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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 28, 1949
Will the Capitol Zone Be Protected?
Will Salem have the finest group of state capitol build
ings in the nation or will the capitol group be but a bunch
of buildings in one particular location?
That question can and must be answered in the next 18
months. The answer will come from both the state of Ore
gon and the city of Salem.
As for the state itself, the capitol planning group has
offered the basic outlines of a plan that could result in
the finest group of state buildings in the country. It
would result in governmental structures as beautiful in
layout as in Washington, D.C.
Mayor Elfstrom of Salem has questioned the layout as
suggested by the capitol planning group. His objections
fall into four categories: First, traffic; second, property
purchasing; third, area involved; and fourth, "fringe"
zoning.
Elfstrom's first objection has merit. The capitol zone,
which has been proposed to extend north in the next 50 to
75 years to D street, could offer a block to east-west traffic
in a city already traffic-happy. But that traffic problem
need not call for the abandonment of the capitol group
plan. Ways to work traffic freely through the capitol
zone should not be too difficult to devise.
As for the second concern, property purchasing, the
Capital Journal raised this point last week. Property own
ers in the proposed zone are entitled to have assurance
from the state that their property will be purchased on a
scheduled basis at a fair price. In fact, such a program
of property buying could be worked out on a block by
block program, with the lots being rented back to the pres
ent owners at a reasonable figure. So, considering point
two raised by Mayor Elfstrom, the problem of property
purchase should not be baffling enough to overcome. Thus
it should not act as a hindrance to development of the zone
to D street.
Elfstrom's third point, area involved, is the point on
which either Oregon will have the greatest capitol group
or just an average layout of buildings.
If the zone is extended two blocks wide north from the
present capitol building to D street, Oregon will have a
governmental layout that will be the marvel of all.
If the zone is stopped at Center street and then spread
in all directions around the growing group of buildings,
the state will not get its money's worth in beauty or effec
tiveness. The buildings in the course of time would be
dumped here and there. Blocks of such structures would
be more detrimental to business development since the
spread-out area would be so deep in depth as not to be
penetrated by ordinary persons going their daily ways.
A two-block wide group of buildings, open as they would
be in layout, nted not be a barrier to east-west movement
if traffic is permitted to pass through in some reasonable
manner. If the buildings are permitted to expand north
ward, as proposed, the people of the state will be proud of
the development. If the buildings are permitted to be
built here and there, no one will care much what results.
The fourth point raised by Elfstrom, that of the
"fringe" area, is the most controversial without real rea
son. The effort and energy spent in discussing the
"fringe" zoning should be spent in protecting the area in
volved, mentioned in point three above. Elfstrom has
proposed that (he "fringe" area, that area which surrounds
the capitol group, be changed to permit properties to be
beautified and devoted to uses not objectionable to the
capitol vista If the area involved is to be sprawled all
over, there is hardly any point in bothering with this
"fringe" zoning. If the capitol zone is to be protected and
expanded northward, then Elfstrom's proposal sounds rea
sonable. However, passing on applications would have to
be done by both the state and city planning commissions.
Elfstrom's objections should not block extension of the
proposed capitol zone. However, the points he raises
should be cleared up in a reasonable time by the state so as
to assure proper development of future buildings. The
urgency of a decision is pointed by the application for a
seven-story apartment house in the heart of the proposed
zone.
The Stork Ends Suspense
For nearly , a year now the yellow press, the Hearst
papers and the tabloids have been exploding frequently in
headlines over the "romance" of 31-year-old Rita llayworth,
the "glamorous red-headed movie star" and Prince Aly
Khan, the nlayboy Indian prince, son of the fabulously
wealthy Aga Khun, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Moham
medan religious sect.
For months the film actress and the prince traveled
about Europe together with voluminous daily newspaper
reports cabled to the press of the world. Rita secured a di
vorce from Orson Welles in 19-18, but her prince did not get
his divorce until last spring, and the couple were married
last May 27 on the French Riviera in a fanfare of publicity.
