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' v From First Statesman, March 23, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
c.terd at the eostofflce at Salem, Oregon, ai aeeond class matter under act of conrress Match S. 187.
Reject 6'Mahoney Amendment
By the decisive vote of 43 to 22 the senate
rejected the OMahoney amendment w jrau
Ing rivers and harbors bill. The amendment
proposed to add 13 reclamation project! to those
previously authorized by the congress and to
establish the Columbia Basin account fund
which would permit the pooling of revenues
and use of the excess receipts frera public pow
er pfojects to help pay for irrigation projects.
Senator Cordon of this state was one of the
leaders in the opposition to this amendment
which was tabled on the motion by Senator
Chavez of New Mexico. Senator Morse voted in
favor of the OTJahoney amendment.
TJke Statesman befieves the senate was well
advised in rejecting this amendment. It would
have authorized projects well in advance of any
immediate need, some of which are of "very
doubtful economic Justification, Also the Basin
Account scheme would have permitted the di
version of interest on goveirtinent investment
in power projects to reclaniatism costs. In our
Judgment this should be returned to the treas
ury and then appropriated by congressional ac
tion. Congress has been exceedingly generous to
the west in approving development projects and
appropriating money therefor. The only urgwa'y
is in pushing power generating installations.
Reclamation is already well advanced and with
completion of the Columbia Basin project an
other million acres will be added to farm prod
uction. The country can. well wait before taking
additional big projects.
The'interior department suffers from some
thing of an empire-complex. It wants to build
fast and to build big. This is a big country which
will grow bigger, but we must use reason in all
things. A pool account plan could be worked
out on sounder lines; and irrigation projects
k AAaA v& o 4imo oci how aro neArlpH
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and as they have economic justification.
Tne Case for the Dry Fly
anil for Trout Fishinff '
"Fly fishing has a tenseness and excitement
that goes with no other fishing for trout that I
know. The sport's the thing, with victory going
to the more skilled. I would rather hook a one
pound rainbow with a dry fly on a 3 ounce
rod than a four-pounder with bait or hardware.
There are, after all; greater satisfactions even
for the fisherman than a full creel. The sheer
excitement of the hunt is one of them."
That's William O. Douglas, a northwest favor
ite son, ardent sportman, experienced mountain
man, and an-associate justice of the' U.S. sup
reme court, talking. He makes his case for fly
fishing in an article in the New York Times
magazine and in his fine autobiography "Of
Men and Mountains" a book that's headed for
the best-seller lists.
With the 1950 trout season barely underway
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utu iiiuiuiiig, ou&icriB ctcijwiiric win uc aigu
ing vigorously the various merits of fly and bait.
These are the two schools of thought and the
latter is in the majority. Izaak Walton, patron
saint of the casting clan, spoke highly of the
angleworm and grasshopper. For one thing, bait
will catch more trout than, flies usually. This
Douglas admits. But people .nowadays don't fish
primarily for food. If they Ire worth their salt,
they .fish for sport and "trout fishing is one of
knows," says one man who ought
the finest
to know.
For Bill Douglas has pursued the waxy
wights from the streams in the Yakima region,
to. Green Lake in the Wallowa mountains of
Oregon, to Snake Den Run in Virginia to Idaho's
Silver Creek "the best dry-fly stream in tha
U.S."
He recalls how once at Green Lake the woolly
worm to his mind the finest of the wet flies
was the only lure that took trout Why is on
of the mysteries' of trout fishing. The calculus
of water, temperature, light, wind, bug hatches,
feeding conditions, positions of sun and Hbmin,
is just too involved for anybody to figure out,
Anyway, BUTs woolly worm pulled six Eastern
trout running 19 to 14 inches off the bottom
of a lake that looked dormant as a backyard
lilypond.
Ee was using a nine-foot 2x leader with no
weight except the woolly worm. He let the fry
sink to the bottom, then he'd retrieve it in slow,
jerky movements, taking in about two mrhes of
line at a time. This must save fooled the fish
into thinking it was really a nymph aa im
mature fly that swims around under water be
fore it molts into a winged critter. (The dry fly,
of course, shniilates the mature fly skittering
around on the surface of the water.)
