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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, September 22, 1919
Swiping Capitol Functions
The Capital Journal is in receipt of a communication
from L. H. Bramwell, Union, Oregon, reading as follows:
"The enclowd newspaper clipping Indicates that the State
Board of Control has purchased property in Portland, on which
will be erected a state office building costing two and one-half
million dollars.
"This brings to my recollection a proposed attempt, a num
ber of years ago, by one of the state departments to establish
a branch office in Portland. Vigorous opposition at this time
came from one George Putnam, publisher. His contention was
that since Salem was the capital of the state, all slate offices
should be kept In Salem, and that any such a change might
eventually be an inducement to other departments to do like
wise and may in the end create state offices in Portland.
"Without animosity, bias or prejudice, I am interested to
know just what the present reaction might be in regard to
this matter at this time."
The above refers to an attempt made by the late Frank
C. Bramwell, then state superintendent of banks, to move
the office to Portland. A temporary injunction was se
cured by the Capital Journal to prevent the removal on
April 29, 1925, The restraining order was made perma
nent by Circuit Judge G. F. Skipworth of the First Judicial
district of Eugene, the local circuit judges of the Third
Judicial district having disqualified themselves. Mr.
Bramwell had to return to Salem.
The removal of Bramwell's office was contested as a
violation of Article XIV of the Constitution which pro
vides in Section 1 that the seat of government, Salem
as selected by popular vote in 1864, is the "permanent
seat of government." Section 3 reads:
"Seat of Government, How Removed Public Institutions,
Location Of. The seat of government, when established as
provided in section 1, shall not be removed for a term of
twenty (20) years from the time of such establishment, nor
in any other manner than as provided in the first section of
this article. All the public institutions of the state not located
elsewhere prior to January 1, 1007, shall be located in the
county where the seat of government is, excepting when other
wise ordered by an act of the legislative assembly and is rati
fied by the electors of the state at the next general election
following such act, by a majority of all the votes cast on the
question of whether or not such act shall bt ratified.
"Note the above section was proposed by the legislative
assembly (S. J R. No. 1), filed February 13, 1907, and adopted
by vote of the people, 41,975 for and 40,868 against, June 1,
1908."
Mr. Bramwell did not plan to establish a branch office
In Portland, but to move the main office and for his
personal convenience. There ie no prohibition against
establishing branch administration offices elsewhere than
in Marion county, and it is to house, for the convenience
of the public, these branch offices that the legislature
authorized the proposed $2.5 million office building at
Portland.
Last year Major General E. Thomas Rilea as adjutant
general of the Oregon National Guard announced his in
tention of moving his main office to his Portland branch
office. The Capital Journal immediately served notice of
court action to restrain him and General Rilea hastily
changed his mind and Salem remains ONG legal head
quarters. The Capital Journal long has fought to keep the capitol
In Salem and there is no "animosity, bias or prejudice"
in its efforts to keep the seat of government where the
Constitution puts it and has consistently fought devious
and clandestine piece-meal efforts of Portland and its big
legislative delegation and persistent lobby from swiping
it and will continue to do so.
There is another constitutional provision which the
courts have never construed because the issue has never
been raised, but is openly violated today as it has always
been.
Article VI, Section 5, dealing with the administrative
department reads:
"Office and records of Executive Officers. The governor
and the secretary and treasurer of slate shall severally keep
the public records, books, and papers, In any manner relating
to their respective offices, at the sent of government, at which
place also the secretary of state shall reside."
These state records by the way are being scattered all
over Oregon as revealed by the recent eatab:hment of
branch offices in 20 major cities of state by .Secretary of
State Earl T. Newbry.
The mushroom growth of bureaucracy perhaps made
necessary this wholesale scattering of state records, but
it certainly does not conform to the letter of the Consti
tution if it means what it says. That is up to the courts,
riot the newspapers.
BY BECK
Animal Life
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Two or One
By DON UPJOHN 1
Back in St. Louis, Mo., quite a controversy is raging over an
inscription carved on the side of a new county building. In it the
county building is spelled "court house." Somebody peered into
Mr. Webster's dictionary and found he spells such building as
"courthouse," or all in one abrupt word. We've taken a further
glance in Mr.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
How Senator Thomas'
Speculating Partner Works
By DREW PEARSON
Washington British economic czar Sir Stafford Cripps and
Foreign Minister Bevin attended a National Press club luncheon
while in Washington where Cripps, who controls Britain's econo
my with a vice-like grip, told in detail of British sacrifices because
of the dollar shortage.
