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By MALCOLM EPLEY
, r A SAD story of delapidation, properly illus
' J tratcd, was told in the Orceonitm maga
zine Sunday by Ben Buisman, editor of tho
Oregon State Grange, in a re
port on conditions of rural
school plants in the state. His
account says that rural schools
; are badly run down, they
need paint, windows are
broken, sanitary facilities are
deplorable. It cannot be
denied, said Mr. Buisman, that
rural educational plants in
most areas are far from what
they should be.
Tha. nrtiplp went on to sav
that rural school educational EPLEY
quality is none too high, with teachers in one
room schools trying to handle anything up to
' eight grades, and with good teachers inclined
to move to larger schools as rapidly as pos
sible. All of which is true, but it seemed to us that
Mr. Buisman, possibly for his own good rea
sons, failed to go into the fundamental cause
of the low state of rural school buildings and
educational quality.
Consolidate
FOR a contrast with the unpleasant story told
by Mr. Buisman, we invite attention to
. the situation in Klamath county. Certainly, the
pictures and word account given in the Ore
gonian article do not describe conditions typical
of this county's rural schools.
Klamath county has operated under a county
unit system for more than 20 years. Under
this system, school consolidations have steadily
progressed to the point where there is now
ONLY ONE one-room school left in the county
where the teacher has responsibility for all of
the grades. There are only three other one
. room schools, and in these only the lower
.grades are taught.
Larger-schools, with better equipment, better'
- buildings, better-qualified teachers, have been
established for the benefit of rural school chil-
- dren in Klamath county.:' The county unit plan,
" with all of the county operating as a single
district, with blanket taxes making possible the
best use of tax money in the places where it
is needed, and with county wide administration,',
has facilitated school consolidations and a
sound building program that are the answer to
the problems pointed up by Mr. Buisman in his
Oregonian article.
The day of the impoverished little school
" district has long since passed in Klamath coun
ty. It still exists in many other places, as the
Oregonian article plainly implies, and it is in
teresting to note that the Oregon State grange
(not Klamath grangers, however) has stubbornly
refused to support the county unit idea, despite
the . obvious advantages it carries for rural
children as illustrated in. the experience of
Klamath county and the contrasting story told
by the Oregon State Grange editor.
With or without the county unit, consolida
tions can be effected that will make possible
Improved school plants and better education
for Oregon's farm boys and girls. These are
the things that weren't mentioned in the article,
but they are the real solution to the problems
it presents. .
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Only by three per
. cent has the cost of living risen in nearly
three years, said Mr. Truman to congress, in
reaching the remarkable conclusion that "the
fight against Inflation has been waged suc
cessfully." The figure seemed to be a misprint. ' Most
people thought ho meant 30 per cent. But no,
Careful rereading of his message will show he
said the cost of living "index" of tho govern
mentthe statistics had crept up but three
per cent. In this, of course, ho was correct
The government has waged a much more
magnificent fight against letting price statistics
rise than against prices. They do this by
weighting their index heavily with noncxistant
and hard to get commodities. For instance,
they may consider nylon hose prices, but few
can get them. The price is purely figurative,
The government may brag about holding tender
loin steak prices down, and give this great con-
sideration in making up their index, but steaks
have long since ceased to be an item in the
cost of living of most people. The other com'
niodities beyond price control are available and
represent the real cost of living today. Any
shopper or housewife can testify these have
gone up much more than 3 per cent, especially
when you consider quality depreciation and
quantity chiseling. Only a man living beyond
personal contact with the workaday world in
the White House, where everything is bought
for him, could possibly believe the actual cost
of living has been held to a three per cent
increase since May, 1943.
Government Self-Deception ,
BUT the government's self-deception on this
base figure, from which its economic policies
are deduced, runs far beyond unrealistic statis
tics. Mr. Truman, himself, disclosed what the
public seldom has noticed, namely that the
treasury is paying out cash to producers to
hold many a pricelist where it is. He asked
congress for appropriations to continue sub
sidies already running over a billion (yes bil
lion) dollars a years. These subsidies he men
tioned on sugar, butter, bread, meat, milk and
cheese, are actually price increases which do
not show m the figures.
Take sugar, The price "line" has been held
at the expense of no one being able to get
enough sugar. There is plenty of sugar avail
able in the off-shore storages. The govern
ment haggled against paying an increase of
cent a pound and therefore was not able
to get the sugar. Now some compromise is
being negotiated to pay a fraction of a cent
increase, and we may get some sugar, but Mr.
Truman wants to continue the government
subsidy, beyond next July 1 or, he says, sugar
will rise one cent a pound, which he con
siders alarming.
