Monday. January 18. 1954
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Ores"
Capital Adjournal
. An Independent Nwipopr Established 1888
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THE ECHO PARK DAM
The Congressional Record of January 11 containa replies
fcy the leading conservationists of the nation to the vicious
Jiropaganda attacks being made against SB 1655 authori
ng the upper Colorado river storage project including the
Echo Park dam. one unit of the project.
Opponents would have the general public believe that
Echo Park dam would flood about 90 per cent of the spec
tacular canyon of the Green and Yampa rivers, whereas
the Bureau of Reclamation a report shows that not more
tiimi 11 per teut uf Dinosaur'National Monument would
be flooded. .
Misrepresentations and misleading phrases have been
used by the opponents of Echo Park dam as substitutes
for facts to bolster their claims that the Eisenhower ad
ministration is engaged in a "give-away" program of na
tional resources.
Innocent, well meaning organizations, ignorant of facts,
. "victimized by the scurilous practice, have blindly entered
opposition, when if the truth were presented to them thy
would have entered support instead as many of them
bave. -
Ernest II. Linford of Salt Lake, editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune, who last October was awarded a plaque by the
American Foreaty Association for "distinguished service
to conservation dealing with the various phases of western
land management by spearheading crusades to protect
watersheds and encourage good management of soil and
water," is quoted in a letter to the New York Times:
"Your editorial No Dam at Dtnouur of December J2 repeats the
familiar shocker that this dam (lo a remote and almost Inaccessible
section of western Colorado i would destroy one of the west's great
scenic preserves and that Secretary McKay's dicision Is, as the Sierra
Club of California claims, a threat td the national park system.
"Actually, as many sincere conservationists have testified, Echo
Park, Dam and Split Mountain Reservoir, scheduled for later construc
tion, would flood nothing much of scenic, historical., or geological
value except in a small section of the canyon, and this can be dupli
cated in a hundred other areas.
"This program is the only means by which Utah. Colorado, snd
ether upper basin States can fulfill their compact obligations to the
lower basin states snd put to neneiiciai uu weir snare w uie mio
radio river water. Perhaps one has to live in this semiarid county
lo realize just bow important this 'last water hole' is to the region."
Linford adds that with so much at stake in the battle
over public lands it is difficult to understand "why Echo
Park is being made the blazing symbol of conservation at
this time ... the mere window-dressing for a behind-the-scenes
movement of greater consequences to an intermoun
tain west and indirectly to the nation."
The Desert News and Telegram sums up the behind-the-cenes
propaganda as follows:
"We might at well face it. California wants Colorado river water
that belongs to Utah. As long as Echo Park and other upper Colo
rado river project dams go unbuilt, she will get that water. So the
present campaign will continue. And It It effective. Shibboleths such
as 'bureaucratic boondoggling,' 'stealing the public's Inheritance,' 'de
stroying nature's wonderland,' and other empty phrases make an effec
tive substitute for facts In the public mind."
Not having succeeded so far in diverting the Columbia
river to lrigate Southern California deserts, the Califor-
mans seek a monopoly ol Colorado river water at the ex
pense of other states dependent upon it for development.
TG-P
OUR NEW DEFENSE POLICY
Senator Dick Russell of Georgia will support the Eisen
hower cutbacks In the armed forces, he announces. And
there goes one of the most attractive Democratic political
issues for the new session of congress and the political
campaign which will follow. For Russell is the most in
fluential of all Democratic senators. Many of them would
be sure to follow his lead and the others would make no
capital, political or otherwise out of disputing his wisdom.
What Eisenhower is doing and Russell is endorsing ia a
fundamental change n U.S. military policy. It emphasizes
striking power with new and terrible weapons as the chief
deterrent of Russian aggression. Less reliance is to be
placed on huge ground forces, which would in any event
be heavily outnumbered by Russia's tremendous army and
which couldn't possibly defend all the points where a Rus
sian blow might be struck.
Instead we develop our new weapons and the means of
delivering them on their targets. This means a larger
rolo for the Air Force and the Navy, a smaller one for
Army ground forces, though these will be kept quite large.
We have no expectation of being able to stop a Russian
drive with ground troops, but we do expect to make such
a push so expensive to Russia that it will not be under-1
taken.
This policy has evolved out of months of study an8 dis
cussion by military and civil leaders at Washington. .The
concept did not originate with Eisenhower alone. Russell
points out that he has felt this way for a considerable time
nd is glad to nee Eisenhower adopt this viewpoint.
