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No "One Package Deal"
For Northwest
A delegation of residents of Lincoln and"
Benton counties conferred with Governor Mc
Kay Monday to protest construction of a dam
on the Turn Turn fork of Mary's river. This dam
is included in the Willamette basin project, part
of the combined program for Columbia basin
development which awaits authorization of the
congress.
This protest points up the contention The
Statesman has made against the pending S 2180
which would give blanket authorization for the
whole army engineers-reclamation bureau pro
gram for the northwest. Once adopted these
agencies or their successors could go right ahead
on the project as fast as funds are made avail
able; and apparently they will be able to use
even the interest on power plant investment
which ought to return to the treasury for ap
propriation. We think it would be in order for congress
to give a general approval of the combined pro
gram, but still require authorization and ap
propriation for individual projects.
One reason for keeping, the developement
program open is that changing conditions may
warrant modifications in the program. . We have
seen such changes in the Willamette valley pro
ject. Originally it embraced dams on the Mc
Kenzie at about Blue River and on the South
Santiam just below Sweet Home. This paper
objected to the former because of the damage
It would do to a prime recreational area. This
was later abandoned in favor of dams on tri
butaries. Likewise objections were raised to
the Sweet Home dam, and as the city grew the
engineers themselves saw how unfeasible that
was from the cost standpoint.
The "3QS1 report includes an irrigation pro
ject at Canby, but the Canby Herald reports that
farmers there are not interested. They may be
in time, but why get congressional, authoriza
tion if the project is unwanted?
It seems unwise to ask congress on the basis
of a few hearings to give blanket authorization
for a program which will run in cost into bil
lions of dollars. True, the engineers have work
ed long and hard in making surveys and pre
paring plans. But there has been no competent,
impartial review of such plans by an independ
ent agency of government. .
Opponents of CVA seem agreeable to adopt
ion of S 2180, thinking perhaps that this will
top the agitation for the valley authority. Once
this bill is passed the drive for CVA may be
intensified; and once a CVA is set up it could
ride "high," wide and handsome" with the pro-
i o man
gim pitrviuuaijr appiuvcu uuuci -uv.
Why wrap northwest development all up in
one package? Why not take it on a step-by-step
basis, with congress making the start and
stop decisions'? Promoters may chafe under the
necessity of getting authority and money from
congress; but that is the democratic process
which these promoters always applaud yet often
seek to circumvent. .......
This paper is eager for northwest develop
ment, but wants it done on an orderly, sound
basis which we can justify to the nation and
never need to apologize for. Turn Turn is just
a sample of how the little project may get scant
consideration on Its merits when it is tacked
Johnson Threatens to 'Fire' Military Leaders
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
j WASHINGTON, leb. 20 Tha
hardest question to answer about
Louis A. Johnson's - concealed
4 Is armament
program is why
the joint chiefs
of staffs have
stood for It so
long. The an
swer would
seem to fall in
to several carta.
inc ; um pan
Is the new at
moiph ere of
Be a. if
blended favor- -
itisra ' and in
timidation that
now pervades the defense de
partment. if '
A pretty good symbol of - the
favoritism is to be found in the
secretary of defense's outer of
fice. Brig. Gen.
Louis Renfrow,
a plump relic
of Johnson's
American Le
gion machine,
now presides
there as his pa
tron's special
assistant. For a
far from brilli
ant reserve of
ficer serving as
1 Mtrwart AWj- Johnson's i ap-
pomunenu sec
retary, Renfrow has received re
markably high promotion. But
that is not all. He was! once a
dentUt He is also drawing $100
a month supplementary pay un
der a rule designed to attract
young dentists into the services.
The sum is not large. The ar
rangement is at least technically .
legal. But the symbol remains:
the crony gets his perquisites
... while Johnson's economies
bite deep into the sinew of Amer
ican 'Strength.
''. '.' -As
for the intimidation, there
Is plenty of evidence concerning
the secretary of defense's special
methods of getting his way. One
authenticated incident involved
one of the two or three ablest
senior officers in the army,
whose unpopularity with John
on may probably be traced to
his serious - approach to defense
y
1
onto such mammoth projects as the Hell's Can
yon dam and Chief Joseph dam, the glamor pro
jects of the Columbia basin program.
Will the protest of the Benton county farmers
be heard? Or will Turn Turn become Mum
Mum?
