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page rotnt HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Jims 11, l!)4f SIDE GLANCES Radio Day by Day Visits U. S. I,!,:..!..!.! JUAKt JBNKIVB . MALCOLM KPLKV . UuuIb Editor Fobllihtd vtry ftfUrnooB except Bundty tt EpUuad ud Wm StrMta EluoiUi Fail. Or (roo. BnUrcd u wood dui mtttrr at th poitofflrt of KUroath KU, Or on Job 1, INI under act of congtvti, March S, lift MBMBKR AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Delivered bj Carrier ta Citj One Moot I .Ts Thrw Month M Out Tear - - ... - T.i . . MAIL RATES PAVAHIB IN ADVANCE " . Br Mti la Klanath Lake, Uodoe and SUkljoq OonnUec nm Month! , ., , tlJ ftli Months ' 4-U One Year . ... , - .oo Represented Natkuially hj Wet-HoII(dai Co Inc. Sax Frtnefteo, Ktw Tork, Detroit, Seattle, Chteaco, Portland, to Aorelea, 91. toata, VaaMuver. B. C. Coplta of The Uerald and News, tocLhr with complete lafonaatktB About the Klamath Fall market, nay b obtained (or the uktag an of tilw office. Member of The Aaaoeiattd Freaa At Aaiodated Press ts uclusltely entitled to the dm of republication of all tews despatches credited to It or not othtnrUs credited la this paper, and alao the local ftewt published therein. All right of republication of special dispatches art also ree erred. Prepare for the Worse A SURE-FIRE indication that local people are not se riously concerned over the prospects of enemy at (Son in this area, despite recent developments in the near Pacific, was the indifferent response to an- invitation to obtain free sand at the fire station for use against incen ' diary bombs. Orth Sisemore-, air raid warden chief, told the civilian defense workers of the community this week that only one woman called at the station for free sand after the invitation was publicly announced. That is a pretty small percentage out of a population of about 25,000. Every set of instructions for precautions against enemy raids points out that it is essential to have a bucket of dry sand in every home. We have all read these instruc tions and heard them given, but only one of us responded when we had an opportunity to get the required sand The invitation has now been renewed. The Eugene paper tells us that sand is being pur chased there for defense use. whereas here it may be obtained f ree. ... At Eugene, --there is talk of publishing the names of delinquents -who -fail to provide for this method of fighting incendiary bombs. In the Klamath' community," several score people are practicing regularly that they may be able to provide quickly and effectively the public services needed in case of an enemy raid. Only last night, simulated incidents sent ambulance drivers, first aid crews, demolition squads and other civilian defense units scurrying to points in tne community ror practice handling of raid situations. But in case of an actual raid, a lot depends on the general public as well as the regular civilian defense or ganization, it is particularly important that housewives and property holders generally be prepared to fight in cendiary bombs, for many of these bombs can be dropped and they can raise havoc over- a wide area unless indi vidually controlled. The civilian defense workers them selves would probably meet any given situation effec tively, but an unprepared general public can -cancel out all that trained workers can accomplish. j We all have a responsibility to prepare ' ourselves to meet any emergency ' situation that . can ', possibly ! arise under wartime conditions. Let us prepare for the worst, even though we pray it may never come. Significance of Road Jobs INQUIRY brings a statement from state highway offi I cials that contracts will be let within a few days on the- construction of a bridge and re-location of a section of road on the Willamette highway, a part of the easy, speedy north and south coastwise route through Klamath Falls. ... . ' The span will-replace an antiquated, narrow bridge over the Coast fork of the Willamette river near Goshen, at the west end of the Willamette highway. The relocated road will carry traffic to this bridge from both sides. It Is an Important improvement -"' But more significant than the improvement itself is the fact that it has been approved in this wartime period. It is proof that the value of the Willamette highway route for military purposes is recognized by state and federal authorities. And certainly it deserves such recognition. Its su periority over alternate routes is startling when an actual driving comparison is made. Many of us,, who now travel the Willamette highway route exclusively, have forgotten how bad certain alternate coastwise routes actually are. . The completion of relocation work just north of Klam ath Falls, now far along, and the new bridge and reloca tion near Goshen, will put the Willamette-The Dalles-California highway route just that much farther out front. Incidentally, that awkward designation reminds us that we still lack a good, descriptive, and terse name for this Important route. ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ Questions on Pag 2 1. Insignia wearer Is in gas decontamination squad. 3. Ceylon is second largest island in Indian ocean. S. It's payday when the eagle screams. SEATTLE RUBBER DRIVE SEATTLE, June II (P) The public will be paid one cent a pound for old automobile tires and tubes, rubber heels, hot water bottles and other scrap rubber articles in a two-week collection campaign starting Wednesday. Elmer J. Nelson, Olympia, executive secretary of the Washington State Salvage committee, said oil companies have been asked to contribute the use of service stations as collection centers. Billiard balls are made from casein, a product of precipitated buttermilk. NO HOARDING NECESSARY There' plenty of Old Quaker Whiskey ttfll availabltl Jnt tnuwi NWKWffiiun u nm urn whiikiyisstmm oid the on oijuco,uiikuoh,iko. WASHINGTON, June 11 I have a letter from a Har vard economist who holds that maladjusted production was the cause of the 10 years of pre war depression, and he wants production adjusted for' post war prosperity. A letter from an economic analyst on an important com mittee in Sioux City simultan eously tells me that prices caus ed our trouble and he wants prices fixed at a high figure. A business man in the east made a speech in which he held that sales and marketing was the cause and should be the remedy. I have come to distrust all mechanical economic formulas. The new deal tried them all and they did not work to remedy the condition with which we were faced. The price theory of the Sioux I City economist was tried first in the gold devaluation and other ways. The value of sold was changed to stimulate prices but prices aid not move. The price theory of the Har vard economist was tried in the farm program, with arbitrary corrections of maladjusted pro duction. A business counter part of that was tried in the spending policy to create artifi cial production. These two steps failed to do the job, until the war came along and the necessity for un precedented war production re quired the expenditure of in conceivable sums, which, of course cannot be maintained permanently. The sales and marketing the ory of the business man has not been tried. It does not involve mechanical formula. Instead, it assumes only that govern ment will be used for benevol ent encouragement of the demo cratic capitalistic system, not for discouragement. It. proposes reform through prosperity, a sharing of the wealth by in creasing it for all, not by divid ing what is left in depression. This business man Walter D. FuiW, president of the Curtis Publishing company, says there were an estimated ' 6,000.000 homes without bathttibs in this country during our 10 depres sion years, . 19,000,000 without telephones, . 10,000,000 rural homes without central heat, "Lack of buying power?" he asks. ""Not at all. Lack of in genuity in exchange of goods and effort. We could have pro duced and financed these needs and more. We failed to do the selling Job." - People will have money after this war he points out. Savings are accumulating. ' Our system a failure? Why, says Mr. Fuller, from "a poor nation, 95 per cent of whose people were, ill-clothed, ill-fed. ill-housed and ill-educated., we have risen in 150 years to the supremacy of the world, over all other systems." Was this because nature en dowed us lavishly, or because we were larger, older, better man outers? says Mr. Fuller: 'China has an older civiliza tion. India has a larger popula tion. Hussia nas comparable na tural resources. England is a greater empire. France also was republic. Germany has hiEhlv trained and skilled workers. Japan has a longer work day. But in all the world, onlv the United States' could horse to produce enough rjlanea. tanks. guns, ships and everything else quickly enough to win this war." Mr. Fuller could have Bone further. He could have pointed out that this unprecedented ac complishment is attributable to the new unification of purpose as between government, capital and labor and the typical Amer ican ingenuity exhibited by all three in this war effort. He could have expanded his cure-theory' beyond the sales and marketing phase, which are his special fields, into the whole field of government-citizen re lations for the future, in which government emphasis should strive to help business expand, encouraging