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PAGE FOUR THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. SHj t letting $ etafo RKRALD FVBUIIIIlia OOMrANT, rBANK JXNKINR , , MALCOLM KPLEY ,, Editor slsnaslne Editor Publish! avar? aftarnoon aicapt Sunday by Tha HaraM Publishing uonnany at upwnf tag rtnw oiruwia, iviBmain psiia, urt0H Entaratf aa aaootid elaaa matlar at tna postofflca of Klamath Palis, Ora OD AUfUll sv, mus uaoar act or ona;raa, uarca a, lais Ona Month Yhraa Montha Bis Montha Ona Taar Uallrana k Carriar la Clcr .tl S.t 1.00 1.1ft Newsx MEMBER AUDIT BURBAU Or CIRCULATION MAIL RATES PAYABLE t!i ADVANCB By Mall la Klaaaatk, Laka, Modoa aaa Slaklrea Caaatlra Thraa Montha n li Monlha , ,. I, , , , Ona Taar til l.ll a.00 Utabft of Tha Aaaoalated Praaa Tha Associated Praaa la exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published therein. All rurhts of republication of apeolal dispatches are also reserved. Represented Nationally by West-Holllday Co, Inc. flea Francisco. New Yoik. OetrolL Seattle. Chlcaro. Portland. Loa Anar tea, 8L Louis, Vancouver, B. C Coplea of Tha Newa and HoraJd, tocether with complete Information about the h.lamaih Falls market, may be ob tained for the asking at any of theae offices. Electoral College DISSATISFACTION with the electoral college has been in evidence in popular .discussions since the general election. This newspaper has received inquiries and com ments from a number of readers, indicating the interest now directed at this subject. The closeness of the Willkie and Roosevelt popular vote, as compared with the one sidedness of the electoral vote, has had much to do with the interest For an informative discussion of the situation, we have selected an editorial from the Sacramento Bee, and re-print it here in full: Voting for president way greatly simplified In California - this year by the disappearance from the ballot of the names of the twenty-two presidential electors of each party and the substitution of the names of the various candidates for president and vice president of the United States. It would ' be step forward in practical Democracy If before four more years have passed the whole electoral col lege system were abolished and the election of president and vice president determined as it should be by a direct vote of the people. The present setup is an anachronism as out of date as - the horse and buggy mode of transportation. i Statisticians, who have been giving some study to the results of last Tuesday's election, discovered that a change , of some 1 per cent of the vote in ten of the larger states would have resulted in the election of Wendell Willkie over President Roosevelt. But President Roosevelt still would have led Willkie by approximately 3,000,000 popular votes. What would have been the temper of the country had one candidate succeeded In scraping up a bare majority in the electoral college, while the other so emphatically received the popular endorsement? In such an outcome .the voice of the people then would have been gagged by the peculiar method set up in the con stitution for registering the result of a presidential election. Those who have studied American history know that In : two elections since the Civil War the popular choice of the people was denied the presidency. In 1876, Samuel J. Tilden received a popular plurality of 250,000 votes over Rutherford B. Hayes but he was not in augurated president. And had he taken a belligerent atU- ; tude, the country again might have been plunged Into civil war. The more hot headed of his followers even urged Tilden to take some forcible action to seize the presidency, but, fortunately, he refused to listen to them. , , Again In 1888, Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Har rison in the electoral college after having proved himself the choice of the majority of the people at the polls. In each of these cases the electoral college system made a man president of the United States whom the voters there of had rejected at the polls. f Why should the country longer put up with a system