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ALUMINUM PLANTS AND POWER
Holland H. Houston, power adviser to Governor Arthur
B. Lanprlie, testified in the state's intervention in tne
hearing before the Federal Power Commission on the Hells
Canyon dam on the Snake river, that the state of Wash
ineton does not like the idea of aluminum companies
"hoes-inff" hydroelectric Dower to the extent that not
enough if left for other industries'. Houston admitted
that his statements were his own and not the governors,
whose statement in favor of the three dams proposed by
the Idaho Power company had already been submitted.
But there is no question that he reflected the opinion of
many people in both Washington and Oregon.
Houston went on to explain that aluminum requirements
re so heavy that they do not allow sufficient electricity
for new industries wanting to come into the state, which
would give a much better balanced economy. Compara-
- tively few were employed in aluminum compared to other
industries.
. Asked if Houston and Langlie had considered the need
of aluminum for defense, the witness said aluminum
plants should be located in areas "remote from large cen
ters of population" where there would be less "economic
dislocation.
Houston said that his work with the Washington Public
Service Commission and his study of Bonneville Power
Administration rata structures, show BPA rates "have
tended to dissipate values of hydroelectric power." '
The eventful result, Houston said, will be difficulty for
the state in maintaining its present low electricity rates
and "dilution" of hydroelectric power with steam power.
He estimated that by 1965 or 1970, output of steam
power, more expensive, will equal that of hydroelectric
projects.
There are other objections to aluminum plants they
pollute the air with poisonous fumes for a wide area creat
ing smog which not only causes respirational diseases
among humans but their residue poisons the grasses, trees
and vegetation and kill the animals pastured thereon
as has been amply proven in the many damage suits filed
in Washington and Oregon. They should not be located
in populated areas. G. P.
CLOSE OF THE KIDNAPING CASE
The law, which so often flounders and flutters when
put to the test of handling a major challenge, looked good
irom me Deginning to tne grim end of the Greenlease kid'
. naping case.
The life of the boy was not saved, but there was no
cnance to do this barring a lucky break that didn't occur.
But the culprits were soon apprehended, "with the goods"
and confessions were secured. The trial was short, but
ample to develop all the pertinent angles in the case. The
sentence was the one clearly indicated by the facts.
After that the law functioned in a dignified manner.
mere was no maudlin sentimentality at any stage, and
iinaiiy the execution was carried out on the original
schedule, as rarely happens in a capital case. The culprits
cooperated by not appealing or asking for a clemency that
was manifestly impossible.
Two mysteries remain: (1) How could two people of re
apectable background fall to such an utter depth of de
pravity, and (2) What happened to the other $300,000
which was not recovered? Some one has it, but who?
The kidnapers probably did not know. If they did they
apparently went to the death house without revealing
anything.
So ends the tragic Greenlease case, which the public
will soon forget, but not the surviving relatives of the
little boy or of the kidnapers. The guilty pay and soon
have it over with, so far as this world is concerned. The
innocent suffer on.
CHURCHILL IN DANGER AGAIN
Winston Churchill's British Conservative government
is in danger again, and from within his own party ranks.
An important faction is fighting the government's deci
sion to withdraw British forces from the Suez canal 2one
upon completion of an agreement with Egypt.
Churchill is between two fires, as most of the world's
leaders are. In front of him is a belligerent Egyptian
government that refuses all future cooperation with Brit
ain and Britain's allies unless the British withdraw and
turn the defense of this vital life line over to Egypt, which
has neither military strength nor proven loyalty to the
western cause. Refusal to move out could causa Jl VilnnHv
struggle, which Britain couldn't afford to win, much less
to lose.
At home British Conservatives see the empire liquidated
piece by piece, the major part of it already gone, and
under the leadership of the man who once vowed he didn't
become the king's first minister in order to perform this
gloomy task. The objectors are right in a sense, yet they
are trying to bring back past glories that are plainly dead.
Churchill is more realistic than they.
But the "anti" faction has it in its power to bring the
government crashing to the ground, with a new national
lection and possibly a return of Labor to power. It's
a hard choice old Sir Winston has to make this happy
Christmas season, which is anything but happy for many
who occupy the seats of the mightv.
