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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 6, 1950
Oregon's Mountain Musicians
Of all our numerous birds, the water ouzel or dipper,
seems to embody more of the characteristics of the pioneer
American than any of the others, embodying their free
dom from convention, their industry, self reliance and in
dependence. They are individualistic and diligently work
out their own salvation. You never see one of them, even KRISS-KROSS
jn the worst oi winter weatner, seeking aims or ioou or
shelter, as so many other birds do.
The ouzel is a slate looking curious bird that frequents
roaring mountain streams and nests frequently under
waterfalls. Its body is as large as a robin's, but looks
much smaller, because its small tail gives a chunky look.
Wines are short and rounded and its clumasre soft and so
,!!. j.!.. :4. j ..,. -r i junM. ,in, Marion county is always in the market lor a good usea Driage.
unwi. umi. lb toil u uimci natci i iu..K u,ovo..v.o ,,.- - , , u.u. 1,J t ,.. Mill, ,rrm
lilt? LUUJUJ UUMfiMI. a U.7-HI1 .v,a..L uw uwvk. ...
the state highway department last week at a bargain-basement
price of $3913.
Buying second-hand
bridg
es is no new ex
perience for
The ouzel seems inpervious to cold and never migrates. Marion county.
It flies about in the snow, dives under ice and sings as if hasedthe
it was summer weather, but never goes far from the old brldge which
stream. John Muir the naturalist, fell in love with the crossed the Pud
nnznls and most, that we know of the bird comes from him. ding river at
He says it sings the year around. The birds range is from
northwestern Alaska south to California. It is a perma
nent resident of the Cascades.
Trout anglers who blame every creature except them
selves for the shortage of fish, claim that these small acro
bats are destructive of small trout, but Ira N. Gabrielson
AIR. MILQUETOAST HAS
unusual expeRieNce
OwH. IHBl ttn Vwt M4I TWt It
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Discussion on Dogs Steals
Lead From Politics at Lunch
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Harry Truman has frequently said that the
two men he would most like to see retired from congitss are the
republican senators from his home state Forrest Donnell and
James P. Kem of Missouri.
However, the president leaned over backward to fcc polite to
these bitter foes
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
when he and
Mrs. Truman
luncnea w 1 1 n
the Missouri
congress i o n a 1
delegation. In
fact, politics
played a minor,
role at the
luncheon, giv
ing way to a
discuss ion of
dogs, led by
charming Mrs. Bennett Champ
Clark, wife of the Judge and
former senator from Missouri.
There was a time when a
P. i lASri
Drew Pearson
seemed easy. But it wasn't. It
took days of careful organizing,
plus a lot of courage on the part
of Legion leaders, to start such
a gigantic project especially at
a time when everyone wanted
to relax after Christmas.
However, the men who have
fought our wars in the past real
ized that there is only one way
to win peace for the future
by working at it. For peace is
not a beribboned parchment
which diplomats sign after a
war is over. It is a living breath
ing day-to-day document which
the people of a nation must work
'We-Buy-Old-Bridges' Could
Be Slogan for Marion County
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Like the fellow who makes a hobby of collecting talse teeth,
out getting wet. It has a shining white eyelid. Its food
is small insects that live under the water. It can walk on
the bottom with swift running over his head, can even fly
under the water.
legendary dog played a famous at year after year.
role in the lite oi Mrs. uiarK a
late father-in-law, Speaker
Champ Clark, whose theme song
when he ran for president was:
"I don't care if he is a noun',
you've gotta quit kicking my
dog aroun'."
But Mrs. Clark, a former Eng
lish actress, probably did not
remember that famous conven
tion battle of 1912 in which
Woodrow Wilson finally beat
out Champ Clark. For she dom
inated the conversation with a
eulogy, not of her hound, but of
Peace is like a successful mar
riage. The hardest part begins
after the marriage license is
signed. And the fact that so
many Americans forgot to work
at1 peace and retreated into their
shell of isolation during the
Harding - Coolidge days after
1918, was one reason why we
had to fight again in 1941.
Wars, the American Legion
naires know all too weii, come
in cycles of about every 20
years. And the children of to
day can be our friends or the
Aurora ... paid
only $2800 for
that one.
But the Au-
m
Jr
Chrll Kowllz,
last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Jennie Schmidt, who
answered the phone, failed to
answer the question asked her.
She had also been unable to give
the right answer on the previous
time her number was called.
