MONDAY, MAY 23, 1949
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TTTTS YVTT.FTf'S DAVIDSON ARTICLE
This Week is a magazine published by the New York Herald
Tribune and included as a section of that newspaper's Sunday
edition. It is also distributed as a Sunday magazine section
by other papers to which it is sold by tne iNew lone puousner,
ro r,f f liooo nnnnl-a is thp OrPCnn Journal.
As is to be expected the edition distributed by the Herald
Tribune contains more pages and more advertising than that
used in smaller cities. It contains more reading niaiier as wen
and we have been struck by the fact that in the issue of May 15
there is a CVA article by Assistant secretary Davidson, of the
interior department, that was not included in the magazine
furnished the Journal. v S1, , .
, We imagine that this was not the choice of the Journal. We
assume that the Portland paper taKes wnar, is suppneu iu iu
We should like to know, however, by whom and on what basis
the non-use of this Davidson article in the northwest came
about. Whatever the facts readers of the Journal have lacked
tne opportunity OI examining wie argument, uiai uic ociicwuj
advances. " .,
This. wp. think, is unfortunate. It would be better if "the
people most intimately concerned the people of the north
west could see and pass judgment tor themselves on tne
misleading arguments that Davidson offers.
One such argument is with respect to Columbia river
floods that, Davidson suggests, will be controlled by CVA
dams. Here are his words :
Dams can also control floods like the one which last
year swept away the homes and Jobs of 18,000 people in
Vanport, Ore. But above all, CVA speils kilowatts in an area
where coal and oil are expensive and electricity is often used
: to heat houses. .
The impression conveyed by that first quoted sentence is
that floods on the Columbia like that of last year are of fre
quent occurrence. That, of course, is not the fact. It was 50
years ago that a flood of the extent of last year's occurred.
It may be 50 years before there is another but in any case
the dams now planned will be as effective if built by the
agencies that now operate on the river. A CVA, in other
words, is not needed for flood control. As the Oregoniari said
Wst year the 1948 flood offers no argument for a CVA.
Mrtitr iilr hor.tr or that rttinrnrl contonen nnn nnrp Tnp osspr-
tion that the flood swept away the jobs of 18,000 people in
Vanport. That statement is a simple untruth. The residents of
Vanport lost their homes, yes. Not all of them lost their jobs
by any means. Is Secretary Davidson or his ghost writer
trying to be fair and accurate V
Look at the sentence about kilowatts and note that earlier
in the article it is said that : - ' -
Most of the nation's phosphate fertilizer lies there (in the .
Columbia watershed) needing only electric power to exploit
it. .
These words are intended to lead the reader to believe that
only by a CVA will kilowatts be provided and, moreover, that
CVA kilowatts are needed to develop that fertilizer. ,
Well, the phosphate beda are in Idaho. The Idaho Power
Company, is providing all necessary "power for the production
of fertilizer from two plants and is prepared to continue and
enlarge its service. Why does not Mr. Davidson tell his readers
these facts instead of leading them to believe that CVA power
is needed for this phosphate fertilizer production ?
One, and we think, the chief reason, is the fact that the real
design behind the proposed CVA is the enlargement of the
field of public power and the extinction of private enterprise.
That is why Davidson tries to make it appear that a CVA is
necessary. Why else was the department of the interior in the
quandary reported last year over the application of the Idaho
company for a permit to cross public land with its power line?
A chief purpose of that line was to supply power to fertilizer
plants. Did the department hesitation reflect a desire to pro
mote fertilizer production or was there some other reason?
Let Mr. Davidson reply.
Ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague, one of the most severe
critics of Secretary Ncwbry and Treasurer Pearson for their
deal on the two tax commission posts, has had a letter from
Pearson defending the act. Sprague has commented on the
letter in his Oregon Statesman column and ends with "No,
Waller, the gangup with Newbry still stinks." So say we all
of us.
