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Solving N.W. Power Crisis
While Northwest politicians in and out
of Congress are loudly and persistently clam
oring for Federal aid In building power dams,
privately owned utilities and local agencies
are financing and have under contract a vast
4,8 millions k.w. hydro-electric program, as
big as anything the region has ever known,
which will, when completed, provide ample
power for years to come.
Details of the projects now underway are
printed in the Wall Street Journal of Febru
ary 20, written by a staff reporter who visited
each of the various projects underway and
described them in a half page article from
which the following developments are sum
marized: Private power companies, together with
cities and PUDs are constructing 4,6 million
killowatts of hydro-electric power projects.
Some are just completed, some under con
struction or definitely federally licensed for
construction. In comparison, all the Federal
dams built in the area in the past quarter of
a century from Grand Coulee and Bonne
ville, started in 1930's, to McNary, whose last
generator has just gone on the line will add
up to no more than a like 4.6 million kilo
watts. Local projects more than double the
2 million killowatts of federal construction
under way.
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The BPA admits that any crisis in North
west power has been "rolled back", at least
until 1964-65. .
In the current firm program, the private
' electric companies have 14 projects to supply
2.1 million kilowatts; Hie local governmental
agencies such as the P.U.D.'s have assumed
primary responsibility for eight projects to
yield 2.5 million kilowatts, and the Federal
Government has nine projects to produce 2.0
million kilowatts. ,
Of the projects not definite but "under
serious consideration, private companies are
looking into dam construction to turn out
2.3 million kilowatts; local public agencies
are Investigating projects which would pro
duce 1.7 milion kilowatts, and the Federal
Government might back ventures yielding 2.7
million kilowatts.
Federal dam building has cost the Trea
sury $1.7 billion, plus another $1 billion in
Northwest dams under contract. In contrast
locally-backed dams take no money from the
Treasury and privately-built dams produce
' heavy revenues in slate and local taxes and
(or Federal Income taxes.
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Among the projects by Oregon power
' companies are:
Portland General Electric Co.Tho North-Far-raday
project on the upper Clackamas Mvor proj
ect, dam, tunnel, generators, to he completed in
19 months to cost $20 million, add 78,000 kilo
watts; the Pellon dam in Central Oregon on the
Deschutes River, under construction, to cost $29
million, capacity 120,000 kilowatts; proposed larger
Butte dam upstream to cost $55 million to develop
225,000 kilowatts.
,The Pacific Power 4 Light Co. .Swift dam on
Lewis River, Wash., to cost $46 million, develops
204.000 kilowatts; adding of 45,000 kilowatts at a
cost of 13 million at Mcrwin dam, Lewis River,
Wash.; investigating 3 more dams in Washington
and Oregon, projects totaling 3.l,000 kilowatts,
costing from $80 million to $100 million.
California-Oregon Power Co. in Southern Ore
gon plans to tunnel a 16-foot channel through a
mountain to Big Bend dnm site, from Upper Klam
ath Lake to dam to cost $15 million, develops
80,000 kilowatts, first of five Knlamalh projects
' with combined capacity of 320,000 kilowatts.
Hydro-electric power development in
Washington and Idaho excedes that in Oregon
and it due largely to private enterprise,
which has properly taken the initiative from
federal bureaucracy and is solving the power
crisis. G. P.
Freedom Radio, or Radio Liberation as it
is known abroad seems to be an eloquent and
effective upholder of peace and freedom in
their literal sense.
Retirement Manors
Enterprising citizens of the thriving city
of Medford announce plans for the construc
tion and operation of a $5,000,000 build
ing as a retirement home for retired people,
located on a hill east of the city, to be known
as the "Rogue Valley Manor." Construction
is to start this year and it is scheduled to be
opened in the late summer of 1958.
The "Manor" is sponsored by a non-profit
corporation composed of religious, business,
professional and civic leaders. It has been
planned to take advantage of the expensive,
design and operation and knowledge gained
from other Manors and Retirement Homes
all over the United States, including Oregon.
