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Capital Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of allnews dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Tear, S12.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Tear, $8.00. U.S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. BY BECK Animal Life 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 7, 1949 No Reason for Changing the Section Portland again challenges the idea that Salem is the state capital. Last year the challenge came in an attempt by the Na tional Guard to move its headquarters to Portland. Now two representatives in the legislature from thrs northern city are seeking to get a constitutional amendment put be fore the voters to permit state institutions to be located elsewhere in Oregon. The state constitution (Article XIV, Section 3) provides that all state institutions not located elsewhere prior to January 1, 1907, shall be located in the county where the Beat of state government is. And that means Marion county. The legislative assembly, however, can propose another location for a state institution and then submit that proposal to the people. That was why the measure on the boys' camp at Timber in Washington county was on the ballot last November. Salem has been the seat of state government in Oregon since the election of 1864. And, as has been held before, the seat of government is the logical place for the loca tion of state institutions. This is for the purposes of convenience, efficient supervision, and overall economy. The passing of the years has done nothing to change the probable reasons for the restrictive clause on location of the state institutions. If there were not a check on estab lishing institutions, they might be sprinkled all over the state at the whim of some group in power, other than the people. Such decentralization would tend not only to de moralize the state government as such, but would be a foolish move, economically. The United States government is based, as is life itself, on checks and balances. This is proper in Oregon, too. There is no reason, then, to change the constitution on the location of institutions. If an institution logically belongs elsewhere than in Marion county, it will be so established by the people on a referendum proposition. Otherwise the restrictive wording of Article XIV, Section 3, will keep or establish it in Marion county. Drifting Into a New Dark Age The Roman Catholic world has united in a war to the finish with communism because of the trial of Joseph Car dinal Mindszenty in Hungary. Cardinals, bishops and priests, convinced that Cardinal Mkidszenty is to be hanged as a martyr, called upon their congregations in Sunday sermons throughout the United States to unit in protest and pray for the soul of the Hun garian prelate. Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, set the keynote at his first appearance since V-E clay in the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Five thousand par ishioners jammed the cathedral to hear the cardinal. Cardinal Spellman, who was elevated to the rank of cardinal at the same time as Mindszenty two years ago, denounced the communists as "fiendish, ghoulish men of slaughter" who worship the gods "Stalin and Satan." He warned the American people to unite and abandon their "ostrich-like" attitude to save themselves from "trickery, tortures, disaster and defeat." In Washington, Archbishop Patrick A. Doyle said that the trial followed the usual communist purge formula, was a "vile business and a mimicry of justice," that' the car dinal's "confession" should be disregarded because it fol lowed the communist pattern everywhere and was produc ed by torture. Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Harris, United States senate chap lain, also in Washington, snid the trial "is the signal for war between an anti-Christian colossus and any church which refuses submit to its supremacy and regimentation. This trial is a sickening sham but only the first of a series of onslaughts that may be expected." Such scenes as the cardinal's trial can be expected every where the communists control and mark the submergence of civilization into barbarism and usher in a new dark ages for the world as communism spreads. It is a war directed by the Godless against any and all religions. Some Needed Aid for the Aged The Capital Journal is in receipt of the copy of a letter written a legislator from a constituent over 80 years of age, who has too much pride to use old age pensions, call ing attention to some needed changes in the tax laws affecting our "senior citizens." The legislators are busy trying to pile additional tax burdens on the public but they might find time to correct some of the abuses the writer calls attention to. The letter speaks for itself : "At 80 years of age and still carrying on with outdoor work to make a scanty living and take care of a wife, 1 find myself pay ing an income tax to the slate of Oregon, and 1 also find myself with doctors' bills of $3S6 for the past year on which there li no exemption from these taxes. "It strikes me that when a man employs doctors to keep him self and wife alive in order to pay taxes and keep off the old age pension rolls, It is a fantastic idea to tax him on his doctors' bills. "It also seems to me that a man Is entitled to Just a few years respite between income taxes and the grace. If there was an outstanding justice that