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Br MALCOLM EPLEY
THE Lake county proposal for reclamation
of 200.000 acres of Goose lake bed as a
post-war development directs attention to the
great possiomiica uu
Avin.,cinn in this ecneral sec-
tion of southern and south
central Oregon.
Lake's proposition, as ex-
plained to the Oregon posv-
a war readjustment and develop
ment commission this week, is
4m KIdc nut a rim rock and
I V I 1 dig a ditch which would drain
I V A I 1 the lake into the Pit river.
UmmASsk itA Tne timely planning in Lake
EPLEY county should serve as a re
minder for all civic and development groups in
this region to get busy on land use extension.
The Sprague River valley development, the
reclamation and greater use of lands adjoining
Upper Klamath lake, and the permanent open
ing of added lands in the Tule lake sump are
three of a number of projects that come to
mind in this connection.
Some excellent work has been done on land
use planning in connection with the agricul
tural outlook conferences held here in the
last decade. Now is the time to get these
surveys out of the files, to study them in the
light of post-war construction programs, and
to develop a vitalized land development, pro
gram for the Klamath-Lake country.
Incidental!', the probability of extensive con
struction to take up an anticipated employ-
ment slack after the war, fits importantly into
the suggested plan for opening the Tule lake
sump area to homesteading.
Skeptics, in commenting on what has been
said on this page in recent . months on this
subject, have indicated that the project would
call for some additional construction work,
such as the enlargement of the Lost river
diversion canaL In view of the large benefits
promised, such a construction program as a
post-war measure, would be logical and justi
fied. We shouldn't let too much grass grow under
our feet. In any consideration of the future
of the Klamath country, agriculture has a most
. prominent place. Land use extension is agri
cultural extension.
News Behind ihe News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, June 16 The peril on the
home front was adequately presented
recently by the simultaneous announcements
issued by the government bur
eaus in charge.
A simple understanding of
the confused administrative
dangers can be obtained by
just putting these official
statements side-by-side.
Labor Secretary Perkins
announced a survey by her
women's bureau had disclosed
thousands of war workers in
adeauatelv fpri ami h 1001
MALLOW mass feeding in lunches at the
plants. Absenteeism she traced to debility ane
mia and Indigestion, due primarily to "inade-
3St
quate supply of food at place of work."
On that same day, Donald Nelson announced
that the goods upon which war workers and
civilians live will have to be cut another 20
per cent from existing rations by the end of
the year.
At precisely that moment, also, the war de
partment announced it was taking 45 per cent
of the beef kill after June 14 for the army.
In short, the government proposes to cut
more of what the government says is already
inadequate, or at least inadequately distributed.
By varying and conflicting conclusions, it seems
to proclaim it has reached the point where it
cannot make both ends meet.
To top this qf (still the same day), the
national canners, in convention assembled,
heard that canneries were being closed because
increased wages would not permit profitable
operations even with subsidies.
To top this (also same day), the agriculture
department announced food production this
year would be far less than last year and less
than estimated.
Here then is the problem in all' its simple
reality not alone the problem of food, because
precisely the same elements of. trouble show in
many lines (gasoline, synthetic rubber, even
manpower and prices-wages, where both ends
similarly are failing to meet.)
The military is claiming first call, the home
front bureaus are beginning to worry and
doubt, and lend-lease is likewise grabbing sec
retly from the dwindling basket. What is need
ed is an equitable distribution among the three
apparently another redistribution.
If lend-lease or the military takes too much,
there would be a collapse or breakdown on the
home front, which is equally important with
the fighting front.
Only Solution
WHAT do you do in a situation like that?
The obvious and only possible solution
is to set an over-all authority which will trt-h
both points until they do meet, to make them
meet by strong arbitrary action.
It would be the duty of such an authority
to establish on a basis of reasonableness the
point at which the ends should meet the mini
mum requirements of all sides, and then crack
the whin to brinr them there, if it nnulm
cutting through all the gold braid and red tape
iu vvaanington.
