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THE DOUGLAS FIR CONTROVERSY
The U.S. ForeRt Service has changed the name of Doug
las fir, but Oregon state foresters will ignore the change.
The alteration is on the scientific level. Douglas fir has
ben called by botanists for 150 years or so, "pesudotsuga
taxifolia." That gives a brief description of foliage.
The new scientific name, but not in Oregon where the
legislature has spoken, is "menziesii,' in recognition of
the claim of Scottish naturalist Archibald Menzies to hav
ing discovered it. Even that
iiav his branches were not
There are those, though, who say David Douglas, also a
Scottish botanist, made the discovery.
Along with the scientific name change, there's a move
afoot to put a hyphen in the common name and make it
Douglas-lir.
Homer C. Lyoni Jr., the state forestry department's pub-
licity man, says it will take an act ot tne legislature to
change the botanical name in Oregon, where a 1939 law
made pseudotsuga taxifolia
House concurrent resolution
of the Oregon legislature reads
Whereas, at a meeting ot the slate
ters of the American Revolution held on January 14, 19.19, a motion
was adopted that the 40th legislature assembly of the state of Oregon
declare by resolution uiai me Douglas nr dc designated as me oniciai
slate tree; and
Whereas, the Daughters of the American Revolution have entered
Into a contract with the United States Forest Service to undertake a
substantial reforestation project, and project calling for a strip of land
one hundred or more feet in width on each side of the Larch Mountain
highway to be planted with Douglas fir trees; and
Whereas, if the Douglas fir is officially designated as the Oregon
state tree, tne uaugnters oi tne American revolution win turmsh a
sufficient amount of Douglas fir trees to complete said reforestation
project, said trees will be planted by the civilian conservation corps
under tne direction ot uie uimeu ouiics luresi service; now inereiore.
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Ore
gon, tne Senate concurring therein:
That tne Douglas nr tpesuaotsuga
aereby Is designated officially as the
filed in the office of the secretary of
The publication, "Knowing Your Trees" of the American
Forestry Association also classifies the Douglas fir -as
pseudotsuga taxifolia, which it says is frequently called
"Red fir, Oregon pine, Douglas spruce, Douglas yew, but
Douglas fir is generally accepted." It continues:
"The tree is in the nature of a botanical puzzle, far it bears strong
resemblance to spruce and fir as well as to the hemlock and yew.
Accordingly the botanists went to the Greek to describe it as a 'false
hemlock with a yew-like leaf.'
"It was first discovered by Dr. Archibald Menzies in 1791, on the
west coast of Vancouver Island; it was rediscovered by the Scottish
traveler David Douglas, who introduced It to Kngland in 1827. Since
then it has been widely planted in the British Isles."
It is typical of bureaucracy, for the U.S. Forest Serv
ice, which has its hands full of vital forestry problems,
to butt-in on inconsequential controversial things like this,
which are none of its business.
Moreover, it is in violation of the Eisenhower policy of
seeKmg state cooperation on
lorcstry prooiems.
It is an attempt to upset a century-old tradition and
practice to make confusion more confounding without any
real objective. And it is the more surprising that Secre
tary McKay, a well-versed Oregonian, would stand for it
for neither the Oregon timbermen nor lumbermen will
pay the slightest attention to this trivial tinkering with
our greatest natural resource the Douglas fir. G. P.
BONNEVILLE'S NEW BUILDING
Idaho's capable Congressman Hamer Budge charges
that the will of congress has been flouted and the interests
of the taxpayers disregarded in the palatial new Bonne
ville Power Administration building under construction in
Portlan-'.
Budge claims this project was never authorized by con
gress, but that congress was bypassed and circumvented
by a leasing deal made by B.P.A. when Raver was its head
man with the Lloyd Corporation, a Portland Investment
company, under terms that will repay that company its
entire capital investment in about eight years.
The government is obligated to pav a rental of $620,126
a year for 287.790 square feet of space. However, only
about 25,000 of the increase in space to be used bv Bonne
ville will go to actual offices. The rest will he fnrnn audi
torium, underground parking, conference rooms and other
adjuncts to comfortable living. Budge claims that the
project was entered into at a time when there was plenty
of office space available in Portland.
This writer has wondered why an agency serving only
a few scores of customers needed such a nalAce. anil it imu-
appears that the branch of the government charged with
spending the people's money was never given an oppor
tunity to pass on it.
