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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregt
Monday, April 27, 195S
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WHY IDAHO FIGHTS HELlfS CANYON
Why does a proposed government dam at Hells Canyon
spark sucn a tremendous controversy wnen asms are
built on the Columbia or lower Snake river with scarcely
a political ripple? ,
Because the upper and middle Snake river is South
Idaho's river to a large extent, the life blood of its eco
nomic structure. Idaho's attitude is therefore probably
more important than Oregon's, although each state right
ly claims a half interest in the stream at tne point wnere
Hells Canyon would be built
' Why is south Idaho so much more opposed to this dam
than Oregon or Washington Is or would be of any other
dam that might be proposed on a river flowing through
or along the boundary of either state? There are three
principal reasons. ,
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1. Irrigation. Other states may view a river as a scenic
attraction, a source of navigation or of power. When an
Idahoan views a river he sees what he calls "waste water"
and looks for a way to put it on the arid land of which his
state has so much. Water rights are a vital part of an
Idaho farmer's land title. Any threat to them, no matter
how indirect, is like the clarion call or old, "The reacoats
are coming." Idaho farmers have seen government bu
reaus override local land interests in California. They
are aware that there will always be many more people,
hence much more political Influence on the lower Colum
bia than on the upper Snake, if government snouia De
come an important factor in the demand for Snake river
water it might pay more attention to the demands for
power or navigation than for irrigation In Idaho. Efforts
to placate these fears have so far been groundless. ,
; 2. Idaho is a conservative state, thoroughly behind
"free enterprise" as against government operations. Ore
gon may imagine it is conservative, but not in the sense
Idaho is. Idaho's attitude toward public power is intensi
fied by the fact that it has one of the best private power
companies in the United States, Idaho Power. This com
pany was a pioneer in rural electrification, with farmers
paying the same rates as the townsfolk. This company
has trebled its generating facilities since the end of the
war. Its area has never had a power shortage, unlike
the government power areas farther west. And the com
pany pays both state income and property taxes. So gov
ernment power is opposed by most of the people of South
Idaho. Hells Canyon has been viewed in part as a scheme
to foist public power on a region that doesn't want it, and
is bitterly resisted on this ground also.
HIS LITTLE RED HELPER
' 8. This is a selfish angle, but what people are unself
ish? Idahoans believe a government plant at Hells Can
yon will export the bulk of its current to the west coast,
including California, that it will be committed on long
term contracts before Idaho needs it, that it will be denied
to Idahoans later when they do need it. Idaho Power
company will build the five dams it proposed one at a
time as needed, paying local taxes on them and using the
power to benefit Idaho and nearby Eastern Oregon.
All these factors combine to make Hells Canyon "fight
in' words" to the people of South Idaho, whose congres
sional delegation, state administration and people res
olutely oppose the government project, making it ex
tremely difficult for proponents to secure congressional
approval. Congressmen, accustomed to solid local back
ing for government spending projects, naturally hesitate
to vote half a billion dollars the representatives of the
locality say is not wanted.
If America is destined eventually to be completely
socialized South Idaho will be one of the last islands of
free enterprise in the socialistic sea, dominated by in
dependent farmers. The state has no debt, lots of money
in its various funds, a balanced budget, and one of the last
things its 1953 legislature did was to cut the state income
tax. Incidentally its governor and present political strong
man is a native Oregonian and graduate of our own state
university, Len Jordan. N
FILIBUSTER FUTILITY
Oregon's partyless Senator Wayne B. Morse has an
other record to brag about, that of being the champion
filibusterer in the history of congress,, to add to his
laurels as the greatest of senate windbags. He spouts
words like a Yellowstone geyser does water. For 22 hours
and 26 minutes keeping the senate in day and night ses
sions, he babbled against the bill to establish state owner
ship of oil-rich coastal tidelands.
It was another of Oregon's junior senator's many essays
in futility, but it achieved its real purpose, publicity. It
got him back on the front pages of the nation's newspa
pers and enhanced his nuisance value as an Ishmael of
politics.
Morse and other opponents of the coastal oil bill, have
the same object that all other Congressional filibusters
on other subjects have, the frustration by a minority of
the will of the majority and use the same tactics most
of them have denounced, that the southern senators used
against the "civil rights" legislation. This time the ma
jority is bi-partisan, the bill carries out the execution of
a presidential and party platform pledge.
