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tleubergers Talk Conservation With Dean Schoenfeld Br SEN. DICK NEUBERGER Washington, D. C. (Special) Maurine and I had the honor of having as our guest at lunch in the Senate restaurant Dean W. A. Schoenfeld of Oregon State college, whom wc found to be an ardent conservationist with roots in the progressive movement. In fact, as a young man the dean served as an usher at the historic Bull Moose con vention which nominated Teddy Roosevelt for President in 1912! Teddy, of course, was the il lustrious man who first con ceived the public - power pref erence clause, and in whose ad ministration the great United States Forest Service was estab lished. While in the dining room, I introduced Dean Schoenfeld to my friend. Sen. Edward Thye of Minnesota. To the surprise of all of us, we learned that Sena tor Thye's sister, Nettie, had nursed Mrs. Schoenfeld through an illness in Portland. The Min nesota senator has many rela tives in Oregon, including Ted Thye, the famous wrestling champion, who is a brother. Incidentally, Senator Thye was full of praise for the, brilliant speech delivered by Senator Wayne Morse in reply to Sena tor Joe McCarthy's personal at tack upon the patriotism of Sen. William Fulbright. Many newspapers in Oregon keep insisting that we must sub mit to the "partnership with the private utilities because, they claim, a "Democratic-control led" Congress will no longer authorize more federal dams on the Columbia river. These newspapers speak as though the Congress were un animously Democratic. Let's look at the real situation in the Senate and see who actually is blocking new federal starts in the Pacific Northwest. ' Our nearby power shortage would be ended if the great dam at Hells Canyon, with its 686.000 kilowatts at site and its 436,000 kilowatts downstream, could be begun on the surging Snake river. Who's blocking Hells Canyon? The United States Senate con fists of 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. Of the 49 Demo crats, 40 are known to favor construction of the high Federal dam at Hells Canyon. Of the 47 Republicans, two favor the high dam. In other words, 81 per cent of the Democrats in tne Senate are for Hells Canyon, but only 4.3 per cent of the Republican Senators are for Hells Canyon. Question: Why are Governors Patterson of Oregon, Langlie of Washington and Smylie of Idaho urging the defeat of S. 1333, the bill to authorize the high dam at Kells Canyon? To which po litical party do all three of these men belong? What if these Pa cific Northwest states had Demo cratic governors, who were giv ing solid support to S. 1333? Why is it official Republican policy to give the magnificent Hells Canyon site to the Idaho Power company for piecemeal and fragmentary development? Hoover Determined To See Return Of Policies Used 25 Years Ago By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) When former president Herbert Hoo ver bowed out of government service once again last week, he made it clear to newsmen covering his farewell news con ference that he remains deter mined at 80 years of age to see a return to some of the policies that prevailed in Washington, D.C., during his own adminis tration of ,the government 25 years ago. And it was plain that he had singled out electric power policy for special personal attention during his duties as head of the commission on government re organization which ended two years work June 30. The Hoover Commission had saved for its final report to Congress the set of recommenda tions on water resources and power, which in a word recom mended that the federal govern ment turn back to local govern ments and private utilities the further development of water resources of the Pacific North west and the nation. Hoover himself read a lengthy prepared statement to reporters before opening the conference to questions and it was spaced with criticism of government of ficials who favor federal power development. At the Washington level the use 'of water is more a political, ideological and emotional prob lem than it is an engineering problem,", cracked the pink cheeked Republican. "The voices of the 14 engineers and three governors on our task force (on water and power) and the two engineers on the commission get drowned out in this clatter. I suggest that the urgent need for development of our water re sources requires more comment and less ideology and less emo tion." Hoover conceded that this task force had come up with some ideas that were too "drastic" for the commission as a whole, par ticularly in recommending the sale or lease of federal power dams to local interests. The com mission recommended that pub lic corporations be established in all the country's major river basing to take over the financing and further development of the Columbia, the . Missouri and other rivers. Because the commission's re port was somewhat vague about what would happen, under this proposal to existing, operating federal dams, this reporter asked the fonr.er president what he had in mind doing with Grand Coulee, Bonneville and other dams. . "The federal- government would have