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At Think Hard, Now Try To Forget VENTURA COUNTY STAR-FREE PRESS EDITORIALS 2nd Sec. rage 10 Yol. 82, No. 13 Nov. 20, 1956 News Qathering When rj-i tj HC IvCtUlCr TO OXNmRD TEAM The Voter Who Paid Spoke But Him Heed V.

(By Thome L. Stoke) Once again, but a bit earlier than usual after a national election, we can see how the people are fooled. They are partly to blame, as will appear in a case study that affects the West, particularly the Pacific Northwest. In the latter section, one issue was clearly drawn, as was pointed out here right after the election, and as clearly drawn as any issue anywhere in the country. For that reason the case study is significant.

The issue was the Eisenhower administrations natural resources policy, particularly the partnership policy" oil water resources. The election constituted a referendum on that policy, and we find general agreement that the voters repudiated the Eisenhower policy. They did it in elections for the senate and for the house of representatives and for governor and state legislatures over a broad terrain including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana. What happened was a veritable revolution, and the verdict was unmistakably against the Eisenhower policy. But what do we now find? We find the new secretary of interior, Fred Seaton, calmly announcing continuation of the rejected administration policy, i 1 i the partnership scheme whereby the administration is granting special privileges to private utilities in development of our rivers, which belong to all of us.

But more than that. In a speech at Salt Lake City, Secretary Seaton said flatly thaMhe Eisenhower administration will permit no further basin-wide development of our rivers, after the fashion of TVA in the Southeast. Integrated development of our rivers on a basin-wide scale for irrigation, flood control, navigation and hydroelectric power first was advocated half a century ago by a Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt. It came into reality in the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman regimes in TVA and in California and in the Pacific Northwest in plans for development of the great Columbia basin, with starts at Grand Coulee in Washington and Bonneville in Oregon.

Only by basin-wide development can we conserve the land and the waters to the best advantage and most effectively and economically serve the people who live there. Only in that way, as we learned from TVA, can floods be controlled. Only in that way can the waters be best utilized for irrigation, navigation, and production of electricity. UTILITIES ARE 'PARTNERS' It is only practical, common sense, and businesslike. Engineers all agree to that.

Only public development can do it cheaply, for profit is no motive. The only criterion is service to the people of resources which they own. Utilities fought basin-wide development. Under the Eisenhower administration they have been readmitted and are being made partners, as they are called. They are being given valuable power sites in the public domain to exploit for their own profit, picking them here and there at favored spots without any consideration to the (An open letter to the Oxnard high school football players of 1954 55-56: In a recent issue of The Star-Free Press you probably read a garbled transmission of mine to Chuck Thomas.

Garbled as it was, in no sense did it say or infer that you, the Oxnard players of 1954 55 56, were multiple Don Newcombes especially, it did not question your intestinal fortitude. The comparison to Don New-rombe, who is a topflight pitcher, was and is a figment of Mr. Thomas imagination. I did infer that Jack Smith has a habit of outcoaching your mentor, Jim Buchanan. That Mr.

Buchanan has consistently brought you up to the Big Game" minus a scoring play. Having seen your offense once is like unto having viewed an antique shop nothing new. In fact, the old stuff is not even dusted off so that it might possibly have some modern appeal. In my opinion, 1954 and 55 saw superior natural talent lose to superior equipped talent. Jack Smith provided better tools (coaching) than did Jim Buchanan.

Consequently the Cougars got the job done a Ventura victory. Bill Monk, no doubt is a good football player, but not so good that a shot into the line can be telegraphed and not be stopped by a heavier line plus the line backers. I respect Bill but he has a long way to go before they speak of him in the same breath as Nagurski or Thorpe as a line plunger. My most humble apology if any of you feel I accused you of folding up." You did the best you could with what you had to work with. Unfortunately it was inadequate.

Of course, I mean the tools given you from the antique shop. BILL EVERETT 1043 Arrowhead Ave. San Bernardino, Calif. THE MESS WE'RE IN Editor, The Star-Free Press: First, Id like to thank Mrs. K.

for the kindly comments about my letter form. 1 lay no claim to writing ability as I have had little training along that line. I write as my heart dictates. I resent her statement that my resentments are unhealthy." Since when has it become unhealthy to resent arrogance, hypocrisy, and just plain stuffed-shirtism? (If there is such a word.) Rather, 1 think it is unhealthy that there was so much of those unlovely un-American things evident in the late campaign. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear on lety.

I am not against piety as such, of course. Maybe I should have used the word pietism instead. (I just discovered that one this morning when I looked up iiety" in the dictionary.) To save you the trouble, it means affected or exaggerated devotion. That is what lam agin, not real, true piety. Mrs.

