HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Jimo 29, 1943
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CHICAGO, III. (Special Correspondence)
In the first installment of these chronicles
we said that service men on the trains are
pleasant ana interesting com
pany! When we wrote that we
didn't know the half of it.
Last night, coming in on the
last leg of our trip to Chicago,
three of Uncle Sam's sailors
staged an entertainment pro
gram in the lounge car that
would grace any radio broad
cast.
This trio, piano accordionist,
a cometist and a cantone
singer, stayed with it for
about three hours until the steward turned the
lights down at 12:30 and sent the entertainers
and an appreciative audience off to bed.
It was quite a jam session, with everybody
Joining in on familiar numbers. The impro
visions had professional quality and one of the
sailors remarked to us: "You'd never believe
I'd joined the navy to get away from music."
The service songs "Caissons," "Anchors
Awaigh," "Halls of Montezuma" and the "Air
Corps Song," got the most enthusiastic audience
participation, of course. The "Air Corps Song"
really shook the car, which was well filled
with men of the corps. But it was "Anchors
Aweigh" that the lads played with the most
feeling.
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Morals on Trains
INCIDENTALLY, one hears many stories of
loose moral conditions on the trains nowa
days, but we have crossed the country to
Chicago and have observed nothing out ot line.
They say that some loose women ride the
trains incessantly to play the ancient trade
among the service men. On our train there
was evidence of a blossoming romance or two,
but certainly no indication of professional ac
tivity. Likewise, there was little train drinking.
Having sat for three days steady and ob
served several score soldiers, sailors and
marines under travel conditions, we salute them
as a clean and wholesome lot of youngsters,
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Nostalgic Reminiscences
WE spent most of yesterday deep in nos
talgia. Responding at last to a yearning of many
years standing, we visited the town in the
Nebraska corn country where we spent the
tender years from four to ten years of age.
It took a side trip from Grand Island to reach
the old home town of York, but it was worth
it.
York is, no doubt, much like a hundred other
prairie country county seats. The business dis
trict centers around a courthouse square, where
corn country farmers park their cars while
they trade at the stores which run strongly
to feed, seed and hardware businesses. The
brick-paved residential streets are deeply shad
ed by old trees, and the houses are a mixture
of old fashioned square box types, a little
Victorian gingerbread and modern design.
The residential district sidewalks are atroc
ious, being chiefly of brick that was laid on this
ground before we left nearly 30 years ago.
Reminiscent also of our time in York were
the old fashioned hitching rings still to be seen
here and there on York streets. Some are sunk
in curbs, and others are in concrete balls on
concrete blocks. As a child, we regard these
latter as certain evidence of the eminent pres
tige of the home before which they stood. To
day, most of these homes are either gone or
are in sad repair. The once elegant grounds
being over run with weeds and ancient, un
dipped shrubbery.
One time, as a small lad, we lost three
precious pennies when standing on our hands
in a parking. Always after that, until we de
parted for Oregon, we always stopped at that
spot to hunt in vain for those pennies. Yester
day, we found the weed-grown parking, and
we took one last look. It would make a story
for the AP's "Hashes of Life" if we had found
a penny there. But no luck! M. Z.
SIDE GLANCES
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News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, June 29 The war infor
mation man, Elmer Davis, spoke out
angrily against Washington newsmen, saying
they did not publish his announcements of the
great productive feats of gov
ernment. Well, a batch of Mr. Davis'
handouts has just arrived at
my desk, not an exceptional
or especially selected batch,
just a dozen of the usual run
of the Davis' mine.
On top is an announcement
headed "Prosthetic Devices,"
reading:
"To counteract threatening
MALLON ' local, shortages of false teeth,
artificial eyes and limbs, and similar pro
ducts, the office of price administration today
revised the method by which manufacturers
may apply for adjustment of maximum prices
on these commodities."
It goes on for 300 words, but that first para
graph was enough for me.
