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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
October 1, 1943
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MALCOLM ETLEY
MaMfing Editor
SIDE GLANCES
EPLET
Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
WE'RE going to do a little shop-talking with
Herald and Newa readers today, on the
topic of the shortage in newsprint, the paper
on which Tne rieraia ana
News U printed.
That shortage is going to
be more acutely felt on our
' paper in the next three months
than at any time since the
war reduced newsprint pro
duction. An additional cut has
been ordered, and our pros
pective usage of paper for the
finaLthree months of 1943 far
exceeds the prospective supply
That, briefly, is the story,
without going into the intricacies of the allot
ment procedure and the other factors that bring
it about. We will say, however, that our paper
has experienced a steady rise in circulation in
the last year, and that is one reason the problem
has arisen.
Various measures must be taken to meet it,
and we are going to discuss a few of them
today.
Maintaining Traditions
IN THE first place, we will try to get along
without disturbing the traditional form and
features of our paper.. What we must do is to
cut to the essentials and eliminate the frills,
and make typographical changes that will save
space.
One was made in yesterday's paper, a techni
cal change that places the lines of body type
closer together. Still another was to shorten
the front page "banner" to seven columns, mak
ing It possible to move the page one editorial
column to the very top of the page. Several.'
changes of this nature will probably be hardly
noticeable by the reader.. .
We will not be able to use such long stories
as in the past, and those who submit material
to the paper are asked to remember this. Like--
wise, publicity material will be carefully edited
to avoid repetition. We especially want to
advise against organization publicity that is
measured on a space basis. Publicity that is
brief and to the point can be a lot more ef
fective than a lot of needless words that look
good only in scrapbooks.
We are going to continue to produce local
pictures, which have become such an important
part of our paper, but both newsprint and pic
ture material shortages necessarily will limit
the number of such pictures we can use. Pic
ture suggestions from our readers will be wel
come as always; if we can't follow them up,
that will be frankly explained and we hope
everyone will understand.
There will be various changes in circulation
and business office policies that will be dis
cussed later. What we are trying to say today
is that the war brings problems to the news
paper office, as it does elsewhere, and that we
hope to make the best of it, continuing to pro
duce a paper that merits approval. The situa
tion may force some changes along the line of
condensation, etc., that will actually improve
the paper. At any rate, we hope our readers
will understand we are doing our best
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You Challenge Us
KLAMATH has not declined in either activity
or population, and it is our job to maintain
a newspaper commensurate with the active, ag
gressive community we serve. Klamath people
are intensely, interested in general as well as
local news, and we must maintain proper cov
erage in both departments. Klamath as a com
munity is doing many worthwhile things that
must be reported and assisted In our paper.
In another kind of community, it might be
possible to plot a shrinkage in newspaper serv
ice. We can't do that here, thank the Lord.
What we must do is to maintain the best pos
sible service with the fewer materials available,
and, that is our objective.
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Probably one thing that has made Multnomah
county lag in the bond campaign is the heavy
use Up there of the asinine expression, "I dood
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UIWl au wr an met. aaVT apaaa.
The fellows say she's witty, but if it wasn't for that cute
face of hers she'd be classified aa nutty!"
News Behind the News
Br PAUL MALLOW
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 On its face, the
promised appointment of General Mar
shall seems to forecast a large new offensive
on the European front.
Even the White House atti
tude encourages this impres
sion. The president sharply
criticized the recent publie
controversy over the matter in
the house and the press, and
on the radio, on the grounds
that it was a military matter.
Certainly the existing mili
tary matters in Italy and in
the air bombing campaign are
not such as to require Mar-
Consequently, the general as-
new offensive is
MALLOW
snail's transfer.
sumption must be that
imminent.
Labor Draft Dying
FE Austin-Wadsworth compulsory labor draft
bill is dying on the vine. The only one
who could possibly revive it and put it through
is Mr. Roosevelt His persistent silence has dis
couraged the backers of the legislation. They
now know they cannot get the measure out of
either the house, or the senate military affairs
committee even as far as the senate floor for
public discussion. '
The only administration authorities who force
fully have advocated the measure are War
Secretary Stimson and his assistant, Patterson.
Congressmen have heard rumors that at one
time the entire Roosevelt cabinet wanted the
bill, but apparently not now.
It is obvious that the strength of opposition
from both labor and. industry has made it a
dangerous measure politically.'
Indeed, the republican authors of the legis
lation have grounds to suspect that the ad
ministration has left them holding that bag too
long.
