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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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HERALD AND NEWS fOU
son, Levi Walker. Dleo Craln,
Clayton Kirk, Churles Hood.
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.
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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
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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