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Newspaper Page TextFRANK JENKINS t MALCOLM KPLEY Mamfflns Eriltnr A consolidation of th Kvenihc uaraiu ana ina mimiw Kawa. Published' avery afternoon eiwPt -Sunday at Eipla nada and Plna streets. KlamaUl Falls, Oregon, by Uia Uarald Publishing Co. and tha Nawa TubllanUui Company. ,-' Member, 7 : Associated Press ?X i : Member Audit ' Hureau larcuisuon EPLEY Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY A YEAR ago, when the army engineers were considering a scheme to divert water from the Klamath basin to the California Central valley, the thought was ad vanced here and elsewhere that the best answer to di version proposals is to make full use of Klamath water within the basin as quickly as feasible. It was recognized that so long as there is a surplus of this water, greedy eyes will be upon it. The quickly prepared studies -of the groups opposing di version indicated the great possibilities of extending water use within the area to which this resource belongs by natural and moral law. In the Upper basin alone, an engineering estimate showed the possibility of extending irrigation to a total of more than 600,000 acres. People down the river emphasized the importance of Klamath water for commercial and sport fishing, other recreational purposes, etc., while power development and power po , tentialities on the Klamath itself were cited. All of these contentions pointed to the need for a comprehensive survey by the reclamation bureau of the basin's land- and water resources, to determine specifically how best they could be utilized to the fullest possible extent within the area. Requests to that effect went forward from the land use committee of the Klamath county chamber of commerce. The bureau, chiefly concerned with irrigation and already operating an outstandingly successful irrigation project in the upper basin, was agreed upon as the logical agency to make such a study. a Going To Work (T is good news that the reclamation bureau is ready to launch just such a survey as has been urged in the basin. It has the' congressional -authority, it can now find competent men for field and office work, and it recognizes the urgency of the job in- this basin, placing, it. ahead of some others of not such immediate importance. , Reclamation officials tell us they will make their studies detailed and specific, . and will .conduct a good deal of field work in carrying rout the project. In this area, of course, we are particularly interested in their investigations , of the extension of irrigation and we urge (though it hardly seems necessary) that they go Into the feasibility of irrigation or unwatering and irrigation of the maximum acreage within the upper basin. .a Dropped? INCIDENTALLY, there has been a notable lack of news from the army engineers con cerning their final report on the water diversion question. When this matter was hot a year or so ago, It, was indicated the engineers would -make their report in the late summer or' early fall. - , We have seen nothing of it.' The customary rumor among engineers and others interested is that the army engineers dropped this hot potato, at least for the . time being, in pre paring their reports. This may not be the final 'word, and it is well for those who oppose diversion to be vigilant News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 The Truman Bowles "nut cracker", economic control plan proposes that wages be increased 30 per cent or more over pre-war.- That price increases be allowed only to permit business a pre-war profit, as I explained : in my last column, promising to answer today the question: Will it work? I do not believe It will or can. I think some one sold Mr, Truman a destructive bill of ecoft omic goods, and I will tell you why: Something must give in this kind of a nut cracker. Business will not, and cannot be expected to operate with dollar earnings limited to pre-war, (because tho dollar had a much higher value in purchasing power then,) while labor and the rest of the economic world lives in the current era of the inflated dollar and its depreciated purchasing power. My information from the inside suggests the administration thinks business can change its books and values around so it can survive and will be willing to produce. The adminis tration also may point out that the limitation of profits to pre-war levels will affect only tho industries which cannot absorb the 15 to 20 per cent proposed wage increase without in creasing their prices, and therefore not many may be affected. a a Does Not Make Sense THIS does not make sense. A super-mathe- I mcticion might be required to spend a few months finding