HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
May B,
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MALCOLM EPLET
Managing Editor
Today's Roundup News Behind ihe News
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THERE will ba fire in the forests of the
Northwest this summer.
Whether it turns out to be fire that sweeps
J ! . - U .. 4llll(fH nrAst
tfMHh. . V etnttrhpc nf essential war ma
' 1 terial, or fire that is checked
quickly near its source, ae-
- - in m I aT-frt aytanr iinnn
t Li ' $ the advance prep81,8"0" that
i-ti' are made t0 combat it.
It is lneviiaoie mm iu
will be set. Everything hu
manly possible must be done
to prevent them from starting
through carelessness. But
liehtnine is an almost certain
source of open country blazes, and, in wartime
on the Pacific coast, there is the very real
danger that our enemy in the Pacific will slip
through somehow to set our forests afire.
Hence, there must be widespread preparation
by all the protective agencies against the
emergency of an incipient fire. Nipped quick
ly, a fire will do little or no damage. Per
mitted to get away, it spreads destruction and
its control becomes a project thai . requires
great quantities of valuable manpower and
equipment needed elsewhere.
In spite of the very real problem presented
in this situation the federal emergency fund for
protection of our forests has been cut from
the deficiency budget this year. This fund
was used to advantage last year, and it is need
ed this year for use against enemy sabotage
and for preventative purposes.
The amount involved is $6,500,000. Terrific
pressure is being exerted upon and by western
congressmen to have it reinstated in the de
ficiency appropriation budget. Strong public
support is needed for the effort.
We Are Vulnerable
PERHAPS there is not full realization in
Washington of the vulnerability of the Pa
cific coast.
Last summer, an enemy plane slipped in over
the Oregon coastline and dropped bombs in
forest area. Are we to suppose that the wily
Jap has not further perfected his plans and
his equipment to sabotage our forests? Is it not
clear that an assault with fire on the forests
would be the certain prelude if an actual in
vasion were attempted on the Pacific coast?
In the answers to those questions lies . an
apparent fact that the Pacific coast is in the
combat zone of this war. ' Protection of the
coast forests, like protection of the coastline,
becomes a local, state, regional and NATIONAL
responsibility. It is a part of the job of fight
ing the war, and it is unthinkable that con-'
gress will not see it that way.
Here on the coast are great sweeps of in
flammable forests, in many places running
right to the water's edge. The enemy knows .
that ;Does congress?
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MALLON
Campaign Here
IN THE Klamath country, this is being ob
served as Stop Forest Fires week. The pur-,
pose is to bring into sharp focus all the prob
lems involved in protecting our forests this
wartime summer, a matter of high significance
In this lumbering community. :
Horace Andrews, regional forester, will come
here Friday in connection with this program.
He will address a group of boys at the high
school, where a considerable number of boys
have been in intensive training as members of
emergency fire crews. On Friday evening, he
Mil speak at a community dinner at the Wil
lard hotel. In view of the extreme importance
tt his subject, there should be a capacity audi
tnce to hear him.
It will be remembered that last spring an
Intensive campaign was staged to make the
public fire-conscious. The danger of wartime
sabotage was dramatically presented. The ser
iousness of the manpower shortage, and the
need of timber for war purposes, were de
scribed in detail again and again.
We believe the public responded. At any
rate, we got through the summer without serious
trouble.
The same conditions . exist this year, except,
they are even more serious. There will be need
for the greatest possible public cooperation to '
keep fire out of the forests, and to stop fire if
It does start
We must extend Stop Forest Fire week into
Stop Forest Fires season.
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Boys' Clubroom
KLAMATH FALLS has good reason to be
proud of the local boys club which was
recently moved to the Salvation Army building
at Fourth and Klamath.
Since that move, attendance at the clubrooms
has risen sharply. Average weekly attendance
is now nearly 600, a most remarkable showing.
It demonstrates the response of the youngsters
to the more adequate facilities and more pleas
ant surroundings provided through the move to
the Salvation Army building.
There will be no real need for the boys
club this summer. Older boys will be work
ing, and younger ones can participate in the
city recreation program to be provided at the
various schools and other centers this year. It
Is planned to close the club for, the summer
period, but it will be open again in the fall.
