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Boom Town
One cursory glance at the congested traffic
en Portland's "main drag" wouldn't be conclusive.
There have been crowds in Portland before, on
such occasions as big football games or the Rose
" Festival or the national - American Legion con- .
vention some years ago. Last weekend there was
football game of sorts' and it ' could have . been
' that - , ;v- -- S: "
: - But It wasn't that, you'd discover by sticking
around for parts of three days and noting that the
bigger, more popular restaurants were crowded not
Just occasionally but at most all hours, -that the
traffic was almost continuously heavy, that regular
' patrons registered at hotels but couldn't get rooms
until near midnight while strangers without reser
vations : were ' turned away; and that-a theatre
showing a picture which had been seen in Salem
three weeks ago, bad a boxoffice lineup a block
long at noon on Sunday! - '-
Yes, Portland is a boom town. Its population
has increased about 20 per cent, its activity more
than that because, people living In Salem or even
farther away are working in Portland and spending
some of their time and money there, and the
city attracts an infinitely larger number of busl
ness travelers. Y'.; v'- ' f'-h'r ':T Y"Vv
Why Portland Is a boom town, we also found ,
time to see, including that ten-day Victory ship
and the launching of another whose 35 days from
keel to launching would have been a worldwide
sensation six months ago but more of that later.
You know about it already, though getting into'
those shipyards without a helmet is normally
quite a chore and a lot of Portland's permanent
residents have been no nearer than the gate. .
Well, you know about western boom towns of
the past, from the movies if not from experience.'
There was hustle and confusion and usually some
. dirt and disorder, not to mention free-flowing
. money and lawlessness and vice.
Does Portland have all those things? This boom
town was already quite a village before the "gold
rush started; rather a staid, decorous settlement
with many churches and. a pretty fair police de
partment If boom town conditions like those of the
past have developed, you can be sure it is a pain
ful matter to the natives. ,
Reading between the lines of" some' soothing
Oregon Journal editorials, we suspected that per
manent Portlanders were in some pain,' no matter
what the cause. Getting about among' them, our
suspicions were confirmed. They were saying it
was just terrible, the crowds on the streetcars
and busses, the heavy traffic, the congestion of
additional families In old established neighbor
hoods, the inability to obtain service in stores and
. restaurants, the "standing room only" signs In fa
vorite theatres and especially, all those new. and
strange people from "elsewhere. A person didn't
dare any longer to open the door when someone
rang the bell, but must first turn on the porch
. light and see if it was a friend or a stranger;
and as for the children, one didn't dare let them
' out of the house without a dependable adult escort
It was " Just terrible-especially all those new
people with overalls and dirty faces, and the
great increase in the negro population. And as
for those 20,000 hoodlums they were- bringing in
from New York and New Jersey they were bound
to be hoodlums, which Is perhaps what New York
and New Jersey people would think If 20,000 Port-
, landers were to be shipped into their midst it was
Just too awful to think about -'rt ,
"It's a shame. There's no need of it There's
enough people here already to fill those jobs; look
at all the fdle men sitting in the park." No
thought that perhaps those people sitting in the
park were already employed workers off shift
and perhaps with no other place "to rest, or even
to sleep! .
Yes, Portland has growing pains. The old timers
don't like it especially those who can't adapt them
selves to change. Actually we didn't see any dis
order or anyone acting in unseemly fashion, and
we doubt if the incident of crime has Increased
much more than the population. Certainly most
of those strange "new people" were reputable citi
zens back where they came from. Being a stranger
too, we didn't mind them at bit Portland had
changed, but not necessarily for the worse if you
didn't mind standing up in a bus, and had a place
to lay your head at night One of the noticeable
changes had a "backward, turn backward" angle.
The penny arcades are running again. But as you
might suspect you dont get as much for a penny
as you did thirty years ago.
Willkie and the Second Front
; The attention Wendell Willkie, private citizen
though a special representative of the president
has been receiving in Europe, Africa and Asia is
one of those things that might have been fore
seen in view of his amazing rise as a national
figure within a few months In 1940. That man
has "it" 'even when he has to speak through an
Interpreter and some of his remarks, such as' the
one about Stalin having "his eye on the ball," have
to be interpreted twice. '
In Moscow, Willkie declared unequivocally that
"we can best help our heroic Russian allied by es
tablishing a second front," that "we must not fail
them" and that "next summer may be too late.
