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I Salem, Oregon, Friday, November 21, 1952
EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT
President-elect Eisenhower picked a personality in Gov
ernor DouzUis McKay as the next Secretary of the In
terior who knows the people and interests of the Pacific
Northwest. As for Oregon itself, there is no other per
son in the state more qualified to speak for the interests
of this particular part of the West.
When it comes to what his administrative policies will
be when he is addressed as "Mr. Secretary" instead of
"Governor," McKay isn't talkinjj now. They obviously
will ref.ect the thoughts of his boss, Ike. And that is to
be expected because Ike and Doug think along the same
lines, generally speaking, on domestic and foreign affairs.
The Department of the Interior, established in 1849, is
charged with responsibility for the government's major
programs in land, water, and mineral resources. Its
jurisdiction extends from the islands of the Carribean to
the Arctic circle and South Pacific.
Included in the custody of the department are: The
reclaiming of the arid lands of the West through irriga
tion, the management of hydroelectric power systems,
conservation and development of minerals and promotion
of mine safety, protection of fish and wildlife resources,
and administration of the nation's scenic and historic
areas. Also included are the welfare of 2,000,000 per
sons in America's territories and island possessions and
guardianship of 400,000 Indians and 30,000 Alaskan
native;.
McKay can be considered as an outspoken advocate of
free enterprise and local control. And he should be de
scribed as a "middle-of-the-roader" like Eisenhower. He
is not opposed to public ownership if the people want it.
Over the past four years as governor, McKay has let
it be known he believes that private utilities should be
given a chance to develop water resources. But" when
the job is too big for private enterprise on the major
rivers, the job of dam-building should be done by the
federal government. But he believes the federal gov
ernment shouldn't have the full say1 on how to develop
or run the projects. That's why he opposed a Columbia
Valley Administration.
He was one of three governors who went to Wash
ington, D.C. to speak out in a congressional hearing
against the proposed CVA. He contended the states
should have a say in development of the Pacific North
west. He called for federal-state cooperation. That
was what Eisenhower asked, too, in his campaign speech
at Seattle.
McKay's prominent leadership in developing the Wil
lamette basin is evidence of his basic interest in utiliz
ing resources of the region to the fullest. For 14 years,
he acted as the original chairman of the Willamette
basin commission which worked with the Corps of En
gineers to plan and construct a series of multiple-purpose
dams in the Willamette valley.
He has unqualifiedly endorsed the "308 Report" which
the Corps of Engineers drew up to outline all possible
projects in the Pacific Northwest to store water and to
develop power.
For four years he has participated actively in the
Columbia Basin Inter-Agency committee, which consists
of a group of federal and state agencies advising on how
to develop the Columbia basin.
It Is possible that Alaska and Hawaii will be added to
the union while he is secretary, since he has advocated
statehood for both. In line with his strong stand for
state's rights, he has favored state ownership of oil tide
lands, which Eisenhower has, likewise.-
Selection of Oregon's governor for a post on Ike's
cabinet is an honor to the state, the Pacific Northwest
and to Doug McKay personally. McKay was one of the
general's first backers and certainly one of his most
ardent.
Now McKay will have no trouble getting a front-row
seat for the inauguration January 20, which he had
merely hoped to see before he learned about his appoint
ment as Secretary of the Interior.
IKE'S BOSS OF DEFENSE
Charles Erwin Wilson, whom President-elect Eisen
hower has selected for the cabinet post of running the
defense department should not be confused with Charles
Edward Wilson who resigned the defense position last
year. The latter was president of the General Electric
company and the former president of the General Motocs
corporation. Both concerns are among the largest in
their respective lines in the world. And both men rank
among the nations ablest executives. Both are republi
cans. That the post assigned Is among the toughest of them
all is shown by the fact that the first secretary of de
fense, James Forrestal, resigned, and broken by immense
burdens of the job committed suicide. The second,
I,ouis Johnson, was fired. The third. Gen. George C.
Marshall, after a year of service, resigned. The present
Incumbent, Robert A. Lovctt, let it be known months ago
that he intended to quit and get back to his business and
"moderately prosperous obscurity."
Even the gigantic General Motors Corp. is dwarfed by
the proportions of tho business Wilson will manage as
defense chief, but the bigger job produces a much smaller
paycheck. As president of GM his 1951 salary and bon
uses totaled about $626,300. His new post pays 22,500
and no bonus.
Of all the executive agencies of government, the detente
department li the largest, the costliest, the most complex, the
moat technical. lt responsibilities can be grave. Decisions
made by a dofrntc secretary can be important In how a battle
li fought and how men die.
The number of persons who work under the defense depart
ment and its armed forces approaches the live million mark,
3,800,000 nf whom are In the armed forces, thp others civilian
employes in the fnrflung enterplrses of the military establish
ment. The defense spending budget runs about 160 billions I year.
