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FOPH HERALD AND NEWS Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1S4S FRANK JENKINS ' MALCOLM EP1EY Editor Managing Editor A Umportry eombtntion of the Evening Herald and tha Klamath New. Published every afternoon except Sunday tt EBplanado and Pine ttreeU, Klamath Fall. Oregon, by the Herald Publishing Co. and the Newi PublUhlng Company. Entered ai aecond clau matter at the postofflce.of Klamath rail Ore., on August 20. 1906. under act of congress, March 8. 1879 By carrier B carrier SUBSCRIPTION BATES: rnonth 73c By mail ...year $7 SO By mail .a months was jreur $6.00 OuUlde Klamath. Lake. Modoc. Siskiyou counties ...year $7 00 Member. Associated Press Member Audit Bureau Circulation EPLEY endorse the president's work-or-Jall bill, but his endorsement was so mild (behind closed doors In the committee session) that the senators con cluded he was actually against the bill he was endorsing. As a matter of additional fact, his experts worked with Senators O'Mahoncy and Kilgore in drafting a substitute. But stranger than these events, Mr. Roose velt's own best friends tomahawked his draft bill as passed by the house and for which he personally appealed to them in a special memo dated February 11. New Dealers Revolt SUCH arch New Dealers as Wagner of New York, Downey, Kilgore, Murray and O'Ma honey voted for, killing it with the presidential appeal ringing in their ears. The only New Dealers who stood by the president in com mittee were Maybank of South Carolina and Hill of Alabama. The Committee Chairman Thomas, of Utah, has stood first on one foot and then on another, saying the bill was unwise but voting for it anyway for the president's sake. Behind this state of peculiar affairs lay the quite clear fact that support for a compulsory draft could be justified only by personal sym pathy for Mr. Roosevelt, but upon no other logical ground. The president's own manpower commission survey showed only 150,000 workers needed in "must" industries (mainly munitions) and these shortages were in relatively few areas. The threat of the armed services to draft 900,000 more men by June (chiefly from in dustry, no doubt) has been offset by battle news from Germany and the Pacific which has encouraged senators to suspect the men will not be needed (they could not be ready for action for a year yet, anyway.) But the compelling underall reason why the freshly elected president and such powerful influences as the army and navy, have not been able to get their way in congress in this matter is that compulsion is unpopular both in congress and among the people. It would be a radical departure from our ideals to draft citizens for work. That is a Russian and a totalitarian way, not our way. Labor is against it. But so ' business. Oppose System BOTH President Eric Johnston, of the United States chamber of commerce and President Ira Mosher, of the National Association of Manufacturers, were against the involuntary work system. The manufacturers agreed com pulsion should be against the employer not the individual worker. Mr. Roosevelt has been for a labor draft for some years, but this time he really tried to get it. The leaders pushed it out of the house military committee by pleading FDR was abroad and claimed defeat would be a blow to him. Speaker Rayburn pushed it through the house by passing the word that its defeat would be considered as letting servicemen down. But against him he had the labor lobbyists working hard, and they are always more powerful in the senate than in the house. Now it is true many servicemen believe that as they were drafted to fight, labor should also be drafted to work. They see not only strikes and high wages, which are equally un justified, but shirking by absenteeism, which is nothing but condoned treason. Yet it must be conceded by and large that labor, working voluntarily has produced the weapons for this war under private manage ment. Democracy has worked at home. ' We have recognized the right of government to draft men for fighting, since the Civil war, but never have accepted the principle of draft ing for work. Why? . Because that would complete the government encirclement of human life in this country, make every individual the slave of the state (not for defense in the trenches) but for work , at home. ' . The people would become merely masses to be ordered around as soldiers are, including the fathers, mothers and children of servicemen who are fiehtintz at the front (I should not think the job. they would want that), and destroy democratic No excuse for such army doubletalk has "been ' individuality and rights of the people as indi offered, but truth is it reflected a rather general 1 viduals (not masses); in short bring the Russian lacs vi enuiusiasm lor wmu, wmcn most con- (and nazi) system to the United States. gressmen shared with the army. Frankly I do not know any servicemen who maim T- f n r ht . j i . r . , 7 . . " """ g""" rwn Muanun, or course, naa to want that done to their people at home. Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY IN the Salem Statesman, it is suggested that the Klamath basin's best defense against Cali fornia designs on its water would be an affirma tive program for the use of all of the water within the Klamath basin. That statement, in blunt form, may appear to indicate a lack of full understanding of the situation in this basin, where there has been a steady extension of the use of water and Irrigation of land, and this process is still going on. Klamath need not apologize for any lack of vision or prac tical effort in the development of its agriculture. But the Salem suggestion in principle merely echoes what we have been saying here that we should be getting along as rapidly as possible with the extension of our agriculture in accordance with the optimistic picture pre sented at the recent water hearing. The army engineers in their preliminary studies foresaw the possible irrigation of 535,000 acres in the Klamath basin more than twice the present irrigated acreage. The Klamath chamber of commerce was able to add enough acreage to bring the figure up to 628,000, in cluding one area not specifically within the Klamath drainage area but contiguous to it. If, ultimately, we are able to get water on anything like that acreage, Klamath economy will, have advanced far beyond anything indi cated in such blueprints as the recent Bonneville report. It will far more than supplant any thing that could be lost through industrial de cline, and WITH industrial development, would make this one of the truly remarkable regions of the west. It is our job to get on with the necessary technical surveys, through the reclamation, bureau or otherwise, that- will help bring this all about. The Klamath- basin has been most fortunate In the type of men engaging in agriculture here. What they have accomplished in the relatively short period of this writer's residence here has been little less than amazing. It is such people as these,' applying their vigor and ability to the land and water resources of the Klamath country, that will bring about the realization of our fondest dreams, r 1 News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 Strange doings -have characterized congressional consid eration of the Rodsevelt-army-navy demand for manpower draft from the beginning. Certain ' war department, officials publicly recommended that the war manpower commis sion be given authority to assign citizens to labor, but then privately went around among the very same senators on the military affairs committee who had heard their plea and ad vised sub rpsa that selective service be given Telling i The Editor Latter printed here muat not t mort thin 80" word. In length, mult fai writ ten legibly on ONE SIDE of the paper only, and mult bl signed. Contribution! following then rules, in warmly wel' omed, . t ADULT DELINQUENCY KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.' (To the Editor) It is about time the matter of "juvenile delinquen cy" was properly defined as "adult delinquency" and an ap proach made to the solution of the latter problem which would eliminate the former.: I give credit here to the most construc tive thought I have yet heard- to the "adult delinquency" prob lem. It is suggested by a deputy sheriff in one of our neighbor ing counties and is well worth some practical consideration 'in our legislative halls at Salem. : Let's establish a military academy (or name it what you will) for boys and a companion educational school for girls at some fine location in the best of facilities and homelike en vironment. Let's make atten dance at this school a matter of pride, a real opportunity for young people. Let there be no stigma of "institution" or "in dustrial school" or any of the old corrective terms. It will in fact, be a boarding school with no more emphasis on correction or attendance than in any other school. - . When a youngster first gets 3n trouble, determine the real cause of ..the trouble! If, as in the majority of cases, it is due to lack of adequate parental guidance, broken home situa tion s, or a condition in the home to which the youngster should not return, permit the