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4 Salem, Ore., Monday, January 2, 1950
A Vista of 50 Years
A study of contrasting pictures of 1000 and 1950 of
' the blocks of government buildinjrs from the county
courthouse to the state capilol point to an interestinjr
fact.
In the 1900 picture the blocks, including Willson park,
look open. The trees around the courthouse were mere
stubs.
By 1950 the courthouse is still there in its square, about
to be torn down by the forces of progress. The trees
around it are stately and beautiful. In the post office
square, a new structure has taken the place of the. old
one which was moved onto the Willamette campus. In
the next block going cast, the trees have grown to make
Willson park f. joy to the city and a show-place for visi
tors. As for the capitol site, a new, modern building now
faces north toward a growing group of state buildings.
The blocks, except for trees and building replacements,
remained constant during that 50-year period, generally
speaking.
If far-sighted planners had not laid out those blocks for
the government buildings so carefully in the early days
of the city, no such beautiful vista of county, federal and
state buildings would be our inheritance today. This beau
tiful vista of buildings is praised and taken for granted
now.
Consider the proposed capitol group of buildings, how
ever. Because the capitol planning commission wishes to
continue the two-block wide grouping north from the pres
ent capitol to D street, the commission is subjected to
local abuse. Objectors ask how the state could ever need
enough new buildings to fill the two-block area north to
I) street.
All it would take to fill that capitol group as planned,
with a beautiful mall extending north between the build
ings, would be six or seven more state buildings. That
would be six or seven more besides the highway depart
ment building now under construction.
A look around the capilol indicates how many buildings
have been constructed since 1900 50 years ago. Five have
gone up: Library building (10H9), supreme court build
ing (1914), state office building (1930), agricultural
building (1931), public service building (1950). A sixth
one is the highway building, now under construction.
If five and a sixth one under way have been needed
in the past 50 years, can the capitol planners be called
dreamers when they ask for space for six additional state
structures for the next 50 or 75 years? Especially in view
of the phenomenal growth of Oregon?
If the group of buildings stretching from the county
courthouse to the capitol are praised for layout and beau
ty, it takes little imagination to picture the beauty in a
group of state buildings stretching from the capitol to
I) street in the next 50 years.
So that the growth of slate buildings may be protected,
"the city council should act at its next Monday night meet
ing to extend the capilol 7.ona to Y) street.
The Half Century's Greatest
There have been a number of polls by magazines, news
papers and press associations on the ten commanding
figures who have influenced most of the first half of the
20th century. The selections are mostly controversial as
was to be expected, for contemporary humanity lacks the
historical perspective necessary for such evaluation.
The magazine Time has even gone further and picked
Winston Churchill as "the man of the half century" out
of a list of the ten obvious leaders. Its selection is
already a subject of controversy. Dorothy Thompson, the
columnist, writes the following protest:
"Mr. Churchill is a great man. But in term of this half cen
tury, he is nM a representative man. His greatness is lliat he
cannot be placed in any particular century. He represents the
eternal Englisp. tradition and eternal English spirit of resist
ance. His style is lBth century. He appears politically as a
reincarnation ot Burke militarily of Wellington, or any other
specifically Bi'lish hero.
"It Is not without profound significance, however, that Mr.
Church was chosen the guardian of tradition; ttie preserver
and conservcr; the most knightly and chivalrous figure of the
ago!"
Most all lists include Kranklin I'. Roosevelt and some
of them Eleam r Roosevelt. The Anti-Christs. Lenin, Stalin,
Hitler and Mussolini, are on most lists, probably because
of their converting the world into a slaughter and charnel
house and restoring slavery to Christian nations.
In the realm of science Einstein, father of the disente
gration of the atom, and Kreud, who originated psychia
try, are on most lists of the great. Henry Kuril is given
the lead in industry for his mass production plans that
revolutionized production.
What is surprising is the omission of the name of Wood
row Wilson, champion of democracy and peace through
world unity through the creation of a League of Nations,
rejected after his fatal illness by America's return to an
obsolete isolationism that brought on a second world war.
forcing another attempt at peace by unity in the United
Nations. Wilson certainly deserves to rank among the ten.
The futility of contemporary efforts with their lack
of perspective to select those most entitled to wear the
halo of the great was well summarized by St. Paul in
his epistle to the Corinthians:
"For we know In part, prophesy in part. Rut when that which
Is perfect Is come, then that which is in part shall be done away
with. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face
' 1o face: now 1 know in part, but then shall 1 know, even as
1 am also known."