Such an authority could reasonably require
the military and lend-lease to
waste, take only what is essential not neces-
mtiiy wwi iney iirsi asx, not wnat they would
like to have under abundance or for political
effect abroad. Someone must gauge mjnjmurn
civilian requirements as well, and meet them
also with the available suddIv.
Such an authority recently has been created,
but has not yet acted as far as anyone outside
knows from reading the conflicting government
auuiouncemenia.
The Byrnes-Baruch nvar.aTT mnM ... .it
the legal power in the world, but no one can
give 11 me necessary courage to make the
domestic economy work. It will first have to
break down the "lealoux rnrnut;7." .11
the interested government bureaus, and do its
re-aisoiDutions in such a fair and reasonable
way as to inspire public confidence in the re
sults u ooiains.
In short, it must find
lies and take the whole domestic war economy
w mat point wimout much more delay.
SIDE GLANCES
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EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
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eluding Gandhi and his crowd)
that doesn't seem to care much
who wins the war. His "prom
ii.es" of Burmese and Phillppino
independence are more eye
wash. It is India he is aiming at
(O
"We ouelil to keep the old town like it was when the boys
went to war. so if the people want me, I'm willing lo run
for mayor again l'"
West Coast Gasoline
Movement May Have
Subsidy, Says Brown
WASHINGTON, June 18 (JP)
frlce Administrator Prentiss
Brown disclosed in testimony
before the senate banking com
mittee today that he is discuss
ing with Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones the possibility of
applying transportation sub
sidies to facilitate the movement
of gasoline to the west coast.
Brown said that no subsidies
of this kind now are paid out
side the eastern petroleum
shortage area, but that he is
having discussions with Jones
"about the west coast situation."
He did not elaborate.
Quebec, Canada, has more
churches than any other city
on the American continent in
proportion to its size and popu
lation. Lollipops made of iron were
licked by members of an ob
scure Siberian tribe when they
needed a tonic.
Mahogany trees grow in trop
ical forests, one or two trees
to the acre.
Class one railroads of the
United States have more than
1,184,336 employes.
Convicts Prepare
Books for Mailing
SALEM, June 18 VP) About
one-third of the 1,000,000 copies
of ration book No. 3 are ready
iur mailing 10 uregon residents,
the state prison said today.
The convicts volunteered for
the Whole 1nh nf mailino .11 ih.
Oregon books. Sixty convicts
worK on a day shift, while 150
work at night. The books will
be mailed to about 45n nnn At.
zerent addresses.
The atmosphere is only one
half as dense at an altitude of
three and one-half miles as it is
at sea level.
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''-nlSa? a!.A RS , SfAK C H'. IfT5Mtt ". 0. (left) and Helen D.
Oarland, Los Angeles, Cal enjoy a ride in a Cout Guard natral boat at n im rv,..
Meailess Days Loom for
Consumers at Seattle
SEATTLE, June 16 W The
threat of meatless days loomed
today for Seattle's consumers.
Markets started closing yes
terday after the war boom city's
already scant supply was cut
drastically by a cessation of
operations in four of the city's
five packing houses because of
what operators said was ine
uncertainty of the government
subsidy program. Two packing
houses also were closed at
Yakima and one at Ellensburg.
Under the office of price ad
ministration price roll-back
plan, a compensating subsidy is
scheduled for the packers, to be
paid through the RFC's defense
supplies corporation.
With dwindling stocks in mar
kets, I. W. Ringer, secretary
of the Washington State Retail
Meat Dealers' association, pre
dicted that virtually aU of Se
attle's . retail markets would
have to close by tomorrow
morning.
An announcement by Secre
tary of Commerce Jesse Jones
yesterday said subsidy payments
would be on a monthly basis.
O. B. Joseph of the James
Henry Packing company, on
of the first to close here, said
packers should receive weekly
payments. He said payments
due his firm on the present
basis of operations would
amount to $30,000 monthly, and
delay in subsidy payments
would leave the firm without
operating capital.
W. L. Murphy, executive sec
retary of the Puget Sound Meat
Packers' association, declared
that the packers "can't go to
ine names and get operating ex
penses by saying the govern
ment is going to take care of
everything.
