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to tha community endeavoring to ba candid but leir and
helpful In tha development of constructive community policy.
Housing Bill Most Significant
It may turn out that the passage of the
new national housing bill will be the most
ttriklng whether or not the wisest action
taken by this session of the 81st Congress.
Here are some of the reasons the step
is significant:
1 ' 1. It is the only major domestic legisla
tion thus far approved which Is a part of
President Truman's Fair Deal program.
2. Despite the fact that in crulcal test
.the measure was opposed by all but 24
i Republicans in the House, the housing pro
posal drew heavy bipartisan support in the
Senate and was essentially bipartisan in its
origins.
3. The bill's approval climaxed a long,
i winding legislative history that began in
'1944 and ended successfully only after two
previous failures in the House in 1946 and
1948.
1 Few measures ever have had the ex
haustive, intensive study accorded this
'housing legislation.
A special Senate subcommittee con
ducted eight months' investigation into
every cranny of the housing field to start
things off. Out of that Inquiry came the
' first bipartisan bill, backed by two Demo
; crats and a Republican, Senator Taft, who
; had been a driving force in the hearings.
The Senate passed the program but the
, House shelved it in midsummer of 1946.
The following year a GOP Senate opened
; a new inquiry and this time the program
got lost in the legislative shuffle on that
side of Congress. Meantime, a new joint
' congressional committee was appointed to
make still further studies,
; Its recommendations were woven into
a new housing plan for 1948. For the second
time the Senate approved it and dispatched
it to the House. And for the second time the
! House killed it.
This year the Democrat! 81st tried
, attain. The Senate cave the nrournm its
'third endorsement, by a comfortable 57 to
1 13. But the House seemed likely to prove
1 as tough a barrier as formerly. It took all
i the skill of House leaders to drive the
measure through at last.
i 4. A key maneuver in steering it to
j House success was use of a new rule that
t allows the powerful rules committee to be
by-passed when it has blocked debate on a
i bill it dislikes. The rule was invoked and,
I facing defeat, the rules group reversed an
original negative stand to let the housing
, measure reach the floor.
This is the first time a major piece of
(legislation has been pushed to victory
1 against the wishes of the dictatorial rules
i committee,
j 5. Adoption of the plan will mean the
, resumption of federal public housing efforts
' for the first time since before World War
,11.
, wnatever the ultimate impact upon
i private housing, this phase of the program
I Is admittedly a gigantic experiment in gov
1 ernment assistance. It calls for 810,000
, dwelling units in six years, with the gov'
ernment committed to annual subsidies of
, $308,000,000 for 40 years to finance this low
rent venture.
Critics say this and the $1,500,000,000
' slum clearance feature make the bill too
costly. They contend also that it mi
socialistic Interference with private bulld-
i ers.
! But subsequent Congresses have a check
; on funds for the program should it actually
, prove too expensive.
As for the argument about government
. Interference, supporters of the new bill in
both parties insist private builders have not
: shown they could erect houses cheap
enough to meet the needs of low-come
' families. Taft, who is no radical, reluctnatly
decided after hearing months of testimony
that only the government could fill that
demand.
Until they can be proved wrong by
facts rather than words, the earnest sup-
porters of this program have earned
chance for their ideas.
nrl tha Christian Democrat! of South Germany.
But these are not the only political forces that
will have to be reckoned with. Other Important
elements Inlude the German youth groups and the
refugees from eastern Germany and eastern
Europe.
Refugee! Are Potent Factor
There are from 10,000,000 to 14,000,000 refugees
in western Germany. They are desperate people,
at odds with the native-born residents of western
Germany. Many refugees 8re now being moved
from Schleavrig to the French zone, for Instance,
to relieve political pressure against Danish terri
tory. The U. S. military government has been giving,
considerable attention to the youth groups, foster
ing educational and sports organizations in the
American zone. Less attention has been paid to
them in the British and Trench zones. German
youth organizations, it will be remembered, formed
a strong corps for Hitler's support.
Both the refugees and the youth groups are
now believed to be violently anti-Communist. But
they are also believed to be ripe pickings for any
new German nationalist movement that comes
along. The new Association of Independent Ger
mans formed in Frankfurt, or other outfits of the
same stripe, may have a tremendous appeal to
youth and refugee groups which will have no
truck with the older. Democratic parties.
If these new political elements should hold the
halanee of nower in the new German state. It will
give the occupying powers a tougn proDiem to
handle. The western powers will probably have to
mpport the Democratic parties in order to main
tain a government that will at all time co-operate
for total European economic recovery and not
work iust for German recovery alone.
There is some opinion that tne new uerman
state will almost Immediately have to be taken
into full partnership with the Marshall Plan coun.
tries, because of Germany's great industrial poten
tial. The fact that the new German state will be
disarmed nation does not mean that its voice
will carry no weight at the council tables of
Europe.