Shortly after there were daily reports that the stork was
hovering over Rita, but it was December 28 before the
stork delivered almost a Christmas baby but not born in
a manger.
What a commercialized build-up for Rita's next movie
if she decides to return to the stage! Packed houses all
over the world are insured to the best advertised actress of
the time. It is hoped that the flood of publicity will ebb,
but there is little chance of it. So be prepared for the
worst.
And another glamorous Hollywood actress is sharing the
spotlight of romance. Ingrid Bergman's romance with an
Italian producer has been featured for the past six months,
despite the fact that her husband has refused a divorce,
and the stork is said to be hovering over the stage beauty.
Whether true or not, record attendance is assured the new
movie.
Meantime almost daily the elopement and marriage of
many times divorced Hollywood actors and actresses are
announced which speaks louder than words of the movie
moral code, for marriage has ceased to be a holy sacrament
but simply another adventure in romance to be cashed
in on.
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pan American Expansion
Hurt by Marshall Plan
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Toward the end o the war, President Roosevelt
called in Juan Trippe, apple-cheecked president of Pan American
World Airways, and suggested that his airline start a chain of
hotels around the world. ,
Shortage of dollars was sure to be one of the great economic
curses of the
world after the
war, FDR warn
ed, and one way
to spread dol
lars abroad was
through the
tourist trade.
However, good
hotels were nec
essarv for the
tourists, which-.
was wily iouse-
velt urged Pan
American Airways
the hotel business.
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
Fleeting Fame
By DON UPJOHN
Fame is surely a transient thing, glory but a bubble and in
these days of headlines a chap is a big guy one minute and for
gotten the next. Of course, foregoing divagations express no new
philosophy but never have we seen it more completely exempli
fied than the past few days. On purpose we've kept an ear open
yesterday and
today listening
'or some refer
jnce to the name
of the chap
which was on
everybody's lips
no longer ago
than last Satur
day and Sunday
and not once
have we heard
it men tioned.
By
Don Upjohn
There'd be a loud rap at the
door and when the occupants
took a look around, there would
be the tree but the donor had
slipped away into the darkness.
Bu somebody caught the old
Christmas sprite at it this year.
It turned out to be Sam Board
man, head of the state park serv
ice. We always figured Sam
was concealing something behind
that placed countenance but did
not know it had anything to do
with deeds done after dark.
car Chapman, new Secretary of
the Interior, face the same tug
of war. Both are old friends,
both from the same town, and
both helped each other up the
ladder of government.
Chapman helped Brannan get
his first job as assistant secre
tary of agriculture. And later
when Brannan beat Chapman in
to the cabinet, he, in turn, of
fered to step aside if the presi
dent had any obiection to two
to go into Denver men in his official family.
As a result, Pan Am is build- Not only because of this old
lng a chain of modern hotels friendship, but because both are
or at least trying to build broad -gauged men, Chapman
them in various parts of the and Brannan aren't likely to
world. However, their biggest get peeved at each other over
handicap, believe it or not, is the forest service. Nevertheless,
the Marshall plan. the boys around them are al-
In Latin America, where the ready making faces.
Marshall plan does not operate,
the hotel program is going well. Backstage With Bankers
But in Turkey, a country bless- Charming Johnny Hanes, one
ed with a lot of Marshall plan of the nicest misfits to serve
money, the ECA has actually under the New Deal, is now on
helped to stymie American en- Wall Street where he fits in
What happened was that Pan ers Trust company, Pan Ameri- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
American, after lengthy negotia- can Airways, and other big
tions, worked out an agreement corporations. In the confidential,
with the Turkish government to quiet of a Bankers Trust Direc
build and operate a hotel for tors' meeting recently, he
Turkey. The hotel was to be threatened to resign,
financed with an export-import In fact, John got so terribly
bank loan at 4 per cent. wrought up that he demanded
Just about this time, however, an aPolSy from Ralph Damon,
an ECA expert came to Turkey President of the Trans World
from Paris and recommended "-mon nan siaieo. mai
"Anybody got some aspirin? I was out with a
client all night.