It takes a lot more skill to hook a trout with
a fly. Says Douglas:
"There is hardly a team ef a second before
the trout rejects the fly as false. If he is to bo
caught, the hook must set in a flash. Be can
not be hooked it the line is slack. Once hooked
he is usually lightly hooked. Fisherman sad fish '
are equally handicapped. There is aa excellent
chance: of the troufs setting away. Its a test of
skiU to hold him. And if he comes to the net,
he can be returned to the water uninjured."
"Mountains," justice Douglas observes else
where, "have a decent influence on men." But
the fresh water trouts are one of our great na
tional assets, he! continues: "They help a- man
become acquainted with the earth from which
he recently came and to which he will shortly
return . . . On the streams and lakes a boy can
come to know himself and learn how to live
dangerously . . t he can experience the thrill
of adventure in the discovery of nature . . . he
can learn to commune with God that made tha
heaven and the earth."
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Commenting on the George Wheelers, former
ly of Portland, who have sought "asylum" in
communist Prague, the New York Times says:
"If the Wheelers ever get tired of the commun
ist heaven they can come home and write their
memoirs and fear nothing from any American
'gestapo.' " . . . We'll bet that's a pretty accur
ate prediction, too; the Wheelers will want to
come home, once the publicity they asked for,
and got, dies down. Only they may discover it's
easier to get into that "heaven" than to get out.
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Professor G. Milton Smith of CCNY has of
fered this explanation of the flying saucers:
"They originated in Scotland, where the Loch
Ness monster caused such a sensation several
years ago. The sea serpeant, angered by lack of
attention, has been discharging eggs at surpris
ing velocity by lashing its tail about. These,
eggs have been floating through the stratosphere
and as they descend toward the earth their
rotary motion has flattened them Into the shape
of disks."
Alabama Primary Election May Set Stage for
Dixiecrat, Republican Coalition on '52 Ballot
i
Br Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, April 15 A
democratic primary in the deep
south rarely deserves national
attention. ButT
a forthcoming
primary In Ala
bama may well
have a decisive
effect .on the
' whole national
political b a 1 -ance
of power.
For this prim
ary, which is to
be held on May
2, j will decide
whole Dixiecrat H.
movement is likely to collapse,
or' whether it may' become an
extremely Important nati o n a 1
political factor in 1852.
ide from Louisiana's huge,
shrewd Leander Perez and Mis
sissippi's bumbling Governor
Fielding WrUht, the real spark
plugs of the Dixiecrat movement
are to be found in Alabama. The
Dixiecrat brain-trusters include
Alabama's wily Gessner McCor
ver, former Governor Frank
Diaon and the corporation law
yers. Horace Wilkinson and Mar
loa Rushton. (
These men now largely con
tra! Alabama's democratic party,
wik-h la the last election they
transformed into a Dixiecrat
party. Their control is now be-,
tot directly challenged by Ala
bama's able senators. Lister Hill
ail John Sparkman. and by most
or the Alabama representatives.
This fight will come to a head
out May 2, when the Alabama
voters will choose between a
Dixiecrat and Hill-Sparkman
slate for the state democratic
committee. J I - " .
U the Dixiecrat slate wins,
the Dixiecrat movement will be
strengthened decisively through
out tha south. And this will in
turn permit the Dixiecrat lead
ers to attempt to put In motion
a shrewd political strategy, de
id to influence the choice
of he rpubli"n presidential
c -tate in 18.x.
From the start, the Dixiecrat
aim has been to seize the nation
wide political balance of power.
This aim came nightmarishly
close to succeeding in 1948, when
the election was almost thrown
Into the house of representatives,
where the four Dixiecrat states
' could have dictated the outcome.
The present Intention is to bring
the balance of power lever to
bear before the elections.
The strategy is largely the
brainchild of McCorvey, who has
been busily promoting it
throughout the south. But it has
been approved in principle by all
the Dixiecrat leaders, and it has
the tacit approval of the big oil
and corporate interests which
supply the Dixiecrats with their
financial life-blood.
i The first step would be to call
Dixiecrat conventions in every
southern state early in 1952 a
step which was omitted in 1948.
These state conventions would
1 name delegates to a formal na
tional states rights convention,
to write a party platform and
nominate presidential candidates.
This convention would be care
fully scheduled to take place
after tha republican convention.
