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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 19, 1949
- Planning for the State for 75 Years
",1 People throughout Oregon today are seeing a proposed
. expansion plan for the capitol group of buildings here in
'," Salem. Pictures of the program, expected to cover
needed governmental buildings for the next 75 years, are
s! appearing in newspapers in the state.
The thought behind the wide-spread publication of the
first report of the Capitol planning commission is one that
" is often overlooked. The buildings and plan will belong to
- the entire state. If public opinion in all parts of Oregon
Is behind the program, the weight of support will bring
" about almost automatic acceptance of the plan in Salem.
" Being the capital of the state, Salem has a double inter
na est in the plan : First, as a city of Oregon, and second,
c as the capital faced with the specific problem in relation
: to development of the city itself.
Such a plan as is proposed should not be called vision
ary because it happens to extend as far north as D street.
Since Oregon is growing so rapidly and has every reason
' to continue to grow, state functions must expand with that
,r development. Therefore, buildings will be needed to keep
up with that expansion of governmental functions. If the
, first 90 years of the state's growth have produced the
number of state buildings present in Salem now, it seems
reasonable that the growth of another 75 years as en-
.- visioned in tht program, will call for probably seven more
-- buildings to oe added to the capitol group.
-' Another way of looking at the program is to consider
' that the city would not be faced with the zoning or layout
' problems if such a development program had been laid
' out when the capitol was first built in this city.
The nation's capital, Washington, D. C, for instance,
doesn't face that kind of a problem because Major L'Enfant
and other founders of that city planned for the avenues,
streets, parks and government buildings. The plan for
Washington was drawn in 1791, when the area was open
ground dotted with trees.
Now is tha time for all planning groups, state, city, and
- chamber of commerce, to come into general agreement on
' the capitol plans. The first joint conference of the groups
"Friday left an impression that a meeting of the minds
1 on the 75-year program was likely. The only debate seems
" to lie with the problem of what should be the policy for
' the "fringe" area around the proposed capitol group. That
., is the area fronting the present and future rectangle
" of buildings along Winter, D, and Capitol streets.
, This will be the most difficult problem to be solved. And
only by constant meetings of all the planning groups can
-, gome logical and practical solution be arrived at. When a
-'policy for the "fringe" area is determined, then the peo
ple affected and others with their eyes on that area for
' developments, will be certain of a steady policy.
"' Generally speaking, the broad outline for the capitol
"' buildings seems sound and a long-range service to the'
people of the state and city,
Baruch Shows His Usual Wisdom
The Oregonian laments the announcement of "elder
' statesman" Bernard M. Baruch that he is leaving what is
left of his fortune (he has been giving it away generously
"for charitable purposes for years) to the promotion of
"physical medicine" research and development. It com
f ments :
s "We are not one to look gift millions In the mouth, and Mr.
, Baruch is peculiarly worthy of the gratitude the announcement
of his plan will occasion. Nevertheless, the world is suffering
'from a frightful lag in the social sciences by comparison with
the physical sciences and the resultant confusion threatens the
1 world's undoing."
' Webster's dictionary thus defines social sciences:
'- A. The science that deals with human society or its charac-
n teristic elements, as family, state, or race, and with the rela-
tions and institutions involved in man's existence and well
n being as members of an organized community sometimes
synonymous with politics but more often with sociology.
,, B. One of a group of sciences, dealing with special phases of
human society, as economics, sociology, politics, ethics, etc.
,. Social science has not been neglected. It is studied and
f. taught in all universities and colleges and paradoxically
;.the more it is studied the more the confusion through dis
(agreement over conclusions. Sometimes its study seems
to be to make confusion more confounded with conflict-
ing theories, so it can hardly be classed with the exact
sciences.
For instance a large proportion of the college professors
of social science follow the social science party line of Rus
rcian Soviets and have become communists or fellow trav
elers, and instill their foreign ideologies into their stu
dent bodies. Thus they sow the seeds of revolution against
- democracy and the ideals of America.
Mr. Baruch exhibited his usual wisdom when he de
'cidod to leave his fortune to the promotion of human wol-
fare instead of what makes for the destruction of all that
'makes life worth living.
