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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1945)
fOUR -HERALD AND NEWS Thursday, Aug. 16, 1845 THANK JENKINS MALCOLM EJLEY Editor Managing Editor A tarnDorary combination of th Evening Herald end tin KlemeOi Newa. Publlihed every eftemopn except Sunday il Itpltneda end Pine elreeU, Klamath Fell., Oregon, by the Herald ' Publl.hlng Co, end trie New. Publlihlng Compeny. Entered second eleae metUr e the noitofllce at Klamatlt rllle. Ore., on August ao, IOO, under act ol congro.1, Merch 8, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By cerrler monlh 75c By me II monlb; W.M By rerrler -.year tt.HO By mell ..........year J6.00 Outilde Klemeth. Leke, Modoc, Blaklyou counllol -year f oa Member, Awoclated Prese Member Audit Bureau Circulation had reason to correspond with the navy con cerning use of bureau land now included in the air station area. We understand the bureau got an answer back that the navy regarded its installation, using the bureau land, as perman ent. That is the most favorable hint we havo had. We think it would be a grand thing if the navy could maintain an activity at Klamath Falls, sharing use of the big field with other aviation activity suited to the field site and facilities there. e e e e (The other big government project In this area is the Tuleluke war relocation center and the adjoining army installation, Camp Tule lake. We will reserve for tomorrow our dis cussion of that situation), Today's Roundup New, Behind. The News " - . EPLEY By MALCOLM EPLEY WAR'S end brings up an obvious question: What will now happen to Klamath's mili i tary installations? Similar speculation is now going on in ! every community where military establish ' merits have been set up since the beginning ; of the war. Even where it ,', was apparent that the installa , tion was not of the kind that would be retained long after ; V-Day, there will be serious i local reaction as the installa tions go out. Some commun ities have already gone ; through that sort of thing, one ' in this region being our good neighbor on the north, Bend. : It's hard to give up some ad i vantageous development up, : even though it has been recog- , nized all along -as temporary. ; There is no immediate and sure answer, of : course, as to what will be Klamath's experience i in this connection. In general, however, it ' would appear that Klamath's chances of keep ing at least a part of its military installation ' activity going for a considerable time are bet 1 ter than the average community where installa ' tions were likewise developed since the war s began. It may not happen, but there's a good chance. ' 4 Marine Barracks NO. 1 reason for any optimism on this mat ter, of course, is the nature of the Marine Barracks. This is not strictly a training center, and therefore it will not be affected by the rapid shrinking of the training program expected now that the war is over. The particular function of the Marine Barracks the physical reconditioning of men who for any reason should have physical reconditioning will probably be needed for a long time. At the outset, the Marine Barracks was per forming this function in order to return men to full duty status in the fighting Marine Corps. There are indications its mission is changing to include also conditioning them for a return to civil life. The personnel at the Marine Barracks is right now rising rapidly. By the erid of this week, several hundred men will have arrived here under the recent directive enlarging the mission of the post. . Many more are on their way here. 1 The Marine Barracks was obviously con structed with an eye to long-tima operation. . It has the physical set-up for that. Many mili tary officials have predicted it would be con tinued, for one purpose or another, years after the war. General Julian Smith, the commander of the department of the Pacific, recently said in Portland that he hoped the Klamath installa tion would continue on a permanent basis, although he could then give no assurances that it would. The chance that it will continue indefinitely is based in part on the nature of the work it does, and can do, its favorable physical char acteristics, and the fact that it enjoys high prestige at headquarters of both the marine corps and the navy bureau of medicine and surgery. Needless to say, Klamath people would like to see it happen, and community cooperation can be assured. e e e Air Station KLAMATH'S navy air station is a training center, from whence men have been going almost directly into the Pacific fighting. As such, it would seem its chance of continuing indefinitely into the postwar period is not so good as that of the other local installation. A lot will depend upon the navy's postwar activ ities on the coast. The Klamath station has certain peculiar characteristics which might make it advantageous for the navy to use it in its postwar program, possibly on a reduced basis which would permit other use of the field. (The navy would undoubtedly permit commercial airline use of the field right now.) Some time ago, reclamation bureau officials By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Behind the whole trickery dealing of the Japanese to obtain preferred position for their emperor lay rather convincing evidence of the plot to perpetu ate beyond our western understanding the Japanese system, which brought on Pearl Har bor. In fact, the simplest and most easily obtainable facts added verification to certain high congressional suspicions that maintenance of the emperor in any position could well give the Japs a better nucleus upon which to build future world trouble than the nazis were able to get. e e Inside Word THE Truman