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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
9 FRANK JENKINS MALCOLM EPLTY
Editor Managing Editor
Entrd sscond citw matter at ttw poitofiict of Klamath
rail. Ore., on August 80. 1906. under act of congreu.
-i March 8. 18T9
Member.
.Auocialed Preu
Member Audit
Bureau Circulation
News Behind the News
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By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Mr. Roosevelt's
announced program for the fourth term
proposes compulsion as the answer to the most
prominent pending war and postwar questions.
Not enough 4-F's are going into war work.
Cpmpel them. Not enough nurses are volun
teering. Draft them. Labor shortages exist in
some few but important war lines. Give the
president power to draft everyone for war
work. ,
-For future defense of the country, draft the
youths for a year of training in army camps.
For 60,000,000 postwar jobs, let private enter
prise be encouraged to furnish them, but let
the government also furnish many by great
public works (airfields, roads, new TVA's).
The congressional reaction to these ideas was
hfsitant. The president was fresh from a suc
cessful election to a fourth term, with increas
ing majorities in congress, yet the common
calm congressional comment suggested only the
4F draft would be authorized, probably . a
nurses draft would be included (if this scare
dbes not work), but certainly a work draft
would not be. voted soon and the youth draft for
piace might wait until peace for decision.
i The postwar business program was rather
generally approved and will no doubt be pro
vided by congress as it comes along.
J Why this resistance, largely silent and unex
plained, to vital points of a program which is
npt new in any respect, the president- having
proclaimed himself for most of these things
before? The answer is the average congressman
is scared.
Opposition was crushed politically in the
election but the general reaction here even to
that result was somewhat the same hesitancy,
silence, fear (or elements prominent in the re
election campaign).
It is not a partisan matter, and it is not being
pushed for political : effect : No one is' much
interested in such things now. It . is. a recog
nized genuine state of public affairs.
The president looks upon his work draft sug
gestion, no doubt, as a reasonable and democra
tic solution. England has a much milder count- .
erpart of the. same thing, being empowered to
draft men for the army, and then to assign
them to. industry. They have put draftees into
the; mines to work.
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Use Power Sparingly
"rtlE president ' says he intends to use the
I :. power only sparingly to meet emergencies
(although there are few powers the adminis
tration has. not used, come more fully than
anticipated). -
He cpunsels, now (he did not before) safe
guards which would not draft a man to work
fof a lower salary than he had been getting.
What is certainly also behind the idea, but
not mentioned, is the' power such legislation
would give the president over strikers and non
conformist . labor ; union leaders or workers.
They could be drafted. to. work (all union lead
ers have been against it).
Judging not only from these reiterated de
mands for more government compulsory powers.
but also the steps taken recently closing all
race tracks, tightening rationing and the other
war compulsory decrees, it is impossible to
refrain from the conclusion that this govern
ment is moving further and further to the com
pulsory theory.
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Perfect Form of Rule V
ITS ideal of a perfect form of government
seems to be a new kind of democratic state
ism preserving free enterprise, contradictory as
those terms may sound. This may be the fourth
New Deal.
Actually the only factor holding congress buck
is that the need for these steps has not been
proved conclusively. II, .in the future, anytime,
a major setback in the war, a wave of strikes,
or a critical shortage of labor which cannot
otherwise bo met, develops a crisis, the con
grcssional attitude could then be swung easily
m favor of such form of action.
Indeed, Mr. Roosevelt's tactics of not pressing
for the work draft immediately, suggests he
is biding his time for national support.
Consequently any sound analysis must con
elude that the plotted march of the fourth term
is definitely headed toward extension of com
pulsion methods, completely for war, and to a
new undetermined extent for peace, that the
end-ideal seems to be a state In which individ'
uals are subjected to extended authoritarian
control by federal authorities.
This trend may be arrested by victory, but
its course is largely in the hands of events to
come. The position of congress seems to be
only that it does not understand conditions to
be bad enough yet to warrant such departures
from our traditions.
For the long run, I would guess the odds favor
the projected administration outline, which
events could swiftly popularize and justify.
The War Today
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
THE battle of the Belgian bulge continues to
I go so well for the allies that, without over
reaching for our conclusions, we can say Nazi
Field Marshal Von Rundstedt's counter-offensive
not only may profit his masters little but may
prove to be a nasty boomerang. -
The latest high-ranking exponent of this Idea
is Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander of the
U. S. 12th army group in France, who. says the
Germans' drive may materially ' affect their
"ability to resist." That is, their ability to pro
long the war may have been reduced. The
general warns, however, that this doesn't mean
we can assume the Hitlerites are on the verce
of collapse, since there's much fighting to come
a wise qualification.
