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THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON
March 18, 1943
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No Complacency Here
THERE is nothing to this talk about complacency over
the war insofar as it applies to the common run of
folks in this territory. People here are not complacent.
They are downright concerned with every phase of the
war situation. We have reached the conclusion that the
most dangerous attitude on the war is not down among
the people with whom we walk and taiK in tnis western
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community, out is way up ni me wp.
i Take the matter of war production, for instance. There
is everv evidence here that people are seriously disturbed
over the situation. A man whose business takes him out
among a great many people, both in town and out in the
cbuntry. says the feeling over this matter is so intense
and so general that he hardly talks to a person who does
not mention it to him.
These people working men, farmers, small business
men are evidently way ahead of the powers that be at
the top of labor organizations, industry and the govern'
ment bureaus, in their attitude toward all-out production
and the steps necessary to accomplish it. The common
run of people think it is long past time to break up the
deadlocks, the fight for power, the selfish attempts to
"get all we can out of this" while the country's situation
grows increasingly precarious. They think it is time to
throw overboard theories of leisure and largess that were
politically fostered for the last decade and have persisted
into a period where we dare not be soft, where we dare
not be leisurely, where we dare not waste tune in strug
gles for profits or domestic power.
We believe that if the men at the top would give the
word for a change to "all out," they would be amazed
at the response from the rank and file and the secondary
leadership. If the men at the top would substitute that
word for the flowery protestations of patriotism that flow
so easily from them, the men down the line would de
liver the goods if it meant the loss of all leisure.
No, there is no complacency here. There is Instead
a disturbed people, ready and willing to go all the way,
waiting only for leadership to prove itself worthy in a
time 01 tne greatest danger and stress. - - - ,. :
News
Behi
Bjr Paul Wallon
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Names and Addresses
A NUMBER of local people have evinced an Interest
ri in writing their representatives In Washington with
regard to the conditions m the country which are affected
by legislative and other governmental activity in Wash
ington. Requests have been received at this newspaper's
office for the names and addresses of those representa
tives, uere they are:
- Senator Charles L. McNary, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C.
Senator Rufus Holman, Senate Office Building, Wash
ington, D. C.
Congressman Walter. M. Pierce, House Office Build
ing, Washington, D. C.
U. S. Bombers
May Soon Aid
RAF Offensive
LONDON, March 13 (UP)
American-made dive bombers
soon will Join In the RAT tre
mendous offensive against Ger
man industry and German war.
ships, which has been launched
with devastating raids on the
munitions center of Essen, the
rmia industrial suDurbs and on
three German battleships, relia
ble informants said last night
Britain will depend entirely
on the United States dive bomb
ers, which are expected to start
coming soon, and will not pro
duce any of that type of planes
In this country, the Informants
Bombs Dumped -"--i
Meanwhile, the HAF's offens
ive, with only occasional pauses
because of bad weather, was
gaining momentum .ith two ob
jectives in view: (1) To give In
direct aid to Russia by crippling
German production; (2) To aid
the royal navy directly In the
battle of the Atlantic.
Essen, and the surrounding
Ruhr valley, have felt the full
might of this new aerial striking
force in three raids this week
Air officials said that the havoc
caused there was worse than
anything evrr experienced in
Britain. The great Krupp muni
tions works drew most of the
bombs, dumped by armadas of
more than 100 huge planes.
The German battleships Tir
pitzn, Scharnhorst and Gnels
enau, newest menaces to the al
lied Atlantic shipping lines, al
ready have come under attack
and are being watched or hunted
for future attacks.
There has been no further
word of the Tirpitzn since it
was spotted and attacked off
the coast of Norway Mondav
morning. The Gnelsenau is at
Kiel and the Scharnhorst at Wil
belmsbaven, both suffering RAF
bomb damage Inflicted during
the year they were laid up at
Brest, during their run through
the English channel to home
ports, and possibly durinff ralrf
on their new anchorages.
Courthouse Records
THURSDAY
Complaints Filed
Purl Johnson Vermin Knnmno
Box company. Suit to collect per
sonal damages. Demands Judg
ment against defendant In the
sum of $18,000 and for further
sum of $750. William P. Lord
and Ben Anderson, attorneys for
plaintiff.
Justice Court
Alford Smith. OVrlnflri1n0
true ana trailer. Fined $10.
