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PAGE FOUR Herald ait&$eUr$ HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON November 6, 1041 RAKK JKNKlNfi . MALCOLM EPLEV M&oiftog Editor A temporary oomhl nation or the Everting Herald and Wit Klmtth Newt. Pab.Ur.t4 wy e fit moon except Sunday at Eiplnnnle and Pint itreeU, Klamath Fall. OrtfoB, by tilt .Un tared a iroond clan matter at the poitofflce of Klamath Fa I la. Ore., oo August W, ivuo uuticr aci or congreia, warcn a, isfs. Member of The Awoclited Preia The Aiiotatd Presi la Mclunlvety entitled to the wte of republication of all newt dlvpitcltna credited to It or not otticrwloe credited la thla paper, and ato the local ncwi published therein. AH rfghta oj republication of tpecial dUpatchea are alto reaerrtd. By IkULMALlON Reprt-nented Nationally by Wet-IIofllday to., inc. Run Ptanclico, New Vork, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Lot Ancelea, 8t, toula. Vnnooiiver, H. 0. Coptea of The Herald and Tvewt, together with compitu information about the Klamath Folia market may be obtained for the aakteg at any of tha office. Delivered by Carrier In City MKM11KR AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION One Month Ihrea Montlw One Year -4.T4 t.ss 7,80 3 tin Monthi Pi Monthi One, Year MAIL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE By Mall In Klamath, Lake, Modoc and Slsktyott Conntlea S.35 0.00 Charter Post-Mortems : N this Dasre today is a letter from Mayor Houston vy defending the League of Oregon Cities against what he evidently interprets as a slur directed at tne league in a recent editorial in this column. There has been no intention on our part to question the general services rendered the city by the League, as outlined ably by the mayor in his communication. Our statement, that we felt the charter committee relied "too much; perhaps" upon the advice of League officials in preparing the proposed charter, was based larorelv on statements made to us by city officials and charter committee members. When . various objections were raised to asserted defects or omissions in the new charter, the answer on several occasions was that the League legal consultant had not been concerned about these and "he ought to know, we question wnetner tne League legal consultant knows any better than the local men who raised these questions, and we further feel that the League advisor, functioning as such, should have pre vented the admitted omission of the civil service pro visions and certain other features. That .explains, we hope, our reference to the league which inspired the mayor's letter. We really intended no sharp .criticism, but the remark was honestly made. We do agree with Mayor Houston that it would have been well for critics to have taken more interest in the charter at the time it was being prepared. A statement was published- in the newspaper from the charter com mittee inviting suggestions, and. no one came forward with any, so far as we know, except one letter making a proposal on the make-up of the civil service board. We believe any of the men who raised the most valid criti cisms late in the campaign would have been willing to sit in, had they realized their help was desired, but they did not. volunteer it. - It is all water over the dam. We do not believe there should be any hard feelings about the charter issue. It represented a constructive effort on the part of the city and its value was not all lost. We hope city officials will not feel so discouraged over the charter: outcome that they lose their enthusiasm for other worth-while efforts they have embarked upon. We particularly urge public interest and support for the program of coordination among the taxation bodies of the county, in which the city is taking an active part. Here is something which deserves the enthusiastic support of every citizen. WW urn WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 The democr atic congressmen were slightly dazed in their first comment on the election result, All they could mutter, as the final returns came in, was: "It looks like someone kicked us in the teeth." One ousted member attributed his defeat solely to the 18-19 Pv tSi Another says he f iS- crawled through m Mby promising V-iJPJ eight gallons of ?J of the general run, however, was the defeat ed Missouri Paul Mallon member from a farm district, who was a sure IS to 1 shot to win before the votes were counted. He did not know what happened to him. The successful republican can didates generally said in their public statements that their suc cess was a popular demand to get on better and faster with the war effort. I believe the explanation runs deeper than that. My mail furn ished an advance warning of what was coming, and the rea sons for it. There is. a popular revolt in this country against methods that have been fol lowed. It Is a revulsion not only against war methods, but reform methods. It is an expression of feeling that pervades, not only tne small business men and the conservative element, those who. together, might be called the Willkie vote of the last election. the anti-new deal vote of 1940. This one goes further down into the middle ' class groups everywhere, and has snread widely into the ranks of farmer and worker.