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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUH HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON October 27, lfMJ TrUKK JENKINS . MALCOLM EPLET A tBpori7 oomblnttlos of th tvenlnf Herald toi th KUnutb Hm, itttroooo except tuudty it Eplnd and Pint treU, ElaroaU FalU, Vtrald PoblUhtm Co. and Mi Klamath Xawi PublUhlsf Company. Bntrd ac aeoortd data matter al tha poaMflca of Klamath Fall, 0r, August V im UDucr act or Mem bar of Tba Oct Mont Thrt Moo tha 0a Tar KAIL BATES PAYABLE IN APVAM i: By Mail Ib Klamath, Laka, Mod and SUkiyoa CoudUm Ibrca Hoethi tlx Month. Oca Year Th AaaoeUtod Preaa la asdualnlr tntUUd to tha w of jpabUratio of all v dfapatchea mdtttd to tt or not otbenrWa erditd t thla papar, aad ajao tha loeal tveira pobllabed tharcln. All rlfhu of republication of apedal dtpatcha ara alaa wimi MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION RpreaantH Nationally by VYeit-Holltday Co.. Inc. Kan Franrlim, Hew Tort, Detroit, Seattla, Chi capo. Port laud, toa iiHu, Bl. iMto. Vuootmr, B. C Coptea of Tba Herald aod Neva, tocathar with oomplato taformattoc boot tba Ktamatfc Falla market, may ba obtained for tha aaktet at any of tbaaa offlcee. Deliver) by Carrier ta City A Salute and a Pledge ON this day we salute the U. S. Navy, in who Mi tory the story of America is closely interwoven. Even today, as Americans observe Navy day, the navy is engaged in a bitter battle in the South Pacific; it i convoying troops to England, Australia, Egypt; it is fight ing the greatest war in its history, over two oceans, in all parts of the world. There are many men from the Midland Empire among the brave officers and men who are fighting on the far seas. They are helping carry on the glorious traditions of John Paul Jones, of Farragut and Dewey. They have accepted that heritage proudly, with the courage and determination that gave us victory in other wars. Their battle is greater than anything John Paul Jones could have envisioned. It is beyond the scope of our imagination. But we do know that those of us who are not in the navy must do everything in our power to help our fighting men to victory, for they, need every ounce of help we can give them. We do our day's work and go home. We go out in, the evenings to entertainment, or we sit home by the fireside. We are paid well for our work. If we work overtime, we are paid for that. But, as a navy man has written, "there is no pay for overtime, aboard the ships that guard the line." Axe we buying all the bonds we can buy, to help finance the ships and the guns and the ammunition for our navy? Are we giving everything we have to our civilian job, whether it be direct delense work or any work that helps make America strong? Are. we whim pering about wartime restriction on our pleasures? In short, are we doing our part? Today, we salute the navy. Today, let us pledge to be worthy of the service the men of the navy are giving to us, their countrymen safe at home. Unpleasant Task THE so-called Bteemead bill on the November 8 ballot is one of those measures that discredits the direct legislative system. It calls for a great deal of special knowledge if an intelligent decision is to be made. Its fate will be determined by thousands of voters who do not know what it is all about, and care less. Surely the fish commission, the game commission, and the legislature, with the aid of scientists and spe cialists, can and should decide such questions. It is an . imposition upon the people, busy with war work, to ask them to make a study of this issue, and to determine the facts out of the mass of conflicting claims and sta tistics offered in the opposing arguments on this measure. The fish bill is generating what heat there is in the. pre-election period. It is an old row commercial versus game fisherman and many a fish bill has been on the direct legislative ballots of past years. Most of the peo ple this far inland have paid little attention to this con troversy and have become a little indignant at finding these measures on the ballot Here we have no commercial fishermen, but there are a few ardent sportsmen coastal stream lislung and their affiliation with state wide rod and reel groups, are actively interested in the bill. They favor this measure, which limits commercial fishing by closure of coastal streams to net fishing from iMovemDer au to June l ot each year. This measure was passed by the last legislature- and signed by the governor. It was then referended through the efforts of the commercial fishing interests. The voters pamphlet, which everyone must have received by this time, carries the text of the bill and a summation of opposing arguments. i What do YOU think about driftnet fishing in Ho- . i. i . n qtlotlLUIl BlUUgU I Fish, Legislators' Pay to Be on General Vote Ballot (This is the second of five stories about Oregon's general election.) Br PAUL W. HABVEY, JH, SALEM, Oct. 27 (P) Two old-time battles the fight be tween the game fishermen and the commercial fishermen, and the attempts of legislators to get wage, Increases will be renew ed next Tuesday at the general election. The fish bill, after a knock down, drag-out scrap, was passed by the 1941 legislature. It