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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. July 22. 1937
St. Lawrence Seaway Expected To Bring
Fdltor's not: This If tht first in
a series f five artlrles by United
Press correspondent Robert E. Jark
in. who toured the St. Lawrence Sea
war route from Montreal to Milwau
kee and Interviewed leading official!
of the project-
By ROBERT E. JACKSON
United Press Correspondent
Along the St. Lawrence Sea
way U) The Midwest is
on the march.
It is walking on water
along "the Seaway" which will
open the heart of North America
2.350 miles inland to ocean-sized
vessels sailing oft the Atlantic,
up the St. Lawrence river into
the Great Lakes, and out again.
This will be a new "eighth
sea," a 'fourth seacoast" with
8.000 new miles of shoreline. It
will put Chicago and Cleveland,
Duluth and Detroit, Muskegon
and Milwaukee on the dockstep
of the world.
Ocean freighters of 8.000-10.-000
tons and lake-type ships of
23,000 tons 90 per cent of
the world's shipping will be
able to steam up the network of
canals, locks and channels deep
ened to. 27 feet.
Grain can move from the Mid
west breakbasket straight to
Europe by sea. Iron ore can
come from the new deposits in
Labrador to feed the blast fur
naces of the area which already
churns out a third of America's
agricultural and industrial pro
ducts. To Open In '59
In April, 1959, the spectacu
lar billion-d o 11 a r Canadian
American Seaway will open the
Lake Erie ports of Buffalo,
Cleveland and Toledo to world
shipping.
By 1962 an American channel-deepening
project will allow
the bigger ships with bigger
payloads on Lake Huron, Su
perior and Michigan to move
more goods more rapidly and
cheaply than by the old rail
boat routes.
As a political by-product, the
"isolationist" Midwest will look
out on the globe.
It is an exciting vista which
has stirred the imagination of
the world. It has, in fact, stirred
some right out of this world
those who saw Chicago passing
New York as a world port,
geisha girls from Tokyo dancing
on the docks of Detroit, the
Queen Mary tying tip at Cleve
land's bare new pier.
Critics and competitors of the
Seaway, who held up the proj
ect for a bitter half-century,
"have heard so many exaggera
tions and pierside pipedreams
from the lakes that they tend
to shrug it off as an over-publicized
white elephant.
But businessmen to the East,
West and South ignore the clat
ter along the lakes at their peril.
This is going to affect everyone
In the United States.
In the short run it may hurt
some eastern and southern ports
and railroads who will lose busi
ness to the lakes.
In the long run, however, the
entire nation can hope to bene
fit from the economic momen
tum the Seaway will generate.
There will be, the experts say,
plenty for all to transport.
With a sober second glance,
respopsible officials in the Mid
west today realize the shortcom
ings of the Seaway. It will be
icebound five months a year.
Some of the ports will not be
ready for expanded trade. There
will be no overnight jump in
foreign cargo.
Every small town will not be
another New York it won't
even be a Chicago or Milwau
kee. The Seaway's locks will
have a limited capacity which
will prevent the fantastic ton
nages predicted by.super selling
boosters.
New York. New Orleans, PhTK
adelphia and the railroads are
not going to roll over and play
dead in the face of new compe
tition. Nor will Houston, Balti
more, Boston and Norfolk.
Miss Main Point
Yet many of the critics who
Porter To Inspect
Prefabrication
Plant in Indiana
Washington, D C. Rep
Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) was
to fly to Lafayeete. Ind., today
to inspect the largest prefabri
cated home manufacturing plant
in the world. Congressman Por
ter will be the guest of the Pre
fabricated Home Manufacturers
Institute and will be shown
through the plant by the presi
dent of the National Homes Lor
poration, James Price.
Porter will be accompanied
on the trip by his administrative
assistant. Jack Billings, .and by
two housing experts, Joseph B.
McGrath, legislative director for
the National Association of
Home Builders, and Carl Boes-
ter, housing consultant for Na
tional Homes Corporation and
professor of light construction
at Purdue University. McGrath
described the National Homes
Corporation plant at Lafayette
as the "largest single buyer of
lumber and lumber products in
the United States."
Effort To Find Help
Congressman Porter said the
one-day trip is "part of my con
tinuing effort to find help for
the depressed lumber industry
in my district and to help pro
vide a badlv needed and ap
propriate new industry for the
area." He said he would try to
gather sufficient information to
enable Western Oregon indus
trialists and others to study the
possibility of constructing such
plants.
The 4th District Representa
tive has been in contact with of
ficials of the National Associa
tion of Home Builders in con
nection with some of the prob
lems involved in the national
housing shortage and the criti
cal lumber market situation,
McGrath told Porter that "it is
not an easy question to answer
what it would cost to set up a
plant in Western Oregon for the
purpose of prefabricating
homes."
