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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON MONDAY, MARCH 21. J W PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN and CENTRAL OREGON PRESS ThM Rm1 Rullfftin (wauklv. 1U0S - 11)31 Tiie Bend Bulletin (Daily) Kftt. 1016 PuKli.htHl Kviv AriAriiiKtu KxctmL Hkinditv and Certain Holiday by Thu Hcml Uullvtii 186 - 738 Wall Street Bund, Oregon Entered u Second Clftu Mutter, January 6, l!U7,. at the Pob toff Ice at ilciid, Oreon Under Aut of March if, 1S7U. BOBEBT W. 8AWVER Editor-Mananer HENRY N. FOWLER AwwciaU Editor An Independent Newspaper Bunding for the Square Deal. Clean Uiuineu, Clean Voiitka " MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS ' v- Uu U.il ' Rv Carrier One Year ' 17.00 One Yew '. J1J.00 Six Month. 14.00 S.x Month. t.60 Three Month. '2.60 One month 1.00 ' AU SubucrlDtlon. ere DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Pleeee notify u of ny change of addreu or fellure to receive the pener rcgulerly, THE OREGONIAN AND THE TVA Last week the Oregonian began publication of a series of articles on the Tennessee valley authority which, as a fore word explains, "has lormea a pattern ior legislation prupuo ing a Columbia valley administration." Our purpose had been to comment on and to discuss the findings set out in these ... . i. i. J?.'.' 1 1 T L Dn4..Hf1nD Iw articles wnen puDiication was iinisneu. i-asi, oamiuajr -stallment, however, contained matter that calls for immediate ' examination. The examination is necessary because there is, in some of that matter, an obvious attempt to remove from the public mind certain of the fears that exist with respect to the proposed lVA. , We quote the beginnings of Saturday's article : The Tennessee Valley authority Is not a government. "" TVA has no police, no army, no courts of its own. It has no power to regulate. It can give orders to none but those on Its pay roll. Its one power of compulsion is the right of eminent . ' domain, a common instrument of public agencies. ,, TVA, therefore, cannot really live up to its reputation In '' enmp nuarters as a "suner state." Read those sentence again, please, and note in particular TA7 A .;Vif aminnnf Hnmnin. " enm- tne OHc IlltJllwuilllig x r n. o xjiii i v.... ....... ' . " the sentence concludes, "of public agen cies." Well, that is a correct statement but it leaves the reader with the impression that TVA's eminent domain procedures are like all, or most, otners ana mat is not tne case. n a neat little arrangement of its own entirely different from that obtaining in the states in the Columbia valley region. If this element of the TVA pattern is to be a part of the CVA the Oregonian should tell its readers so and let them make up their minds on all the facts. Here is the eminent demain story. The right of eminent domain is, as the Oregonian article - snvs. a common instrument of public agencies. With it such agencies can take private property for public use. Here in the northwest and, for that matter, just about everywhere when there is such a taking the agency must go to court and there let a jury' fix the value of the property that is being ' taken. The owner, in other words, has the full protection pro- vided by the jury system and established court procedures. In the Tennessee valley the instrument is the same but its method of use is different. The story of the TVA should tell these facts. They are that when the TVA wants private prop erty it gets a court to appoint three commissioners to deter . mine the value "and such commissioners", the law provides, "sJialLnot be selected from the locality wherein the land ....uirf'.fTnAnI,,miK,nrl' Hot, " Tha TV A low nrnvirloa fnr an. peals but never is a jury brought into the case nor assured opportunity given for a decision by those who ordinarily make decisions of fact for the courts, that is, residents of the com munity, locality or state. ; Perhaps this TVA method, presumably to bevduplicated in the forthcoming CVA bill,' is the better one but we think that the fact should be demonstrated rather than taken on faith as does the Oregonian writer. : That eminent domain arrangement seems to us to be some- tiling luwuru jUMiuyuiK uiui, x v a. I uiJuuitiuu ui ouira oiaiu . When a public agency is created that is not amenable to law on the same terms as other public agencies it certainly begins , to partake of the nature of a super something. WASHINGTON COLUMN By Peter Kdxon . (NKA WMhlniftun CorrtKnilnt) Washington (NEA) Fifty-one republican congressmen, sparked by Rep. Robert Halle of Maine, recently sent a letter to President Truman asking seven pointed questions about U. S. policy on China. Tne letter was never an swered, so Mr. Halle has now made it public. Here in condensed form are the highlights of his seven ques tions: Does the U. S. consider It has met its obligations to China under the Potsdam ana nana agree. ments? . . . what