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PACE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Jraltl&ttb3?Ur News Behind ihe News EPLEY SHANK JENKINS MALCOLM EPLEY Editor Mantling Editor ntard aa aacond diu matter at tha poatofflca of Klamath Faila. On on Auauat 30 isoa. under act of coogreaa. March . lart Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY INTO heads and hearts like ours which are pretty well jammed up these days with war worries, puzzling about the future, local con Iroversy, community problems, etc., along with the ordinary run of personal matters, we have an idea the letter we are J bout to print will come like ; refreshing breeze in the Klamath pines. It's a letter from a man in Ihe service a Klamath man to his young nephew, born just November 18. The writer Is PFC Robert Benjamin Kerns, and little Joe, recipient of the missive, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Kerns. Joe won't be able to read this letter for a while. But we are fortunate enough to have it for this column today, for the benefit of a lot of folks who need its reiteration of faith fi the things that mean America. Here it is: Dear Little Joe: Welcome to this mixed-up world, nephew the world that's going to be safe for Democ racy and Communism. Welcome to a grand heritage and to a wonderful childhood. I ought to know, for I lived that childhood, and after looking around a little, I've decided I was a pretty lucky guy to have the parents, the family, the luxuries, the education, the hopes and dreams and the realization of those hopes and dreams that I did. And you, my boy, face the same wonderful future, only you have a couple of swell grandparents to add more to your life to make the holidays mean one of Grandmother's delicious dinners with Grandfather cutting the turkey and eating his fill despite Gran nie's admonitions. The whole family will be there Uncle Jim and Aunt Dorothy with their children, and Uncle Ben we hope with someone at his side. The table will be loaded Aunt Dorothy brought the pie, your mother made the gelatin salad, Grandmother roasted the turkey to a crisp brown. After dinner we all may dance down in the pine-panelled play room or you kids may go for a horse back ride up into the hills, up to the top of the highest peak, where you can look down and see the sun gleam on the Klamath river as it winds its way across the valley, caressing and giving life to the land it passes. You'll be able to see the red brick of Grandpa's house, and on the other side of the apple orchard you can see your house nestling white and neat into its lush green lawn. Stretching away from you, looking like a drunken checkerboard, are the fertile fields of the Klamath valley stretching into the distance until they're stopped abruptly by the foothills of the Cascades. ; And you'll thrill, little Joe, thrill with the feeling of the warm sun on your back, the sharp smell of sage that fills your nostrils, thrill with the thought of belonging to this good life. The thrill will fill your body and , soul, and your horse, sensing it, starts off at a gallop down the trail toward home. You'll lean back in the saddle, the swift wind bringing tears to your eyes, and you'll yell you'll holler as you race down the trail, flying past the juniper and pines you'll let out a yell of pure joy trying to release some of the thrill for life that is filling you... Step into your heritage, Joe, and be worthy of it Your Uncle Ben. Thank you, PFC Kerns. It did us a lot of good. WACS Needed WE note that Lt. Betty Herring, former pop ular Klamath recruiter is coming back to help recruit Wacs for the medical corps. With the war mounting to unprecedented fury on the western front, it is clear enough that the need for medical services for our men is greater than ever. The Wacs who get into this work will be giving a service that cannot be ex ceeded in value. a a The Object- In the Sky NEWS from Montana this week that a strange Japanese balloon had been found up there might throw some light on a strange object reported seen in the sky near here two or three weeks ago. Observers said the local mystery object looked something like a flying bomb, and was followed by a trail of flame. By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 The Germans did not get the power for this break through our lines from the Russian front. They picked some of it from Finland, Nor way and Denmark, but most of it came from reserves built up by reorganization of the ele ments which straggled home from the lost battle of France. The constant Increase of nazl strength since September tan be attributed to that latter circumstance and it constantly grows greater. a a a Skilfully Chosen CAREFULLY, Von Rundstedt and his gen erals (and Hitler was in on lt according to mv information) chose the time and place skill fully. The spot was a portion of the line which both the nazis and our army had loosely held. Any concentration there could easily break through either side. But their concentration went undetected by us. Not a note of advance warning did wo have because the w -ether favored their enterprise not only with rain but with low-hanging clouds. The clouds prevailed for several days after the break-through so we could not use our air power, upon which we relied heavily to offset any such offensive. (Planes are disastrous to such offensives, which necessarily are closely knitted and therefore easily detected and dam aged, while defensive operations can be scatter ed and therefore be comparatively safe from air destruction.) The break-through Itself was nothing new and could have been anticipated. The nazis constantly used such tactics in Russia when they could not otherwise stop an advance, but the whole course of winter fighting on the front may be determined by what eventually happens to this blow. The nazis have used up their reserves for this fight.