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PAGE FOUB HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON . 'An tint 81, 1943 Amor of Tut Amociatxd Pbkm Ttw AiwdiM Preti It Mclo iTely entitled to th um of -DubMcttlon of ill mwi dUnatrhM rdlttf to I or aot otherwise credited la this puper, anr alto tht loci! news puMfahrd thvrela. All rlghU of republication of peeUI dispatch art also re served. FRANK JENKINS Bditot Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY THE WAC is celebrating this week. No longer simply an auxiliary, it is this week taken into the army, with every WAC taking Uie oam given a eek ' It is an occasion for great rejoicir.g among WACs, be cause they feel it is a recog nition of the accomplishments of the 65,000 women who have volunteered In this service. t. f Hearty u girts iruui u I 4V . I Klamath basin have gone into I V I j the WACs, and are performing their duties with honor. The EPLEY corps is represented locally by a very personable official recruiter. Lieutenant Betty Herring, and a very personable civilian recruiter, Mrs. C. Jester. Lieutenant Herring tells us that every indi vidual has worked overtime during the past year to prove to the army she could do certain army jobs as well if not better than men. The real compensation came when the act creating the Women's Army Corps, making it an integral part of the army, was approved on July 1, 1943. More WACs Wanted GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL, chief of staff, has stated the army wants more WACs, and this week special effort is being made In Klamath Falls to recruit for this service. Here are the eligibility requirements of a WAC: ' She is a citizen of the United States. - She is between the ages of twenty and fifty years. She can submit satisfactory proof as to date News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 The great govern mental thinkers have been promising a ' new golden dream life of security from the cradle to the grave (financed by tremendous taxation on I wages). I don't know I L -I I getting along at the cradle end, but they recently had a helluva time at the grave here. At one of :i Steries in Washington,, where at least three persons are buried 'a day (including new dealers), the 12 grave diggers started MALLON last winter threatening to go on strike. They claimed they could not live on $33 a week, and support families of four or five children, and they demanded a raise . of $3 a week. This sounded fair enough to the cemetery board handling that eleemosynary organization. It authorized the Increase, but Manpower Mc Nutt had ruled that grave digging is not an essential occupation a bitterly ironical judg ment, especially In war. The board, therefore, had to get government approval before the ' increase could be granted and sought its lawyer. Then the fun started, away back last March. Papers were prepared and a case was pre sented to the regional wage stabilization di rector. The cemetery board was forced to get affidavits from each grave digger showing how much he spent for doctors' bills, medicine, children in school, and what not, and swearing he needed the $3 a week more. It Drags On THE case dragged on weeks and months, with telephone calls, letters, and presentations of heavy documents containing a lot of "pursuant theretos," "ipso factos," and everything except "E Pluribus Unum." Finally In April, the wage director denied the application. He sent a printed form letter, more legal in its language than any decision the supreme court ever issued. At one place in it, the form read: "The following comments are applicable to your case;" followed by a blank space where he inserted, "none." (Incidentally, have you ever seen a government form Among the many WAR KITCHEN USE UNRATIONEO COFFEE FOR FLAVORING DESSERTS By GAYNOR MADDOX Now that coffee flows freely again, plan to use its marvel ous flavor in desserts, too. Here's a cake that makes a good dinner dessert and Is excel lent also for the worker's lunch box. It keeps well and packs easily. Coffee Molasses Cake (16 Portions) Two and one-half cups sifted cake flour, teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 'A teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cin namon or allspice, 1 teaspoon ginger, V teaspoon cloves, 1 egg, Hi cups molasses, Vi cup shortening, cup hot left-over coffee. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Beat egg, stir in molasses and melted shortening. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with hot coffee, beating well after each addition. Bake In greased 8x9x2-inch pan in moderate oven (380 degrees F.) 45 min uiae. .: Cut into squares and Serve Hot or cold. A temporary conblaarfoa of tht svaalng Barald ara the Klamath Newt. Published awy aitaraooa altapt Sunday al laplanada u4 Flat llmU, KlanaUt Falfa, Oregon, by the Herald Puidtihtat Vo. and tht Elamaut Kawa PoblUblag Oompaar Katered aaowd daaa matter at tha aoatomea ol Klamath Falla. Ore., oa Augurt W, I KM mder art ol oagrtaa, March a, lira. every buiuici. how they are the largest ceme- It directed diggers and their employers. No more of the depths lations have woman. You these days. Between the Coffee Souffle (Serves 4 to () One-third cup flour, cup cold left-over strong coffee, 3 egg yoixs, unbeaten, ft cup sugar, n teaspoon salt, 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten. Put flour in small saucepan and gradually stir in half the coffee