administration quieted these In creasing congressional doubts by passing along the inside word that Truman looked upon any satisfactory surrender as, in eventual fact, unconditional apparently regardless of the standing of the emperor, as long as we held control. To the Japs, however, the emperor is the top god in a list reputed to run to about 500, no matter where he sits, even if under Mr. Truman's chair. Their established religious theory would nat urally hold that their god was in temporary difficulties in any subservient position. The national Jap problem then would be to ex tricate him, and restore him to his rightful position. Anyone standing in the way, like Mr. Truman or an American doughboy, would be a sort of devil who had kidnaped god. . e Proof For Japs THE whole superstition could be proved a fake and delusion to the Japanese if re spect for reason could be restored there, by a factual research into accurate history of their deified dynasty research by their own people. Japanese intellectuals, who long since discov ered that the line back to the sun goddess was not only broken but shattered by many his torical incidents, have been shushed effectively, by the emperor's clan, meaning the ruling classes, who may change faces from time to time but never have changed their emperor story, which was the excuse for their au thority and existence. Their trumpery, in turn, would be just as easy to prove and display. The Japanese peo ple have been required to believe, as a co matter of religion and government, that the emperor picked his cabinets, controlled the diet and held "complete executive and legis lative powers." This pretense . that he was a Hitler was difficult to maintain with a straight face at times, as the various ruling Japanese groups controlled and pushed god first one way then another in. fact, wherever they wanted him. e : a e e Difficult Task THE establishment of reason in Japanese will, however, be the most difficult task because reason never existed there. As part of its emperor government-religion, Shintoism has no moral or ethical code. The emperor, for in stance, is not required to do what is right or good, because he is a god. The faith of Shintoism ignores both logic and reason, and the people are supposed to be led by blind instinct. While the militarists built the emperor-god theory up out of ancient legends to its highest peak, conflicting organized beliefs have gained footholds there including the Christian con cepts of reason, right and wrong. A census before the war showed 2104 Christian churches, 106,000 Buddhist , temples and 110,431 Shinto shrines. There is no communism in Japan above ground. The foothold of Christainity, therefore, is quite clearly the one upon which we should build. These are the reasons why the Increasing number of congressmen (including one of the highest administration leaders) were biting their lips during the latest hectic stages of Mr. Truman's negotiations. They were wondering how much of a job he had left himself to clean up later, when the final document is analyzed in complete detail. SIDE GLANCES coy. iu qy ar etuvtet. wc. t. m. .to. a a nr. ore. "Which is more important, dear for an ex-soldicr to be on time or to go around the olllec looking like a fashion plate?" iliiffitiallili From the Klamath Republican August 17, 1905 John Colwell, Merrill rancher, has been spending some time at Klamath marsh looking over stock. e e e S. C. Hamaker of this city has bought the Wattu general mer chandise store at Bly. From the Evening Herald August 16, 1935 The Klamath American Legion post won first place in the drum and bugle competition at the de- Eminent convention , at The alles, just concluded. The Southern Oregon Amuse ment company was granted per mission by the city council to install 60 slot-skill machines here. Morse Sees Need For New Tax Plan PORTLAND, Aug. 16 (VP) A revised tax program which will encourage "frozen savings" to be invested in producing new wealth and iobs must be adopted by the federal administration to nelp achieve full employment, Senator Wayne L. Morse be lieves. The Oregon senator told mem bers of the Multnomah county republican committee at an out ing yesterday that full employ ment must be reached under a democratic system of free enterprise. tie added tnat tne government must be ready to augment private readjustment to peace time wltn job producing projects which will also create new national wealth. A GEM of THOUGHT- Thr Is a Divorc Lawyer named Dwight Who sure tries to do Things up right. When he hands a Gal her Final deer He says How's about you and me Goln on a celebration to-nlghtl Youngsters Name . Sky-Rocket 'Jet Bomb' VANCOUVER, Wash,, Aug. 16 lft borne neignnornood cnll dren were temporarily baffled when Mrs. Ted Jorensen pro duced a box of fireworks to cele brate Japanese surrender. As she started to exnlain a sky-rocket, one boy nudged a companion. "Jeepers," he exclaimed, "it's a jet bomb." u.Jfc With i bif Telling The Editor letter printed here muet not be mere than He erorde In Itnicrt, muet be writ ten legibly on ONI glol ol the piper only, end muet be olgned. Contrlbuttone following theee rulte. are warmly welcomed. NOBLE WOMAN ISSUE KLAAIATH FALLS, Ore. (To the Editor) It seems that due to an article that was printed in your paper a few days ago about a noble woman is causing no small comment. No! 1 would not say that woman is noblo al though she has given a son. also a husband, to our country. Three years ago her son, then 18, answered his country's call. A youth fine as they come, healthy and strong and fearless. After four months' training in California he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he engaged in six terrible