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By MALCOLM CfLbl
A LOCAL business man said the other day
that he is convinced there will be a criti
cal depression In this country in six months
unless full-scale production is
quickly achieved in all the
things upon which our stand
ard of living is based.
Inflation the current trend
produces an artificial pros
perity that may postpone the
day of reckoning longer than
six months. But whether or
not we agree with our friend's
doleful prediction, it becomes
increasingly clear that the
production stall now in effect
casta a sinister shadow across
the future.
The production tie-up is sustaining scarcity in
many fundamental lines. Scarcity means excess
of demand over supply, and that in turn means
constant pressure for higher prices. Rising
- prices mean lower wages in any given scale,
without the deduction of a penny from the pay
envelope.
Conversely, production that brings up the
supply and injects competition (in both price
' and quality) into the market means reduced
prices. Lowering prices and better quality of
the things we buy with our wage money mean
wage boosts without even adding a penny to the
pay envelope.
These are among the reasons the will to pro
duce assumes peacetime importance approach
ing that of the war period.
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Flying In Advtrse Weather
SOME time ago, the local chamber of com
merce appeared to stick its nose into some
thing it might not know much about when it
took a crack at military aviation activity under
adverse weather conditions. Propriety of the
chamber's action was discussed by directors at
the time, but they relied on the opinion of
Aviation Director Phil Hitchcock and authorized
messages to Congressman Lowell Stockman on
the subject
It now is evident that the chamber was on
the right track. The Fourth Air Force has
'come out with an order placing rigid restrictions
on flying in unfavorable weather, and is par
ticularly designed to stop reckless cross-country
flying by inexperienced pilots.
Cross-country flights in December, January,
February and March will be restricted to com
mand pilots of 15 years experience; senior pilots
with five years and more than 1500 hours of
flying, and other pilots having 1500 hours to
their credit and a "green" instrument card, or
: pilots with 1500 hours who have successfully
. passed an instrument flying check in 90 days.
The green card means 100 hours flying on
instruments alone.
Several other important restrictions and regu-'
. lations were set up, indicating a recognition by
the Fourth Air Force headquarters of the
probability that bad weather and insufficient
training have been largely responsible for the
numerous accidents that have made the head
lines this winter. Some 118 officers and men
were killed in the northwest in 1945 military
aviation accidents.
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Briefs From The Pocket File
ONE wonders if the disgruntled GI, hanker
ing to get home so badly he is raising hell
about it on Pacific isles, realizes the serious
state of the country he wants to get back to . . .
Then again, he might help to straighten it out
if he were here ... A friend of ours who just
got home from the service, and is a bit too tall
for the average hand-me-down, has canvassed
local stores and eight in Portland without avail
in an attempt to find suitable civvies . . . Pro
ject Director Ray Best, opining that he's not
going to let the Tulelake WRA center go to the
dogs, has decreed that canines of any and all
varieties are banned from the administration
offices down there . . . With all the wet weather,
we imagine the Sacramento valley would be
in a wet fix right now if it weren't for Shasta
dam.
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Enemy
THREE first graders, trudging through the
snow to Fremont school this morning, were
overheard as follows:
No. 1 And he took the little girl out and
killed her.
No. 2 If they catch him, he'll be put in the
electric chair.
s No. 3 They could put hot wires all around
him.
Thus childhood proposes proper retribution
against its sinister enemy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 Mr. Truman pin
pricked congress to act on his labor legis
lation, but at the time he spoke, he had already
set in motion the very same machinery for the
two national test strikes of the union labor
campaign General Motors and steel.
The fact-finding panel for General Motors
was even then completing its work nlthouKh
the company had refused to submit its case.
The president was quite anRry in private, be
cause General Motors refused to. cooperate.
As the inside White House eye saw the situa
tion, the General Motors people were trying to
arouse the country through advertising and
otherwise against exposure of its private busi
ness methods and profits from the union gaze.
I do not want to become involved in this side
argument. Technically, I gather the company
did not refuse to submit books but promoted
discussion of whether company profits should
be the measure for setting wage scales, never
contending ' that it was unable to pay any par
ticular rate.
One-Sided Justice
PERSONALLY, it seems to me one-sided jus
tice to furnish profit data without requiring
, the other to disclose its profits also. In short,
the public interest should be served by fact
finding, not alone the union Interest.