All those air bases the U.S. has built and is building
cross North Africa. Turkey, Okinawa and at other points
round the perimeter of the vast Russian realm carry out
this policy of containment through means of retaliation
rather than through assembling forces large enough to
resist an attack at any point where it might come, a mani
fest impossibility.
This policy involves risk? Of course. Like any other
policy toward Russia. Rut it seems to carry the maximum
of protection for the free world without bankrupting the
U.S. economy. And it is cheering to assume that it will
not be made a vote catching issue in congress. Criticism
based on honest doubts as to its wisdom are of course to be
welcomed. Democracy flourishes on free discussion,
IF WE REFUSE TO HAVE A RECESSION
An Associated Press business survey, results of which
are published in the Capital Journal today, indicates a
mixed picture, with increasing plant layoffs, hut a stead
fast refusal on the part of Anicricar. Iuisinessitu'ii to be
licked.
There can be no quetsionlng the reduction in industrial
output implied by the numerous layoffs, including some
times whole plants and st other times whole shifts. As
these families reduce their buying retail trade will be hurt
and this will soon he reflected in smaller orders to jobbers
and by them to manufacturers.
But on the other hand new plant investment is expected
to reach a record breaking six and a half billion dollars the
first quarter of this year. This is simply phenomenal,
considering the enormous investments already made since
the war. And department store sales for the first week
of January were seven per cent above the same week of
19S3. Neither of these facts adds up to a depression.
Our greatest asset at this time is an intangible one,
the long term optimism of the A merit an with money to
spend, whether he is a businessman, an industrialist, or
just an ordinary citizen planning for a new house or a new
car. If these refuse to accept a recession we probably
won't have more than a minor one. despite the determina
tion of certain politicians to sell ui a big out.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Bricker Chief Eisenhower
Opponent- Next to McCarthy
y DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON One of the in
teresting things about the present
session of congress is that Eisen
hower's chief senate opposition
aside from McCarthy comes from
r- republican whose record is vul
opportunity in connection with
the propagana campaign for the
amendment
Holman has likewise teamed up
with or permitted the teaming up
1 of some of the worst isolationists,
nerable. Members of the senate i anli-relieious. semi-fascist, or cm.
press gallery, who have a way of ' ixations in the United States in
smelling out their senatorial on-, support of his Bricker amend
ions, have even rated him the ! ment
With aenator. , fact it h bn Cera)d L
He is: John Bricker of Ohio, I K. Smith's Christian Nationalist
whotias opposed the president on
the St. Lawrence Seaway; who
has drummed up a nation-wide
drive to hamstring the president's
treaty power with the so-called
Urtcxea Amendment: and who Is
Crusade and Merwin K. Hart's Na
tional Economic Council, among
others, which have yammered in
cessantly at the American public
to "write your senator" in support
of the amendment. Most of these
Salem 31 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
January 18, 1923
Questions centering around the
government lease of Teapot Dome
naval oil reserves in Wyoming to
Sinclair oil interests had gotten
before the senate oil investi
gation committee.
' Salera public library was feat
uring books on thrift to comme
morate Thrift Week.
An appropriation of $600 for
purchase of an oil portrait of
Governor Ben W. Olcott had been
approved by the legislature.
m m w
Capital Journal's "Along State
Street" column had this to say:
"In the old days it was wine
women and song. The wine is now
gone, everyone can't sing and
women are in politics."
Bricker and Ike
A careful examination of tb
president's remarks at bis press
conference on Wednesday the 13th
offers bo substantial basi for claims
by opponents of the Bricker amend
ment that iw will fight any limita
tions on his actions ia making
treaties and executive agreements.
Ia fact, in what bt said there is
plenty of room for compromise.
Despite mis, an iniporuim uu
influential New York paper head
lines the president's remarks in
this way: "President to Fight
Treaty Carta Plan in Leadership
Test." The story which follows be
gins with this sentence: "Presi
dent Eisenhower has told his offi
cial family that be is unalterably
opposed to the Bricker amendment
restricting the treaty-making pow
ers of the president and is ready to
stake his leadership on the issue."
Further down in the story and
till on the front page is an editor's
parenthetical statement that at a
Columbia university conference,
"Noel T. Baker, professor of con
stitutional law at Columbia" read
a paper against the Bricker amend
ment. There is no such person at
Columbia university. There is a
Noel T. Dowling who, according
to the same paper, did read such
a paper.