Bad Industrial Relations
Last' Thursday workers at the Doernbecher
Manufacturing company with a furniture plant
in Portland and a. lumber mill at Coalca en
countered a sign at the;1 gate: "Plant closed until
further notice." Just like that. Inquiry by
reporters and union officials brought no ex
planation. All the reporters got was "no com
ment" by the president, Harry A. Green.
Came Saturday and the directors met and
elected a new president and announced the
plants would reopen Monday. Green refuses to
be "fired", but anyway the plants are running
again.
What the internal situation in management
is we do not know; but the company has had a
reputation for bad employe relations. This
abrupt shutdown, unannounced and unexplain
ed, is also bad public relations. Workers have
their economic lives wrapped up in an enter
prise and are entitled to warning if shutdown
is imminent and to some justification for such an
action. Undoubtedly the action on Saturday
indicates that the board feels that the adminis-''
tration has been high-handed and wants to re
form its management.
"No Place to Hide"
The newly appointed head of national civilian
defense says the first problem to be considered
is relocation and redesign of the government
offices in Washington. He mentions dispersal
and going underground as means of protection
against bombing in the atomic age.
Congressman Holifield of California has pre
pared a resolution authorizing a commission to
study and report on possible sites for an alter
nate government, duplication of government
records and procedures for continuity of admin
istration in event the president and those in
line of succession should all be unable to funct
ion. These matters are pertinent when we read
that the H-bomb is on the way. But it all un
derscores the heading of this editorial which
was the title of a recent book on the subject It
is fast becoming true that "there's no place to
hide."
This doesn't mean we should be quiescent
and just sit and wait for the bombs to drop. We
should be prudent and reduce risks Insofar as
seems practical, we can't avoid them alL But
all the more reason for the peoples of the na
tions to demand of their rulers assurance of
peace. That Is the best security.
Out of News
Listeners to the Sam Hayes news broadcast
Sunday night heard this interjection, unintend
ed for the microphone: "Get me some more
news; I'm running out of news".
So radio newscasters have those troubles too.
News editors and editorial writers are frequent
ly afflicted with a dearth of news or of ideas.
If Sam would reduce his speed of broadcasting
he wouldn't run out of copy.
problems. At a large meeting,
because of a relatively petty dis
agreement, Johnson publicly
threatened to drive this brilliant
and disinterested man out of the
military service. Several other
general officers who have dared
to argue have had the same sort
of experience.
Mere threats would of coarse
not frighten the joint chiefs
themselves. Yet it must be re
membered that Bradley and Col
lins, Vandenberg and Sherman
were all trained in an earlier per
iod, as members of the defense
services of a country that had
no defense. ; Secretaries of the
army and navy, in those days,
were customarily pretty awfuL
The services made do with what
ever was granted, either in lead
ership or in appropriations.
America, in those days, was not
in the first line. ,
This pre-war psychology has
quite visibly survived, for ex
ample, in General J. Lawton Col
lins, who is fond of repeating
that his ground forces are in bet
ter shape than ever. It is true,
and has been recorded in this
space, that the army alone has
maintained its fighting units un
der the impact of Johnsonian
"economy."' It is also true that
these fighting units are in a fine
state of training.
At least in his public state
ments, this seems to satisfy Gen
eral Collins, yet he is making do
with second world war weapons
which are in many cases obso
lescent or actually obsolete. He
has no tank force worth speaking
of. He has in prospect only the
smallest trickle of the new anti
tank weapons. Above all. because
of air force "economies," he can
not count on the slightest effec
tive close air support,, without
which modern armies literally
cannot take the field. Over all,
the facts General Collins omits
are infinitely more significant
than the facts he points to.
. This pre-war psychology,
which leads to the unwarranted
optimism of General Collins, is
strengthened by the conscious
ness of past folly, from which the
joint chiefs no doubt suffer. The
navy today is less able to protest
the impairment of its anti-submarine
capability, because the
admirals themselves so long for
got the submarine problem in
their eagerness to encroach upon
the air force mission. Equally, In
1948. the Joint chiefs permanent
ly weakened their own ease by
preparing an idiotically swollen
budget request for 130,000,000,
090. finally, the joint chiefs must
be well aware that In this mat
ter of defense "economy, the
secretary of defense only differs
from the president in wishing to
go further and faster. The presi
dent made the original decision,
in 1948, to forget the require
ments of a serious defense, and
to sacrifice defense planning to
budgetary convenience.