Whatever the sound justice of this matter,
the presidential panel went ahead to get what
it called "the facts" and my inner agents tell
me the panel merely found its work mode a
little more difficult but not impossible by the
General Motors position.
I believe the highest government officials
here considered the profits dispute as shadow
boxing and leaned rather sharply to the union
side.
But if the profits-gauge for wages was a
shadow melee for Motors, it was the essence
of the steel case in which 700,000 men, the
largest strike band of the postwar striking sea
son, expected to walk out January 14.
The union plea for increase there has run
into the dead-end plea that the company has
no peacetime profits with which to pay.
Into this matter (last quarter profits) Price
Administrator Bowles is checking for the presi
dent. Mr. Bowles has been instructed to com
plete his report by February 1 and the fact-
finding panel will then come in with a decision
February 10.
The proposed steel strike, therefore, as soon
as Mr. Truman acted, entered the realm of
superfluity. Why strike January 14 for a settle
ment which is promised February 10 by ma
chinery already functioning? Such a strike
would only deprive the workers of their wage
income for that period.
SIDE GLANCES
COn 1M BV HI. MftVKf. IXC. T. M. WO. U. tHT. Off.
The Word
Today
Br DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP World Traveler
"Now don't bring that up my rndio has been broken
for three days, mid you have no idea what a relief it is
1 not to have to worry about a lot of imaginary family
troubles I"
Useless Walk-Out
RADICALS and leftwingers within the union
wanted to strike anyway, but the crowd
around President Phil Murray could see rather
clearly it would be a useless walk-out and early
sought methods of avoiding it.
Thus the president's machinery was already
functioning without legislation in the two major
national strike instances. Its work was only
slightly impeded by its inability to subpoena
witnesses and - require .both parties to present
their cases. There even seemed a prospect that'
a cooling-off period would be effected in the
steel strike until February 10.
For. these and other reasons there seemed
little prospect the president's strategem of try
ins to side-track the public pressure against
strikes from the White House to the broader
shoulders of congress would be fully effective
as far as current strikes are concerned. It is
not clear how much speed the legislation might
contribute to settlements.
News-wise readers may find it enlightening
to keep one point in mind while perusing the
hot words now being exchanged by both sides,
and by the politicos involved. These strikes are
all part of the union campaign to force a gen
eral 30 per cent wage Increase upon the federal
government.
Moreover, as a whole, they represent the
postwar surge of the unions to enhance and
apply their new, great power over national
economics, to control ail economics. All the
other arguments are extraneous points excitedly
pushed forward in the heat of bitter conflict.
As the strikes continue and expand, the de
bate becomes less and less reasonable and fur
ther away from the simple, sound, basic prin
ciple of common justice as distinct from one
sided justice.
In such a debate, so few speak for the public
interest, which is the paramount interest.
Neither unions nor companies has the right to
destroy the public's rights to service and goods
at reasonable prices and just wages.
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From the Klamath Republican
January 4, 1906
Bonanza reports sleighing con
ditions are ideal there.
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George Biehn hag sold a few
lots in North Klamath Falls for
940 and $60.
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From the Klamath News
January 8, 1936
The heaviest snowstorm of the
winter broke over this region
today.
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City councllmen today ex
plained their defeat of Mayor
Mahoney's veto of the telephone
company franchise. They said
that rates, given by the mayor as
the chief reason for his veto, are
controlled by the state PUC, and
therefore are not a city council
function.
Males Must Wear
Beards Or Else
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 8
The mayor issued the fol
lowing proclamation here yester
day; Any adult male caught in
Anchorage without a beard from
February 27 to March 2, inclus
ive, win be charged with in
decent exposure.
"Thus he announced the dates
lor tne city's Fur Rendezvous.
A "Whiskerando" court will try
any offenders.
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Murder Trial
To Begin Friday
PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (P) Trial
of John Drew, 25, charged with
first degree murder of Deputy
Sheriff Al Bowe November 15
will begin Friday, the court an
nounced. Judge James R. Bain post
poned the trial opening from to
day until Friday on request of
attorneys for the man accused
of the fatal wounding after a
tavern hold-up near Troutdale.
Stromberg - Carlson Radiol.