out how each individual busi ness would fare under this proposition, but the general condition is quite npparcnt. Only the richest industries could possibly take this 15-20 , per cent wage hike, atop the 15 per cent of the little steel formula, and all the labor cost boosts effected during the war (vacations, portal- to-portal, reclassifications,) and the increased cost of materials, including basic steel which is up 55 a ton I say few businesses could absorb all this increased cost without doing something about it, if any could. The nut cracker then must eventually squeeze produc tion generally. What will producers do? If they cannot in crease prices, they will be compelled to allow the quality of their production to deteriorate. They will use inferior materials, which cost less. The deterioration in the quality of both goods and services which developed during the war will continue. This, of course, is a secret price increase and a further decline in the purchasing power of the dollar because the consumer gets less and less for his money. They may do other similar deteriorating things. But who will want stock in a company which measures profits in pre-war dollars (now worth a fraction of their former purchasing power,) and which is limited to earning that same amount of dollars, while individual earn ers are allowed to take in more and more dollars because of inflation? No wonder the highly inflated stock market nosedived at the news. Its people fathomed the proposal better than the public. These factors I have cited would be destructive to production. What Should We Do? THEN, what should we do? Should we rush the other way and follow the advice of the big business organizations which want all price controls removed? This would get pro duction, which Mr. Truman says we so vitally need, while the Bowles program would not, in my opinion. But it might also, as Bowles says, cause a short boom and then depression. . Certainly it would start a varied price fluctuat ing era. Prices in competitive goods would fall as soon as production is obtained. In non competitive industries, price might be arbitrar- ily maintained. What would seem logical, sound and fair would be the substitution of an orderly, non- social, non-revolutionary government control program to cushion, but not specifically con trol, every item in the reconversion period. Con gress can kill the project to limit business to pre-war dollars and profits. This would elim inate the suicidal quality of the program. Sim ple general controls over prices and materials distribution could be continued during the shortage period to prevent chaotic fluctuations in important lines. A price increase policy could be followed to encourage production in certain needed lines. The proper principle for management of prices is universal justice, not these political arguments, social revolution. absorption of business, etc. This alternative would no doubt cause some further inflation, but Mr. Truman has only himself to blame. He called for his wage increases at the wrong time economically. This time was logical politically. The unions wanted to keep their wartime earnings. But the right time economically would have been the com ing moment when business starts to lag, when purchasing power is threatened, and needs stimulation. He pushed the wage increases when inflation had already gone too far from sound values (witness the stock market and every other market,) and when purchasing power was already too large for the amount of goods available. SIDE GLANCES . coaa. tau n ma omici. ma t. k. are. u. a. mt. w. 2-27 Telling The Editor Utters prints hire must not be mete than If wards In Uneth, nual be Kill tin lsmi an ONI lioi at the MP" Ir,!,, and must bs tidied. Oenlrlbullene loiloomi these rulee. are arml "Have you noticed when he tells lis to do something he gets sore if we don't hop to it right uwny? Being a sergeant in the army sure spoiled Pon I" Klamath Changes To Cattle Country In Past 70 Years In the past 10 years Klamath county has gradually changed from a sheep country to a cattle country, but horses as a means of transportation and equipment lor sport are jusi as popular now as 10 years ago, figures available at the county tax assessor's of- In 1935 there were 80,962 sheep grazing in the county, and only 28,349 head of. cattle de- ... ciared for taxation. - ' Five years later the number of sheep had dropped to 46,077 and the cattle figure-was'30,506, and the 1945 estimation was 29,195 sheep and 44,654 head of catue. ' The figures for the number of cattle are way short of the 1 - t - - . , iiuiiiuer uuiumiy grazing in ine county part of the year. ' If a rancher s cattle graze part