Wilson at a press conference said that ho expected to
run the defense department like General Motors, with the
separate services acting independently while conforming
to top policy. He stated:
"Unification Is one of the most Important Jobs facing the
next secretary of defense. I have ideas on the subject and be
lieve they aro workable. If properly unified, the services will
operate more efficiently at reduced costs. The onlv binding
factor would be conformity with the policy sat by the top
command."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
H-Bomb Gives Ike Good
Argument for World Peace
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Why an Ordinary Guy
Can't Get Upset by H-Bomb
By HAL
New York 'JPi The explosion
of an H-bomb weapon Ln the Pa
cific may have startled the dip
limatic world. The average
American, however, too): little
more note of it than if, on a
iumr eight he had glanced
up and seen a star fail.
Previous tidings o other new
and marvelous ways in which
the human race could destroy
itsell have exhausted his capa
city for terror and dismay.
The ordinary mortal today Is
tired of being frightened by
graphic previews of what may
befall him. He has eaien the
bread of crisis so long it has
come to have a stale taste.
People were so upset over the
atom bomb that the wider
threat of the H-bomb can hard
ly appall them. You have to
rest from fear sometime, and
the average man feels like tak
ing a seventh inning stretch
right now.
"So maybe It'll get conked
sometime by an H-bomb instead
of an atom bomb," he thinks.
"What difference does it make
to a fly whether it is swatted
with a rolled up newspaper or
a baseball bat?"
He is also losing his ability
to marvel at the fresh marvels
of science, because so many of
its wonders turn out to be blun
ders. This has been a fearful and
tremendous century of strident
and continuous change, multi
ple death and vast growth.
It is perhaps the most adven
turous and exploratory century
ln history, one that has thrown
a small candle of light into the
darkness of strange new worlds
which seem to many more ter
rifying than inviting.
A man who is only as old as
this century Just 52 years
has endured a lot. He has wea
thered at least three depressions
and two and a half world wars.
When he pauses to catch his
breath and look back, It seems
to him that nothing has remain
ed unchanged with the possible
exception of mother love.
BOYLE
Tee safe-seeming world he
was born Into has vanished long
ago.
He has seen the horse and
buggy replaced by the jet plane,
the stereoscope slide give way
to the television image, chewing
tobacco succeeded by bubble
gum.
Tee key phrase of that sturdy,
distant time was "All I want is
a fair chance, an opportunity
to show what I can do."
Badgered and bewildered by
these years of ceaseless change,
a 52-year-old man today work
ed fewer hours than his father
did. But his leisure also is now
tormented by fears of new
dooms his grandfather never
dreamed of even in his night
mares. It is no wonder that this middle-aged
man in a middle-aged
century now often yearns, most
of all, for some form of secur
ity, a sanctuary from the threat
of immense danger that has
palled his times almost as long
as he can remember.
Even the young, ordinarily
venturesome, are infected today
by the craving for a kind of
security no generation ever
really has had in the long hard
lot of mankind on this earth.
The ordinary mortal would
like science to quit dealing up
fresh mass-death instruments
and build him instead an escape
hatch from the perils of the
20th century.
But in his heart he knows the
wry truth: There is no escape
hatch. A man must live in the
time he has been allotted, and
face its tasks with what cour
age and kindness and hope he
can muster.
It is bad enough to feel like
one floating alone on a broken
spar ln an unknown sea.
But there Is no point ln any
one in that plight worrying
about the possibility of a hurri
cane. He has trouble enough
already, and that is why the
average American today isn't ln
any panic over the H-bomb..
OPEN FORUM
Restored Faith in the Voter
To the Editor: Let's not be too
hard on Mr. Rex Lambert for his
efforts of the past year or so.
When he predicted, come the'
1952 election, Mr. Truman would
still be playing the Missouri
Waltz ln the White House, he be
lieved it.
His chlorophyll treatment of
the mink coat episode, his recol
lection of Teapot Dome (a scan
dal, involving a mere few, that
was quickly aired and cleaned
up by the Republicans them
selves), his belief It was a
planned economy, and not the
most devastating war ln history,
that cured the depression, and a
few other misconceptions, were
all the mark of an indefatigable
Democrat.
Mr. Lambert had his day. He
should be commended for his
loyal efforts and left to sober
reflection of the consoling fact
that we still have a two-party
system.
We said in 1932 the character
of the nation's leader represented
the level of the nation's voter
intelligence. We kept saying it
for 20 years. We still say it.
We do, however, have restored
faith, because so many, many
Democrats themselves finally
saw the light Mr. Lambert was
unable to see.
ETHAN GRANT
740 Cascade Drive
Salem, Oregon.
BY DREW
Washington List Sunday, the
day the hydrogen-bomb explo
sion waj a--our.oed, I happened
to go to church. I say "happened"
because a television program
and a radio broadcast both com
ic g on a Sunday ordinarily make
it hard for me to go to church.