His Net Loss Was $9
Montreal, Dec. 28 (IP) Taxi driver William Frankfort
chalked up a net loss of $9 last night because he tried to identi
fy from police picture files the gunman who stole J6 from
him recently.
He didn't identify the robber. But the files showed he owed
$3 for a two-months-old traffic violation. He paid up.
And this could
not have happened to a nicer
guy. The forgotten man we re- So iVs a litlle glri for Rita
fer to this lime, of course, is and Aly. We can't help but wish
none other than old Santa him- her well but can't envy her
self. And when one thinks that much.
it was such a few days ago he
unburdened himself for the ben- The postoffice department
efit of mankind. We suggest next plan5 lo issue tw0 new com.
year he go on a strike and give memorative stamps during the
nothing to anybody. That way next monthi one in nonor of tne
hell get himself talked about nation's bankers, the other as
for the rest of the year. Maybe a memorial tribute to the late
somebody should get up a bene- Samuel Gompers which, of
fit for old Santa, a boxing show coursei is intended as a testi-
or basketball tournament or m0ial to labor. Unquestionably
something. It s a darned shame Samuel Gompers was the great-
the way they ve done him before est figurc in the history of the
he s hardly had time to get back movement for organized labor
hOme. J Ui 1UA arn.mHuinrl, tn
the structure which has reared
itself so high in the affairs of
that the hotel be built not by
Hanes had tried to exert finan-
American hussinpssmpn hut hv ciai pressure on 1WA, through
Swiss or Belgians. (The ECA the Bankers Trust, on behalf of
Pan American Airways, of which messages.
Hanes is also a director. of them were
Just why Hanes expected the from well
Bankers Trust to get an apology known 9 people,
out of TWA's Damon is hard to T h e governor
that ECA money be advanced understand. So far he hasn't of Michigan
gui ii, iiiia so iar lie nasii i re- -
signed. Christmas card
, Ana so ma uor-
Italy's Al Capone tn Lamur'
. . , , , Roy Rogers, Mo-
Premier De Gasperi has asked , 4mrt,-,-t-,m
to the Turkish government than the American embassy for ad- r-nmin sin f-an.
export-import bank money at 4 vice on how to track down s a r and pretty
expert once operated an Ameri
can Express company office in
Switzerland where he clashed
with Pan American Airways).
Furthermore, he recommended
to the Swiss or Belgians to build
the hotel.
Since ECA money would
draw only 2 per cent interest,
naturally it looked a lot better
Hals Christmas Started Out
Nice, Til Santa's Helpers Came
By HAL BOYLE
New York (IP) "Have a nice Christmas?"
No thanks, I just had one. What I am looking for now is a bear
trap to catch Santa Claus.
It's a long story. Sit down and I'll tell it to you.
My Christmas started out real nice. I got dozens of friendly
Somes
silly going around with 15 un
clad ladies dangling from my
neck. Who wants to look like a
sales catalog of French post
cards? But the pleasantest part of my
Christmas was the goodwill ex
pressed on cards sent by read
ers. I thought it was kind of
them indeed to take time out
from their own busy day to send
Caught In the Act
Incidentally we received
note from a lady out D street politics and economical affairs
way telling of the quiet labors generally. There can't be much
of an unknown Santa for the complaint about the selection of
past 16 years or so. Folks around Gompers for this honor. It is
about have been receiving mys- to be hoped, however, that it
terious Christmas trees left up doesn't lead sooner or later to
against their doors by somebody the appearance of John L. Lewis
who slipped around in the mid- and his eyebrows on some fu-
dle of the night and left 'em. ture commemorative.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
U. S. Assistance, Influence
Cut Out of Czech Teachings
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
jPl Foreign AfUlra Analyst)
Before Christmas the communist controlled official radio of
Czechoslovakia urged mothers to buy their children yuletide
books which "emphasize the class conflict," the life stories of
Lenin and Stalin being highly recommended.
