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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON January 80, 1948 Uimbtr Tm Auocutid Paua Tin Auoclti) Tmt l ticl irlr nllllfd to th III of r siiMlotloii ot all tm dlipitdia rrHlud t It or not otfitrwlit fridlUd hi thll pip. mJ ! thg laeil nm publlihed thereto. 411 rllhti of npubllcmtlog of tptdtl dlipitcriM r ! r. itrred. FRANK JENKINS Today's Roundup Advertising Roundup Br MALCOLM EPLEY AYBE when an OPA district office Is open ed in Klamath Falls, folk hereabouts may v ahle to cet closer to the M OPA with some of the realities of life. Such stories as this one are commonplace. An OPA official was told that regulations had become so oppressive that milk producers everywhere are selling their VJtVfel producing business. (A situa tion that is painfully true.) The EPLEY official's answer was: " "Well, we'll show them. We'll simply go to using canned milk." Another story vouched for hereabouts is that government official was looking over livestock figures, and remarked: "I can understand most of these figures, but what are these ee-wees they've got listed here?" True or not, these stories reflect growing public distrust of the government's ability to regulate realistically and sensibly the workings of the nation's economy as a wartime measure. Little progress has been made, for instance, In the attempt to make government officialdom realize that so long as there is no freeze on the factors that make up the cost of producing milk, a ceiling on the price of milk is likely to work a hardship that will simply force pro ducers out of the business to save themselves from bankruptcy. . . Milk is not the only item on which such a condition applies, but it is mentioned as a note worthy example for at this time an OPA milk order is creating concern throughout Oregon. Letters and protests sent from here concerning the local situation, which grows steadily more serious, have brought no hopeful response from OPA officials. Question on Folkes A QUESTION which no doubt has occurred to r many people,' since the filing of train murder charges against Robert A. Folkes, is why Folkes was not held when the death train was stopped at Klamath Falls a week ago for . investigation. So far as local officers are concerned, we do - not feel there is blame for permitting Folkes' to go south.- They received the case under condi- . ' -lions of great confusion, and they had to work tfaJttsVtlflie witha trainload of passengers wait-, ing to move on. There was no time for a com . 'parison of the various statements taken and for discovery' of some of the discrepancies that later pointed suspicion toward Folkes. The story of a local woman that she had been ac costed and threatened by a dining car cook a fortnight previous did not develop until the next day. . There were, however, officers on the train ' when it arrived here. They had been working -on the case all day, and if Folkes was a likely suspect.they should , have known it when the train came here, leading to. a more thorough investigation of him and his story at that time. Fortunately, the investigation did not end here. Folkes was an employe of the railroad, and it was therefore easy to keep him under surveillance. His name and address were known,, whereas had he been a passenger on. the train he could more easily have disappeared, when the passengers scattered. It proved a simple matter to investigate further and nail him at . Los Angeles. ' Incidentally, the story of the local woman, who claims she was threatened with a butcher knife by the dining car cook who accosted-, her, should be checked further. Local officials say they have been informed Folkes was not on the train the night this woman's experience occurred. Whether he was or was not appears ' to be a question: of vital importance, and we understand railroad investigators are looking into it thoroughly, as they should. Dark Spot , ONE of the darkest places in town is the area immediately in front of the steps leading to the, high school grounds. This has 'no doubt been discovered by others who go to night events at the high school, such as basketball games. . . Right now, the conditions at' this place are worse -than usual, for the area is covered with' mushy slush or ice that makes walking most precarious. There is a' floodlight on the high school . building directed generally toward the area in front of the building, but it doesn't help much down by the steps.' In fact, it has a tendency to blind the person walking up the steps. There are two large ornamental light posts at these steps. , They are dark. Why not hook them up, and clear the slush from that area, for the benefit of people who want to go to basketball games and give the home- town athletes support? . In