BY BECK
Entertaining The Office
PJsS YOU OLD RtPROBATE.MOU SIT
H6P.B DAY DREAM I NG OUT THE 18808
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THE OUTER OFFICE DO ALL THE Jl
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'J SCHOOL. OH, I'VE SOT) pi -,,
THE OFFICE FORCE ENJOYS THE 7h WM
VISIT OF THE BOSS' BOYHOOD 'TCXfli.
hl PAL EVEN MORE THAN HE DOES, -JV'
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Americans Wish for Warless
World; Lobbyists Still Busy
By DREW PEARSON
Washington As the' American people head into a new year
the thing they most devoutly wish for is a war-free world. Not
even Senator McKellar is going to hurl hii usual term of en
dearment "Liar" in my direction when I gay that.
On the other hand, many people might differ when I say
that the pat- ibpskv
similar note, would also tip off
the Japanese foreign minister
that Britain didn't really mean
it.
It was during the Manchurian
invasion in the tragic 1930' that
the seeds of war leading to
Pearl Harbor were really plant
ed. Once they had sprouted it
was impossible to stop war. And
history will show that the Brit
ish must bear a part of the re
sponsibility lor the war which
SIPS FOR SUPPER
(Editor's Note: Columnist Don Upjohn is ill today, so his
"Sips for Supper" Is missing, on the page. The. Capital Journal
knows his readers join In hoping for a speedy recovery.)
Baby Really Brought by Stork
Glentlale, Calif., Jan. 2 M" Little baby Speigner she only
weighed a pound and a half Is one New Year baby who
really was brought by a stork.
The baby was delivered yesterday by Nurse Margaret
Stork in absence of a doctor.
The premature, baby, only child of Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Speigner, is doing "just fine," the hospital reported today.
Get a Horse!
Windsor, Ont. (U.R) A runaway horse outran a police scout
car, making three circuits of a block before trotting hack to
his stall. The horse had broken out of his stable at a baking
company.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Anglo-Egyptian Long Drawnout
Differences Are Deep Seated
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
liyP) Foreign AHalra Analyst)
Sir Henry McMahon, who has just died in London at the ace
of fl7, was one of the controversial figures in the mixed and
explosive affairs of the Middle East, and his passing has set your
correspondent to reminiscing.
Sir Henry was the first high commissioner for Egypt under
the protector
ate established
hy Britain all
the outbreak of
World War I.
It was during?)
this period of
strained Anglo
Egyptian rela
tions that he
wrote to Sherif
Hussein of Mcc-i
ca the letters"
which are cred- ,)eW,u
had so much to do with winning
the natives over. The reputa
tion of this mysterious figure
was so great that the British
spoke of him in tones of near
reverence. I recall one time
in military headquarters In
Cario my guide suddenly halted
and said to me in a hushed voice
as though we were speaking of
the king of England:
"See that little chap down the
corridor? That's Lawrence of
ited with persuading the Arabs Arabia.
to join the Allies against the So it was, and this ambassador
Central Powers. Since then these extraordinary was just back
letters have become the center of from a desert trip, garbed in
controversy because the Arabs Arab costume, to visit some of
claim McMahon promised them the chieftians. It was an adven-
lands, including Palestine a hire which would have cost most
white men their lives.
But to return to the Egyptians,
the bitterness which was engend
ered under the protectorate still
persists. Perhaps it isn't quite
nf the conflict. I saw much of so strong, but it's there all right.
Sir Henry and noted that his Young King Farouk himself is
job was no bod of roses. Not said to dislike the British, al-
only va he involved in keep- though he was educated in Eng-
ing'the Arabs in line, but Egypt land or maybe it's BECAUSE
was bitter at the English be- he was educated there. Who
claim which Britain denies.
At a crucial moment of the
war in 1916 I spent some time
in Egypt, being the first for
eign correspondent admitted to
that country after the outbreak
cause of the protectorate.
I encountered a sensational ex
hibition of this bitterness in an
audience I had with Sultan Hus
sein Kami!, first Egyptian ruler
under the protectorate. The Brit-
can say?
The British protectorate was
terminated in 1922, and Sultan
Fuad assumed the title of king.