youngster to . e n r o 1 1 in this school. Assess the family a sub stantial sum per month, varying with family economic condi tions, for the privilege of hav ing the state help them with the responsibility . they could not fulfill. Make it possible for par ents to voluntarily send their youngsters to t h I s school in event a home is breaking up or even if they felt .it would be a good thing for the child. Let the fee for such a privilege be somewhat higher. ' ' If, at a later date, the family straightens out and seems capa ble of assuming control of the youngster, allow them to re quest him to return home at the end of the nearest semester. If the youth and the family can't get together, extend the privi lege to the youth of staying in the school and continue the ur keep fee. This will put " punishment where punishment belongs on the parents. It will place the ex pense where the expense be longs on the parents. It will prompt some thinking where some thinking is necessary by parents. From a social worker's standpoint, the plan is sound. From the point of view of the youngster who is now unjustly suffering condemnation as a juvenile delinquent, it will be an honorable way to make good. To us who pay taxes for reform schools, penitentiaries and schools of correction, it will" re lieve us of a substantial tax bur den.. It is a revolutionary idea but it is exceedingly strange that it has not been thought of before. It is, to my view, worth an initiative petition from the peo ple as an answer to the real problem of "parent delinquen- Cy' ROBERT H.. LAMOTT. . HAPPYI KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To The Editor) I am the happiest man on earth and I take pleas ure in telling everybody what I know. I saw in the Herald and News where Turkey has de clared war on Germany and Japan and that she is to be rep resented in the confab to be held in San Francisco. Well, Turkey is too shrewd to stay in the background when she can see that Germany is los ing the war. She is in earnest in stating that she is with the allies GUST P. VOURCHIS. Sprague River Thelma Rose left Friday to visit relatives in Salem. She will return Wednesday, Timmie-Hess spent the week end at Modoc Point with an aunt, Mrs. Cora Crystal. Mrs. Crystal came here Sunday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Skeen. and a sister, Mrs. Doug Hess and Mr. Hess. Timmie accompanied ner nere ... Bobby Barney has recovered from the flu and was able to re turn to school Monday after more than a week s absence. Donnie Roufs has returned home after a week's visit in Klamath Falls visiting relatives. Sunday dinner euests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hill were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hagan and fam ily. ." : Spraeue River in havine t chicken pox and mumps epidem ic . Robert Hagan, R. T. Lake and Arthur Hill were in Chiloquin Sunday afternoon. W. Ellidge returned home with them. He will stay with his granddaugh ter, Mrs. R. T. Lake. Jessie Robbins, a student, spent a few days hero with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Hi Rob bins. . v.- SIDE GLANCES COHI.lWlVIAlyiCe. wc t. m: ttto. u. t. MT. Off, , , JtR. "Oil, I stick to my did at' the (able, but I can't resist the Ijttlc things the children leave on their plates, with food such a problem nowl" MUD EMPIRE IHB Olene Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan were hosts on the eve of Febru ary 17, to members of Lost River grange. There were about 40 guests present and seven tables of pinochle were in play. Re freshments were served at mid night by Mrs. Sullivan, assisted by Mrs. Rex High, Mrs. Frances Johnston and Zcila Sullivan. The party was at the Sullivan home in north Poe valley. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Brown and son Barton, made a trip to Or- land, uaiii., me middle of me week, returning to their home February 24. Guests at the Marlon Barnes home for dinner on Wednesday were Mrs. Curtis Gebhardt and Mrs. James Barnes and son, Jim my Dean, the latter guests hav ing just returned from Pueblo, Uolo. (Jpl. James Barnes is now in Topeka, Kas. Lt. Oliver Kinney Jr., of the U. S. army air corps has been visiting relatives in Olene and friends in Klamath Falls for the past 10 days. Lt. Kinney re turned on Tuesday to Florida where he recently graduated and received his wings. , Mrs. Ida Grimes spent the weekend in Portland as the guest of her sister, Elizabeth Sanders and niece. Jane Sanders. Mrs. Henry F. Grimes of Olene has received word that her husband is now at Ft. Riley, Kas. Grimes is in a cavalry re placement training