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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 9, 1949
The New Housing Act
Both houses of congress have passed the long debated
and much amended multi-billion dollar administration long
range housing bill and sent it to the White House where it
will be promptly signed because it is the first major victory
for. the president's far flung domestic program he calls
the "Fair Deal."
It is a major advance in federal paternalism, another
socialistic "noble experiment" and let us hope will turn out
better than similar New Deal ventures did. It will at last
swell government payrolls, federal, state and local, which
the census bureau reports reached a three-year high in
April with 6,219,000 employed at a cost of f 1,875,000,000.
The housing bill calls for the construction of 810,000
publicly owned dwellings in six years and rent subsidiaries
running up to $400,000,000 a year for 40 years, sets up
$1.5 billion slum clearance program in cities and provides
for farm housing improvements to cost $325,000,000 and
for temporary continuance of the government's mortagage
insurance program. It authorizes $1,000,000,000 in federal
loans and $500,000,000 in grants to state and local 'bodies
for the program.
Here is what the housing bill would do in detail accord
ing to press reports :
1. Provide a five-year alum clearance program, with one
third of the rost to be met by the federal government and the
balance by local communities. The bill provides $1,000,000,000
in loans and $500,000,000 in grants to states and local public
bodies for this program.
2. Requiries local authorities to select the low-income occu
pants of the public housing units, and to set the rent at what
these families cBn pay. The federal subsidies would make up
the difference between the rents and the amount actually
needed to pay for the housing projects.
3. Divides the $312,000,000 farm housing program into three
parts. The first part provides long-term loans at not more than
4 per cent interest to owners of self-sustaining farms unable
to obtain financing elsewhere. The second part sets-up a simi
lar loan program, with annual federal contributions, to owners
whose farms were not at the time self-sustaining. The third
Npart provides loBns for minor improvements on farms that could
not be made self-sustaining.
4. Sets up a research program to find cheaper ways of build
ing homes. . .
5 Provides (a) a 60-day extension of temporary government
authority to insure loans by private lenders up to $2,500 for
repairing and remodeling existing structures; (b) a 60-day ex
tension of authority to Insure mortgages for construction of
small homes costing up to $5,000; and (c) a $500,000,000 in
crease in the amount of mortgage insurance that the govern
ment can issue for single family and multiple dwelling untis.
Whether the bill will discourage private housing con
struction remains to be seen, but experience has proven
that better and cheaper houses can be built by unsubsidized
contractors than the government builds. Anyway, it may
provide beneficial competition as well as insure the poli
tical support of the vast army of "gimmes."
The Fight Is on to Keep United Here
Salem's responsibility in the fight to keep United Air
Lines service here is now definite.
The city has to go to bat on its own to kill a move before
the civil aeronautics board to substitute West Coast Air
lines service for United. This means Salem must take an
active, legal part in the coming hearing in Washington,
D.C.
The civil aeronautics board is in the all-powerfull posi
tion of deciding the iBsue of whether Salem has proper and
adequate air transport facilities here or not. The city
can merely present its case, which is a good one. United
can merely present the facts and figures on its operation
here. Then the board decides. But the board has already
put the responsibility for proof up to United Air Lines.
The city was, not notified of the pending hearing. The
bureau treats the matter as purely a technical aviation
problem, of dollars and cents and air routes. The human
element, the life and business of the people of the com
munity, is brought up only incidentally or the city would
have been notified of the board's hearing.
If it were a question of several transcontinental airlines
already serving Oregon's second city, that might be an
other matter. But it is a question of a transcontinental
airline being replaced by a feeder-line.
And that feeder-line does not have any air freight serv
ice at all. Salem has a record of air freight out of this
city that is more than the equal of many cities much larger
In size. To cut off air freight shipments would be to
cut the heart out of a number of local enterprises.
To be limited only to feeder-line service, would be to
Jeopardize the growth and position of Oregon's capital.
It might be noted that Salem has grown since the days
when United Air Lines was authorized to start operations
here in 1940 from 30,000 to over 52,000 in population nine
years later. If that growth is indicative of poor business
judgment on the part of United in coming here, then the
theory of business has certainly changed.
Salem has an excellent case to be made before the board,
as the Capital Journal has repeatedly pointed out in the
past 10 days. That case should be carefully worked out
and then presented to .the board by the city.
