August 10, 1048
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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLZY
"ET together and stay that way" Is the
sensible doctrine evidently adopted by
Klamath groups Interested in highway develop-
menu
-"""V '4 In anticipation of the forth
lf?mJW coming visit of state highway
J f W commissioners, three groups
met Wednesday to work out a
coordinated program. They
were the county court, the city
planning commission, and the
I V 9V I I oI tne Klamath county
I Y Jv- I I chamber of commerce.
Ia.mai . The county court and the
EPLET chamber of commerce commit
tee already had agreed on a master program
for state primary and secondary highways. To
it was added the city's program at Wednes
day's meeting.
Unless there is a hitch, the whole thing can
bo presented to the highway commissioners
with the united support of county officials,
city officials and the civic organizations. It
doesn't take much imagination to realize how
much more effective that will be than to get
involved in separate recommendations and dis
agreements before the highway officials. "
The local plan doesn't discount the possibil
ity of honest disagreement. But the idea is to
iron out such questions between ourselves here
at home, and present a united front to the
state commission. Incidentally, no serious dis
agreement developed at Wednesday's meeting.
Because highway development is of vital im
portance to the future of Klamath Falls, and
because it becomes increasingly evident there
will be huge highway construction in the
period immediately succeeding the war, we
know highway matters should receive vigorous
public Interest locally. That's why we have
been giving this topic considerable space here.
We intend, later, to discuss various features
of the proposed program set up by the local
groups. For the time being, it is sufficient to .
endorse warmly the cooperative methods de-
uutu upon oy we inree ooaies. we nope wey
stick to them.
OPA Personnel Hitch
IF OPA doesn't change its personnel policies,
local ration boards aren't going to have any
employed personnel, in the opinion of Henry
Moe, clerk of the Klamath board.
The policy that is putting lines in Mr. Moe's
face is the requirement that board employes
become qualified under civil service;
.There are a lot of positions available In the
community for girls and women who are pos
sible recruits 'for' the kind of Jobs the ration
. board must fill. These private positions have
no civil service requirements, and in many
instances they offer more attractive pay than
that of board employes. .That competition in
the labor market is making it increasingly tough
. for Mr. Moe to find help.
Many workers who could no doubt pass the
civil service examinations are not interested in
taking them. Mr. Moe thinks the civil service
requirement ought to be cancelled so far as
ration board employes are concerned. He is
sure the jobs can be filled with competent
help regardless of. civil service ratings. But if
the civil service requirements continue, he's
becoming Increasingly fearful the position will
go unfilled.
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Newspapers and Bonds
NEWSPAPERS that give strong editorial sup
port to war bond campaigns, and advertis
ers who' use newspapers to support the war
bond effort,' have the satisfaction of seeing
their communities come through solidly In this
highly worthy cause.
Testimony to that effect was given to us
recently by Forrest Cooper, assistant state war
bond administrator. Discussing comparative
showings of Oregon communities in war bond
sales, Mr. Cooper remarked that the strong sup
port for war bonds is invariably found In com
munities where there is active newspaper sup
port for the program. Where the newspapers
are indifferent or lukewarm, the bond sales
drag. t ;
That's Information that should Inspire news
paper folks to greater effort in behalf of this
extremely important home front phase of the
war program.
SIDE GLANCES
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'The wife's due home from the faclory any minute. Doc
-atay nere ana ten ner my nesiin demands a week'e rest
from this housework and I'll bring you some fish!"
Dr. Masters' Health Column
Diet, Attractive Food
Dominate Conversation
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News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 The unofficial
vice president, James F. Byrnes, , (act-.
Ing In lieu of Mr. Wallace, who is off on a '
new left-wing political tang
ent) gave some shocking fig
ures of nazi military superior
ity in his radio round-up.
He said we had met only
seven per cent of the axis
divisions so far, that only 40
l I Pe cent of the axis army was
yVi' H on the Russian front, and we
4f I will have onlv BO divisions at
our ultimate peak.