Rink of Nitionallim Involved
While this negotiating with the new provisional
German government may Involve some risk of a
strongly nationalistic Germany eventually arising,
this is a calculated risk that must be taken. The
alternative risk is to make some bargain with
Soviet Russia and give the Communists more voice
in west German affairs, just for the sake of keep
ing down west German nationalism.
As to what Kuseian policy win De irom nere on,
of course, no one can predict. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, in his press conference review of
the Paris meeting, sees the Russians as on the de
fensive and unable to relax any of the strangle
hold controls they have on eastern Germany.
John Foster Dulles, going a bit further, specu
lated in his New York statement that events might
be shaping up within Russia for a struggle against
growing revolt against Soviet Intolerance.
Any idea that Russia will abandon ner desire
for roll Ileal conquest over all Europe is pretty
much wishful thinking. While it should have been
evident to the Russians within the past year that
they could not gain control of Europe, they appar
ently did not see it.
They may have recognized within the last few
months that the situation in western Europe was
not ripe for revolution. That may have accounted
for their desire to hold the Paris meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers, and their willingness
to attend future meetings.
On the other hand, this may have been merely
an' explanatory move, seeking some new opening
through which to reinaugurate their drive for con
quest of western Germany and western Europe
as a whole.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By Teter Edlum
NT A WASHINGTON CORHKSrONPEXT
Possible Rise of Nationalism
In Germany Is Calculated Risk
WASHINTON (NEA) End of the Paris con
ference of Foieiitn Ministers brings American and
Hied western Kuropean foreign policy to another
one of those crucial turning points that are always
bobbing up. RcRnrdless of the somewhat dtsap
pointing results o( the Pails meeting, things aren'
going on in the same old stalrmate.
A principal factor in the new situation will he
emergence of the new west German state. This
does not mean that it will be turned loot and
allowed to shift for Itself. But once having been
creaied, the new German state will have to be
given Its proper place In the European scheme of
ininps.
The 60.000,000 German people will no longer
oe just uie occupants of an occupied territory,
living in a political vacuum. When elections are
neid next month and the new provisional govern
ment is constituted, it will be impossible to undo
hat has been done.
This new German government will apparentlv
.Start out with a fairly even balance of power be
tween tha Social Democrat, of ths fc'oxUj Gwrauyr
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Atomic Energy Commission has
announced that the Western Elec
tric Co. and the Bell Telephone
laboratories will take over oper-
fatio of its bomb engineering base
at Sandia. N. M.
The new operators are subsidi
aries of the American Telephone
& Teleeraoh Co. The Sandia base,
near Albuquerque, has been oper
ated by the University oi Cali
fornia, which also runs the Los
Alamos (N.M scientific labora
tory. The Sandia base nas grown
into an elaborate installation for
translating the laboratory devel
opment work done on bombs at
Los Alamos into manufacturing
designs. It also is the place where
the commission ana me armea
forces get together on military
applications of atomic energy.
The University OI uamorma ue-
eided to withdraw from Sandia
when its operations developed
from bomb research into Domo en
gineering. A contract is now being
negotiated wim me new operators.
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OUT OF THE WOODS
By Jim Stevens
Commission Appointed
To Study Colleges
SALEM G Oregon's "Little
Hoover Commission," which will
study whether the state govern
ment should be reorganized, has
been appointed. It will make its
recommendations to the 1951 Leg
islature. Members of the commission,
named by Senate President Wil
liam E. Walsh and House Speaker
Frank J. Van Dyke, are:
Sen. Philip S. Hitchcock, Klam
ath Falls; Sen. Angus Gibson,
Junction City; Rep. Rudie Wil-
For the Young Farmer . . .
The farm woodland unit in the Pacific North
west Is practically always a unit of a farm on
which the main Interest is in the dairy herd or
In the cultivated crops and the meadows. The
true woodland has soil that Is good for trees and
for little else.
The Ideal Is to make the most of the woodland
for itself alone Practically, It must be a scrub
workhorse for the rest of the farm, a "woodlot"
as of old, but promising future yields of all the
new values that appear in the light of modern
farm forestry science and modern merchandising
of farm products.
The farm woodland unit Is the perfect Part of
the farm tor farm youth. There the young farmer
ran best learn to be responsible for management.
Through his school, the 4-H Club, the Future
Farmers of America Chapter, or other groups, he
can meet with foresters, with the business men
who deal in forest products in his trading center,
and with others of his age out on the farms.
The young farmer of school age if used to
learning new things. He can look forward to
realization of yield from a slow-growing crop.
The farm woodland Is a home of wild life. In
sire of growth it is the biggest thing on the farm.
There Is mystery In its promise. Science has only
begun to explore the marvels that may be made
from a stick of pulpwood. The farm woodland is a
frontier. It is an adventure.
And there is money In it for ambitious, inform
ed and well organized farmers, young or old.
Service In Farm Forestry ...
Imagine a more or less typical farm and for
est community of Western Oregon and Washington,
naming it "Green Home'. A state highway runs
up the valley of the Lemolo River, on the track
of a corduroy road of pioneer times first of all
an Indian trail.
