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this newspaper.
Poll Shows Opposition to "
Bricker Amendment .
VA subcommittee of the Senate judiciary
committee has approved, three to two, the
Bricker amendment to the Constitution. Fa
voring it were Daniel of Texas, Langer of
, North Dakota, Dirksen of. Illinois. Opposed
were Kefauver of Tennessee and Hennings
of Missouri. Despite this boost the indications
are that the amendment will not pass the
Senate. In fact it is doubtful if it will muster
as many1 votes as did the George substitute
last year which failed of the two-thirds re
quired by only one vote. This year Oregon's
two senators, Morse and Neuberger, oppose
the amendment. Last year Cordon voted for
it, to the disappointment of many of his
constituents.
As a fuller understanding of the amend
ment's implications covering the conduct of
foreign policy spreads among the people it
loses supporters. A recent Gallup poll showed
60 per cent of those interrogated were not
in favor of the amendment, while 21 per cent
were in favor of it and 19 per cent were un-.
decided or made no response. This poll was
conducted by taking a sampling of those re
corded in Who's Who in America. With that
response from persons whose achievements
have been deemed worthy of recognition in
Who's Who the chance for adoption of the
amendment would seem to be mighty slim.
The marvel to us has been that it got as
many votes as it did last year.
Again it's that time of-year the high
school commencement season. This week and
next in cities and towns all over the country
'teen agers who have completed their courses
in high school will be awarded their diplomas
at , formal graduation exercises. And their
papas and ramma will get a real thrill, not ,
unmingled with sadness, as they see their
offspring complete successfully an important
cycle in their lives.
But what, we wonder, has become of the ,
old class motto, the trae which woven in
letters of flowers or cut out jof silver paper
! hung unevenly over the rostrum of the opera
house where the exercises were-held? We
' haven't seen one for years. Yet they used to
ibe indispensable for the proper commence
ment Favorites were "Onward and Upward,"
"Hitch" Your Wagon to a Star," "Beyond the
Alps Lies Italy;" Evidently this more sophis
ticated age has done away with the moraliz
ing class motto.
Or perhaps the dropping of the motto re
flects a change in the philosophy of the age.
The old motto put its emphasis on' continued
effort, with the hope of reward If the effort
was persistent Now . with the levelling of re
ward and with the assurances of "social se
- curity" the motto seems to be outmoded. The
stimulus to arduous toll is lacking when com
fortable jobs await the graduates (which is
particularly true of college graduates at this
time). Why climb the Alps to get to Italy
when you can do pretty well on this side of
the mountains? Why hitch your wagon to: a
distant and perhaps unattainable star when
you can work and have fun and be sure of
an old age annuity at age 65?
Fortunately the dispensing with class mot
toes has not chilled all the ambition in youth,
nor has the promise of good jobs and govern
, ment protection from life's hazards discour-
aged all effort and sacrifice to reach distant
yet high goals. There still are those who while
their companions sleep, "keep toiling upward
; in the night"
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merchant shipping. In the crit
ical battle off Jutland the new
German navy gave a good ac
count of ,tself, though it re
treated to its home ports and
the British maintained their
blockade of the enemy.
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McCalPs Two Salaries
The Democratic state . chairman, Howard
Morgan, complains that T. Lawson McCall
drew a salary as secretary of two legislative
interim committees during 1954 when he was
campaigning for the office of congressman
from the third district. The committees were
named to study public employes retirement
system and the public assistance. Morgan
says that McCall drew $4,000 in salaries from
the two jobs.,
The imputation is that McCall continued
to draw his salaries while he was campaign
ing for public office. That is an old contro
versy over-whether a person should resign
from one office while he campaigns for an
other. In general it . isn't done, either by
Republican or Democratic officeholders.
In the McCall case the governing body was
the legislative committee. It had the power
to select staff and- fix salary and determine
work required of employed personnel. Lack
ing knowledge of how the committees func
tioned it 4s .rather hard to pass judgment on
the compensation io McCall. Certainly dur
ing the heat of the campaign he could per
form little service to the committees. It
really is up to the committee chairmen to
justify the expenditure.
