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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

cover in our area in the Columbis
we have power potential of "a mil
lion kilowatts. We need every BIZ
of that power. If we don't have
proper planning, if we don't have
proper development, we are not going
to be able to develop all that power.
. If we don't have proper plan
ming we are going to not only waste
a. good deal of money but we are
going to waste a great deal of that
power potential.
Hell Canyon is just one example.
The controversy in Hell's Canyon is
whether that deep, narrow canyon
WILDE damned by high dam which
would produce 100000 XIV at the site
and firm up 742,O00 additional XIV
at Bonneville and McNary, or wheth-
err the Idaho Power Company will be
licensed to build five lower dams
along the Snake, including one at
HelPs Canyon, which in all would
generate but $4,000 XIV. In addi-
ton the Hell's Canyon Dam would
provide flood control benefits all the
way to the sea, while the Idaho Pow
Ell Company's low level dams are use
less for flood control.
"REA users will recall that Idaho
Power Company, during the war, re-
fused to sell to rural co-operatives.
And it is the organization which
spent thousands of dollars to build |
spite lines to crush the co-operatives |
It refused to serve.
Idaho Power has the distinction
of being the only power company
in the United States to wreck a
rural electric cooperative once it
had gotten into operation. OF
course, the preferential treatment
for REA co-operatives is one of the
reasons the Idaho Power is fight
ing so hard to stop the HelPs Cam
yon Dam.
Another reason is that the Idaho I
overs rates for industrial power I
re substantially higher than those
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

ton is not whether we are going tt
have public power or not. We have
public power; the nation is commit
ted to that proposition. That argu
ment is over. The question now is
how we are going to most efficiently
produce electricity for the consumers
how we are going to produce enough
electricity so that we can have power
to manufacture fertilizer phosphates
in this area cheaper and better so
that farmers can afford it. The farm
ers don't want, and we are not asking
for, free fertilizer. =.
"This government of ours is found
ed upon the proposition that we have
two sovereignties, the sovereignty of
the state and the sovereignty of the
United States. The states in their
sovereign capacity have united and
given certain delegated powers to
the government of the United States.
They have retained all other powers.
This illegitimate basin Gnter-agency
commission) idea has created third
intermediate system of government
whereby certain sovereign state Off
GERS and certain bureaucratic admin
istrative federal officers control and
functions that belong
either to the federal government or
to the state. There is nothing in the !
Cons titution of the United States or
the Constitu ton of the State of Mon
tana that sanctions such an illegiti- /
nate third force in the government.
COMMISSION is PoWERLEss
con the Columbia the Inter-Agency
Commission has not been able to set
lie single major conflict 1t oper-
ties on a veto principle similar to
he one that has crippled the United
Nations. It's chief service has been
o facilitate the exchange of techni-
al information. 1t is powefless to
make decisions. D.;
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Continued from page anel
a lack of coordination and integr;
ton in their activities.
THE controversy over HelPs Can
yon Dam in Idaho has been in the
public eye recently, and let's see
what happened in that area. The
Bureau made explorations and
plans and surveys for dams down
the Snake river. The Corps made
similar surveys and plans for dams
on the Columbia. They met at
HeIPs Canyon. Both made their
surveys and recommended that the
dam be built. In that high, narrow
canyon they wanted to build the
highest dam in the world. There
were no conflicts-both agencies
worked under separate supervision
and came to the same conclusion
but that duplication of effort cost
$25O,O0O of the taxpayers money
because there was no integrated
planning body that could put one
or the other agency to work and
tell the one that was not working
to stay away from that area.
Nor do we claim that the creation
of the eva will automatically build
all the dams, all the reservoirs, all
he power plants, establish all the If
'igation projects that are needed on
he Columbia. Those projects can
,nly be established and those dams
an only be built when there is a spe-
ific congressional authorization and
specific appropriation therefor.
eve claim, however, that if Co.
Imbia Valley Administration is es-
ablished that the most important dam
ill be built first, and we claim that !
lere will be a master plan for the
rea so that we can have the proper
ind of development in the Columbia
alley. :.
''No one will have electricity at
.ss than cost in any area. The ques-
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The GTA Elevator Cut Bank acquired by ia in 1913
when the entire line Anthony and Dakota elevators
purchased GTA has consistently followed program of i'm
of this elevator until is of the most mod
elevators in the state Equipment to clean and treat seed
grain has been added scale and warehouse feed
office and bushel The elevator
of the most important units in the Great Falls GTA Line 1t is
providing its patrons with efficient marketing service
full treating and cleaning of seed grain and supplying them
with scientifically formulated feed
Lloyd Carlson the Manager Cut Bank. The Great Falls
GTA Line is managed under the direction of Danforth
Great Falls
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Evening star., 1952-03-16
Story and Photos
BY Sam Morris