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Falling Back From Tip
RUNDSTEDT is falling back from the western
tip of that long, narrow bulge which is
contracting about him. The way things look he
will continue to withdraw until ultimately he
again reaches his frontier defenses. Now this
doesn't mean he is running away. He's fighting
a fierce rear-guard action and dispatches from
the front indicate he may try to make a de
termined stand at Houffalize, the key position in
the heart of tho salient. We must expect
interludes of German counterattacks, and there
may be terdporary allied upsets.
However, the great point is that Rundstedt Is
losing heavily in men and materiel, for the
struggle in the bulge is a battle of annihilation.
By the time he reaches his Siegfried' defenses
his army will need a blood-transfusion.
The nazl marshal's chief achievement is in
delaying the allied winter offensive perhaps
three months or so. Whether this will repre
sent any, real gain remains to be seen, for he
may arrive back at the Rhine so badly shot to
pieces that his further powers of resistance will
be weak. Presumably that possibility is what
General Bradley has in mind.-
May Shorten War
SHOULD this eventuate, the time spent in
the battle of the bulge wouldn't have
lengthened the war but would in . fact have
shortened it. Rundstedt had to be smashed
sometime, and it's perhaps just as well to do
it in the bulge as on the Cologne plain where
rasennower naa planned to force a show-down.
How soon will the allies be able to conclude
the battle of the bulge and mount an all-out
offensive to end all offensives? It strikes me
that we shall be overoptimistic if we look for
preliminaries of the big show short of the
good weather in April, if indeed they can come
that soon.
SIDE GLANCES
COP. 1MI BY HIA SIRVICt. INC. T. M. RIO. U. 5. PAT. OFF.'
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Naked Eye Can See Four
Quir.iillion Miles, Report
"I he pnlii'iil just nhcitcl of von bniMged Unit she luul four
nirlons of ci wire Is I hope vou're not inclined lo he
nervous, because Pm slill pretty sore!"
Softball Grenade Method
Used by 'Pop to Kill Nazis
SEATTLE. .Tan. 11 l!P PUT"
Leo J. (Pop) Powers won the
Congressional Medal of Honor
although so inexperienced at
nana grenade tossing he lobbed
his missiles like a soft-ball pitch
er instead of using the pro-
owiucu uvernana metnoct.
Powers, called Pnr hv hi.
dies because he's a ripe 35 years
e, iceeivea me tongression'
Bl Medal vestnrrin v f rntr, tr,i.
dent Roosevelt in Washington
u vuiu interviewers ot the ac
tion for which it was awarded
before leaving his post at Fort
Ajnwiun nere.
'"T corn ,,,'ic.n't 4mi-, .
- vnoi, . iiniiKing aooui
any medals that day," the former
.rnuei, muni., rancn nand said. "I
guess I was just tired of seeing
sq many of my b u d di e s shot
(Powers won his medal in ae
i on at Hill 175 i,.f At'"."r
T6ssing his grenades underhand
L.rUSJ"g hLs rUIe whe they
were gone he destroyed three
Weather Outlook For
Coast Said Promising
tqrdav rennrtnr) lha tu- LI
look at the moment in the Pa
cific northwest was "at least
.The Pacific northwest area
!s eP,eenced three wet sea
sdns followed by a dry year in
iEgg and milk production
throughout the nation is being
maintained, t h e department
al recora level for this
season of the year.
JTho department said another
near-record wheat crop seems
a 'fa r probability. It saw a pos-
nat an abundance of
Biauis now on farms may
rfr.fl rTers S modiy their
,"""cu, pious 10 reauce sharply
the production of pigs. P y
f ' Work or Dress
: RUBBERS
tJREGON WOOLEN STORE
in at 6th 5
Main ;
German pillboxes, killing
least five Germans, woundine 12
at
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From the Klamath Republican
January it, 13US
Mrs. R. S. Moore invited
number of the Klamath Pall
ladies to her home last Saturday
anernoon 10 meet ner mnpp. Mrs
Ernest Atwood. who. rpppntlv nr.
rived with her hiuhanH fmm
England.' Present were
and forcine 20 to flee.
