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LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
BANNING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
The Oregon bouse of representatives has by a vote of
81 to 28 killed the bill for the Felton dam on the Deschutes
river thus creventinir the expenditure of millions of dol.
lars for a badly needed Central Oregon hydroelectric plant
which would not only encourage industrial development
to furnish payrolls but tax revenues for the region, as
well as a recreation lake.
The defeat was brought about by the alliance of the
bureaucrats heading state departments seeking popularity
the advocates of non-taxpaying federal power monopoly,
and the principal exterminators of fish life, the commercial
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ana sportsmen usnermen, wno never agree uii nnjuujig
but opposition, to private company power dams, ti&a tne
project been large enough to interest the federal govern
ment as a needless investment of taxpayers' money
there would have been no more opposition than there is
to the many huge dams built and in construction.
The Deschutes river has never been a salmon stream
and probably never will be, no matter how much money
is spent Even the Indians had to go miles away to the
Columbia to get salmon. Its steep, rock-bound boulder
strewn canyon is all but Impassable to anglers and little
fished. ' . , 'V
The Portland General Electric promoters of the Pelton,
project met every objection suggested to develop salmpn
and trout hatcheries to insure restocking, as at other
dams. It also cooperated to make the lake created a
summer pleasure resort, which when stocked with spiny
ray and other fish would furnish sport for the multitude
and insure many times the catch possible in the Deschutes.
There has been but one dam built in Oregon by private
enterprise since the legislative ban created when Bon
neville was built and that was on the North Umpqua.
Many projects have been thwarted by public power vis
ionaries, especially on the Snake by those who want a
federal monopoly so California can utilize Oregon streams
for development. .; ;
: Will Oregon ever get a legislature interested enough in
S- j ia. i i i . i ;
uregou .to permit taxpsyuig- private enterprise spending
its own money to develop the Oregon area instead of in
creasing the record-smashing national debt?
Milk marketing policies
Last week's decision by the supreme court in the Safe
way milk case has evidently reversed the policies of the
milk marketing division of the state department of agri
culture. Hitherto the people were accustomed to edicts
raising the price of milk and at the same time lowering
the butterfat content, higher prices for poorer milk.
A couple of days after the decision the board raised the
butterfat content of regular milk in Portland without
raising the price, reduced the price of higher butterfat
content milk as much as 1 cents and granted an optional
tore differential of cent a quart on two quart sales.
Board members gave complete credit for price reduc
tion and increased butterfat content to producers, who at
tneir rerruary n earing indicated raey warned a Deiter
product to go to the public at no extra cost '
The optional store differential was in response to long
standing popular demand, board members pointed out. .,
The majority court decision written by Judge George
Kossman stated that nothing in the milk marketing act
supported the department's claim to economic control
over processors and the act itself had been misconstrued.
A supporting opinion by Chief Justice Latourette de
clared "the order of the director is arbitrary, unreason
able, is neither within the spirit nor the terms of the act,
nor is it founded on facts sufficient to sustain such an
order."
' Thtt tntllr TnnfVotlncr itlvtilnn nf tit a fon&rtmint nf nor.
culture had ruled that Safeway could not purchase milk in
the Salem production area to be processed in Portland and
returned to Salem for sale in their stores. A decision
upholding the board by Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding
of Multnomah was reversed.
The Oregon Food Merchants' association has denounced
as "a fraud and delusion" the optional store differential
price of cent a quart for 2-quart sales on milk approved
for Portland by the state board effective April 16. The
wholesale price will not be changed, however, and stores
adopting the differential on two-unit sales will have a
margin of IVi cents a quart instead of the historic 2
cents a quart. .
AGREEMENT ON U.N. SECRETARY
The long deadlock over a sucessor to Trygvie Lie as
secretary general of the United Nations was suddenly
broken Tuesday by an agreement between Russia and
the western nations on Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden.
If there was any place the two contending elements
cbuld meet it would be on someone from Sweden or Switz
erland, two free nations that are not in the N.A.T.O.,
hence not directly allied to the west, though presumably
western in svmDatnies.
