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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Orefjon
Friday, January 22, 1954
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COLUMBIA COMPACT AN ACTUALITY
The recently organized Columbia Interstate Compact
Commission at last meeting at Jioise voted xo recommena
that the permanent organization be one of 17 members
with a corresponding total vote.
Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington would have
three votes each. Wyoming would nave two votes;
Nevada, Utah and the federal government one each.
But this compromise came after the commission rejected
a proposal from the executive committee to give the minor
states only a fragment of voting power in the permanent
group. The adopted proposal was made by Harry S. Dor-
man of Salem, director of finance lor Uregon.
The commission adopted various reports from the fish
eries, engineering, polution control, executive, legal and
power committees which are to serve as a rougn outline
for Frederick Zimmerman of New York City, expert on
Interstate compacts who will assist in writing the docu
ment for the Columbia Basin.
The Compact Commission is organized along the lines of
the new cooperative policies of the Eisenhower adminis
tration to give states a voice in the control of the develop
ment of their natural resources with the federal agencies
and private industry. It is a substitute for the proposed
Columbia River Authority which placed all natural re
sources development and administration under Washing
ton federal bureaucracy, a plan vigorously opposed by the
Columbia Basin states affected.
The compact idea was first proposed in Oregon by Gov
ernor Oswald West in his message to the legislature in
January, 1911, and it has taken 43 years for its realiza
tion. It was among many other then "radical" legislative
proposals made by West for development, conservation
and welfare, many of which were enacted during his
term of office and others since.
An excerpt from West's 1911 message follows:
"It has been suggested, and the suggestion is a good one, that the
Interstate waters ol a basin lying wiuun tne boundaries oi several
adjoining states, might, as far as possible, be turned over to tne joint
control ol these states.
"As an instance, the Columbia basin is practically all within the
boundaries of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The waters of that river
and its tributaries could undoubtedly, upon passage of effective uni
form water laws by Congress, be safely turned over to the joint con
trol of these states.
"Orecon thrniieh adootion of most excellent walcr laws and their
effective administration has shown her ability and willingness to con
trol, protect and regulate the waters of the streams within her jur
isdiction. "To join with her sister states In the passage and administration
of uniform laws for the interstate streams in the Columbia basin would
be but a short step forward." G. P.
EYES OF THE WORLD
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Cloppity-Clop-Clop of the 6
O'Clock Horse Thing of Past
By HAL BOYLE
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
EISENHOWER'S 1954-55 BUDGET
President Eisenhower's budget for the government's
1954-5 fiscal year, submitted to congress Thursday, shows
that his administration is keeping its pledges for reduced
spending and reduced taxation, but that it will not balance
the budget during the second full year of his administra
tion.
The president proposes to spend $65,600,000,000 which
will be more than $12,000,000,00 less than Truman spent
in his last year, and five billions less than will be spent in
the present fiscal year, Eisenhower's first.
This is a drastic job in cost trimming when it is con
sidered that national defense still eats up the major share
of the budget and that many items, such as interest on
the national debt, cannot be cut at all. We do not think
any fair-minded person will question the sincerity or vigor
of the economy drive.
But the president cannot offer the prospect of a bal
anced budget in the coming fiscal year, but forecasts a
deficit of 2.9 billions, only a little less than the 3.3 billions
now forecast for the present fiscal year. How come?
The answer is five billion dollars worth of tax reduction,
principally on a 10 per cent cut in the personal tax, but in
cluding the excess profits tax on corporations, which was
allowed to lapse as scheduled. This had been promised
and had to be delivered, in view of the justifiable com
plaint against high federal taxation.
The president stands firm against further loss of rev
enue through tax cuts, and he should, for the country
should not operate on an unbalanced budget in prosperous
times, which these still are and likely will continue to be.
Taxes arc being cut more than the situation justifies any
way. They certainly should not be cut more, no matter
how great the pressure becomes.
There will be disappointment that the promised budget
balance is again deferred and Democrats cannot be blamed
for an occasional jibe, for this is the way tha party system
works. But it is evident that a good, businesslike job is
being done at Washington.