-Worst Wave of Sex Crimes
Z News dispatches bear out the claim of the FBI that the
-nation's worst wave of sex crimes is under way. The up
. swing in sex offenses began with the end of the war,
preached an nil time high in 1947 and has continued with
-only slight decline since then. Figures for the first half
Zt this year show that the record of 1947 is being tied and
in all probability sex crimes of 1949 will exceed those of
I two years ago.
There were 3725 rapes committed in urban areas in the
nix months ending last June 30, and 1881 in rural sec
J tions. The average in cities was 688 rape cases per 100,--000
populatijn, more than half the rate for all of 1947.
" The FBI said there is a good chance the wave of sex
Jcrimes will continue until the nation's criminal laws are
.strengthened. Director J. Edgar Hoover long has advo
Jcatod statutes that would require sex offenders, even in
; minor cases, to undergo medical and psychiatric treat
Jment. If this fails, offenders would be permanently iso-
lated.
a Hoover blames the leniency of courts and parole boards
Jacross the nation for much of the rise in sex crimes, but
-also holds that parents and victims themsch'es are at
Jfault. He contends the court and police boards set such
j "ridiculously" low bonds and parole requirements, and
.thnt offenders go virtually free to repeat their crimes,
j; Imprisonment does not reform a confirmed rapist and
only temporarily safeguards victims. The only cure for
"this form of insanity is castration which restores sanity
to perverts and a major deterrant to crime.
BY BECK
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY GUILD
Actions You Regret
''"-'k ouo host says Te lachM
m CM, CLARA I KjS NEXT POOR MAS FALLEN f.
ZM-a.C-L-A-R-AI fSWL ASLEEP ANO OOESN'TgC?
r mffimaffi? up egsffigl hear her fhienos JSj;
Marine Gen. Warton Faces . Wizard of Odds
Toughest Job as L A. Chief
Br DREW PEARSON
(Editor's Note: The brass ring, good for one free ride on
the Washington Merry-Co-Round, today goes to Ma). Gen.
William A. Worton, tha ex-marine who is now cleaning up
Los Angeles.)
DISCRIMINATION ASAINCT
CMILDBEH IN ONE OCX OUT OF
FOUR. IS BCSPONSIBLE FOB
SOME HOUSING 6P6CC BE INS
UNOCCUPIED...
Los Angeles When Negro Singer Faul Robeson came out
to Los Angeles shortly after the Peekskill riots, it' was generally
expected that all hell would break louse.
Robeson was reported to have pic'ied this polyglot, mush
roomed metropolis , of the west coast because of its crackpot
communist fringe and the hope
that another riot would add more holes, and went home. ,
fuel to the distorted flames of The Los Angeles press seems
the Moscow radio. to love Sheriff Biscailuz and sel-
But Just the opposite happen- dom points to the fact that it's
ed. Robeson came and left Los in his bailiwick that things are
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Why Did Little Minot Rate
Special Place in Magazine?
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Retor St Paul'a EptMoptl Church
Recently there appeared in the Saturday Evening Post a story
of Minot, North Dakota. It interested me greatly, because I was
Rector of the church there from 1922 and 1929. Our two youngest
children were born there. I belonged to the Curling club, the
Elks club, the Kiwanis club, and several smaller groups.
After having read the story
of Minot in the magazine, I tried sports, its climate, or its seclu
to find a reason for its getting sion in the vast treeless plains of
the headlines. the Dakotas, but because I was
It certainly is not because of leaving a real people who were
its location it is only a col- loyal, whose hearts were warm,
lection of buildings on a bleak who inspired one with their
prairie. It is not because of courage, and who never gave up.
the climate, which produces If they were discouraged, they
blizzards in winter wind and didn't cry about it.
Their hospitality was without
limit. They supported their
churches. ,
One story will help to illus
trate this point.
When the church budget was
to be raised, we carefully pulled
from the list of families to be
solicited for a pledge card the
name of a woman with six child
ren (the youngest 8 years) whose
sole income was derived from
taking in washing.