fact," it is a corner that ought to have good illumination every night. Random Talk Not on loyalty: Whenever we go to a placei like a basketball game; where there is a need for a show of home town loyally, we see a lot. of the' same people, time after time. You can count, on people like that. Note on loyalty: Whenever we go to a,place, lives on a hill, (ah, how well we know him!) and is still trying to operate his car without chains. . " -. Note on optimism: While strolling on Main street, we observed a fine display o seeds in a grocery entrance. A temporary otablnatioa of the IS renin c Rrrald tn1 the KUmnth News. FublUrttd vprr eftfntoon except Sunday tfc Esplanade and Tint itmli, Klamath Fall a, Orefoo, by th Herald Publishing Co. and the KltmaUi Kw Publishing Company Knttrtd-ts second class matter at tha postoffloe of Klamath Falls, Ore., on August to, toot under act ot congress, March , 1S78, Br OMETHIrlG ' formance was purchased by Kestcrson Lumber Corporation for a statement to problems and plans of opera tion. . Why should a company use a newspaper of general circu lation to give a message to its own employees? I can't speak for Kesterson, but I can hope that Here at last is a company in the country Reputation A ii X man's reputation on it! The reader, value ot the ad. We always that brings out price of the stakea your When you The paper less of what concern. But amtr of Audit Bdmatt Or CncuLATiov Represented yatloneUy by WtlT-HoLUBAY CO. lifC Fan Francisco, w Tork, Se attle, Chicago. Fortland, Lot Angtlta. MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor DELBERT ADDISON new has been added to the per- of advertising. Newspaper space its employees on p that has broken the tradition . ADDISON of management working behind closed doors. Here at last is a company that has realized that the wives and kids of its men have as much right to know what goes on as the men themselves. Here is a company that realizes that the men's neighbors, and the neighbors' neighbors that make up the country, ought to know what goes on. They should know, because in the long pull it's what they think that decides how the country is to be run, and how every business is to be run. at Stake statement oi policy, bought and f paid for and published over his own name, has to be good, its truth and sincerity must be beyond challenge because he has staked his knows that, and there lies the have the man (and he's the guy the beast in a newspaperman; we always have the man of prominence who would ' like a statement .made to the public. But he wants the newspaper to make it! -' He wants the newspaper , to make it the space being no object of course, but he wants the newspaper to make it as a matter of duty and interest to its readers. And then, .when the newspaper does make the' statement and he gets tripped up on bis facts he's been misquoted! .. '.' Speak for Yourself, John --rtERE'S. more to it, .of course, than having I what you say believed because your state ment is a matter of public record tnat you've reputation on.;-, t v , 4 - buy advertising "space in a news paper it's yours to deal with as you see fit. The blank space itself isn't wortn a nickel. But you can tell your story, in your words, and with detail and emphasis of your own choosing. If you tell a straightforward, truthful story you get your money's -worth.! If you try to fool somebody, it still isn't worth a nickel. If you leave your story for the newspaper to tell,' the paper will, tell it from the public's standpoint. And the paper will boil it down to its relationship .with other news of the day, coming from Eisenhower and MacArthur and from Mrs. Jones' tea. party. will tell it in its own way regard you do, if.it is a matter of public that still doesn't tell it in your way as a matter of your concern.' And you still haven't stood on your ' hind legs and said, "Boys, this' is the way it is." . A guy named Standish hired the first Ameri can press agent. He got, for his pains, "Speak for yourself, John." ,' ' Move to Throttle Ads : ' A NICE compliment to advertising comes, left handed, from the legislature at Salem. Optometrists, cosmeticians, dentists, all have sponsored bills to throttle advertising. They seek to stop the advertising of prices, superior methods, free examinations, student work, credit terms and the like. They don't say that lower prices, superior methods or free examinations are detrimental to the public welfare. They don't say that the advertising must be truthful in every respect! They do say, in effect, that if you can't ad vertise it nobody will know about it, so you won't be any better off than the rest. All of it, no matter how well, intended, amounts purely and simply to restraint of trade. Keep competition downand the prices up! ' L .