. The question arises just what is -the . score?
"Was Willkie speaking as Wendell Willkie, a forth
right individual who has been known to speak
rashly though with sincerity ere now or was he
speaking advisedly as the president's special repre
sentative? And if the latter, again what's the
score? ; -
Putting two and two together, we Incline to the
view that Willkie did speak advisedly and with
the president's advance or Udt approval. Where
ever that declaration was heard, it couldn't fail
to do our side some good and the enemy no good.
It must have bucked up the Russians, who have
been clamoring for a second front and treating
rr.slish-rpeaking persons In their midst coolly be
C3US3 there was none. It could have had no effect
in Cerrr.ony wh'erever it was permitted to - be
! I Can to increase the Invasion, jitters. A
I . : t cf the simple arithmetical sum we mentioned
a r. er.t to, is that it coincided with some other
second front gestures,' '-'-: -
Ar.i cv:n 2"et there I a question how much
1 1 L! 1 it? V,:::!iie didn't say there would be a
I f. ' ; ha r:re!y said there should be one.
, 2 v 3 c .ciurr;: cr-t to the second frost
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advocates; the liberals in- England Jumped right -on
the boat If Willkie spoke with Roosevelt ap-
proval, it could hardly have been a wholly empty
remark, for renewed clamor would in that case '
be embarrassing. --
In our opinion, it actually forecast a second front '
maybe not right a way, but long before next summer.
Thirty Five Blile limit
' Evolution, in the item of automotive speeds, fa
reversing itself. : Right now it Is back approxi
mately to the level of 1922; it may keep on re
versing until the 19 mph limit enforced in soma
" communities circa 1902 in reached.
In so far as the so-called "pleasure car" is con
cerned, this new 25-mile limit is quite proper, both ,
from the standpoint of rubber conservation and
that of gasoline conservation, which most assuredly
will be an item gas cards are universally required.
But the drop from 40 to 35 will have this effect
upon trucks, busses ' and other commercial cars;
it will reduce their speed to a point at which
more vehicles and more drivers will be required;
it will increase the demand for those already scarce
items. If it could Just be arranged without en
countering a host lie, uncomprehending publie
opinion it would be helpful to permit these ve
hicles to continue at a 40-mile clip while restrain
ing the private passenger cars to 33.
One of the things - you hear about if you get
around: The junior hostesses are getting a bang
out of the 104th division's designation as the
Timber Wolves" because it gives them a chance
to "step out with a wolf without necessarily en
countering the perils usually implied.
News Behind
the News
By PAUL MALLON I -
(Distribution by. King Features Syndic U. Inc. Eeprs
taction to who! or to part itrtctly prohibited.) ,
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 If you put two and
two together about; Myron Taylor's visit to the
Vatican, you are apt to get more than is Justified. -
Strangest thing about the ' little noticed event .'
Is' that -this emissary of. Mr. :
Roosevelt is the only man cf
the United nations who has
gone through enemy lines in
this vi r. Past precedents
against such a concession by
Mussolini (who is held up by
Hitler) are almost unanimous.
The official explanation here
is that the Vatican desired to
see Mr. Taylor. Insistence that '
he be grantedsafe conduct :
through Italy came upon Mus
solini from that source.
It seems the British, French
and other anti-axis nations
have had men already lodged on the neutral
grounds of Vatican city, since the start of the
war. There was no necessity for the extreme
measure of arranging safe passage for them.
The natural implication of this event is that
a new peace plan is in the making. But the de
tached tone assumed by Washington officials also
makes it quite plain that peace is not seriously
considered, even as a remote possibility here.
Semi-official Washington says the Vatican con
ferences concern the handling of Jewish refugees, '
now being persecuted by Laval, and ' any peace
phase of the conference must therefore be vague
and inconsequential, although the Vatican will get '
from Mr. Taylor an understanding of our war
aims.
Other small feather from that dove,, however,
can be seen floating down in European air.