Kelly is fortunate. She has two fine sons. I am in the unhappy position of having had two, but with only one left. I lost my younger son, in training for Korea. He was 19 and my pride and joy, but that did not in any sense change my ideas about the rightness of Korea.

As I sat at breakfast this morning, unable to swallow food with the tragic news of Hungary coming over the radio, I fell to analyzing the two party stand on world affairs. I came up with this opinion, which is purely personal, and therefore of small importance no doubt, except to me. it seems that every bit of news I have heard out of or about Hungary has had in it an implied note of disappointment that the west, and especially the U. has been so impotent, or unwilling or slow, to take any account of their tragic plight! Why doesnt someone do something! That is the way it sounds to me. Before it is too late" but now it is too late, their heroic efforts were unable to withstand the Russian armed might.

Perhaps nothing could have been done. Perhaps Russian armed might" together with the H-bomb have made cowards of us all! But the point I wish to make is that the Democratic party when in power has shown more concern for the hungry and oppressed around the world than has been shown by the opposition party. Instead of being labeled the war party, why have they not been given credit for their many humanitarian movements, all of them aimed at alleviating tensions and so promoting peace. Beginning with Woodrow Wilsons heart and health-breaking efforts to establish The League of Nations, the Democrats have a long list of admirable accomplishments to their credit. Such as: The United Nations, The Marshall plan" to feed the hungry after the w-ar; Trumans Point Four to give technical assistance in backward countries, The Fullbright to promote understanding (Continued on Sec.

2, Page 8) Officialdom Controls THE RIGHT of the people to know how their own public affairs are being administered is an ever-present issue these days in many foreign lands, in Washington also, to some extent and occasionally even in Ventura county. It is a genuine problem in India. An excellent new book on that country, The Pitiful and the Proud, by Carl T. Rowan, an American newspaperman and a Negro, gives a forceful illustration of the peril to freedom that can creep in when officialdom begins laying down rules for press coverage. Rowan in his travels through India went to visit the Hyderabad legislative assembly.

lie promptly learned that no newsman could enter the press section without a pass. When he received his, he read the rules printed on the back. These rules, he writes, established that admission to the press gallery would be only by pass issued on orders by the speaker. They required that a pass holder guarantee a fair and accurate report of the proceedings. Every pass holder must provide the assembly office with two copies of publications in which he has an assembly report.

No reporter may publish questions disallowed by the speaker, questions before they have been answered in the assembly, questions without their answers, motions or bills before they have been admitted by the' speaker, the budget or any of its contents before it has been presented to the assemby, or any matter which is not intended for the public. Any matter not included in these rules shall be regulated by the speaker who may withdraw any pass at any time without assigning any reason. Star-Free Press readers can judge for themselves how much reliance they would place in newspaper reports obtained under such conditions. Rowans account makes clear that it works badly in Hyderabad. American newspapers worth their salt continually combat efforts of every sort, no matter how sly or seemingly minor, by office-holders to circumscribe information to which the public is entitled.

We are happy to report that most Americans understand why, and support such resistance The new congret will show that there Is difference betwen the two eld parties one will organize the house and senate and the other won't San Francisco News. Let the People Decide THERE seems to be a possibility that Californians in 1958 may vote on a proposition to abolish capital punishment, perhaps for a five-year trial period. In a legislative hearing last eek, a strong case for doing away with legal executions was made by a blue ribbon panel of witnesses. One of these, Attorney General Pat Brown, expressed the flat opinion that capital punishment does not serve to deter the crimes for which it is imposed, that life imprisonment without parole would be a far greater deterrent. He recommended a five-year moratorium on capital punishment to be accompanied by a careful study of the results.

Various other arguments against capital punishment, previously advanced, were ably presented. Only one witness opposed abolishing the extreme punishment. This was Thomas C. Lynch, San Francisco district attorney, who appears to have based his stand principally on the ground that he believes the public demands the death penally in certain cases. He added: Perhaps it is a matter that should be determined by the people of California rather than by their representatives.

We are inclined to think there is merit in this idea. While such a ballot measure might be unprecedented, there seems no reason hy the people could not determine the issue as well as could the legislature, and perhaps in an atmosphere of freer discussion than Sacramento generally provides. It is a question understandable to the citizenry, one in which they long have been keenly interested. It revolves around a profound human problem, one in which every mature person feels some sense of personal responsibility. The fellow th next desk says he'll never retirt.