the 80th congress did to the common average man it was the new tax law that doubles the exemption of old people when they have passed the age of 65 years. "1 trust that you have given these matters some thought and will agree with me. and that you will get some action to correct these injustices in the Oregon income tax law. "I have scant patience with mud of the argument for old age pensions A man at 60 or even 65 should still be able and willing to work. I am far past the pensioners' age and still glad to be able to make a living. But it is the rankest injustice for the state to impose any Income tax whatsoever on a man who has reached 65 years unless his income of 40-cent dollars exceeds the cost of a decent living." It is to be hoped the legislature does something along the line to aid such good self-respecting citizens as the writer of this letter is known to be. Love Wins Out in the End Los Angeles W) A Scotch lass met a soldier bark in 1945. Romance ensued. Last fall he mailed her passage money to Glasgow. But a shipping firm lost her ticket. Then a strike cancelled sailings. She hoarded the Queen Mary and it ran aground. Persistent She tried a plane, and made It. That's how Gavlna Brown, 23, became the belated-but-happy war bride of Kenneth Brown, 23, of nearby Compton. rr somXx-, AV'lfe'lF ONLY THEBjl I f FEELS 600D VT wf FOIK5 WHO PUT OUT) K'i zg jj TO FIND A IEAKY ) W 5UET FOR THt BIRD5 S MwjT- ROOF AND GET Ik WERE THE ONES WrfoUBiB -itl Y0UR FEET C W DIDN'T INSULATE TMEUfx PtlWAIiM. 'M1ROOF3.BUT....-OU rTS rCfejb. 7 CANT EXPECT A ''D-s PtBPCT WOULD J -j' " mi WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND U. S. Friendship Train Now Pays Off in Merci BY DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON When the gratitude train was In Paris loading its cargo for the United States, a woman, obviuosly poor, came down to the Gare d'Orsay with a package. "This is a very small present," she said, "and I should not do this. The communists would not like it. "You BY GUILD Wizard of Odds Drew Feftrtorj dent committee. Also, the republicans, under rambunctious senator Wherry of Nebraska, did a good job of running the small business com mittee, and Murray, calling at tention to this past record, pleaded: "Letting the committee die might be used against us politically." "How much good did it do the republicans?" came a voice from the rear of the room. SIPS FOR SUPPER New Every Day BY DON UPJOHN One thing's sure, whenever we do anything around here a little out of the ordinary, we do it right. In the parts of the country where snow is the usual thing in winter it snows and snows and three. two feet of the old stuff lies around all winter. But here we have' worked out scheme of get-1 ting a brand f new hunk of snow every day. It snows over night, maybe a little more in the morning, qJ (From Our Correspondents) Scio A tailless calf was born a few days ago at the H. Green farm on Roders Mt. Mr. Green reports it is the first calf he has ever seen born without a tail. It is normal in every other respect. It is a very lively calf, but just one of those freaks seen among nature's own. Amity John Gibbs of Amity became leary of so many rats in his chicken house. He plugged melts off, and then we get a all the holes but one, after dark new one the next day. That's he closed that one, turned on why everybody appears so fresh the light, entered the building, and smiling about the whole and shot 45 of the rodents with thing. No, by gum, we don't a .22 rifle. import a hunk of snow and just let it lie around until it gets Us beginning to look now as dirty, weazened up and senile though St. Valentine also might looking P'an ' show up this year with .a sleigh and reindeer and lugging But, even at that, things are his love missives in a sack. beginning to have the appear ance of a hard winter ahead, if it keeps up. Two brothers operated an in vestment house in Portland and now one of them is reported to In face of it, every now and have burned to death in his car then we see one of the girls and the other arrested, both in wearing a fur coat but showing dieted on a charge of having her bare legs. Now, if some mulcted their customers out of stylemaster would come along $180,000 or so. This seems to to convince the fair sex that be one more proof that crime what they oughta do is to wear doesn't pay, even $180,000 worth fur stockings and O well, let of it. imagination fill in. Have you picked any crocuses lately? s e e, . she explained further, "I am. a com munist. But last winter when my chil dren were so hungry the. Americans helped them They gave milk and flour and didn't ask what political party we belonged to. Now I want the Americans to' know we appre- NO POWER TO PASS LAWS ciate their help." 