We do not attach too much significance to the agree
ment, although it is encouraging as far as it goes. It
seems to be part of the prevailing Moscow "peace" atti
tude. The question is whether this is to be of brief or
longer duration, long enough to allow a Korean peace
. settlement or only long enough to enable Moscow to mix
little more propaganda brew.
t But at least one vexing impasse Is out of the way.
rnilR MORE YEARS FOR BIG TEN
Purdue's vote for renewal of the Big Ten's four-year
contract with the Pacific Coast conference for the annual
Rose Bowl game is now said to assure a six to four vote
. for renewal in the Big Ten. It is assumed that Indiana
and Michigan, who've favored the agreement right along,
will again vote that way.
nut a vote of six to four is only the bare margin re
ntrfld. so it is evident that there is plenty of opposition
to the big New Year's day football extravaganza among
the faculties of the middle western institutions.
Although we favor the Rose Bowl gnme we were half
hoping the Big Ten would bow out so the western entry
could play team picked from the entire midwest, cast
and south. This could have made the game more repre
sentative and more interesting to sports fans of the
nation. .
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. Aitorian-Budget
The investigative powers of
congress certainly don't extend
so far as to give congressional
committee the right to take
over functions of the executive
branch of government
This is what Sen. McCarthy
and his subcommittees have
done by negotiating an agree
ment with a Oreek shipowner
to halt shipments Into Red
China.
Negotiations of such agree
ments is the duty of the execu
tive branch of government,
through its state department
There is certainly nothing in
the Constitution or in any other
law thtat permits a senate sub
committee to take over such
duties.
Sen. McCarthy Is obviously
getting too big for his britches.
Sen. McCarthy was slapped
down by the senate in the case
of the Bohlen appointment as
ambassador to Russia, He tried
to overrule the president, but
the senate confirmed the presi
dent's appointment -
We doubt if the senate will
approve McCarthys arrogant
invasion of executive duties in
the matter of the deal with the
Greek shipowner. Some sort of
rebuke, plus repudiation of the
deal, Is certainly in order,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Are You a Stuffed Shirt?
Well, You Could Be One
New York VP) Atb you a
stuffed shirt?
Chances are the answer i
yes, sometimes. , ;
Practically everybody is.
Prosperity creates more stuff
ed shirts than anything else,
and times have been pretty
good lor quite a while.
What Is a stuffed shirt? He
is anyone with an undue sense
of self-importance, who lets
himself got out of perspective
in relation to other people.
A stuffed shirt is able to In
flate himself with his own hot
air, and name me anybody
who doesn't have the urge
to do that now and then today.
Fortunately. ' the pinpricks
of conscience and common
sense, plus the ability to look
in a mirror and laugh at our
selves, make most of us self
deflating, too,
If silence were really cold-
en, the stuffed shirt would be
a pauper.-. It is his conversa
tion that reveals what he is
stuffed with, normally, his
head with nonsense, his heart
with sawdust
y HAL BOYLE
( ' April 1, 1901
Postmaster Hirsch has filled
vacancies left by resignation of
rural carrier Lester Davis and
Leon Gerod by appointing
Claude Johnson as carrier for
the route four and F. O. Smith
for route six through, Mission,
bottom. Other carriers on Sa
lem's eight rural routes out of
Salem, are: J. A. Remington,
CleU Hayden, McNeil Howell,
James Albert, Edward Cher
rington and Frank Raymond.
Each carrier has provided hlm-
seu with a sulky, buck-board
or buggy needed to cover his
route. Nineteen iron collection
boxes to be placed on sites of
discontinued postofflces and in
schoolhouses have not yet ar
rived. (J. A. Remington now
resides at 2186 Chemeketa
street).
Salem 52 Years Ago
By BEN, MAXWELL
The Journal has been count
ing up the business and pro
fessional men of Salem and
finds that the total enumerat
ed to date is 268. If boarding
housekeeping was counted over
a biennial period many In Sa
lem's 400 set would also be
enrolled in business.
Salem YMCA is seeklnB bids
for a bulldlna- site or for a
downtown location that can be 'awful
street This machine plays the
large, five inch records and
the results, to say the least,
are wonderful.
New Today: For trade A
solid- gold watch for a farm
wagon.
A number of ladies met Sat
urday afternoon at the resi
dence of Mrs. C. P. Bishop and
discussed the advisability of
forming a woman's club.
Gap Closed: Operation of
through trains between San
Francisco and Los Angeles over
the new Coast Line via Surf
and Santa Barbara will begin
Sunday, March 31, 1801.
W. T. Slater, recever of the
Williams & England Banking
company, Salem, has declared
another dividend of 10 per
cent. This makes a total of 95
percent that has been paid in
all claims and a sufficient pro
perty remains to meet all out
standing claims in full.
remodeled to suit organization
needs. C. P. Bishop is YMCA
secretary.