No one would contradict
these figures, but they need
some explanation. The truth is the Germans
have about 300 divisions, Italy had (but not
now) about 70, and the axis satellites furnished
about 70 more, a total axis strength of 440
divisions. The seven per cent we have met
so. far would be around 31 divisions, an ap
proximately accurate figure for- the North
African and Sicilian campaigns. .
Forty per cent axis strength on the Russian
front is also approximately correct, the best
estimate being 190 to 200 divisions Involved
there. But all these are nazis except about 10
divisions of the satellites, so that only about 80
German divisions remain to meet our 90.
(Which may prove to be 100 and does not
Include British and Canadians). -
The 140 axis divisions attributed to Italy
and the satellites originally are just about half
shot Some were destroyed in Africa and
Sicily, and the remaining bulk- Is scattered
through the Balkans and reported uneager for
combat. The available 80 divisions of real
nazis left In Europe to face us includes re
serves and administrative divisions, and are
scattered from Norway to Italy and from
Poland to France.
Mr. Byrnes well may be correct in saying
the major battles lie ahead, and he is certainly
sound in warning against complacency, but the
British and Canadians will give us a heavy
superiority in numbers for those battles. '
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Patent Political Medicine
THE administration's big, . patent political
medicine for all the post war ills of man
and beast social security is not gaining ex
pected support within congress.
In fact, Senate Finance Chairman George and
a number of the other most Influential author
ities have decided the pending Wagner bill
will not be taken up until after taxes. They
are also beginning to shake their heads in
doubt about it ever being allowed to pass in
" anything like its present form.
The British parliament has done about the
same thing with the Beveridge report, which
was advanced like the Roosevelt program, to
provide "'security for all from the cradle to
the grave."
These plans are supposed to be the nucleus
of the liberal post-war program, and there have
been suggestions that as soon as the war is
over, the laborites in England may oust Mr.
Churchill- and ride to power behind this social
security banner.
But even many a liberal Is beginning to
wonder if the program is liberal or can pro
vide security. The Wagner bill calls, for in
stance for a 12 per cent payroll tax to finance
government attendance at the cradle, grave
and in the interim six per cent on employer
and six per cent on the worker. All other
taxes on men and business are levied on
profits.
; You Tiave to make some money before you
are taxed. But in this tremendous new taxa
tion program; : the government would collect
before earnings, if any, are computed. The tax
therefore, would be a capital levy on a busi
ness not making money.
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Help, to Monopolies
IT would help big business monopolies, where
high prices can be fixed to provide profits.
It would be destructive of small or Independent
business. It would confiscate worker and busi
ness savings and hide them in a stagnant gov
ernment pool.
But- even so, would It provide security? The
government could collect billions of dollars an
nually from the workers' pocketbook and the
business cash register, but with inflation hang
ing over our heads and a $200,000,000,000 post
war debt upon our shoulders, would any great
number of people ever get back the dollar
value that would be paid in either at the cradle
or In the graveT
The liberals thought the scheme would be a
great vote catcher, but the voters who have
beenin touch with congressmen seem more
concerned about the' destructive tax rates they
will have to pay in now, than they are about
the prospect of the government paying their
undertaker 20, 30, or 40 years from now.
This scene from somewhere in the 1850 s is one man's Idea of how
' commuters .will go to town. The Hellcab designed by W. B. Stout
of Consolidated Vultee is about 25 feet long and 6 feet wide; wilt
fly up, down, back, forward and sideways, and hover at "aerial
J . Intersections.' . .
House Committee to
Examine Northwest
Water Resources
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 UP)
Members of the house commit
tee on reclamation and irriga
tion will begin their examina
tion of . northwest water re
sources at Missoula, Mont., on
August 25.
' Chairman White (D-Idaho)
outlined today a comprehensive
series of hearings and inspec
tions of dam sites over the en
tire Columbia river basin, from
the headquarters in Canada
down to the mouth in Oregon.
Joseph Farewell Glidden In
vented and manufactured the
first barbed wire In 1873, at
DeKalb, 111.