does the u. S. government intend to do to make Russia meet its obligations to China? . . . What is present U. S. policy towards China? ... To what extent is it based on the Wallace report of 1944 and the Wedemeyer report oi una What changes are contemplated on present policy towards China? . . . Does the administration in tend to support elements in China which are resisting subjugation of that country by communists? If the Chinese government brings the matter of communist aggression before the United Na tions as a threat to the peace, will the U. S. government support its action? These are all good, tough, lead ing Questions. There is no use suspecting the motives of the 51 republican congressmen wno ash ed them. They are genuinely con cerned about the Chinese situa tion. Having begun this comment Jet us look further into the Ore gonian's Saturday article. Again we quote: One issue that always arises in the discussion of TVA's policies is that of its practice of building dams and other major projects by "force account"; that is, TVA hires directly all engineers, technicians and workmen, rather than letting the jobs by contract. In the 1U33 emergency, when TVA wanted to get started quickly on Norris dam, the force ac count method (was) adopted to avoid necessity of detailed plans and specifications. These were developed as the job progressed. TVA liked the system so well it has never changed. The Associated General Contractors of America does. not like the force account practice. The contractors contend it is unfair government competition with private industry. Now it may be that the Oregonian writer intends to return to this subject of the force account practices of the TVA. In this article would have been a good place, however paying no attention to the Associated General Contractors to pre sent something more of a justification than that "TVA liked the (force account) system." The doing of public work by con tract is the general rule. If the army engineers have a job to do, the bureau of reclamation, the public works administra tion thoy call for bids and let the contract to the lowest bid der. There are federal laws and the statutes of states every where requiring the letting of jobs by contract. It is the ac cepted practice universally except in the Tennessee valley. Oddly enough we find the Oregonian editor, in an earlier portion of the article from which the last quotation was taken, saying "TVA gets its work done by contract." There then fol lows an account of the types of contract by which TVA dues get certain work done. If the reader will get the facts and study thorn he will see the light. TVA, as those opening sentences of that Saturday article stated, is not a government. It has no police, no army. Nevertheless, it has availed itself of great power. Consider j all those contract arrangements and remember that these i were negotiated contracts! Here TVA took control by contract and the power of the purse. By arranging contracts on favor able terms and by distributing millions thereby TVA took' definite control. " . Oddly enough, too, we find the Oregonian writer himself : explaining why TVA has adopted the lone account practice. ' hook again at those opening sentences 'iind read Hint sentence! intended to disarm the critic of the super state, "It (TVA) can give orders to none but those on its pay roll." Realize, then, that the force account system gives TVA a pay roll of employes to whom it can give orders. At times TVA has had' over 40,000 on its pay roil. No wonder TVA likes the force account system. We hope that the Oregonian editor who has" written this scries of articles will find time to discuss tile questions raised herein. ' , There Is of course a domestic American political angle to this business. All republicans from Governor Dewey on down have used the Chinese issue to beat the democrats over the head and to cause them as much political em barrassment as possible. That's all right, too. It's politics and fair game. But in this process an amazing amount of misunderstanding has been built up about U. S. responsi bilities to China. Also, an amazing amount of misunderstanding in China has been built up about U; S. responsibilities to China. - It has been generally assumed by people hipped on this Chinese question that the United States has guaranteed for all time the In dependence and integrity of China. The United States has fostered the independence of China ever since the founding of the "open door" policy in the 1840's. But it did this as much to protect the rights of Yankee traders and; American missionaries in the for eign concessions of China as it did for the good of the Chinese them selves. Is there anyone In the U. S. ready to advocate sending mil lion and a half or ten and a half million men to make Russia live up to its Potsdam and Yalta agreements with respect to China? This would involve mak ing Russia return sovereignty of