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By MALCOLM EPLEY
THERE has been occasional suggestion in this
column that fair-minded people avoid un
just conclusions about certain groups of people
on the basis of individual unfavorable incidents.
This goes for service men, labor union people,
employers, and others who
may receive criticism because
of the acts of persons in their
group for which they cannot
possibly be responsible.
Something of this kind has
been going on for years in
connection with the Klamath
Indians. We have always felt
that the big majority of Klam
ath Indians are fine, worthy
people, and that the activities
of a minority (usually inspired
by liquor furnished them by
renegade whites) have brought the entire group
unjustly into disrepute. We have mentioned
this before, and today we have a letter from a
Klamath Indian that bears out that thought
and carries an appeal we believe is worthy of
consideration.
The letter resulted from an incident at the
council the other night, in which comparison
was made between the police picking up a
young school child and a "drunken Indian."
Here is the letter:
BEATTY, Ore. (To the Editor) Being a full
blooded American. I read the American papers
and sympathize with the troubles of American
people but I've noticed time and time again
that whenever something unpleasant happens
like the incident of the "paddy wagon," an
Indian has to be mentioned. Why couldn't
Mr. Christie simply say "a drunk on Klamath
avenue" instead of "a drunken Indian." It's
true we Indians indulge in the intoxicating
liquors but I've seen white people, men and
women, who were just as drunk as an Indian
could be.
, We Indians are no angels and we don't
claim to be, but some day some of us are going
to be "buddy buddy" with the same persons
who puts the Indian below his level. If he
happens to go below or above as we will at
death. We have no dislike for the American,
white people. In fact if you white people
hadn't taken over our country, I imagine I'd
freeze running around clad only in rabbit skin.
We Indians have had education just as you,
we worship the same God, we dress as warmly
as you, we eat the same foods, obey the same
OPA rules, we have brothers, sons, husbands,
and even sisters in the American forces, we
buy bonds, yes and we drink wine just like
you white people. We're only different in color
and we are only the original Americans.
I'm sorry some of you feel we are a lower
class than you. Some of us Indians have the
brains and ability to get ahead if only we
were given the chance.
You like our country?
Well, how about forgetting our faults and
liking us?
Thank you,
ONE OF THE VANISHING AMERICANS,
Beatty, Oregon.
News Behind the News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (Part II) A
restless appetite for something called
"freedom" is loose- in the land. The youth
wants it.
This is what war is being fought for. Most
of the internationally agitating societies in New
York also have the word freedom attached to
their titles Polish, Russian, internationalist,
what not.
But what is this "freedom" for which we
yearn? It must be something different front
that freedom which we have had. It is not
alone democracy, for we have had that, still
have It. Russia uses the same word to describe
what it wants also, but that, obviously, is not
the kind of "freedom" our people are thinking
about. No one describes it exactly.
Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill specified four
freedoms in the mislaid Atlantic charter. While
they were generally approved they have proved
hard to get, cither tor this country or the
world.
A prophet of the new, undescribed cause,
Russell Davenport, has written a passionately
patriotic poem, which conveys a description of
the surge.
Thought Sublime
1 1 "THE breed of freedom," he says, "is a
breed of strife, restless and rude, reared
to the earthly struggle of its time. Only the
thought of freedom is sublime. Its flesh Is
knit of discord and of feud." This is a descrip
tion of a current condition rather than a speci
fic definition of a peaceful goal.
Mr. Roosevelt, in January 1941, gave a speci
fic and limited definition of the Atlantic
charter ideals.
Freedom of speech and expression, and free
dom of religion (both ot which we already have
and know well), freedom from want, meaning
(he said) "economic understandings which will
secure to every nation a healthy, peaceful life."
and freedom from fear, meaning (ho said) "a
worldwide reduction of armaments to such a
point that no nation can commit aggression."
These are things we want. But to seek free
dom from want, must we abandon all other
freedoms? Arc we free if we are told by a
federal government run by political (and there
fore amenable) men whore to work, how long,
for how much?
Wrong in First Place
SOME people actually think that would be
freedom. They reason that the employe is
now enslaved to the employer, so they wish to
rush from his arms into the arms of the
state. Well, they are wrong in the first place.
