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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 19, 1949
Common Interests Suggest Merger
The more West Salem talks about the merger issue to'
be voted on next Tuesday the more powerful become the
arguments in favor of joining with Salem.
The basic reason for merging the two communities is
this: A common government for communities with com
mon interests. Perhaps it could be stated this way : What
helps West Salem will help Salem, and what helps Salem
will help West Salem. The two cities are so situated geo
graphically that their Interests are the same. So merger
is merely an admitted step in the growth of the two.
West Salem stands to lose nothing, actually, in a merger.
The city hall auditorium would be maintained for civic
functions for people In that area. City employees would
be absorbed in the metropolitan area formed. The water
office would be kept in the present city hall in West Salem.
A new ward would be created in the Salem city govern
ment for West Salem. And legal opinion believes that
present franchises on the west side will stand.
Because of the merging of public services for both com
munities, West Salem stands to gain a reduction in its
present city tax of 15.2 mills. The sewage disposal cost
for West Salem, if merger goes through, is figured at
65 cents, while otherwise it would be an estimated $1.25
a month.
West Salem would gain full fire protection if merged.
But, if the merger were defeated, West Salem would have
to pay Salem more or build its own station. To establish
fire protection for the west side of the river equivalent to
that of Salem's would involve a minimum cost of $15,000
Eer year for equipment, depreciation, wages, and training,
uch a figure would amount to 21 percent of the present
West Salem city budget.
A situation with similar added financial costs is true for
water. If a merger doesn't go through, West Salem must
build its own water system. And estimates have put the
cost at $100,000, plus three percent interest.
"
The benefits of merger are found in each consideration.
In insurance, for Instance, the difference in rates brought
by merger would mean a 10, to 20 percent reduction. King
wood annexation which went through last November
means West Salem will lose about $6000 per year in rev
enue previously received for water use in that area. To
compensate for this loss of revenue, West Salem residents
face a hike in water rates unless merger is voted.
Perhaps the best illustration of the realization of what
merger means to West Salem is found in the stand all
members of the West Salem city council have taken. All
Walter Musgrave, originated the merger proposal.
It is logical that West Salem and Salem should unite
their energies for the good of the area. One city should
tie the two together on the banks of the Willamette river
and in the heart of the valley.
Justice Frank Murphy
Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, 59, who died of
a heart attack at a Detroit hospital Tuesday, was an early
New Dealer and close friend of the late Franklin D. Roose
velt. He had a long period of public service in various
capacities and in his political career came to grips with
all the ills of civilization which stimulated the sympathy
with the "forgotten man" that is revealed in all of his offi
cial acts and court decisions. He held that caring for the
unemployed was a national responsibility.
Murphy's puDlic service began as an assistant federal district
attorney in 1019 in Michigan after serving in World War I. He
was judge of the recorders court in Detroit, 1023-30; mayor
of Detroit 1930-33, resigning to become governor-general of
the Philippines and later U.S. high commissioner, 1935-36. In
1936 he was elected governor of Michigan, appointed attorney
general of the United States In 1939, and associate justice of
the supreme court in 1940.
As governor of Michigan, Murphy was confronted with
te responsibilitj of dealing with a new technique in Amer
ican labor relations the sitdown strikes in auto plants.
His handling of the strikes brought sharp criticism but
he never wavered from his belief that armed labor con
flict should be avoided at all costs and he refused to
oust the sitdowners from the plants. He was dofeated for
re-election, though he had put into effect the state's first
civil service law and overhauled the penal system.
As mayor of Detroit at the depth of the economic de
pression of the early '30's Murphy asserted that a great
business depression should be as much a federal govern
ment responsibility as an earthquake. In one year he
spent $14,000,000 to feed and house the city's jobless.
During the year he served as attorney general, political
Bcandals were exposed in Louisiana, and Tom Pendergast,
democratic political boss of Kansas City, was sent to prison
for tax evasion. Murphy's last act as attorney general
was to deny that he had "for political purposes suppressed
possible proceedings" against others.
