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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1942)
PAG3 FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON June 27, 1942 rtkirx jrKKisa . tlALOOLM EFMiV , . Maaaflaf Editor A Uaiporarr oomblnitJoa ot thi Bvenlag Herald and tai Klamife Kivi. fnbltirjid vnrj afternoon opt Sunday it Kiplinidi and Plni itmtl, Klamita FliU, OrKoa, bj tal Jiirald FUDH.hlnf Co. and till Kliraiiri rewi ruamnini uunpaay. Intend a Mcoad dill nittir it Uii owtefflM of Klamath Falli, On oa Jul I, INI UAdir Ml OJ OODgrwi, Nirvo , l,l MIUBIR AUDIT BUREAU Or CIKCCUTION AH brat Thrt Month! . Oh Yur Mliand ej Curia ta City . its 7J0 Thraf Month! , II Month! Onl ' Viar - uiii. oim BiVAnr.li in AnVAKCR By Mill" " la Klamath. Lata, Modoo and ttiktroo OonarJal . MS . a.00 Benmentfd NlMonally by 1 n-ut.UAiiUit rv. Tba tan madHO, Hi Tort, Ditrelt, Sottls. Chlwro, Portland, tot Antriu, It. loota, Wncourar. B. 0. Oonlii of Thi Hwald and KM. toKtiir with oompliti taformitton about Uii Klamath Fill! market, maj bi obtained for thi artlni anj of then offloM. MimhM A Th AABndlbxl Praia Thi Aiudited Tnu U eicloilvelT antuled to thi nil of republication of all fiwi AipitchM credited to It or not otherwlie credited ta thli paper, aid elM Uii local am publlihed therein. All rlthte of republication of ipidal dl.pe tehee art alio warred. Weekend Roundup HOW is your hay-pitching form? If you are a city or suburban resident, and can pend a little time on the farm this year, you are going to be seriously needed to help harvest the crops of the Klamath basin. For the basin this year faces a shortage in farm labor that promises to grow more serious as the season advances. Already farmers are reporting inability to hire needed help. After July 4, according to present indications, the shortage will begin to be nainful, and in the potato harvest season it may develop into an actual threat to the econ omic welfare of the basin. We must look this situation in the face and do some thing about it County Agent C. A. Henderson Saturday Issued a statement suggesting that non-farm people who can do so arrange to spend their vacations working on the farms of the basin. Here is a reservoir of labor that can aid in solving the problem. Every additional worker, and every additional day of work, will be that much to the good. Later on, it may be necessary to call more generally upon non-farm people. City shops and offices may close up for a day or two so that everyone can go into the fields to help harvest the crops. City people, at least, will be able, to do a lot of good by spending their weekends in the fields during the emergency period. ' Cooperation of this kind will go far, in meeting a serious situation.. Farm wages are good this year, and those who work will be well paid in cash as well as gratitude. One possible solution to the labor problem in the fall, when large crews will be needed for the potato harvest, is the employment of labor from the Japanese re-settlement project at Tulelake. . The war relocation authorities have not yet announced S policy with regard to evacuees working outside the pro ject boundaries. It is possible that much depends upon the attitude of the people of the surrounding communities toward the residents of the project. A general spirit of cooperation with the WRA has already been manifest in the basin. If cooperation and good feeling continues and Increases on a reciprocal basis, the project should con tribute to the Solution of the labor problem in the basin this year. It is only logical , that the presence of thousands of evacuees on the project should be a factor in meeting the need for men in adjacent districts. Volume of automobile travel on local streets and near by highways indicates that people here are not yet ser iously affected by the rubber shortage. But here is a warning: when present tires are gone, it is problematical whether others can be obtained. Those who conserve their tires now will be riding in automobiles longer than those who spend their rubber recKiessly now on the theory that somehow they will be fcble to get other tires later on. . While on this favorite topic, we cannot refrain from further remarks about the stoppage legally required of Klamath Falls motorists. Stop signs are sprinkled so generously, over the city that it is impossible to drive without constant stops and starts, which take rubber and gasoline. More stoppage is required of Klamath motorists now than before the tire and gas shortage situations arose. Traffic planners ought to get busy on this matter. - . Behaviour of service men and recruits on the trains receives considerable public interest, and some of the stories told by first hand observers have not been exactly flattering to the young men involved. It is especially interesting and gratifying, therefore, to learn what was said this week about 21 young men from Klamath Falls who went to Portland in a group as navy recruits. . ; The conductor and other train officials told Chief Gunners Mate F. R. Duncan, who had charge of the group, that the Klamath men were the best behaved group of young men that had ridden their trains in con nection with service and recruit travel. This speaks well for the type of young men Joining the service from Klamath Falls. M.E. hfews Beh H'l ITT aKXtT' By BwlHallon mm mm After all, this Is your war, and you are not helping others more than you are helping yourself. -Mr, Sidney Borg, social worker.'; The American man Is un equaled as sn intelligent and fearless fighter. Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief, V. S. Fleet. I j ENDS ,n STARTS j; I TODAY J.'i.Ln TOMORROW I 1 i 1 1 iTf Brod Crawford Andy Devint "Nerfh is The Klondike" and "Right to The Heart" ADULTS 20c plus 2o Tax Action and Homancal Dennis O'Keefe in "Mscniishr Masquerade" . and Daad End Klda in "Mr. Wise Guy" Children lOe plus le Tax . II TY7ASHINGTON. June 27 The " war cost is already $208 000,000,000, appropriated by congress so far. The common estimate here is that it will run to $300,000,000,000, although this is based on pure supposition that the conflict will end in 1943. It is difficult to explain the size of $208,000,000,000 because such an amount has never before been used by men In one lump sum. Perhaps the best way to express its vastness is that It represents about two years of labor for every wage earner in this country. We had 43,047,000 earning units last year, made up of 32.- 097,000 families and 10.950,000 single employed persons. Their average earnings were $2303, The share of each one in the war appropriations made by congress so far would be more than twice as much, roughly $4800. What this will mean to the lives of citizens is beginning to be apparent as the size of the problem becomes clearer. Some few congressmen, debating the historic, unprecedented $42,000,' 000,000 army appropriation bill the other day suggested it might mean bankruptcy if expend! hires kept piling up. but they apparently had not stopped to figure the real probabilities. Obviously we are going to have a federal debt of at least $200,000,000,000 at the end of this war, five times the size of the feared debt limit reached in nine years of new deal spending before we entered upon war pre parations. That will be a permanent ob ligation upon which the treasury will have to pay annual interest. The average interest rate now is 2.35 per cent and before the war the average was 2.4 per cent, (During the first World war it was 4.2 per centj The treasury, while financing these new vast sums, is at the same time hammering the inter est rate down. Some expect to get it down to around 2 per cent before the war is over. If they do, and the entire war debt is no more than $200,000, 000,000, the treasury will have to tax the people $4,000,000,000 a year after this war merely to pay interest charges fixed charges, not including any actual cost of government operation. If government costs run around $9,000,000,000 as they have been running, the treasury will have to raise $13,000, 000,000 a year from the people to keep going. TWO SOLUTIONS There are two ways to handle that. One is by inflation, which is a government's way of going into bankruptcy. Cheapening the value of dol lars reduces the cost of its debts and accomplishes a washout of all values. That need not be done this time if the nation can be' kept on a sufficiently high level of prosperity to enable the treasury to drain around $13, 000,000,000 a year in taxes. It is collecting this coming year about $24,000,000,000. If it continued these confiscatory rates after the war (which of course is impossible because you cannot run a profits system with out good profits) it could use about $10,000,000,000 a year for debt retirement and pay off the debt in 20. years. Certainly these figures show: 1. A national prosperity in come of at least $100,000,000,000 a year will have to be maintain ed after the war to support the kind of debt and government we are in. 2. Vast post-war peace expen SIDE GLANCES com. iMrwwi swvtcf. pct.i trq tt a. pit, orr. Always 25c - Inc. Tax TODAY AND TOMORROW vocion OFMARKCTSTMET i i it '"'"anm v "- m PLUS Ken Maynard in "Remember how he used to blush at the girls, AuntieT Since he joined the Army he really has found himself I" ditures such as financing the in dustrialization of farming na tions with our public funds or a quart of milk a day for the citi zens of the world, cannot be un dertaken with any reasonable expectation of maintaining gov ernment financing. In other words, we would work ourselves out by careful and successful planning, but we cannot afford to throw money around the world. Some authorities even ask if the treasury can raise so much money to run