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4 Capital Journal, Salem. Oregon, Saturday, Oct. 21, 1944 Capital jkjJournal SALEM, OREGON RHTABI.IHIIKD MARCH I. IMI An mdepsnrient Newspaper Published Ever? Alleinoon Ktcspt Bundiy at 444 Chemeketi (H. Miones auslnt's Offle 57l: News tloom 9573; Soetetj Editor S&7I Glorias PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher FULL UUID VTIRE StliVKr OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use tor publication ol all newt aiapatches credited to It or otbera'tsa credited In thle paper, and also local nawe published herein. StmsCHlPTlON RATES! IIT CARRIER! Weeklr, l.lSt Mnnlhl). 1.7ft; One Tear. 19.00 Y MAIL IN OKEfiONt Monthlr. 1 10; 811 Months. 13 00; One Tear. 18 00. UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREOONl Monthly. I 00; SIX Months, 13.60; Year. 17 JO. Park Proposal Takes Shape Thanks to the diligence and diplomacy of the mayor's special committee handling negotiations for the city and the splendid cooperation of the private owners, Salem at last has a proposal it can "sink its teeth into" concerning the lonK-apitated plan for eventually converting the entire 100 acre Bush Pasture property in the heart of the city into a public park and playground. It is such an opportunity as seldom comes to an established community, and never more than once to any. Under the terms of the agreement, the city is given an option to purchase for $175,000 the 43 acres adjoining the 57 acres to which it already holds conditional title, wilh the proviso that it is to deed from seven to 10 acres of the tract it now owns to Willamette university for nn athletic field, which the university must make available to the high schools of the city. Whether the $175,000 is to be paid in a lump sum or in installments is left to the discretion of the city. The conditions attached to the offer are Unit the city shall not take possession nor undertake any development of the tract during the lifetime of either of the owners, Miss Sally Bush and A. N. Bush; that the property as a whole shall be maintained perpetually in the public use as a memorial to the late Asahel Bush, Sr., and that the city shall exercise its option on or before December 13, 1944. The fact that the council lacks the necessary power to obligate the city in the amount of ? 175,000 without specific authorization by vote of the people, unless the purchase price be paid in installments so small that they can be ab sorbed in the annual budgets inside the 6 percent tax in crease limitation, complicates the problem of completing the (leal within the life of the option. The proposal must, it eems, and should be submitted to the people for approval. This will require a special election, inasmuch as the time has ixpired for getting it on the ballot for the general election Kov. 7. i As for a plan of financing the purchase price, the city has a choice between a bond issue in the entire amount or, if the purchase is to be made on the installment method, a special (jontinuing tax levy depending in size upon the period over which the installments are spread. The bond method might be the cheapest in the long run, in that bonds might be marketed at a lower interest rate than would attach to unpaid balances on an installment purchase plan. J The important thing now is to get action on the proposal within the life of the option. In this the committee and the council are deserving of the unqualified support of every progressive, forward-looking citizen of Salem. To Avenge Jap "Dirty Work" It must be a source of gratification to General MacArthur and the survivors of Hataan who escaped in the dark days of 1942 to know that their opportunity for avengement is at hand, for at Leyte they are fighting the Japanese division which did the "dirty work" on Bataan and under the same Nipponese commander who ruthlessly bombed Manila after it had been declared an open city. Both Balaan and Manila have become more than fortress and capital, they have be come symbols. For two years the Japanese have swaggered through the Philippines, pillaging its treasures and enslaving its inhabitants, and bragging that the Americans would never return. But they have with both fire and sword soma 250,000 or more of them. It must be a great occasion for the oppressed Filipinos and the imprisoned Americans at Santo Tomas, if they are still there evidence that the American and Filipino flags will again soon fly over Corregidor and Manila and that again the Philippines will be free. The Japanese have made a great show of recognizing the Philippines as an independent nation. They set up a puppet government headed by former Interior Secretary Jose P. Laurel and sent Filipino youths to their Pan-Asia congress at Tokyo. But the great majority of Filipinos have remained loyal to their exile government and to the United States, as revealed by the