Howard E. Reeder, passing
with Insufficient clearance
Fined $5.50.
Harold P. Brandness. Imnrnn.r
tail light. Fined $5.50.
Jerry R. Gibson, fmnnlno
without license. Fined $25 and
costs.
WASHINGTON, March 13
Commcntative moping about
Far East results seems to hold
that campaign up as the feeblest-
witted at all including Norway
and Greece.
The British lost their entire
Malayan army at Singapore (the
Japs say it numbered 78,000 on
surrender day.)
The Dutch, British and our
own navy seem to have lost
much of the Far Eastern fleet.
The Dutch are supposed to have
surrendered one army in Java
numbering 03,000, although only
untrustworthy Jap figures attain
are available.
Noting this evidence, current
popular reasoning seems running
along the line that Gen. Wa-
vell's defensive strategy was
stupid and that of the Dutch
nearly as bad . . . 'Too little,
too late," they say . , . "If these
scattered 171,000 troops had
been put together with all the
scattered naval forces for a drive
against the China coast the re
sults might have been different,
they say ... If ... If ... If.
You can get nearly any better
result than the one that hap
pened by reshuffling strategy
and forces on paper now, but all
this discussion overlooks the
basic reason why the Far East
is gone.
The original error was the
fatal one, the all inclusive one
which never could be redeemed.
It was simply that the British
and Dutch were sitting out there
for years upon the richest por
tion of the earth und failed to
take modern precautions for its
protection.
Specifically they had no air
force worthy of the name. They
had not even built air fields
enough to house an airforce if
one came. If every allied plane
in the world had been shipped
out there last December 7, few
could have gotten off the
ground because no air fields for
them had been built. -
The British and Dutch had
not provided sufficient anti-air
craft guns to defend any vital
point. Their troops were not
trained to the type of warfare
they would encounter, while the
Japs had spent years preparing
tor tnis special mission of con
quest They simply, madly under-estimated
what they needed
and what the Japs had.
These are fundamental mis
takes which date back long be
fore the fighting began. They
could not be corrected In a few
weeks or a few months. After
them, nothing effective could
have been done.
SIDE GLANCES
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CW. 1MJ BY WtA SsUVKC, IMC. T. ML BtO. U. . PJIT, Of. J- f J
From Other
Editors
"Look at thai! After we haul him to the slntion on our
tires all winter, he buys a bike the minute I suggest using
his car a while 1"
ALREADY WON IT
Dismayed British and Dutch
statesmen are Inclined, like the
public now, to analyze events of
the past three fighting months in
search of the answer for their
troubles, rather than these older
and more important truths.
it can be seen now the Jaos
won the Far East before this
war began when they took Indo
China, with the placid acquies
cence of Vichy. Without it their
campaign would not have been
possible. The British depended
on Thailand to fight and par
ticularly to offer air fields, but
this error, too, proved disas
trous. The Japs were halfway
down the Malay peninsula be
fore the British even knew
where they would have to fight
or how.
The Far Eastern correspond
ents talked of "reinforcements," I
and the Dutch and British, ech- i
oed this call, but everyone can
now see 'reinforcements within
the necessary 30 to 60 davs wa
wholly impossible from the
start. From San Francisco to
Batavia is 36 days by convoy. A
Jam-up occurred In our Pacific
ports, due largely to a shortage
of ships-available-on-the-spot, af
ter the war began, but even if
sufficient non - exfstant ships,
planes, tanks, trained personnel
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had been waiting in port to go
to tlie outbreak of war, tiiey
could not have altered the re
sult in view of the original pre
war mistakes.
What couid have broken the
back of the Jap offensive is
naval blow at the Jap lines of
communications, establishment
of a beach head on the China
coast, maintenance there of a
force of dive bombers to prey
upon Jap shipping. After Pearl
Harbor, we did not have the
navy to do it.
CENSORS AT WORK
These facts have been ob
scured by the deceptive and
childish modes of allied publicity
and censorship such things as
the Singapore censor suppressing
CBS Correspondent Cecil Brown
for hinting that Singapore was
in a bad way only a week or so
before it fell.
They constantly held out hope
to the public that Malaya or
Java could be defended if only
"reinforcements" could be sent,
long after they knew reinforce
ments were impossible, and that
the Far East had been doomed by
faulty pre-war preparations. The
responsibi'ity was British and
Dutch, not ours.