The building will be 10 stories in height,
have 284 apartments to house approximately
350 people. It will be located on a 15-acre
landscaped site on Barneburg Hill, with scenic
views of the valley in all directions. It will
be provided with about everything for living
in comfort and security, formal gardens and
recreation grounds.
Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian
ministers throughout the entire Northwest
are cooperating in the completely interde
nominational retirement manor. Life assur
ance funds are reasonable on life expectancy
in years, and on the experience of other
manors.
Medford has set an example that other
strategic situated cities, especially Salem,
as the state capitol, should follow. It is badly
needed as life expectancy is increasing gen
erally, its necessity also increases. It is a
much needed project for community coopera
tion and a major one for the Chamber of
Commerce and our churches to initiate for
those entitled to comfort, enjoyment and
security in their "golden age." G. P.
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Voice of Freedom
Do many people Inside the Iron Curtain
actually hear the meisages conveyed in their
direction by th efforts of ' Voice of Ameri
ca'' and "f'recdf.ca Radio'"
Much tu.i bn p-.biijhcd about thorn, and
a good deal ia.r! jftocj their success. Hut in
the mmdj tit nuvtr. A.T.ricans it has all been
pretty vaf:. Hfl-v do they gel it across?
Evidence thus f.we.jn radio broadcasts do
find a jrun.r.j and appreciative audience
within the Sw, L'mon is disclosed in a
booklet entitld "Spiral Into the USSR,"
published by the American Committee for
Liberation, and telling tne story of Freedom
Radio, which has IM bai in Munich. A pic
ture indicates thai the base is in a huge
building well equipped with powerful trans
mitting equipment It has. according to claims
that can't be doubted. 11 powerful transmit
ters in Germany and the Far East and broad
casts in 17 languages used in the USSR.
Of course the Hcds jammed it when it first
went into operation in March. 1953. and still
try to jam il. Nevertheless it claims technical
proof that it delivers an intelligible signal to
a majority of the population of the t'SSK.
One refugee says that almost everyone in the
Soviet Union, from generals lo collective
farmers, tries to listen. This appears to he
confirmed by groups of Germans returning
from Russian slave labor camps, and by west
ern travelers who have penetrated the USSR
and talked with the people.
"Perhaps the most telling evidence of Its
effectiveness," it is said, "has been the con
tinuing campaign of Soviet vilification direct
ed against the anti-Communist emigres work
ing with Radio Liberation as well as against
its American sponsors."
Among Freedom Radio's supporters are
distinguished Individuals, not only of the
United States, but of many countries, includ
ing churchmen, teachers, scientists, states
men, bankers, corporation heads, labor lead
ers and journalists. Among Americans who
have spoken over the radio are Vice President
Richard Nixon, Senator William F. Knnwland,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. General Omar Brad
lay and publisher Bennett Ccrf.
RAY TI CKER
State-Federal Law
Controversy Aired
WASHINGTON It was not the Eisenhower
Supreme Court which first laid down the doctrine
thai stale laws against Communists, kidnappers,
purveyors of tainted food, dope conspiracies and
other offenses were invalid, it there was Federal
legislation on the same subject a decision that
may cause legal and judicial chaos.
11 was Hint of a tribunal, during Franklin D.
Roosevclta regime, consisting
largely of political ideologists
who had enjoyed no previous ex
perience on any bench. The
neculiar make-UD of that court
has led lawyers to wonder why
thiol justice can warrens tri
bunal followed the same reason
ing in the Steve Nelson case.
' The Nelson ruling aroused gen
eral indignation because it struck
down Pennsylvania's anti-Communist
act, and was a more
,,,....l:,,.i,lnr affair nut thl rartinr ' TUCKKR
holding, which invalidated Alabama's Pure Food
and Drug Laws, reveals that the real responsibility
rests upon the New Deal-Fair Deal jurists.
Argued Day After I'enrl Harbor
The Alabama litigation escaped general notice
because il was argued on December 8. the
Monday alter Pearl Harbor. The derision was
handed' down in February, l!2. when Japanese
victories in the South Pacific distracted attention
from domestic matters.