happened. The airport, In
recent years, has been made
quately equipped to handle its
business. The firSt nine
months Of 1851, for example,
Evening star., 1952-03-16

surpassed the full IL months
Of 1850 in the number of
flight movements and pas
sengers accommodated.
The airport for years has
been waging a neck-and-neck
race with La Guardia and
Chicago as the No. ! air
Evening star., 1952-03-16

v7HEN the $12.5 million
w National Airport went
into full operation in 1941,
probably no one realized that.
a scant decade later, its traffic
volume would have outgrown
its facilities.
But that is exactly what has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-03
Constantine Brown:

In his report on the progress
of the Western defense forces.
Gen Eisenhower has answered
the $64 question he expects the
average American to put to him
when he returns to the United
States: Are you in favor of an
indefinite continuation of pour
ing out American money and
substance to Europe?"
Gen. Eisenhower reminded
our European friends of the
"enilghtened" efforts this coun-
try's people have made to create
a defensive barrier on the Euro
pean continent, but warned
them that lit would be fatuous
for any one to assume that the
taxpayers Of America will con-
tinue to pour money and re-
sources into Europe unless en-:
couraged by steady progress tc-
ward mutual cooperation and
full effectiveness. The
enormity Of the present threat
will never be met by half
hearted measures or by any
superficial facade. There is no
real security yet achieved in
Europe. There is only a begin
ming"
Deprived Of their inevitable
diplomatic trappings. the words
of Gen. Eisenhower can be
translated as a direct reproach
to our Allies who have been sit
ting on their launches since
1850, in spite of our great con-
tributions in manpower and
materials and plenty of cash for
their defense and economic i'm
provement. Gen. Eisenhower
placed the blame for the present
delays and hesitations directly
on the politicians, when he
stated: eft has seemed more
than once within our countries
that political factions hold
their own immediate gain
higher than the fate Of their
nations or even that of civiliza-
ton ITSELF" This was a gentle
reference to the frequently re-
current cabinet crises in France,
where ambitious political groups
overthrow the government for
purely selfish reasons. partic-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-03
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Washington welcomes Queen Juiana of Holland. We're q
little right king abdicated
Republicans failing
to retroactive.
Taft victory Gen. Eisenhower
The Ike claim voters ingates-you
trouble Of teaching them how write thing you
they're trying to sign your death
triumphs Nebraska and Wis
make the Republican
the dark horse.
Senator Keauver the Nebraska Wisconsin
cratic presidential young
do he sets early enough of making
Truman mad at him.
Harold Sassen who third Nebraska Wisconsin
primaries he'll illinois, Something
pretty soon-Harod stassen the primary system
tax former assistant Internal Commits
sioner Bolch shirts $4,000 salary.
you'd catch Boch taking the shirt off your back
after you'd working all in it.
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COT1StdT1t1e BTOWn:
Direct Reprooch to Our Allies
Eisenhower Puts Blame European Politicians in Warning
w. S. Taxpayers Are liked by ofMeosures for Defense