"Just to give
you an example
of the sacrifices
we are making,"
said Cripps,
"both Mr. Bev
in and I hivi
given up tobac
co a our Dart
of the program A
to save dollars."
Where upon
Bevin. turning IV . A
to his luncheon "" "
companion, whispered:
"That's not the case at all. The
fact is I gave up smoking be
cause I couldn't stand the bloody
awful tobacco Cripps has been
buying."
NOTE In order to save dol
lars the British have been part
ly shunning North Carolina to-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
cultural products and sold by
processors . ."
Last year the senate expendi
tures subcommittee under Fer
guson of Michigan started to
ph)be the flagrant speculating of
Senator Thomas and his weird
link with Cullum.
Investigators actually raided
Cullum's office, whereupon Tho
mas threatened to expose some
of Senator Ferguson's connec
tions in Michigan and the probe
was suddenly dropped.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
President Truman has decid
ed to name General Walter Be
dell Smith as the top American
military representative on the
North Atlantic pact defense
committee. This will bring him
bacco and turning to their Afri- face-to-face again with British
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Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," ear of tht Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
Wins ton's vo
cabulary build
er, the abridged
one beloved of
s t e n ographers
and the like, U
and he spells it A
" court - house," I ,
p u 1 1 1 ng a hy-l
phen between
the words. Now
a further glance
at the preliml-
far as we know, so is Mr. Win
ston. But we'll take the one
word. It saves banging on the
space bar of the typewriter an
extra time and to a guy who
writes "courthouse" about 20
times a day this is a considera
tion above either esthetiscism
or purism.
It Happens Every Time
Columbus, Ga. IIP) For two
years tall grass had obscured a
Field Marshal Montgomery, the
man Smith bitterly criticized MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
uuilllg IIIC Well XUI 1I1B VttUUUUB
tactics against the Germans.
Friends of Secretary of Com
merce Sawyer say there is
n a r y sketches prepared by Mr. fjre hydrant. Motorists parked
Pietro Belluschi for the new by the hidden plug with never
Marion county building reveals protest from police. Civic-
that he seems to like the two minded Horace Gordon, who
word idea and where they ap- worked nearby saw his duty and
pear on the sketches they read chopped the grass. Then in an
"court house." We're not ad- unguarded moment Gordon
can colonies.
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
GOP Blocks Civil Rights It
wasn't a southern democrat but
a midwest reDublican who stop
ped the senate labor committee good reason for his many trips
from approving the fair employ- to Ohio. Sawyer, they say, is
ment practices bill behind closed preparing a buildup to oppose
doors. This is the most contro- Senator Taft in his re-election
versial measure in President race next year.
Truman's civil rights program. Agile young C o n g r e ssman
But the vote was blocked on a Gore of Tennessee is also getting
technicality by GOP Senator a buildup to run against Octo
Donnell from the president's genarian Senator Kenneth Mc
home state Missouri. Kellar.
Atlantic Defense The state Captain John Crommelin. who
department has called a highly Pke ut f tu" a?1"8 '
secret meeting of the joint chiefs io,ce- has been flooded with job
of staff of the twelve countries offers and magazine contracts,
in the North Atlantic pact. They " h.e ' ,ced ou ' Jhe "av7.
will meet in Washington the last he intends to go back to the fa
week In September. farm near Montgomery,
What Will Happen to
Mnccnlini'c Pmt Cnnnv7
y DeWITT MacKENZII
(ue For.irn Affslr Analyst
One of the ticklish problems with which the United Nations
will have to deal in the immediate future is whether to continue
the limited self-rule which has been tentatively established by
the British in the former Italian Mediterranean city of Cyrenaica.
This new government was inaugurated September 18 by Britain
military K-sa!
DOin religious ana temporal
leader of hia people.
There Is a disposition in some
UN quarters to criticize Britain
for making such a positive move
in advance of assembly consideration.
Food for Democratic Coun-
Mrs. Lorna Watkins is secre-
vised as to whether these will
appear on any inscription on
the new building here but if
they do, apparently they will
be in two words, rather than
one. Maybe it's a mountain out
of I
parked his own car by a hydrant.
