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. FRANK JKNKINI MALCOLM EPLEY ! Editor . Mam , A nninl Ida Hon of the tvtnlnc Herald ! Newt- Published every afternoon except Sunday at Eipla nada and Pine streets, Klamath Fatla, Oregon, by tha Herald f fubltinlnc Co. and tba New Publishing Company. 3 Entered as second eiaaa matter at the pot toff tea of Klamath ' .rails. Or., on August ao. 1906, under act ct congress March 8, 187S SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside Klamath, Lake, Modoc, Siskiyou counties ....year $7.00 .e momne s.'.a Ry carrier By carrier ...month 75o Bv mall By mall SUBSCRIBERS For corrections on delivery service dial .gill, ask for circulation department. After 7,00 p. m. call circulation manager, dial 4355 or 7468. Member, Associated Press Member Audit Bureau Circulation -4 Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY THE obvious answer to the problems of hous ing shortage and rent control two subjects that seem to be getting .into the public prints In every community is more housing construction. More houses will give living quarters to more people. More houses will reduce the present excess of demand over supply ' that creates the tendency to- ward higher rents and the counter-tendency toward rent control. The United States needs a building boom in houses. Ore - eon needs a building boom in houses. Klamath Falls needs EPLEY a building boom in houses. There is need for good, substantial houses that will be in keeping with decent living standards and will have the effect of eliminating the marginal shanties of the smaller communities and the horrible tene ments of the bigger ones. In the west, at least, there seem to be more people than housing accommodations in virtual ly every town. We have visited towns where the local big-wigs admit there is no plausible reason for an increased population, yet the population is there filling every available bit of living space, jamming the hotels, and run ning over into trailer camps and what-have-you? In all of these places, more service men are expected home soon, many of them ready to establish family set-ups. Such conditions create an upward pressure in rents,- and only artificial controls can stop them from going in that direction. It becomes .a case of artificial control against sound econ omic law, and the only satisfactory solution will be a return to sound economic law with 1 the supply raised to balance the demand. a a Production The Answer A FUNDAMENTAL factor in attaining 'that . desired objective is to get our production machinery into operation as soon as possible. There is a shortage of lumber, a shortage of hardware, a shortage of plumbing equipment In fact, a shortage in all building materials. Strikes, reconversion confusion, slow readjust ment of physical and financial arrangements ' in the immediate postwar situation, have de layed the production of materials that most go ; into the housing that will in turn solve what is recognized as a pressing national and community problem. A national will to produce for this and other peace-time purposes becomes now as necessary as was the need for a national will to produce for war. If peacetime America is going to be the kind of v America for which Americans ' fought, it is going to have to go the limit for every basic product and for refining those pro ducts for practical use. There are many other factors that will have a part in solution of housing shortage and the accompanying rental issue encouragement of in vestment financing, tax equalization, home own ership promotion, moderation of building costs, etc. but fundamentally, production is the an swer, and production will supply the solution' of most of the secondary problems. Business Building Moves LOCALLY, we are interested in the fact that there is rather extensive business con struction already under way, while a housing program has hardly started. We asked a local man, closely identified with the building industry, about the reason for this. His immediate answer was that the profit motive set the fire under the business building program. In most of these cases, he said, plans were already under way before war's end, and because of the public service rendered by busi ness, materials have become more quickly available than for dwellings. Possibilities for business returns, furthermore, have made high cost factors less a deterrent to the builders of business structures. ., ' In the business realm, locally and elsewhere, he said, a race has developed to obtain the physical facilities that will win the volume and . the profits in postwar commerce. There are . many examples where an aggressive outfit with imagination started it, and others in that line . are now racing to catch up or get ahead. Pri- : vate housing enterprises come more slowly, with no such incentives. . . He's probably right. In pioneer settlements, say at a mining camp or a supply point, the first places of any size were businesses seeking to profit by serving the public needs. A man slept in a tent or just a blanket while he pushed up a structure for his business. When that was going, he turned his thoughts to building a house. By PAUL MALLON A ASHINGTON, Dec. 18 The written VY promises of the peace are unfulfilled. The yearnings of the people for a world unified in a democratic, freedom-loving organi zation to keep the peace in our time, have been put into treaties, and implemented with ma chinery. We have the Atlantic Charter, Casa blanca, Quebec, Yalta, Potsdam agreements and United