Budge is an extremely responsible person. His ques
tions deserve a prompt and frank answer from the Bonne
ville Power Administration. For the people have a right
to know where their money goes and why.
NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL
There is a grim note of irony in the situation of those
21 pro-Red American P.W.s who've refused to return to
the I'N. lines because they want to join the Communists
but whom the Communists refuse to accept.
The 21 told reporters the
..... . " ' v -'iii.iiui',m:i .
to take them as free men." which could be a reason whvi
the Commies do not want them. For of course, there are!
no free men on that side of the iron curtain, as our tie
.tided 21 will find very soon after they do join the com
rades. We imagine the Beds will take up the group as soon as
they have made some sort of a propaganda pliiv out ,,'f
them. I-or they must need soldiers for their armies and
laborers for their mines, and these birds are voting and
healthy.
Meanwhile the one consolation for our side is that
finally there wer only 21 turncoats out of all the thou
sands of Americans the enemy captured, while thousands
of Chinese and North Koreans were ready to die rather
than be returned to their enslaved homelands.
Overall, the propaganda advantage throughout the
world must be ours.
Legislation Group
lo Meet Thursday.
SALF.M (fl The legislative
Committee on revision of the state
constitution will meet here Thurs
is disputed by botanists who
those of Douglas tir at all
tne state tree.
No. 5 of the 1939 session
as follows:
board ot directors of the Daugh
laxiioua) bt and the tame
Oregon state tree,
state March 7, 1939.
conservation issues, including
day to discuss the constitution sec
tions on the governor, adminis
trative departments, education,
school liiiiils, finance and state
printing.
The committee is trying In de
cidr whether the constitution
should be amended or replaced.
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INTENTIONS J V ?J FJ VS
WASHINGTON MERRY
Ike Furious About Navy's
News Leak on the Nautilus
By DREW
WASHINGTON President Eis
enhower picked up the early morn
ing newspaper shortly before tne
launching of the atomic submarine
Nautilus lost' week, and almost
spilled his breakfast coffee.
What he read was a news report
that the Nautilus was not battle
worthy, was merely a test, and in
effect was not an important naval
vessel at alt.
The president was furious. In
the first place, he considered the
story false. Second, his wife
Mamie was going to launch the
Nautilus. Third, being experienc
ed in the battle of Pentagon poll
tics, he smcllcd a navy inspired
news leak.
So he telephoned Secretary of
Defense Wilson.
Charlie Wilson is not the early
riser that his boss in the White
House is, and the president routed
him out of bed. Summoning him
to the phone, Ike made it clear
to his secretary of defense that he
didn't like the navy belittling its
own submarine at a time when
the administration was building up
confidence in the new weapons of
the armed forces. Also he seri
ously doubted that the navy's story
had been cleared with the atomic
energy commission.
And as an afterthought, the pres
ident snorted: "Why the navy even
asked Mamie to christen her."
Wilson I.rcltirrs
Admiral Lewis Strauss, cnair-
man of the Atomic Energy Com
mission also saw the- news story
and was fit to be tied. He is re
quired to pass on all statements
by any branch of the government
pertaining to atomic energy, and
lie. too, phoned Secretary Wilson.
With two phone calls under his
belt, one even before breakfast,
the secretary of defense arrived
at his olfice in a had humor. Im
mediately be asked Undersecre
tary of the Navy Thomas Gates to
have lunch with him Secretary of
the Navy Anderson then being out
of town. Undersecretary of De
fense Roger Kyes was ulso pres
ent, and alter lunch a roomful of
admirals and assistant secretaries
were called in. including Admiral
Lewis Parks, chief of navy press
relations.
The meeting, includinc the lunch
eon, lasted more than three hours.
Wilson first wanted to know
why the news story had not been
cleared with the Atomic Knergy
Commission. The admirals had
no explanation. Furthermore,
i none ol them admitted leaking the
story.
I What Wilson did not know was
j that the story had been leaked
1 verbally by a junior navy press
olficcr.
The allegations that the Nautilus
v.asn't battle -worthy: that her tor
pedo tubes were added only as on
afterthought: and that her delicate
equipment would not work at high
speeds, was prepared first by Com
mander Slade Cutter. I.nter it was
put in a memorandum signed by
Admiral Parks.
The memo was supposed to be
confidential, but Wilson suspected
it had been shown to the press.
Kor he kept reading from it aloud
and pointing to quotations in the
press which were almost identical.
"It's a strange coincidence." he
said, "that the language is so
much alike."
At another point he asked: "Why
belittle the Nautilus?"