In the weeks of debate, no new facts or even Ideas have
been presented by Morse and other opponents over the
legislation that has twice passed congress, but with less
than two thirds vote to override the Truman vetoes.
In addition nearly all the state governors, or attorneys
general, or the legislatures of the opponents of the oil
quit-claims bill are on record as favoring the measure.
And the supreme court majority has expressly recognized
the right of congress to deal with the matters of own
ership and title of the coastal oil lands.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Time Is Much More Important
In One's Lifetime Than Money
By JACK RUTLEDGE for VAL BOYLE
Crash Victim Better
' Liberty Leslie Eugene Pe
terson, 820 Boone Rd., who wu
critically Injured in motorcycle-truck
collision Thursday,
hat regained consciousness and
li reported to be improving at
the General hoapltal. Emmett
Hoyt Henry, 4780 Skyline Rd,
who was driving the motor
cycle, was killed in the accident.
' The aenlor National AAU
welghtllftlng c h a mplonships
and Mr. America contest will
be held at Indianapolis, Ind.,
on June 6 and 7.
New York OT The biggest
problem In everybody's lite is
how to spend hii time.
There is an old saying that
"time Is - money."' But, of
course, it isn't really. It is
much better than money. The
Philadelphia, mint never
coined anything as precious as
a month ... a week ... a
day ... a minute . . . or a tin
gle second ... if it is a second
that gives your life a golden
meaning.
Time is much more import
ant in the economics of a life
time than money. It Is like
money only in that fellow
only begins to realize its true
value when he doesn't nave
enough of it left to buy the
things in life he wants with it
Most people learn to spend
money the' hard way through
trial and error. They make
mistakes by buying the wrong
things at the wrong time, and
experience teaches them to do
better.
One of the sadnesses of liv
ing is that many people never
acquire the skill of spending
their time as well as they do
their money. They feel they
have more time than money,
and no man ever did.
You can tost away a thou
sand dollars, and earn it back,
and be no poorer In spirit. But
one wasted hour in prideful
youth cannot be reclaimed,
sometimes, by many .later bit
ter, wistful, wiser years. . The
hole in your heart and mind
gapes unclosed forever.
There seems such a wealth
of time before you when you
start.
You don't really . know
whether there will be much or
little, except you can be sure
that when the supply begins
to run out you will regret
it. This is the usual story of
man.
Parents try hard to teach
their children the value of
money. But few make any con
certed effort to teach them the
value of time. Probably be
cause they don't know how.
But the heart of both prob
lems is the same. You use
money to collect things
houses and headaches, auto
mobiles and vacation trips,
bank accounts and income tax
receipts. You collect from
time, however, only memories,
sour or sweet.
There should be way to
teach a child early to try to
spend his time collecting the
right kind of memories. A
good life is one that has been
expended in acquiring good
memories, that bloom instead
of fester in the mind.
If a person doei that, it
makes no difference whether
his life work was repairing
watches or building huge
FirstlOODaysofFDRand
Ike Will Be Compared
Court Grants Request
In Stasney Petition
A.. B. Toepfer objected to
the amount of money award
ed him in connection with pro
ceedings involving the - open
ing of a "gateway" across a
portion of his 'property dur
ing a hearing before thecoun
ty court Monday.
However, the court, which
had followed the law in pro
ceedings of this nature, de
cided to grant the request of
John Stasney for the roadway
involved.
The board of reviewers who
investigated the situation in
volving .131 acre of land be
longing to Toepfer, .awarded
him $100. In addition Stasney
had to pay the expenses of the
board of viewers.
The men involved in the
"gateway" proceedings live on
Route 1 ' out of Woodburn.
Stasney said Els land lay in
such a position that he could
not easily reach the road and
asked for an access lane over
Toepfer'a adjoining property.
dams or bridges. All of us
can't design cathedrals, and a
man can be equally happy if
he only carves in driftwood.
We all play at the edge of
a vast ocean, as a clock within
us slowly ticks toward silence.
The ocean is time..