Representative Walter Norblad publicly opened the fight
for Salem in Washington Friday with his protest to the
CAB against dropping United service here. His alertness
to the threat against the city's interests can be followed
by Salem's protest through legal channels, with presenta
tion later at the board hearing.
Sh-h-h! A Mystery Man in White
Washington UP) A man quietly cat down at one of the gates
to the White Bouse Thursday night and put a lone white
hood over his head.
An officer on duty there asked what he wanted.
"Sh-h-hsn" said the man.
Through a hole In the hood, he puffed on a cigarette.
Through another he took an occasional look at his watch. On
his hip he carried a long sheathed knife, which he didn't at
tempt to draw.
For a while he sat there peacefully.
Soon city police took him away. There was no Immediate
explanation of the performance.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Senator Bull Gets Curt
Treatment in Capitol
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Gregarious, white-thatched Congressman Bill
Whitt(ngton of Mississippi is in a strategic spot as chairman of
the public works committee, to see that his state is not left behind
when federal funds are ladled out for water conservation, rivers
and harbors, and flood control. Mississippi ranks eighth in get
ting these improvements.
However, the congressman is to standard British custom, the
a strong believer in economy party went to bed, leaving calls
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
for other states.
When Washing
ton, which
ranks 16th, and
Oregon, 18th,
and are partly
arid, request
water - control
funds, they get
nowhere with
Whittin g t o n .
When Charles
Hodde, speaker
of the Washing
ton house of representatives,
testified for the proposed Co-
MS
Drew Fesrioa
for 6:30 a.m.
But about 3 a.m. the irrepres
sible Barkley got up, telephon
ed Congressman Welling's room
and in a broad English accent
announced: "The carriage a
waits without."
Hastily, Welling dressed,
couldn't find his shoes, but rush
ed down five flights of stairs of
the swank Savoy hotel in stock
ing feet to ask the sleepy night
clerk to find his shoes and mean
while to hold the carriage.
The joke furnished London
much merriment and even Wei-
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Human Being Impressed
By Evidence of Great Power
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
fUctor. flt Paul's EplacoPii Churcb
We are deeply impressed by the 'things which have stood the
test of time. The giant Redwoods are awe-inspiring because they
have outlived several hundred generations and are still living.
Many of these trees were over '
a century old when Christ was considering the enormous force
teaching in Galilee, and are still and power of the Almighty God
standing. We can
almost lean up
on them in a
comfortable as-
s u r a n c e that
they will never
leave us or for
sake us for they
have stood for
so long against
fire, flood,
drought and dis
ease and still
But the Christian conception
of God is that he is not only
the wielder of infinite power
through endless time, but that
he is a Father God, a father of
all humanity who loves and
cares and murtures his children.
We believe that he hears our
prayers. The Psalmist was very
comforting when he wrote about
the omnipresence of the merci
ful God in these words: "If I
ascend up into heaven, thou art
there: if I make my bed in hell,
lumbia valley authority in the ling enjoyed it. To this day,
normwest, wniuingion inter- when Barkley and Marvin J jnes,
rupted constantly. Randall or Welling meet, their
"We know what you're here greeting is: "The carriage awaits
for," he said, "more federal mo- without."
ney. Why can't your state un-
dertake the necessary develop- z don,t know whether Ed
me , c x Prichard, the so-called "Wonder
Testimony by Oregon S t a t e B o the New Deal is ilt
Senator Vernon Bull met similar ol ballot stuffing down in Ken.
rebuffs. Whittington is a mill- tuck or not But t do know
tant foe of the Columbia valley what Prich was guilty o in
authority though 35 Mississippi Washington during the war and
counties benefit from the similar the reason he got cussed out
Tennessee valley authority. So, even more than 1 he had stuffed
as Bull took the stand, Whitting- Fallot boxes
ton asked if he had testified be- Prich was'the right-hand man
fore the senate. Bull replied that to Fred vinsoni now chief jus.