A nazl general broadcast this week (their tongues
all work on strings . from Hitler's headquarters)
thajt the Russian soldier was an excellent fighting
man and implied victory over the Russian spirit
could not be expected (up to then, the nazls had
been calling their enemies savages and promised
extinction). - , V : 7V:
Also, a . Moscow newspaper : turned on British
and American statesmen this week for the first
time since our aid started. While Mr. Willkie was
cooling his heels a few days waiting to see Stalin,
this newspaper ( the red press, unlike ours, also
works on official strings) accused conservatives in
the British and American governments of desiring
to see the" communists fall, and said this Is why
the second front had been-deUyed.-';r.V":;-'rV':'-':'S
These sudden, if still feeble, wisps of news are
interesting, but appear to be more In the nature
of diplomatic sound-cues than sincere peace floaters. ,
V - No doubt exists Hitler and ; Mussolini want a
peace based on our existing unfavorable military
situation. Von Ribbentrop Is supposed to be work- "
ing on it ' . ' .
: But any separate peace by Moscow could only
mean extinction1' of the Russian communist state In .
the end (look at France.) Moscow may be drawing .
the nazis out on that subject but cannot be plan
ning suicide.
We are in the same boat as the Russians. You
cannot make peace with an enemy who challenges '
your national civilization. Peace can come for us '
only through victory or defeat
Bill Green and Phil Murray have been fraterniz
ing like two long lost cousins, but don't hold your
breath until that peace arrives either.
The peculiar makeup of the peace committee Is
causing labor wise men to lay, heavy odds that
CIO and AFL will be apart for a long time to
come. : Not a single representative of a union in
competition is on the committee.
The AFL committee is made up of Harry Bates '
of the bricklayers, Dan Tobin of the teamsters, and
Bill Hutcheson of the carpenters, all In the build
ing trades, and all free or CIO competition since
the effort of John Lewis, brother to invade that
: field. ' " -
On the CIO side are Philip Murray, president
R. J. Thomas of the auto workers, Julius Enspak
of the electrical workers, whose unions are equally
safe from AFL competition. .
Absent from the peace committee are the aircraft
workers, machinists, moulders, sheet metal workers
and the smaller lines in which jurisdictional com
petition is most active.
Anyway, the committee will not meet until
November 1, after the conventions, and if It finds
. a formula for jurisdictional disputes, this will have
' to be ratified by the other unions in both major
bodies before peace can be effected,
Thirty Day Hath September V
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Editor Statesman:
The writer has before him the
Wednesday morning, Sept. 23,
issue of The, Oregon Statesman,
which has been forwarded to me
by Ralph H. Mitchell. Executive
Secretary, General Salvage Sec
tion for the State of Oregon.
I am sure with the generous
publicity you have given in this
all-out effort,' and with the pro
gram, as set forth, in this par
ticular issue of The statesman,
that Salem and Marion county
are going' to go well over' the
top in gathering together the
salvage materials which are so
badly needed.
I wish to thank you person
ally for your efforts at this. time
and for future efforts which X
know will be forthcoming from
The Statesman.
- v Cordially,
C L SERSANOUS,
Chairman Oregon State
Salvage Committee,
General Salvage Sec
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Today's Garden
By LILLXE L. MADSEN
' S. N. asks for. information on
Wistaria culture.
Answer: In planting, dig out
: enough soil to make a large hole
and fin this with rich garden
, loam to which about one-third
old, well-rotted manure has been
added. Mix this thoroughly be
fore setting the plant and then
pack well around the roots. Give
the vine plenty of water for the
first two years especially. Thii
will make considerable differ
ence on the rapidity with-which
it comes into flower. The young
vines will have to be supported
for a. year or so. The vine has
no tendrils and will flop down
at first if not tied up. After a
couple of seasons it will look
after its own climbing. It is
very necessary to get a goof va
riety from the nurseryman.
Mrs. S. N. did not say wheth-
. er she was interested in the cul
ture of a new plant or of an
old one. .;.:. .
If hers is an old one which has
failed to bloom recently and did
bloom at sometime, the cause of
failure may be due to one of
three CSngs; Pruning, too much
root growth or lack of , water.
Also a mulch of rich manure
each autumn does help. If the
long scrabbly growth is headed
back each summer your flowers
will be much finer and more
plentiful. In fact if this is done,
then you are apt to have wis
taria, bloom much of the sum
3 inLTon
; Ctxjkr 13 CcslInzeJ -.-5 ';";
We're going on to Rochby
next reek. More chances in a
placa like that, rnaybe. :
T daresay 111 get something
somewhere
-And you feel better!"