On the high Cuurt bench, Justice Murphy had a mystical,
almost priestly mien. Extremely mild-mannered, his be
neign attitude toward attorneys was emphasized by his
softly-spoken questions. But his opinions were vigorous.
His private motto was: "Speak softly and strike hard."
And he always was a member of the "liberal" bloc on the
bench.
The first thing friends usually mentioned in describing
the red haired, bachelor Murphy was his piety. He attend
ed mass regularly and read daily the old Bible that his
mother gave him when he was graduated from high school
in 1908. Justice Murphy neither smoked nor drank.
He Needed a Quarter Once
Seattle UR An unidentified seaman, about 38. stood on
a corner In Seattle's Skldroad and began giving away $200,
mostly in quarters.
Policemen J. A. Benin and N. H. Hansen arrived and
helped the man line up the eager men and women of all ages.
At least 800 persons received a donation.
When he finished giving the money away, the seaman
drove off.
"He Just wanted to help out some needy people." Benin
aid. "It seems somebody once helped him out when he was
n his uppers." '
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Danger Flags Flying
In Europe as in 1931
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Summer Is not a time when the American public
likes to worry about world problems. Nor is summer a time
when a newspaper columnist particularly likes to write about
them.
For reasons unknown, however, fate has seen to it that some of
the world's worst catastrophes
BYGULD
Wizard of Odds
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Built to Stay
By DON UPJOHN
Whn folks built buildings a half a century ago or so they built
'em to stay. Just a sample is the building now housing Busick's
Court street market which was recently revamped and rehabl-
tated. It was de
Suremouse kittens are spoken
for well in advance. The Eich
ners estimate they have given
away over 150 of her offspring.
County employes have been
planning a picnic out at Para
dise island for tomorrow night
and have been working on plans
for several davs. This is what
leads us to believe that the cur
rent showery spell will probably
turn into a real rain about late
were catapulted
time when our
cern was base
ball, beaches,
and bathing
beauties.
It was July,
1914, that the
Serbs saw fit to
assassinate Aus
trian Archduke
Franz Ferdi
nand, thus pre
cipitating World
War I. It was
the summer of
1938 that Hitler started his
campaign to swallow Czechoslo
vakia. It was the following
summer of 1939
World War II.
And, perhaps even more sig
through normal channels is not
going to bring communism west
ward. But the trade that Russia
wants is not going to be normal.
It will be barter and with all
sorts of strings attached. In
fact, the barter deals which a
depression-worried western Eu
rope makes with Iron Curtain
countries must inevitably lead
to two things:
A. The economics of the Iron
Curtain countries, now danger
ously low, will be revived. It
should be remembered that de
pression behind the Iron Curtain
has been one reason for Tito's
rebellion and for the restlessness
of the Czech. Polish. Hungarian
that began populations. New trade deals,
therefore, would be a lifesaver
to the Soviet.
upon us at a
primary con-
Orew Pearson
with stops, just 3 miles per hour is avera6e speed
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Send your "Odds questions on any subject te "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
cided to
up eight
close
win-
d o w s at the
Court street side
of the building
to make a solid
brick wall all
along that side.
Bricking up the
eight windows,
we're told, took
something like
22.000 bricks.
nificant, it was the summer of B. Anv exoansive enst-west
1931 that began the European trade will direct Europe's politi- .MM-.AM.ri,
economic crisis that put Hitler Cal thinking toward Russia, not POOR MAN S PHILOSOPHER
mio power. the USA. The Moscow radio
There are certain similarities would make the most of it. The
between that financial crisis of communist parties of France and
1931 and the present British fi- Italy would hail it as a major
nancial crisis. And, despite base- victory as it would be.
ball and hot weather, it will pay Furthermore, if depression
us to watch them. should deepen in Europe, as it
did in 1931-32, riots and revolu
Between 1921 and 1931, the tions are inevitable. That is the
United States had poured sev- kind of climate in which fuehr
eral billion dollars into Euro- ers are bred,
pean reconstruction in the same That is also the kind of de
general way we have poured velopment Moscow has been
money into Europe since V-E longing for.
day. .