Here's the twist: The "Tel-e-Test"
announcer always relates
the question at the beginning
of the program. Hundreds of
regular "Tel-e-Test" listeners in
Salem had prepared themselves
with the answer Thursday by
rora span later turned out to be referring to an atlas or ency-
a white elephant. The gimmick cloyedia.
came in moving the bridge from But not the Schmidts.
its old site to McKee, where it They were listening to a dif-
and Stanley G. Jewett of the U.S. biological service in is now located. The moving job ferent staiion. In fact, Loring
their "Birds of Oregon," say that "stomach examinations cost the tidy sum of $25,000. and Jennie are somewhat prej-
, , , ' , .. . , . . , , . The county doesn't know just udiced against tuning their radio
have shown, however, that its bobbing and probing among what u wiU do with its iatest to KSLM the local Mutual out-
the pebbles is to obtain aquatic insects and their larvae, surplus bridge. But, as United let. You see, Loring is program
not baby trout." Press correspondent William director for KOCO, Salem's
Warren points out, "nothing like other station,
nr mu j nr.iii.-i i- having a spare bridge saved up
Mrs. Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher in her charming ac- or a drainy bay." Little weather tragedy: A lo-
count of naturalists spending a winter in northern British Come to think of it, that cal church which prides itself
Columbia entitled the "Driftwood Valley" (Atlantic Month- bridge could come in pretty on serving king-sized dinners
ly book) , speaks of the night singing of the water ouzels as handy during the thawing-out was forced to Issue tiny portions
follows : , season.
"As we drank our tea and rocked in the easy chairs, the last
daylight faded, and the world was locked in silence and glit
tering snow and moonlight of early northern lights, suddenly
from outside came a burst of rippling notes. Birds singing a
clear sweet song on a bitter cold night with the temperature at
zero and two feet of snow. It couldn't be possible. But the
music was still there, now just above the cabin roof, now down
over the lake.
"We rushed out bareheaded, and there by the open water number was called by "Tel-e-
patch below on the bank were three fat little gray dippers, or Test," a Mutual Broadcasting
water ouzels, with short bobbing tails. Neither of us had any company give - away program,
idea that any bird ever sang at night in the depths of winter,
much less a northern one. In vivid moonlight we could see
them distinctly dipping and bobbing on the rocks in cold, shin- MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
ing waicr ana singing.
"Their song echoed back and forth so that all the lake was
ringing with it. When we went inside, the birds flew above
our roof, and poured their music down upon us. No European
nightingale, singing in a hot, lusty summer evening, ever wove
the spell of enchantment that the dippers did with their crystal
tinkles, which matched so perfectly the icy purity of the win
ter night."
one evening last week. Church
officials had originally expected
Being called by a radio net- about 100 persons to turn out
work telephone quiz program for a certain banquet. How
is getting to be almost a common ever, weather conditions became
occurrence for the Loring so bad the day of the banquet
Schmidt residence at 1717 John that they thought surely no more
her smooth-haired fox terrier soldiers of tomorrow. That's why
which, she boasted modestly, the friendship gesture of toys,
outshone everything in Washing- the first installment of which
ton canine circles and was prac- sails from Philadelphia today,
tically out of this world in pedi- can be so important,
grees. That's also why the distri-
This went on for some time, bution of the toys, which will
with Mrs. Truman saying noth- be in the hands of the efficient
ing. When Mrs. Clark finally CARE organization, will have
ran out of adjectives about her t0 be distributed with a little
pooch, the first lady broke in publicity and fanfare to make
gently: sure that the people of Europe
"We used to have a dog, too." understand the full meaning of
"How wonderful," enthused this carefully and patiently col
the Judge's wife. "What kind?" lected Tide of Toys from the
"Oh, just a plain dog," replied veterans of America.
Mrs. T. ...
"INVASION" OF MARYLAND
TIDE OF TOYS Twelve short years ago Demo-
Every Christmas I hear some cratic Sen MiUat.d E. Tydings
folks arguing that Christmas has screamed about a "collapse" of
become too commercialized, that the democratic system when
we give presents chiefly to those President Franklin D. Roosevelt
who we think are going to give personally invaded Maryland in
us something in return, that we an unsuccessful effort to purge
should not merely practice tne senat0r.
