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tlBMHKR AUDIT BURKAD OP CIRCULATION
Too Many Stop Signs
IN these days when every motorist needs every drop of
gasoline in his tank for moving, the presence of an
excessive number of stop signs at local intersections be
comes more of an annoyance and nuisance than ever.
Furthermore, the safety value of these signs is sharply
reduced by the slowing down and volume reduction of
traffic.
A few years ago, local traffic planners went on a
stoppage binge. In some districts, particularly in the flats
around the postoffice, they solved the problem of where
to put stop signs by putting them at every intersection.
When an accident occurred at a corner, someone would
opine that if there had been a stop sign at that place,
there would have been no accident, and likely as not a
ptop sign would be erected.
One night, we remember, a city councilman, on his
way to the council meeting, almost collided with an
pther car at a certain corner. As soon as he got to the
council meeting, he wanted a sign authorized that would
have stopped the other motorist involved in the near
accident. If the other motorist had also been a council
man, no doubt signs would have been ordered to stop
traffic coming from both ways.
The stop sign has its value, of course, but it can be
overdone. In the days when fast driving was common
practice, and blood flowed at many intersections, the
stop sign was a needed deterrent. But now, with cars
moving more slowly, and every ounce of precious gaso
line needed for propelling rather than idling, it is time
for a re-study of the stop signs on Klamath streets and
time for elimination of some of them.
Legal Test Impends .
THE grand jury's action in indicting-County Clerk Mae
rK. Short for' accepting certain amounts in payment
for overtime work and for keeping records for the dog
commission presumably will result in a legal test of a
practice which, according to Mrs. Short, is fairly com
mon in Oregon.
This, it seems to us, Is a case involving chiefly. an
issue of law rather than facts. There was no attempt
to cover up the claims for payment of overtime work,
and Mrs. Short discussed the claims in a statement to
the press earlier in the week after the state auditors
made their report. She said at the time that the question
of overtime pay was recently discussed at a county clerks'
'meeting and a number of other clerks said they had
made claims for such payments and felt they were within
the law in doing so.
In the audit for the first half of 1942, made by the
secretary of state's office, attention is called to the over
time payment of 545 to the clerk, along with a notation
on the law which provides the clerk's salary shall be
.52400 a year. The auditors' inference, at least, was that
the law does not provide for payment other than the ?2400.
The major question, then, is whether the law does
permit such payments as were made to the clerk. This
question, presumably, will first come up for a test if and
.when the defendant moves against the indictments. At
that time the court will probably determine if the facts
as stated in the indictment constitute violation of the law.
If the indictments withstand this attack, and the case
goes to a jury, jurors must determine the facts. The prin
cipal question of fact, it seems, will be whether the work
for which payment was made constituted official acts
for which the clerk is paid her regular $2400 annual
salary. ;
In case of a conviction and an appeal to the supreme
court there would be a final determination of the legal
questions involved.
The case is in the courts and the proper public in
terest is directed upon the legal aspects involved, rather
than upon personalities or upon the reported strained
relations between the offices of the county clerk and the
circuit judge.
Medical Services
By GEO. A. MYERS
Chief, Emergency Medical Services
, . In modern warfare new tactics and new type weapons are
being employed in ever increasing tempo. Offensive strategy
and offensive weapons used effectively a year ago have in many
cases been discarded because defensive means have been de
vised which make them less effective now. A never ceasing race
is in progress between the offensive and the defensive.
In as much as offensive attacks are made in this war upon
civilian populations it is essential that civilians keep abreast in
defensive tactics.
Emergency Medical Services, that branch of Civilian De
fense which has assumed the responsibility of caring for casual
ties must keep posted as to proper treatment of the injured. This
will require constant study and practice. The antidotes and treat
ment of poison gasses, the remedies and care of burns, of shock,
of breaks and abraisions all these and more are charged to the
responsibility of the Emergency Medical Services Unit. In the
field this unit is composed of first aid teams and ambulance
crews.
If possible a doctor should be at the scene of an incident
to direct operations. He should determine the priority and dis
posal of. cases Involved. Those seriously injured he will send by
ambulance to hospitals staffed by doctors and trained nurses.
Gas contaminated clothing and gased areas are the prob
lem of Decontamination Squads. These squads require special
training and equipment to deal effectively with deadly gasses.
A well organized and well trained Civilian Defense, na
tional in scope, and with a single united purpose will be our best
insurance second to our armed forces against enemy invasion.
Not only will civilian morale be increased by confidence in abil
ity to withstand attack, but our army and navy will be infinitely
relieved in the knowledge that we are prepared and able to care
for ourselves. Relieved of the responsibility of guarding a civil
ian population they will be free to strike with greater force at
the enemy.
The armies of France and Norway were of no avail because
of lack of civilian unity and preparedness. Britain was saved
after her army was all but vanquished at Dunkirk, only because
of her air force and her well trained civilian defense organiza
tion. . With these recent examples before us, let us follow the ob
vious course.