Derby's Music Co,
Telling
The Editor
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PIONEER STORY
MALIN, Ore. (To the Editor)
In 1908, John and Dilla Bailey
immigrated from Dundee, W. Y,
to Klamath county, Oregon
where they homesteaded six
miles from Malin, near the Poe
Valley market road, on the south
slope of f icKett nin.
The Baileys, alwnys true
Dionecrs. left the latch string
out, and they cheered and com
forted many a weary traveler
as he went on his way. There
was hardship, heart ache and
loneliness. Dilla Bailey sorely
missed her old friends. Letters
became fewer and farther apart,
and one day in 1910. JJiila paint
ed a word picture which she
mailed to the Rev. M. C. Dean
and family, in Dundee, N. Y.
Invitation
"Good morning to you dear
friends at Dundee,
I've waited so long that letter
to see
My patience is tried to the very
extreme,
So I'll write a few lines, take
my nomc lor a tneme.
Tis just a brief sketch of my
nome in tne west.
Althought it is humble I love it
the best
Uf any l enter and think I am
blest
Until I am called to the one
where we rest.
in the foothills you see my
numDie domain,
On the north, east and west the
mountains so plain:
On the south is a picture of
beauty untold
Whose broad fields in autumn
are waving with gold.
And beyond is a lake so silv'ry
ana bright
From morn's early dawn till the
shadows of night
Draw the curtains securely and
snuts from our sight
This beautiful picture, God-
given by right.
And then all at once your moon
irom tne east
Springs up in its fullness and
then comes the feast.
The bright sparkling waters of
which l have told,
Will now greet the eye as a
great sheet of sold:
And also the light from this ball
in mid-air
Then gives you a glimpse of the
mountains so fair,
Which rise in their grandeur
snow-caDDed all the vear.
A symbol of purity to us so
dear.
With us, though the season just
now cans lor snow
Tis spring-like and sunny wher
ever you go.
And for fear the bleak winter
with us will soon be.
I'll bid you goodnight while this
picture you see.
DILLA BAILEY,
"Pioneer Woman."
Submitted by Nellie C. Whit
latch, Security Ranch. Malin.
Oregon.
"Visits Daughter Mrs. Ella
Christopherson, Vancouver,
Wash., is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Robert Sproat of 501 La
guna, for a few days.
Y.F.W. Holds
Regular Meet
Pelican Post 1383 VFW, held
the first regular business meet
ing of 1946 January 3. in the
KC hall, with 87 members, and
recruits present. Fourteen re
cruits were present from Chilo-
quin Post. Recruits taking the
VFW obligation from the local
post were. Howard Gill, Law
rence Andrus, James Young,
Albert Trump, Ernest Frost
William Hawley, Samuel Red
key, Lcroy Spears, James Mc-
Comb, Donald Dawlton, Edward
Tcaney, Lawrence Sullivan,
Donald Phelps, J. R. Morfachc,
Lyle Thorp, Loyd Hafor, Wll
bur Courtney. J. M. Penny. R
K. Hannon, R. D. Hannon, and
v. v. buck.
Refreshments were served af
ter the meeting, for both Chilo
quin, and Pelican post. Regular
meetings for the post are every
first and third Thursday eve
nings in tne KC hall, and all
overseas veterans are invited to
become active members of the
VFW.
Bullet Slain Bodies
Found In Small Barn
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 8 (VP)
The bullet slain bodies of a bus
driver and his wife were found
in a small red barn at the rear
of their suburban acreage here
late yesterday.
Sheriff's Deputy Ed Hurita
said a .32 caliber revolver was
held in the hand of 48-year-old
Elmer Eugene Gosney. Hurita
said he believed the deaths of
the man and his 35-year-old wife
were murder and suicide, and
reported the woman had recently
suca ror aiyorce.
JayceeUeg The Javceettes
will meet Wednesday evening at
7:30 In the USO club rooms, 11th
and Walnut.
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Derby's Music Co.
PARIS, Jan. 8 This Isn't La
Belli! France wo knew heroic
the war. but n very ill Franco
which has reached the oxygen
tent utiiifo of Its crisis and is in
Unit precarious state which no
man can say
won't get u lot
worse before
there's u turn
for the better.