Highway Relocation at Corvallis
The dream cherished at Corvallis for a
number of years is about to be realized. This
is for locating Highway 99W along the Wil
lamette River. The city has been acquiring
property along the right of way trader an
agreement with the state highway commis-,
sion, and now the two are joining to buy the
property of the Corvallis Lumber Co. at the
mouth of Marys River. The mill recently shut
down so condemnation was not necessary.
This property, will provide a junction for 99 W
and the contemplated relocation of Highway
20 to Philomath.
This progressive development will give a
scenic route through the city and keep the
through traffic from cluttering up the city
streets.
Bulletin of a finance company says that
housewives are not taking too well to col
ored kitchen appliances. They prefer to stick
to white. That is understandable. After all
white has been drilled into the subconscious
mind as the color of purity. Besides, a house
wife doesn't want to have to buy a new set
of appliances whenever she decides to change
the color scheme of her kitchen. We note also
that auto makers are going to tone down the
color varieties offered in 1956 automobiles.
Graham in Britain
Evangelist Billy Graham seems to have
made quite an impression in the British Isles.
At his first series of meetings the Archbishop
of Canterbury attended one of his services;
and on his recent visit he was invited to
preach before the Queen. and others of the
royal family. Perhaps. we should recall that
popular evangelism such as he conducts got
its start in England with the preaching of
' the Wesleys and of General William Booth
of the Salvation Army. The evangelistic team
of Moody and Sankey held prolonged evan
gelistic meetings in Britain, and Charles H.
Spurgeon was a famous and popular Baptist
preacher in London in' the 19th century.
Finally Gipsy Smith, one of the great evan
gelists, was born in England of Gipsy an
cestry. So Billy Graham's brand of evange
listic preaching is not strange to England
though there as in this country there has
been less of it in recent years.
In California the truckers strike affects
operation of gasoline tanker trucks. Some
communities may have to impose war-time
gas rationing for the interval.
Patterson's Stand on Crooked River Plan
May Affect Future of Reclamation Projects
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Special) Sec
retary of Interior Douglas McKay
has put it up to Got. Paul Pat-
terson to de
cide, in effect
whether Ore
gon shall ask
C o n g r ess to
authorize any
further irriga
tion projects of
the marginal
type that can
be made eco
nomically feas
ible with the
aid of power
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A. Bebert Smith
revenues from the big multiple
purpose dams now being built
on the Columbia River. ' '
- McKay is in favor of the idea.
So is his commissioner of recla
mation, Wilbur A. Dexheimer-.
But up to now Patterson has been
opposed to further reclamation
work of this kind, whether it be
in the Willamette Valley. Cen
tral or Eastern Oregon.
Secretary McKay indicated his
attitude in putting his stamp of
approval on the proposed Crook-'
ed River project near Prineville,
, which would be made economical
ly feasible with the assistance of
tower revenues from The Dalles
Dam after that project on the
Columbia starts power genera
tion in 1957. ;, a
The crooked River, proposal
.tears special significance far fa
taro trrtgatiea deTelepmeat la
Oregon beeaas it wanld a the
first its kind-tiie first U beie
ftt eoaomically tram power sales
f a dam wbkh is atterly anre
lated physically from the pro
posed reclamatioa project. The
preject aaoVtae dam ta this ia
gtaace are over lot mues apart.
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- The Bureau of Reclamation
calculates that the net power
'benefits from The Dalles Dam
over a 74-day period would pro
vide sufficient rove-rue
to put local landowners in the
project area over the hump in
repaying the project's cost, which
is estimated at $8,339,000. The
project involves using excess wa
ters of Ochoco Creek and Crook
ed River to supply 10,220 acres
that are now inadequately irri
gated and 9990 acres of land
not presently irrigated at alL
- Pattersea's attttade toward this
type project was expressed last
meat at Portlaad wbea he tes
tified before the Senate Interior
Teaunlttee- the Hells Caays
project. The governor told the
" committee one of the reasons he
opposed the Ugh federal dam as
proposed ta the bill sponsored by
Sea. Wayne Morse and 29 other
senators was. that it would offer
power reveaiies U make possible
development of the Mountain
Home reclamatioa project ia Ida
ho. When Sen. Rkhard L. Neuber
ger pointed out to Patterson that
the Crooked River project was
based on the same principle fi
nancially and asked him what his
opinion of that central Oregon
project was, the governor re
plied: 1 would be of the same opinion.