of the year in Oregon and part . in uiuuiniut oniy nan are taxed in Klamath county. In other words, a cattleman having 100 head grazing in the county dur ing the summer and moving into California in' the winter, is oecaecufl fst nnli, RO ... As for hourses, there were 2949 in the county 10 years ago, 3064 five years ago and the firnrp for 1Q45 wna 27fi9. TVinca figures also include a very few .mules. In 1835 there were only 945 hogs,, as compared to 1672 in . Whu ThAiianff nf Itnntnrc Have Prescribed POWSfflU . (CAUSED BY COLDS) rarossm must-be' S4- W&en thou-, eands of Doctors have prescribed It for so many yean, pertussin -acta at ones to relieve euch coughing. It actually loosens phlegm and rnsltes It easier to ralso. Sq and fltclivt for both, pld and young. Pleasant fastlne, tool . i 1940 and 3405 last year, indicat ing that during the war years it was popular in these parts to raise your own ham and bacon. Right now in the whole state there are about 117,000 horses, a drop from the total 10 years ago of 149,000, and at present there are some 4000 mules in the state. The national horse population' is slightly over nine million. UNRRA Plans Large Shipments Of Coal SEATTLE, " Feb. 27 VP) UNRRA plans to ship more than 50,000 tons of coal per month for several months through the ports of Portland and Seattle, Thomas M. Reede of the Pacific Coast Coal company said last night. He said he had not been in formed how much coal would go through each port but was certain the shipments would double the coal tonnage handled here. Vets' Secretary Defends Bradley PORTLAND, Feb. 27 (JP) A northwest field secretary of the American veterans committee declared here last night attacks on policies of the veterans' ad ministration were purely op portunistic. Leslie D. Renninger. Spokane. declared "Gen. Omar N. Bradley has performed miracles" and said critics of the administrator are being shown "he can run it without any help from them." Friesen-Welman Co. 1715 Main Phone 7043 PLUMBING and HEATING General Repair Work on Plumbing and Heating Friesen-Welman Co. J. E. Frlenen N. A. Welman SPECIAL SALE OIL TANKS 120-gallon Heavy Gauge Oil Tanks $20.00 , Why bother with a 50-gallon drum when you . . ,. . can get one of these special heavy gauge oU . tanks to give you adequate .storage? FRED H. HEILBRONNER 821 Spring St. Telephone 4153 "Fuels That Satisfy" Plus Service , Since 1919 The World Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP World Travslor MacKENZIE this line of ar of the defense NUERNBERG, Germany, Feb. 27 Quietly but persistently at torneys for the nazi leaders on trial here for war crimes before the allied tribunal are preparing a case calculated to prove that Germany's aggression was forced upon her by warlike designs of oth er nations. That is to say, the at tempt will be made to show that the reich was in effect acting on the d e tensive a type of white wash that's as old as war it-' self. Of course, gument is part of the score of individual chiefs like former Reichsmarshal Her man Goering and ex -Foreign Minister ' Joachim von - Ribben trop, for the absurd myth that the reich was peaceminded must have the corollary that the min isters of state also were bent on preserving the peace. - Justification Still, one gets the definite im pression that justification of the German nation is the main, issue in the mind of the defense and that the fate of individuals is secondary. It's now, as ever, "Deutschland Uber Alles." These defensive tactics keep cropping up. For example, I was present at the session in which Dr. Horn, the smooth spoken '.and. punctilious attorney for Von Ribbentrop, made his ex traordinary plea that the tribu nal permit him to call former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a witness to testify about a conversation which the defense says took place between YOU CAN BE SURE St. Joseph means guaran teed quality and economy. Iemand St. Joseph Aspirin, world's largest seller at I0i. Churchill and Von Ribbentrop before the war. Pressed to state what useful purpose this would serve, Horn made this startling cltilm: Destroy Germany The witness (Churchill) can testify that on tho occasion of his visit to the Gormnn embassy. Von Ribbentrop talked vith him about the necessity of tho crea tion of friendly relations be tween Germany and England and that he mainly told him that a strong -Germany, which was now about to become a reality, represented tho strongest support for England's empire. At that time (Horn said) Churchill re plied to the statements that Eng land was intelligent and experi enced enough to get other pow ers on England's side if Germany should become too strong. On this occasion Churchill