I he money, of course, was Fortunately the Marshall plan
aavanceo oy
said
Wally Butter-
worth, a radio
disc Jockey.
"They rank in
private bankers, still has more than three years that order
Voices of the Past
Were More Expensive
By HAL BOYLE
New York (P) Sweet singers of the golden age of song are en
joying a fresh wave of popularity in the juke box generation.
"The favorites are Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, and Alma
Gluck,"
Don Cpjoha
Yea, the brick walls there put Wednesday afternoon and clear
up in 1889 are really brick walls UP aSaln late that evening,
and no veneer about them. They neavy Appetite
are solid brick 20 inches thick Los AnKeles (U.R)When Mr.
or so and will stand a lot of and Mrs, Winiam H. Meadows
not the government; but since to run
the bankers sold their bonds to Furthermore, the British fi-
the unsuspecting public, actually nancial scare has come early
it was paid by the Amercian i time for the Marshall plan
people in the end. ners to probe deeper into Eu-
Furthermore, much of our rope's basic economy by im-
money went to Germany, which proving factory methods, break
actually used it to pay repara- ing down boundaries, and build-
just as they did
in their own
lifetimes."
Butterworth
46, differs from
the ordinary
disc jockey in
that he plays
more.
"Probably the rarest records
in the world are seven made in
Italy by Caruso in 1902 for the
Zonophone company. I've seen
collectors pay $180 apiece for
copies, and I know of only one
man who has all seven."
Butterworth, who entered ra
dio in 1929 as an announcer,
has a library of 5,000 records,
one of the largest in the coun-
leaning against.
started building a new home,
their Dachshund pup, Puddles,
apparently tried to help exca
vators remove rocks. He start
ed swallowing them. Veterin-
tlons to France and England, i n g toward an unrestricted classical .or semi-classical vocal try. Currently he is engaged in
records
Oregon's Greatest Mother
Lebanon Suremouse. oldest
employe of the Eichner Feed
store awaits her fortieth blessed arians yesterday took 498 pleces
So, in real fact, we were the United States of Enrnne
main support of our allies, just if the danger flaes are not Sroaners.
as we are today through the heeded immediately and vieor- "Collecting
event on a pile of empty feed , rock welgnlng two pounds
shcks. ieii hi me siure oy an .,, 4I. j-, .,.u rm,.
unknown donor 18 years ago said wouId recover.
wnen nan grown, auremouse nas
known no other home, keeping
the store and warehouse entire-
A State street store carried
a sign changed every day ad-
ly free of rodents. According to vising as to the time which will
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Eichner. elapse until the deer season, it
she has had at least two litters being 73 days from today. That's
of kittens each year, averaging also handy for the morticians
five to each litter. Widely known to make the necessary arrange
as sure exterminator of mice, all ments,
Boy's Carving Comes in Handy
I.cwistown, Pa. (U R) The curiosity of a 15-year-old boy who
carved an automobile license on a fence Is cred'ted by police
for the arrest of a hit-run driver.
The boy Idly carved the number of a damaged car he saw
parked on a street. He reported it to police the next day
when he read an appeal for whereabouts of the driver.
Using the tip, State Trooper J. S. Valent arrested Russell W.
Pccht, unemployed silk mill worker. I'echt admitted driving
the car which sideswiped another operated by Miss Anne
Morgan.
Marshall olan.
Eventually, and' all too slow
ly, even the bankers, after re
peated warnings from the gov
ernment, work up to the fact
that their long-term loans to
central Europe were a poor
risk. And in the spring of 1931,
falling prices in the USA, plus
the continued crashing of the
famed Bull market, dried up the
flow of funds across the Atlan
tic. Immediately the banks in
Austria and Germany began to
tremble.