would prohibit net fishing in most coastal streams and bays, and reduce all open seasons for net fishing. The commercial fishermen. after losing their legislative fight, succeeded in having the bill referred to the people. The game fishermen contend the bill is necessary as a conser vation measure, that it would affect the total commercial catch very little, and that it would put virtually no commercial fisher men out of work. The commercial fi.ohrmen charge that many of their co- nons would lose their jobs, and that it would destroy 50 per cent of the state's fresh fish supply. m In 1857 the state constitution fixed legislators' compensation at $3 a day for 40 days. The lawmakers don't evpn bm that much now, as sessions last more ' to Mffcs Mti(tmr fell tor fub1hd rry Otfo, bj tb tonareaa, arca a, itf. Aitodated Froaa ,4 .Tl tu r jo who, through their own than 60 days. So their pay fig. ures out at less than 12 a day, The legislators have tried nine times to have the conrtitu tion amended to provide them enough money to live on during the session. Now they want $8 a aay. At the last election, the voters rejected their demands for more money, 188,031 to 186,830. It was the nearest the legislators nad ever come to victory. Those who favor the measure feci that the small stlDend makes it Impossible for a man to serve without spending a lot of his own money. Those who are against It, including the Oregon voicr, say mat service In the legislature is a privilege that the state couldn't begin to Day for. Another measure on the bal lot would give the legislature ine right to restore voting privi leges to former convict whn have paid their full debt to v ciety. Proponents claim this pro-- yusai wouio am in rehabilitation or convicts, while omionentx v that any 'man convicted of a fel ony should permanently lose his voting rights. In 1916 the people created the rural credits loan fund to make loans on farm lands. The con stitutional provision is no long er needed because the common school fund has plenty of mon ey to loan on farm property. The legislature is asking tha voters repeal it, ; By fouLMALLoiQy WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 Th . .M i.ij ..... , j l daily teems to m to furnish a more interesting cross section of public opinion than a national poll. All shade of opinion are expressed there on every subject. A Salem, Oregon, auto dealer. Paul b. Wallace, for example, sent me a clipping of a reader's letter In one paper out there, pro testing snarpiy against my advo cacy of a profits system. This reader took the view that the profits system had broken down In the depression, that It was corrupt, unequal, unfair, and that we were going to have a new and better system of some kind after the war. Mr. Wallace was exasperated about the mat ter and asked me to answer. A single attempt at conscien tious thought by that reader, or anyone else, would convince him that we all live by profits la borer, farmer, clerk and business man. I think it Is the commun ists who attempt to convince such people that profits are ugly and immoral. Of course, there are not enough communist In this coun try to make any substantial po litical difference, except In one respect the extent to which they Induce good Americans to distrust democracy and our cap-, itallstic system. tt Is unfortunate that many established leaders express be liefs, not thoroughly clarified. which inadvertently put water on the wheel of the communist theory. Many good advocates of democracy have in the past pub licly espoused causes which lead people to believe that profits are repugnant. ' They did so for their own pur poses, of course, political and otherwise end they did not es pouse communist purposes but they did leave in the minds of some people, perhaps in the mind of the reader who wrote that let ter, that there Is something dls- lesteiui in profits. Only unfair profits are Im moral, as everyone knows. Only cheating and gouging are the vicious problems. Fair profits are the life blood of all demo cratic systems, and the indlspen- saDie sustenance of democracy.. WAR AND TIGHT Another reader in Jackson ville, Fla., H. A. Hanson, took the position that may also be ac cepted by some other people that mis is ihe rich man s war and the poor man's fight" Be Is wrong. The rich are ac tually being abolished, both in Britain and the United States No new rich class Is being creat ea by, it, or can be created. In view of the taxes. - I think the war Is a fight of each citizen of every class except one wose wno would prefer to live under the Japs and Hitler wan .Roosevelt. HATES Many readers have protested my campaign against hates, that is domestic hates among our selves. D. H. Butler, of the H. J, Heinr company, Pittsburgh however, wrote: "If you could demonstrate to people that there are only two possible ways for men to think, either ldeallstically, the belief in freedom as the basis for creat ing the greatest wealth for the greatest number; or materialis tically, the belief that wealth can be divided among the people, then you will have started these thinking people on the path of constructive thought." There Is no wealth in division Wealth today is the ability to produce, to earn. Divide the Ford factory and