Christ's teachings on His birth- At that iime a jot of peopie
day, but every day. figured that the defeat of the
I have heard quite a few peo- elongated reactionary from
pie talk this way, but until now Maryland would not be a blow
I haven't known many people to democracy, but Tydings
to do much more than talk about demagogued his way through
it. This year, however, it's been th. Pruclai battle and was re-
"After twenty-five yean with the firm they gave
me a lovely gold pin."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Will Future Farmer Find It
Necessary to Just Park Cars?
By HAL BOYLE
New York, (IP) What shall we do with the American farmer?
Shall we turn him into a parking lot attendant?
This appears to be one forward-looking solution of a problem
as old as the republic the fight between the city and the
countryside.
It looks as if
the city has
won. The next
step is to pave
the farmlands,
leaving the
United States
one vast sea of
concrete and as
phalt, studded I
with parks, sub-
urban lawns
and billboards.
This will give n1 '
everyone room to park his car,
and the farmer can make more
money renting his acres as ga-
if u
wmtmu femni
going in for large tractors in.
stead of large families. He hai
learned that one good machina
is more of an economic help
around the farm than five strap
ping sons used to be.
What does this mean? It
means that instead of the farm
boys going to the cities, the city
boys are going to move out deep
er and deeper into the country
side. But the water mains, the
electric light lines, and the bus
routes are going right along with
them.
The cities are on the march,
different.
Christmas has been over more
than a month now, and at Phila
delphia tomorrow an event will
elected again in 1944.
However, Tydings once more
is aspiring to election to the sen
ate in 1950 and, this time, the
street. For the second time in
recent months, the Schmidts'
than half that number would
show up. To be safe, they pre
pared food for 80. When the
banqi"t was over, 92 diners
were still hungry.
A Call for Help Years Ago
That Still Haunts a Fellow
The ouzels remained all winter, says the author, became
By DeWITT MaeKENZIE
(dP) Foreign Affairs AnalrM)
reminiscence has to do with
a tragedy which
ii . ' i (i i Todav s reminiscence nas 10 uu wim uagi-uj ""
our greatest source of music and gay company" and the uymed me these many yearsa nightmare of mass-death and
vuinci ii, svii me muic mcjr oui-mcu m unc n, apenuiiiK inuai. cans for neip wnich had to be ignored.
of their time in the open patches of water, swimming and The German submarine campaign of early 1917 was at the awful
diving among tne rocks, ineir powers ot ilight matched peak which all but brought the allies to their knees
iuui, iij mn in me on, diiiiiik a niuj uur snip iruiujt- rK
go ana cnasing each other in endless games, spiraling down the Far East,!
from the sky showering music like the English skylark, filled with Aus-i
They sing on and off all through the dav and often some tralian and New
hours after dark." Zealand soldiers1
enroute to the
tl m. kl i ! r western front,
Threat to Naval Air Facility Here came steaming
First it was United Air Lines that was in jeopardy at the '"t0,..a w 1 n 1 ry
ciM : i in. -i:..:i i i. -n . Mediterrane a n
auicm uupuru me vivn Aeronautics uoara last summer which was boil
wanted to know why West Coast Airlines shouldn't be sub- ing with U
Dl-.'l..ln 4n. TTilAJ 1 TV -r:nlj hnntz
""'tu iui uiiutu uv, i.icinuy lllMll. . DeWHI HHkenm
Now the Naval Air Facility at the airport is in jeopardy was me for"lhe submersibles,
because of a lack of interest shown by the 519 naval air and they were taking a terrible
reservists in the Willamette valley. With the navy looking to11 ot shipping and human life,
for places to close in order to save money, it is understood Mrf
the Salem fncility is being eyed by the economy-minded. cargo vessels were forbidden to
When the navy authorized the air facility last snrinir. attempt any rescue work for we couldn't see much
the Salem site was chosen because it was centrally located sinking ships. Instructions were leaned against the rail,
in the Willamette valley, where almost one-third of the to turn tail and run llke the Suddenly a steamer loomed
reservists in the four Pacific Northwest states live. An- devi1' lest the submarlne aIso "P "ly comparatively short
other reason was that the Columbia airport in Portland get you' . . . d;fta"cre uh;a"d Tdnft
didn't have the room, while the Hillsboro field didn't Tnls was tUe periocl which kLwhy we hadni spotted
have a control tower nor the needed runways and hangar. produced one of the strange tales them before. Perhaps they had
balem, however, had just what was needed. of the war not the one I set just been turned on. or a belt of
As a result, navy personnel started remodeling the han- out to tell you, but one which fog may have been between us.