Just one day home with a cold watching daytime TV, convinced him. Denver Post. Tense, Anxious Waiting THE British-French attack on the Suez canal zone and its inconclusive outcome has left nothing but confusion and damage in the Middle East and in Europe as well. But what would be the present situation if such a stroke had not been attempted? Nobody, of course, can say. However, Marquis Childs reports from London that the official view from Eden is that the Arab countries would have fallen one by one to communism and that Israel would have been finally destroyed by an Egyptian attack, sparked by Soviet volunteers and technicians; that such an attack was in advanced preparation.

He adds that: The present is a time of tense, anxious waiting. Washington and London are playing a waiting game, with London prayerfully hoping that overtures for mending all of the breaks of the past three weeks will come from America. It certainly is a crisis that calls for constructive American action. As Childs comments, The waiting game looks not merely precarious but downright foolhardy. Adlal Stevenson may dedicate a volume of his campaign tpeeches: "To Joe Smith the stinker." Minneapolis Tribune.

Do You Recall These Days? 1 FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO W. T. Steele, the "village blacksmith" of Satico.v, was a caller Mr. Steele says the thing about which the citizens in that locality feel the most concern now is the completion of the Saticoy bridge over the sometimes raging Santa Clara river. Work is practically suspended, awaiting the steel supplies now anxiously looked for every day.

THIRTY YEARS AGO Dea Griffith, of Boles Griffith, Hudson-Essex dealers, is presenting for the first time in Ventura, the new four-door Essex Six sedan, at the companys showrooms on lower Main street. The car has many new features and every convenience a modern motor car should have. It is declared the smartest Essex ever turned out. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Topped by the Thanksgiving bird, enough food for the next 10 days went out to one of Venturas needy families from each of the Junior high schools homerooms today to climax more than two weeks preparation in the annual holiday project. FIVE YEARS AGO Five high-ranking Japanese government officials will arrive in Santa Paula Monday afternoon to study and observe for a week L.S.

democracy at work on a small city level. City Administrator George Aissa told the city council last night that the group will visit each city department and watch how an American city is admin- proper development of our rivers to conserve them and our land. They are tearing up the overall plan for the Columbia prepared by the U.S. army engineers. And for this we will pay now and far into the future in inadequate protection from floods and in failure to utilize the waters for the public interest.

As wa 6aid earlier, the voters are partly to blame. They apparently thought they were doing enough when they defeated candidates in local races and for congress who were for the Eisenhower policy. Then they turned around, many of them, and voted for the president who is the director of over-all policy, and is responsible for the policy. The president told them plainly enough, in speeches at Portland and Seattle in the campaign, and now Secretary Seaton, who cannot be reached by the voters, is proceeding as before, just as if the voters had never uprooted supporters of the administration policy. This they did by wholesale and they spoke on the very issue that Secretary Seaton now raises basin-wide development.

HELLS CANYON SITE Whether the Columbia shall be developed basin-wide has been at issue in numerous projects in its basin, most spectacularly at Hells canyon on the Snake river, a tributary of the Columbia, along the Idaho-Ore-gon border. This biggest undeveloped power site in our country was put into the public domain 50 years ago by President Theodore Roosevelt to keep it out of the hands of private exploiters. They now have it, thanks to former Secretary Douglas McKay, who favored development by the Idaho Power company, an Augusta (Me.) corporation which now has a license from the federal power commission. Development will be on a piecemeal basis, without utilizing the full potentials. Senator Wayne More tried to get through the senate last session the Morse-Pfost bill, which would have set aside the FPC license and provided for public development by one high dam that would have realized the full potentials.

He failed when the White House began to pull wires and lined up Republican senators against it. Senator Wayne Morse tried to fight to the people. He won there, defeating former Secretary McKay on that issue in Oregon on November 6, just as Senator Warren G. Magnuson, who fought by Senator Morsess side on Hells canyon, beat Governor Arthur B. Langlie in Washington.

The latter is an Eisenhower partnership policy supporter who was drafted to run for the senate by the president, as was Secretary McKay. A Republican senator in Idaho who lined up votes against the Morse-Pfost bill, Senator Herman Welker, was defeated for re-election by the young Democrat, Frank Church, and Mrs. Gracie Pfost won reelection in Idaho to the house. Douglas McKay was beaten but Fred Seaton is here to carry on for him, just as if the voters of the Pacific Northwest had never said a word. (Copyright.

1956, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) anti-Stalinists anti-Stalinists I Inc.) for the defeat of a Hoover commission plan submitted by President Eisenhower in 1956 to separate the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Anonymous Campaign Circular Reacts can, imagine what Red propagandists might do with this. However, Stanley C. Allyn, president of National Cash Register, is the kind of businessman who should be able to prove to Asians that American businessmen can have sympathy and understanding.