,)??.... ,m , , , tice, during those grim and hec-
Whittington: (To clerk record- tic war days wnen labor wanted
ing testimony) "This is off the to raise wages manufacturers
TCrJ JThea VfT ?ull) wanted to raise prices, the house
Good then we 11 get rid of you wife couidn.t get enough of
fast. Are you in favor of this hardly anything, and when all
proposed CVA legislation? groups took their grumbling out
Bull: Yes, sir, I am. I believe on tne office o economic stabil-
inai me people oi me norm- ization
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When we are contemplating
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stand firmly
rooted and majestically reaching t,enoid thou art there also,
for the sky. Wow mucn more can
we lean upon and trust in the
..Avlnottmtf ninf BPtlnn flf fltl
Eternal God who "before the the God of endless Eternity and
mountains were brought forth limitless power, we should re
or ever the earth and the world member with great satisfaction
were made" art God from ever- and gratitude that this same God
lasting. reaches down to every living
' soul as an earthly father would
We are likewise impressed by gather his children about him.
evidence of tremendous power. That even if we get ourselves
I once stood by the Dry Falls of mixed up in hell, behold, he will
the Grand Coulee. Geologists tell be there also, just as an earthly
us .that these gigantic falls ceas- father would be If his children
ed their thundering roar long were in trouble. The Psalmist
before Niagara Falls came into wrote: "Like as a father pitieth
being. Today they stand dry and his children, so the Lord pitieth
silent. They were once capable them that fear him." He also
of producing power greater than wrote: (Psalm 23) "Yea, though
the energy generated by all the I walk through the valley of the
falls and dams producing power shadow of death, I will fear no
in our country today. Yet, all evil, for thou art with me, thy
this power is infinitesimal when rod and staff they comfort me."
UP NOT DOWN FUR THER
Women's Necklines Soon to Go
Back 'Where They Belong'
Hollywood (IP) A Hollywood designer says women's neck
lines soon will be back where they belong "at the neck
instead of the naval."
"Paris fashions are tending to destroy the morale and
morals of the American woman," fashion designer Helen Rose
told a newsman. "Indecency is never smart fashion, you
know. The well groomed woman prefers to be on the best
dressed, not the best undressed fashion lists."
The naughty French bathing suit and the deep plunge neck
line, said Miss Rose, make American women look like chorus
girls from the Folies bergere.
Miss Rose, who designs clothes for June Allyson, Kathryn
Grayson, Elisabeth Taylor, Esther Williams and other actresses,
says the new French influence is merely a passing fad
"Because we are, basically, a moral race. Women are going
to realize once again that concealment is more intriguing
to a male than revealment."
That's what Miss Rose said.
west-
Whittington: (Irritably) "Yes,
yes, we've heard all that. Now
give us your reasons one, two,
three."
NOTE Whittington's curt
treatment of these witnesses
off idal record. Is chan-man, he r'ew?d-.mAs L" I VZL
has complete censorship over J?"1" ""'".
Vinson, the economic stabil
izer, was a rock of Gibraltar in
that battle. But his right bower
and frequent punching bag was
Ed Prichard. In fact, Prich prob
ably got cussed out even more
than Vinson, because Vinson was
testimony, can revise or delete
his own remarks.
chiefly Prich.
In Washington, it s frequently
virc KDrcmcxto.,., .,..r the ghost writers and the admin-
n, istrative assistants who have to
Here is one story which Vice do a lot of the dirty work and
President Alben Barkley does- who get the brickbats with none
1. 1 ieii, bui wnicn nis menas o the credit. Prich was in that
tell on him.
category. Weighing 300 pounds,
It goes back to World War I , Hkrh, fmm v,
when Barkley, then a member army for physical reasons, but
of the house of representatives performed a far more useful ser
from Kentucky, was touring the vice for his country holding the
allied battle fronts with a group price line in Washington,
of congressmen. The party in- if the country had followed
eluded Rep. Marvin Jones of Vinson's and his urging and
Texas, now chief justice of the kept prices and wages where
U.S. court of claims; Rep. they were, we would not now
Charles H. Randall of California, be suffering the uncertainty of
Rep. Martin Welling of Utah, recession.
and Barkley himself. So, if Prich, in a fantastic
Arriving in London, the con- flight of political melodrama,
gressional committee found it- did stuff a ballot box, the public
self booked by the U.S. Embassy should know about it and act ac
for a trip into the British coun- cordingly. However, the public
tryside early the next morning, should also know that there
So, placing their shoes outside were some qualities on the other
the door to be shined according side of the ledger.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Anti-American Incidents
Due to Envy and Prejudice -j
By JAMES D. WHITE
(SubAtltutim for DeWitt MacKenzle, AP Foreign New Analrit)
The anti-American incidents reported from Shanghai occur In .
a communist setting, but are not necessarily the direct work of
the Reds.