FIRST WIN FOR IKE'S PROGRAM
Senate approval of the long pending St. Lawrence sea
way project marks t he first victory lor 1 resident hisen- j
howcr's program in congress and may indicate the pattern
congressional voting will follow on many controversial is
sues. Several interesting facts are to be found in the Seaway
vote. It was prompt, belying the senate's reputation as a
slow, deliberate, often stalling body. It was decisive, 51
to 33. And party linesvere split right down the middle.
For the seaway were '25 Republicans, 25 Democrats and
Senator Morse, Oregon independent who is seldom found
on the president's side. We have not seen a detailed roll
call but we suspect this will show that most of the sup
port came from the central states which stand to benefit
by the project, irresoctive of party.
Opposing were 18 Democrats and 15 Republicans who
were mostly from east and gulf coast states that fear
the seaway will adversely affect their port business.
Thus a coalition of senators of both parties, represent
ing what they assumed to be the interests of their states,
put the president's recommendation through. We believe
this will happen on issue after issue. Party lines will
break under the pressure, a bi-party coalition voting for
measures embodying the recommendations, Republicans
supporting both because of party loyalty and because the
recommendations appeal to them as right, the Democrats
disregarding party to do what they think is right.
We shall see a minimum of party cohesion, but we might
see a good deal of sound legislative action anyway. Let
us hope. The St. Lawrence seaway vole is a good sign.
same proportion as has meat on
the hoof In the nation's sales
yards.
We've noticed it. too. Our fam
ily meat Maple has graduated
from hamburger to pot roa.-l dur
ing the pnM year, and all on the
same budget.
Cabinet Seriously Worried
About Rising Unemployment
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON The cab-1 dinner, given before the Wash-
inet is more worried about ris- jneton Ad club. Air Force Gen.
Ing unemployment than it likeil Everest was asked. ,.Do
10 !iam"' you think Chiang Kai-Shek
The railroads have laid off , wU1 be nbc to invadc the mnin-
18,000 ana tne automoDiio in-!iand? repiica Everest: "What
you mean is, 'do I think Chiang
Kai-Shek can defend Formo-
16,000 since
than 142,000
in Michigan
dustry another
Christmas. More
arc out of jobs
alone.
Labor department officials
believe privately that the na
tional unemployment figure
has already hit the 2,000,000
mark. In New York, Bethle
hem steel has cut production 25
per cent in the last two months
and introduced the four-day
work-week. In Ohio and Ala
bama, Republic Steel has laid
off over 4,000. In Connecticut,
Bridgeport Brass has put 2,000
on a four-day work-week.
Washington Weather
Even at the White House,
Washington's winter weather
has been a major topic. Rush
ing Into the President's office
for an appointment, breathless
Congressman Harlcy Staggers
of West Virginia apologized: "I
almost didn't make it, Mr.
President. Couldn't get a taxi
in all this snow."
"I'm lucky," replied Ike.
"One thing abojt this job of
Binpmnn rrn ih rximirv being President is that you
are cutting down their payrolls !don't. hav,e to ut "V;
because of dropping sales and "- " " ""
tanks, military men still main
tain that Wilson's policy is one
of being penny-wise and pound
foolish.
Lyndon's Leadership
Sen. Lyndon Johnson of
Texas, the likable democratic
leader, has been deliberately
slow about calling a caucus of J
democratic senators for fear
they might challenge his lead
ership. Some senators have been
grousing that Johnson is so
worried about appeasing Texas
republicans and keeping an op
position candidate out of the
senate race that he's guiding
democratic policy in the senate
to help Johnson, rather than
the democrats.
Rather than give these sena
tors a chance to contest his
leadership, Johnson by-passed
the usual democratic caucus
supposed to be held before
Congress opens and is dealing
with each senator individually.
If he brings them together in
a group, some of the mavericks
might gang up on him. Chances
are that Johnson would win
any intra-party election con
test, but he doesn't want it
overstocked inventories
Note The administration,
anxious to put a good face on
the economic situation, has re
vised unemployment figures by
cutting the number of "em
ployable" workers by 700,000.