Butter? The butter "line" has been held by
creating a condition where people cannot get
butter. The price of cream was allowed to
rise;-to -the point where producers could make
more money selling the cream instead oi
making it into butter on which the price was
limited. . That is why we have had a butter
shortage. Meat? Flour? Cash from the treasury
is being paid producers for not increasing prices,
and now Mr. Truman says these subsidies must
be continued or increased else meats will go up
three to five cents and bread one cent a loaf
next July 1st when the subsidies expire.
Truman Denounced
FOR his proposal to ' continue the subsidies,
Mr. Truman was denounced by one farm
organization as advocating "the worst double
cross of the farmers in history." The unanimity
of the farm bureau, grange and farmers union
against the subsidies practically assures their
discontinuance by the congress, despite Mr.
Truman's recommendation. Thus the food price
increases forecast by the president are apt to be
realized.
'.; So what? Well, the effect will be disastrous
on the government price statistics. But as far
as the people axe concerned, they will merely
be paying the price increase when they buy
the sugar or butter, instead of paying it in
taxes through the treasury to the producers on
the side. People now have money, and the
wage increases Mr. Truman is promoting, should
enable the public to face the increases forecast
one cent a loaf.on bread, one to two cents
on milk, one cent on sugar and so on. The
people are paying it now anyway and paying
more, because the administrative cost of handl
ing the subsidies in many cases runs higher
than the subsidy itself and this cost will be
wiped out if subsidies are stopped.
The "hold the price line" policy which Mr.
Truman thinks has been so- successful is then,
in reality, not a line but a sieve. On food, it is
a fiction maintained by statistics, which are
absurdly obsolete, and by more than a billion
dollars a year of treasury cash subsidies.
SIDE GLANCES
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KFLW Campaigns To Make
Nation 'Klamath Conscious'
Some 75 of the na'tion's ton
advertising executives this
week were getting quite a sur
prise as they opened small
wooden boxes which bore a
label reading, "Handle With
Care. - Gem Inside. Shipped
Irom Klamath Falls, Oregon.'
Part of KFLW's campaign to
make national advertisers con
scious of the wealth and re
sources of the Klamath basin,
the boxes, made from Klamath
pine, contained a huge Klam
ath Netted Gem potato packed
in green cellophane strips, and
a message from KFLW pointing
out facts about the area.
The spuds, boxes and pack
ing were donated by Klamath
people. State Rep. Henry Se
mon set aside the largest and
choicest potatoes from a day's
grading; Curt Strong, manager
of Weyerhaeuser mill box fac
tory, designed . and presented
the boxes which were custom
built with sliding lids. The -people
of Malin community gave
the cellophane.
Meanwhile, KFLW's opening
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cal ABC outlet in operation,
Bud Chandler, manager, said
today.
As construction work is in
the final stages, Gib Walters,
chief engineer, has already be
gun the highly complicated
technical installation of trans
mitter and studio controls.
KFLW's modern 18-room
studios are located in the north
wing of The Herald and News
building on Esplanade.
MISSES MINE '
TACOMA, Jan. 28 (IP) The
u. s. 6. General Eltinee narrow
ly missed running into a float
ing mine off the Washington
coast Thursday. Pacific veterans
who debarked from the vessel
here Saturday told newsmen.
A gun crew aboard destroyed
the mine.
Tobacco users pay into state
coffers about S150.000.000 an
nually in taxes.
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Thomas Blasts
Policy Lack
PORTLAND, Jan. 28 (Pi
Lack of a policy is driving the
United States toward another
war, Norman Thomas, five-time
socialist candidate for president,
declared here in an interview
yesterday.
He said, "President Truman
wants the UNO to succeed, then
he wants us to grab off bases all
over the world. He wants atomic
bombs, then he wants our youth
trained in old-fashioned army
methods. He is inconsistent and
doesn't even know it."
Thomas came here to speak to
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MADRID, Jan. 28 The
question of whether the king
ship shall be revived in Spain
continues to be a subject of eater
speculation and naturally was
one oi the points which 1 raised
in my interview with Generalis
simo franco at the palace in 1
Pardo.
F r a n c o re
plied that this
a matter
which will bo
dealt with
'when this is
suitable to the
interest of the
nation" and
that "it will
have to be the
Spaniards
t h e m s e 1 ves
who pronounce
t b e m s e 1 ves
in its favor." In short. I take it
Spain isn't paging foreign na
tions for advice.
I broached the matter by call
ing Franco's attention to the
fact that his ambassador to
Washington, Juan Francisco de
Cardenas, recently was o::oted
as saying that "Spain is steadily
and progressively restoring a po
litical situation with a more rep
resentative system."
1 asked if this had any rela
tion to the current talk about a
possible restoration of the monarchy.
Open Constitution
"Spain is a country of an ooen
and not closed constitution" was
francos reply.
ror bpain. the protections of
its institutions is constant and
progressive and every staee is!
effected at the moment when the
Dest service of the nation re
quires it, without there being
opened tncreoy constitutional
periods, much less revolutionary
periods.