General Motors or otherwise destroy their ability to produce and what have you except brick and machines for scrap sales. Each man then could set brick from them, or a piece of machine, or the pittance their sale would bring at junk yard prices. Their ability to produce is their only wealth, and the onlv weaitn oi you or me. And I think ambitious private management can make them produce better man political management by me government. PARROT My effort to bring some con structive realism into the hotly divided problem of the negro met an approving response from all except one negro reader, who mought it proved me "a biased. senseless, mechanical parrot." Obviously, she is thinking along the familiar theory that the way to Improve the economic and social status of the nesro ix to break down law barriers. There Is bitterness on both ACHING-STIFF-SORE IMU I hr Asicc MUSCLES SIDE GLANCES iiiTmww,c..trotM.e. 1 know you Ye busy. Doc, bnt Td rather have yoa than i regular bars doctor old Prince seems so much like I one of the familyr I EX- ROSEBURO. Ore.. Oct. 27 m jamet toward Shouse. 43. re portedly an ex-convict, was custody today charged with theft of approximately $1000 worth of merchandise, last night from the Lawson jewelry store here, Shouse, who has been sought by police since the burglary of the mud cigar store here Oct. 33, believed to have returned Roseburg last night from San Francisco, Sergeant Paul Morgan ot the state police reported. Officers Investigating a burg' lary m wmcn entrance was forced into a furniture store and an opening cut through a parti' tion Into the adjoining jewelry store, arrested snouse as he was preparing to leave on a north bound stage, Morgan said. In his luggage, the. officer reported. they found the jewelry Identified by m. Lawson as having been stolen from his store. Read It, Weep; Liquor Prices To . Rise November 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 vvitn tne sole exception of draft beer, the consumer will begin paying more lor alcoholic bev erages from packaged liquor to a "straight drink" begin ning novemDer The office of nrire arfmln. tration disclosed this Monday in outlining methods by which dis tillers, wholesalers and retailers may pass on to the consumer increased , federal excise taxes provided in the recently e acted tax bill. in the case of draft hrrr OPA said the amount of the tax increase was too small to nasi on to tne consumer. OPA cautioned distributors against increasing their ceiling prices more man tne tax in. crease. i The 'tax rise on domentln wniskies will not be uniform since it is based on proof. For 100 proof bonded wihilcv. th increase is ?2 a gallon; 90 proof, $1.80, and 80 proof, The retailer thus may In crease his celling prices 50 cents a quart for 100 oroof. 48 cents for 90 proof, and 40 cents tor 80 proof. sides of this question. The white and the negro, and not without some justification. But the problem will never be solved until the bitterness is dropped and negro leaders can set an excellent example to their people, and the white leaders to theirs, by fair and straight thinking. There are good and bad on both sides, which causes each to look at the other as a whole with unjustified suspicion. aest solution would be to meet on a new common around of r- alism, shedding both bitterness and politics, for the institution of a program which would give the negro the fullest ODDortunitv to advance himself socially and economically and end political nanoung of the problem. ' Dealer snortases Dut mra value on used merchandise. Cash in on your "junk" , throueh a classified ad. Phone 3124. To Relieve Distress of MONTHLY MM WEAKNESS due to functional periodic disturbances-try Lydla E. Plnkham's Com pound tablstb (with added Iron), Also flne jttnirifu-nlrt tanlM Wiitnw label directions, Well worth, truing I HZ. IWjUII'll'fH'HI.'.ri'l.!, ','.11 ,' IMTMII f I luus I I 1 1 i " ' I ', . I , , , i . 1,111 I I 1 1 , 1 1 111' Irani jl'lna rlHWiM,;'; roni rha lilti 0 yeora iiil From the Klamath Republican October 30, 1903 - A deal was closed yesterday wnereoy tne Klamath Falle Ex press changed hands. J. G. Pierce sold the property to Boy Hamaker. Bonanza merchants are hust ling freight before bad roads raise the price of hauling. Two carloads of Chlneie hav left Portland to work on the railroad being built to Poke- gama. From the Evening Herald October 37, 1933 The Weed-Klamath Falls high way Is carrying more traffic than ever before, although it is not yet completed. . W. B. Graham of Henlav h brought some fine Klamath an. pies to market here. The state highway commlmlnn will soon construct a new bridge across Crooked creek on Th uaiies-Callfornla highway north oi juamain Agency.. SALEM, Oct. 27 W Oreeon'. gasoline consumption durlns th first nine months of 1942 totaled 203,225,439 gallons, a nine per cent decrease from the similar period of last year. Secretary of oiaie can aneil said today. Snell said that during the same period, the traffic death tou was down 27 per cent 8.1 persons ,belng killed per 100,- uuu.uuu mues of travel, com. pared to a rate of 11.1 in the same period last year. The September death rate was a decrease of 07 per cent. Missionaries Reported Safe in Philippines NEW YORK. Oct. 27 m