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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Saturday, February 6, 1954
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A GREAT WORLD PERSONALITY
The anxiety over the physical condition of Pope Pius
XII gerves to focus attention again on his position as one
of the four most important personages on earth, looking
at them in a purely secular light, as objectively as one can.
He is the most important to some 400,000,000 Roman
Catholic throughout the world.
As we view it the four chief personages of the world are
the pope, the president of the United States, the dictator
of Russia and the queen of England. Two of them owe
their position to the power they wield as heads of the two
most powerful nations in the world. The one changes
very few years, the other by death or overthrow, but the
position goes on, important to the entire world. ,
The British sovereign, presently Queen Elizabeth II,
holds no political power at all and probably influences no
political decisions. Why do we rate her alongside of the
actual heads of states that are more powerful than her
own? Because of her ui.ique position of being the one tie
that holds far flung members of the British common
wealth, which includes India, together and because of her
practical significance as a symbol, an idol to great num
bers of people. It is a position occupied by no actual or
other titular sovereign in the world, giving this monarch
a unique position.
The pope's position is entirely different from that of the
other three, but more like that of Queen Elizabth than that
of the others in that his importance stems from no poli
tical power. Stalin sneen'ngly asked: "How many divi
sions does the pope have ?" This was to Stalin the sole test
of power, he being unaware of spiritual power.
The pope's position stems from his leadership of by far
the largest Drancn oi tne woria-wiae unnsuan cnurcn, out
it has a peculiar significance not easy to put into words
but easy to sense. It is the cumulative effect of leadership
exercised from the same seat of churchly government
through many centuries. It has of course been enhanced
in the eyes of the world at large in recent times by the high
character and great talents of the men who have presided
over the Holy See at Rome in time of great crises.
The whole half of the world that embraces the idea of
man's immortality, whether Catholic, Protestant or indeed
whether even Christian, for there are other religions,
awaits with anxiety mixed with hope the outcome of the
illness of one of its greatest personalities.
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Jimmy's Marital Woes May
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CONTRAST IN VIEWPOINTS
A vivid contrast in not only policies but in character
was presented the public Friday night in the radio and
television broadcasts of the addresses of President Eisen
hower at a Republican box supper at Washington and a
speech before the Americans for Democratic Action by
ex-President Truman at New York.
.... Eisenhower advised Americans to ignore "the prophets
of doom," sailed into Democratic predictions of hard times
saying "the United States doesn't need to fall" and prom
ised to conduct the presidency in the same general form
as it now stands." He said the country is undergoing no
more than an adjustment which will run a natural course
without Serious trouble.
Truman said that "the recession which started on the
farms last spring has already spread to the city streets
and a depression would do likewise." He scoffed at the
"miracles" he said the Republicans promised but admitted
"I don't think there is any necessity for a depression." At
the same time he is doing his best like the ADA to psycho
logically create a depression and the farm recession be
gan a year before Ike's election under his own administra
tion. While the two party leaders were talking the House
Senate economic committee stated as a result of its sur
vey, that the slump in jobs and production "has begun to
level off" and will turn into a recovery this spring.
The committee, weighing the antidopression program
President Eisenhower presented to congress in his eco
nomic report last month, took testimony from the heads
of nine government economic agencies this week.
Their findings point to a seasonal upturn in hiring and
business this spring followed by an economic revival in the
fall, "so that production and employment in 1954 will be
only slightly below the all-time record of 1953."
The favorite expression of J. P. Morgan, Sr. was "never
be a bear on the United States." But greedy politicians are
apt to place the power and patronage of office above the
welfare of the nation as history amply confirms, and so
capitalize on pessimism for political spoils as the Republi
cans did with Cleveland and the Democrats with Hoover.
G. P.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE ROOSEVELTS
Human nature being the way it is, this Roosevelt affair
threatens to crowd the Berlin conference off the front
pages. Today we are intrigued by the attitude of Mrs.
