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4 Salem, Oregoni Wednesday, August 24, 1949
Confused Thinking of a CVA Booster
C. Girard Davidson has long been telling the people of
the Pacific Northwest of the "blessings" of the proposed
Columbia Valley Administration.
Davidson, who is assistant secretary of the interior, has
also told those same people of this region that it is not for
them to decide whether or not a CVA should be establish
ed out here. The matter is too big for them. It is up to
congress to decide if a CVA is good or bad.
At the same time, however, he bounces into Portland
with smiles for the coming hearings on what the people
of the region think of a CVA.
His position is rather confusing, isn't it?
In one position, he expresses great faith in the people
who will receive the "blessings" of a valley administra
tion. In the next, he says those Pacific Northwesterners
have no need of voting on a CVA because it is up to the
paternalistic government in Washington to decide what
is best for them. And then he switches into another pose
and declares that a hearing should be held to get views on
what residents of the region think about a CVA.
By the time he gives his three different opinions, the
people of the region have reason to become more leary of
this ardent advocate and his government administration
that would be above the states. The CVA would be a
"little Washington" for this part of the country. CVA
boosters object to the use of the words, "super govern
ment," to describe their scheme.
And, if anything, whatever Davidson says from time to
time seems to confirm the conviction that what he has in
mind is a little bureaucratic world out in these parts an
swerable to the president. Of course, such a bureaucracy
would be for the "benefit" of the people but he doesn't
want those people to vote on it. A CVA would be too big
a thing for them to decide.
In one respect, Davidson has a point. Congress foots
the bill for the huge development projects whether in this
part of the nation or any other part. Thus congress should
have something to say as to what is done with those pro
jects. But, that is congress and not a picked triumvirate
of the president ruling a CVA.
This all goes back to the matter of the best way to de
velop the region under our democratic form of government.
And the best way still looks the way it has always looked.
That is : Joint leadership of development by the people of
the region with federal agencies established by congress.
Davidson would still have his bureaucracy, accountable
to the president, do the job.
A Real Economy Move
Secretary of Defense Johnson has announced a whole
sale slash of civilian workers in the armed services in his
drive to cut military spending. Navy installations are
the hardest hit with a reduction of 76,000 ordered, the
army next with 41,000, and the airforce with 12,000, in
spired by a lack of funds.
The program will result in an estimated saving of $200
million in the current fiscal year ending June 30, and $500
million a year thereafter. A total of 50 installations will
be closed down, many others cut severely. The savings
were worked out by the individual services.
It will be interesting to watch the antics of congressmen
who have been loudly clamoring for economy in the de
fense establishment, in the effort to delay and prevent
the cut-backs in their own districts and states. They are all
for cost cuts in the other fellow's bailiwick, but not in their
own. But there is no reason why, with a large percentage
of our sea and air force scrapped or in moth balls and our
army on a peace time quota, civilian workers should not
be proportionately slashed.
Already such senate economists as Bridges, Tobey,
Brewster, Smith, Saltonstall, Lodge, Maybank, Johnston,
Nolan, Downey, Martin, Meyers, Ives and Dulles of seven
states have organized a "show-down" fight to thwart the
cut-backs. That is one reason why we have a national
debt now of $255 billions an increase of $3 billions since
June 30.
Now if the president and his cabinet coorate to effect
a similar slash in other departments of government, a
balanced budget may be in sight. The chances are dim,
however, with a congressional election coming on, the
"welfare" socialist state the administration objective and
pork-barrel politics ruling congress. We need a few more
Johnsons as well as more Byrds, of whom Mr. Truman says
we already have "too many."
Early Day Sheepmen
A bronze plaque carrying the names of 24 so-called pio
neer pure-bred sheep breeders will be dedicated in the
state fair sheep barns on September 6 by Governor McKay.
If this dedication is to honor only early members of the
Oregon Pure-bred Sheep association, ail well and good.
But, if it is intended as a tribute to the real early Oregon
importers and breeders of pure-bred sheep, it is historically
incorrect.
The first sheep imported into Oregon were brought bv
sea by the Hudson's Bay company in 1833. They were
merinos.
In 1842, Joseph Gale, an early settler of Washington
county, brought a flock overland from California. These
were Spanish merinos.
The first flock to be driven across the plains was that
brought by Joshua Shaw and his son, Alva, of Polk county,
in 1814.
In 1848, Jos. Watt brought a small band of 330 to
gether with home carding machines and spindles.
In 1851, Hiram Smith (active in early Oregon politics),
brought the first pure-bred merinos to Oregon.
In 1853, P. R. and D. P. Thompson brought a large flock
across the plains.