Th. board of missions of the Metho dist church announced today it had received word that Dr. Ern est . Tuck, 83-year-old superin tendent or me Methodist church In the Philippine Islands and 2.1 missionaries there were reported to be "safe and well." The message,, the board said, was transmitted through the American Red Cross from the Japanese Red Cross. Dr. Tuck, of Ellensburg, Wash., had not been heard from since the Islands fell into Japa nese hands. We must abandon our ennrwn. tion of war as an affair for pro. fesslonal military men. War Is big business. We are all in it and we can't pass the buck to the soldiers in this one. Col. Hugh Knerr, retired air force chief of staff. J3 Service Men's Picture Folders $1 Up VAN S CAMERA SHOP 727 Mala Phone 3811 'w. mr.MM. m Telling The Editor ltt srlMte Mra miat not M nor tun m annft In Itnsth, muat Im wit. tm ImidIit on ONS Ilea iih sapor only, an mial ko nM Contribution rwloorlns thooa rvlot, ore wtrmly woV AGAINST CHARTER CHANGE KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. (To The Editor) There was almost no interest in parks prior to 1913 but the Charter enacted at that date provided the board of Park commissioners which has had charge of the parks of the city sine that date. Considerable progress has been made but now, at a time when the attention ot the public Is centered ' on the war, and large numbers of our people are away engaged In that war, it. is proposed to do away with the park board and return the parks to the mayor and coun ell. This was the system In use prior to the adoption of the In dependent park board plan. The cnange was Drought about by the quite common scandals of city politics and neglect of parks. Under the present system the board consists of the mayor and city engineer and five citizens appointed by the circuit judge. The five citizens are appointed for the came term as justices ol the United States supreme court. It is proposed to grant to the mayor and city council entire control over the parks. They may create park boards or have none, as they see fit, and If a board Is created it can be de stroyed at any meeting of the council, or Its members removed at the will ot the city hall. Under the present Charter provisions, the board may levy a tax of one-half mill and the pro ceeds must be used solely for park purposes. Under the pro posed Charter the city council could levy or not levy any tax In any amount but any part of any fund could be used for any purpose and funds ostensibly raised for parks could be used for any other purpose If the may or and council saw fit. Under the proposed system any part or all of the present parks could be used for any other purpose, or they could be sold and the proceeds used for any purpose. Any property could be purchased from any city offi cial at any price and any city funds, including tha bond sink ing funds, could be used to pay for it. In short, all protection for city funds set aside for any spe clal purpose Is destroyed by the new charter. All funds, Including the park and library funds, go into the general treasury, sub ject only to the desire and pur pose of any city administration which may then be In power. No one has ever accused any member of the park board of any misconduct nor has there been any claim that they have not given good service to the public. In the entire period of nearly thirty years the only ac cusation is that one member was lazy. There has been very much more criticism of mayors and city councils during that period than of the park board. Under the wide open charter now pro posed, It is not likely that the mayor and city council, with so many problems already taxing their time and ability, will do any better than the present park board. No one has given any reason for kicking out a group of cltl zen-offlcials who have given a lot of time and effort, entirely without pay, to an important civic enterprise Just at a time when their efforts have pro duced results which are very creditable to them and to the city. There is no such reason, and whatever purpose there is In this Pearl Harbor attack on the park board must be sought In some of the ramifications of city politics. The park board has done nothing to attract any special ln terest or attention at this time, The city administration has, however, taken advantage of the distraction of public interest by war activities and the absence of a large number of our people to present a general revision of the entire city government in a new charter. An examination of the new charter and the noting of things that nave been removed from the present city charter shows very plainly that the park pro posal is only an incident of the general picture and Is not Inde pendent of the purpose disclosed In the new charter to increase the power, control over funds, and' general political patronage by the city administration. Tha parks are brought Into this Plan as a part of the general program to centralize and increase power. and not as an Independent attack on the park board. In this war period there Is no excuse for distraction of public POPULAR PIANO Learn the Essy MIRACLE Way for beginners or advanced students. START NOW1 MIRACLE SERIES PIANO Thelma Dumm Phone 3488 $15 BILLION FDR NAVY GETS FDR