Roosevelt as revealed on the witness stand Friday, a com
bination of calculated shrewdness and extreme naivete.
Mrs. Roosevelt evidently believes her estranged husband
to be of great wealth. He had a four million dollar insur
ance business, she says, which he allegedly sold for one
dollar, which was quite a comedown if true. But possibly
it was an insurance business that handled four million
dollars in annual premiums, which would be quite different
from a four million dollarta.ssrt value for the business.
But the principal basis for Mrs. Roosevelt's belief in her
husband's wealth was that he spent great sums, fGO.OOO a
year, for their living, while his direct business income was
just above half that figure, lie must have had other in
come, she deduces on the witness stand. But Jimmv savs
he is broke. So his creditors may have possessed more
faith than they should have. And he may turn up owing
half a million in income taxes like some of'the movie stars.
We are also intrigued by Mrs. Roosevelt's estimate of
her pwn living requirements. She is suing for separate
mantenance of $3500 a month, and feels quite outraged
that her husband has reduced her allowance to a mere pit
tance of $700 a month. Although this is probably more
than twice what she earned before she married him, she
expects to starve on $700 now. Why I require $350 a month
for clothing, she explains. The support money includes
provision for three children, but a great many families of
four live on a great deal less than $700 a month.
The financial affairs of the Rooscvelts are none of the
public's business, but now that our collective curiosity hits
been whetted wc can hardly wait to find out if Jimmy
Roosevelt really has the two millions his wife says he has,
and if so how he made it, after paying income taxes.
LOS ANGELES This if the
story of Jimmy Roosevelt, a boy
of great promise, whose political
life and that of his brother
Franklin now hang in the hands
of a wrathy woman and her bit
terly anti-Roosevelt attorney.
It is a story of a m'an with his
father's charm, considerably abil
ity, who has made mistakes,
plenty of them, but who started
to build a promising political
life for himself in California. It
is also the story of two brothers
who, in a sense, were political
rivals, one with an ambition to
be governor of New York, the
other to be Governor of Califor-
1 nia; both of which ambitions may
De wrccKea By Jimmy i martial
trouDles. -
Running through the story
also is an overtone of intrigue
by certain political enemies who
see in Jimmy's "woman trouble"
a chance to kill off two men who
might come close to or even en
ter the White House.
Jimmy Roosevelt's marriage
with Iiomclle Schneider can be
divided roughly into two cate
gories. The first years, accord
ing to their friends, were a
period when he made every ef
fort to make their marriage suc
cessful. The second period in
cludes the last four years or so,
when it was apparent to friends
in California that the Roosevelt
marriage was pretty well on the
rocks.
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
This period began when Jim
my ran for governor of Califor
nia and when Romelle made an
attempt at suicide. The incident
was brushed off as a mistaken
overdose of sleeping pills, but
unfortunately it was not. For a
time, Romelle received psychia
tric treatment at i Santa .Moni
ca hospital, and for a time Mrs.
FDR, - Sr., had her own pscyhi-
atric give the treatments. But
Romelle rebelled on the ground
that her religious training did
not permit such treatment.
It was just before the 1950
campaign tor governor of Cali
fornia that Romelle threatened
to publish the now-famous 1945
letter involving Jimmy in inti
mate relations with nine women.
This letter, it now develops, had
been hanging ov.cr Jimmy's head
for some time; and shortly be
fore his campaign for governor
his wife demanded that he do
three things or she would pub
lish it.
The three things were that he
take her abroad; thai he trans
fer one of his partners in the
insurance business to the east
ern part of the United States:
and that he deed to her one-half
of his insurance business.
Jimmy complied with all
three, taking his wife to Europe
before the campaign for gov
ernor started, and also transfer
ring hie business associate, a
former marine corps veterans to
whom Ilnmellc had taken a vio
lent dislike.