to remain in control of the dam because of the obliga tion to irrigation, flood control and navigation," explained Hoo- Question: Which political par ty is keeping us from securing more new Federal starts in the Columbia Basin? Would we face any power-shortage at all if the Republicans were even a frac tion as enthusiastic about public power as are the Democrats? ver. He added that his recom mendation was "purely a man agerial proposal" designed to have "the states take over." Hoover declined to forecast whether or not the Eisenhower administration may go for his power1 recommendations, know ing that the past two years have seen this GOP administration both advocate hew federal power projects such as Upper Colorado development and at the same time vigorously oppose federal projects such as Hells Canyon dam. In the running debate over power policy, defenders of pub lic power have said it is absurd to say there is danger of a fed eral power monopoly when 83 per cent of the electric power in this country is privately gen erated. Hoover turned this around to show what has occurred since he left office in 1933. He said: "Federal public power has in creased from one per cent of all electric power in 1933 to 17 per cent when the present author ized construction is finished." If the grand old man of .the Grand Old Party has his way, the trend will be reversed and federal power development will decline toward the low station it held before the public power "revolution" of his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Industrial news note: U. S. Steel is boosting prices about $7.50 per ton. This action came shortly after Big Steel had agreed to a 15 cent an hour wage increa.se for its workers. The other major steel pro ducers have agreed to follow the leader in increasing wages. It is expected that these other pro ducers will also follow Big Steel's action in boosting prices. COMMENT? I fear this is it: "Hold -your hat! Here we go again!" FOREIGN politics note: The way appears clear now for LAND REFORM CHAMPION Antonio Segni to take over as premier of Italy. The Liberal party, which has been reluctant to join a center coalition, has agreed to go along with Segni's leadership. - I hope Segni gets away with his land reform program. Italy has far too many BIG landhold ers and far too few LITTLE landholders. This situation arose more than 2500 years ago, and has been more or less acute ever since. ' Over the centuries much has been said about it in Italy, but nothing very effective has ever been done about it. I think Segni is on the right track, but I wouldn't bet much on his getting away with it in the immediate future. A word to high school seniors: Do you remember Cornelia? She was quite a gal in her day in Rome, the talented daughter of Scipio Af ricanus! She married Tiberius . Semprohius Gracchus, and bore him 12 children. She was left a widow and lost all but three of them Tiberius and Gaius, known in Roman his tory as The Gracchi, and a dau ghter who married Scipio the Younger. Carnelia was Jeft quite well off, and one day a visitor was questioning her politely about her family jewelsShe pointed to her two sons and gave the answer that has thrilled high school Latin ' students down through the centuries: . ; "Hae sunt mea ornamenta." (THESE' are my jewels.) TJUT let's get back to the " Gracchi, and Italy land re form problems. Tiberius, the eldest boy, was eventually elected tribune, or leader of the people. He tried to introduce land reforms, but hadn't got away with it when his term as tribune ended. He ran for- the office again, which was against Roman custom. He was killed in the disturb ance that ensued. TTIS brother Gaius followed in nis footsteps. He too was elected tribune of the people, and put back in effect the landi familiar "noises reform laws his brother had made. He was REELECTED, de spite the old-established custom, to a second term, but crowded his luck and ran for a third term That was too much for the people, and riots and ruckuses broke out. Gaius, knowing the jig was up, anticipated capture and trumped-up execution by having his own slave kill him. That cooked the land reform goose in Rome. 3 While one approves this man Segni's program of land re form in modern Italy one has one's doubts as to the outcome of it at least right away. Prog ress moves slowly over there. TN our own country, I get scared of a lot of the free-spending policies of our federal govern ment which keep .our national debt steadily RISING in a time of general prosperity when we ought to be paying off on our debt. But I'm NOT much scared of the heavy spending and heavy lending of the governments credit in order to enable our people to buy homes. I can't help believing that will turn out all right. If the Gracchi brothers, 20- odd centuries ago, had managed to establish a successful federal housing program in ancient Rome modern Italy would be FAR better off. . Wadnasdav, July 1935 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRXBTJXS-mS Is That So? "My scout troop wants to know how a camper should pro tect himself against dangerous animals in the woods," writes Scoutmaster O.B.T. I think I know exactly what your scouts have in mind re garding camping in the woods. Many of them are from the city or comfortable country, homes. They have never slept in the great outdoors before. 