There was no explanation.
Revolutlnnljing the Navy
What the secretary of defense
knew, of course, was that the Nau
tilus is so fast it is likely to put
surface vessels completely out of
commission. She can cruise round
the world under water without
coming up for air She can run
circles round a battleship and can
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surpass the speed of many destroy
ers. In other words she can prob
ably catch up with and sink the
vessels that are supposed to sink
her. ,
This affronts the admirals with
the possibility of junking all non-atomic-powered
surface ships tin
the future. In fact, 50 vessels are
being mothballed immediately.
Wilson also knew that the pro
posed airplane carrier powered by
atomic energy would have been so
fast that no protecting vessels
could keep up with her. A carrier
is not supposed to move without a
convoy of destroyers and light
cruisers, but since the convoy
could not possibly keep up with an
atomic-powered carrier, the pro
posed atomic power for the new
carrier has been temporally scrap
ped. This revolutionary development
in naval warfare is why Wilson
and Kyes have switchedd their em
phasis to so-called push-button
warfare, with emphasis on long
range rockets. A-bombs and bomb
ers. Naturally some navy and
army men are opposed.
Navy nisrimination
At the secret conference. Secre
tary Wilson kept reading aloud
from the Parks-Cutter memo. He
read it over perhaps a half dozen
times.
At one point in the discussion,
the name of Admiral Hyman Rick-
over came up. Ilickovci is the
father of the atomic sub and was
blackballed for promotion by iN
now selection board, tint it this
column published the fact that he
was being discriminated against
because ot his religion.
However, the entire group of
officers summoned before Wilson
expressed nothing but praise for
Kiekover.
The meeting broke up with no
decisive conclusions. Rut it's a
safe prediction there will be no
more navy leaks at least in the
near future.
Statehood Jockeying
Albany Democrat-Herald
This jockeying around on the
question of statehood for Hawaii
and Alaska reminds one of those
pre-Civil war days, when we had to
have one "slave'' state admitted for
every "free" state, to preserve the
precarious balance in congress.
It doesn't seem as if there's as
much at stake now as there used to
be then. It is a pity that the ques-
lion of statehood for these terntor-
ies cannot be resolved on some olh-i era Democrats. Northern Deal
er basis than the mere question of ocrats realzie that they cannot
two more Republican or two more l win without the south, and
Democratic senators. 1 they learned in 1952 thnt'thcre
If there is anv other reason for were issues more dear to south-
tying Alaska statehood to Hawaii's,
it isn't obvious here. The purely
political play on this Issue makes
one slightly weary. The next result
may well be the defeat of Hawaii's
excellent claim to statehood at this
time. Alaska is hardly ready.
PIPE LINE IS PI.ASTir
POI.AIi, Mont, i The first
cross country pipe line entirelv
of plastic is delivering crude oil
from a producing field in the
Willistron Basin to a shipping
pMnt on the Great Northern
Railway in Montana. Reported to
he longest of its kind, the 9-mile
line, 3 inches in diameter has a
capacity of 4,000 barrels a day.
IIISIIKS NOT II is msii
INDIANAPOLIS LP A divorce ! usetiil and permanent parts of offset by the fact that the Lib
was granted when a man told 1 his administration. I can with j erals (not the Democratic par
the court his wife nude him ! some right answer that in two ty) controlled the Govern
wash the dishes or take her out j ways. Those professors 20 ment. . . ."
to dinner. i years ago were associated In a And so farewell to the A.D.-
"It was very expensive," he great victory, not a great de-1 A., and better judgment next
added. 'teat Even then, when thejtime.
Do People Want
Municipal Parking
Astorlan-Budget
The question of whether It Is up
to municipal government or to pri
vate priperty owners to provide ex
tra parking facilities, beyond what
the streets provide, in a down
town business district is a moot
one in many communities.
In Eugene the other day the citi
zens gave some indication of what
public opinion might be on the ques
tion when they turned out in sur
prising numbers to reject by an
overwhelming 4479 to 709 vote a
proposal for issuance of $750,000
in municipal bonds to furnish off
street parking facilities in Eugene's
badly-conjestcd business district
The election perhaps was not a
true test of whether citizens wanted
their municipal government to try
to solve the downtown parking bro
blem. No doubt many would be
pleased to have the city govern
ment do so, if It cost nothing. The
$750,000 cost was probably the big
gest factor in producing the meas
ure's overwhelming defeat.