Alabama authorities had seized 20.000 pounds of
renovated huller from the Clovorlcat Holler Com
pany o( Birmingham. On the ground that the Fed
eral Pure Food and Drug Act excluded slate action,
the firm sought an injunction against the sciatic.
Us petition was denied by the Federal District and
Circuit Courts, in which it is probable that live
or six jurists held for the state an extremely
pertinent point in the whole picture.
District, Circuit Courts Overruled
Despite loose two decisions adverse lo the boiler
Interests, the Supreme Court agreed to review,
as II said, "because of the important question of
Federal law involved."
With former Justice Stanley Heed delivering the
opinion, a cotiil divided live to lour overruled the
two lower courts nod struck down the stale law.
Thus, as has happened so many limes, a bare
majority on the Supreme Court live men de
livered a knockout blow to state sovereignty.
The late Chief Justice Hnrlnn Stone entered a
vigorous dissent. Ho was joinel by Justice Felix
Frankfurter, the late Frank Murphy and former
Justice James F. Byrnes. Here is the key ami the
amazing sentence in the Heed ruling:
"Where the United Stales exercises lis power
of tcgtslnlion so as lo ronllict with a regulation
of the stale, either .spcctlicnlly or hy implication,
the stale u-gislulion becomes inoperative and the
Federal legislation exclusive in its application."
Prrlliii'Ol Dissenting Paragraph
The court dismissed arguments that Ihe Ala
bama law. Mislead of "conflicting" with the Fed
eral legislation, shared and supplemented its
powvr. Sor did it recognize that Ihe always short
handed stall nl Department ol Agriculture inspec
tors could not visit tiic thousands of scattered food
plants io order to safeguard public health
Here is Ihe pertinent paragraph in the Stone
dissent:
"The decision of the court appears to me to
depart radically from the salutary principle that
Congress, m enacting legislation within its eon
st it til ion.it authority, will not be deemed to have
intended to strike down a state statue designed
to protect the heallh and salely of the public, un
less Ihe stale ail in terms or in its practical ad
ministration, conllii'ls with ttie Act of Congress, or
plamlv and palpably inlnnges its policy."
But strike down ill "conflicting" anti-crime laws
they did twice.
tRelrased by McClure Newspaper Syndicate!
A Smile or Two
A wildoyed gent had Ihe t'niled Stales Palent
Oldce in a dither Ihe other day demanding pro
tection on what he lermed "Ihe most ingenious
Invention of the decade." It turned out lo be a
cake of soap' 10 cot long.
"You couldn't even lift a thing like that to
lather yourself," srollrd a clerk.
"You don t have to," replied the great inventor.
"You just climb on top of it and slither up and
down." Bennett Ccrf in This Week.
JAMES MARLOW
CLJdJ
U. S., French
Diplomats to
Talk 'Break'
WASHINGTON UB - The United
States and France were as close
as a pair of pants until they split
over the French mr
attack on tbgypt,.
last November. ;
The pants have
badly needed
mending ever,
since.
So when Presj. .
dent Eisenhow
er and French
Premier Guy
Mollet meet to
morrow the
first such meet- JAiwr.s mari.ow
ing since the invasion of Egypt
it will be like a couple of tailors
sewing on a patch.
And the result, like any good
patch, will probably be satisfac
tory but unscnsational.
A Clumsy Fumble
Mollet was premier when the
attack was made. It was a com
bined French-British assault ar
ranged by Mollet with the then
British Prime Minister Eden. It
was also one c the clumsiest
fumbles in French-British history
The White House was equally
mad at both men for the attack
which infuriated, the Arab world
just when the United Stales was
extremely anxious to keep the
Arabs friendly to the West and
away from Russia.
Eisenhower and the United Na
tions put pressure on the British
and I1 rench lo stop the shooting.
Both did and left Egypt. But the
independent French-British' action
caused the first postwar bustup
among the three big allies.
Ike Gave Cold Shoulder
Mollet and Eden very quickly
wanted to come here to sec Eisen
hower to get things straightened
out. That kind of reconciliation so
soon wouldn't have looked good
to the Arabs. Eisenhower gave the
two prime ministers a cold shoul
der.
