THE CAPITAL JOI RNAL, Salem. Oregoa
Tuesday, January 5, 1954
Capital AJournal
An Independent Nevwpoper Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM. Editor Emeritus
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EUGENE TACKLES OFF-STREET PARKING
Eugene bus a worse traffic congestion than Salem be-
cause of its narrow streets. As an alleviation if not a com
' plete solution the city administration has proposed an
election on January 19 on a charter amendment giving the
city authority to provide, operate and maintain off-street
parking lots anywhere in Eugene for use by the public
Also to be voted on is the proposal to give the city per
mission to sell $750,000 bonds for initial financing of con
struction of as many narking? lots as the money will buy.
. There will be pledged all the revenues from meters on the
lots, plus Z5 per rent ot ou,uou (wmcnever is greater;
. from on-street meters to pay off the bond issue.
This election is the culmination of protracted efforts to
provide some means of alleviation of serious parking prob
lems in the downtown area.
A benefit assessment plan which would have brought
financing of the parking lots through charges against sur
rounding property owners was first favored but aban
doned because of the delay by necessary court action.
Then the city council, backed by the Chamber of Com
merce approved a draft of the proposed charter changes,
A hot fight over the proposal looms and the rity is issuing
a voters' phamphlet containing the proposals and argu
ments in full by advocates and opponents.
A "Citizen's Protective Committee" composed of oppo
nents, largely of realtors claim the issue is inequitable to
many residents, because downtown merchants will be the
principal beneficiaries, but the advocates contend all citi
zens will benefit and the' lots are essential to cope with
congestion.
The Eugene Register Guard pledges editorial support of
the measure for the following reasons:
"W do not helievA anvhnriv can dianut the need of off-street
parking in any growing city. Eugene waa one ot the iirat to be .
talking about it IS yeara ago; it if one of the last to act. Our neigh-
Dors in springneia nave beaten us to tne nonor oi being tne Jim
city in uregon to do what 700 cities in oiner states nave done.
"Essentially the only issue is whether the city should take on this
chore or leave it to private enterprise. We believe the city must
because private enterprise has failed nearly everywhere to do the
job. Even Oakland, California, which has the oldest and most
t successful merchant parking system in the United States is asking
the city to take a hand because: There is no other way to insure
permanent public use of parking facilities.'
"The proposed plan will not affect tax rates. We view off-street
parking as a necessary part of the street and traffic management j
system a public utility." G. P.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Legion and Medical Assn.
Squaring Off for Battle
IKE'S 'FIRESIDE TALK'
President Eisenhower might become as effective a "fire
side" speaker is President Roosevelt was if he would de
liver them oftener for he has the late president's sympa
thetic, appealing personality, and he has an advantage
F.D.R. did not have, television. .
. The president must have found a friendly receotion
Monday night with virtually all ol the tens of millions of
his countrymen who heard and saw him. This is true be-
cause oi rw ooviour sincerity, his desire to serve the best
i interests ol the country, and his freedom from personal or
partisan rancor, lie is the same devoted public servant he
; has been ever since he devoted his life to his country
when he went to West Point more than 40 years ago.
,' The president gave no details of his legislative program,
j These will come Thursday when he addresses congress.
But he did reveal the guiding philosophy of his adminis
' tration, which is as far from old line conservatism as it is
I from new deal socalism.
! Eisenhower made it clear that his administration is
and will continue to be keenly interested in the troubles of
; the people, unemployment, ill health, needy old age and
other ills which can be attacked through governmental
i action, such as a depression, will be vigorously dealt with
', through all the means available to the central government.
', But the major reliance will continue to be placed on in
I dividual enterprise and initiative, and local governmental
; agencies will be expected to play their large, important
; role. The government in Washington will be an active, but
j not the dominant partner in all this-
President Eisenhower breathes good will, awareness,
! optimism. He is a fine type of national leader. Of course
1 he makes mistakes and his jnh is beyond the capacity of
; any man. But who would most of us rather have at the
; helm of th ship of state just now? No one whose name
; comes to mind.
j HE CHANGED FOOTBALL
, Gus Dorais, who died the other day at Birmingham,
Mich., the other day, threw the first forward pass in
J American football, and with his Notre Dame teammate,
; Knute Rock no, changed the character of the game, for the
Dctter, most people win agree.