HOW MANY FEET TIL CHRISTMAS?
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THE CLERK' A
Friday, December 18, 1951 '
MAIL CARRISRJ' RerMrr,MINj
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
. Dulles Operates Stapling
Machine on Ike's 'A' Talk
By DREW PEARSON
Washington John Foster
Dulles has performed lot of
diplomatic chores, but never
before has ht been given the
Job of operating a stapling ma
chine. That, however, was
what he did over the Atlantic
ocean en route from Bermuda.
With him as t co-clerical work
er was Admiral Lewis Strauss
plus one of the most distin
guished secretarial staffs ever
to do paper work.
What happened was that
Ike was late In polishing up
h 1 a famed atomic energy
speech. Even while Tying to
New York, he applied the last
finishing touches. As he did
so, his secretary, Mrs. Ann
Whitman, copied it out on a
large-type typewriter, so the
president could read It easily.
Simultaneously. Mary Caffrey,
Jim Hagerty's secretary, cut
the mimeograph stencil.
In the rear of the plane, Hag-
erty himself ran the mimeo
graph machine. C. D. Jackson,
who largely wrote the speech,
out the Dales together. Ad
miral Strauss, chairman of the ne
Atomic Energy Commission,
helped him, while Dulles sta
pled the pages.
Dulles was a little slow, how
ever, and only 200 copies of
the speech were finished when
the Columbine landed. So the
Secret Service grabbed copies
of the stencil, rushed them to
the U. N. mimeograph room,
where more copies were ground
out of the speech which had
been billed and was one of
the most momentous of the Ei
senhower administration.
BARKLEY STOLE SHOW
Not much of what he said
got into the papers because it
was off the cuff with no mime- j
ographed text, but Alben Bark. 1
ley's spicy humor was the
rn-.r-sh hit of the democratic
dinner in Philadelphia. I
was
Salem 42 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
December 18, 1911
President Taft, with senate
approval, had abrogated the
treaty et 1832 with Russia.
Salem city budget for 1912
had been set at $129,551 with
a total tax levy of 28.4 mills.
Highest paid city official was
the recorder whose annual
salary was $1200 In 1911.
Dr. H. H. Scovell. mechano-
theraputist and suggestionist,
had been located In Salem
since 1900, (Dr. Scovell treated
chronic and acute diseases.
Also, he assisted Ben Taylor
In building Salem's first home
made airplane in 1910.)
That, implied Barkley,
how the democrats are cheer
ing up the republicans today
with the promise of being elect
ed again soon.
WASHINGTON WHIRL
Attorney General Brownell's
17-year-old daughter, Joan, is
practicing what her father
preaches, accidentally bursting
into a Negro church, she dis
covered she was the only
white person present, sat down
and stayed for the entire serv
ice . . . After war claims Chair
man Dan Cleary passed away,
President Eisenhower was so
anxious to replace the other
two democratic commissioners
that he wrote a curt letter dis
missing them while they were
out attending Cleary s funeral
. . . The President occasionally
drops into the Army-Navy
Club for unannounced visits
with his old cronies. As a re
sult, the Secret Service has
run a security check on all "le
club's employes . . . Mamie Ei
senhower has promised to
swing the champagne bottle at
launching of the Navy s
first atomic sub . . . Senator
McCarthy made a big point of
the fact that Brig. Gen. Telford
Taylor's service recard was
marked with a red "flag." This
column can report that McCar
thy's own record at the Pen
tagon is similarly "flagged."
. . . Georgia's scrupulous Sen
ator Dick Russell, leader of the
southern bloc, is so burned up
at republicans that there's no
chance of forming another
GOP-southern democratic coal
ition next session. Russell is
snre over the Eisenhower ad-!
ministration's handling of the W I j
larm problem, Its use of FBI i McUUcrucr UMU
Game warden Finlay had
told sportsmen that unless the
game laws were changed and
mora stringent regulations
made and lived up to duck
shooting in Oregon would
soon be only a memory.
Capital Journal's Round-Un
column had this to say: 'The
Statesman takes fun too ser
iously. Why not import a sense
of humor?"