In the backwash of that military
fiasco, the split between the Unit
ed States and Britain, and Eisen
hower's aloofness, ' Eden ran into
trouble at home and finally re
signed, pleading illness.
Not so Mollet. a dry, profes
sional, colorless French politician.
Reports from Parts say the
French, even (hough dismayed hy
the willingness of their govern
ment lo back out of Egypt so fast,
admired Mollet for his daring in
flowing at all.
It if t Can't (in On
But the rift between this coun
try and its two allies couldn't be
pormitlod lo go on indefinitely.
And Eisenhower, after talking
things over with Mollet, will visit
with Eden's successor. Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan.
What sometimes gets lost sight
of in concern over the Americnn-Brllish-Frcnch
split was why the
Rrilish and French, who had
worked hand-in-glove with this
country, had attacked Egypt on
their own without lelltng the Unit
ed States.
Eden and Mollet were sore at
Ihe way Secretary of Stale Dulles
had handled Egyptian President
Nassers seizure of the Suez Can
al. The Rrilish and French didn't
want to let Nasser get away with
it.
Dulles offered some plans for
dealing with Nasser. None of Ihem
worked. They used up time. And
they left Nasser in undisturbed
possession of the canal. Eden and
Mollet didn't want any more of
Dulles delays. So they struck
Quarrel Only Temporary
But it seemed clear from the
beginning that any quarrel of this
kind between the United States
and its allies could be only tem
porary. They need each other loo
much in standing off communism
to go their separate ways.
Hut neither Ihe British nor the
French have been in svmpalliv
with Eisenhower and Dulles on
their handling of Israel, which
also attacked Egypt.
Eisenhower and Dulles have
been talking vaguely about im
posing sanctions on the Israelis
lor refusing to leave Egyptian ter
ritory mi 1 1 1 they gel guarantees
from the United Stales or the
United Nations that, once Ihov
null back, Nasser won't be al
lowed lo attack them, as he did
in the past.
Mollet and Eisenhower will
have lo mull over that dilference.
Bui, aside from that, there are
no basic quarrels between this
country and its allies. All three
are slill partners.
One result of the French-British
decision lo go it alone in invading
Egypt may he to make Dulles and
Eisenhower a little more careful
to listen In Ihe British and French
when Ihov think as in Ihe case of
Suez, their vital interests are at
stake.
By the same token they'll proh
nhly think twice about getting into
a war the next time without tell
ing this country or getting its support.
Very Unclear Crystal
W & A DEPRESSION or 1 j
( MIDDLE-EAST HARMONY I Jj
fti or disarmament or
rk A UNIFIED (TeRrAAMy sV J
IHK' f ANYTHING W
DAVID LAWRENCE
Congress Seeking to Prevent New 'Hot'
War in Mid-East by Giving Ike Power
r -1 J
WASHINGTON These are
strange times. A military man is
President of the United States, but
he's no swash
buckler. He's a
man of peace.
Yet the Con
gress, which un
der the Consti
tution has the
sole power to fP 1 3n
ncciarc war,
doesn't want to
exercise, 'that
power. II wishes
instead to con
centrate in the u. LAWRKNCB
President all responsibility for us
ing Ihe armed forces.
What is the reason for this para
dox? Is it .partisanship an at
tempt to pass the buck by a Dem
ocratic congress to a Republican
President in a delicate period in
world history?
There may be some partisanship
here and there in the senate but
certainly when the Speaker of the
House of Representative, Sam
Rayburn, Democrat, votes in fa
vor of a resolution lo "authorize"
the President to use the armed
forces in the Middle East if he
deems it necessary, there can
hardly he good grounds for aVum
ing that partisanship is a control
ling factor.'
Cold War New Challenge
The truth is there are many con
scientious men in both parties in
Congress who have not come to
grips yet with the realistic situa
tion in Ihe world as it affects the
Constitution of the United States.
The powers in this great charter
of government have long been
used to deal with "hot wars" but
never before has the challenge
come in what is today termed a
cold war.