He was the traffic court's first
customer from the newly ex
posed plug. He paid a $6 fine.
triesThe food and agricultural tary tQ utah! Senat(Jr Arthur
branch of the United Nations is Watki but the narneplate on
setting up an important orgam- her desk Iaini. ..NotHth, aen.
zation to sell surplus American ator,, wjfe ex.wife or niece
farm products to the undernour- What she doesn,t menti how.
ished countries of western Eu-
We've often commented on
mole hill but it's an inter- the seeming fact if you want to
rope and India. The plan should daughter-in-law
ever, is that she is the senator's
esting point, at any rate. The
St. Louis architect says he used
the two words because "esthetic
considerations are more impor
tant than puristic considerations
in style usage." Evidently Mr.
Belluschi also believes in the
esthetic in this particular in
stance as above the puristic. As
faj as Mr. Webster is con
cerned, he's dead and can't
say anything about it, and as
get a kick in the pants the sure
way to do it is to render some
public service. Foregoing para
graph merely is in confirmation.
The prison warden seems to
be slightly skeptical of Mr. Ben
son's story as to what happened
to Mr. Pinson. But wherever
Mr. Pinson is. dead or alive,
the chances are he isn't enjoy
ing himself.
LIFE IN THE STONE AGE
4,500-Year-Old Mummy
Unwrapped in New York
By LEO TURNER
New York, Sept. 22 U.R) A group of scientists today studied
a 4,300-year-old gent, whom they nicknamed Chavin Charlie, In
an attempt to turn back another leaf in American history.
Chavin Charlie was a highly publicized Peruvian mummy, the
first to be permitted to leave Peru, although more than 400 have
Deen found.
When he was finally unwrap- ing it with vacuum cleaner at
ped under the kleig lights at the tachments.
American Museum of Natural After a preliminary investi
History, he turned out to be gation, Dr. Carrion decided that
benefit both American farmers
and democratic countries, and
the experts claim they have
worked out a plan to lick the
toughest problem in internation
al trade the dollar shortage.
SENATORIAL SPECULATOR
It looks as if Senator Tho
mas's speculating partner, Dyke
Cullum, has diverse and wide
spread interests.
Last week it was revealed
that Cullum, who frequently
claims to represent Thomas, had
bought ten carloads of egg fu
tures at the same time that the
senator from Oklahoma had in
troduced legislation taking the
support price off of eggs. Sena
tor Thomas and Cullum have
used a joint trading account on
the commodity exchange in the
past.
Now, in addition to eggs, it
develops that Cullum has been
pulling wires with the agricul
ture department regarding lard.
(Copyright 19491
cupa t i o n au
thority appar
ently pursuing
a course some
what similar to
that of the
western powers
m tne mauer oir-v
the Germanif;
government at
Bonn.
The Cyrenai
ca regime is Bmu nek..ii.
headed by Emir Sayid Moham
med Idris El Senussi, the prince
ly personage who long has been
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Osaka Sam Sees U.S.A.;
Struck by Women's Beauty
By HAL BOYLE
New York (IP) Sam, a cigar-smoking, sakl-drinking big wheel
from Osaka, thinks one American product has only a limited
future in Japan.
The product is falsies.
"If Japanese girl wear European dress," said Sam, "maybe
falsies all right.
little more than a rag, some
bones and some hanks of hair.
But, according to Dr. Gor
don F. Ekholm, museum arch
eologlst, the mummy may tell
such things as what made hay
fever sufferers sneeze in 2,551
B. C.
"We will analyze everything
about him," Dr. Ekholm said.
"It may be that his wrappings
trapped some pollen, which will
show not only what time of the
the body was that of a Chavin
priest because a bit of reddish
fur, believed to be either a fox
or a dog, was found outside the
head wrappings. The ceremon
ial clothing in which he was
buried also indicated priestly
person,
She decided that the skele
ton was approximately 4.500
years old because of the strata
from which it had been taken,
Cullum's influence in agricul
tural matters results from the
fact that Thomas, as chairman of
the senate agriculture commit- orient
tee, can diock or pass mosi iarm
legislation.
Therefore, when Cullum, who
helps the senator write lpgisla
'But if she
wear kimono
no!"
It seems the
Japanese fem
inine ideal is a
bumpless sil
houette. "Sam" a
nickname h e
picked up here
is Isamu Sa
heki, 47, man
aging director of the Kinki Nip
pon railway, the largest inde
pendently owned railroad in the
The decision about Cyrenaica
and the other Italian colonies,
by the way, is the only legisla
tive Bction which the assembly
thus far has been authorized to
make. Power to decide this im
portant issue was conferred by
the Italian peace treaty.
