FOUR HERALD AND NEWS
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Today's Roundup
By MALCOLM EPLEY
TOKYO papers are welcome to copy, for what
It is worth, this bit of interesting news:
So far as has been determined, not a single
forest fire has been set in this
area by Jap balloons.
As is customary every fire
season, there have been a few
fires whose origin was not
fully determined. But foresters
have been exceptionally alert
in the matter of fire origin,
in view of the balloon threat,
and so far they haven't been
able to mark up a single blaze'
to the credit (or blame) of the
Japs.
CheaDlv built as they are,
EPLEY
the Nips must have spent a great deal on the
balloon campaign. The results of that effort
have been negligible, with the exception of a
single great personal- tragedy in the Klamath
country.
So far, at least, the Japs will have to write
the balloon campaign off as a wild Idea that
didn't accomplish much.
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We Burn 'Em
INCIDENTALLY, there have been several man
caused fires in this area.
In one day, three such fires were reported
in the Klamath Indian reservation, and motor
ists and campers were given another severe
warning. .
It appears we are doing a better job of burn
ing up the country than are the Japs.
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Briefs From The Pocket File
EVIDENCES of the new movement of men to
the Marine Barracks can be expected -in
the next couple of weeks . '. . Dr. Lowell T.
Coggeshall, the head navy, man at the Barracks,
is set to remain here for quite some time . . .
And that's good news, because Cog has the
installation and the community at heart . . .
Col. Charles Brooks, the incoming commanding
officer of the Barracks, was peace-time editor
of the marines' magazine, the Leatherneck . . .
It is believed here Col. Schneider's detachment
means he is wanted down in San Diego where
Gen. "Howling Mad" Smith is in charge ; . . He
was with Smith overseas ... Country around
Diamond lake is regarded as ideal for filming
the Universal picture, "Canyon Passage," based
on a story, written by Oregon's successful novel
ist, Ernie Haycox . . . The Universal locale
scouts say the Diamond lake country can be
used for filming scenes at pioneer Jacksonville,
where much of Haycox' story is laid . . ..Phil
Hitchcock, business man and flier, and Marshall
Cornett, state senator and 'business man, have
been -selected as the men to go to Washington
if that is necessary in presenting Klamath's
case for a through airline . . . Today marks
the 14th anniversary of this scribe's arrival in
Klamath Falls to do newspaper work . . . We,ve
never once had regrets . s . It's a great country.
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, August 2 Some of my
. socialist readers question my conclusion
that free, democratic capitalism adds a great
volume of business to the national economy,
perhaps 50 per cent, accounting for the much
higher wage scale and better working condi
tions in this country over any other nation in
the world, and my resulting contention that
socialism of the Russian, nazi or proposed Brit
ish kind impedes this great volume of "created
business"- and therefore must bring less pro
duction, less national income and static or nega
tive economic results. They cannot have thought
the matter out thoroughly. I can illustrate:
Take a popular American drink, the Ameri
can soft drink. It is a simple example of a
created business, where little or none would
have existed under socialism, and its history
is multiplied by the thousands of other products
which are in daily use in our vast mass mar
kets, solely because appetites of consumers
were stimulated by advertising and incentive
business selling methods, prompted by individ
ual desire for profit. No other system yet
conceived by man furnishes such economic
stimulus in creating business.
The story of how a small Georgia soft-drink '
man, literally built- his five cent product up
into an international business involving hun
dreds of millions of dollars, is familiar. - But
I am not Interested in the romantic side .of it..
The economic .point which must be apparent
to all, is that this business was wholly created, .
and furnishes employment and wages to a vast
number of people, profit to them all along the r:
line from maker to drug store. ;
Such businesses do not exist in Russia or '
Britain, or in fact, any other nation.
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Automobiles
IF you think I have selected a particularly
biased example for a partisan purpose, con
sider automobiles, our largest industry. Today
Goldsmith Discusses
Medical Plan Here
Dr. Leon Goldsmith, director
of the division of medical care in
the state ' public welfare com
mission, was in Klamath Falls
T"ewaj
Tuesday to meet with' the mem
bers of the local public welfare
commission and local doctors.
Dr. Goldsmith is . from Port
land. During his visit here, he
cnnfprrpH with th
and doctors about a medical plan
for this community.
A GEM of THOUGHT
Says a little boy named Blora,
the three little pigs ain't at home any more.
They got fed up at their house
L'Cauie their Pop, the big louse,
. Turned out to be such a Bore.
Stock Remedies ,
From Doc and Idella's Drug Store
Phone 8466
Thursday, August 2, 1949
we look on the auto as a necessity. It is not a
necessity in Russia, Britain or any other place.
It has become a necessity to us only because
business initiative built it into a necessity.
