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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
A FLIPPANT remark appeared here some
time ago with reference to the eating of
muskrats. Now, however, the subject of meat
. , supply is no longer to be
treated lightly, and hence we
T wish to offer some serious
"J comment on that same topic,
$ the eating of muskrat meat.
k Also, we can now talk with
more authority, for we have
eaten muskrat, which, around
the dinner table, goes by the
name of marsh rabbit.
Our experience came last
night, when Burge Mason was
host to a small group of men
muskrat dinner. Mr. Mason is
affiliated with the "muskrat farm" near Mid
land, where some 2000 or 3000 muskrats have
been taken for pelts this year. He had never
eaten any marsh rabbit himself, and he in
vited his guests, who were not all uninitiated,
to taste and report.
Our response is that marsh rabbit is dif
ferent but good. We were told It tastes much
like squirrel, food we have not eaten.
We suppose the cooking has something to
do with the acceptability of this meat, as it
does with all cooked food. This particular
marsh rabbit was first boiled (back and legs
are the edible pieces) with the water changed
three times. The pieces were than fried well
In shallow olive oil. .
The result was okeh.
Food Source
THOUSANDS of marsh rabbits have been
taken In this area this year for their pelts
which are bringing tidy prices ranging from
$1.50 to $2.50. There are thousands more of
them in the swamps and marshes of the Klam
ath country.
Here Is a source of food that may come In
, handy at a time of serious meat shortage and
of rationing.
About a pound of meat can be obtained from
each carcass, 10 marsh rabbits providing the
meat fare for eight men at Mr. Mason's party.
There is prejudice to be overcome if muskrats
are to be eaten, chiefly because of the name of
the animal. Marsh' rabbit is widely offered
on menus in the east and even in California.
We are told that muskrats are animals of
clean' habits. They are vegetarians who wash
their food before consuming it.
This is a topic about which many local people,
no doubt, have their ideas, and we invite com
ment, After War Projects
1 1 nLAN now for the time after the war"
T is a frequently offered suggestion in the
papers we read, the idea being that a lot of
public as well as private projects are going
to be necessary to take up a big slack in em
ployment when the fighting ends and men
return from the battle fields and the big de-
fense plants.
. Potentially, there is a big backlog of work
to be done in this area if and when all of this
labor is available.
Of vital importance is land use extension.
Substantial as has been the progress along the
line, there is still much that can be accomplished
by the application of vision, planning and labor.
Only the surface has been scratched.
Highways (remember the South Sixth street
projects?) of great importance locally and to
through travel remain to be developed in this
area. Associated with such work is the need
for construction of expanded facilities for the
accommodation of visitors and travelers, a strict
ly private enterprise. Surely, the development
of greater travel will be a vital economic factor
In the Klamath country of the future.
A comprehensive sanitary system for the
suburbs, and roads and streets in those thickly
settled areas, must be provided if they are to
realize their full potentialities as modern resi
dential districts.
Klamath Falls could do with a better street
lighting system. It could make better use of
recreation facilities possible in the Moore park
Upper Klamath lake area. It could turn its
waterways, such as the canal, Link river and
Lake Ewauna, into highly attractive features of
the town, along with park development.
There is much to be done In expanding manu
facturing here, along with the agricultural de
velopment suggested in extended land use.
mere will be plenty to do in those days.
The possibilities are almost inexhaustible, if
the enterprising spirit Is here.
About the WAACs
THERE Is still a serious need for women to
replace men and release them for combat
duty with the armed services, and today we
write a little about the WAACs.
Jobs open to WAACs are accountants, air
craft warning service, cadre clerks, bookkeep
ers, bookkeeping machine operators, cashiers,
chauffeurs, camera technicians, musicians, sta
tisticians, stenographers, weather observers,
clerks, librarians, draftsmen, etc.
To be a WAAC, the woman applicant must be
a citizen of the U. S., between 21 and 44,
inclusive, of excellent character, physically fit,
mentally alert, no financial dependents, and no
children younger than 14 years If married.
Mrs. C. Jester of Klamath Falls is the vol
unteer WAAC recruiter here. Information may
be obtained from her or from the army re
cruiting station in the postoffice building.
Andrew A. Ward, whose death shocked a
wide circle of friends and acquaintances this
week, was a worthy citizen, a local and sympa
thetic friend and a fair and honest Business
nan.' Helll be missed.