- - - All this monkey-business, along with our own city ordinance, should be thrown out lock, stock and barrel. .' Yes, we have an ordinance that barbers can't advertise prices. It doesn't amount to much, except that the poor heathen who regards the tonsorial ritual only in the light of getting his three remaining hairs shortened up has to ferret out a 35c clippery by hand. These Hit the Spot PICKING more ad phrases that hit the spot most all concern the war. Why not? It's the most important thing before us. Our best efforts go into it. "More than all the others together, there Is for you one soldier who MUST come back" U. S. Army WAAC ad.. "Those pictures hang on our wall.' Looking up at them daily, this resolution has taken shape in our minds and hearts." Fluhrer's on its men in the service. , . , . "Spot them, spike them, and report them right now." Blitz-Weinhard on rumors. , "A half filled album is like a half equipped soldier only 80 effective." both First Na tional and Safoway on war bonds. . "Dance that these may walk." Birthday Ball committee. ..'. . SIDE GLANCES cent ih wr Rtn irvrr ok. t. m. tra. P. a. i "Don't worry nbout me falling for any of those South i- Sea dames except maybe in a big brotherly way I" . About Thtit EARNED INCOME DEDUCT IBLE EXPENSE In arriving at the amount of earned income shown on Item I of the return Form 1040 (Sal aries and other compensation for personal services), ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in this connection may be- de ducted. A distinction must be made, however, between ex pense attributable to one's em ployment, and personal expense, which may not be deducted. A few examples will illustrate. Expenses of travel in connec tion with one's employment, or business, are ' deductible, and such expense ordinarily inoludes transportation, meals and lodg ing, but it does not Include the cost of laundry, clothes pressing and other expenses of a nature such as would be incurred in any case, i Travel expense deductions, to be allowable, must be support ed when required by ihe com missioner by a statement show ing (1) the nature of business, (2) numBer of days, away from home, () amount of -expenses incident to meals and lodging, (4) amount of other expenses claimed as a deduction. The amount of any reimburse ment of expense, or of an ex pense allowance, must be Includ ed in the return as part of com pensation. Expenses of a salesman In en tertaining customers for the pur pose of securing business, in cluding taxicabs, theatre tickets and dinners, telephone and tele graph messages, and the like, are deductible, but ' such ex penses incurred by an officer or employee of a corporation whose contract of employment does not specifically require him to make such expenditures are not. deductible. Any reimburse ment of such expense must, of course, be included in Income. Expense of getting to and 0AC: O. B. Tntmar tttL WS8 722B l-io Income Tax from work, such as. commuter's lares and bus and street car fares, are considered as personal expenses, and are not deduct ible., : : ! A person on a roving com mission and maintaining no per manent home is not entitled to expenses for meals and lodging while traveling. - In case of shared travel, as in a car or hotel room, the ex penses Incurred 'must be pro rated and only those applicable to the taxpayer are deductible. The amounts spent In seeking a job, as well as the cost of traveling to the place where a new job is to be taken up, are personal expenses and are not deductible. Membership fees in a labor union, or in an organization which renders a protective ser vice to its members, are allow able deductions. Cost of uniforms and equip ment are deductible expense to the extent (1) that such are spe cifically required, and (2) that they do not take the place ot ordinary "clothih in civil life. Uniforms of nurses, railway trainmen, barbers and surgeons are held to ' take the place of ordinary clothing, and the cost ot such is accordingly not de ductible. Cost of military and naval uniforms, ' such as gold lace and gilt buttons, is not de ductible, but the cost of certain items, such as . corps devices, campaign bars, and the like, which are especially required by the profession, is deductible. The uniforms of baseball play ers and other professional ath letes are not considered cloth ing adapted to general wear, and the cost of such is deduct ible. The same, also applies to the cost of helmets, rubber coats and rubber boots required to be purchased and worn by city firemen, and the cost of rubber coats and. rubber boot COMMANDOUGH! wt. Off. . 