The rigid labor draft regulations which it
would impose upon all men from 18 to 68
and women from 18 to 50 would make them
legally if not practically slaves of the state as
far as assignment of work is concerned. It
follows a totalitarian theme which is away
from the latest trend of Washington events and
popular opinion.
The labor assignment system instituted by
Bernard Baruch on the Pacific coast has furn
ished a more democratic way of meeting the
problem. It ha some of the elements of com
pulsion in the establishment of priorities for
work and the restriction of hiring to govern
ment employment agencies, but the plan is
confined to a local emergency basis and the
compulsion has been voluntarily accepted by
those involved.
It to at any rate a two-to-one bet that the
national over-all compulsion of the Austin-Wads-worth
bill is dead until after the next elec
tions, at least The Baruch idea may be ex
tended to other emergency localities.
No Trips for WAVES
THE senate naval affairs committee killed the
provision permitting WAVES to go over
seas, largely on the private recommendation of
some naval officers.
The committee members made some personal
investigations of the WAVES organization dur
ing their recent vacation travels, and brought
back splendid reports. They found many girls
with unusual education and exceptional back
ground in that service.
However, to transport them overseas would
involve complications of housing which prob
ably would cost more than their transportation
would be worth.
The idea of sending them over was supposed
to have had the endorsement of Mrs. Roosevelt,
but even so, some of the naval officers remained
skeptical.
The War
Today
Br Dewrrr mckenzie
As Herr Hitler struggles to
hait the retreat of his armies
and stabilize his line on .the east
ern front, one wonders whether
he ever has tigerish nightmares
of the awful retribution which
might be visited on Germans by
the millions of conquered peo
ples if there were a nazi military
debacle.
We have a cogent reminder of
this possibility almost a cer
tainty for some parts of Europe
in the word from Naples that
the Germans, seeking revenge
for the Italian surrender to the
allies, have turned that fine city
into a horror. Civilians, includ
ing women and children, are re
ported to have been machine
gunned to death in the streets,
and much of the port has been
wantonly destroyed.
Nasi Atrocity
That's mild, though, as com
pared with the wholesale mas
sacres and other atrocities car
ried out in the many occupied
countries. ; From the Baltic
states westward to the English
Channel and southward to the
Mediterranean, millions of folk
are waiting with blazing hatred
for their chance at revenge.
And in Germany itself there
sre some 12,000,000 Italians,
Frenchmen, Belgians, Danes,
Poles and other peoples who
have been dragged there and put
to work as slaves. Reports via
Switzerland say that the nazis
are further stripping Italy of
manpower for forced labor in
Germany.
Maintain Line
Yes, the fuehrer had better
maintain his line! If we are to
believe German broadcasts, that's
wnat the all highest is deter
mined to do, for he is said to
have established headquarters on
the Russian front and decreed
that his generals shall not yield
"another foot of ground" be
yond the prepared nazi positions
west of the Dnieper, which now
has been reached and is the
scene of many bloody battles for
control of the main crossings of
War News Not Getting to
People, Says OWI Board
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 VP)
ine newspaper advisory com
mittee of the office of war in
formation (OWI) says high naval
and military authorities are not
getting the war news to the
American people.
"The public is not being ade
quately informed," said the com
mittee, and added:
"If there is any complacency
or letdown in the war effort on
the part of the American people,
it is not due to any lack of
patriotism or desire for essy vic
tory, but rather to the absence
of full necessary understanding."
The fflltlt. It BnpHa nM
be attributed to "the disinclina
tion on the part of some high
naval and military authorities
to evaluate what is information
v wnicn the public is entitled."
The committee, which includes
executive nf a
papers, issued its criticism last
mani aiier a aay-iong conference.
It praised the work of American
war correspondents but pointed
out that news that bad not been
released to the American people
through the domestic channels
was first brought to them by
Prime Minister Churchill in a
house of commons speech.
"We believe that American
newspapaga themselves have the
greatest ivsponsibility In seeing
I
that the public Is fully informed
of the progress of the- war, al
ways consistent with considers
tions of national- security," the
committee's statement said, add
ing: "Given the necessary coopera
tion, this job will be performed."
Young Charlie
Chaplin Inducted
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 VP)
xoung cnarne Chaplin, son of
the famous film comedian with
the flanninff ihim anrf
Ft 1 a US
ucroy, siroae into tne army in
duction center today for a going
over ay me military medics.