Next was an announcement that the war
production board had approved a plan for pro
ducing 100,000 domestic food dehydrators "be
fore September 1," but I can see this is of
little interest to my readers bent primarily these
days on ascertaining where is that steak before
September 1.
The department of agriculture, then, has sev
eral thousand words about various subjects,
headed:
"Why Canned Milk Was Rationed," "What's
behind the Ice Cream Situation?" and "Put
More Punches in Wartime Lunches."
Unfortunately, none of these questions or ad
monitions was answered in the handout. The
only thing in it, which interested me, was a
speech by Paul Appleby, agriculture under sec
retary, who said two-thirds of the people of the
world did not have enough to eat, and that
"this normally unsatisfactory situation is great
ly aggravated by war."
I read this eagerly because I wanted to know
how Mr. Appleby found out two-thirds of the
people of the world were .hungry before the
war. He did not tell, and I judge, from his long
discussion, that he and the agriculturists did
not conduct a census but had merely decided
the diet of two-thirds of the people was not
what some agriculture department experts
thought it ought to be, and, therefore, two-thirds
of the world was judged "hungry."
In other words, Mr. Appleby decided what
everyone should eat, and thereupon concluded
they were underfed.
Uninteresting Legal Verbiage
THEN came one-half dozen announcements
which would hardly cause even Walter
Winchell to yell "flash" or "stop the presses."
All were files of Inexplicable legal verbiage
such as this one: !
"The effective date provision of amendment
No. 5 to revised maximum price regulation No.
148 is amended to read as follows." Blah, blah,
blah.
Finally, the batch contained a federal power
commission announcement only of interest to
Pine Bluff, Ark., and something from Price
Administrator Brown concerning a protest filed
by 14 Detroit owners of rental property against
the office of price administration's housing
rent regulation.
No self-respecting newspaper would print
any of it If Mr. Davis himself, as a radio
commentator, had broadcast such stuff to the
people of this country, he would not have
lasted beyond one broadcast
This representative feafeh -r,D,..i..
plete evidence of what all Washington news
papermen Know (ana, indeed, Mr. Davis himself
knows if he can still think from a public stand
point) that the handouts of his centralized gov
ernment press bureau, OWI, are a mass of
trivialities of no general concern or interest.
Waste of Time
NO doubt they must be Issued for specific
minor purposes, but it is a waste of time
for newspapermen generally to read them, much
less publish them.
Mr. Davis talked straight when he came into
the government. He said clearly then that the
need of the situation was more news. But
within two months, he was talking the opposite
side of the story. Something about Washington
bureaus always infects even the best of new
coming, clear-sighted officials with local jaun
dice and astigmatism almost immediately.
Since then, Mr. Davis' thinking (in public at
least) constantly has degenerated until he talks
like his aspiration was to become a left-wing
political leader rather than a fair-minded dis
tributor of more and more Information from
government on the state and condition of the
war.
Convicted of Killing Self
Samuel H. Pullen, a banker of
Edenton, N. C, shot himself with
a pistol and was found guilty by
the coroner's jury of having
committed first degree murder
upon himself "at the instigation
of the devil" in 1828.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
RAPID RECUPERATION
A blood donor's blood Is usual
ly fully replenished within six
or seven weeks after a pint ha
been taken from his veins.
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mighty fine looking Horse, own.
cd by Eddie Nelson of SoaUlo.
"My, Impulse, a beautiful bay
mare, who might v'trmpt most
anyone to look up. Lynn Roy
croft looks to see if tho pari-mu
tuel will be working. "Panlpnt,"
a brown gelding, also, will give
you a trip to tho mutuol win.
dow when his number shuw.i up.
About this tlmo somo one yelled
'chow'. N. B. Drew was chair
man of the committee that put on
the feed bag for tho gang. Dcbbs
Potts and Charles Drew woro on
this luncheon committee, too,
and they had just about tho nic
est lunch I ever tasted, but,
somehow, I'll bet their wives did
the fix In'.
'Doc' Greer Glu.icoc was so
busy he couldn't stop to cat.