Bored people with bad mem
ories often say, "I wish I knew
a better way to kill time." But
nobody ever really killed any
time. Time just keeps creep
ing up on them.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Why Not Let Released POWs
Confront Russians qt U.N.
Washington The most Im
portant move the United Na
tions could make in regard to
Korea would be to call the ex
changed war-hero prisoners to
New York to have them tell
their story.
Let them appear face-to-face
with Ambassador Vlshinsky,
the Poles, the Czechs, other
Communist satellites to tell
how they were treated by their
Communist captors. Let them
also tell how their comrades-in-arms
were treated, those
who died of wounds, those who
starved to death, those who are
still in prison camps.
The important thing for Con
gress to remember is that this
is a United Nations war. That's
why these prisoners should re
port to the United Nations, not
to Congress. A congressional
investigation would help cer
tain senators grab the bead
lines and re-election; but what
the United States is interested
in is getting the facts across
abroad as well as at home.
Most of the prisoners re
turning from Red camps were
not Americans. They lnclud-
edishe nationalities fighting in
the heterogeneous, sometimes
cumbersome, United Nations
Army. Such an army has cer
tain disadvantages. But its one
great advantage is that of mob
ilizing world opinion against a
big nation that picks on little
nations. That was the reason
why the United Nations voted
to go into Korea in the first
place.
And the return of these
wounded war prisoners to face
Red representatives who caused
the aggression should be the
next dramatic chapter in the
current unpleasant but neces
sary battle to defeat Commun
ism and win permanent peace.
POLITICS COMES FIRST
Utah's affable Republican
senator, Arthur Watkins, is so
anxious to claim credit for
someone else's legislation that
BY DREW PEARSON
he has jeopardized the chances
of 8000 G.I-s in Korea who are
in a hurry to get tneir, w
lan itlzpnshio.
The legislation, aimed -at
speeding up naturalization for
eligible G.I.s, was written by
Congressman Francis Walter, a
Pennsylvania Democrat. Wal
ler introduced his bill last
January when Pentagon offic
ials told him they were wor
ried about what might happen
if G.I.s waiting for their citizen
ship papers were captured by
the Communists. Though serv
ing in American uniforms they
would still not be U. S. citizens.
Therefore, the Reds might
claim there was no legal obli
gation to return such prisoners
to the U.S.A.
Vigorously .Walter pushed
his bill, sot a unanimous vote
in the House, and hoped for
routine approval in the Ben
ate. Senator Watkins" subcom
mittee was about to okay the
legislation when he caught
himself.
"Wait a minute," he said.
"Whose measure is this?"
A clerk explained that Con
gressman Walter,- juemocrai,
had authored the bill.
"What's the matter around
here?" snapped Chairman Wat
kins. "This is a Republican
Congress and we've got to take
credit for some of the good leg
islation that's passed. This is
a good bill and I'm going to
make sure it's a Republican
bill." -
With that said, Watkins
stopped further discussion of
the measure. The next day ne
introduced the "Watkins BUT
an identical word-for-word
copy of the Walter bill.
Watkins' action would be un
important, except that now it
will take months for the new
measure to work its way all
through the tedious legislative
procedures of both the Senate
and House. And it's unlikely
the Congress will get around
Salem 18 Years Ago
- By BEN MAXWELL
. APRIL 27, 1935
Oregon architects will be
asked to submit plans for a
new capltol to repalce the 60-year-old
statehouse destroyed
by fire two days ago, April 25.
Meanwhile ruins of the fire
gutted structure will compete
with prune and cherry orch
ards as a Blossom day attrac
tion come Sunday. . ...
All bonds and securities
amounting to more than $1,
000,000 contained in the vault
of the state treasurer when the
capltol burned were found to
be Intact when the vault was
opened today.
The renovated house on the
courthouse lawn, demonstra
tion exhibit of the federal
housing administration, will be
open for public inspection
May 1. .
State liquor store No. 1, the
Salem unit, will move over
the week-end from its first lo
cation at 337 Court street to
a new location at BS7 Court.
lem fire department will serve
as pallbearers for the Floyd
McMullen funeral to be held
at Hermiston tomorrow. Mc
Mullen was the call fireman
fatally injured when the capl
tol burned. Capt. Billy Iwan
will be in charge of the Salem
group. , . - ,
' Saldie Orr Dunbar, speaking
on the subject of "Economic
Security," told a Silverton au
dience that the women's clubs
of Oregon should push a state
program to match the federal
offer in child welfare work.