. ly DREW PEARSON
Washington Mr. John O Pub
lic will be chiefly watching taxes,
social security, national defense.
and other headline issues as con
gress gets under way. Backstage,
however, two of the most power
ful groups in the nation the
American Legion and the Ameri
can Medical Association are
getting ready for a cutthroat bat
tle against each other that will
end up in the halls ot congress.
The Issue, In effect, la "social-
ixea medicine.
The American Medical Associa
tion, which ranks second among
KKiucrea wasningtnn lobbies,
spent $270,174 to influence con
ress in 19S2. The legion, which
rans eigmn, spent (108,233.
Both are among the top lobby-
inn spencers to influence con
gress.
But in this ease th hlil. mm
deeper than congress, with the
m.a. encouraging doctors to
These key men, in turn, are
responsible for. getting in touch
with their senators and repre
sentatives and "informing them
of the medical profession's atti
tude toward proposed legisla
tion." "This method," Dr. Mc
Carthy added, "has worked ad
mirably in the past."
Dr. William B. Walsh of
nasmngton, president of the
AMA's "front" organization, the
National Medical Veterans so
ciety, cautioned doctors against
declaring open warfare on the
Legion. "Education," he main
tained, "is the cornerstone of
the campaign."
And as part of that education,
be said, "we mint ' AnMn..M
physicians to join the American
Legion, but to avnirf Iha
of doctor's posts By remaining
informal (one of the hnvo k.
doctors will be more effective in
Salem 27 Years Ago
y BEN MAXWELL
January I, 1M7
A force of 160 sailors and marines
Galveston at Corinto, Nicaragua,
had disembarked from the U.S.S.
and entrained for Managua, the
capitol, to guard the U. S. lega
tion and protect American lives
and property.
First State Savings bank of Stav
ton, with capital increased to $sri.-
000. had absorbed the First Na
tional bank of that place.
Gov. Pierce had this day J7
years agol presided at his last
meeting with the board of control
and superintendents of state
boards.
"Salem Rod and Gun club had
elected Romeo Goulet as president
for 1927.
Kafoury Brothers. 464 State
street, were offering bed sheein
size 81 by 90 inches, at their spe
cial clearance at a price of 89c,
Pearl Appointment
Grants Pass Caurier
Reaction to tot recent appoint
ment of Dr. William A. Pearl as
Bonneville power administrator to
suceed Paul J. Raver, resigned, oa
the part of the public ownership
crowd of the i'aciiic . "r - i s
hsa violent, as was to be ax-
irtctad.
Gus Norwood, executive secre
tary of the Northwest Public Pow
er association, led the pack. As
Norwood sees it. Dr. Pearl was
"sponsored by private power agen
cies. William Way, president-elect of
the Portland Central Labor council
chimed in with: "Dr. Pearl is not
a friend of labor and what it
atands for."
Way was elected oa a platform
of greater participation of Organ
ised Labor in politics than in the
Past if that it possible. He uses
uw qui cnesinut wnicn meant, in
every-day English, that a public
official must be subservient to the
will of labor bosses or he it "not
a friend of labor and what it
standi for."
The government-ownership crowd
la the Pacific Northwest, of course,
it interested in government own-
ersnip ot everything, the platform
of the Socialist party for ages.
In thit instance, these nennl
would advance their theory of gov
ernment by appealing to the cupid
ity of the residents of the Pacific
iMortnwett.
It isn't hard to convince many
that millions taken from the citi
zens of the nation generally and
dumped into the Northwest benefit
the people of the Northwest.
The most conservative hnlnc
elements of Portland do not find it
naru to conclude mat such dump
ing of Federal tax monies in their
trade area constitute and "excep
tion." At a matter of fact. Dr. Pearl
It a native of the Pacific North.'
west, it a competent engineer and
Ideally qualified to bead the gov
ernment's huge Northwest power
project
it alts it true that Dr. Pearl
may be expected to follow the
poucy ot the Eisenhower adminis
tration which it to conduct the
project on a business-like basis,
eliminating from the administra
tor's operation the huge public
power propaganda section which
flourished under both the Roose
velt and Truman administrations.
