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" This / Believe"
Film Producer Keeps Fundamental Views
He Learned as Youngster in Midwest Town
Wahco, Nebraska’s most distinguished “alumnus,” Darryl F.
Zanuck reveals here his p.rsonal creed. This is one of a series of
statements prepared for broadcast by thinking, useful people in
all walks of life. The program is presented by Edward K. Mur
row over KIRI! at 3:55 and 10:30 pan.. Monday through Friday.
By DARRYL F. ZANUCK
Motion Picture Producer
Vice Pres., 20th Century Fox
Now that 1 can look back
across the years from the so
called vantage point ol‘ experi
ence in two World Wars, travel
throughout a large part of the
world, and contact with many of
the outstanding personalities of
our time, it gives me a great
deal of i d rt ssuranc i 1
day to know tint 'way down
deep I learnt d some fundamen
tal values when. I was a boy in
a small town in Nebraska that
have stood me in good stead
ev.ry day of my life.
I have found one thing to be
so very true—the virtues 1
learned as a boy are still funda
mental virtues. My point of view
has changed, of course, over the
years, and so has that of my
friends, but so much of all this
change of viewpoint is like a
small boy gazing at a hill on the
plains of Nebraska. The hill re
mains the same. The small boy
only sees it from another angle
as he grows up.
I have always tried to walk
completely around every hill I
have found in life since, so that
I could get view from every
angle. This, I iiv.uk. reveals the
difference tx tween honesty and
cynicism. When you see the hill
front every angle, you have a
much better chance at k eping
life in focus.'When you only see
it from one angle you run the
very great danger of becoming
cynical, which, to mv way of
thinking, is not only superficial
but poisonous
Two of the fundamental vir
tues that h v< • : i such a grea
comfort to me in my life, trom
th: days of my boyhood in
Wahoo. Nebraska, until now arc
loyalty and charity. There are
other fundanm ntals I learned
a boy that go hand in hand with
me every dry f my lire wher
ever I am, but two
ally and charity —T think have
played a larger part in my lib.
than others.
Loyalty is not only just a term
—it has been a way of life for
m2. I mean not only loyalty to
my friends and family, but to
the honest v. lues on which our
country was founded. And to me,
this guide post of loyalty of ne
cessity means loyalty to one's
own self, which to me is basic,
essential honesty.
When l was growing up, 1 re
belled against so many things,
and fought against so many of
the basic ideas of life—but I
found after so much rob llion
and \ alking completely around
that 1:ill on the Ne braska plains,
in m\ mind’s eye, that these vir
tues !' i i no* been tested over the
centuries in vain.
Charity is ar.ath r rule that
has l i n of great comfort to me
in so many trying situations.
Charity is something you must
1 arn. 1 have been very lucky
in life been lies 1 have been in a
position io give charity, and me
should never expect any other
reward from charity than the
satisfaction it gives. When it is
need d there is such a desperate
urgency about it that the recipi
ent often does not have time t >
thank the giver. This. T think, is
one of the nrotective laws of na
ture, to keep soim one or a "r nip
of p ople from being humiliated
when some one or a grout) of
people come to their aid.
In taking part in any charily
you must give from the heart.
Any othi r type of giving is a
terrible cheat an life its If. I
tb ok somewhere deep in the
consciousness of things, such dis
honesty is felt.
Charily and loyalty are two
min;.- luiii nave nnn nuu mv nit'
very deeply. They have b en a
source of tremendous satisfac
t: m to mo every day I have
lived. This rule of loyalty has
caused me to eii.ek back on the
course of my activities at the
close ni each day, to be sure 1
haven't hurt anyone in my day's
activities. O! course, we all do
hurt p.. epic—unknowingly.
I i .*.v tried to r pair any
hurts 1 have caused before1 the
clay's end. This undoubtedly is
very selfish of rne because I
have learned that this reel lock
ing t . each day gives me a good
night's . let p.
In hill
th 'bain each day of my lift',
the virtues l see—wheth< r I am
in London, Paris, Rome, Cair >.