which makes such things possible? WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 No matter what else happens, business is going to expand. Ev everyone should soon be making money, more money than in many a year. Expansion should continue gradual ly until it reaches a Ditch 12 or 18 months hence which will rep resent the highest productivity attained in the history of man. The defense program has hardly started. Only $500,000,- 000 was spent in the first ctuart- er of the government fiscal year covering July, August and Sep tember. That amount will be doubled for the second quarter. October, November, December. In the coming third quarter, I think it will be around $1,500,- 000,000 and in the fourth near ly 32,000.000.000. But this is still only the beginning about $5,000,000,000 for this fiscal year. The next fiscal year, starting in July will be the big one. doubling the outlay again, to $10,000,000,000. By July, expen ditures for defense alone should be running about $600,000,000 to $700,000,000 a month and continue increasing until reach ing nearly a billion a month. How much acceleration this means is apparent in the fact that expenditures for this cur rent November will be only $300,000,000, which is less than a third of the peak planned. November 13, 1940 SIDE GLANCES siy, v A! Jo ill i Inlaw) WiiWOrM 11 Swift com ittOivNf a irawct. we. t.m. wo. v. wr, on. CONGRESS EYES NEED FOB LIFT IN DEBT LIMIT An Easy Medallion To Memorize WASHINGTON. Nov. IS (JF) Congressional support developed toclay tor a proposal by Socre tary Morgenthau to increase taxes and expand the govern merit's borrowing authority to facilitate financing of tha de fense program. Senator George (D-Ga.). of the senate finance committee. said he believed that an In crease In both taxes and tha present $49,000,000,000 debt limitation was "inevitable." The treasury secretary has "'dreUx tt'i.t.S T.T you commence strictlons that permit $4,000.- crocno"n " medallion. Mem 000,000 of the present borrow- orll"d In no time, It makes love- ing power to be used on v for iy guts In string or f nor cotton. defense financing. He said the Pattern 6820 contains Instruc- uiu ia,uuu,uuu.uuu limitation Hons (or mik m ih r,,.Hiii fclpSifc MiaelinU Art by Alice) t Ilrook Rrtral , Anil Jolnl CrorlicUvl Mrtlullloit Into Many Vooraaorlc Lucky Star COM IMA UOUMUOIS Airl MC PATTERN 6820 . i ou ii Dcneve tnat It Is a an Illustration of it and of stitch- "Hey! Someone -walked off with my wuter jug!" ; The whole theory upon which the electoral college system was devised that the states would name electors who would gather and without partisan consideration select the wiwst and best man available collapsed completely after the first two presidential elections. Washington was such a man. But beginning in 1796, the electors have been chosen on a purely partisan basis, with absolutely no freedom of action with respect to the man for whom they should vote Only one has dared to violate his pledge, and that was an elector in the election of 1816 who voted against Monroe so history might record that General Washington was the only American ever to be chosen unanimously for the presidency. Direct election of the president and vice president further- T0U!f ?MUr? T.617 citizen of the United Sta'es an equal . . voice in their selection. Such Is not the case now. rfpfn?.lrtn " ,RePubUc?n "ves In a state which la t f v0"3' r lice, yma' has no encouragement rU Jh ,He,knW!l beforehand that his vote will not count. 7. h" electo re ure to be of the opposite party, as is the ease everywhere in the South. drtaiiLt pofu,."r vte- without respect to state lines. liket?n . nieifCti01. then ev,ery RePblican would feel mont eVel7 Democrat Maine and Ver- of the" whtitileJlme.8rr,Vel then to pure the constitution system? eont8 and cumbersome electoral college Th .wm i?1U,t m.B from the PeoP'e 'themselves. stiJlfonal .m dema"J ' cn8re that the necessary con tettrSS fT1 b1 f"bmitted to the states to provide for the direct election of the president and vice president RENO LICENSES RENO. Nev.. Nov. 19 ran Marriage licenses issued here over ine weekend included: Fred A. Wilson. 