Public power installations can be
used to wreck private oower con
cerns. They should not be.
The present Administration has
made its position plain. It will con
tinue to develop Federal power
projects in the Northwest where
i they are needed and which private
inausiry win not or cannot finance.
On the other hand, private indus
try win not ne browbeaten and
batted around by the greater
power of competing Federal
power projects.
We like that program, despite
tne position oi either Mr. Norwood
or Mr. Way.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Want to Start New Year Off
With Million Dollar Idea?
BOYLE
think up a fresh middle-aged
pleasure that meets these re
strictions. Finally I told him
lamely:
"Have you thought of taking
up the study of ventriloquism?
That would fit the rules you
laid down."
"If I do," he bristled, "I'll
know where to find my first
dummy."
As I say. It's a million-dollar
idea if you can come up
with a real answer. But it's
like most other million-dollar
ideas. They're two bits a dozen
unless you know what to do
with them.
Even if I could discover a
new middle-aged pleasure I
doubt if I'd tell anybody. It
might be better just to enjoy
it in silence.
By HAL
" New York m How would you
like to start the New Year off
wiLh a free million dollar idea?
Well, a fellow gave me one
the other day, and after examin
ing it from all angles, I am now
passing it on to you and you are
welcome to it.
"Why doesn't somebody invent
a new middle-aged pleasure?"
This man demanded. "It would
be worth a million dollars to
him "
When I asked him what be
meant, he continued:
"A great amount of effort and
energy is spent thinking up gad
gets to keep the young happy or
toiten tne woes oi tne eiaeriy.
bu nobody pays any attention to
the middle-aged.
"Yet- there are more middle
aged people than any other kind.
Why should we have to shift for
ourselves to much? Why doesn't
somebody exert a little brain
power to provide us with romeiii es!llilu
new form of pleasure. I HOOP nOSpildlllf
i aae me, znr exampir. i u
admit I'm middle-aged, and I am
bored. I am in that critical
period when a man is too old to
enjoy playing post office and too
young to enjoy rheumatism. Why
doesn't somebody dream up a
new kind of pleasure that will
enable us middle-aged people to
forget ourselvet and our prob
lems." "Have you never tried bird
watching?" I inquired. "The
tight of our little feathered
friends at .work and play is
often soothing to the spirit."
"Look," he said, "lets be
practical. When you've seen
one English sparrow, you've
seen 'em all. Let the birds
watch each other.
He made the same complaint
about baseball, television view
ing, canasta, and stamp col-
Corrallii Gazette-Times
Nebraska was completely over
whelmed by the hospitality of
Corvallis people and the coop
eration between the town and
college and the support given by
the merchants to the college ath
letic program.
Both Indiana and Nebraska
teams appreciated the elongated
beds provided for the comfort of
the exceptionally tall players.
The Beaver Big Bed Brigade has
helped considerably toward mak
ing Corvallis a basketball capital.
Incidentally, it doesn't seem to
be generally well known that the
Benton hotel Warren Taylor
and Carl Doty paid for four of
the beds themselves.
The townspeople of Eugene
seem to be much more loyal to
their conference than were the
Lynching Dies Out
A gold pin had been awarded
Ralph Purvine. member of Com
rade club affiliated with First Pres
byterian church.
infiltrate the legion as ordinary ,nrdinary Post
veterans in order to ficht the Sentiment at the closeri-rinnr
socialized-medicine battle from meetins: was far from unani
the inside. The A.M. A. has even n,ou' however, and several doc-
sei up a "ironi group, the Na- Pne up in Oisaereement ' Prm::. . . . ,.
tional Medical VeVer.n. sVii.; I Dr. William A n-Rri.- -r ,Permiss on "tend its l,e
to ight the .ialized.medicine,Ncv.d ,sked if the group 0n souKh. by Oron Truin.d
battle and warns its members to thn would be wise fo? subsidTarf of the J w.i. '
confine their statements to re-; ! I societies to toll the na : d'Sn pTcUk raWoad,
marks "cleared throuch the '"" doctors not to care for '""""era racinc railroads.
