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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
June 25, 1948
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News Behind the News
By 'PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, June 25 The race riots
over the country (Beaumont, Los Angeles,
Detroit, Mobile) are being watched from Wash
ington with tightly drawn,
silent lips, but with much in
ner perturbation and comment.
It has become customary for
officials to lecture the hood
lums on both sides about law
and order, and the necessity
for being calm in strained
emotional periods of wartime,
but this does not seem to be
doing much good. It does not
even reach in the direction
of the causes or cure of the
tragic, expanding condition.
The ultra radical New York newspaper PM,
and the CIO publications, which either insti
gated or sensationally backed a movement, at
the start of the war, to get the negroes full
social and economic equality, swiftly, during
the domestic upset contingent with the war
effort, have taken the line since the riots that
they are inspired by fascists.
They mourned for a negro mother whose boy
was killed by white hoodlums in Newark, ig
noring news from a Georgia camp about one
white MP being killed and five white soldiers
maimed the same day, although all these men
also presumably had mothers.
One such edition of PM carried ten pages
of exciting (if not inciting) pictures depicting
the brutal, savage beatings of negroes, and
only one picture of an injured white man.
Their whole treatment of this humiliating situa
tion for both whites and negroes, holds the
white hoodlums solely responsible.
Causes Traced .
ONE of their writers suggests that the causa
of the trouble can be traced solely to
rumors, another says an incidental altercation
of a white and negro inspired outbreaks, etc.
Riots do not grow out of a rumor or many
rumors, or even isolated incidents, but out of a
general situation. First you must have an
explosive general condition in which such
sparks may ignite.
The riots do directly serve the cause of the
enemies of this country, but alert government
agencies have come forward with no proof of
a direct axis agent contact either with rumors
or riots. No one seems to know the true cause
of most of them. In one place, it is one thing;
in another, another.
But in all cases it is. a clash over the fights
of negroes and, of course, the very same radi
eal American sources who make these charges
re the ones who are championing a reform
of these rights to the fullest in the midst of
war.
Now no one is going to accomplish much
,good trying to talk common sense and truth in
the midst of a swirling situation like this. Yet
it will only make matters worse to blind the
country to the truth of the condition.
Any minority group of a white color In this
county, attempting aggressive action to elbow
its way to complete economic and social Justice
in the midst of war, would run into the same
thing which the radical negro movement has
encountered.
For instance, the white-collar workers have
suffered great economic setbacks from the war.
Their taxes and prices have risen tremendously
out of all comparison with their increase in
wages.
slve manner, they would run into the same
physical opposition.
Any minority group of any color, in any
country in the world during war, would en
counter the same spirit. Consider what would
happen, for instance, to a pacifist group, radical
members of which made revolutionary speeches
for their rights.
It must be apparent, therefore, that the solu
tion of these racial difficulties is not going to
be found if the counsel of the radicals on both
sides and their hoodlums is followed. A
temperate course is demanded not only by one
side but by both.
Such a course can be directed only by active
temperate leadership of negroes by negroes
and of whites by whites. Wiser counsels must
be made to prevail on both sides not just one.
A Thrilling Project
I1
N HIS interesting letter that appears on this
page today, Captain Neil F. Black (formerly
of Klamath Falls; now a medical officer with
the 445th Bombardment Group at Wendover
Field, in Utah) outlines an appealing project.
As a medical officer he knows something
about morale, and as an average, everyday
citizen he knows the effect of music, especially
band music, on the morale of marching men.
Did you ever march in a parade? If so, you
will remember that you were full of pep and
pride and enthusiasm if there was a band
somewhere up ahead, and, if there was no
band you were just another footsore, tired guy
who wished it was all over.
Captain Black wants music. But his bom
bardment group has no money with which to
buy band instruments (for with all the prodigal
expenditures of this war the army and the
navy are sharply limited as to what they can
have and what they can't have.) So he turns
to his home town to see what can be done
about it.
His colonel, he says, has- made him an in
teresting proposition. If the instruments can
be secured, they will be taken along when the
bombers of the 445th group go to war. They'll
go everywhere the bombers go, and at every
opportunity they'll be used to inspire and lift
the spirits of the men who fly and service the
bombers. At the end of the war, barring
casualties that are unpredictable, they'll be
engraved with a suitable inscription, showing
where they've been and the service they've
seen, and sent back to the donors.
j
SINCE writing his letter to this newspaper.