gar on McNary field last April and seven planes were into our picture. Anyway, there they were, turn-
brought here in September. Air reservists were asked to Australian transports, loaded ing into a suicide ship,
come in to sten up. But, so far, only about 80 have signed wi'hrooPs and nurses, were "The damned, crazy fools,"
up. The navy can figure rightly enough that only 80 out hea,din? for the we,stern fron.t ex,e alm.ed my oficer- "They re
of a DOtential of 500 is not ennno-h under JaPanese naval convoy. A asking for it!"
oi a potential oi ouu is not enough. submarine stuck a torpedo into He had hardly got the words
Another way to look at it, Salem could have the air facil- one of the transports, which car- out of his mouth when a tor
Ity become a naval air station with about 100 more offi- ried both soldiers and women pedo hit them. It was a mortal
cers and enlisted personnel added to the station force itself nurses. The stricken steamer was blow, and their wireless began
if 150 to 200 aviators sign up. That means a doubling of sinking fast. The Japanese ad- to beg for help, word spread
the present list of flyers. Probably about 30 additional miral in command gave the or- through our ship. Men gathered
vy iiic iaii aiiu uicic , . u i . ti
mother's son who didn't want to
go to the rescue. And the strick
en ship was so nearl
Our skipper almost never left
the bridge. I recall one stretch
of 48 hours of duty which he
did without rest. All the pas
sengers were assigned to the sub
marine watch in pairs. It was
no time for slackness, for thir
teen ships were sunk near us as
we plowed on towards England:
It was on a black midnight, as
I was standing watch on deck
with a ship's officer, that we
encountered the tragedy with
which this account is concerned.
We were, of course, running
without lights. Not even the
glow of a cigarette was permitt
ed. It was an eerie business, for
we
take place showing that several shoe is on the other foot. This
million people have been follow- time Tydings wants the Presi
ing the above advice and are dent to "invade" Maryland and
trying to make Christmas come recently urged Truman to ac
not once a year but in January, cept an invitation to dedicate a
February and March too. new airport near Baltimore in
For tomorrow the U.S. Lines June,
steamer American Adventure "You will have a great op
embarks for Rotterdam carry- portunity to help the boys on the
ing the first installment of one ticket," expanded Tydings, not
of the most precious cargoes referring to himself. "By all
ever collected in the U.S.A. means, you should accept this
The Tide of Toys. These friend- invitation to speak in Maryland."
ship toys are being donated "Now, just wait a minute,"
through the tireless efforts of broke in Republican Congress
the American Legion to the chil- man Glenn Beall. "I'm in the
dren of Europe. minority here, but I think if the
Of course, this column is sup- President is to make this air
posed to report the closed-door P o r t dedication a political
meetings of congress and the speech, maybe he had better
backstage manuverings of diplo- stav out of Maryland."
mats. But no story is more im- "oh- yu won,t Bet hurt, and
nortant than the backstaee ac- lou won 1 De nelPea eimer 11 Ine
count of how the American Le
gion collected some 3,000,000
toys in the short space of five
weeks, got them sorted, packed
for export, and shipped to Phila
delphia. On the surface, this may have
President decides to accept our
invitation," declared Tydings.
However, the senator wasn't
happy when Truman broke in:
"I may touch on international
matters if I go to Maryland to
dedicate the airport, but I won't
make a political speech."
Copyright 1950)
rage space than he can growing tooback to the countryside.
unnecessary poaioes. There used to a pretty sharp
line between cities. There isn't
At first glance this may seem any more. The city slicker and
a far-fetched solution of the the hayseed are neighbors. Often
present parking and traffic prob- they are the same guy this is
lem, but is it? Not if the pres- the fellow who has a day job in
ent population and way-of-living the city but goes home at night
trends keep up. to an acre or two in the country.
In 1820, the year Daniel Boone Or it is the suburban farmer who
died, there were 5.5 persons to wheels five miles into town to
the square mile, and the old sell his produce,
frontiersman felt the country Gradually the cities are
was too crowded to live in. What spreading like pools of water
would he think today when there that eventually will unite into
are 50 to the square mile? one vast American municipal
The population doubled from lake.
