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May 0, 1948
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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
VESTERDAY we paid visit to Tulelake,
which is one of the busiest spots in the
gt. It is busy because farmers down there
- ... w are opening the biggest agri-
S '1 cultural season in the history
If7"r:;'i ot a community that has made
.nunuiiu . w "
Farmers down there talk In
astronomical figures when dis
cussing the potential yield this
V yeBr' particularly in potatoes.
S 11 We heard one estimate that :
placed the probable potato
j&.x I crop at a higher figure than
kBak. the entire Klamath basin has
EPLEY previously produced in a single
year. This guess may be high, but it is no
guessing that there will be a huge crop.
The big worry, of course, Is labor for the
harvest. Every possible labor resource must
be tapped If the farmers of the Klamath country
are to realize fully on the crops they are now
undertaking to raise for the war effort.
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Civic Group
IN TULELAKE, we had the pleasant exper
ience of visiting the Tulelake Rotary club
rith R. D. "Hod" Eller, Klamath Rotarian.
Thii active organization of a score or more
business men and farmers meets regularly In
the annex of the Tulelake church, where ex
cellent luncheons are served by the church
women.
The Tulelake club Is a handy place for
Klamath Rotarians to make up their attend
ance. Several were on hand at this week's
meeting. The president of the club is Pete
Bergman, Tulelake plumber and sanitary en
gineer for the WRA project, who can throw a
quip to any situation with the best toastmaster
anywhere. President-elect is Fred McMurphey,
whose standing in his business Is indicated by
the fact he is vice-president of the big California
Woolgrowers association.
!Aj we said at the start of this piece, Tule
lake Is a busy place. Proof, of that: the Tule
lake Rotary club adjourns at 1 o'clock, sharp,
Instead of the usual 1:15 for service clubs in
more complacent and leisurely communities.
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Bearish Talk
AS JUST about everybody knows, the Tule
lake district Is prosperous and the people
down there are the kind' of people, and they,
have the kind of land, that makes for getting
along all right. But they don't always talk
that way.
A story was told us about a man who came
Into that area from a distant point with a view
to settling on Tule lake.
He sat down In Earl Ager's big store for
half day just to listen to the conversations
going on about him.
After that experience, he told a local friend
that he had changed his mind about staying.
Everybody around there, he said, was broke,
the country was going to the dogs, and he was
going to get out as quickly as he could.
He had been over-Impressed by the talk from
farmers who are often bearish In their conver
sation in the midst of a highly bullish agri
' cultural situation.
world together a physical fact which should
guide us in arriving at a post-war plan.
"What could I find in Mr. Willkies book to
protest?" my friends asked.
The basic idea; the fundamental principle It
set forth; the premise that Mr. Willkie adopted
when he wrote the book; the reason for writing
it; namely, the conclusion that nearness makes
oneness. Mr. Willkie has deluded himself and
obviously also deluded a great number of my
good readers.
Distances never have had anything to do
with unity. You may have lived next door to
two neighbors for 20 years, barely spoken to
one and have become very close to another
' but not nearly so attached as to a friend who
lives on the other side of town, or perhaps
one in Canada or Labrador.
Oneness is made out ot something more spirit
ually substantial than distance. It comes from
similarity of ideals. - habits, customs, methods
of living.
Proximity Not Friendliness
IF A Chinaman happened to live next door to
you and you did not understand his way of
life, the proximity would not in itself lead you
to be friends. But if you happened to be a fel
low Chinaman, or a person who knew the
Chinaman's way of life intimately, you might
become close friends and might establish a
basis of unity.
Nations are only groups of people In a world
neighborhood, and always have been. We have
lived many years an equal distance from both
Mexico and Canada. With Canada, we share
a valid bond of friendship; with Mexico, we
never have.
Therefore, Mr. Willkie has erred grievously
in his primary idea. He is just plain wrong in
his initial assumption that whereas this was
many worlds before, the plane has made it one
world. It is the same old. world, and, as dis
tances have had nothing to do with the estab
lishment of our International friendships of the
past, they will have, nothing to do with it in
the future. ;
We like people who like us, who share our
views, hopes, and expectations, and we will
always continue to like such people and dislike
others, regardless of how fast a few can fly
back and forth.
Mr. Willkie's error Is grievous, because if we
now base our hopes of peace on a false assump
tion we will not only be disillusioned sadly,
but we are likely to have more international
- troubles as a direct result, perhaps even war.
Only a thoroughly realistic peace can be a last
ing peace.