When she found the budget
had been raised and she hadn't
been asked, she broke down in
It Is the spirit of Minot that copious tears. She had been left
has produced and sustained a out. She couldn't understand
stalwart community, as well why her "mite" was not as ac
through years of drought and ceptable as other people's de
privation as through Its years lars.
of prosperity. You cannot eat a spirit like
And that spirit Is the sum that,
total of the character and moral Everyone was a part of Minot,
fibre of the people, who through and. Minot was the sum total of
tribulation and prosperity say, men and women with a corpor
"Why Not Minot?" and kept ate sense of responsibility for
their chins up and their hearts their city, their churches, and
warm. the general welfare.
I confess to having shed a few The best way to measure the
tears as I left that almost magic character of any city is by the
little city. I experienced this loyalty, the integrity, the re
emotional upset as I left, not sponsibility, and the warmth of
because of its sunshine, its its people.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
m -N. 17: IV
trT WES 87. MORB ENEMY
V J FOR YOU TO STAND UP THAN
wide open, free and easy.
Of course, there may be a
reason for this love.
Not long ago the sheriff threw
a party at the Eastslde brewery,
with a young army of newsmen
present. There was also plenty
Just how the sheriff could afford
of bourbon and filet mignon.
such a party remains a mystery, n ki . K,,c DU, nCDDUCD
irri- AUi " , A I
THAT YOU HANDLfe THE
FAMILYS FINANCES r
The Man in the Black Beret
Coming to America for Visit
hail storms in
summer.
It is not be-3
cause of a par
ticularly good,
sense of securi
ty far m e r s '
pockets may be
buldging with.-
money one year,
but they may be
frantically neg
otiating loans to ,
keep going the
next
v m
Angeles without
a ripple. No
baseball bats
were wielded.
N o rocks
thrown. No ova
1 1 o n awaited
him.. And, most
important of all,
no propaganda
fed the Moscow f tkr A but his objective was no mys
radio. VA 1 A 11 tery.
The man re-" Dr,w ,,.riT. "We've all bee in this thing
sponsible for together for a long time," he
this efficiency is a stocky, quiet Baid, in a little speech of wel-
spoken officer who trained the com "so remember your old
IrA marines for the landing at friend f.pno BicrailiiT If thirty
Okinawa and who is now tack- start popping. And remember By HAL BOYLE
ling the toughest job of his life. we've always been friends." New York UP) The man in the black beret is coming to Amer
It is no exageration 10 say mat a few days later 200 deputy lea.
Maj Gen. William Arthur Wor- sheriff badges, as big as Pepsi- It's the most famous beret in the world, and the man who
ton would rather lead troops in- cia. badges, were handed out to wears it so jauntily is one of the world's most renowned war
to battle than face the political tne. press. riors Field Marshal Viscount Montgomerery.
morasses an pitfalls that await , . , He aITjves Monday on the ;
the chief of police of Los Angel- mn ,,. r..,.i Queen Elizabeth to talk to Amer- guard military circles for his
es. ,N ' n?er' wh.e" ,Gene.ral En military leaders on defense cocky swagger and brash self-
yvorion kjok over me jos An- --- - -- - - ti,... m. n
British
and
second only to Patton as a col
orful personality.
The slender, fastidious little
soldier won his spurs as a cap
tain in the first world war dur-
l ing which he was twice wound
ed and six times cited for gal
lantry. In the second world war he
learned the lesson of defeat as
a major general in the retreat
from Dunkerque, and the lesson
"V , .rt Zi 7f,,n7n; measures for fortress Europe, confidence. These same qi
Hi, job is probably typical ST''SrlSS r at 62 thatf
of that faced by the modern, ov- newspapers. He hadn't learned is Monty s 3obf,-TJ He was the r Patton,
ergrown, big American cny tne trick of passing out fjiet as supreme com-f
whicn is now trying 10 prevent mjgnon, bourbon and deputy manner hi :
the new wave of sex crimes, sheriff badges. Western Europ
robberies and degeneracy that The ex-marine corps general Pean Alliance
has engulfed every big city in jeads a lonely life, but it's be- to erect 13 de
the wake of war. ginning to pay dividends. Every tense against
When General Worton took night after supper he makes a Russia.