Manchuria to the Chinese nation alist government. It would involve making Russia live up to its 1945 treaty promising to respect sov ereignty and territorial Integrity of the Chinese government. How do you do that? ' e e Any impartial and Independent commission going into China to day would probably have to finrj the country so torn by civil war that lis report would undermine what little strength the national ist government has left. This nationalist government has proved itself so corrupt, so weak and so inefficient that it is now almost beyond support. It has lost more battles through its own Ineptness than it has for lack of American aid. The United States used its best efforts to bring peace to the war ring factions when it was invited to do so by both nationalists and communists. When, by bad faith on both sides, those peace efforts broke down, the United States could only withdraw from the situation., As for presenting this case to the United Nations, the national ists themselves have backed down on making charges of communist aggression. The question of U. S. support for charges that don't ex ist therefore hardly enters into the picture. Washington Scene By Harmon W. Nichols (United Pre. Staff Correspondent) ' Washington, March 21 (IP) Okay, mama. Wrap a herring around your neck and we'll go out and kick a couple of gongs around! Sounds a little silly. But actu ally, when the little woman puts on a dog collar of artificial pearls, she is wearing herring. And right now, according to the herring and pearl department of the government, the herring (clupea harengus of the order isospondyli) is having a bigger boom than met ol sole at tne zl club, the shrimp at Leon and Ed die's and the sardine between twin slices of rye at the White Tower. Actually, the phony pearls are made from the scales of juvenile herring. Think that's new? My research proves it is not. Pearl essence, or pearl paste, has been made for centuries by many ways in many lands. The silvery scales of the little fish which hardly ever grows more than a foot long are the source of the luster. When applied to glass or plastic beads, you can hardly tell them from the real thing. .. Digging into the files, you find some interesting things. Before the turn of the century, cagey man had learned that the sardine herring was excellent for other things than eating purposes. The fishermen up in New England-saw the light. And across the sea, Norway's herring fleets supplies scales to the chemists of Germany. They finished the job by processing a pear) paste for customers in other lands. Popularity o,f the pearl necklaceso-calledhas come back in to its own in recent years. The last dozen, to be exact. You can't spot the phony at 10 paces. And if your lady happens to be wearing a choker which cost you $8.69, let her strut her stuff at a White House reception. Chances are she'll get by. , These new-fangled pearls made of the herring (which also is good ao eat) look as good to the untrained eyes as a strings that cost $1,000. A string of cultured pearls that came from Japan. Or a $10,000 collar of matched pearls imported from another land. - Business now is hoppin'. When you consider the necklace business, you've also got to think about the postwar rage for ea ring and costume jewelry. The jive trade alone must keep at least a fleet of herring vessels busy! New England and Norway are the big winners in the phony pearl sweepstakes. Both have factories for "pearl essence" which doesn't smell as bad as it sounds. In fact, it doesn't smell at all. A pound jar of essence today costs five times what it did in 1937, in case you are interested. (The stuff in the jar is used to make "pearls".) i The scales are collected from the bottoms of fishing boats, sift ing through the slatted floors as the fish are handled. But don't get the idea tlS'so paste pearls aren't made the right way. Each bead is hand-dipped in the pearl lacquer. Then there is the finishing and sizing. And the matching. A lot of labor in volved. Some of the phony pearls come as high as $100 a string. Pretty high. But run down to Tiffany's and price a necklace of real ones! Christiansen Elected President of Central Oregon Elementary School Principal Group Bennett's Machine Shop llllX BENNETT 1J.11 Roosevelt Avtiiuu l'liono 1132 BEND, ORMiON' General Marlilnc Work Heavy Mneliinu Work Gears Sprockets made to order t.'rnnk Shut I Grinding Motor IteliiilldlnK Mile Boring Cylinder lU-lmi lug Crank Sliari Grinding In (lie Cur EIto1i In and Acetylene Welding General Auto Repairs A Full Evening of Fun For the Whole Family at the Kenwood P.T.A. CARNIVAL FRIDAY and SATURDAY- March 25th and 26th fSI'ACK COUUTKKY - BROOKS-SCANLON INC. THE SHEVUN-HIXON COMPANY Prineville, March 21 May. nard L. Christiansen, principal of the Pine Grove school in Hood River county, was elected presi dent of the Central Oregon Re gional Elementary School Princi pals association at the