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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
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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
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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
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"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. .
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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
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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.
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