During the gubernatorial cam
paign that followed, Romelle
was a good sport, accompanying
Jimmy on most of his trips,
though toward the end she got
irked at Helen C-ahagan Douglas,
the Democratic candidate for the
senate, and stayed at home.
As in every martial dispute,
there is a lot Jo be said on both
sides. And this dispute would
have attracted little attention,
certainly would not merit discus
sion in this column, were it not
for its political reverheratloB
not only in the Democratic parjy
in California but in regard to the I
By DREW PEARSON
governor of
next Democratic
New York.
Tall, handsome, with his fath
er's famous charm, Jimmy
Roosevelt has always attracted
women. Like the Prince of
Wales before he married Wally
Simpson, women literally threw
themselves at Jimmy. In a way,
that was how he met and mar
ried Romelle .Schneider, then a
nurse at the Mayo Clinic.
It was an unfortunate mar
riage from almost every point of
view. First, FDR and Mrs.
Roosevelt, Sr., were terribly fond
of Jimmy's first wife, Betsey
cusning. becond, Romelle was
completely unfamiliar with the
fast-moving political-social set in
which Jimmy traveled. She came
to Washington and did her best,
but always felt out of place. This
ousy.
A beautiful girl, Romelle 'just
did not understand the back
ground of political and social at
mosphere in which Jimmy had
lived all his life. And it is quite
conceivable, as Jimmy now says.
that casual flirtations or even
acquaintances with the nine
women named in his letter might
have been magnified in Ko
mellc's mind into something
else.
Finally, Romelle was a Catho
lic and Jimmy a divorced man.
In the eyes of her church, there
fore, she was not married, and
as the years went on this preyed
on her conscience heavily.
The three children were
brought up as Catholics, but Ro
melle used to tell them, some
times tearfully, that she could
not join them in some of the
church ritual because she was
not acceptable to the church
which she loved and under whose
guidance she had been reared.
WHY THE LETTER?
As to why Jimmy ever signed
the famous 1945 letter, not even
his best friends quite know. One
reason, they say, was that Jim
my believed that if he yielded
to his wife's very sincere ideas
on repentance and a purge of the
soul, then they could begin all
over again. Probably, also, the
controlling factor was that Jim
my knew his father in February
of 1945 was in extremely bad
health and that his life might
easily be snuffed out by an emo
tional strain or disappointment.
Jimmy was the apple of his
father's eye. For a time the
elder Roosevelt had brouaht
Jimmy to Washington as his
executive assistant, to have him
nearhy and train him in the ways
of government. Knowing how
keenly disappointed his father
was at the first martial break
up. Jimmy knew that news of
another would be too much
Cleaning the River
McMinnville News-Register
Action in Yamhill county cities
to provide sewage systems and
disposal plants is preparing the
way for fine recreation facilities
on the county's two main branch
es of the Yamhill river.
In the face of expected resist
ance, which didn't develop, Sher
idan's city council early this week
moved to proceed with sale of
bonds to provide that communi-
ty s new system and plant. At
the same time, Carlton's council
moved to go ahead with a bond
issue already approved by that
city's voter. Then, Tuesday night,
the possibilities of a system for
Lafayette came up for considera
tion by members of the chamber
of commerce.
On top of completion of Mc-
Minnville's new disposal plant in
laaj, construction of facilities by
the three communities would fin
ish cleaning up pollution prob
lems from communities on the
river.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Radio Old-Fashioned but
Youngsters Still Enjoy It
By HAL BOYLE
PRESIDENT OUR SPOKESMAN
By DWIGIIT D. EISENHOWER
The President must not be de
prived of his historic position as
the spokesman for the nation in
its relations with other countries.
President Eisenhower I
NEW YORK W) The charm
of old things never disappears,
Many children growing up in
the television era now are dis
covering and enjoying an antique
old-fashioned form of home en
tcrtainment their parents have
appreciated for some years. It is
called radio.