The police who beat up a The Reds said this showed that
young. American vice-consul are Nanking was a "puppet of Amer- , '.
the same ones who served before ican imperialism." The weaker
Shanghai went Red. They might Nanking grew the better this "r
have done the same sort of thing argument sounded to a lot of
before, if they had though they Chinese. j(
could get away with It. They Their resentment of foreigners
have no love for Americans, but focused more and more on A-
considerable envy and prejudice, mericans, with the Reds helping .
The point is that they now at every turn,
think these things may do them The Reds have chosen this
some good. This is because the course partly because they are
Reds have been filling the air communists, but also because
with anti-American statements they occupy a certain strategic
for purposes considerably bigger position in world politics,
than Shanghai. ...
Envy and prejudice against First of all, the communist "
the foreigner, always present in formula has worked in their
China, are coming to the sur- case. "
face just as they did when Mao Tze-Tung, the Red chair- ."-
Chaing Kai-Shek triumphed in mani shows not the slightest
1927 and after V-J Day. The dif- 3ign of going back on it now. In- '
ference between now and then stead he has said, again and
is this: ' again, that his China stands
firmly with Russia in the cold
Chiang needed help from a- war and will fight for her it
broad more urgently than the it gets hot.
Reds do now and so his Nanking Mao is being more than just a
government could not allow such good communist in this. He is ,
incidents to continue. The Reds looking at the world power pic
might be able to stop them now, ture.
but are not likely to because His China, as a communist
their need for immediate help is power, will enjoy some bargain
by no means so urgent. ing power with Russia. Russia
Meanwhile such things can be cannot ignore this because China
expected to continue. A great is too big to be contained to
many Chinese need little urging mere Titoism. China will enjoy -
to let the foreigner who has bargaining power with the west
been around more than a cen- because of trade and the hope . .
tury, living far better than most that she may never be quite aa
of them could hope to know Red, or quite the same Red, as
that he is tolerated at best and Russia.
unwelcome at the worst. As a non-Communist power,
The Reds have capitalized up- China would have no bargaining
on this because as the Nanking power to speak of with Russia, '
government grew weaker in the and no more with the west than ,
civil war, it became more de- Chiang Kai-Shek had.
pendent upon American aid or As history has shown, that
the prespect thereof. was not enough.
Elbow Benders' Lament in Jingle D Cl m. . r r
chicaeo w-jinTie. nn.. mil. , 0010 statement ot ract
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Um-Good
By DON UPJOHN
We should have worn a mackintosh and bib to work today.
Before us are about 55 postcards from about 55 kids telling in
55 different ways how much they like watermelon. The cards
iren't to us, but
. nidi. w j!
Dob Upjohn
Yesterday the thermometer
went almost up to the point
where the girls probably began
considering getting their fur
coats out of storage. It's begin
ning to feel like another today
as we write with the echo of
watermelon shushing in our ears.
Maybe they could compromise
this year by wearing shorts with
fur around the edges we were
about to say bottom, but maybe
that wouldn't be so good.
are sent to Bish
op's store here
and loaned by
Ralph Cooley,
manager. The
store each year
sends a load of
watermelons to
the boys' camp
at Silver Falls
under super
vision of Gus
Mnnre for a real
. 1 A tin. walnrmltlnn
nangup " Notice a local jewelry store is
feed and this year each one of advertl8ing pocket watches with
the kids took occasion to write an alarm attachment which is
in his thanks on a postcard. A our idea of one of the greatest
samule from Billy Van Dalta advances made by civilization in
..m . . ..... ti.. years. That's the ideal sort of a
says, "That watermelon was the iime Qne tha( c(m fee car
best I ever had. I have never ried right on the perstm and
before in my life tasted water- thus avoid all the necessity of
melon like that." So, as we this troublesome idea of having
read on down through the stack to undress when one retires for
of cards it's easy to see why the night. Armed with such a
we were sorry we hadn't come contrivance all that will be
equipped with a rain coat and necessary when one is overpow-
a bib. The more we read the cred by slumber Is merely to
more the old mouth began to fall on the bed, clothes and all,
water and but for superhuman and drop off to sleep secure in
effort would have been dripping the knowledge that one will be
down over the old chin. We'd aroused on time without having
liked to have peeked in on that to hop out of bed to shut the
watermelon feed. We bet the pesky thing off. The same will
sound of the falls was drowned go for afternoon naps, or even
out in the glorious inhalation of convenient periods of the work-
those there watermelons by ing day when a guy might want
those half a hundred or more to tear off a few winks with the
kids. Just making like Shush boss's back turned. Yea, by
backwards or an ingrowing gum, this hootnanny has almost
shush, as it were. GoshI endless possibilities.
