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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 21, 1949
Astoria Endorses Salem Priority Plan
Astoria apparently has trouble getting what it feels it
needs in the way of highway improvements. This puts it
in the same fix as Salem and the other communities of
the state.
What Salem learned only in the past few months,
Astoria is apparently realizing now, too, judging from the
Budget of that city. That newspaper is asking that high
way needs of the Astoria area be put on a priority basis for
the highway commission's consideration. It is only logical,
when a long list of road jobs is compiled, that the jobs be
put on a priority basis.
When the Baldock traffic plan was submitted in final
form to the highway commission and was approved, this
was the priority list of the needs of the Greater Salem
area:
In the first place, was the new bridge across the Willam
ette river and the other features of the Baldock traffic
plan. There was no argument about that. Included in that
traffic plan, too, was the by-pass route to the east of the
city.
Second on the list was improvement and widening to
four lanes of the entrance-ways to the city. This request
was aimed specifically at the northern entrance which con
stitutes a traffic hazard now of almost alarming propor
tions. Third on the list was the Mehama-Mill City short-cut to
ease the flow of traffic on the North Santiam highway,
and to make the route less hazardous.
Fourth on the list was improvement of the main high
way north of Salem. The Capital Journal has preferred
the widening of the present two-lane road to four-lanes
before a new route to tie in with the Wilsonville cut-off is
attempted.
Because the highway commission saw fit at the time to
make only a start on the Baldock plan is no reason for
Salem to forget its highway problems. The congestion
with increasing traffic will make those problems worse
not better with passing time. Therefore, a review of the
road needs of the area should be made. Then the priority
list can be presented in its latest form at the next oppor
tune occasion to the highway commission for consideration.
An Unusual Friendship
To most people, it is strange for President Truman to
offer such warm personal praise for General Eisenhower,
one of the most severe critics of Truman's Fair Deal. For
those who recall the bitter diatribes issued by one political
opponent to another in the old days, these friendly words
of the president for Ike don't fit into the usual political
pattern.
However, this is, apparently, a different kind of a rela
tionship between two men who represent two such oppos
ing views in politics.
Eisenhower has carefully avoided having his one-man
crusade against the welfare state labeled as political. He
calls it the expression of a man interested in the future of
his country. He hasn't admitted his politics publicly,
either. In Harry Hopkins' memoirs, edited by Author
Sherwood, Eisenhower is quoted as having told Hopkins
that the Eisenhower family "had always been Republi
can." Ike later said he had merely mentioned that he sup
posed that as a typical Kansas family his brothers had
voted Republican most of the time.
The respect Truman has for Eisenhower is one of long
standing. Ike, in his book, "Crusade in Europe," quoted
the president as offering in 1945 to help the general get
whatever he wanted, including "the presidency in 1948."
Leaving aside this friendly personal relationship be
tween the two men, one can see more clearly as the months
go by that both men have become the ranking leaders of
their particular political thinking. Trumnn was confirmed
in the leadership of his "welfare stale" in last year's elec
tion. Eisenhower has shown by the wide acceptance of
his recent speeches that he is the leader of the opposition
those favoring free enterprise and the dignity of the
individual.
In one instance, Truman accepts the leadership of those
of his way of thinking. In the other instance, Eisenhower
shuns the opposition leadership. However, Ike, whether
he likes it or not, has assumed the responsibility of leading
that opposition. Now he cannot rightly refuse such lead
ership because of his one-man crusade anymore than he
could have refused the call to lead the "Crusade in Europe."
Harry and Ike's friendship is a strange one.
Time to Take a Look
Salem's 27-year-old zoning code is to be overhauled. The
code has been adjusted so much with the great expansion
of business in the community that it's a good time now to
stop to see what the many individual lot adjustments have
done to the overall zoning of the city.
Only Tuesday, for instance, the Salem Woman's club
protested a zone change adjoining the club's property on
North Cottage street. The protest was more directed at
changing of individual lots than one of groups of lots or
blocks. The club said it would have no objection if the
wholo immediate area were changed but it did object to
a change of the adjoining lot only.
One of the most debated points before the zoning board
is the request of the Capitol Planning Commission for
action by the Salem zoning group to make secure plans for
expansion of the capitol group northward to D street.
This, too, calls for a new look at the zoning code.
Property owners inside the contemplated capitol zone
proper have a right to get the future of the zone settled,
so they can know what to expect. Any such long-range
action, of course, will call for cooperation of state authori
ties who must outline a property-buying program so prop
erty owners will be able to anticipate the policy.'
