4 Capital Journal, Salem. Oregon, Saturday, Oct. 21, 1944
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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."
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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
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and former president of
Oregon State Senate
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