Captain Black has discussed with members
of the Klamath post of the American Legion
the idea of 4 loan of some of the Instruments
usea Dy me region g nation-xemous drum corps.
The idea, he says, has appealed to those with
whom he has talked, and it may be that a
meeting of the post -will be called to consider
the loan of the instruments.
SIDE GLANCES
' COwTlW 1Y Ht StWVICr. IMC T. M ttC U. 1. FAT. OfT. ,tff
"Since that liaiuisunie youns dentist wns drafted. Dr.
Brown is getting nil his old patients bnck I liopc he'.
x doesn't hold a grudge against us for leiiving him I" '.''
Varicose Veins Treated
With ijection, Ligation
Dr. Masters' Health Column
By DH. THOMAS D. MASTERS
Written rfo NEA
In wartime, when the full ef.
fort of each person is necessary,
preventable disability must be
avoided. Much can be done la
prevent disability due to vari
cose veins. This condition is
more common in women than in
men, frequently follows preg
nancy, ana is aggravated by
varicose vein is sometimes so
malnourished as to break down
and form an ulcer. Occasional
ly. the vein ruptures, and this
oreaK is followed by hemor
rhage.
The blood from the leg is car
ried back to the body through
two groups of veins. One group
lies deep in the tissues, and is
Swimming Saves Lives of
Service Men Yet Few Can
standing, so many of the new ; surrounded by muscle; the oth-
workers in industry may be ex- i er 45 situated just beneath the
HERE in the Klamath country, the drum
corps of the Klamath post of the American
Legion is an almost legendary organization. It
won so many state championships that in time
it became almost foregone conclusion that
when it entered a contest its competitors had a
mighty slim chance to win. No one has for
gotten, or is likely to forget the snap and the
precision of its drill maneuvers or the thrilling
lilt of its music.
In its heyday, it was known from one end
of the Pacific Coast to the other, and was far
from unknown throughout the entire country,
pected to develop varicose veins
Varicose veins are dilated,
elongated veins, usually of the
legs. The exact cause of vari
cose veins is unknown. Many
have noticed that they are more
frequent in some families than
In others, and therefore assume
that the tendency, at least is
inherited. They are also more
common among the obese than
those of normal weielit. The
fact that varicose veins often be
gin after pregnancy has led to
the assumption that increased
pressure on the veins in the pel
vis may be a factor in their
causation.
WHAT a thriller it would be if the Klamath
W Legion drum core's trumpets and drums
Solution Not PKvsieol should go to war with the 445th Bombardment
BUT if thev ,H.mnJ f . ,' '. v. Gr?up' e1" wl it bombers wherever
durL XbvTmath nn t enghts the P . faring with the men the
by MahatmrGhanrfr, !ftT ashu,gton' or of . providing for them the com-
l?ovtaGnlL".0Wn 7" fort and the inspiration .nd the uplift of
ii-" x ' i wgwiumg oei- martial music, and should finally return from
president
-in snort, if thev n h.i. ..i - ,.
conducted themselves in a physically aggre 3 th7p7 "SOT! rs to
Mismanagement
Charged in One
Ka iser Shipyard
14 MISMANAGEMENT ....e ..
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25
W) Charges of such gross mis
management of one Henry J.
Kaiser company shipyard that
not one ship has been delivered
in the more than a year tie yard
has been In operation were made
oeiore a nouse merchant marine
sub-committee here yesterday.
Alonzo Bryan, an auditor for
the U. S. maritime commission,
told the committee accounting
procedures at the Kaiser com-
pany's No. 3 yard in Richmond
have led to "one of the greatest
messes anyone could ever geti
into.
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Telling
The Editor
LMUn printM Mrt mat not M man
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TT. S. .4rmil Stnrutl (Inrn Phntn trnm Wil
jNo answer." Inquisitive American soldier finds neither Japs nor
water. in abandoned enemy vehicular water tank on a. South
.' Pacific. island ' - -
MUSIC FOR AIRMEN
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the Editor) While at home for
a few days' leave I should like
to communicate with you about
something of which I've been
thinking the past few weeks.
