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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON March 1, 104?) iltmltr af Th Ahocutu Puu Tht iixitliUd frwi U idn llratf ntltlrt to th u of ra. publication of all nw dunilclin credited to H or not olhrla rrtdltcrf In thli rnpr, and alw tht lira) nawa pilbllRhrd therein. All rlhl ol iaunllcitlnn tit ipeclil dlipatch ara alio ra. nrd. FRANK JENKINS Editor A tmiwri7 combination af tht Ivfnfnf rM n1 Ui Klamath New. PuhlUhM tvery Afuntpon fcnl Puqrlay at Kftplantd t.nrl Pint itrteU. Klamath Fall. Oruo, by the Herald PiM Uhlns i'o- nd tb KUmith New Publishing Company Fnttrwt aoond class nattrr it tha potffioa ct KUmath Falla, Or., oa Auiuat 10, 1PM undat Act ol congraaa, March t, UTfc Mimbtr of Audit BniAD Or Cucclatiov RprMtntd Nationally by ' WhHoludat Co., Inc. Han Franrliro. N York, 8 atllf, Uhtcapi. Portland, Loa Angtlrs. MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor Today's Roundup News Behind the News i 11 EPLEY By MALCOLM EPLEY ALL indications point to the biggest home gardening program in the history of this community this year, and that brings up the ! .. rj question of dogs. f?'r ; to gardens, and irate gardeners si Can do a lot of damage to dogs.. Hence, some sensible $ form of dog control is going f to be necessary this year for the safety of pets as well as growing plants. It seems likely that the city ordinance requiring that dogs be kept tied up in the grow ing season should be extended to cover 60 days instead of 30 days. If 80 ' day tie-up is justified, it can be agreed upon later. This writer owns two dogs, and he knows how tough it is on pet and master to restrict the normal activities of dogs for any great , length of time. But gardening is of prime im : portanca this year, and there appears no other way to protect gardens from the damage which dogs can do. Already, there is complaint about dog depre- dations. What dogs are doing in Moore park ) was discussed at length by the council Monday ' night 'It is not too soon for the city authorities to ! work out plans for the spring and summer dog control .program. Maiden Speech LOWELL STOCKMAN, the new congressman from this district, made his maiden speech on the floor of the house of representatives the other day. He spoke in favor of an anti-speculation bill designed to help orderly settlement of the lands of the Columbia basin project, which will be watered from Grand Coulee. Washington reports say that Mr. Stockman's talk received the undivided attention of his col leagues. That isn't always accorded the speakers on the floor of the house. Here is Mr. Stockman's personal reaction: "For a country boy like me, it was quite a sensation, especially for the first minute, but after I got my breath I thoroughly enjoyed it." .Incidentally, Congressman Stockman is now working on an enterprise in which Klamath Falls -is particularly interested. While no an nouncement can be made as yet, he may soon produce a pleasant surprise for this community , in connection with a government activity. Sales Tax Talk THERE is talk of a sales tax proposal for Oregon,, to come out of the current session of the legislature. : Such a proposal should take the form of a referendum ordered taken to the people by the legislature. The referendum would undoubtedly be invoked on a sales tax measure by petition if the legislature did not order it. One advantage of a sales tax in this state is that it would extract taxes from war workers who do not own property, who stay only for a short time in the state, but send their chil dren to school and otherwise enjoy tax supported benefits. A sales tax would provide an offset that should bring a considerable reduction in the tax on property, which is exceptionally heavy in Oregon. California and Washington have sales taxes; this form of taxation is so favorably re ceived in those states that it has been permitted to continue over a period of many years. "S "The taot that sales taxes were defeated a '; number of years ago in this state need not deter ijirtolher attempt, The income tax was enacted JRr ,nany: defeats. -v-;f. . " Local Government1 CALIFORNIA'S Governor Warren struck a sound and timely note the other day when he warned that "We should not make an idol of centralized power, but should experience a revival of the importance of local government." Centralization of governmental power has proceeded with alarming speed in recent years. The recent trend began long before the war. Those in places of power in a strongly cen tralized government are going to oppose every attempt to get government back to the state houses and the courthouses of America. The rest of us are going to have to fight to that end, it we are going to save democracy from the evils of excessive bureaucracy. . Governor Warren's warning should be heeded, and more leaders like him should speak up for local government, which must be