However, it wasn't until 1936
that a treaty was made under
which British military occupa-
ish told me in advance that the lion coased and Ef yptbecame a
Sultan didn't grant anyone, even
Sir Henry, more than fifteen
minutes at an audience. More
over everybody had to kiss his
hand, including Sir Henry.
Well, there was no hand kiss
ing, and my audience lasted an
hour and a quarter. In that time
His Highness gave the British a
lashing which I couldn't even
begin to write in my dispatch,
because no censor would have
passed it And what the Sultan
said also voiced the views of his
people.
At that time the mainlenace
sovereign state. The British in
terest in the canal zone was rec
ognized and she was accorded
the right to maintain 10.000
troops and warplanes in that
area.
This treaty was for twenty
years, but Egypt asked for a
revision in 194G. Negotiations
finally broke down because of
Egypt's claim to sovereignty over
the Sudan, which remains under
Joint Anglo -Egyptian control.
Britain insists that a plebiscite
be held to determine what the
Sudanese themselves want.
So that's where the Anglo-
A 10-Inch Short Cut
Los Angeles, Jan. t (.-Pi Erven G. Jasmine, 52. Is Just an
average size man, but this wasn't an average size opening.
Trying to "lake a short cut" yesterday. Jasmine tot stuck
In a 10-Inch space between two buildings.
Twenty-five firemen and policemen required three hours
to free Jasmine. They used 1 rope tn try and pull him
up while a human chain lugged laterally and finally extricated
him.
Almost Lived Up to Name
Yakima. Wash., Jan. 1 iT Donald was born al 12:01 a.m.
New Years day Just two minutes late, It would seem. He's the
on of Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Yearout of Wapato, Wash.
oi goon reunions wiin ine Aran KRVptian differences stand,
people was a paramount issue Meantime, as I pointed out in
tor England. While Sir Henry yesterday's column about voting
was doing his utmost to better King Farouk's reported love af
file feeling in Egypt, Britain also fairi nis country has risen to a
was straining every nerve to leading position among (he mos
foster friendship with the neigh- iPm st!,tP!. nf the Middle East,
boring Arab peoples. Egypt's friendship is worth much
Of rour.e Ihe magic name of in the capital of any of (he ma
that time was Lawrence of Ara- jor powers which have interests
bia, the Briton whose diplomacy in that part of the world.
Happy New Year, Fortunato
Maiden. Mass., Jan. 2 i-T Twenty-four hours ago It looked
like anvthing hut a happr New Y'ear for Fortunato D'Aveta,
.It.
He and his wife were living apart, due lo the housing
shortage.
He was Jobless.
They had no children.
Rut today things were different.
D'Aveta had been promised an apartment
lie had his shoe factory Job back.
This good fortune resulted from the news that his wife,
Ruth, 24. had given birth to triplets all girls yesterday.
Commented D'Aveta:
"It's lots mora than we expected."
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
tern of future
war can be seen
long in advance,
and that skill
ful diplomacy
plus an enlight
ened public
opinion can do
a great deal to
head it off. i
mis mca, ass...
Miiruv i u ii c u 111
fcr
Drew PeariBB
yesterday's col
umn, was the subject of some later engulfed the world.
e.n.i i uTn uJ nt Peasant, of course,
Z . Zy , ,1 Bd m,rhaS" Probe ld wu"d' But it
IT "L LnBS F S. ' Important, even though pain-
favor.te author had wntten 15 fu,, ior cannot be won
wJm LearVR0 WarnmK ,h3t without Profiting by past mis-
And if it Is correct that the Britain m be on ,he (
iZZ f3" Pe"ple aova11 els mother great mistake-namely,
would like to make the next undercutting American policy
half century a warless one, then t,j i.t r-i,i. , u.
,iia.ve mia. r , jigm. ana some
"They told us at the Secretarial School to try her"
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Why Doesn't Someone Invent
Way to Enjoy Life Sensibly?
of this history is worth review
ing. Because history does re
peat. Naval Lobby
In 1B27, for instance. Mr. P.
then a young and unsophiscated
reporter, covered the Geneva
And sooner
sake of a few pounds sterling.
(Ed. Note Another Pearson
column on the diplomatic
double-crossing which leads
to war will follow soon.)