The real question before the
country is how the Constitution
can be used, not merely to fight
"hgt wars," but to, prevent a
world war from breaking out in
an age that utilizes nuclear weapons.
There are many instances
throughout American history
which reveal that presidents have
acted without consulting Congress
to protect the lives and properly
of American citizens in troubled
areas of the world. There are
precedents that reveal the chief
executive as taking military ac
tion to repel attack, as President
Roosevelt did in the case of Pearl
Harbor in 1941, without first seek
ing authority from Congress. He
did request a few days later a
resolution ratifying a "slate of
war," just as President Wilson did
in entering World War 1 in 1917
or as in 1914 when ordering the
Port of Vera Cruz seized by
American sailors in a dispute with
Mexico.
Korean Action Sore Point
It will always be debated wheth
er President Truman handled the
Korean episode correctly. It is
true that he ordered sudden inter
vention by American forces to re
pel the aggression by the Commu
nist armies even before the Se
curity Council of the United Na
tions voted such action. But he
failed lo go to Congress to get
ratification, and this is a sore
HAL BOYLE
Stokowski Calls for Higher
Standard of 'Inner Living'
NEW YORK in Leopold
Stokowski, foreseeing the coming
nf "an America.) renaissance,
called Monday for 'a higher
standard of inner living
Now ncaring
75, Stokowski,
for nearly half a
century one of
the world's most
controv e r s i a 1
s y m p hony or
chestra conduc
tors, said:
"Athens had its
great period.
Italy had its re
naissance. And
America is going hal boile
lo have its renaissance, too. I feel
we are seeing its initial phase now.
BEN MAXWELL
History in
The Making
FEB. 25, 1947
A bill providing a one per cent
withholding tax on salaries and
wages of all employes in the state
had been Intro-
ducted in t h e
house of the leg
islature as an
assessment and
taxation bill.
DR. WILLIAM BRADY
There's Some Difference in
Operation to Remove Tonsils
MEN BECOME ANC.Kl.S
"Why Men Become Angels" is
a story title on a magazine. It has
nothing to do with driving too fast
or smoking too much which the
casual reader might guess: neith
er is it about personal reform
which might well make a man lit
for no other occupation than an
angelic one. Sherman County
Journal.
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Today's sad story comes in a
newspaper clipping sent in by a
reader. It says a child died in the
hospital yester
day while under
going an opera
tion for the re
moval of tonsils.
The hospital
pathologist said
lilt' ,HOOt.sl It-
vcalod that the
child had an en-sv
larged heart nnd
"possible" neph- '
rilis 'kidney in
flammation'. Al- "" '"1AI1Y
so the autopsy showed the thymus
gland was enlarged, resulting in
pressure on the windpipe.
Only What I Read
All I know about it is what 1
read in the newspaper clipping. Be
fore 1 sound oft, it is only fair to
remind you that in my judgment
tonsillectomy, the attempt lo re
move every hit of tonsil tissue, is
justifiable only in rare cases ima
lignancy, canceri. From long
study, observation, and a reason
able amount of experience, 1 be
lieve tonsillotomy, that is. clipping
! or slicing off the obstructing por
; lion of tonsil, is the method of
; choice,
Reading the sad story of the de
fense 1 mean the post-mortem
explanation I cannot help won
dering whether:
I n' Tonsiilctomy is or is not a
maior operation.
ibi If il is a major operation,
isn't a preliminary examination nf
the patient's heart and a urine
an.tlvsts routine preparation for
surgery
'c The doctors haven't heard
that enlargement of the thymus
gland is frequently revealed by X
ray examination of young children,
and as a rule it is nf no conse
quence 'd' The notion that the enlarged
thymus presses on the windpipe is
any less (anc-.dil than the notion
that gas in simnavh or intestine
presses on the heart.
Three Prove Fatal
Three tonsillectomies proved fa
tal in December, '56, according to
newspaper reports in my file.
Maybe there ware other fatalities
which were not reported.