But the vote does indicate that
the citizens don't feel it is up to the
taxpayer to pay for solving the
downtown parking problem. And
it seems likely that citizens in most
other Oregon communities would
vote just about as did those of Eu
gene on this question.
Disowning A.D.A.
By RAYMOND MOLEY
Ever since the Americans
for Democratic Action "assist
ed" at the tragic disaster that
befell Adlai Stevenson in 1052,
traditional Democrats have
been crowling in private about
that group. They regard that
I t f .n, .,( llln m,,K
the marine
They have been saying, as did
tnore lnghtcned sailors:
"What is thine occupation?
Whence comcth thou? What is
iny cowury; nu m wimi
country? And of what I
people art thou?" I
Perhaps the Lord will not
prepare a great fish to rescue
the A.D.A., but it is pretty cer
tain that it will be heaved over
board. For the mtitterings have
now become audible, and the
Democratic national cnairman
has expressed public doubts
roout the value of Adails latc
pitennaius.
The radical program of the
program Of We
ADA
especially its view on
j Federal civil rights legislation,
has thoroughly Incensed South-
erncrs than even the name
"Democrat."
But the unpopularity of the
A D.A. is rooted in something
ren more serious than fear of and they brought no ombarrass
radicalism. Americans simply ; ment to the people whom they
do not like people w he call j supported.
themselves "intellectuals." It
j smacks of snobbishness. It as-
sumcs that college degrees and
; professorships are necessarily
marks of superior intelligence
i and authority. It rcek of elite,
! Ism. And the A.D.A. has from
I the beginning been heavily
! loaded w ith professors.
An answer may be made by
some of the brethren who will
not agree, with this that the
professors in the original
Roosevelt brains trust were
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Boyle Makes
In Richard II
By HAL
NEW YORK (AP) Have you
been invited to be a television
actor yet?
No? Well, don't give up hope.
In video everybody is getting into
the act. If they got around to me,
thpv'll tret around to you.
I made my first professional
TV debut last Sunday, and if I
didn't immediately become a
bright living legend In the thea
ter it's not my fault. They
switched roles on me. I was nosed
out hv a bronze bust of Hamlet
The play was "King Richard
II," written by William Shake
speare, or, as we in that enchant
ed world behind the footlights
prefer to call him, "The Bard."
It starred Maurice Evans and
Sarah Churchill and was present
ed over the NBC network on the
Hallmark Hall of Fame program
at a cost of $175,000 more cash
than Shakespeare saw in his
whole lifetime.
When I was first asked to join
the cast, I was careful to inquire
what part I would play.
"You play the corpse of King
Richard in the final death scene,
the agent said. "You just lie there
in a coffin with a mask over your
face, lit by four candles, until
they carry you off. It's a tremen
dous exit."
It did sound good. And playing
a corpse with a mask over your
face would bring out the Barry
moTe in any actor.
But when I went to the rehear
sal I found the plans had been
changed.
"When Evans played Hamlet on
television last year, the corpse
fluttered his eyelids and the cam
era caught it," a director said.
I promised on my honor not to
breathe for five minutes before
the last scene until five minutes
after it was over, but the director
said:
"We can't take a chance. We've
given the corpse role to a bronze
bust of Maurice playing Hamlet
The bust has been made up with
greasepaint and hair to look like
King Richard, and we feel pretty
sure it won't flutter its eyes."
When I asked where that left
me, he said:
'Most actors start their ca
reers as offstage noises. Well
start you as an onstage silence.
You'll be a lord at the court
You will follow three other new
comers to the theater, two Bar
zol hounds named Nicholas and
Liza, a brother and sister act,
and a horse called Southern
Comfort
Lisa was so nervous she had a
stomach upset just before her
entrance. But then she straight
ened up like the game little
trouper she is.
"Good luck, kids," I whispered.
They trotted out and came back
a few minutes later, wagging
their tails like veteran actors.
Southern Comfort also did
about as fine a job of acting as
any horse I can remember off
hand, but when his groom led
him back he said:
"Look at that horse's knees.
He is still shaking like a leaf."
Southern Comfort reached over
and tried to bite him.
I was on during the first and
last scene. I stood so still that
nftcr the first scene ended one
name "brains trust" was ap
plied, those of us who were
directly involved felt the cold,
clammy kiss of death. Profes
sors were not popular with the
boys in the clubhouses, and
only the patronage of Roosevelt
saved them from a fate worse
than Jonah's.