to make a smooth paste. Add remaining coffee and cook over low heat, stirring constant ly until mixture thickens. Re. move from heat. Add unbeaten egg yolks, one at a time, beat ing well after each addition. Add half the sugar and the salt. Fold in remaining sugar to stiff ly beaten egg whites and fold into coffee mixture. Spread quart casserole with creamed (not melted) butter or fortified margarine, sprinkle with coating of granulated sugar and pour in souffle mixture. Bake in mod erately hot oven (400 degrees F.) about 30 minutes, Serve at once. This is a company'! dessert, but before you try it on the company, make it for the fam ily. It Is wise to know exactly how much time it takes and be Mtmbtr A cur Bctus Or CnctrLATioir Rapraeeated Xatlooally by Wnr-HoixnuT Co, las. Ban traDrlaco, New Tork, 8a. Ilia, Chicago, ForUaud, Lot Asgalaa, MALCOLM EPLET Mem offing Editor of birth and citizenship. She has an excellent character. a She has two years of high school and qualifying mental alertness score ... Die high school requirement is waived if mental alertness score reveals exceptional ability. She Is In good physical health and qualified according to height and weight minimum standard for height is fifty-eight inches, maxi mum six feet; minimum weight 100 pounds. She has no one dependent upon her for fin ancial support unless such support can be met entirely by means other than that derived from ' her pay as a WAC. She has no children under fourteen years of age, unless a final order of a court of proper jurisdiction has conferred without reservation on a person other than the natural mother, responsibility "Tor the care, support, custody and control of a child or children under fourteen years of age. v . Home Front, Too IT WAS clear from the start, to anyone who has observed women working in business and industry, that a women's corps could perform many valuable non-combatant services for the army, navy and coast guard. There are many jobs even. In military services, which women handle as well as or better than men. Women, likewise, are doing outstanding work on the home front, there also replacing men qualified to go to the fighting lines. When the story of this war and the victory is told, great credit will justly go to the women of America. That's why we're happy today to voice our praise of the WACs, and to contribute a plug in behalf of the recruiting efforts of the WAC here. you have filled out these past years that ever gave an opportunity to face the facts of your individual case clearly?) Well, the cemetery people decided to fight and' filed an appeal. The grave diggers were grumbling both outwardly and inwardly, but were kept at work by a patient management, willing to foot all the expense of getting them a raise. The appeal papers were drawn up con taining more affidavits. Finally, last month, the mighty regional ap peal board handed down its proud judgment. It too denied the application, inserting, how ever a "but," a very large "but" that the board switch the workers ! to an hourly wage rate, and juggle the rate, and work the men more hours so that they could be paid all but 28 cents of the increase agreed upon six months before by the grave typical example could be found of nonsense to which war regu plunged the average man and have to hire a lawyer to live Alas, Poor Yorick rE national laws are necessary to stop in flation, just as all these national regula tions, no doubt, are necessary, but in the enforcement of them, a tyrannical stringency is practiced which is absurd. Bureaucrats from top to bottom issue orders to each other, re fusing to let each other deviate one iota from a national order. Many good men are In those organizations, but there are also many marionettes and shave tail gauleiters who cannot see above the letter of the law to the human beings trying to live. Any reasonable man outside the government ln the above case would have given the grave diggers their raise without a moment's hesita tion, saving thousands of dollars of time and expense in view of the eleemosynary, health, humane, or any of the other considerations in volved. Alas, poor Yorick, he did not know what the world was coming to. Let all these proud and mighty officials look up the real origin of the "cradle to the grave" phrase. It comes from an 18th century poem by John Dyer: A little rule, a little sway A sunbeam on a winter's day . Is all the proud and mighty have cradle and the grave. ' able to plan your dessert so that the souffle can go directly from the oven to table. Souffles must be served Immediately otherwise they may fall. MENU BREAKFAST: Bowl of mix ed fruit, cracked wheat cer eal, raisin toast, butter or for tified margarine, coffee, milk. LUNCHEON: Corn and green pepper souffle, enriched bread, butter or fortified mar garine, applesauce, tea, milk. DINNER: Beef, oatmeal and carrot loaf, tomato sauce, baked potatoes, eight-minute cabbage, sliced peaches, cof fee molasses cake, coffee, milk. Sumner Welles Still on Vacation BAR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 31 VP) Sumner Welles, undersecre tary of state, today continued his vacation at this exclusive sum mer resort after cancelling train reservations for Washington last night. i A member of. Welles house hold said the undersecretary gave no indication of when he would return to Washington. Weight of an avers c;e head of hair is five to 12 ounces. SIDE GLANCES O-JI cowt ttai gv aga