preserved II self government is going to mean anything more than a nice-sounding term. i mL. fi ii'tss WW MALLON By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, March 1 A common ques tion now is: Where is the German air force? British military experts be lieve Hitler is holding back a large quantity of planes, sev eral thousand, for a final des perate offense. Hitler has done many madf things, but it is inconceivable to any rational American mili tary authority that he would deliberately withhold planes and take current unnecessarily 'brutal beatings in Russia. A few hundred planes might have saved him from the worst of his defeat at the bend of the Don. If Rommel had a few hundred planes, he might be in Alexandria and Cairo today in stead of pocketed 1500 miles away. With a thousand planes, the fuehrer might break up the severity of the American-British bombing attacks on Germany. The logical answer to the question of where is the luftwaffe must be that there isn't any. The only other possible answer is that Hitler has gone mad and is suffering murderous de feats to save something he could never need more than he has in the past six months. Over-Interpreted SIGNIFICANCE of Archbishop Spellman's flight to the Vatican may well have been over-interpreted already. The White House ex planation, or the archbishop's namely that he is on a purely religious mission in connection with the American diocese and his vicarship of American troops would suffice. It has not been made clear, however, that the Vatican has become the logical non-military channel of communication between the warring nations, either for peace or any other negotia tions. Mussolini established this when, a few weeks ago, he appointed his son-in-law. Count Ciano, ambassador to the Holy See. Ciano is not a v.ery strong personality and is only a messenger boy for Mussolini. He has dealt for II Duce with Von Ribbentrop and the axis continually, and knows the subject. His appointment was made in such a way as to suggest that Ciano is now out of favor with Mussolini, but it is just as easy to believe Charlie McCarthy could become out of favor with Bergen. While the president's former special repre sentative, Myron Taylor, has returned from the Vatican, his secretary is acting as charge d'affaires, and the presence of the archbishop would not be necessary to get messages back and forth. It is possible the American Catholic leader carried a message from Mr. Roosevelt warning of expected bombings In Rome or something like that. But any peace suggestion,, except "unconditional surrender," would have to come from the other end. Behind German Lines LATEST statements of both Hitler and Stalin, in their inner import, reveal that the great est battlefront may. be the one we know noth ing about the one behind the German lines. Hitler's whole proclamation to the party meeting at Munich was an effort to arouse all nazi politicians to fanaticism against sabotage. The fact that he stressed no other subject more is most convincing proof that the unreported battle on the nazi home front rages more fiercely day by day. Stalin's red army speech a day earlier seemed to imply that the nazi casualties behind the front are tremendous. Repeatedly compliment ing "men and women guerillas," he said: "The red army, since the beginning of the war, has put out of commission about 9,000,000 German officers and men, of which no less than 4,000,000 were killed on the field of battle." This is hardly subject to the interpretation that 6,000,000 were killed behind the lines as Stalin, no doubt, intended to include prisoners and wounded. But certainly it is true that not half the news of this war is yet in circulation. Skeptics Doubt Reds SKEPTICS here have been inclined to discount Russian claims of casualties and red com muniques by about 60 per cent. But the two most important facts of the current Russian fighting are clear and undeniable. The line of the Russian advance is truly drawn on daily newspaper maps (both sides agree in general about points taken). Also, the Germans are not voluntarily retreatingand the fighting is certainly heavy. They agree on this also. In general, therefore, the situation has been truthfully presented. Any discount can therefore only be logically applied to the casualties, the amount of material destroyed, and extraneous points of Russian enthusiasm. SIDE GLANCES Beatty There was a large attendance at the funeral services for Rich ard Menry. Mr. Henry's death came as a shock to everyone in the community. He was engaged in various farming enterprises, and was popular with Indian and white people alike. The Rev. B. V. Bradshaw officiated at the services. Interment was made in the Mosenkasket cemetery near Beatty, The recent springlike weather has caused the stockmen of the community to hope for real spring. If this is not in the of- ' - ' fing, a serious hay shortage may result. Mac Barbour has been buying and gathering horses. He states that there is a demand for the so-called "chicken horse" and al so for work horses providing they are well broken and gentle. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Walker stayed over in order to attend the funeral of Richard Henry. Walker is a member of the loan board connected with Indian fi nances on the reservation. Many people have been In town thft nnt wa.lr ..nl.irln - - - - " - ' V- . . . Q . II , J for the future supply of canned KUUQB. - Edwin ' Walker, wnll.k nnurn stockman and rancher, was se riously Injured when his horse fell, throwing young Walker to the 'ground. The horse rolled over Walker, causing serious in juries and making hospital treat ment necessary. Mrs. Fern Kendall has re turned to her home in Beatty from Klamath Falls, where she has been receiving medical at tention for the past week. McKlnley (Mac) David is back on a few days' leave from Bend, where he has been engaged in defense work. Mack George is able to be up' and around, after suffering a serious as well as a painful auto mobile accident. ' r-T. iter, lata tvHiTMtVW.TSC IW.H. NT. attf "I've stood in line like this for Jnlm r,iihi-t nnri rinrir Gable, but I never thought I'd do it for a piece of steak I" WASHINGTON, March 1 VP) An increase of $4 a ton in the ceiling on newsprint paper, au thorized by the United States and Canadian governments, be came effective today. The increase was announced by the office of price administra tion and the Canadian wartime prices and trade board. The point statement pointed out that newsprint is one of the few com modities which has not increased In price since' the start of the war. Prentiss M. Brown, OPA chief, said the Increase was necessary "because the newsprint industry can no longer absorb the in creased cost which war condi tions have brought about." The cost of wood operations and transportation both have in creased, OPA said. ANTI-CLIMAX SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (P) Ben Wagner considered himself lucky to escape without injury when a train wrecked his truck until A policeman came up, handed him a ticket for driving without a license. Telling The Editor Lattara prlntad hata mutt net ba mora than IM word In lani-trt. mini oa writ, tan UI6I, an ONI IIDi ol thl papal nly, and muit ba ttrMtl. Oonlrtbutloni Nllowtns (Km rulw, r warmly wb aoma, ON JAPANESE QUESTION KLAMATH FALLS. Oro., (To the Editor) We are In the midst of a world war and it will take the combined effort of all of us to win. We will win this war. there is no doubt about that, but unless we change our ways and thinking, we are liable to lose the peace again. A few days ago, the Oregon senate voted to ask congress to send all persons of Jnpniioso blood back to Japan and bur nil Japanese from serving In the army. The vote on the deporta tlon would also cancel tho American citizenship of all Jap anese. There are muny people who believe there are no good Jap anese, In spite of the fact that Kagawa is Japanese. This, of course, is nothing new. We read that centuries ago people said no good could come out of Nnznreth. But good did come out of Nazar eth. If the senate is right In Its ac tion and the memorial to con gress Is necessary, what about this tolk of permanont pence? It would seem that to have perma nent 'poace, we must have the allegiance and good-will of nit the peoples of all the world. The point Is, "Can we win allegiance of the 22,000 islands of the Paci fic, or about a billion Asiatics in Asia, when we regard tho yellow skinned Japanese in our midst as the Germans regard the Poles, a race unworthy of our citizen ship?" A. F. JOENS. 346 Division Street. FAVORS MERIT SYSTEM KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To tho Editor) This mornina I have written a letter to Eugene Marsh, chairman of the house judiciary committee, asking for his serious consideration of the merit system bill which is now boforo the lpglslnturo, 1 helluva there uro fur mora advantages thnn dlsndvuntngt'S In the merit system for em ployees In stutu and municipal work, As I see It, this merit system bill will make it possible, for the state to gel (ho best avail' able employees who have been soloctcd unci recruited by u mm politieul oxuniinlng board. This manner of selection would weed out worthless employees and prevent politieul uppolnlmenU or removals. By elimination the number of employees to tho need of tho position, and through the efficiency received by se lection of the best trained men and women, our stutu will anve a considerable amount of money each year. This Nystnin will have a tend ency to invite h high class type of employee, for a career In stute work and will glvo a fair chance for n 'competent person to cuter Into open competition for any state Job fur which ha feels ho is qualified. 