Auguet Schrelber- has In
stalled an Edison perfected
phonograph in his place of
business (saloon) at 110 State
Advertisment: Dr. J. F. Cook,
301 Liberty street, the great
botanical specialist and origi
nal discoverer of the botanical
cure, heals some patients who
have suffered for years from
disease and the more
awful effects of rank .medical
humbug.
Salem Military band will
make Its first appearance
Memorial day and by that time
it is expected to have a full
band membership.
BY BECK
April Fool
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M!liiSJW FOOL JOKES WITH THE S. I3!
The stuffed shirt can occa
sionally be dangerous, often
he Is a sad figure, but gener
ally he is merely ludicrous, as
most -things out of perspective
are.
It is fun to collect stuffed
shirts as a hobby. Like the
mosquito their habitat ranges
from the tropics to the Arctic
Circle. But the vest places to
net them are in their homes,
in railroad club cars, at bars
or cocktail parties.
Perhaps you have some of
the following common types
in your own gallery of stuffed
shirts:
1.. The BIg-Me-Llttle-You
S. S. His slogan is, "Any
thing you've done I've done
better." If you drove up
Pike's Peak, he climbed the
Matterhorn on a pogo stick.
Your car gets 18 miles to the
gallon? His gets 22. Your
wife weighs 250 pounds? His
weighs 37S and had three of
fers from a circus.
2. The I-Bar-All-the-Tax-Burdens
S. S. He actually is
on the payroll of his older
brother, bUt he talks as if aU
the cost of government fell on
his shoulders. Every time
President Ike digs a divot in
the Wihte House lawn, . he
yelps, "why should-I have to
pay .for his grass seed?"
t. The Social-CJimblng-Bar-tender
This stuffed shirt
gives the idea he spends his
mornings in Wall Street and
his week-ends playing polo
with the Astorbllts. You have
to show your Dun k Brad-
street rating before he will
wait on you, and then he
serves a martini - with his
thumb in it instead of an olive.
4. The Smug Young Mother
S. She is sure that life
and childbirth began with her,
and the Lord hung out the sun
merely to dry her laundry
line. Any woman who doesn't
spend , every minute in her
home praising her baby is a
drled-up, envious old maid. AU
this young mommy needs.
however, is two more kids to
make her a ' human . being
again.
8. The World Saver S. S.
This Joker can't cure himself
of a common cold, but he is
certain he has worked out a
solution for all -the ills that
ever plagued mankind. If you
don t have your earplugs
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taftand Eisenhower Getting Along First Rate
Washington President Els
enhower was talking to his
Monday-morning quarteroacK
session of senate leaders about
the question of replacing Carl
Gray, now head of the far-
flung and very important vet
erans administration.
' Someone proposed that Gen.
James Van Fleet, recently re
turned Korean war hero, be
made veterans administrator.
Whereupon the outspoken sen
ior senator from Ohio inter
rupted.
"I don't think," suggested
Taft, "that we ought to have
another general."
Taft caught himself and
grinned. Looking around the
room, however, he noted that
no one else grinned. Ike said
nothing. So Taft said nothing
further.
Later Taft explained to
friends that he did not mean
this as a crack against generals
in the White House, but that a
general, accustomed to army
red tape, was not a good man
to handle the red tape-bound
veterans administration.
The incident, incidentally,
does not Indicate any coolness
between the two top leaders of
the republican party. Taft has
been setting along much Bet
ter with Eisenhower. The two
see eye-to-eye on more issues,
and the president has been tak
ing more of Taft's advice. Taft
says privately that he still re
serves the right to differ, and
may have to do so eventually.
But he isn't going to differ on
details.
TIMID TONY
Tony Bender, reputed suc
cessor to Frankle Costello in
the New York underworld, al
most had heart failure when
Bible-quoting Senator Tobey's
investigators served him with
a subpoena to come to Wash
ington for the New Jersey wa
terfront investigation totday.
Tobey's agents tracked Ben
der to his girl friend's apart
ment in Grennwlch Village,
then closed in. Bender zoomed
his car up the street, senate
agents in hot pursuit. Finally
they forced his car to the curb.
Bender got out, thinking a
rival gangster was about to
bump him off. Sweat was drip
ping from his brow. He was
quaking with fear.