The president's position appar
ently Is somewhere between the
present text of the Bricker amend
ment and the determination of the
state department that there shall
be no change in the present ar
rangements regarding treaties and
executive agreements.
The president flatly said in his
press conference that he would not
object at all to a "statement,"
which presumably means an
amendment, "which said that any
treaty, or any other executive or
any kind of international agree
ment that contravened any article
of our constitution should be null
and voind . , ."
Then he rather vaguely said that
he did not want to go back to the
Articles of Confederation, wherein
any individual stats could repudi
ate a treaty. This is a point on
which compromise is possible, be
cause if he will agree, as he said
he would, to section 1 of the Brick
er smendment, such matters would
become subject to judicial review.
The fact is that Bricker and the
president in several conferences
have discussed the matter, and
Bricker is not at all pessimistic
about a compromise satisfactory
to both. The real irreconcilable op
position comes from people in the
state department who do not want
any limitation on their powers to
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
, U. S. Senators Still Do As
Their Roman Predecessors
. . By HAL
WASHINGTON US Senators in
the days of the old Romans used
to talk over problems of state ia
their marble baths.
It waa a privilege of office ana
a luxury that set them apart from
their constituents, perhaps leading
the Roman man in the street lo
mutter enviously:
"Why should Senator J. Quintus
and his pals get steam-cleaned at
the taxpayers' expense when 1
have to patronise a public bath
with the riffraff?"
This may be the origin of the
saying that "a politician is always
in hot water."
Be that as it may, the senators
of practically every country since
Rome have managed to have their
private baths where they can
quietly discuss public issues while
their tissues are being pummeled
by attendants. Senators are a
traditional breed, linked by a
brotherhood of dignity snd posi
tion that defies differences of time,
language and politics.
They stui do as the Koman sen
ators did, who set the pattern long
ago.- The U.S. senate has its pri
vate marble baths, too. But it
doesn't brag about it Indeed the
senators are downright bashful
about mentioning this - special
plumbing privilege and the fact
they luvs their own swimming
pooL
I discovered the existence of
this marble-walled senatorial re
treat when I asked how the elder
statesmen managed to keep physic
ally fit for their exhausting tasks.
Talking over a hot desk all day
A True Celebrity
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
With the passing of Death Val
ley Scottv. the country has lost
something more to be cherished
than a mere celebrity.
Behind Scotty's deliberate pic
turesqueness was a definite strain
of greatness, the largeness of
view, the power of laughter, the
disdain toward littleness in men
or things that mark the free
spirit
Scotty himself would have dis
missed this description as undue
fuss over what, to him, just came
naturally.
Perhaps he would nave
BOYLE
can b pretty wearing.
"They go to the oauis am re
lax," said a veteran eorrespoa.
dent here. When I expressed as
interest in seeing them, he look!
shocked and replied:
"Why. you couldn't get in there.
That is one placi where senators
want to be aloo , ana mey an
very jealous of this privilege."
Well, that piqued me as a tax
payer. If Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower
permit people to wander through
the White House, why couldn't I
at least take a peek st the sena
torial baths, particularly if I prom
ised to bring my own soap and
not leave the hot water tap drip
ping? ' ,
Easier said than done. But I
finally made it after going through
four channels, three roadblocks
and piercing two Iron Curtains of
verbal objection. I pushed open a
swinging door in the Senate office
building that said "for senators
only" and stood at last within the
sanctum sanctorium.
Frankly, I was distppointed. The
mysterious baths consisted only of
some old-fashioned marble-walled
bathing chamber, a small steam
room, a tiny gym with a rowing
machine and a mechanical horse.
There also was a handball court
and a swimming pool hardly big
enough to accommodate s pair of
medium sized Great Dane dogs.
Two unadorned senators were
idly toweling themselves dry. I
didii't recognize them. Senators
without their spectacles on look
pretty much alike.
I started to ask an attendant
what kind of exercises the senators
favored, but he was reluctant to
talk. I couldn't even find out wheth
er they had a special ladies day
for Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of
Maine. .--
pre
shackle the internal economy of ferred t0 be thought of as just
the United States with socialistic soother hard-bitten old Westerner
international agreements. In those
agreements and not in big formal
I treaties lie the real dangers which
who mystified folks for the fun
of il and nothing else. His own
summation of his life was, "I had
the supporters of some kind o( run tor my money.