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WASHINGTON COLUMN
The state forester reports that spruce budworm control
must begin earlier than had been expected. Warm weather
has advanced budworm development by two weeks. Can you
blame the thing for hurrying things up? It's the early worm
that gets the bud.
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By Peter Edson '
(NEA Washington Corresjiondent)
Washington (NEA) U.S. gov
ernment subsidies paid to private
business and the farmers for the
15 years of 1934 through 1948 to
tal more than $14,500,000,000. This
figure comes from a new budget
bureau tabulation. It does not in
clude the cost of the food and cot
ton stamp plans of 1939-43 nor
the school lunch program of 1936
40 and 1947-49. They would boost
the total by another $643,000,000.
Grand total is more than $15,000,
000.000, or over a billion dollars a
year.
This new subsidy total does not
Include the programs for grants
in aid to the states. In 1947 Sen.
Harry F. Byrd's Joint congres
sional committee on expenditures
Issued a budget bureau tabulation
on that. It showed 85 of these
grants-in-aid programs in opera
tion In 1945. For the 12 years,
1934 through 1946, such programs
cost the taxpayers nearly $30,000,,
000,000. Add $13,000,000,000 of di
rect subsidies for this period and
the total is $43,000,000,000 or $3,
500,000,000 a year on the average,
Not Included In either of these
tabulations are the indirect. or hid
den federal subsidies. They go for
such things as crop Insurance
losses, low grazing fees on public
lands, postal deficits, aids to avia
tion, flood control works, public
power developments, housing de
velopments, government loans to
business, payments to veterans
and pensions. .
The senate has just passed a
new federal aid to education bill.
It calls for grants In aid to the
states of up to $300,000,000 a year.
The new Hrannan farm plan is
under consideration. It will cost
unknown millions of dollars. In
the offing Is a federal health plan
of uncertain specifications and
size. Before any of these things
goes through in final form, it is
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Others Say
STEP BY STKP
(Baker Democrat-Herald)
Who would have Imagined a few
short years ago the speed with
which socialism would he foisled
upon the country by its official
dom, with tne mass of the people
hardly realizing what Is happen
ing. Lot's look at the events of
recent days to see how the collec
tivlst principle is moving lorward
on many fronts. I
President Truman calls for a i
C.V.A. for which stunt, call has '
come from tin: region nlirclrd, ;
which il is denied means social- j
ism, but which significantly has
the vigorous support of all per-1
sons of known socialistic inclin
ations. A farm bill is offered to guar
antee the farmer his income, but I
at the price of rather complete !
bureaucratic control over what 1
he may produce, how much and
when, (.out ml over how he may:
vote would he only one additional j
step, and likely to follow if the
fanner trades his Independence
for a "guaranteed" income from
a government running in the red .
again, and sure to run deeper in!
if pii'seni proposals are enacted j
into law to pyiiiiiitd iis upuutiiig j
costs.
Another hill proposes oci.illeil
medicine, Ko, not quite whole
hog, per the tlritisn pattern, lint i
it goes a long whv toward this;
goal, leaving tne rest to lie realiz-1
en i.ner, wtien resistance is
oral government subsidize educa
tion. And past experience has
shown that what the government
subsidizes it soon controls.
There are numerous other bills
promising "benefits" from a gov.
ernment unable at present tax
rale to finance all the undertak
ings it is already commuted to,
socialism sugar-coated, with noth
ing said about the cost In loss
of Initiative by the citizenry.
What of the opposition? It Is
strong, and likely to whittle down
the program in congress, maybe
to halt it for the present session.
Hut the push for socialism Is ex
tremely formidable considering
how little public demand there is
for II and how Inefleetive a large
ly unorganized opposi t i o n Is
against an entrenciied bureauc
racy glowing more powerful by
the hour.
The issue of whether America
is to remain a fix-e enterprise or a
socialistic country trembles in the
balance, with the average citizen
as little concerned as if nis future
and that of his children did not
depend on mi outcome he will do
little to inlluence. A dramatic
crisis In our history is developing
In a most uiulraninlic way.