I believe that the reveane from
these power dams should be con
sidered and handled as a sepa
rate item. I thlmk logteaDy they
. Should so lata the reaeral fnd
of the United States and then if
the Congress desires to subsidise,
aad that Is what tt Is, these recla
matioa projects wo should do tt
openly aad latelngeatly aad vote
the money oat of oar treasury ia
Uefusual maaaer. Secondly, I
feel that if we are going to pledge
the. revenues from these power
dams to- aaythiag, we should
pledge them to the derelopmeat
of more power dams la the North
west.' McKay has sent Patterson his
report on the proposed Crooked
, River project-and if the gover
nor eontimies his expressed at
titude aad sends back an adverse
report, the chances Congress will
authorize the project would be
seriously diminished. If Patter
son changes his mind, in the nor
mal course of events McKay can
be expected to place the project
before Congress, where Sen- Neu
berger has already announced
his support for it.
Reclamatioa Commissioner
Dexheimer at a' press conference
last week said he envisioned addi
tional reclamatioa projects by the
bureau ia Oregon if the principle
of using a power subsidy from
federal dams oa the Columbia is
adopted. The state has a lum
ber of planned hut unauthorized
Irrigation developments, includ
ing the Willamette Valley proj
ects, Joha Day project,- Cold
Springs' project. Warm Springs
and Grande Roade projects. The
Upper Horse Heavea aad Walla
Walla projects oa the Washing
tea state side of the Columbia are
ia the same category.
Dexheimer pointed out to re
porters that the principle of rec
lamation projects being aided by
dams built mainly for power,
navigation and flood control by
the Corps of Engineers has been
used in the Missouri basin.
' The Columbia aasia will be the
same, declared Dexheimer. "We
are working by this (Crooked
Elver project) aad other proj
ects, for a part ta the power rev
enues for irrigatioa projects ia
that
Congress adopted the same
principle last year for an Idaho
project; Mjchaod Flats,, where
new land is to be irrigated with
the assistance of power revenues
from Palisades dam over 100
miles away. ;
Whether the same application
is to be made U Oregea ia the
ear futaro appears to depend
a the formal stand taken by
Gov. Pattarsosi ta Us report to
McKay oa the Veeodeattukbzg
Croaked River proposal.
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. . Remember the fellow we mentioned a coupla days ago,
who had a TV set but no radio on which to listen to the
fights. Well, the fellows at local radio station KGAE heard
about the whole thing. And they couldn t
stand the thought of James Armstrong, the
radio-less man, living without a radio. So
they presented .him with a dandy RCA
model with the fond hope that when he gets
tired of watching those old movies he can
turn it on and listen to old (and new) songs.
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Take the ease of Charlie Ireland, States
man Valley Ed who talked at a collegiate
press meeting the other day in Monmouth.
Among the other weighty things he said
that day, Charlie urged the girl students present to be sure to
"operate from a broad base" if they ever became society-page
writers. And here we thought that the last thing in the world
a society gal wants is a broad base ...
And Wendell Webb, Statesman's Managing Ed., has been
getting plaudits for outstanding photos he took during a
recent aerial and boat trip to the Snake River in the Hells
Canyon area. Wendell finally confessed, though, that; the
credit should go to John Ericksen, Statesman's bridge-playing
fotog, that's who. WW admits that what he knows about a
camera he could put in the corner of his shutter. So, before
he left, John put a yellow filter on the camera, set the speed
at 1100, f 22, adjusted from 15 feet to infinity (later after
making a tricky landing WW wished he'd also set it for eter
nity), put in a roll of Triple-X, gave a brief lecture, and,
turned it over . . . Result just about every shot near perfect
both in the air and on the ground. Wendell is now think
ing of soldering the adjustments in their present positions.