- When their initial move met suc cess, they threw everything loose into it. If the blow is crushed without too great loss to us, our next advance should meet less resist ance. a a a a Slow-Up EUROPEAN political events have endangered the chances of getting the Dumbarton Oaks agreement through the senate when and if final agreement is reached with Russia. That agreement, as far as It has progressed, proposes a closer-tied world organization than ever before to preserve finally and forever the kind of world we have at the end of the war. It would make permanent the status quo at the war's conclusion. Naturally as the status quo becomes less and less pleasing to all the parties involved, in terest in preserving it permanently becomes less. For instance, if we are going to have a bal ance of power politics in Greece, it will be difficult to preserve. If Russian borders are to be extended into Poland, we will undertake through Dumbarton action to guarantee those borders forever with our arms. Indeed, it is conceivable that such a situa tion may ariso in Europe where not only the senators, but the administration might not be especially enthusiastic about permanently guar anteeing it. This is a new element which has entered into the private discussions here. It will become important only as developments from Europe direct, and will simmer and die if those de velopments become more satisfactory. For the present, I would say congress Is dividing into two camps: those who say the At lantic charter was a war ideal which hardly could have proved acceptable to Russia in the end, but well served its war purposes, and those who suspect the people will be shocked to find now that our advertised war hopes have been taken abroad so lightly. ' The meeting of certain republican senate leaders with Governor Dewey in New York Friday reflects lack of confidence In leadership by the republican governors who had such a prominent part in the last campaign. It reflects also an earnest opposition to compromising with the New Deal. SIDE GLANCES t COWL tM4 1Y HI MKVTCat. INC T. t mq U, W. OfT. "Don'l worry, she's only dressed tip like Hmt l.ccmiHO she Telling The Editor Latlara printed hera mual not ba mora than MO ararda tn Irmth, muat ba writ ttn larblr on ONI IIOI at tha tupar anty, and muat a atgnad, Contilbutlona following thaaa nilaa. art warmly wak A RAT IS A RAT KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To the Editor) The supreme court upholding the letting the Amer ican born Japs go back to the west coast. I think this is the craziest thing that we could now or ever do. I am an American 100 per cent and have folks fighting Japs in the islands of the Pacific. They are rats and you can't make anything else out of them, as a rat is a rat no matter how you would dress them up. After the Pearl Harbor bomb ing and things that havo hap pened they do not deserve the treatment that they are getting here. If I had my way they would not ever have the freedom of the U. S. to over run the land like they have In the past. It is all right to be human. But if a dog bites you once you will always lookout for him after that. So I ask tho people of Oregon and California and other western states, where they have had to put up with this disease to think twice and fi-iht to keep them Japs where they belong and after the war ship them all back to what will be left of Japan, as they will need them Members of Klwitnls and Ro tary service clubs observed their minimi Ultrtstnius proifiiinis and luncheon nici'tlnas this week, tha Klwantmis meeting Thursday and the Hotiirlmu on Friday at tha Wlllard. Warren Whltlock was Simla Onus tn the children of Klwmils members who Htilhered around festive tunics fur tho Yule trcnt. There was a program of sung, and chulrmiin of tho day was Rev. David Unrnolt. Students and service men, homo for tha holidays, were htm tired at the Itotitry luncheon. I'l'twuiitliig a skit were Joy Kant, Nancy Uoniiul. Maxina Llskcy, Murjorla Chirk, Dorothy Davis, Peggy Keating, Mary Luntlry, Mary CtirrlKiiu unci Juan Long. Others on llu program, arranged by Sji. Cluirles Foster, Jerry Etnnrssnn ami rtlchurd Bennn, In eluded Joy Kuiil, who sung "O Holy Night," accompanied by Mrs. Don J. Zumwatt; clurlnal solo, Jerry Eintirsson, and scrip ture reading, Ed Pctcriuan. Tho Yellow river In China Is dubbed "China's Sorrow." be cause of the many floods it has loosed on the rich adjacent farmlands. TTTmtirtmTmTirmmwwt. mmm tertian l!!lMlllli!lili!lHltllil!Mi!lllfH!; Mi MtieifflCBiiiBlli Minniilli t,,11 hopping, ,or Chr From the KUmath Republican December 22. 1804 Kliimath Canal company, which Is building a system tin- ir rigation here, this week offered to sell tho system to I ho people at $2 per intra fur thu luiul to bo Irrigated. Tho company elating this Is cheaper than the govern ment can offer, A government reclamation plan is being wide ly talked here, a From the Klamath News December 22, 1834 Roads are so bad In the Tule lake lectlmi tho Southern Pacific ran a special train totlnv iKntnr. day) to bring Tulelakers Into .II'",.."'"'' em.r "iiiiiiii'e nita ..; ralU l"r'Jl!i'lWl.S 'BOMBS Fry ,, U,NDON. Doe 2 " "M'uriod, A GIFT CERTIFICATE From Dray.