citizens to work, and thus accomplish their own greater security through savings and effort, urging profits for all, for business, for. labor, for citizen, punish disunity wher ever found in all three groups alike, in a democratic way. Our trouble the past 10 years, s the success of our war effort shows, is that we have hnd our head down, looking only at un employment figures, growing for security at the bottom of the hole Instead of at the top, trying to share a depression wealth, which did. not exist, In stead of creating real wealth for all. The depression stunned us Into this despair. Even when we had 9,000,000 unemployed for a time, we had 40,000,000 or mora employed whose inter ests were of at least equal im portance, although' you never heard of them, only of the un- . JH mm COHL 1,, ,Y WO S1KYKC HC.T.H ttO. U. t. HT, CtT. jWf " I hated to scold thcni and send them to bed! As a boy I got away .with lots more mischief than they do because . .? I was sneakier 1" Life !s as Cheap inside Reich as on German Front (Editor's Note: Punishments handed out by German courts are described by Louis P. Loch. ner, chief of the former Berlin bureau of the Associated Press and Wide World, m this sev enth of a daily series since his return after five months' in ternment at Bad Nauheim, Ger many.) By LOUIS LOCHNER NEW YORK, June 11 (Wide World) Life is as cheap in In terior Germany as it is at the front. Death sentences are imposed by nazi judges as easily as an American police court magis trate levies fines for minor of fenses. Severe penitentiary sen tences and high monetary pun ishments were the order of the day as we left the reich May 13. No sooner had the nazi re gime issued an appeal to civil ians in late December to give up their furs and woolens for the soldiers fighting in wintry Russia, than Hitler issued a de cree imposing the death penalty on 1 anybody found guilty of stealing these offerings. By January 12 one man, Karl Sachs of Fulia, had been con demned to death and executed at Kassel for pilfering furs. On February 15 we learned of the execution of Johann Walter, a 24-year-old Vienna clothes thief. Two persons who aided him were sentenced to 15 and 12 years hard labor re spectively. .The next day the press an nounced the execution of seven Germans who committed thefts during blackouts. There followed an announce ment to the effect that two Ber lin ' captains of industry had been yanked into a concentre tion camp because they assign ed several laborers in their mu nitions plants to do chores for them in their private homes. Fined for Theft There was also published the story of a Frankfurt merchant who- had 18,000 reichsmarks stolen" from his safe. He was fined 18,000 marks and sen tenced to three months in jail for hoarding money! During March and April the Frankfurter Zeltung, which the Bad Nauheim Internees were employed. We looked at the bottom side of everything. I think a "sales and mer- chandising" policy under unified cooperation of government, cap ital and labor is all this coun try needs. This does not mean a return to the old system, because that Cannot be done. The taxation, regulatory and labor standards have been permanently estab lished in our reform era. We should merely go on now and use them democratically and wisely, rather than sink back into the reactionary and per manent depression of socialism, of the communist, nazi or fas cist varieties. permitted to read, repeatedly published stories of heavy fines imposed for profiteering stories obviously intended as a warning. Johannes Zulauf was convict ed in a Kasscl court of killing four pigs and one calf in viola' tion of regulations. He was sen' fenced to three years. Five citi zens of Koblenz were given sen' tences va-ylng from six to two months and heavy money fines for killing one pig surreptiti ously. Profiteers Sentenced The Frankfurter Zeitung of April 9 and 10 devoted two columns to detailed stories of three, two and one year peni tentiary sentences imposed on war profiteers. The list of offenses punish. able by death was extended in two important directions dur ing the middle of April.. ; Heads of firms working on war contracts which made false returns regarding the number of laborers available In their plants, or regarding the raw materials In stock or ordered for fulfilling any assigned con tract, were warned that death or the penitentiary is in store for them. They were given a short respite during which they might confess past sins, in which case these transgressions would not be charged up against them. From explanatory articles It appeared that some firms, hav ing learned from experience that the priorities boards will never grant them what they asked