There Is a sawmill In Green Home that cuts
75.000 board feet of lumber per day, five days a
week most weeks. There are 20-odd smaller saw
mills In the Green Home trading area and JO log
ging outfits.
Up Lemolo Valley and the vallevs of its tribu
tary creeks there are 180 farms with woodlands.
Green Home, county seat of Mamook County.
has a soil district and is county headquarters for
farm organizations and for dairy and other coop
eratives. There is a Mamook County farm forestry
Hi will, am, iMumuwn .uumy rkevp vrrsen loni'
mittee.
There are 12 important lumber stores In the
county and a variety of building contractors. Green
Home also nas outlets for the sale of pulpwood,
shingle bolts, peeler logs for plywood making, for
easenra bark, Christmas trees, poles, posts, fuel
woon ana oiner minor forest products.
Government's Ftorees . , .
There is a county agent of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture's Extension Service in Green
Home, It is headquarters of a State District Fire
Warden. Up the big valley is the Lemolo Ranger
Station of the IT. S. Forest Service and a variety
of other state, federal and county government
agencies that have ome concern with farm for
estry. There It a slate park In Mamook County, for
ests owned by the schools, and Industrial forests
of which Lemolo Tree Farm, a 10,000-acre indus
trial forest owned by the Green Home Lumber
Company and managed for permanent tree pro
duction, is the largest. The company employs two
foresters on its operations. They give service also
on farm forestry matters.
The newly organized Mamook County Farm
Forestry Committee. It is plain to see, has a big
Job to do in serving as a clearinghouse for the rela
tions of the farm woodland owner with all of these
Inleresls. This work has only begun. The young
Mamook County farmer who takes an Interest in
the woodland in his farm can make use of this
committee and at the same time help It to become
rooted in the farm life and business of his country.
First Aid Classes
Taught State Police
Standard and advanced first
aid classes, taught by Cora I. Pir
tle, were taught several mem
bers of the state police force at
Eugene recently.
Receiving certificates were Carl
E. Anderson, Robert C. Buswell,
David Keith, Harry W. Deimer,
Richard H. Bouey, Vern L. Hill,
Eugene G. Hulett, Ralph W. Mc-
Ginnis and William L. Trout.
In a standard first aid course,
taught by D. A. Mellem, certifi
cates went to Ronald Alford, Paul
Barkla, Richard Bentley, George j
Bettls, Dick Blinkhorn, Down;
Bowder, Terry Cave, Bob Chit
tock, Navarre Davis, Lyle Ellis,
Lynn Emrick, Rodger Everson,
Bill Fisher, Dan Gibson, James
Gilge, Mike Henry, Cecil Hodges,
Clark Hollis, Keith Horner, Dick
IJams, Delmar Jeske, Albert Karr,
Darrel Kloak, Delbert Loucks,
Craig Lucas, Bill McCarty, Bob
Mathieson, Bob Nasholm, Howard
Nelson, Roger Nichols, Eldon
Nitschke, Wayne Oldham, Don
Paulus, Bill Pendleton, Bob Ranes,
Robert Schmlt, Don Starbird, Jer
emy Titcomb, Tom Van Tassel,
Dick Weakley, Leslie White, Jim
Wildish, Dee Wilson, Gordon
Wiley.
helm, Portland; Rep. Charles K,
McColloch, Baker; and Rep. Paul
Geddes, Roseburg.
Gov. Douglas McKay, Walsh
and Van Dyke named the com.
mittee to study whether Oregon's
colleges are adequate. It will
recommend whether junior col
leges and more colleges should
be constructed.
Members of this committee are
Edgar Smith, Portland, president
of the State Board of Higher Edu
cation; Dr. H. Morgan Odell,
president of Lewis and Clark Col
lege, Portland; James W. Bush-
ong. Bend; Oscar I. Paulson,
Salem, state director of vocational
education; Sen. Thomas Parkin,
son, Roseburg; Rep. Sprague Car
ter, Pendleton; and Rep. J. F.
Short, Redmond.
Walsh appointed the" Senate
committee to investigate state in
stitutions. Members are Sens.
Vernon D. Bull, La Grande; Rus
sell Gardner, Newport; Frank H.
Hilton, Portland; Carl Engdahl,
Pendleton; and Stewart Hardie,
Condon.
Senators Endorse
O&C Appropriation
SALEM W) A boost of
$250,000 to the recommended
funds for Oregon-Calif ornt
agency administration has been
endorsed by a U. S. Senate Appro
priations Committee.
Charles A. sprague, cnairman
of the O & C advisory committee,
reported the Senate committee
action was confirmed by Sen. Guy
Cordon, a committee member. The
proposal will go to the Senate.
Sprague said the advisory com
mittee had asked a larger In
crease to avoid curtailment of land
management operations in Oregon.
He explained a House appropria
tion had held the fund to last
year's budget, but higher fire pro-
tection costs and salary Increases
would have cut back the agency's
sales program.
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