By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS
Almost without fail, the topic
ultimately arrived at in literally
every conversation these days
is that of food. What there is in
the market, how much it costs,
bow many points must be dis
pensed with for each item, all
lead quite innocently and inevit
ably into the subject of nutri
tion for nothing in man's life
is more fundamental than fill
ing his. stomach.
Before Pearl Harbor, there
prevailed among otherwise in
telligent and modern-minded
women a convention that the
matter of nutrition, per se, was
deadly dull. It was tied up,
rather boringly, with maternal
solicitude, wearing rubbers, and
people with "stomach trouble,"
who could not '.'have fun." The
ultimate in good food consisted
of charred, barbecued steak,
tossed salad, and a rich dessert.
Looks Enhance Taste
Many of us would today eye
a good steak with deep respect
amounting to awe, if it were
available but we have also had
our eyes opened to a good many
aspects of nutrition and - food
that we had overlooked before
in our era of plenty. First of
all, there is nothing like a lit
tle privation to make one dis
cover that food is one of life's
major pleasures as well as neces
sities, and hence of serious inter
est Second, it has become fascin
ating to observe the correlation
between good diet and good, at
tractive food, as we are learning
about both in the science of nu
trition. The Red Cross, the OCD, the
OPA, with other less publicized
agencies, have done a splendid
job in acquainting every house
wife with the excellent sources
of food not common in our pre
war diet especially such pro
tein bearers as soybeans; the im
portance of Vitamins in raw and
cooked fruits and vegetables; and
the relative unimportance of
carbohydrates and fats.
The more observant students
in these classes have found fur
ther that the imagination, allied
to taste and color-sensitivity, is
an invaluable aid in planning
good sound meals. The meal that
contains a balanced color scheme
time and again Is a meal with
balanced food values. Adven
tures in taste, such as experi
ments with odd herbal season
ings, can add zest to circum
vent shortages.
Cooking Can Be an Art
Not for nothing have the sim
ple people of countries as poor
per person as France and China
acquired the international repu
tation of being true gastro
nomes. -
Having little to work with
these folks learned to blend and
season and cook properly the
foods available to them and
by adding creative imagination
to the barest necessities learned
from experience, they made of
food preparation an art the
true flower of science.
WORKERS! WHO SUFFER
'FACTORY' ITCH
SRIII RASHES
Zmm prMnptl rtflaYts torhiral
Pint applications of wonderful soothing,
medlcatod liquid Zomo a Doctor's for
mulapromptly relieve Intorue itch snd
sorancM of aimpla akin rashea, eczema
and slmlUr akin and scalp Irritations due
to external cause. Zemo ntaria U onu to
aid healim . Backed by 80 years' auceenl
Clean, sialnleaa, (nvlaible Zemo won't
how on akin. Only 35a
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The Editor
Letter trtnttal htr mutt not M aior
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ten leroly on ONI IIOI ot the
Mr. and tmmt be witted. Cant ritiut tone
following the rvlee, art unM e
The Wat
Today
Br DeWITT MtcKENZIE
As the big chiefs go Into ac
tion at Quebec to grease the
skids for nazidom It strikes mo
that we might well pause for
touch of the cap to our nnllant
fighting services which linve
continued to hold our Pacific
lines while we have been en
gaged In "beating Hitler first."
It gives one a chill to think
what might have happened to
Australia, the Hawaiian Islunds,
Alaska or even tho west cou.it of
Continental United Slates if it
hadn't been for the skill nnd sac
rifice ot all categories in the fnr
Pacific. They've done one of the
decisive Jobs ot the war. :
Reminder
Our latest atrial success yes
terday and TuesdBy at Wownk,
New Guinea, Is a reminder thnt
not only have our Pnclflc forces
performed the essential holding
operation against a powerful en
emy, but they have done tho "Im
possible" by seizing the Initiative
and putting the Japs on the de
fensive. In the Wewnk show
our bombers destroyed or dam
aged some 219 precious enemy
planes, thereby virtually wiping
out Nipponese alrpowcr in cen
tral New Guinea.