- ' Somewhere in the intricate processes of getting a pre cinct election table into print in our favorite newspaper, the names of Charles McNary and Walter Whitbeck were transposed and the table came out yesterday with Whitbeck leading McNary in all but four precincts. The table is corrected today. If the erroneous table will bring any solace to Mr. Whitbeck, who isn't a bad fellow, we hope someone sends .it to him. lilwligaili From the Klamath Republican November 6, 1902 H. H. Van Valkenbure and John Cabler returned Thursday irom i,angell valley with five deer. Van Valkenburg gener ously distributed venison among ins irienas. At a town board meeting, it was decided to employ an attor ney to take legal steps, if neces sary, to compel the ditch com pany to keep its "canal from leak' mg and running water on the streets of the town. H. W. Kee- see was employed. : . From The Evening Herald Nov. 6 1932 The Herald today carried a fi nal editorial on the presidential campaign, concluding: "We decided, so far as we Were concerned, not to abandon the leader in the middle of the llglit. Wot that we were afraid to leave him, had there been a Detter man to follow. Not that we fear the ultimate outcome, even if our fellow-citizens decide, in large enough numbers, that the change should be made. But wnen the test came, we found ourselves turning toward Hoo ve?. "We are well aware of the in dications that the vote will go the other way. . "But, win or lose, there we eland. "Win, we will look forward to pressing on to new victories with him that has brought us thus far. "Lose, we will turn our faces to our new chief, lending our aid to his constructive enter prises, hoping that those things that now leave us doubtful will prove only the habiliments of the campaign arid that, endowed With the greatest responsibility of the nation; ho' may have the I strength and the purpose to lead 1 DAV SLATES SALE TO Blue forget-me-nots will be. of fered for sale in Klamath Falls on November 7, under the spon sorship of the local chapter of the Disabled American Veteran? as part of a nation-wide cam paign to raise funds for local services and emergency relief programs, and for the continu ance of a national program of rehabilitation service maintained by the Disabled American Vet erans organization. Herman Lofdahl, commander of the local chapter, said Friday. "I have seen many examples of humanitarian services rendered by the DAV which has not onlv helped the unfortunate individ uals directly concerned, but which has converted them from a community liability to n, com munity asset, relieving the bur den of local charity by trans- fering it to the federal govern ment, where the responsibility rightfully belongs. "I wish all of you could be come personally acquainted with the problems that our disabled fighting men have to face upon their return to civil life. The Disabled American Veteran or ganization is now active in work pertaining to our disabled vet erans returning from this pres. ent war. These men are now eligible for membership in this organization." HIT HARD ' These people are not "turning conservative," as the radicals say. They do not want to aban don the gains that have been made in social progress, but they have reached the point where they want these gains made practical. They want this reform wave settled to a workable basis which will consolidate and perpetuate the gains, rather than have it blown up further and further into ever new heights. They Just' want some common sense about it. They want practical methods. Every man in this countrv. furthermore, has been hit hard Dy this war in many ways, but Washington does not recognize it. Some have lost their bus inesses. All remaining bus inesses have lost their help and are struggling to keeD eoine. Most of their businesses have been made unprofitable by tre mendous taxation. AH individuals at home are suffering sacrifices of their friends and relatives to the serv ice, but, on top of that, they are sacrificing themselves in many ways, in changed modes of liv- SIDE GLANCES j 1heres one.good break