ttaweg. c "No kidding, you should be in the movies! You luive a quiet type of beauty er, do you suppose I could nl " special on this laundry, say a week from today?" Dr. Masters' Health Column First Aid of Fractures Should Comfort Injured By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS The primary care of a frac ture is nearly always given by a layman. Accidents that bring about broken bones rarely occur in the presence of orthopedic surgeons. It is inevitable to do something until the injured per son can be moved to the hospital. It is important that such efforts do no harm, and it is desirable that they contribute to the com fort of the injured. Although the layman need not worry about the diagnosis of a fracture, he should recognize the possibility when an accident has taken place. Although the symp toms of a fracture vary widely with the type and location, in general, one should look for pain. the loss of function of the part, and deformity. FRACTURE SYMPTOMS VARY While 'these symptoms are usually present when the extrem ities are involved, it is not al ways so. A rib fracture rarely shows deformity, but there is pain, on breathing. Skull frac tures may violate all these tenets, and fractures of the spine may occur with pain only. The rule should be that if there Is a re mote possibility of a fracture, it should be assumed to exist un til careful examination and X ray evidence have given the ex act answer. The essential points In apply ing first aid to fracture injuries are really few and simple. The From Other Editors SPINELESS VOTE CHASING (Salem Capital Journal) Oregon's state board of. con trol yesterday further qualified itself as a triumvirate of spine less, vote-chasing opportunists, who in this instance are playing shameless politics with 2700 of the state s helpless wards. In an obvious bid for favor among the dairymen who, in view of the present critical short age of the product, would be in no manner affected by the pro posal, the board refused to grant a request by Superintendent J. C. Evans of the state hospital that he be permitted to partially substitute oleo-margarine for but ter in the diets of patients at that Institution to correct a woeful deficiency in fats. No other reasoning satisfactor ily explains the board s action. The substitution would, Dr. Evans asserts and his assertion has not been competently re futed add needed nutrition to the diet of the patients; it would be in conformity with the gov ernments rationing program which stresses the conservation of butter for the armed forces and lend-lease; it has the sanction of the 1943 legislature (and pre viously that of Governor Snell, who wrote and signed the legis lative act authorizing It), and would Involve no additional ex pense to the state. The plan was to cut the use of butter from 540 pounds a week to 270 pounds, and with the saving purchase 600 pounds of margarine which can be bought for half the-Drice of butter. ' Objections voiced by the board members were typically those of vote-chasing politicians, Gover nor Snell characteristically de clining to commit himself other than to suggest that the super intendent buy fewer "matches and carrots" and more' butter. Secretary of State "Bob" Far rell, playing to the farmers in the grandstand by referring to the substitute as "Filipino but tiirst is to apply a splint before the injured person is moved, re gardless of the distance. Time is of little importance as a rule, but movement of the Injured part may increase the damage. When applying the splint to the arm or leg, always pull firm' ly on the hand or foot. This pull serves to splint the bone, and prevent more damage, and at the same time relieves the pain. It would be desirable if such a pull could be continued until the hospital U reached. Such a procedure is rarely practical, and with a splint which satisfactor ily immobilizes the fragments by extending the entire length of the extremity. It is not necessary. APPLYING FIRST AID If an appropriate splint is not available, it Is better to wait un til one can be secured than at tempt to rush the Injured person to the hospital. When the spine is injured, the whole body should be splinted on a rigid stretcher or wide board. Skull fractures are protected by the fact that the banes are fixed and the fracture is always secondary in importance to the damage to the brain beneath. All suspicious fractures should be examined by X-ray. This practice eliminates any doubt. and if a fracture Is present, re veals its exact characten For this reason, anyone with a pos sible fracture should be taken to the hospital after the appro priate first aid is administered. ter," took the easy way out by suggesting that the Institution buy more butter, even though it entail creation of a budget def icit. , It remained, however, for State Treasurer Scott to really twist the eagle's tail and make it scream with demagoguery. Ex plaining that he feared the butter saved would only be shipped to Russia, he declared that "I have information that the Russians are using our butter to grease their boots." It would be inter esting to know the source and authenticity of that information in passing upon the propriety of such baiting of a courageous war ally by an official representative of the state of Oregon. If butter-greased boots are the secret of Russian successes on the battlefields of eastern Europe, Oregon dairymen would gladly grease them all the rest of the