It is argued that approximate
ly 700,000 people are too old
or otherwise physically dis
qualified to hold regular jobs
except in periods of peak pros
perity, therefore can be classi
fied as "unemployable. If
those 700,000 are added to the
1,850,000 officially admitted as
unemployed, the total comes
to around 2,600.000.
Recognizing Red China
A bitter backstage battle Is
raging In the state department
between two of the adminis
tration's highest advisers over
the recognition of Red China.
One is Assistant Secretary of
State Walter Robertson who
flatly opposes any compromise
with Red China. The other is
Arthur Dean, law partner of
John Foster Dulles and special
Ambassador to Panmunjom,
who leans toward an eventual
deal with China.
' knniirn Ihiil thn- 1-
executive offices, "- ""j- uppu-
: suion 10 mm wnatsoever.
Note The
are in the west wing of the
White House proper so thej
President doesn't have to stop .. ,. . ,
outside when he moves be- BSllCf Mail JCTVIC6
tween nis living quarters and
office. i Stayton
Penny-wise Wilson
Charlie Wilson's policy
concentrating defense depart
ment contracts in the hands of
a few big companies, notably
General Motors, is coming in
for more and more backstage
NEW YORK W-Manhattan has
its own morning sounds that sets
it apart, just as a small town does
... or a farm in the country,
where alarm clocks wear feath
ers and boss a barnyard.
But the dawn sounds here are
more mixed in mood ... the wail
of a fire or police siren, stirring
a fear-thrill in the city heart . . .
the clank of a garbage can against
a sanitation truck ... the wall
vibrating snore of the man next
door . . . and a cheery sound we
miss the most, now that it is gone,
the "cloppity-clop-riip" of the 6
o'clock horse.
Let me tell you about that horse,
and what he came to mean in a
big tenement city, and I'm sorry
I can't give you his real name, be
cause I don't know it.
One summer morning several
years ago, shortly after we had
moved into an apartment in a big
15-story brick hut by the East
river, I woke to see my wife stand
ing by the window with an alarm
clock in her hand.
"Who are you going to drop
that clock?" I asked. "Don't
you know it's against the law to
bean anybody from a high window
in New York?"
Rover," said Frances. "I'm
waiting to set this clock. It stop
ped during the night."
'What are you going to set it
by, the morning star?"
"No," she said. "I'm going to
set it hy the 6 o clock horse.
"What in the world is that?"
"Come and see."
I yawned my way to the win
dow. A few moments later there
sounded a distant "cloppity-clop-clop."
It grew louder. Then
around the corner came a small
elderly man sitting atop a small
elderly ice wagon shaded by a
faded small elderly beach umbrella.
As the little dark sorrel animal
and that creaking vehicle passed
beneath our window. Frances set
the clock and said:
"That's the 6 o'clock horse.
Haven't you heard him before?
He's never more than a minute
or two off any morning.
"He makes such a cute sound.
And he looks so patient and nice.
Sometimes that old man leans
over and hits him with a little
stick, but the 6 o'clock horse does
n't pay any attention to him. He
always goes at just the same
pace . . . listen to him."
"Clippity-clop-clop, clippity-clop-clop,"
rang the hoofs of the 6
o'ci".k horse.
After that I heard him many
a morning. In New York you
aren't allowed to keep even a
Shetland pony in an apartment;
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yuu uuve iu laii m luvc wim umer
people s norscs. Ana tne 6 o clock
horse became a pleasant part of
our lives.
In summer he hauled ice, in
winter wood. But every day he
was punctual.
"He is just as punctual going
back in the evenings," said Fran
cis. "He comes by at exactly
5:30. I wish I had married a
man as punctual as that little
horse." I
"Cloppity-ilop-clop," through the j
years, through shower and sun-1
shine, through fog and mist and
snow. Wagon and i..an grew old
er, and so did the 6 o'clock horse.
But he trotted at the same steady
pace, "Cloppity-clop-clop."