office late last summer, just aurprise inspection of a police . Wna.'' "e
about everything under the sun station. Every day he is getting like' this "ner
happened at once. Mickey Co- better morale, more loyalty, and ' E1 Alamein?"
hen, much-publicized sultan of more work from his men. Many Well, he's the
me uiiuciwunu, nau or me lm nngcira ponce lorce - --; ... nf viclnr nt VI Alamein
shot at. Worton's predecessor as are now ex-veterans and, though 'ai sold,er ahve- and "f" lo glt M.-hTln
chief of police had just been in- green, take their work seriously oescrioe as a "" rv ''''7J'i
dieted though later acquitted. Worton's greatest problem is tw0 ides- yan, .;h rth
And a raft of dictaphone record- the fact that under civil ser- " lw S7J1
ings taken from a microphone vice rules he can hold office '' legendary Monty. Wi to over command
hidden in Mickey Cohen's house only four months. This rule was grinning, reckless apostle of Jne '"J? a"
made headlines in the Los An- adopted to keep politics out of he Principle of attack. And i by the Germans Mont-
gele. papers. the police force. But now the "re's the Monty of fact, a " "5S3 ""T
Indicative of the easy going politicians and the mobsters are cautious careful planner re luc- hUeuta-Bt general, then
lethargy of the los Angeles po- falling back on it to keep off ake the offensive unless wy"t "'.w digging-the
lice force was, first, the fact that their neck, for more than , ctoo practically guaranteed GJmZa7oinX'ti
these dictaphone recordings had temporary period the greatest m advance. far " he told his troops
been laying in a police lieuten- cleanup servant Us Angeles has ,. ? "u , F r . , His "desert rats" sto
ant's garage for months. And,
second, the fact that the record
ings were sold to various under
world leaders before they. were MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
shown to tne new cniei oi po
ever seen.
Copyr!7ht 1049)
lice.
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
((f) Porettn Aftilr Antlnu
There's more than appears on the surface in the British
Overpass Needed
By DON UPJOHN
The state capitol zoning commission's map of its proposal
for the capitol development looks nice from the air but it seems
to have certain drawbacks for the folks in town who'll have to
live with it. Willson park and the capitol grounds along with
the university already cut off the north and south ends of town
In fact, Los Angeles generally
was so uninterested in its own
police graft that Dick Hyer of
the San Francisco Chronicle
stole the story right from under
the noses of the Los Angeles
newspapers. And for some days,
T rt AnffalM nniwri wen fran.
tically rewriting the San Fran- socialist government's sensational compromise with the conserva
cisco Chronicle stories in order tives whereby nationalization of the great steel industry will
to report what was going on tn be delayed until after the next general election.
thru7? 0W1Vr . . This steel project was top item In the nationalization program
nuaiucutioi anQ me OQVem-
the Los Angeles police force ment had been j
anxious to
achieve it be
fore facing the
m
and a box of shredded wheat.
She was just going good when
they found her and made her tection.
desist.,
one an
other except by
a roundabout
route and under
the p r o p o s ed
capitol z o ning
plan It'll take a
guide pretty
near to route
anybody from
east to west or
vice versa. Of
nonrsp Ihp ivrv.
pic w h o live -" Saver
hir will ffot hspH to it after Note from a mother who wrote
awhile but the visitors will have us some lme bacl complaining
to wander around like in one abou la ' stP signs at 17th
may also be typical of what is
happening in other American
cities.
When he tried to fire the Vot.r a era in
head of his detective force, he Their sudden
found that he couldn't. The de- backflop means,
tective chief was protected by aJ conservative
civil service. And If charges eader Winston
were preferred against him, Churchill point,
those charges were heard by a out that the
board of fellow police officers eiectjon wjj be
whose watchward was self-pro- aimost . ref-
ligious, Montgomery is widely Hi "desert rats" stopped the
disliked in his own nation's old German attack, then defeated
Kommei at ti Alamein. over
night little Monty became the
empire's greatest hero. Method
ically he chased the nazi Africa
corps 1,400 miles-to a German
version of Dunkerque on Cape
Bonn in Tunisia.