Good roads, competition between manufacturers,
improved high speed engines, brakes, tires at
declining prices in mass production, and many
other factors combined to bring tha automobile
up to its present economic position, all because
of one factor and one only the chance for
private profit. The automobile Industry would
not be furnishing the jobs, wages and profits
it does today all along the economic line from
iron miner to used car salesman except under
profit incentive system. It is a created busi
ness, created solely by desire for profit. Elim
inate this incentive and power and fewer cars
will be sold, roads would run down, car im
provements decline, prices would increase as
mass production declined, therefore also wages,
jobs and working conditions would correspond
ingly deteriorate. The socialist who greedily
wishes to capture the profits ot this industry
for distribution to the worker must see, if he
stops to think, that there must be much less
profits to distribute in socialism and the benefit
to the worker is more than lost by the elim
ination of the factor of "created business."
Take any product from toothpaste to air
planes and think honestly through its .history,
. developments and its economic contribution to
our national income. .
But the socialists say, there would be no
unemployment under this system. They mean
that the state would promise to employ every
one. True enough at the expense of the work
er. Sharing Less Work
AS advertising stops, as management passes
into political hands, as business is no
longer created, production - also -declines, ef
ficiency falls and therefore there must be less
money to be distributed among the workers
but there will be more workers because the
government promises to employ everyone. More
workers then will get less of a share in less
business that is all socialism would mean. It
is purely a share-the-work arrangement shar
ing of less work.
This unemployment angle was never an
economic capitalistic gravity commensurate
with the political attention directed to it. At
the depth of our worst depression our free
spending labor government counted 9,000,000
unemployed, and directed the whole economy
. of the nation to that segment, emblazoning the
problem on the front pages daily, but never
mentioning that there were 43,000,000 then
employed five times as many people working,
paying taxes, contributing to the support of
the unemployed,, without a government thought
wasted in their interest. There have always
been 3,000,000 unemployed in the most active
American business periods men between jobs,
the lame, sick, faltering and those not apt
or inclined to apply themselves, many deserv
ing, many not.
That a whole national economy, a whole
political system, should be turned over and
destroyed to give them jobs that the Interests
of 3,000,000 people should prevail above 130,
000,000 is absurd.
Not even socialistically despotic Russia dis
tributes her jobs on the basis of "need" xany
more. She has come to think in terms of
efficiency, ability, effort and productivity. A
nation cannot operate well otherwise. The
- socialists are thinking -in terms of old fash
ioned New Dealism, which never encouraged
sound economics.
Now Britain proposes through her labor gov
ernment to use - the people's money to buy
publie utilities and other industries, which al
ready are controlled in the people's interest as
to rates, prices, charges, finances, etc. Why
buy what you already control?
The War Today
By DeWITT MaeKENZIE
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Analyst
PROF. HAROLD LASKI, intellectual socialist
who is chairman of the British labor party's
national executive committee, has
strong statement qf govern- P
mental policy which gives one
to wonder whether he him
self doesn't represent an
anomalous figure in the new
political set-up. .
Custom in the past has left
such pronouncements to the
prime minister, as leader of
the party and very definitely
skipper of the ship of state.
Of course, the broad govern
mental policies naturally
spring from ' the party, but DeWm Mackenzie,
the prime minister has had the last word and
generally has acted as hi own spokesman in
matters of moment.
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Laski's Power
IT; therefore sounds strange to hear the law
coming from Prof. Laskl who isn't even a
member of parliament, although he is one of
the strong personalities of the socialist party
and is head of its policy making body. To
-be sure, Prime Minister Attlee is attending
the Big Three conference at Potsdam but a
discussion of policy could have awaited his
return' to London. . .
' . Now this column Isn't trying' to convey the
Impression that Laskl is the power behind the
new prime ministership, although some observ
ers take that view. Laskl belongs to the left
wing of the socialist party, and there are many
of the Iaborites who are far to the right of him
and don't agree with all his views. Still it's an
interesting deviation to see the professor at
the outset of the new regime acting as spokes-
-
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SIDE GLANCES
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'This is our scoutmaster, MomI told him maybe you'd
help us out on our camping trip with some of that canned
stutt we ve got bidden in toe cellar i
man. Whether he will con-1 The executive
i
tinue in that role remains to
Multnomah county republican
central committee is expected
to make a recommendntlon with
in a week, but its advice need
not be followed.
be seen.
His Impressions
PROF. LASKI'S text was that
"this is the arrival ot the
people in power." In this con
nection one notes that he de
veloped one of the cardinal
tenets of his creed from ob
servations which he made in
the United States while lectur
ing at various universities. The
reference book "Current Bio
graphy" quotes him as saying
after his return to England in
1920 that in America he had
seen ''more nakedly than I had
seen in Europe, the significance
of the struggle between capital
and labor. I learned how little
meaning there can be in an
abstract political liberty which
is subdued to the control of an
economic plutocracy. I came
back from America convinced
that liotrty has no meaning
save in the context of equality,
and I had begun to understand
that equality also has no mean
ing unless the instruments of
production are socially owned."