Nations organization. But we do not have peace. The words are not being activated. The machinery is not working. Revolutions are continuing the kill ing around the world. There is free talk of a third world war for the future. It takes two to make peace; only one to make war. The private word of friends of State Secretary Byrnes is that he went to Moscow for a final effort to get Russia to cooperate with the United Nations ideal. Unless Molotov appears at the first UNO assembly meeting in London January 7 and works cooperatively there the world will know Moscow has rejected our way for the postwar world. A crisis which will bring inevitable future events of grave world consequence has reached its underlying apex behind this trip. (A gossip rumor among congressmen is that Mr; Byrnes will be replaced if his mission proves unsatis factory, which may or may not be true.) Now, how did we get this way? If we are to extricate ourselves and the world from its dilemma, we must clear our1 eyes and look objectively and realistically at the facts, not as we would like to have them, but as they Mothers Outraged YOU can start with the passionate desire of this nation for an end of the killing, Mothers are outraged that their sons are not home from the foreign war for this Christmas. Sons abroad are inclined to think army mis management is somehow to blame for their predicament They thought all we had to do was to win this war, stamp out fascist agres sion and there would be peace. Our war propa ganda was exclusively framed that way. It was good war propaganda, but it was not realistic. We really knew what these other nations represented, their ideals and ambitions; but we pretended we did not; we pretended victory in the field would bring victory for our earnest hopes for the peace. We got this way, furthermore, because of the manner in which we came into the war. It was a rather unrealistic basis. Mr. Roosevelt's work ing theory quite plainly clung to the belief . that the people had to be led up, drawn re luctantly to what was their war duty. The truth was there was no way we could possibly have remained out of the war. Per sonally I believe the Roosevelt tactics may have delayed our entry. The basic fact of the matter was that Hitler and Japan intended to conquer the world. We were in the world. -We could not escape war. When a force arises in this world with the announced and apparent purpose of conquering it, the only alternatives for the others is to fight or surrender. ... ...-.. Churchill Stopped Propaganda IT was Mr. Churchill who first stopped this free-running line of war propaganda by an nouncing he had not become prime minister to preside over dismemberment of vthe British" Empire. .--:. ,v . ... ...., "v ' ' The Russians later5 resisted .our propaganda tendency in conferences .(they: walked out.iori the free air conference,' extracted unique con-, cessions at Bretton Woods, and contested . our basic propositions at San Francisco, as regards freedoms for the smaller nations, etc., all along the line; later at London, they quit.) Now let us look at this thing plainly and honestly. There has been no evidence in events that Britain and Russia truly wanted the same thing out of this war that we did. . Always Mr. Roosevelt had to go to them, make concessions, then come out with agreed words which bore, the nature of something not entirely wholehearted, if voluntary. Churchill wished to get us into the war, but the Atlantic Charter was not greatly imple mented by him at home (India, Burma, Egypt, etc.) . For her part, Russia clearly never thought of Finland, the Baltic nations, Poland, the Balkans in the light of the Atlantic Charter. . Britain was imperialist in her way; Russia even more imperialistic in hers. The conquest of Berlin was delayed from the east until the Balkans were occupied, by Russia, and since then, our people can hardly get into those coun tries and cannot get a word out when they do. Russia's Part In War NOW as to Russia's part in the war. Our people are still under the spell of our propaganda on this also. Russia never excused the war to her own people on any other ground than that she was invaded by the fascist hordes and this was the time to kill fascism. They won, because of no superior military arrange ment, but for two reasons only: (A) Hitler's colossal blunder of casting his limited manpower into a vast area, the space of which had, always been its safeguard from conquest throughout history, and (B) Russia's unlimited manpower; when five were killed, 10 took their place. Russian planes, weapons or politics were in no way superior, or even equal. They cared nothing 'for us, or our charters; they were anti-capitalist, anti-democratic, and would have won on their own; without our assistance, although at the cost of more millions of men. SIDE GLANCES M MAI r : of. iMi by nia tnvrcc WO. Tr at RIO. U. m PAT. OS. v "You're our best salesman please come home with me and do a selling job on my wife as to where I wa last night I" The World Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign Affairi Analyst MacKENZIE DUBLIN, Dec. 18 Now we come to that vexatious ques- nun oi wny uie tire govern mem maintain ed neutrality during the war and re fused requests of the United States and Britain for badly needed naval bases. That's a hot potato, but it has to be han dled, and the sooner the bet ter. I think perhaps the best way to approach it is to tell you of an extraordinary inci dent that has. happened to me here in the capital of Eire. I went with my camera to get a picture of the fine old parlia ment building. Having secured permission of the sentry on duty b. the big iron gates to the courtyard, I proceeded to make four shots.. 