sive coalition, but also that he
recognizes whence this weakness
comes: the lethargy of our Allies
on the continent and the fac
tional fights within their politi-
cal body.
There was naturally a strong
optimistic note about the future
accomplishments of our Allies.
who. Gen. Eisenhower hopes,
may see their duties more
clearly henceforth. Yet consider
ing that nobody knows what is
in the minds of the Kremlin
conspirators, the tabulation of
existing forces is not particu-
larly encouraging. The IS COM
bat-ready divisions of the West.
some Of them not yet 100 per
cent equipped, are faced by ITS
Soviet and so satellite divisions.
Seventy-one of these are ar
mored units. We have increased
our airpower in Europe from
1000 miscellaneous planes to
1000, mostly modern. The en-
envy has some 10000 fighters
and bombers. with only one
third stationed in the Far East.
The 300 Soviet submarines rep
resent the most serious opposi-
ton in naval warfare. Many of
these are snorkels and could give
us serious trouble by interfer-
ing with our surface transports
in case of war. These figures
should speak for themselves to
the still somnolent Allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-03
David Lawrence:
G. O. P. Split Shown by Primaries
Democratic Party Chances of Again EIecng the President
Have Improved UNNECESSARILY Within Last Six Days

ton in foreign policy and an
ultraconservative attitude on
domestic issues. There IS no
doubt about the sincerity and
the strength of conviction of
these Republican groups, but
unfortunately for them they
have no persuasive formula to
offer as to a method of winning
the election-a method of surely
drawing enough Democrats t.
the Republican standard bearei
and platform to bring a ma
jority in November.
All this is not to say that,
if the Republicans nominate
Gen. Eisenhower, they can be
sure of victory either. For.
while the general can attract
Democratic votes on the inter-
national side and could readily
retain all the Taft Republican
strengthen these Taft voters
would certainly not switch to
the Democratic side for any
reason whatsoever-the prob
lem of getting Democratic
votes on domestic issues would
still remain for Eisenhower. If
the general is the Republican
nominee, it will be necessary
for him to make his position
on domestic issues so clear as
to attract Democrats who don't
want Trumanism or any other
form of Socialistic radicaliSm
but who, at the same time,
don't want rock-ribbed con-
servatism either.
The conclusion of this writer
as of today, based on the hap
penings of these last few days,
is that if Taft is the Republic
can nominee, Gov. Stevenson,
a non-radical liberal. could
win, and that if Gen. Eisen-
hover is the Republican nomi-
nee, he would find himself in
a close race with Gov. Steven
son and not at all certain of
winning unless the general can
define his position on domestic
issues as sufficiently progress
sive and forward-looking to
draw Democratic votes to his
side.
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NOBODY to Beat Now but Stassen
Save for New Jersey, Where Taft Tried to Withdraw,
loft and Eisenhower Won't Meet Again in Primories

read the signs as other people
read them and abandon his
unrewarding pursuit. Like the
man in the story. thrown three
times out of the saloon, he may
dust himself off and say, They
can't fool me. They don't want
me in there"
Otherwise Stassen's continued
candidacy will serve only to keep
the Taft and Eisenhower organi-
cations working in the remain
ing primaries in order to pile up
impressive totals. BY this time
Ike's friends will have convinced
themselves that he suffered no
more than a technical knockout
in Wisconsin, but they cannot
feel that way concerning the
showing Taft made in Nebraska.
Their problem Is to re-establish
the conviction that Ike is I'M
beatable and the best way of
doing that is not clear. They
may fall back on their earlier
theory that their candidate
should be on the ground and try
again to hurry him home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-03
lsOlutiOnist Holds Seat at Issue
Gen. Vaughan Spreads the Runor in Capitol CIookroon
That Truman Would Be Next Senator From Missouri

