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CONGRESS WAKES UP
Whatever the outcome of the light to prevent Henry A.
Wallace from getting his hands on the billions of dollars now
in the hands of the RFC whether by the rejection of the
nomination or by a separation of that agency trom the com
merce department the congress, so Washington observers
' assert, has been wakened by the incident to a realization of
the need for better control of it and other federal corporations
that now have almost unlimited borrowing and spending
power. Let us hope that something will be done.
The fact is that government corporations, authorities,
agencies or administrations have for handling upwards of
50 billions of dollars. Some of these make no accounting, some
are not responsible to the general accounting oltice. Some can
issue bonds and spend tne proceeds about as they please. One,
at least, when incorporating took Irom the state where it
filed its papers larger powers than had been granted by the
congress in its original authorization.
A considerable part of that 50 billions of dollars, though
It is debt of the United States, is not included in the figure
of national debt shown in the daily treasury statement. The
true debt, in other words, is not known but it is higher than
any record shows.
The situation has grown out of the careless congressional
habit, under the new deal, to authorize these .agencies, give
them extraordinary powers and tail to require any accounting.
It is all part and parcel of the disordered administrative
management for which President RooseveIC is responsible.
With respect to the RFC congress suddenly realized that
to put Henry Wallace in charge was to give him the opportu
nity to remaKe the national economy. Nooody should have that
opportunity unless his plans have had congressional approval.
Congress has begun to think of its responsibility.
There are bills in the legislature or cominc un. so we are
told, that would charge the highway department with the jobjint
of building, maintaining and
and placing a six cent tax on
would go to the department. Without doubt the highway de
partment is best qualified to do the building job and it could
develop an operating division and do the whole thing at less
cost than any other state agency now existing or to be created.
The new federal aviation bill, however, under which states
would have federal aid in airport construction forbids, so we
understand, any tax on aviation gas. This, presumably, is
something that the big airlines want but if it becomes law an
aid in airport financing, hailed as ideal for meeting highway
building costs, will be lost.
A few weeks ago the statement came from Coos Bay that
the state health department's report on milk conditions there
would not be made public. Now it develops that the report
labels Coos Bay "one of the dirtiest spots in the statu." No
wonder the city officials wanted to hush the report.
The latest piece of news about the travelling Roosevelts is
that Col. James and his wife got a west bound train held up in
Chicago so that they could get aboard. Bet Henry Wallace's
"common man" couldn't do it.
Breslau, Big Industrial Ciiy,
On Russians' Road to Berlin
Washington, D. C Breslau,
largest and most important city
of Germany's eastern border re-
gion. now looms as an early ob-j
Jectivc In the fast moving advance
of the soviet winter-geared steam- j
roller.
The Russians, entering Ger
many's southeastern-tip industri
al province of upper Silesia point
their forces northwestward down
the Oder river to Breslau. Such a
move would take the Russian ar
my through a region of coal, Iron,
zinc and lead mines, and Indus-
tries that compose Germany's
"Eastern Ruhr, says the Nation
al Geographic society. In the same
straight line northwestward, Ber
lin lies only 170 air miles beyond
Breslau.
Railway, highway and Reich-;
sautobahn (four-lane suM'ihigli
S
way) lead from the tip of Germ,
hilesia nearest Krakow via Bi
trill I rt Hj.rlin Tho nnv'ir:ihln i-:itit'
route down the Oder likewise! 1llc Dalles, Oie., Jan. 30 mi
spans the full distance, beginning I Seeking to determine the fensibil
with the canal connecting the Wis-! "' of developing a huge, r.O.(HK)
la I Vistula I to the head of Oder""'1'0 Irrigation project in Tin:
navigation at Cosel and ending,1''"1 a pennon n;is heeii
with the canal linking Krankfurt
am-Oder with the German capital,
40 miles west.
Bresiau, with a prewar popula
tion of 615.01)0 ranked nip and
tuck with Dresden, for honors as
seventh largest city of Germany.
Its "excellent position on land
transportation routes brought It
to prominence not onlv as the
heart of commerce and Industry lavatuinie lor the project. StiRKCst
for Silesia hut as a center fori methods may be to pump wa
promotion of international trade, i u'r from 'he Columbia or Pes
Brcslau's gigantic Centurv hall ehutes riveis, or the storage of
and exhibition Riounds handled water from White river, Pog riv
milling thousands every spring rr' Fifteen Mile creek, or Five
end fall, attending trade fairs. I Ml,p creek.
