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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1952
Houston Gushes in Texas Flat-lands
; HOUSTON, Tex. (May 11) This
is where the 'big hats begin, a. flat,
earthy sort of town, full of robust
earthy people who have not yet ac
quired the "air" of the Atlantans or the
sophistication of the N'Awleaneans. But
it; is a fabulous place when you get a
second look.
Over its broad, well planned streets
tower gigantic new buildings hotels,
oifice structures, department stores of
stupendous proportions with mora
rising, in spite of defence stringencies.
There's no mellow beauty here. It's a
raw-boned giant, this city.
From a high window you look out
over a flat sea of city in every direction.
You wonder how'n hell it ever came
to be at this particular spot. Then you
notice ocean vessels moving through
the prairie.
- "Sure, they dug a ship channel all the way
from Galveston, 50 miles south, and took
away most of Galveston's shipping, and a lot
from San Francisco, New Orleans and other
great harbors. They claim to handle more
ocean going tonnage here than any other
port except New York."
T Oil! Sure, this is Texas oil country.
In addition to grain, rice, sugar, for
age, livestock and all the products of
the plains. Even some lumber out of
the . bayous. But it was the oil and
natural gas 'carbon, which is Ore
gon's greatest lack that brought in
all kinds of industry, steel, chemicals,
fabrication, construction, heavy stuff.
It dawns on you that this is one of
those towns which prove the statement
that:
- "Great cities are created mainly by the
characters who have happened to live there."
.This is the town where the famous
Jesse Jones, the financial power of the
Roosevelt administration (FD's) pub
lishes the Chronicle, and he wasn't a bit
bashful about dipping it out for Texas.
And the svelt Oveta Culp Hobby (she
was Chief WAC in World War II) pub
lishes the Post.
They've persuaded the great Pru
dential Life to move its main office to
Houston and build a gigantic palace.
There is Glenn McCarthy, the oil
man who has just put many millions
into the Shamrock hotel, with its shamrock-shaped
swimming pool and other
extreme luxury appurtenances. So far
it doesn't seem to hurt trade at the
2,000-room Rice and other big down
town hostelries. They say:
"McCarthy's after the luxury trade and
he'll get it."
This morning we got an eyeful of
. tbat. There was a cowboy orchestra
andSa- squad of richly apparelled and
curvacious "cowgirls" waiting for a
special trainload of bankers from the
east.
(For the first time in this life we were
mistaken for a banker and almost got towed
to the Shamrock. The gals said "Come any
way." We figured the Friendly SP mightn t
like it if we missed the Sunset.)
With LeBeau and his wife (Lev
Wright's daughter Anne) we had a tour
of the city, including the miles of mod
ern docks, where ships from all nations
haul up in line to unload, proceed to
the turning basin, take on a new load
and are headed back to the Gulf of
Mexico by way of the canal which is
like a street of ships.
There are miles of super-boulevards
flanked by the ornate homes of the very
rich, and there are lots of very rich,
so many that they classify them as
Big and Little- Millionaires.
Of necessity there are lots of hum
bler homes, and there are spreading,
slums (although they have done consid
erable with low cost housing projects).
In this town they speak of Mexicans
as "a problem." The Mexicans are not
segregated as are the Negroes, but they
are usually desperately poor, and pov
erty brings its usual results.
Houston is education 'conscious. Its
rich have given lavishly to Rice and
Baylor and the new Houston Univer
sity and they are content with noth
ing less than big-time in- sports. There
is a vast modern county hospital; the
Methodists, the Baptists and the Lu
therans have magnificent new hospitals,
and the town is crying for more. It
aims to be the greatest medical center
in the west-south.
There is much competition, especial
ly among the Protestant sects, in costly
and ornate buildings. The Baptists boast
the biggest congregation and Sunday
school in the country for this town.
(Architecturally, they ignore tradi
tions. The Episcopalians have a magnificent
colonial that might have been transplanted
from New England and the Methodists have
a classic Gothic that might have come from
England.)
Cultural contrasts: They are having
a "double bill" in Houston this week
end with Metropolitan Opry at one end
of town and Billy Graham at the other.
