by private enterprise. In government shipyards and arsenals, it is the same. There is not much reason for a union. Working wages must equal the prevailing wages in private yards in the vicinity and therefore there can be no collective bargaining, no strikes, no closed shop. Obviously then, labor should be assuming the leadership against socialism of the nazi, com munist, proposed British or American varieties. Such a good friend of labor as Mr. Roosevelt outlined the realities of the situation in a letter to federal employes August 18, 1937 a letter which could have been entitled: "The Case Against Socialism." He wrote: "The very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employe organizations . "Upon employes in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose in terests and welfare require orderliness and con tinuity in the conduct of government activities. This obligation is paramount" Any union man who works for socialism then is working to nullify his union and destroy his ex isting rights. If you have been thinking that it would be a good post war policy for "the govern ment to own and operate, for instance, US Steel or General Motors or North American Aviation, you are really proposing to wipe out all the gains labor has made under private management, and deny it the right to strike or to demand pay in creases as in Germany, Italy, Russia. Could any more convincing proof be offered that labor has been misled again in this instance; that its real future depends upon maintenance of a private profits system, and. that its real interests require it to work for profits for management as well as itself, because labor cannot milk a dry cow? The political truths of ibis evidence are proved further by equally convincing economic truths. US Steel, General Motors, and all other big or little manufacturing businesses have no wealth IS teCNOTiCID! S Hiding It Under the Rug IBitfcs for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Close to the place 6-16-42 where the Provisional Government was founded and Constitution outlined: S V V (The foregoing headline words will seem familiar to old time readers. They began this column for the issue of Saturday, May 9, this year. Let's have the first words that followed, quoting: "This columnist, invited to ad dress the Wheatland Social Club 'Crime at Castaway' By EDITH BRISTOL Chapter 34 Continued "You go to the top of the hills above the dam," he turned to me. "Stick with the engi neers I'm going to ride down the valley and warn the people in the low lands." "I'm sticking with you, Lance," I said. Sometimes now I wake up at night with a start ... I hear the hum of a speeding motor . . . and feel the throb of the cylinders . . . the moon bursts through the clouds and I hear Lance say . . . "There's a Mexi can family lives over there in the willows . . ." and again we are off on our ride down the valley of the Gallina. If Lance had not known the valley, every inch of it, from boyhood, he could never have done it; if he had not covered the road from Gallina to the dam so many times that every foot of it was familiar to him, he could never have known, on our desperate ride, where the settlers lived, where to warn the sleeping families. But he did know! "Nobody lives within the first three miles," Lance bit off the words crisply. "That's company land . . . we needn't stop till we reach the first road." There were lights in the first little house a rough wooden building with young fruit trees planted hopefully about it. Lance swung his roadster into the dooryard, leaned on the horn and a man came to the doorway. I could see his outline, a dark silhouette in the yellow of the lamplight "The dam's going, Mike! Get your things together! Make for the hills as fast as you can!" Mike stood dazed. "What's" that you say?" Two children, little tow heads, came and thrust their small bodies between their fath er and ihe frame of the door. "He says the dam Is going . . . he says the dam is going . . . They began to cry and I saw a woman gather them into her arms. Lance swung his car around. "Step on it, Mike! The water's coming out from the east end now!" We were off. We watched every intersecting road. Sometimes it was only a rough trail through the sandy floor of the valley. But no mat ter how slight the roadway, Lance turned in and swept like, the night wind to the little house at its end. Every shack and cab in. Sometimes it was only a canvas tent the same warning Bounded as he blasted (in hi aside from their ability to produce and a little . horn and yelled: cash in the bank. If they cannot obtain employes "Hello, there, inside! The to do the work or raw materials to make their dam is coin out! Get to hiah proauco, or u iot any oiner reason sucn as national depression their productivity is destroyed, their value evaporates. Their naked plants are worth only what some prospective purchaser may think he can produce from them. Thus, as our great production victory in this war had shown us, the interests of labor are the same as the management unity, productivity, profits. The interests of government and the pub lic are served by precisely the same purposes. You will never find a responsible labor leader who has not known this for a long time, and has not practiced it except at such odd moments when he was trying to squeeze some concessions out of ..enough for Lance to have rid- Us company. den its full length. Every de- ground as fast as you can!" Sometimes a light flashed in side the house before he fin ished his warning; sometimes we heard a scramble in the darkness and the barking of dogs followed as we sped away. . The valley was narrow