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
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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.
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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.
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