-. - eiannoti . L" Him Blt Hit Own Old '"-l Main over there a lot worse than we will need them. Sincerely, C. H. Bennett, 2627 Blsbee St. Horse, Not Morse Finds Residence WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (P) Oh I to I e a horse. At least that's what the family of Senator-elect Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) is beginning to sigh. Mrs. Morse has found a homo here for their two saddle horses but none for tho fnmily. The family, awaiting arrival of Mr. Morse, has been taken in by friends. To add to the troubles, Morse, his eldest daughter and their horses, all en route to the capital, were stalled In Aurora, 111., early today when they ran out of gas. r t n Educational Insurance 1 I ? I i , atJLyour i RrraSSEMTINO THB EQUITABLE LIFE Assurance Society " aal Pbaoa Today's Bible Verses From John I In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him: and without Him, was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light i of men. 1 And the light shineth in darkness: and the ! darkness comprehended it not . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten Father, full of grace and truth. No Development In Indian Death JVo new developments were reported by Investigating offi cers in the sudden death of Rose- mary Jackson Merritt, 19-year- oiq inaian woman wno died Wednesday at 2 a. m. in Chilo quin. Special Indian Officer John Arkell said he was checking va rious angles of the case but that it would probably be sometime next week before he had a defi nite statement to make. Mrs. Merritt, whose husband Is in the South Pacific with the U. S. army, died at the home of a sis ter, Beulah Farris, just a very short time after complaining of being ill. Up to that point, Ar kell said, the woman was In ap parent good health. Copco Purchase At Lakeview 0. K. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (P) California Oregon Power com pany's purchase of California Public Service company's elec tric facilities In Lake county, Ore., and Modoc county, Calif., for $470,000 cash has been ap proved by the federal power commission. The facilities Involved serve six communities, among them Lakeview, Ore., and Alturas, Calif. Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purse Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite M. Ward and Son AMBULANCE SERVICE 92S High Phone 33S4 Received TODAY ! 1 1 Part Wool GABARDINE SHIRTS All 8lses and Colors 3-Button Cuffs (Quantity Limited' STORE FOR MEN 5th and Main If It's a "frozen" article you Reed, advertise for a used one In the classified. Itching, Burning, Perspiring Feet 1 On to any druirgtat today and t n original bottle of Woone'a Bmar a!4 Oil. Don't worry thla power ful prnatratlna; oil brings 11101) aaaa nd comfort that you'll ba able to ro about your work aaln. happy and without that almoat unbearable aching and eoranaaa. Rub on Emerald Oil tonight freely: it doa not ataln la eco nomical. Money back If not aatla fled good drugglata ererywhere, . CHRISTMAS SERVICES Sunday, Dee. 24, 11 a. m. Christmas menage: "God's Great Gift" Sundov, Dee. 24, 7:30 p. m Christmas Evt Sajrviee: 'The Savior's Birth," in word and song by the Sunday school children and choir. A Cordial Invitation Is Asiured Zion Lutheran Church, 1025 High itreet. Victor A. Schulze. (Zion congregation will hold no services an Christmas Day, Dee. 25) Apostasy Is Possible The Impossibility of falling from grace Is a vary whole some doctrine with some people and vary full of comfort. The iid thing about it, it Is not true. Thar are two sides to the question, God's side and man's side. Some neoole seem to forget that God Is Just as faithful In His promise to punish the evil door as he is to bleu the faithful ehild. Proof! John 15i2.6. "Every branch In me that bearath not fru t, he taketh it awayi and every branch that beareth fruit, he claansath it, that It may bear more fruit." . . . "If a man abide not In me, he is cast forth, as a branch, and Is withered) and thay gather tham, and cast tham Into the fire. From this we learn that the man had bean a branch but did not so abide, therefor was gathered out from among other branches and burned. How could lan. guaga be plainer? "For the lor of money Is root of all kinds of arlli which soma reaching after HAVE BEEN LED ASTRAY FROM THE FAITH, and ha pierced th.m..Wi through with many sorrows." 1 Tim. 6il0. nrougn M. LLOYD SMITH. Eyingsllit. CHURCH OF CHRIST 2205 Waniland At. Klamath Falls, Orgon. First Church of Christ, Scientist hrtnrh r Tli- Mnlhr C'hurrh. Tbi riril Chtirrh of t briti. olIU1, In I.ih n nob. njtt.it trvlet. nMir Rrb))l !! a. m. Sander rvlet tl a. m. Bibjtrt, Dec. 14 "Cbrltt Jfl fT4nidar avenlnf arvtr I a, tn. Reading om, IMS Main PI. armmHtlltltHMHtlMHilluaaiaaaa.......... rT """""""""""""""'t"ittmtminittim .... . . "TO1S a iniuiuN Willi CHRISTIAN CHURCH Ninth and Plna I rldaiv. IM'iiilHr 22 7:30 P, M. I!vonno Invlioil Trent1 n for ili liilni. omtttmttttrmtwtrrmmmmtttminmttwumnitwitm CHRISTMAS PROGRAM at tha Assembly of God Church THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK SCIENCE and HEALTH With Kay to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy may b read or purchased at the Christian ScitnC Reading Roams 1023 Main 8t. 748 Oak Sunday Night at 7:30 Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Morning Service 11:00 a. m. Sermon "The Man, Jesus Christ" You are cordially invited to attend A, Harold Parting, Pallor Wpem SJUNBDAl 2:30 P. M. emice Men's dhxsopd 325 Main. Basement Melhase Bldg. & Christmas Program Sunday by Klamath Falls Churches Rev. Howard Hutchins of the First Christian Church will give the message First Christian Church Choir Service Men's Chapel Open to Public Service Men and Women Especially Invited O Ladies' Lounge O Services Every Night After SunM 'Ml , This ad publlihsd by