In the neighboring big brick hut
our friends, Harriet and Ken Por
ter, had a small daughter, Patty.
The little girl fell in love with the
nurse, and waited for it each eve
ning,
"She can hear it before any of . wfteat crop,
Ike's Farm Program
Giles French in Sherman
County Journal
The president's farm program
will probably not be adopted in
this political year although it is
an acceptable start forward cur
ing some of the ills that have
grown up under the present farm
program. In the course of time
it could get rid of the huge sur
pluses but it would be a slow
process.
A sliding parity price would
tend to reduce plantings but a
parity price of 75 per cent would,
in normal times, be high enough
to keep wheat planting too higih
for any great reduction in itotal
us, said ner motner, ana cries
to be lifted to the window to see
it.'
The Eisenhower proposal "to
insulate" the huge surpluses so
they would not be a factor in the
Someone else along the route market would be very difficult
must have loved the small horse,
too, because it sometimes would
be wearing a gay ribbon in its
bridle when it went "cloppity-clop-clop"
by on its way home. Patty
called the ribbon "the horse's
hay."
One night I made plans to get
up early the next morning and
take down some carrots and sugar
lumps for the 6 o'clock horse. But
I overslept, and awoke to hear his
hoofbeats already fading away,
and somehow after that I never
managed to translate my good in
tention into a deed.
The other morning I awakened
early and lazily watched the
clock's hand crawl past 6 o'clock.
No "cloppity-clop-clop." At 6:15
I got up and went to the window
and looked down. The street was
bare in the cold dawn. No horse.
I turned and saw Francis looking
at me.
"I wondered when you'd miss
him," she said. "He hasn't been
by for weeks."
"What happened?"
"Nobody in the neighborhood
knows," said Frances. "They all
three were so old and looked so
worn. Maybe the wogan just fell
to pieces ... or the old man
died ... or the little horse fell
down and couldn't get up. Patty
still goes to the window to look
for him."
A brightness left the morning
and every morning since then.
There was such a braveness about
that steady "cloppity-elop-c 1 o p"
... it was like losing something
you never owned but felt in your
heart belonged to you, a feeling
you often have about small things
that give a stability to your life
in a big city.
This is my carrot . . . these my
lumps of sugar ... to the 6
o'clock horse . . . given, as many
things in this world are, too late
. . . and I think of this as I lie
in my bed in the morning, listen
ing for a "cloppity-clop-clop" . . .
and hearing only the wail of a
siren, the clank of a garbage can,
the snore of the man next door.
Mil.Mij.lM)
PUD
to accomplish although the gov.
ernment might do it if farmers
woud reduce acreage enough to
make eventual reduction of sur
pluses possible.
Unless some sort of agreement
between farmers and the govern
ment, as holder of surpluses, is
found there will come a time
when politics will demand that
surpluses be put on the market.
That would mean an entire col
lapse of prices. A major diffi
culty about having a billion
bushels of wheat is how to get
it used without hurting future
production.
Actually Eisenhower, as spokes
man for government, is making a
very good proposal. The reduc
tion would not be more than five
per cent a year and that only
after another year of full parity.
It is assumed that acreage con
trols would continue as under
this program. If the govcrnnv nt
is willing to hold the sack full
of surplus until the wheat grow
ers have gotten used to produc
ing no more than the market will
absorb it is a good break for
farmers.
As for this northwest wheat
belt. The war-time farm pro
gram by establishing inflexible
price supports increased the com
petition northwest wheat grow
ers had so that our market is a
local one only. Furthermore, Jt
stopped marketing of wheat so
that no one is interested in sell
ing it. We can probably raise
wheat cheaper than can the lit
tle 15-acre farms, but in order
to compete against them we will
have to have a free market with
out rigid price support.
If a free market is too high a
price to pay to regain our share
of the market we might get inito
the production of sheep or cattle.
How to grow
roses
successfully
There's one sure way to have
masses of beautiful rose blooms
in your garden this year. Get
those wonderful floribunda roses
and plant them "just right." In
February Better Homes & Gar
dens there's a colorfully illus
trated article on the floribunda
and step by step pictures on
how to plant it. Get February
Better Homes & Gardens today!