for the first five or six miles, more like a canyon between the Mils. II the canyon had been wide, if it had been thickly settled. no night would have been long tour from the main road took time much time. I saw Lance look at his wrist watch and bite his lips. I knew he was wonder ing whether we could keep ahead of the flood that was on the way. Once he spoke of Walter Gregg, sadness and bitterness mingled: "If Uncle Walter had lived until this night he would have died of a broken heart." He set his square chin. "This was his work, this dam. He was so proud of it He watched it like a mother watches a child as long is he was on the job. It was only after he was hurt that this could have happened to it 111 build another one." He said, after a few minutes as we sped through the cool darkness: "I'll build a dam with no Cra ven around to destroy my work!" At the "Y" of the road there was a little settlement. "There's a telephone here," Lance said. "We can call for help and see if the warning came through from the power house." Lights twinkled in the little houses of the settlement a ga rage, a lunch counter, a few cabins. Men were piling bed ding and boxes on their auto mobiles. Women were gather ing up their household goods children whimpered. "No need to ask," Lance com mented as we swung into the settlement "They got the mes sage." We stopped long enough to get some gas, then drove on. Now the moon came out Over the top of the hills to the south, its first pale beams mounted, gilding the stark branches of the sycamores, turning the sand of the valley floor to snow. Short black shadows lengthened into longer lines as the moon climbed higher above the hills. The stars paled and went away. The white ribbon of the valley highway unrolled before us. There were no houses here for several miles, but off to the side of the can yon we could see a cluster of trees and a house. Lance slackened speed, lifting his foot from the throttle. I could see he was measuring how much time would it take to run across to the house on the side of the canyon? "God help them!" he said. "They've got to take their chance. They're fairly high up. The water may not come that high. I've got to stick by the folks on the floor of the valley." Now we crossed the highway that led into Gallina. We could see no lights, but Lance waved one hand in a general direction off toward the north. "Gallina is over there if the message came through from the power house there should be a posse of men out by now, ready to help although the Lord only knows how you can stand off a wall of water!' From here on, the valley wid ened perceptibly. There were fewer houses. The roads that branched from our main road : were further apart We passed a schoolhouse saw its white tower shining in( the moonlight (To.be continued) on Thursday afternoon, May 7th, being entertained at the home of Mrs. Eugene E. Wilson, on the subject of the Oregon Provisional Government spoke substantially in the words that follow:) "Your invitation to talk on the subject the Provisional Govern ment, is appropriate, consider ing your nearness to the site of its founding, and it is attractive to me, in that you say in your written invitation: 'Possibly four generations of George Gay's descendants will be present' " (Your columnist had with him during his talk to the Wheatland Social Club his beloved wife, as acquaintances know was gener ally the case the two not dreaming that on the Sunday afternoon following, May 10th, their automobile in the regular and orderly traffic on the Paci fic highway near Woodburn, re turning home from a visit to a relative at Aurora, would be struck by another car giving Mrs. Hendricks mortal wounds from which she passed to her long sleep on June 2, and inflict ing many wounds and bruises upon the writer, whose hurts in cluded a broken knee cap, which has since confined him to his living quarters. These lines from his typewriter are still written in a room at the home of his son Paul; arranged so that new and some regular old readers may have the complete address given to the Wheatland Social Club. That part which the good ladies heard, and was also used in this column in the issues of Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, will be given double quotation marks, the balance of the series without them, thus:) m " "The site of the founding of the Oregon Provisional Govern ment is just across the Willam ette river from this house; or rather on the east bank of the 'old' Willamette river, as the early surveyors, including Jesse Applegate, called it You will understand; though this needs explanation to some outsiders. " 'The . explanation is that when Jason Lee and his little party of Methodist missionaries visited for the second time the spot on the east bank of the 'old' river, on Monday, October 6, 1834, when they had come with the decision to locate there where is NOW the monument marking the spot and on that day began cutting logs for their first dwelling: their initial view of the spot having been taken in company with Joseph Gervais, who was showing them the way, going from his historic house, two miles below. On Sunday, Nov. 8, 1834, Jason Lee wrote in his diary: "Five weeks tomor row since we landed here, and our house is not yet completed. Four weeks our goods were shel tered in our tent, the last of which it rained most of the time; and ourselves by a borrowed one very small and inconvenient Constantly employed; obliged to retire early in the evening with wet clothes to prevent being drenched by the rain; ' good health, though, far from being comfortable in many respects. 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