I am the surgeon for a heavy
bombardment group. In such a
group we have many men doing
different jobs. All of them are
straining to do these jobs to the
best of their ability against the
day when the bombers which
they tend will be carrying their
loads of men and explosives
ovc the enemy. These men are
all soldiers and are called unon
to march in many reviews and
formations. I have taken part in
these during the past few weeks
and there has been no march
ing music. I find that my group
is not given musical instru
ments as part of its basic allowance.
Have you ever noticed how
a change comes over marching
men when the band starts play
ing? Their chins come up and
their bellies come in and their
backs get as stiff and straight
as a 'tall pine tree. There is
fire in their eyes. Personally,
I would not like to tangle with
wen a bunch of men right I
VEINS BECOME VISIBLE
These veins are first recog
nized because they are plainly
visible, as dilated, tortuous ves
sels under the skin. Frequently,
they are assicated with a sense
of heaviness in the legs and an
increased tendency to fatigue.
Occasionally, there is sharp
pain; more commonly, the dis
comfort is described as a burn
ing sensation or a dull ache. The
discomfort is present during
standing or walking, and is re
lieved by lying down.
Itching and sometimes even
an eruption of the -skin of the legs
may develop,. because of stagna
tion of the blood and a resulting
Impaired circulation. For the
same reason, the skin over a
skin. Both groups of veins are
supplied with valvesv which nor
mally prevent the blood from
moving away from the heart. It
is the superficial group of veins,
lacking the support of surround
ing muscle, that dilate, and along
with this enlargement the valves
no longer close and check the
backward flow of blood.
In the standing or sitting posi
tion, the force of gravity pulls
the blood down into the dilated
vessel where it stagnates. This
stagnant blood impairs the nor
mal flow of the circulating blood
through the legs, and results in
a diminished supply of nutrition
to the tissue.
TREAT DURING PREGNANCY
Varicose veins developing dur
ing pregnancy should be treated
prophylactically by rest, with
the legs elevated during part of
the day, and by supporting the
veins with clastic bandages or
stockings for sitting or standing
The modern treatment by in
jection, or injection and ligation,
is highly successful in competent
nanas, and is accomplished while
tne patient is up and about. Thus,
no time need be lost from work
and much discomfort, disability,
ana time may be saved.
It's Patriotic to Keep Well .
Read Dr. Masters' daily advice
on matters of health.
about that time because they'd drums, since they are
be a tough bunch to cross. and could be carried
Musical instruments are hard 'easily by plane.
to get inese days, almost inv
possible to find, in fact, and I
wonder whether you might have
a suggestion as to how we might
obtain some.
Perhaps you may know of
some organization which would
like to enlist its instruments
for the duration. I spoke to my
colonel the other day about this
and he promised me that if
we could get instruments he'd
see that they would get space
in the bombers when we go to
war.
As you know, that means that
he, too, feels music is import
ant. He suggested that a suit
able engraving should necessar
ily be placed on each instru
ment and that every precaution
would have to be taken to pre
serve them and return them to
their owners at the end of the
war when the men were dis
charged. Of course, Instruments might
be lost or destroyed just as sold
iers are in a war, but that's a
chance that would have to be
taken.
I should appreciate any ideas
which you have as to how we
might obtain musical instal
ments, especially trumpets and
Sincerely yours,
JIEIL F BLACK,
Captain, Medical
lighter
more
Corps
Mitchell Bombers
Blow Up, Fire Jap
Base in New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, June 25 (PI Five
hundred pound bombs dropped
from Mitchell medium bombers
blew up buildings and started
huge fires yesterday at the Jap
anese base of Salamua, New Gui
nea.
A spokesman at headquarters
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
today the bombs fell among
"considerable" air Installations.
Salamua is on the Huon Gulf
only 12 miles above the jungle
sector where Japanese and al
lied troops frequently have en
gaged in patrol clashes. Today's
communique said the Japanese
troops in that sector have suf
fered over 200 casualties this
week in futile attempts to crack
allied lines. Allied losses were
described as "very light in proportion."
DANCE
EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
SKATELAND
615 Klamath Ave.
Music Pappy Gordon's Oregon Hillbillies
Auspices Veterans of Foroign Wars
By JOE PEAK
Director of Physical Education
Klamath Falls Schools
A lull young ninn in a navy
uniform stood bcsldo my desk
and, for a moment, I didn't
recognize him. Then he smiled
and 1 shouted, "L a r r yl
Whero'd you spring from?"