Employees had complete freedom to move
where they wished under our system, to quit
when they chose, to negotiate with their em
ployer through unions or directly for whatever
they could get in a highly competitive labor
market which has always existed in this coun
try except in the off-times of depression, and
even then it prevailed for the bulk of the
workers as these never lost employment.
But you will not have individual freedoms,
. when the state is free to fix your wages, hours,
work and leisure to what is supposed to be
"national interest," but which always may be
crisscrossed with political interest, with reelec
tion possibilities, the need of campaign funds,
or mazuma passed under the table, as politic
ians' salaries are never high.
If this is what our youth would call free
dom, are they not following pied piper? Is it
freedom to live on WPA directly, or Indirectly
through socialism or communism? Is it free
to the worker to grant union monopolies and
exclusive rights to work without compensation
or taxation at the expense of the consumer?
And if the union now is thus given "freedom"
by enslavement to the state, what about us
great people who pay the prices asked, and
what of management? Are they free?
Does disarmament mean freedom? W had
it before, and we were attacked. France and
Britain were supposed to maintain complete
disarmament of Germany and we had strict
naval arms limitation with Japan. True, arma
ments are tax burdens on the people and tax
burdens deny freedom but does not armament
in this war really mean freedom for us, and
perhaps may it not continue its meaning in the
revolutionary condition of the postwar world?
I am asking. The war is being won for
freedom, the election was won for freedom.
Now what is it? Whatever the reasonable,
thoughtful, clearheaded youth of the country
wants, I am for it.
But I do not think it either voted for or
wants what some of the propaganda group or
ganizations now furnishing their leaders wage
jobs and lucrative publicity (and I am not now
referring to any foreign organization but our
own) are advertising as "freedom."
Star of Bethlehem Topic
Of Oregon Astronomer
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, General Extension
Division, University of Oregon
With the Yuletide there often
come questions regarding the
nature of the Star of Bethle
hem. Astronomical writers,
while suggesting explanations,
have to admit that all such are
merely conjectures. Marian
Lockwood of Hayden planeta
rium has said the Star's "real
and great value would seem to
lie in the fact that it has sym
bolized to a large part of man
kind for nearly 2000 years the
finest and mo6t lofty of ideals."
The theories usually offered
will merely be related here
without elaboration. Many be
lieve that the Christmas Star,
mentioned only In the briefest
form and by a single gospel
writer, was supernatural in na
ture and may even have had
no material existenco at all.
Others who hold that God al.
ways works through natural
means think it may have been
a Driinani pianei. some sug
Best the brieht comet which
the Chinese records mention as
appearing Bbout that time;
others, a flaming meteor. Then
mere are tnc advocates of a
spectacular nova, or "new star,"
such as even in our limes occa
sionally flares up where no star
was previously known. Or it
may have been the gorgeous
spectacle of the close combina
tion of the bright planets Jupi
ter, Saturn and-Mars, which
occurs once in 800 years. One
such display appeared in 6 B.C.
At first w P2k
But it is not necessary to go
back to ancient times for a
Christmas star. The sky this
Christmas season is full of
glittering lights ready to give
inspiration to everyone blessed
with eyesight and the soul to
look up.
Our "evening star" is espe
cially spectacular. Scarcely has
daylight begun to fade when
high in the southwest a clear,
gleaming dot of light appears.
Brightening rapidly as the twi
light deepens, it soon glows as
a radiant little lamp, far sur
nassine any star ever seen in
the heavens. By the time the
sky is really dark, this planet
Venus Is so gorgeous that it
must Impress even seasoned ob
servers as an object of miracu
lous brilliance and beauty.
Venus is our special Christmas
.star In 1944.
We have still another vivid
Christmas symbol, the Northern
Cross. Between 9 and 10 o'clock
at this season, the large cross
of stars is standing almost up
right over the northwestern
horizon. At its head is the
bright star Dcneb, surpassed in
this general direction only by
the brilliant Vega near the horl-
ief At Last
For Your Cough
Crcomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the teat of tha
trouble to help loosen and expel
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quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMIJLCIOKI
for Coughs, Chtir Colds. Bronchitis
zon. Somewhat below Deneb
the cross-arm of three stars of
about the brightness of the Big
Dipper is easily found. Then
tracing down from the middle
star of the cross-arm, a few
faint stars continue almost in
line to Alblreo at the foot of
the cross, itself a rather dim
star. Through telescopes, Al
bireo becomes the beautiful
"blue and gold double," a most
fitting gem for a royal crown.