I And the fact would be widely
advertised In advance that the
Dixiecrat convention would be
prepared to nominate the repub
lican candidate on the Dixiecrat
ticket ' provided the candidate
and the platform were accept
able. The intention is of course ob
vious to influence the repub
lican choice by holding out the
rich and tempting prize of the
electoral votes of four or more
southern states. Some experienc
ed southern observers assert that
the strategy is unrealistic, if only
because the south would never
be hoodwinked into voUng for a
republican by so transparent a
strategem. Yet other observers
believe that this strategy might
stand a real chance of paying
off.
"
After au, it is pointed out. Re
pub'icsn Chairman Guy Gabriel
, son has already said publicly
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i with the Dixiecrat leaders, to see
whether some understanding
might not be possible. Gabriel
son's indiscreet remark was
quickly disavowed by all and
sundry. But tha fact remains that
by 1952 the republicans will have
been out of power for twenty
years and the civil rights issue
is the only serious impediment to
an understanding with the con
servative so u t h e r n democrats,
which could bring the republi
cans back into power. Obviously
the step from a congressional
coalition to a coalition behind a
single presidential candidate is
a short step and by no means
illogical.
This Dixiecrat strategy ex
plains why the Dixiecrats have
been beating the drum so . en
thusiastically for General Dwight
D. Eisenhower. Although he has
publicly (and perhaps wisely)
opposed compulsory civil rights
legislation. Senator Robert Taft
is considered so indelibly repub
lican that southerners could
hardly be bamboozled Into voting
ior nun. aui jusennower is not
1 even a registered republican,
I and although there is nothing In
I his record to Indicate any en
thusiasm for Dixiecrat ideas, the
Dixiecrats have been eager to
bestow on him what might well
be a kiss of death.
Obviously, if the Alabama
Dixiecrats are administered a
severe defeat by the Hill-Spark
! man forces, their strategy will
I receive a setback from which
jno recovery will be likely. The
; Hill-Sparkman eamp has been
helped by the administration de
; cision to delay senate debate on
j the civil rights issue a fact
j which is doubtless not a coin
J cidence. Even so. the Alabama
i Dixiecrats are putting on a tough,
j shrewd campaign, and the out
i come is still very much in doubt
And it is not inconceivable that
the outcome of this apparently
obscure Alabama contest could
have a far-reaching effect on the
whole national political future.
Copyright. 1S5
New York Her ad Tribune Ine.j
Spring means vacations and vacations means festivals. And
tha travel j department of jjthe state highway department lists
150 annual festivals, rodeos, feasts, celebrations, carnivals, air
days, shows, parades, pageants, boat races, der
bies, tournaments, etc., which will be put on,
tossed off or nailed down in various towns over
the state this season.
They include a Root Feast and Rodeo, Musia
in May Festival, Pea Festival, Ski Tournament,
Catfish and Salmon Derbies, Water Pageant,
Fish Fry.jBean Festival, Cherry Festival, Chief
Joseph Days, Oregon Shakespearean Festival,
Gold Rusi Jubilee, Frontier Days Celebration,
Huckleberry Feast, Farnjeroo, Potato Festival
and Cranberry Festival, 'etc. Take your pick.
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The $110,000,000 tourist industry in Oregon is third
largest in state ... Travel departmentlthis year is selling
Oregon via four-column jads in 50 netcspapers tn II western
states . i . Trowel department estimates over half of out-oj-state
tourists will come )from California . . . San Francisco
office says a good share of 160,000 members of National
Automobile club are interested in touririg Oregon this year,
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Tourist cabin rates are expected to remain same this
year as last. Total of 2 53 licensed tourist establishments
in state lat end of last year uuth 133 niw ones (average 10
living units each) added during 1949. A'umber of cabins
nearly doubled in past fire years. t
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Travel department receives inquiries from Japan, South
America, Italy, France, Great Britain, Finland, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Germany, Holla: id, France and Mothers. Travel to U.S.
largely restricted, however because foreign citizens not permit
ted to take sufficient cash with them for extensive trip. An
Englishman, for example, lis allowed to take only about $100
from Great Britain. How long would that last on New York's
Great White Way?
Hollywood on Parade
HOLLWOOD In a
James Whitmore owes his
way
act-
II
ing career and his nomina
tion for an
academy award ITi
this year I f
tne Dug or am
oebic dysen
tery. Second
Lieut Whit
more of the U.