Of course, despite any argu
ment over the timing of the
event, it long has been expected
that Cyrenaica (Mussolini's
prize colonial development)
would be turned over to the
Senussi, who are a Moslem ect
of Arabs. Britain promised them
during the war that they never
again would be returned to Ital
ian rule.
Britain's chief interest in Cy
renaica and It Is shared by
America is that this ex-colony
is an important military base.
domfnatins th msin shlnnfntf
must De pointed out here route through the Mediterran
that Sam didn't see the subway can.
in the rush hours. The harbor of Tobruk of
What did America have that V war memories and the big
would be helpful to Japan?
island of Crete to the north.
form a saddle riffht arnc. th
"There lots of very big things Mediterranean life-line from the
here that wouldn't fit small Strait of Gibraltar to the Sues
country like Japan," Sam mus- Canal.
ed. But he thought there was . , .... ., ,
. . .. Back In 1942, when Montgom-
room for automat.e vend.ng ma- ery nad just driven Mashll
chines including pinballers. Rommel out of Cyrenaica, I
And he felt Japan could adopt spent some time in that area and
a higher respect for women, a later was given the opportunity
thing that struck him about the of meeting the Grand Senussi
United States. in Cairo.
' 'In Japan woman walks be- I was guided to him by two of
The railroad owns a chain of hind," he said. his trusted lieutenants and had
hotels, department stores and And what Japanese custom a long talk with him about his
Bsl
tion, demands inside information theaters, and Saheki is visiting did he think America might fol- nPfs-
year he died, but also something lhe shape ot the head and tne
about the
period
plant life of the
Why Shouldn't County Ask for Road Funds?
Chairman Banfiold of the state highway commission
was curt and swift when it came to disposing of the pro
posed construction of the Mphama-Mill City highway. He
said Marion county was getting millions for the Baldock
traffic plan for Salem and so further funds could not be
spent in the county. He contended, furthermore, that the
Mehama-Mill City highway was a federal matter just as
much as the dam itself. He said that passage of construc
tion trucks jver the proposed road to the dam site waa
evidence enough that the suggested road was a federal
responsibility. This position of his was taken at the Tues
day meeting of the highway commission.
('ranting of several millions for the Raldock plan wa
certainly a great advantage to Salem, and Marion county,
too, for that matter, as the Capital Journal acknowledged in
yesterday's editorial. But certain facts should be remem
bered by Chairman Banfield and his board as to the step
child position the county has held since a highway com
mission was formed.
Here is the way the record looked to the end of 1947:
Of the 36 counties in the state, Marion county ranked
17th In the amount spent for road construction in Ore
gon. That covered the years since 1!H7 when the high
way commission program was started.
County Judge Murphy pinned the highway commission
down with these facts:
"Marion county has been contributing to state highway
funds through gasoline and other channels sn average of
12,000,000 a year and additional 1-rent tax will run that up
probably to S2 500,000. We received back an sverage ot about
$.100,000 a yeai.
"Undoubte lly In the 10 year period from 10.111 we have con
tributed around $15.0011,0110 to $20,000,000 Into the state high
way fund. We are not blaming the highws eommissloa for
The work of unwrapping
Chavin Charlie began last Thurs
day. Diplomats, scientists, re
porters, newsreel and television
cameramen crowded around the
operating table yesterday for
the removal of final wrapping.
Two kneecaps appeared in an
eight inch bed of dark brown
dust. Dr. Rebecca Carrion. 45.
small attractive director of
archeology for the Peruvian na
tional museum who brought the
mummy to this country, Im
mediately took charge.
"I have known 48 other mum
mies." Dr. Carrion explained.
The accumulation of dust, she
said, was from ceremonial fab
fact that all of the clothing and
wrappings were cotton, some of
it exquisitely embroidered.
"The Chavin dynasty was a
stone age culture that origin
ated in the Amazon valley." she
said. "There were about 30
Chavin colonies in Peru, the
oldest one at Paracas, north of
Lima, where this mummy was
found.
The later Chavlns had high
domed skulls which were form
ed by binding pillows in front
and behind a baby's head to
make it grow Into a long, peak
ed shape.
The skull had a small gold
plate embedded in the forehead
with a gold band extending
down the nose. There was an-
from the agriculture department
agriculture officials can't tell
whether they are giving it for
legislative purposes or for spec
ulative purposes. Naturally, in
side knowledge of government
purchases and price supports
could be used to make big prof
its on the commodity market.