4ieyigpswseasswTrissMajiCT m - '- "V Ten Years Ago, Hitler Started Rise to Power; ' Babb Sees Long Struggle By QLENN BABB Ten years ago tonight the brownshirtcd columns surged in triumph through the streets of Berlin, the thunder ot their boots marking the cadence for their hymns of war. Adolf Hitler had just been called to bo the chancellor ot the reich and the fuohrer of the German people. The world watched with a premonition of sinister evonts but its worst fears fell short ot the terrlblo visitations tlio nazl decade has brought. It seoms longer than 10 years; it is hard to recall the relatively unwor- nod spirit of the times when mankind was not living under Hitler's shadow. That night In 1033, as he watched his followers march, he revelled in the first of sorles of triumphs without match for their baleful meaning for the world. In the shadows was the aged Hindenburg, the com mander who had lost the last war and, though he did not know it, was handing Gorman leadership on to another who meant to challenge the . world again. Napoleonic Pattern Histories of our times doubt less will ring two dates In red the color of blood January 30, 1933, and September 18, 1031. The latter, which not many will recognize readily, was the day Japan fell upon Manchuria and launched the Asiatic phase of the axis adventure In brigand age. On those- dates two hitter, venomous streams of revolt against the civilization of the Atlantic nations, by the stand ards - of that civilization su premely evil, rose to the surface ot world events. Within a decade they ware to be fused Three Per Cent Sales Tax Bill Introduced in House SALEM, Jan. 30 (ffiA three per cent sales tax bill, , which would affect virtually all retail products except foodstuffs, was introduced in the house today by Reps. A. W. Meyers of MIU waukie and E. Riddell Lage, Hood River. However, the bill wasn't given much chance, as house tax ex perts believe it would be impos sible to overcome the bitter op position of farm and labor groups., i ; -.: r:-. .' The bill Is part of a program by Sen. Coe A. McKenna, Port land, who also wants to remove taxes on unearned income, place a 40-mlll limitation on property taxes, and reduce income inher MOST ACTIVE VOLCANO The most active volcano In Europe, Stromboll, rises more than 3000 feet above the Medl terranean sea and Is eight miles in circumference at its base. ARISTOTLE ON MATRIMONY Aristotle, the Greek philoso pher,' believed that women should marry at 18 to 20 years of age, but that a man should wait until he had reached 27. required to be purchased and worn by city policemen. Courtesy Los Angeles Examinee, ZJfR and to draw the United States into the greatest wur of all. There has boon no human career quite as motoorlo as Hit lor's. The inevitable parallel is Napoleon's. But the resplend ent Bonaparte rocket took 20 years for its flight. Muny will say that the Hltlorluu counter part, with only 10 years murkod off, Is near the final blackout. Spirit Milling Hitler has proclaimed that he was building his third relch to last a Ihousund years. It hus survivod ono ono-hundrodlh of that spun and unless our own civilization is to ba destroyed its end should come before tho second docudo is far gone, It Is Interesting to spoculuta Just where history will say that Hit lor reachod his pinnacle. Per haps that June day In 1040 when he stood in the gullery of the Invaliries In Paris und look ed down, half In admlrution and. halt in pity, on the tomb of Napoleon, that other curtlv shaker who conquered a con tinent but could not hold It. That 1033 spirit of victory, hope, fiery umbltion is missing in Berlin today. The atmosphere is somber, the summons is to heroic effort, blind obedience to avert cotiis tropho. This does not mean that collapse Is at hand! more likely It forebodes a terrible, grim resistance that will add new chapters to the world's agony before it Is over. But that rasping nolso Is something moro than tha broudcust voices of Goebbcls and Goerlng. It Is Hitler scraping the bottom of the barrel to muster the last rosources of a continent that had the (regie fato to fall undor his mastery. itance and gift taxes. The sales tax bill would not require the use of tokens. Rev enue, estimated at more than $20,000,000 a year, would bo dl vldod as follows: 30 per cent to public assistance, 80 per cent to reduce property taxes, 10 per cent for a post-war rehabilitation fund, and 10 per cent to reduce school property taxes. Members of the house taxation and revenue committee are not keen about a sales tax, feeling that even if the ltglslature passed it, farm and labor groups would get It referred to the peo ple in November, 1044. The peo ple have overwhelmingly killed sales tax proposals several times. CROSS-EXAM SET PORTLAND, Jan. 30 (P) The Kaiser shipyard labor hear ing scheduled cross-examination today of an Oregon Shipbuild ing corporation worker who said he failed to get a job until he joined