No one will ever be able to measure the full
value of this institution. But -no one will
Question that a clubroom, which attracts several
hundred boys a week into wholesome surround
ings for recreation and companionship, is per.
forming a real service.
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, May 8 In the coal trouble,
John Lewis has appeared by his actions
to be an incomprehensible, rampant agitator.
ine news ox events nas pic
i&jtf -??skSS iured him as a violent breeder
of the secret strike who de
fied the government but was
finally put in his place by Mr.
Roosevelt.
There may be soma valid
spots in this picture, but that
is not the way it happened.
To all inside the labor move
ment it has been apparent
that Mr. Lewis was in con
trol of the whole situation
from the beginning. By his actions, he de
liberately forced the government to take the
steps that were taken that he wanted the
government to take. He even forced Mr.
Roosevelt, to take over the mines. Instead of
that step being a punishment to Lewis, it was
actually contrived by him.
He had no chance of getting anything out
of the operators, because the government actual
ly controls their business. Prices are fixed
by Mr. Ickes' coal commission. No wage in
crease could be granted by the owners of the
mines (in name only) without increasing the
prices, and the government would have to do
that.
The operators could not even guarantee him
a six-day work-week for a year. They have
no way of knowing what their business will be
six months or a year hence.
Thus, the only way Lewis had a chance to
get what he wanted was to sponsor a secret
strike and force the government to become his
new employer, with whom he could deal under
more favorable auspices, this administration
desiring always to do nothing to offend labor.
Government Promise
HE EVEN got a promise from Mr. Roosevelt
in the Sunday night White House radio
talk that the government as his new employer,
would carry out all phases of his existing con
tract implying that the government this sup
posedly impatient and great militant power of
all the people, would actually collect Lewis'
dues for him under the check-off system.
His objectives are to get negotiations out of
the hands of the unfavorable (to him) war labor
board, and into the hands of some amenable
politician like Mr. Ickes. And he had reason
to expect from the government the six-day
work week guarantee, which is a way of in
creasing miners' pay without appearing to do so,
; As matters have stood, many operators have
been unwilling to pay the time and a half
over-time for the sixth day, because it repre
sented a wage increase and greatly Increased
costs. But Madam Perkins, the labor secretary,
publicly suggested this solution. She did not
propose that the guarantee be for a year, but
Lewis attached that period of time to it.
Apparently, the government, or Perkins at
least takes the novel position that such a wage
increase would not be Inflationary, because
the miners would be doing added work for the
increased remuneration.
Therefore, Mr. Lewis, instead of being a
whipped and punished errant is still politically
in control of the situation and seems likely to
put the government into a very bad hole.
Anything granted to him by the government
as an employer will be demanded by all labor.
Bill Green and Phil Murray are not going to
let Lewis get anything that is also not later
granted to them.
There is just one element in the situation
working against Mr. Lewis getting what he
wants and the administration stretching its
own price-wage freezing schedules and making
the public pay .for it in increased prices of coal.
Mr. Roosevelt would personally like to choke
him with his bare hands. Their animosity is
real, ' and was not improved when Lewis an
nounced a truce 20 minutes before the presi
dent went on the air in an effort to kill the
president's speech, or force him to rewrite it.
Personally, Mr. Roosevelt is inclined to give
Lewis nothing.
Smart Labor Leader
BUT far from being a power-drunken labor
leader, mischievously calling non-sensical
strikes and getting himself into trouble, Mr.
Lewis is still the smartest man in the labor
movement, craftily and cunningly carrying out a
planned campaign to wring out constantly im
proved conditions and pay for his men at the
expense of government, or public, or anyone
else. These seeming incomprehenslve events
that flow from him are carefully contrived by
him for his purpose.
Impartial authorities wno have Investigated
thoroughly his claims for a wage Increase say
they lack convincing basis.
This whole affair is a plain manifestation of
the new kind of government which has develop
ed from a labor era, an era in which ruthless
militant leaders of small organized groups of
citizens are able by strong action to become
more powerful in working out their pay and
privileges than the government itself. They
can push the government around.