E. T. Goodrich, an expert
engineer, had suggested to
Portland the expediency of
protecting the city against
floods by building reservoirs
at headwaters of the Willam
ette. (This suggestion ante
dated Willamette Basin project
by scout 25 years.
State Bank Examiner
Wright had ordered American
nan and Trust company,
Portland's smallest bank, to be
closed because of Imminent
nniancial difficulties.
Bishop Warns Against
Careless Accusations
myiy rcicrnng to the way
the democrats barked away
from him at the Chicago con
vention last year, Barkley
saidt
"When they asked me to
come here, they told me I was
to be toastmaster. But at 6 30.
Steve Mitchell called and said
files to attack the democrats
and the GOP drive to eliminate
segregation.
CATTLE SMUGGLING
Though a little slow in mov
ing, the Eisenhower adminis
tration played no favorites in
prosecuting the smugslcrs of
$1,000,000 worth of Charolais
catue into Louisiana from a I
Cordon
Ashland Tidings
State Senator Richard Neu
berg of Portland, who with his
wife. State Rep. Maurine Neu
berger. are the onlv husband
and wife team in the Oregon
legislature. Is making cautious
hoof -and-mouth disease infect- motions toward a national
cd part of Mexico Alp'ie "'ce. either representativ or
nroussara. t n e man who scraior irom Oregon.
Drougni me prize cattle, has . A siauncn Democrat and a
Senator Francis Myers was to now born indicted; also Anton- good vote getter. Senator Neu-
lo Enrique Gilly. the man who berger has let it be known that
sold the battle to him: and his decision will not be made
niiuam Li. riaob, the man who 1 until late winter. That's good
Klu'"r n,a me smuggling. politics, for by that time It
John Minor Wisdom. Eivn- should be aonarent thai GOP
in Lairo about nower s ro. i political adviser candidates will be openly In
1 met an Arab in Louisiana, was retained as : the field.
take that Job. It wasn't the
first time the democratic par
ty has switched to me.'1
The crowd roared.
"I'm now 78 years old," said
the ex-Veep,
a year ago
fortune teller out at the py- attorney for Broussard. but de- The main question is wheth
ramtds who predicted I would fended the case ovcr-the-table, er Republican Senator Guy
live to be 105. Thai's one pulled no wires under the ta- Cordon will seek re-election
.A.?b ?'m, tooprnX,n wi,h ,b,P " he does, you can bet that
very closely. INSIDE THE PENTAGON Mr. Neuberger will not take
Last year when Eisenhower The chemical corps has built ! him on. If Mr. Cordon decides
7 bI,tM b, marm! ; n Imitation A-bomb.rn.de of ' to retire, Senator Neuberger
figured the democrat, would smoke . producing chemicals. I could make . fnrmld.W. Al.
come Dacic lor a long white ohosohomi., t,a. 'ju..- .. .
time." continued the venerable nitro starch Z: J7. 'j lor ln' mocr,u-
Vtu' L' . t.: .,, . i . r ' biiu
rk-mui-iuan, out in recent' gravel. When
ni v, Angeles cu.ra Methodist i subject, "Contemporary threats not
" i"iiiirjr uaman lo civil nor rutin," arrived here
warned today that "we are set- vestrrdav nrf ..... hi. ..i
Hn, n h ..i.. .i - 'i. . - - "miiimsn, out in recent grave. When rnlnri.rf u
people T label subversive all the H.-iJ h. 1 mon,h, rv b"fun to ange1 shoots a column of smoke into I if' were ble 10 thlr
h.r. ..mri J. I "I ' : ; ;"' . V "soana in f ans wnose wire is to simulate an atomic nlo- ' "ul " tnreaiened a
avwtsi: auiirir IM" Itire invntliifstina J . J l . j i i ... (million
. j .L. iT, J. . " . T : "" ' ""n to Dailie s,., .