At that time, it was also
agreed that the Joint chiefs
would draw up each year a new
"requirements" plan and budget,
against which the budget-ceiling
or "capabilities" pi in could be
measured. This year, the chiefs
were called to ths" 'Jhite House,
to be given their $13,000,000,000
budget ceiling by the president
in person. Thereafter, a spas
modic effort was made to draw
up the regular, a-nual require
ments" program. But in the end
this seemed so fraitlea that "the
task was never completed the
J.CJS. temporarily surrendered.
.
Meanwhile, however, Soviet
strength baa grown visibly, and
the world situation has worsen
ed appallingly. Meanwhile, the
defense planning of the Atlantic
pact nations, which is under the
personal charge of the incorrup
tible General Omar Bradley, has
begun to show how enormous are
the gaps in our security. Mean
while, congress has beer waking
up, as is shown by Senator Mil-.
lard Tydinss fine speech last
week.
Thus far. Secretary Johnson
has been able to count upon the
joint chiefs' acquiescence, and to
take advantage of it But that ac
: quiescence may not endure for
ever. tr : - .
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Kw York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Armed Guard
An Insult, Not
A Real Honor
By Henry Mclezaore
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb.
20 Things That Puzzle Me Sec
tion: Why is it that a baseball
commissioner
has to have an
armed guard
when he makes
a public appear
ance? Not too
long ago I saw
"Happy" Chan
dler escorted to
his seat at a
football game
by two police
men each of
whom bristled
with enough
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J
arms to fight a platoon of sol
diers on even terms for a fort
night I imagine you could take a poll
of all Americans old enough and
big enough to fire a gun with
out finding one who wants to
shoot Mr. Chandler. The chances
are he could walk around un
escorted by artillery-bearing folk
with perfect safety. And so, I
am sure, could 99 and 99100ths
of the folk who are given armed
escorts in this country. But our
nation seems to consider such an
escort an honor. To me such an
escort is an insult not an honor.
If a man can't walk among his
fellows without having gun toters
on all sides the Implication is
that he is so downright ornery
that somebody wants to have a
plug at him.
e
To continue the subject of
things that puzzle me, why does
Winston Churchill, if the Con
servatives beat the Labor eleven,
want to arrange a talk among
himself, Stalin, : and President
Truman? Stalin appears to be
the type who would lie about his
age to his mother, so what would
any of his promises mean? Sup
pose he said Russia never would
drop a bomb, and shook hands as
pledge of good faith. Could
any sane man believe him? A
fellow named Hitler did just that
to a fellow named Chamberlain,
and while Hitler was shaking
hands with his right hand he was
cocking a pistol with his left
Mr. Churchill and Mr. Truman
are toe honest to deal with Stalin.
Being men of good will they are
blind to the fact that a lot of
men aren't cut from the same
solid cloth. If anyone is to be sent
to talk to Stalin I think it would
be wise to find the crookedest
man in the United States and the
biggest thief in England and
make them the official emissaries.
No one can see through'a crook
as fast as another crook.
Another puzzler. Why don't
newspaper columnists send out
pictures to run along with their
columns that bear some slight
resemblance to themselves. Most
of the papers which use my col
umn use a picture of me taken
when I was at an age when I
was switching from a tricycle to
a bicycle. If the picture was much
bigger it would show my romp
ers and the Buster Brown shoes
I was wearing.
And I am not as guilty of mis
representation as some others of
my craft I know a female col
umnist who is pictured as too
young to make mud pies when
the truth is she was a ballot box
tender when McKinley was run
ning. I can answer my own question.
Most of us columnists don't dare
send out pictures of ourselves
that look the way we really do.
After all, we have to have read
ers to make a living, and if you
frighten a reader often enough
he'll give you Up for the want
ads.
(McN.ufht Syndicate. Inc.)
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THE LETTER
The Safety
"BLIND FAITH" NOT TENET
OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
To the Editor:
Commenting editorially last
Thursday upon a recent address
at Northwestern university by
Erwin D. Canham, editor of The
Christian Science Monitor, dur
ing a campus conference on re
ligion, you have said: "It is no
favor to the young people to
spoon-feed them the idea that
if we all live right and say our
prayers, peace and plenty will
automatically just happen."
