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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1948)
f Tfre 'fyjHnrt, ggleny Qrooon, Sunday March 7 IMF '"So Favor Sways Us, No Tear Shall Xw" Irea. First glitwmn, fttsrsh tt, ltil THE STATESBIAN PUBLISIUNC COMPANY v CHARLES A. 8PRACUX, Editor and Publisher )mlMr of the AmmIiM rress The AmmUM rrsss Is caUUsd exsieslYslr to Um im (ir rcpasll esUea ef ell Um leeat mwi sriatsd la this mnHm M well aa U AP new linlhi, Report on Rogue River Development Sure to touch off the controversy between sportsmen's group and those Interested in economic development is the report of the Reclamation bureau following its extensive study of the water resources of the Rogue river watershed. X. J. Newell, regional director of the bureau, admits that not all of the four special interests irrigation, power, flood control and sport fishing can benefit to an equal extent in a single develop ment plan. Accordingly the bureau engineers submit two plane which are offered for public consideration. Newell says the decision as to what development. If any, should take place "should rest with the people of the valley." There the sentiment is divided, so vigorous and perhaps sharp argument is sure te arise at the hearing set for June 8 In Medford. Plan A Involves nine storage dams and six power dam. Seven of the dams would be built on the Rogue starting at Lewis creek and going upstream; eight would be on tributaries of the Rogue. Plan B contemplates building 11 storage dams and five power dams. Its lowest storage dam would be at Lost oreek. Seven dams would be on the main stream and nine on tributaries. Irrigation provision would be same under each plan: water for 73,540 acres and supplemental water for 40,300 acres where water for irrigation at times is short. In power production, Plan A would give 96,250 kilowatts and Plan B 68,450 kw. The power would form a welcome addition to the supply in southern Oregon and northern California and part of its revenue receipts would be needed to carry the cost of the irrigation features. For flood control Plan A would protect lands along Rogue river and Bear creek, while Plan B would give no protection along the former. Fish and wildlife authorities say that both plans would have bad effects on sports fishing, with Plan A causing the great er injury. The report says that '"spawning areas remaining accessible after development of either plan would have capacito for more fjsh than are now believed to spawn in the Rogue river. Construction costs are estimated at $89,824,700 for Plan A and $83,903,200 for Plan B. The entire cost would be returned to the treasury from repayments by water users and from power revenues except the portion alloted to flood control. The bureau has tackled one of the most ticklish situations in the state. The go-getters of southern Oregon feel they must have more water for irrigation, more power. They also recognise that the Rogue has great values as a scenic and recreational resource which must be protected. Fishermen and those catering to them see red whenever dams are proposed to stop fish migra tion. The local fiah interests will be joined in protest by the large and aggressive and vocal wildlife organizations over the state and nation who hold the Rogue sacred to steelhead and trout fishings Just how the reclamation bureau can determine the wishes of the valley people is hard to say. The wise thing is for the leaders of Jackson county to try to get the people of diverse views together on a program so a front fairly united may be presented to government official. Otherwise, the second Rogue river war will drag along for years. Table rock is still there. Why not hold another peace parley en it, with instructions to leave all tomahawks at the foot of the rock? GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Tea're tela rash, reams' maa I wara yea, ae eae ever get bm; Crass as wne cUeat eveataaJlr recret Itr MATTER OF FACT1 Oregon Primary Crucial Teat for Stassen after Gamble for Ohio Vote Br Joseph and Stewart Aloe ORXGON PRIMARY 8-18-1 WASHINGTON, March 6 The habit has grown up of lightly discounting ex-Governor Harold Stssssa as a youthful political amateur whom v . Message from the Indians In timet of troubles men look to the past for guidance and underj-tanding. One example of that trend today is the new and unique book, "The