This epitomizes the most amazing mass educational drive of his
tory.
up in the air.
That is the way some ECA so- Sicily. Giuliano and his ban-
called experts are undercutting dits have killed 100 Italian po-
American business.
a Ornafmit in a onv lliov'rl hbubp
per cent. So now the deal is Salvatore Giuliano, the Italian Margaret Phelan, the red-haired met except in a newspaper.
""" ,s ,le r"' warbler at the Waldorf. One old Irish ladv in Denver
And somebody sent a scarf, wrote: "May God bless you and
Another fellow sent a bottle of keep you in good health."
Well, I went home from work
last Friday feeling good about
everything.
"What do you most want
Santa Claus to bring you?"
Frances asked. , .
I asked him to bring me a
I
Friendship Toys
The American Legion's
Friendship Train of Toys to the
kids of Europe is really begin
ning to roll.
If the veterans aren't care
ful, they'll get so many toys that
ucemen ana K.anappea nunareas bourbon to hclp tide us over the
result the communists are at
tacking the government for fail
ing to stop him.
water shortage.
And, naturally, I got a neck
tie. It came from a bachelor. It
Two American army officers was a delicate purple and decor-
who have been advising the
Greek army on guerrilla war
fare may be detached and sent
(Copyright 1949)
It is an offen
sive being wag
ed not only in
Czechoslovak i a
but i n Russia
and in all her
satellites. It in
cludes all class
es of the popu
lation, but is
centered large
ly in the young '
on the basis that UeWlu
which anti-communist profes
sors and students have been
tossed out. At the same time
there has been a rewriting of
school books. Old Christmas
stories and tales of national
heroes have been eliminated as
being bourgeois. In place of
these books there has been intro
duced literature extolling the
worker.
American stories of western
pioneers, cowboys and Indians
Philadelphia's pier 38, from 10 alc"y 10 neP tne "allan P-
whirh thp tovs am in hn chin. HCe.
ped by CARE, will be swamped.
Not only the Legion but all
sorts of people all over the coun
try are remembering that, while
food is better in Europe, toys
are scarce, and that it's Eu
rope's children of today who
are either our friends or the
soldiers of tomorrow.
In Virginia, for instance, dy
namic Governor William Tuck
has issued a proclamation urg
ing Virginians to get behind the
train of toys. "This program,"
said the governor, "is designed
to bring happiness to children,
is also planting seeds of faith,
trust, and good will in the fertile
young minds of Europe's chil
dren." The ministerial association of
Richmond wrote a letter to all
Protestant preachers asking them
to explain the toy program on
Christmas Sunday, while the
Catholic bishop of Richmond
and the rabbis of the city have
done the same. Richmond's po
lice stations and firehouses are
ated with 15 naked ladies, seat
ed, with hands clasped over couch for my brown study
(hoi,- h I inlnnri tn nffni- fhi Said.
whole tie to the museum of mod
ern art, as I would feel a little
if you catch them early, and had been popular in Czechoslo-
don't let them hear anything but vakia. Now they are gone. His-
Ihe Red viewpoint, they will be tory also has been rewritten to
faithful followers. Play down any consequential
This development is in line aid by the United States and
with a statement made nearly a other western nations in the
year ago by the United States of- war. The only aid came from
fice of education in Washington, the Red army.
This accuscc Russia of using her Thus Czechoslovak culture is
vast school system to poison being rooted in Moscow. Even
children's minds against (he out- the songs all glorify the Soviet
side world. viewpoint and Stalin.