Early in 1860, R. J. Jones and S. B. Rockwell brought
pure-bred American and French merinos from Addison
county, Vermont. They sold a French merino buck to Jos
eph Holman and J. L. Parish for $500; also four breeding
ewes at $275.
Other early breeders were John Minto, Ralph C. Geer
and T. L. Davidson. Minto wrote an interesting account
of the work of these two breeders which was published in
The Orcgonian on November 11, 1863.
BY BECK
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY GUILD
Popular People
THE YACHTFUL OF PEOPLE
" WHO CRUISE LEISURELY UNDER
HUNDREDS OF RILED MOTORIST?
HAVE TO WAIT TILL THEY PASS
Truman Determined to Get Wixard of odds
Welfare Department Plan
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Wash
ington Merry-Go-Round will be written by his old partner,
Robert S. Allen).
SIPS FOR SUPPER
It Sizzles
By DON UPJOHN
Sooner or later somebody's going to have to buy the mem
bers of the state board of control a set apiece of asbestos gloves.
From indications they are badly needed when they are called
upon to handle a certain hot potato which seems to be too hot to
handle to date this is being a decision on the site of the pro
posed new state
By ROBERT S.ALLEN
Washington Congress hasn't heard the last of government re
organization plan No. 1 to set up a department of welfare.
The senate's turndown has not cooled President Truman's
determination to put the proposal through. He will make an
other try to get approval. '
The president disclosed this this class for three years. He ia
in a talk with Reps. Robert very regular in his appearance.
Crosser and Wayne Hays of When he can't attend, Mrs.
Ohio. They conferred with him Vaughan takes over,
on government reorganization Vaughan uses themes from the
plans, regular material prepared by
"As long as government re- the presbyterian church for
organization can be vetoed by sucn classes. He does not wear
either branch of congress," said his uniform to church. Vaughan
Hays, "it will be impossible to js an eider of the church, and
effect economy in expenditures, popular with parishioners and
"It's the old story of lobby his ciass, He enlivens his teach
pressure. The lobbies go to work ing with jokes and witticisms,
behind-the-scenes and kill these NOTE Vaughan has told
proposals. That happened when friends that regular army anti
Hoover was president and what pathy to reserve officers is one
the senate did on this proposal Gf the secret influences behind
was more of the same." the senate probe. Vaughan has
"That's true," said Truman, ong been critical of "West
"but they are not scaring me. Pointers."
If the Hoover commission's mag- ...
nificent report is to mean any- TIDELAND OIL
thing it will have to be put into gen Joe Q'Mahoney (D-Wyo),'
e ,eT ' . , , chairman of the interior affairs
"T mm ontna In kppn nn spnri.
, . .... . committee, has thrown a mon-
I TIME TO THROW J-&35v&t &
i Ss THE DENTAL .SPSt
ASSOCIATION. P
DID YOUR HOUSE COST 525,000 OR MORE?
- IHEN li b y IU I 7UU tmrmiiv an
ARCHITECT. (A tip of me beam m
ADRIAN WILSON. BEVERLY HILLS.)
6IRLS,
(fS A PERMANENT?
THREE TO 2 IT
WAS PONE AT HOME,
ing plans for that purpose to
key wrench into the drive to
congress. Whenever one is ve- ,.,,. It.,u ,i,i
iMi i steamroller through a so-called
toed, 1 11 send up a revised plan . a
, ,. , r compromise on the tideianct
111 IIS picut:.
office building
in Portland.
"East side, west
side, all around
the town" is evi
dently the theme
song for this
m omentous
question. A p
parcntly it had
been all set to
make the deci
sion Tuesday
pair the damage. Yesterday the
state announced it would spend
$2,000 more to trap the pigeons.
TOUCHY HISTORY
House rules committee consi-
Ooi GpJohn
One trouble with our Salem
Senators has been a case of poor
timing. For instance, there's
this colored player Art Penning
ton sent down from the Beavers
to bolster a waning cause. He
showed up here and on the home
lot meagered out a measly
scratch hit out of 14 times at
afternoon when it was postponed Then the team starts on the
again. The simplest maneuver aa ana ne s rainy u r n e a
would probably be to drop things up knocking down fences
memos of all the sites in a hat and punching the zone full of
if a big enough hat could be 'holes. This has happened a lot
found, and draw one out. Or f times with our local greats,
the board might assign the job " they'd switch things around
of Sheriff Mike Elliott what- and perform at home like they
ever decision he made would no do abroad they'd pack 'em in.