"My rifle company had started
out with 200 men and there
were just about 35 of us left,"
Powers said in telling how he
started, his one-man counterat
tack. Although he was the target of
myriad bullets and grenades,
Powers came through the battle
unscathed. Six days later, how
ever, he was knocked uncon
scious bv an aerial hnmh ij
February 15 he was sent back to sJrfin lS glaude Daggett, Fred
Prank- .Innninaa V n
' ' u c i i, witn
row, wesiey u. smith, Emm
Cogswell and Miscon MaV.ni
Hammond, Maud Baldwin, Maud
A , a "aiioway and Alice
"Fi'iegaie.
From the Evening Herald
Januarv 14. 1Q.1& -
Heaviest snowfall in two years
4 u Basin, reacmng
wwjjm ut mute man one loot.
Juvenile Offi ppr Pari Cnr, n A
vised parents to find out where
wuiaren are coasting and wheth
it, is Hie, .
Liberator Explodes.
Crashes to Earth
His nnlv rnmmont nn u,- Ai
liiea as ne cnargea the pillboxes:
It was nrotlu nnMiv.fnHuui.
with the machinegun and rifle
uuncis wnizzing by."
Army Surplus Truck
Kule Revised
Recent chanffes In ,
cedur-e governing sale of surplus
army trucks by the treasury procurement-
division are called to
the attention of nrnn (,.,.
U.. .
j uk siaie aaa committee.
All truck sales will be made
uii an iniormai Did Basis, and nn
more negotiated, sales will be
made, according to the revised
regulations Tho enlnc nr.
iiur 10 aucuons, except that the
bids are written and each pros
pective buyer may make only
one bid on anv nnn trunk r..,t
may bid on as many trucks as he
desires.
Under the trnrk
AAA committees issue letters of
recommendation in MN t.
ing trucks who are contributing
to the war food nrni?ram in
case of tie bids. nnlhnHH o.,r.
crs buyine for
jiuiuins mese ietters are given
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Moro Comfarf
tort. lu,t .Srlnfc e muuS FASTEfTh
(demur. hrV.iA . ril. V..JK?. fi?r
any dru florV. '"""" "
vawuuuver. n r To-h
(IP) A Liberator
practice filcht north nt
iwuen, wasn., crashed last night
command reported.
Four of tho seven-man crew
Parachuted to safety. The fate
ui uig omers was unknown.
II 8
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bir found (bit tlm..til,d
ituut Tibliu brine ,olek.
rrj .ci n iicep-robblnc
vmnunni M acid lndl(eitl0D,
caiiincti. and nat
aeb. Tatta ditllrln... ....
Ww n mitlng, m njni,, T
Unm-haT. a ood nJiht'a ,lKt
nd wain up lo tho momliui Utliii
liko $1,000,000. OiliJ:
nl 25e, 60e. or tuo .-h..:..
DoilUre mon.baek ruranlw.
Yadon Given Award
By Naval Bureau
John Melvln Yadon. son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Yadon, 101
uia fori road, was recently
given the meritorious civilian
service award of the naval bu
reau of yards and docks. Yadon
now stationed at Honolulu.
with headquarters at Pearl Harbor.'
The recommendation was made
due to "excellent services ren-'
dered over and beyond those
normally required in connection
with duties in the. construction
program."
Yadon is a graduate of Klam
ath Union high jchool and Ore-
&uu oiaiu cuuege. ne is now in
the deslcn section of the navv.
civil service department, and
has been in Honolulu since De
cember 3. 1941. He was at Pearl
Harbor at tho time of the bomb
ing. Until the time of President
Franklin Roosevelt, presidents of
tho United States were not com
pelled to Day income tax on thoir
salaries. i
By J. HUGH PHUETT
Astronomer, Control Extonilon
Dlvialon, Univ. of Ore.
Visitors to ohsiuvaliiiii'M often
ask, "How fur can one seo with
this telescope?" Whatever the
answer In such coses, It Is of in
terest to delermlno how far ono
may see without optical instru
ments of any kind excepting
piilr o( good eyes.
Along the cai surface wo
may observe hlllf. mountain
ranges and snow peaks at dis
tances of 10, 50, 100 or more
miles, depending upon the clar
ity of the lowor nlr. The Ktriitni-
phcro ballnon, Explorer II,
reaching l.'1.7 miles nlllludc In
Its ascent from Rapid Citv, S.