testimony of army and navy men who escaped from a Mindanao prison camp by aid of the natives. Commenting upon the Leyte invasion, Don Caswell, former manager of the Salem bureau of the United Press who since the outbreak of the war has been senior United Press cor respondent in the Southwest Pacific, now on furlough visit ing his brother in Eugene, staled in the Register-tiuard : "Typical MacArthur strategy cut them off and let them die on the vine. The general lias seized an opportunity to by-pass Mindanao by invading Leyte tlms following the strategy thai has been so successful in his operations. I was surprised the invasion came so soon, but the Japs were surprised too, and (hat's what counts. We can know the invasion is well planned and well executed with Gen. MacArthur leading, for he is a wonderful man and a wonderful leader." XOUo-iWTiti AU-i.xClTtD BV TEA-SttOOTRa DtPlT'IMcl-T4&, Xl 6lVJi.V OP SAN TBANOSCO 1(1 &s wKfc-- Jo r r S 77 KM 1 1 SrertillerfajUi The Seditionist The Fireside Pulpit Reverend George H. Swift Rector, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Stored lip Personality We are told that coal is stored up sun energy. The heat and light of the sun produced the vegetation which through compression and age became the coal deposits. From the coal we extract light, heat, and other forms of energy. If coal can be regarded as stored up sun energy, money can be regarded as stored up human en ergy and personality. When Aviation Outlook Gloomy The question as to what is to become of the West Const war spawned aviation industry, now employing 2'I0,000 work ers, is discussed in the current issue of Collier's Weekly by its west coast correspondent, Jim Marshall, based on a coast wide study of the industry. He states the industry fears you look upon your money as stored up personality, it ought to take on greater importance and even sacredness. When you spend your earned money, you are spending your self. Your money is a stored up part of you, if, through your efforts, you have earned it. You are gradually giving your life for that person, cause, or thing for which you spend your mon ey. In a measure a man's char acter may be revealed by find ing out how and where he spends his surplus cash! Where you spend your time, your tal ents, your money, you are spending and leaving there a part of your life and person ality. When you support a church with your time, talents, wor ship, and money, you are build ing a portion of yourself into the very life of that church. You are with it when it extends its field of influence beyond the local field. A part of you Novelties In the News Variety of Uses New York, Oct. 21 W Wil liam G. Lehman of the office of surplus war property said 25. 000 pairs of officers' spurs and several hundred thousand cart ridge clips had been sold to radio advertisers, presumably for souvenir distribution; smudge pots have gone to citrus growers, 4.700 Klaxon horns to boat builders, and 1.200,000 cuspidors with lids removed for bankruptcy unless congress approves a program to keep our use as stew pot itu turci' iiiiiiit'i iu.t'ti zt i u i ku et uiiiiMii i hi r u ui i n i s cm i I'll tape to permit speedy reconversion to peace production. Marshall slides that the industry, in conferences with General Arnold, has discussed posl-war plans to replace one-fifth of our nir force each year afler the war, so that we would have a com pletely new air force every five years. This would "prevent the air force from becoming static, as France's did before the war." he says. "This program would depend, of course, on what Con gress and public opinion thought of it. After the last war, puone opinion sanK most ol llie American iS'avy s newest ships; after this one It may do the same thing with our air force." In addition, "the Industry (in reconverting) is afraid of the red tape and insistence on forms and long, slow procedures by small bureaucrats," Donald Douglas, president of Douglas Aircraft Co.. is quoted as saying. Douglas insists that tile government should be as speedy and understanding in reconverting, as it was in converting from peace to war production. goes into all the world wherever your church has established mis sions. You may indeed have helped to convert the very na tives to Christianity, the very natives who brought out your wounded son or husband from the jungles of the South Seas and restored him to life and to you! Could the few dollars you gave to the work of your church at home add abroad ever pay for the blessings you received in return? The parish you are support ing is a living thing. It is made up of a continuous succession of people who love her. Those who have passed on, being dead, yet speak! And they shall speak to generations yet unborn. Scripture does not say that mon ey is the root of all evil, but it does say "the love of money is the root of all evil." Money we