Hnnhf nnhnncii hio nrpsnnt flnnH
stnee nf noDularitv. Not So Tough
oil issue.
He was supposed to sponsor
"compromise" legislation in the
. 1 T3.. nrt.. aVnrn;n;nn ,k.
deration of the arms-for-Europe .. ' . , cnteI.
bill unexpectedly touched off a f.fuS rDnf,i. t-J,.
i a ences with California, Texas
sharp explos.on on American a)d Louisiana officialSi 0.Maho.
so0ry' , ,u r, ney refused to have anything to
D.!.Priii"tTa.S?.re:Re,P: do with them.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Revolt Against Moscow
Spreads in Europe
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Foreign Attain Analyst
, The defiance of Moscow by Yugoslavia, Finland and the mod
erate communists of Soviet occupied Germany gives one to pause
for consideration of the significance.
We shall be rash, I think, to jump to conclusions in trying
to figure the potentialities of this "revolt" against Moscow, or
how
criticized former President Her
bert Hoover for assailing admin-
Hearings on the measures are
scheduled to open today before
a house judiciary subcommittee,
headed by Rep. Francis E. Wal-
Costly Birds
St. Paul, Minn. (U.R)
pigeons that fly around the state draw. Robert O. Achison, 30, of
capital and other public build- Dallas, was helping four Pitts
ings are going to cost the citi- burgh men push a stalled car
zens of Minnesota $10,000 this last night when, he told the po
year. The birds' droppings have lice, one of them reached for
plugged up roof drains causing his hip. Ackison whipped out
rain water to seep through sky- his .45. The stranger called po
lights and injured plaster walls lice. Ackison was arrested for
and ceilings. The last lcgisla- violating the Uniform Firearms
ture appropriated $8,000 to re- act."
Why the Dog Sounded So Loud
OLYMPIA (U.R) Harold Skinner complained to police
early this morning that a barking dog was keeping him
awake.
Police investigated and reported that it was Skinner's dog
that was causing the disturbance.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Deuces are Wild in Canasta
And so is Husband Ed
By EDCREAGH
(Substituting for Columnist Hal Boyle)
New York, Aug. 24 (I') I was going to tell you today about
how to play canasta, a card game that is having a great vogue
among canasta players, but something came up and
Well, why be cov about it?
What came up is that my brand new canasla rule book (price $1)
got r i p p e df"
doci.v s laiKing aDoui canasta."
And we did for one solid
hour and 42 minutes. That is
the others tried to teach me the
game while I kept one despair
ing eye on the silent and dark
about melding.
euces and jok-
going out" and
concealed." It seems
there is a difference. And about
blnck threes, which contain
more mysteries than Poe found
in the Rue Morgue.
"You got the fidgets, pal?"
Bill asked finally. "You act
even stupider than u'sual tonight."
I was about to reply cuttingly
istration spending policy.
"The ex-president was talking , tr. f ,
out of both sides of his mouth Qne o th measures ls an out.
when he said we are spending d t ft w ive he
ourselves into a collective states th bu,k of iheseast oil
state, thundered Madden. . ,, .
5 '"r ., . ; , . reserves that the supreme court
n nTnnn f h advocated ruled belong to the federal gov-
$30,000,000,000 for defense and ernment he other meaure
foreign aid out of a total budget . th Eovernment a better
of $42,000,000,000. He talks ZVk Tt JoZ Zl the pro-
economy, but he would n t cut a cee(js 59.50
cent of the military and foreign- Co,, ,, nr ji,
aid expenditures " Says Mahoney. I don t con-
am expenditures. . . hlu. .-(,Qf!,t
Ta.t,S.a" 0lS!0r.y' Early this year, I introduced a
times. I remember as iar back 4-. , , .. T Jz , ,
the period after World War ""J , "
far Rus
sia may be pre
pared to go in
maintaining her
prestige.
For example
take Russia's
t hreatening
note to a poli
tically rebelli
ous and defiant
Yugoslavia:
Moscow lash
ed out at Mar- " m"i
shall Tito with the warning that
Russia is prepared to take "cf-
cracks in the communist struc
ture. This importance is multiplied
when we consider that great dis
content has long been making
itself evident in other satellite
states
Finland's bold and energetic
stand, coming on top of Yugo
slavia's refusal to knuckle un
der, is a tough and dangerous
blow to Soviet imperial ambi
tions in Europe.
Both these nations are essen
tial to the Red structure, not
fective measures" (measures only politically but militarily,
unspecified) to protect the for they are strategically locat-
rights of Russian 'citizens in Yu
goslavia.
ed.