I just mot so many pcoplo and
had so much fun, I hope yuu nil
come out for the real show the
Fourth. Let's help the people by
supporting their show. Guy
Barton, 'Snuffy' Scrruys and Vic
Douglas will get tho racing
horses on the track for each race,
so there will be no waiting on
your part for entertainment.
Good Bye now, United States
War Bonds.
Peekin' 'Round the Paddocks
By BETH CHASE
This is Rodeo week, folks,
which brings big sombreros,
high heeled boots, and fringed
leather out to prove "The West
Still Lives."
Sunday was not a day of rest
or relaxation for Sheriff Lloyd
Low and his enthusiastic posse
gang. This fine bunch of horse
minded and out-door enthusi
asts were out at the fairgrounds
getting things in shape for the
activities and fun being planned
for the coming rodeo, July 4 and
S. Hammers and saws in hand,
they were not the kind of cow
boys one would expect to see on
celluloid, but this hard at work
ground committee were Sheriff
Low, Dale Mattoon, Jack Gove.
Cecil Brown, Harry Miller, Ho
mer Stillwell, Jack Perry and
Lee Ackerman.
I grazed around while this
committee erected a judges'
stand, tote board, fences and
such, when I noticed a little
group of fellers kinda' by them
selves. They turned out to be
the judges' committee, all fami
liar to you folks as E. P. "Pat
Ivory, N. B. Drew and Dr. J. M.
Hilton. Starter Lenhart was In
the party, and they were getting
things shaped up for the racing
I sorta' listened long enough to
find out there will be four races
daily with a purse of $125 for
each race, entry fees added.
"That ain't hay." One of these
races will be a cow-horse race,
while the other three are for the
track ponies.
Lee Hunter from the Edge-
wood ranch at Swan lake, rode
by on his cow-horse "Jitter
Bug," with confidence written
on his face that he'd give all
comers some stiff competition.
Across the way a little ways
was really somethin'. Two pret-
The Green Guard ... ,
Here's the gist of a little talk I
made to a group of boys and
girls aged from 10 to 15, in
Grays Harbor the other night:
"You all want some part in the
war effort. But at your ages you
are barred from most forms of
service. It's a shame, for no
American has more patriotism
than you, and you, and you.
"Well, in this forest commun
ity there is war work for your
hands and eyes. It is guard duty
against forest fires. The army
and navy are making a drive to
get more loggers back to the
woods, to overcome the shortage
of lumber, plywood and pulp.
Summer forest fires can stop log
ging, may force loggers to halt
work to do fire fighting. Forest
fires may make smoke screens
for Jap attacks. Forest-fire 'sky
glowr may guide enemy planes,
"Guard duty is a first duty of
the soldier. The eyes of boys and
girls are as good or better than
the eyes of grown men for de
tecting the smoke of fires when
they start. You can serve as sol
diers serve by joining together
as a Green Guard in the war."
Where Fires Start . . .
Most forest fires start in
towns, I told the kids. The point
was emphasized with a package
of cigarettes and a book of
matches held up. before them
People buy these sources of fire
in town before going to the
woods. It is right in town, and
on the way from town to the for
ests, that smokers and campers
should be cautioned about the
summer danger of matches, cig
arettes and campfires.
The group was asked how
many had fathers or other rela
tives who could let them use
saws, hammers, paint and brush'
es to make fire-warning signs to
post all along the roads leading
from the Harbor towns to the
woods. Eight or more hands
went up.
The kids were told how to go
about making signs for roadside
posting, and reminded that they
should be guided by the Ameri
can Legion forest marshal, Scout
master, 4-H club leader, or other
adult authority in putting up
their product.
The response was really won
derful. With all their hearts and
souls our boys and girls who are
too young for war jobs, and too
old to play soldier, want to get
into this fight.
Before the meeting ended,
each youngster was given a num
ber of fire-warning cards to stick
in the windshield wipers of park
ed automobiles. Outside the
street was lined on both sides
for two blocks with cars it was
high-school graduation night.