New York, Hollywood or Wchno,
Nel ira ;ka - are alw
I am grateful for those* oid
fashioned virtm s that I learned
as a boy in Nebraska. And I
hope I will have nough humil
ity always to be thankful I was
born in a country that gave me
tiiis chance at life.
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it. In the railroad terminal game
the “sucker” is supposed to bet
his life savings on which of
three or more towns is going to
be the railroad terminus. One
of the best examples of this lat
ter racket was seen in the Paci
fic Northwest during the days
of the construction of the first
northern transcontinental rail
road. First the terminus was to
have been Seattle; then it was
changed to Tacoma; then back
to Seattle; then rumors were
started that Everett, Bellingham,
or even Olympia would bo the
terminus. As each of these ru
mors spread, added himdreds of
suckers would invest their sav
ings in town lots act urdingly.
After one proposed “terminus”
had sold about as many lots as
possible, then another change
would be announced, and more
lots sold in a new place. By the
technique of keeping the whole
region in (hub; as to the possible'
loeatiem of the railroael. millions
of dollars were mulcted from
small real . state buyers, most of
it sum returned by devious
male-- pi the men who controlled
the railroad.
On the other hand, there is
actually a science of railroad lo
cation. There nr rather exact
methods of locatin':? track and
terminal, with refor mer both to
topography and economics. Tlvis
science of location detormin d
the original nl;ms of the old
Ala ka Central ilaliroad. pro
jected as a private enterprise
from Sew ird to T'airbanks. After
ton years of amazing political
skuldnggrn . tills science of rail
road location finally prevailed,
■.'.•hen Pr sident Wilson person
ally r-si.-* 'd terrific political
pressure. t( j : in fa\ r of a
spvcrrmoul railroad following
this original n: in. In doing so.
he incurred the life-long enmity
of e rtain highl\-placed men
who wished to revive the old
railroad shell game. Thos men
wanted to change the soutln rn
terminus to some new town, and
profit thereby in the sale of
lownsite lots. Tin- old Seward
G a t e w a y repeatedly charged
that groups in the governm.nt
wire actually interested parties
jn real estate around Portage,
Knik, Iliatnna and other possible
terminal locations. Failing to get
their recommendations accepted,
they became bitter critics of the
whole Alaska Railroad, of the
town of Seward, and of the men
who first located the .present
railroad route. Those who had
missed out in real estate specu
lation became the Number One
rumor-mongers in a systematic
campaign, reaching all the way
from Alaska to Washington D.C.
and back again.
Scarcely had The Alaska Rail
road been completed, when a
certain Congressman Free start
ed a campaign to rip up the
tracks, and build a wagon road
instead. Congressman Free re
turned to oblivion, but others
took over the wrecking task.
There were repeated rumors
that The Alaska Railroad was
losing huge sums of money, and
would be abandoned, or rnov d
to some other location. In 19117,
the railroad manager himst If an
nounced his intentions—-of mov
ing the terminus of the railroad
to Whitth r. or Portage, as it
was then called. Thor after,
i wry year brought a new crop
of railroad rumors, sometimes
coupled with twisted facts and
distorted half-truths. We still
hear them today.
These rumors have damaged
almost every Seward citizen, in
a d finite dollars-aVid cents way.
Working people have lost many
clays of employment and many
pay checks a- a result. Mer
chants have lost hundreds of
thousands in retarded sales .fol
lowing each in \v crop of rumors
that the railroad would be torn
tin. Property owners are repeat
edly e: tbarrassed in selling,
building and borrowing. Many
Seward citizens were afraid to
sp ak out freely, for fear that
Mime powers, that be" would
become offended, and actually
move the railroad. The policy of
treading softly has not stooped
rumors, and lias brought no
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sense of security to Seward busi
nessmen. But now that the high
est and most responsible mili
tary authorities have spoken so
clearly on the vital necessity of
the Seward Seaport to the de
fense of Alaska, let us back them
up in every way possible. In
stead of treading : >ftly, let us
trample these railroad rumors
down.
Let us fight them as we would
a grass fire, with every man in
the community standing shoul
der to shoulder until the flames
and the smoke are gone.
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