Also within that zone, for instance, apartment houses
are permitted. But what if a large apartment house,
worth a half a million dollars, were constructed? Then
some day the state would have to buy the apartment house
and then tear it down, if the decision is made to block out
the capitol zone north to D street.
These are typical of some of the problems of an out
grown zoning code.
Commissioner Rosebraugh is acting with good judgment
when he calls for public suggestions on the zoning code.
It is time that a new long-range view be taken of the cods
and how it affects the expansion of the city.
BY BECK
What to Do?
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WASHINGTON-MERRY-GO-ROUND -
American Legion to Send
Christmas Toys to Europe
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Last year, American G.I.'s. spending Christmas
In Germany, raised $247,000 to bring a brighter Christmas to the
German children of the U. S. zone.
A G.I.'s pay is not munificent, and most of them were spend
ing rather lonesome Christmases themselves compared to that
at home. How-
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
ever, they conr
tributed gener
ously to the
children of men
who once had
been their enemies.
This Christ
mas, the Amer
ican Legion, led
by far - sighted
Comdr. George
Craig, has
launched an appeal to all Amer
icans to collect toys one day
after Christmas for the children
of Europe.
Drew Pearion
of Ft. Collins and Loveland,
Colorado, on the way.
Such Paul Bunyan planning
is old stuff to the west. But the
same reclamation projects must
now be put into practice on a
smaller scale in the east. Be
cause of increased consumption,
many eastern cities will find it
necessary to seek new, maybe
faraway water sources. Engin
eers even expect the east to
begin large-scale irrigation.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Nuts to Dan
By DON UPJOHN
"Dan" Daniclson, the well known real estater, gives us a new
hint as to why he is sure that there's going to be a white Christ
mas just in case you've let this spring weather fool you and have
put away the overcoats, wristlets, gloves, et cetera. Dan claims
hat his observations have shown him the local squirrels are be
ginning to dig
up out of t h e i
ground the nuts
they cached
away last fall
and are carting
them into the
trees hiding
them in conven
ient holes, crot
ches of limbs
and places well I
above what h e
says is the pro
spective snow line. Dan says
this is a sure fire prognostication
by the little denizens of nature.
The cities with the worst wa
ter problem are those that would
. ., , ,L,a be expected to have the least
Coming as it does from the
is because of contamination.
Man is probably the only ani
mal that drinks his own sewage,
t but this is literally the case
The Legion is fully aware of where cities dump their sewage
the fact that wars usually come "f PP drinking water
. , ., out of the same river.
veterans who fought the war,
this represents one of the most
significant moves in America.
Morning Rush Hour
When in Detroit, Don't Do
As One Would in Chicago
Detroit, Dec. 21 U.R Joseph Blcham didn't understand
why he was jailed for turning In a false fir alarm.
All he did, he said, was turn a handle to call a taxi.
. "That's what you do In Chicago," he said. "Just pull a
handle."
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
in 20-year cycles, that tbe chil-
Worse than sewage, however,
Crucial Moment Develops
In Asiatic Political Upheaval
L
and the Hollywood star decided
it was time to get in on it while
folks are in the holiday mood
for loving lovers?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(UP) Forelsn AHalr. Anilysti
The over-credulous, who have allowed themselves to be per
suaded that Chinese communism has no relation to the Moscow
The presence in Moscow of the Chinese communist leader,
Don Upjohn
Grand Island correspondent
reports geese in reverse flying
north. We put this one down a
few jumps below Dan Daniel
son's prophecy so as not to dis
courage him about the squirrels.
Now we'll wait and see whether
a squirrel which is supposed to
be extra smart, is as smart as he
thinks he is, or a goose, that is
But to this he adds a clincher, supposed to be extra dumb, is
He declares that the hyacinths as dump as loiks think she is.
have popped up their heads al- Much 35 we ha!e to take sides
dren of today can be either our js (he chemical waste's from
friends or the enemy soldiers of dustrial plants. Running water
tomorrow, and that the time to tends to purify sewage, but
prevent war is by building good ""thing can be done to make
.,, , . . . . some chemicals safe to drink,
will long in advance of crisis. .
n. .!. tu t .,,:,, i. Yet industrial plants line the
To this end, the Legion is ask- banks . Mississinni nhi
ing the nation to cooperate in Delaware, Potomac and other b " noTXtb theTr 'mind, of" tnls much advertised
cuiieiiKiis ................ ciienucais inio ; e o propaganda
ier nrigimas iur aiiipuieui iu awa iMC jjo-uic ui
. ' . Pitlshnroh Whaallnrt T - .. :
the kids of Europe, where toys - ' - G e n e r a 1 Maof
,r eaivo 4hi v,ar A mpuaPH . . . ' . Two-Turn, ic in
- wasnington to drink. . " "' ,
from an American child is to be Probably the filthiest river is e. Pro un
attached to each toy which may the Delaware, from which Phil- ,u . 0 n 6
start a train of friendships last- adelphia pumps its water. Phil- . ,
ariplnhia rt.tmno it- S 1 a n reiauon-
inff for vears 1 acwage uuo
ing ior years. ,. M thru - .... ship.