Meantime they seem to manage a new
murder for each edition.
Houston is gauche, brawling and
gaudy (in spots) a sort of Los An
geles of the South and proud of it.
Perhaps the fashions in eating are sig
nificant. Houston has many fine eat
eries, but they do not tempt you with
exotic delicacies and plain catsup is
the prevailing sauce. No sir, this is a
town where they stick to STEAKS.
It's the headquarters of a red-hot
Eisenhower movement, and there's even
considerable support for Taft. They're
fed up with Truman and New Deal
(having gotten a big share of the boon
doggling). They're not enthusiastic
about Kefauver, and Russell just doesn't
click. It is a fabulous city, one which'
only Americans could create.
Marquis Childs
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So 'Deadwood Dave' Doesn't Wanna Bet!
Any betting man would say that the
"odds" of 10 to 1 which Norman Cous
ins offered Dave Hoover in the."whoos
apink" contest were extremely liberal,
and certainly the proposition of Mr.
Cousins to let that other famous Hoov
er the FBI's J. Edgar be the sole
judge, was convincing. But our "Dead
wood Dave" won't play, says a poor
farmer like him can't afford it.
(Several persons have suggested Hint
some ot the Big Money boys who financed
Dave's campaign for the U. S. Senate should
come forward now to rescue him from this
embarrassment, but so far no such patriots
have appeared. It has also been suggested
that it Mr. Cousins would reduce his chal
lenge to 10 bucks to 1, maybe Our Dave
would consent to play, but that is strictly
up to Mr. Cousins.)
As things stand, the fiery little edi
tor of Saturday Review is "the winnah
and new champeen" in this game of
"put up or shut up" and this paper
intends to act on that verdict.
Not that we mean to curtail the right
of Deadwood Dave or any other inhab
itant to write Mailbag letters on topics
of the day. We simply intend to elimi
nate those letters which, in our judg
ment, contain unsupported charges or
possible slanders against any person or
organization.
This paper has always been more
liberal than most in permitting its
readers to express themselves force
fully, and at times we have accepted
latteua including some of Dave Hoov
er's which were calculated risks, cov
ered only by the broad principle that
in public controversies there is a wider
"privilege" than in private affairs.
The problem, however, is not so
much one of risks as of plain ethics and
decency:
"Shall any person be allowed lo use the
privileges of the Mailbag for smear cam
paigns?" That, we feel, we must try to pre
vent. It is one thing to permit John
Jones to make bold charges against
Bill Smith for his derelictions as a pub
lic servant. It is another thing to per
mit John Jones to wage a prolonged
warfare with undocumented assertions
and insinuations.
(Mr. Hoover will probably' retort that
many of his charges are lakon from printed
documents and the statements of men in
high public places, such as Senator McCar
thy. We shall not object to quotes in proper
context, but we must insist that our con
tributors be reasonably fair, not depending
exclusively on the vast current literature
of abuse.)
The Mailbag is one of the mast in
teresting and important features of the
paper. We have always believed and
still believe that the restrictions on let
ter writers should be as few as possible,
but we must insist on fair play.
It's a tough .job to read all these
letters, but only the editor can be the
judge. In a way, Mr. Cousin's challenge
to "Deadwood Dave'1 was also a rebuke
to us.
India Growing
As New Nation
WASHINGTON No news is not neces
sarily, in the troubled time in which we
live, the equivalent of good news. In
many areas, and notably fn the Middle
East, the steady and yet almost unreported
bl w . arm is in me airecuuu
of deterioration and
l.,..aL-ilnv'n.
It is convenient to
forget these matters un
til a new "crisis" is re
flected in blazing head
lines. This can take the
aV "" ' form of the overthrow
I tTM II of a government friend
I I ft. J I ly to the West, of riot
mJk BaJmml jng and violence. These
CHILDS events come with the
shock of surprise. By the time they hap
pen, it is often too late to take the steps
that might have averted' the crisis. Any
one in search of documentation for this
last statement would do well to study the
failure to reach an agreed and construc
tive policy on China.