'Their sleeping bags is none too com fortable certainly unnatural. They remain wide awake and some of those campfire horror stories don't help promote sleep. They hear many new and strange sounds. Many of them are tiny but because the sur rounding silence is so fast, they are greatly magnified. There is the rustle of mice in dry leaves. The heavy thump of a rabbit. The ominous hoot of an owl. A pack rat rattling a pan as he drops a stick to pick up a much more interesting kitchen spoon. Overhead two dry limbs rub to gether in the soft evening breeze, producing a lingering wail which in imagination is a cou gar. In the distance, perhaps, a romantic coyote may howl and be so entranced by its own ren dition that it keeps its eyes closed! As your scout lies there, his imagination converts these un- into dangers. Man-hunting animals. Worse, as he waits in the darkness with his heart beating wildly, the noises seem to come even closer and all he has with him is his scout knife under the pillow and a boot near his hand. But, there is no reason for. fear. In all North America there is only one dangerous man-killing animals, the grizzly and his close relative the Alaskan brown bear. Yes, I know many would add the wolf. But frankly, in the past 50 years there isrft one authentic case of a wolf killing a man in America. Cougar Fairly Harmless What about our big cat the cougar? If anything this animal is even more harmless than a wolf. (While one was held at bay by dogs, a friend of mine has actually pulled out a coug ar's whisker! I wouldn't risk that!) But in all this, mind, I am talking about boys sleeping out at night. To be frank, many ani mals can be dangerous during the daytime when they are mo lested: that is if you come be tween a mother and her young; annoy an animal while it is de vouring its kill; suddenly fright- By EUGENE BURNS Hangar-Naturalist 1 1-6-SS en them; or wound them. Then even a small bird may fight; a chipmunk rear up and bite; and upon one occasion when I cor nered a weasel in a chicken pen, the infuriated little animal charged me, and I took off in a hurry. Cornered, almost any an imal will fight for. its life. As for bears, the only danger ous ones your scouts will ever meet are the so-called "tame" bears in our national parks. In Yellowstone those bears are most dangerous even though you may see hundreds of people stop to feed them by hand. I know because I have helped take slash ed victims fo the park hospital and every summer, some 70 reported casualties occur. As for the grizzly, fortunately all are confined to isolated areas in the U. S. and like most wild animals dislike to be near people and so keep away from them. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation., or the best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world- famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can t answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is that Sol care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Billy Graham Not Invited To Russia Gothenburg, Sweden 4U.R) Billy Graham left for Denmark last night without an expected invitation to preach in Moscow. Seven Russian Baptist leaders attended the American evangel ist's one-night stand in this port city, but made no move to invite him behind the Iron Curtain. It had been reported that the Soviet churchmen were inter ested in having Graham preach in Moscow. Brigadier General Found Dead in Bed Colorado Spring, Colo. (U.R) Brig. Gen. Clinton D. Vincent, 40, recently appointed deputy chief of staff for operations at the Continental Air Defense Command, was found dead in his bed yesterday. Vincent had reported last Fri day for his new assignment from Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francisco. His family still is in California. The World War II ace was a native of Gale, Tex., and was graduated from West Point. He served with the Flying Tigers and was credited with shooting down six Japanese planes. An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death. Survivors are his wife, Mar garet, and four children. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Photo Finishing1 FILM IN BY 10:00 OUT BY 5:00! S&H GREEN STAMPS ' Ander's Photo Shop 232 East Main Pfcona 2-5646 IT'S A PSYCHOLOGICAL FACT: . PLEASURE HELPS YOUR DISPOSITION! Feel scratchy as a cat? When somebody rubs you the wrong way, a little pleasure helps your disposition. That's a psychological fact! for pure plsasiiio Jtavaa I - . ..i t mm Another fact if you're a smoker, you'll get more pure pleasure from Camels. Really mild . . . richer-tasting ... no won der more people smoke Camels than any other brand! No other cigarette is so rich -tasting, yet so mild ! DRUNK'S BIKE SENTENCED Paterson, N. J. (U.R) Bi cyclist Gifford Robinson, 32, was arrested for drunken driv ing Tuesday and his bike was given an indeterminate term. Magistrate John A. 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