Last month, Cullum began
pestering the agriculture depart
ment to support lard prices. Na
turally, support would cause a
spectacular jump in lard prices.
The agriculture department,
however, has adopted a policy
low to its advantage.
Sam thought and thought.
"Well, Japanese men very pa-
"Japanese women very, very
America to drum up some tour
ist business for the land of
cherry blossoms.
"Business bad now, better
next spring," he said. "How's
stock market doing?"
We had a long talk with Sam faithful to their menfolks."
and the Interpreter he leaned
on when his own thoughts ex
ceeded his English George
Alexander, Tokyo traffic man
ager for Northwest Airlines.
The Japanese Silk association
asked him to find out why
He certainly expected that
Cyrenaica would be returned to
his people and, while he ex
pressed no personal ambitions.
tient under bad luck," he said i h,d no doubt tnat h, beii
mm ins uecame Diana ana ne would
innocent
be their head.
The 61-year-old prince is all
that the most romantic could
wish an Arab shiek to be.
of supporting only agricultural American women prefer nylon
products, not by-products. A stockings, and Sam said:
support price for a by-product ..j fee, that siIk stockin((J are
such as lard, it focls, would not more flatle,ring to women's ieRS
help farmers, but the meat pack- nvion
f(lfelIX?
rics rotted by liquids from the her gold plate on the upper
l,odv liP- The eyes were sealed with
These bones are green!" she embroidered cotton cloth. The
explained. "That is important, embroidery carried out a "great
We must find out whv. All the " motive, which Dr. Carrion
others hsve been blsck." '1 ' "ed n emblem of
The work wss pslnstaking. protection In the next world.
The dust was removed by blow- The Chavins were absorbed
Ing It off the bones with a by the lncas about 800 to 500
rubber-bulb syringe and catch- B. C.
it hasn't been expedient or convenient to do these things until
now and a vast backlog of them has built up.
"The city of Salem evidently Is going to reap the harvest
from this back og but certainly such projects as the North
Santiam highway, Silverton road and South River road should
not be long delayed."
When it came to funds spent on upkeep of roads, Marion
county dropped to 2fith place in the state in a listing of
sums spent since 1917.
Under the circumstances, the request of the Marion
county delegation for funds over and above those neces
sary to atart the Baldock plan locally, was not out of line.
Therefore, the campaign to bring more highway funds to
the county is backed by the record of improper previous
attention to the needs of Marion county by the highway
commission.
ers.
Nevertheless, Cullum phoned
George Parks in the tats and oils
branch in the name of Senator
Thomas and demanded a price
support for lard. Parks promised
a written reply, and when it
didn't come fast enough, Cul
lum made two phone calls to
David Pettus in the livestock
branch for information on price
supports. Again he suggested
that the government buy lard.
Each time he represented him
self as speaking for Senator Tho
mas and the senate agriculture
committee.
As a result of Cullum's activi
ty, the agriculture department
finally sent an official letter to
Senator Thomas, dated Aug. 24,
in which it made pointed refer
ence to Cullum's queries.
The letter began:
"This is In reply to a recent
telephone request from Mr.
Dyke Cullum to the fats and oils
branch for information regard
ing the calculation of a parity
price for lard. As you know, the
parity price concept heretofore
has applied only to direct agri
cultural commodities sold by
farmers. It has not applied to
products such ss fats and oils
which are processed from agri-
Thoroughly broadminded as
W.ell as keen-eyed, he gestured
with his hands as if outlining a
barrel, and remarked:
"American women beautiful
very shapely. All have orig
inality In dressing."
Sam made a trip on the sub
way, but it failed to give him
any new Ideas on how to sar
dine more passengers onto his
own railway. It already carries
from 1,000.000 to 2,000.000 com
muters daily. He does plan,
however, to put on some cute
girl hostesses. They'll peddle tea.
A big league bssebsll game
gave his biggest thrill of the
tour to Sam, who has the yen
to buy a team for himself some
time. He was disappointed at
the small crowd only about
40.000.
"In Japan big game draw
100.000." he said.
The thing that Impressed him
most was that the crowd got up
voluntarily at the sound of the
national anthem "nobody had
to give order" and he was
amazed at the lack of shoving.
"Here one Individual doesn't
lmpo.e upon another," he said
gravely.
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