Pendleton East Ovegonian reports comment
in the Weston Leader to the effect that weather
won't get warmer until the snow gets out of
the mountains, and snow won't get out of the
mountains until the weather gets warmer. That
was first said, about this time of year, by a
local jeweler in early-day Klamath Falls, by a
barber we knew in Riverside, Calif., by a real
estate man we knew in Eugene, Ore., and by a
farmer residing near Corvallis.
A telephone correspondent reports that the
flag over the courthouse is in pretty bad condi
tion. There may have been battles in the court
house, but that, according to our informant, is
no reason for having a battle-torn flag on the
courthouse flagpole.
SSB Reforms Delayed
By PETER EDSON
IN addition to the national resources planning
board's two voluminous reports on post-war
social security and economic reform which
President Roosevelt recently transmitted to con
gress, there is another and much more moderate
set of recommendations for social security re
form sitting around, waiting for congress to ask
that it be made public.
This other report is the work of the social
security board, of which Arthur J. Altmeyer is
chairman. This outfit administers social secur
ity laws now on the books, covering federal
and state programs for old. age and survivors'
insurance, unemployment insurance and the
like. This is the stuff money is now taken out
of your pay envelope for.
Under the social security act of 1935, the
social security board is charged with recom
mending to congress changes in the existing
law. Complying with this law, the SSB has
drawn up a detailed program of specific altera
tions it believes advisable.
The report is held confidential, awaiting-the
congressional nod, which should properly come
from the house committee on ways and means
or the senate committee on finance, these mat
ters being considered in the nature of taxation.
But since these committees are now and for
some time to come will all be tied up on the
new tax bill and some kind of a Ruml plan, it
seems unlikely that the social security board's
recommendations will see the light of publicity
tor quite a spell.
SIDE GLANCES
MHt-mi tt niiiivtt me t. urn a . wt, wt. -3-Jt
"Our dogs dug up a lot of your garden Inst spring, but
you were so nice about it that we'd like to help you make
one this ycarr .
Telling
The Editor
Latter artntad hart muet not oa i
oa wrn
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than Wt worda In lamth. must
tan laiibla on ONI not or the paoar
only, and inuat be atgnad. Oontrlbutiona
following thee ruiee, art warmly wa
Congress Backtracks
THE fact is that twice before, in 1941 and
I 1942, the social security board recommend
ed changes in the existing law and got no
place. Furthermore, congress actually back
tracked, in that it canceled social security rate
lncseases which under the original law were
scheduled to go into effect January 1, 1942.
In that situation, you have the real tip-off
on now much to be worried by the National
resources planning board's voluminous recom
mendations which created so much consterna
tion when the president first sprung them on
congress. Hailed as "an American Beveridce
plan," NRPB reports go way off the deep end
in proposing headlong changes in existing re
lief, social welfare, taxation and. business prac
tices.
As a New Deal reform program or a potential
democratic party platform for 1944, NRPB
recommendations make interesting subjects for
conversation about Utopia, but the mere fact
that congress has been totally uninterested in
such stuff since the war began would seem to
indicate that nothing serious will be done about
the proposed reforms in the immediate future,
even though the president did ask congress to
do something about the matter at this session.
Around social security board headquarters,
there is even an unofficial feeling that the
cause of social security may have been injured
by injecting national resources planning board
reports Into the scene at this time. The idea
Is that by asking too much, the NRPB may
nave set back hopes which the social security
board had for putting into effect more moderate
reforms.
Changes Sought
AHILE the new social security board reconv
V T mendations are still held confidential, the
general nature of changes which SSB wants can
be pretty well determined by the board's prev-
lous proposals and recent public utterances of
Chairman Altmeyer. These include:
1. Federalization of the entire social security
system, eliminating present state participation
so as to pay unemployment insurance out of the
federal treasury. State governments and most
states rights congressmen are against this. Or
ganized labor and big business are for it, the
latter because it would eliminate making so
many state returns, keeping so many records.
2. Broadening coverage to take in 20 million
domestic and farm laborers not now eligible
for benefits. The present law covers 40 million
workers.
3. Provision of temporary benefit payments
for temporary disability such as sickness or
Injury incurred In non-industrial disability. In
other words, health insurance of some kind.
4. Payment for total disability, irl addition to
present old-age benefits.