NOTE The toys will be dis- lem draws u dringwr
tributed by CARE, the non- out through another. This has to
profit organization which has be treated with so many chem-
machinery already set up in all icals that Philadolphians drink footed' jt for the
Atlantic Pact countries and some flmost as much chemical as wa- red capUal as
Iron Curtain countries.
Mao, who fre
quently has said
that he adores
Stalin, has hot
DeWltl M.ekenzl.
against the squirrel our hopes "OPERATION 23"
are all that the geese know what
ready several inches above the
grouna. And," he opines, "no they're doing.
nyauiiiiii is a Dig enougn cnump
to do that unless it knows piet- Aa far as bird flying is con.
ty well there 11 be a blanket of cerned the ducks are flying just
snow along to protect it from as fast as lhey can in any direc.
freezing We're not so sure tior, at any time oi day these
about the squirrels, but his last dayS to get away from those lit
one sells us on the deal. No won- Je penei3 and are probably as
der Dan gets along so well as a smart as any of them in doing so.
salesman.
And you're going to have to
Could it be that the vice-presi- do some hustling to get that
dent got so much favorable pub- Christmas shopping done if you
licity from a wedding and honey- haven't already done it.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Open Letter to Joe Stalin
From Retired 'Gl Joe7
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) To Joseph Stalin, care of the Kremlin, USSR.
Dear Joe:
Congratulations, old Tovarich of Wartime, on your happy
anniversary today. You woke up on the longest day of winter
to find yourself 70 years old the life span alloted to man bv
Another problem along the sea
coast is seawater which seeps
soon as possible
after clinching his continental
victory over Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek's nationalist forc-
about the situation in the orient,
says "American imperialists are
obviously underrating by a very
wide margin the forces of the
people's liberation movement in
Asia."
Maybe, but it strikes me
America is pretty well aware of
what is going forward in that
theatre. It only remains for us
to make our Asiatic policy as
complete as our awareness of the
position.
Of course, China represents
only one phase of this armaged
don which is in full swing in the
Here is the inside story on into the underground supply. eS There he is being received orient between communism and
,aPL rI?'B. f.!"' T"iS ,ha! haPPened at oo'h Los wth all the honors due one of democracy. However, it's a vital
head of the navy's "Operation Angeles and Miami, and is aim
23," was passed up for pro- threatening Brooklyn where the
motion. water supply is now below sea
Actually, the navy promotion level,
board approved Burke for pro- New York state strictly regu
motion to the rank of rear ad- lates Brooklyn's pumping and
miral, and Secretary of the requires plants to pour used wa
Navy Matthews sent it to the ter back into the ground. But
White House. because of New York's growing.
However, Matthews talked to water famine, these pumping re
the world's powerful leaders.
Indications are that a big deal
is cooking.
An AP dispatch from Moscow
says that a Chino-Soviet friend
ship pact appears almost a cer
tainty. The two countries also
phase, and Mao's triumphal visit
to the powers-that-be in Moscow
is an important moment.
However, while we shouldn't
underestimate the importance of
the development, neither should
we overestimate it. Mao is de-
are expected to work out trade livering a very sound military
nd mutual assistance agree
ments. It is a moment of ex-
the president by phone later, at strictions may be lifted, which treme' saitsfaction for Russia.
which time Truman said, in ef
fect:
"I see you have that so-and-so
Burke's name on the list. Take
it off."
So Secretary Matthews had
the board reconvene and pass
over Burke. Then the list was
sent back to the White House.
The promotions are on Truman's
desk right now.
NOTE Burke's "Operation
23," the special navy propagan
da task force, deliberately
flouted all regulations regard
ing unification and armed serv
ices cooperation.
will put Brooklyn's water sup
ply in more serious danger of The Moscow newspaper Izve-salt-water
seepage. stia, soviet government organ.
(Copyright, 199)
success to Moscow, but he isn't
delivering political domination
of China's half billion people.
China is far from communized
ideologically, just as it was far
from being completely within
Bolshevik ranks, and you let
1,000,000 farmers starve to death
because you thought you knew
what was best for Russia.