Iron foundinc. manufacture of ! Ihp petition points out that the
railway eoulpment. niachinerv.
textiles', furniture and paper kept ' iH'rps planted to cherries, 1,000 ation concluded that the only prac
Kreslau commercially in the v,in!iU'n's Planted in peaches. 1,000 ticable solution was to raise the
of Silesian cities. It is the canital! am's in apricots and about 800; ,
of lower Silesia lower by virtue
of its position on the Oder In!
comparison to upper Silesia to the!
southeast. Upixn- Silesia teertsl
raw and finished materials of In
dtistry to Breslau, while lower
Silesia supplies mainly agricul
tural products.
Despite its leadership in com
merce and Industry, Breslau fronv
103!) to early 1011 proved to hri
Germnny's best located larec citv;
for safety against allied bombing:
attacks. Part of the reieh govern-i
ment moved there when blockbus
ters began dropping on Berlin.
The city, dating back neatly
operating air fields in Oregon
aviation gasoline live of which
1,000 years, Is dotted with
churches and other historic
old
and
cultural landmarks. The oldest
Krouppd abou, ..Tho R,ng ,, or
ter square of the town
Polish at Its beginning, the town
has known Mongol, Bohemian,
Austrinn, Kronen and Prussian
control. Napoleon reduced its de
fenses In 1807, but from Breslau
in 1813 came the beginnings of
successful revolt against Napole
on's tyranny, And for those who
aided the revolt a new honor was
established -the now well-known
Order of the Iron Cross,
i Irrigation Sought
In Dalles Region
-m I, mi.-.!! i.iini tigems lo 1'. A.
Hanks, rcgiona director of the
U. S. reclamation service at Boise,
'Hie proposal 1ms the endorse
ment of Charles Stiicklin, state
; engineer.
! If the idea is aecepted by Banks,
;a survey will be made to discover
ine numthT ol water sources
i lls,''l't already contains 4.300
acres of truck gardens.
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Five-day lorcrast
nding Sal in-
day night:
Oregon and Washington west of
Cascades: occasional light rains, i
probably cleaiing l ridav. Wann
er, followed hv colder. Frltlav.
Idaho, Oregon and Washington
east of rascades: occasional light
rains clearing Friday. Warmer,
followed by cooler Friday.
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Buy National War Bonds
Now!
It's
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CIIICAGO-TIIE YOUNG GIANT
II
For about tour decades of the
Iast century from 1840 until well
he 1880's Chicago grew
more rapidly in population and in
commercial importance than any
other community in the world. It
was like a hearty lad who out
grows his clothes before he has
had time to get used to them. One
strange feature of this button
bursting expansion is that the site
of Chicago was abou the last place
along the shore of Lake Michigan
where one might reasonably ex
pect the birth of a metropolis.
The town stood at the mouth of
the Chicago river, which at that
time was too shallow for naviga
tion. The land was low, wet and
malarial. The ground on which
the city's principal business sec
tion stantls now known as the
Loop was a marsh only a few
inches higher than the level of the
lake. , i
In 1837 the Illinois legislature
had incorporated the community
as a city under the name of Chi
cago.
Its name In nooular sooech was Ba,eB""" WLre lo ue lou,lu 11 av"
sb.xri"!e wefrnrstan'
far and wide. It was called Slab , sellin8 ?ods t0 leE'n rtail
Town because every house in the ?;,,, ,,, w
community was a hastily flung-!, one slllewaIk? 'Vld been aid
..,.. i ni, .....;. T. in the downtown business section.
boards or split logs. Besides Chi-"1 ,he,"sl.?f, C"?mC.V?"
cago and Slab Town the place had the wealthy districts-still tripped
still another name, evoWed !rom;alonB 0" P !'"ks- A huge sewage
the experiences of strangers who
had unwillingly tried to dash
across a street in rainy weather.
By them it was called the Mud
Hole of the Prairies.
The new little city had a popu
lation of about 4000, mode up
chiefly of fur traders, grain buy
ers, wagoners, blacksmiths, gam
blers and shopkeepers -as well as
a lot of idle adventurers, ready
for anything except hard work.
In manner or deportment its resi
dents were like those of the other
new towns of the Middle West.