B
Dy- PaulMallon
EHINMa
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 Gov
ernment, government, gov
ernment! Manpower, manpower,
manpower! .
Remember when the manpow
er shortage of the Montana cop
per mines was in the news a few
weeks back, day after day? Well,
the government decided to take
hold and cure it immediately,
because copper is more valuable
to the war effort than gold or
silver.
The war production board is-
sued 8 b'8 ordcr
jSlSWl'S nnrl it ni-int.
sa service ooara iu
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Paul Mallon
withdraw cop
per miners from
the army and
3 put them back
at work. Mr.
McNutt's man
power commis
sion selected the miners, and the
army hauled them back to Mon
tana. When they arrived, there were
found to be 50 large negroes who
had never seen a copper mine
before, at least not the type
around Butte where they were
to work.
Shaft mining Is pursued there,
the shafts running down to 3000
feet under the earth, where the
heat makes the work more diffi
cult than any other type of min
ing. Some say the negroes were
coal miners, but apparently most
of them had worked in some
type of surface or strip metal
mining.
The manpower commission
had merely run through their
draft cards which classified them
only as "metal miners" and as
sumed they could do the copper
job. The commission might as
well have sent beauticians.
The local Butte Mine, Mill and
Smelters union, whose men
think something of their own
lives, refused to work with the
unskilled ex - troopers, where
upon some of the liberals in New
York began shouting in their
press:
"Racial discrimination.'
The 50 negro soldiers sat
down to see what next. Mean
while, the copper mine manpow
er problem remains.
MEAT HEADACHE
Government, eh? The agri
culture commissioner of Virginia
told a congressional commmittee
that in this current meat short
age, which is pinching the peo
ple both in the pocketbook and
appetite, the federal govern
ment has limited abattoir pro
duction. The Richmond abattoir, for in
stance, is limited to 70 per cent.
Deliveries to wholesalers are re
stricted that much.
But that abattoir, just as most
others around the country, is
owned by a few stock raisers,
and they can slaughter their
own first. When the small farm
er comes in with his hogs or cat
tle, they say:
"Sorry, our quota is filled.
Take your stock back home."
The condition is national in
scope. Yet the butcher cannot
get meats.
PACKERS CLOSED DOWW
Manpower, eh? The same
source told a congressional com
mittee two of the three big pack
ing companies furnishing Smith
fields to the country have been
forced to close down and throw
their men out of work in the
middle of the meat shortage.
Their specially fed hogs are
ready for smoking, and ham is
scarce, but the government put
a quota on Smithfield produc
tion, which will not permit them
to operate and make money.
This grade is too high-priced
for lend-lease sale to Britain
so the government, for no parti
cular reason, has Just let them go
out of business, although Ameri
can consumers, with more mon
ey now, could pay for this high
priced ham, and, if the govern
ment let them do this, it would
help cure the meat shortage and
stop inflation.
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THINK IT OVER
Defense Transporter Eastman
has issued an order (says the
agriculture director of Ohio) say
ing children within two miles of
school must alk, and so must
those who live more than li
miles off the bus lines. The or
der, of course, will have differ
ent results in Florida than in
the zero winter weather of Ohio.
More fian 300,000 farm school
children are effected, although
this will save only t!iree miles of
rubber per bus per day.
Like Mr. Henderson, who says
the public may not get 65 de
grees of temperature this winter
ACHING STIFFSORE
MUSCLES
For Quick
Belief-
H
ettar Trtaa OW-F.
com. iai"av na sivtcr. iwcTt. m. wtq q & i-AT.'o,r.
"Dear! Mrs. Smith is on the phone; she wants to bor
row your blow torch, a hummer and chisel l"
even if there Is pneumonia, Mr.
Eastman says the kids should re
turn to pioneer days,vhen every
one walked to school.
Managed economy, eh? Today
there are many people, thinking
themselves liberals, who still
want the government to continue
a managed economy after the
war, or institute a state capital
ism or socialism, which will al
low the government to manage
all business and lives as it is
doing now.
DIPLOMAT WANTED
For the reasons cited above,
and n any thousands more that
have not been published yet, the
temper of Washington is favor
able to the appointment . of a
man, even of the type -of Mr.
Ickes, as a labor-manpower-draft
czar.
' That particular situation is so
susceptible to pain that what Mr.
Roosevelt needs, of course, is an
other diplomat like Jimmy
Byrnes. Here is a job which
surely requires a judicial nature
to maintain balance between CIO
and AFL, between army and civ
ilian drafts, between labor and
the war effort of the govern
ment. - But the choice of a politician
like Mr. Ickes, on its face, pre
sumes i' at an administration fa
vorable to union labor more than
to the interests of the army,
civilian or government, will be
offered. Here is a china shop
which would seem to require
anything but a bull like Ickes.