Montgomery also led his eighth
army in the Sicilian campaign
and in Italy. Later he met and
defeated Rommel again as com
mander of allied ground forces
in the invasion of Normandy.
A German tank commader
said of him:
"He is a hard man and ruth
less in gaining his objective."
Monty also had as his axiom
before attack: "Let's tidy up
British Socialist Government
Stakes Life on Compromise
the socialist leaders and is cred
ited with being a shrewd Doliti- the battlefield." That was his
cian. What he is angling for ap- way ' saying, "Let", be sure
pears to be the big middle-class we're ready."
vote of the nation, and so are the His genius for winning the
conservatives, for thi, is the heart of British common soldier
now unpredictable element in was exemplified by a number of
the forthcoming general elec- reforms he instituted In his post
tion. war army.
That middle-class vote rcpre- "Why shouldn't the soldier
sents the balance of power. And read in bed if he wants to?" said
the middle-class will know ex- Monty. "I always do."
actly what it is voting for. If it Monty is reported to have told
Some Consolation
(Independence Enterprise)
West Salem is now a city of
the past. It is now a part of the
city of Salem. However, it is still
a part of Polk county. .
In brief, Los Angeles had gone
nafinnallTlnff .tool
to such extremes with civil ser- '
vice that a "police union," as ........ .
tightly controlled as if it had . Naturally this development
iJL, nr.anw.rf hv John L. has inspired the thought among
Lewis, had developed.
erendum" on the proposition of votes "yes," it will ensure a con- Churchill once that he was 100
tinuation of the sweeping social- per cent fit because he neither
1st program. smoked nor drank. The pudgy
This, of course, means that so- prime minister's reply:
cialism will be on trial for iU "I smoke, I - drink, and I'm
life in England. 200 per cent fit!"
of the old fashioned mazes. May
be an overpass could be con
and Center streets. "Some time
back," she writes, "you printed
structcd over the whole thing f Plca 1 made 'or safety at this
to solve the difficulty. intersection before some bad ac-
cldent occurred. And what do
Worrying about your Thanks- vou know- yesterday the city put
. . . , , in stop signs and now it is a
giving dinner? Then consider four.wPav ,top. My, how some
the case of Big Burma, an ele- of those Center street speedsters
phant with Mills Brothers cir- were surprised to see officers
cus, which back In Clrcleville, waving them down to remind
Ohio, in the early hours yes- hem that the stop signs mean
, . , . . , , exactly what they say and that
terday morning broke loose in ,he!,e motorists are not tn such
winter quarters and made her a rush as they think. Now life
way to the cookhouse truck and should be a little more peaceful
took on an early holiday feed in this part with the slowing
all on her own. She ate 100 lbs. down. Thanks again to you and
of potatoes, 25 lbs. of onions, your wonderful column. From
20 loaves of bread, 10 lbs. of the mother who wrote you be
pancake flour, eight candy bars fore." ,
OPEN FORUM
His Ticket Had Expired
Columbus, Ga. U.B A. P. Shepperson was glad to get back
to the South, even It it cost him extra.
The grocer bought a round trip ticket to Adelanto, Calif.,
In 1902. He "liked it so much" he didn't return to Georgia
untH 1949, by which time the stub had long since expired.
Shepperson sent it to the railroad company as a 47-year-old
souvenir.
Should Pardoned Bank Robber
Run for Governor of a State?
By OSWALD WEST
GTtrr H Oram Irai Itll la Ull .
The efforts of our so-called Democratic leaders to settle on
Season of Thanksgiving
To the Editor: This Is the season of Thanksgiving. It has
always seemed to me that gratitude Is at the heart of all true
religion and any personal maturity. Thus I thought that I would
drop you this brief line to say "thank you I like your paper."