way to Berlin. Oregon News Notes By The Associated Press Wayne Peters, Canby, pinned in the cab of his truck-trailer which upset in Portland, escaped with minor cuts and bruises but John Funk, Cornelius, driver of a light truck which was struck by steel plates thrown from the truck-trailer, was Injured criti cally, . . J. Fred Bergesch, war pro duction board district manager, said at Portland that Oregon's scrap metal goal for the second half of 1943 has been increased to 110,000 tons up 19 per cent. , , . ' The strawberry fruit- worm has infested Clackamas county flax fields, County Agent In skeep said at Oregon City. . . , Three New York engineers ar rived in Portland to help draw up a post-war'publlc works pro gram to give employment to 90c 000 persons. Average elevation of the earth's surface above sea level Is 2300 feet. EDEN AROUSES SPECULATION OF NEW TALKS LONDON, Aug. 31 () Spec ulation on the possibility of an early Anglo- Russian American conference was given a new boost yesterday when It was learned that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will meet both Ivan Maisky, former Russiun am bassador to Great Britain, and U. S. Ambassador John G. Win snt today. The meeting between repre sentatives of tha three big pow ers might have been held even earlier, diplomatic sources in dicated, except for the fact that Eden Is reporting today to his war cabinet colleagues on the results of the Quebec confer ences between President Roose velt and Prime Minister Chur chill. Many diplomatic observers are convinced that Eden, Maisky and Winant will consider the possi bilities of joint, personal, three- power conversations, at lca.it on the "foreign minister level." It was announced yesterday that Eden had returned to Eng land by plane from the Quebec war councils and at the same time it was reported that Maisky, replaced in Britain as ambas sador only recently, had re turned. SIGN OF THE TIMES? ALBANY. N. Y. D Black smith Harry P. Tcgler reported to police the theft of his horse shoeing truck, complete with anvil, horseshoes and other equipment. . . Classified Ads tiring Results. I $ if 1) i vA Ik ivv ' h The War Today By DtWITT MscKENZIE Never since Hitler broke his pledged word nnd attacked Rus sia has the position of his armies on the eastern front been so pre carious as It has becomo with the loss of his right wing anchor Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov. That right wing is now like a pennant on a flng-pnle, Its flut tering loose end subject to the winds that sweep across It. Of course, that's a very unmllitsry and exaggerated figure of speech, but It will have served Its. purpose If It emphasizes the danger of the mtzl position. Rads Crush On Having taken this major stronghold, which Is one of the vital parts of the gntewuy to the oil fields of tho Caucasus, tho red army today is reported crush ing its way steadily westward along the coast of tho Sea of Azov. Small wonder that Mar shall Sliilln ordered a 124 gun salute In Moscow In honor of the red army, while all Russia exult ed In tho prowess of their men at arms. Tho full of Taganrog was ef fected by the application of a pair of great pincers to tho hun line. The reds thrust fiercely Into tho German defenses forty miles above Taganrog and start ed a turning movement south word towards that port. Mean time, another Russian force was smashing directly at the nazl an chor from the east. Tho Hitler ites had to run or be surrounded. Turning Movements Similar turning movements ore being driven Into the Ger man line as far north as the Kharkov area, and some 800,01)0 nazl troops are In danger of en circlement. Thus Hitler's whole southern wing Is being forced back, as has been forecast so many times In this column In $298 $25 to recent weeks. Having been torn loose, from his Taganrog anchor, the fuehrer, now Is faced with two nasty alternatives: 1, Ha must Shiga a heavy counter-attack In the DoijfV basin to the north of ToguiifcrS nnd fling the reds back, thus re storing his previous positions. Withdrawal , 2. Fulling in this, hs must con tinue his withdrawal until his whole vest front from the Sea of Azov northward to Leningrad, a dlstunco of more than a thousand miles, has been pulled back un der fierce Russian attack to tha line of the great Dnieper river. If the Germans have tha strength they may be expected to counterattack. I was chat ting on this point with my col league, General II. S. Sewell, tho distinguished Drlllsh military ex pert, and ho remurked that "heavy counterattacks must be expected In ths Donets, and fail ure In this respect msy well be regarded as a sign of nazl weak ness." Sign of Weakness " That seems to sum the matter up neatly, If the Invaders don't counter-attack, or if they make tho attempt and fail, It will be significant as showing that th Gorman war machine has lost a tremendous amount of that aw ful striking power which long terrified the world. Should the Germans bo forced to rntlro to the line of tho Dnieper, one would expect them to make a back-to-the-wsll stand lo hold the Crimea. CAN'T BE TOO SOON NEW RIVER, N. C. W) Col. Samuel Calvin Cummlng, a marine corps officer here, Is looking forward to tha time ha can go back to his birthplace and ha hopes to take his whole regiment with him. 3 Tho place: Kobe, Japan. Tho colonel's parents were serving there as missionaries st the time of his birth. Great Dane dogs are more German than Danish. 1 t in hi St I