The statement also said Rus-
sia was building a "perfectly J There? nothing parents can
fantastic loyally to Stalin and ? Hbo,ut. this excepting try to
the communist party" in the teach their children other things
voung secretly. Many parents are do-
' . . ,. ,. . . ing this, and Christianity and
Since that time the Soviet wor,d hi,t are bcj ,m t.
educational drive has been in- ed , the
lens.f.ed and coordinated. The This m f CQ thgt
ays cm employed is reminiscent lhcre trjre between ,h
serving as collection depots for e,n's.
Smelly Divorce Case
Seattle (U.R) Mrs. Nikka Peterson asked the judge for a
divorce because she said she had tn deodorize the house
every time her husband, John, came home. She got the di
vorce. Her husband is a halibut fisherman.
His Face Looked Familiar
Honolulu, Dec. 28 (IP) Judge Clifton H. Tracy asked a man
charged with drunkenness: "Ever been up here before?"
"No, sir," replied the defendant.
"You sure?" asked the judge. "I remember your face."
"Yes, your honor. That is I've been before you once
before. You married me."
TWO CORRESPONDENTS SAY:
Truman Probably Will Run
For Re-election in 1952
President Truman probably will run for re-election in 1952,
according to Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Washington correspon-
toys.
Two Denver Boys
Two boys from Denver, Colo
The President is even now showing signs of incipient can
didacy," the Alsops say in "Candidate Truman's Magic Brew,"
in this week's Saturday Evening -
Post. prisers will agree with left
"It wouldn't amaze me if he
did, Rover boy," said my wife.
My "brown study" is a utility
bedroom that I have been trying
for three years to convert into
a workplace. In that time I have
furnished it with a rug, a desk,
a chair, some books and a type
writer. But it needed a couch.
A couch is as essential to a col
umnist as it is to a psychiatrist,
as all really deep thinking is
done horizontally.
Well, a few hours after I got
home there came a rap on the
door. Three perspiring express
men stood outside.
"Santa sent you a couch we
are his little helpers," they said.
"Sign here. Where ya want it?"
They lugged in the pillows
and the mattress and the slide
out understructure and put
them in the brown study. Then,
grunting and groaning, all three
lifted the heavy couch frame.
They bore it through the living
room. But it stuck in the door
leading to the study.
"Easy does it t u r n it
around," said the straw boss.
Seventeen tries later he said:
"It just won't go in. It's too
big for the doorway."
So they carted it back into
the living room, set it on its side,
4
ing up his powerful youth move
ment, but it is far more scien
tific and efficiently worked.
But to get back to Czcchoslo-
ents and the communist govern
ment over the children. The
children are becoming members
of a class war to which the par
ents don't belong, and so are,
in effect, being raised o be the
vakia, which was one of the most enemies of their parents. The
macpcnttcni ana nocny loving government's advantage is in
of Europe's small countries: creased by the fact that it con
early in the drive in that coun- trols all wireless, all literature
try the communists emphasized and an motion pictures,
the Slavic debt, that is, what the And what is going on In
country owed to Russia and to Czcchoslavakia is going on in all
Stalin. the satellite countries. The cs-
The portrait of Stalin appear- sential fact In this amazing de
ed in school rooms along with vclopment is that education is
those of President B e n e s , confined to one side of the story.
Thomas Masaryk (father of his This highly efficient Soviet
country), and the crucifix. project of educating the young-
With the death of Bcnes, his stcrs isn't confined to Russia and
pictures began to disappear, the satellites. The effort to
There was no rush about this spread communism in other
cutting of tics. It was done countries is based in consider
methodically, able degree on reaching the chil-
ln high schools and universi- drcn through teachers who have
ties, there have been purges tn been converted to communism.
Fri.,iman Wima whnllv SMTP niintfa,, that 4K,e nnnl ; n
now in the cabinet, face one of f himsel and wholly bold about sibilitv here in the United and left saying:
the oldest and most vigorous ms luture sometime ast spring, States, with our energetic peo- "Sorry, Mac. Merry Christmas
feuds in the government. h. decided he had nl anrl nnr vast rocnnrrxic Thaw to all."
