14 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1952
Swears in Brother Former SSgt. Archie Van Winkle
(right) of Everett, Wash., who won the medal of honor, swears
his" brothers, Robert A. Van Winkle of Ketchikan, Alaska,
into the Marine Corps Reserve as a corporal. Earlier, Sgt.
Van Winkle, still wearing his stripes, was commissioned a
reserve lieutenant by Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., marine
corps commandant, center, holding Van Winkle's commission.
(Tclephoto)
Authority on Russia Talks
To Saiem Kiwanis Club
Salem Kiwanians were told
Tuesday that the communists of
Russia arc sincere in their be
lief that they have something to
give the common masses.
Here the speaker, however, re-
Slate Meeting
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Dallas A joint Marion-Polk
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scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday,
Feb. 19 at the Mayflower hull
in Salem, according to N. John
Hansen and Hollis Ottaway,
county extension agents in the
two counties.
The meeting will include dis
cussion by Ralph H. Browns
come, engineering specialist
with the soil conservation serv
ice; O. C. Yocum of the O. C.
Yocum Construction company,
McMinnville; Floyd Miller, PGE
company, Oregon City; and A. S.
King, soil conservationist from
Oregon Stale college.
Hansen states that topics on
the program will include water
usage on various crops, suclt as
pasture and vegetable crop pro
duction. Fertilization with ir
rigation will be discussed by
King. Miller will discuss elec
trical problems connected with
irrigation.
With the increased interest in
construction of dams for water
storage, a portion of the discus
sion will be devoted to this
topic. Type of construction of
dams, size of holding areas for
necessary irrigation water and
other information will be pre
sented at this meeting.
Low Cost Housing
Gains in the West
Portland (IP) Low-cost hous
ing showed an increase in the
western states last month, while
other construction dropped
sharply.
The trade journal, Western
Building, reported Tuesday that
19,823 dwelling units were
started in January in 235 cities
and counties of the west, and in
crease of 14.2 per cent over
January, 1951.
The houses were lower in cost.
The total was $120,747,200 for
17,400 dwelling units in Janu-;
nry, 1951, and $82,052,908 last;
month.
Total construction was down j
42 per cent in dollar volume I
from the previous January. The!
valuation was $$141,557,019 Inst ;
month, compared with $244,440,
654 in January, 1951.
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minded that we know that they
are out to destroy all the other
ways of life. The speaker was Dr.
Ethan Colton, considered one of
the foremost authorities and
writers on the subject of Russia,
its relation to the rest of Europe
communism and bolshevism.
Colton first became acquainted
with the Russians in 1918 when
the YMCA was attempting to
establish its welfare work in the
Russian army. The Russian army
quit and went home and the
establishment of that welfare
program was never completed
At the request of President
Wilson's administration the
YMCA stayed on to render what
service it could to the Russian
people and Colton had the op
portunity to watch communism
grow.
During his talk he recalled the
statement by a high official that
there could be no compromise
between the communists and
other beliefs in Russia, that it
was war and one of the two must
bo destroyed. "They are just as
much committed around the
world," he reminded the Kiwan
ians. "In Russia," he told them
"the state is owner of all the
means by which people live and
the state is the only employer of
labor."
Here lie compared the lite be
fore the revolution with living
conditions now, noting that they
had put on controls cutting
things to the bare necessities.
Colton said there was no place
for the YMCA now in Russia
but that there were a lot of Rus
sians outside affected by it, and
told of the Y's work among them,
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'Billy the Barber' Released
So-rincfield. 111.. (U.R) A let
ter written to President Abra
ham Lincoln by his friend
Rillv the Barber." a Haitian
Negro who migrated to Spring
field, was published Dy Histor
ians for the first time today.
It dwelt on Lincolns numili-
tv and likine for the "poor
and downtrodden."
'Billy the Barber" was Wil
liam De Fleurville, born in
Haiti in 1806 and spirited to
thic .mintrv hv his endmother
when revolution broke out on
the island in 1821.
H and Lincoln were fast
ffianrlc hfnrp Lincoln became
president and moved to Wash
ington.
w
Tn his letter to Lincoln at
the White House on Dec. 27,
1863, Billy expressed a prayer
tny nMpp mnrprn for Lincoln's
health, a hope that he would
run and be elected for a second
tnriYi pnnrinlences on the death
nf Lincoln's son. and news of a
dog left behind in Springfield
by the Lincoln cnuaren.
nitw ujrnlp- "I and mv two-
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by Lincoln to
The shackels have fallen and
bondsmen have become free
men ... I hope ere long, it
lay be universal in all the slave
states." .