For Allyn has a unique record of creating goodwill in various parts of the world. His company employs 18.000 people in 94 countries, uses native managers to run its branches, reinvests its money locally. Allyn travels continually, publishes costly illustrated brochures for his American employes explaining the problems of the countries he has visited, their history and customs. Allyns policies have paid off handsomely for National Cash Register. But they havent been aimed solely at profits.

Allyn is equally interested in Americas global responsibilities, believes business has a job to do in winning friends abroad. Note Eisenhowers choice of Allyn will also help show some of the right-wing critics of UNESCO that it is not a left-wing organization but is dedicated to combatting communism through the exchange of cultural and educational information in parts of the world where we need friends. EXPENSIVE FERRYING It may help explain why the defense budget is so high when you learn that the defense department just threw away of the taxpayers money in order to swing a small charter flight to a bigger airline. The Pentagon had asked for bids to fly 65 military passengers from Macon, to Lack-land air force base, on Nov. 2.

Lowest bid was submitted by Trans American airlines, a small line owned by a group of veterans in California. Trans American offered to make the flight for $1,561.70. The Air Transport association, representing the big lines, bid $3,713.50. As a result, the contract was awarded to little Trans American. Three days before the flight, however, the Pentagon canceled the deal and accepted the higher $3,713.50 bid.

It came from Delta airlines. Explanation was that the transportation officer in Macon had already paid Delta for the flight. Trans American protested that, after being awarded the bid, it had ferried an empty plane cross-country to prepare for the light. After some dickering, the Pentagon agreed to pay Trans American a $1,342.70 ferrying charge. Meanwhile, Delta airlines flew the 65 passengers from Georgia to Texas for $3,713.50.

In other words, the Pentagon put out a total of $5,056.20 for a flight it could have chartered for $1,561.70 a loss to the taxpayers of $3,494.50. Note Thanks to a loophole in the regulations, any one of the 8.000 transportation officers scattered around the country can throw military business to his friends. The regulations require only that public bids be taken on all movements of 15 persons or more. All the transportation officers have to do is break down the movement into groups of 14 or less. THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON More and more, the American public is proving that religious bigotry doesnt pay.

Probably this was best demonstrated in Colorado where in the last election an anti-Catholic leaflet may well have tipped the scales in favor of the Democrats, which in turn elected a Democratic senate. Protestant as well as Catholic voters resented the leaflet. Prior to Nov. 6, few people dreamed Colorado would go Democratic. Ike's personal friend, ex-Gov.

Dan Thornton, was running for the senate. The Democrats had been split wide open. Ex-Congressman John Carroll, Thorntons opponent, had been defeated twice before. Carroll bears the same name as the first American Catholic archbishop, the Most Rev. John Carroll, and is married to a Catholic.

Carroll himself is not a Catholic. But during the campaign, leaflets were mailed from near Gunnison, listing nine Protestant candidates who believe in and will support separation of church and state and will not accept orders or directives from any foreign totali-trian authority. Carrolls name was not on the list of Frotestant candidates, and the wording of the leaflets was such as to be aimed 'inferentially against him, as well as against Stephen L. R. McNichols, candidate for governor, Albert T.

Franz and Edward C. Day, candidates for the supreme court, all Catholics and all Democrats. The circular was unsigned, but was traced to Clarence M. Stafford, a Republican precinct committeeman who heads the Stafford Printing Co. He was investigated by U.

S. attorney Donald E. Kelley, Republican, and an information was filed against him just before the election for putting anonymous political literature in the mails. The leaflet caused such resentment among voters of various religious faiths that not only Carroll, but McNicholas, Franz, and Day were elected. UNLIKE FATHER Part of the Democratic victory in Colorado was due to Sam Clammer, Washington attorney whose father was longtime Republican national committeeman.

When young Clam-mer, a Democrat, went to his old home at Fort Collins, to start persuading Democratic factions to cooperate, his GOP father asked him: What are you doing out here?" You wont like it much when I tell you, confessed his son. I'm out to see that the Democrats get elected. His father was tolerant. Note Stafford has now plead- THROWING PEANUTS Three small boys were brought before the judge for questioning. The first said that his offense was throwing peanuts in the lake.

The second little boy said that he was also guilty of throwing peanuts in the lake. The third little boy said, I'm Peanuts. The ed not guilty to three counts in connection with the anonymous leaflet, and awaits trial. GOODWILL BUSINESSMAN On the surface it might appear stupid for Eisenhower to appoint a cash-register manufacturer to represent the U. S.