That is the plain story of the
Far East as history will write it.
Ktatnath'ti
Fiom the files 40 year
)',, ogo-ond 10 years ago. ,
ABOUT OLIVES
When It is picked, the so
called "ripe" olive is green in
color. It is placed in brine, al
lowed to ferment for two weeks,
and then treated with lye solu
tion, after which it is exposed
to the atmosphere, turning the
olive black. The lye Is bleached
out before canning.
From the Klamath Republican
March 13, 1902
The Ashland Record reports
that J. Frank Adams and son,
Will, took 26 fine horses to the
L. A. Neil place near Ashland
from the Adams place at Mer
rill, making the trip in four
days. The horses go to transfer
companies at Seattle.
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The Wood River sawmill has
changed hands, the buyers be
ing Howard Cunningham and
Mr. Kingdom.
Manly Whorton and M. R.
Hart of Lakevicw soon will re
ceive $100 reward each . for
their part In the conviction of
Bob Oglcsby, who robbed the
Lakeview-Paisley stage line in
December, 1900.
From The Evening Herald
March 14, 1932
Klamath Union high school
basketball team has won its
LET ALL KEEP FAITH1
(Mtmphls Commercial Appsal)
The Commercial Appcul does
not permit anyone who Is not a
member of the stuff to write edi
torials. There are many reasons
for this rule, reasons too numer
ous to recount hero. Toduy we
suspend the rule to present as an
editorial a letter from a member
of the Arkansas Bar who served
with the United States forces in
tho first World war. An effort to
interpolate or embellish would
only servo to detract from tho
elements of sheer foreefnlness
mat nuiko it a document every
thinking citizen of the.iu United
States should read and ponder.
The letter follows:
'To The Commercial Appeal:
"My only son was horn while
I wiis in France during tho tirst
World war. Today lie is n mem
ber of tho United States Marina
corps. He sailed from Callfornlu
the first of January, and we
have heard nothing from him
since. We know lie is somewhere
in the Pacific. We aro anxious
about him. Thousands of other
parents are Uko in.
"The president says we do not
have enough shios to enH m.
plies to our troops, and that wo
must Duiid ships In u hurry.
Even as ho sooku sevoml hi,,,.
dred shipbuilders refused to
worn on Washington's birthday
because they were not i,i,l
double time.
How can fa(him n ,, ,1
mothers of boys who are In the
danger zone and who ore being
called upon to sucriflco their
lives feel any 'surge' of unity
when the president and the con
gress Dormit n htuw-l, ..t .i.i..
I builders and munitions workers
to quit when they get good and
rendyT
"Do our boys at tho front get
'overtime' and 'double time' In
the fox holes of the Philippines?
Do our sons who aro giving their
lives to protect tho Jobs of these
and others llko them quit on
holidays? Llko hell they do!
"One of my friends, who Is a
good mechanic, with a family to
support, wont to get a Job In a
munitions plant. Every day wo
hear on the radio and read In
the newspapers that such men
are needed to turn out munitions
for our soldiers, sailors and
marines. But this man was re
fused a Job until ho could get a
union curd. Ho could not get a
union curd becauso he illil not
have enough money to buy one.
"Is It tho Idea of our govern
ment that it Is more Important
to preserve labor unions than It
Is to preserve the Amerlcun Un
ion? Why can't a freeborn Amer
ican cltuen get a Job In a plant
where the government needs
workers without having to pay
tribute to a high-powered labor j
leader?
"If our son i are to be drafted
to glvo their lives for their coun
try, why should not labor and
capital lio drafted to supply
them with munitions of war?
Why should congress, which has
tho power lo make laws, be so
tender of the regard for laborer
and management who work and
prosper In safety while having
an utter disregard for the lives
of the boys at tho front?
"Wo don't llko It, and we don't
mind saying so right out loud.
Mayhe It Is time wo wore elect
ing soino senators and congress.
men who will crucK down and
compel capital and labor to get
Into this war. And, enmo to think
of It. this Is election year, and
wo might us well get busy while
we have the time and opportun
ity." "JOHN C. SHEFFIELD,''
Helena. Ark. JJ
TEA PLANTS
All of the different kinds of
tea come from the sumo plant,
with the dltferonres being dun
to the processes of culture and
curing.
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