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16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, April 20, 193 Worst Scandal in Washington Not Expected To Be Probed By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribuno Washington Correspondent Washington - The worst scandal in Washington this season is one that you can safely bet will never be the subject of a c a ngressional wii investigation. 1 It involves the expendi ture of mil lions of d o 1 lars for con struction of a fancy new of f ice building Robt Smith i o r senators. It is filled with gadgets, fix tures and ornaments - all of them expensive - that either don't work as intended or could have been left out en tirely. Senators needed a new building. The old building was too crowded for the 96 w. " senators of recent years, and the four new senators from Alaska and Hawaii simply highlight the problem. They were crowded because as their workload rises with the growth in population and the number of people each repre sents, senators had to employ more office helpers. They even got to the point where they were subdividing office suites like a tenament to crowd everyone in. The new Senate office building cost something over $25 million. It is made of 19 varieties of marble. Commit tee rooms are paneled in a va riety of woods. The style of the architecture is a question mark. Compared to the clas sic beauty of the Supreme court building a block down the street, it looks like the Washington headquarters of some brassy new industrial firm. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins The Life Cycle Of the Potter Wasp Attached to a flexible, sway ing branch of a roadside weed was a small jug-like vase- It resembled an earthen vessel with a slightly flared top, as if some Lilliputian artisan working with plastic clay and tiny clever hands, had amused Itself by shaping a diminu tive water-jug, and not know ing what to do with it had attached it to a weed stem. Out of the small hole at the top of the jug crawled a brilliantly colored yellow and black wasp. It was she who had constructed this vase-like nest in which she later would lay her egg. "Potter" wasp he is called, or "mason" wasp because she mixes wet earth with the saliva of her mouth until it is the consist ency of thin concrete. Then with feet, legs and head, she anolds and shapes a small, aund, conical-shaped water With the "potter" wasp, awajsonry is an accomplished sfit. Unconscious of it herself, $$e incorporates in the mix JMie water proofing material Sat makes the nest imperi ls! to water during the time tie egg is hatched and the new baby wasp is gaining the necessary strength to escape from its cement-like nursery. Other Work 4 The mother wasp has other work besides the construction of the jug-like nest, and the laying of the egg. Victim of instinct, she fol lows the procedure of all her ancestors, following the or dered sequence faithfully without change; each step an ordered and necessary action. Immediately the task of nest-making is complete, she rests awhile, until something triggers the next instinctive reaction. She forgets the nec tar sipping or the lapping of A M - 3 J 1 S. water irom - a puaaie-eage She begins a hunt for small insects, usually caterpillars Peculiarly enough she knows where to find them- Locating one she springs upon it like a jungle cat. Holding the caterpillar with her feet she plunges her sting er into the first body seg ment. Th caterpillar stops its thrashing. A convulsive shudder runs the entire length of its body. Several times the venom is injected; once in each body segment until the insect is completely para-Izyed. She crushes the head a little then carries the inert body to the water-jug nest and crams it inside. Repeals Performance Several times she may re peat this performance until in stinct tells her that ample food is stored for the wasp larvae that will be 'born. She must have the utmost confi dence in the strength and the amount of anesthetic admin istered, for should the effects of the venom wear off the threshing caterpillar could kill the baby wasp. But the prey does not revive. It re mains helpless and incapable of the slightest motion. Feeling that enough food has been stored in the little water-jug the potter wasp lays her egg. She seals the open ing at the top of the cell- She has completed her life's work. She flies away. Inside the water-jug nest the baby wasp hatches. It eats the helpless caterpillars to gain the neces sary strength to grow into a wasp and escape from the earthern-jar and to repeat the process; to fashion from clay and water a vase-like jug. (Released by The Register And Tribune Syndicate, 1959) 1 " I Put yourself in this picture ... It may be easier than yon think to own that dream home. Last year almost 1,000,000 families did it through Insured Savings and Loan Associations like ours the best of all places to go for a home loan. Save with us for your down payment, too. Then your savings record will be established when yon're ready for your home loan. A committee of senators was in charge of the project, but it was under the immedi ate supervision of the man who holds the title, the Archi tect of the Capitol, but who is not in fact an architect. The Oregon senators had nothing to do with it. And they are having nothing to do with it, preferring to stay in the old building where they will have expanded suites. Sen. Wayne Morse has com plained about the uncomfort ableness of big red leather arm chairs provided in new committee rooms. He said the money was wasted. The list of other complaints is still growing. Here are some: Amplifying systems in com mittee rooms include fancy microphone - speaker cabinets on each senator's desk. They are so sensitive they pick up other noise in the room and screech so loud that Sen. John McClellan, in exasperation one day, snapped back at the speaker- cabinet: "Oh. shut up!" Senators are refusing to use them. Hands Too Heary Clocks built into committee room walls had hands that were too heavy for the mech anism to move. Lighter hands had to be substituted. And huge elaborate bronze lamps on the walls that are purely ornamental were so low that a man stood up under one and split his head open. They fixed this by sawing off the pointy knobs on the bottom of the lamps. Office doors made of beau tiful wood have ventilation louvres at the bottom instead of overhead transoms which can be closed to seal off con versation from eavesdroppers on the other side. So now sen ators are demanding that the louvres be sealed up with soundproofing material. Ramps leading to the un derground garage for senators will have to be rebuilt so that long, low autos don't drag their rear bumpers when they hit the low point. And to quiet the click of heels on rubber tile floors, all offices will now be carpeted. Two employees had slipped on the tile, land ing in hospitals. New Wall Torn Down A new subway leading from the new building to the Capi tol is under construction. A new wall placed in its path had to be torn down. Now new granite steps leading up to the Senate wing of the Capitol will have to be built to replace the old marble steps which were undermined by the subway job. These modifications, which probably won't even show up as changes or corrections in the minutes, are expected to cost another $5 million. Other than these major sna fus, senators are getting some thing pretty nice -from the sundeck on top to the gym nasium below-for our money. ON STAFF Formerly a student at Southern Oregon college, George H. Bell, new to the humanities division staff this year as an English instructor, completed his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees at the Univer sity of ( Oregon. H e served with the U. S. Navy from 1945 to 1948 and taught at Gilchrist High school in Klamath county. He is a mem- br of Phi Delta Kappa, na tional education society, and is interested in reading and tennis. Since returning t o SOC, Bell has been actively representing the college as a speaker and dramatics direc tor. He resides with his wife. Trubee, also a former SOC student, and his son, Jason, at 610 Beach st in Ashland. About one out of seven United States inhabitants en gages in fishing as a sport. FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager Phcne SP 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE Medford Airport yl'.4S&& t - ' Ml i 1 NEW G. O. P. CHAIRMAN Senator Thruston Morten (R., Ky.), is shown at the Capitol in Washington, D. 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