Indians of the Americas" (Norton, New York, 1947) by Ethnologist John Collier. This is more than a readable, well-documented, dispassion ate history of American Indiana from their migration from Asia to their present uncertain status. As though interpreting smcho signals from ages past when the enlightened Indian civilizations blossomed, Collier offers this message: "What the American Indians had, the world has lost and the world must have again, lest It die. World War III or the atom bomb . . . these . . . will mean the end if they come racial death, self-inflicted because we have lost the way,; and the power to live is dead. , , "This power to live is the ancient, lost reverence and passion for human personality. Joined with the ancient, lost reverence and paf.f.ion for the earth and its web of life ... If our modern world should be able to recapture this power . . . true democracy . . . would become the realized heaven on earth. And living peace not just an interlude between wars would be born and would last through ages . . . (Instead) the externals we have made our god are In the saddle now ... "Through his society, and only through his society, man experiences greatness; through It, he unites with the universe and the God, and through it he is freed from all fear." Collier knows whereof he speaks. U. S. commissioner en Indian affairs for 12 years and one of the world's foremost authorities on Indians, he now devotes himself to work for the United Nations. He organized the Institute of Ethnic Affairs, concerned with the world's decadent peoples, in recognition of the need for creative effort in the field of understanding the nature and meaning of man's societies. In studying the societies of the Indians, Collier has reached the conclusion that contemporary man has much to learn from his predecessors. His respect for the Indians' inward tranquility expressed in their preservation of group life and their harmo nious relations with the laws of nature is as deep as his disss tis faction with the materialism and selfish isolationist individualism of modern civilization. Collier's authentic account of the exploitation and enslave ment and destruction perpetrated upon the natives by Spanish and Americans is summed up in the statement of a U. S. govern ment official In 1871; "When dealing with savage men, as with savage beasts, no question of national honor can arise . . . the sole question Is expediency." ? In contrast. Collier quotes the basic rule of soma "savages;1 "Do not kill or injure, wrong or hate your neighbor, f or K is not him you wrong, you wrong yourself. Moneto, the Supreme Being, loves him also as she loves you." , The national CIO has ousted Harry Bridges as CIO director of northern California because Bridges la lined 19 with the third party and Henry Wallace for president. This is an Inde fensible mixing of politics with labor union matters. It has the effect of denying political freedom to those holding offices in labor unions. This Is not said in support of Bridges or of Henry Wallace; but in defense of the principle that the individual should hi be free to vote and work in politics as he ctoosea. What a howl would go up if a corporation Tired a CIO worker because he insisted on supporting Harry Truman for president! It is so dry in California bureau of fisheries men are plan ning a detour through irrigation ditches for salmon trying tc swim up the San Joaquin river. Soon the stories Of California'! drought will sound like those of Kansas in the 1880s. f : - : . P hiladelphls. f 'J i Among the pro- T y fesslonala, how- r , ever, a quite dir-jv . yi, f ereat theory has y m 4 gained rund)l, ri"V rapidly in the! t -" past month. Th J f '- new ineery pis- - f,c 'il.. 4 tures Stassea as h0?? I himself one eg the toughest pro fessionals la the business, and a bolder gambler than any of his rivals hi the bar gala. Unlike most pre-eonventlon theories about candidates, this one actually isimi to be sup ported by the facta. Stassea has kept his name before the pub lic. He had kept his tindl dacy building steadily despite handi caps. And he has l.biLlK'inow maneuvered - - ' r himself into a remarkable and little understood position. For he may b-a able to deal a heavy blow to one or both of the front-runners, Governor Thomas E. Dewey aad Senator Robert A. Taft, and even if he cannot make the grade himself, he will