annual con ference held at the Ochoco grade school here Saturday, succeeding Virgil L. Moss of Bend. Lloyd E. Lewis, principal of the Crooked River grade school of Prineville, was elected vice president, suc ceeding Christiansen. The Saturday mornincr session was opened with an invocation by Rev. Marvin H. Skidmore, pastor of the Prineville First Baptist church. Outstanding at the morning program was the singing of groups of girl and boy students of the Crooked Kiver grade school, who were presented by their teacher, Mrs. Eleanor Stump. Daggett Speaks Chief speaker of the morning program was J. F. Daggett, divi sion general manager of the Alex- ander-xawkey Lumber Co., here, who in an elaboration of his theme,. "American Business, Its Past, Present and Future," warn ed the teachers that current gov ernment trends lead away from the safeguards of the republican form of government. "I believe," said Daggett in his address, "that nowhere in Mr. Washington's or Mr. Lincoln's ad dresses will you find reference to democracy, and our oath of alle giance to the flag does not men tion it." People Shortsighted In closing his address, Daggett declared: "I believe that we. busi ness people have been Woefully shortsighted in failing to realize the important role our educators play in our communities.' We should have seen to it long ago that our teachers be acquainted with some of the complexities of our business structures and the problems we must meet each day. No other proup of people in our land, save our ministers of the gospel, have such an opportunity to influence the course of our re public. The schools are the wells from which 'we must draw the citizens of our future our busi ness men, professional people,' ar tisans and artists, wo other group of people has the opportunity to instill in the minds of our future governors the principles of per sonal liberty which are the foun dation stone of our country. While we were busy building our empire, you educators were trudg-. ing to the little red school house, underpaid and you- still are YOUR BEST DOLLAR BUY IS WHEN YOU BECAUSE IT'S S TIMES FASTER SAVES MONEY, TOOI TO Portland... 75 min. Seattle... VJi hrs. Frisco 4'3 hrs. Los Angeles. 8$ hrs. and fo "all fh East" Cell Redmond 260 or en authorized trevel agent. poorly housed, perhaps with a lo cal farm family, and generally forgotten. That was a mistake. It still is. Election Noted '"It is a sad commentary that, in our recent election to provide adequate school facilities, the very people who voted down such a necessary Improvement, voted last November for a spending program that beggars all description and that further greases the skids to statism and loss of -individual lib erty. These shortsighted people are willing to allow our schools to be overcrowded arid under-financed while they pick their own pockets with farm subsidies, guar anteed wages, aid age pensions and the like. Sixty cents of every tax dollar must coroe from the individual. "It seems that our schools are fertile grounds for communist in filtration,' particularly in our in stitutions of higher learning. The incident at the University of Washington a short time ago, and the more recent occurrence at Corvallis, should serve as a re minder that our educators must guard every moment if we are to preserve our way of life. Now that the fellow travelers in our country have frankly stated that they would aid soviet Russia in the event of war with us, there should be little argument as to the treatment of the advocates of communism. Treatment Listed "I feel that there are three things that we must keep before us: "First We must work for a spiritual regeneration among our people, especially our young peo ple. The principles of right and wrong, as exemplified by our re ligious teachings, are priceless. "Second We must try to under stand the difference between reg ulation and control. Business needs to be regulated, teachers need to be regulated, labor needs to be regulated. There must be rules of the game in which gov ernment should be only the refe ree, control means absolute pow. er. Our young people should be taught the difference, "And, third That individual lib. erty cannot be maintained in the social state. It never has and it never will be." Lunch Served Following a speech of welcome by R. H. McAtee, principal of the Ochoco grade school, where a lunch was served at the school's cafeteria, President Moss present ed the following county school superintendents, each of whom introduced the delegations from his or. her county: Ralph Jones, Hood River county; T. F. Brum baugh, Wasco; Wiley W. Knight en, Sherman; Lorena S. Palmer, Gilliam; Wayne Foster, Jefferson; Dee McLlnn, Wheeler; Cecil M. Sly, Crook, and Velma Bucking ham, Deschutes. The program of Saturday was devoted chiefly to a discussion of technical matters pertaining to administration of elementary schools. PRINEVILLE MAN ARRESTED Prineville, March 31 