Important to know what federal
subsidy programs have been in
the past and where they are to
day. The U.S. government got into
this direct subsidy business in a
big way in the early days of the
New Deal. It was completely a
depression, farm-relief program
then. It ran from $300,000,000 to
Just under $1,000,000,000 a year
from 1934 to the start of the war.
Of the 40-odd programs classi
fied as subsidies in the new bud
get bureau tabulation, only nine
are not of direct benefit to the
farmer. He has had 11 out of
every 15 subsidy dollars.
A treasury subsidy program for
reduction of Interest on farm
mortgages ran from 1936 through
1946. Total cost, $334,000,000.
Reconstruction finance corpora
tion subsidy programs began in
1942 and ran through 1948 for a
total cost of over $3,000,000,000.
Its peak expenditures were $1,
200,000,000 in 1946. RFC paid the
consumer-subsidies on butter, cof
fee, flour, sugar and meat.
The New Deal's maritime com
mission subsidies began in 1938
at $4,000,000. "i'hey rose to J82,
000,000,000 in 1946. Total mari
time commission subsidies, 1936
48, were $390,000,000. Of this
amount $50,000,000 were operat
ing subsidies, the rest construc
tion subsidies. Most of these sub
sidies can of course be charged
up to war costs.
Government subsidy operations
have been considerably reduced
since 1948. For the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1949, and for the fis
cal year of 1950, budget bureau
estimates of subsidies to business
and the farmers total $500,000,000
a year. But since congress has not
yet completed action on 1950 ap
propriation bills, it is of course
impossible to make accurate es
timates. There are only a dozen direct
iron fireman
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Klaniiilh l'ails, M.ty 2 Ml'.
T;;'.ii;.i. 1 rev, 11, M.iod'.eU'd yes
UTiiay when a play tunnel 'col
lapsed on hun In a held near 'I'ule
lake. He was believed dead about
30 minules when a motorist no
ticed the Ixiy's fee! sticking from
hinken. P..Ki,u.r,. t ' '.. h ground where he bail dug the
talking of .lumping the country snoU lln",'r " '"'"ll'l-
lor it. '
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subsidy payments now in opera
tion. Soil conservation payments
will be about $227,000,000 this
year. Sugar act payments will be
$70,000,000. Export subsidies on
farm products will be $33,000,000.
Estimated total, $330,000,000.
Maritime commission construc
tion subsidies will cost around $8,
000,000 this year, with no operat
ing subsidies budgeted. Next year
it is expected that construction
subsidies will drop to $2,400,000,
while operating subsidies will rise
to $34,000,000. .
COMMUNICATIONS
Communication, are invited on mat
ter, of current and local Interest. Let
ter, should not be over 400 word, in
lentrth. on only one side of the paper
and, If poMible, typewritten. Letter,
or marmncripta .ubmitted for publi
cation will not be returned. ,
To the Editor of The Bend Bui-
tln:
. Through your column I, Mrs. F.
u. Allen, dog catcher for the city
of Bend, wish to correct an erro
neous impression that has become
rather general among our citi
zens. It is that they have heard,
or think, tnat i am paid so much
per dog.
Let me assure you that I am
employed on a monthly salary
basis and the number of dogs I
impouna nas no bearing on the
salary I receive. Were all the dogs
kept at home during the tie up
season I would receive the same
salary as when I keep on an av
erage of 16 dogs constantly in the
pound. There is an ordinance on
dog tie up and the city is required
to furnish a person or persons to
enforce the law. Therefore your
aog-caicner.
MRS. F. C. ALLEN
Bend Chamber
Lists Activities
Sen.
Jim
Two Oregon legislators,
Phil Hitchcock and Rod.
Short, will be guest sneakers at
the Bend chamber of commerce J
luncheon-forum at the Pilot Butte
inn Friday.