have sn excellent chance for the vice presidency on a tick et headed by any republican but Teft or Dewey. The New Hampshire primary this week, in which both Stassea and Dewey are bidding for New Hampshire's eight delegates, will give some notion whether Stas sea csrries enough weight with his party to make his strategy stick. But more important tests will be the Ohio primary on May 4. in which he is pitted against Senator Taft in the letter's own bailiwick, and the Oregon pri mary on May 21, In which Stas sen will again challenge Dewey. Sltaattea WeU-PabUeised The Ohio situation has already been well publicized. Stassen is gunning for 10 to 12 delegstes from Ohio's 53. He has entered 22 candidates in the race, oon ceatratlng them in the industrial districts where Taft is believed weakest. Thus he has Stassen men running ia such bjg towns as Youngstown, Dayton, Sprlag field, Toledo, Akron and Canton. He has also entered one delegate-at-large, the popular former Chief Justice Carringtoa T. Mar shall, whose name is expected to help the Stassen slate. Taft spokesmen claim that Stassen Is butting his head against a stone wall in Ohio, that the republican organization is. abso lutely solid for Taft and that Stassen will be lucky to capture a single delegate. Staaseoitee as sert with equal vehemence that there are serious rifts fat the Ohio republican organisation just be low the top level, and that there Is mounting enthusiasm for Stas sea among the rank and file. At any rate, the Ohio Stassen group heeded by his henchman. Earl Hart, is hard at work and Stassen himself will dsscend on Ohio on March 19 tor a series ef spsscacc in the most hotly contested dis tricts. If the Stassen showing ia Ohio Is poor two or three delegates his gamble wCl have failed. But If he su.ceeds m capturing 19 or 12 delegates from Taft he wlQ have dealt the Ohio senator a blow from which It Is difficult to see how Taft can recover. Moreover, a Stassen success in Ohio will lacreese the chances hurt Dewey almost as badly as his supporters hope to hurt Taft In Ohio. Strategy to Malm Thus H is the Stassen strategy te malm, or st least seriously to wound, both the leading contend ers, at the same time inheriting the strength they lose. Obviously this strategy has not endeared him to either Dewey or Taft. It is hardly to be expected that after such treatment either man will throw his support to Stassen la the event of s deadlock. In deed, Taft supporters are already circulating the report, no doubt somewhat colored by wishful thinking, that negotiations are under way to prevent the mu tual disaster of a deadlock. It Is hinted that the search la for soaae formula for assuring that if a deadlock three tens oae or the other of the two mea will blow out Whether or not there Is any substance in this report, StaaseeTs strategy obviously amounts to a bold all-or-nothing gamble. The gamble may fail indeed, the odds are against its success. But if It succeeds. Stassea will have at toast an outside chance for the grand presidential prize. And fall ing that, he will have aa excel lent chanee for the consols Uoa prize, the vice presidential nomi nation. Tor the betting Is now heavily oa Senator Arthur Van dsn berg if the long-heralded Taft-Dewey deadlock does de velop. There is reason to believe that if Vandenberg were nomi ne ted, Stassen might gladly .ac cept the half-a-loaf et second place on the Vandenberg ; ticket. He has recently compared Van denberg to Abraham Lincoln. He could swing a sizeable bloc of delegates to Vandenberg at the convention. He would thus be an entirely logical running mate for the Michigan senator. But there is no doubt that at least for the present he. still has his eyes firm ly fixed on the first prize. (Crr1fM. ises, Mw Tsrk ralS County Refuses To Take Over Santiam Road Marion county Saturday de clined to assume authority over a oae-quartor mile detour road oa the North Santiam highway. Dtemrlet Attorney Miller Hsy dea advised the county court to allow the state highway commis sion to retain Its Jurisdiction over the stretch of county road 72 east ef Gates. A controversy had arlsea between the county court ana me . state hixhwav deDart- ment as to Jurisdiction ever the road. The controversy came un. County Judge Grant Murphy said Miuraay, wnen a logging ope rator In the North Santiam iru said that when be attempted to get a log hauling