unit. Jimmy Grimes, a younger brother, is in the navy and is stationed for the present at the San Diego naval base. Both are sons of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Grimes of Klamath Falls. Lost River grange had 17 members present at the Pomona grange meeting held at Midland grange hall on February 10. Mrs. Mary Harris of The Dalles, assistant state lecturer of the Oregon state grange, attend ed the Pomona meeting and was a dinner guest at the Marion Barnes' home on that evening. Mrs. Harris returned to The T , 1 f , , ' jLraues aunuay morning. Biv Marie Patzke left February 21 to visit her mother, Gertrude Coke, and sister, Cynthia Miller, at Modesto, Calif. Ernie Coke and Kenny Kester are visiting relatives and friends at Medford. , Mr. and Mrs. John Lungren returned home, last week. The Lungrens have spent the past two months visiting in Washing ton. A large crowd attended the card party at the school cafe teria . on Saturday. High score in bridge went to Red Smith and high in pinochle to Herb Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Clemens and sons are visiting relatives at Emmitt, Ida. FUNNY BUSINESS "He likes fo take a walk after meals I" ' ......... Lance 1 1 Valley George Noble has returned from a week In Klamath Falls where he received medical care. Margie Brown of Bonanza spent the weekend with the Ray Merchant family. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Foote and David of Henley spent Sun day with Mi, and Mrs. Chris Hood and Bill. They also visited the Ed Jones family cn route home. i Capt. Jesse Cohea is back on the fighting lines in Italy. Jesse is the son-in-law or Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Brown and has twice been wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Dear born and. family and Mr. and Mrs. Les Leavitt and family were Tuesday dinner guests of Mrs. Mary Dearborn of Bonanza. Jackie Kyler spent Wednes day with Mary Malone. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Johnson are visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Monroe at Cave Junction and Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Monroe at Crescent City. Mr. and Mrs. Frank W, Brown spent Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frud Rueck. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Pepplo spent Wednesday with, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Popple. Cliff left Thursday evening for his station in South Carolina after visiting relatives and friends in Klamath county. Mrs. John Sullivan spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Nell Quick. Mr; and Mrs. Al Dearborn and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bur' nett and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Wes ley Dearborn and family and Mrs, , Mary Dearborn were Fri day '" evening dinner guests at tne Leavitt home. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Teare vis ited on Wednesday with the Harry Frazlers and Mrs. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Mike Dearborn and son visited Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Emery Johnson. Claude Murray received a sec ond letter from his son, Bob, who is a prisoner in Germany. He was taken prisoner on May Z3, itfii. tie naa neen out of the hospital only ten days from his first wounds which kept him in the hospital for three months, when he was wounded a. second time and taken prisoner. Bob is working on a farm and says he is always nungry. Mrs, Albert Dearborn and Helen spent Thursday with Mrs, Wesley Dearborn and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant spent last weekend at Grants Pass with Ray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Marchant. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hrlcziscse visited relatives in Klamath Falls on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Novotny vis- uea me i. a. nouse lamlly on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jones and son of Bonanza visited on Sun- day with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones and daughter. - Mary Ann Smith has returned to her home from Hillside hospi tal where she was recovering from an appendix operation. Stanley Anderson Jr., of Mer rill, a former Langell Valley boy, left Tuesday for the navy. Mumps Reach New High In Oregon PORTLAND, Feb. 28 (VP) Mumps reached the highest mark since May, 1943 in Oregon last week, when 118 cases were reported, Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, state health officer, said today. Klamath county had 85 of the cases. Douglas county had seven of the state's