Oh yes fine"
The call boy shouted through
the door, Tive minutes, miss.",
"Thais means I've only got five,
minutes." She paused, r then
laughed. I do say intelligent
things, dont I?" " -
He laughed- also. "They keep
you pretty busytwo shows a
night."
"Yes, but this la Saturday,
thank heavens. You'd be sur
prised what rest Sunday is,
even if you spend most of it in
trains." . . ; ..
"You leave in the morning?" .
"Ten o'clock."
"But It isn't far."
"About three hours. We have
a long wait at Bletchley. Some
how ; that always happens. I
seem to have spent days of my
life waiting at Bletchley."
1 dont think I know Bletch
ley." "Well, you havent , missed
much. There's nothing - outside
the station except a pub that
never seems to be open. Lord,
what are we talking about -
Bletchey for? . , . TVe got some
money of yours, you know that?
Or did you forget?"
No, but" .
Well, Td better give it back
since I'm off in the morning."
She began to" 'fumble . in her
dress. "I carry it about with me
doesn't do to leave fivers lying
loose.! V ; Z y;.d - : . .
"Onbut you rnustnt "
Well, you dont think Tm go
ing to keep it, do you?"
"I I -never thought about it,
.but-:";; .
Did you think I was going to
.keep mmr;c -: : :'sv-;vu
Well I dont know It would
have been quite fair after all,
you'd done so much "
"Listen, you little gentleman
I kept it because I though I'd
have to help you again, and I
thought you'd feel better if I
was spending your own money!
But now you are better, thank
God, and you dont . need my
help, , go here you are!" She
pushed the notes into his pocket
Tve got to go on again in two
minutes, so dont make me an
gry! YouH need that cash if
you're looking "for a Job. . .
What sort are you looking for?"
"Any kind, really"
Outdoor or indoor?" .
Tm not particular about that,,
provided well, you know some
of the difficulties " --
"You're scared, they'll ask you
too many questions? - What you'd
Ey JAM!
BStis l?Dir IBireaEasi!:
By R. J. HENDRICKS
When what became 0-29-41
, Salem w a a thought
under Indian attack;
it was only a charivari:
Attending the annual meeting
of the Oregon Chin Up club in
the Odd Fellows building, Salem,
on Sunday afternoon was Wm.
A. Sell wood, on the United
States Army staff of engineers
of Portland.
He is a member of the famous
pioneer Sellwood family of Ore
gon, coming here as Episcopal
missionaries in 1856, and taking
prominent parts in this state,
especially in Salem, Oregon City,
Portland, Sellwood, Buttevffle.
A member of that family, James
R. W. Sellwood, was the first
rector of St Paul's Episcopal
church, Salem. His son helped
start the - Oregon City church.
Beth Sellwood's father, in the
Lake Labish school district is a
member of that family. .
William A. Sellwood, the engi
neer, remembers well some- of
the stories of the experiences of
the earliest missionary pioneers
who came with their 1856 party.
They came by way of the Pana
ma route, when the Indians were
still more or less wild, and there
were massacres of parties pre
ceding, accompanying and fol
lowing them. '
The Sellwoods of dose in
blood relationship to the engi
neer, and to the immediate fam
ily ot Beth, founder of. the Chin
Up (or Chinup) club, have lately
been given a very interesting
Salem early day story.
It goes this way; lArriving in
the vfflage, of Salem in the fall
of 1858, they (the Sellwoods)
found the Methodist missionaries
in charge of the Jason Lee house,
first dwelling of whites In what
is now Salem, willing to take
thenar to give them bed and
board. : . '
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That house still stands, almost
as .lt was erected, in 1841-2, at
the present SCO Broadway; rath
er at what became 853 Broad
way, when buildings were first
numbered in Salem, many years
later.
Near to that first dwelling In
. what 'became. Salem by. 1853; a
few others had been erected, one
of them next to that first one
for white men.
.