It's over who is to control the Congress where he wanted it will differ violently, of course, ...
forest service the agriculture last July those closest about how ,h , , , b And there the couch frame
department or the interior de- to him began to mnt that the attained." now still on its side in the liv
partment. President would probably seek ... ing room. I have to climb over
All during the Roosevelt ad- to succeed himself." . Truman has emerged from the " to sit in reading chair. And
ministration, this battle was shadow of Franklin D. Roose- what we are going to do about it,
fought back and forth between One straw pointing to Presi- veit to become "a magician in don't know. Couches don't
Secretary of the Interior Ickes dent Truman's candidacy is his his own right," the Alsops say, shrink and doorways won't ex-
and Secretary of Agriculture scorn for "crackpot New Deal- on the basis of the 1948 election,' Pand-
Wallace. It was the chief rca- ers." according to the Post hjs dealings with the post-elec- Sanla Claus just forgot to
son for the bad blood between authors. The President is now (jon congress and Herbert Leh- ma'te a ew measurements,
them. firmly convinced that his Fair man's victory over Republican Ancl you know wnat vi like
Ickes claimed that since his Deal is a great improvement jonn Foster Dulles in the recent to tl' ' d ''ke to g0 lo his bouse
interior department had control over the New Deal, which is a New York senatorial contest. at tne Nortl1 Po'e and wait until
of the national parks and the real source of confidence to him, jje nas gajned a new self-con- ne '.oolc Mrs' claus ut to the
public lands, it should also con- they say. fidence, they add, which is well- movies- Then I'd like to put a
trol the forests which are on The Fair Deal conjures up a ground4d on the fact that from big horsc in nis bathtub and tie
those lands. But Wallace claim- vision of a peacock in every pot, tne vjcwpojnt 0f the profession- !' the aucet with a sign say-
ed that the forest service, for according to the Alsops, and al orgar,ization politician, his ing:- -
years under agriculture, should President Truman's campaign Faj Deal nroeram is eroatlv su- 'Merry Christmas bah!"
remain there. It did. slogan would be a 300-bill
Now Charley Brannan, Secre
tary of Agriculture, and Os-
dollar country."
They add that
'free enter-
Jack Benny Has to Shell Out
For Game; Band Turned Him Down
Hollywood, Dec. 28 (U.R) Comedian Jack Benny said today
he had offered to play the violin in Ohio State's band so
he wouldn't have to buy a ticket to the Rose Bowl game.
He was very disappointed, he said, that Band Director Man
Icy Whltcomb turned him down because he's not a student.
"Now I'll have to pay to see the game," he said.
Benny wired Whitcomb that he was renowned ar an "ex
cellent violinist and good marcher" and happened to have the
day off Jan. 2.
"He probably couldn't work 'the Bee' into the (ialftime
program," Benny said.
perior to the Roosevelt New viewpoint of the professional or
Dea1' ganization politician, the useful-
ness of the New Deal its
"In the eyes of professional strength at the polls mainly
organization politicians, the New derived from the benefits confer
Deal had two grave defects," red, on large voting groups,
they explain. "it was an obvious improve-
"It was based upon ideas, and ment, therefore, to get rid of the
It was quite largely staffed by needlessly controversial ideas, to
intellectuals. Few politicians banish the irritating intellectu
like intellectuals . . . and ideas als who produced the ideas, but
have the disagreeable faculty of to continue the practice of con
being just as controversial as fcrring important benefits on
actions . . . the characteristic such large blocs of voters as the
of the Fair Deal is that these farmers, organized labor, th
New Deal defects have been users of cheap public power, and
remedied, while all that was po- o on. Such, in essence, is the
litically useful has been rctain-d. Fair Deal a New Deal without
"Speaking again from the intellectual content."
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