1 know there are many pcoplo In this vicinity who feel this merit sys tem will bring our stute to tho foro front with other states who hnvo already adopted this plan for state omployecs. Reprcsentu tlve Louis Crnver Is one of the sponsors of this bill, and i would suggest that letters be written to our other legislators In Salem asking them for their earnest support of It. Again I thank you for tho spneo which you have so kindly given ma. JOHN It. HUUSTUN, Mayor. raft! mmm mm v me t From the Klamath Republican March , 1003 The must destructive flro hero silica the town acquired a water system ocrurred Sunday night, it burned the puntnfflce building owned by R. 1. Hammond anil threatened other building. Wells, l''a in o Kxp''c company, II. II. Van Viilkenhurg and Ky Taylor suffered Kisses In the fire, while the Republican office w u s threatened. Postmanler Hiram Murdotk Inst about SMI0 In fixtures for the postnfflcu, which wiih reopened In his form er law office. There nre evidences that the flro was of Incendiary origin, Hud It not been for tho efficient f work of the flro department mid " the new water system,' tho entire business district might have burned, COMPLAINT KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To tho Editor) Mno and Dnvo con tinue courthouse kids' piny. D. A. office drops dog eye goug ing case. The not guilty negro was held in KK and tho chief suspect allowed to continue to LA. The slapping charge case was dropped. A justice of pence runs a liquor store. Jnps work ing for railroad swnrm down on Sixth street overy Sunday p. m. What next? A Voter. Always read the clnsslfied adi. From the Klamath News March 1. 1933 Teachers of city grade schools have voluntarily offered to cam eel n month from -UeVr 10 months teaching contracts, thus - saving the district 18,000. City grudc schools hnvo .been on a warrant bnsls sln'co the flint of February. t Keith Cramer has resigned operator of the pollco radio station. One way to save gnsollna while driving Is to shift gears more quickly. HE RES QUICK foa Tryl-eMTaVii-tio-nol.It(l)hrlnk swollen membranes, (2) soothes Irrita tion, (3) relieves transient nasal con-gcslion...Aiidbrlnitgrea(- Jfyt'X er breathing comfort. vtCKS V You'll like Itl Follow L sil directions in foldtr. VA-TKO NOl 0fWW here's why Sure, I gave to the Red Cross last year everybody did. Didn't think much' about it, or know much about it either. Band ages, knitting sweaters, and the like, that's what it seemed like then and I was for it just as a matter of course. This year it's different. I've seen the Red Cross at work. Saw it working out at the plant the night of the big fire, when a lot of the boys were laid out cold. Some of them wouldn't be around today except for the Red Cross be ing right there from the start, ready with first aid, and with an ambu lance and canteen and a bunch of men and women who knew what to do and how to do it. I'll say they were good. Then, when my boy, Ben, drops his job and goes to soldiering, I get another angle on the Red Cross. Get it in a letter from a Red Cross guy who'd set up shop in Ben's camp. Opened my eyes to a lot of things about my own boy that I didn't know. He'd sure taken a pack of worries with him into the army. And this Mr. Field Director seems to have the job of getting wise to a man's troubles and doing something about them. Not only there, but at the home end too. ' It's a long story, but it came out fine, thanks to that "trouble buster" at camp and a straight-shooting wo man here that just calls It Red Cross Home Service. I'll say it was home service. Just ask my missus. We got a new daughter-in-law now and I'm a grandpop and Ben goes back to camp with his eyes shin ing and his chest out. It might have been pretty bad though. That was back last Summer, and a lot of things have been happening since. The war's come terribly close. If you've got a boy out there you know what I mean."- Last week we got a letter from Sergeant Ben that his mother, wouldn't take a million for. Be tween the lines, you can tell that our boys, are giving those devils everything they've got and taking it too. Must have been pretty bad. One thing the censor let through gave me another Red Cross angle. Seems Mr. Field Director and his bunch have gone right through' with my boy's outfit. Been in the hottest spots in every show with them. Not with guns, but dqjng a lot of other things that add up, too. They're there with what's needed when it's needed, just like they were at that fire of ours. With the kind of things that may seem pretty small to us at home, but go big in a foxhole. "Dad" writes Ben, "Think of the Red Cross as a he-man organization. Dig when the War Fund comes around next time." You bet I will. This year I'm giving double. . The Greatest Motfier ', - . 4 in the World u 'X .V"'. .'r O Will you dive double too? This ad published for Klamath County Chapter Amtriean Red Cross by 'f, Xtf THE WOMAN'S STCttE jn7 Rod Cross Drive Starts March 8 Quoto $30,600
