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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1938)
F R ID A Y , J U N E 24, 1938 T H E B O N N E V IL L E D A M C H R O N IC L E TW O KLOSE Wa-Wa By J<*e E. Thonilson (Published by arrangement with The Dalles Optimist) (Being newsy, gossipy items and comment thereon, seen the past week in the newspapers all the way from the Cascades to the Rockies. “ Klose Wa-Wa” is Chinook for gossip, con fab or chatter.) ♦ One cannot study the past history of the Columbia River, couple it up with the tremendous development ac tivities at Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams the past few years, take a squint into the future, and not grow superlatively enthusiastic. » And please pardon the writer of this country newspaper column if he becomes enthused—maybe beyond the bounds of discretion—and delves a bit into history, old and new, com ments on the present and pictures what he sees as he gazes into the crystal ball. He’ ll do a kind of “ This and That,” like Art Kirkham on KOIN every morning. ♦ And right now let us express grat ification that Pacific Northwest men will, on July 9, when the S. S. Char les L. Wheeler’s cord is pulled by Captain Arthur H. Riggs, the young est old pilot in the world, and the gates of Bonneville ship lock will be first opened to pass commerce be tween the Inland Empire and world marts, will be at the mikes. Stanley Church and Art Kirkham know their Pacific Northwest. They will exude enthusiasm over the air that will cause the nation’s radio listeners everywhere to catch it and want to know some more about the scenic land, the land where life can be lived to its fullest, the fertile land of bus sources of the Columbia river— iness and agricultural opportunity, perhaps, the modem business mind which they are describing. will better understand it if we say ♦ “ cashing in,” has, of course been To appreciate properly the history in the hands of men. Now, we do not of the Columbia River, one must go want to get embroiled in politics. back to ancient days and study that We will say this, that here in the of the Tigris and the Nile. You’ll find Pacific northwest, whether a man that man’s cultural, industrial and be a republican, a democrat, as so commercial development has been cialist, a communist or a whatnot, brought to the acme of exemplifica he ought to be sincerely thankful tion along great inland river water that the White House has been ac- ways, flowing down into some sea. cupied the past several years by one The Columbia is the last great water who has evidenced a comprehension way in a temperate zone to feel the of the resources of the Columbia creative touch of man's genius. This river. We may not agree with his rich, beautiful Cinderella of world details or methods o f accomplishment. rivers will receive her garb of de Franklin D. Roosevelt deserves the velopment in an era that has brought sincere appreciation of men and forth man-made miracles, the crea women of the Columbia river region, tures of scientific engineering, the as well as the nation; and we do not researcher in chemistry and electric wish to minimize in any degree the ity. The Columbia will, if we may be debt we owe to scores of energetic permitted to use such a metaphor, be public officials and private citizens in the hands of a modiste, with pins who have worked and spent their and needles, rich braids and lustrous money in these days of financial and cloth of such marvel that the mere social stress as they waged cam dreaming of them in a former age paigns to bring to materialization would have been a symptom of in Columbia river development. sanity. ♦ lisher of the Dufur Dispatch and now a member of the mechanical staff of the Cordova. Alaska, Daily News. Jimmy Nelson, as his news- found his purse emptied even of pennies when he paid the c. o. d. charges on shipments of paper for that little sheet of zealotry, devoted exclusively to Columbia river devel opment at a time when it was not understood and was unpopular. That little paper was mailed each week to Franklin D. Roosevelt, then gov ernor of New York, and the day be fore he left on his campaign swing over the Pacific northwest he wrote the Columbia Valley Commerce from the • executive mansion in Albany, paper and schoolboy friends of the Oregon country know him, caught the vision of Columbia River devel opment away back in 1932. He be came associated in publication of a little newspaper, which was issued weekly, called The Columbia Valley Commerce. Many thought him a little daffy, when he worked all night at his linotype machine and acknowledging receipt of The Col umbia Valley Commerce and expres- (Continued on Page Seven) ♦ Right here we want to comment on something that we believe worthy of mention. An invitation to the Mid Columbia - Bonneville Seaway celebration of July 9, has been sent to James A. Nelson, former pub- How new, from a historical stand point is the Columbia ! Just think ! Robert Gray, that bold Yankee cap tain, the Stars and Stripes displayed on his staunch little Columbia, only discovered the Columbia in May, 1792. It was only three-quarters of a century ago when she was first becoming known as an artery of commerce, as necessity, the mother of invention, gave birth to the little sternwheel steamboats, to ply be tween Portland and The Dalles and from the latter point on up to Lewis ton, Ida., and by their earnings set the foundations of the fortunes of I Alw ays W ear Í .I F E G A R D ” some of Portland’s old families. Says Georgia Coleman o,ïtmg ck*mp*nt And yet the Columbia river is old as time itself. The mighty forces v— TZ of the elements, heat, ice, erosion, for rrv ■ millions and millions of years were at work building one of the greatest regions of the globe, that eventually man might find it and apply thereto his genius. During the past five years we have been hearihg many men, the brass hat and stuffed shirt In f la te s It s o îf In O n e S eco n d p 'cu o u s A s Sm all W ith Sim ple Bend o f Belt Balt W hen Not In U s* type, telling how it has been they who gave us Bonneville dam; how it was they who produced Grand L1FEGARD attaches inconspic Coulee; how it was they who brought uously to swimming suit. Inflates about an initiation of Umatilla Rap ids. The man who really compre instantly by a bend of belt. Used hends the greatness of the Columbia as official lifeguard equipment by river watershead and its potential City of Santa Monica. worth, will be most humble and $1000 Lloyds of London Insur and silent. He will behold that it ance policy issued with every LIFE- is the work of nature and he will GARD, through N . W. Aronson feel utterly insignifeant—at least, Co., surplus line broker. Details ought to—as he thanks that Great inside carton. Providence, which has directed those forces of nature. 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