Completely lost, pitiful and powerless, are
the coal operators, the owners of the mines,
who simply have no voice in the matter at
all, unable to fix their own prices or wages
or even to keep their mines. Presumably, the
profits of government operation, if any, will be
turned over to them, but even before Lewis
forced federal seizure of the properties, they
obviously had lost control over their own busi
ness to him.
SIDE GLANCES
t. ew.mfftnm. me. T. rnnutm ot.
"Rationing sure is wonderful, Grandpa I Imagine Mora
asiung us to go nsmng wmie she paints the screens 1
Right now it's too bad "Mam
my's little baby loves short'nin'
bread.".,,,.
Your chances of being killed
by lightning are about one in
338,000.
Sometimes a detour is the
longest distance between two
driven points.
RETAIL SALES
OREGON
FROM 1942
WASHINGTON, May 8 m
Sales of 508 Independent retail
stores exclusive of department
stores in Oregon increased 38
per cent during March. 1943,
compared with the sales of the
same month last year, the de
partment of commerce disclosed
today.
The sales gained ID per cent
over February.
Drygoods and general merch
andise stores led with an advance
of 72 per cent Other gains:
Shoe stores 64 per cent, restaur
ants, cafeterias, lunchrooms 59
per cent food stores 46 per cent,
drug stores 44 per cent, women's
ready-to-wear stores 41 per cent,
general stores 35 per cent, men's
clothing stores 24 per cent. ,
Dollar volume of filling sta
tions dropped 6 per cent
Of the durable goods trade,
outstanding sales increases were
registered for lumber-building
materials dealers, 77 per cent,
jewelry stores 62, hardware 24,
motor-vehicle dealers 23.
In Portland, 216 independent
retailers showed sales up 50 per
cent for March over the same
month a year ago and 13 per
cent over February.
Eugene retailers reported a
gain of 68 per cent over March
of 1942, Salem 43, Astoria 18,
Klamath Falls 10. -
VITAL STATISTICS
ROSS Born at Hillside hos
pital, Klamath Falls, Ore., May
5, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs. Emer
son Ross, 1911 Wantland ave
nue, a boy. Weight 8 pounds 4
ounces.
Always read the classified ads.
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From the Klamath Republican
May 7, 1903
Judge H. L. Benson and daugh
ter, Gail, came home from Port
land and were the first passen
gers over the new scenic railroad
to Pokegama.
Fred Melhasc was down from
Fort Klamath today to attend a
meeting of the board of county
commissioners.
Wlntor Knight of Fort Klam
ath was in town Wednesday.
From the Klamath News
May 8, 1939
J. W. Kerns is now president
of the Klamath county chamber
of commerce.
i Permits for entrance to Crater
lake park went on sale today,
following the opening of park
roads after the heavy storms.
Oregon's Traffic
Death Rate Upped
From 1942 Period
Oregon's traffic death rate for
the first quarter of 1943 showed
a slight increase over the rate
for the corresponding period of
1942, according to Robert S. Far
rcll Jr., secretary of state.
The rate for the first three
months of this year was 8.6 per
sons killed per one hundred mil
lion miles of travel. Last year,
for the same period, the rate was
exactly eight The death rate
indicates the number of persons
killed in traffic in relation to the
exposure to accident.
The fact that the rate is slight
ly higher this year should serve
as a warning to drivers and
pedestrians that greater care
must be exercised in traffic to
day, Farrell declared.
Oregon News Notes
By The Associated Press
The Portland OPA office an
nounced the transfer of Edward
G. Portman, district price officer
at Klamath Falls, to Portland as
assistant price officer . . . The
state salvage committee said Ore
gon women donated 6827 pounds
of silk and nylon hosiery for the
war in the month ending April
19, earning the state third nlace
in the nation on a per capita ba
On the University of Oregon
campus 105 co-eds began moving
from Hendricks and Mary Spll
ler dormitories to make way for
soldiers soon to arrive for mete
orology training . . . Two Port
land Chinese were sentenced to
Remember
Future generations will re
member the last retting place
of your loved one when prop
erly marked when identi
fied in keeping with your
feeling of reverence with a
memorial that will stand for
all time. ,
You will find the designs
to suit your taite among our
display.