Mail Bag
Correction: A recent column or later she willed
........ bv,.,.,E,,c at wiiilii uai- iiiaj imvc umi uiiidir iu oiepnen Daager you inio
vin Looiidge and Frank B. Kel- Downey of Sacramento In link- making a down
logg were trying to work out a ing him with his brother, Sen. payment on a
treaty between the big powers Sheridan Downey of California, five - acre plot
io Keep tne mad race for naval The fact is that Stephen Downey In some lunar
armament on a reasonable basis, is an able liberal; and, unlike his suburb with the
At this conference it struck senatorial brother, fights for his idea you will
this naive reporter as queer that convictions. retire there andfts
ceriain u a. naval onicers were just received from Sidney raise chickens.
conspiring with William Bald- Hyman. Washineton. D.C.. B u t w h o
win Shearer, lobbyist for the big letter which reads- "I'v int wants to be the
American shipbuilding compa- read your column about toys for man in 1 h e "' B"
nies, to defeat the treaty. the kids of Europe, including moon? Not me and probably
A story to that effect, publish- the German children. I have no not you.
ed in the Washington Star, later 0ve for their parents. Some of 1 lok with a Jaundiced eye
attracted the attention of the them wiped out every member on a'l the marvels promised by
senate naval affairs committee of my own family in Europe' 5cicnce for the next 50 years,
with the result that this report- others among them were on the This suspicion comes from an
er was called before the senate, other side of the line when I acquaintance with some of the
and an official investigation at th K-a:. n-.. i eerie wonders of the 20th cen-
manner in Cass no and An-rin nt T aora.. tury up till now aulomooues,
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) "The Joneses have a country place on the
moon why can't we?"
That well may be the plaint of your wife In the year 2,000
if science does as well in the second half of the century at It
has in the first.
substantiated the
better but don't. And the real
task of scientific social engineer
ing has hardly been touched
how to make man get along with
his fellow man.
They have learned to jet
propel bodies, but they haven't
taken the first step In Jet-propelling
the human spirit.
.
What good would It do if
some laboratory Ponce de Leon
found the secret of eternal life
and gave it to mankind?
At present, it would be only
a curse. As people grew older
and older they would start bit
ing each other to death from
sheer ennui at seeing the same
old faces.
The real problems of life can't
be solved with chromium-plated
which Bethlehem Steel. Newport wholeheartedly with the thesis airplanes, radio, television, the gadgets. What science should
Mo.i.c CliinKi.iUi-n 9. r ti . meaia pnnpnntnila nn le hnw trt annuls
News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock you advance in your column and
h r- am enletul that something re-
: P.v"' mains of your backsliding Ouak
atom bomb, falsies, psychiatry, concentrate on is how to enable
and vitamin pills. a man to marry the girl he wants
It seems to me the Bunsen ana gei me jon ne warns ana
$40,000 to upset the peace efforts er conscience so that you still burner brigade ought to stop for stay happy with both after he
... .ne u.a. government cfm advance such a thesis. Since
j n.s w.is me Deginning or a i have no children nf mv own
while and ask themselves, has them.
"Whither are we trending?" So It should come up with a gen-
pattern which has been followed an(j thus will have no oppor- 'ar their laboratory miracles eral, all-purpose, happiness and
....t..,,. k,la, wis tunitv to salvage tOVS from anv 1,ave cuauicu man iu KU maiei, iwuuucss pill, it everyuouy iook
. ,i atier-onnstmas snambles, I am
conducted one of the most pow- enclosing this check to h,,v new
erful lobbies in the nation for a
big navy regardless of need of t attach any name to the gift man on wheels and then gave to one another.
smell nicer and live a bit longer, three H. and K. pills a day, di-
They ve showed the world vorces would end, boredom van-
how to be sanitary. They put ish and we would all look fair
you think wise. You might """ """" "Ky ve I" That's the real challenge of
simply say, America." him an rnanner of complicated the next 50 years for science
'ccopsrritht 105D) gadgets that should make life to invent something that will en
able the human race to enjoy
OPEN FORUM life in a sensiBie way. s ar
it has only given toys that tire.
Pensions for World War I Vets Trip, to tne moon are no aB
To the Editor: Your editorial of December 27 regarding . . . wer. The space ships will be
Truman's reckless spending. I wish to call attention to the fact crowded, the driver will be ar
that always before pensions have been provided for veterans at guing with the passengers and
the foreign policy of their gov
ernment.
It was only last fall that this
lobby was sat upon once again
by Secretary of Defense John
son and Secretary of the Navy
Matthews. And the lesson to be
drawn from it is that you can't
have U.S. foreign policy dic
tated by those concerned with
profits from the steel business.