For many months there has been com
paratively little news out of India. And
the reason in this instance may well be
the fact that good news does not make
headlines. In many fields India has made
remarkable progress' along the difficult
road from colonialism to independent
statehood.
ALTHOUGH it was scarcely noted in
the press here, nationwide elections were
held not long ago which were on a larger
scale than ever before in the history of
the democratic process. More than 105
million people voted. A large proportion
were illiterate, and yet the ballots were
designated in such a way that candidates
and parties were distinguished by an
electorate that is reported to have taken
the keenest interest in voting.
The elections were orderly and the
great majority voted for Prime Minister
Nehru and the Congress Party. And be
cause the Communists with their custom
ary shrewd strategy concentrated their
strength in South India, about five per
cent of the deputies chosen for the na
tional parliament will be Communists. The
Socialists polled about 10 per cent of the
total vote, but this was widely scattered
and they will have only a tiny representa
tion at New-Delhi.
But the real lesson of the election seems
to be inherent in the attitude of the great
majority who voted for Nehru. They felt,
it is reported, that in view of all the
troubles of the past five years it would be
unfair to pass any final judgment on him
or; on his government. Let him, so they
reasoned, have more time to show what
he can do.
OBVIOUSLY, then, the next four to
five years is a crucial period. If the Nehru
government can show some real improve
ment in the standards of living for even
part of the people, there is continuing hope
for freedom and democracy in India. But
if this does not happen, the Communists
With their glittering promises and their
elementary persuasiveness will almost cer
tainly come to power. In short, the time
to help save India from communism is
now rather than after the black headlines
herald a new crisis of violence.
These are signs that this is recognized.
Sen. Owen Brewster (Rep.) of Maine was
so impressed by what he saw in India of
the industrial experiment at F'aridabad
that he invited its initiator, Sudhir Ghosh,
to visit this country. An associate of
Gandhi, the 36-year-old Ghosh is now in
this country looking at industrial and
waterpower projects as well as talking
with members of Congress in Washington.
Some months ago the American am
bassador in New Delhi, Chester Bowles,
made a flying trip to this country to sug
gest on his own initiative a five-year pro
gram of technical assistance from the
CUfa. TU 1 u t .1 a
$200,000,000 a year. Bowles argued that
this would supply the needed margin of
outside help without which an Indian
"operations bootstrap" could hardly suc
ceed. BOWLES HIMSELF brought about a
remarkable change in Indian-American re
lations. He has gained the confidence of
the complex and highly sensitive Nehru.
Even more important, he has traveled
over thousands and thousands of miles of
the great sub-continent in order to try to
know the Indian people at every level.
Some such program as Bowles has sug
gested is unquestionably essential. It
would supplement the impressive projects
launched by the Indian government. No
one can say whether anything like the
Bowles proposal will be approved in view
of the disruption of partisan politics in
this election year.
But if nothing Is done, if India is con
veniently forgotten, then no one should
be surprised two, three or however many
years from now at the sudden flare-up
of a crisis. Wheat out of the loan voted
by Congress last year is still being shipped
to India. The food situation is improved.
This is, however, a temporary plateau. The
way leads either up or.down, and America
can do much to help determine which it
is to be.
(Copyright 1932. by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.)
Editor's Mailbag
CEMETERY WORK
COTTAGE GROVE (To the
Editor) First of all, I want to
thank the Register-Guard for any
publicity "it is giving the worthy
project of preparing the Cottage
Grove Cemetery for Memorial
Day. Also especially those who
have so far contributed their share
without being solicited, since the
writer has to mail 200, and some
times more, personal cards to
notify the lot owners of our An.
nual Cleanup as we have no other
source of revenue than their con
tributions.
We want to thank Miss Eunice
Van Galin, to whom goes the
nonor or tne nrst one to con
tribute, without being notified.
The Van Valin family have never
failed since 1922 in their support
of this work. She is also the most
distant, to contribute, 'tho we
have received from far and near,
many contributions. Mrs. Dale
Kintzley, of Honeydew, Calif.