S. marines
picked up the
bug during ac
tion on Tinian.
After sojourns
in several U. S.
hospitals. h e
was assigned to guard duty on
the Panama canal. To relieve the
tedium, he joined, in offduty
hours, a little theater operated
by Several American civilians in
Panama City. His roles included
the Jimmy . Stewart part in
"Philadelphia Story.- j
He realized that what he
wanted was to be aa actor. Td
always known it," he says now.
but would never admit it." He,
decided that p re-law, which he'd
been studying at Yale before the
war. was not for aim. Jim Is 2.
He has bow legs (from eartaage
operations tor college football
injuries) and frank atoa eyes.
His hair is wavy aad sandy red.
His face la terse, the mm fan
and sharp, the ciua jottta! He
He played in high school pro
ductions of Gilbert and Sullivan
and in Yale dramatic enterpris
es. But antil Panama, when he
had plenty of, time to think it
over, he was aiming at law. Af
ter experience in summer stock,
he played the wise-cracking
sergeant In "Command Decision"
on Broadway. That brought him
to Hollywood, where he now has
his first lead in "The Next Voice
You Hear."
Previously he had only one
picture rjple, a small part in "Un
dercover! Man." Jim finds the
honors that have come his way
so soon!; "a little frightening."
He still:? isn't sure of himself.
His present lead is his ''first big
break."
The Safety
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Valve...
Your Health
By Dr. Herman N. Bundensen
It has long been thought that
special dangers .surround the
woman who has her first baby
after she is 35 years old. It was
thought to be a risky business
for both the mother and her
child.
But, like so many traditional
beliefs, this one does not stand
up in the' face of the facts. Anal
ysis of the record proves that
thousands of women have had
their first babies after 35 with
out special difficulty and the
babies born to them prove as
healthy as those whose mothers
are younger.
'.
1
Of course, as a woman grows
' older and passes into middle
age. ah may develop disturb
ances of the heart or circula
tion, high blood pressure, or
tumor growths, but there is no
reason to believe that these con
ditions will be any more fre
quent in a woman having her
' first baby after 35 than in a
woman who has children be
fore this time. When these com
plications do occur, it is often
necessary for the woman to
have hospital treatment.
One of the more troublesome
complications of pregnancy,
toxemia or poisoning, is found
no mere often in older women
than in young ones.
In women who have their first
baby after 35, Cesarean opera
tion is often carried, out. Un
fortunately, in some cases these
operations are done because the
patient is fearful that something
will go wrong. Mostly, this is an
unnecessary fear. Both mother
and baby will be better if the
birth is allowed to go on nor
mally. If these mothers past 35, who
are to give birth to their first
baby, have medical care
throughout pregnancy and no
complication develops, they may
be expected to deliver without
any difficulties. These women
should, of course, be under the
care of a physician throughout
pregnancy so that, if any ab
normal condition develops, it
may be promptly recognized and
treated.
All of the figures seem to
show that the older woman who
is giving birth to her first baby
need have no special worries or
fears about the outcome.
(Copyright. 1930. SOa Featam) j
zone. Only a very special inter
est desires to profit at the ex
pense of an overwhelming ma
jority. The very amount of the
area favoring the change Is it
self highly uncertain.
The planning and zoning com
mission should consider its legal
and moral obligation to the citi
zens of Salem which It repre
sents. Mrs. W. W. Jenks
(Continued from page 1)
of the Colorado mountains. Stock
ranches there are giving way to
recreation as the region's most
important resource. Dude ranch
es, trout fishing attract summer
visitors and ski courses draw
winter sports enthusiasts.
At Craig, Colo, one leaves the
railroad not to touch it again un
til near Salt Lake City, a dis
tance of around 250 miles. North
eastern Utah is mountainous and
arid. Snow-covered ridges of the
Unitahs rise on the north and the
Wasatch range to the south and
west of the highway. At lower
elevations heavily eroded humps
of mountains make the land
scape a picture of desolation,
moderated by occasional cattle
ranches and, streams. After a fi
nal climb to 8,000 ft; over Straw
berry Pass one drops rapidly to
tie floor of Salt Lake basin and
comes on beautiful Salt Lake
City, basking in the mountain
sunshine.