Chicago m Jingle, jingle, little jar
Now we wonder where you are.
So goes the lament of the Elbow Bender Regulars. They're
steady customers at the Cycle Inn tavern. They tossed their
loose pennies Into a jar on the bar for almost a year. The
coins piled up until there were about 8,000 of them. The
Regulars figured it would be filled in a few more days. Then
they'd have a free beer party.
But there will be no party. A thief walked off with the
PASS HAT FOR PRI NEVILLE FAMILY
Strange Series of Events
, May End in Act of Kindness
Frinev'ille (IP) An unlikely series of events destroyed a deaf
mute couple's new automobile Thursday, but Prineville may see
that the couple gets another.
It started when Mr. and Mrs. , the match on the pavement, the
Jessie C. Wright, John Day, deaf truck burst into flames,
mutes and parents of six chil- The fire spread to the service
dren, parked here. They were station and to the Wrights' car.
en route home from Portland The Wrights' car and the tank
with a car they had just bought. were destroyed. The service sta-
It was loaded with boxes of new tion suffered $2,000 damage,
clothing for the children. The Wrights did not have in-
An oil truck parked nearby to surance, but a tavern owner, Joe
make a delivery to a service sta- Drew, began passing the hat.
tion. Then a man, afflicted with Prineville residents are chipping
palsy, stopped by the truck to in, and the Wrights may get a
light a cigarette. He scratched new car out of it.
CAPITAL CARTOON
Boston (U.R) Sign In a Water street barber shop:
"We need your head to ran our business."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Some Advantages Found in
Vacation Underground
By HAL BOYLE
New York (IP) An unconscious hero of our times is Ray Em
mert of Zanesville, Ohio.
This 40-year-old ex-soldier solved his personal unemployment
problem by
having himself
buried alive in
a coffin six feet
underground.
For weeks
thou sands of
curious people
thronged to his
temporary
grave and drop
ped coins into a
contribution box
for the privl-
ged, collected his financial trib
lege of staring down through a
10-inch observation tunnel at
Emmert's placid countenance,
Met LiMi
Bml BojU
What could be better? No :
worrisome sunburn, no vexing
mosquitoes, no hotel bills, no
sore muscles. R
This relaxing fad of being
buried alive might well sweep -
the cduntry except for one thing:., .
Every man has an uneasy
feeling that, once he was six
feet underground, his relatives
and friends might decide he
wasn't worth the trouble of dig-
ging up.
Overheard on a bus:
"Women are just natural
showoffs. Why do you think
A?ter 45" days Emmert emer- TS f k
ged, collected his fanancial trib-
and let their hair grow long7
SHE HAD THE RIGHT
OF WAY AND TOOK IT
COURTESY PREVENTS ACCIDENTS
ute, and claimed a new "buried -7 -
1I II J XT1- flklnf Anm-
HUVC ICVU1U. lilB ViJAtx vuiii-
plaint was that he got "tired of
looking at nothing but faces."
The whole-experience typifies
What can a man believe any- .
more?
The corset industry snvi A- .
the desire of twentieth century merican women buy 3,500,000
man 10 escape irom oppressive "lalsies a year.
reality. And it may set a pattern And, as if that weren't bad ?
for the man of the future. enough, Manhattan butcher "
There Is no reason why every ,hops are now using rubber par
man shouldn't, from time to sley in their display cases. .-,
time, follow Emmert's example.
All he needs to "get away from The late Don Marquis, one
it all" is a shovel, a cheap pine of the best loved writers of hil
coffin and a friend to cover time, once did a stint in Holly
him up. wood. But the film company'!
The milk man could lower method of work made him "
him a fresh bottle of milk every nervous six weeks to do a .
morning, and the delivery boy script, when a month of idle-
from the delicatessen could drop ness while his agent turned up
him a ham sandwich or a hard- another job.
boiled egg once or twice a day. Marquis fled back to New
It would be a wonderful way to York. Later a friend, seeking -.
spend a restful vacation right his help on a script, called and 1
in your own back yard. And you said: (
wouldn't have to go through that "You want to make som
annual argument with your wife money?"
over whether to go to the moun- "How much will it cost me?"1
tains or the seashore. asked Marquis causiously. "?
s