Of course,
Russia could take
. . . . n . nan, mo .vccti. x U111UUUI.CU a
Pittsburgh W 'Pears like Tna,,nan aoipn saDam, 6iU thgt woul(J provide federal
these here Pittsburgh cops got
The no admiration for a Texan's fast
down the mid
die, my wifef
went to bed
with a sick
headache, t h r
Larscns don
love us a n
more,
got
telev
ve us a n I f 3 TV set.
ore. and I vrRrCT 'k They told me 1
it to buy n ytmttirj And about wild d
levision set. jf I crs. Ald about "1
This soirj J jflLJ "SinS out conceal
sequence bega
at break fast 1
Inst Friday.
My wife looked at me over
the top of her newspaper, wait
ed for permission to speak, and
inquired: "Why don't we learn
to piny cannstn?'
"Why should wo?" I asked when I noticed that my fistful
jovially. My moulh, however,
was filled at the time with yo
curt (a milk food favored by
yogurt enters) and my wife un
derstood me to sny: "Why, cer
tainly." So Friday night found me
opening the Canasta rule book
with all the enthusiasm of a boy
confronted by "Elementary Al
of cards included some match
ing kings, queens and nines.
"Hey," I said, "I can what-d-ya-call
it. I can meld."
Edith glared. "It's a rule of
this game," she informed me
chillingly, "that you say, 'part
ner, may I go out?' "
I looked at my wife. I looked
at the TV set. Something inside
.h .1-- ... . ..., me snapped.
Five seconds Inter I clapped T P',",("e 1 $aid' ming' may
the book shut. 1 g. ui? ' J
, ....., . , And I made the door before
c can t do it. I said, grin- s)lc cm,id answer,
ning. "Canasta takes two decks
and we've only got that old one Well, the rule book was torn
we keep around in case a gypsy in half when I got home, rather
fortune leller should drop in." iate. And the bottle of head-
My wife took it very well, too ache tabicts Was missing from
we the medicine chest so I knew my
"All right," she said. "Cards wife was feeling poorly I did-
can wait. We'll drop in on the n't disturb her. I slept on the
Larscns instead. I know you studio couch,
don't like them, but " "I was thinking," I said at
"I don't dislike them," I ob- breakfast, "that you're right
jected. "It's just that I can't about our needing a television
stand them. But they do have a set. I could order it through
television set. At least I can Bill's firm as a sort of peace of-
watch the fights." fcring."
' She smiled and then started to
Bill and Edith Larscn prac- laugh and everything was all
tically kissed us. right. Except that I can't as I
"Goody," Edith slid, "now we had planned, tell you today all
can ploy that new game every- about how to play canasta.
T ...1 u. pwatitwii wii umv uui.
j, wild me aciiiic uicb wcic m, . , iii.t:
' . . . 4h ,,, . ., . The chances of legislation on
raised by those who fought to this issue are i-emote at thiwu-
keep us out of the League of f'n lssue are remote at tnls ses
Nations. If congress had not lis- '
tened to those men, there might FLASHES
not have been a World War II."
Thpn nnintimr nt Ttpn .Tnhn The h o u s e ways and means
Davis Lodge (R-Conn), Sabath committee clamped a tight sec
added, "there sits the grandson recv ban on the names of the
of the man who led the fight three members who voted
against the league Senator against the social security liber
Henry Cabot Lodge." alization bill. They are Reps.
For a moment, Lodge sat in Carl Curtis (R-Neb), Noah Ma
stunned silence. Then, white 50n (R-IU) and John Byrnes
with anger, he jumped to his (R-Wis).
feet and shouted, "the record President Truman, was miff
will prove who is right." ed when Sen. Arthur Watkins
"I just gave you the record," (R-Utah), rushed through the
retorted Sabath. $70,000,000 measure for the We-
ber basin reclamation project
SUNDAY SCHOOL , without debate. "That's a very
The "5-percenter" uproar has big bill to be passed by unani
had no effect on Maj. Gen. Har- mous consent," the president
ry Vaughan as a Sunday-school told Sen. Elbert Thomas and
teacher. Rep. Walter Granger of Utah.
He has continued to conduct Former Sen. John Sherman
his regular class of high-school Cooper, liberal Kentucky repub
boys every Sunday morning at lican, will address a United Mine
the Westminster Presbyterian Workers meeting from three
church across the Potomac in states on Labor day. Cooper was
Alexandria, Va. Usual attend- one of the few republicans who
ance is 10 to 12 students. opposed the Taft-Hartley act.