75,000,000 in 1900 to 150,000,- What about food? Oh, the
000 by 1950. And there are also scientists are learning to grow
some 50,000,000 autos and trucks that in the laboratories. And
cruising over the trails along when they do, then the cities will
which the buffaloes used to lope, only mushroom faster as the
And thousands more are being amount of food available is the
built every week. only real check on population.
. So someday the whole wide
For decades the rural areas countryside will be paved, the
have been losing to the city in mountains levelled, the deserts
terms of percentage of total pop- gone, and only a little bush grass
ulation. For a long time coun- left here and there to keep the
try people complained about cricket's chirp alive, and a tree
this. They said the cities weren't in each community to welcome
really self-sustaining in popula- a robin each spring,
tion their bright lights just There's to be no traffic prob
lured the boys off the farms. lem, as there will no longer.be
This may have been true once, much need for streets. You can
but you know what the census drive anywhere except across an
bureau has just discovered? It airfield. But you'll still pay to
has found out that, man for man, park.
the city dweller is now having I only wish I could live long
more children than his country enough to bid on the paving con
cousin. The farmer today is tractl
nlnnna wnulrl Iia hrnnirhf Vinrp Tlinf ic Kann,l nn V. a;i..n der:
tion at Spokane, where the naval air facility there became lhl'Save themen lirsl' Bnd thon
in time a naval air station. In comparing the Spokane a vouni Jaoanese officer
..tuation it should be noted that the Salem and Willamette ,ninking hf, sZrf Z:
valley potential is even better than the eastern Washington fused the order, said to him:
situation. "Pardon, sir, but you mean order hung over us. And
Two inducements should bring about a pick-up in sign- ave tne women first and then knew that there wasn't a chance
uus nere. rirst. Deiier weniner snnn n nrnicr hack irii.no rf "n-.i, uuu v ,u;
flvintr. And spennd. th start, nf ivn.woiV r.r,,i,na !, "No," replied the admiral.
Still, that iron-clad admiralty
over us. And we
Tviv in M.rl. u,in offo n.nnoton, 4nnn. mu-i "The allies have plenty of worn-
leaves out the obvious consideration that if the Salem air Sci?1?, "eed m SaVe th"
facility can't continue to grow, Oregon would not get an- Wcll, they saved both women
other air facility for years to come and the area would and men.
get a black-eye among naval air reservists. But to get back to my ship:
in the world of our escaping
torpedo ourselves if we didn't
clear out. v
So we steamed away as fast
as we could go. The pity of hav
ing to do it! No wonder that call
for help sMll haunts a fellow af
ter all there years.
Why Do Women Work
Nights? Most Don't Like to
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) Why do ladies work nights?
Take the department of labor bulletin on the subject and the
case called No. 6. A 44-year-old telephone operator in Atlanta,
married with two grown children, works from 11 at night to 6
in the morning six nights a week.
"We don't have enough beds '
to go around," she explained, school had moved into the build
"And besides, It is possible for ing across the alley,
our family to have breakfast, The labor people interviewed
dinner and evening together." 270 persons who work part or
But do the ladies like this 8,1 of the f these. 148
night work? Some of them do, wef e women the rest men.
most of them don't. . s,0"?.e f tht ladles llke the
. , . . night business, because they find
it more suitable to their "per
Many of those interviewed by SOnal needs and desires." Most
the women's bureau of labor de- 0f these had no domestic re
payment complained about not sponsibilities.
being able to sleep daytimes. I a counter-girl in Atlanta said
can sympathize with them . that despite the fact she had
I was on the all night shift for kids aged two, eight and 12, she
a long time and I had a very sad liked her shift because she liked
experience. It was in New York, to "sleep late in the morning."
The old story about a cat stamp- "My husband." she said,
ing its feet while walking across "works a day shift and he takes
a thick rug is no fable. The ter- care of the children in the eve
mites boring through the walls ning."
used to annoy me. So I went to Several women working in
a real estate dealer and said I hotels, bars and restaurants said
wanted the most quiet place in they got bigger tips at night.
Jackson Heights. He had just One woman said she had been
the spot a back apartment five working as a baker for the same
stories above the kid's play-yard, boss for six years on the night
I signed a two-year lease. shift. She said she didn't sleep
A month later around 2 too well in the daytime, because
o'clock on afternoon I was cud- of the racket outside her bed
died in the feathers when all of room window, "but I take great
a sudden I heard the doggondest pride in my work and you don't
blast you ver heard. A musio bake in the dayUme.
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