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Western News
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EDITORIAL
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In a letter recently received by
the editor of The Western News
from Senator Zales N. Ecton, the
senator write* in part;
. . . .. . . .
I refer to the controversy wtveh.
has been raging about the site of a
the Atomic Energy Commission.
/ou know the general story. The
raulti-million dollar plant was
rather definitely scheduled for Fort
Peck until late last fall when it
was suddenly decided to place it
at Arco, Idaho. Montana
-were kidded along and They
were the victi/rs cf the hidden ba.»
pky
I shall not go into details. Mon
tana leaders who hurried to Wash
melon were bewildered, to put it
mildly. Since then, the mystery
has cleared up considerably for all
us Senator McMahon of Con
necticut, chairman of the Joint Com
mit lee on Atomic Energy, gave
Montana a chance to present its
case tor Fort Peck. The hearing
was continued until this week when
representatives of the engineering
firm which recorr mended Arco
v/ere called to testify. Their, rec
ommendation was submitted follow
mg a study which consumed more
than one dato at the site and on
which no more than a month w-as
required to write the report. The
Committee was sympathetic, but
Senator McMahon made it plain at
the outset that the Committee had
no real authority over the Atomic
Energy Compiission. The man who
actually rum the Commission is
David E. Lilienthal, who was once
the manager of the Tennessee Val
ley Authority.
Some of us suspected the truth
from the beginning. We believed
that the relative merits of Fort
Peck and Arco had very little to
do with it. ! am convinced that
Fort Peck was sidetracked because
of the ascendency of those in the
Truman Administration who are de
termined to bring all the electric
power resource* of the United
States under the control of Auth
orities.
The Idaho site will place the
atomic reactor plant within the
realm of the Bonneville power sys
tem.
crease the power shortage on the
Columbia drainage outide of Mon
tana—and it would be just one more
argument for a Columbia Valley
This might conceivably in
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NOW
The present is more important
than the past or the future, because
it is the only time in which we
Yesterday, as some
can be active. ® ■ ■ I
one has put it, is like a cancelled
check; tomorrow is like a promis
notc; but today is like ready
sory
cash.
Life passes with startling speed.
The years come and go quickly. And
must recognize life as a gift
from God, to be spent wisely and
be lived worthily in the present.
"Behold, now is the acceptable time;
behold, now is the day of salva
that's the Scriptural admoni
men
to
tion
nation of which all men must be
come increasingly conscious.
How rarely we come to grips with
ourselves in the present! We quar
rel enough with ourselves, but us
ually at a distance. Our regrets
apply to our actions of the past. We
become disgusted with ourselves,
not for what we are doing, but for
what we have done. When we ex
perience genuine sorrow for what
we are doing, we stop doing it.
We give orders to ourselves for
the future. We make splendid reso
lutions—for
we will certainly break the habits
that are muddying our life, dis
turbing our happiness, killing our
soul. We will be better Christians
—someday. Life moves on. and we
easily become, not better, but morel
like ourselves.
If we do a little more regretting
in the present and if we confine
more of our resolutions to today,
with the help of God, our life will
improve. It is when we make reso
lutions for the rest of our life that
we become discouraged and easily
say, "What's the use!" It is when
we make our peace with God.
through Christ, today that we find
our life worth living.—ST. JOHN
CHURCH.
tomorrow. Someday
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LUTHERAN
j Authority.
j bills are pending in Congress now.
lit ss not called an Authority—it
■called an "Administration. But.
j would be another of those federal
s corporations —and let's not forget
S that rule through government cor
! derations is one of the elements
Fascism.
One of the main reasons ad
vanted for selecting Arco over Fort
j Peck was more and cheaper power
1 ^ i
: going to get this power in view
of the supposed shortage, and
I w ^ iat price At the hearing this
week I was able to get one of the
! engineers to tell me that the Bur
: eau of Reclamation had quoted
,3^ mill rate, or 2 mulls less than
, power would be available at Port
I Peck.
i Does this mean that utilization
j the power resources on the Mis
souri drainage :n Montana is being
j discouraged by the Department
ilhe Interior? •
Three identical CVA
Despite the assurances of some
authorities that Hungry Horse pow
er / r J nî . Montana will not
I D ,or . one *»» no j so sure
of that - Be it remembered that not
"•»*. m «' ns , a «<L plans were made
to raise the level of Flathead Laxe
^ provice more storage for down
stream generators. That it was the
ünJ ted resistance of the people of
Montana that stvrried the flood mg -
OU f process. That as a result Hun-
gry Horse war authorized and is
now under construction and will be
connected with the Bonneville grid
jr V5 tem, We have been told that
Bonneville doesn't expect to sup-
pjy power to Arco. Maybe it won't
come from the Bonneville Dam—
but just where is it coming from?