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Oliver Huston, State Employes' answer to Douglas Fair
banks, took ia flTO bdsebaU games and two track meets (a two
days last Friday and Saturday. Friday aft, in Eugene he
saw Oregon-OSC doobleheader and that night Salem-Eugene
Saturday at Corvallis be saw the second Oregon-OSC double
header. In an adjacent field the state A and B interscholastie
track meets were going on at the same time. And all Oliver
had to do from his seat atop the bleachers was to pivot back '
and forth to watch both events ...
New South Salem High humor book lists a "Horror Hit
Parade;" which outa knock 'em dead on TV . . . Some of the
titles: "Davy, Croak It!" "Slime Cm My Hands," "Butcher
Arms Around Me," "Among My Seven Ears," "There's a
Cavern in Your Crown " "Oh, What a Beautiful Mourning,"
"Curdle Up a Little Closer," "Holiday for Things," etc. After
all, when a song reaches the hit parade it's almost ready for
burial, anyway . . . .'
In this age Of aviation," rival
ry has developed over air, pow
er. Right now Washington has
been thrown into confusion ov
er conflicting reports on the
. relative strength of air fleets of
the U.S. and the USSR. It all
, sounds so familiar, the Navy
League's battle all over again,
only this time for more air pow
er; and the putative enemy is
not Japan but Russia.
The controversy really began
in the Truman administration
when Congress voted a 70
group air force and President
Truman held the spending
. down to provide one of 50-odd
air groups. After war came in
Korea Congress authorized up
to 140 air groups. Later the
Eisenhower administration gave
assurance that it could do the
, job with much less, some 120-
odd groups. Steadily Congress
has been more air-minded than
k the administration. The latter
presumably has been influenced
by the arguments of the chiefs
of staff for the Army and the
Navy who stressed the contin
ued importance of conventional
units of armed might
Recently the controversy
broke out when Brig. Gen.
Woodbury M. Burgess, chief of
intelligence for Continental Air
. Command, said in an address in
Detroit that "the Russian Air
Force is currently at least as
. good as ours, possibly better."
He was summoned to Washing
ton where Secretary for Air
Talbott discounted such reports
and Burgess took refuge by say
ing he -was misquoted (Detroit
reporters stuck by their
stories.) Then LL Gen. Thomas
S. Power distributed copies of
his speech scheduled for Boston
in which. he was to say that
Russia now has the world's
largest air force and "resources
in manpower and material we
could not possibly match." On
delivery,- however, he modified
"these statements greatly, scal
ing down Russia to possessing
"a large air force" and "im
pressive resources."
President Eisenhower step
ped into the debate by denying
that Russia possesses air
superiority over the United
States. And Senator George,
who had commented that per
haps the allegations were di
rected toward influencing con
gressional appropriations, said
he was sure the gap between
air forces of the two powers
"still is wide."
Meanwhile, Senator Syming
ton who as" Secretary for Air
had x clashed with James For
restaL secretary of defense, in
urging a bigger Air Force than
Forrestal had recommended,
continues his fight for more
power in the air. He has called
on the administration to make a
clear statement of facts, and of
fered his opinion that the Com
munists are moving up to the
. United States in offensive strik
ing power and moving ahead in
the fields of defensive power,
production and technology.
There seems to be little
doubt that 'Americans were sur
prised when in a military dem
onstration in Moscow recently,
the Russians flashed by a fleet
of powerful jet bombers. This
was what they had been count
ed short of. The display gave
something of a shock to Amer
icans, reminiscent of Russia's
explosion of an atom bomb in
1949 several years before we
thought they could do it; and
Time
Pli
ies:
From The
Statesman Filee
10 Years Ago
May 25. 1945
Sandra Nordyke, 10-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Nordyke, who received the dis
tinct honor of being the first
Oregon contestant to receive a
"superior rating" in the origin
al composition division of the
National Federation- of Music
Clubs contest Only two such
ratings were awarded in the
United States.