T h a t Isn't
meant to he
a pessimistic
estimate. It Is,
however, cal
culated to cm
has i z e the
truth that
Franco It n s
been badly MncKENZIE
hurt, both materially and In
spirit. This column would be
rendering poor service If it tried
to vvaue uio seriousness of the
position.
The public Is looking for the
pny.tician who can hen! France
uut it another wav. for the unuii,
cr leader who can rescue tho
country from the political fog In
which It Is drifting and restore
it to lormer greatness.
Lionerul de Gnu c mnv he
that leader. If he is ho mnv dIvk
the nation tho new political
party for which many are yearning.
The troublo now Is that
Franco must get through the
oxygen-tent stiigo of her crisis
beforo the real extent of De
Gaulle's leadership can be ap
parent. Ho is in a highly unfor
tunate position at the moment,
being handicapped In promul
gating policies by the fact that
his mnndata as hend of the gov
ernment runs only until June,
since the assembly was elected
for seven montlis.
New Constitution
The Job of the assembly Is to
frame a new constitution. In
Juno there will be another gen
eral election, with a referendum
on the constitution.
Then and then only will Gen
eral de Gaulle know whether ho
Is to bo continued in leadership.
Thus the few rr-mnlnlnu
months before tho Juno election
are of vast Importance to Do
Gaulle for consolidation of hlsl
ground. So far his leadership i
has been what may be described I
as somewhot left of center. In
other words tho socialist pro
gram which he has announced is
moderate. Ho contemplates
some nationalization, such as of
banks and the basic public serv
ices, but it is said that the trans
fer will be slow so as not to dam
age the holdings of the public In
the companies. Ho proposes to i
proceea carciuiiy In order not to
kill the real wealth of the coun
try, but on the other hand to give
an opportunity for readjustment
later if necessary.
De Gaulle's followers say that
he Is establishing controls so
that the state can benefit with
Justice. Ho wants to control
private monopolies, on the
ground that tho government
can't govern If It Is controlled by
trusts a very obvious deduc
tion.
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1846
HERALD AND NEWS TOUR
"Pappy1 Insists Wedding
Bells Will Not Ring Today
SAN DIEGO, Culir., Jan, 8
(!') Tho wedding bulls which
Mrs, Lucy Miilcolnisou had an
nulment were to follow her
scheduled Reno divorce will not
ring today, l.t. Col. Gregory
U'appyj uoyuiglon insists.
Tli'i famed imirlno rorp filer
who terrorized Japimcsa pilots
in I'liina and me I'acinc
"stunned" Mrs, Miileolmmm yes
terday when he denied ho
planned (o marry her Immediate
ly after her divorco front Stew
art Miilcolinson, General Motors
production nuuiager In Australia,
The 30-ycar-old brunelta had
told reporters of tho marriage
plans and displayed a largo tlla
intind ring glut .suit! lloylngtoit
gavo her after a Now Year's day
visit at Reno.
"I nin stunned," she said when
the flier's denial reiit'lied Iter,
and her attorney, Joseph I. If it 1
ler, later quoted her as saying
sho couldn't "understand It.
i inoiiRiti at first it wag a
uig joke,'' she told Hullcr.
Boylnglon torsely Informed
newsmen "no wedding plans are
In the making" when called nt
tho n.arlno air depot at nearby
Mirnmiir, He and Mrs. Mai-
common are Just good friends.
the Congressional Medal of
minor winner said.
Ho Is schoduled to go on a DO-T-y,
'""ve noxt week but has no
duflnllu plans to meet Mr, MuU
coliusnn, liu revealed.
ilaller said the divorco hear
ing, set for 1:30 p. m. today,
prohubly would bo cancelled be
cause his client lg "to unite t to
go through with It." .
Rado Programs
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Fund For Testing
Of Cattle Mandatory
C A T t'ltf T.... a fRlt ft. in.la
...uk.,,. utin, a i;i ilitt J til J
law providing for eradication
and control of communicable
diseases of cattle makes It man-
naitiry upon counties to provide
funds for testing of cattle, Attor
ney General Georgo Neuner
ruled today for Director E. L.
Peterson of tho state department
of agriculture.
Neuner held thut where coun
ties failed to appoint veterinar
ians, tho testing should be dnno
by the department of agricul
ture, but with the cost still to be
borne by tho counties.
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Something You Just Gotta See"
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