FAST FINE
SERVICE
amendment wish to check.
spearheading the confirmation of people, incidentally, have only the
a McCarthy man, Robert E. Lee vaguest idea of what the Bricker
to the Federal Communications
Commission an appointment
which some White House advisers
would just as soon have vetoed.
Yet if friends of President
Eisenhower took a careful look
at Senator Bricker's record, the
nation would wonder how he has
the nerve to fight on certain is
sues. On the St. Lawrence Waterway,
for instance, the senator from
Ohio was picked for service on
amendment is all about
And it's highly doubtful that
the American Bar Association, up
on whose good name Bricker
trades, would care to have itself
associated with these extremist
elements. And it's highly doubt
ful also that some of the sena
tors, such ss Lyndon Johnson of
Texas, realize what forces have
inspired their heavy maiL
Johnson, incidentally, though
supposed to be the Democratic
Grey Eagle, only steamboat on
the Willamette working south of
Oregon City, had been recondi
tioned for log towing on the
middle river.
Most Brutal Tax?
Columnist George Sokolsky, in
a recent article, took a crack at
the income tax. It is, he said,
"the most brutal tax ever devised.
because it gives the taxpayer no
option, n imprisons him in the
power of government . . . There
is no way to employ an option, to
make a choice with reeard In the
Man s Shop, 415 State street. 1 income tax except to cheat, to
William A. Zosel and Ellis E. swindle, to falsify statements, to
looiey, proprietors, nad sa over- commit perjury. It is, in effect, a
coats for $14.85, dress shirts for police tax."
$1.15 and silk and knit ties for 65c He might have gone on to say
mat mere is an element ol brut-
rarest of all humans a true
celebrity who never stooped to
meanness. His pranks did not
hurt or shame a living souL
the key senate interstate com- i leader of the senate and nn wh.
merce committee in 1948, a com-; constantly harps on teamwork,
mittee which has much to do ! deliberately ignored his own
with passing or blocking various
transportation projects, including
the St. Lawrence..
RAILROAD RETAINS FIRM
At about thii time, the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, which opposes
the seaway, dropped the law firm
of Henderson, Burr and Randall
in Columbus, a very fine old firm
in the senator's home town, and
retained the Bricker law firm,
paying it $25,000 in 194a
About the same time. Senator.
Bricker voted to pigeonhole the
St Lawrence project in his com
mitlre. Senator Taft took a stand
Just the opposite. So did the farm
team, the Democratic members of
the senate Judiciary committee,
by coming out for the Bricker
amendment. Democratic judiciary
members, meanwhile, had writ
ten a contrary report, opposing it.
HOLMAN'S BACKGROl'ND
Meanwhile, Brocker's friend.
Frank Holman. not only has done
Grand Theater had billed Dixie i ality in all taxes.
Minstrels with a cast or 60
people including singers, dancers,
performers. A street parade had
comedians, band and orchestra
been scheduled.
Good New Industry
Astorian-Budget
The fact that the Astoria Ply
wood corporation has produced
1000 carloads of plywood worth $S
million in just a little more than
two years of operation is a note
worthy evidence of improvement
of Astoria's economic base.
An industry that brings $2.5 mil
lion a year into the community is
obviously a tremendously valuable
D. A. White and Son, 251 State
street, were advertising alfalfa
hay for $24 a ton.
SHOULD TALK ANYWHERE
Pendleton East Oregonian
When one reads that represent-
nothing to discourage extremist i tiv'! of the Big Four cannot
support, but has definitely snug-! aRree upon si'e for a conference
gled up to them. On Jan. 30, 1953, 1 1,6 wonders whether the meet
he spoke before the Women's Pa- j lnR scheduled 10 days hence, can
triotic Conference on national de-1 accomplish anything toward eas
fense in Washington, after Con 'n?.the tensions in the East-West
steel industry and the platform
of the Republican party.
In the years that followed the
Pennsylvania Railroad continued
to pay the Bricker law firm $103.
000. or a total of 128.000. And
Senator Bricker continued to op
pose the St ljwrrnce waterway.
Furthermore, he admits that dur
ing this period, his law firm paid
him a total of S69.000.
all? What happens to real pro-
gresswoman Katharine St. George i cld : Certainly, if the
ty earnings down, you won t henr
people complaining very much
about the income tax. which,
many economists believe, is the
fairest tax of all.