Vaughan has been conducting icopyritht mti
Man Regains Lost Sight
Tells of Thrill of Seeing Again
Hopkinton, Mass. (U.R) A 63-year-old masseur who suddenly
regained his vision after having been blind 18 years, said his
first month of seeing was the most exciting of his life.
"It's been like living all over again," said Edward R. Ray.
"Everything is so colorful and amazing the automobiles, the
women's dresses and my daughter and grandchildren. It's a
new lease on life."
Ray became blind in 1931 after a 35-year period of deteriora
tion of his left eye. He lost the right eye in a childhood acci
dent. Then suddenly the film covering his left eye cleared away.
He said the years of blindness had done him some good, de
spite the things he missed.
"My philosophy is quite different because I have had hours
of meditation during the darkness," he said. "That has be
come a habit now, and I can stay apart from the turmoil of mod
ern life."
FARMER ENTERS SQUABBLE OVER CLOTHES
Joy of Summer Woolies
Offered the British King
Des Moines, la., Aug. 24 (U.R) An Iowa farmer offered today to
send the British king an old suit of his long-handled underwear
"so he can know the joy of real comfort."
The farmer, who asked to be unnamed so his gift to royalty
would be anonymous, stepped into a squabble between two
newspaper columnists, an Iowan
and an Englishman, over the year around," he said. "Tried
wearing apparel and habits of cotton once but it irritated me.
their respective countrymen. I gave it up pretty quick.
Patty Johnson, woman's page ..Now x wear regular-weight
editor of the Waterloo, la. Dai y undies all winter and si ,
Courier, had written, slightly shave ,he uzz oit ,cm wilh
shocked that "Scotsmen who corn knie for wear ln summer
wear kilts wear nothing at all Those were the type he o.
underneath them.' fered to send , his majesty
John Walter, New York cor- his last ,ummer's woolies with
respondent for the London Daily tnc fuzz shaVed off. .
Mirror, retaliated that Iowa . . ,. ,. . .
farmers wear long underwear. " ,h "ng wore them Jusl
He seemed to think it was sign one day. he said, "I know he'd
they were sissies. never go without 'em again.
The Iowa farmer who got Into They'd be just the thing for
the act today is 31. He operates those clammy English winters,
a 240-acre corn-and-hog farm I wore them over there during
not far from here. the war and they were just the
"I wear wool underwear all ticket."
A portion of the British miana over cy iorce, out. sucn
press immediately said this f mov,eu assuredly would result
sounded like the worst threat of in another World War.
indirection. Thus we see Red
leaders in Finland precipitating
a wave of strikes which the Hel-
war since Hitler's blasts in '39.
However, informed British dip
lomatic officials, who are watch-
n& th eitimtinn plncalu ...il
the dispute wasn't likely to lead slnkl government says represent
to war. They figured Moscow a maneuver towards revolution
wanted Yugoslavia to think she and the establishment of a Red
was threatened with ntfnrk- icGmK:'
Washington believes the bol-
Well, this column doesn't like because oI Finnish resistancei
whereas Russia was bluffing.
thP Iprm "hlllffinf," no annlie
either to Russia or Yugoslavia. Wliat must be uallv st,ag?e'-
. , ing for Moscow is the astonish-
J?. J IV'-whe",the .gods f ing move in the Soviet zone of
war are playing at ten-pins with Grmany bv German commun-
H mlte 8nd hand"Bren- ts who hate Russia.
ades, there s always the possi- These Germans have formed a
c.n, T6XP ' new party which, like that of
Still, as I see it, there's noth- Marshal Tito, represents nation-'
ng to justify the belief either alistic communism that refuses
that Russia intends to make war to recognize the sovereignty of
(which would mean world war) Moscow. Not only that, but this
at this juncture or that valiant new party promptly sent Tito
but comparatively small Yugo- a message pledging him support
slavia is prepared to undertake in his fight against "imperialist
the role of giant-killer. bolshevism."
The real importance of the Will this revolt against Mos
current developments lies in the cow's dictation spread in east
fact that they represent open em Europe; that is possible and,
defiance in Russia's own sphere I believe, even probable in due
of influence. . They represent course.
HISTORIC MEDICAL HIGHLIGHTS No. 48.
-AT THE EDGE OF AN ERA-
TIME and the progress it moy bring will pro
vide an answer to a question the whole world
is asking . . . will the constructive potentiali
ties of atomic fission out weight its destructive
ones? It is known, however, that the medical
advances from recently acquired knowledge
of the atom will be important . . . possibly pro
viding a cure at last for such old enemies
of man as cancer, polio and TB. Madame
Curie's discovery of radium brought a great
advance to medicine. The new knowledge and
"know-how" may bring advances of equal importance.
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