have earned is stored up self, and it is the love of self that is the root of evil. Spending money on oneself is indeed self ishness. It is amazing how generous people are with their money tin til the church budget has to be met. They give in terms of hun dreds and even thousands to various things, then the church pledge $26.00 per annum! Some people leave only marble shafts in memory (doubtful) of themselves. Others live on in the institutions they have gen erously supported, and the peo ples they have helped to a bet ter way of life, with their stored up lives in the form of money they have honestly earned and lovingly given. Sips foir Supper By Don Upjohn Out of the fog which settled over the city early this mo riv ing a neon sign was still shin ing at a service station across from the central fire depart ment. The words which loomed up in the mist in red letters were "Walter H. Tires." . The "Zosel" part or the sign for some reason failed to light up. However. .Walt has always seemed plenty full of pep to us when we've seen him, but if a sign in front of his business says that Walt tires then we presume he tires. For some years we've been trying to con vince a certain party at home also that we tire easily but hav ing no neon sign to prove it it's been an uphill business. the river Jordan. He tried again and had no better luck. This disgusted him and he de cided to live. He took a razor and cut out the two balls which had flattened out between the skin and the bones of the fore head, went out and fed the cat tle, and then went to a doctor." The following incident hap pened in the home of a well known family here the other day, but, as the plot unfolds, it will become obvious why we have passed up the names and tell the little story on its own merits. It seems in this fnmilv Wrong Number ( the man of the house and fath- IWor. OH. 21 Mrs. Melon!01 of nine-yoaivold girl, had Grant handled party calls at Jn required to be hwb, state democratic headnuarters from i home on some business confer- telephone switchboard for four weeks. Then Gene Cervi. dem ocratic state chairman, hired a new nin rator. Exolninrd Cervi: ''We found nut Mrs. Grant is a republican." While aviation workers nee leaving their jobs by the thousands, the companies must "keep producing- to the bit ter end, knowing: that when the time comes to settle up tin They Multiply Decntur. 111.. OH. 21 UT Earl Horine bought seven rab bits but got more than ho bar uained for. Ten days after the sale he invna imwI ,.,,,,,,,.1 ;.. ,,,.,,,,,., i , ,i, , , . i, , . , 1 idok nome mo six noes ana one will completely wipe out IIhmi- invest nu'iit and cash on hand." I . ,,;, ridm the At its peak the industry employ,,! :m7.:m in the .suniniet-l " . , nmv'rt ri,n,nR "le r in.i'i ...i : ..i i i .. .i i i ... "ileum. i i.' i.i. i ni-i i-o.-i il nn, ciii)i!ii. i'u h i nv i iiousn uu wni Kcrs before the war. I'oat-war civilian or cient. to keen till nlnnts irniiitr scrapped. In September commercial airlines ordered :i new :.""' ' " " """ l J.lnues from Douglas for about $50 million. Todav 1lu in-I " f"KI" "'lomp,tcrt 1rob- dustry on the coast could produce those planes in about a!ry r"tnro"h '"l day and a half. Moreover replacement business will be sm al ?17''?101 b5'' W" Thfl InrlltutfV hno Kn.n ni . 1.- i'i, ,r II ...Pi' ,.., "I"U,HI.' " 'i iiuimiiK "in,! i Lilian iiitilKllI till ian orders will not be stil'l'i- Unexpected PldV K many will have to be . , . , enees or otherwise a few nights diirins the week mid the little daughter was getting a little fed up on it. So at the breakfast table she asked, "Tell me, daddy, why didn't you mar ry Betty Grable so you'd stay at home nights?" And comment ing on this the next day t h e mother of the little girl remark ed rather ruefully, "Now just where docs that leave me?'' Our old friend Gus Moisan, mayor of Gervais. is trying a new angle in child psychology. In the current issue of the Ger vais Slar he makes an "Appeal to Chivalry," same being an ap peal to the boys and girls to this year forget the customary practical but "innocent" pranks on Hallowe'en night and to con duct themselves like little lad ies and gentlemen. "So, boys and girls," he appeals, "be good sports and considerate of other folks as you want them to be of you you would not want someone to take your bicycle, nor our clothes from the line. Be good sports save your good reputation. The city marshall will be watching you and it may be very humiliating if you should be arrested but we will if we have to." C . .... 4 i .1 1"! ...I.. n. I in. mi iui iiiMiiiue iouKias pioius are ouiy :n one nun- ti nj .hooted- t.t'. As their conch blew his whis- !l 1 itT . Ik. t TU. '. : :.u .. I 1 "'" " i ....a. 1. 1 a ,M-.,,i. ie .-..unr uie case nn noeinp hinl?