According to Conrad "Pat'
The Family Council
Editor'! not.: The Family Council consists of a Judge, m psychiatrist,
three ciertymen, a uewbpaper editor, a women's editor and two writer!. Each
article l! a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice; It merely report! on problems that have been dealt wltli b7
reiponsible agencies and counselors.
Iris P. Our parents are too
strict.
Mrs. K.P We don't want the
tragedy repeated.
Irii P. I am nearly 17 and
my sister is 15. We both have a
terrible problem with our par
ents, who are much too strict
with us.
You see, three years ago an
older sister of ours got into
terrible trouble with a, married
man. Leona had a baby and gave
him out for adoption. She is
now living in another city and
we hardly ever see her.
Because of this, our parents
are always after us. Whatever
we do, they think we are up to
something bad. If they see us
walking home from school with
a boy, they start asking all kinds
of questions. My sister Nancy
isn't even allowed to have dates.
They have just recently allowed
me to have dates, .but I must
be in at 11:30, so nobody wants
to take me out.
Nancy and I aren't like Leona
and we want to enjoy the things
other girls do.
Mrs. K.P My husband and
have learned our lesson and
we aren't going to let the same
thing happen again.
We thought we brought our
youngsters up right, gave them
a good home and religious train
ing. But we see that isn t enough
in these crazy times. The teen
agers in our community are
wild and we don t trust one of
them from here to the corner.
Iris and Nancy are good.
obedient girls, not headstrong
the way Leona was. But we
want to keep them nice. They
should try to understand that it
is only their good we have at
heart.
Our clergyman explained to
us after the tragedy with Leona
that our fault was in not givmg
her close enough supervision.
We aren't going to be caught
in the same mistake.
The Council: Certainly these
parents have the right goal and
the right general idea about pro
tecting their younger daughters
from harm. Nevertheless, it is
possible that some modification
is required in their methods
if they want them to be as effec
tive as possible.
Close supervision is important,
but there is a distinction be
tween such supervision and nag
ging, hounding and constant,
hovering anxiety. Perhaps Ins
and Nancy have been getting a
little too much of the latter.
When the bonds are too tight,
the prisoner rebels. These par
ents may produce the very re
sults they fear by exerting too
much pressure.
"The tragedy of Leona" is
hanging like a black cloud over
these parents and their younger
daughters. It would be far bet
ter for them to try to push this
event in the background a bit.
Their attitude should be that
they expect the best of Iris and
Nancy not that they fear the
worst.
It would be advisable for these
parents to screen their daugh
ters' friends as carefully as pos
sible and to direct the girls
toward supervised social activi
ties church and school func
tions, parties at which adults
are present. Then they can al
low the girls a little more
freedom.
They should encourage them
to talk about their friends and
activities at home, but should
try to avoid suspicious prying.
They can be individualists to
some extent about the hours
they set for the girls, but should
compromise a bit for special oc
casions. The girls will appreciate their
parents' confidence in them and
will not want to disappoint
them.
(Copyright 1957,
General Features Corp.)
still douse the Seaway with cold
water miss the main point.
To the 40 million "lake peo
ple" and their neighbors in
booming Canada the Seaway is
not just a waterway. It is today
a catchword, the catalyst which
they hope will help them build
an economic colossus rivalling
the most mighty.
A generation from now it may
be impossible to say whether it
was "the Seaway" or "the ex
pressway" which lured industry
to the lakes. The point will be
that industry cameA
And industry is already com
ing The impact is already here.
With the promise of cheap, fast
transport of Labrador iron, steel
firms have plunged hundreds of
million's of dollars into Midwest
plant expansion. With power
and a waterway next door,
aluminum and automobile com
panies are pouring $125 million
into factories on the St. Law
rence at Massena, N.Y. Yester
day Massena was a sleepy sul
phur spa.
See Silver Lining
Small towns around the lakes,
their dreams of world com
merce dashed, now see a silver
lining industrial expansion.
On The Side By e. v. Durimg
(Di-tributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
willingly provokes
The fool tha'
a KOIDli
Has ma-it himself another
evil aticel.
And a new hell, to which
other torments
Arc but mere pastime.
Beaumont and Fletcher
all
Harness, executive director of
the PHMI, "it would take from
5100.000 to $400,000 to set up a
prefab plant of any real value.
For perhaps 8250,000 you might
get one which would produce
about 3,000 homes a year."
In a letter to McGrath, Por
ter said: "It seems to me, if the
transportation difficulties could
be worked out, this would be a
first-class answer to one of the
major economic problems that
face my district, namely, the fact
that we in Western Oregon get
very little, percentage-wise, of
the total man hours of produc
tion from the raw material
which we supply."
The interest in exotic foods
seemed intense. Ever since I
mentioned food shops and res
taurants offering such items as
fried bees, roasted grasshoppers,
buffaloburgers and kangaroo
tail soup. I have been beseiged
by subscribers asking for the
locale of these places. Idaho is
justly famous for its potatoes,
Main for its lobsters, Long Is
land for its duck and Cape Cod
for its oysters, but I wonder from
which section come the most
taty grasshoppers. I have heard
it is Utah. If such is the case,
one of the eateries specializing
in quaint and exotic food should
list on its menu: "Roasted Utah
Grasshopper Salad." Or "Fried
Utah Grasshoppers a la Mode."