Wednesday of this week the
tourist promotion committee will
meet in the chamber office at 7:30 i
p.m. The committee is now en-1
gaged in developing a new high
way ( program.
Early last week a chamber dele
gation headed by D. J. Ward,
chairman of the highway commit
tee, appeared before the state
highway commission in suDoort
of the early rebuilding of U. S.
highway 20 between Tumalo and
Bend.
Other activities on the chamber
calendar include: June 4. Central
Oregon dance in Redmond; June
it, air-education day at Redmond
airport; July 23, water pageant
in Bend, and AFL lumber indus
try unions convention July 15, 16
and 17, also In Bend.
Deschutes County Finances
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The following table shows the original Deschutes county budget for
the 1948-49 year, the April expenditures, and the balance remaining
in the budget as of May 1, 1949. .
Office . Budget Expenses Balance
Sheriff .... $ 16,605.00 $1,099.62 $2,884.84
County Clerk 13,275.00 850.18 3,594.03
School Superintendent 6,785.00 483.14 1,369.86
Assessor 11,543.00 887.28 832.14
Treasurer 3,575.00 262.82 622.52
County Judge 3,475.00 291.78 597.25
County Court t 3,890.00 224.75 930.39
Justice Court 3,800.00 318.35 531.84
Circuit Court 5,310.00 1,916.20 569.09
Juvenile Officer .-. 4,470.00 1,175.31 897.77
District Attorney 2,300.00 186.10 344.17
Health Department 22,722.00 1,884.09 4,687.32
Watermaster 3,876.29 260.50 1,096.55
Courthouse 6,500.00 - 425.48 1,007.47
Jail t 2,960.00 247.23 437.77
Aid to Dependent Children 6,912.00
Soldiers and Sailors 500.00 220.37
General Assistance , 10,500.00
Old Age Assistance 285.00 500.00
Legal Publication 1,500.00 99.60 522.21
County Advertising
Emergency Fund 5,000.00
Elections 4,000.00
Audit' 1,300.00
Coroner 300.00
Surveyor 500.00
County Agent 2,800.00
Home Demonstration Agent 2,685.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures 265.00
Veterans Service Officer 1,800.00
Old People's Home 90.000.00
Stock and Game Protection 3,200.00
Tax Foreclosure i: 400.00
T. B. and Bang Indemnity 2,000.00
Vital Statistics ' 100.00 ..
Law Library 470.00 ..
Psychopathic Ward 1,000.00 ..
Fair Fund 1 12,900.00 ..
County Library 8,870.00
Dog License Fund 425.00
General Road Fund ; 203,958.00 ..
. Itemized Road Fund Expenditures
salaries ana wages ?o,4bi.33 L,uDricating uu
r'arts ana ftepairs xtM.ou
Tires 173.45
Fuel 688.35
3,500.00 3,300.00
Central Oregon
Chamber to Meet
The Central Oregon chamber of
commerce will hold a dinner-meet-Ing
at the Ochoco Inn at Pilne
ville tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
Members are scheduled to con.
sider final plans, for the chamber
sponsored, June 12 air education
program and the June 4 all Cen
tral Oregon dance. Both events
will take place in Redmond.
At a recent chamber committee
meeting it was learned that Gov
Douglas McKay plans to attend
the air program. The chamber
and the state board of aeronautics
are sponsoring the show.
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Plan Memorial
For Jack Horton
A spot 'n the scenic Wallowa
mountaii. of Oregon may be
named for F. V. "Jack" Horton,
former assistant regional forester
who died a year ago in Portland.
He was stationed in Bend in earli
er years, as a member of the Des
chutes national forest staff.
The forest service has recom
mended that a Wallowa mountain
gap, a mile and a half northwest
of Eagle cap, he named Horton
pass. Mr. Horton assisted in estab
lishing wilderness reserves in the
Pacific northwest forest region.
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