Broadening the existing social security law
to include these benefits would mean a 10
per cent to 12 per cent tax on earnings, up to
a half of which would be paid by workers, the
other half by employers. Social security now
is a 5 per cent payroll tax on the first $3000
of earnings, 1 per cent of which Is paid by the
employe. This rate under the present law goes
to 7 per cent January 1, 1944, and to 9 per
cent January 1, 1949,
SSB's position is that further Increases should
be planned now while payrolls are high to
build up reserves, and to check-" inflation.
ABOUT INCOME TAX
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the Editor Dear Editor: Will
you kindly permit a few re
marks from one of long ex
perience and knowledge of in
come tax matters, directly
spoken to' and about the pres
ent controversy in congress over
the pending Carlson bill, which
includes also the Ruml feature
of pay-as-you-go?
To begin with, there has
never been a war, either in
this land or any other coun
try, where the financial ex
penses thereof, have been
wholly met by current levy of
taxes upon the people on a pay-
as-you-go basis.
The only persons who makes
a full, complete and final pay
ment as-you-go, are the soldiers,
sailors, and aeropats, who pay
with their lives, pay as they
come, and sometimes pay as
they hold the fort.
What for do they make this
last full measure of devotion?
Well; for the spirit which ani
mates the soul, for the love of
liberty and the freedom of man
kind.
During world war No. 1 we
had a long confabulation about
this pay-as-you-go business, and
in attempted solution of the
problem we evolved, the excess
profits tax law as a subsidiary
tax to the regular normal and
surtax teatures ot the income
tax law. It was designed to
secure from the war profiteers
their just proportion of the war
expense.
This tax was largely paid
but; by the subsequent devices
of refunds, lost its efficacy, and
the "war babies" were thus en
abled to escape their Just pro
portion of war costs.
At the time the soldier bonus
bill was before congress, it was
reliably reported that these re
funds to the "war profiteers
would have paid the entire bill
of bonuses, ten times over.
So at this time, that there is
no legal or political "Ethiopian
in the fuel supply" we must be
absolutely certain, and that the
war profiteer shall pay his full,
true and correct contribution to
the war effort and for the op
portunities he has had to assert
his individualism.
Greatly they have received:
greatly they should give. If
they were under the Hitler
regime, they would not be al
lowed to keep any of their
earnings; they would have to
turn it all over and no back
talk.
I cannot see this pay-as-you-
go plan either with or without
the Ruml feature. It is "too
rummy for rationalism." How
you can eat the cake that you
have already eaten and still
have a cake left for your birth
day.
If these high salaried agita
tors, and large profit makers
cannot pay their income tax
without going to the loan
sharks for the first quarterly
installment, how in the name
ot goodness are they going to
pay-as-they-go and in addition
thereto, dig up an additional
three billion dollars? They do
not want to pay on, even a
limited salary then how are
they proposing to pay on an un
limited salary?
I am mighty proud of our
secretary of the treasury, that
he had never thought of the
Ruml plan or any other sub
terfuge for honest contribution
of taxes according to ability to
pay. wnat did tney do with
last year's wages, last year's
profits, last year's Interest, last
year's commissions received on
securing government contracts?
Let 'em pay, let 'em pay now
and according to the revenue
law of 1942.
Thcro is nothing wrong with
the income tax law of 1942, un
less it might be charged with
an honest intention; of congress
and an equally honest concep
tion of the treusury department.
I feel that there is still suffic
ient of thought and purpose to
this good old government under
a democratic representative
form of government in the in
terest of all the people, for the
people and by tiie people and
that every ono should be re
quired to contribute according
as he may have prospered.
Stand by your good old tried
and true congressmen, whether
democratic or republican, and
do not go chasing after any
taise notions of rampant and
aggressive green-horns whether
of one party or another.
Collect the full tax under
the revenue law of 1942, and
then make another revenue bill
for 1943, as the occasion seems
to demand and warrant..
It is not the average and
lowly person who is kicking
about this income payments to
the government, but just an
other attempt to evade the just
proportion of tax payment on
the part of those who have had
a greater prosperity than they
ever had before in their life
time. Let 'em pay. Back up your
congressmen on the old familiar
lines. Do not (surrender to any
of these green-horn notions.
