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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
Jujie SO, 1943
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Traveling Through
Br MALCOLM EPLEY
WASHINGTON, D. C, (Special Correspond
ence) Arrived in this steaming national
capital yesterday morning and have been gasp
t 1 ing for air ever since.
I1 J"- lTl.i. WnfMtinlnn haflt nKftllt
, "' which we had heard so much,
I y3 deserves every slanderous ad-
jective applied to it. It is a
k J' i sticky, soggy heat, the air
,. being so thick one feels as if
ne is moving sooui in a mass
of very wet and very warm
mashed potatoes.
We started this piece with
talk about the weather, be
cause that is what Washing-
tonians seem to talk about most.
Incidentally, if you want to find out what
it will be like tomorrow, you dial a certain
telephone number and a sweet woman's voice
gives you the dope. It is a transcription that
repeats regularly so long as you hold the
receiver to your ear.
Here in the nation's capital, a most likely
spot for enemy bombing, it takes just a lift of
the telephone receiver to get an official weather
forecast. Yet at home we cannot publish a fore
cast and we can't even publish the facts on past
weather conditions until they are 24 hours old!
The newspapers here publish all the weather
Information that is taboo in Klamath Falls,
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In Washington
COMING into Union station here yesterday
morning, we found that magnificent struc
ture busy .but not filled with sweeping droves
of humanity as one might expect from '. the
stories about Washington in war-time.
Instead of an expected long wait, we got im
mediate attention when we presented a baggage
check for a bag checked from Klamath Falls.
Taxicabs, however, are on a strictly share-and-share
alike basis. At Union station, you
don't take any cab that comes along. You wait
until one comes that is going in your direction,
and you wait until it is filled. This, we be
lieve, is a current practice in most large cities.
Hotel rooms are reportedly hard to find here.
But we had our choice of rooms in three good
hostelries.
Maybe the stories about war-time Washington
have been exaggerated or maybe we just got to
thinking it would be worse 'than it is.
Tenst Thursday
AE arrived a day too late. Everybody tells
V V us that Thursday, the day congress over
rode the president's veto of the anti-strike bill,
was the most tense day in Washington since
war was declared.
The house vote against the president was a
distinct surprise to everybody, because it in
volved change of vote by a number of con
gressmen who had previously voted against the
anti-strike bill.
We are told there was considerable resent
ment among administration congressmen who
had been given to understand Mr. Roosevelt
was for the bill and were put on the spot
when he vetoed it They stuck by their orig
inal vote for the bill and some others joined
them.
Victory Gardens
ENOUGH for the time about Washington.
We've been intending to say something
here about Victory gardens. We've really seen
them on our trip across the United States. We
saw hundreds in backyards along the train
tracks.
In Chicago, vacant lots everywhere were
growing vegetables. Apartment house residents
had started gardens in vacant space adjoining
the apartment buildings, dividing the spaces
among the families.
Buss Andrews, one-time Klamath Union high
school dean of boys. Just called us up from
Chevy Chase, Md., where he lives. He said he
was spending today (Sunday) to his V garden,
along with the rest of Chevy Chasers.
There'll be a lot of vegetables grown in home
garden plots of America this year. We've seen
enough to convince us the V gardens idea is a
SIDE GLANCES
I COW. 1W 1Y MW tttVlCt. Wfc T. M. MO. ttt W. OFT. fJ .
"Our new neighbor seems to be having a terrible time-
won t you run over and help him get his car slatted '
Familiar Note
IN the utilities building in Chicago's teeming
I Lkxp district, we came to a door with an
inscription that was pleasantly familiar in those
strange surroundings. It read:
"Pelican Bay Lbr. Co."
It is the office of O. J. Leonard, midwest sales
manager of the Klamath firm, father of Bob
Leonard, erstwhile Herald and News sports
editor now in the service.
The Leonards showed us a lot of Chicago
in the brief stay we made there. These grac
ious hosts left us at Pennsylvania station with a
parting warning about Washington heat that
was justified in every particular.
We'll call this off and get into the tub. M.E.
News Behind ihe News
By PAUL MALLON ' - J )
WASHINGTON, June 29 Dear-: You' ask
me for constructive suggestions for a
post war plan.