an American Federation of Labor union. Clomons John Scheve tostified at the national labor relations board hearing late yesterday that he applied tor work in March or April, 1041, when reg istered by a Congress of Indus trial Organizations union, and was advised by Kaiser officials that he would have to get his job through the AFL. Oregon Shipbuilding signed a closed shop agreement with the AFL May 12 of that year, and the CIO claims this contract and similar agreements between two other Kaiser yards in this area and the AFL are illegal. N. H. Messinger Killed as Car Struck by Train 1 GRANTS PASS, Jan. 30 (P) Nathan H. Messinger,' 88, of near Gold Hill was killed in stantly Friday night about 8:30 when his car was struck by the Portland-bound Southern Pacific train at Zatcher Crossing, about three miles north of GoldiHIll Messinger, an employee of the Beaver Portland Cement plant at Gold Hill, was en route home at the time, ' Messinger, traveling parallel to the tracks on the old Pacific highway, turned right Into the train's path. A cardboard which replaced the broken right front window, apparently obscured his view. U, 8. MONEY FACES Washington, Jefferson, Lin coln, Grant, Franklin, McKinloy, Cleveland, Madison and Samuol P. Chase are pictured on US cur rency ranging from the $1 to the $10,000 bill. SEA SLANTS EASTWARD Sea level is two feet lower on the American side of tho equa torial Pacific ocean than it it on the Australasian side. REPEAL ASKED SURPLUS SCHOOL TAX By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. - SALEM, Jan. 30 (iP) Twelve senators and four representa tives Introduced two bills In the house today to eliminate state income taxes on Incomes earned in 1043 and 1044, and to repeal tho law, passed by tha votors lust November, to give school districts surplus Inoome tax revenues, Sponsors of the bills said the stato could get along for the next two yours on current income tax surpluses', .siut that the people were misled when they passed the school bill. Bponsots Those who Introduced the bill are Sons. W. H. Strayer of Bak er, P. J, Stndolman of The Dalles, Rox Ellis ot Pendleton, J. A. Best of Pendleton, J. N. Jones, Burns, L. W. Wlpperman of Grants Pass, William Wlsh)"t of Mnrshtield, H. R. Kauffman .t or Toledo, W. E. Burke oi Bher- ;' wood, John Cnrson oj ' !,'( i Fredorlck S. Lamport of SeUwn; unci Joel C, Booth of Lebanon; and Reps. Phil Brady of Porte, land, Cnrl Engdahl of Pendleton, W. W. Chudwlck of Salem and Vernon bull of La Grande. After today no more bills nuiy ba introduced In the house without approval of the legisla tion and rules committee. There have been 277 bills Introduced in the house, including 33 which were put In today to beat the (leadline. The senate has no sim ilar rule. Bills Introduced In tha house today would allow the state board of health to supervise pri vate mental Institutions, give home-owners a 28 per cent prop erty tax renuciton if they pay on time, exempt rural electric cooperatives from taxation, and prevent the sale or giving away of any alcoholic beverages on Sundays, holidays, or when election polls are open. SALEM, Jan. 30 VP) The Oregon Pension Federation's bill to set up a state retirement aid system for persons over 88 years old wos Introduced in the house today. Tho benefits would go to any applicant of the required age, end the system would be fi nanced by a $1 monthly tax on all persons of voting age, and by a snare of income tax collec tions. Legion, Auxiliary Members to Attend Dieter Ceremony A number of members of the American Legion and auxiliary will go to Tulelake Monday eve ning for the ceremonies of hon oring Corporal William Dieter. ' missing since the American raid on the Jap Mainland. A Legion representative ssld Saturday that anyone wishing to make the trip should be at the Legion hall not later than 7 p. m in order to obtain a ride in one of the Legion cars, We have as much right to bomb Rome as the Italians had to bomb London. We shall not hesitate to do so to the but nl our ability, and as heavily as possmie ir the course of the war should rendor such bombing convenient and helnful Brltl.h Foreign Secretary Anthony cacn. FijrisSBsl A Treasury In Every Home Did you ever stop fo think about thlsr Because War Bonds and Stumps are being bought b y erery patriotic American, each home has be come what you might call a temporary branch of tha Treasury department. In your activities, conserving, saving to buy War Bonds, you srs actually carrying on th bull- nets of the Government. Family ineomt prolfcthn makei etrlAln and fitrmantnt provltlon for Ihi iteurlty of pour horn and your lovid ohm. Arrangt it through tfout Jf. JlouiioH ' WSWUMSNTWO TRW EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY 1" N. 7lh PhsM UK I I