A M A. to make sure vou all u i "on servicc-cnnnccted cases nm 1 ... .
the same thing " 1 in VA hospitals. ! Brl'ish were awaiting with curi-
The legion in turn has alerted! nr- Walter B. Martin, presi-! ,.ty ,.,h 'nu""li of trans
its 18,000 posts to start shooting dot-elect of the AMA. warned i" f.,"! serv'r' wi,h
at the A.M. A. Bluntlv, the Amer- tn!, sny such drastic step would'" lmtl,I1r,t of 125 1 m"iute for
iran Legion Magazine warns: b ''' error and the doctors ' on-
i ne legion has definitely lost woum net our throats cut and
patience with the American Med-; l' 'n ,h doghouse permanent
iral Association's weaving, twist-; ''"
ing, opportunistic attacks on the 0n doctor, whose name was
federal system of care for vet- not identified in the minutes
erans. I asked his fellow doctors whst
Albany Democrat-Herald
Tuskegee institute, famed Ne
gro college .announced it is oiv.
ing up its annual lynching report
since, for the second year in suc
cession, there has not been a
lynching in the United States
This ought to have some effect
on those who, blind to the good
work of the Southern state gov
ernments and the vast improve
ment in race relations, have been
insisting on putting through a
federal anti-lynching law. Future
studies, the head of the institute
announces, will be devoted to
comparing white and Negro stan
dards in four categories income
relationship, voter participation,
education and employment. That
makes sense.
people of Corvallis. While many
lecting. He was weary of sports! of us cheered the Nebraska team
and jobbies. j when they played Oregon, we
"No," he taid, "what 1 want had the almost unanimous sup
is an absolutely new pleasure Por ol the crowd in Eugene when
for a middle-aged uy like my- j "'ePI!'eJ?.,!ndJ,na' , ..
self-something that doesn't i '"'-0""um11 Mc"
. K, ..,.j ,' Arthur Court were filled to ca-
come in a bottle or wrapped in . . . jM.Kiii.
cellophane, something that !,, ,h,, th. , lrn
doesn't come with a guarantee mlt t0 see , top.nignt traction,
to help me or hurt me, but; when we have good team or
something I can get some real recognized teams are brought in
fun out of." to play, the people come to the
"Any other qualifications?" games.
I asked. I -Spec Keene and Leo Harris
Well, yes." he said. "A new pulled a smart stunt m providing
pleasure for a middle-aged man me flounie-bin in each town in
ought to be simple and inex-! s,ead running competing at
pensive. It ought to be some- j """lions forty miles apart.
thing the children can t steal SURVIVE! DONT MISS IT
from you as soon as tney reacn
their teens. It ought to be
something a man can enjoy
without having to share it with
a woman. Naturally, also it
ought to be respectable, so that
it won't be denounced by the
clergy or make a man subject
to arrest and imprisonment."
"That all?" I inquired.
"Y9s, that's all," he said,
but is that too much to ask?"
Frankly, it didn't seem too
much to me. After all, why
shouldn t a middle-aged man
Bend Bulletin
The columnist had been telling
about the Ickes diary and ot
Harold's criticism of several of
his cabinet associates and then
he wrote, "Drive carefully. It
would be a shame to miss the
volume giving the Ickes opinion
of Harry S. Truman."
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with his wife and kids? S;",1,,,?ne 'n'm"t i also won-
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fllKShllilich In nlhae v-i. I ifiM I Onvarnmnnl
. uornis and KOCKtie iniuiirnt up tne tacuc oi tnrtiwintr when a veteran gets sick for rea-l After warning the doctors that
. ine oan iorwarn, prni ticen tne piay an summer ana sprung; sons otner man a disability uf-; tneir proposal was impractical,
Dr. Oscar B. Hunter of Wash
Ingtnn, D.C., told the woup that
their proposed changes in VA
medical care would have tough
sledding in concrrs n rmin
mever oeiore, says the legion i"an" 'npy had lor treating the ' M the doctors that the AMA "is
"had the A M A. defined 'socialn-i 87 per cent non service-connect-1 'n '"me disrepute in congress
ed medicine' in such a way as to 'd cases and during recent congressional
compel America's war veterans 1 "How," he queried "could ! hearings the congressmen asked
to he for it." ; these patients be placed in al-1 questions 'baited' against the
What the battle boils down to 1 ready overcrowded local hospit-1 doctors."