the war. That will be the easiest part of it. Little ingenuity is ever required to run up debt. Paying is generally the troublesome part. Obviously, such vast sums are required that most of the war debt will have to be taken by banks and insurance companies. Commercial banks and federal reserve banks will get the bulk of it, and the government can practically force them to take any interest rate it considers likely to be enough to keep their doors open. For instance, this coming fis cal year, $77,000,000,000 is being spent and only $24,000,000,000 is being raised by taxes. Another $10,000,000,000 will come from sale of bonds to savings banks, insurance companies, govern ment trust funds, etc. That leaves $43,000,000,000 to be raised by war bonds. At present the treosury is sell ing 'bonds at a rate of about $5, 000.00U.uuo a year. Mr. Morgen- thau expects to bring this up to I $12,000,000,000 by his new su per drive. If he does the com mercial banks will have to take the rest, about $31,000,000,000. Even a compulsory bond buy ing program would not change this situation materially. The most that could be expected from it is $20,000,000,000 which would leave the commercial banks to absorb $23,000,000,000. Clearly the banks must take between one-third and two-fifths of the whole expenditure, and that percentage will rise. Ttey I have no money themselves, ex cept the people's money deposit ed with them. Figures may be boring to the I average Individual but these kinds of figures need his atten tion, because they involve the sweat of his brew, zs wall as iho economic and political future of this country. Telling The Editor littata arlntaa hm mint mi m mora than IN era In linlh, mint bi writ. mi lialNii an ONI IIDI ol Ihi rupw anly, ind mini a llalio. Oonlrlbutloni rollewlttf trma rulia, in warmly wife KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To the Editor) I wonder If you can tell me the approximate length of the Burma Road, S W, Hum.U.r The exact figure Is not Im mediately obtainable, but the approximate length from Ran goon to Chungking, measured on a standard mup, is 1800 miles. BO NEAR AND YET NEW YORK, The American Museum of Natural History has sent several expeditions over a period of .many years Into tho jungles of Java ond Malaya seek ing the skull of a rhinoceros sondalcus, a raro species. With the fall of the Dutch East Indies and the Malay states, the museum feared it would be years. If ever, before such a skull could be added to Its fossil col lection. They found it In the museum's own attic, whore It had Inln un recognized for more than 70 years. Arrive in Isles Word has bnen received by relatives that Kolth Argravei haa arrived in the British Isles with the armed forces. Argraves visited here, hl former home, a short time Iwfore stilling. Also In the British lulus is Mark lloufft, for mer resident of Klamath Falls and Medford, who Is with the medical department of the army air corps. Read Cloiililed Ada for Results ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ Qutitloni on Page I 1. He Is bombslght mechanic . British Honduras. 3. They bi'gmi the battle for Dollca u Wood, thus helping stop the enomy rush to Paris. Our reservoir of resources Is now approaching flood singe, Promote d Frederick W. ! Schmidt, United States army quartermaster corps, has recent ly boon promoted from the rank of second nontenant to first : lieutenant, according to word re-' ceived here from the Seattlo gon- j eral dennt. I.Unr Sr-hmlHt formerly associated with Mason j enrmnn company in Klamath Falls. 1 Last Times TONIGHT Ginger Rogers In "R0XIE HART" . Hop-A-Long Cauldy D "STICK TO YOUR GUNS" OPENING TOMORROW Tlt heroic saga of CusUr'f Last Standi i mm Charley GRAPEWIN GENE LOCKNART ANTHONY QUINN STANLEY RIDGES PELICAN Last Times Tonight! First Hir CRIME'S CRACK CROOK turns nursemaid... vben caught. by a kid! fm-fl brOce f 2nd Hit W frTirTs SUMUDAY the 1PIEI3 Liberty Magazine's 4Star Picture! m yr 'j. murT mm-.f ""LV""iv Iff -aw-4 J v. .M?i U in y the HITCHCOCK tz&nner! Saboteur is the story of a boy and girl who fell in love at the point of death but heroically survived to gloriously fulfill their romance. Saboteur is an exceedingly excit ing story enhanced by the touch of the master story teller, Alfred Hitchcock, who entertained you samagnif icently with the hits "Re becca," "Foreign Correspondent" and recently "Suspi c i 0 n." Those who know pictures best always know that Hitchcock's name is the trads mark for excellent and gen erally different en Jertainmenf.i 1 - u. wTf Yft A3LSr if T V ' lK" - J' 'A u. Tzzr? y - . I, ''4 is k4 -1 .4 - r n "-. .... ' 4TL 1 . FRANK LLOYO PRODUCTIONS,. Inc. Preumtt 1! Fl lawE if f PRISCILLA LANE ROBERT CUUNGS UnforgeHable Star of "King's Row" in Hl Neweil Role (ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "WHIRLWIND HORSEMEN" (THE MAN BEHIND YOUR BACK) mm