in the way of raw ma. tcrials, arbitrarily demanded much more than they needed in expectation of being cut down to actual needs. At times, however, through some bureaucratic error the full quantity asked for was awarded, with the result that the excess was used by the manufacturer to turn out high ly priced civilian goods at great profit to himself. Industrialists also . were In the habit of asking for more men from the labor exchanges than their actual wartime needs justified. The death decree Is to put an end to such practices. Another decree provided the death penalty in extreme cases of a person's arrogating to him self prerogatives or functions belonging to government offi cials, officers of the armed forces, or the nazi party hier archy. There were judges neverthe less In Germany, It appears especially pre-nazl hold-overs who lacked the severity deemed necessary by Adolf Hitler for the absolutist government of a people. Hence, In his relcnsteg speech of April 26 he demand ed and, of course, ODiamea without dissenting vote extra ordinary powers to set aside all process of law and himself to act as prosecutor, Judge, Jury and wlthess. MUM IMIIII1itl m e4 Ff rldr and " -f etc V "Trottc ".n I (Ptclilo War Tims) NEW YORK, June 11 (Wide World) President Roosevelt's United Nations duy address, to run 10 minutes and transmitted from a recording, will bo car ried at 3:50 p. in. SuihIhV by both the BLU and MBS net works . . . The sponsor ot Rudy Valleo's show now announces that no particular effort Is to bo made to replace tlio Into John Barrymore as co-stnr. The plan to use guests is to be continued indefinitely. Lou Holtz, tho story tailor, Is to have a serlvs of his own on CBS, bringing him back to tho microphone on a regular basis. The program, at 4:15 p, m. Sun days beginning June 21 also will include the songs of Mildred Bailey. Topics tonight: Talks NBC, 8, America's Town meeting from St. Louis, "The Crisis In Rub ber"; CBS, 7:30, Secretary Ickes on "Midwest Motor Freight." MBS 8:15, Britain Speaks, J. B. Priestly. What to expect Friday: BLU, 9:30 a. m. Farm and Home pro- gram, Secretary Wlcknrd. Irrigation Well Dug Near Hildebrand MIDLAND Much Interest was shown In iho Yonna valley district last week when a largo Irrigation well was completed on the Frank M. Challls ranch near Hildebrand. Tho well was drilled at a depth of 425 feet and Is pumping at a capacity o( 1000 gallons per minute. The water stands at a 58-foot level while pump ing. Drillers were Arthur Ste wart of Klamath Falls and George Hartley of Bonanza. Navy Turns Down Coast Naval Academy WASHINGTON. Juno 11 (P) The navy department has turn ed thumbs down on Senator Mo Nory's (R-Ore.) measure to estab lish a second naval academy somewhere on the Pacific coast. Tho department held that pres ent training facilities were ade quate to officer tho expanded navy. RENO LICENSES RENO, June 11 (H) Marriage licenses Issued to Harry L Mc Adams. 48, and- Vera A. West, 47, both Eugene; . Francis H. Hayes, 34, and Esthor Carlton, J, both Klamath Falls. fT1 l- Lntnt British bigwig to vlult Uicso shores Is Oliver LylUrton, Churchill's production chief. Portland Hospitals Start Prepaid Plan PORTLAND. Juno U (ZD Seven Portland hospitals Wed nesday announced a prepaid hos pitalization program - providing care of Individual families for S3 monthly. An employed mnn may be come a member for 75 cents monthly. An additional 75 cents will cover his wife. For 52 monthly both, plus depend ent children, will recelvo hos pital service. Membership entitles the man to 111 days, women and chil dren to 21 days. Point Barrow, Alaska, Is the northernmost postofflco oper ated by the U. S. poatofflce department. 4?r From ll l Hlei.Tw: 0:jyori. From Th Klamath Republican, June 12, 102 Tho wrulher hero Is perfect now uiul Ilia Influx of plvumira. scokors and those who wlnh ta eseapa the midsummer heut a! lower altitudes will soon begin, Crater lake, whose prominent tins grown Intuly us a result ot thu act making It a notional park, Is a chief attraction, though, because of snow, It will not be easily ncresnlble mull July. Hut OdiM, Pelican liny, Spring crook and Wood river, affording an Kitrncabln cllnmte, splendid -ennry and excellent (Idling, will attract tourists' this month. A few weeks outing among tho crystal streams and snow capped mountains ot Kliunnth county Is a recreative diversion no one should miss. From The Evening Htrsld, Jun 11. 1832 Modifiers of Battery D, Ullth const artillery, will leave for Iho annual eiu-anipntent at Fort Stevens Monday. Tho Shrlns drum corps will escort th guurilsinen from the armory on Payno alley to the depot. 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