American, Superfortresses al
most wiped out Tokyo, at a cost
of 31 of the big planes, in re
cord pre-dawn fire raids, re
ports disclosed.
Because of late season snow
in the high Cascades, the Boy
. Scout Cascade area council
. summer camp committee, under
the direction of Harry Scott an
nounced a change in dates for
Camp Pioneer.
, 25 Years Ago
May 25, 1939
Madame Saroljina Naidu,
Eet and reformer of India, who
d come to the front page of
newspapers all over the world,
had been a contributor to "The
Oregon Magazine," printed in
Salem by Murray Wade.
The Rev. P. W. Ericksen, pas
tor of the American Lutheran
church, was elected president of
the Salem Ministerial association
for 1930-1931 at the meeting held
at the YJJ.CA-
Turbulent India was much
quieter, after disastrous riots in
four large cities piled up a toll
of S3 dead and more than 800
injured, but tension still existed.
40 Years Ago
May 35, 1115
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The weather giving promise of
becoming settled road work
throughout Marion county began
in earnest, according to County
Roadmaster W. J. Culver, who
predicted before the end of the
year there would be fifty miles
of hard surface and macadam
roads. .
Urging the American people to
preserve a calm patience and
trust in the president's patriotism
and judgment to weather the
.present crisis between the Uni
ted States and Germany, W. C.
Hawley, representative in con
gress from this district asked.
The U. S. government broke
a precedent by beginning the dis
tribution without- charge of
stamped picture postal cards to
visitors at the government's post
office at the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Adlai Criticizes
Vaccine Program
PHILADELPHIA On Adlai
Stevenson, asked Tuesday night
what he thought of the Salk polio
vaccine program, replied:
"That must be the master mess
of all time." I
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of an H-bomb before we did.
Surely Jy this time we should
know, enough not to discount
Russian skill in developing wea
pons. , ..- - .
What does it all amount to?
It seems to add up to an arma
ments race with emphasis on
air power rather than surface
ships and ground forces. And
we may expect steady pres
sures for more and bigger and
faster planes from those fear
ful of losing control of the au
to Russia, with producers of
planes and parts taking a
friendly interest in the pro
gram of air power expansion; It
will be the Navy League battle
over again, for planes rather
i nan snips iinougn lor air
craft carriers, too). The Con
gress and the people are apt to
remain confused as they seem
; to be now, determined not to
let air superiority languish
through lack of appropriations,
but not quite sure whether the
fears that are exploited are
genuine or bogies. -
Chamber Urges
Early Completion
Of John Day Dam
Salem Chamber of Commerce
went on record Tuesday urging
early completion of John Day Dam
on the Columbia River.
In another resolution approved
by the chamber board of directors,
Congress is urged to remove fed
eral regulation of natural gas price
at the wells, but retain interstate
commerce regulation of it
By resolution the board also
praised the civic work of the late
Carl Hogg a. former chamber pres
ident, and in another action thank
ed Willamette University freshmen
for their work of helping clean up
Pioneer Cemetery.
OSC Engineering
Students 'in Demand'
Oregon State College engineering
graduates this year have had offers
of 10 jobs-per man at an average
starting pay of $385 a month, mem
bers of the Salem chapter of an
OSC alumni group were told Tues
day by J. S. Walton, head of the
chemical education department
Walton, to show that engineering
school standards are high, told the
members of the 30 -Staters that
there is a 50 per cent failure among
OSC engineering students.
Statesman News Set-rice -
GERVAIS Frank Wade, a
lifelong resident of the Parkers-
- '
ruie community uiea monaay at
a Salem Hospital. He was the
last survivor of the family of
y v. m A .UCJ WAUW
Webb-Wade, early settlers fn the
comunity.
Wade was born in February,
1879. and spent his entire life on
the farm where he was born. He
never married.