(sounds good, maybe there is
where they g r o w honeydew
melons), formerly Harriet Ostran
der, the youngest member of that
family after whom Ostrander Lane
in Cottage Grove is named, also
mailed her share, which she has
done for several years now.
Last year, Wilshire Brislow of
Bnstow s Jewelry Shop, in Eu.
gene, sent us a generous $10 check
for the general work. While he
was born here, his family have
no plot in our cemetery. He said
he thought there should be a law
to take care of rural cemeteries
in Oregon, since so many are
neglected. The writer agrees with
him. Mrs. Kitty Kime Ditto of
Portland, sent me a lovely Thank
You note, stating she was glad to
be reminded of this annual -work
and contributed a generous check.
Mrs. Ruth St. Clair, oost mis
tress at Dorena, a good friend of
mine, contributed 25 extra post
cards when I purchased some
from her. She said, that will put
30 minutes work on the general
clean-up, since it will save 50c
on your postal bill. She has no
lot in this cemetery, as her little
boy, Carl, who was accidentally
shot at Culp Creek, is buried in
an Idaho cemetery, of which she
says, "Carl s grave has such beau
tiful care. The cemetery is all
landscaped, and really a show
place for beauty. The city main
tains it along with their parks.
Many women's clubs donate plants
and work to help keep it in shape.
Each grave has a choice rose bush,
red for men, pink for women, and
white for children." A wonderful
idea! Why can't we do that? I have
noted that flowers and shrubs
grow beautifully, even those,
which don't do so well in my own
garden, without much care, in our
cemetery, except God's care. May
be He particularly cares for His
acreage. , n
Due to the fact that a lumber
company who were supposed to
remove all trash and debris from
their logging operations on the
north east hill of our cemtery,
when they were given valuable
timber there, failed to dp so, we
now have a trash pile as high as
Hammon was hung, and may have
to ask the City Fire Dept. for help
in burning this. They shifted it
to our annual trash pile, or piled
it along the cemetery fences. This
was a worthy project to clear the
land, for additional burial space
Stay With 'Em
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which we need, but it backfired!
It is now only a stump ground. .
As Joyce Kilmer wrote:
I think I'll never see,
A poem lovely as a tree"
and concluded with these words:
Poems are written by fools
like me,
But only God can make a
tree."
Personally I am in favor of leav
ing the trees up there where He
grew them. LET'S ALL WORK
TO BEAUTIFY THE CEMETERY,
NOT MUTILATE IT.
Send or mail your contribution
as soon as possible so that we may
hire the necessary labor.
Cottage Grove Cemetery Assn.
Ex-Governor Backs
Eisenhower, Kefauver
PORTLAND (P) Oswald
West, former governor of Oregon,
celebrated his 79th birthday here
Tuesday.
West, a Democrat, was governor
from 1911 to 1915. He has main
tained a keen interest in politics
and had this to say of the present
presidential race:
"If God still reigns, and wishes
to preserve this government from
crooks and wastrels, he will direct
the Republicans to nominate Eis
enhower and the Democrats Kef
auver and will leave them free to
select their own running mates."
Gl Insurance
Payment Due
WASHINGTON (IP) More
than 380,000 veterans and service
men received a 1952 National
Service Life Insurance dividend
check in the first month of the
payment, officials said Tuesday,
Nearly five million veterans are
scheduled to get dividends.
The checks started going out
April 15. Of the 200 million dol
lars to be paid, more than 13 mil
lion had been mailed to policy
holders by May 15.
. The VA says the great bulk of
the dividends will be $60.
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Let's give the game back to the players,
rather than have all the plans made for
us in advance. Maj.-Gen. Roscoe B.
Woodruff, commander of the 15th Corps, ,
after "Operation Longhorn" maneuvers in
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I have, always addressed my art to the
mature mind and perhaps it is too adult
for the boys at this school (Harvard).
Actress Corrine Calvet after being voted
the worst actress of 1951 by the Harvard
"Lampoon."
Play it cool, keep your heads down and
you'll get back here, too. Cpl. Fredie Leon
Clark, 200,000th vet to be rotated from
Korea, giving advice to buddies back la
Korea fox-holes.
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