- ,,e squad started In pur- and other plants I he excess profits tax has prevented nny;,t. But before thev could get of the companies from buildintr up n financial surplus to tide 'close enough to tackle the man over readjustment, so the outlook is jrloumy nlthnunh the 'he ducked Into n store and In future strenpth of aviation is vital to the safety and devel-! to the arms of a city fireman opment of the country. I who held him for police. Hard-Headed (50 Yds. Ago in Pendleton East Oregonlan) "Louis, a farmhand on the Newaukem prairie, became tired of life one niaht last nwk and determined to commit sui cide. He placed a 32-caliber re volver at his forehead and pulled the trigger. He was very much surprised a moment later to find himself on this side of The country should watch this Gervais experiment with int erest. If it doesn't work there's still the new OPA ruling as to shingles to which this column referred last evening. One of the first serious at tempts to classify criminals or to discover the causes of crime was made late in the 19th century by the Italian physician Lom broso. who thought he discover ed cranial differences In crimin als on whom he performed autopsies. HieWar Today By DeWItt Mackenzie An Interpretative analysis of war developments by a fam ous Associated Press war correspondent. By Louis P. Lochner (Siibslltutlni for DtWltt Mnckfnsl.l The cracking of the Siegfried line, which now seems a cer tainty, poses the problem for Adolf Hitler whether to de clare Industrial and historical centers like Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Duisburg, and Dussel dorf open cities, or whether to doom them to inevitable de struction in the pattern of Aachen. These cities, as far as I could ascertain before I left Germany in May, 1942, are not fortified in the sense in which Aachen was a veritable citadel. The vaunted Atlantic wall was in tended to be nazidom's first line of defense; the west wall or Siegfried line her second. Both were considered impregnable. It was a rude shock to the German people to see the Atlantic wall pierced so rapidly. They have had a little more time to ac custom themselves to the fact that even the Siegfried line is outmoded in view of the stu pendous development of allied fire power. Preparation in Doubt It is at least doubtful wheth er Hitler and his general staff have prepared really effective ly beyond these two fortifica tions systems. When I last vis ited Cologne, Soblenz, Mainz, Duisburg and Dusseldorf, the only visible defenses were the garrisons and numerous anti aircraft positions. There were none of those pill boxes dug outs, "panzerwerke," or major fortresses such as we saw on the Rhine from Karlsruhe to Switzerland. Along the upper Rhine, the Maginot and Siegfried lines were opposite each other. From Lauterburg on, the Rhine be comes a purely German river. There have been stories about a tertiary line of defense along the Rhine. Going by what I saw in 1 f4 1 I doubt whether a formidable system has been constructed on the right bank in the region beginning, roughly, at Mainz and extending to We sel or Cleve. Besides, that would not help Mainz, Cob lenz, Bonn, or Cologne, all of which are on ttie left bank. The Rhine itself, broad and majestic in its middle section, is, of course, a hindrance to progress. Its monumental bridges will in all probability be blasted by the retreating nazis. Progress Slowed But we are no lonjr in the row-boat age. This is mechan ized warfare. Our amphibious operations have been marvels of modern science. General Eisen how has undoubtedly taken the destruction of the bridges for granted which does not mean, however, that he is leaving out of account the possibility of an ticipating the Germans with parachute troops charged with saving this or that bridge, as in Holland. The destruction of the Rhine bridges will slow up progress, but t should be only tempo rary. Meanwhile, on the left bank a shambles will be made of whatever city declines to surrender. And artillery plant ed on the smoking ruins of these centers of a thousand-year history will finish off at Duis burg, Dusseldorf, Wesel, and Mainz what the air armadas of the United Nations have failed to reduce to rubble. HP Serving Uncle Sam (Continued from Page 3) Wyoming, will report soon for basic training at Dcs Moines, Iowa. She will then be sent to an army training school for a course in surgical work. Lawrence E. McCuistion. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McCuis tion of Dallas has been promot ed from marine technical ser geant to master sergeant, ac cording to word received here. In the service since Pearl Har bor, he is serving with a motor transport in the second marine division in the south Pacific and is a veteran of the Saipan and Tinian campaigns. Miss Mrgaret M. Seaton has recently completed her enlist ment as a member of the Wo men's Army Corps and will re- LENA BELLE TARTAR Teacher of Singing ml Tune In Sundays ; The Old Fashioned Revival Hour KSI.M. 1011 P.M. Inlprnstlnsl Gospel BrondoBil Chart's t. Fnlftr, DlrMhtr BEGINNERS A SPECIALTY ARTISTS DEVELOPED Lucile Cummings. Bernice Rickman, Marjory O'Dell. Delbert Anderson, Carolyn Brown Studio 158 South Liberty St. Phone 3S47 3469 Emergency daytime messages 9283 Artist pupils: Earle Potter, 'CHINAlj? -l3' 'Okinawa ,J. iCf00chW.. rt S Tsinki.jp' Ja'h,ku . .