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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1941)
Janunry 8, 1941 THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. PAGE SEVEN 4 i 4 4 JUU INd I HLLd WnrW "Rattiva" I JOE BULL! AT MONDAY MEET Joe Bully, chosen to lend the Klumuth County Junior Cham ber o( Commerce (or 104 1, win Initiillrtt as president of llio or ganisation Monday nlifht at the year's (Iml dinner meeting, held t the Elk hotel. At the clone of nn appropriate ceremony, the murium was turned over to Holly by Truman Jtunyan, Installing officer. The new president made ihort ac ceptance tulk mid outlined proj ect! which His Junior chamber will tuke up during the coming yenr. Dully succeed Sam Mushen, who wu presented a clock by the chumiier memben tribute to till services during the pant ycur. Othem Initialled were Hugh Currln, vice preident; Bob O'Sulllvan, secretary; Ollvor Moen, treaurer; George Merry man, Vance Vaupel, Howard Smith, Kred Schmidt, Hob Na pier, Frunk Drew. Dick Miller and John Shaw, director. Bob O'Sulllvan, outgoing treasurer, made a financial re port for the year, showing a bal ance of cio'ii on hand. Entertainment won provided by Guy JtuU'n, who rendered vo cal selections, and Harold Ayrei, nil accompanist Both are mem ber of the Kl'HS faculty. The first major activity of the club for the new year will be an anniversary dinner meeting Jan uary 21. County achool board members at their regular monthly meet ing In the courlhouso Tuesday warded gasoline contract for to Standard Oil company, Sholl Oil company and the Union Oil company at 13.73 cent per gallon. Standard wa granted the franchise for the Morrill and Malln districts and the balance pllt between the other two firm. Merrill and Mnlin gal lnnage normally comprises about 20 per cent of the county to tal. From 80,000 to 00.000 gal Ion were given a the approxl. mute amount of gun urd each year by Klamath schools. The board alo announced that bid for the 1041 wood aupply would be advertised In the near future. Negotiation for purchase of even lot adjoining the Sprague Iliver school were approved by the board and it wa believed that the deal would be cloned shortly. The lot are needed for enlarging the achool' play ground facllltie and at present are owned by B. E. Wolford. A number of routine bills wera approved before the board adjourned. Several oil com pany representative met with the four board member present for the meeting. BAND SLATED FOR BROADWAY STAND nil ly McDonald and his Royal Highlanders, NBC network dunce band, have been engaged for a dunce engagement at Broadwny hall In Mnlln on Jan uary IS, It was announced by V. Kallnn, manager of the hall. The Koynl Highlander arc Just finishing a three month' engagement at the Trianon ball room in Seattle, and will make Mnlln the stopover en route to the Florentine garden In Los Angeles. This bund of 11 swing artists I recommended a one of the finest dnnce band on the west coast, Knllna said. The more economist have tampered with economic condi tions, the worse they have be come; the more political scien tist hnvc reformed government the more are government In need of reform: the more sociol ogists have tampered with the family, the more the fnmlly has disintegrated. Dr. Pltlrlm A. Sorokin, Harvard sociologist, V"" axo bipt. iToat (Editor's note: The cpiestlon of conscripting labor for Hiituln's war effort a power Winston Churchill has hut hcsltutes to use I political "dynamite" In Kngland. Wlllliun McGnffln, back from service as a war cor respondent, discusses It In this third of four behlnd-the-cenej slorlns. Next: Doe Parly Poll tics Hamper Britain' War Effort?) By WILLIAM McGArriN NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (API John Englishman, who works In the ladles' rcady-lo weur ut Sclf rldge's may find himself one flay soon turning out carburetors In an airplane factory. That's an exaggerated, pur haps, but perfectly possible ex ample of the labor drafting step Brituln may have to lake If iha I to "win this war In tho fac tory." Winston Churchill' new gov ernment got the right In the de fense power act last May 22 to order any man to leave tho Job he 1 doing if It is considered non-essential to the war effort and to take one that 1 essential. Churchill never ha used thl power partly because It is load ad with political dynamite. Neutral observers say British labor already I restive. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin declares use of thl measure would heighten that feeling and in the long run would bring no worth while speedup In production. The veteran union boss who walks like a heavyweight wrest ler and talk like a atcvedore present this argument on behalf of five million union member: "Give labor what it wants und It will work its head off, but force labor and It will be sure to slow down." Vet the growing pile of un filled munitions order besido the numerous factories that are working below capacity has posed a grave problem. Labor conscription In the opin ion of certain military men and industrialist is the only answer. One recognized reason why there Is a shortage of skilled labor Is that soma of It has been absorbed Into the army. The logical thing to do, in the opinion of one group of experts, would bo to Telease these men to return to their old Job. In deed, they would go much far ther they would release thou sands of unskilled laborer as well to be trained for technical factory Jobs. -They argue the arm Is unnecessarily largo for It present responsibilities, that It Is needlessly Immobilizing a reservoir of manpower. Their position, however, is considered by the powers that be as "to advanced and too ex perimental" to be considered seriously. To date the only ac tion In this direction has been the freeing of several thousand utility workers to help repair bomb damage and of 19.000 un skilled laborers to clear away bomb debris from London streets. A question American report ers often ask is: "If there Is a labor shortage, why are there still thousands of unemployed?" We are told by the govern ment that the "hard core" of unemployment has been reduced now to about 73,000. Certainly a great reduction has been made in the unemployed today which was set at 766,843 last July, but some Impartial observers reply that "hard core" docs not tell the whole story, and raise fur ther questions. Why, for instance, are the Job less miners of South Wale not brought up to London to dig air raid tunnels? Why are skilled war workmen whoe factorle liuvo been bombed not moved to other area at once Instead of being kept on tho dole In their own neighborhood until the fac torle can be put Into running order again? Thee wore two of the ques tion being asked In the opposl tlon press a I left England three week ago. The transfer of bombed-out workers wa carried out to a certain extent In the cao of Bristol. But the new. papers declared that generally, however, red tape and muddling seem to have blocked any trior ough absorption of the unem ployed. Another factor most British factories began the war on an eight-hour production day and even now there are many which do not work tho clock around In some cases where tho men themselves want to defy night raiders, the employers refute to lake the risk even though the government says It will be re sponsible. One grievance of the British workman today Is his weekly paycheck. The last official sur vey made last July showed that tho war had boosted the average weekly wage of all workers In metal, engineering and ship building Industries from thrco pounds (about $12 on the basis of the present exchange rale) in October 1038 to four pounds and five shillings (about $17). But the workman maintains his salary has not kept pace with tho war-Invoked rlae In the cost of living. Some labor leaders say the employers, backed by tho conservative party, hesitate to elevate wages to any great extent for fear they would be I forced to keep them there in a post-war depression. SEARS SETS UP OFFICE TO HEAD COAST STORES Because of the substantially increased Investments of Scars Roebuck ic Co., in west coast business and industry during the last few years, a Sears vice president will be permanently located In Los Angeles after February 1. A new officer has Just been named to fill thl newly created position, according to an an nouncement received here today from General R. E. Wood, chair man of the Sears board of di rectors. His title will be "vice president In charge of the Pa. clfic coast territory" and his name is Arthur S. Barrows. He Is a member of the firm's board of director and a pioneer execu tive of the Sears retail organ ization. Barrows will be the adminis trative head of all of the firm's retail and mall order activities on the west coast and In ad Jaccnt states. Under his Juris diction will come the Los Ange les and Seattle mail order re fl Pelican- joonl n at n loV ol lib V ..Lit. ti V glons and the 65 Sear retail tores In California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The creation of a Pacific coast vice presidency sut up a com parative autonomy for Scars units in tho west coast slates, official said. The move, they declared, represents a further expression of tho firm's policy of mnnogi'mcnt decentralization which has been In progress dur ing the last severol years. CHILOOUINITE JAILED ON THEFT COUNT Chris Aiken, Chiloquin, was lodged In tho county jail Tues day after waiving grand Jury In dictment In the Wood River Jus tice court in Chiloquin on a charge of larceny. According to Head Jailer Vern Wilson, Aiken is alleged to have stolen a saddle from another Chiloquin resident In late De cember. His bond was set at $2000 cash or $4000 property. FDR doesn't seem to mind if the sparks fly during his fire side chats. DRUNK DRIVING SUSPICION JAILS TULELAKE RESIDENT Raymond Herman Johnson, a Tulelokc farm hand, was placed in the county Jail Tuesday after being picked up by stnte police on suspicion of drunken driv ing. He was scheduled to be ar raigned In justice court Wed nesday, To punish men with 10 year sontcnecs merely for possessing and selling literature which goes legally through the U. S. .mailt Is. an affront to democratic ltv stitutions. 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