Even before the roll-back of
the packers' prices was ordered
by the OPA, packers here have
expressed acute dissatisfaction
with the price control policies.
iney nave insisted that the ceil-
ings imposed on them, in the
absence of any ceilings on what
they pay to the producers, has
meant actual losses for them on
every beef they handled. Fresh
beef has been a rare item in
retail markets here for several
months.
Zoot-Suiter Held on
Stolen Car Charge
GRANTS PASS, June 18 UP)
A 16-year-old Mexican, Estavan
Tovar, San Francisco, who
bragged that he is a zoot-suitcr.
was held in county jail Wednes
day under arrest after capture
Tuesday near Grave creek. With
Tovar is a 14-year-old run-away,
James Jeffers of Eureka.
According to Sgt. Lyle Har-
rell of the state police, Tovar,
driving a 1840 Buick coupe
stolen from Eureka, had at
tempted to purchase gasoline
without a ration book at a local
gasoline station. The operator
notified the police who chased
the pair to Grave creek where
their car went over a bank.
Tovar admitted stealing a car
in San Francisco for the first
part of the trip north, abandon
ing it near Eureka, and taking
the other car there, Sgt. Harrell
said.
The capstone of the Washing
ton monument is crowned by a
small pyramid of pure alumin
um weighing 100 ounces.
There is one accidental death
for every five minutes in the
year, according to calculations
of the u. s. Census Bureau.
The combined steel capacity of
the United States, British Em
pire and Russia is more than
twice the axis total.
So oily are the bodies of some
sea birds that a wick threaded
through them will bum like a
candle.
Part of Tennessee was called
the "State of Franklin" from
1774 to 1788.
UR planes bomb Rabaul,
In New Britain, MORE
HEAVILY than usual, leading
some observers to think we are
planning to go after it for blood.
Rubaul is Japan's second most
important base in the South Pa
cific, exceeded only by Truk.)
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If 1NG GEORGE shows up In
Africa.
He appears on the veranda
(porch to you) of an officer villa
at the edge of a Mediterranean
brarh. Thousands of British
soldiers swimming In the surf
see him, recognize him and head
for the sand, cheering wildly,
to get a close look at him.
The dispatches relate that he
came down the steps onto the
beach and mixed freely with the
men. laughing and talking. This
maneuver was not on the sched
ule and "caught his aides so by
surprise that he almost got away
from them."
That would have been tough.
a a
TIE sounds like a regular guy.
About the only criticism we
Americans can offer is that he
was BORN to his job instead of
ACHIEVING it by bis own ef
forts. "THERE'S an interesting side
1 light.
Two old Frenchmen on tho
beach, responding to the
emotional stimulus of the oc
casion, shout "Vive le roll" (long
live the king.)
When the excitement passes,
one looks sheepishly at the oth-
SNOOD HA T Stark whIU with Amtrlran Bul row. It
the dashlas color eomblnatioo of the wood hat worn by jvn
Winn Bta aVlmi. The straw braid h.l Is worn bark on the.
hS!A sUlkCbtac Tand wblta print dress completes her oulllU Q
er and says: "It's been a Ions
time since I've said those words."
a a a
WflTH a fourth term coming
along more or less Inevit
ably (unless an INSPIRED
LEADER appears miraculously
In the opposition) It must be con
fessed that these little demon
strations of how it Is done else
where have a certain interest for
us.
Frozen Foods May
Have Price Rise
WASHINGTON. Juna 18 M
Retail prices of frozen straw
berries and asparagus will rise
between ono and four cents t
pound, the office of price nd
ministration (OPA) said today
Prices of frozen snap brans,
corn, peas and spinach, how
ever, will be uni'hntiKPd. The
commodity credit corporation
(CCC) Is subsidizing snap brans,
corn and pras, and OPA said
it will not allow any Inrrrais
on spinach.
The liicrrar, effective on
1043 packs, will amount to one
cent a pound on frozen aspar
agus, and three to four rents
a pound on frozen strawbrrrlrs.
Armor plate comprises about
30 per cent of the total weight
of a light tank.
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