-k A5V L0 hoVtW9 ' .S4Kismim4 "yii Amoy ' CUNI0 'f I Politic Luton Stroit 1 Ocean LUZON J. j J PHILIPPINES mindoroV ! : . &f Seo BaliangAo'tv u . i ST t-MBfS, j-sJHinalusn 1 . KabasalanLfcpi20Av' 1 I Q, J, ZamboangajT siStr I JL MINDANAO'S-. - v k f v5TOJ "' tf 111 :. N.BORNfOP f- ' "" "jkk. fr-idls: .L IS' X Borneo cta" rZg Navy Strikes In the Pacific Wi Arrows show course of the American offensive in the western Pacific, which the Toky-. radio said had been climaxed by an invasion of the central PhiTJ ' ippines under command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whose forces south of the Philippines have an advanced base at Morotai. Japanese reported American landings on Suluan island at the mouth of Leyte gulf, east of the island of Leyte, U. S. navy task forces, beginning with an attack on the Ryukyu islands, Oct. 9, have bombed Formosa and the northern Philippines for more than a week, and were joined in the assault on Formosa by China based Superfortresses. port soon for training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. The enlistee who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Seaton of route one, Woodburn, goes to McClellan field, Sacramento, Calif., for training as a radio mechanic, upon the completion of her indoctrination course. Pvt. Seaton has a brother, Ev erett, now at the naval boot camp al Farragut, Idho. Dallas Clarence E. Koenlg, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Koe nig of Dallas, has received a dis charge from the army at McGaw hospital in Walla Walla, Wash., after serving for many months in the infantry in New Guinea. Details were not received as to whether he was discharged for wounds or for physical disabil ity due to his long service in the tropics. Lyons Pvt. Cecil Grimes of Fort Benning, Ga., is spending his furlough with his wife and children, Sharron and Buddie, of Sweet Home. They were Sunday guests at the home of his brother, Chester Grimes and family of Lyons. Upon his re turn he will report for duty in Arkansas. Other guests at the Grimes home were Mr. and Mrs. Will Grimes of Scio, Mr. and Mrs. Tuffie Oglesbee of In dependence, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grimes. Mrs. Lee Morris and Richard and Carol of Mill City. in the U. S. army, were both home last week with their par ents, Mr. ad Mrs. Willis La Vine. Cpl. Melvin LaVine, sta tioned in Salt Lake City, was at home 10 days while his brotlv er, Pfc. Clifford LaVine was .on a 20 day "delay enroute" from Camp J. T. Robinson, in Little Rock, Ark. Last week, Cpl. and Mrs. Melvin LaVine, Pfc. and Mrs. Clifford LaVine and Mr. and Mrs. Willis LaVine made a three day trip to Seattle to visit at the Knut Knulson home (Cla'jd ine LaVine). Mrs. Melvine Vine remained in Seattle with her sister-in-law. Mrs. Clifford LaVine is employed In Salem. Clifford reported for further duty at an army camp in Geor gia and Melvin returned to Salt Lake City. A third son of the LaVines serving in the ar my is Pvt. Raymond Lavine of the Tank Division in Camp Hood, Texas P. E. C. Stanley Chance, medical corpsman, states in a letter to his mother, Mrs. Hat tie Arnold, of Stayton, that he has been engaged in cutting up captured frozen German beef at an evacuation hospital in France. This is along his old line of work, having been a butcher in the local butcher shop prior to his entering the army. Lt. Donald Woodry, stationed at Orlando, Florida, where he : is taking advanced training, is spending a leave from his army i duties with his mother, Mrs. ! Jack Hyett and his brother-in-, law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. j Percy Meier. Returning to his station af ter spending his leave in Salem j with his wife and four children, who reside on route 4, Gran- i ville E. Ball, fireman second class, In the navy, was serious ly injured in a bus accident and is now confined to a naval hos pital at Shoemaker, California. Ball who prior to entering the service last March, was em ployed at the Copeland yard, re ceived a broken collar bone, leg and pelvis and as a result of the accident may lose one leg. His wife on receiving tel egraphic word of his Injury, left immediately for California. Mill City Two of the La Vine brothers who are serving Wall ean Polk County farmer and former president of Oregon State Senate SPEAKS FOR MORSE 9:00 TONIGHT KGW It I STEVENS I EAR FASHIONS Add a touch of glamour to everything you wear with these attractive ear rings. Stunning in design. Come in today and choose from our exceptional assortment. 0ty