battles. No, it is nothing; he has 143 Japs to his rrprllt anrl nna .Inn nlan, UA was terribly wounded; for three uiviiiua ins me nung in me oal. ance in a South Pacific hospital. He was finally sent to a Santa Barbara hnsnilnl Aftae i-.,. r six weeks, he was turned out, discharged, tossed aside like a uivncu, wuriuiess ioy; a month pension, and out of this meager sum the price of two blood transfusions each month musi come. Yes, he has medals: Purple Heart, the Silver Star, a campaign ribbon with six battle stars, also a bronze medal. What do they mean to him? Nothing at all. They don't buy his bread, nor pay his rent, nor pay for the precious blood he must have to live. The doctors give him two years to live. In 11 months' time he had trained, fought, was hospitalized and discharged. Just another forgotten man. He is just 22 now and is looked on now as a 4-F. Is this fair, I ask you? This woman's husband has been in the army seven years, has seen service in Hawaii and Germany: at present he is in France. His health is bad, so he Is being discharged. Through It nil this woman has kept faith in God. Each time a telegram Is received, it is with fear in her heart. She has a baby son, and may this baby never have to wear the uniform of his father or brother. No! Sho Is not a noble woman. You mothers and wives of husbands and sons in the service will understand. Maybe It is not noble to give her son and husband to our country as thousands of others have, but she is trying to make u home so her husband CHn find peace and quiet and try to for get the horrors of this war. She is asking for no laurels to top her pretty curls either. All that is asked is a chance to make a home for her husband and baby. And I am that so-called noble woman. CAROLINE EVANS. 2024 Modoc Street. Sawmill Purchase At Keno Announced KENO Keno will have an other business enterprise start ing within a few months. W. L. Perkins and Earl J. Schcrcr have purchased a sawmill, de livery of which they expect some time in October. The mill is a Corlcy with ball and roller bearings throughout and will be capable of sawing a 40-foot i length timber. I The location for the mill has not yet been decided on by the owners. The War Today By DsWITT MacKENZIE" Associated Prtii War Analyst MucKENZIE Ho would be a mini of small perception who thought the de feat of Japan could Immediately transform the world into what Britain's famous fight ing m a u Tommy Atkins -describes as a plnco fit for heroes to live in, and' yet it strikes ne that wo arc entitled to entertain a good deal of optimism, Wo stand at tho linteway of a now era. and it can be ono of pcuco and pros perity, or It ciiu bo u nigminurc of turmoil. It all depends on how we approach tho problems of remaking our world, for that's what our task amounts to. It would havo been a hopeless undertaking if Jnpun hud boon strong enough to stand thu allies off and force a compromise peace. That would havo allowed the Japanese war-lords to make another attempt at conquest a generation Hence as wo know from Informed sources they were planning to do. However, with Nippon ren dered impotent we shall have knocked out the last of tho iirent powers which had the obsession ol enslaving their fcllowmcn. Fm World The western world Is free of Germany, which for generations was the chief force of evil In the Occident. Now we aro about to rid the eastern world of Japan ese aggression. This double tusk hud produced tremendous dis organization. It Is resulting In great political and territorial changes. Still, as I sec it, this disorgan ization is paradoxically all to the good If we set about over coming It in the right way. It means we are starting from scratch In our efforts to create a new peace structure. Tho pre war worm nas ocen jumbled up, and we have the unprecedented privilege of reconstructing It on new and better lines. It's a situ ation which hain't oKUtflft be fore, slneo Artnui, Reconstruction Psrlli Of course this reconstruction Is going to tnkfl time, and II will be. fraught with many perils. Europe already Is torn with poli tical upheavals, some of which have produced bloodshed, We mo likely to sen u lot more of this before the continent settles down. Europe also Is dicing a dangerous period of hunger and cold and other privations, all of which aro breeders of discon tent. Much the mime thing Is true of tho orient. However, It Is fortuniiln (we hone) tlnil the Dig Three America, Hrllnln and Russia havo emerged from the war with such .stienglii that among them they can, by working through the new United Nations security organization, keep things In hand during the rehabilitation, The only real danger of it break down would lie In a quarrel among thu trio, Should they full out but maybe we'd better not go Into that. Big Throe, Unity It's no use dismissing this danger with tho light remark that trouble among tho Dig Three is "Impossible." That word "Impossible," in tho moiily mouths of hnnds-across-tho-seiin oraliii's, has caused mora trouble than all the statesmen of both hemispheres could repair. There are mighty few things which are "Impossible" as witness the atomic bomb and most cer tainly quarrels among nations aren't Impossible. Vet, whllo America, Russia and Britain have some Inter locking Interests, there's nothing In sight which should causa dis sension. Their present disposi tion Is to work together on world rehabilitation. They've had their differences of onlulon already but the partnership remains sound, . TIRES AVAILABLe" POHTLAND, Aug. IB (Pi New airplane tires and tubes will be mnclo available for off the road use, the surplus pro perty board said today. Tho tires are suitable for farm work. 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