The maintenance of eternal peace should be
the only objective of the set
tlement I do not believe any
of the old reactionary sug
gestions will do the job
league of nations, world
courts, sworn promises to out
law wars, pious pronounce
ments of peaceful intentions.
Indeed, we have found from
current experience that they
were only artificial and super
ficial methods. They do not
reach down into basic causes
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formula,, not an intricate contrivance, based on
deals to be made by the world politicians, swap
ping territory and policies here and there in a
world conference.
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Simple Method Best
IF we could put our world of the future on
I the same basis in which the people live to
gether in a community, then we mav hav
simplicity and sincerity as the foundation of our
undertaking not some jumble of compromised
principles arrived at by haggling between Stalin,
Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-Shek try
ing to outwit each other in some new confer
ence.
MALLON
of war.
In our search for a real solution, two basic '' of the community way of life, and you will
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na yourseii arriving at these following lines
I think we should lay down the basis upon
which we promise to live, and maintain nun
of the future, and let others adjust them
selves to it as they will. Apply the principles
01 democracy and Christianity to the formula
principles must be adopted first. The solution
we want must be democratic and Christian.
No nation which will sincerely espouse the
principles of democracy or Christianity will be
the aggressor in any war. It will not seek to
Impose its will on others through an interna
tional police force, a suggestion, which to me,
is only an excuse for imperialism.
Perhaps we might keep the world peace by
Imperialism, but it would necessitate a com
plete American policing of the world, and this,
of course, is out of the question. Our allies
would not accept such a proposal, even if of
fered. The only kind of a peace-making imperialism
which is possible In the existing situation would
be one conducted Jointly by Russia, Britain,
the United States and China. Such a Joint im
perialism could be neither democratic nor
Christian in nature.
The Russians have a different system, which
they no doubt intend to keep. Indeed, even the
British system, while like ours in its Christian
roots, is different from ours in democratic
practice, because it is basically a limited Im
perialism, developed to further the necessary
aspirations of the British empire.
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Transient Empire
IF we enter upon such a joint Chlno-Anglo-Russc-American
imperialism, the makeshift
empire will not last long, because its compon
ent parts are not naturally congenial, but
rather competitive and conflicting.
These same considerations Impel me to lose
hope in a world state, because such a state
would only draw a deceptive cloak over the
differences which exist in this world, but
would not cure them. Indeed, such a pro
posal is impossible for other reasons.
Neither the Russians, British nor Chinese
desire to sacrifice their national Interests and
purposes, even If the United States desired to
do so, and I cannot assume that we will ever
desire such a state until it can be contrived
on the basis for which we stand democracy
and Christianity.
Until the world comes to our principles, I
do not believe our people would want one
world. It would have to be our world.
How then do we seek eternal peace on a
basis of democracy and Christianity? What
kind of a formula can wc get?
I think we Bhould seek the simplest possible
' of planning:
. A United States of Europe, modeled after nur
own United States, elimination of tariff bar
riers inerem, self-sufficiency in raw materials,
the variety of nationals in Europe to have a
common army, legislature, president, premier of
wieir own cnoice.
As for us, we would do as believers in
democracy and Christianity do everywhere to
protect themselves, in line with the community
spirit
We would acquire air bases and ' territory,
not In the interests of world conquest, but to
defend our shores, or hemisphere or "sphere
of defense" wherever It lies from a strictly
military (not a political) standpoint. The army
and navy should decide this, not the White
House.
: We should get these In return for the debts
outstanding against us, and we should seek
them not only for defense but to make our
selves self-sufficient as regards raw materials.
Just as we proposed to have Europe do.
We would maintain an army and navy, but
particularly an air force competent to deal
with any challenge of our Interests.
We would have a good neighbor policy with
the world, particularly with friendly democ
racies, not on a basis of lending them money
uuiiu ateei rams to compete with us, or any
basis like that, but upon a genuine basis of
mutual advantages.
We would not strew our money around the
world to change living standards, but we would
cooperate with all nations in an effort to get
them to improve themselves.
Of all totalitarian regimes around the world,
we should be suspicious and alert. We should
remember that Britain and France could have
killed off Hitler easily, and almost without loss
01 me, a they had moved promptly to meet
their peril, rather than furnishing him with
credit adjustments and materials to build him
self into a formidable fighting force (as we did
also with Japan).