Several weeks ago he lost his
home and possessions by fire and
within a week fire destroyed his
garage which was used for living
quarters.
He is "survived by several
cousins. Funeral arrangements,
under the direction of the Unger
Mortuary, in Mt Angel, will be
announced later.
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A number of years ago, there was a certain area here in
Salem that used to be a few feet under water every winter.
There is a story about that spot that is worth passing along ...
, It seems that Mrs. X needed her husband for something,
but couldnt find him in the house, so she looked on the front
porch and there he was, busily raking in chunks of wood that
were flating by. Mr. X, hearing his wife approach, called ex
citedly over his shoulder to her, "Quick, ma, get a rake and
help me pull in all this here good wood that's a floatin' by!"
Well, it seems that Mrs. X was quite a wise old lady, and had
very few words to spare for her energetic husband, who felt
he was getting lots of good wood for very little effort She
just looked at him rather pathetically and said, "Pa, if you'd
only go out back and lock the woodshed door, you'd save your
self a heap of work!"
There is a great moral here 'that, in this case Is easy to
see, you never get something for nothing! I am sure this story
points it out quite readily, out over the past two decades the
"master economists" have been able to fool millions of people
into believing just the opposite. That you can get something
for nothing. . )
Let's just look at this for a minute. How many of us have
said, and believed it "the government owes me . . . " Well
who is the government? I believe it's you and me and about
160,000,000 other Americans, and how come any of us owe
each other anything? I've heard Morse and Neuberger shout
about the governments giving natural resources to private
business, but not much said about the billions sent overseas.
How come? You and I both know the how come of this one.
.Politics! Not so pure, but plenty simple!
For twenty years we have been listening to the smooth
tongued professional orators tell us we can get something for
nothing. These men have done very handsomely by them
selves, but have surely left us with a mess that will handicap
many generations to comer The public has been on a birring
spree. We have bougth plenty of this smooth talk and double
talk from men like Wayne Morse. I for one, think it's time
to trade in Wayne Morse, who is just a professional orator
for a man of qualified experience. A man who knows move
of how to work, than how to talk. We have a couple of politi
cal comedians back in Washington and it's high time we took
care of that situation. Are we going to be sold a bill of goods
term after term? I, for one, sure hope there is an end in
sight We need a man who has worked to get to the top
not one that has talked his way up with promises that are as
empty as a hole in the ground. ,
Neuberger with his "empty chair debate is typical of
these professional orators. They are so darn willing to orate
that they will talk to themselves in public. Funny, isnt it?
. . . you or I talk to ourselves in public and I guess you
know where we would land! - s ,
The real question here in Oregon today, is not public pow
er vs. private power, as Senator Morse would 'like us to be
lieve. Morse knows, as a professional orator that he can talk
(in ad infinitum) about the' subject of power, which is full
of facts and figures so vast that the public will be lost for
want of. professional education in the field. Morse is relying
on a confused public to fall under the spell of his profession
al oratorial ability. This is his plan just as though he would
tell us before he started. .
Morse may not touch on the real question at all, because
there isnt much room for a professional orator to sound oft
It will take a man who has worked all his life, to solve it! The
question is this . . .' with increased power for production,
where and what Is this production to be here in Oregon? Let
Wayne Morse tell us, if he can, about the real problem facing
Oregon. It takes more than figures on high or low dams to
answer this one. A man who has worked all his life will be
able to give us something concrete to go on, but I bet the
best Morse could do would be to promise to move heavy in
dustry from the east to- the west, but I wonder how he would
get around the fact of Oregon's limited natural resources, with
respect to heavy industry. . r
Time will tell soon, but, for Oregon's sake, listen to what
he says and remember .that he is a professional orator and
can promise the moon in such a fashion as to sell you a ticket
on the first flight out Are we going to send this college pro
fessor back, or are we going to send a working man who
doesn't need to promise the public the woodshed door wil'
always be open?
Paid Adv. by Pat Roden
152 N. Cettage, Salem