New Factors
'THE plane, to be sure, will bring new com'
I mercial and military factors into the post
war wona. some say u may be possible for a
debutante to order a gown straight from Paris
by a mail order catalogue for a weekend party.
Many people certainly will fly to England in
eight hours. A great many people will use the
plane for passenger service Instead of boats
and it is possible 'commercial travel will event
ually develop to an extent not known before.
From a military standpoint, it will also be
necessary, for our protection, to acquire bases
throughout the world from which we may
intercept possible air attacks on us.
But these are not the things Mr. WJJlkla was
... fi fe lf ii talking about. He spoke of political unity as a
AlOUC Rf&nmri TnCk Al OUt primary assumption, but the prospective use
,w"" of the plane commercially and militarily does
not itself justify such an assurance.
Vila over by the mountain. Usu
ally pretty hot spot. We'll know
In a minute."
Miller banks the bomber and
we start thundering over the
Japanese runway at medium alti
tude. A tiny cloud floats be
tween us and the target but
bombs crash below with brilliant
flashes. A fire starts and we
thunder on.
The Japanese must have been
asleep. We didn't see any
searchlights or anything but the
smoldering fire.
We were over Munda six min
utes later. Lieut. Hughes aims
for the revetment near the run
way. Our bombs splash fire and
we are away over the water.
Five Japanese searchlights pop
on, but grope in the sky in the
opposite direction from us.
Back into the storm we
plunged and had a rough two
hours ride towards Guadalcan
al. The crew and officer were
glum- They'd wanted to show
me some excitement a shoot'
tag war with alj the fireworks.
The bomber dropped down be
low the overcast and search
lights swept the sky from. Tulagi
and Henderson field.
"Air rifd," says Miller solemn
ly, "can't land now. Maybe
we'll catch Washing Machine
Charley in the air and shoot him
down."
One searchlight caught us, rec
ognized us and swept on. Two
flashes shown from Tulagi eith
er bombs or ack ack. We went
By PAUL MALLON
'ASHTNGTON, May 6 A substantial num
ber of constant readers took pens in
hands and jabbed some into me for my column.
published April 23, criticizing
Mr. Wendell Willkie's fast-sell
ing book "One World."
The amount of critical mall
was as heavy as I have ever
received in protest against a
column, some saying it was
the only column with which
they had disagreed so sharply
in many a year.
Generally, they' pointed out
Mr. Willkie advanced no wild
new notions of post-war. but
merely set forward a reasonable, restrained ac
counting of his experiences in flying around
the world in 49 days, and he concluded that
tha plane had brought the nations of the
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MALLON
These factors are just as apt to lead to rivalry
as oneness. Certainly if rivalry is to ba avoided
entirely, the world politicians will have to
remake human nature, not only1 here at home
but chiefly abroad.
What I would consider more Important than
Willkie's views is what Stalin- thinks about the
future use of the plane and its political effect.
And those of Mr. Churchill's one British em-
' pire. '
A few readers accused ' me of trying to
"smear" Willkie. I have never smeared any'
one. Smear tactics have been so notoriously
pursued in several instances, of lata years that
they should arouse the outraged Indignation of
every man regardless of whether the smeared
one is right or wrong.
Democracy is a debate to which falsa ideas
should be smeared never the personal dignity
of the individual.
Rain Wets Down South Pacific Bomber
Sweep Over Japanese at Kahili Island
By OLEN CLEMENTS
ABOARD A BOMBER OVER
BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND, Sol
omons, April 26 (Delayed) (VP)
The waning moon has Just risen.
Dead ahead is an ominous
black cloud. Lightning licks out
at us.
Pilot Lieut. Robert F. Miller
of Elmyran, N. Y., glances at the
cloud and frowns.
"It looks like it might rain,"
he says to Co-Pilot Lieut. How
ard J. Ladd of Detroit, Mich.
It does rain five minutes later.
It wasn't Just an ordinary rain.
It was a South Sea screamer
storm that blew and the rain
felt like the B-24 was under a
waterfall. The plane bucked
and squirmed on towards the
Japanese base.
"We were the lead plane of a
long file scheduled to hit Kahili
airport every five minutes for
three hours in fading moonlight.
The rough weather got worse.
V7a climbed. It got colder and
rougher. The rear gunners be
side open hatches took down
what looked like old-fashioned
underwear,' back window and
all, and slipped it on over their
clothes. Then they donned cov
eralls to get warm. Up through
the bomb bay came Sgt. George
Martin of Danville, 111., and said:
"Lieut. Miller says Just make
yourself at home. We ought to
be over Kahili In a few minutes."