It is no secret in Washington that
Secretary of The Interior Krug and
*omc of his key men are unsym
Path etic to the Missouri River Ba
sin development plan which has
teen adopted by Congress. There j
is ample evidence that the present
policy definitely favors Valley-*
Authority programs. !
So, the controversy about the site
for the atomic reactor plant is not
what it seems to be on the surface.
The decision was based, not on the
merits of the rival sites, but on a
policy seek-ng to bring all the na
tural resources of a great region
under the control of a Fascist gov-1
ernment corporation. ;
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS !
An article in the April 15 issue,
of U. S. News & World Report said:
"President Truman, looking over !
the state of his 'Fair Deal' is be
ginning to wonder if the 1948 elec
tion really meant what he thought
it did. Freshmen members of Con
gress are wondering, too. They
came to Washington thinking they
were to be a part of a new crusade,
But the President has been stopped
* n his tracks and is having to re
survey the field." Since that w-as
written, there have been new
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JUNE 19
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Rurally hold the power when it
rorr.es to electing a President. But
Presidents can't pass laws. AnJ
Congress, which does pass the laws,
dominated by men from small
towns and rural areas." as U S.
News puts it. That is also true cf
tne majority of state legislatures
The House of Representatives has j
4"5 member- of whom 276 rep-e
sent districts that are rural in na
ture, as against 159 from urban cor.
stituencies. In the Senate, the di- 1
vision cannot be judged so exactly,!
but when it comes to votes on con-!
Itroversial measures, rural power
makes itself felt with comparable
.effectiveness.
This situation also explains why
Mr. Truman has so much trouble!
in attempting to control the mem-j
hers of his own party, much less |
the republican minority. According
to the U* S. News breakdown, 144
of the 263 House Democrats "reflect
the thinking of rural districts." Up
to 250 Republicans go along with
this group. Inasmuch as 218 votes
constitute a majority in the House,
it can be easily seen that the rural
minded members have a wide edge,
To quote the News again, "The net
cleavages between him and Con-1
gress, it is clear that he has little
chance of getting more than a small
part of his ambitious program ap
proved, and the Administration has
been forced to try a senes of strata
gems in an attempt to assert its
authority.
BBpMMW
What is the reason for this, ml
view of the supposed "mandate" Mr.
Truman was given last November'
About 59 per cent of the population
lives in cities, and so these people
j his honeymoon with Congress wasn't
as short-lived as Mr. Truman's, but
it wore itself out in much the same
j way. Onlv the coming of the war
ln thevtow ofm^iv prevented
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j does not fit the mood of both rural
! and urban members."
Thus, the real power in the Amer
• man government literally lies in the
grass-roots. It is vested in lawmak
ers who. as a general rule, are wary
of extremes—who believe a middle
j cf-the-road course is best and are
not apt to be stampeded by lh** re
; 5 ulis of a Presidential election. Even
[Mr. Roosevelt found this to be
so
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KOOTENAI VALLEY GRANGE
MEETS JUNE 3
The regular meeting of the Koo
tenai Valley Grange met at the
home of J. F. Bowen June 3 with
Master Grambauer in the chair. Re
ports of the various committees
were received including one of the
Fire Area Control. The Grange is
sponsoring one Youth to go to
i "Youth Camp" at Rollins on Flat
bead Lake July 7, 8, and 9. Who
wants to go?
The Pomona Grange meets Sun
day, June 12 at Cabinet Grange
Hall south of Troy. There will be
a picnic first with ice cream fur
nished by the- visiting Granges.
Don't forget.
Two new members were given
the 3rd and 4th degree by Brother
Shelden.
Grange concluded with a lovely
lunch provided by Sisiter Julia A.
Beebe.—Reporter._
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