'The trouble with the special That incident illustrates, 8mall business committee," more eloquently than editorials argued South Carolina's May or speeches, the fact that bread bank, "was that after it got cast upon the waters comes through with all its hearings, it back in hundredfold dividends, was still helpless. It had no plus the further fact that so authority to legislate" many congressmen failed to "if you really want a special realize regarding UNRRA and committee on small business," other American relief namely snapped senator Spessard Hol that it does not pay to play poli- iand, of Florida, "Make it a tics with empty stomachs, standing committee so you will have power to make legisla- MERRY-GOROUND tion." John L. Lewis's bargaining Holland argued that the position in the coal industry is special committee not only being hurt by the "unusual" couldn't legislate, but that other winter weather. Because most of committees paid little attention the east is having a mild winter to it. He cited the small busi coal stocks are now up about ness committee's report on steel 58 per cent over last year, giv- which he had referred to on the ing the nation more than a 60- senate floor and found that the day stockpile. This means Lewis other senators knew nothing won't be able to tie up the coun- about it. try easily when his contract Virginia's A. Willis Robert negotiations open this spring. s0n, Louisiana's Allen Ellender "Muley Bob" Doughton of and Arkansas' Bill Fulbright al North Carolina, chairman of the so argued against a special corn house way and means commit- mittee. tee, is blazing mad about the Finally, Majority leader Luc "packing" of his committee with as of Illinois wound up the dis six new democratic liberals so cussion by suggesting that if mad, in fact, that he has indicat- anybody wanted to revive the ed to friends he will give the small business committee, the president's four - billion - dollar thing to do was to draw up a tax request an extended deep resolution. Montana's Murray freeze in his committee. started work on this immediate- President Truman has told ly. visitors he will move very slow- ly in reshuffling the cabinet. No C0L0RED CONGRESSMAN further changes expected before T, . , ..,.. the budget is passed by con- Illinois' congressman William gress Dawson, first negro committee , , , , chairman in congressional his- Amencan ambassador to Mos- tor is proving that he can cow Bedell Smith, has his eyes make democracy work in the on becoming commander of the ht)Use expenditures committee. One man who is keenly aware first army at Governors Island, rvew York. Ain't Nature Grand Items of this is Harry Truman. The day before Dawson's committee reported the reorganization measure for house action, the president told the Chicago 20th Century Casualty Portland VP) James Burmison didn't have to go to bed when a truck wheel ran over him he was already there. Sound asleep in his apartment at 4 a.m., Burmison was awakened by a stray truck wheel and tire that came bounc ing through his ground floor window, rolled over his bed and whammed Into the far wall. Flying glass cut his face. Later, Blue Line Transportation company reported loss of a tire and wheel from one of Its trucks. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Thin Line on Free Speech By DeWITT MacKENZIE "Freedom of speech" is a right for which liberty-loving men the world over will fight to the death. But just what constitutes "free speech?" Where does free speech unit mi end and censed speech begin? That's not al ways easy to answer. Sometimes a good deal de p n d s on whether you grin when you make the speech. As they DeWI M,cken,to used to remark In the days of the old southwest: "Smile when you say that, pard ner!" Down in the southwest the other night a meeting ot land lords at Fort Worth evicted the principal speaker bccause'of the nature of his remarks The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported him as saying: "I like the Russians ... I ad mire Joe Stalin. If he gives you his word, he will keep It." At this point an ex-serviceman shouted: "Why don't you go live In Russia?" With that, the sponsors of the meeting escorted the speaker lice. handle this problem. During the many years I lived in the British capital I often went of an evening to Hyde park to listen to the soap-box orators, discoursing colorfully If not accurately on all sorts of subjects, many of them politi cal. Always policemen (bobbles, the English call them) were on duty for the speech - making just in case. Frequently you would hear a -long-haired radical ranting against the government. He would damn it up and down and sideways. A bobby would stand by listening with a broad smile. But had the speaker deviated from plain damning to a call for mob action by the crowd, then the bobby himself would have leaped into action. All a speaker wculd have had to do to get himself arrested would be to yell: "Let's go and get 'em!" He would be translating words Into action. Bolshevism has called for the overthrow of the United States SMALL BUSINESS After 30 days stay of grace, the senate small business com mittee has quietly passed on to Negro: wnere tne good committees ..j couIdn.t have asked for often go. It ceased to exist. Its better cooperation from your authority to operate simply ran committee on this important 0 legislation. You're doing a great However, It did not go on to job. Keep it up." the limbo of forgotten things. Turning to the committee col- For, a few hour, later, demo- leagues who accompanied him, cratic senators hild a post-mor- Dawson said: "Thank you, Mr. tern behind closed doors. Sena- Presient, mut these gentlemen tor Jim Murray of Montana, and others on the committee de- who has always fought for small serve the credit, not me." business thoufh his own mil- Three outstanding legislators lionaire holdir gs amount to big from the south made it a special business, appealed to his col- point to go to the White House leagues to reviv- the committee. with DaWson and support him He was joinea by senators T:enderson Lanhamm of Geor- Claude Pepper of Fiur'da and gia Porter Hardy, Jr., of