Every parked car bore a forest-
fire warning card In no time.
There's your answer to "Juve
nile delinquency." Give 'em
something to do, and be sure it is
something real.
Junior Foreit Wardens . . .
For three yean the Keep
Washington Green committee
has fostered a program to organ
ize councils of Junior Forest
Wardens in every forest center
of the state. Last year the Keep
Oregon Green association form
d the "Green Guards," to enlist
kids in its fire-prcvention drive.
In each state this was a long
range proposition, focused on ele
mentary education in forestry.
This year we have a duty to
children who want war service,
but whose age stands against
their regular employment. There
is a real place for them In the
vital forest front, where fire in
the summer months will be an
axis ally that may strike with
terrible force.
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Into war bonda, stop In at the po't I'dlco to make their regular
purcliue. As members of the U. S. Navy, thny receive overseas
Jy tor serving at this sullen nlthouiili It is their home.
From the Klamath Republican
June 23, 1903
Mrs. J. A. Houston, accompan
ied by her daughter, Vera, and
son, John, left Sunday for Quit
man, Mo., where she will visit
her mother. They will also take
in the St. Louts exposition.
Rumor has It that the Califor
nia train robbers have been seen
in the north end of Alkali valley
near Dairy.
Mrs. Josie Welscnhofer and
son Frankie, are visiting with
Mrs. Frank Ward.
From the Klamath News
June 29. 1933
Mitchell Tlllotson was named
vice president of the Alturas Ro
tary club.
Battery D of the, 240th coast
artillery, returned " from two
weeks' summer training at Fort
Stevens. About 60 men attend
ed camp. ' The guard paraded
downtown after - leaving the
train, headed by the Sea Scouts.
Mrs. Frank Sexton and little
daughter, Patricia, returned
from a visit In St. Paul, Minn.
AIRLINERS AID MINING
For many years the Cotabam-
bas gold fields in the lofty Andes
of Peru remained undeveloped
because heavy mining equipment
could not be transported through
the jungles and over the un
bridged rivers of that part of
South America. Huge airliners
have since carried in all the
heavy machinery used in this
work.
JUPITER'S ERUPTIONS
According to the theory of S.
Vsessviatsky, of the Astronomi
cal Institute of Moscow, many
comets that appear In the night
may be the product of eruptions
from the surface of the planet
Jupiter.
Lucky Japs Are Taken by
Americans Unlucky Ones
By South Pacific Natives
A couple in Mansfield, O.,
were married on horseback. And,
naturally, started down the
bridle path.
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Heart ot Hitler's western industrial' area Is this Ruhr-Rhine region
target of the heaviest allied raids of the war. Thousands of tons
of blockbusters have fallen on the bombed cities shown on map -as
the RAF blasts area from which comes much of the steel, chemi-,
cals, synthetic oil and munitions tor' the German war machine.
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SEATTLE, Juno 2D W Jap
anese soldirrs who aro taken
prisoner by American forces in
the South Pacific are lucky.
Those captured by bands of
pro-ally natives "are in pretty
bad shape after being held by
head-hunters for a couple of
months.'' ,
So said Major Ferdinand Bish
op, USMC, a member of the staff
of Admiral Willlom F. Halsey
Jr., commander-in-chief of allied
forces In tho South Pacific In an
interview here yesterday. Major
Bishop Is in charge of all pris
oners taken In that area. .
Of the prisoners themselves,
Major Bishop asserted, "they are
Just like members of any othor
race."
Under their Samurai code, ho
explained, they would rather die
than bo captured in battle, but
after they are captured and cool
off "life is Just as dear to them
as to anyone else."
Despite the reports of brutal
treatment of Americans captured
by tho Jiipanciie, all Jnpnneae
prisoners In the South Pacific
have been treated strictly In ac
cordance with the provisions of
tho Geneva convention, Major
Bishop said.
But ho added, the Japanese
don't get the benefit of tho Gen
eva convention when they are
captured by native bands, most
of them pro-ally.