'subversive,' you are playing' bodies.
ered she had been receiving the j maneuvers . . . There's increas-1 ni,t Ch,'M
id he "wouldn't attrntlonj of another gentle-ling pressure' inside the Navv I ahead and signs a military
the fifth amend- man who appeared at the fu- to convert most of the nation's faCV with p,ki!,tan In return
into tne nanas or tnt commun- But he said
Its, tie said. want to see :
miiic tinier, tuc liiuii.ii ineni xinrKcn ..
muZ SLZl , '"' ,V ,h'nk - hVt ,0 - r'ln nugicb...
munlst conspiracy should be in-1 stroy these rishia tn nmhiMi,. T.. ' ...
e.llf ated by the FBI-not "in-1 the Communist threat " i could h.rd i. i'J
Bishop Oxman said he be- After the coffin was finally
ncvea tne tommunlst party Is lowered into the grave, the determine which crew ia t h e
...H-v, mat con-,nusoand patted the other man I worlds bomb n rhimn
in Army nas successfully
with Comma
if the United States
competent" House committees
of Investigation "wasting pub
lic mney."
The Methodist bishop, sche
duled to speak tonight at the
First Methodist Church on the
battleships into guided missile
launchers . . . Gen. Curtis Le
.May is planning a "world se
ries in bombing. His best
I bombing crews will compete to
piraiors inouio De discovered, on lh haz-w nrf ..irf. -nnn't
subjected to dut proccs of law feel too bad, old paL I'll mar
aud punished." soon.-"
tested airborne TV to spot ar
tillery targets. The artillery
for bases alone the Soviet hnr.
I der . . . The communist! have
miiniieiy rjeen building up
the North Korean air force in
violation of the truce. U. S.
intelligence has learned that
little North Korea now has s
Powerful, modern air force, to
taling 300 Jet planes. Fifty of
these arc light Jet bombers.
Moley Appraises -Adlai's
Speech
By RAYMOND MOLEY
In the course of relatively
short speech at a party rally in
Philadelphia, Adlai E. Steven
son succeeded in bringlne In
14 references to the deplorable
tnings mat the party now in
power is doing to our standing
and reputation abroad. There
Is only alight reference to our
interests abroad, if any. These
references, taken aa a whole,
portray an American in the
clutches of selfish and benliht.
ed leaden indifferent to their
duty to foreign friends. We,
or rather the leaders of con
gress, are, according to Steven
son, shocking the sensibilities
of foreigners by our disre
gard of the rights and liberties
of our citizens.
Let us examine two of bis
charges the first that we are
shocking foreign friends by
our intolerance and, next, that
wt are impoverishing the world
by selfish and narrowly con
ceivea trade policies.
Returning travelers, notably
those whom the late Nicholas
Murray Butler, would have
naued as members of that elite
who pouess what he called
the "International mind," have
been telling us for a long time
how shocked people abroad are
about McCarthyism. It may
wen De mat these travelers
heard only what they wanted
to hear. But let us assume
that in large circles of opinion
forming people in France and
England there is fear and hos
tility toward the Republican
party, especially toward that
section of the partv which
dwells west of the Allegheny
mountains.
To a large degree this feel.
it.g, at least in England, is a
reflection of what is being pub-
iisnea m certain English news.
papers, notably the Times, the
Manchester Guardian, and the
weekly Economist But as :
pointed out in one of these art!
cles last month, the American
correspondents for those pa
pers not only show a bitter bias
in appraising American poll
tics, but literally deny their
papers a balanced and accurate
account of what is happening
nere.
Considering this inferior
quality of reporting, it Is not
strange that McCarthy, Jenner,
and now Brownell have been
built into enemies of freedom
and traducers of the Innocent.
Lord Beaverbrook, who knows
the United States perhaps bet
ter than any other British pub
lisher, in a reply to an Amer
ican editor says that the bait
ing of Americans is confined to
the "lunatic fringe" in his
country. If that be tme, some
staid newspapers over there
are fit for Bedlam.
Stevenson's other argument
Just cannot hold water. He
would have his followers be
lieve (a) that our tariffs are a
serious bar to the economic re
covery of the world, and (b)
that because "our friends and
allies" cannot export goods to
this country, they are reluct
antly driven to trade with Com
munist countries.
There are more serious bars
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Do We Waste More Time
Than We Spend Living?
y HAL 10YLI
jvew x one vn do wt
wast more time in our lives
than wo actually live?
I have been mulling over
this problem ever sine read.
ing a U. B. public health aerv.
ice estimate that the average
map spends 427 days of his
life shaving or getting haircuts.