I take no space to describe
Denver and Salt Lake City, both
interesting cities, each with a
very different history, capitals of
the great mountain region of the
west They are so well-known
further description Is not neces
sary here.
sate
rose Oscar ior his perlorasatko
the best
supporting Job of las year.!
He first indicated actfar-! ten
dencies at atx. when he'd shake
his nose and explode a-ha-cha-cha"
like Jimmy Durante.
His father, James Whitmore. r,
formerly was an official of j th
YJJ.C.A. and is now executive
secretary of the Buffalo. NJ Y,
city planrinp commL'sion.HJm
was born in White Plains, N. Y.
Ta the Editor:
Are Salem home owners
from spot raning?
The proposed aone change at
Kearney and High Sta. to enable
constnactfcm of a 123 unit (8
story) apaiUiiLat house ia sought
despite a lack of need for $100
monthly rental smita m Salem.
ace are
to get the pfenning
a cram
it
their neighbor's throats,
he fact that ef 60 tax
t the affected area only
13 signed their petition. Thirty
five consistently oppose the
chance, ia signed both for and
against, tix of these wish to
withdraw the'r names, and one
remains neut.'!l.
Herce? far 'ess than 50 per
cent approve the change in their
Dbn'l De A
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CMMM7ED.
The most direct road to the
northwest heads toward Burley,
Idaho. It is labeled SOS until it
joins regular 30 in southern Ida
ho. Shortly after entering Idaho
we knew we had entered another
zone of climate: greener grass,
more evidence of moisture. Stray
clouds began assembling, then
with a high wind and dust storm
as forerunner came the rain,
the gentle rain of the northwest.
For the northwest is the lovely
land, the green land, the fruitful
land.
On down familiar Highway 30
through Boise, into Eastern Ore
gon, over the Old Oregon Trail
(now reminiscent of its original
condition with heavy construction
work In progress near Ontario
and between Arlington and The
Dalles and near Bonneville), to
Portland, and up the Willamette
Valley to Salem. No mishaps, not
even a puncture. And, believe it
or not, we did not see any car
wrecks along the way.
Now what impressions do I
have from this admittedly rapid
tour of the USA?
First, America Is busy. Every
where people were at work:
building, manufacturing, mining,
tilling the ground and planting
crops, and in Florida harvesting
early crops of garden stuff. The
south is not the idler one may
think. It is busy too. Men work
hard in the south, some of them
Just to earn a living, others to
develop their farms and business
es and enterprises, r -
' Second, one 'eaughtrno hole of:
pessimism. No one seemed to be
contracting his operations. On
the other hand a healthy opti
mism seemed to prevail, as far as
domestic business is concerned.
Third, Americans are confused.
They are bewildered over the
news from Washington and world
, capitals. Washington in particu
lar presented an example of quar
relling and bickering among
leaders which added to the con
fusion of the public mind.
Stronger, more positive leader
ship is needed there; and less of
playing for partisan advantage.
Fourth, this is One Country, a
country with great diversity, a
country whose sections have pe
culiar characteristics, loyalties
and prejudices, but One Country.
There is needed a better under
standing of the problems and
mental attitudes in these sec
tions; and a personal visit, hur
ried though it was, serves to in
struct one in this regard.
Fifth, modern improvements
are doing much to unify the coun
try. Supplementing newspapers
and magazines have come radio,
good roads, and better schools.
The paved highways are, break
ing the crust of insularity, some
times with a shock. Everywhere
one sees the big yellow buses
transporting children, white and
black, to central schools. This
will mean better diffusion of ed
ucation and contribute to the uni
fication of our common country.
Tomorrow I shall write some
concluding Travel Notes to ter
minate the series.
Pay Hike Asked
For A-Board
WASHINGTON, April J5-MV
President Truman's difficulUes in
finding an atomic energy com
mission chairman prompted Sen
ator Mcmahon (D-Conn) to pro
pose today to raise the pay and
prestige of commissioners.
McMahon, who is chairman of
the senate-house atomic commit
tee, said In a statement he will
offer Monday a bill boosting the
pay of the commission chairman
from $17,50 to$ 22,500 yearly and
other commissioners from $15,000
to $20,000. '
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