stated un mistakably that England would destroy Germany if she should become too strong. Insurance Firm Seeks $20,031.77 SEATTLE, Feb. 27 (IP) The Insurance firm of Wolfstonc, Kcsslcr and Laurie filed suit in superior court yesterday against Mrs. Anne Icsman, demanding the return of 520,031.77. Mrs. Icsman, the firm's form er bookkeeper, has pleaded guilty to grand larceny in con nection with tho alleged taking of more than $12.0(30 in the firm's money to be used in gambling. Helps break up cold's local congestion so AWAY GOES COUGH'S TIGHTNESS Rub Penetro on child' chest, throat., back your child feels quick relief. That's because Penetro activates low of rich, red blood (when applied with massage) which brines warming com- 3 on to i nron i, cne and back. Chest mus cle soreness is eased and pain at nerve ends in skin is relieved. And as Penetro's medicated vapors penetrate upper breathing passages, Dhletrm Is loosened. coughing lessened, your child breathes easier. I'cnctro acta fast for Its sneclallv fM-enart-ri - mutton suet base melts Instantly when applied to body. The whole famllv will lfki Pn. tro, 25c, double supply 35e. Be sure to demand POSTWAR CONSIDERATIONS KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) 1 know that ninny will criticize this iirllclt! and my I am nut a tnio American. 1 mu a initlve-bnin American unit love my country. "Nut sed" on that score. Wnv Is Germany occupied by four nations? What will bo tho outcome with four Ideologies try ing to run Ciernmny? No, the llrllish system dues not correspond unllrely with the American, as the British have n nubility itiul a king which is nut tolerated here. . Tho llrllish house of lords dues not corre spond to our senate, us many think. France Is mi unstable govern ment and cannot handle her shine of changing Germany Inlo a fair government. We have our hands full with Japan and our own domains. Why not turn Germany over to Russia? What do we care If she communizcs her? Why should we euro if Kussia has control of the Hnlknns? We will be able to take care of ourselves. The same can be said of Britain. Kussia would disarm Germany and Kivo her a better government than the muls did. Britain and the United Stales want a hand In German control because they are afraid Russia will abolish capitalism, and that might effect canllallsm laler on in Britain and the United States. The British election hut Julv put her forward a step and If she would abolish the nobility and the king she would be more like the USA. In regard to Industries, we are coining lo the time when they will be controlled. Furthermore, the unions will not control eith er. There will bo compulsory arbitration. Big business has no right making millionaires. They wero afraid to show what they were making ai Mr. Truman sug gested In the fact-finding com mission. On the other hand, un ions ask too much. Cut down profits In big Industries and cut down union demands That would save us from Inflation. Union labor represents a min ority in labor in the United States. The Snturday Evening Wtdntidiyr rb. 87. 1141 HERALD AND I I'ost In un artleln n year ngo placed union iiuuntiershln at less limn 10 million unci Muted all labor represented somewhere iirnund 411 million, hllolllil u small minority rulo tho labor market? Ad I uliilnrl It, n fnl-mnh iiHMm Mcliomiugh, head of n big uteri Industry, slated before u con uressliiual committee that his company mudu over a million dollars a year during the war. Kvru ho said that was too much. Some ono said, "Doctor, you being a deullst make too much, too.'r To settle that proposition 1 will quote some slutlstlcs given in the Pathfinder miigii.liie some time ago. II stilted that during that vear, $10,0011.001) was spent on dentistry. $111,000,000 on manicures, $31.(100.000 In the beauty parlors and biiibershops, People me not making them selves poor patronizing tho den tist. In fact, professional people of all kinds are not making what they should, Dr. W. P. Tuber. DDS. -10(10 Shasta way. In the stone foundation ' of a temple In Persia, built 1100 B. C, Jolnled toys muilo with nnlmul glue wore discovered, Radio Proaram ISC II Mutual-Don Lee lrJI 1240 kc. Wednesday Eve., Fobrunry 27 ,00 p, in, (Ubrll tUallvr. Nwi Arun4 Thu 0:10 ftpalllihl nsndS 7 OO HUn MfUdl't lita Kr hUftt Swing 1 JO t-Ura Hid B OO Mala Line 1 1 on I m w.k,.e r- iJ -lv.. " TuM I7JH lle.l Ha)! 1 ;J2 rtfaJS! ill i,,u,m !" I II. V N ' oi... I..,,. .. " !.!2S rKS'-'SB H.bitr ""i J ljuao qu., i,r nr llllMI !,., Hi.,,,, Itii.ia tout I,,,,,. . u,u l.u r,; ; l..r.l '... T.a.T.,11, 1 auto llvttt ef R,, 3;tU yiai, l,ul,. I:4 Jl. ,,,'" t:O0 rullnn .,I j, 4.i it.. 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