"The kids are going back to
radio," said Johnpy Sinn. "There
are some programs they like
better on radio because they can
imagine the scenes better if they
are shown on a screen.
One of his own children for
example, prefers hearing the
horse opera, "Cisco Kid," on ra
dio to watching it on television.
This intrigues Johnny beyond
the normal interest of a parent
in what takes his kids fancy.
The "Cisco Kid" happens to be
one of many famous characters
who walk, talk or gallop for John
ny on either radio, television orJ
both.
He is a top man in the destiny
of radio as well as television, and
sees a prosperous future for
each, although he predicts radio
will become the more localized
medium.
You probably never heard of
John L. Sinn. But he has thought
of you, wherever you are. He
has studied you for many years
harder than he ever studied his
primer in school. He wants to
know how to make you laugh and
cry and afterward to go out and
buy things.
At 38 he is one of thte bigger
figures in the world of enter
tainment, and one ot the least
known to the public. But you'll
hear more of him. He might look
like the guy who lives next door
to you, if you are lucky enough
to have a pleasant neighbor with
a receding hairline, dark eyes,
a wide by determined mind, and
a sensitive willingness to hear
you brag before he says what he
knows to be so.
Johnny travels about 100.000
miles a year between New York,
Timbuktu, and Hollywood. He
and his partner, Fred W. Ziv,
produce at the moment 23
weekly radio and 12 television
shows. They have 500 employes,
their own Hollywood studio.
Two years ago their gross gulp
was estimated by "Variety" at 20
million dollars annually, perhaps j
a modest figure today when their j
programs are on at least 1,500
of the nation's 2,500 radio out- j
lets and some 145 television
markets. j
Some of the programs Johnny ;
Sinn never has to worry about I
getting tickets to are "Boston j
Blackic," "Mr. District Attorney,"
"Yesterday's Ncwsrcel," and "The
Hour of Stars." They are his. I
He recently signed Red Skel
ton in a three-million-dollar deal.
Among the other stars who work
for him no movie studio could
match the list are Guy Lorn
bardo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren
Bacall, Tony Martin, Ginger Rog
ers, Dick Haymes, Robert Mont
gomery, Adolphe Menjou and Ty
rone Power.
Yet only 18 years ago Sinn
quit college in his junior year to
take a $25-a-week job in radio
station WLW in Cincinnati.
"It was a fantastic job," he re
called. "In those days in radio
you did everything. You wrote
shows, produced shows, a n
nounced news anything that
had to be done. And it was all
wonderful."
How did he leap from $25 a
week to a partnership in a 20
' million-a-year-or plus firm It
began with a gimmick, or, as they
say in the advertising field, an
idea.
Johnny thought up a program
for a local bakery firm called
"The Freshest Thing in Town"
that caught on well. He and Fred
Ziv, owner of an advertising
agency, decided to try to get
other bakeries in other towns to
buy it. The idea worked.
"We just went on from there,"
Sinn recalled. "As we brought
in more money, we created more
programs, hired bigger stars, sold
out shows to more stations. We
put them on tape in radio, film
in television later.
"This meant neither the star
nor the station was tied to a net
work's schedule. The actor could
work when he wanted to, the sta
tion could put on the program
any time it wanted to, and the
sponsor had the same choice.
"We've learned famous names
help start a new program, but
only quality will keep it going.
Good shows start with a good
script. People are always hungry
for better entertainment, and
that requires better writers. The
writer is always at least as im
portant as the performer."
Johnny, who started off by
writing his own shows, then
said:
"Gee, you know the really big
gest decision in my life was
whether to quit college before
Salem 28 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
February 6, 1926
Creation of a separate prohibi
tion bureau had been proposed
to Congress by the administra
tion. ",
Falls Citv had received 3.92
inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
W. F. Spear of Brooks had
been awarded a $25 prize of
fered in the Lions' old time fid
dlers' contest,
Jewett Six, the "new day" au
tomobile with a performance un
matched by any other, had
Trumm Molor Co., 349 N. Com
mercial street as local distribu
tor. Philco Socket Power B distrib
uted by E. H. Burrell, 238 No.