35. Rnnimo Ore,, and Myrtle B. Richards, 35, uaroervme, caul. Klamath Falls, Ore., residents: Nick O. Hansen, 31, and Lena Rousseau, 3Z; Dave Carrel, 24, and Helen Young, 20; Ivan Van- nooK, Z4, and Leta Newby, 26, tester j, Hooper, 39, and Marguerite Redford, 21, both ' Klamath Falls, Ore.; Don Dig- ney, zi, ana joan Redmond, 19, both Klamath Falls, Ore.; James L. Sutton, 21, and Valera Bridges, 18, both Klamath Falls, Ore.; William Pennell, 38, and neien Muscatell, 29, both Klam th Falls, Ore. . .. George M. Lawson Jr., 22, and Vivian T. Hall, 21, both Klamath Falls, Ore. Intervention and hemisphere solidarity are Incompatible. Laurence Duggan, state depart ment Latin America specialist. Dane with Sam Crawford and his 14-piece band. Armory neantsaay. Queen Elizabeth Leaves New York NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UP) The 85,000-ton British luxury liner Queen Elizabeth, largest passenger ship in the world, left Tuesday reportedly for trans port service between Australia and the Near East where Britain faces the threat of an axis drive on the vital Suez canal and hu British-controlled oil fields. British informants understand the big liner, which slipped into mis port unexpectedly on March 7 presumably to be dnrkH for the duration of the war, will go to Halifax. N. S.. where h mill be fitted with guns before enter ing war duty. ... From Halifax, thev under. stood, the Elizabeth will go to Australia via the southern tip of South America, to 1nln n. Queen Mary and other big ships already in the Near East trans port service. END IN DOUBT While these expenditures will go mostly into defense they will seep down into every crevice of trade in the country and bring an era of free-flowing money be yond all previous economists' dreams. The only thing that can stop it is a British victory. Any other kind of a peace in Europe would not diminish the neces sity of rearming. What happens when the spending is over is not clear. have never found a spending theorist who could tell me what the end of the theory is. Accompanying the movement, I believe there will be a gradual but equally extreme expansion of centralized government con trols and a corresponding trend away from ordinary democratic methods. Business is destined to be regulated more and more to prices, profits, production, la bor, finance. The nucleus of some control is already appar ent in the regulations and pow ers of the national defense com mission. But there are many more plans formulated by indi vidual officials and economists within the government for con trolling everything from excess bank reserves to employer-labor conversations. The working theory of t h e government, I think, is that modern warfare is largely eco nomic, that the factories are the front lines now, that the government is putting up the money and must go into produc tion itself where private busi ness does not handle the job sat isfactorily. As one nationally known eco nomist (Babson) told his business readers in a post-election letter: "You're in the army now. You may not wear a uniform or work a machine gun. But you're in the army now. Sonja Ilenie Loses 77,000 Suit NEW YORK. Nov.' 13 (UP Denis R. Scanlan, St. Paul Minn., promoter who claimed credit for Sonja Henie's rise to movie stardom, was awarded $77,113.44 by a lury Tuesday I his breach of contract suit against the Norwegian ice skat Ing artist. Miss Henie's attorneys said the verdict, returned by a New York supreme court jury of fiv women and seven men, would be appealed. 6.3.. I Killed In 0'toher llaids LONDON, Nov. 13 P) Air raids on the United Kingdom killed 6334 civilians in Octo ber, the minister of home secur ity announced Tuesday. In addition, 8695 were In. Jured and detained in hosDitals The ministry gave the following oreaxaown of casualties: Killed Men 2791, women 2,. 