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
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ti
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. lfl Mi
Moyt business houses remained
curtained today second legal
holiday In Oregon, but rest,
auranls, drug storeg, grocerlei
and bakeries were asked to re
open. A second spalo of firecracker
and honking horns broke nut In
downtown rortland last night.
Crowds Jostled around long
queues ol' hungry customers
writing heforu Hie fow open
restaurants.
Shipyards and most war plants
remained closed today. A liquor
commission ruling that beer
parlors may reopen today guv
promise of further muniment
among still not exhausted cele
brants. 1
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PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 16
(fP) Gasoline wholesalers today
reported plenty of gasoline In
district bulk plants to handle
the rush sales which started yesterday.
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