High street, had been offered to
eliminate B batteries and hum
in radio reception.
During 1926 all through high
ways in Oregon were to be de
ignated by numbers in common
with the rest of the United
States.
Taxicab petting parties had
been banished in Rome by the
latest Mussolini edict in a nation-wide
campaign against the
growing influence of the- jazx
age.
Luther Burbank had claimed
the power to cure ill by the "lay-,
jng on of hands."
Buck Jones had been billed for
a two day run at the Hclig the
ater. John M. Jory had written a
letter to the Capital Journal rem
iniscing about the great flood of
1861.
getting my degree? But it was
exactly the job I hoped to get
after I finished college. I feel
I did what I had to. What would
you have done?'
Well, personally, I stayed in
college and got two degrees. But
didn't tell Johnny. A guy pull
ing in 20 million bucks a year
has enough worries without me
adding to his feeling of infer
iority.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Don't Miss the Importance
Of the Simple Things
By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT
Rector, St. Ptul'i Episcopal Church
Wc must be careful not to ov
erlook the importance of simple
things. Everything ihat wc pos
sess may be used in God's serv?
ice. God used seemingly insig
nificant things to build up the
physical universe of incompre
hensible magnitude.
Christ not only used human
faith and human efforts, but also
material things in proper hands
to bring blessings to individuals
and to the world. Christ took
clay and nude it the medium by
which he opened the eyes of the
blind man. He took water and
made it into wine. He took un
educated fishermen and made !
Ihom stalwart characters. The
history of Christianity is the hiis- j
tory of Christ working through i
common people and material !
things.
Moses complained that he was i
not qualified to lead the chili-1
dren of Israel out of Egypt. But
God told him to use the thing
that he had in his hand, as use- i
less as it seemed and with it he
would be enabled to carry out '
God s will.
The work of the Lord is de
pendent upon your co-operation
and mine working with and
through the ordinary materials
within our reach. The surgeon's
Itnifn Iho Honticl'a Hrill Ik.
Sn1 builder's square, the farmer's
time, may change someone's out
look on life which mi.y influ
ence the lives of others, who in !
turn sway he course of history, i
W may all have a part in j
God's work if wc will but use i
the things, however unimportant
they may seem, whirh God has j
put in our hands. I
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of that letter hanging over him among the thousands of such im-
lor nine years. plrments which become the tools
Before Jimmy Roosevelt tic-1 ,,f ;ot wncn paccA in propcr
cided to run for congress, he con-1 hands
ducted a survey of the 2fith Ca!i- j sjniptc ,nin(,s ljkc itllr ac.ls
fornia congressional district. Na-i( kindn-.ss and love, and a word
turally. he was concerned as to ; nf encouragement at the proper
what effect his divorce would ! !
have on his race for congress.
The survey showed that U per
cent of the voters in that dis
trict would not favor a divorced
candidate, but 84 per cent' said
it should make no difference.
And, of Catholic voters, only 14
per rent felt that a divorce mat
tered in a congressional candi
date, while 81 per cent believed
it should not matter.
The survev also showed that
Jimmy could win the race for
congress easily. The district had
just been gerrymandered by the
Republican legislature In Sacra
mento in order to include as
many Democratic votes as pns-
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congressional districts easier for
the Republicans to carry.
In fact, Jimmy still might be
able to win if he wants to
stick it out. If he does, how
ever, he will probably kill his
brother Franklin's chances to be
governor of New York.
And, despite the political ri- E!i
miry between the two boys, the I p
lasi ining tnc elder Roosevelt r
wants to do Is diminish his I
brother's chances. Actually, they ; EJ
may he seriously hurt anywav. . J
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