It was the British in 1931
as in 1949 who first called up
on the USA for aid. Their mon
ey, perhaps even more than ours,
was invested in central Europe;
ously, however, 1949 could turn
out to be another 1931.
(Copyrltht IBM)
Lamp Post Proves Deadly
Berlin W) A 74-year-old Berlin man bumped against a
lamp post on a dark night.
He was fatally injured.
FRIGHTENED AND BEWILDERED
Refugee Jells of Escape
From Red Terror Regime
Edirna, Turkey (U.R) Vasil Mavrodia is a 20-year-old Bulgarian
farmer with a bewildered and frightened look on his face who
so they asked for a moratorium has.Just managed to escape across one of the most tightly-guarded
n oil ,,li V,., (-!....,., gana lu luiiy.
to them and all war-debt pay
ments by them to us
nstead of the current a nation-wide search for lost or
unpublished recordings by great
old records is a singers of the past.
tremendous hobby today, he Wnen he started his radio pro
said, "and some of them bring gram here morc lnan tw0 years
fabulous prices up to $100 or ag0 over NBC station,- he ex
pected it would hold only a nos
talpic appeal for old-timers.
"But I was amazed at the
way younger people reacted,"
he said. "Many of them had
never heard voices of that
quality."
Butterworth later held a
aeries of evening record con
certs, and found 42 per cent of
those who attended were under
30 years of age.
"Many were curious to hear
more of the music their par
ents know and loved," he said.
"Few people realize the sing
ers of that time were every bit
as popular as Bing Crosby is
today," he said.
"Caruso made at least $3,500,-
000 out of records alone, and in
the year after his death his
but he could not follow because
row-legged peasant trousers, a of his other two prisoners. I
,..1,1.. I I ...I.U. 1 U ,4nnl 1. ...U..4 u-j i .. v B ltl 1Jlil
Then as now, the secretary of w'r , u ' "" ""u iu estate earned $600,000 in royal-
shirt, Mavrodia sat in a Turkish "I kept going in the direction than '2,000,000 people
Tiricnn Mill hnre onri fnlrf n rtr T rnniiffht was Tnrlrov Tn o Yns-vt . . . . ' '
j u u . il i." " ZTt " m " 7,'x. 1 ,j nought John McCormack's rec
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
World War III Seems
Inevitable to Asiatics
By JAMES D. WHITE
(SubAtltutlns for DeWitt MacKensle, AP Forelm News AnalratI
It isn't the same cold war any more.
Until the Paris peace conference, the cold war was treated by
both sides largely as a European deadlock. The Berlin blockade
and airlift held the spotlight.
Now the conflict in Europe Is colonialism,
changing, and a vast new front The communlstis tactic Is to
is opening up in Asia. change evolution away from
In Europe, postwar produc- colonialism Into revolution. It
Hon if filling war-starved mar- brands every western attempt to
kets. Competition is making discourage violence as just more
the ecnomic phase of the Euro- imperialism American imperl
npnn strnciln more iniDortant. alism.
Also, communism has stepped
the treasury, Andrew Mellon,
crossed the Atlantic, for confer
ences. Then as now, the British
urged that the United
save the day.
We did for the time being,
President Hoover declared a
moratorium ort all debt and re
parations payments for two
years.
This, however, was only tem
porary. The economic crisis
drifted drifted and deepened.
States ?."?! wh3!the ran away from his morning some Turkish soldiers .ding o T Hear You Cam
.h tie native village of Arapli in caught me and I knew I was Me. made ln 1912and o one
m 1 1 l r j " -'j- nas ever sung jt s0 weU since
th?JuUrk.'Sh ,OTCLer- ' u AI"a Cluck's 1914 recording of
The trouble began when my Turkish police say Mavrodia 'Carry Me Back to Old Vir-
uncle gave me a white ballot to is extremely lucky. ginny', sold 1,500.000 copies at
The Bulgarians patrol their $1.50."
boundary so well and have set
us such elaborate safeguards Todav the toD salarv at : th
that almost every would-be Metropolitan Ot,era is 7sn a
cast against the communist gov
ernment in the May elections,"
he said.