The significance? Well, that
beautiful Job brings us Just so
much closer to the day when
we shall wipe out the great Jnp
naval base at Truk, thus render
ing the Mikado's forces impotent
in that whole vast zone of Islands
northwest of Australia. The lit
tle men of the rising sun are
being forced back step by step.
"Hitler First"
Meantime in the "Hitler first"
compulgn, Moscow reports that
tho Gorman nro counter-attacking
before Kharkov on tho fierce
ly contented suuthorn battle
front, seeking an opening for an
offensive to offset the devastat
ing red drive. Such a develop
ment would greatly Intensify the
already bloody crisis which is
threatening to forco the nail
chief to withdraw his entire great
line In Russia.
This turn of events has result
ed In tho soviet army newspapor
ltcd Star making trosh appeal
for a second land front In west
ern Europe, to force Hitler to di
vert troops from Russia and put
him on the dofouslve In both
west and east. The paper says
that "only such an operation can
cut down tho length of the war
to any considerable extent."
Need for Land Front
Tho need of a land front In
western Europe at the earliest
feasible moment was conceded
long ugo by tho ulllod high com
mand. Therefore the problem
of Messrs. Roosevelt and Chur
chill nnd their advisers isn't
whether there should bo such a
front but whin it will be feasible
to establish it.
The Russian report that the
Germans are trying to find an
opening for a counter-offensive
In the Kharkov sector Is vastly
Important. It may mark Hit
ler's supreme effort to save his
blood-souked line. If so we are
likely to see somo of tht most
terrific fighting of the whole
war.
Before the war Stnlln was
nothing to Mr. Churchill but a
blood-stained tyrant, and Mr.
Churchill was nothing to Stalin
but a typo of bourgeois Imperial
ist. Now they know one anoth
er as Winston and Uncle Joe.
That Is enormous Improvement.
George Bernard Shaw.
From the Klamath News
August II, 1133
Henry Perkins has been
named vhulrman of tha local
NRA drive. Leaders of various
phases of tho rumpalgn are Leo
Jacobs, Fred Flcrt, R. H. Boise
and Paul T. Jackson.
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The Silver Spur, a club under
the Pelican cafe, will be opened
this week, reviving tho atmo
sphere of the old west.
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rrom the Klamath Republican
August 30, 1103
Guy Morrill rame to town Sun.
rlny to play hunr-ball with tho
Grays.
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John Shook was In today from
his llonnnsa ranch to take a ride
on one of the new launches.
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Myra Van Brimmer and Fred
L. Applcunto wero married In a
ceremony held In a beautiful
grove at the Van Brimmer home,
with Judge H. L. Benson reading
the ring nervlre.
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STORE HOURS
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To
the tditor) Klamath Falls is a
mill town. Most of the men
and women of this fair city are
working in soma of tha mills
around town. Naturally they
are earning considerable money,
also naturally they have to get
Into the stores to get somo
needed supplies, BUT, they
must either go without these
necessary things, or else they
must lose at least a half t a
day's work to secure them.
Many of the people of the sur
rounding community and basin
come to town for their needs.
Their work Is mora essential
than that ot the mills, because
if they do not produce the food
that is needed we will not have
enough strength to carry on the
war effort.
All stores close at 6 p. m.
every day, and the - grocery
stores close at this same hour
on Saturday night, although the
other stores remain open till
eight o'clock. In Portland, so
I have been Informed, the busi
ness houses open an hour later
in the morning and remain open
an hour later in the evening In
order to accommodate the war
workers, and if the war work
ers In Klamath Falls stop, It
would seriously hamper them
up there, so why couldn't the
stores of this, the third largest
city in the state of Oregon do
the same. Instead of opening
at eight or nine o'clock, wait
until nine or ten o'clock and
remain open till seven on week
days, and on Saturday till later
if they so desire.
Let's hear some more about
this, and chamber of commerce,
please note.
Thank you for printing this.
Sincerely yours,
E. V. ZELL.
If you want to sell It phone
The Herald and News "want
ads," 3124.
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