On the evening cf the day that
the Sellwoods arrived, the story
goes, there waa a wedding at a
house ncrr ty. And there. was
an cli tzzLlczLti charavari. And
:: reiOIy lis U tor locsont t itop
you in the street and say I ;
dont know who you are, or what
you've been, and I dont care
either, but If you want a Job,
come with me Isnt that the
Idea?"
He laushed. "Yes, that's ex
actly the idea, if anyone would."
You wouldnt mind what the
job turned out to bey though??
. I think, I could do anything
that Td have even the faintest
chance of getting." - ; - . "
Figures? Keeping books?" 1
:"Oh.yes,;,,-ri....; - -
"A bit of talk now and again
even to strangers in that ,
charming way you have?"
X wouldnt choose that sort of
Job, but of course -"-
"You meanyoure still both
ered about meeting people?"
He hesitated. Paula went onr
"Well, leave that out What
about a bit of carpentry mixed
tip with the bookkeeping?"
"Why carpentry?" ,
"Why not? ... Back at the In- '
telligent conversation, aren't
we?" The call boy knocked
again. NWell . . . X suppose it's !
got to be good-bye till -we meet
again unless you want to see
: the show through twice you'd
be a fool if you did."
.' - "Perhaps I could meet you
somewhere afterwards?"
"We always : nave supper to
gether on Saturday nights all i
the company, I mean It's a sort
of regular custom, wherever e
are. Of course I . could take you
as my guest, but there'd be a
crowd of strangers. Abruptly
her manner changed.-: "Smithy, 1
would you really come?" ,:
. "Do you want me to-come?" r
"I wouldnt mind a bit It's
what you want that matters, i
You're free as air now that's
how you always hoped to be.
And they can be a rowdy gang .
srwnetimea. So please yourself,
rm not inviting you anywhere J
any more ... but if you are
coming, say so now, then I can '
teU them." -
. He felt suddenly bold, chal
lenging,, almost truculent ' IU
come, and I dont care how row- .
dy they are." , -,
She flashed him a smile as she
slipped off me dressing gown
and put. final touches to her
make-up. Number 19, Ender- .
by Road that's near the cattle
, marketabout 11:30. You dont :
need to hang around here for me '
just go straight to. the house at
the time. Ill some sharp ahead
of the others. See you then."
The rain had stopped; he took
a long walk in the washed even-
j ing air, then sat on a seat in the -Cathedral
dose and smoked dg- , '
arettes till the chime, of eleven, f
(To be continued)
among the noise making things
used ; by the crowd making it
unpleasant forf the newly-weds
. was a big gun of the cannon or
near cannon size. - , 4 -; :
The Sellwoods had been in ttie
edge of an Indian massacre as
they crossed the isthmus of Pan
ama; one of the Sellwoods him- -self
(one of the older members
. of their party) had been badly
wounded: so severely that he V
himself needed a chin-up club.)
When they heard the noise of
the charivari, they naturally
thought of Indiansof shooting
Indians when they heard the
noise of the cannon, or big gun.
So they hurried into the cellar 1
or basement of the Lee house
(or what. had been the Lee
house,) and remained there, in
close confinement until broad
daylight in the morning. ,
::y; u .I'-i.H : .
The. members of the other r
families having their placea of
living in the Lee house, it is said,
. did not realize the fear of the
" Sellwoods. - ':.; . . .
. They did not realize that they
had experienced so bad a scare '. --r
or any scare at anor they
. would have informed them of
the mistake. .
The SeUwoods stirred about
early after they heard the other
occupants were up, only to be
come the laughing stock of the
neighbors. Including the mem-
. bers of the families living there
t in always as many . as four
families; often more, besides 1 '
giving sanctuary to passing
strangers, accommodating the
convenience of county court
house, and a place for distribut
ing the United States mail; be
sides serving for the territorial
treasury.
Is any one within reach of "" ,
these lines who remembers the
insident of the Indian scare in
the Lee house-4he one told by
Us. SeUwood?
'That house, a till aUndingi -ought
to be so arranged in own
. ership and for preservation as to
represent the historical in facts
and incidents it stands for, which '
if not getting the proper atten- ',
tion the time wDl before long
be too late to substantiate "
The same can be said of sev- Is
eral other houses still standing,
including the one that was called
the parsonasa, erected by the
Methodists, which is stiU well
known and la fair repair, at 1225
Ferry street