When he got only a senate
subponea, the big racketeer
looked as if he would kiss the
agents on both cheeks. He ac
cepted it with pleasure, timid
ly asked If he could bring a
lawyer.
SECRET TIDELANDS
TESTIMONY . : " -
The vital closed-door debate
giving offshore oil to the coast
al states is still hushed uo in
side the senate interior com
mittee. However, here are the
highlights of what happened.
Loudest uproar was over the
way the bill was revamped at
the last minute without telling
most senstors.
"I feel that the' attorney gen
eral of the United States ought
to interpret language that is in
this blU which is different from
any language we have ever
looked at before," demanded
Sen. Clint Anderson, New Mex-1
ico democrat. "So here we are j
with a bill on which we have i
never had hearings."
BY DREW PEARSON
"It is a little surprise to me
to find a complete new bill,"
agreed Sen. George Malone,
Nevada republican. "If nothing
more, I would suggest that
some of us would like to dis
cuss it before the committee
acts." ,
"My desr sir!" bristled Ore
gon's Sen. Guy Cordon, chair
man of the hearings and the
men who arranged the last
minute revamping. "There Will
be nobody denied any reason
able opportunity if the chair
man has the power to do It.
Nobody!"
"I was about to say that per
haps the chairman has con
siderable advantage over the
senator from Nevada. He has
been studying it," shot back
Malone. ; . .
"If the senator will permit
the chair to make an explana
tion which he started to make
perhaps a half hour ago, I
think it wiU be helpful," re
torted Cordon impatiently.
"The bill Is not, first, a new
bill, senator. There are sug
gestions which were made by
the department of justice in
conference with the chairman."
200 MILES OCT TO SEA
Most important change In
the suddenly rewritten tide
lands bill was dividing the tide
lands problem into two parts.
Since Texas and Louisiana have
been squabbling, with Califor
nia over how far out into the
ocean the states had a right to
oil, the republicans decided
first to give title to the states
as far out as the "historical"
boundaries. Later they will take
up the Texas-Louisiana claim
to the oil-rich continental
shelf which stretches 200 miles
under water in some places.
"These states are anxious to
get title cleared up to the edge
of their historical boundar
ies," suggested Senator Ander
son. "They might be willing to
let us clear up the question of
who can lease beyond. But I
have no hope of seeing the bill
passed in my lifetime that Will-
deal with the continental shelf."
"Well, I have every hope that
it will be signed before the
fourth of July," Cordon re.
ponded.
"But which year?" Anderson
cracked back.
"In 1953," snapped Cordon.
"It is unthinkable that such
legislation will not be passed
without delay." '
"It has been unthinkable for
years," retorted the New Mex.
ico senator.
"Those of us who represent
(the coastal) states haven't
been suggesting that there is
a filibuster against such a bill,"
blurted Louisiana's Sen. Rum
Long. "The filibuster has been
suggested by (our opponents)."
"Can the senator name one
person that suggested that?"
demanded Anderson.
"It has been suggested by the
senator from New Mexico, as
I understand it," replied Long,
looking straight at Anderson.
"Maybe as you understood it,
but no person has ever quoted
me saying that and told the
truth," snorted the New Mex.
ico senator, in effect calling
Long a liar.
Texas, freshman Sen. Price
Daniel, who was elected on the
tldelands oil issue, chimed in
that he had never claimed state
ownership of the outer con
tinental shelf.
"In 1937, both Texas sen
ators agreed that the federal
government owned the area ly.
ing at the end of the ocean and
didn't talk about these hlstori.
cal boundaries," Anderson re
called. "Any man in public life
that would get up in Texas now
and say he did not believe '
Texas owned those', the com.
munities would fight for the
privilege of hanging him from
a lamppost. I give ur another
IS years and there will be peo
ple who claim that Texas owns
to the very edge of the gulf of
Mexico."
Note Real issue is whether
royalties' from under-ocean oil
should go to the schools of all
48 states, or three states Cali
fornia, Texas and Louisiana.
Over $37,000,000 that has al
ready been collected and de
posited in the U. S. treasury is
also at stake.
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handy, the only way to deal
wnn mis vernal gusher-is to
tell him you're selling life In
surance. - ,
But stuffed 'shirts serve a
healthy purpose. If there;!
were not a few around to re- j j
mind us that sanltv la better !
than vanity, well, we'd prob
ably all be stuffed shirts, bor
ing each other to death to the
Stare and Liberty
tune of our own vocal chords. '! " -
Dial 4-2224
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