Four years ago I was present
at a meeting of a group of con-
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I A. D A. Those who favored
,such formal Rrou caIlpd
j thcir idea g -right-wing A. D.-
a
The consensus of that meet
ling was that the creation of
sucn a tormai group wnn a
name and an office and period
ical statements of principle
would do more harm than good
i to the Republican Party. It
would become a target for the
opposition lo shool at just as
was the Libcrty League 18
years ago.
Th nwrnhnrc n( the ormin
, (lccided lo worj. jdencndenllv
j ln way tnpy couci within
or without the Republican Par
ty. In the? south they helped
the more conservative of two
Democrats. In the north they
generally helped Republican
candidates for Congress. The
conservative swing in the
primaries and elections of 1950
was not necessarily the result
of their labor. But they helped.
Moreover, the egregious gall
of some of the members of the
A.D.A. has not helped t h c
Democratic cause. Consider
how this would be received by
a life-long Democrat. It is a
statement by Professor Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.: "For a gen
eration, of course, the Republi
cans have more or less con
trolled the private communica
tions of this country. . . . But
thcir control has never been to
tal. It has been limited and
Debut as Lord
on Television
BOYLE
of the prop men started to pick
me up, then dropped me, ex
claiming, "Are you alive?" Quite
a tribute to my acting, I thought.
Just before the final death
scene I whispered to an actor,
"Will it be all right if I wave
goodby at the King's corpse
when they carry me out? It'll
make the scene look less som
ber." "If you even so much as
twitch your nose," he hissed
back, "the director will cut your
heart out and put you in that
coffin for good."
So I stood as still as a waiter
while they carried the made-up
bronze bust offstage. 1 must say
that bust played the role of a
corpse to the hilt. It couldnt
have been much more dead-like.
Later Evans threw a cham
pagne party for the cast. As
Southern Comfort didn't care
for champagne, and Nicholas
and Lisa were too young for it,
I sipped their share and went
home feeling better feeling,
in fact, more like an English
lord than ever.
Next week, "East Lynne."
Salem 12 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL .
January 26, 1942
A violent windstorm had
struck Salem. Power had been
cut off, communication disrupt
ed, trees uprooted and the
streets littered with branches
and bits of roofing. During an
hour's interval 47 alarms reach
ed the fire station.
Governor Charles A. Sprague
had appointed David Eccles his
executive secretary and budget
director to coordinate wartime
industrial production for Oregon.
Loyal A. Warner had a return
assignment as manager of the
local J. C. Penney store.
Major General Charles H. Mar
tin, former governor of Oregon,
had asserted regarding our war
with the Japanese: "We've got a
hell of a job on our hands."
A special committee investi
gating the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor had accused the
commander-in-chief of the fleets,
Admiral Husband E. Kimmcl,
and commanding general of the
Hawaiian department, Lieuten-
and General Walter C. Short, of
'dereliction of duty."
Plans had been announced for
launching the Victory Food Pro
duction plan.
Marion county has set up a
wood cutting project to supply
county buildings with fuel. Cut
ters were offered $2.50 a cord.
Bishop's had a sale on Flor
shcim shoes for $8.95 and $9.85
a pair.
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Salem Made Hit With
This English Visitor
To the Editor:
It was with great pleasure that
I read the report in your paper
of my three-day stay with Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Dowd during a
trip to Salem while on leave
from Victoria, V. I.
To say I was impressed with
Salem is putting it mildly. Even
now I can see in my mind's eye
the beautiful Capitol buildings,
and I still treasure at home here
in England the State Seal which
I was given while being shown
around by Mrs. J. F. Glennie of
1327 Marion street, who, by the
way, sent me the copy of your
paper.
The people with whom I came
in contact were really wonderful
and I shall never forget the love
ly time and hospitality which
was so freely given. What a
treat it would be to see all the
people again.
Having met so many friends
it is hard to thank each ope
individually, so perhaps, through
the medium of your paper, it
will be possible to do so, even
after such a long lapse of time.
Wishing you and the staff of
your paper, not forgetting the
people of Salem, a very happy
and, I hope, prosperous New
Year.
THOMAS MITCHELL,
Bucks, England
A CRABBY CUSTOMER
Albany Democrat-Herald
Even an election to baseball's
Hall of Fame failed to draw a
statement to the press from Bill
Terry, crabby former' ex-manager
of the New York Giants.
Bill will never draw any medals
for his handling of public rela
tions. The public, for its part, is
gradually, forgeting about Bill.
See me for remarkably
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