Perhaps you did. You have
reached heights of power un
known to any previous Russian
ruler. You unified your coun
try in uneasy peace purging
by blood all who stood in your
path and you saved your coun
try in a mighty war.
studied as a boy,
They tell me
it's to be the
biggest birthday
party in history,
celcbr a t e d by
ringing bells and
booming guns,
with caviar all;
around, and so
much vodka on
iha hnina fhaf a
man couldn t
drink his share with two straws. Every step of the way you said
They say you coulr' Vt have won your acts were dictated by a de
more gifts if you'd guessed the sire to help the common man
tune on the "Slop the Music" the working class. Practically
quiz. a" leaders say that.
I sure would like to attend Well, Joe, now's the time to
your big hoedown. You Rus- put up or shut up.
sians really know how to throw What the common man in all
a party! lands has yearned for is a period
The last one I attended was of peace and prosperity stretch
in 1945 when we linked up with ing endlessly ahead for him and
your boys on the River Elbe. I his children. The common man
was carrying a rifle for Uncle everywhere, including the Rus
Sam at the time. We were shy sian, is sick of shedding his own
of caviar and vodka, but we blood.
tanked up on German wine and The common men aren't mad
traded our rations back and at each other. And they won't
forth. be if their leaders won't sic 'em
It was a wonderful time. We on.
laid aside our guns, your boys The Russian working man, like
and our boys, and laughed and the American, wants a better
drank together on the river's house, better schooling for the
bank and nobody was afraid kids, a few new gadget; around
of anybody. None of us who was the kitchen to keep his old wom
there can ever forget that first an happy, and more meat on the
day of full peace and happiness table.
after the long years of war. And if you want to be remem-
" bered with real love by all the
Circumstances being what little Ivans of Russia, Joe. that's
they are, I won't be with you in what you'll give them Instead
Moscow today, but I would like of three more battleships and
to send you a birthday gift of 1000 more submarines. There
advice. are no enemies at your gates.
The advice, Joe, is to stop and
look around. You've got the power, Joe,
For a guy only two inches and, if you use it wisely, maybe
taller than Napoleon, you've God will give you added years
come a long way. You were to turn your Russia into the
born a poor Georgian boy, Jo- wonderland of plenty you have
soph Vissarianovich Djugasvili, promised so often. But you
whose father wanted him to be- can't do it by building army on
come a cobbler and his mother army. Remember what you
a priest. yourself once said, Joe:
But you yourself chose to be "History shows that invincible
a revolutionary, and chose as armies do not exist."
your party nickname Stalin, Let's really start beating those
"Man of Steel." You've lived up swords into ploughshares, Old
to your nickname. Timer.
Your iron will carried you Sincerely,
through seven exiles to Siberia. Pvt. G. I. Joe
You fought your way up through (Retired to Mister.)
RECLAMATION FOR EAST
New York's water shortage
has caused government engin
eers to survey the water re
sources of the entire nation to
see whether we are gradually
drying up. The results are re- nAnhY' IN I A 1 1
assuring regarding the country WUUI J JM"-
in general, but not reassuring
regarding the big cities.
The fact is that the big cities
are draining their reservoirs
faster than the water flows in,
chiefly because people are run
ning their spigots and factories
Looi'c Sharp Saturday Night
Baltimore, Dec. 21 iP) Dear Santa:
It would be a good idea for you to keep a sharp watch
on your sleigh and pack when you come here Saturday
night.
Two of your suits, plus two sets of long white whiskers,
have been stolen from cars here In the past several days.
What's more, someone stripped an outdoor Christmas tree
of all Its lights.
Lloyd Kirkley and H. M. Baldwin of St. Michael's, Md
told police that Santa suits were taken from their parked
automobiles here.
Kirkley had been planning to take your part at a parly.
Yes, Santa, you had better keep a sharp eye on things
while you are in Baltimore.
editorializing in general terms chiarig Kai-Shek's nationalist
fold. Untold millions of China's
people are lowly folk who aren't
politically conscious. They are
interested in an ideology which
fills the stomach. Nobody yet
has given them what they want.
But Tots Get Toys Because
There's a Good Man Around
It's seven years ago thia
Christmas season that I had a
long talk in Chungking with
General Chou En-Lai, then com
munist liaison diplomat to Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's
nationalist government. General
Chou, who now is foreign minis
ter in General Mao's govern
ment, tried to impress It on me
that Chinese communists were
agrarians and that their ideol
ogy had no relation to Moscow.
Well, yes and no. The Chinese
communists who are politically
conscious are of the Moscow
brand. The masses who are in
the territories conquered by the
communist armies may be label
ed communists but, as previous
ly remarked, they do their
thinking with their bellies.
Their convictions are in accord
with this practice.