Make up your minds to pay
all that you possibly can pay
both this year and next year
and- all the years to come,
SYNOPSIS OP ANNUAL STATEMENT
,, OF inn
United Benefit- Life Insurance
Company
?k',2m;,!": !? ,b '' ' Nabraaka, on th.
thlrtyflrtt daj of Dtvmbar. 13(1, mada to
tha inturanca Commlnloaar of tha fltata of
Or'gou, purauant to law:
capital
Amount of capital atock palil
MO.Mo.M
IfMAnM
Total premium locoroa for tha
- S.llMir.M
year
internal, dIrMendi and ranti
reemrd durna tha vr . i
Incoma from othar aourraa ra-
ceireo during the yar sTO.KM.Os
Total Inroma
Dlaburaam.ttl.
for Ioiim, ando-manta,
7,S,tW.0
raid
annum and aurrecder aal.
ii.iiirin. pn,n 10 do crno a-
ara dirlni ttia Ttar taitta
umo-noa paid on capital flock
during the yaar : HK-flm no
ixmmu,iona and aalarlea paid
during the )car I.HI.W7.M
jaxea, urantat and lata paid
uu.iiib in. jwir . 1ZO.ZZO.08
Amount of all other etpendl-
u' i . I.IZS.ZM.M
until our final triumph over
material groeci and the aggrund
lsomcnt of material profits.
Yours respectfully,
WM. F. B. CHASE,
WHY LABOR UNIONS?
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. (To
the Editor) Recently I rent!
definition of a labor union. Tlia
writer said, "A union is a group
of people, who as individuals.
cannot stand on tholr own foot.
They must organize before they
can strlko, and always strike
where most harm can bo done,
never thinking of luirm to out
side groups,"
History tolls us, before tho
Civil war, dofendurs of sluvury
extolled it because it piotectud
the worker In unemployment,
sickness and old ago, becuuso it
freed the south from strikes mid
labor clashes, becnuso it Clirls-
tianized a heathen people and
gradually elevated them, be
cause (they said) it mudo musters
chivalrous and .servants loynl.
As an economic Institution, slit
very had both attackers und sup
porters.
The growth of the great cor
poration as employer, ofton
worked to the disadvnntiiKo of
labor. Small sculo industry hud
close relation with its working
man and with its community
Workers could bargain far more
successfully with local employ
ers than with sonio distuul und
impersonal orgnnizution. Theo
dore Roosevelt, who wus a grout
American, put this woll when ho
said, "The old fumltini- relation
bctweon employer and employes
were passing, a few gviiertitlons
before, tho boss hud known
every man In his shop; ho culled
Ills men Bill, Tom, Dick, John
he Inquired after their wives and
babies; ho swapped jokes and
stories with them. In tho small
establishment there had been a
friendly human relationship be
tween employer and employe.
Thcro was no such relationship
between the great railway mug
nates, who controlled the anthra
cite industry, and tho 130,000
men who worked in their mines
or the half million women and
children who were dependent
upon these miners for their doily
bread. The great coal mining
and coal carrying companies,
which employed their tens of
thousands, could easily dlspcnso
with the service of any particu
lar miner. Tho miner, on tho
other hand, could not dispense
with the companies. He needed
job; his wife and children
would starve if he did not get
one. What the miner had to sell
his labor was a perishable
commodity; tho labor of todoy
If not sold, was lost forever.
(And he was entitled to a saving
wage for his labor.)
A New England mill owner.
testifying before a senate com
mittee remarked: "I never do
my talking to the hands, I do all
my talking with the overseers."
Rockefeller Is credited with say
ing, "The combination (trust) is
From Other
Editors
THE DOO CAMPAI-N
(Bond Btillotln)
In 'tho past fow days, out
standing results have been gain
ed in enforcement, of the locnl
city ordinance which requires
that dogs, whether licensed or
unlicensed, be kept up In the
water fowl nesting senson, Uy
tho dozen, animals whoso own
ers, dl.trcKiu'dinK tha law, eon
tinned to rornilt tholr pots to
run at large hove been Impound
ed. The fact that war gardon
time comes In nesting season has
doubtless had something to do
with this zeal for enforcoinont
Parenthetically, it Is pertinent to
note that mere lack of licenses,
also required by law, has not
heretofore prompted any consist
ent policy of Impoundment,
Tho effectiveness of the pre
sent campaign does, however,
call for congratulatory com
ment. Especially Is this so at a
lime when manpower Is an ever
present problem, when It might
hove been expectod that no dugs
would bo caught unless the po
lice stepped out and did It with
their own hands.
It may be that some of this
hits been done, but much of the
credit must go to tho Juveniles
enlisted as dog catchers and
compensated on a foe bal. Tho
more pootchos they enticed into
captivity, the greater their re
ward. Doing a law-enforcement
job these youngsters, It may be
hoped, gained an added respect
for the Jnw and a new realization
of tho necessity for Its admlnis
trillion.