Because from the tone of the
editorial your readers not other
wise informed might conclude
that Christian Science teaches
its adherents to indulge in blind
faith, I shall appreciate space in
an early issue of the Oregon
Statesman for this reply.
Christian Scientists are under
no illusions concerning this mo
mentous 'period nor are they
found with their heads in the
sands of faith without works.
Having already proved in their
Individual lives the power of
prayer to heal sickness and sin
through a spiritual understand
ing of God and man, they are
prepared to meet the challenge
of our times in the spirit urged
by Christ Jesus, the Way
shower: "... when these things
(wars, persecutions, tumults of
Better English
By D. C Williams
1., What is wrong with this
sentence? The food was very
tasty, and we enjoyed It"
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "valiant? -
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Furlough, fusillade,
tuedaiism. runicuiar.
4. What does the word "abash"
mean?
5. What la a word beginning
with ve that means "greedy in
eating"?
ANSWERS
1. Say, "The food was very
tasteful." 2. Pronounce val-yant
both a's as in at second a un
stressed. 3. Feudalism. 4. To de
stroy the self-possession of; to
confuse; disconcert "But there
were at least three 'persons in
the room whom nothing could
abash.' 5. voracious.
by Lichty
degree! . . . and all ear time Is
galoshes and snow salts .
HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR
jj
Valve
nature, distress of nations, and
fearful hearts) begin to come to
pass, then look up, and lift up
your heads;" (Luke 2128).
What Mr. Canham said at
Northwestern university will not
mislead those who caught the
import of bis remarks. His au
ditors will not be lulled into
some false hope that "friendly
relations with the enemy" will
be insured "through some occult
working of mind over matter"
referred to in your editorial. The
youth present In the chapel
heard the Monitor's editor say
in substance that the spiritual
awakening of the Individual is
essential to his effective service
to bis brother man in the omi
nous days ahead. A substantial
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ruary 11.
Very sincerely yours,
Norman Dexter Scovill
Committee on Publication
For the State of Oregon
Portland, Oregon
ANCIENT SNAKE FOUND
RIO DE JANEIRO -(ff)-An 80-million-y
ear-old snake has' been
reported found near San Jose Ita
borai, small town In Rio de Jan
eiro state. A report to the geolog
ical museum here says a field par
ty, digging in a site which hai been
explored for 20 years, found fossil
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Literary . .
Guidepost .
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By W. G. Rorers
THE SIDEWALKS ARE FREE,
by Sam Ross (Farrar, Straus: "
$3.00).
Hershy Melov-is a busy young
ster, busy killing Indians, ex
ploring, being a soldier, a fighter
pilot a magician, an inventor
. . . "Thank God you aren't
grown up," says his mother Son
ya. His father David has packed
up his carpenter's kit and gone
off to work in army camps, and
his uncle Yussel is in uniform
and serving abroad. ,
Chicago is not a good place for
a boy, nor a bad. It's just a place.
It takes the young foreign-born,
like Hershy, rubs off the foreign
and puts the American there in
stead, just as the passing years
replace the boy with the man.
With quick eyes and ready
ears, and a mind that can put
two and two together, Hershy
learns something about being a
Jew, about having to use his
fists; he finds out some facts of
life from his mother, and from
Rachel alone and Rachel with
Joe Ganz; and he is initiated
Into the world of business when
finally the family comes into
some money, and hoards it and
just misses putting it in gold
bricks, and at last invests it in
the whoppinest goldbrick of alL
a laundry. Why Isn't it enough,
the desperate father cries, just
to be a human being?
And human beings they are, fi
nally, pictured in this earnest
novel, which achieves impor
tance by dealing honestly with
people of no Importance. The
sidewalks of Chicago will not get
fate song, like the sidewalks of
New York, but they are a fertile
background for Hershy and his
family.
If Ross does not stir the read
er, he holds him. One virtue of
his novel is the care with which
he stays on this side of that sen
sationalism which tends to -put
books about Chicago on the list
of books banned in Boston. This
isn t an expose of a city, but an
exposition of a character.
The National Geographic Socie
ty says Dr. Thomas Walker in
1750 disclosed the importance of
Cumberland Gap as a way to the
west
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