Wager
About two months ago I bet
a friend the Brooklyn Dodgers
would never move to Los An
geles but that the Chicago Cubs
would. That is, that the Chicago
National League franchise would
be given to Los Angeles. What
do you think are my chances of
winning this wager? My friend
gave me three to one
Bright Remark
Ethel Barrymore Is said to
have observed: "A socialite in
Los Angeles is anybody who
graduated from high school."
Those reporting this apparently
rate it a witty remark. It is
merely a display of ignorance.
There are many fine old fam
ilies in Los Angeles whose an
cestors settled in California cen
turies ago.. Then social . distinc
tion is equal to that of the first
families of New England New
York or Virginia. Ethel Barry-
taore is a capable actress but
is not possessed of an unusual
sense of humor. The real wit
of her family was her father,
Maurice Barrymore.
Swimmer
You are, of course, familiar
with the details of the historic
steamboat race on the Missis
sippi from New Orleans to St.
Louis between the Natchez and
the Robert E. Lee. But do you
know about the feat of John V.
Symund. He swam, without
leaving the water, from St.
Louis, Mo., to Caruthersville in
89 hours and 48 minutes. That
was in 1940. The distance be
tween the two places is 292
miles. And those British Chan
nel swimmers and the fellows
who have swum from the Bat
tery, New York Harbor to
Coney Island have the nerve to
call themselves "long distance
swimmers."
Get It Right
The perennially popular song
titled "Casey Jones" was writ
ten by Wallace Saunders, a
friend and fellow employee of
the heroic engineer. Saunders
did not copyright the song. T.
Laurance Seibert and Eddie
Newton, two railroad men, re
vised the Saunders version in
1909 and copyrighted it. This
new version was introduced and
popularized by the Three Leigh
ton Brothers at the Ship Cafe,
Get rid of onion odor on hands
by rubbing with an unpeeled
raw potato. Then hold hands
under cold, running water.
Sleepless?
bocnuse of Acid Stomctch?
Eat 1 or 2 Turns at bedtime to
neutralize acid fast:
SHleWy
JOco
(of
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Santa Monica, Calif. The Leigh
ton Brothers also popularized
the modern version of the song
titled "Frankie and Johnnie."
Lawyers
Shakespeare's "Merchant of
Venice" was written in the 16th
century. It is said to be based
on an actual happening of the
14th century. So as the heroine
of the tale was Portia, a woman
lawyer, we must assume fem
inine legal lights have been per
mitted to practice in Europe for
from 300 to 500 years. Women
lawyers were not permitted to
appear in court in this country
until 1869. There are now about
6 000 active women lawyers in
the United States. I have often
hoped to have a chance to view
a battle of wits between a green
eyed, red-haired woman lawyer,
acting for the defense and a
blue-eyed brunette woman law
yer acting as the district attor
ney. Who do you think would
be the winner? I am inclined
to favor the blue-eyed brunette.
A very sharp type of feminity.
White House Denies
Pastor on Mission
Washington ' (ID The White
House denied Saturday that the
Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor
of President Eisenhower's
church, is traveling abroad on a
government mission.
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty said Dr. Elson
is travelling with a letter of in
troduction from Eisenhower
"and that's all."
"In no sense is he any govern
ment emissary," Haggerty said.
Elson is pastor of the Wash
ington Presbyterian church.
There had been published re
ports that he was working for
Arab-Israeli peace at the request
of the president while travelling
in those areas.
Grange Notes
POMONA GRANGE
Jackson County Pomona
Grange 27 will meet Saturday,
July 27, at 8 p.m. at Enterprise
Grange in Wimer. Refreshments
will be furnished by the host
Grange.
Mrs. Melvin Lattie,
Secretary
Roman women athletes in the
4th and 5th centuries wore gar
ments like the so-called "Bikini"
bathing suit while participating
in games. Mosaics uncovered in
an imperial villa in Sicily show
them racing, hurling a discus,
and tossing a ball.
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Increased Prosperity To Midwest Region
For industry goes to water.
Experts estimate that 80 per
cent of the traffic on the Seaway
will be "bulk" cargo iron,
grain, coal to feed the growing
industrial giant of the north-
lands. This is not very glamor
ous but it can be profitable.
In the first years there will be
less of the exotic foreign cargo
'than the lake dreamers have
prophesied. But on the drawing
boards of U.S. and Canadian in
land cities are S335 million in
port projects. Foreign trade on
the lakes is growing each year.
If a distant tomorrow is as
bright as the lakes are hell-bent
on making it. New York may
yet lose more than the baseball
Giants and Dodgers.
Tomorrow: On of the biggest
building projects of all time.
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