Dak., on November 11. Mas. en.
abled Its pHSsensors to see 3.10
miles In every direction, or Into
several stales. Even tin- curva
ture of the earth was evident,
Trillions of MMu
When looking into tho sky. we
see tho moon n few hundred
thousand miles awnv. For the
sun and planets, this becomes
minions of miles. For tho fixed
stars we skip the next denominn.
tlon, billions, and get their llwht
across the immense spaco of tril
lions of miles.
But our eves, if good, will re
ceive light from "far bevonrl tho
stars." entirely nast quadrillions
and from qiilntilllnns of miles of
almost clernilv. At this time of
year around 7 p. in. there Is al
most diroctly overhead nn ohlect
that Is four ouintllllon (4.000.
OOO.nno, 000. 000,000) miles from
us. This object l so Inrnneelva
bly far nwnv that its light, Ira-
VellnB 180.000 mllpt a -r.n,,rl U
inst now reaching us after 700,.
000 years of flirht ncrnw an Im
mensity of nlcht and notlilnr;.
ness. This is tho great Andnv
meda galaxy, another Immense
star system far outside the hor-
rW or our own galaxy of bll
lions of stars, mid sometimes
called ail Island Universe.
Faint. Hniv Patch
If you me well rililoldcd from
artificial lights ami thu air In
verv clear, you Should havo little
trouble seeing this fur nwuy
wonder, which will appear as u
verv small and tulnt hazy palen,
nhii'ut like tho head of an Indis
tinct comet, This Is tho most dis
tant object you can see with the
unaided rye.
Until 20 years ago tin) Andro
meda galaxy and numerous oili
er similar objects were thought
lo uu mi'mlxiis of our own ritar
syslem, Although It looked like
a n o l u I a, the spectroirope
showed its light was that of stnn.
with me aid oi iie huge luu-incn
Mt. Wilson telescope and mod
ern photography, it has finally
been resolved into millions of
the tiniest ot pinpoints of stars,
secmlnulv so naoked us to make
almost n continuous cloud us
seen with most telescopes. Re
cent methods of space nieiisiire
nicnt reveal lis real distance.
Unaided eves have this privi
lege of limiting across (our mil
lion million million miles of
spneo and "absorbing, in the pro
cess of looking, live bits of radia
tion tlint nro more than 100 times
as old as the pyramids of Egypt."
Look (or this lit your first oppor
tunity. Its reality is overwhelming!
Jon"qry li. i J
Right to Use NorT
Settled by Group
PORTLAND, J V, ,
Oondlet betwrim ii,...,' HI
Grerliuin urounn f,i.. ,n
to use the nniiin "(...'" til
Japanese, Inc.," iininur..j h
lodiiy with iiiinimncHi," '
inn i-uriiuiiu i ueoi'iioiaiu"
ollealloii luul I. 1 .V "l
Wllllum II. Mm.,.,, ."i,ri
ullornoy, suid he linked tha
inratlon eoinnlwir... .
ho Bopllcntion. 10
Elastic Suspenders
Button or Klip-ends
OREGON WOOLEN STORE
Main at 8th
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Crcomtilslon relievos promptly bo
causo it goes rlidil to Uio sent of tho
trouble to hell) looxnii and nxnl
goriu Inclcn phlcKin, mul aid imiino
to sootho and hrnl raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mom
bnines. Tell your dniKRlst to sell you
b bottle of CreomiilMon with the un
derstnndlnK you must llko the way It
quickly allays the cough or you ore
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, B ronchitit
Mr. Machinist,
put your
calipers
on this job
See If It doesn't measure
oinethlng belter than ,01( ,' I
iv. .-.. n.i. ., . . . "H
with Southern I'aeKic
our gimps or roundhouse,, n',1
juh nm ui lOCOlnullvcj
with goud equipment ,
with men who can (it
smooth mid close. This U J
rouiiiiiK on tno groiuut do,,,
keeping 'om rolling tf ujj
mous wr loud which S. p, J
bo carrying for long J
uood wages regular R,
iinndru'd. Good work tpttgl
nted. lioocl working coudltiea
R. R. puss privileges. Flno ptj
non pinn. iMooical and hoip
innchinisl no rullroail (pJ
enco required. Many other J
jous open.
8 or write Trnlnmiifc,
8. P. Stntlon, Klnmalh Tid
or your niarxl g. P, Ajm
I for Coughs, Chest Colds, B ronchitit
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