for us in this maid situation lor tne lirst time in years we cau say what we like in our own home withqut being shushed!" ing, food, work, transportation, hours. SOMEONE'S LOOKING I have heard no one be grudge these sacrifices, but their plaint and plea is for better ad ministration over them. They want kindly direction, not ar bitrary and unexplained admoni tions. . , They must line up every few weeks in a different rationing for this and that, haggle and scrape for gas, sugar, coffee, meat. They see themselves that administration is not efficient in the way it is handling them. They want better methods in this re spect also. r , , They will get them, are get ting them. As one wise demo cratic leader said when he saw the returns: . ' Now we have someone look ing over our shoulder." The election result, therefore. cannot be anything but construc tive in the war effort; CONSULT CONGRESS 1 Democratic congressmen who survived are going to the White House for some changes in meth ods of handling themWlso. They are saying FDR has failed to con sult them, although they have their cars closer to the ground than Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Frankfurter, - Hopkins. Two. or three good Roosevelt friends are saying this out loud in the corridors. They think also Mr. Roose velt's advisers represent a whol ly union labor or extreme lib eral viewpoint, to the exclusion of the interests of other factions. Some southern democrats call his administration "communist" although they know it is not intended to be. They, too, will get their wish. "Reform" types of legislation will never get through the house now. Dissenting democrats will give the republicans a majority against all that. The president will have ' to consult congress before mnklng his recommendations, unless he wants them defeated. . RAN FOR STAFF Prime example of the chang ing times was the defeat of Sen ator Norris by an anti-new deal er in a state which had been new-dealing before Mr. Roose velt. The 81-yenr-old senator got In to the race in an indirect way. One day news-men, looking for a story, dropped into his office to ask if he would run. He said frankly he was too old, could not keep up the work. Later, he was "drafted." His foes harped upon the interview throughout the state. It helped take away that halo of sincerity which had been his most popular appeal, wis campaign consisted only of making three speeches oy radio. In truth, ho probably ran for the benefit of his office' staff as much as anything else. His em ployees have been with him many years. Telling ThelUUior Uttan printed lw mint not b. mor. IhM IM orardi In Immh, mint b will Imi Iwiblf on ONI not ol llu pinir only, ami muat In HVIM. Ooulrlliulloiii following ihm rultt, or, warmly wtl com a. Sailors, Marines To Come Under Oregon Liquor Ban PORTLAND. Nov. 6 (VP) Sailors and marines, as well as soldiers, will be able to purchase liquor from state stores in Ore gon only between the hours of 6 and 10 p. m. Robert O. Boyd, attorney for the state liquor control commis sion, said last night that the in elusion of sailors and marines would' be made immediately in response to a request from 13 naval district. Army personnel have been under this restriction since short ly after December 7, 1941. ' World's Largest Bell The world's largest bell is In front of the Buddhist temple at Jeaao, India. It weighs 1,700,- uuu pounds. Just Don't Be Surprised, That's All VITAL STATISTICS BIRTHS SCHERER Born of T.lahfnnf hosnltal. Klamath Fll itr November 2. 1942. in Mf anri Mrs. Dan Soberer, Keno, a glrL weignt: B pounds. us out of the valley to the hill, top over yonder. "Either wav. w hnn' in at tain that goal ultimately. With Hoover, we believe we will find tne shortest, surest route." -- -.- ,,..., , , r h PRAISE FOR LEAGUE KLAMATH FALLS. Orn. (Tn the Editor) I want to comment on your editorial in which you stated you folt tho Charter Ro. vision commlttoo rolled too much on tne League of Oregon Cities for advice as they wore sup posedly "experts." The staff of the Lciiguo of Oregon Cities Is composed of men who are verv woll Infnrtu. ed on city affairs In the state of Oregon. They are as closo to being experts as any Individuals Or JZrOUD in iho Xtllto. Thov warn Invited by the Charter commlt too to assist in the formation of a charter. Tlioy are constantly working with charter matters and presented an outline for our local COmmlttfn tn fnllmu ThL outline was changed and revised to meet the approval of our local comm tten nnrt th tr.i mat the Civil Service provision was noi cieariv stntnrt n th nv charter was ax' mnrh nni- r,,..ti as tnelrs. It Is truo tho charter was streamlined, but It was the