permit to haul logs ever the detour stretch re cently neither the Kuckenbers- Construction Co, the stats nor the county wss willing to sssume jurisdiction. In a letter to Marion county court last week the logger, Rus- u L. Has cox. st ted he wss going to haul loas over the road without a permit aaywsy be cause no one would authorize a permit for him. Judge Murphy said Saturday that it was up to the state high way commission to grant the per mit if it so desired. Hayden's de dsioa Saturday stipulated that any law enforcement agency, whether county or state, hsd au thority over criminal matters on the detour, such as traffic violations. Dtp SESDOOB TTrorrnrs (Continued from pege 1) gnarled apple trees la the old orchard still bloom in season and bear fruit, red or yellow, to sur prise hlkers or hunters who chance that way in the fall. A lilac bush may survive when the house It stood beside is torn down; and a rosebush planted by loving hands may continue ' to bloom long after the one who set it out has passed on. Those of us who daily have walked by these blocks where once homes stood, which now look desolate as though a bomb had laid them waste, homes that give wsy to towering state buildings or to glamorous business estab lishments, draw comfort from the trees which seem to enjoy a brief stay of execution; and particu larly from Mrs. Wslton's flower ing almond. As It unfolds Its blooms this year In response to its instinctive urgings, oblivious to the changes all about It, the conviction grows that life man ages to go on In spite of turmoil, and beauty will survive in the midst of desolation. Dog License Fees Totalled A total of $2427 ia dog license was collected by Marion county during February, a report Issued by Marion County Treas urer S. J. Butler showed. The do license fund now totals 14,875. The , treasurer's report also in dicated that st the end of the month $383,061 was in the coun ty's general fund, $331475 In the courthouse construction fund, $580 in the general road fund and tax advance suspense fund of fl.03S.452. Property at Aurora Changes Ownership AURORA Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Nixon have sold their home The TOII V70LGAII0TT Wishes to Announce Te His Friends and Customers That He Is Now Operating in the Hollywood District looatod on the corner of Highland Avenue and the Portland Highway. , Phone 3993 - Residence Phone 5153 (Savage In Aurora to a Portland family and have bought a home in Canby. Mrs. Katie Smith has bought a home in Canby to be near her daughter, Mrs. Ed Thompson, an employe of the Canby postof flee Cecil Armstrong has bought the Geroge Urban property Dear the city limits of Aurora. Ewin & Sholseth Tax Xonsultantf 235 86. Commercial -Hours S na to 10 p. m. Phpne 23323 BACK AGAIN. . BETTER THAn EVER! genuind 3 II E AFFE 5 PCNS SBiaMB3 "ADUIQAL" PIN SjOO PINCH ISjOO INXIMSU ItJOO h "CDAatTfiUAM". PEN I30j PENCIL IJjOa ENSEM&U 6S0 I Ssiirno s - YOU WILL ft! USINO THESI PENS IN Iff 0 . . . Ylf. l?40.t,UT YOU BUY THEM AT 1940 FRICESI IDEAL FOB STUDENTS ... OFflCg WORKERS IIEEDHAIl'S BOOK STORE 465 State Street f Salem - Orrgoa rk. Ihjv WoBfemJUe. werefet eWc ei pod. Ihey anight r sous if a standerdisse fveereJ service. Svt the trvtftf Is Ihet fem gisc efe not el etike . i . And thot'i why the ekpefience ef evf staff in helping fefnSCes ie el walks ef Gfe is t Important. This eUity rssts ae eJen spec mere "bees, leerajef bw vpf saw Ins service to the families U mis community, "J - 1 "; . Clongh-Barriclr Co. 205 So. Church SL T Phone tl3t EeiaUUhed 1&7S . THE PIONEER FUNERAL HOMO 1 it-.- I Yea ilicU wbtrtrer ye Hit 99SsW0 WSMSE 00 fcfla& M latA t& 0Je Westtt &f 99 9s9$MSM$JSSsS P000nas) fliAQ EtSsSMJ , , ftvtak. Tm Mk mmmut ! fcm C . agahftB aaW BBaaaaaasea flaKaBBI A-HAMaakaa "aTaaaaj maay aaaaaaassBi maaaaa; aaaaaaaaaaaa - Smf.-m tun tor a Stassen ruccass ia later pri maries, and particularly against Dewey in the crucial Oregon pri mary. A considerable number of the younger men in the Oregon republican organization are all out for Stassen. Republican Na tional Committeeman RaIph Cake 'ias even privately flatly predict ed that Stassen will winv If that liappens. only a month before the convention. Stassen will have Standing still, ft has the eager look of a pointer scenting game, so swift and flowing are its lines. 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