"The South Pacific," Larry
said.
"That so. Meet any trouble
down there?"
"Plenty of it, conch. And
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't
be hero. I want to thnnk you
for what you did for me."
"I Just don't follow you,
Larry" I said.
"Well, you mado mo Uvirn
to swim, didn't you? In tha
battle of Midway, our big
ship was torpedoed. 1 man
aged to swim to a Ufa rn(t.
Was I glad you made mo
learn to swim here at Berke
ley high school!"
I smiled. "But coach,"
Larry continued, "there, were
too many fellows on our ship
that couldn't swim. They
didn't get to the life rafts."
It was the same old story
again. Stories like the one
above, wo have heard all too
many times, stories about
boys i n the navy, i n the
marines, in the army, who
couldn't swim.
(The above excerpt was taken
from a current magazine.)
Not more than 10 ner cent
of the men in our fighting
forces are expert swimmers. Of
the other 90 per cent, a small
number- can swim a llttlo. but
the groat majority cannot swim
or wouia do unable In an
emergency to handle themselves
sufficiently well to save their
lives.
A swimming survey was
made this spring in tho Klam
ath Union high school. From
this survoy wo obtained the
following data: 35 per cent of
the senior boys could not swim.
27 per cent of the Junior
boys could not swim.
29 per cent of the sophomore
boys could not swim.
17 per cent of the freshman
boys could not swim.
It Is doubtful if 10 per cent
of the group that can swim
are expert swimmers and very
few would be able to remain
afloat for a five-minuto period.
Seventy-five per cent of the
senior graduates will probably
be in the armed service within
six months. Thirty-five per cent
of these boys cannot swim at
all and very few of these arc of
the 10 per cent class that are
expert swimmers. What will
happen to these boys if an
emergency should arise where
they are required to save their
lives by swimming.
This past spring the boys
slcal education department (It
tho proposed measure to lovy a
tux lor tho purchuso o( Sutler's
Niitutorluin is desired by the
voters) to give swimming In
structions to all students and
to make It a "must" for all
graduates.
It is planned that swimming
bo an important activity of our
physicul litnesa progrum which
Inis boon in operation the past
year. Tho girls of our high
school would recolve full ad
vantage of tho pool and an ex
tensive program would bo car
ried out for them as well as
for the boys.
Tho army, navy and murines
iiuvo recommended that all col
leges and high schools thut huvo
swimming facilities conduct
swimming prugrum not for tho
purpose- ot dcvelouinii oxnort
upeua swimmers with tho
thought that they may compete
In intcrschool contests, but to
niuKe li possible lor everv bov
to swim well cuoueh so that
no can protect his life later If,
a member of the armud
lorces, he finds himself forced
into tho sea.
At the state superintendent's
meeting held recently In Suiom,
tha recommendation of a swim
ming program in everv hliih
school that had available facil
ities was passed.
bwlmmlug as a recrcutlon Is
not to bo overlooked. Over 400
boys and girls (mostly non.
swimmers) have registered In
me city recreation cluuea.
These classes ore held Thursday
and Frlduy mornings in Bui.
lers Notatorlum. This lame
enrollment proves ulso that the
parents of the boys and girls
realize the Importance of swim.
ming as a prevention of a water
disaster. ,
Swimming as a body builder
of strength, endurance and
gracefulness is not surpassed by
any sport,
I sincerely hope that the vot
ors will Justly consider the
youth of our community when
the proposed tax measure is
voted upon June 28.
PRICE BASIS
FOR
L
06b NG
SERVICE TOLD
Klttmath'H
From.' rha file - 40 .. years
jj( ; 090. and 1 yean to!i!;!j,,l
A basis for establishing maxl-t
mum prices for logging services .
tho chnrgns a contractor may ;
muko for cutting timber not his
own wns announced today by ,
the office of price admlnistrsx
tion.
Tha busls became effective
Juno 23. Under this supplomon-.
tary rounlutlon, when a propositi
for dolliirS'iiiui-cents maximum .
prices for crmtraet logging In a ,
specific tlmbcr-euttliiK area Is ,
made, maximum prices for log.