Klamath Falls Marble
and Granite Works
118 S. Uth St Phone 8381
three years in prison and fined
a total of $1300 on conviction of
narcotics violations .... May
nard W, Johnson and Leona E.
Parton, both Silverton, applied
for a marriage license in Fort-land.
Telling
The Editor
LtttM prlm4 hw mutt not b mor
than M won In length, must b wilt.
In lwml on ONS (IDS gl th papa,
only, ontf tnuol bt olg'tod. OofltflDullimo
following ItMM rulM, oro wormly wok
REPLIES TO CHASE
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore. (To
The Editor): The other day in
this column appeared a letter,
a very stirring letter written by
you, and seeing it, I couldn't
restrain myself from answering
the same.
In the first place, even
though you are a sailor, I don't
believe that it is quite good
manners to call people hums or
bums, or insinuate that ull
labor leaders are rackotocrs
(thnt Is a very bold statement)
and that lumberjacks, mill
workers, miners, labor leaders,
etc., are so dumb that they
can't see that if they didn't or
ganize they could live in peace,
quiet and comfort. Sure they
could, If thoy weren't so dumb,
as you so amply described it,
they could live like peoplo did
60 years ago and got enough
money to struggle along on.
That Is, of course, if they sent
their wives and children to
work also, Do you actually
think that the American labor
er would have attained tho
standard of living he now has
if he hadn't been SO DUMB
and organized. Or, maybe your
interests lie entirely with tho
capitalists as that letter phi In
ly showed.
In the second place if Mr.
Chase would read the Bill of
Rights also, he wouldn't say,
"What right have unions doing
government business?" This
government of OURS Is a rep
resentative government and, to
make suro that one faction
doesn't get its way all of the
time, peoplo of common inter
ests band together. This Is one
of the purposes of the union.
Mr. Chase goes on to say
that unions have taken away
the sacred rights of the em
ployer. What are these rights?
The right to pay what he
chooses? The right to work
men under any conditions he
wants to, or as long hours as
he wants? Are these sacred
rights7 - '
Wayne Chase forgets thot
the one -who stays at home still
has to buy food, clothing and
shelter while all of those are
furnished for him, besides that
measly S50 a month to blow. I
wonder how many American
laborers can blow $50 on lux
uries after they have paid their
bills.
I have known Wayne Chose
for many years and for the first
time in all those years I am
ashamed of acquaintance with
a young man who hides behind
a sailor's uniform and shouts,
take the privilege of unionism
away from the laborer, ono of
the very things he Is fighting
for, FREEDOM OF THE INDI
VIDUAL TO DO WHAT HE
THINKS BEST.
Sincerely yours,
HAROLD KING.(
1750 Gary St.,
Klamath Falls, Ore.
Every bond will make a splatter
To knock the axis flatter '
Buy a War Bond todayl
With the price steaks are
bringing, cattle should be the
laughing stock of the country.
If you want to sell it phone
The Herald and News "want,
ads." 3124
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HOT FLASHES
If you gutter from hot fluthei, dltil
neM, dutrew of "Imsulorltleo", oro
welc,nerrouo duototho functional
"mlddlo.i" period In womsn'g
life try Lydlt X. Plnkhtm'a Vogo-
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and upon tbouwndi of women to
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For Free Test and Demonstration
Mr. Martin, Willard Hotel
Klamath Falls, Thursday, May 6
After That Date, Write AUDIPHONE CO.
737 Morgan Bldg., Portland
iSlllIEMi
To St. Mary's Fred Lloyd,
aviation cudet V-ft, passed
through Klumuth Falls en
route to St. Mury's for pro
(Unlit training and vlsltod brief
ly here with his uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ouerrettaz,
203 Washington street. Young
Lloyd hits been at Pocatcllo,
Ida., for eight weeks' prelimin
ary training and Friday was
called to Seattle for further in
struction. Lloyd is a graduate
of Klamath Union high school,
uttoncled the University of Ore
gon for two yeurs and wus a
member of Kuppa Slginu fraternity.
Return Here Mrs. Harry
Johnson has returned to Klum
nth Falls after a visit In Ox
nurd, Calif., with her son, Har
ry Jr., who Is In training as an
air cadet. From there sho con
tinued to Cheyenne, Wyo., to
visit her son-in-law and daugh
ter, Lt. and Mrs. Douglas Gar
diner, and Jimmy, stationed at
Fort Wayne. Mrs. Gardiner and
Jimmy returned hero with Mrs.