A. at the New Delhi UNESCO conference, a cultural organization. Nothing typifies hard-fisted American materialism more than the cash register, and you Plan Bigger Bank Lobby (From Congressional Quarterly) Bankers, concerned over competition given them by savings and loan associations, plan a step-up in their lobbying activities next year. Chief spokesman for U. S.

bankers, the American Bankers representing 98 percent of U.S. banks, last month told its members it would expand its legislative activities. Already it has hired George J. Kelly, experienced former public relations director for the American Legion, to head a similar activity of its association. A second addition, Charles R.

McNeill, currently assistant general counsel for the treasury department, will become assistant general counsel of the bankers before congress convenes in January. When Chairman Harold J. Marshall of the ABAs public relations council told the 'ABA national convention that regular banks in 1936 held less than 20 percent of U.S. savings compared to the 50 percent they held in 1930, he gave the chief reason for ABAs expanded lobbying plans. Discussing the competition of savings and loan associations, Gaylor A.

Freeman, vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, told a meeting of bankers in 1955 that bankers are neither as popular with the rank and file of the voters as are the savings and loan men, nor nearly as politically astute. Bankers, in meeting the competition of the savings and loan associations, feel their lack of political astuteness has given their competitors an advantage. Although the government regulates both regular banks and savings and loan associations, dividends paid by the associations are considered as returns to the investor. Thus these dividends generally are higher than the interest rates paid by banks to their savings account holders. Bank interest rates are set by the federal reserve board.

Also, banks are limited in the amount of money they can lend for home building to 60 percent of their capital surplus or time and savings deposits. Savings and loan associations, whose prime purpose is to advance money for home building, have no such limitation. Meanwhile, the U.S. Savings and Loan League plans to continue those policies it credits A TH FOtY REAL LONELINESS The worst loneliness in the world is created when a person chooses to walk into his little shell and closes the door behind him. Columbus, Iowa, Gazette.

Burner. PESSIMISTIC NOTE There are tames when one would like to hang the whole ha-man race and finish the farce. Mark Twain. Russia Kills Hungarians But Cant Conquer Them (By Rocoe Drummond) The news from Hungary continues to be pnspeakably tragic and inspiring. Soviet tanks are showing that while they can occupy the country by sheer weight and firepower, they cannot occupy the Hungarian people.

Such inexhaustible bravery is simply confounding the Russians. At this stage the puppet regime of Janos Kadar, who rode into Budapest on a Soviet tank, is unable to find enough pro-Soviet Hungarian Communists or pro-Soviet opportunists to form a cabinet. He is forced to negotiate with the imprisoned former revolutionary premier, Imre Nagy. Thus far he has been able to lure only six Hungarian Communists into his government. Barrett McGurn of the New York Herald Tribune, who was in Budapest during the Soviet assault, writes that in view of what the people have gone through under Soviet colonialism during the past 10 years and during the past 10 weeks, there isnt today a handful of Hungarian Communists in the whole country.

What is so unutterably tragic is that the Russians have the power to kill the Hungarians and what is inspiring is that the Russians do not have the power to conquer them or, as it now appears, even to govern them by force. WHERE SOVIET IS HURT The evidence now is That the Soviets will have to rest their control of Hungary on Quisling regime which will never have strength in its own right; That Hungary will be a contin uous source of economic and political drain on the Soviet Union; That this bald exposure of what Soviet colonialsm really means is further weakening the Communist parties in the west and Communist-sponsored popular front movements. The latest local elections in Italy show a sharp falling off of the Comunist party vote. The British Communist party is splitting and two of its top leaders have quit. TITO SPEAKS OUT And, perhaps most important of all, Marshal Tito is publicly and bitterly denouncing Stalinists and Stalinist policies, inside and outside the Soviet Union, is coldly asserting that the Soviet leaders have defective views toward Poland, Hungary and other countries, is denouncing Moscows use of force in Hungary as a fatal error.

Marshal Tito stresses the fact that it was Soviet party boss Nikita Khrushchev not Tito who initiated the efforts to patch up the Stalin breach with Yugoslavia. Tito let it drop that at his recent secret conference with Khrushchev in the Crimea the split inside the Kremlin between the Stalinists and came into the open. Obviously there are some who, like Tito, think that the will win out in Moscow, but the mood of many western diplomats in Moscow is, know, exceedingly anxious, very dim. The view in these quarters is that there is greater risk today than for a long time that the Kremlin might blunder into war. (Copyright.

1956. New York Herald Tribune, I.