inient to do away with cumber some and obsnletA nrnuMnn. The Charter Revision commit tee invited local nttnmv hw. ers and anyone else to confer una assist tnem In tho formation nt tins charter. That these pco ile did not do so wm unfurl, . ite, but it seems to bo a good old Klamath custom t,,ua DOt-Shot at a nmv Irion nnUKI.. when that idea docs not come irom tne person doing the shoot The mint T ui,h n however, is that the cooperation given to us by tho staff of the League of Oregon Cities saved us several hundrnrln nl ,i,,iin- as we would have had to hlro tneir services done if theso ser vices had not been available inrough the league. This year through tho efforts of the leatrun. itnvfntfs nn tVi n- insurance of municipally owned properly amounted to 25 per ceni or mat previously paid. This has come thrnnuh tlm nnut two years of work by tho league wun me urcgon Insurance Hut InE Bureau and It h ro.nli.. In a decided saving to our city in me cost of fire Insurance on city property. This year throuuh lenDim ir forts without anv assistant from Commnnitv nritnnlvntlMn. or individuals, the state highway commission improved c,y j . io me extent or $7UUU. This is tile first tlm in Ktntn hln.,, history whpro n rioflnlin i,mr,,,t was set aside to Improve tho conditions of city streets other man mghways. And, incidental ly, it is interesting to nntn fhnt one-third of the state highway revenue comes from gasoline used on cltv streets. Thin mnvv spent in Klamath Falls by the nignway commission saved the city taxpayers that much, and has nut our citv streets In thr best condition they have been for a long time. The "cooper ation" of the state highway com mission was brought about by efforts of the League of Oregon Cities over the past five years. The leaeue staff has nnlnrvi n out Immeasurably in furnishing icgai iniormauon ana giving as sistance to the council and de partments in matters of ritv f. fairs that are constantly arising. iney are the only ones to my knowledge that ore carrying on a fight for tho retirement pro visions for city employes and for tho protection of our em ployes' civil service rights. The loague Is carrying on the fight almost slnglo hnndadly to bring rcllof to tho property tax- pnyers of this city through tho stuto collected rovanuen, a por tion of which Is righteously duo to tho cities to carry on the cost of city government. The year 1942 has shown tho worth of the leaguo In the dollars saved to Klnmnth Falls, as outlined. So you can cull tho stuff of the League of Oregon Cities "ox perls," but I firmly feel they aro experts In the truo sense1 of tho word, and as such are doing a bnng-up Job for the proporty mx payors of tho city of Klnnv uth Fulls. JOHN H. HOUSTON. Vice Prestdont Leaguo of Oregon Cities, i Huntinq Part v. Snowbound Since Friday, Come Homo WENATCHEE Nnu n m Nine persons, members of hunt ing parties snowbound In tho Shndy Pass district since last Frl duy, were on the way home to day, following the clearing uwuy of Uio snow burrlur by highway deportment bulldozers. Included in one of tho parties were D. E. Harper, deputy prose cutor of Clallum county; Reuben ldo, Port Angeles chief of police and two Scuttle hunting purtlos, one of which comprised a man, woman and two boys. Ail wore well but "we're mighty glad to get out," as one of those rescued put It, TD TULELAKE Military suards at Newell will liovo cooklns this winter If local orKunUntions can keep up with appetites of tile moro thnn 100 young soldiers In camp. Hundreds of tlozons o confuctionx will find a way Into enmp under tho program plan, tied by a number of service and social groups In the south end. Sugar Is furnlahad by the gov ernment and other commodities by tho orgnnlzntion or Individ uals, und members buke and de liver tho sweets. Tho November quota, and that means all that the members can make, Is being filled by tho Morrill Library club. Tho first butch of more than 80 dozen went to camp this urnnlr Oltini nrnnnlyntlnnB tiflll fill in, in coming months. Larsen Elected Director of Modoc Farm Center TULELAKE Albert Larsen has been elected director of the Modoc Fnrm center, succeeding Howard Dayton. Mrs. A, E. Ryckman will continue as io retury and treasurer. W. G. Hagolstoln, Dorrls, guest speaker ut this waak't meeting of the center, gave a comprehensive outline of what farmers may expect In tho dis tribution of manpower for the remainder of the war, and sug gested a closer unity among farmers. D 3. Jo .1 DELUXE BEER 1 ' , ' V ':''' j distinctive in character. A mssterolece of the ferewtw ' art. A sturdily brewed, premium beer of exceptions! ' purity and goodness. 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