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By MALCOLM EPLEY
OUR discussion of housing needs, which ap
peared hero a couple of days ago, brought
this comment from a man who has invested
ome money in dwelling con
struction here: ,
"I agree that there is a
need for a building boom in
- houses, and I think it ought
' to be encouraged. But one
of the most serious deterrent
factors is the tax burden on
real estate. It is simply too
heavy, and- nothing has hap
pened In Oregon in recent
years that indicates anything
constructive is going .to be
done about it. The owners of EPLEY
real property are expected to pay too much of
the rising cost of government."
lit the .back of his mind, we knew, was the
sales tax. Sales taxes have been often defeated
in Oregon, While in neighboring California and
Washington they have been in force for years,
equalizing the burden of governmental cost
and lightening the load on property.
Whether anything definite can be done in
the direction of real property tax relief in
Oregon in the near future may be indicated
when the governor's tax study commission, cur
rently at work, makes its report. The com
mission, we understand, has held a number of
meetings and ' hearings, and is making some
progress. It is our hope that it will come forth
with a program that will divide the tax burden
equitably among the various possible sources
real property, incomes, consumer levies, etc.
in so fair a way that all the constructive ele
ments of the state among business, labor and
agriculture, will get behind it and put it across.
Highway Policy
SOME little public misunderstanding seems
to have developed with regard to the atti-
tude of the chamber of commerce toward high
way routings. The chamber has taken no stand
In the question of cross-city traffic routes.
'Some people with whom we have talked had
an idea the chamber had taken a position in
this matter, and others wanted to know why
it hasn't.
' For many years, it has been the policy of the
chamber to work for highway construction in
this area between ' certain points, but leaving
the question of specific routes to the decision
of the highway department without attempting
to influence it.
The principal reason for this is obvious. The
chamber membership is representative of all
. sections of the area, and it could easily become
, involved in bitter sectional rivalry if it under
took to favor one local area against another
for highway routings. The chamber has de
cided to maintain its traditional policy . with
respect to .the cross-town traffic question.
Brief s From The Pocket File
COMMODORE C. T. SIMARD of Seattle,
who has been closely in 'touch , with the
Klamath naval air station for two years, while
he was in charge of naval air bases in the 13th
naval district, is going tojnove to the. China .
area as commander of fleet air wing No.-1 . . ,
Our acknowledgement to Mr. and Mrs. Schmor .
of Bonanza for a. contribution to the commun
ity fund in response to our recent appeal
They: said, incidentally, . they hadn't known
previously where to send In their donation t
The address is 323 Main street. , ... Cliff .Dunn '
has taken over leadership, of the community o
.fund program, taking, the reins from". W; E.
Lamm who is temporarily out of the city a V a
The first postwar airplane has arrived for
Klamath Falls dealer In planes, heralding the
" opening of the civil aviation age people have
been talking about around here . . . Big Frank
Ramsey, ex-grid coach here, is a candidate for
the football coaching job at Willamette uni
versity . . . Nobody around here seems to
know whether Snowy Gustafson, KUHS coach
on leave while in the service, is coming out
of the service to take the local job back this
' fall. .
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Does Russia
want war? I am confident she does
not. The inner portent of events clearly says
he wanted to conquer Europe and Asia for''
communism, or her current arbitrary socialist
equivalent. . We can' only judge by what she
has said and done, plus her apparent self Inter
est. i She has pursued the policy of taking as much
as she can get without stepping over the line
into overt belligerency. She has used her
troops in the Baltic and Balkans, revolution
! in Iran, treaties in China and diplomacy in
Japan, Italy, France and our occupation areas.
Her purpose does not . vary; her tactics are
adjusted to locale.
- I do not for one moment believe any Russian
official considers capitalistic democracy super
ior to arbitrary socialism. I think they expect
the world to come to dictatorial socialism.
But they also see democratic capitalism is
having its troubles. Britain is bent upon a
labor party socialism under modified capitalism
and a parliament for the next step at least.
(Churchill claims they will have to make it
dictatorial eventually in order to make it work.)
We have a debt around 300 billion dollars,
a drag which capitalism has never tried to
carry before, and we have a confused people.
The Russians may well figure they can wait
as far as we are concerned while picking up
power in Europe and Asia.
Hewed To One Line
."VUR foreign policy has hewed to one line.