Seven members of the Sa-
A. P. Giannini, president
and chairman of the board
of the Bank of America Na
tional Trust and Savings com
pany, halls the end of the depression.
George Dunsford, superin
tendent of the capltol build
ing and grounds who three
times in the past 25 years
saved the statehouse from de
struction by fire, said today
that "without a doubt" Thurs
day night'f fire was incendi
ary. .
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, W On Thurs
day President Elsenhower will
have completed hit first 100
days in the White House. There
will be comparisons between
his first 100 days and those of
Presidents Franklin D. Roo
sevelt and Truman.
But these are comparisons
without real significance since
the circumstances under which
the three men took over the
presidency were different. A
true judgment of Elsenhower's
100 days may have to wait
year, perhaps years.
It will have to be pegged not
so much on what he has done
in these first 100 days but on
the plans and decisions made
in that period for the future.
Roosevelt took over when
the country was broke and be
wildered. He had to act fast to
prevent collapse, and he did,
with one emergency measure
after another.
Truman' first 100 days were
momentous the surrender of
Germany and the disintegra
tion of Japan but would have
been the same no matter who
sat in the White House. It was
after the 100 days that Truman
had to make his big decisions.
Elsenhower Inherited, not
world war or an enonomlc em
ergency, but situations which,
while they contain critical
elements, were mainly static:
The country was amazingly
prosperous; there was a cold
war with Russia; there was a
hot war In Korea.
All three situations had been
In existence long before Eisen
hower's election and none
called for Instant solution or
emergency handling. Rather,
each had to be considered care
fully. The prosperity might not
last if the Eisenhower admin
istration was not wise enough
to do all the right things as
they needed to be done, per
haps one at a time, over a num
ber of years.
But at least with prosperity
there was no crisis at home.
That may explain why, in do
mestic problems, Eisenhower
has acted at times less like a
leader and more like a partner
of Congress.
In foreign affairs he has
followed almost rigidly a poli
cy laid down by Truman. Some
few changes he has made seem
small now, but may be so pro
found in the long run as to be
the basis upon which Eisen
hower's first 100 days eventu
ally will be judged.
He plans to back the French
more fully in their war with
the Communists In Indochina.
Long after the Korean War is
over that may be the key to
blocking communist expansion
in Asia.
Whlls his administration is
talking about reduced foreign
aid and defense spending, Ei
senhower has cautioned that
neither this country nor its
allies should relax defense ef
forts simply because the Rus
sians are making peaceful"
sounds. ,
Yet the Russian peace man
euver may have been a factor
in persuading the Eisenhower
administration it is time now
to cut foreign aid and defense
spending. If the Russians were
acting warlike, it's certain the
cut would not be proposed.
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Meanwhile hundreds ot G.I.s a
Korea will be stymied in their
attempt to become American,
citizens.
IKE'S HEALTH
White House advisers are de
termined to get President Els.
enhower to slow down and take
more trips to Augusta. They
came to this conclusion as a
result of his illness when
speaking before the American
Society of Newspaper Editors
recently.
The President's attack of in.
digestion occurred before the
speech, and, while resting in
the White House, he was too
weak to see hi secretary of
state, who had just come back
from Canada. Since the Whit
House staff did not explain to
Dulles the reason for his failure
to get an appointment, the sec-
Mtarv nf jttllte WAS fiiiit i.n
set. He thought Ike was still'
miffed over the newspaper
bumble of the week before. -Toward
the end of Ike's
speech, Dr. Howard W. Snyder
noticed that the President omit,
ted whole paragraphs of hli
speech in an effort to finish in
a hurry. Hastily he sent Tom
Stephens to the platform to
help in case anything happened, A
Stephens rushed the President
to an anteroom immediately
aiterwara wnere iKe stretched
out in a chair, while Dr. Sny
der poured some black coffee
down him. . -i i -
On the trip back to Augusta.
the President still was not feel,
ing well, but snapped back
shortly thereafter. ; "
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