Sgts, Lee Laughlin of Nowa
tack, La;; Jim Hoffman of Ly
kens, Pa., and Joseph Michaelak
of Chicago unlimbered their
guns. Sgt. Robert Lundy, Myr
tle Point, Ore., engineer, fiddled
with some electrical switches on
the flight deck. Navigator Lieut.
Harold Thayer, Portland, Ore.,
checked charts while extra Navi
gator Lieut. Milford Stephens,
Denver, double checked him.
Flight Bombardier William D.l
Hugnes, bpoKane, wash., stepped
up on the bomb bay catwalk and
began pulling pins from bombs.
1 mosey through the flight
deck and stand behind the pilot
and co-pilot. Both are peering
straight ahead. It is as black as
the insldes of a cow outside. No
one says a word. I begin to think
of many stories I've been told ot
South Pacific pilots flying into
such storms and never being
heard from again.
Then I remembered that
Group Commander Col. William
A. Matheny, Spokane,' Wash.,
said that Raunchy Miller would
get back from the mission if
anybody got back.
The bomber begins to pitch
violently. Rain pours in through
leaks in the top and sides.
"Well," Miller sighs, "it's no
use, hate to disappoint you, but
we can't get in. Maybe the boys
behind us will make it later,
He turns the plane around and
says: "Let's try Vila and Mund
airports. ' No use lugging these
bombs back it we can hit some
Japs with them."
We buck the storm another
halt an hour. It's a rough ride
and at times I'm afraid the plane
is going to pieces in the wind.
Suddenly there is a break In
the clouds. We burst out into
the moonlight over the island
"Kolambangara," says Sgt,
Martin, "Purty, ain't she. There's
SIDE GLANCES
1 . IbSfe dA)
eC9 1W wt HVl MVlf J INT. T U Mn (l PAT. OA
Yes. bill I'm utmost old piiniiL'h lo enlist in Ihn Miirinesl
1 1 feel like Benedict Arnold when everybody asks how"
my sister doing in the WAACsl
out over the channel for a few
minutes and came in when the
all clear was given.
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Footprinters to
Hold District
Meet at Cal-Ore
The annual district meeting of
Footprinters will be held Tues
day, May 18, at Cal-Ore tavern
with Dunsmuir, Yreka, Medford
and Klamath Falls chapters
represented. Sgt. Lester Finley
of the United States marines,
president ot the local chapter,
will preside.
Dinner will be served at 8
p. m. and provided by Yreka
and Dunsmuir chapters, with
entertainment by the Medford
and Klamath Falls groups.
Telling
The Editor
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WEEDS ON ALAMEDA
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the Editor) Yesterday over the
radio I heard two gentlemen
talking about taking care of
weeds. Now I think if the city
council members will come
along Alameda avenue from Erie
street to the Hillside hospital mid
see the weeds along the cunnl
that we all love to look ot and
fight all summer and full, some
thing will be done about it.
We all have nice homes along
this street and are trying to
have nice lawns and also gar
dens, and we can't have them if
those weeds are allowed to con
tinue year after year. Some of
us asked the park men to use
their gas lawn mower on It, but
they Informed us that tho yucd
patch belonged to the city.
Can't we have something dons
about ItT It could be mowed
now and wouldn't hnve weeds
over two feet high this full with
seeds blowing every place. It
would be better to lot some ono
use it for a potato patch than to
let it grow up into weeds.
How about it?
MRS. HARRIS SHEPHARD,
333 Alameda Ave.
In 1042, the National Safoty
council says, 2000 persons were
killed and 4700 injured in grade
crossing accidents. Tho motor
ist must assume mujor respon
sibility for preventing these accidents.
SHERIFF'S POSSE
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The Klumath sheriff's posse
made plans for Its summer activ
ities at a meeting held Wednes
day evening.
It was announced the posse
will rldo In the Slop Forest Fires
parudo Friday noon, with all
members mooting at tho fair
grounds at 11 a. m. to assemble
at Balslger's gnrage In time for
the parade. Women members
may rldo In tho parado.
Twenty-seven attended the
Wednesday evening dinner ut the
Pelican cafe, at which plans
woro mndo for holplng In cele
bration of the Fourth of July
here.
A ride will be hold Muy 10.
with both men and women rid
ers leaving the fairgrounds at
0 a. m. In churgo aro Vic
Douglas, Wliltey Goodwin and
Debs Polls.
Although thoy hnvn six legs,
dragontllos cannot walk.
GRAY HAIR
TURNING DEEP BLACK
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short time. 1 noticed my (V M
gray hair turning to A Jsw Bfc
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