J We have defended our hopes for post
war through United Nations organization and
its modified Atlantic Charter background; and
we have resisted encroachments upon this hope
by. Russia or Britain. We have tried appease
ment, waiting, money, gifts and pressure with
limited, if not discouraging results. Peace has
not been fulfilled.
We have not tried isolation or war, and will
not voluntarily. Russian diplomacy is not likely
to force us into either eventuality, for plain
reasons, namely these:
In the final depth of our Ideology, we repre
sent in this world, a basic God-fearing principle.
In us, it manifests itself generally as a belief
in Christian social faith.
But the Confucionists and the Mohammedans
are also God-fearing. They have leaned sharp
ly toward our political policy in the postwar
events. - In the matter of communism or
Russianism they are naturally our diplomatic
allies.
Marx, fundamentally and rightly realized,
the state-ideal could not be erected among the
God-fearing. Russia uses the orthodox church
politically, alternately as a football and foreign
prestige-builder (Balkans), but basic arbitrary
socialism holds for the long run with Marx.
There are said to be 220,000,000 Moham
medans in this world; 338,000,000 Roman Cath
olics; 135,000,000 Protestants and 15,000,
000 Jews, (with majorities naturally antagonistic
to state dominated religions.) 1
Certainly a great many people like our
world influence more than any other, and ap-
preciate that upon our ' leadership rests the
world hope of all the God-fearing.
....
World Responsibility
WE can hardly return to isolationism, if we
wished. We have assumed a world re
sponsibility, and the pressure of it will be
upon us. ' -
Our desire for peace based on freedom of
the individual, has thrown us Into conflict with
the policy of Russia, and involved us in In
congruities which bewilder our people.
Mr. Truman told China, he would keep our
troops there only until the Japs were , demobil
ized, warning Chiang Kai-shek to take the
revolting communists and other parties Into
the Chinese government, promising credits and
economic help if this is done.
Contrariwise and simultaneously, Moscow an
nounces successful conclusion of a communist
revolution in Iran, a nation she occupies. The
difference in procedure is otherwise apparent
Mr. Truman denounces "one-party govern
ment," rightly considering it dictatorship, in
China, while one-party rule stu controls kus-
sia, and is being extended by Russia through
the Baltic, Balkans and a one-party revolution
in Iran. Is it possible for our people to be
other than confused? i
- What do we do then? Appease? Or war?
Both courses are unthinkable. We cannot win
Russia by appeasement, and know this. We
can buy delay; we cannot purchase devotion
to our principles. On the other hand, we could
not conquer Russia, if we wanted to, and we
do not want to. How then? '
The course required of us seems clear. We
must defend our principles and resist Russia
politically with politics. By superior states
manship, ingenuity and by all other means
in accord with our principles, we must resist.
. . .
Must Resist Britain
AE must resist Britain when she deviates
VV from our principle (Java.) Above all,
we must resist ourselves, when our people wish
to escape principles for peace.
This nation desires to go back to sleep in
peace, more than anything else. If we could
just have world disarmament, and get our boys
back home and safe, we would be happy and
world politics could go hang. We all want this.
Yet do you not plainly see the peace to
which we have come in our victory is not that
kind of peace? By its very nature, it has
become a peace of responsibility; an unfulfilled
peace; a peace to be maintained.
You and I did not make it this way. We
cannot un-make it. The world is that way.
It can be different in the future, only as we
work to make it . different.
Truth does not jump out eager to confront
you at every corner. You must seek it to find
it. Propaganda, deception, delusions, artifices
these devices are not only served to you
freely; your hopes can be played upon against
your own interests.
We must daily establish more ' firmly an
American foreign policy based on our agreed
principle alone, and pursue it without apology
or exceptions.
The World
Today
Br DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affair Analyst
City Council Will
Meet And Adjourn
'The city 'council will meet
Monday night as usual, but it
will be only for the purpose of
adjourning until , Thursday, De
cember 27, city hall officials said
today. The weekly session must
be held in accordance with pro
visions of the city charter.
Offices in the city hall will be
open only in the morning on
Monday, according to present
plans, in order to give employes
a little time off the day before
Christmas. .
Injured Youth
Said Improved
' Jack Zumwalt, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Zumwalt,
2225 Biehn, was reported slight
ly; improved at Klamath . Valley
hospital today. Zumwalt suf
fered facial lacerations and other
hurts Friday night when he was
sirucit Dy a car at Oregon, Up.
ham and 11th street intersex
tions driven by Pvt. J. E. Horan,
The Herald and News was ad
vised today that Tazie McEach-
ern.was the name of the woman
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in the Horan car and not Zena
McEachern as previously report
ed. .