SIGNAT WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Tl Another $15,000,000,000 was made available today to sharpen the navy's offensive power, with thousands more planes and many new tons of floating craft, as President Roosevelt signed Into law the second supplemental wartime appropriation and con trad authorization bill. Congress completed action on th measure Thursday. Tha leg' lslatlon brought to 157,000,000, 000 the total of direct approprln lions and contract authorizations for the navy since July, 1940. Now Planes The measure appropriated $5, 599,000,000 outright for the navy and In addition authorized It to begin lotting contracts on a SO,' 600,000,000 construction pro gram to add 3,101,000 tons of floating crott 600,000 tons of new aircraft carriers, 600,000 tons of cruisers, 900,000 tons of destroyers and escort vessels and 200,000 tons of auxiliary ships. Acquisition of 14,811 new bomber and fighter planes, at a cost of 32,862,000,000, was pro vided in the direct apuroprla tion. S220 Billion Spont Arming of hundreds more merchant ships was financed In 8100,000,000 item, and SflOU, 000,000 was provided for de fense housing. Including all Items, apnroprla tlons totaled 88,341,100.887. The measure raised to $222.. 000,000,000 the money provided for defense and war purposes since July, 1040, 5 DAYS LEFT FOR Five dnys left to mall your pacxage overseas! Postofflce authorities u r g a d patrons not to let their parcels wait much longer as delivery Is not gusranteed If mall Is not In the hands of Uncle Sam before November 1. Some misunderstanding In the reference to packages "which should be of shoe-box size," has resulted In the mailing of a num ber of just plain shoe boxes, Postmaster Burt E. Hawkins stated. The Pelican Bay wooden boxes, available without charge, are Ideal for mailing glfu to men overseas, and not the common, pasteboard box which will not withstand shipping. attention by city politics. Any voter who has taken the time to read the new charter and com pare it with the old one will be exceptional. Such a move by the city hall is an Imposition on the general public under present conditions. The whole program should be defeated subject to a reconsideration when the actual needs of the city can be more fairly appraised. City administrations come and go. Some are good and some are bad. A city charter is Intended. to prevent too much harm when we get a bad one even If the re strictions do sometimes annoy the good ones. D. .V. KUYKENDALL. If you want to sell it Dhona The Herald and News "want ads," 3124 IM 'rom where 1 sit . ... ly Joe Last Ssturday night we were set tin around Jeb Crowell's house, and from 'upstairs we hear the squawks those Crowell youngsters put up while their Ma was dunkln' 'm In sosp and water. Causes Jeb to comment t "Just shows how times chsng. Used to b a law here In America that nobody could take a bath without a doctor's prescription!" Then we got talking about the funny laws some people have put . through In this country like th state where they made It against th law to wska a man up If he's sleeping on th railroad tracks. "Railroad law I one heard about," says Basil Strub, th sta tlonmaster, "said whon two trains meat at an Intersection, neither ean proceed until th other on has gem ahead." "Row could that b a Uwt" asks PU Swanson. "That Just don't mak sens." "Lot of laws don't make sense," "Z'.lth- "mr JH,t th"l We're llTln' In a land where most folks No. 52 of a Seriet airrs oalore ALL EASY TO MAKE 7333 iT.'jtasV.r.ol by Alice Brooks An apron for Sue slipper for mother a decorated tray for the new bride thene and many other delightful gifts are yours to msk at little cost from Just odds and ends. And this pattern tells exnetly how. Pattern 7383 contnlns directions for 14 arti cles; materials required; de.ilgns where needed. To obtain tnis pattern send tl cents In coin to The Horn Id and News, Household Arttw Dept., Klnmath Falls. Do noO send this picture, but keep It and uie number for reference. B sure to wrap coin securely, as a loose coin often slips out of th envelope. Requests for patterns should read, "Send pattoro No, to followed by your nam and address. Lumbago means that the blood Is poor. And tills time of year, that the furnace needs cleaning out If your dealer Is out for the duration, advertise for a used one in the want-ads. once a year special pale Ends Sat. Oct. 31st arret el THROAT CREAM 350KAhR100 other tiiu 5.00 and 10.00 Marsh hold for tolerance and understand.' Ins;. And yet It wasn't so long ago we had a law of Prohibition. Ac count for that, If you can." Well, he hnd Ms there. Here's Amorlca where we set so much store on soeln the other fellow's point of view havln' such a law. Now that It's all over, it's hard to realize how people put up with a law like that, von as long as they did. From where I alt, a man's got very right to enjoy a satisfyln glass of beer when he wants to quench his thirst. Beer's a friendly drink. It's a drink of moderation.' too. And most folks even the one that don't drink beor themelvos r tolerant enough, nowadays, to respect the right of folks who do. I reckon Jeh wss right we'v had some mighty strange laws In thl untry. r i Copyright, 1943, Brewing Industry FounJatim ' 0)