If he naaaaa him nhvtlpnl Ar
amination, army authorities said,
sworn in at 3 p. m.
(PWT) today, then granted the
customary seven-days' leave be
fore entering- actlva unHn
a rookie.
FREEDOM STUDIED
JUNIOR I I I I
WALNUT rnwwv nut int.
Lyman Stoddard, weekly n'ews-
ppw puoiisner, xouna himself
listed bv tha war hWm
tionlnff hnarrf lila
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dorse gasoline coupons.
Lyman Stoddard, Jr., employ,
ed as a printer on his father's
neWSnaner. ia th ratlnn hmnl
chairman.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 ()
President Roosevelt said today
the position of aviation in the
post-wsr world had been under
study by the government for
months and that both he and
Prime Minister Churchill of
Britain were in agreement that
there should be freedom of the
air.
Some conversations also have
taken nlace on aviaUnnr amn
other government officials and
other allied 'officials, the chief
executive ioia nis press-radio
conference.
Mr. Roosevelt expressed the
view that what he termed in
ternal aviation ought to be
owned by the individual coun
tries and added that rnmrnirrlol
and passenger routes in general
should be in private hands.
There might be some exceptions,
he eaid. in InntanrM vrUnrm It im
desirable to extend a line to
some area into which a private
concern could not an nrnfftahlv
Then, he tuaaentivi a Onvomm ant
line or perhaps a United Nations
iiuc aiigni ds opera tea witn a
loss.
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OCT. 7
this third greatest river of
Europe.
The climatic struggle which Is
going on along most of the thous
and mile front, from Leningrad
to the Sea of Azov, should give
us an indication soon whether
the Germans will be able to
maintain themselves along the
natural line of the Dnieper. Their
alternative will be to resume
their highly dangerous with
drawal into Poland.
New Danger
As I previously have pointed
out. a new and grave danger has
been created for the Germans by
the red offensive in the Smolensk
sector. The ostensible objective
of this fresh operation is to drive
across into the Baltic states, thus
cutting off the Hitlerites in the
whole northern triangle, which
has one side on the Baltic sea
and its apex at Leningrad.
If the Russians have the
strength to continue this push,
it will compel the Germans to
resume their withdrawal. Other
wise their Dnieper line will be
outflanked from the north, and
disaster will be stalking them
again.
Russia's reserve In manpower
and material Is an unknown
quantity to the outside world.
From the Klamath Republican
October ). l0i
News reached Lakevlnw yes
terday that the Lower Chewau
can marsh is afire and that thou
sands of tons of hay, as well as
thousands of acres of pasture
and meadowland, had been de
stroyed by the fiery demon. The
fire started on the lower ZX
rancn.
W. C. Dalton, foreman of the
tarr rancn, was in the city Frl
day.
' From the Klamath News
October I. 1933
The Klamath Pelicans beat Al
turas, 27-0, yesterday.
a a
Weed-Klamaih Falls highway
is me oniy entrance to tne slate
of Oregon showing increased
travel In tha naxt v,mr mfftwA.
ing to the chamber of commerce.
Land Bank Loans
Have Low Interest
Federal Land bank hnrmuvn
in Klamath aiiri !.nlr mi.,fl.
with National Farm Loan as
sociation loans which mature
after June 30. 1944. are now
assured that tha intaroat rata
on their installment navmanta
will not exceed 4 per cent dur
ing me me oi tneir loans, ri. e.
Hamaker, secrctnry-tressurer of
me Klamath group, National
Farm Loan association, at
Klamath Falls, said today.
From time to time there have
been unofficial reports of a huiie
reservoir of trained forces ready
for Just such an emergency as
now has arrived. The Germans,
too. say the reds are employing
fresh reserves. However, time
is our surest source of the truth
in this matter.
Germans Using
New Type Torpedo
AN EASTERN CANADIAN
PORT, Oct. 1, (IP) German sub
marines have returned to the
battle of the Atlantic with a new
type of torpedo deadly and ef
ficientdeclared more than 100
survivors of sunken allied mer
chant vessels who were landed
here earlier this week.
They were victims of the first
big nazi U-boat attack reported
In North Atlantlo waters for
nearly four months. Included
were American, British and Nor
wegian seamen and a lone stow
away an lB-yeiir-olri negro girl
whom a boatswain, also a negro,
had hoped to smuggle Into tkfS
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Tha name and other informs,
tlon were placed inside the bot
tle, which was tightly corked
and half-burled beside the grave.
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