They drank their tumblers of raw
whisky, gambled excessively,
danced all night, whooped and
yelled and fired guns and pistols
frequently, with or without ade
quate incentive. Murders occur
red too often to attract much at
tention. But neither mud
nor murders I
held Chicago down. In 1857, 20
years after its Incorporation, the
city had S)S,0tV Inhabitants and
newcomers were still arriving in
an unbroken .stream. It had 10
first-class hotels -- among them
the Tremont, a four-story brick I
structure - besides 40 odd hostel-
l ies of lower degree. There wore I
a dozen banks, '10 newspapers and
periodicals of various kinds, and
1500 business establishments. It
was the terminus of U trunk line
railroads, and more than 100
trains arrived or departed every
day.
it was no longer called Slab
Town but the derisive name of
Mud Hole of the Prairies still re
mained. After every rain the black
prairie soil became a vast mud
puddle, with shallow ponds of
muddy water standing in the
streets.
In 1K55 engineers and drainage
. experts who had studied the situ
Dr. Grant Skinner
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Walt Peak rWe 174
a Sad, Sad Song, Mates
OUR PEOPLE
-LIVED
M eHeeeeea teeeea..
DittalHHtd
whole area 12 feet above the level
of the lake by covering it with
fresh soil.
It was a prodigious undertak
ing, and Chicago tackled it with
the energy of muscular youth.
Two square miles of land
streets, gardens, lawns and back
yards were eventually covered
with earth sucked up from the bed
of the river, for a channel-deepening
job was going on at the same
time.
e e
Nothing could stop the rushing
progress of the wonder city of the
Midwest. By 1870 its population
had grown up to 300,000. Farms
on the prairie were surrounded
and swallowed by the advancing
city, and poor farmers, to their
own amazement, found them
selves rich from the sale of their
land. As a meat-packing center
Chicago had passed Cincinnati.
Seventeen huge grain elevators,
with a capacity of 12 million bush
els, raised their tall heads along
side the freight yards. Chicago
wholesale houses had become the
largest of their kind, and their
had only one serious fault it
wouldn't work. On the lake shore
rose tho palatial homes of the
new-rich; some of them were mar
ble palaces. Along the Chicago
river, and north, west and south
were the homes of the laboring
poor; some of them were muddy
hovels, made of rough boards.
The city was always full of
strangers who had come to better
their fortunes, or to escape the
consequence of their misdeeds, or
to avoid their creditors. But there
were also many decent workmen
who hoped to obtain work in a
railroad shop or an industrial
plant, for Chicago employers wore
said to pay higher wages than
those prevailing in the cast. The
boisterous city of glamor and
mud, easy fortunes and loose
spending, also attracted a swarm
of gamblers and plausible swindl-
ers.
Young men who were just be
ginning their careers, or who had
not been able to find a place for
themselves at home, were prob
ably the most numerous of all the
newcomers.
ne of these young men was
Jeff Martin, who arrived In Chi
cago in the fall of 1S71, having
come from his home town of An
napolis, Md.
tto Be Continued)
Nine giant hydroelectric turbine
generators are being manufactur
ed in the United States for instal
lation in the Donets Basin region
of the Ukraine in the Soviet
Union.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
If mom Piwns our vou
ME HERE' INSTEAD OF KEBPlO Mr
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ANYONE REMEMBER FRED
GII'FORO
(The Dalles Chronicle)
The death In Portland this week
of Fred L. Gifford, formerly head
of the Ku Klux Klan for Oregon,
demonstrates how transitory a
thing is prejudice, when exposed
to the light of tolerance.
We can recall when the Ku Klux
Klan was powerful in Oregon, po
litically and otherwise. Some
Dalles residents, in fact, probably
have shame-faced recollections of
being members of this night-shirt-
ed organization, at a time when
fiery crosses blazed on the hills
south of town and torch-light pa
rades were staged along Second
street.
There even was a stabbing af
fray here, as we recall it, between
two embittered individuals who
met in an alley and argued so
violently that a knife was brought
into play. Fortunately, the injury
inflicted was of a minor nature,
but the mere fact that such a
thing could occur seemed to have
a sobering influence on the com
munity. It was not long after then
that the Klan movement died
down here.
It was wrong in the first place,
in that it was un-American and
based on religious and racial intol
erance. Also, it was a racket, with
fancy prices charged for regalia
and membership "privileges."
Some of the mgn ollicers waxea
fat on the proceeds.
Grand Kleagle Gifford, or what
ever his title may have been, was
quite a power in Oregon politics,
at the zenith of his career. He
faded into obscurity in short or
der, however, when the movement
declined, and few persons heard
any more about him until his
death notice was published.
The fate of the Ku Klux Klan
will be shared by all other organi
zations that use racial intolerance
and religious prejudice as an ex
cuse for their existence, so long
as America retains its present
ideals. They may rise for brief in
tervals, under special circum
stances, but they cannot endure
because they are not in keeping
with the true spirit of democracy.