eight undulant fever cases, and Marion county rcponea iwo cases ox iricmnosis, Poe Valley Clrna Webber butlt a new fruit house this winter mid also lore down thu old burn. Archio and WuVron Roberts, a well as thu Strunk boys, wura in Klvmuth r ails baiuraay nignt tunning tho movies. Wilbur Hull jug win it caller at the homo of his brother, Cioorgo, on Saturday murntiiK. George Is putting up soinu out building' tills winter. Tho county road grader came out hvia Friday to smooth the roadt which wre in a bad con- '"joe'and John Nork are fixing funcos on tholr raugu land, whore thu wind blew soma trues down by tho river. Wtb Van Motor Is ropnlrlng his pickup which ho bouglit recently. Kowo Kinney was n culler at the Vic Brown hoinu from Olene. Vic Brown bouglit a now scraper shovel this winter, und is getting roady for spl'lim work Mrs. Emll Wells relumed homo from Ashland wlioru sho underwent an operation, mid is reported to bo much bailor. Amain shooDers in Klumath Foils from hero Tuosduy wuro Mr. and Mrs. rruncis rrouor, Joe Boncdlct, Warren Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Joo Nork. - Clarence- Webber was a culler at the Archie Roberts homo on Thursday. ' The Copco man was in the valley one day this week, check ing on tho meters. Vic Brown and Joo Benedict were shoppers In Kluinnth Falls from hero on Monday, The Haines girls, the Tuckor ?lrls and the Strunk girls went or a long hike on Stnuluy, Mrs. Joe Benedict returned home from Klamath Falls where sho was working Saturday.. Mrs. Vic Brown was a caller at tho homo of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Emll Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nork were luncheon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mux Gcrko I n Homcdalo. Eddlo Roborts and sons, Don ald and Wnrrcn, aro cutting nine wood this week. Charles Rife is helping them. Mr, Benedict's oldest son and family were cullers In tho volley Sunday from Klamath Falls. Dclmur Kclley and family were weekend visitors nt tho Emll Wells place over tho week- ond. Shoppers from hero In Klam ath Falls Saturday wero Paulino Roberts, the Francis Freuer fam- ily. Buck Rodgers, Mr. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Joo Nork. Mr. Brown of Pleasant Val ley is a visitor hero at tho homo of his daughter and son-in-law, the Buck Rodgers. Brown is a brother of Vic Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nork and son Benny were visitors hero from Klamath Falls - Thursday. They recently returned from Portland where they wero on business. The county crew is building a new fence in front of Archio Roberts' place. -They also plan to dig a drain ditch. Mr. Toots was a business call er here Thursday from Klamath Falls. Buck Rodgers started . his plowing this week. Tuberculosis Picture Shown At Gilchrist GILCHRIST The tuborcu losls and X-ray film were shown to members of tho Gil christ PTA on Saturday ovcnlng, February 17. and a short Intro ductory speech was mado bv Mr. Dunn. Twelve new members were secured for tho Klamath County Public Health association at this time, and tho high school young neonle's Sunday school class of Gilchrist donated S3 to the cause. A vote of thanks has been extended to this group for their help. This was a very pleasant so cial affair, and members later enjoyed a box luncheon. THIS CURIOUS WORLD ill i m "iWr Elks to Cooperate 1 With Curfew Ruling Jack Llnman, exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, said today that the lodge will cooperate to the fullest extent with the 12 o'clock curfew decreed by the war man power commission. 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Timber lands In Klamath and Lake counties have been re stored to entry, after tomporary withdrawals, and a huge land rush Is in prospect. : O O , From tho Klamath Herald February 28, 1938 Klumath county relief money has run out, and unless more is forthcoming from tho state, the wholo relief program will stop. Tires Stolen From Union Oil Station Three new Firestone four-ply llrcs wuro recently stolen from tho tiro rack at the Union Oil station, according to a complaint made to city police by Mrs. Hulda Wado. They wero thought to havo been taken some time between . Friday afternoon and Tuesday morning and were val ued at S17.2B apiece. No trace of them lies been found as yet. ' John C.' Hamon, 808 Plum, re. ported to pollco that a Jiffy ko dak was stolon from his home ycnlerdny. The camera was val ued at $17.B0. Elmor T. mpi..: .1 Mrnw,r z ... rrc"' A police court this womlniu. UK-Van'" 1,1151 11-,,-ru II n-i, i. 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