Billv said if the people again
elect Lincoln, he should "ac
cept it and put things and mat
ters tnrougn to tneir termina
tion and when these troubles
shall end the nation will re
joice."
'The oppressed will shout the
name of their deliverer, and
eeneralions to pump will ric
up and call you blessed (so may
it be)." .
.
After expressing sorrow over
the death of Lincoln's son,
Willy, the Ncaro said "loll
Taddy that his and Willy's dog
is alive and kicking and doing
well.
Dr. Harrv E. Pratt Tllinnlc
state historian, said the letter
was never published before to
day. It covers four typewritten
pages.
Lincoln's son. Robert TnHrf
Lincoln, willed the De Fleur
ville letter along with nthnr
papers belonging to his father,
to me Library of Congress.
Under Robert Todd Lincoln's
will, the Library of Congress
was not to get the papers until
1947. Carl Sandburg and other
Lincoln scholars attended the
opening of the papers in the
Library of Congress at that
time.
"The reason that the letter
has never before been pub
lished," Pratt said, "is because
few historians knew about Wil
liam De Fleurville."
When Lincoln was killed two
years later and his body was
brought back for burial, Billy
the barber was invited to
march with the Negro contin
gent in the procession.
Billy's mother took him first
to Baltimore where he worked
as an apprentice barber and
doctor's handyman. He moved
later to New Orleans but the
slave markets drove him North
and he met Lincoln at New
Salem, 111., in 1831.
By 1837, when Lincoln
moved here, Billy was a well
established barber and owned
considerable real estate, includ
ing several blocks here and four
lots in Bloomington, III., where
he had a shop for a time, as well
as in Peoria. Lincoln became his
lawyer.
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Ghost Writers School Set Up
At American University
By HARMAN
Washington u.R American
university is starting a school
for "ghosts" and it's about time.
Being a little-known former
"spook" or ghost writer, I could
have used a little learning in
that direction when I acted as
Dizzy Dean's shadow during the
world series between the St.
Louis Cardinals and the Boston
Red Sox.
Dix insisted that I emphasized
the word "ain't" which my teach
er didn't like and which my boss
doesn't like, either. But Dizzy
put it this way:
"Let them school teachers
learn the kids English I'll learn
the folks baseball. And don't fer
git, Mr. Pickles, a lot of folks
who ain't usin' the word 'ain't'
ain't eating'."
Diz made his point and I was
stuck with it.
This new school course is be
ing taught in English by J. Doug
las Knox, an old ghoster himself.
He is with the state department
and has written some of the fin
est specimen speeches some of
the big people in our government
have delivered in recent months.
Some people in the public eye
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are able to write their own
speeches. Some aren't. Most of
them don't have time.
In these trying days, writing a
speech via the "invocation ol
the muse" seems to be a lost art.
And according to the library oi
congress, many of the mighty
works of literature in other cen
turies were ghosted.
Homer was said to have had
a ghost writer. Nobody has been
able to prove it.
Ghosting is a wonderful trade
and pays off or the spook. But
sometimes it can boomerang.
That happened to a ghost in
Iowa a few years ago. Bob Fel
ler, who was brought tip to the
Cleveland Indians before he fin
ished high school, was hot new:
at a time when he had to leave
the pitching mound and go
back to his home town and re
ceive a high school diploma.
Some expert wrote him a pret
ty speech, but made the mistake
of making only one copy. Th'
papers sent reporters. One of
them got to Bob a few minute
before the broadcast, borrowec
the speech and promised to re
turn it. He didn't. Bob went or
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speech. All of that taught the
modern ghost a lesson. Always
make a few copies. Which, I
., ... Douglas Knox will tell
his pupils. ff
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Suit Against N.B.C.
Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) The
National Broadcasting Co. and
television station KTTV faced
suits for $300,000 today brought
against tnem by silent mm com
edian Harold Lloyd, who charges
they used two of his old films'
without permission.
In asking $250,000 from NBC,
the actor charged the company
pirated scenes from "Safety
Last" for use on television. The
same picture was involved in a
separate suit for $50,000 against
the television station.
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