"What really interests Spain
is the content of its political re
gime, not its external expres
sion, which is considered second
ary. For this reason tho prob
lem or tile monarch is not a
thing which troubles lis, and it
will be approached when this is
suitable to the interests of tho
nation. When this time conies it
will have to be the Spaniards
themselves who pronounce them
selves in its favor.
Important Things
"The important thiniu toclav
for nations arc freedom of con
science and the free exercise of
human rights within a climate
of peace, order, justice and so
cial rights, which the Suanish
bill of rights effectively guaran
tees. The possession by the na
tion of its traditional institutions
and the fact that progress in the
spiritual, scientific, economic,
and social orders reaches the
greater part of the nation are
the important thing.
"The rest Is necessarily ac
cessory and need not disturb the
enjoyment of the principal part.
"With this order you may be
insured that the perfections and
evolutions which the regime of
the nation requires, will be re
quired by the internal necessi
ties and will of Spaniards and
never by judgments from abroad
nor the interference of foreign
ers. We respect and do not in
terfere with the private con
cerns of other peoples, and we
believe we have the right to be
respected and left in peace."
Big Three Query
I also asked Franco a Question
rcluting to the big three declara
tion at Potsdam excluding Spain
from membership in the United
Nations organization. I put it
like this:
"In view of the declaration of
Potsdam what plans, if any, does
Spain have to cooperate with the
United Nations organization?"
Spain knows what happened
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Camp Sites
WASHINGTON, Jim. 28 !)
Appropriation of adequate funds
to enable tho forest servico to
reopen ciuiip grounds and other
rccrciitloniil areas of the natlonul
forests was urged on tho house
appropriations conimllteo today
by Hup Stuvkimm (K-Oi'c.)
"Oregon has 13 national for
ests which hiivo over 500 beauti
ful camp and picnic grounds,
Stockman told the committee.
"These forest areas offered
recreation lo mure than 700,01)0
people in 1041, the last pic-war
year, mid it is my guess that
there will bo almost a million
persons using thesu ulcus in
1040.
"We also have 2:1 ski ureas,
including Tiiuberlliio Lodge,
which was used by more than
100,000 people and these too lira
going to bo crowded next
winter."
No Fundi
The representative told the
committee that all developments
in the national forests had to be
left without maintenance during
the war when no funds could be
appropriated for them and that
the forest service now has no
funds with which to put them
into condition to be used. He
said it wus essential that the
funds be provided now so as
much of the work as possible
could be done beforo warm
weather arrives.
"Now that people have an op
portunity for automobile trips
and recreational outings," Stock
man said, "I feel that proper
lacuuius .snoiiui pc made avail
able so that they cun- obtain full
benefit of the pinks In our na
tional forests." i
Foil From Father's
Arms Fatal To Baby
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 28 (I')
A fall from the arms uf u parent
was fatal late Saturday night to
thrcc-month-old Mary Ann Ivy,
the coroner's office reported to
day. The coroner said Meldon Ivy
was holding his daughter when
a Ihrcc-ycur-old son climbed onto
a chair nearby and toppled to
ward a hot stove. The father
reached for the son, but lost his
grip on the infant in his arms.
Monday, Jan. 28, 1948
HERALD AND NEWS FOUH
Construction
Men Get Raise
I'OHTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28 (I1)
Wuuit ilrl hiMtmmil hmn-il n mn-iti.ji I
of wago Increases for iiliuul
iu.uuu I'oriiaiiti area conylruc-
liiitl wni-kpr-t wnv i-i,i,i-lr1 l,v
Fred Manlsh, secretary of the
building and construction trades
r.n,,,w.ll
Manlsh said the approval Is
retroactive lo January 7. I'liy
scales were negotiated between
the AHsoditled Cienoriil Con
tractors and the union council.
Carnrntei-ji' tuiv will liiir,iiKn
from $1,371 an hour lo $ 1 ,3n;
building workers, OS cents to
$1.1.1; structural steel workers,
$1.(18 to $1.75; concrete rodmon,
$1,374 to $1.05.
EDITOR'S DREAM
BREWSTKK, Minn., Jan. 211
M' Clinton Wilcox, publisher
of tho weekly HreWster Tri
bune, was 111 fur several days.
When he read the latest issua
of tho Tribune, ho found a
full page ad, paid (or by Brew
ster residents, with Ihis mes
sage: "Get well quick, Mr. Edltorl"
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at PotsdaM," the generalissimo
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rejected that part of it which re
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recent and the passions and rash
ness which it provoked ore not
yet calm and the world is not
agreeable to look at.
"Let us leave to those who arc
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hour tho solution of the difficult
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ent In order to give within its
sphere and means Its collabora
tion to pence among peoples."
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