is a proposal by the doctors to I How does it help the tax- j Meanwhile the American Le
ban free hospital care by the i Psver If the burden is simolv linn Mc.in. . 1" .iV.
government for non service i shifted from the federal to the known . ..wl.i.o k..
punusnea a stinging editorial ac
I It at West Point in 1913, after clearinit it in advance with
; the referee and finding; that he considered it legal.
; An underdog Notre Dame team the Irish sometimes
were back in those days upset a highly touted Army
! eleven 35 to IX and football became a game of speed as
I well as brawn. These two, who became famous roaches.
I and others improved on what they began and as a result
; we have the forward pass as a major weapon of football
; offense today.
Rockne and Dorais drew lots to see w hich should become
' coach at Notre Dame. Had Dorais won it would be inter
I esting to speculate on whether he would have become as
I famous as Rockne did. I'robably not because Rockne was
; a unique personality who would have made a distinctive
j place anywhere. i
nui uorais nut an rigni as u was, ior several years at I
i Gnnzaga in Spokane, which he made a football power, and' eliminate this medical service,
! for awiany years at Detroit university. He amassed one A..M.A. held a closed-door ses-
! string of in consecutive victories at Detroit l Later he 1 "on " ,h Sheraton hotel in
; coached the Detroit Linns five seasons. Vl'l0 Whl" 'h' m'nutes
, . . . , t were not marie public, this wnter
Its disappearance was discovered they affect 40 per cent of the
i about 150 pm. while the bank was adult male population, it teems
I crowded with customers. appropriate to quote from them,
i A bank employe said he noticed Dr. Louis N. Orr of Orlando,
a man he hadn't scon before in ' Fla., chairman of the closed-door
the bank about the time the money I meeting, told the doctors: "We
as missing from a cage near the have a tremendous lob nierelv
rear door of the hank lohbv. I informing our own members
lered in war, he wo-ilu i denied 1 the delegate added: "If the doc
treatment in a veterans admin-; tors do not know that the Amer
istration hospital. I ican people have a special re-
What the battle boils down t0grd for veterans, the congress
is a proposal by the doctors to! does know it."
ban tree hospital care by the gov
ernment for nonservice-connect-ed
disabilities. In other words,
when a veteran gets sick for rea
sons olher than a disability suf
fered in war, he would be denied
treatment in a veterans adminis
tration hospital.
Actually, this affects not mere
ly the American Legion but
about 20.OU0.000 vets, or 40 per
cent of the adult male population
of the U.S A.
To prepare for its campaign to
cusing the AMA of "urging that
indigent, disable veterans be
thrown back upon their com
munities for Indigent care in or
der to save the country from so
cialism." (Copynht ISIS.11
j $75,000 Theft
! In Bank Puzzle
; AMAR1LLO, Tel. - The case p" , , , , , V . . i ur " memoers -
Jot the shop-lilled 75.ono had r- ,Zr .,?. a ? ? 1 ToVl Z'l wV"ld on 1hr
! lice and bank officials in a quin- " .,h. '""'P'10" . j du" " " A M A." .
1 lrv hr. Tuxd.iv ." 01 meoium neigni i rrrssunng ongrett
! th. money disappeared from a fh , V M. Y"a M- 1 . JoMph 01
teller's cage Monday. First Na 7m 0Ut n0 """d' Pickup Omaht. a member o the AMA s
tional Bank officials said, and . . f.omml"ce of legislation, gave
Dolice said Ihev didn't have ... ... "H".""' V"1" ,s, Inf """" P" at AMA lob-
! Sart etae. and weren't XlC ""T? ,h d"f """-
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