Earl Shaw, Prineville chief of police, reported yesterday that Dean Les lie Ostrander, 35, was a "repeater who believes in a proper celebra tion of anniversaries." Ostronder was arrested here on March 16 of last year, Shaw recalled, on a charge of vagrancy. This year, on the first anniversary of the 1948 episode, Ostrander was again ap prehended and held on charges in volving bad checks and parole vio lation. Portland police came here and returned him to that city. PTA TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Kenwood PTA will be held tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. In the school cafeteria, with all members urged to attend. This meeting will center around final plans for the Kenwood PTA carnival this Friday and Saturday nights, 7 to m Take Care of Your Eyes Enjoy good vision and freedom from headaches . . . you can not be sure your ryes arc imt fect unless you have them ex amlncd. Consult us noy! . , Dr. M. B. MiKenhey OPTOJ1ETRIST 908 Wall St. Phone 342-M s DANGER trouble ahead . . . for your car and you If you Ignore those symptoms of misalinemcnt and balance. If your car steers hard, wan ders all over the road It your tires are wearing unevenly DRIVE IN TO US NOW FOR A CHECK-UP! Let us clear up those "trouble spots" quickly and easily with our scientific BEAR alinenicnt equipment. Our mechanics are specialists, carefully trained in this work and every Job is ful ly guaranteed. Line Up With Bear WHEEL ALINEMENT WHEEL BALANCING FRAME & AXLE STRAIGHTENING BRAKE SERVICE SHOCK ABSORBER SERVICE HEADLIGHT ADJUSTMENT PLAN TO ATTEND THE Kenwood P.T. A. Carnival Friday Saturday An Evening of Fun for the Whole Family Bear Wheel & Brake Service Kenneth C. Cale 117 E. Greenwood Phone 1243 11, with fun and frolic for every mom Kar et ttiA la fr lie. Tri . HiVMiwi.e v vi iv .umimj, v Ilia! fltt. signments will be given to ear committee member. . . THIS IS Photography Although we are not yet through with the overcast cloudy, and rainy days, we can . expect more and more sun shine to be our lot from now on. And sunshine means just one thing to a camera fan, color pictures. If your camera is of the "fixed-focus . . . fixed aper ture" type, or what is more commonly referred to as a box camera, then, your color fjim is Kodacolor Film. Many of the most attractive color pictures are close-ups of individuals. When properly made, these pic. tures afford bold, colorful com positions that compliment both the photographer and his sub ject Careful posing and light ing are essential, because the good and bad points in a close up are equally apparent For close-ups taken with Kodacolor Film in bright sun light, avoid side lighting or back lighting unless the shad ow areas are illuminated by a reflecting surface or a flash bulb. Note the angle of the sun, and pose the subject to obtain best modeling and shad ow effects. When you are ready to shoot, ask your subject to look away from the sun for a few minutes to rest his eyes. He cannot help squinting if he must face the sun for a long time. And you will be pleased with the attractive color prints, ' Now, if yours .is the minia ture camera type, 35mm or Bantam, you will want to use Kodachrome Film which is one of the firest if not the finest color film known to the field of amateur and professional photography. No light other than sunlight will ever produce the sparkling color definition in your trans parencies. And if the breezes coming off the Eastern slope of our own Cascades is too cool for you, then shoot your sub ject indoors near the window so as to benefit from the in valuable sunlight The subject should be about three or four feet from a large window which receives direct light from the open sky. The cam era should view the subject from a position close to the window. If the subject is not 'in direct sunlight, the usual lens aperture for motion pic ture cameras is f2.5; if the sun is shining on the subject, f5.6 or f8. If yours' is a still camera, these same apertures apply at 125 second. No. finer combination exists for color pictures than Koda chrome Film and sunlight and since we can expect a lit lie more in the, way of sunlight from now on.'the Camera Dept. at Symons can furnish you with your needs in Kodachrome Film. Here's a tip to those of you who appreciate a good bargain, Since the Kodak Reflex II has been introduced, we are now able to make available the Ko dak Reflex I at a reduced price. The-new model sells for $151.91. and you can take away this earlier model, never off our shelves, for Just $99.00, com plete with carrying case. It can't last long. Symons Bros. 647 Wall St. rhonc 178 DENTISTRY Dr. H. E. Jackson At his residential office NO PARKING PROBLEM 230 Lava Road Phone 134 ' FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS wexiAONiy 2000 watts.' HERE I WrtLKIE- AkC ' X LOOBY 'Mmm By Merrill Blower ACF YaiTUE KIDS WHO fouwo THAT GREETIMGS. GATES.' PtAMTTWE BOOIES LIKE ' '.