But the telecast Is being
switched to Wednesdays, so I
surprised Mrs. P. by taking her
to church, where I listened to
Rev. John R. Arjchuti preach
a sermon on prayer. Knowing
that the hydrogen-bomb an
nouncement was cue to be made
later that day or the next morn
ing, I did quite a bit of thinking
about prayer, and the fact that
maybe ii we had relied more on
prayer and the things that go
with prayer, we wouldn't be in
the predicament of building
bomb-shelters and going under
ground for fear of explosions
that could burn up our civiliza
tion. Over at the Alexandria, Va,
church where George Washing
ton used to worship, Rev. O. V.
T. Chamberlain chose as his
closing hymn: "Tne Day Thou
Gavest, Lord, Ii Ended."
Tnat expressed some thoughts
of mine, too.
For the cay the Lord gave us
could very well be ended if we
and the Russians ever get to
trading hydrogen - bomb blows
across the Arctic.
Bombs vs. Ideas
On the other hand, I also fig
ured that bombs never killed an
idea, and our greatest natural
resource is not Plutonium or tri
tium, but our moral and spirit
ual strength.
Religion and communism can
not survive together. But one
trouble is that religion has got
to mean more than a refuge
from ruthless force. It must be
a pattern for life, not a ritual for
one hour on Sunday. ,
Another trouble is that men
of all faiths and of little faith
have been seeking ideas to de
feat communism, when right
around the comer the best idea
of all is being neglected the
Sermon on the Mount, given us
2,000 years ago as a daily guide
for living with each other.
The big trouble, of course, is
to get that daily guide adopted
not only here, but also behind
an iron curtain where religion
is barred and where we can't
even mail a package.
I have been harping for so
long that I guess people are
tired of hearing me, about the
fact that there will always be
danger of war no matter how
many H-bombs we build or how
many men we draft as long as
we can't speak to the Russian
people, can't mingle with them,
can't cooperate with them in a
free press, free radio, free
church, free books, and free con
tact with the outside world.
As long as 12 men in the
Kremlin can declare war with no
congress, no church, no press, or
power of public opinion to put
on the brakes, there will always
be danger of war and the day
Thou gavest, Lord, may be
ended.
Breaking Iron Curtain
I have tried in what feeble
ways I could to show that the
iron curtain was not as impene
trable as it's supposed to be. I
once traveled along It from Tur
key to Berlin showing up its
loopholes; and in cooperation
with the Crusade for Freedom I
helped float 11,000,000 leaflets
via balloons into Czechoslovakia
and Poland.
These at best were puny ef
forts, though they showed, from
the reaction on the other side of
the iron curtain, how eagerly it
people welcome contact with us.
Today, however, we have two
opportunities which need not be'
puny. First we have a new and
powerful hydrogen bomb, there
by giving us tremendous bar
gaining power to break down
the artificial barriers preventing
peace.
Second, we have a new presi
dent. He is a man of great pres
tige, known throughout the
world and in Russia. And he has
what Franklin Roosevetl had, a
flair for dramatics, the ability
to win people, to capture their
imagination. Whether you agree
with him politically or not,
Eisenhower is and can be an in
ternational salesman. And that's
PEARSON
what's reeded today In selling
the world tew instrument! for
peace.
It is always possible at the be
ginning of a new administration
to form important, new and dy
namic policies.
That's because outgoing lead
ers become jaded and get in a
rut. Our present outgoing lead
ers have put across some mile
stones against communism for
which historians will give them
great credit the Marshall plan,
the North Atlantic pact.
But the sheen is off these poli
cies cow. They are shopworn and
lackluster. They still form a firm
foundation on which to build
for prosperity and peace. And on
them a new administration can
build bigger things if it has
courage and imagination.
Seldom in history has a new
president come into office when
the peoples of the world had
reached a lower ebb of despond
ency, when the danger of total
war was potentially greater, and
when there was placed in the
new president's hands greater
bargaining power the hydrogen
bomb.
In another year that bargain
ing power may be gone. The
Kremlin by then may have the
H-bomb. But until then a new
leader with courage, imagina
tion, conviction has a heaven
sent opportunity to reopen the
Baruch plan for tbe control of
atomic energy, and simultaneous
ly open up the iron curtain to
American truth, culture and the
American people.
If the latter can be done, the
Korean war and all kindred
problems will automatically
solve themselves.
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match the story of the fish that got away.
Frechella shot an eight-point buck, took it home and hung
it in a tree.
When he went to show it to friends, the deer was gone
someone had stolen It.
What About the Kitchen Sink?
New York flJ B Five salesgirls at a large department atore
here, ranging in age from 25 to 45, have been arrested for
looting 16,000 in merchandise.
Among the many items the women slipped past a watch
man at the employes' entrance was a complete home gymnasium.
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