King services muy bo suspended
In the area by OPA for 45 days '
while Industry groups prepare
proposed area ceilings, '
The suspension period may be ,
extended if it Is found that more
than -15 days ara needed to draw
up the proposed contract logging ft
services maximums. w
At tha conclusion of tha sus
pension period, the maximums
drawn for tho area, If approved
by the OPA, will become the
celling contract logging prices '
for the area.
Woman Convicted on
Mann Act Charge
WASHINGTON, June 25 W
A district court Jury today con-'
vletecl 2B yenr-old Carmen Bench
Martin on a Mann act chauga aft
er hearing tho government's ac
cusations that she hud supplied
young women "on cull for hotel
parties and that she catered to '
members of tho diplomatic corps.
Airs. Martin, black-hulred na
tive of Spain, professional rhunv,
ba dancer and proprietor of a
dress shop here, took tho stand f
yesterday In an elaborate white w
evening gown to deny the charge
she hod violated the Mann act
by sending young women In taxi
cnbs to keep dates with men In
fashionable hotels.
From the Klamath Republican
June 18. 1903
W. N. Wilson ond Thomas Mar.
tin left Sunday afternoon with
two rowbosts and a comp outfit
ior an outing on big Klamath
lake. They expect to make a
trip clear around the lake.
J. L. Vaden of the Klamath
physicol education department j Folls-Lakcvlcw stage line, has
made an optional offer to all
boys In the high school to teach
swimming to those that, could
not swim and gave advanced in
struction to those that could. A
series of 10 lessons of 40 min
utes each was given to the
classes, and the interest and ef
fort put out by the non-swim
mers was most gratifying.
Every non-swimmer was able to
swim and dive at the end of the
10 lessons. It was unfortunate
that some of our senior boys
(ones who will be and are now
in the armed forces) were not
able to enroll due to conflicts
in their school programs.
just received from Portland a
new mountain stage wagon. It
Is e three-seated hack with coach
top and Concord brakes and will
run between here and Bly. Mr.
Yaden has Just recently added a
new thorough-brace coach to the
Lakevicw end of the line.
J.'F. Gneller has the contract
for the building of a modern
cottage for Dr. H. B. Hargus on
his lot on Conger avenue. The
plans and specifications were
drawn by a Minneapolis concern
and provide for a swell modern
cottage with fireplaces.
J. O. Humaker of Bonanza, while '
playing with an old mower, let
the sickle drop and cut the fore
finger of his Irft hand nearly off.
Dr. Johnson was called In attend
ance and hopes to save the finger.
From tht Klamath News
June 23, 1813
Officers of the Klamath Coun.
ly Shcepherdrrs association,
asking a rulse In wngrs from $40
lo $(io per month, said the strike
would not be called off.
Mrs. W. L. Qulnn won the O
trophy at Reames presented by .
Mrs. R. W. Mer-er!iu.
The murring of Miss Sully
Taylor and Leslie Avrlt will be
solemnized at the R. R. Macart
ney home next Thursday.
Caroline Tllton and John L.
Fowler were married on June
21 at the home of tho bride's par
ents in Ashland.
It is the purpose of the phy- Mont Hamaker, young son of York.
Evil loves a vacuum. When
the devilish spirits of the dicta
tors are removed, we must
quickly fill the hearts of men
with good spirits and vital cre
ative courses. The youth of the
subjugated countries are as hur.
gry for hope as for food. Rev.
Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of New
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
"Mornin, Judf?e... meetln someone?"
"No, Sam, I'm just going up the line
aways on business. Wasn't that a troop train
that just pulled out?"
"Sure was, Judge... stopped over here for
ten minutes and what a swell bunch of
fellows they were."
"That's true all over, Sam. Our present
Army is the best trained, best disciplined,
best behaved in American history. That'i
why I get my hair up when I hear of some
people trying to dry up the areas around '
Army camps. Why, In a recent report madV
by the government, it said the Army usually
prefers its camps to be located ia wet in
stead of dry communities. And there's a
sound reason. In a wet community tha
Army can control drinking. In dry com
munities where bootleggers run wild it's al-'
most impossible. We know that from our
nearly 14 years of experience with national
prohibition.
. .!'.Per;'8 no 8ctl'" away from It, pro
hibition does not prohibit."
CmlmmeAlmUi, InduUrl,,, lm.