"My uncle is a religious man
In this situation there are
I glous organTinlTon.. The Calh- They originate
olic church has answered with a " th,f, way lhS East, hlnks f
mighty weapon major excom
munication. In communist dom
inated countries with large
filet" weT'church a'nd slaie
tho West and of alien west
ern things like democracy and
communism.
Some Asiatics were civilized
With depression comes political "V 'l 't To .rtocVl ix vears J T , g?u . niBht but Butterworth said
nrt AnH nn -,nn ii, 1 only went "P"0?1 IX Several months ago refugees Caruso was paid $2,500 a ner-
were coming across daily, some- formance from 1903 to 1920.
"My uncle was always talk- times in groups. On one concert tour he made
ing against the communists and In addition to patrols, every $10,000 a night for 20 niehts
All disarmament stopped. The sald thev were ruinin8 our coun- villager and peasant in the bor- "It was a golden age in more
League of Nations began to dls- trv 1 ilstnea 10 nlm Because oer region is required to report ways than one," said Butter
integrate It was now only a wa anSrv-to0' Mv father own- to the police twice daily, when worth. "But they don't have
matter of time before war was ed 130 dekars ot land but tne he oes to hls fields to work and voices like that any more,
inevitable communists say now he must when he returns. A villager is "They could have but they
. , , give 80 or 90 dekars for the hoi- punished even for failing to re- don't. It's chieflv a matter of
There are a lot of differences noz (collective). port any missing member of his work. They've injected too
They are taking tne Best part s""f ' many nonywooa leatures lnio
of our farm and leaving the the business. They want the
worst And for a familv nf .ix The Turks say Mavrodia will sopranos streamlined.
,. we must have at least 70 dekars be assigned to live with some "In the old days a singer
of good land even for a bare lurKisn-uuiganans tor several would study for five to seven
living. weeks before he will be free to years before even daring to sing
live in lurxey, since lurmsn an opera in public. Now thev
fuehrer had raised his head in
Germany. A few months after
that, he had stepped into power.
between the first cracks in the
world's economy in 1931 and the
first cracks to show in 1949. But
the main object lesson to be re
mcmbered is:
Depression breeds unrest, and
enough unrest breeds war.
"So when my uncle gave me
the white ballot I was angry
authorities make every
guard against spies.
I : -j i, , i,
uct- U.U,.Ki o.,u. pe(jple they hBve g har()y cQm
There are many links with piex about past and present col
Europe in this country which or drawn in the west
make it fairly easy for the TniS( warmed by the orien
American people to grasp the tars proud resentment over his
meaning of what goes on in Eu- coi0nial experience, produces a
strong prejudice that saturates
the orient.
There is little faith In peace.
enough to put it in the box
But the communists noted all
the names of those who cast 'QUIT KIDDING US!'
white ballots and a few days '.
later the police came to visit us.
They asked me why I gave
safe- study two years and figure they
are ready for the Mel."
World War III seems inevita-
rope.
Neither the average Ameri
can nor the average European
is as well prepared to under
stand what is happening in east blc to most Asiatics. Judging
Asia. This is where communism from their own feudal- back
has opened up a whole big new ground and what Russo-Ameri-front.
can statesmanship they have
This front shows signs of be- seen first-hand, they do not be
ing coordinated, like the drive lieve the two young giants of
against religious groups in Eu- the world today are capable of
rope. living in peace with each other.