Johnson for a short stay.
Leave for Homes Rev. and
Mrs. Nelson F. Colo left Tues
day morning for their homo in
Freewntor, Oro., and Rev. and
Mrs. T. Davis Preston left on
Tuesday evening for their home
In Sequel, Calif., uftvr attend
ing tho anniversary services at
tho Congregational church here.
To Reno Mrs. Jerry John
son (Frances Sullivan) Iuu re
turned to her homo in Reno,
Nev., after being called to
Oleno by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. . Frank Sullivan,
well known resident of that
community.
Transferred Word hns been
received hero by Mrs. Jack Cor
nctt that her husband, Aviation
Cadet Jack Cornctt, has been
transferred from Stuttgart,
Ark., to Dorr field, Arcadia,
Fin.
VFW io Meet The regular
meeting of Pelican Post, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, will bo
held on Thursday night, May 6,
at the usuul hour. Every mem
ber Is requested to be present.
Hot extra Innings soon will
make the male fan forget his
supper is growing cold.
If money could talk, the 1043
dollar could toll some strange
talcs 10 years from now.
In sorvlng a courso dinner
never try to moko both ends
mcot.
GHUflGH
WOMEN
ASKED TO MAY
DESSERT
LUNCH
The Council of Church Worn
en urge all Interested women
of Klamath Falls to attend the
May dessert lunchoon to be
held Thursday, May 6, at 1:30
p. m. In tho dining hall of the
First Christlun church with on
trance on Pine ntrnet.
All over the country the
United Council of Church
Women Is observing national
Family Week by sponsoring
May luncheons where Christian
women will gather and consld
or tho ureal responsibility and
opportunity facing tho home In
a world at war.
Hosteases for tho luncheon
nr.. Mr. Tlnlr.h llrtnlfln Vtnln.
man, assisted by Mrs, George
Wlrti and Mrs. George Casper.
Haznl Morrison Is program
chairman,
Tho program will bo as fol
lows: Doxology, sung by all;
Invocation; selected musical
numbers by tho high school
mixed chorus directed by An
drew Loney Jr.; theme, "Tho
Christian Family Home;' devo
tional service lud by Mrs, Paul
Kdwnrds; greetings from Mrs.
John C. Yadon, president of the
Klamath Fulls Council; speak
ers. Mrs. Wlnnlfred Glllcn,
"Family Relations:" Mrs. T. C.
Parker, formerly recreation
leader for tho Oregun Stata
college extension department,
"Recreation In the Home;"
round table discussion, "Juve
niles In Our Community," led
by David Bridge, city Juv.nilo
officer.
There will be no charge for
tho luncheon but a sliver of
fering will be received.
Don't let llfiuor shortage
k.th., vii rtnvlntr war hnnrlo
will keep you In high spirits.
WAKE UP YOUR.
LIVER BILE-
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tillo Io iwl (lowing intl. our ll nL
dlgtot. It my ut deny In (t howvU. Thvft
lu bloou up yiHif atomM-h. You ra wm
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now
II Cakoo Ihow gno4, M Cartor'o I
Llvor 1'llU to get IIkoo S pinto of lU
fn hul. I,. m.bB v,Ml ImI "tin On,!
Ut parkago today. Taka aa dlractrd.
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Sheep ranchers along the Great Northern Rail
way look for a good crop of Iambi this spring,
for lamb ii an important and delectable part of
. America's food supply. The million) of sheep
In thii territory yield a tremendous supply of
high-quality wool wool which provide! our
armed forces with the world's best and warmest
clothing. Sheep ranching alone contributes
million to the wealth of thli rich territory
helpi to buy the products you ihip over Great
Northern, the dependable railway between tho
Great Lakes and the Pacific.
nnllon umr ntrt hat btmi j,raaon(ori In
JJmannrfj of drnorienn mualrn ooulfoa
throuth TRAFFIC WORLD magoilno.
GREAT NORTHERN
Ha' I. Wayne, General Agent
G. N. Station
Klamath Falls, Ore,
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