That's one wav wars are made.
WhnWas the Liar?
In 1934, Mrs. P's favorite au
thor also disclosed
on "The Laboratory of War."
how Secretary of Stale Henry L.
Slimsnn anil &.i.rol,r,. w-..
Patrick J. Hurley had rowed MARION COUNTY RECOLLECTIONS
during the Hoover administra
tion over an embargo on arms
to South America. This also il
lustrated how wars are some
times made.
Stimson, who did more to pre
vent war than any U.S. states
man in years, urged congress to
pass a law blocking arms sales
to the belligerent nations of Bol-
45 years.
Us unfortunate veterans of World War I have failed to be pro-
chanter vided ,or at 88 year"'
640 Mill St., Salem
How Marion County Looked
In Handbook for 1860-61
the voyage will be no more
exciting than a subway ride to
Brooklyn.
Alas, castle In Spain don't
have central heating and the
moon up close isn't the moon
anymore It's just some more
real estate.
No, sir, science is going to
have to quit annoying innocent
microbes and start eradicating
the bad germs of the mind.
The need isn't for more new
and strange vehicles to cause
more traffic jams In the world
but for something that will
By OSWALD WEST
(ficttrnor mt Ortren from 1911 t 1915)
(From Bancroft's Hand-Book)
"This county occupies the heart of the Willamette valley and, get the world out of the jam
ivia and Paraguay. But Hurley in point of population and agricultural wealth, is second to no it's in.
and his army chiefs lobbied se- county in the state. Give us a Thomas A. Edison,
cretly in the halls of congress "Its area is about 2500 square miles, and includes a large body of the human heart, boys, and
against passage. 0f well-timbered land at the base of the Cascades, and an ex- let the moon alone.
Faced with publication of the tensive tract of the finest and
facts, Hurley stormed: "Pearson improved farming land on the
is a cowardly liar." But when pacific coast.
calico Betore the senate muni
tions committee on March 13,
1935, Hurley admitted, under
"The large and mature orch
ards in this section yield a sup-
oath and under stiff cross-ex- cnor -uamy 01 "uu, wnicn
amination, that he had opposed bears an enviable reputation be-
the arms embargo to South ynd ,he boundaries of the state,
America. apd ' exported in large quan-
Again you can't have the mil- tities.
itary secretly lobbying against "Salem, the capital of the
those charged with the conduct state, is a flourishing town,
of our foreign policy if we are pleasantly situated on the right
to prevent war. bank of the Willamette, and con
British Louble-Cross tains a good school and some
But it isn't always the milit- important manufacturing inter
ary who do the double-crossing, ests."
home of the most vital diplo
matic negotiations in recent his-
"County Seat Salem 45
tory have been tragically double-
miles from Portland.
crossed by our supposed good Third Judicial District Hon.
friends, the British. Reuben P. Boise. Judge Circuit
In 1334-35, this column car- Court.
ried a scries of stories tracing
District Attorney J. G. Wil
son, Salem.
Senators Hon. E. F. Colby
and Hon. John W. Grim.
Representatives Hons.
Crandall, Robert Newell,
stop by step how the British
were secretly encouraging the
Japanese at exactly the same
time our state department was
desperately trying to block the
Jap invasion of Manchuria.
The column also predicted that Harding,' and Samuel Parker!
mniiir ill MVP J l lie Urt.cllie,e in
Manrhnri u-rttiM 1nai-t in lha
invasion of all China bv the Jap non salary' $600'
war lords. Three vears later County Clerk N.
this happened.
What the British actually did
was to agree officially with the
United States that the Japanese cent
army must oe stopped in -Man
churia and that the Japanese .
government must be given the
severest condemnation by the SuPt- Schools B. F. Bonham,
League of Nations. But when $300.
U. S. Ambassador Cameron "Attorneys W. M. Barnam,
Forbes would call at the Jap- B. F. Bonham. C. P. Crandall,
anese foreign office with a J. C. Cartwright, L. F. Grover,
scorching note of protest. Sir B. F. Harding. Geo. K. Shiel J.
Miles Lampson. British Charge S. Smith, C. N. Terry, Salem;
d'Aifaires, though delivering a and J. H. Lasater, Silverton.
County Judge Milton Shan-
T. Caton,
fees.
Sheriff George A. Edes. fees.
Treasurer J. H. Moores, per-
Surveyor Walter Forward,
" i'