In one of these cases the victim
was "violently allergic" to the
local anesthetics used during the
operation to kill the pain, a "hos
pital spokesman" explained.
In another case the corner said
the child died of "cardiac arrest
due to a constitutional weakness."
Cardiac means heart: arrest
means stop. Constitutional weak
ness means well, physical or
bodily weakness. When the heart
' stops beating in the course of an
I operation, it doesn't make the sad
! occurrence understandable calling
it cardiac arrest or charging it to
' a constitutional weakness.
The tragic part of it is that
there s no gooo reason w ny any
child or grown-up should be sub
jected to the atrocity and in my
judgemcnt tonsillectomy is an
atrocity.
Method of Choice
The minor operation for removal
of tonsils is called tonsillotomy
clipping or instantaneously slicing
! olt the obstructing portion is no
' more dangerous and requires no
' more anesthesia than extraction of
I a tooth.
I As 1 hope you remember, when
you and 1 were young, grandma.
: there was only one treatment for
enlarged or hyperthrophied tonsils,
only one way to "remove" tonsils.
j and that was tonsillotomy, this
was comparatively simple, safe,
and satisfactory. To the best of
my recollection I never heard of
1 such grave complications as shock,
cessation of breathing, hemorrhage
; or aspiration of bits of blend clot
or tonsil tissue into the lungs. Nor
; of such consequences or sequels
as pneumonia, septicemia, lung
1 abscess. These and other risks are
unavoidable when the patient is
: suhiccted to the atrocity called
1 tonsillectomy.
point between Republicans and
Democrats that crops up in politi
cal discussions.
Mr. Truman was right in inter
vening. He could not wait for au
thority from Congress, though he
did consult some of the leaders.
Nor is there any real difference
of opinion today as to what the
duty of a president should be when
any attack occurs he must order
American forces to repel that at
tack, and go to Congress later for
ratification ol a "state of war" in
order to legalize the step.
Prevention The Real Issue
But what shall be said of the
use of constitutional power to pre
vent a war not necessarily to
wait till an attack has come? This
is the real issue, and it is a novel
one. It involves what some mem
bers of Congress have mistakenly
described as a delegation of power
to a' president by Congress.
Actually, it is advance notice to
foreign nations of the readiness
of Congress to authorize, now and
ratify later any action the Presi
dent may take if war becomes
necessary. This doesn't mean any
advance delegation of power at all.
The act of delegation never oc
curs because only Congress can
declare war or ratify the exis
tence of a "state of war."
The Constitution has many
pointed provisions that give to
Congress exclusively the righl "to
declare war and regulate the use
of the armed forces. Article I,
Section 8, says Congress "shall
have power" not only "to declare
war" but "to define and punish
piracies and (clonics committed on
I lie high seas, and offences against
the law of nations." This same
article says Congress "shall have
power to moke rules for the gov
ernment and regulation of the land
and naval forces."
To Ratify 'State ol War'
But while there is no dispute
about how the armed forces shall
be directed to act when invasion
or attack on American interests
comes as provided, for instance,
in various treaties such as NATO
the new question is how Con- j
gross, acting along with the Presi-1
dent, can serve notice of Amer-i
ica's intention to use force il its
interests are threatened. It is the ;
formal expression by Congress of
its intention to ratify a "state of
war" if any nation or group of
nations embarks on such a course
against this country which is all
important now. That's the funda
mental fact in the Eisenhower
doctrine resolution as passed by
I the House. It's a process of pre
; venting war rather than a means
of declaring war which Congress
and the President would join in
1 establishing. It's a constructive
! move toward the mainlenancc of
peace in an atomic age. j
George H.
Flagg, Oregon
public utilities
had
authorized West
Coast Trailways ben maxwell
to operate interstate busses in Ore
gon and use the Pacific highway.
Sunrise Mineral Springs, succes
sor to Hubbard Mineral Springs,
had re-opened as the only "health
farm" in this part of the state.
A century ago Indians had camped
there to partake of the mineral
water and restore their health.