When I think of some things that are apparent on the national
and world scene and am inclin-
ed to get discouraged, then I am 'or them, and my own feeling
helped If I look about me and turns from anxiety to hope,
think of the lives of people CHESTER W HAMBLIN
whom I know. I believe God is First Presbyterian church,
working In them, I thank God Salem, Oregon
some observers that It represents
one of those patriotic gestures
Chief Worton's job has been which John Bull characterizes
difficult not only because Los aj J "1"" n et' " that is
Angeles filled up during the war-ood sportsmanship and a demo
wlth a motley migration of mid- a '? W'"'"""' leav the
west war workers, pension-hunt- deE slon T'6-,,
ing oldsters and migrant Mexl- " ma2 indeed be all of that,
cans, but also because large sec- aPd we don:t need to rob 14 'ita
tions of the city are not under when we suggest that
his control. considerably more Is involved
,.-. m j ,.. I believe Prime Minister Att-
Hollywood, Beverly Hills. Pas. 1 has made this gesture mainly MARION COUNTY RECOLLECTIONS
adena, and half a dozen of the . ' "
other cities that nudge Los An- his party can control a majority
geles and really make up Its of ne voters
metropolitan area, operate their He aPPfntly was confident
own police forces. On top of this ,,ew "th ag0 lnat he couId
Los Angeles county has 3.000 wln- But lne economic crisis
police of its own. and it is in hl become so complicated and
the county rather than the city uncertain that public sentiment
,. sn.,thrn r.HMmi. Mmh. today can t be accurately gaug
ing really flourishes. d-. "d the conservative pros- , man who most ,ikely wouId , ,he, t . ,andidat.
Kingpin of Los Angeles county "P m., 'or governor, reminds me of a gubernatorial contest tn the state
is colorful Sheriff Eugene Bis- o w t"nd "? government of Oklahoma some years ago.
cailuz who seem, to get no more fr'J.1 Jennings, a good Democrat, but a better bank and train
excited about an occasional gang 7. " f robber, captured, convicted, and
shooting than about the gam- ,K We nad '"'f6! to take ver stowed away in a federal peni- I wrote him that hi ouestion
bling that attracts crowds along he steel lndustry before en er- Uni for , term of was reX e for the ciUzeM
Sunset strip. "ther general election gained favor with pre,ldent of hli titZ Xt, I
After the hoodlums spattered ""e"-t ' ,hre '1 Theodore Roosevelt, who grant- would say that: "1 had known
the front of Sherry's with shot- 'mP.rf,an u,',pgr' him a pardon. of governors who had held down
gun slugs in an effort to bump nd " ' contr o ve rs a l o ne. we Returning to his home state, executive chairs that were big-
off Mickey Cohen. Sheriff Bis- have dec ded to submit the ma - Jennlngs engaged i the prac- ger crooks than anyone who had
cailuz decided to recnact t h e to your Judgment. You shall tice of Uw dabbled tn politics ever held up bank or a train
crime with all witnesses pres- dec'de whether you want Pro- ,na did some writing for the in Oklahoma." Therefore 1
ent. So. accompanied by news- ceed with the Program Mean- movies. And. when the state's could see no harm in his taking
men and photographers, the "mt- Parliament will have ap- general election roiled around, a shot at the governors office,
sheriff arrived with his retinue, proved the measure authorizing decided to throw his hat in the . . . . , . , .
But no witnesses. nationalization if you want it.' gubernatorial ring. Many resi- , If ne m'ght giye my
After a lot of waiting, hem- ' denU of his state-in view of If"6..'0 th pr""' toId him'
ming and hawing, the sheriff A little bird (an English spar- his record looked upon his can-
remarked: "Well, they must row, to be exact) has whispered didacy as the height of impro- It was then that the newspap- '
have been tired, or maybe they to me that Deputy Prime Minis- priety. So, he wrote to mc (then ers of that state took time out
went to the fights tonight." ter Herbert Morrison probably governor of our state) asking to put me to my place. It is
Whereupon he had his picture inspired this move. "if 1 could see anything wrong needless to say that Al lost out
taken, pointing at the bullet He is a powerful figure among In his entering the list." in the democratic primaries.