The power to ! asset. When we consder the em-
tax is the power to destroy" is an ; nomc status of the community,
old economic axiom. It will be let us be careful not to overlook
hard to convince a man who has the fact that this important in
been paying property taxes on a dustry has been added, along with
piece of idle land he hasn't been 1 other sources of new revenue.
able to improve and which has '
never made him a dollar, that the i I
income tax is any more "brutal." TIME FOR BUSINESS NOW
This writer has had the ex peri- Hollywood (UP) Marilyn
ence of "letting the lots go for; Monroe's studio indicated today
taxes." The income tax doesn't hit j it is willing to discuss salary and
anybody who is not earning. The other possible demands with her,
greatest complaint against it but only if she cuts her honey
from the taxpayer's point of j moon with Joe DiMagglo short I
view is me stepping up oi rates i and returns to work by Wednes
as income increases. This can beid.iv noon. '
regulated.
True, the income tax "is. in ef
fect s police tax." Aren't they
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COMPAHC THt ttU AHB
roim eo sr sis
v. v,k ...r,.j . l. I were serious about talkine nr..
orgamzatipns oi onio, the unio. tne sme platform with such ev- , ' io u uown
almost anyplace in Europe to talk
about it
tremist speakers as Robert H.
WiiUims, California racist propa
gandist anu editor of Williams In-!
trlligenre Summary. Mrs. Grace WELCOMES CANDIDACY
I.. H. Brousscau of Greenwich. Corvallls Gaiette-Times
( onn. who wrote the foreword in Those who know the excellent
.k"', wKJmp',.tKlti "i,:.Mus' i0 Governor Paul Patterson has
Abolish the I niled Nations," hn Hnins far th l rw
A studio spokesman said he
didn't know what disciplinary ac
tion Fox might take if Mrs Mon
roe doesn't show up.
TRAGIC SEQUEL
Council Bluffs. Ia. (UP)
Tommy Smith. 14, whose story
was publicized two weeks ago in
the March of Dimes campaign,
strangled Sunday in a harness he
wore to support his polio weak
ened back. Tommv was dead
acira as program cnairman. i snn durjne ... Das, v.,r f hi,
Williams is the man who pub- administration will welcome his
lished a picture of Eisenhower candidacy for election. Fra men
Every Republican President, or with Marshal znuxov when they; as able and capable as Mr. Pat-
candidnte for president Irom were in Berlin together, with the ; terson have ever occupied our when found by his mother, Mrs.1
Herbert Hoover on. and including inflammatory charge that: "The governor's chair. Herbert Smith.
Tom Dewey on whose ticket Marxist macnine is pushing Gen
Bricker once ran as vice presi- eral Eisenhower as its chosen
dential candidate, has favored the candidate."
St. Lawrence ct Bricker. whose Despite this, and despite the
state would greatly benefit from fact that newspaper widely pub-
Name Your Job
The 'Jeep7 Does Itl
the seaway, has consistently voted
the other way.
RKICKKR AMENDMENT
Now let's look at the senator's
record and his supporters on the
Hrickrr amendment. This amend
ment is opposed by the Republi
can president, his attorney gen
eral and his secretary of state,
on the ground that it would hamp
er the president's treaty-making
power and put U.S. foreign rela
tions back to the divided days of
1776. It happens that F.isea
licirrd the refusal of Congress
woman St George and others to
appear on the same platform.
frank Holman proceeded with his
speech and urged the "women
patriots" to exert all their influ-
j ence to pass the Bricker amend-
i ment.
I I-atrr Holman listed among the
, groups supporting his amendment
seven extremist organizations:
! and on M . 1953. he wired
Merwin K. Hart whom Justice
Robert Jackson has described as
hower is more skilled in his! Tell known for his pro-fascist
knowledge of toreicn alfairs thee leanincs." urging suro;t for the
most presidents and far more so Bricker amendment. Holman even
than he is on domestic policies,
yet some of his totalled sup
porters are clamoring to ham
string his authority.
Inside fact is that the Bricker
amendment was sold to Bricker
by his old friend. Frank E. Hot
signed the telecram ' Frank E.
Holman. past president American
Bar Association."
This gives some insight into the
manner in which certain ex
tremist pressure crimps, mas
querading behind patriotism, have
man of Seattle Holman is a prst mohilirrd public opinion to h-imp-president
of the American Bar er the treaty making power of the
Association, a distinction which president of the I nited States,
he parades at every conceivable I (Copyright, 1954)
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