1. had much diffi culty because a huge statue of Queen Victoria stood right in front of the building and there was no way of outflanking it. As I was maneuvering for a fresh position, a minor govern ment employe - intervened and said I wouldn't be permitted to publish, such a photo. No Picture "We can't have a picture of the parliament , building taken with the queen in front of it," he declared with such finality that I promptly removed my film roll and handed it to him. "Well," I remarked, as I eyed the likeness of the famous queen who has been dead these 45 years, "I knew the feeling here against England was bitter, but 1 dldn t suppose it was this bad." He half turned away, and ducked his head, by way of hu morous acknowledgement that I had got my remark home. But he carried my pictures off, and I went back to my hotel, not at all annoyed but on the contrary much interested. Of course by the time I arrived at my hostel I received profuse apologies by telephone from the head of one of the government departments, and he himself brought the film back to me. He said the seizure had been absurd. Neutrality Question The affair was settled with such good-will that I repeat the story here only because it givos us the real key to our question oi neutrality. The cold fact is that the peo ple of southern Ireland as a whole are so bitter towards Britain that political circles here will tell you quietly there would have been open revolt in some quarters if the government had granted bases and thus joined in the war on the side of England. This isn't any new discovery on my part, because I've seen it exhibited throughout the years that I have known Ireland well at first hand. Hani Norland Auto Insurance. 123 N. Bin St. Stromberg - Carlson Radios. Derby's Music Co. Quickly ReBem Distress of ' Sneay.Stuffy , A little Va-tro-nol trp wy each nostril promptly Zi, relleree sniffly, stuffy laW tliatreis of head colds- BamorMining easier. fat V tie Alt Mis pmtat many colds from developing 11 used In time. Try HI Youll like Ul Follow directions la paekate. VICUVA-raCHIOL From the Klamath Republican December 21, 180S The Perfection stationery store was opened liore Saturduy by E. L. Dunham lit tho opcru house block. Mr. Dunhum has had painters and workmen busy the past month arranging and decorating tho interior under his personal supervision, mid ho now has tho neatest and most artistically arranged storo In tho city. Tho interior Is finished in black and green, with weuth ared oak tables and chuirs. From the Evening Herald December 18, 1935 Following members of Uie Klamath trlbo were elected to tiie tribal business coinmlttuo yesterday: Scldcn Kirk, Thomns iang, bam Riddle, James John Radio Programs LYE II Mutual-Don Lee Tues. Evening, Dec, IB SHe a. m. O.brl.l ' !uhi Ellin. , . Hittler, . .. yi Nawa . IS F I r a I 4 a Sill l I n a a r Quarl.lta D.nca , ' 6:30 mis In Xa- ties 01, nn Hirer, vl.w N.wa , . tile Jam. Craw- C,n- r I Imn 10 ,n.r ;::f';d.r ,, Mualo 0:00 Mu. lo To.l Bp.rll,, , , 10:00 Niw Ro. 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Craln was olected delegate to Washington over Levi walker In a runoff election. a a a Tho Hurnld today put In an ilte editorial bid for will inns, Chrlit- Contraband Items May Be Reclaimed POIITLAND, Dec. 18 (!) Contraband urticles taken from Oregon ullcns after the Pearl Harbor attack may be reel u lined from, tho U. S. department of justlco by owners, authorities announced today. U. S. District Attornoy Carl C. Donaugh said the stock of gun, cameras. tclcHconcs and radios seized from Itiiilnn.s, Oormans, Japaneso and Nisei would be re turned on presentation of claim chocks. Christmas Tree Up A In Judge's Office At loast one department In the city hall has its Christmas tree up. and will exchange prenunte Saturday noon. Mamberi of Po lice Judge Harold Friney's of fice were putting finishing touches on the tree Wednesday morning. Mrs. Ruth Bnthlnny of Harbor, former Klumuth Falls city treas urer, will be a gueit it the party Suturduy. Stromberg Carlson Radios. Derby's Muoic Co, TRUCKS AND PICKUPS FOR RENT You Drive-Long, Short Trlpi Move Yourielf Save H STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main 2.49 TV t (fit r ...tike this smart leather' soled d'orsav In win. blue or black... Manyv other stylet and colorsV'tS ' MOE'S Shoe Dept. KLAMATH FALLS Retail Lumber Dealers Will Close Mon. and Tues. December 24 and 25 Also December 31 and New Year's Day ; Big Basin Lumber Co. Builders Lumber Co. J. W. Copeland Yards Drake Lumber Co. Home Lumber and Supply Co. Klamath Valley Lumber Co. Suburban Lumber Co. Swan Lake Moulding Co. SHORTS Another Shipment of Broadcloth Shorts Just Received Sizes 30 to 44 STORE for MEN Corner 5th and Main Formerly Roosevelt Tavern NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Dancing Dinner Har Open IOiOO A. M. Dally ' . "- (No Dancing or Dinner WednesdayBar Open Always) WILBUR STILES, Piano JIMMY TR0M0NE, Drums Manager Asst. Manager CLARENCE SHELATO J. H. BROWNFIELD LUCAS FURNITURE 0iM(iim BOX SPRINGS & MATTRESSES Cotton Mattresses As Low As $14.95 May Be Purchased For As Low As Monthly There Is Plenty of Bedding at , LUCAS Box Spring and Mattress Was $79.00 HOW Box Spring and Mattress $"50 Was $69.90 . NOW ' fjj Box Spring and Mattress $J1J1$Q Was 149.50 NOW "V"'bII Tufted Cotton Mattress $073 95 Was $39.50 NOW