Just how much time do we
actually fritter away in the
other daily chorea of livini.
chores that subtract from our
allotted span but sometimes
dont' add much to it in the way
or. pleasure?
Let us take a typical bald.
headed, overweight husband
of 50, who has two grown
children and four grandchil
dren. Here is part of the box
score of bow he has spent his
aays:
Time spent courting the
wrong girls, before his wife
overtook him two yean.
Time spent waiting for his
cnuaren to pick out the kind
of candy they wanted at the
canay store four months.
Time spent Doundinf on the
bathroom door to make some
other member of the family
i out ana let nun in three
months.
Tim spent waiting for wife
to get aressed 12 years.
Time spent exolataine th
facts of life to his children 10
minutes.
Time spent telling children
now mucn harder he worked
wnen he was their age one
year.
Time spent tryins to attract
attention of restaurant waiter
two years.
Time spent holding tele
phone and waiting between
moment a secretary's voice
says, "Mr. Jones calling." and
moment when Mr. Jones final
ly says "Hello" three years.
Time spent listening to wife
one year.
Time spent answer ns wife's
complaint, "Why don't you
ever usien to what I tell vou?
tlx years. .
to trade than our tariffs in the
restrictions imposed abroad
There atso is the fact that if
Britain and France were able
to master the art of merchan
dising a little better, they
mignt nave plenty of custom-ers.
In the same breath Steven.
son. claims that the Reciprocal
iraae Agreements act was a
great stimulant to trade. The
figures fail to show any such
result, although this Roosevelt
Hull policy has been in force
for many years. It this policy
were as beneficial as Steven
son claims, why are our friends
and allies now driven to trade
with our common enemies?
Of course, this Stevenson
speech will be widely read and
admired abroad. His friends
among the British correspond
ents who wept bitter ink at his
defeat will see to that. In turn,
it will strengthen the very
prejudices , that he deplores.
This is his formula for the
growth of international rela
tions. 1
Time spent explaining to
boss why he didn't do some
thing the boss didn't believe
should be done at the Urn but
later decided was absolutely
vital to the continued exist
ence of the firm five years.
Time spent wondering why
he had come to a cocktail party
he never wished to attend any
way four years.
Time spent listening to after
dinner speakers eight years.
Time wasted in figuring how
to balance the. household
budget one year.
Tim wasted Ip. brooding
about it later two years.
Time spent waiting for ear
ahead of him to start after
green traffic light comes on
five months.
Tim spent bawlinc out
driver of car behind who
honked at him because he was
slow in starting seven
months.
Time spent fumbling ia
pockets for change one year.
lima spent denouncing the
government, taxes, hiih cost
of living and other things ho
has no control over 12 years.
lime spent in helping his
fellow man and praising the
departed guest of honor at
funerals IS days.
lime spent -waiting foe
sleeping pills and aspirin tab
lets to take effect two years.
lime spent in feellnc sorry
for himself and brooding over
man's inhumanity to man 24
years.
Time spent in church count.
ing only waking hours and in
cluding his own marriage
eight days, four hours, three
minutes.
Time spent on coif courses
waiting for foursome ahead of
him to get on to next hole-
three months.
Tim wasted trying to save
falling hair before it is too
late four years.
Time spent waiting in doc
tor's and dentist's office two
years.
Time wasted getting out oi
dentist's chair none.
Tune apent Justifying in
come tax returns so as to avoid
going to Jail two months.
Time wasted eomnlalnlnv
about it to friends four
months.
Time spent in Jail none.
Time spent serving on Jury
IS days.
Time spent trying to avoid
Jury duty 30 days.
This box score shows that
the average 90-year-old Amer.
lean husband has spent 84
years, g months, 8 days, 4
hours and 13 minutes either
performing what he regards as
the chorea of living or avoid
ing doing them. It doesn't in
elude the time he spends shav
ing, getting a haircut, or look
ing through drawers for a
clean shirt.
Naturally, also, it doesn't in
clude the time he has spent
sleeping or feeling grateful
for being alive.
Parrots, ostriches, eagles and
vultures may live aa much as
60 years. '
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