Continuance of
Sugar Rationing Eyed
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (IP
Su;?ar rationing appears prob
able in the U. S. through 1945,
B. W. Dyer, head of the sugar
brokerage company that bears
his name, declared today.
"A sugar supply approximat
ing potential demand appears
long way off," he added in an
analysis of 1045 prospects.
"The first nine months of J94S
probably will be especially tight.
During the fourth quarter, the
situation might ease up some
what if wo have: 1 A large
domestic beet sugar crop, and
2 A more optimistic over-all
1040 outlook."
SIDE GLANCES
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"He's InlkinK about it helicopter after the war, mil I m
not worried - he ot excited iihotit electric dishwasher
iluriiiK Ihe lust -wtir bul never Rot around to buyinft one!
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From tha Klamath Nawt
Dec. 28. 1834 .
Christmas business in Klam
ath Falls showed a substantial
increase over last year, when
things were at their lowest un
der depression conditions. One
business that went over big was
that of the state liquor store,
managed by Chet Kerslakc.
From th Klamath Republican
Dec. 29, 1904
Fred Melhase said today he
plans to construct a business
building at Conger avenue and
Main street. It will house a
meat market.
George T. Baldwin is plan-
hI.m . U l.ill.li.... 1
mug a jiiaiiiuiuiu uuuuillK. uuee
stones n'gn, in tne spring, u
will be on Main street near the
bridge.
Former Klamath Man
Dies in Hollywood
Word was received here this
morning of the death in Holly
wood on Tuesday of Urnie S.
Armstrong, formerly a resident
of Klamath Falls. The funeral
will be held at 12:30 p. m. on
Saturday, at Pierce Brothers
mortuary, 5959 Santa Monica
Boulevard, Hollywood.
Armstrong was for several
years Chrysler-Plymouth dealer
here, but sold his business and
moved to Hollywood, where he
has since lived. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Mabel Armstrong.
Woman Accused of
Husband's Murder
TACOMA, Dec. 28 (P) A
first degree murder charge was
filed yesterday against Mrs.
Pietra Lorensten, 39, in connec
tion with the death Sunday of
her husband, Nick Lorensten, 59,
whose body, hacked with an axe,
was found in tho family home
Sunday.
Pierce County Prosecutor
Thor C. Tollefson said every ef
fort will be made to bring the
case to trial as soon as possible.
Australians sometimes call
tropical cyclones willy-willies.
EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued from Page One)
once of our new airfields on
Mindoro, only a half hour by air
irom wanna.
AN American naval task force
" aguln bombards Iwo Jlmn
island, and one of our ships suf
fers damage from Jap shore
guns.
Our sustained bombing and
shelling of Iwo Jima Indicates
the importance WE place on this
Jap air outpost halfway from
our Saipan B-29 base and the
Jap home islands. From it, Jap
planes attack our Saipan base
and rise to attack our Supcrforts
passing over on their way to
and from Japan.
We bomb Tokyo again. These
bombings are ROUTINE and will
continue indefinitely. General
Hansell realistic commander of
our B-29 baso at Saipan, says
Japan is beginning to "bleed in
ternally" as a result of them.
, a
(TON'T lose sight of Mindoro.
From there we can, and
probably are beginning to, wreck
Jap water communications with
the East Indies, Burma and the
far southern Asiatic mainland.
IN Greece, the warring factions
agree to a regency (probably
under King George) as a step
toward peace. (A regency is a
temporary affair until a per
manent government can be erect'
cd.) Churchill and Eden, who
have been in Athens for several
days, leave for London to try to
get King George (of Greece) to
agree.
Churchill, before leaving, says
tho ALTERNATIVE to a peace
ful settlement is ARMED FORCE
by the British and a possible
"three-power International
trust" to consider Greek affairs.
He adds: "Of course we must
expect that in a not very long
time Pro's Id en.'t Roosevelt,
Marnhal Stalin and myself will
meet again and we will certain
ly review the (Greek) situation."
(Churchill all but says that
we and the Russians have agreed
to a British sphere of influence
in Greece.)