900, children under sixteen 643 injurea Men 4228, women 3750, children 717. A sick spinal column is as evil as any Fifth Column HnrM J. Reilly, president. New Ynrlr . pnysiotnerapists. BRITISH CREDITS Discussions about amending the Johnson act for Britain alone and thus opening up cred its to her are starting private ly among responsible officials. British now have unfilled ord ers for more than $1,250,000,000 In this country. They are plan ning another large aircraft pur chasing program and developing a scheme to build shipyards in our ports. These two items may bring her commitments up to about $3,000,000,000 (shipyards cost money.) That would take her pretty close to the limit of her re sources on this side. She has a little more than $3,000,000,000 in available dollar balances, se curities, etc., which will be enough to carry her many months more. But there Is no disposition among interested officials to wait until the last minute to seek legislation. The matter will, I think, be laid before con gress officially in January, while post-election fervor is still hot. e e e "CARRY" STICKS Repeal of the "carry" restric tion in the neutrality act is, how ever, a different proposition. It is true the Germans have caused the British much worry over a probable shortage of bottoms, and some pressure has conse quently arisen to send our ships to Britain with supplies. But the navy objects strenuously to this. The ships would have to be convoyed. It would mean yanking some of the fleet from the Pacific. It would put us more inextricably into the war. The British may ask for our "carry" ships, but probably only as a lever to prjjcredita loose. I Courthouse Records (TUESDAY) Decrees Dorothy L. O'Brien versus W. B. O'Brien. Plaintiff awarded di vorce by default. Grounds, cruel and Inhuman treatment. John Ebinger, attorney for plaintiff. JLennie Dapp versus Daniel Dapp. Plaintiff awarded divorce by default Grounds, desertion. Plaintiff awarded property set tlement, return of maiden name, Lennie Mock. U. S. Balentine. attorney lor plaintiff. Complaints Filed James F. Robblns versus Hen rietta E. Robbins. Suit for di vorce. Charge, desertion. Couple married Knobel, Ark., March 22, 1937. J. C. O'Neill, attorney for plaintiff. Donald Kruchek versus Alice Esther Kruchek. Suit for di vorce. Charge, cruel and In human treatment. Couple mar ried Reno, Nev., August 31, 1940. r. O. Small, attorney for plain tiff. Justice Court Robert W. Rhodes. Two charges of involuntary man slaughter. Took time to plead. Bond set at $5000 cash or $10,- ooo property on each charge. commuted to county jail, John Pfaff. Knowingly utter ing and publishing a forged bank check. Waived preliminary hear ing. Bound over to grand jury. Bond set at $500 cash or $1000 property. Committed to county jail. Thomas C. Sprulll. Knowingly mcenng ana pumismng a forged bank check. Waived preliminary hearing. Bound over to grand jury. Bond set at $500 cash or $1000 property. Committed to county jail. Bernie C. Mitchell. Hunting migratory game birds during prohibited hours. Fined $12.20. Roy H. Ownes. Hunting migra tory game birds during pro hibited hours. Fined $12.20. Marion Donald Barnes. Hunt ing migratory game birds during prohibited hours. Fined $12.20. John Lester Jones. Driving while under the influence of in toxicating liquor. Fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days In the county jail. Operator's license revoked for one year. Committed to county Jail. John Elmer Cox. Parking on highway. Fined $25, HAS LADIES NIGHT was "practically reached" and the treasury might face an em- Darrassing position later unless the congress boosted the author ity to $60,000,000,000 or more. Coupled with discussions of tne tax situation were renewed demands that congretg remain in session Instead of adJournlns until January as the democratic leadership planned. Kepresentat va Martini SAN JOSE. Cal.. Nov. 1.1 IIPi in-massj, me republican lead- uorotny Sprccklcs Dupuy, mem er, said that he believed "In ber of the wealthy California this great crisis it would be Sprockles fumlly, was arrratml most unfortunate" for congress twjee for speeding by the aamo 10 go nome. patrolman in the same section martin, who Indicated vnler. of the city Tuesday and nnrrnw, nay mat ne would retire from escaped two days in jail c; photograph of tha mednl. lion; materials needed. To obtain this pattern send ten cents In coin to The Herald and News, Household Aria Dept., Klamath Falls, Ore. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, A DDK ESS and PAT TERN NUMBER. BIEBER, Calif. Half a hun drcd men and women attended tne annual "Ladies Night" of the Bieher phimlwr n merce, held in the evening of ,, e chairmanship of the repub- She avoided jail by paying Armistice day. "n national committee within ,ne second $10 fine levied The foativiline lvrtlr nlaA- n la few months, said that he b. against her during the rinv bv Firemen's hall and began with "eved hu ways and " Sun Jose police court. Her a dinner prepared and served by tommmee snouid begin ""i'amun, moniuea as uorinn memrjers ol Mt. Lassen Parlor, ' " ",H prooiem now vowum, , ik uureiy escaped Native Daughters of the Golden rother than waiting until next J" ,n contempt of court West. A band of nine Bieber f.', 8 m worK on revenue cnarge. high school students conducted b1"- When Mrs. Dupuy wos arrested by Miss Ruth Johnson played Speaker Rayburn, on the y Patrolman Arthur Phllpott musical selections during the olner nand, said he believed the ,ne N"1 "mo 'or going 45 m.p.h. meal. next problem of new tax legls- In a 25 mile en-hour lone, she Thomas J. Durfee acted as "tion could be deferred until wu "nl $10. She paid. On toastmaster f o r a program in 1,18 next year. leaving town, she was arrested which most of t h o a nmnni Oeorge said the next innireu near the some spot on the Ala- were called on for brief remarks. wuld have to consider the mcd" highway, again by officer James H. Ryan past commander ".uesuon of widening the tax miipoit. This time, Phllpott as- and adjutant of Waller. Wood. D,se and eliminating tax . encd. she was going 43 m.o.h mansee post, American Legion, emption on securities, asserting Fined $10 again, Mrs. Dupuy was the main speaker, recalling ,hat to depend entirely on bor- Mld ,he would not pay. the sacrifices demanded by the ""owing would lead only to in- "Two d,y 'n Ja!!." said the World war of 1917 and urging "ation. Justice of the peace renewed devotion to the preser- "he raising of the debt limit vation of American freedom. ' inevitable," George told re- - A Porters. "Also additional rev DRITIIAPV must be raised in order UBIIUAKT to safeguard acalrut inn.,inn with some chances maH. in thl fee. r , . , , u JOHNBO . tax laws to bring about a sound "ls;er Phllpott testified Mrs, Lela Viola Johnson, a resident national .mn Dunuv t..M him ,h.n or this city for the past three He nredlr-tl tk.t .u that aha eoulrf .inn h., ... years, passed away near Worden. al debt would climb to about "w'thln one foot" when she was lire fin KiinHav Nnvamhaa in I nnn Ma.. ,uvu' I . I a a . iwTi.iwca v. i I aJ.UUU.UIJU.Ilflll haifnu eW- I KU1HI -13 m.n.n Th. Aon..-A . ' ' I ' Ml r3- " w - " "a- nivlnil (lw anri iJaa anH ,7 "?"""" """" ' COmplet- years 1 month and 23 days when called. She Is survived by her 12 months of the war was si follows: Hrltl.il), 406 ships of 1.011.841 tons. Allied. 103 of 474, RIA tons. Neutral, 253 of 7611,212 ton. Total, 702 tif 2.8.VVB70 Ions. Crew members and pnssi-ngi-rs lost totaled The total sav ed wos 15,6:15, total taken pi la- oner 1100. Ho said "enemy" losses In the same period totaled 261 ships of about 1,200,000 tons. J Miss Oswald said: 'This Is a screwy deal and a bum decision. "You'll go to Jail too. for con tempt of court," said the Jus- Mrs. Dupuy paid the second 110 line ana tne justice of the peaco rescinded his jail order and freed both her and Miss Oswald with a warning against "con temptuous remarks against the court Inside the court." parents, Mr. and Mrs. Estel Wll- ALASKAN MARVELS son of Centralla, Wash.; three A a?r?w -brothers. Kenneth of Roosevelt, Al NEW-FANGLED' Wash.. Floyd of Bickleton, Wash. VVASHIKIR MATUIMCC and Velmer of Centralla. Wash.; ""Nto MACHINES a grandfather, Samuel Dixon of PORTT inn McMlnville, Ore. The remains Geore W wA.. u'.. "I. " i!? SHIPPIMG I OCC were forwarded to The Dalles, and MarvllH ., ....Ti.7 r-r ft- . . . -Ore., on Wednesday. November che, t.i "h'ng m- FOR SEA POWERS 13, for final rites and interment The flu - v.. . u ADMIRALTY LISTS SEATTLE. Nov. 13 (UP) The Lumber and Sawmill Worker' union (AFL) Tuesday released nine carloads of lumber for na tional defense work from a Wey erhaeuser Timber Co. mill a lumber operators and union rep resentatives left fnr a conference In Washington, D. C. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and the national defense commission called the confer ence In an effort to end strikes of AFL employe at 11 mill In Tacoma, Everett and Snoqual mlo, Wash. Striker demanded a 71 cent hourly wage Increase. The Weyl erhaouser mills dgned bargain, ing contract with the Interna tlonal Woodworkers of Ameri ca (CIO) but AFL pickets per mitted nine carloads of lumber to pass at the Snoqualmie Falls mill. The IWA also announced sign ing of contracts with mills and logging camps at Shelton, Aber deen, Everett and Ryderwood af fecting more than 2000 men. Secretary-Treasurer Bertrl J, Mc carty said the contracts provid ed for wage Increases of be tween four and five per cent. and for an eight-hour dny and 40-hour week. Ward's Klamath Funeral home Alaska re.lH. Tni Ji.ui .u. V. y' , NUUN- Nov- '"v First in charge of th. BmnvnlMolIl1 0 ,hf Admiralty A. V. fh V - " waa rtiexanaer, in a written answer HOWARD IRVINO JOHNSON ."i" " ..V ht owed since I to a question In the house of Howard Irving Johnson, a going north. commons today, stated that the TJ,. I.. . .u., mat resident for the past 3 years, k- eu. " " .. "opresseq number of merchant ships, In A new or special type of air craft, costing $180,000 for the first ship, breaks down to: Jigs, aies ana tools, $35,000; manu facturing overhead, $26,000; power plants, $10,000; experi mental and development, $20, 000; labor, $39,000; raw mater ials, $14,000; instruments. $3200? engineering, $29,000; power plant accessories, $3500; and gas and oil for experimental flvins. $300. ' passed away near Worden, Ore., on Sunday, November 10. The deceased was a native of The Dalles, Ore., and was aged 27 years 1 month and 3 days when called. He la survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Johnson; four sisters, Ida Good man, Laverne Brandon, Norma and Patsy Johnson, all of The Dalles, Ore. The remains were forwarded to The Dalles on Wed nesday, November 13, for final rites and interment. Ward's Klamath' Funeral home in charge of the arrangements. RAYMOND DALE MYERS Raymond Dale Myers, the in fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Myers of Tulelake, Calif., passed away in that city Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1940. He was a native of Merrill, Ore., and at the time of his death was aged 2 months and 28 days. Surviving beside his parents are the grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Welch, of Denver, Colo., and Mr. J. S. Myers of Tulelake, Calif. The remains of little Raymond Dale rest in the Earl Whltlock Funer al home, Pine street at Sixth. Notice of funeral to be an nounced later. Preparedness here Is a sort of vaccination. Dr. Hans Simons. New School of Social Research, than anything else. 'They're awfully new-fangled," Elder said, adding that In his nome tne wash tub "on Saturday night automatically becomes a Datn tub." He is en route to visit a brother and sister at Cairo, 111. WO CEREMONY LONDON, Nov. 13 (P) Tha body of Neville Chamberlain, former prime minister who died Saturday, was cremated today hi uoiciers ureen mortuary ir North London. Thero was no ceremony. According to aviation engi neers, the use of landplanes in trans-oceanic service would per mit the keeping of schedules to a. much larger degree than Is now possible with flying boBta. When our societies have been made as collective as thev ean be made, the test of them still is what happens to Indiv iduals. Rev. Dr. Harry Emer son Fosdlck, New York pastor. eluding fishing vessels, lost by enemy action" during the first HtHWi CtntfllHl Htm Qemtfi Now Playing! 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