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Prime Lesson
THAT is the prime peace lesson of this war
Constant alertness against any authority
challenging our way of life.
Complacency is the sin for which we are
now suffering. Our future army, navy and
air force must not only be su
perior to its problems, but kept
politically alert to its dangers.
(Incidentally, the navy always
wanted to go in and clean out
Japan before we let her rise to
a position of momentary super
iority in the South Pacific; it
could have been done easily
some years ago.)
Here we have the real cause
of this war, and we must meet
it directly.
Now if you want some inter
national organization, I say all
right. Join it, for the minor
superficial, speech-making thing
it will be, but such a thing is
dangerous, not primarily for
what it will do to this country
in a political or military way,
but what it will do psycholog
ically. It will make us com
placent again.
We will think we are secure
again through this means alone,
and discard our armament, and
open the way for some stealthy
aggressor, through secret treat
ies and secret armament, to
challenge again our superior
ity in this world, because we
will always have enemies as
long as we are superior, and
they will always be plotting to
make themselves superior,
whether through domination of
a world state, a league of na
Hons, or whatever other means.
ucn international organiza
tions always have been inconse
quential up to now, and will be
dangerous for the future, if we
throw away again the superior
armament we are acquiring for
our side In this world. Let's
keep the war won the way we
win it. Let the future be an in
definite armistice.
Follow a new progressive
course of developing the world
to democracy and Christianity
by example, in hopes that some
day a world state on our basis
may become naturally possible
but always keep a strong
right arm. The last is the most
important.
specialized training at Daytona
Beach, Fla. She graduated from
officers' candidate school on
April 3 of this year. She was
in the same company with
Pauline Suty, who is now over
seas, and Doris McChord, both
from Klamath county. She is
soon to be on permanent duty
at Fort Devans, Mass.
Anyone wishing an Interview
with Lieutenant Rice should see
her in room 302 at the Elk
hotel.
From Valley Walter J. and
Rose M. Kerrigan of Ashland
were in Klamath Agency Tues
day at which time the estate of
their daughter. Rose Emma, was
taken before the examiner for
inheritance. The young girl
died in an automobile crash on
the Siskiyou mountains 10 days
ago. Two other young Ashland
people also died in the accident.
Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Jean
Haynes and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Blodgett of this city were recent
visitors at the J. A. Langtry 1
home in Ashland.
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..You can spot it
every time
T7 VERY woman In the new Marine Corps Women's
Jw Reserve releases a trained Marine for com
bat duty. But before they do that, they must,
themselves, undergo training so rigorous that
regular rest periods are allowed them. That's
when the call goes up for ice-cold Coca-Cola
... for the pause that refreshes.
Ice-cold Coca-Cola does more than just
quench thirst. It brings a pleasant after
sense of refreshment. You feel it and wel
come it. Made with a finished art,
Coca-Cola has a taste all its own. Delici
ous! Satisfying! There's an extra some
thing of goodness about it. You know
from experience that the only thing
like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola, Itself.
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A couple of Cokw! Ttut't tlio way to make a friendly j p y g f 77 MAy M
moment refreshment time. j p' it4 I
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It's natural for popular iud to acquire friendly
abbreviation!. That's whr you hear CocCola
called Coke. Both mean the tame thing .
ing from a tingle source, and well known to the
community".
The best is always the better buy I
lOmiD UHDII AUTHORITY Of THI COCA COIA COMPANY IT
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF KLAMATH FALLS
S6S Spring St. Phone 5632
WJUC LIEUTEMT
RECRUITING HERE
Lieutenant Edna Rice of the
WAACS is now in Klamath
Falls on temporary recruiting
duty. Lieutenant Rice made her
home in Frineville and was the
battalion major for the 3rd bat
talion of the Oregon women's
ambulance corps before enter
ing the service in September,
1H4Z.
She received her basic train.
ing at Fort Des Moines and her
4th of July
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Sunday Evening
July 4th
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Th
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Klamath Medical Service Bureau
announces purchase of ihe
Hillside Hospital
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Hillside . Hospital will continue to serve
the general public as well as Bureau
subscribers.
A sincere desire to insure future hospital
facilities and to adequately serve the
Bureau subscribers and the general public
of Klamath Basin has prompted this move.
KLAMATH MEDICAL SERVICE BUREAU
Business Office, 355 East Main Phone 7260
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