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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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temple In Persia, built 1100
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