But in Asia it takes another I talked to dozens and dozens
form. It prods the vast unrest of Asiatics last winter during
prevailing among more than a four month tour, Just when
half the people of the world, communism was winning in
and its strategy is to marry their China its greatest triumph since
various nationalist movements. 1917.
Nationalism is a tide in Asia, Every single Asiatic to whom
as her people seek a better life. I talked openly or Implicity con
Asiatics want to get away from firmed his lack of faith in peace.
Case of Long-Range Frustration
Burlington, Vt. U.K Richard Stoehr, of St. Michael's col
lege, waited Impatiently for weeks to learn what Japanese
critics thought of one of his compositions which was featured
at a Tokyo concert.
Finally, the reviews arrived by mall but left Mm no wiser.
They were written ln Japanese.
Today England and western
Europe is in just about the same
boat faces the following alter
natives: 1. Do nothing and go broke.
2. Beg for more aid from the
United States and become a poor the white vote
pensioner. They only beat me a little,
3. Improve plants and produc- but they beat my uncle much
nl .rr.Tw k n,re- Spokane, Wash. (U.R)Resentment is growing among funeral
any great extent with Marshall .,A few days iater he tried to directors toward gags about their profession,
plan money, despite outmoded eseape int0 Turkey and was They don't like the "Digger Odell" character on the radio
factories which make most Eu- caught. They took him away show "Life of Riley." Many rojiineraQo
ropean goods cost more than somewhere. Then I became ietlers have been written to the matter was discussed
a m . . ' i,f . aIra,d and aecmea 1 W0U1Q " show and national trade maga-
4. Negotiate tight, two-way tn esi-nnp. tnn
uHi ier ucais, sucn as me .Driiisn
Argentine trade pact; though
Funeral Directors Resent
Gags About Profession
Although the delegates felt
.... i a . . uicy luuiu do noining aooui n,
ii .u u One of the latest manifests- they felt it didn't show the best
because it wa. near and my tions of this eeling grew out o t J 1 show tne
KttM IWto would the conventio of, the Washin- "When Digger Odell come, on
a "fugee" " ' T.'ra'h ' laURh'" Hen6S-
"The village watchman want- of Forein Wars here' sey says, "but, also, thousands
ed to escape, too, and another Spokane morticians raised an are hurt because of a recent or
man, so the three of us set out objection when the VFW was impending death in the family.
together at sunset on June 4. ue an employe of one of "We are trying to ease the
The watchman had his watch- the funeral homes here as a pain of a family in mourning.
man's gun. candidate for the gag office of We feel that is lots to laugh
"But when we were going "department mortician." about without making fun of
throush the forest w were mid- Howard Ball, one of the own- such a serious matter."
Marshall plan blocking com- denly surrounded by six soldiers ers 01 lne lunerai home, said his However, the FVW went
munism. For it is doubtful whe- on horses. They took the watch- employe could not take part in through with its morticians' gag
ther any member of congress man's gun and sent one of the the "campaign." and elected Joe Tighe, assistant
would have voted a nickel into soldiers to guard us and take us "There is a verv definite feel- chief of staff, department mor-
the Marshall plan kitty without to prison. ing among funeral directors that Ician,
:1.2 promise that it would check there is no place for levity sur- Decked out in frock coat, black
the westward march of Russian "It was still dark and when rounding death," Ball said. beard, string tie and striped
communism. we were going through a thick Charles Hennessey, secretary pants, he appeared throueh the
. IL. t . T -..-..J . U T .. 1 J t : tr. i ..
pait ui me luiesi i eMjHyeu ui miaiiu empire r unerai convention as he carried on a
again. The soldier shot at me Directors association, says the vigorous campaign.
these usually boomerang in the
end.
5. Trade with Russia and the
Iron Curtain countries.
The latter alternative Is the
one which has recently tempted
the British to the tune of a 1,-000.000-ton
wheat deal.
It also contains dangerous po
tentialities for undermining the
chief political objective of the
Moderate t r a d i with Russia