On your news stand.
Merllomes
and Gardens
Mail
Stayton businessmen, we think
have pnnH irrniinrle fnr ncbintf fni.
of ; a later-afternoon mail riisnntch
westward.
With the mail closing hour in
mid-afternoon now in effect, let
ters must be written early in the
day with the consequence that
criticism, and may have to be lc"prs "rl"c" nor
abandoned. : ci,,n,not be lc.l,1v"C(' ,0 I'"rtl:"1'1
. j addresses until 24 hours later
It should be noted that Wil-ithp ncxt aftCrnnon. Since Port
son, a hard-boiled industrial-j ;in( js our principal wholesale
ist who lets the chips fall, trade center this slows up bus
where they may, is not trying! iness considerably,
to favor General Motors merely Some vears ago we enjoyed a
because he once hcadrd the latc-attcrnoon dispatch. Its re
giant corporation. His aim is instatcmcnt would do much to im
to cut costs, and General prove our situation. The need has
Motors freaucntlv comes un increased in the interim, what
with the lowest bid.
However, military men warn
against the danger of concen
trating production in a few fac
tories and a few cities, which
could more easily be destroyed
in case of atomic bombing
raids. Even if it costs more
Robertson is the Virginia 1 money, they warn, vital do
gentleman who went to Korea vnsc Plallts should be scatter
and did one of the greatest pd around the country, not con-
snlcs jobs in rocrnt diplomatic ! ceniratea,
history by persuading Syngmnn
Rhre to go along with the
peace talks. Robertson now
Now the military advisers
have been joined by Sen. Estcs
Kcfauver of Tennessee, a nicm-
BETTER MEAT ON MENU
Brnd Bulletin
A recent survey by the depart
ment of agriculture shows that the
price of meat at tho butcher's
counter h;s decreased during the
past year in almost exactly the
says there, is absolutely noiber of the armed services com
chancc that Premier Mao Tse- j mittre. who has introduced a
Tung can be persuaded to lie a resolution for the Investigation
far eastern Tito, and threatens : of concentrated defense pro
to resign if the United States duction.
recognizes China. j Chiefly at stake is Chrysler's
Dean, a highly successful i production of the M4H tank
corporation lawyer, feels that j and the T43 tank, both tvprs
all is not wi ll between the Chi-1 chiefly developed bv Chrysler,
nose and the Russians, thntjand now scheduled to be
sooner or later the United j switched from Chrysler to
States will have to do business 'General Motors under the Wil
with China. Already Japan, son program. Though G. M. has
though it operates under the' now submitted lower bids on
miirlnnre nf tht IT R A i in.'
creasing its trade with Red
China by leaps and bounds.
It was Wall street attorney
Dcnn's statrment at a private
newspaper dinner that attract
ed a cross-fire of criticism last
week from Sen. Herman Wcl
ker of Idaho, sometimes called
the jmiior Senator McCarthy.
If the battle becomes any
more bitter, one of the two
diplomats will have to bow out,
In which rase belting odds
favor Robertson to stay.
Note At another recent
with growth in population here and
in the canyon and the sharply in
creased volume of business as re
flected in growing postal rcecipts.
A mail closing hour of 5:13
would be ideal if it would fit in
with dispatches out of Salem.
Salad ideas
for
winter meals
Sharpen winter dulled appetites.
Sere your family healih-,civinj?
silids that put unihine on your
table in the deid of winter.
You'll find a bey of wonder
ful nfw i!id recipe in Frhru
ary Better Homes A Gardens
mjirine. Juu turn to pice 7:.
Sunshine Salads for Winter
Davi ' Oft February Better
Homes & Gardens today. On
your news tind.
Bcllerllomes
and Gardens
SUNDAY NIGHT, JAN. 24, 7:45 P. M.
Pastor R. G. Schaffner Will Speik on
Is He a Living Personality
Or Merely An Evil Influence?
IP GOD CREATED THE DEVIL IS HE RESPONSIBLE
FOR SIN?"
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