gio wouldn't leave the Yankees
to go to the bush leagues.
Mr.. Truman has also said
many times that he had more
enjoyment out of life as a Sem
ator than at any other time. He
has referred wistfully to the
companionship of the cloak
rooms in comparison with the
splendid solitude of the White
House. ....
Washington is experiencing q
great wave of good feeling to-
ward the President for his
fortnight remuneration of the
presidency Saturday night.
Whether Missouri feels the same
way to the extent of being GER
tain to elect him Senator If he
wants it remains to be seen.
Many Missourians think It
does. Others believe that more
dignified solution for the prob
lem of unemployed Presidents
is the Humphrey resolution,
which would make them ex
ofncio members of the Senate
with the right to speak but not
vote.
Senator Humphrey has spoken
up for his plan this week but
has had few echoes. Actually
the time appears propitious if
the Senate can be prodded into
action. There is one living Re-
publican ex-President soon to be
joined by Harry Truman. Poll
tics being what it is, if both
were Democrats-or Republic
cans-the move wouldn't stand
a chance.
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Senators ought to be Democrats
and. in any case, not KemS.
The situation with respect to
a Democrat to oppose Senator
Ken does not please the PreSi-
dent either. There are three
candidates, Attorney General
Taylor, the colorless choice Of
the Kansas City machine: Roger
Slaughter, the former Kansas
City Congressman purged by the
President for consistently voting
with the Dixiecrats on the House
Rules Committee, and w. Stu
art Symington. former Secre-
tary of the Air Force and more
lately RFC administrator.
Mr.. Truman regards Mr..
Taylor as a not very strong can
didate and was irked at his old
associate, Jim Pendergast, for
not consulting with Washington
before picking him. Naturally
he does not want Mr.. Slaughter.
Privately he has been heard to
dissemble mis- love for Mr.. SYM
ington; he will say publicly only
that since St. Louis has one Sem
ator, Democrat Tom Hennings,
Kansas City Democrats are en-
titled to name the other.
The President has also been
told that since entering the
Senate race Mr.. Symington has
said he is not a Fair Dealer or
any kind of a Dealer. 1t report
eddy did not amuse him.
It is fair to add that the
Vaughan project does not amuse
Mr.. Symington. He is quoted
as insisting that surely DiMag-
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David L0Wrence:

Leaving aside all wishful
thinking and personal or party
predictions, unbiased observers
will have to admit that within
the last six days the chances
of the Democrats again electing
the President of the United
States have immeasurat.y i'm
proved.
The primaries in New Hamp-
shire, Minnesota. Wisconsin and
Nebraska show conclusively that
the Republican Party is split
between liberalism and conserv-
atism on domestic issues and
between the nationalist and in
ternationalist approach on for
eign policy and that in each of
these primaries more voters on
the Republican side oppose
than favor Taft, who is con-
sidered the embodiment of the
nationalist and conservative
approach.
But Senator Taft looks as if
he is gaining in delegates. Dele
gates-not primary preferences
do the nominating. If Taft be-
comes the nominee, there is a
chance of a considerable defec-
ton of internationalist Repub-
licans from the Republican Party
to the Democratic Party in the
November election.
President Truman's with
draWal from the Democratic
race has opened up an entirely
new set Of circumstances for the
Republican voter who dislikes
both Truman and Taft. Like
wise, it causes many Demo-
Gratis in the North who haven't
liked Truman to find in Gov.
Stevenson, or some other DEM
ocrat who stands firm on the
international side, an accep-
table candidate. In 1948 and
the previous four presidential
elections, Democrats enrolled
more voters than the Republic
cans. The contest in 1852 can
be won only by converting Dem
ocratic voters to the REPUBLICAN,
side.
To put it another way, the Taft
candidacy will not pull Demo-
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Doris Fieeson:

All Of a sudden the Capitol
cloakrooms yesterday were filled
with rumors that President
Truman would be the next
United States Senator from
Missouri.
This is what comes of giving
Mai. Gen. Harry Vaughan a
White House telephone.
Nobody, but nobody. has bet
ter intentions than Mr.. Tru-
mans military aide and old
friend. Gen. Vaughan de-
cided that The Boss would be
happy to be in the Senate again
and he has frankly proposed to
other Truman friends that they
help him create an upsurge of
public demand for it to happen.
Their problem is that the
generals reliability does not
always equal his good intentions.
They therefore cannot be sure
that the President-and Mrs.
Truman-will be happy over the
Vaughan brain child.
The general has a simple
answer to this caveat. He says
that if the great public upsurge
surges up, Mr.. Truman will
want to be Senator from Mis-
souri,.
Certain known facts lend
themselves to the Vaughan prof.
ect:
The Senate seat at issue in
Missouri next fall Is held by one
of the stufier and more isola-
zionist Republicans, James KEN.
Mr.. Truman thinks Missouri
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cratic votes as much now that
Truman has withdrawn, and it
is more likely that a Taft cam
didacy will push many Repub-
lican votes over to the Demo-
cratic Stevenson, for example.
Conversely, the Taft strength
in the Republican Party is rock
ribbed. 1t will not be drawn
from the Republican Party this
Autumn no matter who the
Democratic candidate happens
to be. The Taft strength. how
ever, by itself is not enough to
win the November election. The
Republican nominee must at
tract Democrats. The argu-
ment that in 1948 the Republic
cans would have won if they
had gotten out the Republican
Stay-at-home vote is vehemently
disputed. A polling sample of
48 million is not likely to vary
in it's results even if increased
by several million voters of both
parties.
So the Democrats are in
much better shape than they
have been, and an International
minded Democrat can win now
if the Republican platform cues
nationalist and if the Demo-
cratic nominee isn't radical.
Since the Republican voters
Of Wisconsin realized full We'll
that a vote for either StaSsen or
Warren might be construed as
an anti-Taft vote and since the
combined non-Taft vote in both
Wisconsin and Nebraska far
outnumbered the Taft vote, aid
yet the Taft forces captured
most of the delegates in Wis.
consin. for example. a situation
is created which can cause con-
siderable alarm over Republican
prospects in the November cleo
ton.
The principal argument made
against Gen. Eisenhower among
Taft followers today is that he
will be a me too" candidate
embracing Humans foreign
policies. The Taft leaders have
felt all along that the country
has swung to a nationalist posi-
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ing presidential preference pri-
maries are likely to have little
meaning. They boil down to
the question of who can beat
Stassen the most, Eisenhower
or Taft. Save in New Jersey,
where Mr.. Taft has tried to
withdraw, the two principal
contenders will not meet. But
the ex-whiz kid of the G. o. P.
will serve as a punching bag
for each Of them.
In Illinois next Tuesday,
Stassen takes on Taft.
In Pennsylvania on April %
he takes on Eisenhower.
In Ohio on May 6 he has
matched himself against Taft.
In West Virginia on May Is he
again faces Taft.
In Oregon on May Is he OPP
poses Eisenhower and Warren,
but not Taft.
And, finally, oldest of all, in
California on June 3 he gees up
against Gov. Warren.
That is the schedule the am
bilious young MinneSotan has
given himself. OF course he may
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Lowell MeNett:

Senator Taft probably derives
more satisfaction from Tues
days voting in Nebraska than
he does from that in Wisconsin.
This Notwithstanding that Wis
consin gave him "a Of its 80
for-sure delegates to the Chicago
convention. On the face Of the
returns he seems to have demon
strated for the first time an
ability to hold his own with Gen.
Eisenhower in a pure popularity
: contest. The hard-running
Ohioan has been somewhat irked
by the general belief that he is
lacking in popular appeal. OF
course it will be argued that he
had the benefit of strong organ
national support. but in this re-
epect Nebraska merely reversed
the situation in New Hampshire,
where Gen. Eisenhower had that
advantage. And it will be argued
that Stassen's votes were really
Eisenhower votes. but that is not
certain. All in all, Mr.. Taft is
entitled to feel good about
Nebraska.
Wisconsin in something else.
Mr.. Stassen undoubtedly con-
tributed greatly to Taft's sue
cess by dividing the opposition
vote. There is excellent rea-
son to believe that an open
contest between Taft and Eli
senhower would have brought
a different result. AS it was
and despite Stassen's partici-
patton as an avowed claimant
Of the anti-Taft vote. Gov.
Warren ran Mr.. Taft a fairly
close race. He would not have
needed nearly all of Stassen's
10000 votes to win. AS it is
he has six Wisconsin delegates.
All the frenzied funny bust
ness Of the anti-Taft forces,
climaxed by Mr.. Stassen's last
minute proposal to give half Of
his delegates to Gen. Eisenhow-
err, probably actually helped
Mr.. Taft. It lent a touch OF
the ridiculous to the pro-Ei-
senhower campaign.
For the most part the remain,