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Christ Is Now Reigning
on David's Throne
Jui taught Hit dlielpUi to pray "Thy kinJom eomal"
Tha church or kingdom was not than In xlitanca. It did,
howtvtr, com shortly with powar. On ih day of Ptnlt
cost soma thrte thousand were baptised Into Christ's klnr
dom. (Acts 3:38-47)- This prayar which Jams taught His
disciples to pray was aniwarad than in ragsrd to th king
dom. Paul ipok of th kingdoms being In xlilne whil
h was prtachlng. H wrot thus to th church at C1oii
in Col. 1:13, "Who dlivrd ut out of th powar ef dark,
nasi, and translated ui into ih kingdom of th Son of His
lor."
That kingdom which was In xittne at Paul's tlm is
till in axittance, and Christ Is still reigning. H will rtlgn
until th end of limo. (I Cor. 15:24).
RAYMOND I GIBBS, Evangelist.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Klamath Falls, Orgon,
(Continued From Page One)
where In Its SO acres of one
story workshops.
Doisn Hits
Early photographs showed ut
least n doicn now bomb lilts in
the plant. Pictures of budding
bomb hursts gavo rlso to hope
Inter pluitogiiiplis would show
heavy dumiigu In tho works,
one ot the keys to Japan's air
craft production.
One glnnt American plan
was lost over Tokyo but the
SupcrforU shot down perhaps
the' largest number of cnumy
plunes yet destroyed over thu
Island of Honshu, on which tho
Imperial cupltul Is sltuuted. The
total bag has nut been officially
announced.
Japs Surprised
The Japanese apparently
were caught by surprise. Early
B-l!l) formations found both
anti-aircraft (lie and Intercep
tion light, but later arrival?
oncountcred lieuvy opposition.
Tokyo's busy Industrial cott
ier was awept by great fires,
returning airmen reported. Lt.
Col. William McDowell, Brady,
Tex., an observer, said that on
the return trip tho smoke
could be seen trom 00 miles
away.
(A Washington communique
said fires wcro slurtud in the
big Musoshimu plane plant.)
Tho Nipponese tried out a
new defense wrinkle, touching
off smudgcpols in an effort to
lay a smokescreen, bul the at
tackers dcscribml tho technique
as unsuccessful.
Helen Keller Visits
Vancouver Hospital
PORTLAND, Dec. 28 (Pi
Helen Keller, hero to lend com
fort from her own experience to
deaf and blind veterans at
Barnes hospital, Vancouver, gig
gled today as sho recalled how
one G. 1. at first refused to be
lieve she was still alive.
"Helen Keller? Why sho Is
just a myth. If she were ullvo
she'd be 100," the wounded boy
retorted when Polly Thompson,
her companion of :i0 years, sold
Miss Keller wanted to talk to
him.
His amazement grew as h
spoke, and finally his dinner,
brought on a bed tray, grow
cold, the famous woman related.
Polly told him to keep on eating.
"To hell with dinner." ho re
torted. "I can eat any lime, but
not very many folks can even
live to see Helen Keller."
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Bastogne Garrison
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To Ultimatum
(Continued From Pago One)
have taken Mnrcho unci reached
St. Hubert by passing through
Homorcs- SlbrcWTillel. Libra
mont Is In our hands.
"There Is only one possibility
to save thu troops irom tutul mi
inhibition: that is honorable sur
render. In order to think it
over the term of two hours will
bo granted, beginning with the
presentation of this note.
"If thin propositi should bn re
jected one Oerniiin artillery
corps and six hcuvy AA batta
lions lira randy to annihilate the
USA troops In and near Has
togne. Tho order for firing will
be given Immediately alter this
two hours term.
"All the serious civilian lowes
caused by this artillery lire
would not correspond with W'nll
known American humanity.
"Signed. Tho Herman com
mander." Yanks Reply
"To tho German commander,"
said tho American reply.
"Nuts!"
Tho Inst word was double
spaced, underlined and lollowed
by nn exclamation point.
The Germans tried another
trick on Christmas Day. They
bombarded the Americans with
Christmas cards. On one side
was the picture of an American
soldier holding tho hand of a lit
tle ulrl, who was saying, "Dad
dy, I'm frightened." On tho oth
er side was n Santa Clans say
ing: "Coma on over, boys, Just
300 yards from where you aro.
You will got a Merry Christmas
here."
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