Vir- Brien McMahon of Connecticut. ginia and Herbert Bonner of But for every senator who North Carolina. Others who ac- championed the small business companied Dawson were Chet committee, two stood up against Holafield of California, Frank it. They pointed out that fair- Karsten of Missouri and house minded senator Burnett May- majority leader John McCor- bank of South Carolina had ap- mack of Massachusetts, pointed a fine subcommittee of Men ike Lanham, Hardy and his banking and currency com- Bonner have worked with Daw- mittee to handle small business son because they like him per- from the platform amid angry government (and all other non- communistic governments) by fcrce. There's nothing academic about that. The Reds long ago passed fiom words into action. They have exhorted the mob to "go ana get "em." Therefore our government has decreed that communism Is subversive. That's why we have a burn ing Issue In the question of how school and colleges should deal with communism If at all. - Many educators are adopting the course of the London bobby. They hold that it's dangerous not to teach youth what com munism is, always emphasizing the fact that it is evd and sub versive. However, the moment that ad vecacy of communism enters the torching, the instruction be comes subversive In Itself. The fiee speech from the forbidden, rights of fre speech an ex I likt th way the London po- ceeded. muttcrlngs from the crowd. The next day the speaker told a Star Telegram reporter: "If the time has come In America when I cannot sny 'I admire Joe Stalin,' then I had Just as soon leave the country." Did he exceed the rights of free speech? Well, let's pass that up with tne observation that he was dog gone indiscreet. He was admiring the abso lute dictator of a country which is waging a cold war of aggres sion against the United States and all other democracies. He was admiring the head of a po litical Ism which American le gal authorities hold Is subver sive and aims at the overthrow of our government by force. Often a thin line separates which is true. However Mur- sonaiy, reSpect his ability, and ray contended that a subcom- because they have a high re mittee cannot operate with the gard for the democratic process same independence and forth- o government Tightness as a special, indepen- tcopyriiht, ism He Forgot He Was a Dog Jasper, Ala. (IP) The small dog must have forgotten he is a dog he climed a tree. Then Instinct told him that up in a tree, 30 feet off the ground, was no place for him. So he barked and howled until his master, Joe Honeycutt, came to the rescue. The dog apparently had been chasing a squirrel when he ran into a hollow tree at an opening near the ground. The squirrel scurried up the inside of the tree with the tiny dog following. The dog came out an opening onto a limb and was ma rooned. OPEN FORUM After 1970, What About Traffic? (Editor, Note: Contribution! to thti eolamn malt b conflnpd to S0O word, and timed br wrlter.1 To the Editor: The Capital Journal deserves the commendation of all residents of Salem and Polk county for taking the initiative in bringing to the attention of the State Highway Commission the extreme urgency for a new in- ter-county bridge. Your paper has "carried the However, the proposed two- ball" in this endeavor, and now lane bridge is expected to han- with the goal in sight, a lot of die traffic only until 1970. Us are hoping that you don't After 1970 then what? Will muff our chance, and go all the we have to go through the same the way for an adequate four procedure for another span? lane bridge. As a taxpayer of both Marion Future generations will com- ami ruin tuuiiitey i ueneve ine cheapest way, in the long run, is to build an adequate four lane span now. mend you. LU SINGER 1086 Larmer ave. Dealing With Rapists To the Editor: Permit me to express my hearty approval of your editorial in today's (Feb. 3) Capital Journal dealing with rapists. Castration is the only fitting and effective way to deal with such gentry, and 1 have often ' ! wondered why none of our le- tne cnme " n0 other' gislator seem to get the idea. A. H. NOHLGREN Such punishment would fit 440 State St., Salem eh DDS ARE 127 TO ONE THAT YOU WILL NOT GET A RCCUND ON YOUR TAX FROM UNCLE SAM.' .UNTIL DEATH DO US PART?" XKT" ryn U i rINE OUT OS TEN MEN DECLARE THGV DONT LIKE SCENTED SOAD VGT O OUT OC IO U9C IT OU I06O, It THE PRESENT TREND CONTINUES, TUEDE WILL QE ONE DIVOOCE COD CVGQV TWO MARRIAGES SALEM TRAFFIC REPORT North Santiam Highway Route Study Is Asked y By R. H. BALDOCK Ctftte Highway Kntlneer PART III LOCATION OF NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY, ORE222 The location survey has not been made between Mehama and Salem on the North Santiam Highway, ORE222. A reconnaissance study has been made indicating several feasible locations which would enter Salem on various streets, varying from Mission workable signal system is im- street to Center street. practical if not impossible. The circumferential express highway proposed around Salem The roadbed for trains and to the east should make connec- motor vehicles on 12th street, tipn wiih the North Santiam is coincident, ana, unless the highway by a traffic interchange, roadbeds are separated, a prob- It is, therefore, recommended lem is posed for which there is that in the immediate future no solution. It is, therefore, further study be made as to the suggested that steps be taken to proper and best location