But Washington, as I say, has
reached the point where "prac
tically anyone will do."
Telling
The Editor
Lattart printed hare mtait -not nt mora
than (00 words In length, mult be writ,
ten legibly on ONE SIDE of the paper
only, and mutt be Binned. Contribution
following theea rulae, are warmly wal-
OPPOSES WITHOLDING TAX
MALIN, Ore. (To the Editor)
I have read your paper for many
years and while I may not always
have agreed with your views, I
have always admired your sane
feet-on-the-ground policy. In
view of these facts I can not
understand our indorsement of
the policy advocated by Archie
Rice. Namely to make the em
ployer responsible for the pay
ment of taxes for his employees.
I believe that most of us have
voted for measures which we
failed to study from all angles,
or, signed a petition because
someone requested us to do so,
or endorsed some measure with
out proper consideration. I be
lieve you are guilty of something
like that in this instance.
Our government, either rightly
or wrongly, has prohibited chil
dren, insane persons, morons and
Indians from handling their own
funds. Do you mean to go on
record indorsing a measure
placing a working man in this
class simply because he works
for wages? If so, why? Is he
more dishonest than the mer
chant, the Industrialist, or the
farmer? Or would you say he
is a moron? I am sure that you
do not mean to imply any of
these things . But after all, is
that not what It amounts to?
This measure is probably ad
vocated as a simple means to
collect taxes. Maybe. But Is it
the best way? Or even a good
way? If it is a good way, why
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not collect taxes from everyone
in the samo manner. For in
stance when you sell your papers
to the dealer, have him hold
out a percentage to pay YOUR
taxes. When the farmer sells his
spuds have the buyer hold out
on him and so on. Just how
we would collect from the buy
ers I do not know, but if we
had enough bureaus in Wash
ington it could be worked out.
Has any one sponsoring this
measure figured just how many
extra government employees it
would take to keep the accounts,
etc., of thirty million wags earn
ers? Our government has at the
present time about twice the
number of employees as It had
at the peak of our last war, with
about the same number of sold
iers drafted. Is it not time we
called a halt to some of this, and
find some other way to do things?
The war will be over some time,
but taxes will still have to be
collected. A method 9et up at
this time wil be hard to change.
Especially if a bureau is created
to administer it.
We worried about the soft and
inetf icient ' generation we were
raising. Does any one doubt
that our boys in the Army have
not made good? We made men
out of them by giving them
responsibility. Let's let the
working man worry about his
own taxes. He is already a man
and a damn good one.
Here is another point: All of
the labor in the United States
is not employed by Henry Kaiser
or Henry Ford, who maintain a
large staff of bookkeepers. After
things reach their normal chan
nels again a large percentage of
them will again be employed by
John Farmer, James Carpenter,
William Painter, Charles Plumb
er, and a host of others who do
not hire a large crew and do
not maintain ' an office force.
Instead they work shoulder to
shoulder with their employees
and spend their evenings keeping
books and making out reports to
the various government bureaus.
Is it fair to add another burden
to them?
It is about time that we looked
ahead to see where we are go
ing. It may not be best to al
ways choose the easiest road. It
has been my privilege to live in
a country where a boy could go
to work as a newsboy and be
come the managing editor of the
newspaper. I hope we can keep
this kind of a country. I hope
that is what our boys are fight
ing for. Not a country organized
like an ant hill, with a special
class for soldiers with their spe
cial privileges and restrictions,
another for laborers, another for
employers, etc., with a paternal
government presiding over all.
Let us stop this class legislation
NOW. Let us continue to pass
legislation that applies equally
to all persons.
Yours truly,
CLYDE VAN METER
Malin, Oregon.
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From Th Klamath Republican
Decembtr 2, 1902
Is Is suggested Unit an auto
moblla line be started from
Fort Klamath to Crater lake.
With a railroad toon to reach
Klamath Falls, and steamers on
the upper lake, good connec
tions could be made.
F. S. Grochs has bean quite
sick at his ranch in Langell
valley but is now reported much
better. He left here yesterday,
via Ager, for Auburn, Calif.
Eight people will arrive on
Mr. Mnrplo's stage to innkc
proof on timber claims.
From Th Evening Horald
Docmber 3, 1932
Willis Mahonny, contested
mayor-cloct, said in Seattle to
day that if the ouster move
ment against him succeeds, he
will urge an election to recall
the present mayor and make
him mayor, anyhow.
A huge crowd was downtown
last night for Christmas open
ing. Total valuation of Klamath
county property, for assessment
purposes, is 336,839,023.08.
WINTER FOLLY
DENVER, UP) Walking past a
shop, woi in saw three girls
reaching for the celling.
She summoned Patrolman
Dominic Crow, who dashed in,
gun in hand.
The clerks explained that they
hadn't been robbed they were
just cold and testing wall ventilators.
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