This means that General Mao,
Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 21 (U.R) A Santa Claus without whis-
1 U..nrln in.v In not tho Phrictmaa cnirit nt annii will
are operating their pumps more. im0 the hearts of a iegion of forgotten men.
Meanwhile, 95 per cent of our Th- reauests he filled did not come from eager children. They
water runs into the sea nn- i. u.. .,in. ,..nt nt,;iwr,. einnuiM. in nrrW in Knn.niuia t,; .,i
were wiiiieii iy uuiii- wwv ....... n.v... .m..i , .wi.Miiy -.
a' . filled on Christmas eve. 'ry, must now rehabilitate war-
Only long-term solution is re- There benefactor was "Uncle in California for "myself and ravaged China. He must give the
clamation for the big cities of Dan" Vinson of Oklahoma City my three children." Uncle Dan people food, clothing and fuel,
the east. New York City, for who is determined to find gifts said he simply couldn't fill that He must reduce the taxation
instance, must take a lesson for kids the regular Santa Claus request. which hangs like a millstone
from Los Angeles, which has forgets each year. about the necks of the small
stretched an aqueduct 200 miles "I don't buy things " he said Vinson said he started help- Peasant farmers. That calls for
to tap the water of the Colora- 'I just find people who want to ing others in 1944, when he went vast outside help, most of whichV
do. Manhattan can do the same help those who are unfortunate int0 semi-retirement on royal- would have to come from the
by piping water 80 miles from I have 25,000 or 35,000 volunteer ties from his asPnalt business, western world,
the Hudson above Poughkeepsie, helpers in Oklahoma " He s carried on his Christmas
at which point the Hudson is . . . ' hobby ever since. China won't be communized
free from salt water. Pumps are This yearj he is concentrating ne of the letters he received (if at all) until this rehabilita,- '
already being installed for that on helping the children of con- came from a man in tne death 'ion has been achieved. That'
purpose on the Delaware river, victs. He wrote letters to prison row at an Oklahoma prison, why Generalissimo Chiang Kai
but they won't be able to keep wardens telling them his plans' Uncle Dan answered that one in Shek persists in the belief that
up with New York's increasing and explaining that he learned person to assure the prisoner he can make a "comeback," and
water needs. about convicts wnen he bu,u that his son would get the finest reclaim the country from the
' roads with prison labor. bike possible for Christmas. reds.
Elsewhere, engineers are al- "Those men love their kids , . aon know now much So we must conclude that this
tenng the map of the United just like anybody else," he said. mea"s t0 me. Dan," the is a crucial period in the Chinese
States m their quest for water. Vinson has received letters from f0". man replied. "I've civil strife. It is one of the most
They are now exploring ways prisoners in almost every state. thinking about his Christ- vital in the whole Asiatic politi-
of changing the course of the One came from a man who has m ready to g0 now " al upheaval.
mighty Columbia river so that been in prison seven years whose
a tributary will flow into three children "think I'm out
parched Nevada and make the west on a ranch."
desert bloom. They are also "I'd like to send them some
building a water network to western clothes for Christmas,"
catch the melting snows from the convict wrote. "I can't tell
the high Sierras and run it them where I am."
500 miles down California's wa- A rancher in western Okla-ter-starved
San Joaquin valley, noma will fill the prisoner's re
Here farmers have sunk their quest and more,
wells so deep they have reached "The kids will get their out
"geological waters" the melted fits, and when the man gets out
ice of the glacial age. 0f jail, he'll have a job on a
In the water-wary west, en- ranch," Vinson said. "Then after
gineers are even blasting a tun- a few months he can go home
nel 13 miles through the con- and tell the truth."
tinental divide to catch water Not all of Uncle Dan's re
flowing to the Pacific and re- quests come from convicts, how
verse its course to the Atlantic, ever.
irrigating the dry farm lands One woman asked for a house
Santa's Credit Holds Up
Newport, Ore., Dec. 21 VP) A $200 check signed by Santa
Claus went through the hands of a meat firm and two bank
before anyone questioned it.
It started with Dom Domnlssee asking Willis Bruce, a
grocer here, what he wanted for Christmas. Bruce said $200,
and Domnissee wrote a check for that amount. He signed It
Santa Claus.
Bruce gave the check to a Swift & Co. salesman, who sent
it on to the firm's Portland office, where Bruce's account was
credited for the payment. Then it cleared through t-vo Port
land banks and came back to the Bank of Newport, on
which it was drawn.
This bank notified Bruce that they found no Santa Claus
account, and Bruce would have to make good.
Bruce gave the bank $200. Now he Intends t have th
check framed.
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