A new method in Bend and.
wc would say, an excellent ono
As tho police employed it and
noted its effectiveness, we are
sure that they must have been
struck by its similarity to the
method used by the lotc Slier
lock Holmes In bringing terror
to the hearts of law breakers.
They must have romombercd
him sitting in his cozy lodgings
on Baker street, pondering over
some especially enthralling
crime. Now and then street ur
here to stay, individualism hn
gone, never to return."
Under these eonrlitlona tin-
only thing lobor could do, If it
wanted to remain free, was to or
ganize. Organized unionism
docs not necessarily mean that
the members are weaklings and
cannot stand on thetlr nwn tmnt
Tho 13 original colonies were
not weaklings but under the con
federation of 18 nd vlrtiinl ml.
onles pulling in 13 different di
rections, they were a weak na
tion. When they organized Into
a federal union under the enn.
stittition they became a strong
nation and won the respect of all
tho world.
A. F. JOENS,
S46 Division St.
chins In his employ would troop
In, report Information they hint.
gained In their pinatoui' Inveatl-)
gallons, receive tholr reward and
depart anew on the chnse. They
were very he lp(,ul to Mr. lluliiics
In soma of his cases, oven as tho
Juveniles of Hand are being of
undoubted assistance to the local
police In solving tha dog problem.
WASHINGTON, March 30 (P)
The urmy has turned over to tha
food distribution administration
obout 1-, 00U. 000 cases of canned
fruits, Juices and vegetables to
be released later to meal emer
gency food situations.
In announcing this today, the))
agriculture department III no said
moro limn 2,000,000 cases of
canned fruits und vegetables will
bo released soon by FDA to aug
ment civilian supplies. ,
The slocks, mostly purchased
from the 1041 pack, Include to.
matoe.'i, pears, plums, apples and
pouches with smnllcr quantities
of other foods.
Release of tha ennned goods
by tho army was made posslblo
by the npprnuch of the I IMS pack
from which new supplies will bo
obtulned.
Studies by the National Safety
Council show that It takes nine
limes as long to stop your car
on Ice as it does on dry concrete
pavement.
Paul O. Landry
this question:
"My brother left his ear
psrktd on a dark itritt
the other night and some
one stole his apart tire. If
I take out a fire, theft and
comprehensive e o v orogt
pollcy on my car, would I
be protected sgslnst such
a loit?"
For Information on any
Insurance problem, coniult
the Landry Co.. 313 Main
St. Phone S612. "The
Courlhouao li Juit Acrois
Main Street from Our Office."
3
Total -prniJIlijrM $ i,Mi,m,M
Va!u of rrnl etlnu owned
market value) , 1 llUitH.il
Lnnnn on mtrta;affr. and ml
lateral, etc ,8M7-,S1
Valiin of bond, owned (aroor-
llffl) 1C.IW.TM.01
Value of atock- owned (market
value; . !,BOO(41Z.OO
Premium notea and poller
loan : I.M9.0T7.JU
Caih in bank i and on hand 8iS,M.M
Interest and renU due and ac
crued I14.I40.M
Net 11 n collected and d
Other aneta (net)
Total admitted aieU f
LlahllltlM
Net reierrea 113.7.13.416.00
(J mil claim for lonei unpaid 10,1 liVftO
All other llaMlitle. S,049,4.l
Total llabllltfei, neept eapl
tal
Capitnl paid up a.......
Hurplui over all llabllltlea
122,001, a.. 11
rVW, 000.00
l,0t,lfl-.49
Surplus ai reiardi policyhold
er!
l,8,M9
Total ...l-ll.OM.Oil.W
Bui in ms in Onion for tha Yaar
Net premlnma and annultlea re
reived during thn yeir ,. .4248,071.71
Dividend! paid during llio year ... None
Net luiea and clalmi, endow.
menti, aurrenderi, and annul-
tlM pnld during tire year ...... M.0W.M
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COMPANY
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Statutory reildent attorney for itrvle,
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Mar. 0No, 20H
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LITTLE HATS
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A tiny tailor
hoapud with'
prig htly
floral.
A visor ihapecf
Milan worn for
ward amid a
cloud of veiling.
Designed to Make You Enchanting for Easter '
Flower laden milan and rapal
straws in vivid Spring shades,
Navy and wJiito, too.
Just two of the many beautiful
styles we have assembled to help
you be well hatted for Easter. ,