Lumberman Arrlvu -L. Mc-
Clellan, lumberman, arrived to
day from Seattle on business
and is staying at the Winema
hotel.
LONDON, Dec. 20 The ad
vent of an out and out socialist
government has rendered the
position of tho king-emperor
rather paradoxical in theory, al
though practically his majesty
1113 1I11U II1U
new political
scheme of
things as neat
ly as ' though
the kingship
were1 designed
originally as
part of Eng
land's leftist
jigsaw puzzle.
The social
ists h a v e n't
shnurn Ihn
slightest MacKENZIE
disposition to interfere with the
monarchy. On the contrary,
while thrones on the continent
have been toonling in the left
ist storm, the British institution
still stnnds as solid as its-own
Rnrk nf Gibraltar.
Considering all aspects of the
situation, one is tempted to the
belief that providence molded
the character of the present
king to fit the political crisis
which has now nit tngiana. nc
would seem in all respects to
represent the type and the
only tyDe of monarch whom
the socialist government could
accept.
Man of the People
George VI is a plain man of
the people. I've been watching
him closely ever since he was a
small lad, and so far as one can
see he hasn't any ambition to
exercise royal authority, or yet
to wear a jewel-studded crown.
He is quite happy to take his in
structions from the prime min
ister. And that, of course, is
precisely what the government
in a constitutional monarchy
and especially a socialist gov
ernment most desires.
The situation might have had
an entirely different complexion
wero the throne occupied today
by the present kings revered
grandfather, Edward V, or by
the late George V, or yet by
Edward VIII, who abdicated so
that he might marry Mrs. Simp
son. All those cast monarchs
were strong-willed men who at
times confronted their govern
ments with gestures of royal au-
momy ana sometimes made
their desires stick.
Terrible' Conditions
About the last thing of this
sort occurred not long before
Edward VUI abdicated. While
visiting the coal fields in Wales
he became angered (and auite
rightly) over the terrible condi
tions of the workers, and said
In forceful language that some
thing must be done about it. He
thereby trod heavily on the toes
of his government, which was
Slanning changes for the mining
idustry. In short, Edward step-
pea quite outside his role as
constitutional monarch.
There's small likelihood of
tne present king doing anything
like that and he wouldn't be
very wise if he tried it on the
socialist government. He does
his job cheerfully and it is a
very neavy one because of his
constant public appearances
but he is quite haDDV to leave
the direction of affairs of state
to his ministers.
Royse Flies
Plane Here
Ray Royse, manager of the
Shasta-Cascade Flying service,
arrived here yesterday with an
Aeronca Champion which ho
flew from Middlctown, O.
Royse had fair flying weather
across the country. Ho spent
two days at Tonopnh, Nov., due
to tog, and made the last lug
of the flight from that city to
Klamath Falls. Total distnnco
of the trip was a llttlo more
than 25uu mites.
The plane will be put Into
service liere by the local firm,
Royse will go back oast after
the first of the year to fly a
stmson aemonsirator to ruanv
ath.
From the Klamath Republican
December 21, 1905
L. F. Conn arrived on the
stage from his new home , at
Lakeview.
.
Many new houses ore going up
in. the Tule lake valley.
Support the brass band,
tend the Christmas danca.
At-
From The Evening Herald
December. 20. 1935
Commander George L. Koehn
and other department leaders of
the American Legion are in
Klamath Falls for a district con
ference. Koehn today told the
Rotary club in a: talk that "con
stitutional democracy is at tho
crossroads."
.
Choice birds from the flock
of the Crater Lake Turkey com
pany of Malln are being pur
chased by the Southern Pacific
for dining car use;
New Announcer Ken Woods
of Los Angeles started work as
announcer and copy-wrltcr at
radio station KFJI Saturday.
He has just graduated from
broadcasting school,. Beverly
Hills, Calif., and is a naUve of
Ohio. '
Stromberg. Carlson Radios.
Derby's Music Co.
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THE HOME Of QUALITY MEATS
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Track workers
WANTED!
Help lay track and ties, ballast the
roadbed, and keep the line in good
condition. Healthful outdoor work.
No experience needed. The com
pany furnishes free housing, in
cluding fuel, light and water. Yon
get railroad benefits: medical and
hospital care, passes, insurance,
fine pension plan. Work for a per
manent company one with plenty '
of work ahead.
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