of the have the railroad moved to a North Santiam highway, to the point near the east curb line of end that it be integrated with 12th street and a new curb con the design for the circumferen- structed nine feet westerly from tial route of US99E, the Pacific the center of the realigned rail highway, around Salem. road track, which would isolate A few words might be justi- the railroad from the highway, fied with relation to the present The foregoing trea t m e n t routing of the North Santiam would minimize traffic compli highway by way of State street, cations and permit a workable The 12th street-State street in- signal installation at 12th and tersection, involving a heavy State streets, movement of motor vehicles and The railroad company has had pedestrians, is further aggravat- great difficulty and has gone to ed by a grade crossing of the major expense in trying to main main line of the Southern Pa- tain a paved section, which cific railroad. would not be necessary, if the Unfortunately, the Southern change were made as recom- Pacific railroad is near the mid- mended in the preceding para- dle of 12th street, which creates graph, in that the roadbed could a very hazardous situation. To be made a ballast section, a somewhat lesser degree, haz- Additional right of way, which ard and congestion prevail at the the railroad company now owns, intersection of 12th and Court would be required on the west streets by reason of vehicular- side of 12th street between Cen- ( pedestrian and rail cross traffic, ter and Court streets. Between ' Request has been made from Court and State streets, the time to time for traffic signals State of Oregon owns the prop- at the State street intersection erty. South of. State street, the and such signals are certainly property is owned by Willamette needed. However, any signal university. system must be tied in with the As a desirable adjunct to the railroad signals to the end that foregoing, 12th street south from all vehicular and pedestrian traf- Center street should be widened fic be stopped when a train ap- to a full four-lane street, a min- proaches. imum of 64 feet and preferably Under the circumstances, a 70 feet between curbs. Why One-Way-Streets! PART IV THE ONE-WAY-STREET GRID SYSTEM In order to minimize hazard and expedite traffic flow in Sa lem, certain one-way streets are absolutely necessary to make the recommended plan a success. The streets are Cap-tol, north- ' bound; Summer, southbound; from right-or-left-turn vehicu Chemeketa, westbound; Court, lar movement through the cross eastbound; Commercial, south- walks. bound; . Liberty, northbound; It is much easier to get to Center, eastbo u n d ; Marion, any place in the central busi westbound; Norway, westbound; ness district with a grid system and Shipping, eastbound. of one-way streets than it is Previous discussion has dealt with two-way streets when "U" with proposed highway routes turns and left turns are prohi and trans-Willamette bridge fa- bited. cilities and approaches. As traffic increases in a For the best operation of the town, it first becomes necessary proposed highway routes as to prohibit "U" turns and thn, well as traffic in general in the to prevent traffic snarls and downtown Salem area, it is re- long queues piled up for blocks, r commended that the one-way- to prohibit left turns. When this street grid system be put into happens it is time to consider effect as soon as possible. This the adoption of a one-way-will include state routes as well street grid because of the ease as city streets. of movement and the free flow of traffic that results. The one-way-street principle ' and the advantage thereof has The solution of Salem's traf been shown In some detail in fic problem can only be realiz previous discussions in connec- ed through cooperation between tion with proposed highway the Highway Commission and routes. the Salem City Council. To recite briefly the advan- The Highway Commission tages, it has been pointed out does not have the authority to that intersectional capacity is a install one-way-street systems, controlling factor and that, in It is earnestly recommended this connection, intersections that the Salem City Council under one-way-street operation give consideration to the one will handle an estimated 50 way-street grid plan proposed, percent more traffic than is the ln summary, it may be stated case With the two-way traffic tl!at advantage pf one-way-now in effect on Salem streets. slreet operation, affording safe Appreciable accident reduc- and expeditious movement of tion is realized under bne-way ...... ... street operation. In the down- trafflc' has been trie and Prov" town business area, one of the e(J and is not merely a theore biggest problems is the high tical or "paper" proposition, volume of pedestrian move- Several examples have been men ana tne cunmci mereoi with vehicular flow, particular- cited here in Oregon wherein ly right-and-left-turn vehicular orie-way-street operation has movements through the cross- been tried successfully. Localiz walks. In this connection, it is ed experiences In Oregon are in pointed out that, at signalized ?reement with and substanti intersections and under one- ated by experiences had else-way-street operation, in two of where ln sucn cities a! phiIa the four crosswalks there is delphia, Pennsylvania; Hous- none of the pedestrian-vehicu lar conflict normally resulting ton, Texas; and others. (The End) 4