JAP WOMKN BATTLE, TOO
Tresque Isle, Me. (ll'i Lt. Rich
ard Akeley, USMC, veteran of
numerous south Pacific battles,
says Japanese women sometimes
fight alongside their husbands
in some cases using sticks with
nails on the ends as weapons.
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Washington
Column
By Peter Edson
(NEA Stall Correenondent)
Washington. D. C. LT. S. trans
portation today Is In a tougher
. .... i
predicament than most people ap-
preciate.
rJinZ?lTin?Z
?hl'I
Johnson flapped a four-day ban
on the shipment of everything ex-
cept war freight over storm-bound
Chicago-to-New York railroad
lines the other day, he may have
naan CQtrinn rntt mm fnr- Hracrif
ant;i4 ttiiig a uutl.t.1 la iui iaauolaw
action that might have to be re
peated from time to time through
out 1945. There' have been other
wartime local embargoes before
on the movement of tank cars or
refrigerator cars to or from cer
tain areas, on seasonal passenger
travel to resort centers and such
things. But when the railroads in
iiiXirKEiy
they could discontinue passenger
service wherever it was necessary1
to keep the war freight rolling,
and they did. Furthermore, they
can ao u again, any time it is nec
essary to relieve congestion.
If the embargo had been put :
on non-war shipments in the
northeastern area ten days ear-'
lier, the transportation situation
today might be a little better. As
it is, the railroads will be feeling
the effects of the storm for six
or eight months, says Col. John
sonperhaps right up to the an
nual peak freight movement after
the harvest season next fall. - i
October has traditionally been
the month of heaviest rail freight
movements in the United States.
But last November the tonnage
went up instead of down, Decem
ber beat November and January
might have beaten December if
it had not been for storms in the
lower Great Lakes states. With
war production schedules calling
for increased output during the
next six months, there will be no
slack summer season and 1943
looms ahead as the toughest year
the American transportation sys
tem has ever had to face.
The sad facts of this situation
have not yet registered on the
American public, says the ODT
director, despite all the demands
and campaigns to keep people off
the trains. Citing statistics to
show that the railroads and
trucks and buses are having to
carry more passengers and
freight with no more equipment
than they had before the war
ODTs Colonel Johnson has
been bearish on the transporta-
COW. 1S SV
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' HOUR 0IMES this month 1
f
wmjk
ition situation' ever since he took
office last May and he has been
remarkably right in calling the
turn. Seven months ago he was
warning that all conventions
should be cancelled, but they have
only now been stopped.
. In June he was warning that
railroad and bus accommodations
I may be- cancelled without notice,
and that has now come to pass.
ue oeat tne arums lor "vaca-
u nomf a" .lafl B"mmer;
and is preparing to intensify that
a-usate during the coming sum-
mer
He Is as bearish on the auto-
mobae- bus and tlre sltua-
Uom te railroads. Yet
he believes that somehow the
hrou the war effort
..Prerlre foP the worst." '
Bend's Yesterdays
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
(Jan. 30, 1930)
Emil Nordeen plans to go to
train
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Your travel penny buys far more comfort, safety
and speed on Great Northern trains than it did
during the first World War.
Among the reasons is Great Northern's tradition
of constant improvement of tracks heavier rail,
elimination and reduction of curves, signal systems,
stronger bridges and time-saving tunnels. , Good
equipment and better locomotives, tool
The teamwork of management, employes and ma
chines is enabling Great Northern to meet wartime
demands for passenger service. The same unbeatable
combination will provide better service for the
travel penny in the peacetime to come.
C. L. BISCIIOFF, Trav. Pass'r Apt.
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E. L. Clark announces plans
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ture census in Central Qreenn
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hampson
announce that they have named
their son, born Jan. 22, Alien
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
(Jan. 30, 1920)
Excitement prevails in Bend fop
a half hour as the automatic con
trol of the fire siren is tested by
the telephone operator. There was
no fire. ,
M. J. Danfelson reports that the
new foot bridge over the Des
chutes will be completed In about
two weeks.
C. G. Seward, photographer, re
turns to Bend and forms a part
nership with R. J. Todd.
Gus E. Stadig, manager of the
Deschutes Valley Potato Growers'
association, announces that $90
ton has been offered for see
potatoes.
A recent extraordinary abund
ance of mackerel off Cape Cod,
Mass., was probably due to an
unusual inshore drift of nlankt
Crustacea.
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