A Capital Journal editorial had
said relative to "One Cause of
Swollen Budgets": The high cost
of social welfare legislation ex
ceeds the public means and re
sults in excessive burdens on the
taxpayers as well as inflating costs
of production and diminishing out
put. But there will be nothing done
about it except increase budgets."
I After 10 years that truth is evi
dent.)
Favorable weather conditions
had spurred demand for farm
labor. During the past two days
Farm Labor office had received
orders for 40 hands in hopyards,
cane berry fields, and strawberry
patches. Harvesters of strawberry
plants received $2 a thousand for
digging them and the same
amount for packing.
"Tex" Rankin, famed dare devil
flyer of a hopped up Jenny at the
end of First World War, had died
in a crash at Klamath Falls. Tex
was well known to Salem flying
circles in the 1920s. He used the
old air field south of the fair
grounds and was an outstanding
performer here in connection with
dedication of the Salem airport:
"There has been great de
velopment of public taste in th
United States. America is not
musically illiterate. It is growing
and evolving musically v e r y
fast."
Vastly More Orchestras
Recalling that when he first
came to this country from Europe
in 1905 the only well-known sym
phonies were in Boston, New York
and Chicago, Stokowski said: t
"Now every university has' J
iuu. tic nave vaaiij- iuuig uitiius,
tras than any other country of the
world of comprable size."
The maestro, now conductor of
the Houston Symphony, sees the
increasing leisure afforded by the
machine age as the first step to
ward the creation of a world-inspiring
cultural renaissance here.
"We have already the highest
standard of living of any country
in history," he observed. "That
is, in terms of physical and ma
terial things food, clothing,
housing and transportation. .
Standard af Inner Living
"What we need to concentrate
on now is a' high standard of liv
ing for the inner life thought, re
ligion, the arts, science, imagi
nation, sensitivity to nature and
human relations everything thfcl
goes on inside us.
Stokowski conducts an inter- .
view as he does an orchestra, with
a mixture of charm and Olympian
aloofness.
Once, on asking him a ques
tion, I had the feeling of one who
disrupts' a concert by a loud and
uncontrollable sneeze.
'f never discuss myself."' re
plied Stokowski, and the concert
resumed.
He said he thought America's
cultural renaissance could be best
stimulated by creating a higher
standard of inner living among
children. He has two small sons
of his own.
Shouldn't Force Lessons
But Stokowski. who started play
ing the piano and violin very
young himself, thinks it is a mis
take for parents to force either
painting or music lessons rn chil
dren between the ages of 4 and 9.
"If the children ask lor the les
sons themselves, it is all right,"
he said, "Otherwise, no.
"Young children arc interested
in only one thing play. They
create Ihcir own rhythms and
melodies- spontaneously while
playing.
"If you can make an educa
tional thing seem like play to
them, they'll want to do it. But
if you force them to do some
thing, they will lose their spon
taneity and their talent will turn
imitative."
To Stokowski the replacement
of spontaneity by the urge to im
itate spells the death of creative
ability.
POLITICAL INVECTIVE
The governor's letter to Repre
sentative Giesy was an excellent
example of political invection and
should be studied for that reason.
As a gubernatorial message it is
an excuse for action too long de
layed. Sherman County Journal.
Harry K. Thaw, 76. whose tur
bulent life had amused and shock-1 and married show girl Evelyn Nes
ed a bygone generation, had died bit. On June 25. 1906. he shot and
of coronary thrombosis. He had I killed Stanford White, the ccle
inhcrited 40 million dollars from brated architect, for alleged pre
his father, a railroad magnate, I martial relationships with his wife.
A Smile or Tw o
A customer had complained
about the pastry. "I was making
pastry before you were born," re
plied the indignant cook.
".Maybe" said the customer,
"hut why sell it now?" Montreal
Star.
CII.WtiE OF PACE
It used to be a man couldn't
rest for thinking about his job:
now he can't work for thinking
about his rest. Sherman County
Journal.
Hr'i? Were
l.istonished . . .
j lo know that so much
j service entered into the
: conilticttne of a funeral.
Houoll-K.dwards Funeral
: I Ionic took care of every-
i thing."
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