'Tho natives may not feed
thrm more than once a week,"
Major Bishop said. "They keep
their hands tied, until, In soma
cases, tholr hands are actually
atrophied. The prisoners are
pretty happy when Ihry'ro turn
ed over to us after being held
by natives for a while."
Despite American successes of
the last few months, the armies
of the Mikado still nre, confident
of ultlmuto victory, Bishop said.
"They still feel theirs Is a
holy war and In the end will be
decided Jn favor of the Japanese
empire." he said.
Typhoid Vaccination Guards
Against Wartime Epidemics
By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS
Written for NEA
Shortage of doctors and the
necessity of keeping clvlllon
health standards high make pre
ventative measures against dis
eases doubly important. Vac
cination against typhoid Is one
of the best ways to guard against
wartime epidemics.
The recent floods throughout
largo areas of the country en
hance the danger of typhoid
fever to the civilian population.
The armed forces stationed In
theso flood areas have been pro
tected by typhoid vaccine, but
the usual sanitation of water,
milk, ancV food supplies have so
reduced the danger in civil life
that many have not felt this ex
ccllent precaution necessary or
have neglected to maintain their
resistance by repeated vaccina
tion. .
The usual protection of the
water, milk and food supplies is
broken down in tho presence of
flood conditions, when water
sources may be contaminated
with the typhoid bacillus, for in
floods, pumping stations are In
undated, filtering plants are con
taminntcd, and Impure water
may be used to clean milk palls
and food.
DECREASE OF DISEASE
In 1900, typhoid fever struck
about 35 persons in each 100,
000 of the population. In 1040,
there were only 9058 In the
whole United States. This mark
ed Improvement followed the de
velopment of knowledge regard
ing the methods of transmission
of the disease and the exercise of
great care In the protection of
water supplies, the pasteuriza
tion of milk, and improved sani
tation of foods.
From this greatly reduced
number of cases, however, epl.
demies can and will develop
from Interruptions in the sani
tary technique, unless Individual
people are protected by vaccina
tion. Typhoid fever is an acute In
fection caused by a germ known
as tha Bacillus Typhosus. This
germ can bo recovered from the
blood and excretions of a person
seriously sick with the disease.
After the germs are taken Into
the body, from 10 to 14 days
elapse, during which time the
germs multiply and give off
their poisons.
Tho illness then begins with
the customary symptoms of In
fection, such as headache, pains
throughout the body, loss of ap-
PROMPTLY RELIEVES TORTURE OP
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(due to external cause)
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petite, and exhaustion. Some
times chills occur, ushering in a
gradually rising fever.
Tho Infection Involves the In
testinal tract primarily, and In
addition to disturbing the action
of the bowels, tends to cause ul
ceration, occasionally perforat
ing tho bowel wull, bringing on
peritonitis, or eroding a blood
vessel with the resulting hem
orrhage, 'lucre are numerous
other complications, but even
without complications, the aver,
age duration of the UUiess u in
excess of ono month.
EMERGENCY PRECAUTIONS
During the emergency of flood
conditions, all water should be
boiled, and milk pasteurized, But
most Important of all, each per
son should assume the responsi
bility of protecting his health
and that of others also by vac
cination. Tho vaccine Is made from kill
ed typhoid germs, and Is given
In threo injections at intervals of
one week. Ono comploto vaccin
ation confers Immunity that Will
last at least two and often three)
years.
Vaccination Is purely preven
tive, and not ot use in treatment.
The diseusc, once developed, of
course, requires competent medi
cal caro and nursing. ,
How to Know Whether an Ail
ment is Serious ... Dr. Thomas
D. Masters gives helpful advice
daily in this newspupcr.
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Paul O. Landry
this question!
"Do I have to prove fi
nancial responsibility for
even a MINOR automobile
accident? What are the
penalties for not comply,
ing with the law?"
For Information on any
Insurance problem, consult
THE LANDRY CO.,
419 Main St. Phone 5612
: The Courthouse Is Now
One Bloek Down the
Street From Our Office.
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