Dungan Replaced
By Spilman At NAS,
Lt. Arthur R. Spilman, USNR,
of Palo Alto, Calif., reported
Wednesday for duty as ships
service officer at the Klamath
naval air station rellevlne Lt. J.
M. Dungan, USNR, who is being
released from active duty.
Lt. Spilman has come to Klam
ath Falls from the navaT air sta
tion at Key West, Fla., where he
has been on duty for the past six
months. For two years prior to
that he was on duty in the Ha
waiian Islands.
Lynch Seen As
Choice For Senator
PORTLAND. Aug. 2 W) Jack
Lynch was seen in political cir
cles today as a possible choice
for state senator succeeding Coe
McKenna, new state tax commis
sioner. The county commissioners, all
republicans, will fill the vacancy.
PELICAN
SAT. MIDNITE
DOLORES M0RAN ALLYN J0SLYI
REGINALD GARDINER GUYKIBBE
JOHN ALEXANDER RAOOCWAL?
Schilling
Savor Salt
ihe seasoning that adds,
new goodness
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Waul
From the Klamath Republican
Auguat 3, 1805
The KlBinnth Falls Brum band
will give its usual concert this
week.
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Seven men are now at work
laying brick on tho new high
scnooi Duucimg.
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The Sncll-Aldrldge company
will open at Houston's opera
house
mis wecK.
From the Evening Herald
August 2. 1835
Mayor Willis Mahonoy issued
an order today prohibiting log
ging trucks from traveling on
California avontio.
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After three weeks of extensive
traveling by air and automobile,
Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Adams and
District Attorney and Mrs. T. R.
Gillnntvaters have returned to
Klamath Falls.
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The Gav 'Nineties orchestra
will present a vaudeville and
dance at . Tulolake Saturday
night, with proceeds to go to the
luieioKa wator system.
CARD OF THANKS
Wo wish to extund our heart
felt thanks and appreciation for
tho many acts of kindness and
the beautiful floral offerings
committee of tho
during our recent bereavement,
the loss or our beloved wile and
daughter Elsie.
James K. Durkee
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Vic
torlno and family.
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Leopard Lapin
(Dye Coma;)
HO0010 159
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Other Outstanding Fur Values!
LiRiskin Mouton (dUml) ...11 0.00
Antelope 89.50
Mink-Dyed Coney . . . 49.50 to 89.50
Black Russian Poney . . . . . 110.00
Platina-Dyed Opossum ..... 110.00 "
Sable-Dyed Muskrat ...... 199.50
(FULL SKIN)
Open Til
8:00
Saturdays
METHODS TO GET
BENEFITS CITED
board when he Is SB, whether oi
not ho Intends to retire.
The second rule Is that the lm.
mediate family or near rotative
of every worker who dies, ami
who linn evttr winked In cuvorml
employment, should visit or
write the nearest field o f f I o e
without delay, whether or not
Ihoy know definitely that tho
worker was Insured.
The Klamath Kulli field office
Is lonilcd nt 20(1 No. 7th In the
Enquire theatre building,
Lumbermen pay $4.31 In taxes
In support srhools, cllles, conn,
ties and Ihe state of Oregon for
every thousand fort of lumber
manufactured. Whon our fur.
Howard J. Nelson, manager of
the Klamath Falls field officii of
the social security board, slated
today that loss of old ego and
survivors insurance benefits, due
to delay in filing claims, can be
prevented by observing two sim
ple rules.
The first rule Is that ovcry
worker in covorcd employment
should visit or write tho nearest
field office of Ihe social security
osls burn up, we burn up our tax
rolls. Help Keep Oregon Oreon.
Rom where I sic ... ly Joe MarsK
Pet Jr. Gets
His Tnth Jap Plant I
Pete Swanson'i (on, Pete Jr.,
brought hli tenth Jap plane
down last week, and his dad
couldn't help bragging.
Bat I got to thinking aboat
Pete Senior! how he hada't
missed a day at the war plant
sine the war began) how he'd
worked overtime and Saturdays
aa4 Bandaygj bow he'd kept
himself In shape, been temper
ate and sensible, so that he'd be
at work clear-headed, bright
and early every morning.
So, when he Invited us over
after work to drink a toast to
his son In a sparkling' glee el
beer-1 couldn't help toasting
rote Bonlor, too.
From where I alt, there'
ore than one arad o ",
that'i helping wla Into war..,
ma like Pete Aeolor, too. And
when the war Is over, and the
monamenU are erected to Ha
haroM, I hop they don't forget
' tho workman on the borne front
-the man who etaek to ale Job
like a soldier to his gnaa. unit
(he Victory.
CejrrjgAa, tMS Paalaal Sum Bnmmt Fiance
BUY, FURS NOW AT SAVINGS!
Aceaatlag large caftavview ihu'lder lliei .-.
leaatlfal bleidlng aai eUlfal fcaaillag efjeril
10 Dowa Plat Federal Tax.
Will Reserve Aay Caat
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Should Bo In
Craig's Summer
Fur Storage
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